The courier-index., 1917-08-24
LEE COUNTY BOARD
 MAKES FIRST REPORT
CERTIFIED FULL QUOTA OF DRAFTED MEN AHEAD OF ALL OTHER COUNTIES-WILL TAKE NO PAY FOR SERVICES.

The Lee county exemption board composed of Arthur Cotter, Dr. o. l.. Williamson and J. E. Stevenson. assisted by C. E. Daggett. Davis Hummer and half ascore of other ? young men who volunteered their ser vices. on last Saturday certified to the adiutant general of Arkansas the full quota of 293 men from Lee county. In the Arkansas Gazette of Sunday the announcemnt is made that the Lee county board was the first in the state to send in it's full report, and it was also the first hoard in the state to notify the adju- tant general that the members would decline to accept pay for their ser vices. The war department recently ann unced members of exemption boards would be allowed four dollars a day for their services From the called upon to register on June 5, up to and including the present, not enc penny of expense incident to the ardous and tracking task of selecting Lee county's quota of men has been charged to the gov ernment Some bills were necessar- fly incurred, but these were paid by order of County Judge J. A. Plum mer The members of the board, assisted by Drs. w. B. Bean, E. D. oil hnr Of others who helped to do the clerical work, have refused from the begin ming to accept any pay.
 On Saturday afternoon, acting upon ! instructions from the adjutant gen. eral, the local board certified twenty-two additional men as fol- | lows:
 Fred Lasson Merck, Little Rock.
 Dempsey Wiley, Marvel.
 Richard Bondmen, Marianna.
 Berry Peters, Aubrey.
 Leo Payne, LaGrange.
 Rolley Winkfield, Rondo.
 Henry Branch, Brickeys.
 Johnnie Mullens, Marianna.
 Benjamin Fritz, Soudan.
 Ezra Buford, LaGrange.
 Frank Taylor, Rondo.
 Grover Brown, Haynes.
 Wesley Kinchner, Soudan.
 John Everett, Marianna.
 Luther Kyle, Aubrey.
 Abe Cook, Brickeys.
 Geo. Washington Graham, Mori.
 Walter Anderson, Marianna.
 Ernest King, Haynes.
 Wm. E. Gillenwater, Moro.
 Henry Benton, Jr., Council.
 West Smith, Council.
 In addition to the above list of twenty-two, the names of Clifford Cole and Henry Askew, both of As kew, were certified. Neither of these men reported for physical examina- tion and in consequence they stand in the attitude of deserters.
 The following were granted ex- emptions, either permanent or tem- porary:
 Nim Rodgers, Soudan; N. Frank Lomax, Aubrey; Theo Wm. Pulliam, @"oiO3 AiLnui LCNio, RuDi " ster Decatur Johnston, Marianna; John Anderson McCulloch, Lexa; Frank Minor, Moro; Hugh Jordan, Moro.
 The following men were discharged because of physical disability:
 Ben Hill, Marianna; Archie Robin son, Moro; Chas. Robinson, Council; Andrew Thos. Free, Haynes; Chas' Gray, Aubrey: Willie Smith, Rondo; Will Davis, Marianna; l. c. Morgan Council: Willie Frank Barnett, AS kew; Ed Miller, Marianne; Martin Smith, Brickeys; Paul Foster New ell, Marianna.
 So far the board has secured the original quota of 293 men With thirty -one who failed to report TOT examination, and the additional z1 men with the two who failed to re- port, out of a total of 51O drafts'
 Notices have been mailed out to the first contingent comprising thirty per cent of the drafted men to noio themselves in readiness to report to theslocal board on September 5.