Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1917 — NATION’S YOUTH DRAFTED FRIDAY FOR THE WAR [ARTICLE]

NATION’S YOUTH DRAFTED FRIDAY FOR THE WAR

Gigantic Task of Picking Ten Million Men Completed Before Dawn - Drawing Was Quiet Despite Unusual Interest Shown in Great Lottery of Human Lives - Carroll Wesley Leatherman, No. 258, is First Local Man Drawn.

What is Our Quota? May Be 82 or 101—Diversity of Opinion Among Populace as to How Many Young Men From This County Will Go On First Call. The draft has come and the youth of the nation stand ready to respond to Uncle Sam’s call. Before dawn this Saturday morning the last name was drawn from the glass bowl at Washington and every American youth between the ages of 21 and 31 was listed in the greatest of all : otteries.

To Carroll Wesley Leatherman goes the distinction of being the first one drafted from Jasper county. His number was 258. Fred Elam Robey was the second man to be drawn, his number being 458. The number of men Jasper courity will be called upon to give on the first call has not been determined. There is a wide diversity of opinion. County Clerk Jesse Nichols is expec ting word soon from the authorities, which will notify him how many local youths will help to make up the first drafted army. Recently there was published tne names of the counties of the state and the number of men each would have to furnish. At that time the quota of Jasper county was given at 82. If 82 is the correct number it will be necessary to examine at least twice that amount on account of the large nuntber of exemptions.

J. J. Montgomery, the newsdealer, finds that among the. first 1157 numbers, which is the number of men registered in this county, that there are 101 numbers which affect this county. If this is the basis upon which the government figures the apportionment of the counties, then 202 will be the number from this county who will have to respond for examination on the first call, on the basis that fifty per cent of them will be exempted. There are so many conflicting reports that it is practically impossible to state at this time just how many of our drafted young men will be in the first call. The following numbers applying to this county, taken from the first 8,000 numbers drawn, are placed in the-order that they were drawn by the officials at Washington. These numbers show the liability of call of each man included in the list so far. The remaining 2,500 have not as yet been published, hence those in this county being drawn after the eighth thousand can not be published in this edition, but will be published on Monday. However, anyone whose name does not appear here will know that they will not be included in the first call.

Order in Which They Were Drawn. 258 Carroll Wesley Leatherman 458 Fred Elam Robey 854 Ellert Edward Shoemaker 1095 Grover Mirt Creagmile 783 Evertt Walker 1117 Charles Nathan Webb 837 John Henry Luers

337 Floyd Landis Tanner 676 William Klinnert 275 Chas. A. Gutterich . 509 Jeff Randolph 564 Abraham Keyzer 945 Emil Wiley Hanley 596 Thomas Swart 536 Arthur Babe Cavendish 548 Ross Burling Robbins 126 Henry W. Cords 784 John Duggins 755 William E. Keener 107 John Kauffman 616 Henry VanWienen 373 George William Bernhardt 775 Edgar F. Duvall 486 Melvin Long 692 Robert H. Hurley ’Y 600 Dirk Vanderßent 810 James Kriz 309 Claud G. Maxwell 437 Fred Bert Wagner 604 Jefferson Earl Cooper 43 William Ott 1066 Harry L. D. Milner 924 George G. Casey 420 Teddie Miller 1014 Orval Hamilton Crisler 514 Samuel Wilbur 433 Ben May 10 Clyde H. Fisher 1045 Roy Melvin Burch 1031 _ George F. Moore 487 Harold Faris Pullins 797 Ray Donald Anderson 140 John A. Moosemiller 432 Henry Ray Millner 18 Charles C. Sommers 652 Willie Irving Plotte 927 William R. Martin 739 J. Leo M. Mutter 601 Edward Sekema 1146 Lee W. Rardin 1103 John Shannan DeArmond 606 Albert Henry Rosing 182 Joseph E. Hallett 513 Vernon Roscoe Stearns 46 Lawrence Lee McDaniel 1020 William E. Marlin 1099 John William Mills 223 Louis W. Misch 117 John Walstra 602 John G. Kooy 390 Ernest Smith 75 Evert John Kimble 772 Harry Hays 721 Frank Earl Biggs 786 Joseph J. Thomas 280 Frank W. Gross

