The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-05-11
PEOPLE OF ST. CLAIR
HONOR THE RECRUITS
PARTY FROM THAT VILLAGE
Join The ARMY
Number of Their Fellow Citizens Come
Here To Give Them Right Kind of
Sendoff; Another Detachment Depart
ed Last Night For St. Louis; Most
Of Them Have Joined the Coast
Artillery Service
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
st. Clair was Literally representa-
in the throng that gathered at thu
Northwestern passenger depot las1
evening to DO honor to the seventeen
new recruits, who departed on the
$40 train on their trip to the Jeffer-
son barracks at st. Louis. Six of the
young men of that party were from
st. Clair and the people of that town
were proud of it. A large autobus,
superbly decorated with flags and
bunting, brought some Of the visitors
from that town, and quite number
of others came in their autos. Among
these visitors were observed the fol-
lowing: Mrs. ]. w. Chase, Mrs.
Henry Campbell, Mrs. John Wolcott.
Mrs. Huginen, Miss Sophie Pagen-
kopf, Miss Lille Shallow, Miss Buch-
holz and Miss Fields.
The boys who departed last even
ing represented the second largest
party that the Mankato station has
yet sent. They were as follows:
Men Who Left Last Night.
Walter E. Ecklund, 1868 Eight av-
enue, Mankato, photographer of the
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the coast artillery.
Wesley F. Nicholson, South Front
street, Mankato, laborer, twenty years
| DID, infantry.
Frank ]. Kachelmyer, 222 Moreland
| avenue, Mankato, laborer in Mayer
Brothers machine shop, twenty three
years old, infantry.
| Lloyd E. Wolcott, st. Clair, Mimi.
laborer, twenty-five years old, infan-
| try.
Stanley E. Blomgren, Balaton
Mimi, bartender, last employed at St.
| Clair, twenty-si years old, infantry.
Emil Judd, $40 South Front street,
Mankato, photographer for The Free
! Press, twenty-seven years old, engl-
neering corps.
oscar w. Olson, 312 East Vine
street, Mankato, salesman at the
| Friedman store, nineteen years old,
coast artillery.
Oscar A. Olson, 713 North Fourth
| street, Mankato clerk at the National
| Bank of Commerce, TWENTY-FIVE years
old, coast artillery.
Harry J. Ore, 313 Glenwood avenue,
Mankato, laborer, twenty-five years
old, coast artillery.
Fred Carlson, 102 Parry street,
Mankato, carpenter, twenty-three
years old, coast artillery.
Clark H. Preston, st. Clair Mimi,
farmer, twenty-five years old, coast
artillery.
Lee E. Anthony, ST. Clair, Mimi.
barber, employed at st. Clair, twenty
one years old, coast artillery.
lot inn
engineer, nineteen years old, coast
artillery.
Edward P. Kroenke, Minnesota
Lake, tiler, Twenty-Five years old
coast artillery.
Harry C. Fields, St. Clair, student
Of the Mankato high school, nineteen
years old, coast artillery.
Fred E. Rolloff, route four, New
Ulm, student, Mankato Commercial
college, nineteen years old, coast ar
tillery.
! r. R. Chesser, 7O4 North Fourth
street, Mankato, fireman, Chicago &
Northwestern. nineteen years old
coast artillery.
Party Goes to ST. Louis Tonight.
| Young men who have enlisted al
the local United States Army re-
cruiting station, and will be sent to
ST. Louis, Jefferson Barracks tonight
are: Albert w. Hubbard, city, signal
corps Ernest A. Hagerman. city
signal corps; Fred E. Rolloff. New
Ulm. coast artillery; Albin Benson
st. James. infantry.
Sergeant J. f. Mueller, recruiting
officer in charge, received an order
today from headquarters to cease
taking enlistments in the signal
corps, as that branch of the service
has been filed.