Bird Island: Thomas Culley, Nicholas Jacoby, Joseph Kreuzkemper, Louis J. LaFontaine, Peter M. LaFontaine, Arthur T. Ledin, Walter Leonard Melquist, William Otto Nenow, Leo J. Puls, Melvin Arthur Tollifson, Willie Winters Buffalo Lake: Leslie Antonsen; Ervan Carlson; Charles… Read More
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Posted: February 18, 2019 by Renville County Historical Society
A Letter from Mrs. Melville Cummings, Hector Mirror, 11-7-1918
A letter from Mrs. Melville Cummings of St. Paul contains the following news which will be of interest to many Hector people: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cummings and baby have returned to St. Paul and are living at… Read More
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Posted: February 15, 2019 by Renville County Historical Society
Letter From Theodore Weltsch, Morton Enterprise, 11-8-1918
Camp Grant, Ill., Oct. 1918 Dear brother Joe, Received your letter today and was very glad to hear from you. I am over my sickness if I don’t get another one as it is awful damp out and… Read More
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Last Updated: February 18, 2019 by Renville County Historical Society
Letter from Fred Haas, Morton Enterprise, 11-8-1918
Overhere, Sept. 27, 1918 Friend Mr. Frantz, I thought I would write you a few lines. I am O.K. and enjoying life over here. How is everything back home? Everything is fine and dandy. Suppose you wonder why… Read More
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Posted: February 14, 2019 by Renville County Historical Society
Letter From John, Morton Enterprise, 11-8-1918
Somewhere in France, Oct. 7, 1918 Dear Folks, Well how are you getting along by this time? I suppose Pa is plowing to beat the band now. When are you going to thresh? You wrote the last time… Read More
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Last Updated: February 18, 2019 by Renville County Historical Society
Letter From Ralph Heaney, Olivia Times, 11-7-1918
September 11, 1918 Dear Folks: We moved and are now in a small village in France and I think we will stay here awhile anyway I hope so as I like it. This village is nearly a large… Read More
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Last Updated: February 18, 2019 by Renville County Historical Society
Letter From Ed Wallner, Renville Star Farmer, 11-7-1918
Somewhere in England, October 11, 1918 Mr. W. A. Reid, Renville, Minn. Dear Friend Reid: It makes me blush with shame to think I did not write to you before this time. Being awful busy in military life,… Read More
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Posted: February 8, 2019 by Renville County Historical Society
James Dobeas, Rainbow Division World War I
Published in the December 13, 1918 edition of the Buffalo Lake News It is related that James Dobeas, a Henryvill boy, who is at present receiving treatment in an army hospital in Baltimore, took part in a memorable… Read More
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Posted: January 18, 2019 by Renville County Historical Society
LARGE DRAFT ENTRAINS TODAY: Half of Number to go to Camp Cody and Balance to Camp Forest, GA – Late Registrants Included. Olivia Times 10-24-1918
No Public Reception Will be Held on Account of the Influenza Epidemic. Bird Island: Lloyd L. Battershell, Warren J. Gallery, Carl Heinzelman, Vincent Hurley, Engvald Johnson, Frank R. Karp, Edward A. Kenning, John Neumann, Gust Olinger, Leonard Selle,… Read More
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Last Updated: January 18, 2019 by Renville County Historical Society
Draftees left for Camp Grant, Ill. leave on September 6, 1918: Listed in all the Renville County Newspapers
Bird Island: Thomas Culley, Nicholas Jacoby, Joseph Kreuzkemper, Louis J. LaFontaine, Peter M. LaFontaine, Arthur T. Ledin, Walter Leonard Melquist, William Otto Nenow, Leo J. Puls, Melvin Arthur Tollifson, Willie Winters Buffalo Lake: Leslie Antonsen; Ervan Carlson; Charles… Read More
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Posted: January 17, 2019 by Renville County Historical Society
“Sandstorm Division” Hector Mirror 10-31-1918
Word was received in Hector the past week that the “Sandstorm Division,” long stationed at Camp Cody, had at last arrived over seas and we’ll be they were a happy bunch. To this Division belongs seven Hector boys… Read More
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