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David C. Wolff, Forbes
George Anderson, Ellendale
Geo. A. Reko, Oakes
Raymond O. Humphrey, Monango
Anton S. Rissky, Merricourt
Franklin H. Carley, Glover Simon E. Carlson, Oakes
Robert Fey, Monango
Guy A. Montgomery, Fullerton
Eddie Tormanen, Ellendale
Chancy H. Snow, Oakes
Robert Fleming, Ellendale
Henry J. Nelson, Monango Edwin C. Hollan, Kulm Tormad M. Mallerop, Fullerton
Jorgen Bong, Oakes Lawrence H. A. Hurd, Oakes
August Kylmala, Guelph
Anton Freberg, Oakes
George Davis, Ellendale
Johnnie B. Gallagher, Oakes William Meyer, Merricourt Charles C. Shortall, Oakes Carl H. Larson, Fullerton
Gust Ensminger, Monango Bill Thomas, Oakes Fred Templein, Kulm
When the first party left there was a noticeable feeling of sadness in the crowd, as it was the first occasion of its kind and only four men left. The departure of the second party had more the spirit of wishing the boys good luck, and was quite enthusiastic. The train departed amid thunderous cheers.
It was some time after this call before the next party left for Camp Dodge. The exemption board had examined and certified something like fifty more registrants, and then a complete classification into five classes was made so that the examining and certifying could be more quickly done.
The third party of drafted men did not leave until March 29th, going on the belated train after a derailment at Duane. The men who went in this party were:
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Olof Peterson
George S. Cook
August Schnell
Arthur G. Strutz
Walter J. Nolan Albert W. Sceibal Rexford B. Pierce
George Olson Frederick Low John R. Ulmer Arthur Weist
Henry A. Nelson Eber V. Welcher
Anton H. Rosenquist George T. Lancaster
Lloyd E. Alexanderson
Charlie J. Miller
Walter L. Groat
Peter M. Schweich
Thomas Gronbeck Bernard O. Bergstrom
Jacob Hildebrand
William A. Gamble
William R. Rogers Hans Kristiansen
Oscar Hilden
Jacob Kosel Ole Kristian Johnson Edward Weist
John Schneck
William F. Brown Stephen A. Babcock
Olaf J. Larson
George Lund
Addison H. Denning
John Fertig
Knute L. Easterby
Ray Gallion
Reese Walker
Three men, Gust Scheuffele, Chris Borreson and Melvin Galchutt, who were unable to join the party on that day went on April 2nd, and with these three the Reverend A. R. Evans of Ellendale went as Y. M. C. A. secretary. These men went to Camp Dodge.
Another party of drafted men was sent to Fort Logan, Colorado, on May 10th, consisting of ten men:
John Duffek Theodore Ulmer
Edwin Schultz
Ferdinand Berlenfein
Fred Schook
Ole Varness
Wm. H. Hemminger John Schook
Alois Polipnick
Christian Quellman
On June 5th, 1918 the young men who had become twenty-one years old within the year were required to register and on that day 102 more men were added to the roll of registrants for Dickey County.
On the next call a party of twenty-eight men was sent to Camp Dodge on June 24th.
John E. Feichtner
George K. Yuhl
Andrew Kolstad
Gottlieb Speidel
Matthias Pfeiffer
August Fetzer
Conrad K. Ackerman Henry Schwartz Roger W. Gorman
Fred M. Zinter William Schwartz
George J. Daeschle
Lewis Frederick
Walter L. Saunders
Arndt E. Mintz
William J. Saari
Herman M. Sanders
Theodore C.Alexanderson
Henry Rutschke
Jacob Reiman
Herman H. Cook
Fred H. Senf Adam P. Roth
Christian Ensminger
Herman Haussler Frank G. Nelson William A. Stein and George E. Renslow who went as a replacement for John Schook who was rejected for physical disability. With this party three men who did not belong in the county but were transfered here went to Camp Dodge; Alton A. Johnson, Chas. A. Loutzenhiser and Henry C. Kahle.
