Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1918 — BOY DROWNED AT KENTLAND [ARTICLE]

BOY DROWNED AT KENTLAND

Mrs. N. Littlefield was called to Kentland Monday evening by a telephone message stating * that her eleven-year-old nephew, Stanley Graves, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Graves, had drowned in a ditch wear Kentland. The father of the lad was prosecuting attorney of this circuit some years ago and this is their second child, they having one older son. LATER—The Democrat learns from Undertaker Wright, who was celled to Kentland to take charge of the remains, that the accident occurred some three miles north of Kentland, where Stanley, who could swim but little, his brother Robert, aged fourteen, and three or four other boys were in swimming. All had come out of the water except Stanley, who, while called to come, still remained in. The other boys had got their clothes on when' suddenly Stanley called “Oh Boh,” and went down in a hole wherte the water was over their heads. The other boys ran, but Robert pulled off his clothes and kept diving In the water until he got the body out, but all efforts to resuscitate the lad failed.