The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-08-23
GET NOTICES ON MONDAY
District Board to Suggest that Local
Boards Give Farmers Time to Har-
vest the Crops Before Sending
Them with Army for Service.

The Kenosha Local Exemption Board
cleared the decks for action ON the
second call for Kenosha men for army
service on Monday evening when it
disposed of few struggling claims for
exemption which had been hanging fire
and with its work practically cleared
up the board will have a few days rest
before the second quota of men report
to the physicians for examinations the
latter part of next week. Clerks at
the Office of the board started work
this morning getting out the formal no
tices for the second call and it is ex-
pected that all of the notices will be
in the mails by Monday night. The
men must report for examination with
in five days after the notices are dated
and it is possible with a big corps
of physicians that all examinations
may be completed in two days.
It is possible that the call will be
extended to more than three hundred
men, At the session Of the board on
Friday evening the registration cards
of the next three hundred on the Ke-
nosha list were examined by members
Of the board. They showed that the
three hundred was just about equally
divided as married men, single men
and aliens This would indicate that
it will be difficult to secure hundred
more men who would be certified for
service in the army. 1T is certain that
a very large majority Of the two
classes, married men and aliens will
Nclaim exemptions and that goodly
number of the single men will not be
found physically fit for service A
drive is on to force all aliens called TO
IEake out their first papers so that they
will be subject to military service.
MANY papers have been issued in re-
Fcent weeks to aliens subject to draft.
These men have been given to under
stand that if they refuse to take out
first papers and submit themselves to
examination for military service in
this country that the members of the
board will take especial efforts to have
them sent to their homes in some other
country SO that they will be subject
to She draft Some of the members of
the exemption board after examination
of registration cards declared that it
would be necessary to call at least FIVE
hundred more mon to fill up the quota.
The official quota for Kenosha has
been reduced. 1t is no longer two
hundred and eighty, as word was re-
ceived direct from the provost mar
shall S Office that the quota had been
reduced to two hundred and seventy
eight. Being thankful for small favors
the members of the board have acknowl-
edged the receipt Of the communication.
The district board now in session in
Racine promises to give some consid-
GRAFTON to the men on the farms who
may be called for service The sugges-
ton has been made by the board that
these men be held in reserve until the
last call for troops is made, This would
make it possible for them to work the
farms until the first of October or pos
sibly later and it is probable that by
this time much of the strenuous work
of the harvest would be over.
Many Of the men from the farm
ing communities have made claims
for industrial exemptions.
The board has shown willingness
to grant few Of such claims, but it is
probable that most boards who have
the decision over men from the rural
districts will be Favorable to the plan
suggested