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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1917
Page
3
A church report notes a large call to enroll 250 but only 100 and fifty more are asked to appear. The event outlines a process where many are invited yet few meet the required quota, prompting a rescheduled or extended admission step.
After a week of exams for 290 men, 145 were found unfit. The board now calls 150 more in three-day blocks next Thursday Friday and Saturday. Fifty of the second lot will appear each day. Lists show 45 in Class 1 and 72 in Class 2, with exemptions granted to 28 in Class 3.
Local Board lists fifty draftees to be examined on Thursday August 16 1917. Entries include Floyd Arthur Wright Jesse Owen Smith and many others with serial numbers and home towns across Indiana including Corydon Palmyra Evans Landing White Cloud Central Corydon New Middleton Depauw New Salisbury Ramsey New Amsterdam Laconia Mauckport Lanesville and Georgetown.
A local draft board lists fifty names and serial numbers for examination on Friday August 17 1917. The roster includes Goldman Daniel A Miller Frank Batman Arthur Emel Wagener John Rawli Blake George Wesley Leffler Clarence T Saffer Harry Wiseman Lee Edmund Deweese Irwin Rudolf Walker Harry OBain Stonecipher Calvin Farnsley John Lee Conrad Maurice Beaublossom Ward Baker Ernest Schmitt Robert H. Luther Henry John Lang Henry Ashton Sidney R Kron Leon A Fogal Robert L Pindall Harve H McKim Stanley W Hottell Willard Roy Adam Albert Nau August L Smith Gus Henry Faith Gene J Rowe Russell Rodn Allison Alva Edgar Goodman Rex B Gresham Harry E Cunningham Wayne Glaze Lee Fisher Amos R Messmer George Al Mann Clifton Edna Barks Charles BE McAdams James A Gross Ivan Rudolph Otto Horae Redden Frank McCauley Harold Day Edmund Albert Rumbley A H Hays Hugh B Shewmaker Straud L Seacat Harrison I Carver Ben H Smith John Lewis Crandall Indiana Milltown Indiana Bloomington Illinois R R No 1 Dogwood Indiana Crandalk Indiana Hardinsburg Indiana Elizabeth Indiana R R No 1 Georgetown Indiana R R No 1 Leavenworth Indiana Georgetown Indiana R R No 2 waited on Local Page.
Jease Gwartney ill with typhoid fever. G O Brandenburg returned from St Joseph hospital after a surgical operation. Threshing finished. farmers storing grain for better prices. Mrs Ida Jack and son Hollis of New Albany visited with Mrs Irma Heckler. Mrs Jesse Singleton and daughter Faye back from trip with pilot Jesse Singleton. H E Club to host ice cream supper Aug 11 to fund kitchen cabinet for High School. Ted Sherman visiting from New Albany. Flynn and Mathys erecting large two story building at Third and Main for drug store and feed exchange. Oscar Singleton and Warren Miller visiting home folks.
German aeroplanes raided the southeast coast of England last Sunday dropping bombs at points in Essex and Kent. Twenty three people were killed including nine women and children and nearly sixty were injured. British aircraft pursued the raiders out to sea and drove them off.
Elmer L. Shaffer will sell his personal property at public auction at his home six miles southwest of Corydon on the Lick Ford pike. The sale occurs Friday September 7 1917 and is described as a large sale with further notice to follow next week.
Mrs Elmer Hudson and Ola Margaret of Bowling Green arrived for a visit with her parents Mr and Mrs George Crawford. Miss Nellie Crawford returned home with them after weeks in Bowling Green. Hazel Moneyhon, their granddaughter, accompanied them to Louisville. George Goode works as a carpenter at Camp Taylor near Louisville. Ebbert Kopp and others employed at Jeffersonville Car Works spent Sunday with kin. five others returned to work. Prof E L Boyer from Chicago Heights visited in Corydon. James E McKinster and Harriet McKibben of Fowler wed at Dodge City, departing for a Colorado welding trip. he is Studebaker agent there. Mauckport Home Economics Club’s supper raised 21 dollars to furnish the high school Domestic Science kitchen. Miss Jeanette Tyler of Independence, Kansas, visiting relatives. Dr Ed S Denbo and Albert Denbo of Orleans visiting family here. State Senator M C Thornton of New Albany was in Corydon on business and has many local friends.
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