Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1917 — LOCAL REGISTRATION BOARD APPOINTED [ARTICLE]

LOCAL REGISTRATION BOARD APPOINTED

Sheriff B. D. McColly, County Clerk Jesse Nichols, and O. K. Rainier Compose Board.

Sheriff B. D. McColly, acoompaniet by 0. K. Rainier, went to Indianapolis today, where they will receive instnuctions relative to the registration of men eligible for draft into the army. Sheriff McColly, County Clerk Nichols and O. K. Rainier will compose the local registration board and it wiH be their duty to see that all are registered. McColly land Nichols are selected by virtue of their offices, and Mr. Rainier was appointed by the (governor.

Now that the conscription measure has passed, every township in the county will be registering its men for duty, and work will be begun on the sixteen training cantonments or camps, where (preparations otf forces iwiN start in August or 'September. Sites for the cantonments Have been selected tentatively, and all arrangements made for the concentration of troops assigned to each. Wide publicity is planned, so that no man liable for registration will have a good excuse for failing to respond. On 'a date to be set, every citizen affected by the act will be required on pain of heavy penalty to present himself at the nearest registration place, where the machinery will be provided for classifying the recruita and eliminating those who are exempt. Doubtful cases will be referred to higher authority. It is thought that the first registration will be albaut June first, although it may be earlier than that, as the allies are extremely anxious that the United States make all the haste possible to put her men an the firing ilfines. It is presumed that the drafted men will be sent to their concentration camps about the first of August or September.