Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-03-20
THE ARMY DRAFT.
Reconsideration to be Made Accord
ing to Physical Examination.

Redistribution to be Made Accord
ing to Physical Examination.
The call to the colors was issued yester-
day to thirteen Hancock county men OF
the draft. They are called to report in
Ellsworth at A p. m. Thursday, March Is.
and to leave Ellsworth for Camp Deyens
at 1910 a m. the following morning. The
men called are as follows, the last named
being called as an alternate:
Guy Pervear, Northeast Harbor.
Warren Trask, Ellsworth.
Mark l.. Harris, Bar Harbor.
James Haskell, Deer Isle.
Levi B. T. Gillis, Bluehill.
Edmund j. Sullivan, Bar Harbor.
William v. Pinkham, Stonington.
Walter M. Pierson, Bangor.
Everard Moran, Bar Harbor.
Burton L. Hodgkins, Eden.
Frank G. Brown, Eagle Island.
Harold q. Howard, Deer Isle.
David Young, Bar Harbor.
Albert R. Barbour, Deer Isle.
Redistribution, according to physical
condition OF the men called in the next
army draft, is provided in revised in
structions for medical advisory boards,
now being issued. The new regulations
require that every man summoned before
the board shall be placed in one of the
following four classes:
(A)- Acceptable for general military
service.
(B) Acceptable for general military
service, after being cured OF remedial
defects.
(C) Acceptable for special or limited
military service in specified capacity or
occupation.
ID, Rejected and exempted from any
military service.
shall general to provide later for the
further investigation and classification
OF the men acceptable TOR limited or
special service, so that record may be
made OF the sort of work each of these
men may be assigned to do without
endangering his health.
Under the new regulations many all
ments and defects which gained ex-
/ emption of drafted men in the past now
will result only in their being listed in
group B. Such men, il they choose, will
be given the privilege of securing the
services OF their family physicians in the
effort to remove the defect, but if they
have not svailed themselves OF this
privilege within a specified time they
will be called into military service and
ordered to a cantonment base hospital,
reconstruction hospital, or to civic
hospital as may be designated by the
surgeon general.
While large number OF men will be
called out during the present year to fill
up the army and complete its organiza.
ton, it was announced last week tina
the war department plans do not call for
the creation of any additional divisions
in 1918.
The announcement concerning the
second draft expected soon from Provost
Marshal General Crowder may outline
the manner in which less than 100000
unexpectedly in excess OF 0,000- are
to be summoned gradually during the
year to complete tine existing organ
izations.
DRAFT DECISIONS.
The district board has made the follow
ing classitications OF Hancock county men
whose cases were submitted to it:
Blaisdell, Austin c., Orland, lie.
Cole, Ernest A, Bucksport, &c,
Christensen, Carl E., E. Surry, I'D.
Dresser, Arthur N, Bucksport, lie.
Durham, Wiibert c., N. Mariaville, &c.
Dauphinee, Edgar ", e. Holden, 4C.
Farnsworth, Hubert G., Ellsworth, SIX.
Grindle, Winfield d., Penobscot, &c.
Gray, Leonard H., Surry, lie.
Hinckley, Reuben D., Bluehill, 2-D.
Remission, Harold NJ, Amherst, lie.
Page, Harry C., Bucksport, 81.
Reed, Ezra D., Seal Cove, la.
Rankin, Chas E., Mariaville, lie.
Reed, Claud L., Brooklin, lie.
Reed, Raymond W., Southwest Harbor,
lie.
Sprague, Alfred, Atlantic, la.
Staples, Norman p, N. Brooksville, lie.
Shea, Arno b., Ellsworth, 3K.
Smith, Russell j., Ellsworth Falls, lie.
Weber, William L. Bluehill, IF.