Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1917 — More Rensselaer Boys Are Enlisting in United States Navy. [ARTICLE]

More Rensselaer Boys Are Enlisting in United States Navy.

Stanley Brykczynski, of the United States Navy, has been in Rensselaer for some time in the interest of recruits for that branch of the service. Thus far he has been able to send but three for the examination. One of these failed to two were accepted. Those accepted were Russell Warren, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Warren, and Leonard Shedlebower, from Pleasant Ridge. It is understood that a.number of young men have decided to enlist and will go to Indianapolis the early part of next week for examination. A letter received from Harry Hickmann this week reports that he and Earl Hemphill are in New York. Besides the boys mentioned above we have with the navy in various parts of the country, Wade Jarrette, James Barber, William Tilton, Raymond Dixey and James Brenner. After July Ist no boy under eighteen years of age can enlist in the navy.