972 Carl Weickum 983 Louis Anthony. Miller 757 Othel Caldwell 966 Woodhull Irvin Spitler 868 William Hampton Minniear 332 Joseph Francis Nagle 379 Crawford Lytle Bates 542 Herman Goepp 194 Lottis S. Franklin 874 Delvin J. Babcock 552 John William Erwin 298 Orval W. Baxter 675 Jesse Harrison Beecher 1148 Menno Simeon Chupp 343 Otha Spriggs 982 Jerry Abram Branson 726 Joseph Roesch 15 John R. Shields 905 Glen Overly 933 Firman Thompson 452 James 0. Thomas 355 Louis J. DeMoss 530 Samuel E. Brandenburg 809 John Friz 1114 Charles P. Potter 645 Oscar Joseph Paquette 218 Oscar J. Stembel 620 Frank Lewis Masier 550 Perry Frank Naylor 574 Tunis Snip, Jr. 31 Homer Meyers 981 Clarence Vorne Sayers 770 Albert Ross Ramey 882 Fletcher Downs Minniear 677 Harold Leo Fidler

749 Orla Clouse 56 Fred R. Hine 269 Virgil Jones 1007 Charles Fredrick Baker 353 Benjamine H. Price 363 Joseph Graham, Jr. 30 Charles Albert Casto 656 Harry Scott Cook 1070 Lew Robinson 221 James Campbell 525 Clarence Albert Garriott 261 Frank Keith Spencer 704 Anthony Moes 72 Charles Elsworth Miller - 356 Bradford Poole 717 Walter L. Nagle 773 Joseph W. Reeve 392 Anton De Groote 889 George Merl Babcock 576 Sylvester Bert Llewellyn 1151 Walter Roudebush 926 Ralph A. Hall 848 Henry Bert Avis 760 C. Arthur Battleday 741 John Edw. Raycroft 841 Guy McKinley Crowder 685 Horace Lewis Charais 1016 Frank Thomas - 391 George Cleveland Eck ”1053 Clifford Elvin Payne 1142 Delos McClanahan 1112 Willie Alfred Potts 1102 Walter A. Houck 1057 Jas. M. Warner 199 Walter F. Wiseman 705 Otto Brackman . 1002 John Thare Warne 320 Alpha Russell McElfresh 738 Joseph Duenser —. (Continued on Page Thre<.)

