Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1918 — WILD RUMORS CARELESSLY STARTED [ARTICLE]

WILD RUMORS CARELESSLY STARTED

A number of times we have been informed while upon the street of a supposed death. Just before we went to press we were told by a party that a certain soldier boy was dead at Camp Taylor, the party saying ■that he bad just been informed by a close relatives of the soldier. An investigation proved that there was no foundation whatever for the rumor. Other embarrassing rumors have been started in the city and people who have not been even slightly sick have been reported dead. Some one must be responsible for these reports. Care should be taken in giving out such distressing as well as false information.