30 Volunteers From Grundy

Grundy Center Heads List With 16 Volunteers

Thirty young men from Grundy county have offered themselves for service in the defense of their country. Grundy Center heads the list with sixteen.

The volunteers and their assignments are given below:

Grundy Center
Officers Reserve Corps
Robert Rogers
Don Scott
George Williamson

Iowa National Guards
Fremont Wells
Will Buchan
King Vanderwicken

Regular Army
Roland Roeder
Harold Pelton
T. Johnson
Ray Palmer
Joe Penrose
Horace Kelly
Don Bigelow
Leon Bigelow
Will Lage
Walter Beck

Morrison
Regular Army
F. Parker

Conrad
Regular Army
Paul Thomas
LeRoy Lighter

Reinbeck
Iowa National Guards
Edgar Hickson
Charles Brees

Regular Army
Merle Cooper
Ralph Milligan
Edward Smith
Herbert Grashorn

Beaman
Wm. Weimar
Clyde Anderson
Lawrence Whorrall
Roy Walter
Arch McMartin

--The Grundy Democrat (Grundy Center, Iowa), 17 May 1917, pg 1