The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-04-18
80 Men From Grady County 10 Go For
ward; Assemble Here April Is;
Leave Following Day
HAS A BAD ELBOW
BUT WANTS TO HELP
Man Turned Down Once al Camp Tries
Again; Another Call May |;
Exams. April e

The call for the next increment Of
Grady county men to go forward to
Camp Travis, Tex, was issued this
morning from the office of the local
exemption board, on the authority
given in orders from the department,
IT calls the men to assemble in
Chickasha on April 25 and leave for
camp on April &c
There will be total of SO men
to go forward at this time from the
entire county. They will assemble
as usual at 4 o'clock April 25 in
front of the Federal building for
roll call, will be dismissed to assem-.
BILE again that evening at mess call,
the final assembly here coming the
following afternoon when they win
march to the depot and entrain for
camp at $40,
Some of the same trouble that has
been experienced iu the past con
fronted the board members While
preparing the list of men. That is
some of them have left the county
and considerable correspondence has
been necessary to get in proper
touch with them it is the belief,
however, that the men have been
rounded up and that everything pre-
sents clear board. 1t is probable
that some of them will leave from
other points than Chickasha, thus
side-stepping the necessity Of max
ing long jump on the return trip
to Chickasha.
With this call not out of the way,
the board has orders for another
call to send additional men forward
on a date, yet TO be definitely fixed,
but which will come Immediately af-
ter May /, This latter call, howev-
er, will order out small number Of
men.
Also, the board has received or
ders to call for examination $50 men
OH April 23 The list of men to be.
called for examination at that time
is being prepared by the board. The
examination will be in charge of DR.,
5. o. Marrs, who has succeeded Dr..
L. e. Emanuel as physician of the
local board, DR.. Emanuel having
been called as u captain in the med
ical reserve,
While the last Of tho cards call
ing the April 25th increment to the
colors were being prepared in the
office Of the board this morning, two
young men walked in and declared
that they wanted to join the army.
They were William I. Linn, and
Hugh Meegan of Minco. They were
not called for service with the in
crement next to assemble and we're
told that the May 1st call would be
the earliest date on which they could
get in.
mo, we're not called now, but we
just naturally wanted to join the
army" said Meegan. Il want to get
in as an automobile mechanic
Their records were examined from
the cards and missionaries on file
in the office.
"Wby, Mr. Linn, YOU were turned
down once at camp Mr.. Durbin re
marked as he scanned the records
"Yes, sir, / know it. 1 went tc
Camp Green, N. c., and was reject
ed on account of an elbow that it
little stiff" replied Linn. "But it,
like this. I want to do something
t. help out. Hugh wants TO go il
as an automobile mechanic, and
thought that | could get in as
helper. I know the old elbow j
not too stiff for that'
! Their cases were taken under ad
visement to be worked out unde