Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1917 — OMAR OSBORNE NOW IN TEXAS [ARTICLE]

OMAR OSBORNE NOW IN TEXAS

Many Rensselaer Boys Are Joining the Army Service. The Democrat is in receipt of a card from Omar Osborne, who enlisted last week in the army engineering service and left Chicago Saturday for Houston, Texas. The card was written at Dallas Monday and said: “Had a three-hour stopover here. Quite a place. Will reach camp at 7:30 a. m. tomorrow. We are twenty-four hours behind our schedule on account of snow in Missouri and Arkansas. Will drop you a line from the camp.’’ D. M. Worland received a telegram from his son Paul yesterday imorning who with his brother John went to Indianapolis on Tuesday to enlist in some branch of the army service. He stated that John had enlisted in the aviation division and left for Fort Thomas, Kentucky, Wednesday, and that he, Paul, would entrain for Louisville, Kentucky, Thursday evening, where he would be stationed at Jefferson barracks as an ennbalmer in the medical corps of the regular army. Roland Eib of Barkley township, who enlisted in the army serivce last week, has written his parents that he is in the baking service in the quartermaster’s department. He was still at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, but expected to be sent to some other point soon, and rumor in the fort was that it would be to Rock Island, Illinois. Edward M. Honan returned from Indianapolis Tuesday evening where he had gone to enlist in the aviation division. He passed the physical test O. K., but owing to there being about 300 applicants ahead of him was unable to take his final examination and thought it would be perhaps two weeks before his turn. Mrs. Ed. Kanne has received a letter from Mrs. Charles Clift, now of Brazil, Indiana, in which Mrs. Clift said that their son Carl had enlisted in the aviation section and had gone to St. Louis to be examined. From there he would be sent to Fort Trayis, San Antonio, Texas, for training.

Several Remington and Carpenter township boys went to Indianapolis this week and enlisted in the army service. Am'ong the number were Harry M’ay, Paul Stoudt, John Budrea»u>, Austin Iliff, Charles Miller, Albert Dluzak, Crawford Bates, Henry Cain, Roy Bartholomew and Alfred Watson. “Jim” Rhoades, who went to Chicago Sunday to join the army service in the electric battery section, was sent to the Columbus, Ohio, barracks, instead of to. Rock Island, Illinois, as he had expected. French Crooks went to Indianapolis the first of the week and enlisted in the U. S. navy and is now at the Great Lakes Training station near Chicago.