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Rainbow Division

 

 

"RAINBOW REUNION DRAWS MANY MEN FROM OUR SECTION.

 

 'Last Man Club' Members Go To
Kansas City For 18th Annual Event. 100 Vets Present."


--"Buck privates have as much to say about things as Brass Collars," and that is why you can't keep the World War Veterans away from the Rainbow Division's Reunion. All officers are from the ranks of enlisted men except one. There were over a thousand men present, and every state in the Union was represented. "Some record!" say the boys. The eighteenth annual affair was held at Kansas City Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week with the Muelback Hotel for headquarters--and Old Company E had the biggest representation of any single unit present, with Council Bluffs ranking second.
 

PROGRAM FEATURES


A Wild West Show with phony francs for money featuring gaming tables, dancing, floor show, etc., was the Monday night feature. Local men left following the banquet Tuesday evening at which Col. Rubey D. Garrett presided as toastmaster and the chaplain, the Rev. James A. Murray of New York, was the main speaker.
 

CHAMPAGNE HOUR


Due to the intense heat and lack of sleep, several Shenandoah boys did not stay for the Champagne Hour, the most famous program held at Memorial Tower at 11:15 p.m. (that is the hour in 1918 when the Germans made their last desperate try to reach Paris.) Memorial Tower is a beautiful memorial erected at the a cost of
$2,000,000, and recognized as one of the most beautiful war memorials of the world.

Those attending from this vicinity were:

Bid Beck of Westboro
Stewart Blank of Shenandoah
Warren Booth of Shenandoah
Everett Briggs of Shenandoah
"Chuck" Burdick of Shenandoah
Orville Butler of Council Bluffs
Gerald Dalrymple of Council Bluffs
H. A. Davis of Shenandoah
Cecil Dodd of Pona City, Oklahoma
Captain C. H. Doolittle of Des Moines
Bill Harper of New Market
Lawrence Livingston of Riverton
Arthur Martin of Shenandoah
Bill McKean of Shenandoah
Vernon Scott of Illinois
Leslie Spaht of Shenandoah
Bob Speakman of Northboro
Harry Staples of Shenandoah
Raymond Young of Shenandoah



RAINBOW DIVISION


A permanent organization and Last Man's Club was organized when 26 members of old Company "E" met at the Armory Sunday afternoon. An annual meeting each year was arranged for, the first to be held September 27 of this year.

Officers elected are:

Everett (Dutch) Briggs was chosen chairman
Chas. Burdick sec'y treas.
Leslie Spaht of Shenandoah, member of executive committee
Warren Booth of Shenandoah, member of executive committee
W. I. "Bid" Beck of Westboro, member of executive committee


THOSE PRESENT

Arthur Anderson of Coin
E. R. Baggs of Blanchard
W. L. "Bid" Beck of Westboro
Warren Booth of Shenandoah
Everett I. Briggs of Shenandoah
Charles Burdick of Shenandoah
Orville Butler of Council Bluffs
Ralph Chase of Glenwood
Lewis G. Dalrymple of Council Bluffs
J. J. Davis of Farragut
Calvin Ferrell of Shenandoah
Milo Griffin of Shenandoah
Bill Harper of New Market
George M. Lillie of Essex
Lawrence E. Livingston of Riverton
Arthur Martin of Shenandoah
Vernie McCunn of Shenandoah
Bill McKean of Shenandoah
William Patience of Imogene
Ray Proctor of St. Joseph
Vernon Scott of Alexis, Illinois
Leslie Spaht of Shenandoah
Bob Speakman of Northboro
Harry Staples of Shenandoah
Warren Van Duzor of Coin
Clarence Williby of Chariton
Raymond Young of Shenandoah



[transcribed by WF for Fremont County IAGenWeb http://iagenweb.org/fremont/ ]

 

 

~ source: THE SHENANDOAH GAZETTE, Shenandoah, Page co., Iowa, July 17, 1936.
~ transcribed by WF for Fremont County IAGenWeb http://iagenweb.org/fremont/