Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1919 — GOVERNMENT RETURNS BINOCULARS [ARTICLE]

GOVERNMENT RETURNS BINOCULARS

Rev. E. W. Strecker, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, of this city,, has received by registered mail the binoculars he had loaned to the government to be used by the navy during the war. These binoculars were used on the U. S. S. Maine. The letter concerning the return of the binoculars is as follows: NAVY DEPARTMENT U. S. Observation Washington, D. C. There is being returned to you by registered mail the article received from you in respbnse to the navy’s, call. ~ An enigradved certificate evidencing the participation of this article in the' war, is now being prepared and will be forwarded to you at a subsequent date. It is hoped that any evidence of wear dr damage will be compensated for by the fact that a great- service has beep performed and that historic .mtarewt ;has 'been added to the article returned. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Assistant Secretary of the Navy.