The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
VOLUNTEERS 70 Be NAMED
Registrars at Meeting on Saturday Com
plete Plans FOR Taking Names of All
Men Subject to Army Service
Throngs Sign Cards Here Now.

Sixty men of Kenosha county will
serve Uncle Sam without pay in regis
tering for army service. Saturday af-
ternoon when County Clerk Jones had
completed his work Of instructing the
registrars in just what the government
expects them to do he put the question,
+" How many of you men will serve at
this registration without payg" In a
second sixty of the men arose. and went
on record as willing to do this small
part in the great army movement.
But two men declined to give their
services for the day and it is expected
that volunteers will be secured to take
the places of these two mn. 1t is just
possible that they will reverse their de-
cision and stick with the volunteer
forces. Neither the city or the county
will send any bill to the government
for the registration of the men and if
men named on The boards can not see
their patriotic duty to serve without
pay they will be relieved of the duty
imposed upon them and volunteers
named for the place. Scores Of men
have volunteered to do this work with
out charge and it is certain that in
practically al of the Wisconsin cities
Uncle Sam win not Ne asked to expend
a cent in completing the registration.
Registration cards have now been
distributed to all of the town officials
and the work of registering the men
for other cities and states is well under
way. Practically all of the time Of
the city clerk and his assistants is now
being given over to the filing out Of
registration cards. Men who live in
Kenosha, but who will be out of the
city on Tuesday, June 5th, are being
permitted to sign registration cards,
but the permission is granted only
after the city clerk is assured that
there is good reason for these men
to be absent from the city on registra-
tion day, Registering local men by
affidavit is being discouraged as much
as possible on account of the vast
amount of work on the clerk and his
assistants in taking care of registra-
tions which must be forwarded to
other cities. Already more than a
hundred Of such registrations have
been made although under the call
Tuesday win be the first day for the
fling of such registration cards.
1t is noticeable feature of these
cards that less than ten per cent of
the men registering claim exemption
from service. Some of them want to
place on the registration blank their
preference for service. These men are
being told to hurry right over to the
recruiting Offices now and get in on the
ground floor. The formal order from
Washington that enlisted men will not
be called upon to register has speeded
up recruiting all over the country and
lot of men are going into the various
volunteer companies 1t is almost as
busy at the Office of the county clerk
as at the office of the city clerk and
scores of young fellows who claim
home in other counties are being regis
tered here. Sheriff Hermann has not
received very large number of cards
from Kenosha county men in other
cities and counties. Up to late hour
today but five of these registrations
had been received by Sheriff Herr
mann. 1t is expected that later on
there viii be a large number of regis
trations of Kenosha men. Some of
them are working ON the eastern sea
board and these ere expected to send
in early registrations.