The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-08-30
FIFTY shy FOR EXAMINATION
Exemption Board Starts Work on
Which is Expected to be the Final
Grind in Hearing Claims for Ex-
emption-To Dispose of Gases.

Hopes of Kenosha conscripts and
their relatives that Ksnosha men would
be sent to Camp Grant at Rockford,
ILL.,, for training for the new National
Army were blasted this morning when
the local exemption board received for
NAL notice from the adjutant general
that all troops mustered into the Ma
tional Army from Kenosha would be
sent to Camp Custer at Battle Creek.
The same order has been received by
the Kenosha County Exemption Board
and when the first men selected for
service get away a week from today
their tickets will read Battle Creek
The men who have been taken from
the entire lake shore are all sent to
Battle Creek while men from the inter
Tor counties are sent to Rockford. The
list of counties from which men will
go to Battle Greek include Kenosha,
Racine, Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Mantle
voc, Waukesha, Brown, Calumet, Dorr,
and Ozaukee. The new orders which
have been issued stipulate that five per
cent of the men demanded will be called
for service on September 5th.
The notices to these men will be Civ
en- in due time. There has been no for
NAL order for the entrainment of these
men or no provision for their transfer.
TO Battle Creek. It is possible that
they will remain in camp here for
week The camp should be a coy lit
tie affair as the total number of men
will not exceed twenty-five.
Last Lap on Draft Starts
With the completion of the examina-
lions of men called by the exemption
board the board today started on the
last lap of making selections for the
army in Kenosha While there is little
hope of hearing the mass Of claimss OF
exemption now on file before the date
set for calling the first of the men into
service, the exemption board has buck
led right down to work and is going
TO dispose of the claims as rapidly as
possible. There are thirty Kenosha men
somewhere who did not respond to the
call to appear before the examiners.
Some of these men are accounted Tor
and others are classed as "shirkers.
New notices have been sent to all who
can be located giving the benefit of
the doubt that the former order failed
to reach them. If these men fail to
appear for examination at once they
will be certified for service. Exam1-
nations of several of the men called
will be made in other states and cities
as these men have notified the board
that thew are far away from Kenosha
and that it would be impossible for
them to come back for examination
without a large financial outlay. LII
these men are passed for service by ex-
emption boards in other states they
will be certified members of the Re
nosha quota.
John G. Slater, who is the representa-
tive Of the United States government
in Kenosha, has notified the local ex-
emption board that he has filed appeals
in practically every case of exemptions
granted by the board. These appeals
are now matter for hearing before
the district board in Racine. It is adj
mitted that there is little reason to be-
lieve that any of the men exempted
will be called to service but these men
will not be free from the obligation
of service and further appearance I'M
til the final disposition of their cases
has been made by the appeal boards.