The call for July 22nd, was for fifty men and the following were sent to Camp Custer, Michigan:
Frank C. Hammond
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John I. Barsten
Jos. H. Gallagher
Edwin B. Knutson
Paul H. Feathers
Melvin M. Williams
Charley Lucke
John J. Blumer
Orlando Beaver
Ewald A. Schultz
Bernard B. Youngquist Edwin H. Anderson
Alexander J. Knox
William Rolund
Axel Olson
John W. Cowley Alfred E. Anderson
Everett G. Hyatt
August Hilscher
Bennie Ross
Charles E. Madsen
Frank Gagliardi
Roy H. Erickson
Leroy H. Engh
Emanual Gehring
Thomas F. Roney
George I. Carpenter
Wm. Kilchenman
Wm. M. Donovan
Leonard R. Hohlwegler
Clarence A. Erickson
Clifford M. Coleman
Elmer G. Schlink
Dwight C. Botts
Ivar Stende Wm. A. J. Randall
Wm. Gregory
Wm. T. Wigg
Guy Granger
Steen A. Staudinger
Sjir L. Gavle
John A. Erickson
L. S. Propeer
George Johnson
Florian Stern
Carl Heilmeland
Jul N. Mattson
August E. Bjork
Arthur S. Peterson
Frank G. Johnson Edmund F. Reinhardt
With such heavy calls in July it was thought the calls for August would be light. There were five calls, none of them taking many men. On August 1st, George Green, then at Mason City, Iowa, went to Camp Dodge on call No. 1005 for one colored man to be entrained. William Hedlund was sent to Camp Forest, Georgia, on July 29th, in response to a call for a cabinet maker. Four men volunteered for service in the Detailment Camp at Fargo; Harold N. Bjornstad, Orve O. Sorenson, Glenn Hyatt and Robin R. Colwell and went August 14th. There was also a call for one man to go to Syracuse, New York, for police duty. Arthur F. Welch filled the call. "There was also a call for three men for general duty at Jefferson Barracks. Fourteen hundred thirty-nine men of Dickey County were registered on that day. The total registration of the county was now classified by ques- tionnaires and the local draft board was busy in keeping up with the calls, as many of the registrants were exempted, and it was still the policy of the Government to place each man where he could serve best. Some that were rejected in one branch of the service found opportunities in other lines.
A call for the registration of those young men who had reached the age of twenty-one after June 5th, 1918 was made for August 24th, and fifteen more were registered at that date. Some of these got to see service before the Armistice.
Meanwhile the calls were coming strong, and on August 27th, nineteen men left for Camp Lewis, Washington: William Norton Otto L. Savold
Edward D. Buck
Ernest M. Fleming
Wesley N. Hoar John R. Oxtoby
Judd Campbell
Wilford Waite
Verl Moore
Albert H. Sauter
Louis Jeske
Frank Kesler
George R. Rawhouser
William S. Cornell
Rufus W. Stores
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Wm. W. McIntyre Emory V. Johnson Chas. P. Shimmin
Reece A. Bartlett
On this same date nine men were sent to Camp Custer, Michigan, as replacements :
Frank Tarka Adam J. Rath Albert Turner
Axel Olson Herman Lenz
Gotthilf Widmer
John J. Esterby
Arthur B. Guyott Wilhelm Ulmer
and William Gregory and Edd McKeague also went.
On September 4th, fourteen men were entrained for Camp Grant, Illinois, under Call No. 1234:
Chester Danielson
Edward Lohmeier Gotthilf Debler
Albert Robinson
Henry Laeger
Herman Johnson
Otto Gerter
William Mintz
Robert Dedet
Ralph C. Radspinner
Peter T. Rowe
Rudolph Kast
Richard T. Stolle George Wolff
There were four other small calls; Myron Endersbe went to Camp Dodge for limited service on August 30th. John Beaucke went to Camp Dodge on August 29th, to replace Chris Ensminger who was rejected. On August 31st, Roy E. Massingill went to Grand Forks for mechanical train- ing, and on September 3rd, Chris Ensminger, Edward Moser, and Fern Beaver went to Camp Grant, Illinois, on a call for limited service.
