Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1918 — KNIT SOCK FOR BOYS AT FRONT [ARTICLE]

KNIT SOCK FOR BOYS AT FRONT

TEN THOUSAND SOCK WANTED FOR OUR BOYS NOW AT THE FRONT. Mrs. Robert H. Tyndall, wife of Col. Robert H. Tyndall, now in command of the 150th Field Artillery in France, is the president of the Rainbow Cheer Society. She is making an appeal for 10,000 socks to be sent to the Rainbow Division by June 15. Almost every town in the state is helping. Lafayette has donated 1,000 pairs ;Richmond gave 500. What will Rensselaer do for this splendid cniise? v ■ On August 29, 1917, ten young men from here, left to be a part of the Rainbow Division, which soon went to France, and have now been in the thick of the fight over there. The soldiers were taken out of Company M. They are as follow: William F. Reed, Emery Nixon, Harmon Clayton, Howard J. Ames, Willie Potts, Harry M. Hays, Edward Peregrine, Add Clayton, Wesley Hurley and Ford E. McColly. Letters from soldiers in the service in France say that socks are one of the great needs. The water and mud make a great many socks necessary. It will undoubtedly be a pleasure to the women of this county to know the socks they knit will go to our own boys and will be of such splendid service to them.