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ROWS #661–#664 · NOVEMBER 2026
GAP-WWI-1 — St. Joseph County Council of Defense roster / Penn membership. Settler: Tribune and Enterprise, April–June 1917; Indiana State Council of Defense records, Indiana State Archives. GAP-WWI-2 — county totals for the First, Second, Fourth and Victory Loans (the Third is dug whole: 2,688,000 dollars on a 2,500,000-dollar quota, 107 percent). Settler: Greenough's county tables for those drives, read whole (Internet Archive copy), checked against the Tribune's drive-close reports. GAP-WWI-3 — county Red Cross totals, Penn garden counts, the fuel winter. Settler: Tribune / Enterprise 1917–19 at full strength; state Council of Defense reports. GAP-WWI-4 — a Penn / Osceola Armistice scene, 11 November 1918. Settler: Enterprise and Tribune, 11–12 November 1918. GAP-WWI-5 — Osceola / Penn's own influenza toll and closure record. Settler: Enterprise / Tribune, October–November 1918, read for Penn items; Moran school attendance record.
PART I FLAG, repeated so this section stands alone: Wars & Military Service states the county's WWI Gold Star roll at 109 on the strength of the Granger recount, “not independently recounted here,” and no fragment of this build recounts it. This branch neither uses nor disputes the figure; it is flagged here exactly as the audit flagged it, and any future recount is the Gold Star volumes' work, not this section's.
TESTED NEGATIVE: a Penn-only figure for any loan, purse or registration (the county kept the counts, and no township arithmetic is invented in their place); a Penn loyalty prosecution in the record reached; the checklist's Fort Wayne pattern counts (27,575 cards; 2,713 women in factories) as this county's numbers — patterns, tested and not borrowed.