Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1919 — HAMMOND ALDERMAN BACK FROM FRANCE; WAS GASSED [ARTICLE]

HAMMOND ALDERMAN BACK FROM FRANCE; WAS GASSED

Hammond, Feb. 24.—-Corporal Erick Lund, aiderman and a building contractor, returned to Hammond today from France, where he was wounded after entering Chateau Thierry with the Sixth engineers. Although a gray haired man and about to retire from business, Lund enlisted and stood up under forty-eight hours of continuous fighting, without food or rest, as well as the younger men of his outfit, until he was gassed.