1897 Hugh C. Mize 649 Otto Arthur Schwanke 493 Bruno Kolbe 488 Arvie Earl Culp 679 Joseph A. Kolhoff 6 ''Fred Henry Marchand 664 Chas. Wesley Hancock 103 Edward H. G. J. Eilts 383 Lemma Lambert Hickman 588 Sig Boezeman 128 Bernard C. Bailey 939 John Donald Moore 321 George Marcus Hoyes 1101 Clarence Albert Armstrong 1010 Albert Hudson 814 Harvey L. Harshberger 504 Jesse Grimm 64 Frank John Boes 1132 Preston Henry 1054 M. J. Wagner 1032 John Henry Ramp 923 William Fletcher Ramey 970 Floyd C. Amsler 345 James C. Brouhard 608 Louis Walstra 519 Lewis Oscar Claus sen 950 Harlow Hubbard Peek 1118 Jacob Sanders Davis 292 Arthur Turner 1064 Clarence W. L. Knouff 183 George R- Larue 870 Grant Lutes 711 Raymond F. Derr 341 Omer Waymire 860 Clarence Joseph Stack 571 Frank DeHaan 112 Herbert L. Bozell 805 Merill A. Freeland 856 Hugh Alexander Quinn 944 John Delos Harmon 944 John Delos Harmon 642 Roy Louis Sigo 906 John Isareal Reed 700 Lewis H. Putts 297 Orie M. Hensler 792 John Lonergan 440 William Bahler 1022 Ross Porter 623 Garrte DeFries 1141 William Teske 637 William Rudolph Shafer 11 Earl William Caster 327 Harry Walker 957 Frank Gorham 164 Ira Williamson 1073 George Davis 388 Richard Clarence Hartsock 707 Michael Krivoniak 368 John Henry May -121 Leslie Zellers 350 George Rex Ott 638 Burley J. Butler 335 Manly Evert Stowers 1067 Lesley Miller 128 Leslie Lawrence Lowman 900 Raymond W. Parks 93 Wallace Miller 556 Johannes Moolenaar 51 Francis Grant Braddock 406 Andrew Hotler 25 Janne David E. Nelson _ 222 Grover C. Stembel 736 George Bauer 974 William Terpstra 822 Floyd E. Sayers 191 Arthur Murray 753 Nelson C. Shafer 858 William Cyril Worden 175 Homer W. Stewart 1021 Cecil John Potts 524 Edward Parkison 1077 William Roy Myers 1043 Frank W. Potts 71 Ben J. Franklin Miller 336 Willard Wilson Tanner 8 Frank A. Garvin 1143 Lonnie Davisson 557 John D. Maher 622 Walter Clifford Hanaway 781 John Leichty 963 Guy C. Peck 441 John S. Zimmerman 23 Charles Ellis Snow 492 Lewis Brooks Cavendish 562 George Knip 501 Russell Edward Prince 875 Floyd David Burchard 714 Herman Joseph Boelmam 86 Daniel Sipkema 781 John Leichty 555 Jack Roede 1150 Hally Orval Alter 808 Joseph Prohosky 421 Morris Lin Carlile 312 Nevil Leroy Torbet 911 Clifford Edward Wells 880 Sidney Arthur Peters 331 Tom Stevens 877 William O. Duvall 713 Louis Pottkottaar 450 Harold Harrison Bowman 940 Cope Judson Hanley 1023 Louis Aloyisus Moosmiller 657 Charles Engbebert Cain 278 Lonnie Edarr Dowell 212 Murray M. Myers 305 Delbert Dale Guy 323 Harry J. Arnold 961 Perry W. Horton 681 Samuel Conn, Jr. 780 Harry A. Thomas 267 Wm. Raymond Gorter 470 Roy William Ballard . 168 Carl Milton Gordon 424 William Fern Ford 532 Samuel Bowen 958 Arthur T. Kanne 857 George Panos 438 Edward Frey

565 Anthony Moolenaar 800 John A. Utterberg 349 Lewis Francis Davisson 102 Frank Sylvester King 1024 Herbert C. Hammond 1156 John Alexander Tilton 506 Edward Barton Morrison 435 Earnest Ray Swift 725 John Henry Nagel 156 John F. Garriott 90 Solomon Yoder 477 Ivan Carl Coppess 130 Paul .A. Karr ' - 2 840 Lloyd Sherman Parks - 300 Vernon Edward Balcom —49 John Obed Hurley 585 Edward Lawrence Hershman 1035 Omar O. Osborne 357 Lloyd Walter Johnson 715 Leo J. Vogt 589 Lynn Dern Daugherty 978 John Putts 985 AL H. Kanne 1121 Jerry Tullis -118 Claude S. Keller 567 Melva Josua Barker 560 Harm Pruis 150 Ray Bristow 206 Roland Myers 136 George Clayton Mellender 328 Sylvanus A. Arnold 96 Charles Reed 1021 Cecil John Potts 691 Louie Otto Ricks 824 William August Zink 964 Tom J. McGlinn 407 Joseph August Dluzak 1107 Guy Leon Minor 862 Ora Ancle Jones 257 Jacob Peterson

