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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1918)
en in Action on the 5 FaB Teil of Their Under Fire. büadfoMod. vaeh number draftn u recorded, tbe flmt deciding which sériai number in svery district in th* county ikould b« ths flm t ordsr num ber for tbe drawing. Fer instance President Wilson drww eut tbe ftrst GERMAN LINE IS BROKEN RV DRAWN One night after a long march np front I bad to go to bed awfully tired (now this is just to show you bow tired a fellow gets) end a shall drop ped unusually dose to us and killed s couple of boys. And mind you, I never woke up once. It happened sbont as far as from our boose across to Camilla's bouse. There wee a Red Cross man awake so 1 was not bother- Coos county, would be tbe fleet man called to tbe colors from this county, if otherwise found quaUflg. The person' having that number— 322—in all other districts in tbe county, perhaps 6,000 hi all, would be first in bis district. And tb t next number, wfaish was drawn by Vies President Marshall, being I0S7, would also apply in ersry district haring ns many registrants as that, throughout all o f tbs MOO or more. So on# draw ing at Washington Monday was really Crowder whispered to tbe President that in bio ease tbe blindfold, always won» by those drawing numbers, W uld be dispensed with. Hr. Wilson said ho thought it would be better to make no exception in his ease, so tbe blindfold, made from h »Up of cloth that covered a choir used in tbe signing of tbs Declaration of Independence, was adjusted ns the President approached tbe Cowl. Tbe crowd applauded as number 322 woe announced and the Prosidont re turned to bis saet to watch tbs re mainder of tbe opening ceremony. Only the first 100 members were flashed to tbe country by telegraph. Because of the tmprecticabffity at tel egraphing sU of tbs 17,000, tbe Asso ciated Press bod bean asked to. refrain flreni sending more than 100 numbers. Tbs complete master lists will be mailed ns soon ns tbs drawing Is arm to district draft boards. O f ths first 100 numbel«, only M wars below 3323, bat they placed the following Coos county men at the head of our Hat, and four CoquiDe men ere among the number, three hav ing bean drawn in succession: Order No. Name Serial No. 1— Qeo. F. Robison, Arago, 822. 2— Paul Krankle. Powers, 1027, 3— Ben Kyberg, North Bend, 1007. *—Charles W. Hart, Mfld„ 2781. 6— Amass W. Bigelow, Myrtle PL, 438. •—C. F. Johnson, Parkorsburg, 90«. 7— Simon Erickson. North Bebd, 1628 8— Mobley R. Welteh, N. B. 1240. • —Victor Alto, Easts Ido, 1907. 15— Wm. F. Neal, BroadbenL *0. 11—Jos. J. Otto, North Bend, 1266. lfl—Clare A. Roes, Marshfield, 2182 13—Laflsyette F. Crouch, Hauser, 789 1«—Jno. T. Sperry, Myrtle P t, 686. 16— Harold L. Tuttle, CequiUe, 21». 18— Edward W. Lorens, Coquille, MR.' 17— Chas. H. Mansell. Coquille, 72. 1#—Floyd J. Cole, Maerkfleld, 881 19— Howard L. Barkloy, Myrtle PL, " i’u