Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1917 — INSTRUCTIONS TO SOLDIERS [ARTICLE]

INSTRUCTIONS TO SOLDIERS

Instructions Concerning Mobilization On Final Call. The first notices which will be sent out by the local board to -the drafted men of the first quota to be called into service will be as follows: You will hold yourself in readiness to report for military duty at the office of this local board at a time to be specified by notice posted at the office of this board in the near future. From the date so specified for you to report you will be in the military service of the United States and subject to military law. ' \ While as much time as possible will be allowed you you are hereby cautioned that the necessities of the service may require you to be called on very short notice. You should therefore put your affairs in order to report upon twenty-tour hours' notice. The other card is sent as soon as the exact hour tor mobilization is known and gives explicit instructions to the conscript as to his fu-

Instructions Concerning Mobilization On Final Call.

ture movements. Instructions are as follows; Failure to report or unpunctuality are grave military offenses punishable by court martial. Wilful failure to report with intention to evade military service constitutes desertion which is a capital offense in time of war. Present yourself at the precise hour specified in order that you may not begig your military record in the service of your country with a delinquency. You will be held under the orders of your local board until the hour of departure of your train. During this period the local board will furnish you food and lodging. If you live within one hour’s travel of the office of the local board you may obtain permission to sleep and eat at home but only if you fill out and forward to the office of the local, board at once the printed application for this permission at the end of this sheet. i

You will not be permitted to take with you on the train anything but hand baggage. You do not need bedding or changes of clothing except as specified below. You may take with you only the following articles: Soap, shaving accessories, comb and brush, tooth brush and tooth powder, towels, underclothing and socks, and, if you desire, changes of collars and shirts, but you have no use for these after arrive! at the mobilization camp.

Since you will not be permitted to retain any trunks after your arrival at the railroad station, the articles listed above should be brought in a hand bundle. If you desire to do so, you may return the civilian clothes you are wearing when you arrive at the mobilization camp to your home by express or otherwise, but if you desire to make no .such arrangement it will be better to appear in •civilian clothes that you do not care to keep. Drafted men will receive a second notice ordering them to report on a slated day.

State of Ohio. City of Toledo, Lucas County, ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Chenej' & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, county and state aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Medicine. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 188 6. A. W. GLEASON. (Seal) Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.