The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-07-24
AFTERMATH OF WAR

Top Sergt Ed. Schwartz arrived
home Saturday with his discharge. lie
has been overseas over a year at
tached to the seth Blackhawk division.
Walter dip came home Monday. He
has been overseas eighteen months
serving in the motor corps.
The government is selling at prices
way below current market prices the
vast quantities of canned foods accum-
uated in view of the expected long
war that didn't materialize, and Mani
towoc has put in bid for three car
loads. The local sale will probably be
cash and carry, first come first served.
Mrs. Nina Grabo is in receipt of a
long letter from her son, Lieut.. Col
Bert Grabo from France, describing
visits to many of the important war
sectors Immediately after fighting
ceased, and also describing some of the
fighting which he witnessed. Col Grabo
has been in the regulars many years,
in the signal corps, as an expert in
balloon work When writing he was
expecting orders to return to America.
The U.C-97, captured German
submarine, is making a tour of the
Great Lakes cities and is scheduled for
stay at Green Bay on August and
4. Manitowoc has been making an eff
fort to have the U-boat stop here en-
route from Green Bay to Milwaukee.
Sergt. Clarence Alter OF this city,
who enlisted at Detroit in the motor
service two years ago has returned tt
his home here. He served eighteen
months in the hospital motor service in
France
Private Otto Jansky who has been
with the army of occupation at Trier,
Germany, since the armistice was
signed arrived at his home at Tisch
Mills last week.
NJ. j. McKeough, former local agent
of the Western Express company of
this city and who shortly after his re-
turn to this city from Superior last
year, enlisted in the Y NJ. G. A. over
seas service and was sent to New York
for special training and from there
sent to France, returned home Friday.
Upon his arrival in France, Mr. Me
Keough was assigned to his old line of
duty and for many months looked after
the forwarding of the =. NJ c. A.sup-
plies from the big docks at Bordeaux.
Almost all the Y. NJ. c. A. supplies
went through Bordeaux way and with
four others Mr.. Mckeough looked after
the starting of these goods toward
their destination,
During his stay overseas on his fur
loughs he visited many points of inter
est. He says that he knows Paris lik
a book and that it is some town. Nc
Keough arrived at New York Sunday
on the steamer Finstre and was re-
leased within a day after arrival He
visited at Newark, n. j., with his son
Milton a few days
Lieut.. Adolph G. Stangel of Mishicot
returned home this week. Lieut..
Stangel was commissioned from the
Fort Sheridan training camp and went
overseas almost Immediately. He was
on the fighting line almost during the
entire war and was awarded the CroX
de Guerre by the French government
for conspicuous service in action. he
saw his most strenuous times at Cha
teau. Thierry, ST. Mihiel and in the
Meuse. Argonne. He was wourded and
severity gassed. In fact f5w American
officers went through more OF the real
war than the Mishicot boy. After the
signing of the armistice he was with
the army Of occupation at Dierdorf on
the right bank OF the Rhine for four
months and then was assigned AS in
structor of agriculture at Beaune I'm
iversity
Corporal Joseph Kortas arrived at
his home in Newton Saturday. He
served sixteen months overseas in a
motor truck company.