Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — O. K. RAINIER NOT TO SERVE [ARTICLE]

O. K. RAINIER NOT TO SERVE

Third Member of Conscription Board Must Be a Physician. O. K. Rainier, who had been appointed to serve on the conscription board in this county with County Clerk Nichols and Sheriff McColly, has been relieved from further duty by a letter from the governor in which the latter explains that it is necessary for the third member to be a practicing physician. This provision has probably been made to enable the boards to act on expert knowledge in granting exemptions because of physical disability. The physician to be appointed will be of the same political faith as the citizen whom he succeeds. and it is quite probable, that Dr. A. P. Rainier of Remington, a nephew of O. K. Rainier of this city, will be appointed to serve on the Jasper county board.