World War I Draft Registrations

07 September 1917

The Humboldt Republican
Humboldt, Iowa
7 September 1917
Page 1

They Are Off For Training Quarters

Five Humboldt County Boys Leave For Front Tuesday

They Go To D'Moines

First Government Call Instructed Selection of Men Who had had Military Training.

     Humboldt County's first war draft left Wednesday morning for Des Moines where they will take their final examinations and be assigned to their positions.  They are:
John Edge,
Floyd Sheldon,
Cecil Simmons,
Harry Spohn,
August Dunn.
     John Edge has applied for entrance to the army before and has been rejected by the examining officers.  However, he passed the local physicians though he may not get through the army examinations.
     There is a touch of pathos, of pride and glory in this calling of the first draft quota to the defense of the nation.  To be the first to go is a distinction and an honor that can not be dimmed by breaking of home ties.  The selection of these young men who were called because of their fitness regardless of their place in the draft, is an added honor.
     Men well posted on the war conditions do not feel that these young men will ever see service in the trenches, though anything is possible in human combat such as is being waged on the fields of Europe.  But if they do meet the foe we know that they will give a good account of themselves, just as good an account as they will give in camp life, and as they have given in civil life.
     Hats off to the boys who are marching.



The Humboldt Republican
Humboldt, Iowa
7 September 1917
Page 1

List Selected By The District Board

Certified Back To Humboldt County Board

Certified By Board

Five Already in First Draft -- Called for Special Training -- For Non-Commissioned Officers.

     The list of those certified back by the district board is given herewith.  These men have but one more examination before becoming soldiers of the republic, and that is the physical examination at army headquarters.  They may be rejected by failing to pass this test.
     Of course this does not mean that those who are not named here have been rejected.  Their cases will be passed on later.
     Those who are marked with an asterisk in this list have already been called to the camps.  They were chosen because of military experience, and it is reported from Des Moines that they will be trained for positions as non-commissioned officers.
Florenus Olson, Thor
Christian Anderson, Humboldt
* Harry Avery Spohn, Humboldt
Eugene Myles Dryer, Humboldt
Asle Oliver Bothne, Bode
Ole Underberg, Humboldt
James Arthur Olson, Humboldt
Otto Gerhart Wehrspann, Ottosen
Ernest Eggerth, Renwick
* Michael A. Dunn, Hardy
Harry Clide Vice, Goldfield
John Baumgartner, Renwick
Emmett Charles Corcoran, Gilmore
* John W. Edge, Humboldt
Ben Johns, Thor
Charles Henry Hundertmark, Ottosen
Peter S. Lund, Thor
Walter Johnson, Humboldt
Harry H. Hanson, Renwick
Louis F. Keuhnast, Thor
Nels Haugen, Bode
* Floyd A. Sheldon, Humboldt
Oscar Julius Johnson, Bode
Cornel E. Oson, Humboldt
Emil Baumann, Dakota City
L. F. Cavanaugh, Humboldt
Emery Ratecliff, Humboldt
Howard Peck Sterling, Pioneer
Chris Bacon, Renwick
Lawrence Eugene Cuningham, Humboldt
Robert Ernst, Humboldt
Albert O. Rood, Bode
Nels Peter Rasmussen, Goldfield
Joseph Clarence Olson, Bode
Ellis Cook, Humboldt
Andy M. Olson, Ottosen
Iver Severtson, Hardy
Koop Frederick Schroder, Humboldt
Carl Swanson, Humboldt
Nels Larsen Christensen, Rutland
Julius Opheim, Bode
Chris Johnson, Humboldt
Martin William Munson, Livermore
James Leo Reeves, Livermore
Amos Johnson, Renwick
John William Tierney, Pioneer
Albert W. Christopher, Eagle Grove
Christian Marinus Pedersen, Hardy
Andy Strand, Hardy
John Julius Dale, Bode
Jesse G. Ulstad, Eagle Grove
Arthur Hugo Brodsack, Dakota City
Fred Rasmussen, Goldfield
Peter Sorensen Breiner, Humboldt
* Cecil Paul Simmons.
     The original draft certified from Humboldt county to the district board contained the names of:
Otto Gerhart Wehrspann, Ottosen
Henry Ernst, Bode
Samuel Todnem, Bode.
     For some reason these men were not certified back from the district board.  We understand that they have not received their exemption papers and their cases are probably under consideration.