Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Conntry. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL o ’ Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. WILSON’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE Washington, Dec. 25. —President Wilson, in Paris, sent to the American people the following Christmas message: “I hope that it will cheer the people at borne to know that I find their boys over here ini fine form and in fine spirits, esteemed by all those with whom they have been associated in the war, and trusted wherever they go, and they will also be cheered by the knowledge of the fact that, throughout the great nations with which we have been associated in this war, public opinion strongly sustains all proposals for a just and lasting peace, and a close co-operation of the self-governing peoples of the world in making that peace secure after Its present settlements are formulated. Nothing’ could constitute a more acceptable Christmas reassurance than the sentiments which I find everywhere prevalent.”