Plainfield News Notes and Army Draft Plans
The item lists local residents and events including weddings and illnesses in Plainfield. It also outlines a government plan to enlist senior agriculture students and conduct broad training to protect labor in industry and farming while avoiding large-scale disruption. It emphasizes that the war is a fight of mechanics and that skilled workers will be redirected through education and small, phased inductions.
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Quartermaster Department
United States
Plans For Second Draft Set for March 29
War draft plans outline a March 29 induction start, with about 800000 registrants to be called in phases as need. The program will draw from Class 1 and other groups to reinforce existing units, while deferring agriculturists and other essential labor, to balance military and production needs through 1918.
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Wight
Vam
Aw Dow
War Department
Considerane
Minton
Fartown
Tall
Knights of Columbus Raise War Fund To 1.9 Million
In Plainfield and beyond the Knights of Columbus marshaled support for the war effort. Jamey A. Flaherty explains in a March Ladies' Home Journal piece that the fraternal insurance group, founded in New Haven in 1882, now has over 400000 members in the United States and Canada. The order has funded chairs and mortuary reserves, opened war service buildings, and joined with YMCAs and Red Cross to aid soldiers. They report Catholic chaplains on ships and in camps, and note significant German Catholic donations as evidence of loyalty across faiths. The campaign aims at 1.9 million dollars total.
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Knights of Columbus
Plainfield
Jamey A. Flaherty
Order
Ladies’ Home Journal
Mr. Flaherty
New Haven
Ita
United States
Canada
Knigits
Catholic University of America
Snciety
Knights of Columbus War Fund
Presbyterian
Red Triangle
Gerretary Newton D. Baker
Beny
Catho
Young Men's Hebrew Association
Knights of Columbus Commission On
Campe
France
Sam
Aver
Philadelphia
Cardinal Girbone
Camn Meade
Columbia
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