Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1918 — Did Hard "Bit” for Flag. [ARTICLE]

Did Hard "Bit” for Flag.

After going without tobacco several weeks, so the money could be used to purchase a large American flag, the old inmates of the Hempstead (L. I.) poor farm recently had the pleasure of seeing the colors break from the flagpole in front of the only home they know. Some of the men are eighty-five years old and the loss of their tobacco was a great hardship. The old fellows talked of the deeds they had seen done for the colors in the Civil war and heard of in the Revolutionary war, as they planned the pleasure that was to be theirs. The overseers of the poor, Daniel J. Morrison had Frank Hammill, after the flag raising, gave the patriotic old men fine cigars and they started to make up for the lost smokes.