Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1917 — EIGHTEEN CHOSEN FOR DUTY [ARTICLE]

EIGHTEEN CHOSEN FOR DUTY

District Board Exempts Five for Industrial Reasons. The district board at Laporte has made its first report of its actions on the conscripted men from Jasper county, ruling on the first twenty-three names. Of these eighteen were accepted for service and five were exempted for industrial reasons. The Democrat has been informed by a member of the local board that these exemptions are but temporary, so as to enable the men to assist in harvesting the present crops. \

The eighteen who were accepted and who are eligible for service at once are as follows: Carroll W. Leajherman, Carpenter John Kaufman, Union William Ott, Walker Roy M. Burch, Rensselaer John S. DeArmond, Kankakee Vernon R. Stearns, Barkley | Louis W. Misch, Wheatfield I Joseph J. Thomas, Newton j Carl Weickum. Marion ! Othel Caldwell, Marion , Herman Goepp, Barkley Delevan J. Babcock, Rensselaer John Kriz, Newton Charles P. Potter, Union Oscar J. Stembel, Wheatfield Tunis Snip, Jr., Keener F. D. Minniear, Marion Harold L. Fidler, Jordan Three of the above men will depart for the training camp tomorrow, and Carroll W. Leatherman, Othel Caldwell and John Kriz have offered to go and have been accepted. The five men who were exempted for industrial reasons are as follows: Bradford Poole, Barkley Joseph F. Nagel, Barkley Henry Van Wienen, Keener Clarence Stack, Carpenter Garret DeFries, Keener