Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-07
BOYS IN q. 5. SERVICE

is at Newport News.
John Dingee has wired his parent
that he has arrived in this countr,
at Hoboken, on Friday.
Charles Edmonds, who had been a
home for the holidays, departed fol
the Great Lakes on Thursday.
Lieut.. Harold Sargent of Amigo
was killed on the 18th of November
the day the armistice was signed.
Will Spencer returned home from
Camp Grant on New Years Eve
| having been mustered out of service.
Lieut.. George Bird writes home thai
he is in the best of health and his
work enables him to see much Of
France.
Lieut.. George Goetzman, who is in
the U. S. navy dental department al
Newport News, is visiting at his home
in Wausau.
Edward Silbernagel has sent WORD
to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Silbernagel, that he had arrived safely
in this country.
Joseph Held has returned home
from Indianapolis where he has been
in the u. S. A. Medical Dept. He
has received his discharged from SER
vice.
A letter from Franklin Pardee, who
has been with the engineer corps OF
the U. S. army in France for year
past, was received on New Years day
He is well.
Ober Forsmo, seaman on the U. S.
S. Wyoming, is at home on a brief fur
Tough. He was aboard when the Ger
man fleet was surrendered, and wit
messed the big event.
Lieut.. c. D. Gunderson, who was
badly wounded in France, spent sew
eral days in Wausau the past week.
He has sick leave of thirty days
He departed on Friday.
Irving Puchner is now an ensign
in the U. S. Navy, having trained
at Municipal Pier, Chicago and Pei
ham Bay, N. Y. He is a son of Mr..
and Mrs. A. w. Puchner of Edgar.
Jack Burt, Mark Gearhart, J. N
Manson and others write home from
France that they are enjoying life
"over there" and are well, but have
a desire to be returned to the U. S.
Edward Buchmiller, who has been
at Camp Leach d. C. received his dis
charge on Jan. 3rd, and he is again
at Marshfield. Mr.. Buchmiller was a
resident of Wausau for several years.
Private John Abel, who has been at
Camp Hancock, Ga, has written his
mother, Mrs. John Abel, that he had
been transferred to Camp Dodge, Des
Moines, Ia.,i where he expects to be
mustered out of service.
The following soldier boys of Wau-
sau have been mustered out of ser
vice from Fort Worden, Wash: Wal
ter Tress, Conrad Teshke, Geo. Zieg-
Ter, Edwin KlochZiern, John Wendorf,
Wiebain Rohr, and Ludwig Toczewski.
Word was received from Jennings
Alexander on New Years day, the
first one in about two months; he
states that he was still in the hospital
when the letter was written. He sus-
tanned a sprained ankle while in ac-
ton.
Rex Munger, who is radio electric
ian in the u. S. service, and who is
now on the ocean, sent a wireless to
his home in Wausau, which reached
here on New Years Eve. The message
was received at Key West and for
warded to Wausau.
Roland Messing, in service in the
quartermasters' department in Langley
Field, Hampton, Va, was a furlough
visitor at the home of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. C. Messing, leaving
for his camp again Monday evening.
The following named Marathon
county fighting men are among the
the past week: G. ]. Suffer, of Athens
and Louis Keinhoefer of Rockville,
died of disease in France; Grant w.
Clark of Wausau, died of wounds in
France.
Orville Hoff arrived home last Fri
day for few days visit with his par
ents during a brief furlough Orville
has lately returned from Eastleigh,
Eng, where he was stationed for a
time and had some interesting anec-
dotes to relate to his friends. He is
in the -Mosinee Times,
Corp. E. A. Olson of Wausau; VIM.
Grabowsh and c. A. Parker of Most
nee all severely wounded in action
in France; VIM. Gebelein of Rozell-
vile, died of wounds in action in
France; R. Wucherpfennig, of Edgar,
reported missing; o. e. Johnson,
Unity, wounded severely In action.
Glen Wescott who enlisted last sum-
mer in the navy in now one of party
weeks ago on long voyage for Uncle
Sam. They were shipped over land
from New Port News to Puget Sound,
Wash, there they will man a boat
and take her down the Pacific to the
Panama, thru the canal and up the
New York where the trip ends
Unity Register.
Corp. R. H. Kurth has returned
home from Camp Meigs, Washington,
ID. c., and is again with the Paper
Speciality Company Corp. Kurth left
Wausau on the 18th day of December,
1917, and went to- Jefferson Barracks,
Mo-, and later was transferred to
Camp Custer, Mich, and from there to
Camp Meigs. He was mustered out
on the 18th of Dec. and stopped few
days in New York and Philadelphia.
Thorwald Jensen, who is in the U.
S. navy, returned to his home in Wau-
sau on Friday, on a leave of thirty
days, at which time it will be necessary
for him to report in New York. 1t is
his first visit home during his two
years service. He has been in France
for the past eight months and was
there when President Wilson landed,
and it was day he will always re-
member. He returned to this country
on the ship George Washington"
WANT GERMAN CANON
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