Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1917 — National Holiday May Be Declared Sept. 3. [ARTICLE]

National Holiday May Be Declared Sept. 3.

Washington, Aug. 10.—A national holiday may be declared on September 3 in celebration of the entrainment of the draft levies for the training cantonments. No step to . this end has been taken as yet, bir; officials at the provost marshal-gen-eral’s office regard it as a probable result of the simultaneous movement of the selected men from all over the country. Conferences were held today with railway officials on details of the mobilization. Transportation lines face the problem of collecting the first 230,000 men from 4,570 districts, providing them with sleeping car accommodations where necessary and providing stops at points where the soldiers can be fed well and quickly.