Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1919 — EXTENDS HIS THANKS (?) TO “YOU AMERICANS” [ARTICLE]

EXTENDS HIS THANKS (?) TO “YOU AMERICANS”

J. M. Sauser received a letter this week from one of bis brothers in Germany, the first he had heard from them since the big war started, or at least since the United States, declared war on Germany. He has five brothers over there, four of whom were in the German army. All came through alive, and the one who wrote said: “We halve to. thank for 'losing the war.” Thirty-six soldiers were killed from the small town where they reside. He also said that they were very glad that Germany had become a republic, and/that all were sore at the kaiser for leaving them in the lurch. He bald they had plenty of money but that everything was so scarce that it v was almost impossible to buy any goods or supplies with it.