Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1917 — More Soldiers To Leave Jasper County This Week. [ARTICLE]

More Soldiers To Leave Jasper County This Week.

The second increment of men from Jasper county for the National Army will leave Rensselaer on next Thursday for Louisville. The call for this week is for forty per cent of our quota, which will be about twentythree men. The men who are to go should not wear low shoes and should carry suitcases. The army is in need of electricians, cooks, mechanics, stenographers and clerks at the present time, but the majority of the men who will go from this county at this time will no doubt be farmers. The men, on their arrival at Camp Taylor, will be examined thoroughly and the officers in charge will assign them to the positions where it .is thought they will be best fitted. Drafted men cannot select service that suits them best, but must accept whatever their assignments may be. A man drawn for the National Army cannot enter any branch of the navy. The local exemption board has as yet not received a report from La- ‘ Porte on the men who are to make up our second quota, and the names of the young men who will leave Rensselaer this week cannot be published today;