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As in the first instance, The Daily Union re- ceived the message of the signing of the armistice. getting the wire at an early hour in the morning of Monday, Nov. 11, 1918, that the surrender terms of the Germans had been signed at 3 o'clock, a. m. The report was abundantly verified before being an- nounced, and then given to the people, who for the most part took the news gravely, yet could ill con- ceal their gratification and happiness that the long and terrible war was ended. Flags went up, coun- tenances took on a different expression, friend clasped hand with friend in silent or exuberant greet- ing.
The crowd that assembled in the evening on the streets of Shelbyville was too unwieldly to whip into regular marching order. Had that been done, the procession would have extended a mile and a half. "Old Glory," in the hands of Color Bcarer John Wilburn, led. Following were soldiers in uni- form, a committee from the Shelbyville Commercial Club bearing that organization's Service Flag, the band, the Red Cross Chapter, with its great banner borne by its president, Dr. J. C. Westervelt, and a great number of other organizations, including all the war work departments, schools, college, lodges, unions, citizens, and with many service flags borne by willing hands.
There was plenty of noise, plenty of enthusiasm. plenty of pep and ginger, and underneath the sur- face an abiding feeling of gladness that having ac- complished the things for which they fought, the boys of Shelby County no longer were on the fir- ing line.
The first anniversary of the signing of the arm- istice was celebrated soberly. At various points in the county all work suspended for a minute at 11 o'clock, while the people reflected on the blessings of peace.
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THE SHELBYVILLE DAILY UNION.
GERMANY ON KNEES IN AN ABJECT SURRENDER
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-Courtesy "Over Here."
SALVATION ARMY LASSIES FRYING DOUGHNUTS NEAR SOISSONS
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Salvation Army Home Service
Shelby County was asked for a donation of $7,950 for the Salvation Army Home Service, to which Illi- nois pledged the raising of $2,250,000 during the week of Sept. 22 to 29, 1919. The valiant overseas war-time service of the Salvation Lassies commended that organization to the interest and approval of the public in the drive that was designed to relieve it from the further task of raising its funds for home service in miserable pittances gleaned in tambourines and personal solicitation on the streets, and make it possible for the devoted workers to divert their en- tire time and energies to the magnificent work of ministration, to which they had dedicated their lives.
Election of officers for the county organization took place at a banquet at the New Neal hotel on the evening of Monday, Aug. 25, with the following results:
Chairman-L. E. Powell, Shelbyville. Vice Chairman-Dr. F. W. Risser, Strasburg. Secretary-L. C. Westervelt, Shelbyville. Treasurer-J. J. Ward, Shelbyville. Publicity Director-1). Leslie Davis, Shelbyville.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Tom Newby, Okaw. J. H. Wallace, Windsor. Frank Larimer, Mode. And the officers.
LOCAL CHAIRMEN AND QUOTAS
The local chairmen and quotas allotted to the several townships of the county, were as follows:
Oconee, Harry Hinton ; $330. Herrick, Roscoe T. Clark; $160. Cold Spring, Guy Foster and George Fankboner; $170. Tower Hill, J. P. Wilkinson ; $310.
Rural, George Galster; $370. Flat Branch, M. A. Duncan; $380.
Moweaqua, W. K. Andrews; $440.
Dry Point, Clyde Ilowe; $200.
Lakewood, Lon Parr, R. L. Shores, C. P. Roberts; $160. Rose, John Kull, Roy Kull; $300. Ridge, Edward Christman ; $300.
Pickaway, Ed Cole; $360. Penn, $330; chairman not named. Ilolland, Frank Larimer; $120.
Clarksburg, J. K. Hoagland; $120. Shelbyville, J. D. Miller; $1,120. Okaw, Tom Newby, Ed Turney ; $350. Todd's Point, James Snapp, C. C. Snapp; $230.
