Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1917 — Recent Marriage Not Issue In the Draft Exemption. [ARTICLE]

Recent Marriage Not Issue In the Draft Exemption.

Trenton, N. J., July 26. —According to the interpretation placed bv "the military authorities on a letter just received from General ’Crowder in reply to inquiries, drafted men who have mafried or who shall marry before they are called for examination will not have to serve in the conscript army, if their brides are dependent upon them. The impression has heretofore prevailed that registered young men who married after June 5, did so only to be in a position to claim exemption and that their marriage would be regarded as an attempt to evade the selective service act and would not be recognized as a bona fide claim. Miss Pearl Currens, who has been making her home with Mrs. E. H. Shields, has- moved into -the house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Purcupile.