Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1918 — LONELY SERVICE FLAG CAUSES WIFE TO ENLIST [ARTICLE]

LONELY SERVICE FLAG CAUSES WIFE TO ENLIST

Lincoln, Hl.—Because the single star in a service flag that hung in the window of her home here, representing her husband, who had gone tq< war, looked lonely, Mrs. David Shea has • joined the army, adding a mating star. She enlisted as a timekeeper in the quartermaster’s corps and has been sent to Fort Whipple, Prescott, Ariz.