French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-01-31
DRAFT EXAMS
START FRIDAY
MEN IN CLASS IN LINE
kvK fnASICAL EXAMINATION
Fuu Class OF About $50 to be Examin-
eu, IO1 OF These 10 Soon see
framing service.

4c0n1nB SoTN1coS
The Henderson county exemption
hoard has completed the clasSlncatlOn
of tho 1890 reglStrants IN this county
between the ages or Il and 81 years
and begins physical examinations on
Friday of tnis week unuer the new
classification,
1 Fifteen men have been summoned to
anpear on FRIDAY and nfteen on Satur-
dav of this week and thereafter twenty
will appear daily until all OF Glass
have undergone examination.
While no definite date has been fixed
on which the next draft will be made,
if has been intimated that it will
he about the 18th of February, when
Henderson county will likely be called
on to furnish 153 men.
All these men will be drawn from
Glass l and division A. Glass 1 will
have to supply the men in the order
called and according to their order
number until this class is exhausted
before Glass 2 is drawn.
II is estimated that there are be-
tween four and five hundred men in
Glass / in this county
The colored race will be drawn upon
heavily on the first and second days
of the examination for the reason that
those previously called for service
could not be sent owing to shortage in
camp accommodations for the colored,
hence they come at the head of the list
under the new regulations.
The extract below from the ques-
tionnaire will show the class Of men
to be drawn. OF course large per
cent of this class will be found physi-
caIly unfit for full military duty and
will be placed in line for lighter SER
vice for which the government may
CLASS H. d @s*- : -
(a) Single man without dependent
relatives.
(b) Married man, with or without
children, or father of mOtherless chill
dren, who has habitualIy failed to sup
port his family.
(c)Married man dependent on wife
for support.
I'D Married man, with or without
children, or father of mOtherless chill.
dren; man not usefully engaged, fam
ily supported by income independent
OF lis labor.
(e) Unskilled farm labor.
(f) UnskilIed industrial labOTer.
Registrant by or in respect of whom
no deferred classification is claimed or
made
Registrant who fails to submit
QUESTIONABLE and in respect Of whom
no deferred classification is claimed CT
made.
All registrants not included in any
other division in the schedule.
To Appear Friday.
The following, with order numbers
given, were called on the 26th for ex-
animation on next Friday:
Press Green, col.
H. NJ Whitfield,
Charles Mcclure, col.
Clarence Oliver Liverette,
II Solomon ColletOn, col.
II John D. Con1ey, col.
26 Cornelius Coates, col.
81 Eli Billiards, col.
48 Maston Ellis, col.
49 Joe Gary. col.
53 Francis Friedrich Simmons, col.
"a Earl Owens.
~ Lewis hlnS HOCCS.
50 Luciusr Craig, col.
81 Merrett Hickman Capps.
To Appear Saturday.
The following registrants were sum-
moned on the 28th to appear for exam
nation next Saturday:
62 Andrew Wesley Fletcher:
90 Willie Lee Sexton.
66 General Ezell FAINT, col.
~ Ernest Mack Gray.
Il Fred Brown.
"A Adlai David Garren.
70 John Bowen, col.
~ VIM. Brown Wilson.
"a Sidney Clinton Merrell.
80 Clarence Franklin Bowen.
"a VIM. Henry Smith, col.
80 Willie Rhodes Reid
~ VIM. Mckinley Whitaker.
lOl Ben Few.
lO4 Benjamin Harrison Morgan.
Wv. S. S.