Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1908 — Emerson Coen Joins the Navy. [ARTICLE]

Emerson Coen Joins the Navy.

Emerson Coen, son of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Coen, writes back to his parents from New York that he has enlisted in the United States Navy for a period of four years. He went from here to Chicago only about three weeks ago and from there to New York. He had just completed an enlistment in the Indiana National Guard, being a member of the local company, and he states in a letter to his mother that he has found the training he received here of great advantage to him, and that it has resulted in him being a squad leader. Emerson will probably be home on a furlough at the end of twelve months.