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SPENCER. INDIANA. WEDNESDAY. JCI.Y 21. 191SLOCAL FLIER CAPTUREDBIG CONTINGENT LEAVESLies*. Yooug, A Coil City Mao, li la Seventy-Five Selects Sent From Oweu Hands Of Huns- Was Flying On J County Monday Morning Im-Italian Front. pressive Cermonies.•* iTin* papers recently announced tin* capture on the Italian front »f Lieut. Pearl Voting, aviator, who was forced to land inside* the German lines during a flight. It now develops that Lieutenant Vcsmifg is a naliv of Owen county. horn and reared at Goal City, and still claiming that as his home. His father. Dr. Charles Young. now live* at Alton, III., and he was named as the next of kin to be notified in case of death or wounds. Dr. Young received notification last week from the government that his son is a prisoner in a German camp.Lieut. Youcr has been in the army for some twelve years, enlisting from Coal Cit/. His mother is a sister of Henry: Hochstetler of this county and it was through the Hochstetler] family that the news of his capture reached Owen county. His capture occurred about two weeks ago.The departure Monday morning of seventy-live men from Owen countv for militarv **-rv-ice estah.ishes the high marks*, for in selective draft contingent*. Tin* greatest number heretofore to leave at one time was when the .June contingent left for training camps. The cere-moires that marked the departure Monday were impressive and a monster crowd - was present to hid the hoy goodbye.A forecast of the crowd was evident Sunday afternoon when the men reported to the local draft hoard at 2 p. m. With the men came their friends and members of their families and the court house was packed and along the west side of the square great crowds stood about and talked of the war and of the going of the men. Buggies and autos lined the streets, and men. women and children made up the crowd that moved constantly about in the restlessness of ner-
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Spencer Owen Leader
Spencer, Indiana, US
Wed, Jul 24, 1918
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