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To Carry a Musket in the Civil War Enlisted in Crestline. Very few Crestline people are aware of the fact that this city furnished to the nation the youngest soldier to ever carry a musket in America's Great Civil War. His name is James R. Thompson and he was born and reared in this city, and he lived here ten years or more after the close of the war. He married the daughter of Daniel Koontz east of Crestline and is the brother-in-law of of Abe Koontz, the well known contractor just west of the city. Thompson now lives in Ashley, Indiana and was calling on Crestline friends and family this past week. In company with Abe Seib he called at the Advocate office because it was the very room where the Advocate office is now located that Thompson enlisted in Company B of the 179th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Thompson tells and interesting story. He is now just 58 years old; will attain his 59th anniversary on July 18. It was on June 17, 1863, before young Thompson had reached his 13th year that he ran away from home and went to Mt. Sterling, Ky, where he enlisted with the Indiana Scouts. Just about that time they were taking anybody down in Kentucky and when young Thompson came along the recruiting officer looked over his specs at the kid, grunted once or twice, hurried through some slight formality, and Thompson was a Union Soldier. He served a year with the Scouts and was transferred to the 45th Kentucky Calvary. After a year and four months service in this regiment he was honorably discharged and came back to Crestline, just about that time |
Captain Lyman Parcher was organizing
company in Crestline and the fever was strong in Thompson to
get back into the fray again But it wasn't so easy this time.
Although he served two years and four months and had an honorable
discharge the recruiting officer said 15 years was too young
for a kid to leave home and he was compelled to get the signature
of his parents for his re-enlistment. Armed with the proper credentials
Abstracted from the
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Ohio's Boys in Blue Elect Crestline Veteran to Head Organization. Crestline Advocate Crestline's lone Civil War Vetean, 94 year old Thomas Ridenour,
will be commander of OHIO'S GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC having
been elected by his comrades during their 74th annual encampment
in Columbus this week. The past year Mr. Riddenour served as
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CRESTLINE BOY DIES IN FRANCE Walter Kime Succumbs to Disease in French Hospital-- Was Employed at International Mfg. Co. Here. _______________________ Crestline Advocate. Word was received Wednesday night by the relatives of Walter
G. Kime that he had given his life for his country in a hospital
in France on October 6. Young Kime is the first direct resident
to give his life in Europe. His death was due to an attack from
acute neuritis. Picture of Walter G. Kime in uniform appears in the 11-07-1918 Crestline Advocate Crestline Public library |
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Edward McWhirter Gave His Life While Fighting the Enemy in France Information Received at his home Last Tuesday Night. __________________________ Crestline Advocate While all the world is celebrating peace in the world war
brought by the victory of American and Allied Arms, sorrow entered
the home of Thomas McWhirter on East street in the Highland Addition
Tuesday night when a messenger came from the war department stating
that his son, Edward McWhirter had been killed in Action Abstracted from the 11-14-1918 Crestline Advocate Crestline Public Library. |
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Crestline Advocate Dorothy Arter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Arter, East
of Town, enlisted in the United States Navy as a yeoman and last
Wednesday, January 20, passed the extermination at Cleveland
and is now home on inactive duty as an apprentice seaman V10
U.S.N.R. Miss Arter expects to be called sometime in February
and will probably enter State Teacher's College, Cedar Falls,
Iaa, for indoctrination and training, after which she will be
sent to a coastal station for duty. |
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Crestline Advocate The first Crestline man to die in the war in Viet Nam was
Marine PFC Ralph A. Gearhart, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Gearhart
, RFD 2. Abstracted from the June 6, 1968 Crestline Advocate Crestline Public Library. Crestline Advocate
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Twenty five stars on Flag Presented Sunday at English Lutheran Church. Crestline Advocate September 10, 1942
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Crestline Advocate _______________ Crestline's Service center got another boost this week when
Miss Mary Stephan wrote from from Waukegan, Ill., to Mayor Kindinger.
Miss Stephan who has two brothers in the service and they went
through Crestline recently to visit their Grandmother in Pittsburgh.
