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West Union Argo-Gazette
West Union, Fayette Co., Iowa Wednesday, 27
Jun 1917 Page 1 column one, two and six |
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Page 1 column one
WAR FUND EXCESS $350
Fayette County, Asked For $11,750
For Red Cross Service in France, Gives
$12,094
WEST UNION $1.50 PER CAPITA
Eden Township Gives $1500,
Oelwein $2354, Fayette $1000 - -
North End Over-Subscribes by $1700
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The brief but strenuous campaign for raising Fayette county's$11750
share of the Red Cross war fund ended Monday night in a big victory,
the fund being over subscribed by at least $350. The returns are not
absolutely complete, but it is known that the subscriptions, total over
$12,094. Of this amount $8433 was raised, in the north twelve
townships, in which the headquarters was at West Union. This part of
'the county was asked to raise $6,756, and made it over $8,400, thus
exceeding its apportionment by about $l,700. The south eight townships
raised $3660.81 of the $5000 apportioned to them.
The fund
raised in Oelwein reaches $2354.26. Oelwein is second only to West
Union. This city's subscriptions amounted to $2643, which is the
largest sum raised in any city, town, township, or town and township
combined, in the county. While one subscriber paid $100, several others
$50, a number $25, and scores gave $20 each, the smaller.subscriptions
came in by the hundreds, the boy clerks and girl stenographers pledging
from $4 to $10 each, to be paid out or their weekly wages. The $2643
subscribed in West Union represents subscriptions of an average of
$1.50 per capital which is 50 cents above the $1 per capita
subscription asked on the average throughout the United States. Eden
township (including Waucoma) subscribed $1500, which is at $1.25 per
capita, the second largest subscription in the county in proportion to
population. Fayette subscribed $1,000, although in the midst of U. I.
U.'s ambitious endowment campaign, and that with Lima's $200 will give
Westfield a total of$1,200. Pleasant Valley subscribed $836.25, most of
which was put up in about three-quarters of an hour at a meeting in
Elgin.
Since writing the above the claims of Waucoma and Eden
township to the banner for giving to the war fund have been brought to
our attention and are referred to in another place in this issue.
Bethel township appears to hold the banner for giving on the part
of the strictly rural townships.
The result is one of which the
patriotic people of Fayette county may well feel proud. The cause was
one that appealed to their hearts. No man or woman who has formed any
idea of the hardships of war, no one who stops to think that every
community will under the conscription law furnish boys to the battle
line in France to need the utmost relief the Red Cross can give, could
fail to be impressed with the duty and the privilege of consecrating a
few dollars to this cause. Wherever the conditions were properly put to
the people, there the response was liberal and prompt. That Fayette
county has oversubscribed its share, and that the north end of the
county went so far beyond what was asked, is a cause for pride arid
congratulation.
The meeting at the fair ground Sunday afternoon
was attended by an audience estimated conservatively at 3000 people.
The cars counted as they left the-ground numbered 442. The address was
by Hon. Charles E. Pickett of Waterloo, formerly congressman from the
Third district. Mr. Pickett went at length into the justification of
America for entering the world war, and held his audience attentively,
for he is a very eloquent and incisive speaker. He drew frequent
applause, made a strong impression, furnished his hearers food, for
much subsequent thought; and rendered the cause of Americanism in
Fayette county a great service. The committee was fortunate to secure
for this great meeting a speaker of Mr. Pickett's caliber.
Carl
Evans, president of the West Union chapter of the Red Cross, president.
W.J. Ainsworth of the county council of defense spoke briefly of the
needs of the war fund. The good music was by the Elgin and Hawkeye
bands and by West Union vocalists, Lyle Schwestka, singing two
patriotic solos, one accompanied, by the choir.
Large bulletin
boards were set up fronting the amphitheater, and E.R. Ballard was kept
busy lettering on them the names of Fayette county soldiers of this
war, and of the amounts raised up to that time by the various towns and
townships for the war fund.
War Fund Figures
The latest figures on the Bed Cross subscriptions by cities, towns, and
townships, according as they were divided up into geographical units
for this canvass, are as follows:
West Union, $2,643.
Eden
township, including Waucoma, $1,500.
Fayette, including part of
Westfield township, $1,000.
Pleasant Valley township, including
Elgin, $836.25.
Center township, including Randalia, $581.
Bethel
township, $490.
Windsor township, including Hawkeye, $356.38.
Banks township, $316.
Clermont township, including Clermont $301.
Lima, including part of Westfield, $200.
Union township, $143.
Illyria township, $110.
Auburn township, $40.
Dover township,
$27.
South Eight Townships
This forenoon's
report from the south end of the county gives the following amounts
totaling $3,660.81:
Oelwein, $2354.26.
Fairfield, $783.
Harlan, $214.
Fremont, $136.75.
Scott, $172 |
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SOLDIERS ROLL OF HONOR
Partial List of Fayette County Boys
Enlisted For Service
in the War
-- Know of Any Others? |
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Fayette county's "Roll of Honor" consists of the young
men who are enlisted to serve the United States in any capacity
connected with its fighting forces during the present war. No
compilation of this list for the county as a whole has been attempted
before, but in order to have the names of the Fayette county soldiers
before the big audience at the fair ground Sunday afternoon such a list
was prepared, and while it may contain inaccuracies and have omitted
some names, still it will do as a starter. If anyone anywhere in the
county detects errors or omissions in this list we shall be glad to
have the correct information. The list by townships as it appeared on
the big bulletin board Sunday afternoon was as follows:
West Union
Alfred Clapp, Jay Chapman, Leo Dwyer, Ronald
Finch, Leon Layton, Reed McIlree, Merrill Probert, Clarence Richards,
Archie Roberts, Horace. Schwestka, E.A. Schatz, Karl Schatz, Glen
Johnson, Lyle Borland, Rob Riedel, Obbie Jobe, Harley Hills:
Fayette
Earl Wolgamot, Ray A. Hague, Irwin Edie,
Harold Simar, Lloyd Hurmence, Paul E. Davis, Harold Littelle, Hadwin
McCann, Charles Parker, Edward Robbins, Emerald Robbins, Robert Tann
Windsor
Lou Busch, George Schultz, Theo Lenz,
Ralph Sorg, Ed Rogers, Arrie Westpfahl, Anson Dooley.
