Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1918 — HAS FIVE SONS IN FRANCE [ARTICLE]

HAS FIVE SONS IN FRANCE

Kansas Town Presents Parents With Fine Flag at Public Celebration. , Hays, Kan. —A silk service flag of five stars was formally presented by the City of Hays to Mr. and Mrs. Anton Gross at a celebration here recently which packed the largest theater. Five of their sons are already in the army and a sixth will enlist as soon as the school where he is teaching closes for the summer. This will make six of the eight Gross sons in the service of Uncle Sam. One is already in France and another is supposed to have sailed. Mrs. Gross, the mother, responded to a speech -of presentation. She thanked the people of Hays and said she deemed it a privilege to have been the mother of the men who would help to make the right more powerful than force and aggression. Martin Gross is with the 137th infantry. John is in France in the heavy artillery. Theodore is at Jefferson barracks. Paul is supposed to have sailed for France, and Jacob is at Camp Greene, N. C. r - '