Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1918 — ED ROSE SAFE IN FRANCE [ARTICLE]

ED ROSE SAFE IN FRANCE

It was a great relief to Mrs. Ed Rose and Mr. Rose's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rose,, of Barkley township, when they received a letter this week from Ed Rose in France. On account of the extreme delay in reporting casualties and the long time since they had heard from Private Rose, they had been very uneasy as to this safety. The last letter 'feceived was written October 15 and the Rainbow division, of which he is a member, has seen very strenuous service.' This division had been used as shock troops and when Private Rose last wrote he said they were then upon one of the bloodiest fields of the entire war. The letter -received from Private Rose this week by his wife, who makes her home with her parents, was written on Nov. 11, and after the armistice had been sign&L Letters written after the.armistice had been signed and reporting loved ones still all right are indeed welcome and of supreme satisfaction. It would be supposed Ithat the Rainbow division, which more than any other American unit has had to face the most prolonged and determined attacks by the Germans, would soon be sent home, but it appears that this division is to be a part of the army of occupation and that it will be a good iong time before our boys in it are eent home.