Fort Wayne News And Sentinel, The Fort Wayne, Indiana Tuesday, March 26, 1918 Page 11

UNIONDALE BOY IS HOME FROM FRANCE

Rollie Odier Is Discharged From Foreign Service; Lost Thirty Pounds.

(Special to the News.)

BLUFFTON, Ind., March 26. – Rollier Odier, a Uniondale boy, who was in the Rainbow division in France, has returned home on a furlough. His illness, from rheumatism, has caused his discharge from service abroad, and he will be held for service in this country only. Here his health is good, but in damp France he became very sick, falling off in weight thirty pounds in two weeks.

Rollie got as far as the third line trenches only. That was in the Alsace-Lorraine district, and at the time he was there everything was quiet. The field artillery, Battery B, 150th, had not gone to the front when he left France, on Jan. 22.

Odier was in base hospital No. 8 six weeks. There, in a talk to the nurses of the reserve hospital forces, he heard eye witnesses tell of the atrocities of the German soldiers.

En route home, the Uniondale boy said the boat on which he traveled, was twenty-six days in making the trip. It was driven by a storm to the Azores and sighted three German submarines in landing. The boat, but two hours previous, had passed over the spot where the Lusitania was sunk.

"The boys of the Rainbow division are having no cinch in their army life, but are getting plenty to eat and to wear and the Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross organizations are sure looking after them," says Rollie.


Death Near Tocsin.

James Wasson, 77, one of the pioneers of Wells county, died at his home near Tocsin Monday morning. A few weeks ago he sucered (sic) a fracture of his hip while handling some hay and never recovered from his injury. Mrs. Wasson died in 1910, but the three children survive. They are Mrs. Maggie Garton, Ray and Irvin Wasson, of Lancaster township. The funeral service will be held at 1:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the Tocsin U. B. church. Burial will be in Elm Grove cemetery here. The G. A. R. will assist in the service, Mr. Wasson having been a member of the organization. He was the first man of Company G, of the One Hundred and First Indiana to be wounded in the battle of Chickamauga.


Thirty-Four Years Long Enough.

After living together thirty-four years, Adam Miller and wife have evidently decided that married life is a failure, for he has filed suit for divorce. All of their children are over twenty-one years old.


Undergoes Operation.

Thelma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rollo Stout, underwent an operation for appendicitis here yesterday at the home of the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Stout.


Loses Thumb in Corn Shredder.

Oscar Brinneman, residing on the Frank Fulton farm, lost the thumb of his right hand in a corn shredder yesterday.


Abused His Family.

John Cossairt is in jail and will appear in the court of Squire Rinehart Thursday to answer to the charge of assault and battery. John was brought here from near Poneto Sunday by members of the Horse Thief association, who assert that John has been getting drunk and abusing his family.


Skate for Red Cross.

Two hundred young people last evening roller skated on a section of West Market street, roped off by the Red Cross society, which realized a neat sum from the event. Moonlight skating on the city’s newly paved streets is popular.