Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports Fran M»j Parts of thi Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UMJSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cttiea and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. DRAFTED TO HELP HARVEST Those Needed for Such Work Will Not Go at Once. Washington, D. C-, August 13. — The entire 687,00(1 composing the first increment of the army draft forces will be under training early in October. Under orders issued today the first 30 per cent of the quota Of each district will begin entrainment for cantonments September 5; the next 30 per cent September 15, and another 3* per cent September 30. The remaining 10 per cent will be mobilized as soon after that date as possible. In farming communities local boards wijj arrange the lists o* those to fill the first increment With local crop conditions in mind. Harvesting is in ’ progress in many sections. Drafted men engaged in. that work and who otherwise would go with the first quota, would be passed over to the second or third as may be necessary.