Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-10
PALMER AND
MCCORMICK ON
EXEMPT BOARDS
Forty-Five Residents of State
Named by Governor to
Serve
NINE DISTRICTS IN PA.
Will Pass Upon Appeals
From Conscription Boards;
Rulings Final

Names of forty-five prominent
Pennsylvanians, among them Demo-
cratic National Chairman Vance c.
Mccormick and Democratic Nation
al Committeeman A. Mitchell Pal
mer, We're to-day sent to Washington
by Governor Brumbaugh for ap-
pointment as members of exemption
boards in the conscription system.
The announcement issued by the
Governor says that they were sug-
gested ''at the request of the provost
marshal general"
There will be three boards for
each of the federal judicial districts
of the State and the members will
pass upon appeals made. from the
conscription boards ana where it is
claimed that there should not be
military service because Of indus
trial, agricultural or other occupa-
ton.
No. /, (Which includes the 1st, I'd,
Sd, 4th, 5th. 9Th, eth, Sth, 9th. 10th,
11th, 18th, 18th, 14th, 26th, 27th.
S0th. S6th, 39th, 40th, 10th. and 4Sth
wards of the city OF Philadelphia) {:
John Cadwalader, DR.. Charles II.
Willis, Samuel 7. Bodine, Julius
Lamore, Joseph 7. Bailey.
No. ?, comprising the 18th, 10th,
18th, 18th. 18th, goth, 21st, 22d.
23d, oath, 25th, 2Sth, 2sth, S1st, S2d,
SD, S4th, S5th, 3Tth, 3Sth, 41st,
42d. 43d, 44th, 45th and Attn wards
of the city of Philadelphia): Walter
Willard, Germantown; DIR. Frank c.
hammond, James j. Ryan, ]. c. Nc
Donald, Mt. Airy; Ellis Gimbel.
No. ), Gncluding Berks, Bucks,
Lehigh, Northampton and Schylkill
countless: John Hartman, Mohn-
ton; Henry 7. Moon. Morrisville; A.
w. Hagenbach, Allentown; DR.. V. S.
Messenger, Easton; George NJ. Kai-
ser, Pottsville.
No. 1, Gncluding Chester, Della
ware, Lancaster and Montgomery
countless: DIR. Percy Hoskins, West
Chester; Horace E. Kennedy, Ian
caster; Eugene G. Smith, Lancaster;
Richard ]. Hamilton, Ardmore;
Kendall I. Scott, Chester.
No. 5, Gncluding Bradford, Cam
eron, Carbon, Clinton, Lackawanna,
LuZerne, Lycoming, Monroe, Pike,
Potter. Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga,
Wayne and Wyoming counties) (:
George E. Stevenson, Scranton
Thomas Davis, Nanticoke; DIR. A. +.
Hardt, Williamsport; A. Mitchell
Palmer, Stroudsburg; Frederick A.
Osborn, Hartford.
No. 8, Gncluding Adams, Center,
Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin,
Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juni-
alta, Lebanon, Mifflin, Montour,
Northumberland, Perry, Snyder,
Union and York;: George H. Stuart,
Jr., Shippensburg; Vance c. Nc
Cormick, Harrisburg; Howard E
Butz, Huntingdon; Henry Y. Snyder,
Lebanon; DR.. John A. Shower,
York.
No. :, (Allegheny county,: T. j,
keenan,, Pittsburgh; Taylor Alder
dice, Pittsburgh; d. ]. Berry, Pitts
burgh; DR.. S. S. Woodburn, Pitts
burgh; T. c. Jones, McKeesport.
No. s, Gncluding Armstrong,
Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Clearfield,
Crawford, Elk, Erie, Forest, Indiana,
Jefferson, Lawrence, Mexican, Mer-
Ger, Venango and WARREN: c d.
Gilbert, Beaver; Peter a. Gearhart
Clearfield; Joseph Mccormick, Erie;
Charles A. Martin, Ellwood City;
DR.. Frederick w. Brown, Franklin.
No. 3, Cncluding Bedford, Blair
Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Somerset
Washington and Westmoreland coun-
ties): DR.. Albert S. Oburn. Altoona
H.. NJ. Gooderham, Patton; George
E. Gay, Uniontown; John O'Leary
Roscoe; Paul II. Gather. Green's
burg.