Many of these boys had by this time reached the seat of action in France and the war was especially brought home to the people of Dickey County in the death of Fred Herman on the battle field. He was killed on July 19th, but it was some time before the news reached his friends at Ellen- dale. A fitting and impressive memorial service was held for him on Septem- ber 1st, at the Methodist church in Ellendale. The Ellendale Red Cross Branch was out in uniform and the mothers of the boys of Company K were present in a body. Other boys fell in service or were lost from disease and appropriate recognition of their passing was observed in later days.
The war was on in earnest and to mobilize the entire man power of the nation, if it should be needed, a registration of all men between the ages of 18 and 45, who were not already registered was held on September 12th.
On September 26th four men were sent to Camp Grant to fill deficiencies in entrainment: Joseph Burkhart, Emil A. Kylloneb, George F. Spencer, and James J. Solverson. Four men; Lloyd E. Davis, Clyde M. Reynolds, Reinholt Sandau and Arnold F. Gustafson, were scheduled to go to Camp ·Custer, Michigan. Two men, Arthur I. Anderson and John Noess, were to fill vacancies at Camp Dodge and at Jefferson Barracks, and twenty-one men were to go to Camp Grant, Illinois and four to Camp Lewis, Washing- ton. But on account of the prevalence of Spanish influenza the October call which was to take these men from Dickey County was postponed. Ar- rangements were perfected whereby the men who entered the Student Army Training Corps at the colleges where this work was offered were inducted
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into service by the local board.
On October 10th, 1918, the local board received directions for inducting 81 men into service from October 21st to 26th. These men were to go to Ft. Winfield Scott, California, and this draft would practically exhaust Dickey County's first class, as with all the calls that had been met there were only 91 men left in Class 1. This list was made up and the men ordered to report on Sunday, October 20th, but a telegram from the Adjutant General under date of October 16th, suspended this call, with the under- standing that they should go at a later date. The date for the departure of these men was set for November 11th, and the eighty-one were: V. D. Coleman, H. J. Gaddard, Erick Nelson, Odin L. Olson, Carl Frojen, Carl Weist, Frank Pfeiffer, Harry Lohmeier, Lynn Hill, A. L. Breaw, Jake Harter, William M. Mitchell, Christian Wolff, John P. Gilbreath, Fred L. Bingham, Elmer A. Saari, Raymond G. Bale, Erick Nystrom, Gus Ritt- miller, Joseph Alkofer, Albert Holling, Harry Haskell, Laken W. Chesebro, George F. Spencer, Rupert Browning, Henry Scheuffle, Ewald A. Schultz, Grant C. Bush, Anton Rall, Frank Weber, Harry S. Johnson, Otto F. Kroeger, Oscar E. Fernland, Ruggles H. Morgan, Benjamin C. Holter, James Vandanacker, Francis J. Shanahan, Adolph Herrman, William W. Waite, Herbert Knock, Emanuel Kessel, Andrew P. Zimbleman, Peter M. Hanson, Trygve Friberg, Wendell Burnett, John Stahlecker, Charlie Lyons, Leo E. Tritt, John D. Avery, Jacob Elolla, Alex. R. Arndt, Arthur M. Hokana, Earl H. Fleming, Eldred V. Morrow, Stephen Pfeiffer, George L. Linderman, Dan Martin, Alva Palmer, Henry C. Schimke, Christ Wieder- rich, Peter P. Burkhardt, James B. Cowley, Henry Otterstetter, Otto Scherbinski, Reinhold Hauff, Clinton E. Lockie, Edwin Weitala, Arthur M. Paulson, William J. B. Hoybak, William Kunrath, William Lay, Alexander Steinwandt, Frank E. Davis, George L. Kelsh, Awald H. Raatz, Andrew L. Dethlefson, Timothy Sullivan, Rex H. Bliss, Ferdinand Speidel, Martin Richter, Lawrence C. Remmele.
