Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1917 — Many Drafted Men Are Claiming Exemption. [ARTICLE]

Many Drafted Men Are Claiming Exemption.

At Washington the draft boards started work on Monday and froiji the first eighteen men examined three were declared unfit for service and the other fifteen asked for exmption on the ground of dependents. From the country over comes the word that many men will have to be called for examination if the exemption clause is used as many seem to think it can be. Most of those claiming exemption are doing so for dependents. One man in the east offered to prove that he was supporting two wives and sets of children, one in the old country and one in this. There was a question as to whether to send him to the trenches or the penitentiary.