The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-12-26
AFTERMATH OF WAR

the boys over there to tell a little
more of what they have personally
been doing the past year. In letter
home Lieut.. Erwin Fanta tells about
being in the last battle of the war. He
has seen continual active service and
n has been engaged in nearly all the bic
engagements that the American forces
were in. He was at Montdidier, with
the British, at Chatheau Thierry, Sois-
sons. Argonne woods and the st. Mi
hiel sector. Going over his ship, the
a st. Louis, sunk three submarines.
In a message received December
goth Walter Houghton learned that
j his son, Walter Jr., had arrived in
France in good health from German
n prison camp. He was taken prisoner
on August 4. He left here with Com
pany H OF the National Guard.
John Jirikowic, shot through the
arm by German machine gun bullet,
n writes from France that he is recov-
Y ering rapidly. He wrote with his left
hand
Richard Klingholz Jr., returned this
week with his discharge from the S.
A. T. c.. at Ripon college
Lieut.. Ed Nelson is home, having
received his honorable discharge at
Il Camp Mcclellan, Alabama, where he
has been a rifle instructor. He ex-
a when hostilities ceased.
Manitowoc has organized a bureau
to aid returning soldiers to get located
n in jobs. An organization was effected
last week. Alderman Thomas Nc
4 Keough is chairman.
d The meeting was attended by the
following representatives:
Prof. C. G. Stangel, representing
h American Council of Education.
P. ]. Zimmers, representing city
schools.
II. G.. Kress, representing Manito-
4 voc County Council of Defense.
S. T. Pratt, representing Manitowoc
\ Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Rev. Axtell and Rev. Machmiller
representing the Central Welfare
Commission of Churches.
BENZ. A. Mason, representing Amer
! lean Federation of Labor.
Daves Balkansky, representing the
4 Jewish Welfare board.
Thomas McKeough, representing the
Community Labor board.
o. c. Frick, representing the Com
4 munity Labor board-manufaeturers.
E. F. Brunette, representing the u.
S. Employment service.
Florence Williamson, secretary of
! meeting.
II Mantowoc fell down on the Red
Cross drive. The ending of fighting
j in France seems to have caused all
the pep" to leak away from patriotic
Cross funds now are as necessary as
j a year ago the county came through
with but a small part of its quota. The
j campaign was continued and is still
4, on. All one needs is "a heart and a
4 dollar"
Raymond Smuggler, who enlisted in
the navy last May and who spent
three months in the war zone has
4 been home on furlough. He was on
the United States battleship Iowa
Frank Woznicki of this city was re-
ported missing in action on October
16. He was wounded and picked up
4 on the battlefield. In letter dated
since the signing of the armistice he
n says that he is in hospita, in France
y and is recovering.
The casualty list of last Saturday
bore the names oftwo Two Rivers
: boys, William A. Kocian as missing
in action" and Edgar Gesell as "se-
verely wounded in action. The lists
are nearing an end and it is reported
that the last lists will be published
shortly after Christmas at the latest.
1t is a month and half since the last
casualties in action occurred and the
reporting should soon end.
Samuel w. Melendy, Co. G, Sixth
Engr. corps, Third division, in let
ter to his mother says that his divi-
sion will be a part of the army of oc-
cupation and that he will probably
s not be home for a long time. When
B writing early in November he was in
n Lorraine.
Joseph P. Ledvina, who resigned as
i clerk of circuit court to enlist in the
navy last spring was in the city last
week. He is now engaged in discharge
work at Great Lakes station. He says
h that only two Manitowoc county boys,
George Seitz and Frank Maley, have
been discharged there to date.
Young men In uniform are coming
1 in on nearly every train. They come
singly and in groups all with their
honorable discharges to show what
u they did when needed.