Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1918 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

George Wellington Gratner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Gratae, was born Dec. 14, 1890, and died Nov. 20, 1918, aged 21 years, eleven months and sixteen days. He was baptised When a child at the Barkley M. E. church, and was raised in that faith, a cheerful, bright and promising young man, loved by all who knew him. » His life was spent in and near his home until he answered .the call of his country on Sept 6, 1918. He was sent to Camp Taylor, Ky. After serving two weeks he was taken ill and removed to the Base Hospital on Sept 20, Where he was a patient sufferer for eight weeks, when the final sumlmons came Nov. 20. He was a remarkable patient, loved by nurses and doctorts. When the end was near he bade them all a cheerful goodbye and told the nurse to tell all his friends and parents good-bye, that he was.sure he was going to heaven, and hoped to meet them all there. He leaves to mourn their loss his parents, two sisters, Mrs. Ruby iHoeferlin and Ethel Gratner; three brothers, Floyd, Warren and Lewis Gratner, besides other relatives and many dear friends.

Investigation has Shown that more linemen are injured than any other class of men employed in the electrical industry, but that only a small percentage of accidents are due to electric shock. * , Investigation has ruined the lark’s reputation for early rising. That much-celebrated bird is quite a sluggard, as it does not rise till long after chaffinches, linnets and a number of hedge-row (birds have been up and about for some time. Primary and grammar schools have bden established in practically all of the towns in Sinaloa wit ha population of 600 or more, and the matter of establishing primary ‘ schools in smaller places is now receiving much attention. A normal school located in CuUacan, the capital of the state, is now educating numbers of young women, who are to undertake instruction in primary and grammar grades.

So long ago as 1714 a patent for a typewriter was taken out in England <by Henry Mill. It was called a “machine for impressing letters singly and progressively as in writing, whereby all /writings may be ingrossied in paper so exact as not to be distinguished from print.” His machine was very clumsy and it was not until more tha na century later (1829) that anything further was attempted. Then the first American typewriter, called a “typographer,” was patented by W. A. Burt.