Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19

LARGD0N BOYS LEAVE
TO FOLLOW The FLAG
Young Men From Langdon Homes
Respond to Uncle Sans Call
for Navy Enlistment
Leaving on this afternoon train
and taking with them the wishes of
Langdon's townspeople as a commu.
nifty, three of our young men, Albert
Chase, Joseph Roth and Walter Gould
depart for Grand Forks, the recruiting
headquarters in this state for North
Dakotans enlisting for service in the
United States army and navy.
t The boys are likely to experience
active service on the war front
in conflict in which this country
is now one of the belligerents along
with the European powers before their
retrun. Their going from their
Langdon homes is speeded with feel
ings of pride and hopes that return
will be insured them when the war.
ring of nations shall cease.
Their going away last evening was
the occasion of a gathering of quite a
large number of citizens as we'll as
immediate friends and the families of
the first of our Langdon boys to re-
spond to their country's call. They
will long have occasion to remember
the night before they left and besides
atfording them an evening of social
4 enjoyment purse contributed by
people of the town generally goes as
a substantial reminder of the regard
in which they are individually held by
the people Of the home town they are
leaving ON such patriotic mission.
1t is understood that from Grand
Forks they will be transferred with
others recruited from over the state
to Great Lakes, Illionis, where an
encampment has been established for
the training of men in various branch.
es of service. Our readers may from
time to time expect to hear from the
soldier boys that Langdon is sending
to the front.
Langdon and her people are not of
the type that brag and do much talk
- Of what they do, but here is per-
haps as good a time as any to say
that our people as community are
certainly doing their "bit' in send
ing their sons to the service of this
country in it's hour of need. In ad-
dition to the three who enlisted here
the past week and leave today on the
train the Democrat has been given to
understand that Kinsell Johnston, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Johnston, is
one of those at the University of
Minnesota who goes to serve with the
colors, also Leonard Kinsell, brother
Of. Mrs. Johnston and quite we'll known
here. Another is Howard McNiven,
a Langdon boy attending Manchester
college. Tracy Souch, son of J. ].
Souch, is leaving his home in few
days for Malta, Mont, and these will
be sworn in as one of the cavalry arm
of the service. Two other boys we'll
known in Langdon who will enlist are
the sons of Editor Boyd of the Hannah
Moon. For the past year they have
been attending the University of Iowa
and join a company being formed
there when the school year closes next
month.
Fred S. Koehmstedt, eldest son of
the publisher of this paper is with
the Eighth U. S. Cavalry Band at Fort
Bliss, Texas, having enlisted in that
arm of Uncle Sans service at Den.
yer, Colo, short time after his leav.
ing Langdon on trip through the
southwest early last fall. He has
now had several months of experience
as soldier and since the war clouds
have begun to gather has been with
the cavalry branch of our regular
army on the Mexican border Fort
Bliss is located on the outskil is of Ell
Paso and in recently received letter
he mentions having met Mrs Ed.
Stewart, wife Of Manager Stewart Of
the experimental farm, and their
little daughter, who have been max
ing stay of couple of months at
Ell Paso. They were the first people
from Langdon he had run across since
leaving home.