Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — PROBABLY ON WAY TO FRANCE [ARTICLE]

PROBABLY ON WAY TO FRANCE

D. J. Babcock, John Kriz and Eight Boys from Newton County. A letter received Wednesday by The Democrat editor from his youngest son, D. J. Babcock, who with a few other boys from this section of the state serving in the engineers section of the national army were recently transferred from Camp Taylor, Kentucky, to the 105 U. S. Engineers at Camp Sevier, South Carolina, stated that all indications pointed to an early departure for France. The letter was written Sunday, and he thought probable they would leave Gamp Sevier Tuesday, presumably for Charleston, S. C., the nearest Atlantic seaport, some 250 miles from Camp Sevier, so it is likely they are now on the ocean. So far as we are able to learn, John, Kriz of Newton township Is the Qhly other Jasper county boy transferred from Camp Taylor to Camp Sevier, but we are told there were eight (Newton county boys, including William B. Mustard of Goodland, a nephew of Mrs. Sylvester Gray of "Rensselaer, and it is likely that all are included in the division leaving there for the other side.