Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-17
DRAFT
MEN ASSIGNED
TO INFANTRY
Central Pennsylvania to Make
Up 316th Regiment at
Camp Meade
KEEP FRIENDS TOGETHER
Ruling Decides Upon What
Branch of Service Men
Will Serve In

All men sent to Camp Meade this
week by the three Dauphin county
1raft exemption boards will be as
Bigned to the infantry branch of the
Fervice, it was learned to-day. The
men will be organized into what will
be known as the Three Hundred and
Sixteenth Infantry. to be composed of
men from Dauphin and surrounding
tounties.
Relatives of drafted men, accord
ing to army officers. can save the
government an enormous amount of
detail work and incidentally insure
prompt delivery of mail to the boys
n camp by including in the address
pm all letters the number of the
raining battalion, regiment or troop
given in the official list.
Publication of the list below shows
for the first time the achievements
bf the army general staff in complet-
ng the military organization of
Drafted men long before they are
lctrs lily called into service.
Each man in the IS per cent. of
luotas from local draft boards
throughout the state called for serv-
ce on September 10 has been as
Eigned to a certain unit. Schedules
or the housing of the men at Camp
Meade also have been prepared and
bfficers of each unit have been Sc
ected. Most of the officers have
been undergoing an intensive course
bf training for weeks at Camp Meade.
Men Will Not BE Scattered
It is possible TO announce also for
he first time that draft and congress
|ional districts have been recognized
by the War Department in the or
Eanization of all regiments and train
ng hattalions. In other words. there
will be no scattering of drafted men.
nlts have been organized on geo.
graphical lines. so that with few eX-
Eepuons young men who have been
heighbors and friends for years will
ind themselves in the same bat
alions or troop at Camp Meade, and
ater in the new national army.
The Assignments
The, list showing distribution of
raft troops who viii report for duty
September 19 at Camp Meade from
'entral Pennsylvania is as follows:
northumberland county, local
boards 1, ., 3 and 4, Training Bat
alion s.
Schuylkill county, local boards I,
and 4, Training Battalion 6.
SchUylkill county, local boards 1,
3, 4, and 7. Training Battalion
0; local board 3. Training Battalion
Union county. Training Battalion 5.
Snyder county, Training Bat
alon 5.
Mif1in county, Training Battalion 5.
Juniata county, Training Bat
alon ).
Perry county. Training Battalion 5.
Dauphin county. local boards /. .
nd ?, One Hundred and Sixteenth
Infantry.
York county. local boards /. . and
Three Hundred and Sixteenth In
antry.
York city, local boards 1 and ..
hree Hundred and Sixteenth Infan-
ry.
Lancaster county. local boards 1,
and 4, Three Hundred and Six
eenth Infantry.
Lebanon county. local boards and
Training Battalion IL.
Cumberland county. local boards
and 2. Training Battalion 4.
Franklin county. local boards 1
nd 2, Training Battalion 4.
Adams county, Training Bat
alion 4.
1t is estimated that nearly 10000
nen will report for duty at Camp
Meade September 10. The task of
orting mail addressed to individuals.
With no other direction than the
amp, will require scores of clerks.
nd their work can be lightened if
elatives will add the number or
ther designation of the unit as
iven above to the addresses on all
Ftters.
In addition to the draft units
sted there will be First Provision
Regiment of Infantry" composed of
ecroes. Recruits from all draft
cards will be included in this regi-
bent,