The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-17
keokuk and Lower Half of County
Men Who Are Accepted and Re-
jected by Lee County Elk
emption Officials.
GETTING READY TO CALL
Everything Points to Getting Out
First Draft Men During Month
of September for Train
Ing Camp.
The Lee county exemption

9E@A. board which has been in
| ~ session in Keokuk for two
days. completed It's work
here last night and adjourned to Fort
| Madison for another two day session.
The board examined and found ply
sically fit 154 men from the lower
half of the county, the biggest major
| ity being from Keokuk. OF this num-
Der many claimed exemption, but
only few We're exempted. Sixty-one
men were rejected because of ply
steal disqualifications. One hundred
twenty three claimed exemption, but
of this number sixty-five were given
exemption papers. OF this number
fifteen were already physically re-
jected. Two men were over age linn
its, and two were transferred for ex-
animation to the upper district.
There is every evidence that the
drafted men already examined and
future. Postal cards bearing the
seal of the war department and
ordering the recipient to report for
military service, and telling him what
to bring, have been received by the
local boards. The cards also carry
a return postal card on which the
drafted man makes request to stay
at his home instead of at central
camp, until time for departure Of the
train to take him to Des Moines.
He promises in this to be within an
hours ride to the station or the cen
trail meeting place. The local board
will of course arrange for quarters
for, drafted men who do not care to
remain at their homes, and for those
who live out in the rural districts,
too far away to be considered in the
hour zone.
The following is the list of accepted
and rejected men in the first 2G0 of
the second 500 called:
otse:aiiy accepted by the Board.
Herbert Watson Thornburg, Frank
L. Swinderman, Joseph P. Donnovin,
Silas E. Thon, George Lambros.
George E. Schoene, Albert C. Swigel-
son, Henry William Mollers, Joseph
Earl O'Neill. Clarence Leroy Carl
son, Earl o. Steenburg. Allen Cor
nelius Immegart, Robert Jerome Rein
er, Thomas J. McManus, Ralph Floyd
elmer, Charles Johnson, Harry Cos
tellio McPhail, Charles Foster, Jacob
William Blo1n, Kenneth Clifton
Milestone, William Rea, Karl Rea
Gunlock, Howard Russell Holmes.
James Ross Stuter, Albert Metz, Roy
Robson, George Riley Hartman.
Patsey Morrissey, Carl Clayton Boyd,
Joseph E. Roost, John William Clark,
John Elmer Meinhardt, Edward AL
fred Gay. Orison George Silvers, Viii
liam Walter Mullen, Charles W.
Brice, Warren Brown, Harold Gal
vond, Arthur James Maxwell, Harry
/. Starr, John Conrad Meister, Jr.,
William Alan Dorson, Harry Edward
Orth, William Kirchner, Jesse Albert
Reeves, Henry Trainer, William Pet
er Westerhoff, August John Scheibel, |
Carl Edward Nelson, Robert Samuel
Criswell, Carl William Theme, Louis !
Adolph Bertschinger, Victor B. Han |
son, Ernest Simons, Edward Powell !
Landrith, Clarence Schowalter, Earl
Roscoe Lewis, Harry A. Myers, Lee
land Reed Hastings, Ralph Bergthold. |
John Elder Ferris, D. Wayne Smith, |
H. c. Hinkley, Thomas H. Kollmeyer,
John Ace Wolf, ALIVE Emil Nelson,