The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
This is Just One Of the Duties Con-
nected With Sending Out New
Selective Service
QUESTIONABLE.
GETTING THINGS READY
Business Women Asked to Help-En-
Ilstment Orders Received-AIa-
bama Negroes Through
Here.

How would you like to be the
chairman of the Lee county exemp-
! ton board?
One Of the duties of that officer In
connection with the new question
naires is to sign his name three
4 times on each blank, that means a
I total of 5000 times. Sheriff Scott
started in today to sign his name
4 that number of times on the new
QUESTIONABLE blanks.
The help of the Business Women's
i league Is being asked in getting out
/ the blanks and instructions. 1t will
be necessary to fill in names and
/ order mum bers, and to address the
blanks. For this work the employed
girls of the city who know typewrit-
ing can well be used, and their CO.
operation is being solicited by MEM
/ bers of the board. Sheriff Scott is
| to address the young women who
I will volunteer for work at the court
4 house tonight.
I In Fort Madison force of stenog-
raphers and high school students is
at work transferring the records.
| When this is complete then the ques-
| tionnaire records can be filed in and
mailed out There is little less
! than two weeks in which to COM
plete all of this preliminary work.
/ The adjutant general calls atten-
/ ton to the necessity for registrants
/ to have their present addresses sent
/ to the board, in case they are differ
| ent from those given at the time OF
registration. Any men whose ad-
dresses are changed should see to
i it that their new addresses are
I furnished the board in order that the
question blanks will not go astray.
The Enlistment Orders.
An order affecting enlistments has
! been forwarded to the local board,
| in which it is stated that between
now and December Is. any registrant,
even though he has been called by
| his local board for examination. may
enlist upon presentation to the re-
cruiting officer Of certificate from
| the board that he will not be needed
| to I'LL any deferred percent Of quota
| of the board This order has been
received by Chairman Scott Ser
geant Scharff of the regular army re-
cruiting station has been advised In
the following of this situation:
Pursuant to telegraphic instruc-
tons received from the war depart
| ment, all registered men "eyen
though called by their local board for
physical examination" may be &C
copied in any branch of the army at
any army recruiting office in the
| Davenport recruiting district only
until noon December 18th for sta
| lions outside of Davenport and only
until noon December II, at Daven-
port army recruiting office. But for
| registered men who have been called
| by their local board for physical
examination it will be necessary that
they present to the recruiting officer
| certificate from their local board
/! that they will not be needed to fill
any deferred percentage of the quota
4 of the board Do it now. Don't wait
until the last day. There may be some
| delay in your particular case that
| will delay you over the time you
NAV be accepted Married men and
men with dependents must have a
waiver of dependents from the wife
/ or other dependents Ask the re-
cruiting officer about this. Apply at
army recruiting office at Davenport,
/ Dubuque, Burlington, Keokuk, Cen
terville Ottumwa, Grinnell. Cedar
Rapids, Waterloo, Iowa, or Kewanee,
/ Ill.
Negroes from Alabama.
Fifteen negroes from Alabama on
their way to Des Moines stopped
over in Keokuk last night to wait for
the Rock Island train this morning.
Some of them missed the train at
o'clock, and were applying to Sheriff
Scott for meal tickets. 1t seems that
the local boards in Alabama where
these boys come from, were care
less about providing sufficient guam
| tity of meal tickets. Orders from
Des Moines were telephone for by
! Chairman Scott for these men.
According to letters received here
by their folks. two Of the keokuk
negroes who left in October, Henry
Israel and George Daley, are to be
exempted because Of physical dis
qualifications. No official notice Of
ony such action has been received by