Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1918 — LOCAL BOYS NOT TO LEAVE [ARTICLE]

LOCAL BOYS NOT TO LEAVE

Mrs. Ruth Beam received a telephone call Monday night from her husband, Don Beam, who is a member of the N. N. V. band at the Great Lakes Training station near Chicago, and who with three other bands was to leave yesterday morning for New York, one band to go from there to France and the other three to be placed on scout cruisers on the Atlantic- —stating that they would remain at the Great Lakes Training station for three weeks yet at least; that Captain Moffitt had just returned from Washington and issued such orders. (He also said that a petition had been made by prominent Chicago men to have the N. N. V. band returned to Grant Park for the summer, but did not know whether the petition would be granted. It is understood that this similarly affects the other Rensselaer band boys at this station — Don Wright, Thomas Padgitt and Harry Kurlin.