Prairie, A. C. Mautz, R. E. Voris; $450. Richland, Dr. F. W. Risser, J. E. Weber, Dr. F. W. Schroeder ; $490. Windsor, J. Il. Wallace, A. B. Storm; $360. Sigel, John A. Berchtold, A. W. Bigler; $170. Big Spring, J. C. Quinn ; $200.
Ash Grove, II. C. May, Sylvester Clawson ; $420.
Resolutions were adopted approving the plan and pledging support to the drive, but for some reason yet unexplained the work failed of its purpose, and at the date of this writing, months after the close of the campaign, a total of only $1,982.51 is in the hands of the treasurer.
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DIVISION AND CORPS INSIGNIA
FIRST ARMY : Organized August 10, 1918, under General Pershing. Composed of First, Fifth and Eighth Corps.
SECOND CORPS: Organized February 22, 1918. Composed of 27th and 30th Di- visions.
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SEVENTH CORPS: Organized August 20. 1918.
Composed of 6th, 81st and 88tl1 Divisions.
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EIGHTH CORPS: Organized November 29, 1918. Composed of 6th, 77th and 81st Divisions.
NEW TANK IN. SIGNIA:
Adopted because the Tank Corps combines functions of Artillery, Infantry and Cavalry.
87th DÍVISION: AArrived in France Sept. 14, 1918. Na- tional Army of Miss- issippi, Louisiana and Arkansas.
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THIRD ARMY : Organized Nov. 14, 1918, under Major- General Dickman. Composed of Third. Fourth and Seventh C'orps.
FOURTH CORPS: Organized June 20, 1918. Composed of 2d. 5th, 42d, 78th, 89th and 90th Divi- sions.
NINTH CORPS: Organized Novemher 26, 1918. Included 33d, 35th and 88th and 79th Divisions.
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RAILROAD SEC. TIONS: Insignia worn by Regulating and Rail- road Sections, com- posed of Engineers.
40th DIVISION! Arrived in France August 20, 1918. Sol- diers from California, Nevada, Utah, Colo- rado, Arizona and
New Mexico.
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SECOND ARMY: Formed October 10, 1918, under Lieuten- ant-General Bullard. Composed of the Sixth and Ninth ('orps.
FIRST CORPS: . Organized January 20, 1918. Composed of 28th, 35th, 77th, 82d and 9.2d Divi- sions.
RESERVE MAL- LET : Organized October 1, 1917, from Members of former American Field Service at Sois- sons, France.
AMBULANCE SERVICE :
These colors are the same as those of the insignia on AAmbu- lance and Hospital trains.
41st DIVISION : Arrived in France January 1, 1918. Composed of Wash- ington, Oregon, Mon- tana, Idaho and Wy- oming troops.
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SIXTHI CORPS: Organized August 1, 1918. Composed of 92d, 88th, 7th, 28tl1, 5th and 33d Divi- sions.
CENTRAL REC- ORDS OFFICE : Located at Bourges. Keeps tab on every- body in the A. E. F. and compiles vital statistics.
C. W. S. SERVICE This is the insignia of the Chemical War- fare Service, which provides defense against gas attacks.
78th DIVISION : Arrived in France June 8, 1918. Made up of National Army of New Jersey, Dela- ware and New York.
G.H.O. INSIGNIA: General lleadquarters insignia is said to have been derived from the striped arm- band worn by staff officers at the front.
79th DIVISION : Arrived in France July 15, 1918. Na- tional Army of Dis- trict of Columbia, Maryland and Penn- sylvania.
THIRD CORPS: Organized May 8, 1918. Composed of 1st, 3d, 4th, 33d and 80th Divisions.
REGIMENTAL OFFICERS AND PERSONNEL OF COMPANY VILLE, OCTOB!
