The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-06-02
FINDS BROTHER
WELCOMED ARMY
In WAR PHOTO
Ebony" Young was Wounded
in Battle on Mexican BOr-
der-NOw COnyalescing.
WAS FORMER SHOE
FACTORY EMPLOYE
Picture Shows Ell PasO High
School Girls Acting as
Soldiers Nurses.

After an absence Of four years from
his home here, and lapse of commu-
nication with his father, Anthony
(TOny) Young yesterday was found"
as 4 convalescent American soldier
in picture in the rotogravure section
of the Sunday st. Louis Dispatch.
Young had gotten in the way of a
Mexican bandits bullet, and in the
picture is seen at a base hospital at
Fort Bliss, Tex, where the GONZALES
cling soldiers are being nursed by FL
PasO school girls. He is sitting in an
invalid'S wheel chair surrounded by
pretty, white-uniformed nurses, and
he wears smile that is an argument
for bigger army. He carries his
right arm in sling.
The discovery of the soldier-brother
who was wounded "some place" in
Mexico, was made yesterday evening
by Sidney Young, younger brother,
who now lives at home and works at
the shoe factory. He was talking with
some companions on the way down.
town after having left his work, and
at the same time perused the photo
graph section of the Sunday Post
| Dispatch.
His brothers photograph appears on
the first page of the section which was
devoted to war pictures. At the bot
tom were two pictures showing the
high school girls as nurses. In one
appears a group of three wounded men
in wheel chairs, surrounded by about
seven white-capped student-nurses.
Sidney Young glanced over the page
and turned to the inside. After exam
lining the remainder of the section he
returned to the war page a second
time and inspected it more closely.
"Pretty nice for those fellows" he
commented, as he glanced at the gay
scene at the hospital at Fort Bliss.
Great Scott! there's my brother
Tony, fellows" he shouted, glancing
at the features of the older brother
who had left home four years ago.
That's the first time any of US
have seen or heard of Tony since just
little while after he Joined the army.
/ must tell father about this"
Young exhibited the photograph of
/ his brother to the other men in the
group, and those who had known him
before he left Cape Girardeau recog-
nized him at once
Tony Young formerly was employed
at the shoe factory here. When he
went to st. Louis, about four years
ago, he worked in a factory for time
and then his family received word that
he had enlisted in the army. They
| were in communication with him for
short time after his enlistment, but
in recent years they had not heard
from him.
They did not know he had been sent
to the Mexican border and that he had
taken an active part in the fighting
while chasing Pancho Villa.
Young is about 80 years old and is
son of Fate Young. His mother is
dead. The family now resides at the
old home in Donnybrook on North
Lorimier street. In addition to the
brother, Sidney Young, there also is
brother, Ernest Young, living in the
Cape and working at the shoe factory
As soon as Sidney Young had found
his brother in the photograph he be-
gan trying to learn his present where
abouts. To accomplish this an effort
will be made to trace the original
; photograph.