The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-08-23
EXEMPTED and ALLIED
Local Board Completes Examination
and Posts Lists of Those tx.
.empted and Called Monday.

Empted and CdlIe0 M0n0dy.
The Decatur county exemption
board on Monday completed the
work of passing on the claims for ex'
,emptiOn from draft service, and nave
certified the names of all parties tC
the district board.
In Decatur county there were
mighty few exemption claims allow
ed, only 35 claims on the grounds
of having dependents to support pc Pc
ing allowed, while 149 men who I'll
ed sclaims for exemption were denied
exemption, and have been called. Sew
senty-five men passed the physical ex-
animation and made no claim for
exemption and were called, 40 men
were exempted on account OF physl-
cal disability, / men WHO we're on on
the draft list enlisted before being
called for examination, are in
mates of state institutions for insane
or feeble minded / had his eXamln-
alton postponed, l name was remoV-
ed on account of being under age, 2
have been examined elsewhere ana
not yet reported, and men VINO
were on the list failed to show up for
examination, and they will now. be
certified and be drafted, the orders
from headquarters being that they
are now considered as deserters, and
government officials will locate them
and they will be forced to serve.
A total of 227 men have been Ger.
titled for service out OF the hrst call
of 324, and from these Decatur coun-
ty's quota of 1862 men will be select
ed by the district board to report for
duty at various times in September.
This is certainlysa great record, as IN
all the adjoining counties around De-
catur the local boards made sec
ond and in some instances a thlrd
call before the required number
were secured In kinggold county
out of the first 24S men called only
SO were certified, 212 being exempt
ed either for physical disability or
on the claim they had dependents to
support.
count Of dependents of those who
were denied exemption by the. local
board will now go to the district
board for the southern district OF
Iowa at Des Moines, the men denied
exemption having ten days after they
peal with the district board, and
many will file appeals. The question
OF exemption on account of being en-
gagged in farming or other needed
occupations all go to the district
board.
The following is the disposition
made by the local, board of all cases
before them:
Examination Postponed
5O9-Willis Ed Mahoney, Leon.
Failed to Report for Examination
s14O-Leslie Gerald Swenson, Lamo-
nj
s27-William Joe Shields, Grand
River
1o77-Clarence Alvin Coin, Garden
Grove.
Examined Elsewhere and Not Yet
Reported On
493-Howard C. lfcCleary, Leon.
1l12-Longfellow Lee, Lamont.
Name Removed On Account of Being
Under 21 Years.
1O16-Joseph Benson Hardinger,
Davis City.
In State Institutions
3S3-Arden H. Potts, Garden Grove.
357-French Ross, Leon.
78O-Ottie E. Trisler, Garden Grove.
Already Enlisted in Army or Navy
31-William J. Murray, Boseman,
Montana.
391-Philip Franklin Bradfield, La
moni.
l637-Vernie Irving, Van Vert.
705-Gerald sankey Smith, Lamont.
944-HarOld V. GrenaWalt, Lamont.
9O6-Ralph Edison silver, Lamont.
191-William Green Allen, Lamont.
124O-Clarence Rollin Salisbury,
Sibley, Mo.
557-Vern Binning, Van Vert.
1173-Paul Forrey Stookey, Leon.
Exempted on Account of Physical
Disability
564-Glen Francis Dillon, Lamont
945-Loren Feight, Garden Grove.
636-Benton Blain Brown, Lamont.
107-William Roy Chastain Leon.
797-Henry William Sanders, Leon.
874-Willard Arthur stover, Pleas
anton.
William Wallace Crawford,
Leon.
9S2-Samuel Joseph Crawford, Line
vile.
726-Isaac Manchester, Leon.
15-Elmer Ritter, Van Vert.
62O-Raymond COLUMBUS Scott, La
677-Garry Raymond saylor, Van
1132-Burl Everett King, Pleasan-
y ton.
1O64-AlDert Fem McN1chOlS, van
Vert.
s41-william Jacob Stroll, Garden
Grove.
335-Earl H. Gardner, Leon.
,lO07-Harry Erwin Buffum, Leroy.
1142-Vernon Victor Painter, Leon.
11O2-David Acton, Grand River.
61-Dean Stanley Burbank, Leroy.
889-Albert William Fleet, Lamont.
7OO-Claude Munyon, Grand River.
736-John Munyon, Grand River.
1151-Fred Verl Garrison, Lamont.
l175-JOhn Lyman McLain, Davis
City.
1191-Berl Homer Hogue, Lamont.
Ronda Hyatt, Keller
so-Glen W. Young, Garden Grove.
4x4-Willlam Ellison Sanger, Leon.
175-Virgil Ovid Parker, Davis City.
27S-Rolla Roscoe Craig, Pleasan-
ton.
.632-Roy Clawson, Grand River.