Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1917 — INDIANA GOVERNOR FIRST TO ACT [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOVERNOR FIRST TO ACT

Three Hundred Men Gather at State Capital at Request of the State Executive. Great credit is due Indiana’s governor and the three hundred men who from all over Indiana gathered in the representative had in the state house Monday afternoon at Indianapolis to start the work of getting Indiana’s portion of the great armv to be raised. - The governor had wired to each county sheriff and clerk in the state, together with *one representative from each county to be present, and' that they would be the county conscription officer's from the several counties of the state. To this number were to be addled three officers from eadh of ■the five large cities of the .state, namely, Indianapolis, Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Terre Haute and South Bend. The law as passed by congress provided that in cities having a population of more than thirty thousand there should be a separate conscription board independent of the county board. The meeting at the capital was presided over by Governor Goodrich and the roll of tire appointees was called by Adjutant General Harry Smith. With the exception of ten men all of the appointees were present and accepted the appointments. Of the ten absent appointees, five had wired the .governor that they would serve.—— ■ —

The committee from this county are O. K. Rainier, representative; Jesse Nichols, Clerk, and B. D. MeOolly, Sheriff. —-r The committees were instructed to return -to their homes and appoint one person from each precinct to take the register of all persons living in their precincts of the ages prescribed by the law. These reports were to be in by Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning. The law provided . that these precinct men may be -aid at the rate of ‘54.00 per day. but the men present unanimously and enthusiastically voted in favor of doing the work without pay. The Jasper county conscription board met this Tuesday afternoon and appointed the following precinctmen: Barkley township, west precinct, Trustee Grant Davisson. East precinct, William Folger. Carpenter township, south precinct, Trustee Burdette Porter; east precinct, George Hascall; west precinct, George Putt. Gillam township, James Stevens. Hanging -Grove Township, Warren PooHe. Jordan township, John Kolhoff. Kankakee -township, R. E. Davis. ■Keener township, Clifford Fairchild. Mari-on township, precinct No, 1, J. N. Leatiherman; No. 2, Thomas Callahan; No. 3, Charles J. Dean; No. 4, Harvey W. Wood, Jr. Milroy township, George Faulk. Newton township, John Rush. Union township, south precinct, G. H. Ha-tnmerton; north precinct, Felix Irwin. —. Walker township, Joseph Sal-rm. Wheatfield -township, A. >S. Keene. A day will -be appointed either by the state or national authorities and all persons of the age prescribed by the law as it finally passes congress wil Ibe required to register with the precinct committeemen. The passing of the law is deemed -as full notice to all and those who fail to register as

required will be arrested and severe penality will attach. ~~ After this list has been completed, all net required to enlist from physical inability or for other reasons named! in the law will have their names stricken from the list. The names remaining will then be put into a receptacle and there will be ■a drawing as jurors aire selected and the names first drawn will be the ones to eniter the service. It ds impossible to tell at this time the number of men that will be afted from Jasper county. Should there be more than one call it is understood that the names still remaining and not selected will be used from which to make the latter selections. f -Governor Goodrich will make an effort to make Indiana the first state in the union, tn complete its draft.