807 George G. Shupe 867 David Delos Dean 185 Ernest W. Gosch 303 Russell Chas. Fisher 410 Clarence Riley 965 Harry D. Fellmy 507 Clarence Bowman 929 Ernest C. Moore 378 Jesse Fuller Heath 422 Bernard Blake Hichs 272 Charles A. Miller 866 Leo Oliver Worland 262 Thomas George Worden 776 Leland Ray Jessen 124 Rollin J. Stewart 285 Homer Hue Spenard 1119 Elijah Cunningham 146 Samuel E. Cook 229 Manno J. Miller 299 Herbert Bressner 750 Ray Benson 400 Turpin Browne 4 Angus McGraw 115 Earnest H. L. Hass 228 Roy J. Heil 872 Hugh Alter Kirk 138 Walter H. Bell 1083 George Edward, Jones __ 883 Chaster Miller 769 Leroy Snow 436 Henry Frey 155 Perry Elmer Garriott 563 Ralph Nicholi 58 Felix Constantine Fritz 832 Samuel Kosbowsky 838 Bernard Luers 633 Waitman Reeder 17 George T. Scheetz _ 802 Elmer P. Standish 619 Elmer Clarence McGinnis 344 Thornton R. Cromer 202 Harvey Austin 164 William Lindey 886 Ralph Hiram Sayers 1152 John Anthony Switzer 169 Clarence Holliday 284 Osie Archie Donlinger 133 Lawrence A. Blunk 843 Isaac Samuel Fowler 1075 Leo Ross Myers 430 Allen Carlile 624 William White 554 Simon Sipkema 91 John DeWitt 635 Vern Gorden Bice 861 Norman Gorham 685 Horace Louis Charais 712 Raymond J. Harmon 593 Cornelius Mak 396 Victor E. Michael 989 Lewis Elzer Trussell 1109 Samuel John Cullen 930 John W. McCarthy 265 Harold B. Fox 211 James C. Anderson 19 William Roy Stocksick 896 Howard J. Ames 747 Kenneth Townsend Rhoades 237 Fred Pickner 1058 Ferdinand George Bachman 442 Joe Sharkey 566 Raymond Boersma 581 Henry Bunning 311 Reesy Cavinder 240 Wilfred Stevenson 735 John Metress 1065 Joseph Woolever 187 Frank Grube 36 Gustav Borman 352 William L. Warne 456 Lewis Chas. Wacknitz 274 George F. Gorter 1072 Henry Tresmer 40 Leonard Fritz 1076 Roy Austin Myers 157 Wayne Smith 114 James Hill 1110 George Joseph Stalbaum 33 William H. Armstrong 1071 George F. Smith 48 Ellis Harrison Surgeon 640 Austin A. Iliff 481 Lee Sanders 979 Chester Joe Sigman 829 DeVere Yeoman 1105 Gilbert Dunn Seegrist 76 Jesse Franklin Brouhard 672 Vernon Taylor 949 George Culp 993 Floyd H. Spain 851 Harry E. Kerlin 52 Robert S. Linton 985 James Thomas Walter 416 Paul Stoudt 948 James G. McFarland 766 Samuel Oliver Duvall 511 James William Kupkee 3 Leon* Ernest Parks 151 Frank Fritz 61 Frank Valinsky 603 Charles Knip 986 George Berry Moelhman 816 Estal Price 762 Junior Benjamin 1013 Elmer Daniels 38 William Allen Davis 582 Erick B. Beck 1011 Vern C. Davisson 444 Samuel Harrison Baxter 447 Charles Arvel Bringle 158 Clyde Henry Smith 617 Albert VanWienen 609 Henry Walstra 546 Harold Archa Callander 913 Anthony J. Trulley 860 John Minniear 1138 Leo Krueger 744 Christian Jacob Staah 636 August Emerson Buttler 778 George Seible 105 William L. Miller 418 Peter Baier 526 John Lewis Kupke 968 Robert Earnie Smith 205 Herman P. Stewart 934 Steward D. Moore 460 Charles Gerrald Brusnahan 241 Lewis James Williams 572 Gerrit Snip 236 Albert F. Stembel 647 Lawrence Iliff 918 Oscar Johnson .. -, -- 954 John R. Parkison 994 Paul Lesh 371 Louis George Mathew 64 Charles Harrison Martin 382 Dale Owen Bowman j 818 John F.Thares 1042 Vernie Herbit Sanders 449 John Emertt Boudreau 742 Ralph O’Riley 590 John Charles Bunning 634 Sylvanis Joseph Marquis 326 Joe Allen Moore 1048 Charles R. Marlin 1 James Nelson Woods 650 Albert Warren Sage 920’ Otto O. Casey 806 Frank B. Hitchcock 613 Arthur Marshal 100 Jesse Earl Wiseman 864 David Merritt McMurray 29 Aloysius K. Hart 209 Lawrence F. Schinckenburge 63 Albert Manley Hurley 362 John Abram Flatt 224 Isaac E. Biggs 127 Edward R. Cook 895 James H. S. Ellis, Jr. 499 George Kroening 393 Jesse Braaksma

