Courier Tribune
24 Oct 1940
List Nemaha Serial Numbers for the Draft
Over 1600 names are in the County Roll
A Master List Will Be Chosen in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday to Determine Order in Which Local
Numbers Will Be Called
The Courier-Tribune prints today a list of names and numbers important to almost every home in Nemaha county. It is the list of men between ages of 21 and 36 who enrolled on Wednesday, October 16th, for possible service to their country, and with each man’s name, the county serial number which has been drawn for him by the local draft board.
The arrangement is by number rather than by names because numbers will be the important thing next Tuesday, October 29th, when a master list is to be drawn at Washington, D.C. to determine the order in which local numbers will be called. President Roosevelt will draw the first number.
The local drawing and listing was completed Tuesday except perhaps for a few straggling cards. The board officially posted the list yesterday and sent a copy to state headquarters. The Sabetha Herald and Courier-Tribune joined in setting the large amount of type necessary and the list is printed in the two papers. TO avoid ruining the type to still greater length, a key system is sued to abbreviate names of towns. Where two letters make the name of the town clear, only two are used. Seneca becomes Se; Sabetha Sa; Corning Co; Centralia Ce; Goff GO; Wetmore We; and Baileyville, Bern, Kelly, Havensville, Soldier, Pawnee, Axtell and other points are similarly abbreviated. Oneida and Onaga addresses required the use of Onei and Ona. The Nemaha County list follows:
continued from July 15, 2023
951 Lee Rooney Sa
952 Benedict Jos. Feldkamp Se
953 Marion Lawrence Potter Ce
954 William M. Hazlett Se
955 James Ivan Woolsoncroft Ce
956 Elmer F. Bartram Sa
957 Carroll R. Woolsoncroft Ba
958 Floyd Leonard Coe Co
959 Carson Ray Hinton Onei
960 James Francis Cromber Ban
961 Walter Lee Hess Sa
962 LeRoy Frances Becker Ce
963 Wayne Hugh Griffith Se
964 Carl E. Baumgartner Go
965 Eli Edward Hartter Sa
966 Albert Rees Picton Sa
967 Glen Loyd Heiser Ce
968 Robin Rice Domer Ce
969 Glenn F. Nightingale Ce
970 Joy Lee Meyer Onei
971 George E. Erchelberger Sa
972 Samuel Dale Fund Go
973 Henry Hand Sa
974 Silverius Schmitz Ba
975 Robert Deveign Jack Sa
976 Brice Edwin Peck Sa
977 Evert William Meeker Se
978 Alvin Floyd Clemens Ce
979 Neil E Bestwick Sa
980 Dale Dauster Murdock Ce
981 Lawrence Gilbert White Ce
982 Garwood David Barrett We
983 Roy Howard Rake Se
984 Raphael Joseph Lackey Ce
985 Glen Maxwell Nelson Co
986 Forrest Smith Ayers Sa
987 Wendell B. Petersen Go
988 Louis Alphonse Buessing Ba
989 Lawrence Vincent Macke Ba
990 Joe F Rethman, Jr Co
991 Harold William Schleif Co
992 Lawrence John Holthaus Ce
993 Archie Orin Ward Se
994 William Harold Long We
995 [Herm]atius F Sudbeck Se
996 Tim Brunner
997 Carl Adolph Lortscher Be
998 George B. Hunninghake Ba
999 Raymond Henry Dagu[s] We
1000 Gregory Henry Holthaus Se
to be continued
