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| "My grandfather, Louis Ortgies, is third from the right side, front row. He never made it to France, but came down with the swine flu and was completely out of it for three months; he didn't know where he was when he finally came to in a hospital in Georgia. His wife had not heard from him or anything about him for three months while she tended to the farm all alone. My grandmother | said she felt that the flu weakened my grandfather and it was a long time before he was able to do much. He died in 1948 so I never met him. I know that there is a Fairbanks among the draftees, but that is it for who they are." Steve Hanken
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| ANAMOSA, Iowa, Aug. 24—There are various items of interest from the Jones county boys who are at the front or in various camps: Paul Sherman who was wounded in the head by a bit of shrapnel and was in the hospital where he met Francis Flaherty, who had been gassed, writes of meeting a Cedar Rapids nurse, Miss Belle Starke who has often been in Anamosa, and made him feel almost as if he were at home. Edgar Schuchman, who was sent to Ft. Bliss, Texas, is working at his trade of horseshoeing: he took part in a recent contest between 100 men in that branch of the service and won fourth place. Earl Royer who was rejected on physical examination at Camp Gordon, refused to be rejected and got a position as motorman at Camp McClellan, Ala., and is driving a truck.
Earl Barker who is in the engineer corps somewhere in France, writes that he is engaged in laying out prison camps for the Huns. |
Leo Byerly and Lee Sanner are in the Officers' Training camp, machine gun division at Camp Hancock, Ga., and making good progress toward receiving commissions. Hubert McGuire is in training at Camp McClellan, Ala., in the automobile mechanics. Grover Underwood is in the army radio school in North Carolina and at present is assisting in farm work. Ray Mills, who is now a lieutenant, is handling a bunch of colored men, but he says they are easy to manage and make good soldiers. Lorenz Lorenson, who is now in training at the University of Texas, thinks Iowa has that country beat, says any little town in Iowa is ahead of Austin, and all the towns are way behind the times. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gavin have three boys in the service, another waiting for his call and the fifth will come under the next draft.
From The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, Saturday, August 24, 1918, and
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5 September 1918
66 JONES COUNTY MEN GO TO DODGE SEPT. 5
Part from the 1918 CLASS To Be Entertained By Townsfolk on Evening Before Their Departure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ANAMOSA, Ia.,—Aug. 31—In the call for 8,000 men from Iowa to go into training at Camp Dodge, Jones county has to furnish sixty-six men, of which 15 are of the old class one and fifty-one are from the class of 1918. | There will be demonstration in the afternoon and evening of September 4 and the band will accompany them to the train the next morning.
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| From The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, Saturday, August 31, 1918, and submitted by Sharon Oltmanns who says: "The only one I can match the name to is my grandfather George Moenk. He is in the second row, 10th from the left." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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