The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-07

The city of Kenosha registered 4,4S5
men on Tuesday under the selectlve
conscription law. But two other cities
in Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Racine,
had so large registration of men who
are of the ages to answer the call to
arms. The large number of men regis
tered in Kenosha was surprise to ev-
eryone.
The United States government had
estimated the number of men. Of mill
tary service age in Kenosha at little
over 2,700; members of the registration
board expected to find $500, and their
estimate was nearly a thousand out OF
the way Kenosha county, including
the city and the towns, registered a
total Of $3.50 men for selective con-
scription While vast number of men
were registered in both the city and
county, only forty per cent of this num-
Der will be actually liable to draft.
The registration Of the Kenosha men
went off without single incident
which called for the action Of the reg
istration board or the police depart
ment. No trouble of any kind was re-
ported il any of the wards and the
monotony of asking and answering
questions went on during the entire
day without interruption. Not once
WE anyone called to arrest men for
pus statements Tia all The wares
the boards were kept busy during the
whole of the ten hours set aside for
counting noses and several of the
boards worked long over time to rom
plete the work
A spirit of loyalty pervaded the work
of the day. Many of the men on the
boards and the interpreters and the
police officers worked for long hours
without even stopping for lunch, many
OF the men stood in line from three to
four hours awaiting their chance to get
their cards signed and get on the list
OF men who may be called to serve
Uncle Sam.
In three or four of the Yards in the
city the registration places were crowd
ed when the hour came for closing and
IN these wards, notably in the fourth
and fifth, registration continued for an
hour after the hour set for closing. All
OF these men were in the registration
PAGES before the hour set for CLOSING
Featured in loyal service for the dav
was tat rendered by Miss Brogan and
MISS Langan of the city clerk q force
After working like beavers during the
entire day, taking care of the clerical
work at the clerk s office, thew heard
the call to go over and help the sixth
ward board lats in the evening and for
nearly three hours these two vouno
Women took their place in the line Of
registrars and facilitated the work
No such loyalty has ever been shown
IN anything done by Kenosha.
There were many interesting facts
connected with registration. There
were hundreds of alien born who had
troubles showing just how old thew
We're One man declared that he
thought he was 80 wears Of ACE ana
that his inability to say lust when ba
was born left him in doubt. He was
registered. One young man, stirred nv
patriotic fervor attempted to register
at the second ward registration booth
Tie admitted that he would not reach
his majority until some time in JuIv
lie was refused registration.
The heavy part of the work fell nm
on the general registration board for
the city and the county clerk These
men, after working all dav giving in
strnctions to the men IN the varions
registration places, worked all night IN
their offices cleaning up the returns.
Some returns were badly tangled.
The city board was forced to make
an entire recount Of the cards in two
of the wards and it was after two %.
clock before they were able to make
a report to the governor of the exact
number of men registered in Kenosha.
County Clerk Jones had all of his re-
turns with the exception of those from
che town Of Wheatland in by midnigbt
Wheatland had bad mixup in its
count, the cards did not check right
and the men in charge kept at it until
early morning
Secretary Davies of the city registra-
ton BOARD started making his return