Major : William Klauser
Captains : Frank P. Nuld Carl F. Lauer Vance Courtright
First Lieutenants : Charles Twiss J. Glen Miller Oliver C. Brown Second Lieutenant : llarry Downs
First Sergeant : Iloward Bridges
Supply Sergeant : Samuel Davis
Sergeants :
C'lete Henderson John Wilburn
George Burnett
George Stretch
Gaylord Terry Raymond Voiles
Charles Young
Corporals : Fred Martin Alma White C'linton Wiley
Musician : Henry Thompson
Dail F. Butler lohn Butler William Commerford
Pelbert FI Floyd Fre:
SHELBY COUNTY'S LARGEST CONTINGENT, INDUCTED J
Otto G. Arnold Elmer Allen Stephen J. Busher Lester C. Babcock Millard Blancett George T. Baptist ()scar II. Barbre Sidney V. Bivins Walter Bigler lloyd I. Bigler Chester R. Barton Grover Baker Fred Bridges Virgil R. Brewer Charles C. Banks Ilavie Bartley Leonard Bartley Dan P. Boblett Alonzo Bruner Jess W. Coultas
Roy V. Cowling John F. Chappel Daniel D. Christner Guy Christie Alfred Crow Charles Cox Joseph I. Cocagne
Joe 1). Christner Logan J. Clark John 1. Carroll ()scar Connor Robert Cress ('lyde Denier Thurman Dildine Thomas W. Dobbs Icd. W. Doeding Edgar W. Doehring Lloyd Ewick Ralph Elliott Arthur J. Finks
Ralph E. Flanders Clarence I. Frazier Paul Fisher
Albin .\. Foelsing Leonard R. Flescli 1.ogan Frailey
John Il. Friesner Noah Fª. Farris
Harry Frailey Roy E. Fish-1 Ross Fleming Lawrence I .. Gregory
William Grabner Earl Goodwin
Charles Gordon Lloyd Gregory Lawrence Gordon
Leniel Griffin
Orville Gillispey
Floyd R. Groom Luther Hen Iricks Garland B. Iliatt I avid F. Iludson Noah Ilamilton Edgar Hinton Frank llill
r Nile Ilickman James C. Hall Chancy M. Hostetler Vernon I .. Haines Chester C. Ilagan Eddie R. Heil
James E. Hedges Ralph Huher Harry Holthaus James L. Ireland William F. Jones Glen Johnson
Fred Conn' Ralph Con! Guy Cordr James C'ru Raymond William I)
Art Gilleland
Roy Kull
lucian Bates
George Batton
John Dietz
John Batton Ilcaden Broyles
Ilerman l' lincoln EI
Paul Buckler Walter Bullerman
('harles EI Winfield F Fred Feldi
Joe Burgen Rollie Burrus
Bruce Flei
James E. 1
Frank Deweese llarry Osborne Earl Fisher Ellsworth Fought
I'rivates :
Hugh Baillie
l'ewey Barker
Charles Barrett
Ray Barton
Clyde Bates
('arl Olmstead .
Orvil Rich
Cocks: Andrew lludson Pearlie Deweese Earl Shoaf
Earnest 11. Joseph E. K Walter G. K Lawrence K Louis E. Ka Clarence E. Elmer G. L: Flza I .. Lee llenry S. L. George F. 1 Earl Lowe ('lyde IS. LO Claud II. M ()scar F. M Edmund Ma Sylvester J. Charles W. Guy T. McC Clarence D.
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, 130TH U. S. INFANTRY, WHEN LEAVING SHELBY- 9, 1917
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l'an Fritz Everett Germain Ralph Gilleland Varnie Griffin Albert Griffith George Griffith Fernand Guyot Ralph Hatfield Elmer Hawk Elmer Hudson Nelson Hudson 1.loyd Johnson James Johnson Robert Johnson Victor Keller Paul Kull
Orville Lamb Alonzo Lee Albert McBroom Foster McMullin
Neil Manning
1.ester Melton
Ora Mills .Arnold Montooth Sidney Morgan Ross Muncey Vurn Mullinix Frank Neal Ilarold Nutt
Charles Onion Tom Parker
John Peters
Arthur Radloff Susa Risser George Salmons Clarence Sammons Maynard Sampson Virgil Sharp David Sharrock Roy Sharrock Frank Sherlock Walter Shewmake Fred SSkaggs Thomas Slifer 1.awrence Smith Ralph Sprague Charles Smith John Stockdale
Emery Tallman
C'arl Tapp John Tetrick William Thompson
Tom Tull
Rov Vanderpool
Orrie Wade John Wafford Everett Wakefield Baird Walden Earl Whitacre Burley Westenhaver Marion Westenhaver Charles Wilson Raymond Worley Murvin Yakey
NE 27, 1918, AND ENTRAINED FOR CAMP TAYLOR, KY.
