Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. 95,000 DRAFT MEN CALLED Movement to Begin March 29 and Continue for Five-Day Period. The call has been issued for the next movement of drafted men for the new national army, and the movement is to begin on March 29 and continue for five days. Every state in the Union except lowa and Minnesota is affected. It includes the men remaining from the first draft, and 2,997 men will be sent from. Indiana to Camp Taylor, Which means 17 per cent of the 35 per cent yet remaining of the first net quota of the-state. Men for the 17 per cent will be called In sequence of order number, except that the call will be deferred as to those who are actively engaged in agriculture. The local boards will be instructed to “pass the order numbers of such men and defer their call for the present.’’