The diamond drill., 1918-03-02
MORE RECRUITS
co TO TRAINING
TEN IRON COUNTY MEN WILL LEAVE
MONDAY EVENING
TO co TO FORT OGLETnORPE
Will Join Other Contingents Be-
tween Here and Menouiinee All
Headed For Same Place

Iron county is TO send another OF
contingent OF recruits to camp for
training Next Monday evening
souad OF ten Iron county boys viii
leave from the North Western station
for Lyle, Georgia, the station az
which Fort oglethorpe is located. A.
that place they will go into training
for soldiers and, in due time, they
will join their comrades in the trench
es across the ocean.
This contingent will raise the
number sent under the selectiye drat
act TO 1853, and Is so per cen, OF the
number asked for in the first call
List Of Honor Men.
The following selected men will re-
port to the local board Monday, Marcn
4th. 1918 at 10 o'clock a. m. for en-
trainment to Camp Greenleaf. Fort og-
Iethorpe, Georgia:
o.aa. Name Serial
AZ VIM. oberg, Iron River r...... 7Sl
107 John +. Johnson, Iron River co.
131 J. NJ. Oswald, Crystal Falls. 1880
1S6 Nander Osterlund, Palatka zoos
2Os John l.. Hill, Stambaugh. .147O
90 Antonio Russo, Crystal Falls 2622
2l6 Abe X. Krom, Iron River. 574
235 Francesca Garuh. Palatka .lSeS
256 Thos. Jolette Palatka. ......l1l4
267 Stanley Vercoe, Gaastra. 22S
The following selected men will re-
port to the local board on the above
date as alternates, in case any Of the
above men fail To report.
276 Gustaf II. Peterson Beech'd.1l4l
277 Alfred Frederickson, Alpha 1914
2s4 Peter Holstein, Crystal Falls 244S
Dated at Crystal Falls, Michigan,
February 27, 1918. BY order of the 10
cal board. Iron county, Michigan
JOHN WALL, Secretary
Pass Up Camp Custer.
An of the recruits that have been
sent from here under the draft ACT
have gone TO Camp Custer, the can
tonment in which the soldiers from
Michigan and Wisconsin are supposed
. train. The war department has
varied the rule this time and are send
ing the boys directly to the South.
II Is understood that the reason fot
this change in that the troops at Camp
Custer are pretty well seasoned, and
the military authorities do not wish
10 impede their early dispatch to the
finishing school in France by throw
ing into the ranks a number of raw
recruits.
The southern climate at this time Is
much better for training men than a
that OF Camp Custer and by sending
the men called to service at this time
directly 10 some southern training
camp they will he fitted TO cross the
ocean much earlier than they would
II they were sent TO northern camp
should Give Them n Reception.
The question Of giving the boys who
are TO leave us next Monday a parting
farewell has been up and II Is under
stood that the council of local defense
or the Red Cross will take up the mat
ter and give the boys the same fare
well greeting that has been given
those OF our young men who have gone
before them.
The band will turn out and escort
them 10 the station and patriotic
speech will be made by some OF our
local talent The roads are such Just
>ow that we can't expect a large del
egation OF our Iron River and Sam
bhNs ieighbors TO join us. fact that
we regret very much for the major
portion Of the young men are from
those two sections.
However. II devolves upon us Ia
speak for the entire county this time
and we want TO rally TO the occasion
and let the boys know that Iron coun.
~ prizes highly its young manhood
and that the hearts Of It's people. NJ
matter in what part Of the county they
live. are with the boys wherever the,
may be
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