Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-06-18
HELP WAR HISTORY BOARD
LET EVERY SOUDIER FILL OUT
4 RECORD CARD
Every Man in Uniform Should Fur
nish Commission With A Com
plete Record of His Service

Some time ago l published list of
Vernon County's dead and wounded
soldiers. Through the kindness of
several friends / have learned of four
more gold star boys and seven wound
ed ones.
The dead. are, John T. Thompson
died, typhoid, France, March 1, 1919
Adolph Oium, killed in action, Octo-
Der 10, 1918. France. Reuben f. ia
cObson, died. Camp Lee, Va, pneu-
monia. Alf Jorgen Nicholson. West
by, died, Camp Grant, October IL,
1918, of influenza.
The wounded; Archie L. Nelson,
Readstown, wounded, shrapnel, Ar
gonne, October -, 1918. Albert Z.
DANES, gassed, November 9, 1918,
George r. Henry, wounded. shrapnel,
Verdun. Spencer F. Johnson, Ontar-
10, severely wounded August 2S, 1918,
in face, neck and shoulders. Eddie
Gorsline, Niroqua, wounded. Sergt.
Lester Silbaugh, wounded. Hans
Noe. Jefferson, wounded, July 10,
Chateau Thierry.
Thus we have probably at least %
dead from battle wounds, Is dead
from disease in Europe, Is dead from
disease in U. S. A., sc wounded and
gassed, and that is not all. We are
trying to get complete list of the
Vernon county boys and girls who
were engaged in this world war. 1t
looks like an easy job and yet i! is a
hard one. Many of the boys have
enlisted in Lacrosse, Racine, Monta-
ma, New York, and yet are Vernon
county boys. The draft board had
no record of those boys. The drafted
boys went away and enlisted; then a
lot of drafted boys We're rejected and
sent home from camp.
There is to be a great gathering
at Nnoqua July a, in honor of our
soldier boys and girls and we will
have a booth where we can obtain
the record of every soldier, and have
a card index filled out. The boys who
went late had cards filled partly out,
and these boys will want to have their
cards completed. The boys who went
first especially should have their rec
ords placed in the card index, which
should give the battles they were in.
Vernon county sent more than 1000
boys and girls away to the world
war. To the Red Cross it gave Amy
Bishop. who gave her young life;
Julia Otteson Flikke, Jane Butt, Fan
ME Silbaugh, and Clara Swenson. To
the Y. NJ. C. A., Amy Colt. And it
gave some of the best fighters that
the crack Prussian Guard ever fled
from. How the hundreds of soldiers
from Vernon county escaped with a
loss in battle deaths of only twenty
three is a miracle. The 32d Division
alone lost in battle dead 1898 men, or
5.92 e of the total battle dead over
seas. A lot of our boys were in the
33rd Division and fought with the
British before going to the Argonne.
We have no record of who those boys
were.
Unless the Vernon County War His
tory Commission gets in its work on
July 4, the future historian cannot tell
who the fighting men were who went
from this county Every member OF
the commission is ready to work hard
to fill out the cards that give a short
history of each soldiers work. There
are $50 cards partly filled out. The
drafted boys should see that these
cards are completed. Then we want
the enlisted men whose homes are in
this county to give us their record
Then there are the fathers and moth
ers of the fifty-three dead whom we
want to come and tell us all they can
about their sons who gave their lives
Let the fathers and mothers come pre-
pared to give US any information they
can about their sons, when they were
born, date and place of entering ser
vice, company, regiment, rank, where
trained, date of sailing etc. If they
are dead we want the date of their
death. We will have a long table al
the Park, perhaps under a big tent
and dozen skilled ladies and gentle
men trained for the work; we will de-
tain you only few minutes, it takes
four minutes to fill out card, and we
will not disturb the regular program.
If you "tale Norsk" or "parlez vous'
or "Deutsche sprechen" or speak Ital-
ian, we will try and be ready for you
for our force will be made up mostly
of College graduates.
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