Company A Gets Hurry-Up Call To Report At Armory

A stir was caused this afternoon at the Armory when Lieutenant V. G. Gould received a telephone call from Captain Strike at Des Moines, ordering the mobilization of Company A of the Iowa Engineers at once. Posters were placed over Iowa City and by means of the telephone in the course of about two hours word had been received by nearly all members who are at this time assembling at the Armory preparatory for further orders. It is expected that upon the arrival of Captain Strike this afternoon from Des Moines, further orders will be made and that departure to some training camp will take place probably tonight or tomorrow. At this time, however, all is uncertainty, as to what the next order will be and when it will be made and much speculation as to what the next few hours will bring forth is made.

~ Company A Engineers ~

~ Corporals ~

~ First Class Privates ~

~ Privates ~

~source: Iowa City Daily Citizen, Iowa City, Johnson co. Iowa, June 21 1917
~transcribed for Iowa In The Great War by Sharyl Ferrall http://iagenweb.org/iowaoldpress/