Harlan
Arthur Silka, Floyd Simpson, Walter Thiele, Howard
Payne, George Warnke, Stephen Journett, Roy V. Smith.
Fairfield
Weldon Burns, Harold Dunn, Mark Antweine, Charles
Crow, Lloyd. Frederick, Forest Powell, Clar.ence Sackett, Russell
Stokes,. F.A. Wright, Leslie Welch, James Wilson, Hoyt Young.
Illyria
Lerry Hinkle, Arthur Walters. x
Auburn
Ray Fels.
Pleasant Valley
Boies Capper, Robert Gehring, Walter Kohls, Ernest WhiteI.
Bethel
Bud Finch, Fred Thalman, Jr., Dan West,
George West.
Center
Harold Ashby, Carl
Ashby, James Bittle, Henry Jach, Ed Tripp, Kenneth Wilder.
Clermont
John D. Shipton, Millard Johnson, Bert
Cahalan, Orville Coffman, Olaf Hanson, Charles Gruver, Stewart
Buchanan, Francis Smith.
Eden
Hiram Lovrien,
La Verne Belding, Dewey Lovrien, Othmar Luce, Ronald Roberts, Othie
Finch.
Oelwein
H. Wimmer, S.A. Wolf, Robert
Wolf, A.E. Van Arsdale, R.S. Stephenson, Charles Strand, Fred Smith,
William Smith, Milo Schneider, Edward Serar, Bernard Schatz, Ahthur
Robinson, Leon Robinson, Logan A. Sleak, H.E. Rickey, William Peterson,
L.A. Merker, Paul La Vallette, George Mealey, Lyle Larghe, Frank
Larson, Bernara Little, Sabin Kelley, Sidney Loeb, Ben King. S.A.
Jones, R. Jennings, A. Graham, H. Hailperm, Charles Howell, Frank
Hanson, L. Hilsabek, Arthur Hillinger, Frank Higgins, C. Ferguson, J.C.
Giles, H. Gustafson, Allen Edwards, J.L. Dearhammer, M.S. Clark, E.E.
Deyo, R.E. Doty, A.B. Cameroon, J.A. Christenson, Henry Cleming, Ray
Cassidy, Max Crane, A.M. Bruce, C.H. Barnes, Martin Brinkman, Lewis
Barnes, T. Basten, N.A. Bruner, Ray Beck, Percy M. Allen |
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NOW FOR Y.M.C.A.
FUND
Army Branch Asks $175,000 From Iowa,
$3,000
From Fayette County -- Campaogn is On
BIG MEETING
TOMORROW NIGHT
For Men Only, From North Twelve Townships, For
Organization --
Mass Meeting Sunday
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The campaign to raise $3,000 in Fayette county for the army Y.M.C.A. is
being organized in the county by A. Vincent Bennett of Des Moines, and
a meeting for men only with that purpose in view is to be held at the
courthouse at 8 o'clock tomorrow (Thursday) evening. At this meeting
men from, the north twelve townships of Fayette county are invited to
be present to take part in the organization work. It is also planned to
have a mass meeting in West Union next Sunday afternoon.
The
co-operation of citizens in every county in Iowa is needed at once to
raise Iowa's $175,000 fund.
The Young Men's Christian
association is "prepared by experience, approved methods,.and assured
resources to serve especially the troops in camp and field", and
because this organization "has demonstrated its ability to render a
service desired by officers and men", on April 15 President Wilson
signed an executive order giving official recognition to this movement
as a "valuable adjunt to the service."
From office, factory,
farm - from city and country 40,000 Iowa men are soon to be a part of
the U. S. army. Many are boys under twenty. In the new surroundings
temptations are many. Home-sickness is prevalent. Influences that will
help to hold the boys for clean living and the highest type of manhood
are vitally important at this time.
The army Y.M.C.A.
establishes buildings in the army training and prison camps in both
foreign and home war departments. It seeks to hold up high moral ideals
and to keep the men away from the evil influences which quickly
surround camps of this kind. The Y.M.C.A. shack or building affords a
homelike place for the boys, where they are given writing stationery
and a place to write, the latest magazines and novels to read, games of
all descriptions, entertainments of all kinds, a Victrola and a piano
to use. It is the work of the Y.M.C.A. to keep the boys occupied, and
above all to keep them as clean as when they left home.
Some Must Go—All Can Give
Fayette county's portion of the
state fundis $3,000. This money must be raised as soon as possible that
the work which has been begun in preparation for our immense state
training camp may not be retarded for lack of funds.
What It Does For the Boys
Judge C. B. Robbins of Cedar
Rapids, captain of Co. D, First Iowa infantry, writing from
Brownsville, said, "I wish to state that I consider the Y.M.C.A.
organization with the First Iowa brigade to be of very great value
indeed, to the men in almost countless ways, in providing, a club house
where the men can meet, facilities for correspondence, etc. The
institution is doing the greatest good among our Iowa boys here. I do
not believe that there could be an institution doing more good to the
boys than the Y.M.C.A. * * * is doing here. * * * I trust that the
Y.M.C.A. organization will continue its work as a great moral force
among the men."
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