Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1916 — Former Rensselaer Boy Going To the Front as Story Writer. [ARTICLE]

Former Rensselaer Boy Going To the Front as Story Writer.

The following is taken from The Medford Sun, Medford, Oregon, and dated May 25, concerning Tess Marshall, son of Mr." and Mrs. George E. Marshall, formerly of this city: “ ‘The Missing 17’ is an unusually clever mystery story in the last number of the Saturday Evening Post, dated May 20th, by Edison Marshall, son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Marshall, of South Oakdale. The plot deals with the strange happenings at the Alexander club in London at the time of the outbreak of the European war as told by a faithful old man servant of the club, and while the incidents are somewhat fantastic, the atmosphere is so cleverly created and so well sustained, that the tale-is not , only convincing but holds the interest from beginning to end. The point of view of the old servitor is exceptionally well conceived. Edison Marshall is well known in Medford, a graduate of the local high school, a student at U. of 0., and he also worked for some time as reporter on the Medford Sun. His success 1 in short story writing has been nothing short of phenomenal. At his first attempt he sold stories to Argosy and Munseys, and has a new one soon to appear in the Popular, and his entrance as a member of the Saturday Evening Post contributing force stamps him as a writer of unusual promise, with a brilliant future before him.”