Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1917 — Conscripts to Be Notified By Mail. [ARTICLE]

Conscripts to Be Notified By Mail.

Personal letters to all mqn selected by the army draft will be mailed to those who are conscripted, according to regulations Covering notifications which have been sent to each exemption board in the state by Jesse Eschbach, state conscription agent. Therefore, it is now indicated that in about ten days young men of military age in Jasper county who are selected by the army draft will receive an official envelope at thier homes containing notice they are expected to go into training at a date to be specified, and later to the front, where active service awaits them. The boards will notify each registrant to appear before the member of the board who is a physician, for physical examination. The instructions say:

“When any person is called by a local board, notice thereof shall be mailed by the clerk of such local board to each person so called. Each such notice shall contain a direction to appear for physical examination as required by section 10 hereof, at a time and place fixed and stated in such notice. “A physical examination of each person called for service by a local board shall be made under the direction of such local board by the medical member thereof. “The notices contained in section 15 of these regulations (concerning notification) shall carry a direction to the persons called to report at the office of the local board for physical examination at a date specified.” The regulations provide that the first shall appear for physical examination on the morning of the fifth day after the notices are sent out and the other two-thirds in each district to appear on the immediate succeeding days. Provision is made for supplying additional physicians in cases where there are so many registered in a district as to make it impossible for one physician to do all the work. It is the general understanding of conscription officials now that appeals for exemption will be made by affidavit and that there will be no oral hearings for those who claim they should not be required to serve.