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 12, 2023
1151 William James Baker Ce
1152 Henry Francis Hermesch Go
1153 Cyril Wilhelm Onei
1154 Emil Frank Lechner Se
1155 Robert John Guth Ke
1156 Chester Amos Kinsey Se
1157 Aloysius Jos. Boeding Co
1158 Clifford L. McKinsey Co
1159 John B. Rethman Se
1160 Harold Collier Go
1161 Arthur Frederick Klahr We
1162 Francis Flaherty Ja
1163 Howard Freeman Bell Onei
1164 George Frank Koch Ba
1165 Darwin Earnest Nell Sa
1166 Terrance Hurst Cox Co
1167 August Frank Shump Sa
1168 Harry Lloyd Wherry Sa
1169 Roy Elmer Leman Sa
1170 Lyle William Myrick Sa
1171 Bernard Edward Hittle Go
1172 Fred Earnest Walters Ce
1173 Joseph F. Steinlage Ce
1174 Ralph John Myers Ce
1175 Lawrence T Fangman Se
1176 Arthur Emile Dodd Ce
1177 Russell John Mishler Sa
1178 Kenneth N. Carpenter Sa
1179 Andrew J. Haverkamp Se
1180 Edwin Henry Holthaus Se
1181 Lester Harold Hartter Be
1182 Vernon Severt Brack We
1183 Charles Joseph Liening Se
1184 Gerald E. Carpenter Sa
1185 Alvin Henry Koch Ba
1186 Paul Laufs Norton Ce
1187 Elm’r W. McConnaugh’y Go
1188 Weir Milford Neff Be
1189 Edward B. Schmitz Ba
1190 Van L. McDaniel Jr We
1191 Merlin Chester Myers Se
1192 Albert S Hay, Jr So
1193 Ralph Edwin Most Se
1194 Paul John Olberding Se
1195 Harold Clowe Se
1196 Marvin Emil Hartman Se
1197 Donald E. Tibbetts Be
1198 Clarence LeRoy Smith Be
1199 Raymond Leo Becker Ce
1200 Howard Lawson Frans Co
To be continued