Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1918 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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One of the weekly papers at Hebron, the Herald, has discontinued publication because of the high cost of print paper and printing material in general. ♦ Reports to General Crowder substantially complete show _ that the number of men who became of age during the last year and who* registered June 5, totals 744,865. it is estimated that the number of twenty-one-year-old men who have enlisted is- 208,588. In Indiana 20,09 3 young men registered. “Since January 1 our navy has sunk twenty-eight German submarines and. our sailors should have the credit for. it,” declared United States Senator John W. Weeks, member of the senate military affairs committee, in addressing the Massachusetts Laundry Owners’ Association at Pemberton, Mass., Saturday. “1 believe when a heroic

deed is done, it should be made public,* 5 ’ he added. • Lieut. Pat O’Brien, royal British flying corps, who is in the United States after having escaped from a German war prison, fell nearly 2,000 feet in an airplane at San Antonio Friday but was only slightly injured. O’Brien was alone in airplane over Kelly field when it fell. He was conscious when aid reached him and his chief concern was over ’iis new trousers, which he feared nad been ruined. O’Brien was taken to the emergency hospital. Cuts and bruises about., the face and body were his chief injuries. It is estimated that 70 per cent of the residents of the United States use electricity in some form every day.