Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1919 — See Stockyards First. [ARTICLE]

See Stockyards First.

Jim, his father’s pride and mother’s joy, had been “over there” for nearly two years. Finally word was received that he had reached an Eastern port and -would soon be heading for camp to receive his little red discharge chevron. Eagerly the home folks had waited to welcome back their hero and planned to make the day of his arrival here en route to camp a big one. At four o’clock one afternoon Jim’s voice came over the telephone to his dad: “Leaving in fifteen minutes for camp.” Unable to understand the short stopover, the father inquired the time of his arrival in Chi. “Well, now, it was this way,” explained the warrior: “We got In at nine o’clock this morning, but I had a couple of pals with me who had never seen the stockyards, and I took them out to show them the place.”-—Chicago Tribune.