The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-02
BOARD RECEIVED
new INSTRUCTIONS
SIX WHITES WILL LEAVE FOR
CAMP GORDON TODAY, AND
60 NEGROES TOMORROW.

The sixty-eight negro selectmen
who were notified to appear in Daw-
son last Friday to entrain for Camp
Gordon did not go.
Thursday morning the local board
received telegram from the office of
the adjutant general instructing
them to disregard the previous orders
under which the men had been call
ed, to the effect that every registrant
who was not engaged in farm work
be drafted and then to take the men
in their order on the list until the re-
CURED number was obtained.
The new instructions required that
all the men be taken from class one
according to the order in which they
were listed irrespective of occu-
patton. The board accordingly had
all the work to do over again, and
have ordered the following colored
registrants to be in Dawson Wednes
day, April 3rd, to leave for Camp
Gordon on the 1885 Central train:
Calvin Davis, Calvin Dennard, Will
lie Chester, Tom Jackson, Ernest
Cleveland Anderson, lack Bailey.
Willie Alfred Burks, Jesse Lee. Clad
Murray, Geo. W. Blakely, Bud Hatch
er, Dan Mathews, Bill Williams, Ear
ly Jones, John Lawrence, Cleveland
Weston, Harrison Lunsford, Robert
Jenkins, Ernest Harris, David Dykes.
Arrie Smith, William Love, William
Mathews, Henry Hall, Walter Spen-
Ger, William Hall, Lonnie Collins.
Will Hinton, Floyd Humber, George
Dyer, Fudge Mathis, Seab Young, IT..
Henry Brown, Joe Troutman, Hen
ry Thomas, James Milaki, Walter
Young, Sam Spencer, Ulysses Short
er, Albert Ealey, Frank Woodruff.
Cleveland Floyd, Walter Ellington,
Thornton Lockett, o. B. helms, Jas
per Leverett, Jim Flours, Rufus An
derson, Joe Northern, Walter Lee
Bell, Fred Stovall, Sam Williams.
Clinton Weston, Willie Clark, Eddie
Lee Davis, Lynn Jones, Ellogia Jack
son, Daniel Spicer, MerreH Sheffield.
Elijah Davis, John Henry Lawson.
Frank Dennard, Caesar Mcbride.
Alex Butts, jr., Richard Butler, Ell
more Dixon, John Barnes, Dave Mo
man, John Oscar Fort, Mozelle Bass,
Lloyd Douglas, Willie Mercer Knigh-
ton, William Moorehead, Owen Den
nard, Freddie Telfair, Edd Blackwell,
Walter Daniel, Sam Hill, John Proc
tor, Major Osby, Blunder West. Err
nest Hicks, Sterling Thomas, Wesley
Smith, Jake Foster, Arthur Smith,
Isaac Curington, Will Gay, Samuel
Walker, Sam Jones, Elacer Harris,
Will Mitchell, Henry Lewis, Charley
Brown, jr., John Williford, Robert
Lee Salter, Charlie Thomas, Eli Mot
ley.
Those in excess of 6S were sum-
moned as substitutes in the event any
of the number fail to appear.
The Six White Selectmen.
The following white registrants
have been notified to appear today
for departure for Camp Gordon, and
their relatives and a large number
of friends will bid them goodbye
when they leave in defense of their
country:
John Sharp Jones, Grey Nelson
Brown, Joel Ernest Woolbright,
Warner Hill Bransford, Clyde Dan
iel, Thomas E. Blackshear, Henry W.
Grady Baker, Dudley johnson Mize.
The last two were summoned as
substitutes.
When these men leave it will com
plete Terrell county's quota of men
under the first call.
Monday afternoon the board re-
ceived a telegram from the district
board not to send Gray Brown, who
is operator for the Western Union
Telegraph Co., today.