Drafted
Men
The drawing of the numbers of men who are registered for military service was made in Washington last Friday. The drawing was not finished until 3 a.m. Saturday morning. Grant County's quota is seventy-one, and a list of the first one hundred and forty-two, one-hundred per cent more than the required number is published herewith. In making the drawing Grant County is given credit for eighteen men who have enlisted and who were registered. This places Grant's total quota at eighty-nine. As soon as the official result of the drawing is announced from Washington, the men whose number appear in the draft will be called before the local boards of exemptions. One-third of the list will be called the first day and so on until the list is made up of those who will serve their country as soldiers in the war.
If the list of 142 names is exhausted before the required number is secured, the next in the order drawn will be called before the board until the entire list is filled. It is expected that the 142 numbers drawn out first will be sufficient. Exemptions will be made on the grounds of physical disabilities, men with families who are solely dependent upon them for support. Those who claim exemptions on the ground of having dependents will be required to make an affidavit and heavy penalties are prescribed for false statements.
The local board of exemptions is composed of Sheriff W. P. Williams, County Clerk H. W. Webb, and examining physician, Dr. A. V. Menefee. The decision of the examining physician will not be final as the drafted man will be passed on to another physician who will examine him. Who this second physician will be has not been made known as this is written. While it is not yet known how deeply exemptions will cut into the list, it is quite probable that nearly all married men who have families in this county will claim exemptions, as few of them are in financial condition which would keep their families without their support. The men below will be examined before the draft board.
| Thomas Farley | Roscoe Jump | Lum Herron |
| Jesse James Milner | William M. Petticord | Victor Burns |
| Ira Higgason | James S. Webster | Norman I. Rose |
| James G. Blain Updike | James Everett Ashcraft | Thomas W. Clark |
| Joseph Emmet Gouge | Kirby Marksberry | Eben Boyds |
| Oakley Frain Northcutt | James E. Stone | Clifford Burns Wiggins |
| James Edward Poor - colored | Ray Edmondson | Lotius Ashcraft |
| Peter A. Roland | Forest Points Spillman | Elmer R. Davis |
| Joe Thomas Sheriff | Sam Rogers | Willie F. Kells |
| Alva Robinson | Ira Stephens Rogers | Grover C. Settles |
| Omer Connley | Henry Anderson - colored | William Lavon |
| Carl Fortner Collins | Meck Updike | French Osborne |
| Elmer Bell | Howard Austin Youngman | Earl F. Anderson |
| Arthur Scroggin | William Perry | Ottis Kells |
| Ben Jones Jr. | Elsie Conyers | Everett Kennedy |
| Francis Cleveland McAllister | Omer S. Chapman | Roy C. Stewart |
| John Hal Webb | Leroy Adams | Ed Wigglesworth |
| Howard Northcutt | Clarence Granville Jackson | H. C. Stroud |
| William Atha Steger | Isaac Paul Blackburn | John F. Collins |
| James Hopperton | John Denny Risen | Luther D. Shelton |
| Ray Lyons | Ottis Lewis Mitts | William Edwards |
| John Wesley Sturgeon | Benjamin Tillman Higgason | Russell Webster |
| Frank Butler | Martin Joseph Kelly | John S. Hume - colored |
| Charles Elmer Landrum | Edgar Walters - colored | Oliver Holton Hume |
| Alvin Calender Lawrence | Charles Wieck - colored | Ben Henry |
| Charles Elmer Oder | Harvey Price Stephenson | George W. Worthington |
| Charles J. Atha | Charles Wilbur Stroud | Lawrence Schulkers |
| Russell Cleveland McNay | Fred Hutchinson Gouge | E. D. Webster |
| Charley Chestnut | Kirt Vaughn | Joseph Jackson |
| John Thomas Lawrence | Carl Hedges | Philip G. Harrison |
| John Adams | Harmon McAtee | Fred Sasher |
| William Whaley | Allen Thurman Jones | Frank Whaley |
| Smith Simpson | Ernest Smith | Kaymond Barnes |
| Robert Elmer Crook | Harley Jacobs | W. Frances Chipman |
| John Jackson Sturgeon | Thomas Joseph Roberts | Albert Gutman |
| John Joseph Kelly | Stanley McCoy | Eugene E. Moore |
| Ommie Brooks | Robert Lester Wiley | Walter Lee Martin |
| Everet Webster | Julius Rankin | Ed L. Steers |
| Walter Cline Gray | Floyd Jump | Floyd Wilson |
| William Lewis White | Floyd Brooks | Frances Marion Scroggin |
| Robert House | Samuel Clarkson - colored | Melvin Worthington |
| Estil J. Kuhn | James Ivan Vice | Aaron Bickers |
| Albert Parsons | Jesse Athey | Lee Humphrey |
| Itsku Disentelski | Aaron Jenkins | Willie M. Tomlin |
| Ed Ransom | Arthur Alcorn | Edgar Harrison Thompson |
| Vernon Newton Smith | Henry Carter | Johnson Osborn |
| Cassius Byron Browning | Grooms Evans | . |
| Roy Lee Hedges | Robert Dawson Hogan | . |
The Grant County News
Williamstown, Kentucky
Friday, July 27, 1917
From the estate of Isabelle Hulett Lanter
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Beulah Wiley Franks
Grant County Coordinator, KY/ALHN