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Claude Mckinn ?v Fdw. McClanahan Harper Mayberry George E. Newberry John ! Malone Ester r'. McCoy James C. Moore John D). Miller Louis J. Mittendorf Lloyd O. Miller William Mueller, Jr. Jasper W. Nance Claud Newberry Vernie E. Newberry Luther Olshaskie John W. North Sam Patterson Lawrence Ponsler Chester Prosser
Ray Pebernat Ernest L. Presnell ()llie Phelps Henry F. W. C. Pieper Lemuel Pratt Thomas Rudd Earl W. Reynolds Floyd Rinehart Edwin HI. Ruwe Floyd Robb Frank Roby Harry E. Russell Lucian Ruch Walter Shellenberger William Smith Roy Strohl Marion E. Slifer Reverdia Storm Clifford Schutte
Fred W. Staehli Delbert M. Stoddard Wilse E. Slifer Roll Seward Rolla C. Sloan Roy Schwenker
Newton Siler Otto H. Schmitt C'ecil W. Slater Wallace Smith Eli W. Skidmore Joseph Schabbing Clarence HI. Summers Edward Sloan Lewis B. Sudkamp Ambrose I. Strohl Clarence Scott Roy Tull Adley S. Tull Daniel W. Trigg
Phillip H1. Tieman Wallace (). Tabbert Eldon Glynn Turner Ralph Towers Earl Vermillion Theo. Von Behren William B. Wright
John 1 .. Wheat Thomas F. Wheat Leonard Wirey Iva M. Wooters Clayton A. Ward Robert S. York Jake Daniel Ulmar James A. Welch Dail Butler Sylvester J. Fouste Henry E. Wade Bert P. Walker John H. Wirey
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3d DIVISION : Made up from Regu- lar Army, (Division Ileadquarters arrived in France April 4, 1918).
26th DIVISION : Made up of National Guard of New Eng- land. ( Arrived in France Dec. 5, 1917.)
32d DIVISION : Made up of National Guard of ' Michigan and Wisconsin. (Ar- rived in France Feb. 29, 1918.)
37th DIVISION: Made up of National Guard of Ohio. (Ar- rived in France June 23, 1918.)
88th DIVISION: Made up of National Army of N. Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Illi. nois. (Arrived in France Aug. 16, '18,)
89th DIVISION: Made up of Soldiers from Missouri and Kansas. (Arrived in France June 22, '18. )
4th DIVISION: Made up from Regu- lar Army. (Arrived in France May 17, '18. )
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27th DIVISION: Made up of National Army of New York City. ( Arrived in France April 13, '18. )
33d DIVISION: Made up of National Guard of Illinois and West Virginia. (.\r- rived in France May 24, 1918.)
42d DIVISION: Made up from Na- tional Guard of 26 States and District of Columbia. (Arrived in France Nov. 1. 1917.)
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824 DIVISION : National Army of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. (Arrived in France May 17, 1918.)
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31st DIVISION: Made up of troops from Alabama, Geor- gia, Florida. Initials mean "Dixie Divi- sion."
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6th DIVISION: Made up from the Regular Army. (Ar- rived in France July 23, 1918.)
