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 29 2023
1051 Paul Marion Porter We
1052 Norvin Lee Griffith Be
1053 Henry Grady Stegall We
1054 Donald Seewell Arick Sa
1055 Harvey Andy Rokey Co
1056 Carl George Hess Onei
1057 Adolph Henry Boeckman Co
1058 Benedict Ferd. Steinlage Co
1059 Kermit Lee Davies Sa
1060 Lewis Edward Bryan Ce
1061 Jerry Olin Bauman Ce
1062 Floyd Raymond Eby Sa
1063 Donald Lewis Moler Ce
1064 Wilbur Henry Keim Sa
1065 Paul Jos. Stallbaumer Se
1066 Barrett Alf. Hamilton Co
1067 George Peter Lierz, Jr Se
1068 Raymond F Boeckman Go
1069 John Felix Wilhelm Onei
1070 Clark Merritt Reece We
1071 Bernard A. Stegeman Ona
1072 Elmer Edward Krebs Sa
1073 Leland Lyle Steele Co
1074 Fred Edward Amos Ba
1075 Robert C. Schneider Sa
1076 Lyle Eugene bennett Sa
1077 Waldo Allen Miller Sa
1078 Hiram Henry Hilbert Co
1079 Francis Nelson Jones We
1080 Rolland Frank Clarkson Go
1081 Earl Oscar Keeney Ona
1082 Vincent Peter Koch Ba
1083 Raymond Bernard Skoch Ba
1084 Harry Andy Matthewson Sa
1085 John Joseph Niehues Go
1086 Richard Mark Sourk Go
1087 Rex Gordon Snyder Sa
1088 Peter John Karnowski Se
1089 Joseph Mary Holthaus co
1090 John Harold Gruetze Go
1091 Roy Alvin DeGroff Ce
1092 William Arthur Hoffman Ce
1093 Albert Niehues Go
1094 Henry Bernard Niehues Go
1095 Marvin W. Broadbent Co
1096 Cyril Barney Rilinger Ba
1097 Wilbur Earl Hartter Sa
1098 Lester L Baumgartner Be
1099 Harold Ambrose Davis Ban
1100 Durward Dan Clements Se
to be continued