Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-04-30
HE MAKES THE SACRIFICE
ADOLPH OIUM OF CHRISTIANA
KILLED IN ACTION
Was Among First to Go From Vernon
COunty-NOtes Concerning Other
Soldier | ads

Soldier Lads
Adolph Oium, the oldest son of Mr..
and Mrs. Martinus 0ium was born in
Timber Coulee, town of Christiana on
May 6, 1898, where he grew up and
made his home. He was among the
/ first who were drafted in Vernon eoun-
I ty leaving for Camp Grant on October
3, 1917. He was in training at Camp
Grant for six months, being transfer
red to Camp Logan, Texas, in April,
/ 1913, from there to Camp Upton, and
/ in the latter part of May he was sent
! across for overseas duty, being first
class private in Co. c. 1872 Infantry
On October 10. 1918 he was killed in
action on the battlefield of France.
/ Adolph Oium was a noble and in
dustrious young man and his death is
but by the entire community where he
was known.
/ Sergeant Melvin Johnson Of Chase
burg has gone with his family to
Woodstock, Illinois, to work in the
/ Oliver typewriter works. He saw IS
months service in the quartermasters
corps at Camp Grant.
Sergeant Raymond Spellum is home
from Camp Holibird, near Baltimore.
/ On April 8, 1918, he enlisted in the
motor transport corps for immediate
I service overseas, but the orders of his
unit were changed and he was showed
into the biggest machine shop in the
world. When he left camp, $4,000
trucks were quartered there. A host OF
friends welcome Ray home.
A total of $141 ,2O7.45 has been ex-
pended by the state to aid families
of soldiers gone to war. B. J. Castle,
/ who has charge of that department,
announced that the number of fam
| lilies aided up to April g, this year,
was 689 and that the number receiv-
/ ing aid on this date was 351. During
| the part of the year 1917 that the law
was in force the aid was S2S ,272.20;
for the year 1918 it was SIS, 96711 and
SO far this year there has been ex-
pended $50, 468.45. The state aid has
been provided for a number of Vernon
county soldiers.
Carlos Tracy arrived home from ov-
erseas, having received his discharge
at Camp Grant. He was in France 13
months, but failed to be in any of the
battles participated in by his regiment
the old Third Wisconsin, due TO an
injury he sustained soon after getting
into the trenches which caused him to
be in the hospital for months.-Hills-
boro Sentry.
The Sparta Herald states that the
greater number of the soldiers who
have been stationed at Camp Robinson
have received discharge from the SER
vice. Of the $50 men who were there
about rs remain. Civilians, 100 in
number, are now employed as guards
at the ordinance depot
Among the late arrivals home from
an army camp is Roddie Z. Haag, for
mer assistant cashier at the De Soto
State bank, who has spent the great
er part of his time in the army at
Camp Wadsworth, S. c., and who ar
rived here Tuesday.-De Soto Argus.
Harry A. Tullock of Genoa is among
! the overseas Vernon county soldiers
who arrived home from France of late.
He was one of the captains of the larg-
est group sent out from here about a
year ago, serving several months with
the allied armies abroad.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. K. Nuzum received
word that their son Ray had been
promoted to the rank of chauffeur at
Touris, France, with a nice increase
in salary. He said he. didn't know
just when he would get started home.
Later.-The parents have received
word that he has arrived safely in
New York.
Mrs. Mitchell Brown of Disco, Wis,
received a letter from her son telling
her that he had arrived in New York
from overseas, where he had been in
service over a year and had seen some
of the hardest fighting.
Leo Denning of Ferryville arrived
home safely from overseas last week,
looking as if army life agreed with
him.
Oscar A. Espeseth returned to his
home in st. Paul from overseas SER
vice. He was one of the presidential
guards on duty at the peace confer
ence.
Below is a copy of the verse which won first
prize 1.-THE Victory contest in Wisconsin:
| There's a flaming page in history
| Where our soldiers fought and bied;
There's dingy trail of darkness
Where the piundering fOeman filed,
For the boys whose lives were given
MinRle gratitude with tears;
For the boys who returning
Send your dollars with your cheers.
Be hero like the douRhboy.
| Be q worker, rot drOne.
| And wen seEf one splendid triumph
| With the ifth-The Victory Loan"
Harley J. Starrett, Grant County.