29th DIVISION: Made up from Na- tional Guard of Mary- land, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia and District of Co- lumbia. (Arrived in France June 27, '18. )
30th DIVISION ! Made up of soldiers of Tennessee and the Carolinas. (Arrived in France June 27, '18.)
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34th DIVISION: National Guard of
Iowa, Minnesota, Ne- braska and North I)a- kota.
90th DIVISION: National Army of
Texas and Oklahoma. ( Arrived in France June 23, 1918. )
28th DIVISION : Pennsylvania Nation- al Guard. (Arrived in France May 18, '18.)
77th DIVISION : National Army of New York City. (Ar. rived in France April 13, 1918.)
91st DIVISION: Made of soldiers from Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Califor- nia, Idaho, Nevada, Montana,
Wyoming and Utalı. ( Arrived in France July 12, 1918.)
92d DİVİSİÓN: (Colored) National Army. (Ar- rived in France June 19, 1918.)
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86th DIVISION : Made up of troops from
7th DIVISION : Made up from Reg- ular Army. (Arrived in France Aug. 11, 1918.)
2d DIVISION : Selected from Regu- lar Army. ( Arrived in France Oct. 26, 1917.)
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36th DIVISION: National Guard of Texas and Oklahoma. (Arrived in France July 31, 1918.)
80th DIVISION: Made up of National Army of Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. (Ar- rived in France May 30, 1918.)
81st DIVISION: Made of soldiers from North and South Car- olina, Florida and Porto Rico. (Arrived in France Aug. 16, 1918. )
35th DIVISION: Made up of the Na- tional Guard of Mis- souri and Kansas. ( Arrived in France May 11, 1918.)
5th DIVISION: Regular Arm y. (Arrived 1 11 France May 1.
1918.)
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1st DIVISION: Made up from Regular Army. ( Arrived France June 27, 1917.)
38th DIVISION : Indiana Made up of troops from and Kentucky. Letters stand "Cyclone,
for Division."
Illinois and Wisconsin Infantry, used as replacements. "Black Hawk Divi- sion."
Color Plates by Adv. Dept. Simmons Hardware Co., St. Louis, Mot
DIVISION INSIGNIA
MISS BLANCHE SNYDER
MISS CORNELIA THOMAS
MISS EMMA PAUSCHERT
MRS. GAIL FREDE TALLMAN
In Service to Soldiers
Shelby County's men in uniform were not all on the firing line nor subject to military discipline. Some of them, serving just as patriotically and ef- fectively were in the garb of the Y. M. C. A. secre- tary or War Camp Community worker, while other devoted servants of the men of the military and naval establishments were the self-sacrificing women who entered the hospital ward to minister to the sick and wounded in their need. No less than eigh- teen of Shelbyville's men and women entered service in one or another of these capacities, and did splendid work in their chosen field. The list follows:
NURSES
Miss Minnie Snyder, Moweaqua. Miss Ethel Yantis, Moweaqua. Miss Cornelia Thomas, Shelbyville. Miss Emma Pauschert, Chicago, III. Mrs. Gail Freda Tallman, Shelbyville. Miss Geneva Casstevens, Fancher.
Miss Mary Buzzard, Cowden.
Y. M. C. A.
Mrs. Carl Olmstead, Findlay. Rev. W. If. Storm, Findlay. W. F. Aichele, Shelbyville. Rev. Chas. R. Shepherd, Shelbyville. Lyman R. Hiatt, Trowbridge. Orville S. Storm, Shelbyville.
Wilse Underwood, Findlay.
WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE
Mrs. Fae Isenberg Searcy, Springfield. Arthur M. Cannon, Seattle, Wash.
YEOMANETTE
Miss Anna M. Beck, Windsor.
· CIVIL SERVICE Miss Flossie A. Beck, Windsor.
