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 19, 2023
1200 Howard Lawson Frans Co
1201 Clyde Samuel Kooser Sa
1202 Huber Powers Sewell Go
1203 Arthur M. Carpenter Go
1204 James Worth Tolin Go
1205 Thomas Patrick Graney Se
1206 Leland Daniel Strahm Sa
1207 Donald E. Cordon Go
1208 Glenn Albert Feldman Sa
1209 Clarence Warren Feek Sa
1210 Clyde Boggs Go
1211 Edwin Charles Porter Sa
1212 Leroy Edward Ruse Sa
1213 Albert Bernard Tanking Se
1214 Clarence E. Schmits Sa
1215 Cleon Joseph Morgan Se
1216 Albert Nicholas Wiltz Se
1217 Albert L. W. Rogers Se
1218 Floyd Albert Cox Sa
1219 Charles Joseph Carroll Ax
1220 Henry LaVerne Duryea Se
1221 Henry Alvin Simmons Ce
1222 John Milford Sherbon Ce
1223 Ralph Walter Sherbon Ce
1224 Raymond Aloysius Lierz Ba
1225 John I. Rottinghaus Se
1226 Arthur Calvin Clark sa
1227 Raymond Peter Hammes Ce
1228 Vincent Mathias Schmitz Ba
1229 George Harold Richard Go
1230 Edwin B. Ronnebaum Onei
1231 Lincoln Alanson Jones Go
1232 Charley M. Frey, Jr. Sa
1233 Lyle Allen Spring Be
1234 Gilbert C. Ridgeway Se
1235 Neal Kenneth Stalder Sa
1236 Richard T. Rilinger Ba
1237 George Earl Byrne Ce
1238 Louis Bonifas Grollmes Se
1239 Charley L. Pittenger Jr Go
1240 Morris Molineux Co
1241 Edwin Henry Wietharn Ba
1242 Louie W. Meyer Onei
1243 Albertus E. Wassenberg Se
1244 Vincent Benedict Henry Se
1245 Butler B. Hedrick Go
1246 Aubrey Wilson Kerl Se
1247 Dale A Brock Go
1248 Lewis Albert Carpenter Ce
1249 Leonard Morris Talley Ce
1250 Pat Gardner McKibben Ce
To be continued