Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-02-22
AMONG MEN IN UNIFORM
Fulton County Men Transferred Final Increment of
County's Quota First Draft Seven More
For Spruce Woods-Off To Sea-Ran-
dom Bits of News

The men, real men of today, are the
boys we knew yesterday; the men in
uniform, khaki of the Army and blue
of the Navy; these are the men who
are at the center of our thought and
activity today. They are the men
who are putting the big ideas and the
high ideals into concrete form; they
are doing it for US and for the hu-
manity Of the whole world; and those
whom we used to keep in the lime
light Of our minds have some way
gone into the shadows; the big things
in life for real Americans today are
those things that pertain to keeping
these men in uniform fit and sound
and helping them to finish the work
to which they have set themselves as
speedily as possible. The center Of
attraction for them just now is the
Nations ''far flung battle line" across
the seas in France.
They are there on that sector where
within the next few months history
is likely to be made; or they are on
their way, or preparing to go: There
where the supreme test of the kind
of government Which civilization shall
permit to predominant is to be madei
They are going, not for money; not
+ to gain for themselves prestige and
position and political power: How
despicably little and mean these things
seem as compared to the ideals which
draw these men in uniform on to the
battle front! They are going to reg
lister their protest against the bestial
inhumanity enthroned as an oppress-
i've autocracy which counts human
life and happiness as the fine dust IN
| the balance as compared to its own
fiendish ambition.
After all, they are our own boys;
God bless and keep them all. 1t makes
no difference to US how they entered
the service or what branch of the ser
vice they are in; we are proud 81 ev-
cry one of them. You know there isn't
any branch OF the service that is more
important than that particular branch
or division where your boy is or my
boy is! Yes, they are "Our Boys"
these men in uniform, and we are in
terested in everything they do or say
and anxious for every bit of news
concerning them we can get.
The following Fulton county men
have been transferred from Co. E,
329th Infantry, at Camp Sherman, to
the 308th Ammunition Train: ]. ].
Clark, Hal Garnsey, E. P. Lane, C. S.
Carpenter, H. H. Foley, and Bert
Roddy. This means that when the
83rd Division of the National Army
goes overseas, these boys will be en-
gagged in carrying shot and shell from
the American base in France to the
troops at the front.
Here is the health bill for the 83rd
for the week ending February s, as
published in the Official Bulletin last
Saturday:
Number sick, 1,311; rate per thou
sand, 41.9: pneumonia, 2; measles,
A; meningitis, 3; scarlet fever, 18;
all other illnesses, 1,244. Deaths
II 2; pneumonia, l, and bronchial-pneu-
monia, following measles, 1.
The final increment of Fulton coun-
J tvs quota under the first draft will
leave some time during the five days
between March and for Camp
Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. That
is, if there are any left to send. Clerk
Ham of the Military Board has been
doing a land-office business enlisting
!, registered men for special service,
and every registered man who enlists
!, is credited on that first quota Mon
day morning, Lloyd Nofzinger, Gar
J old Spoerle, Arthur Deter, Loren l..
J Cass, Irwin Lantz, Lloyd Dowell, and
Raymond C. Curtis left for Vancou-
} yer Barracks, Wash, having enlisted
in the Spruce production division of
J the Aviation section. This makes a
total Of 20 that have enlisted recently.
J The Yeager brothers, Clarence and
} Robert, came Saturday morning and
} remained until midnight Sunday night
} when they returned to the Great
Lakes Naval Training station. They
expect soon to be off to sea; they will
be with band on some one of the
U. S. cruisers. Both of the Yeager
[ brothers rank as first-class musicians
but even the band boys in the U. S.
D Navy have to do duty as lookouts
D when at sea, so we may think of
these boys as doing double duty for
[ Uncle San1-furnishing the inspira-
tion of their music and helping with
0 the work as WELL
DIR. W. H. Schultz made his many
friends in Wauseon glad for a couple
of days last week; we wish he might
: have made his stay longer. It's
Sergeant W. II. Schultz now, and has
;, been since January II.
:, Sergeant R. J. Bissonnette was re-
ported in quarantine with Co. E. last
week, but nothing is the matter with
Sergeant Bob.
n Cody Chubb, a former Wauseon boy
now wearing the uniform at Colum-
bus Barracks, we learn from an ex.
change, is recovering from a severe
s case of measles and erysipelas.
). Lieutenant Otis Johnson has re
r, Gently submitted to an operation or
his tonsils.
It Newton Smith, who is somewhere
r. in France doesn't forget the home
folks; he manages to get one letter
n week back home.
IS Jay Collins is doing his bit down a
o Kelley Field, San Antonio, with tn,
Aviation section.
# A number of our boys are yer,
S. likely to be heard from next as witt
5. the "Amex" somewhere in France.
" We are hoping and praying for
! safe trip and safe return, but wher
ever they go and wherever they are
" we are proud of them, and our conf
/ dence is mistaken that they will "ac
- quit themselves like men"
JANUARY COLDEST MONTH