836 Anthony T. Keiper 316 Roy Manford Beever 734 Bernard J. Condon 342 John Newcome 427 Andrew Hurley 666 Curtis Roscoe Wolf 214 Ray C. Clark 629 Paul Sekema 533 George Bowen 618 Glen E. Tanner 777 John Worland 32 Guy T. Dooley 758 Leo Arthur Reeve 529 William Henry Barddock 931 Samuel M. Haas 41 Roscoe Hilton 1086 John Daniel Mott 743 George Greivenkamp 358 Harvey E. Rowland 429 William Harry Howard 1055 Carl Heinz ‘ 394 Pete DeGroote 597 Gerrit Wondema 799 Grant T. Wynegar 286 Emmet Cohee Boatman 216 Ira F. Clark 239 Harley Brown 942 Elwood J. Myres 42 Walter Peer 425 Jajnes Adrin Foster 827 Chauncey A. Huntington 976 Warner Hough 1120 Clarence Ernest Clemons 198 Tipton O. Wiseman 671 Ernest Irvin Medworth 846 Lyman Alvin Peters 1123 Harry John Hermanson 1145 Ross Albert Rowen 82 Robert V. Michal 55 Leonard V. Brooke 106 Sam Leichty 1144 Winfred Fremont Hurley 462 Bert Andrew Mitchell 527 William McKinley Jordan 254 Jasper L. Carlisle 446 Claud Miller * 451 Charles Leroy Alson 1025 Tony Apostol ■■ 217 Homer Brown 259 Ross Lonzo Meadows 702 Leo Wangler 694 Guy Merriman 1018 Harrison Casto 662 Fred Earl Bell === 852 Ray L. Berry 431 Harold Hamilton 423 Clarence Wilder 88 Frank Roorda 586 Stanley Ernest Case 932 Ernest Ramey 745 Andrew Brunswick 1137 John Edward Murphy 308 Emmet D. O’Connor 417 August Frey t 445 Eli F. Zehr i 374 John Leo Farrell 242 William P. Hamilton * 561 John Terborg k 847 Lawson Lefler Bruce t 975 John Kenneth Braddock 478 William Francis Rockwell 1092 Paul Lewis Frost 21 John Fenzel ’ 668 William Mearl Bringle 1038 Howard Bayard Clark 89 William H. Wendell 863 Kile Minniear 990 Paul Edward Donnelly 398 Albert Eugene Dluzak 302 David Henry Phelps 475 Thos. Joseph Hullihan 592 Jacob Int Veld 461 James Victor Brusnahan 480 True Orval Robinson 1127 Fermon August Schultz 1074 Elwood Henry Guilbransen 473 Basil Earl Hall 287 Leroy Zimmerman 260 Frank Leslie Wingard

573' William Snip 1106 Francis Bernard Fitzgerald 354 Vilas Price 322 Leighton Earl Gifford 232 Amos McDaniel 44 Guy Cecil Meyers 239 Harley Brown 226 William C. Mize 7 Jay Gilmore 26 Charles Sylvester Woorley 641 Theodore Philip Roy 1104 Edward Henry Sands 479 Guy Chester Houston 674 Clarence B. Pruitt 372 Harry A. Bernhardt 1080 Harry Raymond Stalbaum 409 Christmas E. Alter 230 Gaylord Hilton 62 John Dominco Francki

