Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — REACHES HOME FROM GERMANY [ARTICLE]

REACHES HOME FROM GERMANY

After Being in That Country for Fourteen Years. Mr. and Mrs. David Smalley of Sheldon, Illinois, have received a letter from their son. Dr. Claude E. Smalley, D. D. S., who has been in Germany since 1904, saying that he will be home on June 13, Grandfather Smalley’s eighty-first birthday. Dr. Smalley had not been heard from since November, 1915. His parents had decided that he was either in prison or had been drafted into the German army. He had never been made a German citizen, although he had married into a German family. In January Mt. and Mrs. David Smalley received a letter from a dentist in

Sweden, who wrote that- he had seen Dr. Smalley in Copenhagen and that he had asked him to write to his parents that he was coming home soon. As nothing more was heard for six months his father and mother had decided that the letter was a forgery, until Dr. Smalley himself wrote from New York City. Dr. Smalley is a brother to W. C. Smalley of Remington and an uncle of Mrs. Max Broadie and Miss Ethel Smalley of Fowler.—Benton Review.