Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1918 — Widows’ Pensions. [ARTICLE]

Widows’ Pensions.

An act of congress of October 8, 1917, provided that from and after Its passage “the rate of pension for a widow of an officer or enlisted man of the army, navy or marine corps of the United States who served in the Civil yar. the war with Spain, or the Philippine insurrection, now on the pension roll or hereafter to be placed on the pension roll, and entitled to receive a less rate than hereinafter provided, shall be construed to affect the additional allowance provided by existing pension laws on account of a helpless child or child under sixteen years of age.” This law made $25 a month the uniform rate for all soldiers’ widows then on the pension rolls at less than that rate or wh.i should thereafter be placed on pension rolL