On this same call nine men were to be sent to Camp Dodge, so twenty- two more were called to make up the list of alternates for the large party and meet the call for Camp Dodge; Albin E. Anderson, Cecil C. Snow, Peter N. Stotzheim, Edward E. Martin, Fred H. Schaller, Albert M. Enger, Samuel Schneck, Christoph Rath, Clayton E. Geer, John A. Mallum, Joseph A. Sherlock, Ernest Peterson, Ransom G. Minard, Max C. Bliss, Theodore P. Endres, Bernie Bailey, Chester L. Gibson, Mike W. O'Donnell, Olen E. Coy, John J. Richards, William S. Johnson, Charles L. Porter. This ex- hausted the list of Class 1 and took several of the new registrants who had become twenty-one after the first registration of the year before.
But this entire draft party was doomed to disappointment, and while they were bitterly vexed with the Kaiser for depriving them of the oppor- tunity of joining their fellows at the front, the world at large was thrilled with the news of the Armistice which meant that the war was over so far as
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the fighting was concerned. The boys were all ready to go and many of them at the depot when the agent received orders to issue no transportation, so they had to return to civilian pursuits without their taste of service.
Many others who were not in the draft calls enlisted in the service and among these were:
Warren F. Barnes
Anton Nelson
Harry Peters
Edward C. Porter
Charles Robinson
Austin R. Burrows
C. F. Johnson
T. H. McDonald
Maurel Dunton
Joe Carpenter
Leonard Meachen
Don McCormick
Dr. James V. Miles
A. R. Amphlett
George Misfeldt
Harry Day
Floyd Mallory
Ed Mallory Walter Smith
Max Wiltsie
Theodore Northrop
Clarence Bartlett
John Jones
Hobert Jones
Francis Abraham
Alvin Miller
Lyle Coleman
Lyle Colby
Claude King
Jay Harm Arthur Rosenthal
Floyd Randall
Lloyd Caldwell
Bertie Cox
Albert Heine
Paul H. Rehberg
Preston Coleman
Robert Potter
Walter Smith
Llewellyn Lynde
Gottfried Roehl
Scott Oberman
G. Odland
George Brown
Charles Misfeldt
Dan McDonald
Edward Martinson
Coyle N. Willis
Lloyd King
H. Charles Peek
Frank Callan
Rex Saunders
Ralph Rose Howard Bean
Art Hanson
Albert Pennabacker
Alvin B. Counsell
William F. Spaulding
John Dawe
Fred A. Whitfield
Neil B. Andrews
Earl D. Young
Ernest M. Dille
Beryl L. Henry
Edward L. Covey
George E. Nelson
John Raymond Perry
Jerrold B. Cook
Ernest Lewis
Harold M. Lowe
Samuel A. Lemke
Jesse A. Burrows
Everett A. Thrams
Tom Bell Brisby
Charles G. Fuller
Wilber T. Wheeler
Enoch A. Frojen
Charles E. Donnelly
Clarence W. Ritterbush Erick E. Burke
Robert A. Ritterbush
Herman S. Martin
Clifford D. Mitchell
Frank G. Fahrenkamp
Albert W. Reinhart
Ernest D. Case
Oscar C. Reinhart
Charles Anderson
Louis Bond
Peter Bordlo
Jens P. Jensen
John C. Johnson
Alek Jurchuk
Ernest J. Rickson Haralambus Kotinas
When Company K left Ellendale for the training camp on October 1st, it was given an ovation by a multitude of people from all parts of the county. Oakes and Ellendale both were represented by their bands. The boys were taken to the city hall where the Red Cross gave each member a comfort kit and a pillow, and where speeches were made and farewells
Hector Porter
Orvis A. Banks
Clarence Bjornstad
Lee Wickersham
Joe Boyd
Robert Walker
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spoken. The Company then marched to the train where they were provided with three Pullman cars, and left the city shortly after four o'clock.
