Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1916 — FEARED FRED MIGHT BE COLD [ARTICLE]

FEARED FRED MIGHT BE COLD

Marine Serving in Haiti Gets Comfortable Made by His Solicitous Grandmother. Rochester, N. Y. —Fearing the government did not provide sufficiently warm clothing for her favorite grandson serving in the United States marine corps, an elderly lady brought a fleecy, handworked comfortable to the local recruiting station of the sea soldiers and requested Sergt. George 8. Fynmore to forward it to him. “Poor Fred may be shaking and shivering with cold just like the soldiers in Europe,” she told Fynmore, “and this comfortable will be just the thing. You’ll send it to Kim, won’t you?” Sergeant Fynmore assured the old grandmother that it would be a privilege and a pleasure to do so. But when he forwarded the package to Port Au Prince, Haiti, where the grandson is now serving, he inclosed a note explaining that the old lady had worked hard in an endeavor to have the comfortable finished in time to come as a Christmas present and that he didn’t have the heart to disillusion her about the need for such things in Haiti. "But,” he added in the note, just by way of encouragement, “sometime when you’re serving in Alaska I’ll get her to send you a cake of Ice.”