The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-27
In County Outside City, 1875 Is
Highest NumeraI.
Eighth Selection Today Affects
All Districts Here.
FIRST men To Be CALLED
Z. C. Leitzley, e. r. Jones of
City; OrIie Wilson, r. r.. No. s.
If Registrants Don't Know
Numbers, Local Boards Do.

Kansas interest in the allotment OF
numbers to draft registrants in Wash
ington today, concerns all numbers be-
low 440. Number 439 is the high
number in Kansas. That number is
the serial number of a registrant
somewhere in the Butler county oil
fields Number II and smaller num-
bers affect all Kansas counties. Two
counties-Greeley and Haskell-regis-
tered just II men each when the 1918
class was enrolled June 5.
Numbers below 116 will affect all
Shawnee county and Topeka city dis
tricts today, while numbers up to and
including 1876 affect Shawnee county
outside the city of Topeka. In Topeka
City district No. 2, the total registra-
ton is 157. The registration of 115 in
the first city district is low for the
city and county.
Slight changes in the present show
ing of county registration totals may
be made by supplemental returns. Re-
ports sent to the Office of Charles s.
Huffman, adjutant general. show that
Butler county registered the largest
number of men of the 1918 class when
II enrolled a total of 439. 1t is prob
able supplemental returns may In
crease the tOldl tt0 " CNCii
45O. Totals in other counties with
large registrations may be slightly in
creased. There is little chance for
changes, however, in the low counties
of Greeley and Haskell. Each Of these
counties enrolled IL men.
Thirteenth Number Hits Kansas.
The first number drawn today
number 246-applied to Kansas. 1t
did not affect any of the three dis
tricts IN Shawnee county and applied
only 70 a few of the counties with sin
gle districts and heavy registrations.
Unlucky thirteen hit Kansas.
1t was the thirteenth number select
ed from the bowl in the senate office
building in Washington today which
affect ed every county in the state and
gave % 116 Kansans an order number
The thirteenth number was number 10
and applied to every county and regis
tration district.
Each of the three districts in To-
peka and Shawnee county was af-
fected by order number 154. which
was called in the eighth selection No.
355, the tenth selection. applied to
Butler and a few large registration
Practically every county and dis
triet in the state was affected by the
fifteenth and twenty-fifth selections.
No. 20 was drawn on the fifteenth Sc
lection. while No. II was the twenty
fifth reading.
First Men to Go.
Edwin Richard Jones, 700 CLAW
street was the first Shawnee county
man assigned an order number today.
His registration number is 154, the
eighth number drawn from the bowl
Jones lives in the second city registra-
ton district.
William Carl Leitzley, 1719 Van
Buren, street, was the first man drawn
from city district No. 1, while Orlie
Wilson was the man in the county
district affected by the drawing. Both
Leitzley and Wilson held number 10,
the thirteenth number read.
Many Don't Know Numbers.
All men in the class of 1918 were
assigned registration numbers the day
following the registra ton, June s. 1t
is probable hundreds of men in the
new class have not been advised of
their registration number. These
numbers are recorded with the local
boards and also in the office of Charles
S. Huffman, adjutant general.
Men who desire to know their rela-
tive positions in the draft, may secure
their registration number by calling
on their local board. BY applying to-
days drawing numbers, a person may
determine his relative position in fu-
ture calls.
Thus in Topeka city district No. 1,
the registration is 1876. The 147th
number drawn today was No. 60 1t
was held by Emmett Meriweather, 1929
Adams street. The number was the
fourteenth applying in Meriweather's
district, however. and thus he holds
the fourteenth order number in his
district
When the first 1876 numbers were
called this morning. they took 76 mer,
from the two city districts and Shaw
nee county outside the city City dis
trict No. 1, with 115 registrants, was
hNF
while district No. 2, with 157 regis
trants, was given 20 call numbers. The
county with a registration of 1856,
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