Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1920 — ENTER NAVAL TRAINING CAMP [ARTICLE]

ENTER NAVAL TRAINING CAMP

Four Rensselaer Boys Go to Great Lakes, 111., Today. W. J. Wright accompanied Harold Harmon, Tommy Thompson, George Collins, Jr., and his son, Willis Wright, to Indianapolis Monday where he got the boys entered in a six weeks’ course at the Grea. Lakes naval training camp at Great Lakes, 111., and they will leave this morning for camp. This will be excellent training for the lads, who enlist for three months and get $33 per month and found, but will be discharged Sept. 1 in time to enter school again this fall. This is a departure for the government ano high school boys between 16 and 20 years of age only are eligible.