Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1917 — REMINGTON [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON

Have you joined the Red Cross for 1918? Homer Rodgers, of Wolcott, was here Wednesday. William Hallihan is going to Indianapolis to work the first of the year. Muncie Stokes is on the sick list this week. George Wahl went to Indianapolis Wednesday to work at his trade. Walter Hicks and family, of Portland, Ore., came Sunday for a visit with relatives. Harry May and Crawford Bates were rejected by the army board on account of physical defect. William Dowell, of Goodland, was here Wednesday. Sam Bowman visited the Griffins in Monticello last week. Jake Thomas came home Monday from Mishawaka, where he has been working. Miss Marjorie Hascall went to Lafayette Saturday to enter a hospital for an operation for appendicitis. Arthur Hartman is working as assistant mail clerk on the Effner division this week. Warner Elmore went to his Huntington farm Wednesday. The Red Cross committee are working hard and report good success so far. Robert Williams came home Sunday from Illinois, where he has been working the past six months.

Mixed nuts at Rowen’s grocery store, 20c a pound. Mrs. J. W. King just received a letter from her sister, Mrs. B. S. Barr, and husband, of Ann Arbor, Mich., stating that their son who has been fighting in France for the last two years is now in a hospital there, with his left leg off below the knee, two wounds in the right leg arid a wound in his left shoulder, but was getting along nicely when his last letter was written, a month ago. * Today is the first day of winter, but it does not have that appearance. The snow has all gone and it begins to look as if we were not to have a white Christmas. A. W. Cole, of Lafayette, was in Rensselaer today for a short visit. Art, like the rest of the mail clerks is working overtime now. The Christmas mail is as heavy this year as usual. All of the Rensselaer clerks are on the road now. Ross Benjamin, although not on his run is aiding in handling the mails at’the Dearborn street station.