Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1918 — EXPECTS TO BE AT FORT DES MOINES UNTIL SPRING [ARTICLE]

EXPECTS TO BE AT FORT DES MOINES UNTIL SPRING

Captain I. M. Washburn and family left here Tuesday evening for Fort Des Moines, lowa. The government has assigned suitable quarters for the doctor and his family. This is an old army fort and the Washburns will be nicely located with everything convenient and modern. During this time the doctor will >e, associated with one of the greatest surgeons in this country, end the opportunity which Captain Washburn will have in this line will give him a training in surgery that WiM be very valuable, and upon bis return to this city, which he hopes will be in the early spring, he will have made a great advancement in this work. It is expected that a great number of wounded soldiers will be taken to the lowa fort. Jasper county has made a sacrifice in five doctors for war service. But each one of these men are sure to return with a training that will -enable them to be more efficient in their practice, and will therefore make them of added value to the communities' they had previously served. 1 Undoubtedly they will each receive aded prestige for the personal sacrifice they have made, and that sacrifice win ibe duly rewarded. Each community owes a debt to the soldiers who went to the war, andT while we lived in comfort and continued our money making they were undergoing 'hardships and were receiving as a remuneration for the same barely sufficient funds upon which they and their dependents could subsist. Many here at home have by the very conditions of the war had great financial prosperity, and to all such there is an added obligation to the brave soldiers. ‘ Justice and equality demands that these brave boys be. rewarded for their heroism and patriotic service.