This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/273 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, July 11, 1918 FIFTY-EIGHT MEN FOR CAMP DODGE [front page] THE IOWA CAMP GETS THE NEXT CONSIGNMENT OF TROOPS FROM CASS COUNTY. ARE MOSTLY FARM RESERVES These Men Are the Ones Which Were Left for the Gathering of the Grain. >From Wednesday’s Daily. The harvest is almost over, and the men who were held back from the camps for the purpose of securing the harvest, and in raising it, will now be in a degree released and will go to make up the quotas which have been filled with others heretofore, although many farms have heretofore entered into the making up of the former quotas. There are fifty-eight for the coming quota which is to go to Camp Dodge, which is located near Des Moines, Iowa. The date for the departure is not yet known, but will be near the 22nd of this month, and notification will be given when the matter of entraining is definitely known. The following is the personnel of the quota and their last known address with the [unclear] number [illegible] class [illegible] registration. 686 George DWINELL, Weeping W. 691 Ray WOOD, Union, Nebr. 756 Perry I. CORE, Cedar Creek 765 T.H. NIERE, Valley Park, Mo. 768 L.M. HUTSELL, Huggins, Mo. 775 A. HARRINGTON, Goodman, Mo. 794 Wm J. HARRINGTON, Sterling N. 802 A.C. JANSEN, Waterloo, Iowa 816 A.V. LANE, Mound city, Kans. 829 W.J. REEDER, Elmwood, Neb. 851 J.W. BRAKHAGE, Murdock, Neb. 871 Wm. A. CORE, Louisville, Neb. 878 G.N. LINSON, Elmwood, Neb. 889 Albert M. SILL, Avoca, neb. 890 John HEENEY, Weeping Water 1000 Otto ROTHLEY, Osmond, Nebr. 1009 Lester BURROWS, Nehawka, Neb. 1034 Silas R. EVERETT, Avoca, Neb. 1071 Irwin O. KUNZ, Elmwood, Neb. 1123 Orval HATHAWAY, Union, Nebr. 1126 Hiemeneus GRUBER, Murray, Neb. 1141 Daniel SCHILDMEYER, So. Bend 1173 H.D. MURPHY, Weeping Water 1236 W.J. DIETRICH, Louisville, Neb. 1253 H. GILLIAN, Greenwood, Neb. [article cut off] Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, July 18, 1918 BOYS CALLED FOR MONDAY. [front page] >From Wednesday’s Daily. The fifty-eight boys who are to go to Camp Dodge next Monday are called to report at ten o’clock in the morning, and will depart during the afternoon. It is no known whether by a special train as yet or not. The boys will report at the court house and there get their transportation and their tickets for meals, and be ready to report in the afternoon at the designated time for entraining in the east, to go to Camp Dodge. Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, July 25, 1918 [ two articles ] THE BOYS ARE IN CAMP NOW [front page] THEIR GOING WAS WITNESSED BY THOUSANDS OF ENTHUSIASTIC PATRIOTIC PEOPLE. ONLY A FEW CAME THIS WAY Others Go Via Nebraska City And Omaha. – But Trains are Crowded. >From Tuesday’s Daily. The day when the boys departed is past the violence of the feelings have somewhat subsided, the home in which the loved ones were and has life, has a vacant and the folks are feeling lonely, they are concerned about the boys who are away, but they are only across the river here, drilling to make soldiers and the boys which as left home yesterday, with tomorrow return men, full stature and hard drilled, embued with a high purpose, and having a greater and a broader view of humanity and the world, and a greater appreciation of the nation, which has in its keeping the liberties of mankind and the civilization of the world. Thousands of people yesterday gathered at the Burlington station to pay honor and respect to the boys and to bid them God speed and good bye. C.A. RAWLS echoed the feelings of the citizens of this city and county when he said to them that we were with them and that we knew they would keep inviolate the principles of liberty and freedom and maintain unsullied! the high character of America. The good byes were being said all through the crowd, and as the train pulled out the cheers from thousands of voices were deafening. Later, another train followed in the night passing though this city during the night, which carried a large number of the boys to the camp. There are now left about fifty of the boys in class one here, a portion of them are deferred until after the threshing is over. THIS AFTERNOON. During the noon hour and afterwards the people gathered in crowds making the occasion like the Fourth of July, for the streets were filled and the court house lawn covered, and people talked about the boys and their mission, and forgot business to a certain extent. Just after two o’clock the Plattsmouth Home guards met and under the direction of Captain C.A. RAWLS, went through the drills as an exhibition of their training, and which was enjoyed by the people assembled. During the afternoon the Plattsmouth band furnished music and the Home Guards escorted the boys to the station led by the band. At the station hundreds of people had gathered to see the boys depart and to give them the blessing and god speed, wishing them that victory which is sure to come the arms of a righteous nation. A large crowd came from the Missouri Pacific train, which helped to swell the crowd. Below will be found the names of the boys who are going: Calvin ROCKWELL, Weeping Water; Everett J. MC CART [sic], Plattsmouth; George JORGENSEN, Weeping Water; Charles M. MURPHY, Weeping Water; Ralph J. PARSELL, Alvo, Nebr.; Mont SHRADER, Murray, Nebr.; Eldon E. TAYLOR, Greenwood; George DWINELL, Weeping Water; Ray WOOD, Union, Nebr.; Perry I. CORE, Cedar Creek; A. HARRINGTON, Goodman, Mo.; WM. J. Harrington, Sterling, Neb.; A.C. JANSEN, Waterloo, Iowa; A.V. LANE, Mound City, Kans.; W.J. REEDER, Elmwood, Neb.; J.W. BRAKHAGE, Murdock, Neb.; G.N. LINSON, Elmwood, Neb.; Albert M. SILL, Avoca, Neb.; John HEENEY, Weeping Water; Otto ROTHLEY, Osmond, Nebr.; Lester BURROWS, Nehawka, Neb.; Silas R. EVERETT, Avoca, Nebr.; Irwin O. KUNZ, Elmwood, Neb.; Orval HATHAWAY, Union, Nebr.; Hiemeneus GRUBER, Murray; Daniel SCHILDMEYER, So. Bend; H.D. MURPHY, Weeping Water; H. GILLIAN, Greenwood, Neb.