Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1919 — “BUMMER” HAS ARRIVED [ARTICLE]

“BUMMER” HAS ARRIVED

LOCAL VETERAN OF BIG SQUABBLE BACK SAFE AND SOUND IN U. S. A. % Back safe and sound in the old U.S.A. is Verne Davisson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Davission, after almost two year’s absence during which time he hobnobbed with the French as an ambulance driver on many of the big circuits in the war arena in the big fuss overseas just closed. (News of .the arrival of one of Rensselaer’s oldest veterans of the war was received this Thursday morning when a telegram arrived stating that he had arrived safely in Hoboken, N. J. Verne was one of the Rensselaer boys who heard the call early, leaving this city in July of 1917 with Samuel Duvall after having pledged his assistance to the French government as an ambulance driver. It wasn’t long after landing on the other side that he found himself mixed up in the big' melee, and from that time until the close -of the war he was almost continuously found along the active sectors of the front. He served in Italy, Belgium and France, also for a short time as a member of the army of occupation in Germany, always taking his Ford with him. Verne was cited by the French government and carries a French cross of war on his breast. He was in practically aU of the greatest battles of the war and came through them without a scratch and bearing a smile. The only drawback to the war game as far as he was concerned was that it broke irt so on his mornings and afternoons, and was decidely inconvenient at times even during the night. Otherwise he was not much perturbed. It is probable that ho will be sent to Camp Grant, 111., to he discharged from the service, after which he will return to Rensselaer.