Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
NEED COOKS AND
BAKERS in ARMY
Get Orders at Local Recruit
ing Office to Enlist Men
For This Work

An order from the War Department
received this morning by the local
recruiting station will help them,
they say, on their new ambition,
Keep Harrisburg out of the second
and all subsequent drafts" Married
men who have been asking daily in
formation as to the easiest way for
them to get into real army life will
now have an opportunity to enlist as
cooks or bakers. They will first have
to agree to maintain the family they
leave at home, but as cooks and bak-
ers are rated higher than enlisted
men. it is said the married man who
is rated as either can keep a family
easily.
John S. Geist, of Williamstown.
was married at Gettysburg to-day.
Back of that simple sentence lays
quite a tale. The story goes that
John and his best girl have intended
to get married on this date for some
time. but John was quite determined
that he should never be accused OF
hiding behind a woman's skirts"
! Recent orders from Washington indi-
/ cate that men who get married even
at this late date will be exempted
from the draft. John did not want
to be exempted from the draft, but
he did want to get married. He did
not like the thought of getting mar
| ried and then being forced TO leave
| his new bride.
Married at Camp
1t seemed quite a momentous prob
! lem for the young couple. They
| finally decided the most honorable
thing to do would be for Geist to
enlist first and then send for his fan
Gee and be married at camp. He
| passed the necessary examinations
| and was sworn in early this week and
sent to Gettysburg. This afternoon
he laid aside the rifle long enough ia
! take another, more serious and mind
ing oath than the one that made him
a soldier. The bride will return to
her home and wait for the return OF
her soldier boy from the front.
One No. 25S EnIistS
No. 25S, Frank l.. Klinpeter. yes
terday enlisted in the infantry. Frank
| said he had been thinking of enlistine
for some time. but when he heardA AhiS
number had been picked the first one
he certainly did decide in a hurry
Buffalo Bill's show was coming to the
city and he wanted to see the show
before he enlisted. Yesterday he re-
sretted he had lost the weeks train.
ing at Gettysburg.
and machinists you can get" are the
constant instructions received by
Quartermaster Quirk. Other enlist
ments for the navy cannot be for
warded to the central stations until {
vacancy occurs, but men of the above
classes are in such demand that the!
can be forwarded instantly.
Lieutenant Amthor, in charge o
signal recruiting. is hoping to hav,
his battalion filled within the mex
week. Two hundred thirty y-nine mel
seemed a large number to be takeI
from Harrisburg just when they haC
finished contributing to every brancl
of the service, but daily enlistment
have been so large that indications
are many young men of the city are
still anxious to get into the service
Local enlistments at the regular
army were: William H. Heffletinger
rs North Seventeenth. Mechanicsburg
aviation section of signal corps; Johr
H. Phillips, 2119 South Second, Steel
ton. medical corps; Bernard E. STAINS
field, Mechanicsburg, signal corps
Lawrence II. Zeigler, 332 Spring, Mid
dletown, infantry; William NJ. Keefer
Oberlin, infantry; George G. Yohn
Millerstown, infantry; Oscar \. Peter.
son. Centerville, Cumberland county
infantry; John l.. Hoffman, Docl
street, Royalton. infantry.