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Volunteers Leave From Traverse & Leelanau
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for Camp Custer |
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Wednesday, 24 July 1918 |
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Northern Michigan dispatches largest increment of selects to Camp Custer Traverse City Record Eagle, Weds, 24 July 1918. Used with the permission of Traverse City Record Eagle Newspaper. Grand Traverse sends 66 and Leelanau sends 30 that comprise delegation. Customary street parade and patriotic demonstration attends departure. Several hundred Northern Michigan boys are on their was to Camp Custer today, to enter the National Army. The contingents are the largest Northern Michigan counties have ever sent. Entertainment took place at the Pere Marquette Station this morning, shortly after 10:40am, the special being held a few minutes awaiting the Northport train which was about 10 minutes late. This was followed by a street demonstration which was, as in the past, in the form of a street parade. In the line of march were reps of the sheriff's, police and fire departments. |
The Grand Traverse Auto Co, military band, the State Troops, GAR, Spanish-American War Veterans, boy scouts and then the selects. They were loudly cheered as they moved along the route from the court house to the depot. This contingent was vastly different than others having left here, it being composed, with but 3 exceptions, of farmer boys. They were a husky looking bunch, ready to serve in the field of wheat or the field of war. Today they are farmers--tomorrow they will be soldiers. This special train is taking the boys to Grand Rapids, where they will be transferred to a G. R. & I. special taking them to Camp Custer, arriving there tonight. Sixty-two Charlevoix boys joined at Charlevoix, picking up 34 Antrim County boys at Bellaire. Manistee contributed 240 boys. Plus many others from other areas. |
*In charge of delegation
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FROM GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY |
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| Asheliman, Carl | Edward R. Mahrgang |
| Ashmore, William E | Maxbauer, Albert |
| Bennett, Ray J. | *Maxbauer, Anthony |
| Bisard, Cleon E. | McKinlsey,William |
| Blermacher, Mathew S. | McTaggert, Anthony J. |
| Boyd, Edward M. | McTaggert, Tracey |
| Boehnlein, Aloysius V. | Morgan, Ray |
| Alvin W. Brackett | Neuzil, Frank T |
| Broderick, Harry L. | Pekarek, Michael |
| Brown, Theodore C. | Petrie, Nathan E. |
| Buchan, Howard I. | Pray, Hazen |
| Carothers, Michael | Pross, Frank F. |
| Cavitch, Edward | Reamer, Robert W. |
| Christopher, Roy | Rodes, Joseph J. |
| Clark, Frank | Rose, Glen M. |
| Clark, Ira A. | Roth, Frank E. |
| Clouse, George | Schuster, Christian |
| Cooper, Albert | Seeley, Robert A. |
| Cornell, Roy | Shoemaker, Desere O. |
| Dean, Clyde | Smith, Floyd M. |
| Dixon, Leslie | Smith, Joseph Jr. |
| Gary Earl F. | Stallbaum, Frederick J. |
| Giles, Burr | Steffes, George |
| Helfrich, Archie A. | *Stultz, Artie A. |
| Helfrich, Walter E. | Svec, Hynek |
| Homan, Charles A. | Taggert, Tracey |
| Hoy, Forrest | Tibbitts, Clinton L. |
| Johnson, George B. | Weaver, Harold C. |
| Karlovsky, Martin | Weber, Frank |
| Klinker, George | Widdis, Peter A. |
| Wesley Koch | Worm, Lawrence |
| *Arthur J. Kratochvil | Younglas, Nicholas A. |
| Logle, Wesley | Younglas. William |
| Lyman, James M. | |
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FROM LEELANAU COUNTY |
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Anderson, Geo. Wm. |
Johnson, John G. |
| Barmmar, August Carl |
Klein, John C. |
Blue, Walter Julius |
LaBonte, Philip |
Bourissau, Ben |
Laidlow, O.W. |
| Breightaupt, John R. | Larson, Edwin |
| Brow, Edmund | Lindtner, Henry J. |
| Brow, Julius | Martin, John |
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Cate, Edmund |
Mork, Charles |
| Couturier, George | Nelson, J. |
| DeLong, Clarence J. | Newman, Ira Lall |
| Depater, John | Plamondon, Orvilla J. |
| Garthe, Charles E. | Schultz, Amil |
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Hart, Delmar E. |
Thies, Wilbur H. |
| Johnson, John G. | Tunwell, Percy Edwin |
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Klein, John C. |
Wheeler, Thomas J. |
| Hart, Delmar E. | Williamson, Walter |
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