Source: Vincennes Morning Commercial, 30 Apr 1918, page 2 

MORE KNOX COUNTY MEN JOIN COLORS

Party of Four Colored Men Left Monday, Party of 103 White Men Will Leave Today, And Party of Thirteen Will Leave For Fort Thomas Wednesday.

A total of 120 Knox county boys will respond this week to the call to the colors. The first four of these left Monday, they being the first quota of colored men, the party going to Camp Taylor at Louisville, KY. They were: Newton Reed, of 319 North Fourth street; Jesse Thompson, 1023 North Thirteenth street; Frank Bates, 110 North Fourteenth street; and Alvin Johnson, 126 New Albany Avenue, this city.

During the afternoon another quota of white registrants reported to the conscription board at the Court House and were given the usual instructions. The quota comprised 102 men, but up to a late hour last evening, only 89 of the boys had reported, several being delayed by illness while one was suffering with a broken arm and several to whom the call had been issued were later deferred for work on the farm. The names of those who will be called from the alternatives to take the places of those who failed to report could not be announced last evening. The men who responded were given their supper at the Y. M. C. A. and they were to spend the night at the hotels, getting their breakfast at the Union Depot Hotel and leave for Camp Taylor at Louisville at 5:45 over the B. & O. S. W. The list of 103, to whom the call had been issued, is as follows:

Joseph Dahms, City.
Martin Moore, Bicknell.
Roy C. Gibson, Monroe City.
William H. Powers, Edwardsport.
Everett C. Burkhart, Decker.
Earl Wright, City.
Otto Schlomer, R. 8, City.
Ezra Summers, Edwardsport.
Carl Struckmeyer, Edwardsport.
Alonzo F. Coulter, Washington.
Fred Nixon, Tacoma, Wash.
Valenty Montevorke, City.
Ira Glenn, Bicknell.
Michael Conlin, City.
Otto Neal Burk, City.
John Brooks, City.
Frank Carrico, City.
Samuel Cibull, City.
Julius S. Meyer, Freelandville.
Frank Wright, City.
Louis Abbott, Bicknell.
George H. Miller, Indianapolis.
Dennis Davenport, Wheatland.
Theodore H. Cook, City.
Claude Messel, Decker.
Melvin Elkins, City.
Louis Baker, Freelandville.
Roscoe Stearns, City.
Virgil McClain, City.
Leon A. Jones, City.
Roy Foreman, City.
Oliver Longest, City.
Walter Lagenour, City.
Ottie Roach, Edwardsport.
George A. Leist, City.
Noah Marblestone, Bicknell.
Simon Fine, Bloomington.
Floyd Ward, Bicknell.
John H. Phegley, City.
Thurman L. Good, Emison.
Chauncey G. Carr, Wheatland.
Frank Henry, R. 1, City.
Stephen A. Kidwell, City.
Hugh F. Sexton, Bicknell.
John C. Rance, City.
Henry Neidreinghaus, Westphalia.
Fred C. Fremder, City.
Hildman B. Hintor, City.
Clyde Milam, Logansport.
William Espey, Bicknell.
Robert Lindsay, Bicknell.
Ralph McEntee, City.
Leander Smith, Cheyenne, Wyo.
Walter C. Newcomb, City.
Noah Williams, Bicknell.
Bert S. Leech, Monroe City.
Thomas Balgenorth, City.
Julian Alton, Jasonville.
Royal F. Mendenhall, Greenstown.
Joseph C. Dora, City.
Frank G. Weber, City.
Ralph Mieure, City.
Benjamin H. Keith, City.
John J. Draim, R. 2, Bicknell.
Eugene Donaldson, Bicknell.
Ebert Pennington, Wheatland.
Wesley Toney, Freelandville.
Davis F. Montgomery, Edwardsport.
Theodore G. Koenig, Freelandville.
Harry Wenser, Terre Haute.
Eddie Chastain, Bruceville.
Tony Airola, Bicknell.
Donald Shepard, Oaktown.
Albert Cook, Bruceville.
William T. Thuis, City.
Del Detrow, City.
Walter C. McFarland, City.
W. D. Hanlon, Mc??thury, N. Y.
Raymond Soden, Monroe City.
Everett Graham, City.
Alfred W. Newhouse, City.
Edward E. Fischer, Bicknell.
William Montgomery, Bruceville.
Herbert D. Smith, Terre Haute.
Mason O. Harbin, Wheatland.
Floyd Tougaw, Falucha, Ala.
Frank H. Thompson, Bruceville.
Ralph Tindal, Bruceville.
Clarence M. Townsley, City.
Ernest P. Ruble, Poilus, Ala.
Roy F. Kortge, Wheatland.
Oscar Hollingsworth, Bruceville.
Gillam E. Cockerham, Petersburg.
Henry Heinze, City.
Robert Fowler, Bicknell.
J. W. McKee, City.
Louis Godeaux, Bicknell.
John W. Leeds, City.
William D. Shugart, Youngstown, Ohio.
Rolla Carmody, City.
John Cross, City.
John L. Crow, Akron, O.
Theodore H. Harper, Bruceville.
Amos French, Camden, N. J.
Jack Frisz, City.
Cornelius Recker, City.
Chris I. Giescke, City.
Benson Watson, Freelandville.
George Reinhart, City.
Ray Foster, City.
Ernest L. Osterhage, Freelandville.
Thomas E. Valney, Bicknell.
Raymond Hill, Bruceville.
Charley W. Harrington, Bicknell.
William C. Sprinkle, Oaktown.
Walter Vinson, City.
Joseph E. Wellington, Bicknell.
Glenn F. Beal, City.
Alfred Graham, City.
Sylvester Reel, City.

Men For Fort Thomas

Another quota of white registrants, thirteen in number, are to leave for Fort Thomas, Kentucky, opposite Cincinnati Wednesday, May 1. They have been ordered to report at the clerk's office at the Court House, at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning and will leave for Cincinnati at 1 o'clock over the B. & O. S. W. Calls for this quota have been issued to the following 18 registered men, from which the 13 will be selected:

Micheal Bollona, 213 Wheatland Ave., Bicknell.
Taylor Combs, City.
John F. Speece, 223 W. Lyndale, City.
Ura Everett Gambill, Westphalia.
Nile Crow, 317 N. Second, City.
William M. Jenkins, 222 Indianapolis Ave., City.
John Miley, Bicknell.
Ira Puckett, 408 Alton, Bicknell.
Richard R. Cox, Wheatland Ave., Bicknell.
Alva L. Lewis, 1103 North Sixth St, City.
Joseph Carl Ross, Decker.
Roy Williams, 704 Hickman street, City.
Everett Osborn, West Fourth St, Bicknell.
Henry Louis Schmidt, 1429 Bayou, City.
Ernest Robb, Gen Del., New Orleans, La.
Leo Oliver Joice, 615 South Ninth, City.
Albert Martin Scott, E. Fourth St., Bicknell.
Richard O. Utter, 1839 Clifton Park Ave., Chicago, Ill.

- submitted by John Stangle