Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1918 — A HAPPY YOUNG MAN. [ARTICLE]

A HAPPY YOUNG MAN.

“He’s signing it”’was the happy expression of Paul Beam, this Friday morning as his father signed the necessary papers for Paul’s admission into the United States navy. Paul would not have been happier if his father had been signing a check for him for a thousand dollars. Paul had offered his services and had succesfully passed the examinations an,d needed the consent of his father in order that he might take the oath today that would make him one of the members of Uncle Sam’s navy. All three sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beam have enlisted. Hurley took the officers’ training camp work and was appointed a lieutenant and saw service in France. He had to return home on account of failing health. The second son, Donald enlisted in the navy and is a member of a naval band that is.jiossibly now, crossing the ocean for the ninth time in the good ship Von Stuben taking Yanks over to fight the Huns. Paul, the youngest son, is just a little over eighteen years of age. He was graduated from the Rensselaer high school and was one of the most popular young men of the city. He had a fine position in Chicago but his patriotic fevor would not down.