Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — A Wreath From General Pershing to Lafayette. [ARTICLE]

A Wreath From General Pershing to Lafayette.

“Blackjack” Pershing placed a wreath on the grave of Lafayette Friday night. The ceremony at the tomb of the great Frenchman, to whom the American cominander in chief is so generally likened by the populace of Paris, was the most impressive so far during Pershing’s stay in Paris.