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 August 5, 2023
1101 Leonard Lee Roy Boyse Co
1102 Paul Christopher Ehlers Sa
1103 Vernon Art Wittmer Onei
1104 LeRoy August Ritchie Ce
1105 Henry F Tegtmeier, JR Be
1106 Philip Irven Edelman Sa
1107 Francis Julius Droge We
1108 Virgll Milton Ralston Sa
1109 Cale Lester Althouse Sa
1110 Ronald E. Spicklemier Ce
1111 Thomas Wm Mohringer Go
1112 Bernard Jas. Heideman Ax
1113 Edwin Frank Brucken Ba
1114 Lawrence Jos. Grollmes Se
1115 Mac David Bowen sa
1116 Leslie Kenneth Wright Ce
1117 Edward L. Heinen Se
1118 Roy Everet Marx Ce
1119 Leonard H. Grollmes Se
1120 Leo John Schmidt Ba
1121 Aloysius Albert Deters Ba
1122 Wilbur Brouhard Sa
1123 Aloysius Peter Kongs Co
1124 Harry Kenneth Meers We
1125 Richard K. Thompson Sa
1126 Howard Bartels Harms Se
1127 Paul Art Nightingale Co
1128 Elmer Taft Keck Ce
1129 Jacob John Heinen Ce
1130 Donald Eugene Little Ce
1131 Raymond Royal Burns Co
1132 Leonard H. Hammes Ba
1133 Eddie E. Schoonover We
1134 Ruben Fred. Lehmann Sa
1135 Kenneth Dale McKee Go
1136 William W. Ralston Sa
1137 Barney Fred Rethmann Ce
1138 Lester Gerald Crouse Co
1139 Floyd M. Eichelberger Sa
1140 Virgil Evan Brown Sa
1141 Dale LeRoy Mishler Sa
1142 Matthias Joseph Lierz Se
1143 Ernest Evern Grimm Sa
1144 Marvin LeRoy Isaac Sa
1145 Carl Fred Schmelzle Se
1146 John Leonard Smith Go
1147 Clarence F. Melcher Ce
1148 Emil C. Strahm Be
1149 Hubert L. Stallbaumer Se
1150 Martin Owen Ford Be
To be continued