The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1917-07-14

-the approximate amount OF her sepa-
rate income and the independent income
of their child or children during the
last preceding year, exclusive OF any
sums received from her husband and
exclusive OF any gifts to her or her
child OF children. the same being mere
ly the income derived from the separate
or independent income property OF. or
property held In trust for, her. the child
or children"
When wife files a supporting am
davit II must be upheld by an affidavit
/ from a head Of family residing In
the local area. When wife does not
support. but herself makes application
for a husbands discharge she must
cover the same ground and have two
supporting atIidayits from heads OF
families residing in the local area, UNI
less the wife lives outside this area.
In which case the afiidavits may come
from the area IN which she lives.
When neither the wife nor the hus-
band makes the application IL may be
made by some one personally well nc
quainted with such husband and his
wife. child or children" who has per
sonally made an investigation OF the
sources Of income OF the WIFE" The
person flling such an Application must
present Herewith the marriage certif-
cate or a certified copy OF II, or submit
the afIidavits OF two persons who were
present when the marriage took place.
Similar procedure must be followed
In the case Of amy son OF a widow de-
pendent upon his labor for support"
and In the case OF the "son OF aged
or infirm parent or parents dependent
upon his labor for support" for the
father Of a motberless child or chill
dren under sixteen years OF age de-
pendent upon his labor for support
and for the brother OF child or chill
dren under sixteen years OF age who
has (have) neither father nor mother
and Is (are) dependent upon his labor"
What Labor Is.
Labor" is defined In this way:
For the purpose OF these rules and
regulations Tabor shall be construed
to mean bodily or mental exertion. II
may be either physical or intellectual:
It may he professional, mechanical,
commercial, clerical or agricultural,
and each OF these forms OF labor may
exist under notifications or in COM
bination with each other. The means
for the support OF the dependent or de-
pendents must be produced by this la
Dor, whatever It's character. IL need
not he wholly produced from IT, but II
must be mainly so. A dependent re-
ceiving support from a person whose
income Is derived from dividends or
rents cannot be said TO be dependent
upon his labor, but II that income were
entirely the fruit OF professional or
physical toll then such person would
be dependent upon his labor.
For the purpose OF these rules and
regulations" II is added. by the term
aged or infrm' parent or parents IL
meant those persons who from old age
and inhrmity are disabled from earn
ing the means OF supporting them
selves and who by reason OF such age
or inArmity have become dependent for
the means OF support upon the person
In respect OF whom the claim IL made.
III any person claiming exemption or
discharge shall file aflidavits In support
thereof one such affidavit should con
tain the statement that he binds him
self TO report at once in person 10 the
local board by which he was called and
notify II whenever the conditions enti-
thing him TO exemption or discharge
cease 90 exist"
Conscientious DIRECTORS must, within
ten days after filing their claims, pre-
sent atIidavits setting forth.
That the applicant "is a member In
good faith and In good standing OF
well recognized religious sect or organ
ization tgiving the name thereof or
ganized and existing May Is, 1917, and
whose then existing creed or principles
forbid its members 10 participate in
war I'm any form, and that the religious