Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1919-10-24
BONUS BLANKS NOW "
BEING DISTRIBUTED
Applicants Required to Answer
Long List of Questions Relat-
ing to Service

Blank applications for the soldiers
bonus voted at the special session
of the Minnesota state legislature
were received last week by Clerk of
Court E. G. Gilbert and he began the
work of filling them out this week.
Persons entitled to the bonus may
secure the necessary forms at the
court house and can have them filled
out there or take them to an at
torney and have the work done.
A number of the boys have al
ready filled out their blanks and they
will be returned to the State Board
in short time.
With the return of some 1000 of
the applications to the State Board
comes the information from them
that large percentage of the blanks
have been improperly filled out, in
that many of the applicants have
failed to answer all questions pre-
scribed on the forms used Every
soldier must answer every question
on the blank. Failure to do so will
cause the blank to be returned to him
for correction, unless the information
needed can be secured by the State
Board from the certified copy of the
discharge papers which must accom-
pany the other blanks. Delay in re-
ceiving the bonus may be obviated by
careful attention to the questions on
the application forms.
Advices from the state are that
bonus payments will probably be
made about the holiday time. Bonds
which must be sold to finance the
payments are now being offered and
the money will be available for dis
patch to the applicants before the
first of the year. Each honorably
discharged nurse, soldier, sailor or
marine who was a resident Of this
state at the time of enlistment or in
duction into the service will receive
a bonus Of SIS per month for his en-
tire period of service.
All service men applying for the
bonus are required to fill out an ap-
plication blank in duplicate and one
copy of military service record,
and furnish certified copy Of the
discharge certificate. All the blanks
are furnished, and must be filled out
with; typewriter or ink.
Il The application blank contains fif-
ty-one questions covering applicants
record in the service. All applicants
will answer the first twenty-four, and
A
men, marines and army nurses will
also answer questions twenty-five to
thirty-three, inclusive, while naval
men and naval nurses will answer
questions thirty-four to forty-three
inclusive. All who have applied for
tuition or refundment Of tuition at
authorized schools will answer ques-
tions forty-four to forty-eight inclu-
sive. The application must be made
in duplicate and both copies must be
signed by the applicant in the pres
ence of a notary public or other Off
Ger authorized to administer oaths
who must fill out the acknowledge
ment.
The military service record calls
for a complete record of the military
or naval service including dates of
enlistment and discharge as well as
of transfers, names of organizations
in which applicant has served rec
ord of his overseas service, if any
and other information.
The certified copy Of the discharge
certificate must show everything
which appears upon the original, in
cluding all Endorsements. A certifi-
cate to that effect must be executed