Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1918 — MORE ABOUT LIEUT. FLEMING. [ARTICLE]

MORE ABOUT LIEUT. FLEMING.

Rev. J. Budman Fleming has received a copy of the Franklin, Penn., | Evening News, whicn gives much space to Lieut. Frank R. Fleming, who was killed in action in France on October 11. Among other things the Account mentions the following: - Ueut. Fleming would have been 24 years old if he ’had lived until Oct. 14. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Fleming, and was born in Franklin, Penn. ___ He was graduated from the Franklin high school m 1914. Having taken a course in physical training at Silver Lake, N. Y., he became instructor *n the Buhl Club at Sharon in 1915. He was released from this position in less than a year to go to Detroit, Mich., where he took up motor construction in an automobile factory. From Detroit he and James C. Richey, now a sergeant in Co. F, went to New Brunswick, N. J., to follow similar work, and were there when the Mexican trouble .was started m 1916. Both young men immediately returned to Franklin and enlisted in Co. F, going to the border and serving until 1917. Fleming returned to New Brunswick, but left there and went to Lafayette, Ind., in response to &noffoY of physical instructorship m Purdue university. The offer appealed to Fl emi ng but the imminence of wat Wd to his declination, with the understanding that the position would be open to him after the war. At the time of his death he was a lieutenant in Co. M, 112th Regiment, and received wounds resulting tn his death while fighting in the drive 1 through the Argonne Forest