A few of the words and phrases are offensive by today's standards, but they are included to show the attitudes, language and biases of their era.
Local police start registering male enemy aliens.
First detail of Company M arrives in France while bulk of unit remains in Texas. Wartime ban on restaurants serving meat is lifted. Nine days later, Bobby Welch gets 90 days for vagrancy, the first of several such sentences. 16 local boys enlist in the Navy. Janesville's American Legion chapter will name itself for Ellis.