Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1916 — Leaves Somme Battle Front For U. S. to Register. [ARTICLE]

Leaves Somme Battle Front For U. S. to Register.

From the Somme battlefield to Chicago in eleven days was the trip John Po y-rfrti't d j pCffoE gfPTI American Union of Washington, made in order to register for the national election, he said, just before he started for, the east. Barrett went to Europe to study the effect of the war upon Pan-Amer-ican trade. He was invited to visit the front in France. On Oct. € he cabled to find out registration day in Chicago. j That night the answer came and in a fast war auto he made an all-night ride to Bordeaux ani caught hjs 'ship. Then from New York he came by the fastest trains arriyiiJg just a few hours before the registration books closed.