207 William Miller 695 Charles R. Gish 59 George Fritz 580 Harry Anduson Gilmore . 980 Fred Junior McColly 1040 Elmer Wiseman 995 James Moore 791 Edward P. Lonergan 973 Russell Eli Critser 890 Fred J. Putts 271 Clarence Scott Shelmon 65 Ernest Orval Rees 1069 Emmet M. Laßue. 1046 Charles Cecil Kiser 346 Oscar Whiteaker 67 William Alexander Dunn 1081 Clayton Collins 912 George Putts 248 Gust A. Knochel 1134 Leo D. A. Schultz 817 Albert H. Johnson 869 John Peter Wagner 764 Granville Sylvester Marlin 724 William Jacob Luley 497 Paul Jefferson Hall 663 Frank Leßoy Hancock 351 Ellis Marsh Ott 658 Martin J. Cain 1117 Charles Nathan Webb 1116 John Edward Healey 1155 Estel Charley George 176 Kenneth J. Dilly 294 Jacob Braaksma 375 Victor Clay Babcock 455 JErnest Paul Rockwell 483 Samuel Arlie Sanders 283 Harry Rachovsky 815 Robert M. Phares 463 Leslie Hurbert Tillett 468 ' Charles Maddox 941 Guy Swim 631 Harry Harrison 914 Ernest C. Prouty 804 Harvey E. Lane 646 Charles Maurice Iliff 77 Daniel Lichty 947 George E. Wilcox 160 Charles Herr 1126 Dennis Healey BC>9 Thomas Alfred Padgitt 782 James Zickmund 598 Cyerrit Boer 960 Simon Thompson 746 James F. Mclntyre 845 William C. Langhoff 415 David Andrew Bickel 408 Samuel Hartwell O’Dell 282 Albert Chas. Sutter 751 Paul Hale B. Worland 615 Walter DeYoung 833 Solon G. Speigel '* 881 Newton Sunderland P 457 Claud Rar Stevens

jj&tfi-' Geo. Peterson 612 Alonzo Franklin Stroup 984 Sherman Biggs 531 John Willard Stockwell 148 James S. Jordan *; 109 Earnest E. Linback 251 Platte Spade 879 Vern Albert Pollock 655 Charles Worth Porter 69 Samuel Eugene Ballard 1129 Louie Adolph Schultz 1036 Orphia Hadelman Gant 790 Ray Watson 238 Chester S. Huff 453 Ernest Richard Smith 823 Oscar P. M. Weiss 988 Joseph W. Nagel 1087 George Frank Galbreath 528 Samuel Carl Stockwell 699 W. Lee Hovarka 521 David Thaddius Smith 1003 John Lawson Daniels 359 Oliver Morton Buckles 938 Donald M. Beam 667 Fred Henry Pluimer 84 Jake Kamstra 469 Floyd Hall 245 George W. Knochel 94 William Alfring 14 Mason M. Barlow 180 Leon Lewis 825 Stanley Leon Lane 1131 Elicha Crockett Henry 583 Arthur Lucis Lagerveen 830 Lowell Morton 873 George A. Long 625 Emmet Erwin 361 Walter William Belcher 904 William James Carey Bab ock 1015 Fenton Dean Merica 885 Scott Pardoe Hilliard 426 Russell Kendrick Timmons 1063 Clark Warfel 144 Paul Dwight Stevens 1136 Alfred Eugene Longstreth 310 Evert Ray Parker 307 Benjamine Zimmerman 129 Marion Chester Large 1096 Samuel C. Mize 246 Chris. Harold Knochel 682 Harry Elwood Shoemaker 768 Cecil E. Johnson 955 Leo Kolhoff 365 Homer Ozro Arbuckle 414 Burdette Roush 553 Watson Terpstra 1084 Arthur Leiby 402 Gilbert Arthur Mitchell 161 Robert J. Johns 659 Frank Wilber Hamer 909 Frank Trulley 1153 Fernet M. Schultz 465 Levi Walters 1115 Grover Cleveland Brown 405 Ameil Lehe 551 Fred Wolf 916 Paul H. Norgor 174 Edward A. Rice 763 Hartsell Adams 991 William H. McKinney 459 Ira Earl Robinson 189 Edward Gramps 163 Jesse Ford Brown 1147 Sewell Erastus Randolph 329 Simon D. Cooper 627 Clyde Raymond Yeagley 428 Russell A. Taylor 1090 Ernest Aaron Asher 569 Jesse Barton Llewellyn 665 Elmer Taylor Hancock 250 Wilmer Telfer Weir 731 Edward A. Nagel 99 John Dean 709 Leslie F. Pollard 213 Avery P. Morrow 959 Lee Richards 628 Melvin William Struble 823 Oscar P. M. Weiss 756 Rex D. Warner (To be continued)