Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 313, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1919 — THEODORE RAMEY LIKES THE NAVY. [ARTICLE]

THEODORE RAMEY LIKES THE NAVY.

’ Theodore Ramey, of Hammond, who enlisted in the U. S. navy recently through the Hammond naval recruiting station, is happy to think that he made the move even though he has been in the hospital six weeks of his enlistment. The following letter was received from him today by F. H. Rextrew, iri charge of the Hammond station: Great Lakes, 111. Dear Mr. Rextrew: Thought I would drdp you a few lines to tell you where I am stationed and how I like it by this time. I have transferred to the radio school and I was making good, but I got the scarlet fever and I am in the hospital for six weeks. On the 26th or 27th of January I will be in Hammond and I will and see you, when we get a ten day sick leave, which pays us $2 a day extra. I am glad that I joined the navy because it is the very best '•place a boy could be. ~ I guess I l'got in just in time because you I'have to be 18 to get ill now. The (navy is taking some of the fat off jof me. If any boys are thinking of joining the navy, them my advice. Yours sincerely, ’ THEODORE RAMEY, P. S.—My address is Naval Hospital, Unit 12, Great Lakes, 111. The above was sent to the Republican by his sister, Mrs. Fred Byrd, of Hammond. It was taken from I the Hammond Times. Theodore i Ramey is a son of Mrs. Capitola Ramey, of this city, but who is I'now visiting with relatives in Spo- | kane, Wash. '