LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
Tuesday, July 23, 1918

TO CAMP GORDON
OVER THREE HUNDRED MEN LEAVE THIS MORNING.
RAIN MARS SOLDIERS CELEBRATION.
Court House Yard Presents Animated Scene When Men Are Enrolled into the Service and Given Final Instructions by Board.

Three hundred and thirty-two men will be sent from Plymouth County to join the armies that are fighting in Europe to preserve the liberties of the world against the aggressions of the German military autocrats. This is the largest body of men to leave at one time since the war began and makes the total number of men in the Army and Navy from this county about twelve hundred. Three hundred and twenty-eight of these men leave at 7:45 by special train for Camp Gordon, near Atlanta, Georgia, and four go to the school to open July 25th at the State University at Austin, Texas. Fourteen of the men are inducted in service elsewhere and four men from other counties go to camp with the boys from here, leaving 318 men to take the train here. The four men going to Austin leave on the regular train going east at 7:05 and join the balance of the party from this state at Des Moines. This party is composed of Ren Sherman, Ralph Marcue, Wallace Kilker and Norman Bolser, of LeMars.

The men inducted elsewhere, with their registration address and point of induction are as follows:
Albert E. Gibbs, Pierson, Montrose, Colorado.
Fred A. Hahn, Merrill, Alhambra, California.
Franklin W. Hambelton, Hinton, Trinidad, Colorado.
Cecil V. Fulks, LeMars.
Hugh Howell, LeMars, Aberdeen, S. D.
John P. J. Karels, Remsen, Chicago.
Justus H. La Munyon, Akron, David City, Nebraska.
Dennis Mullican, LeMars, Owensboro, Kentucky.
John Reitman, Kingsley, Holland, Mich.
Thos. A. Robinson, Kingsley, Stockton, Mo.
Henry W. Sahl, LeMars, Harlan, Ia.
Nick Van der Pol, LeMars, Orange City.
John Wassenaar, Maurice, Orange City.
Fred J. Hoschler, Akron, Newkirk, Oklahoma.

The four men from other boards to be inducted here are: Ellie Arnette, of Greenville, Tenn., Albert Drews, who has been working near Akron and Robert and Fred Nelle, of Parker S. D., and Cedar Rapids, Ia. The last two named are brothers of E. F. Nelle, manager of the Lampert Lumber company, and have been visiting here.

The party going from here will be in charge of Frank Sudmeyer, who has been trick operator at the Union Depot. The men will be divided into six squads each in charge of a leader as indicated in the list printed elsewhere in this paper. Until their entrainment the following members of the exemption and legal advisory boards will be in charge of the men:
Squad 1, E. T. Bedell;
Squad 2, C. C. Bradley;
Squad 3, J. M. Fettes;
Squad 4, J. T. Keenan;
Squad 5, T. M. Zink;
Squad 6, B. C. Woolley.
There are sixty-one men each squad except the sixth.

Another call for nine men from this county to report at Jefferson Barracks, between August 5th and 7th, was received this week and the list will be made up at once. A change has been made in the physical requirements so that men five feet tall and weighing 110 pounds can be accepted.

Papers for the induction of Wm. E. Albert, Wm. G. Groetken and Frank L. Kemp into the balloon service at Ft. Omaha have been received. Jos. Sheehan, of the local post office force, expects to go with them but his papers have not been received.

The down pour of rain about 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon spoiled the plans for the picnic celebration at the City park, and the parade was abandoned as well as the picnic supper. As many people as could gathered at the Armory and ate supper with the boys and the speeches were delivered at the square at the intersection of Sixth and Main streets where the Akron, Kingsley and LeMars bands joined in playing a concert.

Large delegations from all parts of the county accompanied their boys to LeMars and the court house grounds looked like a Fourth of July celebration until the rain scattered the crowd. The Kingsley delegation brought both their band and drum corps and Akron her band.

A general telephone call was sent out asking anyone and the ladies who prepared baskets to bring them to the Armory for soldiers and out of town people and the speeches would be delivered on the street following the band concert about 6:30 p.m.