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ARE ON THEIR WAY
MEN OF FAMED RAINBOW DIVISION COMING HOME
LE MARS MEN ARE ON ROSTER
Community to Give Plymouth County Boys a Royal Welcome if Arrangements
Can Be Made. -Arrival Uncertain.
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The latest reports from the men of
the 168th Infantry who returned from overseas service with the Rainbow
Division last week and landed in New York City last Friday is that it
may be May 7 or 8 before they can start for Camp Dodge where they are
to be mustered out. As a consequence plans for home coming celebrations
in the towns represented in the 168th are being held up pending more
definite information. The success of such plans also depends
considerably upon the ability of the men from each community to get
discharged the same day, as it is difficult to get a man who has been
away from home two years facing death and hardships to delay a moment
his return home after he gets his discharge.
The official list of men who arrived on the Leviathan
includes the following named:
| Hugh G. Norris |
|
Struble |
| Anthony Ney |
|
Akron |
| Floyd Harvey |
|
Pierson |
| Wylie Satterlee |
|
Ireton |
| Roy Harvey |
Sergeant |
Pierson |
| Cecil A. Clarke |
|
LeMars |
| Linfred S. Tweedy |
|
Ireton |
| Clarence L. Bristow |
|
Merrill |
| Sylvester M. Fideler |
|
Remsen |
| Frank D. Neunaber |
|
Akron |
| Charles E. Ewin |
Corporal |
Seney |
| Charles P. Hammer |
|
Kingsley |
| Ben Thellen |
Mechanician |
LeMars |
| Carl F. Grothas |
|
Resen |
| Edward H. Schafer |
|
Akron |
| Albery L. Sawyer |
|
Ireton |
| Theo R. Strouse |
|
LeMars |
| Wm. H. Dramie |
|
Kingsley |
| Frank Edwards |
|
LeMars |
The three Ireton boys names are
included because they went from this county when Co. K was divided and
half its men attached to the 168th Infantry. A few Plymouth County boys
who went with the Sioux City companies are not included in the list
because they gave Sioux City addresses and are named in the list as
Sioux City men.
No local plans for welcoming this particular contingent have
been made, but if arrangements can be effected to have them come home
in a body from Camp Dodge the community will give a royal welcome. If
they cannot arrange to all be discharged the same day, they will be
included in the big home doming July 10 for all the Plymouth county men
who saw service during the Army and Navy during the war.
-source: LeMars Sentinel Newspaper, LeMars,
Plymouth Co., Iowa; Friday, 2 May 1919
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