The roster of the Company was: Commissioned Officers
Captain-Harry E. Thomas
First Lieutenant-George W. Sears
Second Lieutenant-James E. Huffman Sergeants
First Sergeant-James S. Tully
Supply Sergeant-Leo Rosenthal
Mess Sergeant-Maurice Saunders
Sergeants-John O. Nelson, Benj. F. Crabtree, Edward Hadley, Stanley J. Fleming, James J. Wallace.
Corporals
Frank Johnson
Loren Erwin
Joseph Huffman
Charles L. Schill
Guy Lynde
Thomas A. Lee
Robert E. Gallagher
Alfred Wolfe
Grandon K. Martin
Lawrence I. Rosenthal
Douglas Misfeldt
Anton Nelson
Musicians
Charles Lane
Sherbin Severson
First Class Privates
Lloyd Berry
Harvey J. Hill
John Pagger
Edward Bassingwaite
Leslie Johnson
Martin Peterson
Boye Boyson
John Mace
Joseph L. Sandkamp
Alonzo M. Fuller
Raymond Maternowski Privates
John J. Albright
Irl Hicks
Conley W. McGimpsey
Lloyd Alexanderson
Herman A. Hermanson Albert McEntee
Peter J. Arwik
Fred Herman
Lee Newton
Benjamin Bauer
LeRoy L. Hatfield
Lester R. Nichols
John Bickmore Reece Bartlett Thomas Becktell
Albert Joyner Edwin Johnson
John B. Phillips
Joseph Blair
Russell Jorgenson
George Ratzlaff
Robert Babb
Robert Kilchenman Max Koester
Harry Sanders Glenn Sherman
Lloyd Borough
Charles E. Bigelow Harry Burd
Thomas Kelly Archie Keith John Kelly Phillip Ketterling
James M. Sidles Fred Scklinker
Clifford Colwell Harry G. Dix Jacob Dix
Herbert Lee
Lewis Solum
George C. Eakins
Patrick A. Leverty
Daniel A. Staberg
Thomas M. Evans
Hamlin A. Liddell
George H. Staley
Emery Huggins
Joseph Payton
Harry E. Randall
Charley Smithson
Grant Singleton
John S. Crabtree
Herbert Lauth
George E. Solum
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Frank Edwards
Jesse Lind
Clarence L. Stenquist
Charles Hildebrand
Vernon Logan
Dean M. Stewart
Henry L. Ericson
Gabrial A. Lucas
Carl Vantries
John E. Fink
Martin Loner
William Wiest
William Flynn Emil Larson
Clark P. White
Edward Ganser Joseph McShane
Frank Watson
Altred T. Goodwin
Walter Moore
Jay Winegar
Oscar W. Gish
Leslie Mock
Thommy Young
Harry S. Heck Chester Maine Albert Zimbleman
The Company went to Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina, arriving there on October 4th. Here their officers were transferred to other companies and Company K as such ceased to be and the new company was the 162nd Ambulance Corps of the 41st Division. After a few weeks at this camp the company was transferred to Camp Mills, Long Island, from where they took the transport Covington on December 12th, finally getting out to sea on December 14th. They reached Brest, France on December 27th, where they were in quarantine until New Year's Eve, when they were loaded into the "Forty and Eight" box cars and had a ride of two days to reach La Courtine. After a three weeks stay here they were taken to Gon- drecourt and after this were in the thick of things until the Armistice of November 11th found them at Apermont. When they arrived in France the old 41st was split up and made a replacement division, and was transferred from the First Army Corps to the 3rd. The Company saw service at Argonne Woods and in many engagements around that center of activity.