While in two or three instances the place of residence is given as outside Shelby County, the per- sons designated formerly were residents of this county and look upon Shelby as "home." The serv- ice record of the above, as far as the publishers of this history have been able to learn it, is as follows:
MINNIE LUCILE SNYDER
Miss Minnie Lucile Snyder was born in Mowea- qua in 1891, and is a daughter of Mrs. M. E. Snyder. In her young womanhood she became a nurse, and was employed at St. Louis. On Aug. 1, 1918, she en- listed at St. Louis in the Army Nurse Corps, and was assigned to Base No. 70, at Camp Logan, Houston,
Tex. On the 28th of Nov., 1918, she sailed from Hoboken on the transport Mongolia, landing in Brest, France, on Dec. 10 following. She served at Allerey, where she had charge of the surgical ward, and at Toul, where she was in charge of the spinal meningitis patients. Returning to New York in the summer of 1919, Miss Snyder was discharged there in June and returned to her former employment as a nurse in St. Louis. She is a graduate from Barnes hospital, St. Louis.
ETHEL YANTIS
Miss Ethel Yantis, formerly of Moweaqua, was throughout the war and still is in service as a nurse. About six years ago she was graduated from the Post Graduate Hospital in Chicago. In the year the United States entered the war she enlisted for war service, and for some time was stationed at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111., where she gave her best work in ministering to the sick soldiers. From that camp she was transferred to Fort Sheridan, where she re- mains. She is in love with the work in which she is engaged, and means to re-enlist for three years more, instead of accepting the discharge to which she is entitled.
Aliss Yantis is a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Yantis, and was born and reared in the vicinity of Moweaqua. Shortly after her graduation from the nurse's training course, however, she located in De- catur, where she was engaged at her profession until she heeded the call to wider service. She is an at- tractive young woman, and is popular with those to whom she ministers.
CORNELIA M. THOMAS
Miss Cornelia MI. Thomas is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Thomas of Shelbyville, and was born in Paris, Ill., June 25, 1894. She took a training course, was graduated with honors, and was on pri- vate duty in her profession when she enlisted, Oct., 1918, in the Army Nurse Corps. Her first duty in the service was at Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich., where she was on duty during the terrible scourge of influenza. She received the rank of second lieu- tenant during her service there. On Dec. 6, 1918, she was transferred to United States General Hospital No. 6, Detroit Mich., and worked in the operating room there until the hospital was closed in the latter
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MRS. CARL OLMSTEAD
MRS. FAE ISENBERG SEARCY
ARTHUR M. CANNON
part of July, 1919. She was then transferred to United States Hospital No. 28, Fort Sheridan, 111., and discharged in December, 1919.
EMMA PAUSCHERT
Miss Emma Pauschert was born in Shelbyville June, 1890, and is a daughter of W. R. Pauschert, who now lives in Decatur, Ill. Miss Pauschert was a nurse, and was employed as Night Superintendent of Grant Hospital, Chicago, when she enlisted, Sept. 1, 1918, for service in the Army Nurse Corps, and was sent to Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio. After being on duty there for nearly two months she was transferred to Albert Hotel, New York City, where she continued her service until Nov. 28, 1918, when she was ordered overseas and sailed from Hoboken, N. J., aboard the U. S. S. Mongolia. She arrived at Brest, France, Dec. 6. She gave splendid service overseas until the summer of 1919, when she was returned with Base Hospital Unit No. 99 to New York City, where she received her honorable dis- charge on July 6, 1919.
GAIL FREDE TALLMAN
Mrs. Gail Frede Tallman, wife of J. Leverett Tall- man, was born in Stewardson, Ill., 1895, and is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Frede of that place. She was married to Mr. Tallman on May 27, 1919. Before her enlistment she was employed as a newspaper reporter on the Decatur Herald. In June, 1918, she entered Vassar Training Camp for Nurses at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for three months' intensive course. In September she was transferred to the Walter Reed General Hospital at Washington, D. C., as a student nurse in training, and was discharged from that place with rank of student nurse after a training course covering a total period of nine months. Though not permitted to see overseas serv- ice, she nevertheless did a great deal of practical work among the sick and wounded.
