Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1918 — LETTERS FROM SUBSCRIBERS [ARTICLE]

LETTERS FROM SUBSCRIBERS

THEY. COME FROM MISSISSIPPI, CANADA, NEW YORK AND MINNESOTA. From Lt. George W. Healey. 137th Field Artillery, Camp Shelby, Miss., July 12, 1918. Clark & Hamilton, Rensselaer Republican, Rensselaer, Indiana. Am enjoying the best of health but am working very hard from morning until flight. How does this sound? Reveille at 5 a. m., drill the company with rifles from 6 a. m. until 7 a. m., work in the supply office from then until 3 p. m., artillery school from 3 p. m. to 6 p. m. and 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. This is five days a week; sometimes I get Saturday afternoon off and very little work Sunday. However, next Sunday our company will spend the day at the rifle range. The drafted men are coming in thick and fast. In the last bunch our Company got 15 men from Mississippi. I have seen slower men but I don’t remember jtist where it was. However, they all seem willing and I believe with the training they are getting will soon “crack” ' out of their stupor. I see Col. Healey quite often although he is very busy. There seems to be no rest for him nor any Sunday. He is in command of the 76th Infantry Brigade during the temporary absence of General Judson. Mother and the rest of the family were up here for about ten days Stay just having returned to New Orleans last week. They like it very much there. We expect mother up here again tomorrow. She will stay with my wife and I at our home in Squaw Camp. If you have never heard of Squaw Camp it is a colony of small houses built by the officers just at the edge of the reservation so that they may have their wives with them arid, feel more at home. Our camp is composed mostly of people from Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia. If one has never seen a Squaw Camp it is something worth seeing. We have a church and Store and feel really at home. It really is my home. No one should ever feel that this boys are abused here for this is an excellent camp. Lots of hot weather but good tefots, cool nights and the best of food. The days are-drifting by very fast and it has been almost a year since we were called into the service. Our work has long ago settled down to a regular routine and there is little variance, from day to day. Will close for this time with best wishes to both Mr. Clark and Mr. Hamilton as well as others at the office. '■ Very truly, LT. GEORGE W. HEALEY. From Canada. Big Valley, Alta, Canada, z July 4, 1918. Clark & Hamilton, Rensselaer. Am sending my subscription a little late but have been in the country all spring with no chance to get in to the post office. No craps here; all dried up; hasn’t rained to amount t<T anything this spring; doesn’t look as though this -end of Canada will have much wheat for the Allies. So you fellows must do your best. E. L. WOLFE.

Glenwood, Minn., July 12, 1918. To The Editor: ’ For some time I have been wanting to write you and let the relatives and friends know that our only child and son, George E. Sayler went to Minneapolis, May 11 and volunteered his service. He left home June 3rd for Minneapolis and was sent to Jefferson Barracks, Mo., and from there to Camp Jackson, South Carolina. George was 20 years old the 14th of February and had always worked on a farm until 3 months previous to his departure, when he resigned as yard clerk at the Zoo depot. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sayler, who formerly lived three mines east of Rensselaer, on the Henry Sayler homestead. Mrs. Sayler before her marriage was Miss Lydia B. Wuerthner and a well know teacher in our public schools. The Sayler family left here in 1905 and since then have made their home in Minnesota. Mrs. Sayler visited relatives and friends here 2 years ago. George enlisted in the field artillery and his present address is Private George E. Sayler, Battery B, 6th Train Battalion, F. A. R. D., Columbia Camp Jackson, South Carolina. He likes his work fine and like the rest of our brave boys, is anxious to get to France as soon as possible. Mrs. Sayler says we surely enjoy reading the letters from the boys who are in service and always send the paper to George. We are glad to read Rensselaer is backing our boys in every way possible. Our subscription will expire some time in August, but we intend to again renew our subscription,' so please do not let us miss a copy. Wishing you the best, we are yours, MR. AND MRS. J. H. SAYLER.

Sackets Harbor, N. Y., . July 13, 1918. (Editor Republican. Dear Sir: Herewith find check for $2.00. You may send me the Re-

publican Semi-Weekly for one year. This is about all the way we have now of keeping tab on you Rensselaer people. Therefore tell us all the good things about them and as many of the bad things as you care to. We are sending ear loads of soldiers out of this government quarters every few days, two cars leaving today and many hundreds have left the past few weeks. If other sections are doing likewise, we sure will have the Kaiser and all his relations very soon. We are having a very cool summer. Plenty of rain. Hay is light crop. Other crops all late. Pastures good. Dairy cows looking fine, plenty of milk and cheese. We are well. Yours very truly, \ C. H. TRYON.