Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1917 — Former High School Principal Passed Away. [ARTICLE]

Former High School Principal Passed Away.

The following letter from ExSupt. Bohannon to B. F. Fendig, will be interesting to many Rensselaer readers: Duluth, Minnesota, December 20th, 1917. Mr. B. F. Fendig, Rensselaer, Indiana, My Dear Ben:— It may be that you have already learned of the death at Nashville, the earlier part of last week of our good friend, Mr. Purdue. lam assuming that' you may not have heard and that you and some of the others who knew him best there in Rensselaer will be glad to have me write you a word or two concerning the fact. A friend of his and mine who lives in Nashville wrote me about eight or ten days ago that he had gone to the hospital for an operation and that he was recovering in a very satisfactory way. A day or two after I had the news of his hospital experience I received a wire announcing his death. He experienced a rather sudden and unexpected relapse arid passed away a week ago last Tuesday. It is too bad that so fine a man should have to lay down his life with so many years of such rare usefulness ahead. Of course he is not so young as when we used to gather around the stove in your store more than twenty years ago, but neither are you and I. I know that the time which has elapsed since then has wrought a good many changes and that this would be very apparent should I have the opportunity of spending a day or so in Rensselaer, as I have been hoping I might. I hope the world is using you well and shall be glad to be remembered to any of the people there who would be at all interested, as I hope some still are, in hearing anything about me. Sincerely yours, E. W. BOHANNON.