Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1917 — ON THE WAY TO FRANCE [ARTICLE]

ON THE WAY TO FRANCE

C. A. RADCLIFF, WITH COMMISSION, SAILS FOR SEAT OF WAR. Each day the realities of the European war come nearer home to the people of this community. Tuesday Alfred Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Delos Thompson, left for New York and on the sixteenth of June will sail for France. Another man, whose family is now in Rensselaer, iS also making that watery journey. C. A. Radcliff, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Edward D.' Rhoades, went to New York the Bth or 9th of June and has since left for the field of battle. Mrs. Radcliff and her three children, ages nine, seven and five, are here with their grandparents. Mr. Radcliff has a fine commission, being captain in the quartermasters reserve department and having in charge a large motor truck squad. Since May sth he had been at Fort Sam Houston in Texas and last week passed through Indianapolis, but on account of the secrecy of the movement of government troops his wife was not advised and she regrets very much that she did not get to see him before his departure.