The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-10-31
City and County Must Get
Large Force Of Men Ready
to go Into the Army
in Ten Days.
BIG CALLS ARRIVED TODAY
Exemption Boards Must Work at High
est Possible Speed in Order to Meet
Fully the Demands Made by the
Draft Officials.

Four hundred Kenosha county men
are going to be called into the service
OF the United States army during the
five day period beginning on Nevem-
Der 18th, one week from next Mons
day. This was shown by four calls re-
ceived by the local city and county
boards this morning and while the
exact quota for the city and county
boards to furnish has not been given
1t is certain that the number of men
modified under these calls for the
same period will be the largest ever
sent from Kenosha to army camps at
one time.
Wisconsin 8 quota for these calls is
in excess Of fifteen thousand men. The
first call will be to Camp Logan at
Houston Texas and for this call it is
expected that Kenosha will send one
hundred and forty men and the county
IN the neighborhood Of fifty men, the
second call is for men to 90 to Camp
Wadsworth at Spartansburg, S. c., and
the city will furnish about the same
number Of men for this quota as will
the county. A smaller call for Camp
Logan will demand about thirty men
from the city and county. In addi-
tion to these calls there is call for
forty six colored men to be modified
on November 10th to go to Camp
Grant. 1t is expected that Kenosha
will be expected to send two men with
this quota.
All of these men are to be for gem
eral service and all are to be drawn
from the list of men who were regis
tered on September 18th last.
The calls will be an infinite labor
for the members of the exemption
boards. In most cases the physical ex-
aminations are just being completed
and these men must be given chance
to have their claims for exemption ex-
amined. It is expected that record
time will be made in disposing Of the
hearings for exemption.
"We can not hope to give the men
who must be called under these orders
more than two or three days in which
to arrange their affairs to go to the
army declared the leader of the ex-
emption board this morning. 1--WE
say this that large proportion Of the
men in Glass l who have now been ex-
amined must be ready for these calls.
1t will take very large proportion
OF these men from Kenosha city and
county. We will do everything pos
sible to get a week s notice to these
men but at the present time such
notice seems to be impossible. In or
der to complete the classification and
enrolment of these men the exemption
boards will be forced to work at the
highest speed possible. y
1t was stated today that the ex-
animation of the men in Glass l who
are between the ages of 10 and 81 and
81 and 81 will be completed probab-
ly tomorrow, but it is expected that
there will be the usual number of
straggiers to De picked up after the
regular work is over.
These men will be rushed into serv-
ice with less delay than any men who
have been called to the army from Ke-
nosha. The Kenosha exemption boards
are not going to ask for delay in get
ting out their quotas and it is GER
tain that no delay would be granted
to them if a formal request was made.
The safe thing is for men who know
they have passed the physical examina
ton and that they have no good
grounds for exemption to prepare
themselves for service now.