Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1917 — Son of Elwood Spriggs With the Medical Corps. [ARTICLE]

Son of Elwood Spriggs With the Medical Corps.

C. 0. Spriggs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Spriggs, formerly of DeMotte, was in Rensselaer Sunday. His father was a Spanish-American war soldier and died from typhoid fever contracted while in that service. Young Spriggs is with the medical corps at Indianapolis and with seven other young medics has been detailed to do service at the Long hospital in that city. He enlisted in the service from Fort Wayne, Ind., on the 27th of last June.