Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-15
QUEST|0NNA|RES
Sending Out in State
Will Start Today
Must Be Returned to Local Boards
properly Filled Out Within Seven
Days of Date Mailsd-CIassifioat ians

Today the local boards under the Sc
iective service law will commence
sending out the questionnaires to all
men of draft age in the State who
registered on June last. There are
22oo men registered in District No.
of kennebec county which includes all
OF the towns or the east side of the
kennebec river and also Augusta and
HailoWell. The instructions from
Washington to the local boards are to
mail five per cent Of the total num-
Der OF questionnaires each day, so that
IN District No. l, 10 registrants will be
sent their missionaries Dec. Is. The
sending Of the same number of uues-
tionnaires will continue daily (Sun-
day excepted) until all the 1900 have
been sent out. 81 the last Will leave
the office in Augusta about three
weeks from today.
The local board for District No. .
IN kennebec county is located in Wa
tervllle and has the Jurisdiction Of all
towns IN the county west OF the Ken
hebec river except Augusta and Hal
lowell. and has nearly the same num-
Der of registrants
1t is of the utmost inheritance that
re&istrants understand the necessity of
properly film. out and ret1rninp
these questionnaires to the local board.
The missionaries are dated the dav
they are mailed and must be returned
within seven days from that date An
addressed envelope is enclosed in
winch to return the QUESTIONABLE and
REQUIRES no postage. The registrant
VIII simply enclose his QUESTIONABLE
IN the return envelope which is en-
closed and post it at his postoffce.
Tie government has appointed men
In every town who will assist. free of
charge. registrants in properly filing
out their missionaries. A list of this
"o-called Legal Advisory Board for
Division No. ] Of Kennebec county is
as follows: Augusta, Frank G., Far
rington. r. ]. c. Little. Samuel Tit
comb. Melvin s. Holway. NJ. IT. Sim
mons Anne Casavant and NJ. T.. Saw
telie; Albion. Charles W. Abbott: Ben
ton. Reuben Wentworth; China. w
W. Nashbirn and O. r. Sproul; Gin
to-" Frank L.. Besse; Hallowell, NJ. IT.
Simmons and Warren Jones: East
PtttSton, Walter II. Heath; TassaI-
moro. -. II. Bates; Winslow. George
X Baseett.
TIE notice TO registrants shotv;,o
TIE importance of promptly. filling ont
and returning the questfonnaires is rs
follows: You are hereby REQUIRED bt.
law t" return this questionna;re flled
out in accordance with Instructions
contained herein within seven DAVIS
from the date of this notice Failure
n n "a CT IN, I'd
by fine or Imprisonment for one year
and may result in the loss Of valuable
rights and in immediate induction into
military service"
Tie registrants will be divided into
flVe classes. Single men without de-
pendent relatives are included in Glass
!; in that class are also included reg
lstr2nts who fail to submit their o1Ies-
tionnaires within seven DAYS after
sent out. Married men without de-
pendent relatives are included in Glass
2. Married men with dependents.
county and municipal officers are in
cluded i'll Glass 3. Necessary govern
ment employees and necessary mana
gers of agricultural and industrial en-
terprises are also included i'm Glass 3.
A man whose wife and children are
dependent upon his labor for support,
mariners actually employed in sea
service of citizens or merchants of the
United States and sole managers or
directing heads of a necessary agricu1-
tural or industrial enterprise are in
cluded in Class 4. State officers. min
listers, licensed pilots actually employ
ed, and persons In military and naval
service Of the United States are in
cluded in Class 5.