Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1918 — Back From Camp Shelby. [ARTICLE]

Back From Camp Shelby.

John Nowels, who for some time has been at Hattiesburg, Miss., arrived, here Tuesday night. He had left Hattiesburg on Thursday, January 10. The snow blockade accounted for the long time required to make “the journey. His daughter, Mrs. John Luers, had become so uneasy x about him that she had started her husband on the way to Hattiesburg to findXhim. The weather at Hattiesburg has >een below freezing, the coldest cnown there for more than twenty years. A great many of the soldiers are sick and there has been a number of deaths. The greatest cause of this is that many of the soldiers had had the measles and had been exposed before they had sufficiently recovered. Fortunately the soldiers from here are all getting along nicely. Mrs. Nowels', has been transferred Lieut. Jay Nowels, songbf-Mr. and Mrs. Nowels has been transferred back ,to the infantry from the field artillery. , Mrs. John Nowels and Mrs. Jay Nowels will remain at Hattiesburg for some time. Mr. Nowels will divide his time between Rensselaer and Kouts. Mr. Nowels gives a mighty good report of the soldiers from here and he is, of course, very proud of his son, Lieut. Jay Nowels, who is making good in every particular.