Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-08-07
WORLD WAR OTE

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Lewis Berger and Ernest Dale
Draux, both of Red River, have been
indicted for selling booze to soldiers
Malta Olson, Milwaukee, is held on
the same charge.
Leo Thompson, the young man who
was held for attempting to bribe DR..
Morton of Dodgeville, to declare him
unit for the draft, was released from
trial when he expressed a willing
ness to join the army.
1t is the hope of Gen. Crowder that
ne will never have to issue calls out
! d of class 1 for com.batant units
although the raising and maintenance
of an army of 5000, 900 men is con-
sidered a conservative estimate for
war needs.
Bayard DeHart of Richland county,
is the first among the missing for that
section. His mother, Mrs. August
Quest received word to that effect
from Washington. He may have been
taken prisoner. DeHart enlisted in
the engineers.
So
Members of the Wisconsin Nation
al Guard were deputized at Madison
to round up draft slackers who could
produce neither birth certificates or
registration cards. Raids were made
on pool rooms and bathing beaches
n 400 arrests made.
Il packers have been indicted for
attempt to defraud the government
out Of millions. One is a wealthy
Jewish packer of New York. The
scheme involved short consignments
to the soldiers abroad. Several con-
fessions have been made.
1t cost the Camp Grant jitney driv-
ers a ten-cent cut in civilian passen-
ger rates be cause they undertook to
punch holes in the ordinance regulat-
ing them. The camp authorities re-
duced the fare to twenty-five cents.
Sometimes it is well to let we'll enough
alone.
When her husband was drafted and
left with a contingent of seIectives
for Camp Grant, Mrs. VIM. G. Smith
succeeded him in office at Superior as
deputy county treasurer. She makes
the fourth woman to be employed by
the county to replace men who have
been summoned into army service.
That Myron Sperry, Marinette, is
not a delinquent under selective SER
vice was discovered by Adjt. General
Holway. His parents had registered
for him and he was in Russia when
his QUESTIONABLE was sent. The rec
ord reported him as delinquent" but
Adjt. Gen. Holway found that the boy
already has a remarkable army car
eer. His father, p. H. Sperry, is
grand commander Knights Templar
Of Wisconsin.
Allotment to dependents of United
States soldiers have increased from
10000 at the beginning of the war to
$780, 900. For the month of May these
allotments totalled SIS, 1000, 900. Thir-
ty thousand commissioned officers are
allotting ST. 0 900 a month to their
families; non-commissioned officers
and privates $4,000, 900. In addition
nearly $50, 1000 of Liberty loan
bonds of the second issue will have
been paid for by members of the
army.
Figures compiled from the records
of the first draft show that it cost the
government almost exactly SIS for
each man drafted. All but seven cents
of this amount represents the expense
of the draft boards. In comparison
with this it is interesting to learn
that the volunteer system of recruit
ing cost $24.48 per man in 1914; 1914
in 1915; and $28.95 between July, 1916
and April, 1917. These later figures,
however, included the recruits trav-
cling expenses and the cost of his
subsistence prior TO acceptance
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