Registrants Assigned Questionnaires For Draft Classification
Registrants who registered June 5th receive a sixteen page questionnaire to determine their suitability for military service. Exemption boards, including in Orange City, will mail booklets over the next twenty days. Lawyers in Sioux County offer free help to answer questions. Those exempted for dependents or disability are to be classified in one of five divisions under the new order with no exemptions. some may be placed in non combatant roles behind the lines.
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Cation
Orange City
Iti Dwill
Registration Board
Sioux County
National Army
Saturday School Plan With Holiday Break Adopted
The school board and teachers agreed to two weeks of holiday break starting Friday and no spring vacation. Schools will operate on Saturdays for ten Saturdays after the break to shorten the school year.
Wrestler Frank Gotch Dies at Forty One in Humboldt
The world champion heavyweight Frank Gotch died at his Humboldt Indiana home on Sunday at age forty one. His health declined after a 1916 tour with a circus and he spent months seeking medical help before his death. He amassed an estimated fortune of 200000 to 400000 and left a wife and four year old son. Burelaries at Rock Rapids yielded about 2000 in stamps and 30 in cash as Rock Rapids serves as a county supply distributing point.
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Register Tribune
Maurice
Frank. Gotch
Humboldt
Chicago
V . Burelars
Rock Rapids
Lyon County
Post Office Department
Washington
Hawarden
Sioux County
Red Cross Christmas push urges hope and help
Red Cross notes report a $21.50 donation from Mr. Dahl and receipts of a show Friday evening. Thirty two Christmas boxes were sent this week to Rock Valley boys in Camp. Red Cross Christmas Seals are on sale in general stores, drug stores and jewelry shops.
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Red Cross
Dahl
Rock Valley
Kked Cros
Former Rock Valley Boy Joins Army Signal Corps
Dee Stocker now in Omaha after graduation last spring from State University says he enlisted in Uncle Sam service and will report after year start. He will serve in the officers reserve signal corps balloon division of the aviation section. Herman Heit plans move to town after selling his farm last spring and buying the John Kurvink property south of the railroad. Richard Dykstra of Sioux Center who bought that farm will move onto it after year start.
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Dee Stocker
Rock Valley
Omahs
The
State University
Uncle Sam
Officers Reserve Signal Corps
Herman Heit
John Kurvink
Richard Dykstra
Sioux Center
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Sasty Bank
State Bank of
Rock ‘Valley
Iowa
James Rogers
Misabli
Red
First National Bank
Rock Valley, Iowa
F. Vander
Hans Moeller
C. A. Walhot
A. F. Schem
S. Thayer Varney
Ray
Eltis
E. Eldredge
L. van den BF
Eltis H. J. Dries
Stuckenbrack
J. R. Benson
Herman Schmidt
John A. Schmidt
Wm. P. Moeller
J.F. Schlund
Martha M. Large
Grace J. Large
Frank A. Large
W. W. Johnson
Santa
the Fair Store
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