Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1913 — 1913 Purdue Graduate Drowned hi Lake Near Home. [ARTICLE]

1913 Purdue Graduate Drowned hi Lake Near Home.

Lafayette Journal. Word has been received here of the drowning of Russell Allyn West, of Irondeqqoit, N. ! Y., who was graduated from Purdue university last June in the school of electrical engineering. He was riding in a skiff with several comWnions and the boat overturned. hile at Purdue Mr. West was a member of the Fleur-de-Lis club and Purdue Canoe club. He was a pitcher on his class baseball team. He was one of the most pdpular members of the senior class and his sad death will be quite a shock tp his many friends.