Iowa
Old Press
Mason City Globe-Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo co. Iowa
December 13, 1940
Virgil Barnes Goes To Draft Army; Is First From Howard
Cresco — Virgil Barnes, son of Mrs. Mary Barnes of Cresco,
who was the first Howard county registrant to volunteer under the
first call draft, is at Fort Snelling, Minn., for his year’s
military training. He is the first one from Howard county to
enter the United States military service under the first call.
Virgil went to Des Moines following the ovation given him at the
Community Hall in the afternoon when the program was carried out
as announced last week.
J. D. Bouska, chairman of the Howard County selective board, took
him, his mother and sister Mary, to New Hampton following the
program. He was joined there by the Chickasaw county volunteer
and all had dinner together before the young men left by train
for Des Moines where they took their second physical examinations
and were outfitted before leaving for Fort Snelling.
Howard county’s second quota call will not be until after
the new year.
[transcribed by L.Z., March 2014]