The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-07-25
SORROW IN ROOSEVELT HOME.
Youngest Son Of Former President Sac
rificeS Life in the Crest Strag.
gle Against The iHnS.

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news that loved ones have fallen
in the defense Of their country.
This is a time when all class dis
tinctions are forgotten and the
son Of the millionaire or a form
er president fights and dies along
side of the humblest American.
The news that Colonel Roose-
velt's baby boy Quentin had been
killed last week while fighting
valiantly high in air, brought a
feeling of sadness into the heal is
of all Americans. EX-Presi-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt gave all
their boys four-and the Co..
onel offered his own services.
Now only one of the ColonePs
four sons remain untouched by
the scourge of warfare. He is
Captain Kermit Roosevelt, re-
Gently transferred from the
British to the United States army
and who is on bis way from
Mesopotamia to join the Ameri-
can eXpediJionary forces in
France. Though Captain Ker-
nit Roosevelt has yet to feel the
sting of a Hun bullet, he wears
on his breast the British mill
tary cross, awarded to him for
galiantry in action. Captain
Archie Roosevelt, the colonels
other son, is recovering slowly
from wounds when he received
in action last March, but which,
it has been reported, are likely
to render him permanently Grip
pied.
Word that Major Theodore
Roosevelt has been wounded was
received early in the evening
from young Theodore's wife,
who is in Paris engaged in Red
Cross work. The message said:
Ted wounded. Not serious
ly. Here with me. Not any
danger. No cause for anxiety"
When it came the announce
ment of Major Theodore Roose-
velt's misfortune found his dis
tinguished father already plung-
ed in grief as the result of early
cable dispatches from Paris
which had informed him that
German aviators flying low over
a sector of the battle lines in
France being held by American
troops had dropped notes an
nouncing that Quentin Roosevelt
had been killed in the spectacular
plunge of his battleplane from
above the clouds during a battle
with a squadron of Hun airmen.
! Until those messages were re-
ceived at Oyster Bay both the
Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt still
were buoyed with hope that the
uncertainty which marked pre-
vious messages regarding Quen-
tins plight might yet yield the
announcement that he had not
been killed.
Quentin Roosevelt was grad
uate of the Groton School, stand
ing second in the class, and en-
tered Harvard in 1916, where he
was known as a lively and high
ly popular student,
Quentin Roosevelt was the
baby of the Roosevelt admins
tration, and his prsnks at the
white House and school are
affectionately remembered by
Washington. He was born in
Washington in November, at the
family home when his father
was assistant secretary of the
navy in ihe Mckinley admins
tration.
The boy was a born naturalist,
with special love for animal
life, and many were the stories
told of his early days in the White
House, when he kept the family
and attnedants in a state of anx-
iety over his strange pet, which
often escaped to wander through
the grounds or around the house.
Birds, beasts, wild and domestic,
: even reptiles, were included in
the miniature menagerie which
} the child gathered from all parts
of the country; for when it was
known that the colonel, so far
from being disturbed by the boys
: traits, encouraged frst-banded