Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Toligraphic Reports From Mioy Parts of thi Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor ' Mention From Many Places. REV. E. M. KUONEN TO FRANCE Former Barkley Minister to Engage in Y. M. C. A. Work. Rev. E. M. Kuonen has had great success with! the Y. M. C. A. (He has been giving lectures through Illinois ever since last fall on the "Y” work. He passed the examination in Chicago and is wating for his passport when he will sail foi Paris to work as Y. M. C. A. secretary. The reverend got his first schooling in Paris and this will ho no new place for Ihim, His many friends aTe sorry to lose him but are glad that he has secured a good position and wish him well in the idew and useful occupation.—Monticello Herald, Reynolds iteans. Rev. Kuonen is a former pastor of the Barkley M. E. church and is well known to many readers of The Democrat.