ALTA KOONTZ
Miss Alta Koontz of Stewardson, was one of the nurses in the service. She was called to Camp Grant in the fall of 1918, and gave splendid service there. She already was a graduate nurse, and had been practicing her profession, with eminent success.
BLANCHE McCOLLOM
Miss Blanche McCollom, formerly of Windsor, was in the service at Newport News, Va., for a period of eight months. Following her release from army nursing service she returned to Jacksonville, Ill., where she is engaged as a school nurse. She is a daughter of the Rev. C. S. McCollom, a former pastor of the Methodist Church at Windsor.
MARY BUZZARD
Miss Mary Buzzard of Cowden was a Red Cross nurse, and was on duty at a base hospital near Paris, France.
GENEVA ELIZABETH CASSTEVENS
There was one of the nurses who went from Shelby County to tend the wounded and sick, who gave her life for them. This was Geneva Elizabeth Casstevens, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Cass- tevens of near Fancher, who died Oct. 14, 1918, at Liverpool, England, where she was on duty at Mili- tary Hospital No. 40, with Unit W from Springfield, Ill., under command of Major D. M. Ottis. Over- worked, as was the ordinary lot of the nurses during the influenza epidemic, Miss Casstevens contracted the disease and in her weariness of body hadn't suffi- cient vitality to withstand its ravages. She was sick but a week and a day before her brave spirit took its flight. Busy and happy had been a customary con- dition, and those who came in contact with her from time to time say she was a veritable ray of sunshine.
Her popularity among those who knew her best was attested when a great concourse of people as- sembled at the little United Brethren church in Fan- cher, one day in the summer of 1919, to attend serv- ices in her memory. Truly of her it may be said, "she hath done what she could."
FAE ISENBERG SEARCY
After completing a War Workers' Training course at Lake Geneva, Wis., in Aug., 1918, Mrs. Fae Isenberg Searcy, wife of Sergeant Earl B. Searcy, received appointment from the National War Council. of the Young Women's Christian Association to as- sume duties at Camp Funston, Kansas, as Volunteer Assistant in recreation activities. Shortly afterward
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Y. M. C. A. SECRETARIES
W. F. AICHELE W. H. STORM
LYMAN R. HIATT
O. S. STORM
WILSE UNDERWOOD
she was transferred to War Camp Community Serv- ice in the capacity of hostess to the soldiers of Camp Funston and Fort Riley, in the Soldiers' Com- munity House in Manhattan, Kansas. She remained there until February, 1919.
This tells in brief the service of Mrs. Searcy after her formal entrance into the service; but before her course at Lake Geneva she had been in Red Cross training at St. Louis, where she also had served in the canteen at the Y. M. C. A. hut. She sang in va- rious cantonments, and in Shelbyville, where she was born and reared, she worked diligently with the women of the Red Cross and materially aided activi- ties there. During the summer of 1919, when Ser- geant Searcy was stationed in Chicago as temporary secretary of the American Legion of Illinois, Mrs. Searcy still further gave generously of her service as motor driver, transferring wounded men to and from the hospital, taking them for a drive and in other ways ministering to those in need.
ARTHUR M. CANNON
Arthur M. Cannon, native of Tower Hill, Il1., where he was born March 4, 1877, a son of the late Robert E. Cannon and of Mrs. Julia A. Cannon, still a resident of Tower Hill, entered the War Camp Community service at Portland, Ore., Aug. 15, 1918, and is still engaged in that work in a very respon- sible way. Immediately before entering that service he was city agent for a life insurance company at Portland. Ore., where from 1911 to 1917 he was principal of the Holladay and Couch public schools. His career as a teacher began at Puckett, southeast of Tower Hill, then from 1899 to 1905 he was prin- cipal of schools at Tower Hill; from 1905 to 1906 at Rochester, Ill .; from 1907 to 1910 principal of the high school at Shelbyville, and from 1910 to 1911 principal of the high school at Eveleth, Minn.
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