Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-12
RECRUITING MAY
STOP HERE AT
6 THIS EVENING
Hundreds Are in Great Rush
to Enter Army as
Volunteers

Six O'Clock this evening is the
dead line for receiving recruits of
registered men at the local head
quarters on Market street. Lieuten-
ant Lesher made this announce
ment, at the same time saying that
he was waiting advice from Wash
ington in answer to his query
whether he might continue to re-
cruit men for service until to-mor-
row noon.
The Harrisburg office clipped an
other high record in the last "a
hours by sending away 394 men, out
of about $50 who reported. On June
last 3O1 left Harrisburg in one
day. At noon to-day the indications
were that yesterdays total might
be overtopped.
At noon to-day 125 men arrived
from Lancaster, under Sergeant
Yingst. Sergeant Yingst has per-
haps broken all records for the dis
trict, having sent asa men from Lam
caster county into the aviation serv-
ice alone. OF this number. 333 men
have been recruited by the sergeant
since the first of December. An
aviation contingent from Reading
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This is the fourth unit raised by
Sergeant Heterogeneous in Berks
county. Sergeant Heterogeneous has
sent PA men into the aviation serv-
ice since December first.
Many Men Here
Men will arrive from all over the
district in large numbers to-day
Shenandoah's contingent of 20 mer
arrives to-day, as we'll as the con.
| tingent of 80 men from Pottsville
and so men from Allentown. Ia.
maqua also sends n contingent to.
! day. These men must all be ex,
amined and sent on their way be
| fore midnight tonight.
From Johnstowne which is in TIL,
| Harrisburg district, five hundred
men will be sent to training camp.
! to-day. In order to get all the meT
away, it was necessary to sent Lieut.
! Long, examining officer, to Johns
! town, to examine the men there
! and so avoid the great congestion
| their presence would cause at the
! local office. Three hundred and fifty
| men will be sent from Johnstown to-
| day Sergeant Blake, recruiting pub
| hcity manager, and Corporal Blank
! publicity officer, have come to thi.
| city after closing a whirlwind cam
| paign for a great aviation unit there
| Sergeant Blake stated that a weel
ago there were only seven men en-,
! listed in Johnstown. Though tn,
! efforts of Sergeant Blake, Corpora
! Blank, and Sergeant Wiley, recruit
ing officer at Johnstown, the 35t
| men have been raised in q few days
| time.
/ A New Record
The contingents from Altoona
| York, and u number of other cite,
in the Harrisburg district, will b,
sent direct from Johnstown by Lieut.
Long to-day.
The recruiting record of the Har.
risburg district is a creditable one
and everyone connected with tn,
local station feels that when til,
War Department bulletins for De.
cember are published, the Harris.
burg district will lead The country
Lieut.. r. W. Lesher and his staff de.
serve lot of credit for their work
in the recent campaign is the opin.
ION of those who know the work
that has been done.
F1fty-three men have been en-.
listed from Harrisburg since Satur-
day. Lieut.. Lesher said that there
have been about a hundred applica-
tons for examinations by young men
or the city to-day. Total figures can
not be given out until tonight.
Bricklayers, who are registered
for the draft, or men who wish to
ply their trade during their period
of war service, are urged to enlist
in the aviation corps as bricklayers,
FOR immediate service in France.
These men have until the fourteenth
20 enlist. The recruiting officers
have cCrresponded with the Brick
layers Union to secure enlistments.
Local Volunteers
Charles Warner, 519 Muench
street, cavalry, and Charles Hum
nell. aviation, were two Harrisburg
enlistments reported to-day. The
following are the 53 men enlisted up
until last night:
James Il. Sutch, Charles II. Bow
ers. William Stonebraker, Granville
Gray, Harold A. Houtz, William D.
Stanbaugh, Theodore ID. Peck, Will
liam ~. Haymaker, Ross Schaeffer,
Boyd e. Fisher, Charles G.. Sellers,
Robert Kerr William Mote, Samuel
Van Z5ndt, Murvin Shiffner, Wister
c. Busch, George L. Miller, Harris
Oyler, Charles Steed, Clarence Wag-
ner James Gahring, Walter Helf-
rich. William Machner, Paul Bow
man, Edward Bucher, Robert Cohen,
Louis Stein, Charles Barnes, Ralph
Evans, Robert Ellenberger, Robert
Seymore, Earl V. Glace, William ].
RICE, George r. Windsor, Ralph w.
Berger, Michael Nicholas, Frank
Lindsay Walter A. Boggs, Clarence
Wilt, Joseph ID Smith, Charles a.
Guise. Daniel ID. Comrey, William
II. Samsel, Lawrence A. DENIM,
William III. Lott, John Swartz, Henry
Camiotts, Russell Yetter, Spencer
Sloathower, William Chameroy, Ray
DENIM, David Heffner, and Clay
Baker.