Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ol the Gonntry. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities »nd Towns—Matters of Mind* Mention From Many Place*. DIED IN FRENCH HOSPITAL Glen Barnhart of Monon Called By Disease November 16. Henry Barnhart received a message from the war department Wednesday night, announcing the death of his son, Glen Barnhart, in a French hospital, November 16, following jyi illness from dysentary. The last letter received from him was dated November 6, and he was them fighting in the front trenches. He was a first class private in the 11th Artillery and entered the service as a volunteer at Indianapolis in the spring of 1917. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Barnhart and was born near Hicksville, Ohio, April 18, 1890. Two brothers, Lavon and Lloyd, are with the American soldiers in France. His brother, Virgil, died at Camp Custer, October 8, with pneumonia. The patriotism of the Barnhart family has already attracted attention. Four sons and a daughter responded to the call for military duty without any exemption claim or protest on the part of their parents. Mrs. Barnhart was at the bedside of Virgil a week before his death. The circumstances attending Glen’s death are even more heart-rendering because the consoling presence of mother could not be there.—Monon News.