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 Sept 30, 2023
1501 Benedict L. Holthaus Se
1502 Francis Lloyd Savage Co
1503 Melbourne M. McAferty Co
1504 Lloyd LeRoy Niccum Sa
1505 Donald S. Struck Sa
1506 Clement Joseph Koelzer Ce
1507 William A. Gugelman Be
1508 Donald Kirk Piper Se
1509 Edmund George Becker Se
1510 James F. Bigalow Ba
1511 Lawrence John Shump Sa
1512 Martin J. Rucker Sa
1513 Roy Lee Bronaum Sa
1514 Raymond Earl Tailey Go
1515 Alva Melvern Meade Ona
1516 Alvin Francis Huber Be
1517 Merle Leon Gugelman Be
1518 Russell Albert Coe Co
1519 Loren Wayne Bloom Co
1520 Albert G. Osterhaus Onei
1521 Raymond J. Vandervort Go
1522 Lynn Eugene Allen Onei
1523 John Bernard Holthaus Go
1524 Charles M. Wempe Se
1525 Charles H. Meisner Sa
1526 Charles Henry Adams Ce
1527 Benedict Rottinghaus Se
1528 Wilbur Summer Spiker Sa
1529 Allen Louis Gilbert Sa
1530 William L. Stephens Co
1531 Philip Edw. Feldkamp Se
1532 Emmanuel S. Dekat Sa
1533 Alvin Frank Boeckman Se
1534 Wilfred Thomas Smith Se
1535 Efton Lymon Baker Se
1536 Vincent L. Gudenkauf Se
1537 Alvin Harry Herrmann Sa
1538 Edwin Jos. Haverkamp Se
1539 David Augest Grimm Sa
1540 Nathan William Grimm Sa
1541 Cedric Jay Moohead Sa
1542 Byron Augustus Yost Sa
1543 Dale Deyo Ayers Sa
1544 Robert Lee Jessee Ce
1545 Ernest Oscar Luckert Sa
1546 William R. Karnowski Ce
1547 Edwin A. Ronnebaum Ba
1548 Carl S. Krotzinger Go
1549 Fred E. Busenbark We
1550 Humbert Chas. Huerter Ke
to be continued