Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-10-01
'ELSMERE SHOWS
ITS PATRIOTISM
Bows in the Service Honorcd at a
Community Meeting in the
Presbyterian Church.
Special Correspondence of Every Evening

Special Correspondence OF Every Evening
Elsmcre, Oct. l.--Elsmere Presby-
| terrain Church was crowded to capacity
, at the honor service Sunday evening for
the ~ boys who have gone from here To
the front and the camps At the same
time the Liberty Loan campaign was
officially launched, Robert L. Robinson,
Christiana hundred, captain, setting the
aims OF the hundred and State before the
people, and Mrs. II. Framer Smith and
Mayor Alexander. captains of the
women's and mems Elsmcrc teams, re-
spectively announcing their workers and
plans State Sunday School Secretary L
Davis Preston addressed the children,
setting before them their patriotic priv
legcs in the present crisis Joseph Davis,
formerly OF Elsmere and now OF Clevo-
land. was present and called upon to cor
roborate "A statement given from the plat
form that for nine years he had not
missed session of Elsmere Sunday
school, ON one occasion running two
miles To reach the church in time to save
his record
The distinctively honor portion Of the
program was very impressive. The pastor
asked all present with relatives not
farther distant than first cousins To- arise.
and practically the entire audience arose.
When all save those represented by the
Elsmpre honor roll were seated more than
half of the original number standing re-
manned erect IA, IN turn. all save parents
and wives, all save mothers and wives,
and all save wives were seated there was
vivid demonstration Of how the war
has actually come home Ia Elsmere.
Following this demonstration the audi
ence arose while the pastor, Rev "
Framer Smith. read the rs names and
told how Newton Derickson lay critically
Ill of influenza NJ Camp Decatur The
died Yesterday; how Captain Randall
Carsweli had been gassed AT the Marine
and returned to his company only TO
collapse how Musician Bennett had
been burned with mustard gas, and his
clothing shot from his body IN parts
Still standing, heads were bowed while
the pastor led IN PRAYER after which
Mothers War HYMN was sung
Miss Margaret Stirling sang The
Marsciil Use. the audience standing
throughout Mr. Fuller rendered tenor
solo appropriate TO the occasion. and
Rollin Davis led the singing IN place of
Frank T. Mitchell Of the Wilmington
Y. Nj G. A., who was Ill with influenza.
Private John Slicrr, the only Elsmere
hov who could he present stood nj
attention tnfNuEhout the sibkiiE " Nv
Star Spangled Banner Following the
henediction, while the audience stood
with bowed heads and in silence taps
were sounded
Honorable mention OF old Elsmenans
was made Leroy Work. nov IN France,
and Goodwin Norlin. of L ;. ). de
stroYer being mentioned The latter Is
now wounded, having been shot IN the
knee. lie belongs To- destroyer crew
that had the honor Of getting a tl-hoat
Captain Robert Carswell. on the Mexican
border. was recently named IN the VII
mlngton papers as the officer who went
over the border and returned with 500
prisoners Elsmerc honored her own.
The subject America, tho Rod Of God 5
Anger. was both timely and appropriate.
as briefly presented by the pastor of the
church.