Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1917 — Selective Draft. [ARTICLE]

Selective Draft.

Much amusement was caused in the house of commons by the official admission that “by a regretahle clerical error* the national service department had notified the speaker that they proposed to transfer him to new employment at Wolverhampton at about one dollar per day, with a weekly war bonus of a little more than a dollar “on the ground that such employment was deemed of greater national Importance than that on which he was now engaged.”