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—!—TWENTY-ONE ARE MADEAMERICAN CITIZENSIda Grove, la., Dee. 6.—Twenty-ono men were made United States citizens at the Ida county court house. A goodly sprinkling of the men whose applications were acted upon favorably had had seen service during the war, a number of them having fought in France. Danes composed the largest proportion of the men naturalized, there being 10 of them,.all but one having seen service in the world war: Marinus Westergaard, Eourits Wester-gaard, Carl Emil Hansen, Christian Daiby, A. W. Mortensen, Carl Emil Hansen, Neils Christiansen, Tage Haj-feldt, and Ears Peter Christiansen. N. Nicolaisen, a Dane! was not in the war. There was ono Belgian, Boon DeCloit, one Hollander, Anthony Botbyl, and one Irishman, Thomas George Trimble, all of whom served in the army.There were six men naturalized who were of German extraction: HenryKuehl, August W. Gaedicke, August Schmidt, John K. Groepper. Henry Wiese and Fred Wehde. The latter lias considered himself a citizen of this country for many years, having been naturalized in Chicago nearly 30 years ago. However, when the question of his citizenship was raised, he was unable to produce the necessary papers and went to Chicago whore he learned that the records there had been destroyed by fire. These circumstances were taken Into consideration by the court. One Englishman, William James Young and one native of Sweden, Ernest L. Oberg, were the rest of the list naturalized.
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Moville Mail
Moville, Iowa, US
Thu, Dec 11, 1919
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