Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1917 — “Hell to Home” On His Trunk. [ARTICLE]

“Hell to Home” On His Trunk.

When Strickland Gillihan wrote regarding microbes, “Adam, Had ’Em,” he penned the shortest poem, ibut when John Whalen of Hebron a memberjpf the Gary company cf infantry home from border service printed the phrase “Hell to Home” on his ornery looking trunk, he also wrote the equal of a large volume. Whalen’s trunk and its expressive phrase arrested the attention of pedestrains around the transfer points in Gary and Hammond. Whether he wrote it or not, those who know Whalen say it sounds like him.