Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1918 — MUSTERED OUT OF SERVICE [ARTICLE]

MUSTERED OUT OF SERVICE

More Jasper County Boys Return Home From Army Camps. z Among the boys who have been mustered out of the army service during the past few «days are John Welsh, Victor Michaels, Thomas McGlinn, - Guy Peek, from Camp Taylor; Lieut. Emil Hanley from Camp McClellan, Alabama; Captain Cope 'Hanley from Camp Sherman, Ohio; William Wasson from Camp Purdue; Frank Fritz from Camp Knox. Arthur Gosnell, who has been iq. the overseas aviation section and recently returned to New York, where he was mustered out, reached home Sunday. So far as learned, he is the first Jasper county soldier who has been overseas to be discharged. He went "across’’ some time last summer.

Joe Reeve is home from Camp Taylor on a seven days’ furlough. Frank McCurtain of Parr is home from Camp Sherman, Ohio, on a five-day furlough. Corp. Elmer Daniels came up from Indianapolis Sunday morning to remain until Thursday with his wife and baby. Harry English of the S. A T. C., Indianapolis, came Sunday to spend the with his parents, Dr. E. C. English. Harry Stembel arrived here Monday morning from Washington, D. C., on a ten day furlough which he will ‘ spend with his mother, Mrs. George Stembel at Wheatfield. Mrs. Chester Besse went to Remington Friday to join her husband, who had been mustered out of the service at Indianapolis, after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John O’Connor at Kniman.

Paul Healy came home Sunday on a fifteen day furlough. He has been stationed at Boston on the big steamship Mt. Vernon for the past five weeks. This- is a former German boat. It will go out about February 15, Paul says. George M. Babcock came in Monday evening from Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Babcock. He hopes to be mustered out in a few (fays after returning there, January 2. Lieut. Richard D. Wangelin came Friday from Camp Pike, Arkansas, having been discharged but placed on the inactive list, and will again take up the management of the Central garage', in which he owns an interest. ‘His wife, who has been with her mother at Goshen, will return here after the holidays. Lloyd W. Johnson, son of Mr. Mrs. .Ralph Johnson of Barkley township, wha enlisted in the navy at Great Lakes, Illinois, early last spring, and who has been in England since last June, arrived in New York on December 15 on the Leviathan, and came home Sunday evening on a 20-day furlough Lloyd enlisted in the service for four years and at the expiration of his furlough will report at Cullen Bay, New York.