The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-25
MAY Be CALLED IN AUGUST
Exemption Board Mobilizes Fourteen
More Men Today and They Will
Leave for Southern Camp Just Be-
fore $500 O'Clock This Evening.

Filling up the vacant places in Glass
] the Kenosha Local Board this morn
ing sent notices to the members of the
Class of 1918 registrants to appear at
the Park Avenue M. e. Church on next
Tuesday morning for physical examina-
tions. There are just one hundred and
lightweight men in the class to sub
NIT to physical tests. The total num-
Der registered on June 5th was we'll
over the three hundred mark, but since
registration more than half of the men
have heard the call to volunteer for
some branch of the service so that the
number has been narrowed down to
less than two hundred and it is ex-
pected that all of these men will be
examined in q single day.
DIR. George f. Adams will have
charge Of the physical examinations
and practically every physician in the
city has volunteerer to aid in the work
1t is expected that practically all of
the men called for physical examina-
ton will be certified for service and
that they will be subject to the calls
to cantonment shortly after the first
of August.
Kenosha will send no men in the big
draft call issued on Tuesday for the
entrainment of men between August
LIST and 5th, as the men called are from
the ranks Of the colored registrants Of
the nation and Kenosha now has no
negroes on its list.
1t is probable that new call will be
sent out by the Provost Marshall with
in the next few days as the plan of
the War Department provides for the
calling of nearly three hundred thous-
and men to the environments during the
month of August. If any large calls
are received by the local board during
August there will necessarily be call
on the men who have been registered
this year. This plan must be followed if
men of other than Glass | distinction
are not to be called into service.
Quota Waits for Entrainment.
The board was busy today complet-
ing the work of the mobilization of the
fourteen men who are to leave for the
cantonment at Camp Greenleaf at
Lytle, Ga, this evening The men all
appeared at eleven O'Clock this morn
ing in answer to the formal call and
they were mustered into the service of
the United States army. The men were
all given leaves and they will come to-
gether again this evening at seven
clock and the entertainment for the
south is scheduled to take place Just
before nine O'Clock.
The men will travel aboard a special
train together with men from many
cities in Wisconsin. While the num-
Der of men leaving is small it is expect
ed that the usual large crowd will be
at the station to see them off.
The members of the exemption board
are seeking to discourage great gather
ings at the station when troops depart.
The crowds interfere seriously with
the entrainment of the men and the
Kenosha Exemption Board may be
forced to follow the plan adopted in
other cities and put an end to these
great "send-offs'' for the soldiers. The
IdCG thc11 hLCoVh fhACh W0l6 lOoI IL tH6
scpfle on last Monday afternoon has
made the members of the board give
this matter special consideration. 1t
is declared that it is all but impos-
sible for the police, aided by the bat.
TALON, to keep the crowds away from
the troop trains.
Letters from the boys who went to
Camp Taylor, received today, declared
that the men had started on their life
as soldiers pretty well satisfied with
conditions surrounding the camp.