Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-01-01

The second registration took place
one year later or June S, 1913, when
the 20 year olds had attained the age
of 81. And the third on August oath.
The number Of young men who regis
tered at these two times was 242. OF
these 1877 were placed in Class I, 40
in Class II, 9 in Glass III, 2 in Class
" and Is in Glass V.
The total of the three registrations
was 1853. The percentage OF Class
| men of these was a trif1e over AZ per
cent of those found physically fit
for general military service was 43.3
| per cent of the total.
OF these 2153 ment there were:
Native born NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1883
NaturaliZed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 95
Declarants first papers) ....... SO
Non-declarants (alien) .......... 127
Aliens in Glass I. ............... Al
Declarants in Glass I............ SO
Aliens deferred ................ 79
Declarants deferred ............ 8
The number of delinquents, or per:
sons who registered but failed to file
Questionaires, g.; registrants who died
before classification, 2; non.combat'
ants (religious scruples) g.; discharg.
ed, 2; deserted, 8. Number Of regis
trants married after registration, g.
Number of these placed in Clas l, 60
The registration of Sept. II, 1918,
| which included men from 81 to As and
IS to 20 years of age, totaled 1856.
OF these less than 20 have failed to
file their questionaires.
There were in this registration 724
Class I men; Glass II 49, Glass III
131, Glass " 1915, Glass V 1855.
From this registration 35 had been
indicted into service before armistice
was signed. These were mostly all
boys of the 10, 20 year group who went
to the various Student Army Train
ing Camps.
The Class I men in this registration
were classified into the following
groups:
10 to SO years NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 4O5
81 to As years ................... 1S8
The sum total of registrants Of all
the registrations was 1889, and the
Glass l men was 1879.
Total number of men who have been
indicted into the Army, Navy, Marines
and Engineering Corps was 1872. Be-
sides these there are approximately a
county who volunteered before the
draft machinery was perfected and put
in operation of whom the Local Board
has no record. This would bring the
total of men furnished by Kandiyohi
county to the neighborhood of $50
men. This does not include the ITO
who were about to entrain just at the
time of the signing of the armistice
ha
left available, aside from the Sept. IL
the Is year olds, was 262.- OF these
were: from June, 1917 registration 70;
from June and August 1918 registra.
ton lis; 1917 Limited service men
"a; 1918 Limited service men 10.
There are probably none Of US on
the outside who have an ADEQUATE
idea of the tremendous amount Of
work performed by the local board.
There were the registration cards, the
questionaires, the classification cards,
the exemptions, the appeals, the en-
tertainments of recruits, the thousand
and one things to be considered and
looked after in all manners Of angles.
It is but wonder that the hair of the
board members heads has not turn.
ed gray -
The number Of physical examina-
not lses than 1885, And when one
considers that all this work Is done
without. a cents pay from the govern
ment, outside OF paying the clerk
hire. no one can say but that these
patriotic men have: done their full
share toward winning the war. e