She says: I know it must take untold dollars and much
time to make all those sandwiches and cookies. It was the first
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Crestline Advocate _______________________ Women will enter a new phase of railroad work in Crestline now with the advent of women watchmen at the street crossings. Two women have been hired for the Thoman Street Crossing and it was the first of the week they were due to go to work any day. Only two women will be used as they cannot be worked after 10:00 at night. Other spots will be taken care of by women as fast as they can be secured and men are called for work women are not able to do. |
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Crestline Students Seize and Burn German Text Books |
Crestline Advocate While the government war picture, the Remaking Of A
Nation was being shown in Crestline Monday evening, Crestline
school boys put an end to the German text books used in the public
schools by making a bonfire of the books on the High School campus.
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Crestline Advocate August 20, 1942 Crestline pigeon fanciers are doing their part to win the
war and also enjoying a grand sport at the same time. |
Crestline Advocate _______________________ in Sale of War Savings Stamps for the Year 1918 Again, the people of Crawford County must doff their hats
to Crestline for another war work accomplishment. This time a
careful tabulation of reports for the year 1918 shows that Crestline
Schools stand head and shoulders over all other schools in the
county in the sale of War Savings Stamps, estimated on the basis
of pupils enrolled, for the year 1918. The Crestline Schools
sold stamps to the total value of 14,0057.46 of an average of
$20.08 per pupil enrolled. The Bucyrus Schools come second with
and average of $14.43 per pupil and a total of $29,948.50, the
county schools are third with an average of $6.39 per pupil or
a total of $11,415.43 while Galion Schools are on the tail end
if the list with an average of only $2.23 per pupil and a total
of only $2,822.50. for the entire year for their schools. In
the face of the report for all schools of the State the Galion
Schools made a regrettable showing, there being only three schools
in the entire state whose showing was worse. These are the country
schools of Huron county with and average of $2.08 per pupil,
the Struthers Village Schools, of Mahoning County with an average
of $2.03 per pupil and the Niles Schools with an average of $1.43
per pupil. Of these only the Struthers Schools sold a total less
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29 Gold Stars Honor Crawford County Dead |
Crestline Advocate ________________________________ Gold stars for 29 Crawford County Men who have died in the
service of their country, at the front or in camp, are due to
be placed on the County Memorial Tablet at the Court House, in
Bucyrus, Ohio. |
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Joe W. Chapman, Galion Ora C. Cole, Dallas Twp. Ralph Bender, Auburn Twp. Frank M. Lisse, Galion Karul Hurr, Bucyrus Harry J. Myers, Bucyrus Donald H Charlton, Bucyrus Eugene Beaston, Bucyrus Carl Geiger, New Washington David O'Donnell, Bucyrus Jay Glen Lamb, Galion Carl W. Kehrer, Whetstone Twp. William E. Staiger, Sulphur Springs Conrad Eisinger, Bucyrus Forest K. Ranck, Lemert Charles A. Jordan, Cranberry Twp. Wayne D. Davis, Bucyrus Elmer J. Shifley, New Washington Arthur C. Kafer, Sulphur Springs Clarence H. Smith , Lykens Twp. Albert Hoffman, Crestline Gilbert Schultz, Galion Charles Gleason, Bucyrus-Galion Lewis Garbrock, Bucyrus, Flint MI Edward Tschannen, Lemert Patrick J. Burns, Bucyrus |
Crestline Advocate _____________ To John McWhirter goes the honor of winning two gold medals
for his efforts in the sale of Thrift and War Savings Stamps
and Liberty Bonds. The Boy Scouts under the direction of Scoutmaster
E.N.Cullums, were put in the field the last ten days of the Third
Liberty Loan campaign and were offered prizes by the U.S. Treasury
Department for selling $250.00 in Thrift or War Savings Stamps
to at least twenty-five different people and for receiving orders
for Liberty Bonds from at least 10 individuals. Note: Scout John McWhirter would loose his older brother Edward McWhirter, First Crestline Son to die in Action 3 months later September 27, 1918. A picture of this boy scout accompanies this article in the Crestline Advocate. |
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Crestline Advocate Here is an opportunity for Crestline boys and girls to help
win the war. |
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Crestline Advvocate ____________ To help meet the needs of the Government, Wirgleys will discontinue
the use of tin-foil as a wrapping for Juicy Fruit
chewing gum, in order to release this valuable material for Uncle
Sam. Abstracted from the October 24,1918 Crestline Advocate Crestline Ohio. |