Millard County Chronicle | 1911-07-06 | Page 1 | This the Widow Rejected

THIS THE WIDOW REJECTED Refuted to Receive "Ons Housewife" Listed In Effects Left by Her Sol-dlr Sol-dlr Husband The regulation which proiljes that upon the death of a soldier a complete com-plete Inventory of his effects shall be sent to bis nxt of kin gave rise to an amusing Incident t one of our southwestern south-western army posts recently. Private Blank, recently returned from a two years' tour of .uty In the Philippines, having departed this life, the officer In charge forwarded to his wife In a small Ohio town an Itemized list of the property of the deceased, with a request that she check off the articles that she desired so that the bslalicf could be sold lit due time the list was returned, asking that all the article except the one ersoed be forwarded That one Item had been so scratched, erased and blotted out that It was entirely obliterated. The officer's curiosity was aroused, so be referred to a carbon copy, whereupon he discovered that the Indignant wtd-o wtd-o had no desire to barbor ber late husband s one housewife. U polo-rot polo-rot ts