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GET HERO MEDALS* I Every Soldier of Lutheran Church To Be Honored.: National Commission Is Behind the Plan.A medal for every member of the Lutheran church who was In the of the government during the Is the program of the National Lutheran commission. Dr. C. W. Msg-gart. pastor of the First Lutheran church of Topeltu. in the stale representative of the national commission and has Just completed a survey of the Kansas synod, by which ho learned that SoO hoy* of the synod wore in the service, including thirty from First Lutheran church.the0BVIR5E SIDE.cinjsispjs' 2S5J BJlJmmaims siew im3 52s IB 23 3? 3 *)SK2IJ ©IRS'jsiraREVERSE SIDE.The Mednl (liven to Lutheran Church Members lit the Service.Seventeen returned soldiers of the Topeka church were decorn ted with the medal At a program arranged for the occasion. The principal speaker wu? Lewi* fitratemryer. who was a.1-lower to come home for a few days from the hospital at Camp Funwton. where h*i is stationed for treatment. Stmtemeyer was pronounced by Brig. Gen. C. L Martin us -the bent dispatch rider in the American service** and served ur.d*r him In France. Hi* iec wns broken in a night rid® In the St. I Mlhtel sector He was sent home as a J casual about »ix weeks ago. Damon ; . Call, who was nt the front nearly four months with the Mlh division, also make a talk. Htrfttemeyer is a brother of Mihs Flora Slratcmeyer in the office of the register of deed*.The seventeen Topeka boys who received the medal are. Lewi* fitrate-moyor. John Samuels on. Charles Gustafson. Elmer L. OlBfh*n. Walter Eshe, Damon Gall. Pnul Stolpe. William Schlichter. John Troxell, Haul Younger. George Chriatmpn. Walter Frllx, Edwin Frltr. Fred Miller. George L. Tuar, John 15. Christman. Don J. Un-dell. on one nidi* of the medal in a crowi with the word •‘for in the center and the words on each arm which make it rend “For Christ. For Church. For Country. For Home.**
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Topeka State Journal
Topeka, Kansas, US
Mon, Jun 16, 1919
Page 2
Full Page
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