The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-03-27
AFTERMATH OF WAR

Charles earle. son of Capt. Carle OF
the local police force, also appears IN
the photograph of President Wilson's
London guard mentioned last week.
All the records of the local exemp-
tion board must be in readiness by
March 81 for delivery to the federal
transportation company. The board
does not know whether they are going
to Madison or Washington The ques-
tionnaires and other records will fill
30 wood cases. The board has orders
to close shop.
LATER--The records were sent on
their way TO Washington yesterday.
10 the first call there we're 2ll2 men
registered in the Manitowoc district.
There were added 302 who became Il
years OF age after the first registration.
The third call for men from 81 to DO
brought 3l58 registrations, a total OF
5572 The other district was about the
same. 1t is estimated that there were
about 100 drafted men in the service
from the county. There were also
about Is Manitowoc county volunteers
in Co. II which left early, and about
200 voluntary enlistuents in the navy,
marine corps and other branches.
L. w. Ledvina has been commission
a rank
corresponding with second lieutenant
in the army. He is attached to the
paymaster's department and it is eX-
pected that he will stay in the service
He enlisted while city attorney here.
Private Edward Wilfer, 165th Inf,
Rainbow division, was home for visit
last week and returned to Camp
= 'r further treatment of his
>~~d at Argonne wood,
-. w.. uarrre of he American
troops. He went through the st. Mi
hiel drive without a scratch but was
put out permanently in the Argonne.
George Sleeper, Jr., came home TO
Two Rivers in December on fur
Tough. Hostilities having ceased
George decided that Uncle Sam did not
need him badly any more and so he
forgot all about the army. The chief
of police, upon advice of the federal
authorities, took the absent minded
warrior to Fort Sheridan last Friday.
The country is still at war legally and
Sleeper is technically guilty of deser-
ton. The extreme penalty is firing
SQUAD tbut : few Y'ee,Ss or months is
all they have been doing out in these
circumstances.
Manitowocs quota of the fifth loan,
the "Victory" loan, will be about Sz'-
600 900. The organization will be the
same as in previous campaigns. Chair
man George Wits of the local organ
ization and S. T. Pratt, publicity man,
were at a conference at Chicago last
week where Secretary of the Treas
ury, Carter H. Glass, explained the
new loan The campaign will be
launched in April.
Corporal Herbert Nelson, who left
here early in the war with Company
H, sailed from Southampton, England
on March Is. Besides his military rec
ord he is bringing bride won in Eng
land. He was married on Dec 8, 1918
to Gertrude Evelyn of Southampton,
granddaughter of celebrated British
naval officer, Captain Tupper.
The American Red Cross canteen at
Brest, France, where Annabelle Ander-
son of the town of Centerville, is one
of thirty workers has been designated
by COMMANDMENTS Pershing as
the Finest" of the American canteens
in Europe.
Henry Strouf, former town of Glib
son boy, was killed at Argonne Forest
on September 29th last. Sergt Chas.
Beidler, comrade of Stroufs and
haling from the same town, Stanford
Montana, has written telling details OF
the soldiers death. He was struck
with a machine gun bullet between the
eyes and was killed instantly. At the
time he was leading a squad over the
top.