Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1915 — Bates Tucker Military Instructor in Porto Rico. [ARTICLE]

Bates Tucker Military Instructor in Porto Rico.

Bates Tucker, for some years u resident of this city and who has been, since his retirement from the United States army, an instructor in the University of Porto Rico, writes briefly to The Republican in sending money for his subscription. The university is at Rio Piedras. The military department of the school is in charge of Mr. Tucker, who was a first lieutenant in the United States army at the time of his retirement several years ago. He has been away from Rensselaer so long, he writes, that he now remembers only a few people mentioned in The Republican, owing to the many changes in the population. He concludes his letter by saying: “I am sorry my work has kept me from making a visit to the old town that I loved so when a boy, for I have always been interested in its people, many of whom were so kind to me when I lived there.” Lieutenant Tucker’s father was Rev. Tucker, who was for some years pastor of the Free Will Baptist church here.