SIOUX COUNTY IN THE WORLD WAR -- EARLY SCHOOLS -- WILD LIFE
The part that western Nebraska performed in the World War will never be forgotten by the grateful people of the community and the republic. We may feel that we are paying great penalty when we make out the income tax report or otherwise contribute to the war taxes that are found on nearly every theater ticket, or drink at the soda fountain, or particular medicine that we need. But without that entry into the great conflict, it is doubtful if the allies would have won, and had they not won, what would the war lords of Germany exacted, no one knows. Our entry in all probability saved us fighting alone a subsequent and possibly much more disastrous war. In any event those who went to the front and those who performed heroic work and sacrifice at home, each performed the duty well and their names should be enscrolled in the temple of fame.
The selective draft made the record of those that registered and were drawn for service far more easy to follow than that of the volunteers, and the names of those engaged in home service. In many counties, "'every scrap of paper'' connected with the draft has been sent to the federal authorities at the Washington war department, but in a few counties the clerks or others interested, made a list of those who were inducted into the draft, and the record of each. County clerk Earl R. Cherry is one of the few that realized the importance of this, and saved a list, which the public will appreciate more the coming years. The names thus provided this historian are as follows: