Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-01
EXPERIENCED MEN
ARE WANTED FOR
THE FIRST CALL
Orders to Report in This
City Will be Issued by.
Board Monday.

County Auditor Hans Anderson,
clerk Of the Grand Forks exemption
board, was notified today over long
distance telephone from Bismarck
that a telegram has been semi to him,
ordering the calling Of the first draft
ed men from Grand Forks county to
depart on September Z for Camp
Dodge, Des Moines. Ia.
Late this afternoon the telegram
a not arrived but it is probable that
the official instructions will reach the
city this evening. During the next
few lays the members of the exemp-
ton board will review the list of men
who have been certified as soldiers
under the selective draft in an effort
to find IL men who are either cooks
or mechanics, to make up the first
five per cent of the Grand Forks
county quota. ordered to report for
duty. -
The schedule for the movement Of
tive per cent of North Dakota's draft
army has been completed by Adjutant
General Fraser and each exemption
board in the state will be notified to-
day. The first soldiers will depart on
Der Z.
The troops will entrain as follows:
Ward, 10; Wells. 4; Mcintosh, a;
Barnes. s; Mclean, s.; Foster. l.;
AS60Ap ~ SoA 6SAll, u. a. oNSI II10 SOO
Line, Golden Valley, 1; Stark, 2;
Grant, 4: Mercer, 5; Morton. 8; Kid
der, 8; Eddy, Q: Billings, 2; Hetting-
err q; Dunn, a; Oliver, Q; BurIeigh,
a. Benson. 5; Sheridan. 8. Via Nor
thern Paciic-Burke. s.. Via 500
Line and st. Paul all September S.
Williams. 9; Divide, 3; Trail. 4; Rich
kenzie, 6; Stutsman, 8; Cass, 10; Ran
som, 4; Griggs. a; Lamoure, 6: Slope,
5; to move September 4 via Great
Northern st. Paul Northern Pacific
and connecting lines.
Bowman, 8; Sioux, 2; Dickey, 4:
Adams, 8; Emmons. A, via st. Paul
line McHenry s.; Pierce, 4; Ramsey,
4; Cavalier. 6; Walsh. Z; Renville, 4;
Bottineau. 8; Towner, 5; Nelson, Z;
Pembina, A; Grand Forks II to move
September Z. The county sea will
be mobilization point in each instance.
In the case of Mckenzie county the
troops will assemble at Watford on
the sixth and entrain there for Will
liston whence they will depart for
Camp on September 4. Slope coun-
ties contingents will mobilize at Ami
don and will entrain over st. Paul line
at Milwaukee.
The calling of only five per cent of
the draft army Is claimed to be for
the purpose of completing the organi-
cation of the camps to accept the men
who will 500 after follow. Cooks
and mechanics. together with helpers.
are wanted for the first call. County
Clerk Anderson announced this aft
ernoon h a efforts would be made
here to select only experienced men
to make up the II needed for the first
call.
It is believed that the second call
will follow soon after the establish
H. 1-~ o.
army in the mobilization camps. The
government has carefully mapped out
plans to care for the great army OF
drafted men to prevent confusion.
The state exemption board at Bis
marck last evening announced its
finding on 81. claims for exemption
from Grand Forks county. All OF
these claims for release from military
duty had been made for agricultural
reasons. OF this number. SO were de-
MED release Inc 81 were granted.
The state had previously certified 106
men who claimed no exemption and
with the additional SO, the number OF
men. who have been certified as sol
diers reaches 1876 men. The county
quota is 216 with an additional 10
per cent, making a total OF 238.
The following, totaling 30, have
been denied industrial orEagricultural
exemption and are held for service in
the new army, this action of the state
board being final but for possible ap-
peals to President Wilson in excep-
tional cases:
Tom Hove, Claus R%enthoen, (after
October So Gilman A. johnson, Roy
Roman. Daniel Ferguson. John M.
Johnson, Peter Engh, CATER October
SD Fred w. ..Wolfgram, SEVERN Her
dickson, John Clifford Jameson, Val
demar j. Hemmingson, CATER October
3D. Archie Pratt, Lee Edgar Dodge,
CATER October SD Tancrede Gregoire,
Jr-; Roy s. Brandt, after October 50
Lawrence j. Anderson, Oscar Ekren,
Walter Lingle, Joseph R. Whaley, AL
bert Knudson, Salamon Salemonson,
Richard Johnson. George Alex Camp
bell, Forde H~emmingson, latter Octo-
Der Sd Harold J.. Coliton, Oliver Her
1ickson, Howard Louis Ausbury, Will
liam Henry Radcliffe, Anton J. Won
Ruben, John Melvin Hansen, Norrin
Korsmo. Freeman Brenna, John
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