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ESTABLISHED 18834FIFTEEN. HICALLED FORDRAFT ARMYWILL LEAVE DICKINSON FOR CAMP DODGE NEXT WEDNESDAY.Local Board Certifies Thirty-two Out of Call of One Hundred to District Board.Fifteen men, or 40 per cent of Stark county's quota for the selective draft army, will leave Dickinson next Wednesday for Camp Dodge, Iowa, following instructions received this week by the local exemption board. The men will be chosen as soon as district board makes its return to the local board regarding appeals and claims for exemption in which tne local board had no authority to act.The squad will leave Dickinson on No. 8 Wednesday morning and ail the .recruits picked up from this section of the state will consolidate at Jamestown and will be given a special tourist train from there to camp. They are routed over the N. P. to Minneapolis, the M. St. L. to Perry, ia., and over the Inter-urban from Perry to Camp Dodge, reaching their destination at 6:30 p. m., September 20th. There will be in all about 2,000 recruits sent from North Dakota for this call, and transportation schedules have been arranged over all railroads within the state covering a period of several days.The local board has completed its work for the second call of one hundred men to make up Stark county’s quota of thirty-six, and this week certified thirty-two to the state board, discharged sixteen for disability and exempted thirty-five. Sixteen are already in the service and one was transferred to LTdgerwood for examination. This makes a total of fifty-two certified to the district board and official returns have been received on but fourteen, who claimed no exemptions, but in order to carry out the schedule as arranged by the adjutant (Continued on Page 4.)byisoleingthebee:trieareovelettrealt;ftare The will ber boy try. con lam sist ure Bis tO £ livewFLuresc; win the wit ma: Bel cap ben mil tioi nca the the of : He; anlt;i intc me has bin tinj can the
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Sat, Sep 15, 1917
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