Their commissioned officers were separated after they reached Camp Greene. Captain Thomas went over in the group of advance officers of the 41st Division, and the first time he saw his home company was when they landed in La Courtine after their journey from Brest. He did not at any time have command of the company while overseas. Lieutenant Sears was transferred to the Motor Division and went over with a company. Lieuten- ant Huffman was transferred to the regular army.
After the Armistice the Ambulance Company followed up the German retreat and from December 17th, 1918 to March 4th, 1919 they were a part of the Army of Occupation in the 7th Corps area. When the time for their return came they were taken to Marsailles where they embarked for home, stopping at Gibralter on the way. They landed in New York on May 4th, 1919, and were taken to Camp Dodge where they were mustered out and sent home. The Company reached Ellendale on May 24th, and on Memorial. Day they were given a happy and impressive reception at the Opera House Captain Thomas had been mustered out at Chillicothe, Ohio, so he could be with them for the home coming, and by that time the other officers had reached home. The drafted boys were mustered out for the most part at Camp Dodge, but their home coming was at different times, their welcome however was none the less cordial. A few of them and of Company K had
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been left in soldiers' graves and several were disabled by gas and exposure but every one came home with the satisfaction of having done his part for his country and humanity.
The civilian people at home were doing "their bit." The Red Cross had been recruited and were doing all they could in making supplies to aid the soldiers and were raising funds to send nurses to the fields of France. Food conservation and the feeding of the warring world was a task under- taken with a determination that was furnishing abundant material. A Council of Defense was organized and one of its pieces of work was to protect the property of the men in service as well as safeguard the country from enemies at home. A well organized agency of public information was the plan of the "Four-Minute-Men" who took the messages of the government to the people in theaters and public gatherings. For Dickey County this organization was under the direction of James M. Austin, who gathered an efficient corps of speakers for the entire county.
Dickey County made a splendid record in its purchase of war securities. The record of the thrift and saving stamps has not been compiled for public use, but the subscriptions to the five liberty loans shows the willingness of the people to help. The First Loan was offered for May 15th, 1917, and the allotment of $73,300 was immediately taken by the banks of the county. The Second Loan was offered from October 1st to October 27th, 1917, and D. E. Geer, of Ellendale, and Thomas F. Marshall of Oakes were chairmen. The allotment was $100,000 and the subscriptions amounted to $199, 650, nearly 100% over subscribed. The Third Loan was open from April 6th. to May 4th, 1918, and for this Mr. B. R. Crabtree of Ellendale was appointed as the chairman, and for this and subsequent Loans a Woman's Chairman was appointed. Mrs. Jennie Canfield of Fullerton served in this office for the three loans. The allotment for the Third Loan was $125,000 and the county "went over the top" to subscribe $263,000, with 2, 453 people buying the bonds.
The Fourth Loan was offered from September 28th to October 19th, and Mr. F. J. Graham was the Men's Chairman, with Mrs. Canfield as the other chairman. $350,000 was alotted for this loan and $461,750 was sub- scribed by 3,279 people. For the Victory Loan for April 21st to May 10th, 1919, Mr. Graham and Mrs. Canfield served as chairmen and with an alot- ment of $405,000 they secured a subscription of $436,100, with 2,309 subscribers. The record for the county shows the total allotments of $1,053,300 and a total subscription of $1,433,800, with the sum of $841,500 anticipating the 4th and 5th Loans.
One of the final manifestations of the generous spirit and the whole hearted way in which the people of the county were supporting the forces of the government who were fighting their battles in a foreign land was the raising of $19,293.85 by popular contributions for the United War Work Campaign which was concluded on May 1st, 1919. The people of Dickey
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County gave of their means and their time, and in so far as possible them- selves for the cause, and are justly proud of the fine young men who bore the brunt of service and helped in winning the war, and those who kept the "home fires burning" also did an honorable part in achieving the victory.
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