Milford chronicle., 1918-03-08
DELAWARE'S LAST
QUOTA OF DRAFT
The Last Contingent of First Call Men
Left Monday for Camp Green
leaf, OglethOrpe, Georgia

The final contingent of the drafted
men summoned to the first call in
Delaware left last Monday morning
for Camp Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe.
Georgia. The men came from Sussex
Kent and New Castle Counties, and
had been gathered on Sunday after
noon for the start on Monday from
Wilmington, after the arrival of the
down state men on the morning trains
The men assembled at the old Court
House at $50 o'clock and there the
relatives and friends of the draftees
made their farewells.
The march to the Pennsylvania Rail-
road station began at 1850 o'clock
the procession being headed by the
First Infantry Band. Then came Ex-
emptiOn Board officials and the men
Summoned to military service.
The fire engines and apparatus of
the fire departments were at intersee-
tions of Market street and footed the
whistles and rang the bells of the ap-
paratus in a farewell to the boys.
Arrived at the railroad station. none
but the men drafted and the members
of the Exemption Boards were per-
mitted to the island track" where
special train of seven tourist sleepers
was awaiting them. The men were
quickly loaded on the cars and despite
the desire of relatives to again clasp
their hands to say goodbye, the train
was gotten off with but two minutes
delay. Dinner was steaming when
the train left, assuring those who
watched the boys go, that the inner
man was going to be we'll taken care
of at the start of the trip at least.
Big Send on for Down State Men
When the men entrained at Dover
after marching to the depot behind a
brass band and along streets waving
with the American Flag, the Kent
County hundreds Of people bid them
goodbye.
Governor Townsend was on the
train with the Sussex County contin-
gent of seventy men who had entrained
at Georgetown.
The Governor spoke to each man of
Sussex County and gave them words
of encouragement, urging them to
ever have in mind the welfare of their
country and the preservers of DEM
Ocracy.
The Kent and Sussex County con-
tingent were men of exceptionally fine |
physique.
unusual conditions, as many of the /
alternates reported, and they volun-
teered to go in the place of the men |
whose alternate they had been sum- |
mOned for, and in several instances |
they were accepted. H. NJ. Wagner /
was one of these and he went in the I
place of Norman Windsor. They are |
both from Milford.
The Kent Comfy Men.
Those who left last Monday morn
ing, Frederick Bickel and William H.
Hugg OF Milford having been set aside:
Daniel N. Boone, Watson Marker.
Caleb jackson. all Of Wyoming; Homer
Ford. Miles Wilson, Stabros D. Pente-
les, Denny Cummins Frank c. Hardesty,
all of Dover; Edward Green Burris. Smyr-
na; Cove Wyatt Harrington. Marydel;
Fred H. Latter, Hartley; Stevenson Case,
FELTON,; Albert George Fleet, Viola; Will
liam Golfer Palmer, Frederica; Bateman
johnson, Marydel; Elmer Keller Hoch.
Woodslde; William Homer Savin. Ches-
void.
The two alternates taking the places
of the two regular draftees were Fran
els Edward Mcclure Of Milford and
George Leslie Gooden of WoOdside.
The Local Exemption Board selected
Frank G. Hardesty as captain of the
Kent county team and George Leslie
Gooden and Homer Sayin as sub-cap-
tains.
The Sussex County Men. /
Charles Oscar West, Richard Wiley,
oscar Washington Stevens. Benjamin F.
Walls. William Dungeon Hudson. Alonzo
jeremiah Deputy. Frank Martin Lynch.
Robert Deputy, Lee T. West, Carlton W.
!
Galloway, Larry Baker, John Gideon Rob-
erts, Martin W. Jones. Claude Lister
Hollis, William 7. Lathbury, Albert B.
johnson, Selvin Lewis. Albert b. Bosnian,
Harry Masden, Lucious Yates Conoway.
James Norman Outten. Stanley R. Vib-
bert, George oliver Marvel, Charles VIM
gate Hurley. Phillip b. Elliott. John
Frank Marvel, BERTHE z. Passwaters, Ell
mer Lohand. John Howard Kirby. Levin
Edward Hammond. George J. Dickerson.
Sidney Harrington, Leonard c. Stephens. =
William H. Smith. Andrew J. West Jas ,
F. Salmons. Ulysses S. Isaacs. James A. T
Walls, Howard H. Melvin. Clarence Nc
Gee, Edgar F. Hamilton, Charles Harri- :
son Joseph, Henry W. Raspe, Samuel B.
FOskey, Emory r. Foskey, Edward Lee I
Pusey, Grover Taylor, James H. Bailey,
Jesse Halbert Robinson. Charles L. Esk-
ridge, Granville Martin Elliott Harold :
Tyson Johnson, Maurice W. Hearn, John \
Ellis Clifton, Joseph p. Lynch, Charles
Mcdowell, Frederick Peterman. Elmer
Burton Watson, Otis c. Green, Clarence
". Roy, John A. Cordrey. Clinton H.
Harper K Wright. Edwin Lee l
lanes, James w. Layton, Jr.. Larry 4
.oda Brttingham,- Holmes Marshall :
Wagner, Robert Marts.
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