Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1920 — TAPERS BURN FOR U. S. DEAD [ARTICLE]

TAPERS BURN FOR U. S. DEAD

Hundreds of Carpenters Building Coffins to Bring Bodies of Soldier Homo. — Cherbourg, France, Sept. 16. —Prep arations for shipping to the United States bodies of American soldiers whc fgi on the battlefield or died on French soil are going forward here. Hun dreds of carpenters are building cos Una Great warehouses have beer transformed into mortuary chapels and tapers are kept burning around a huge catafalque, which is in readiness to receive the bodies as they , react Cherbourg from the front.