Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-08-15

beginning Sept, l, were issued 10.
night by Provost Marshal General
Crowder. They map out in detail
the whole program to be followed
until every soldier Of the selective
draft army has been accepted by the
adjutant general of the training can
tonment to which he is assigned.
Two hundred thousand of the
first $4,000 men will be called up
September and forwarded to their
camps before September 5. The
whole business of assembling the
levies at entraining points, provid-
| ing them with shelter, food and
transportation and giving them
their actual induction into military
lives is entrusted 10 the civilian
local boards which selected them
for service. Until the men reach
the camps, they will not be in con-
tact with uniformed officers.
The actual call for men will go
in each case from the provost mar
shall general to the State adjutant
general. stating the number of men
to be supplied at specific time.
Each local board will be promptly
informed of it's proportion in the
call and the adjutant general will
fix the date when men from his
State shall entrain for the camps.
Immediately the local board will
make out the list of men to fill the
call from the roll of accepted men
and it will also fix the place of en-
trainment and the exact time of de-
parture.
Report to Board.
Orders to report to the men will
be posted and also be sent them by
mail. They will be directed to
report to the local board atits head.
quarters NOT Iesss sthantt twelve ahonrs
or more than twenty-fo four hours be-
fore the time of departure for camp.
From the time specified for re-
porting to the local board for mill
tary duty" the regulations state,
leach man in respect of whom no
tice to report has been posted or
mailed shall be in the military serv-
ice of the United States"
Prior to the arrival of the men at
the board headquarters board mem
bers are instructed to make arrange:
ments for their sleeping places and
their meals The boards will issue
tickets for Accommodations to be re-
deemed for cash later by govern
ment disbursing officer. In their
discretion, the boards may grant
permission for the men to remain
at their homes.
Arrived at the board headquarters
at the hour fixed for reporting, the
men will be drawn up, the roll call
ed and agents of the board will
take them personally to their quart
ers, remaining with them until every
arrangement for their comfort has
been made. Emphatic instructions
are given that the guilty of food
furnished shall be good and the
board is held liable for seeing that
meals are adequate.
Retreat roll call at the board
headquarters, set for $50 p. M, on
the dav of reporting to the board,
will be the first military ceremony
the drafted men pass through
The board members are directed to
be present in person and to impress
on the men the fact that disobedience
of orders is the gravest military
crime. The light hand baggage.
containing toilet articles and a
change of underclothing, which the
men are permitted to take with
them to camp, will be inspected by
the board and the lists of men sent
forward made out and copies Of
original registration cards prepared
More to Fill Vacancies.
For each district, five alternates
will be summoned to the board
headquarters in addition to the men
actually selected to fill the board
quota. They will be held at the as
sembling point until train time tc
fill in vacancies should any men OF
the levy fail to report.
Except for retreat roll call men
will be given town liberty un'
til As minutes before train time.
The board will, during this interval
select one man for the levy whom
ne deems best qualified to command
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