Joseph Fudge and Harold Kjar Seriously Wounded is Word Received by Parents in Atlantic at Time of News of Death of Others.

Killed.

CECIL M. CONLEY, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Conley, 605 Olive Street, Atlantic FRED D. TURNER, son of Mr. and Mrs. R R Turner, Bear [?] Grove township.

Wounded.

JOSEPH O. FUDGE, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O Fudge, 1014 Palm street, Atlantic. HAROLD KJAR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Kjar, 141 West Sixth street, Atlantic.

War has been brought home to Atlantic and Cass county with a terrible reality. Two young men of the community, members of Company M. are among those reported killed. Two more are reported wounded.

Brief messages received this afternoon by the parents told of the death of Cecil M. Conley and Fred D. Turner. Other messages told of the serious wounding of Joseph O. Fudge and Harold Kjar.

At last war has begun to claim its to toll among the boys of Atlantic and Cass county. Cecil Conley was the son of Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Conley of this city. He was about 19 years old. Fred Tuner was 20 years old. He was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turner, farmers, living south of Atlantic.

The brief messages received by the parents of the two boys who were wounded, Joseph Fudge and Harold Kjar, stated that they were seriously wounded but gave no further details.

The word of the deaths was not received this afternoon in the news dispatches of this paper, but was contained in private messages over the Western Union wire to the relative. Mrs. Turner, mother of Fred Turner, was in the house south of the city alone, when the word was received, her husband being at the John Carlson sale, and it was not possible to reach him right away to tell him of his son's death.

The news came with startling suddenness, but the relatives were not unprepared for Bad news, as letters received in the recent past informed them that the boys were in the trenches.

Cecil Conley, one of the two boys killed was a student in the Atlantic High School, when he enlisted Ia Co. M last summer, as was Joe Fudge, one of the wounded. Fred Turner was graduated from the Atlantic high school in 1915. Their death brings two gold stars to the high school service flag, unfurled today.

The sympathy of this entire community goes out to the bereaved parents in this hour.

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Transcribed and contributed to Cass County IAGenWeb by Eileen Reed, September, 2016

~ source:  The Atlantic News Telegraph, Atlantic, Iowa, March 14, 1918
~ reprinted here with permission by Cheryl Siebrass Cass County IAGenWeb