Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1919 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

General Pershing has advised that le proposes to transport 375,000 men homeward .during the month of June. This breaks all previous records for moving troops overseas and exceeds the number Great Britain moved across the channel in any” month. John Zellers, of Virgie, was in Rensselaer Wednesday. His two daughters, Jessie and Elsie, who were graduated from the Fair Oaks ligh school this spring and are now taking a teachers’ course in the Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute, are home for a short vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Griffith, of Monticello, but formerly of Remington, have received a letter from their son, Fred, who is with* the United States army in France, in which the young soldier writes that he expects to' be starting for home quite soon.

Miss Geraldine Kindig is at home, f ollowing the close of tne city schools of Kankakee, Illinois, where she is employed as a teacher in the mathematics department of the high school. She will spend the. summer here with , ler parents, Rev. and Mrs. H. L. Kindig.—Monticello Herald. The Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Rodgers were ini Michigan City to spend a few days with Mrs. Rodgers’ brother, the Rev. Wood, who is chaplain at the state penitentiary.—Wolcott Enterprise. The Rev. Rodgers is a brother of Mrs. R. A. Parkison, of this city. Mrs. Badgers js a sister of Henry Wood. i

i. A number of people motored to Remington Sunday afternoon to visit the peony famjalr W. L. Gumm. Each year hundOs of people visit | the farm to see 'the flowers, which , are grown in enormous quantities and varieties. This year, however, the cold weather and hail storm that visited that section of the state some time ago wrought <havoc among the plants and the visitors were slightly disappointed!—Monticello Herald.