Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-11-09
SEVERAL S[ACKERS
REPORT FOR DUTY
LOCAL BOARD HEARS FROM
OVERHULSE, CRAMER AND
/ OTHERS,

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Two Of those from this county who
were reported by the local selection
board as deserters. have responded
J to orders to appear for military serv-
ice during the past week, several
classed as "slackers" have been heard
from, and registration cards from
two others living in Canada have
been received.
Guy F. Overhulse, formerly Of this
city. who has been practicing his pro-
fession Of veterinary surgeon at Fort
Worth. Texas, the past few months,
and who was ordered to 60 to Camp
Lewis with the last contingent from
this county last Friday, has written
the local board and been granted per-
mission to report for duty at Fort
Worth, the local board announces.
Joseph Cramer, who should have
gone to Camp Lewis with one Of the
earlier contingents, reported to the
local board Saturday, explaining that
he had been, working on his farm near
Tenino and had not gone into town
to get his mail. He has since gone to
Camp Lewis.
Charles E. Bennyhoff, who was reg
istered at Tenino and was reported
by the local board as a Stacker" for
failure to report for physical exami-
nation when notified, has been exam
ined and exempted for physical disa-
bility, by one Of the local boards OF
Seattle. He is a cripple.
w. R. Phelps. another reported
''slacker" who registered at Bor-
deaux, wrote the board this week
from Manchester, N. H., and has been
notified to take the physical examina-
tion there and report for duty. Sew
eral Japs and other foreigners have
also appeared and been discharged.
Five other slackers appeared Tues
day, two of them being discharged
because they are aliens and the other
three for physical disability. The
foreigners are Pasquale Pine Of Tono
and Joe Kresovich Of Bordeaux.
Those rejected for physical disability
were Joe Mossop of Tono. William A.
White of Rochester and John Dean
of Tacoma. who was working in this
city when he registered.
Thursday two others reported.
Mike Rose of Rainier and Harry Ben
jamin Keller of South Union. but the
former was rejected for physical dis
ability. Keller passed and will go
over to Camp Lewis Saturday. He is
married and may be exempted by the
army officers at the camp, his failure
to report at the time he was ordered
having taken his case out Of the
hands of the local board. The regu-
lations say, however, he has lost the
right to claim exemption.
Keller's case is peculiar. In some
way the local board got his name as
Henry Benjamin Keller, instead of
Harry, and the notices went out that
way. None was delivered to him and
though he saw tho name Henry
among the lists published in the
newspapers. he did not take 1t to
mean himself. The draft regulations,
howeer, put the responsibility upon
him and not upon the board.
Rose, who is an Austrian but has
taken out his first papers, told the
local board he had gone East to
Chicago with a carload of apples and
had just returned. Prior to his ap-
pearance residents of the Rainier
neighborhood had sent in to the
county authorities various reports
about having seen Rose hiding in the
woods.
The registration cards received by
the board this week were for George
Lambert McCloud and Robert Burns
McCloud. who registered with the
American consul at Fernie. B. c. The
boys were born and raised on Bush
Prairie, where the family lived some
years ago, but have been making theil
home in Canada for some time.
On the registration card Of one OF
them appears the statement that an
elder brother has been killed while
serving with the Canadian army in
France, while another is serving with
the British navy.
The list of those who composed the
last contingent of the first draft cal
from this county is Floyd Tabor
Stephen s. Rowe. Ernest Owen
George William Dunn, Ivan Chester
Look, John Scott Mossman. Gustav