The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-04

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Plans for Registration day in Fargo
are complete.
Tuesday, from o'clock in the morn
ing until o'clock at night, every male
person in Fargo between the ages of
Il and 80 must step forward and be
registered
Between ."21 and 30" means every
man who has attained his twenty-first
birthday, and has not yet reached his
thirty first birthday.
Every male person" means every
male person, no matter what may be
his claim to exemption from the
draft, whether or not he is a citizen
of the United States. It means just
what 1T says-every man Of the speci-
Ned age must register
Community Meetings Tonight,
In every school house of Fargo COM
munity meetings will be held tonight.
Prominent speakers will address the
meetings, and every gathering will be
closed with the singing OF America.
In each meeting, the requirements
or the registration law will be out
lined, and various other patriotic
topics will be discussed.
Just so, in the case Of the theaters
Where four-minute" men will speak
Mass Meeting Tuesday Might.
Preparations for the mass meeting
Tuesday night at the auditorium, when
honors will be paid the enrolled men,
are about complete.
Rev. DR.. r. A. Beard will speak:
there will be patriotic songs, and a
general patriotic festival 1t begins at
S:45 o'clock UP to which hour sec
ton will be reserved for the men wear,
ing the Fargo Nenrollment button. The
buttons will be given to every man
when he registers Tuesday. It bears
the word, Enrolled and has an
emblem of crossed guns, with the
words, Fargo, N. D." on it.
viii Release Men.
All Fargo merchants, members Of
the Retail Merchants association. will
grant holiday Tuesday to men OF
registration age. This step was de-
termined on at a meeting held this
morning. The merchants also declared
themselves ready to aid in every possi-
BILE manner in the conduct of the regis
tration day work.
The merchants took this action fol-
lowing the issuance by Mayor Stern
OF a registration day proclamation.
Few Claim Exemption.
Bismarck, N. d. June Among
approximately $50 registrations al
ready made by Bismarck and Burleieh
county citizens who expect to be alb
sent from their polling places next
Tuesday, a very small percentage of
exemptions have been claimed. There
Is shown readiness to serve which
is receiving much favorable comment
about the court house.
IL exemptions are claimed, the regis
tration rules require that they be stat
ed on the cards made out by the regis
trars. Many OF those who already have
signed up for selective service are mar
ried men, but very large proportion
OF these have declined to claim exemp-
tons. on the grounds that their wives
upon them.
Bismarck Will Celebrate,
Bismarck, N. D., June "A band Of
forty pieces will play open-air con-
certs tomorrow forenoon and after
noon during Bismarck's registration
day exercises, which will be held in
the Northern Pacific park. Gen. q. A.
Williams, a pioneer of North Dakota
and one of the citys Oldest Statesman n.
will speak, and there will be an ad-
dress by a regular army officer. Thirty
six girls Of st. Mary's sodality have
volunteered to serve in three details
at the various registration booths from
z a. m. until 8 p. m, pinning a khaki
sleeve badge on the arm OF each man
who registers. Troops from, Fort Linz
coin and Camp Frazier will drill dur
ing the afternoon under Major Dana
Wright, and there will be a concourse
of the nations during the afternoon, in
which representatives of every race
now to be found in North Dakota, from
the earliest Sioux to the latest Serbian,
viii appear in native costume to DEM
onstrate the united Americanisrn OF
the states mixed peoples.
Chief Justice Andrew "A. Bruce will
deliver the registration day address at
Minot, and Tracy R. Bangs Of Grand
Forks will be- the speaker at Cavalier
Service badges will be pinned on the
service who registers at HettinEer,
Marmarth. Dickinson, Mandan and
other Slope cities. and at Bowman
community ball will be held after the
close OF registration.
Grand Forks. NJ. D.. June with
for the monster parade
and patriotic day program completa.
there is no doubt now that this city
Tuesday will see the greatest pat
riotic demonstration in the history OF
the city. Registration day-a historic
red letter day in the nations history
will be f1ttingly observed here. On
that day the manhood of Grand Forks
and East Grand Forks win step for
ward 'in one solid rank in defense of
the ideals to which this nation is COM
secrated," and the citizens Of both cit
les have united TO honor them.
The parade will. be the big feature
of the day and IL win be followed inn
mediately by program in Central
park. in which both cities again will
unite.