Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-21
SOLDIER BOYS BID farewell
TO HOME AND FRIENDS

Long Island, their departure for
France awaits only the securing OF
sufficient supplies and available
transports. News dispatches place
the time Of leaving of the Second
Rainbow division" of national
guards as very soon.
A list of the men to go from the
various Webster City contingents
follows:
c Company-Sergeants.
Miles Loring. James E. Wedding
Merle D. Johnson. Richard w. Beebe
Corporals.
Roy e. Cheever. Rendon v. Smith
Albert c. Smith. Roy E. Patterson.
Peter Sexe. Albert c. Philbrook.
Alfred A. Shell Reginald r. Gilmore
First Class Privates.
Alongi Nicola. Walter 1. Julian.
Tom F. Mckay. Oliver H. Ferrell.
Bert J. Dragoo. Wilfred A. Groves.
Milo E. Foster. William c. Henry.
Ray Wilcox. Harry E. Richards.
Ralph Baker. William R. Leeper.
Hio w. Waterman.
Privates.
Adolph Klemme. Eugene G. Smith.
Jerry T. House. Omer Omondson.
Richard Henry. Charles Lowrie.
Selmer Hanson. William J. Lee.
Byron Griffin. John Ingertson. i
Clifford Barr. Clarence Aubrey.
Floyd Baker. Joseph A. Adams.
Paul l.. Cordes. Eddie e. Blegelid.
Merle E. Clark. Suddarth l.. Cole
Leslie G. Booth. Clarence Boswell.
George Birbilis., Arthur Bernard.
Holy Larson. Eppo Waterman.
Glen Lakin. Martin A. Djonne
Silas Teig. Oliver L. Peterson
Samuel Sweazey August Rheinhart
Horace Skeel. George II. Martin.
Ben e. Rifen. Lloyd v. johnson
Roy r. Reese. Hobson r. Kearns
Joseph Pruette. Paul e. Nickerson
George Geedy. Martin A. Glaman.
Frank Tussy. Bernard l.. McAtte.
Levere 0. Thompson.
Second Regiment Supply Company.
Wagoners.
Roy Smith. Joseph M. WiCkey
Eric L. Bager. Otto l.. Bergeson.
Earl Egland. Carl jacobson.
Earl A. Hill. Emanuel Larson.
Wesley Jaques. Byrd j. Notion. /,
Oscar Olson. Harry Siverly.
Claude ]. Masear.
Headquarters Company, Orderly Di-
vision-First- Class Privates.
VIM. C. Horn. William Warden.
Privates.
Ronald Loban. Milard latham.
Leone Paine. John Mulroney.
Stanley Sears. Peter Halfinger.
The selections from the First and
Second Iowa regiments to fill out the
Third regiment for service in France
is another of the plumbers being
made by those in authority and is
so regarded by many military Off
GERS and those familiar with the sit
uation in the different companies.
Take our own C company, for in
stance. Many of our boys enlisted
because they were assured by the
officers in charge that they would
be with their own home companies.
Now half of them are put into an
other regiment. Some brothers en-
listed that they might be together
in the service of Uncle Sam. The
new order separates them. Here in
Webster City the citizens have raised
nearly $4,000 for the benefit of
their home boys, and under the new
order of things half of them will get ,
no benefit from this fund.
The new order might best have
never been issued in the form it was
issued, as it violates the understand
ing entered into in good faith with
many of the boys who have enlisted
voluntarily. II it were absolutely
necessary to issue the order to take
fifty men from each company of the
First and Second Iowa regiments to
bring the companies of the Third up
to $50 strong, some plan of selecting
the men might have been followed
that would enable those who de-
sired to stay with their original
companies to do SO. This could
probably have been arranged by
calling for volunteers for service in
France. There is no question but
that enough volunteers would have
responded, and many of the disap-
pointments and injustices of the
present mode of selecting the Jnotn
for service abroad would h