The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-11-30
Begins December Is

information furnished in the question
naires.
I If the questionnaires are filled out
honest and accurately, the provost
marshall general, Enoch H. Crowder,
predicts that the next draft will pro-
duce the most scientifically and hu-
namely selected army in the world.
Five Draft Classes
!. The Provost Marshall General has
authorized the following classification
of selectives into five groups, indicat-
ing the order in which they will be
called to service:
Class
( 1. Single men without dependent
relatives.
2. Married man Cor widow with
children, who habitually fails to sup
port his family.
8. Married man dependent on wife
for support.
: A. Married man (or widow with
children, not usefully engaged; fam
fly supported by income independent
of his labor.
8. Men not included in any other
description in this or other classes.
Unskilled laborer.
Class IL
1. Married men or father of moth
erless children, usefully engaged, but
family has sufficient income apart
from from his daily labor to afford
adequate support during his absence.
2. Married man, no children; wife
can support herself decently and
without hardship.
3. Skilled farm laborer engaged in
necessary industrial enterprise.
| a. Skilled industrial laborer engag.
ed in necessary agricultural enter
prise.
Class
1. Man with foster children de-
pendent on daily labor for support.
Man with aged, infrm, or invalid
parents or grandparents dependent on
daily labor for support.
3. Man with brothers or sisters in
competent to support themselves, de-
pendent on daily labor for support.
! a. County or municipal officer.
gs25. Firemen or policemen.
g., Necessary artificers or workmen
in arsenals, armories and navy yards.
7. Necessary customhouse clerk.
8. Persons necessary in transmits
sion of mails.
9. Necessary employees in service of
United States.
Highly specialized administrative
experts.
IL. Technical or mechanical experts
in industrial enterprise.
IL. Highly specialized agricultural
expert in agricultural bureau of state
or nation.
13. Assistant of associate manager
of necessary industrial enterprise.
IA. Assistant or associate manager
of necessary agricultural enterprise.
Class Nv
/. Married man with wife (and)
or children (or widower with children)
dependent on daily labor for support
and no other reasonably adequate
support available.
2. Mariners in sea service of mer-
chants or citizens of the United States.
8. Heads of necessary industrial
enterprises.
A. Heads of necessary agricultural
enterprises.
a. Heads of necessary agricultural
enterprises.
Class V.
1. Officers of States or the United
States.
2. Regularly or duly ordained min
listers.
3. Students of divinity.
a. Persons in military or naval SER
vice.
5. Aliens.
6. Alien enemies.
z. Persons morally unfit.
8. Persons physically, permanently,
or mentally unfit.
8. Licensed pilots.
Miss Jeanette Burke has returned
from California and is guest of her
uncle c. H. Slocum.
Miss Louise Lyon, of Detroit, is
guest of her son, H. ID. Lyon.
~ butheT Drduiey, loIhefiy VI thiS
city has been commissioned first lieu
tenant and is now with No. 1 general
hospital in France.
Co. %, Michigan State Troops, will
have Bohemian supper at the armory
next Monday evening. Seth @. Pulver
will take formal command of the CON-
pany as captain. Major M. j. Phillips
and Capt. Harold Hume will be pres
ent.
Every man of draft age, excepting
those who are now in camp, will be
required to fill out an elaborate ques-
tionnaire and will be placed in one of
five classes, preparatory to the next
call to arms.
This includes men exempted in the
first draft.
i All exemptions are cancelled and
each man is restored to his original
status.
The registered men will be divided
into twenty groups, each containing
five per cent of the total men register