Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-01
SACRIFICE MADE
BY 81 SOLDIERS,
SONS OF MOLINE
PI0w City Pays With Its Blood to
World War During Last His
tOric Twelve Months.
THIRTY-FOUR BOYS WOUNDED.
Over Two Thousand Indicted in
Service Besides Hundreds VINO
Voluntarily Enlisted.

the world for the vindication of de,
moCracy and for the preservation
of liberty during The historic l.
months past. Rock Island county
as a whole, laid 81 men upon the
altar of freedom.
! Across the mighty Atlantic more
/ than 5000 miles away, beneath the
| sod of fair France and destitute
/ Flanders lie buried the majority
| OF the Moline men, Americans who
persisted III b title. The remaining
! lives were sacrificed by Moliners
who died while in the service in
environments in this country.
/ Thirty-four Moline boys were
/ wounded by tie bullets beiched
/ forth by the Prussian guns and l.
from the remainder OF the upper
part of the county. This cannot be
/ stated with absolute positiveness
/ since only those carried by press
| dispatches have been listed.
Moline played a remarkable part
in the winning of the world war
| Its complete contribution ranks
| with the most magnificent n the
| entire country. 1t gave its sons in
| liberal numbers, it literally plung-
ed over the top and beyond in every
| patriotic or cha. liable campaign
conducted, it backed up the men OF
| the firing lire with maximum pro
! duction in the factories, it gave
some of its abIHst executives to sd
| the government II Spt ading up pro-
ductiOn, and il gave men to COM
mand.
How many men from this city
were in the military service it is
beyond power to state. However,
some conception can be gained
when it is shown that 2,176 were
indicted and sent to mobilization
camps by the Moline draft board,
which exercises jurisdiction over
county. Spurred on by patriotism
hundreds of men voluntarily gave
their services.
Directing the activity of the Mo-
line draft board were c. C. Sloan,
John H. Coburn and II. A. Jansen.
The efficient sta f of clerks and stem
ographers under the supervision
of Miss Alice Westberg, chief clerk,
are worthy of greatest praise. In
Guiding all registrations, the rec
ords of a total of 14.2S5 men were
handled by the Moline board.
Factories Do War Work.
Practically every industrial,
plant in Moline and East Moline,
either directly or indirectly, turned
its producing capacity to the dis
posal of the government In these
factories worked Moline's men and
women. expending every ounce of
effort and energy in order to avert
a single moments delay.
Then the factories proffered their
most Capahle administrators to the
service of tie government George
Peek, LiSutenant Colonel George
Mixter, Allen II. Head, of the Deere
interests, Lieutenant Colonel Rob-
ert Lea, of the Moline Pillow COM
pany, include soLie Of the factory
heads aiding in producing of gov
eminent goods.
The women in the homes played
role of inestimable value. They
saved, they conserved and they
generously gave of their time to
the Red Cross. The factory girls
organized themselves into a patri-
otto league in order to secure
greater results. Even the school
children entered intellectually
into the spirit of the paramount
task which lay before this nation.
They formed Junior Red Cross or
ted war fund, they planted gardens,
and canned their products.
And in the year, Moline supplied
important government advisory
posts with men. Henry Grib ,
worked on the war construction bu-
reau, Or. ". z. Taylor as food adj
ministra tor, and on the farm board.
and f. W. WoOdcocA as chairman
of the Returned Soldier COM
mittee of the National Security
league.
Then Moline furnished men to 20
forth to attend to the spiritual and
recreative needs of the fighters.
Rev Walter Tillberg went to camp
Logan as camp pastor, Father D.
F. Monahan, chose the navy as his
field Of ende2vor.
Rev. Fl. s. Wiling sought France
W r. Harper, educational secre-
tary of the Moline Y. M. C. A., IN
dertoOk Y war work, as did Rev.
r. Wilbur Babcock. and Clyde Dix
on. In addition to these two nurses
were contributed in the year,
Misses Kate L. Yourex of the Mo-
line high school and Clara Clauson.
The greatest portion of Moline's
share was paid with blood. Here
are the men who made the supreme
sacrifice: Roy Dixon, Otto Glad
man, Jerome Bierce, John f. Nor
gan, C. W. Jackson, Harold Boaden,
Carroll T. Rankin, Corp. Otto B.
Sells, Nels Johnson, Gottlieb Marke,
The wounded:
Moline-Lieutenant Harry Bar
Der, F'lorent Geert, Lieutenant Will
lard n Hill, Earl Huntley. Lieuten-
ant B. F. Ogden, Sergeant Clement
Carroll. Corporal David Duns-
worth, Crate ". Ellison, Emil Wei
Eaert, Elmer Ransom, Lowell Peter
son, G. T. Hull, A z. LiIliman,
Cooper, Elmer Seaberg,
George Berglund, August Gallant,
William E Axelson- Eric Thun-
berg, Walter Williamson, John
B1fxt, Earl AIDE, Fritz Bergs!ronn,
Sergeant Isadore Olson. G. W. Rex
road, Socrates Ellison, Arthur Gus
tus, Sam Trachtenberg. Emil Nave,
Rene GeTsbieck, PM Leppins,