Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1918 — SAILOR HEMPHILL HERE. [ARTICLE]

SAILOR HEMPHILL HERE.

Earl Hemphill, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Hemphill, of this city, is spending a fifteen day furlough here with relatives and friends. Hemphill, better known as “Nub,” with his fellow townsman, Harry Hickman, joined the U. S. navy Sept. 20, 1915. Much of the time from then to the present date they have lived upon the Atlantic ocean and have been in most of its ports both in the new and the old world. At present he is a member of the crew With his pal, Hickman, on the super-dreadnaught Connecticut, one of Unde Sam’s very best battleships. . During the war he spent much time near Ireland, anxious that the kaiser’s fleet would attempt to come out into the open. The Connecticut together with the dreadnaughts Oklahoma, Nevada, Utah, Arkansas, Wyoming, Arizona, Florida, Texas and New York joined the George Washington and the Flagship Pennsylvania near an English port and escorted 'President Wilson and his party into*.the French port, Brest. Earl has had an experience that comes to but few fellows his age. His enlistment expires next September, and he is nto decided as to his re-enlistment.