Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1919 — ENJOYING VISIT WITH RELATIVES AND COMRADES. [ARTICLE]

ENJOYING VISIT WITH RELATIVES AND COMRADES.

Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Richardson, of Lansing, Mich., are visiting relatives here. Mr. Richardson is an uncle of —Mrs.—John —G —Hayes and—Mrs. Richards onisa&ister Shirer. — —- From 1856 to 1868 Mr. Richardson was a resident of Jasper county, living in Walker township just one and a half miles east of Kniman. He entered the civil war with Co. K of the 48th Indiana infantry and thoroughly enjoys the companionship of the few remaining comrades of that conflict who have not been called to the Great 'Encampment. Comrade Richardson is the year past the seventieth milestone. For ten years he has been with the auditor general at Lansing, Mich. After a visit here Mr. and Mrs. Richardson will visit with John Sebring, of Medaryville, who was a comrade of Mr. Richardson in the civil war. It is now thought that the milk train going north Wednesday morning will be our last train until the bridge is replaced over the Kankakee river. The railroad has not made known the service we will have while the traffic is blocaded at Shelby. - Washington Cook, of McCoysburg, met his son,’ Samuel, and wile and baby here this afternoon. They had just returned from Messa, Ariz., where they had been caHed on account of the serious illness of Mra. Cook’s father, Rolla Johns. They report that Mr. Johns is better.