Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-21
TO NOTIFY ALL
MEN CALLED FOR
MILITARY DUTY
County District Boards Will
Make Call When They Re-
ceive Quotas

All men who will be required to
come before the county district draft
poardS IN answer to the first call will
De notified when and where to ap-
pear within the next few days. No
one in the city will be notified as
harrisburg has met its quota in en-
listments.
Members of the three county draft
exemption boards, as soon as they
are off1cially notified of the quota to
be raised in their respective dis
tricts, will at once call twice that
number of men to appear for ex-
animation. Those affected will be
notified through the press, by a list
posted at the office of the board in
the district they reside, and by in
dividual notices.
The first examinations will prob
ably be made five days after the first
notices go out, and will be continued
each day until the quota is furnish
ed. In case the number first notified
is not sufficient to meet the number
OF men required. additional ones will
be called until the quota is filled.
claims for exemption, according
TO the board members, can be made
any time within seven days from
; the time the notice is posted for
each drafted man to appear for ex-
animation.
After a claim for exemption is
tled, the person making it has ten
days to send proof in support of it.
Each local board will furnish all
other information, necessary blanks
to be filled with the affidavits of de-
pendent parents, wives, children,
brothers or sisters.
When the claims are decided each
individual will not be notified. In
stead the members , of the boards
Will make lists of those accepted and
those exempted and post them. In
case appeals are taken from the de-
cision of the local boards blanks will
be furnished by them. These must
be filled and sent to the appellate
board within ten days after the list
Is posted showing those drafted and
those exempted.
The office for examination of all
those who will be notified to appear
in the First county district will be
at the electric light building, ir
North Front street, Steelton. Mem
bers of the exemption board are
Charles c. Cumbler. Allen Draw
baugh and DR.. Bayard T. Dickinson.
The boroughs and townships in this
district follow:
Steelton.
Highspire.
Middletown.
Londonderry township.
Conewago township.
The Office of the Second district
board will be at the Paxtr q school
house. The members are gorge w.
Karmany, Arthur H. b ~ and DR..
NJ. L. Nissley. Boroug' and town.
ships in the district a
PaXtang.
Penbrook.
Hummelstown.
Derry township.
Lower Swatara township.
Lower Paxton township.
West Hanover township.
East Hanover township.
South Hanover township.
Swatara township.
Susquehanna township.
Offices of the Third district will be
at Elizabethville. Members of the
board are Charles w. Finton, Ly-
kens; John C. Bixler, Baskerville.
and DR.. D. f. Hottenstein, MilIers-
burg. Boroughs and townships in
the district follow:
Berrysburg
Elizabethville
GratZ.
Halifax.
LykenS.
Millersburg.
Uniontown.
Williamstown.
Dauphin.
Halifax township.
Jackson township.
Jefferson township.
Lykens township.
Miff1in township.
Reed township.
Rush township.
Upper Paxton township.
Middle Paxton township
Washington township.
Wayne township.
Wiconisco township.
Williams township.
The county boards are ready to re-
organize and prepare for examining
drafted registrants, they said today
and all expect to begin examinations
within a week to begin examinations
31-after they are furnished with cop
ing the chronological order in which
the registrants were drawn yester-.
day.
drawn will be the first to be axamined
and the balance will be examined is
the order in which their numbers
were drawn yesterday.
men will be advised on the day thev
are examined whether or not they
have passed. Members of the boards
say they probably will want time to
consider each case, in view of having
so many men appear before them in
one day, and will not announce their
decisions until two or three DAYS
after the examinations are conducted
Upon going before the draft board
a drafted man will be required to
make out a certificate advising the
board of his physical condition. The
physician, on the draft board will then
conduct his examination and If the
subject is passed he will be required
later to go through another physical
test this time at the mobilization
camp.
II. G. Garman of Lucknow. num-
beer 2ks. the first man to be called
from the second district of Dauphin
county. this morning said that he
certainly was surprised when he
learned he was the first one drafted.
He said he hadn't even been thinking
about 1t. Mr.. Garman said he did not
intend to claim exemption II he could
dispose of his business prior to his
cali. He is proprietor of Mehrine'a
garage at Boas and Rose streets