1919 Returing Servicemen Howard County IAGenWeb Project

1919 Returning Servicemen

A Most Successful Affair.

The third reception to our returning soldiers and sailors was held on Wednesday evening in the opera house, and like its predecessors was a grand success in every way.

At six o’clock about seventy soldiers and their guests and the Cresco Band sat down at a banquet in the Knights of Columbus hall served by the ladies of the Church of the Assumption, and that it was a fine one was the unanimous verdict of all who partook.

Following the banquet, the soldier boys marched to the opera house where a crowded house awaited them and gave them a rousing welcome as they marched in and took their places on the stage. Just here we wish to compliment the committee in charge of stage decorations, for on every occasion it is different and each time it is the best. E. A. Church acted as chairman and opened the meeting with an address of welcome, after which the roll was called, the following men answering as their names were read:

Rank

Name

Private	Baldwin, Ira
Bugler	Bastian, Frank H.
Mechanic	Bowers, Grant W.
Corporal	Evans, Lloyd E.
Sergeant-Major	Halweg, R. M.
Private	Herzeile, Victor L.
Private	Koch, Roy C.
Private	Laws, Harold V.
Private	Leitz, Albert
Private	Louden, Oscar E.
Lieutenant	Lyons, Gerald E.
Private	Malcomson, John A.
Cook	Mohs, Arnold I.
Private	Peters, Ernest
Private	Reihle, Frank W.
Mechanic	Roth, Ernest P.
Private	Ruesink, John
Corporal	Semerad, Stephen J.
Private	Steinmetz, Carl J.
Sergeant	Stevens, Jesse O.
Private	Vokaty, Albert
Private	Watte, Wm. W.
Private	Woodward, Harry

The list of Inductees was extracted from Library of Congress Micro-Film using: Chronicling America, transcribed and prepared for the Web by Bill Waters. This List was published in the
Cresco Plain Dealer Feb. 28, 1919, P-2, C-1