Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1919 — Muster Out Soldier, 80, After 4 Years' Service [ARTICLE]

Muster Out Soldier, 80, After 4 Years' Service

Paris. After serving four years and a half in dugouts and • Mticts as if sapper tn an engineering regiment Lieutenant Surugue. eighty years old, was mustered out of the service a few weeks ago. When the war broke out in 1914 he volunteered for the duration of the struggle, and during the conflict earned the sobriquet of “the dean of the pollus.” After being accepted in the army Lieutenant Surugue served in a training camp, learning the manual of the rifle and bayonet When he had sufficiently advanced he was immediately sent to the front, and during the war passed most of the time near Sbuchez, where shells fell with constant regularity. He is at present in fine health and tuned to continue the campaign should occasion demand it.