The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-05
MEM CERTIFIED To EVERY "
COUNTY BOARD As ACCEPTED
FOR GREAT NATIONAL ARMY
Indications Are That Required Forty Per Cent Will Have Been
Examined and Passed Before September eFrst Five Per
Cent From Missouri Valley Leaves for Today-Japs
to Fight for Adopted Land
The Slope is ready.

The Slope is ready.
The call for five per cent OF tho
counties net quota found the meE
named prepared to leave for Des
Moines today.
The call for 40 per cent, who are to
leave Sept 10, will find the Slope on
the mark
There has been no tagging in the
traces and no holding back SO far as
the Slope is concerned.
The number of willing fighters, mer
Who claimed no exemptions, has been
sufficient in practically every county
ITO take care of the first call.
Claims for exemption have beer
comparatively few and have been bas
ed on reasonable grounds.
The local boards have done their
work promptly and thoroughly with
out prodding from the governor or the
district board.
The Slope has nothing to worry
about; nothing to regret, nothing tC
be ashamed of.
As usual, it has done its bit, done il
WELL and done it just tritle more
cheerfully and more willingly and
more promptly than other sections OF
the state which cannot boast of the
same degree of western spirit and go
to-it-ivcness"
Registrars Certified.
The names of registrants certified by
the district board to the adjutant gen
eral and back to the local exemption
boards are those Of candidates for Sc
lect service who have been examined
and found physically fit, and who have
filed no claim for exemptions, o,
whose claims have not been found suf
hcient to warrant their discharge by
the district board.
Five per cent of the Slope counties
net quota moved this afternoon Oh
No. s. These men are trail-blazers
who go to pave the way for the biz
delegation which begins to move Sept
49,. Today only few men go from
each county, but the Slope is given {
foretaste of the partings and farewells
which the call of September 10 will
bring.
AS brief glance over the following
; names of certified candidates will
prove, the Slopes contribution to the
great national army will be of a most
cosmopolitan nature. Slope county
probably leads all others in diversity
' of races, and it offers full half-dOZer
laps, men who have been employed on
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul con
struction work in Slope county, and
who, altho exempt from draft if they
] prefer to make their claims, have glad
ly offered their services to their adopt.
ed land.
The number of American-born and
! naturalized Germans is very high
These people of TeutOnic blood ap-
pearing in the first list of men accept.
ed for the national army are men fol
the most part who claim no excmp
tions, who rank as volunteers in 9
sense, and who are to be congratulate
cd upon upholding the honor of the
name, German.American. There are
hundreds of such young men in the
Slope country, through-going Ameri
cans, approaching the benefits of Am
crican citizenship, and willing to fight
for them when the Fatherland Of their
ancestors proves the aggressor.
The Fighting Forces.
The Slopes fighting men of the ma
tional army accepted and certified for
service to date as indicated by the
record OF the adjutant generals office
follow:
Emmons.
John Tillenma, Hans Edison, John
B. Dessert, julius Timmchkc, Michael
J. Joiner, Joseph Hagele, Martin F.
Schall, George Williamson, Even Hes