Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1919 — THE LIFTING OF THE GANGPLANK [ARTICLE]

THE LIFTING OF THE GANGPLANK

IN MUSIC TO THE EARS OF OVERSEAS SOLDIERSBEVY OF ’EM DUE. They’re coming in droves now--thousands of ’em, and the best of it all is that a lot of them are coming to Jasper county, Indiana. « 'What are we talking about? We’re talking about those overseas Hun Smashers of ours who set out early last summer to lick the daylights out of the Kaiser, and succeeded. The present week marks the biggest exodus of U. S. troops from France for dear Yankee Land since the cessation of hostilities on a dull, gray day last November. Approximately one hundred thousand Yankee boys have been shipped within the past ten days, and twenty thousand more are booked for sailing during, the first seven days of May. As a result of the governments operation of the railroads Monday, Dr. C. E. Johnson and Wade Jarette, son of B. J. Jarrette and James Ellis, arrived in Rensselaer after months of service on the other side of the Atlantic. Guy Swim arrived last Sunday; Lieut Emmett Laßue is due in Rensselaer today; Ernest Moore is in somebody’s camp here in the United States and should arrive within a short time; Michael Wagner is in an eastern cantonment and doubtless will come strolling in ’ere long; Dr. Gwin has sailed; Verne Davission is not many days away; Colonel Healey is now at a French embarkation port and is due in Rensselaer by June 1; the Rainbow division is but a few days out from an American port now, in it are ten old company M members; Howard Ames landed Saturday and is awaiting his red discharge stripe. That’s all we can think of now, but time will do doubt disclose that there are several others homeward bound. Let’s see whom we have over there Floyd Meyers, Kenneth Rhoades, Ross Benjamin, Scott Chesnut, Lieut. Jay Nowels, Paul Worland, John Worland —our memory now fails us, but perhaps one of these days we will think of others who still have their eyes focused on the western horizon and who are waiting for the zero hour when the gangplank is lifted and they start on their homeward journey. Oh boy! don’t she look like a great old summer, so different from the summer of 1918, when the streets were so barren of youth. Then Capt. Art Tuteur will be home, and Earle Reynolds is a-coming, and the band will start playing and the last bit of gloom will be dissolved and we 11 all be so happy. . “Ain’t is a Grand and Glorious Feelin’?”