Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1916 — Monticello Pastor Received Censored Letter From Canada. [ARTICLE]

Monticello Pastor Received Censored Letter From Canada.

Monticello Journal. A letter addressed to Rev. Gifford Ernest, mailed at Windsor, Canada, and received yesterday afternoon, is very suggestive of war precautions taken by the Canadian government. The letter had been opened-and read, of course, and then resealed with a strip of paper on which in large Mack type the word “Censored” was printed. Rev. Ernest thinks that the German origin of his name may have led to the censorship. in this particular case, but anyway, the back of that envelope with the black sticker sort o' makes a war shudder go through a person just to look at it.