The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-08-29
VOLUME Tx
LOCAL WAR NOTES.

n There is a gold star in the service
n 6 at the Ahrens home about three
lies from the city on the town line"
" ad. Harrison Ahrens, aged 2S, died
i pneumonia at Camp Custer last
i iday. The young mans father,
= igust Ahrens, reached his bedside
fore he died The remains arrived
4 turday and the funeral was held
81 nday from the German M. e..
urch. There was military funeral
81 tn Company F, Wisconsin Guard,
tending in a body.
s. Jennie Madison of Cato, who has
en- stationed at Camp Lewis the past
W months writes home that she is at
e nurses mobilization station at
n Nv York, preparatory to embarking
n c overseas service.
Her brother, Norman Madison, has
en- commissioned a first lieutenant
d chaplain and was visiting at home
a st week.
Reports continue to come in of Man
voc county boys who were wound
in the latter days of July and early
B August
Corporal Robert Hampton who left
tn Company H, was seriously
4 bundled in August A. Another H boy,
4 rporal George Bouril was wounded
& both legs on July 29. EIe wrote
me of the battle and says that in
arge "over the top" the only man
a wounded of the squad when ne went
4 wn was Curly" Dusold.
= Harry Drews of Maribel was seri-
sly wounded in July 29. DEews was
"A select man who left here last Nov
Der. Corporal Walter Bedford,
mpany Fl man, was severely
unded" on July 81, according to of
lal announcement received Monday.
a Messages received Monday report
i 1t Eugene Dupras, select man from
X 70 Rivers, was killed in action on
ly 20. This makes the seventh
.nitowoc county man to die in the
vice and the second to he killed in
s. ion.
d 4ouis Heinrich, South Twenty-sec
& 4 street, writes that he is stationed
Paris in the motorcycle repair de-
rtment.
Saturday was registration day for
men who have attained their ma
ity since June s. The total of the
inty was 124. The city district en-
led 68 ana the Two Rivers district
Many of them filled out their
estionaires at once but some will
n theirs in this week. The state
,istered 1851.
4 danitowoc county has ninety-four
! n listed for limited service. The
al of the state is 6,306. Men are put
the limited service wist where al
J ugh because of physical defect
" cannot be fighters, still they are
\ Allied for some service that will re-
4 Sc another man for the fighting
VI lks.
fifteen men from the two Manito-
county district departed at noon
nday to report at camps for special
ining, under the August call.
Il Vine men from this city and six
m the Second districtw ere includ-
n in the number,
\ Tive men from district No l were
1t to Greenleaf, Ga, being Albert
ert, Frank Krell, Joseph Musiel,
ul Reiderer, Joseph Alteen.
4 FOUR from the same district left for
4 mp Sherman, Ohio. John Mittnacht,
win Rozinski, Walter c. Bull and
IN Wake.
from the Second district six men
re sent to Camp Sherman, Ohio, as
! lows:
dartin Reedy, Maribel.
! William j. Koch, Two Rivers.
4 henry Yohanek, r. l, Grimms.
Martin j. Steeber, r. l, WhitelaW
ulius Gates, Two Rivers.
> oseph Stefanik, r. 3, Two Rivers
chaplain Jones of the United States
4 Ivy, who is touring Wisconsin in sup
j II of the Salvation Army war work
We. spoke Sunday evening from the
ps of the court house. A large
wd had gathered and they heard
impassioned patriotic address with
eloquent plea for the Salvation
ny. Jones said the war may go two
three years longer. He said that
Kaiser is so low that he Will nave
get an airplane to get up into hell
en- his time comes.