29 July 1918
Left Side
Middle
Right Side
"My
grandfather, Louis Ortgies, is third from the right
side, front row. He never made it to France, but came down with the
swine flu and was completely out of it for three months; he didn't know
where he was when he finally came to in a hospital in Georgia. His wife
had not heard from him or anything about him for three months while she
tended to the farm all alone. My grandmother said she felt that the flu
weakened my grandfather and it was a long time before he was able to do
much. He died in 1948 so I never met him."
Charles J. Holub,
Monticello; Charles Fritz, Oxford Junction; Louis Ortgies, Anamosa;
George N. Kurt, Cascade; Herman Englebarts, Amber; Lester T. Fairbanks,
Anamosa; Lowell Cozart, Olin; Frank A, Royden, Scotch Grove, Claire M.
V. Hall, Martelle; Ralph Irvin Glenn, Olin; William G, Donnelly,
Anamosa; Carl Schneiter, Monticello;Willis Boots, Morley; August Gerdes,
Monticello; Dennis S. McNamara, Anamosa; George Rickels, Monticello;
Bernard M. Fagen, Onslow; Tobias Tobiassen, Monticello, John Henry
Peters, Monticello; Ralph Peter Crim, Monticello; John Phelps,
Monticello; James Kraus, Monticello; Henry Bartels, Frank H. Lane,
Morley; Frank A. Athen, St. Cloud, Minnesota; Leslie L. Fishwild,
Wyoming; Eugene Edwin Young, Monticello; Joseph J. Delay, Monticello;
Anton Siebels, Monticello; Charles Quirk, and lastly John Martin Marek,
Anamosa.
As published in the Wyoming Journal August 1, 1918.
Steve Hanken
24 August 1918
INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT JONES COUNTY BOYS IN WAR
ANAMOSA, Iowa, Aug. 24 -There are various items of interest from the
Jones county boys who are at the front or in various camps: Paul
Sherman who was wounded in the head by a bit of shrapnel and
was in the hospital where he met Francis Flaherty, who
had been gassed, writes of meeting a Cedar Rapids nurse, Miss
Belle Starke who has often been in Anamosa, and made him feel
almost as if he were at home.
Edgar Schuchman,
who was sent to Ft. Bliss, Texas, is working at his trade of
horseshoeing: he took part in a recent contest between 100 men in that
branch of the service and won fourth place. Earl Royer
who was rejected on physical examination at Camp Gordon, refused to be
rejected and got a position as motorman at Camp McClellan, Ala., and is
driving a truck.
Earl Barker who is in the
engineer corps somewhere in France, writes that he is engaged in laying
out prison camps for the Huns. Leo Byerly and
Lee Sanner are in the Officers' Training camp, machine gun
division at Camp Hancock, Ga., and making good progress toward receiving
commissions. Hubert McGuire is in training at Camp
McClellan, Ala., in the automobile mechanics. Grover Underwood
is in the army radio school in North Carolina and at present is
assisting in farm work. Ray Mills, who is now a
lieutenant, is handling a bunch of colored men, but he says they are
easy to manage and make good soldiers. Lorenz Lorenson,
who is now in training at the University of Texas, thinks Iowa has that
country beat, says any little town in Iowa is ahead of Austin, and all
the towns are way behind the times. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gavin
have three boys in the service, another waiting for his call and the
fifth will come under the next draft.
From The Cedar Rapids
Evening Gazette, Saturday, August 24, 1918, and submitted by
Sharon Oltmanns.
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66 JONES COUNTY MEN GO TO DODGE SEPT. 5
Part from the 1918 CLASS
To Be Entertained By Townsfolk on
Evening Before Their Departure
ANAMOSA, Ia., Aug. 31 -
In the call for 8,000 men from Iowa to go into training at Camp Dodge,
Jones county has to furnish sixty-six men, of which 15 are of the old
class one and fifty-one are from the class of 1918.
There will
be demonstration in the afternoon and evening of September 4 and the
band will accompany them to the train the next morning.
The
following will go:
1917 CLASS |
No. | Name | No. | Name | No. | Name |
285 | W. F. Bates | 1629 | William Moran | 1665 | Leroy Jauque |
417 | Newton E. Ireland | 1640 | Earnest Smith | 1668 | Bernard Heiken |
628 | Clayton Countryman | 1642 | George Moenk | 1669 | Cecil James |
849 | Henry Patrick Hughes | 1645 | Henry Mere | 1670 | Leon Hanson |
1063 | William Mead | 1648 | John Caspers | 1671 | Leonard Ahrendson |
1918 CLASS |
No. | Name | No. | Name | No. | Name |
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2 | Arthur Wilcox | 32 | Leo Loster | 68 | Herman Egger |
3 | Nial Paul | 33 | James O'Shea | 70 | Edward Frasher |
5 | William Walters | 34 | Henry Benhart | 73 | Thomas Eichorn |
8 | John Dieteker | 36 | Louis Sazma | 74 | Harold Yount |
9 | Max Sievers | 41 | George Rynerson | 75 | Arnold Fred Storm |
10 | Harm Folkers | 42 | Charles Gardner | 76 | Floyd Propst |
13 | Edward Zimmerman | 46 | Edward Buresh | 77 | Elmer Meineke |
14 | Ralph Otten | 48 | Clare Aitchison | 78 | Harold Klahm |
15 | Earl McLaughlin | 52 | William Larson | 79 | Louis Benischek |
16 | Edward Paulson | 55 | John Husmann | 80 | Otto Powlishta |
17 | Glen Lynch | 56 | Frank Lassak | 83 | George Schafer |
19 | John Fechtman | 57 | Gerhard Brockholm | 87 | John Weers |
21 | Adlebert Blood | 60 | Edward Brady | 88 | Fred Bolken |
25 | George Yarolem | 61 | Herman Hotz | 90 | Basil Gavin |
26 | Andrew Steiner | 62 | Palmer Vaughn | 91 | Harold L. Young |
28 | Melvin Dolphin | 63 | Lacy Coker | 96 | John Gesie |
30 | John Kray | 65 | Henry Henrichs | | |
From The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, Saturday, August 31,
1918, and submitted by
Sharon Oltmanns who says:
"The only one I can match the name to is my grandfather
George Moenk. He is in the second row, 10th from the left."
Unknown Date and Individuals
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individuals, please contact Alfred
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