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May 25, 1944
HARTINGTON — Rev. Aloysius J. Detmer, former resident of the Bow Valley community, will celebrate his first solemn High Mass at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Bow Valley May 30.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Dettmer, former residents of the Bow Valley community, who now live at Plymouth, Ind. The family left Cedar County in 1937.
He was baptized at St. James on Sept. 1, 1915 and attended the Bow Valley School, from which he graduated in 1930.
May 25, 1944
HARTINGTON — Twenty-four Cedar County young men have been ordered to report at Omaha June 1 for induction into the United States Navy, Ludvig Nedergaard, selective service board secretary, has announced.
The men previously had passed their physical examinations. Nedergaard said all the men were under 26 years of age and that a big majority of them are single.
Those ordered to report are: Garald F. Becker, James J. Meier, Gerald A Schumacher, Marvin D. Griess, Richard J. Glester, Norbert L. Widhalm, Leo A. Williamson, all from Hartington. Erwin C. Becker, Lawrence J. Kaiser, Jerome M. Becker, all of St. Helena. Norbert P. Wuebben, Joseph B. Morris, Ralph J. Fischer, all of Wynot and Jerome J. Noecker, Fordyce.
