Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1918 — MANY WEALTHY MEN AMONG CONSCRIPTS [ARTICLE]

MANY WEALTHY MEN AMONG CONSCRIPTS

San Antonio, Tex. —The per capita wealth of the ninetieth (90th) division of the National army, in training at Camp Travis is $650, and the average subscription for liberty Bonds is $lO5 per man of the more than 33,000 men on the rolls. The conscripts composing this division were taken from all walks of life and all classes in the states of Texas and Oklahoma. Fi\e men are worth, in their own name, $500,000 eacU, 2Q of the recruits can sign checks for SIOO,OOO, 42 are worth, in property, more than SIO,OOO each, and one man is said to be thp sole heir to an estate estimated at $3,000,000. There are more than 400 young men in this camp who are doing the first “real work” of their lives, and all of them are over twenty-one years of age, but they are among the happiest in the ranks.