Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1915, Page 5

| | Tl | ) YOUNGEST VETERAN | TELLS HIS STORY Brother of Omaha Man Furnishes Proof He Enlisted When Twelve Years 0ld. CHALLENGES OTHER CLAIMANTS Once more the youngest veteran of the Civil War has been found Georgé W. Johnston, the Mid-West Electric company of Omaha, claims he has found him for sure, He says there can be no mis- take about it now and that he chal- lenges anyone on earth to produce substantial evidence of a younger veteran. The soldier is Johnston's brother. His name is William F. llv is at present Sergeant of Company , Michigan Soldier's home at Grand l(nnl(l! Recently George W. Johnston of Omaha sent his soldier brother a newspaper clipping concerning one W. H. Van Orman who claimed o be the youngest soldier in the civil war. The old sergeant at Grand Rapids stralghtened up like a whip of whalebone and declared Van Orman a long way behind him in honors. He then wrote a letter telling of his own case and challenging anyone to come forward with evid of having been younger in service of the Union A& the great strife. Enlisted at Age of Twelve. Johnston was twelve rs, three months and twenty-three days old when he joined the colors He was born June 18, 1850, in Detroit He enlisted October 11, 1862 ‘Why, say pal, 1 was an old hand at the business when Comrade Van Orman was a raw recruit,” y Johnston wrote his Omaha brother He has recently applied for his sixty- six-year increase, and in so doing furnish documentary evidence of his place of birth, parentage, and as he puts it, “what his parents had for break fast three months before he was born,” So there is no disputing his statement of his age. | It was not Johnston's fault that he did not enlist younger. Three times he rar away from school and pattered barefoot into the recruiting station flushed and with a craving to get into the big battles. Hillden Under Car Seat. Bach time he was rejected on account of his youth. Finally he appeared again just as a troop train was leaving. The soldiers liked him and wanted him even though the recruiting officers rejected him. 8o the soldiers gave him more whisky than his young legs would carry and stuffed him under smoking car. Once they got him out to the front with them there was no trouble in getting him enlisted, for his | jecture on parents were far away from there. Here in part is his own account of the high lights in his war experiences: “I was taken prisoner at Culpeper Court house, months and nine days. in the following prisons, in_that time: Lemberton building, Libby prison, Belle |on earth. lsle, all in Richmond Va. 1 also was in the second detachment of prisoners sent | M. M. Montgomery of Des Molnes, la., to the “Hell Hole,” Andersonville, in (charged with passing worthless checks March, 188, and confined in that stock- | for small amounts on local merchants, is ade untll August, when we were sent to | being held at police headquarters. De- Savannah, and paroled about November |tectives Lahey and Brinkman made the 19, 1864, Not One Spuare Menl, “And say, that time, not one square meal, enough to keep me alive, growing kid! ‘However, ve him in our course, wrong start in life that our army experiences gave some of us young sters, who had the from our forefathers, we get over.” never Keep it Handy for Rheumatism., Don't suffer and try to wear out your Sloan's Liniment goes right All drug- | rheunatism. to the spot, kills the pain. glsts.—Advertisement. LINCOLN HEIGHTS CLUB ASKS FOR |MPROVEMENTS\”‘°“ Chairman Stanley Rosewater says, Seventy-five members attended the meet- | moved to its new quarters in the Wood ng of Lincoln Heights Improvement club {men buflding. The committee will hold The club is advo- one more meeting Christmas and will | held Friday evening. cating the grading of ¥ rtieth street, the extension of the Harncy street car line |swelling the club’'s roster. and sewer extensions. The meeting was | Laird | held in Clifton HIill school. 8. L. is president and C. M. Wilson secretary of the club president of | Johnston. | a seat in the |bureau of publicity. Virginia, October 11, 1863, and was a prisoner of war for thirteen | M! Was confined | Worcester, Masa, one of the not one square meal in all | barely and me a Uncle Sam has certainly to make up to us in our old age, youth. Of high living could U\I \II\ SUNDAY BEE: \!)\l \HH h 28, 1910. Against Robert Smith Finished at Night Henrmg ; Arguments in lhl‘ suit brought \n Ithe County board to recover more than $6,000 naturalization fees re-| tained by Robert Smith, clerk of the | finished at a distriet court, night hearing before District Sears and the judge took the case under advisement 1 The court continued in session until & o'clock at night in order to| permit of bringing the hearing to a | close this week without interfering | with Judge Sears’ session of juvenile 1 were |court today. | Deputy County med up the the facts which, he asserted, | | | he had proved, in support of the applica- | I tion for a writ of mandamus compelling | | Smith to make an accounting of fees, as | follows That Smith used offices, labor, ata-| | tionery, heat and lights provided and | “\nh! for by Douglas county, for the car- | ll)th on of his uralization work | i | Attorney Haffke sum- | W. F. JOHNSTON, " BRIEF CITY NEWS Wedding Rings—Bdholm, Jeweler. Lighting Fixtures—RBurgess-Granden. That a Nebraska law fixes the com- | pensation to be received by .\'lm(h at | $4.000 a year and provides that all -xm\s\: fees shall turned into the county | | treasury by him United States | Have Root Print It—Now Beacon Press. | That a decision of the Il With Pneumonia—Richard Philbin, | supreme court holds that clerks should | | excess naturalization fees into | | | the gon of Mr. and Mrs. P, H. Phiivin, n[m\ { very il with pneumonia county treasurles where local laws so | { provide “Today's Movie Program” classified Attorney {section today. It appears in The Bee | | EXCLUSIVELY. Find out what the va- | ¥mith to re rious moving picture theaters offer. | the %000, declared the clerk should not Song Mecital—Miss Alice be forced to give up the mon peca retained by | i MacKenzie | | y county officials i former years hnd} | John P. Breen, st the county's demand for | will give a song recital at theMetropoli tan hall, December 15 at 8 o'clock, as | sisted by Madame A. M. Borglum | Admitted to Practice—John P. Byrne, son of T. C. Byrne of the Byrne & Ham- \Faces As Fa'r As ds company, was admitted | { mer Dr; | to practice law in the federal court. | | | Pookets Picked—l.cc Burns of the Owl | A s“mmer s nay | hot=* reports to the pol ce that his pock- | ‘ |ets were picked of $32 while he was stroll ing on South Twelfth street Friday even |ing. | Mowry Enlists—Robert P. Mowry of | Lexington enlisted in the navy at th loce | recruiting station and has been s lto the Great Lakes training station at |that they used creams and lotions for | | Chicago. 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