Source: Vincennes Capital, 19 Sep 1917, page 1

107 KNOX COUNTY MEN TO LEAVE HERE TOMORROW MORNING

Relatives and Friends and Others Urged to Participate in the Farewell Demonstration

AT THE COURTHOUSE 6:30 A.M.

All March to the Union Station After a Brief Program and the Train Departs at 7:30

The Busseron street entrance to the court house was certainly an impressive scene this afternoon at 2:15, when 104 of the 107 Knox county selective service men who leave tomorrow answered the roll call by Sheriff John Wolfe, chairman of the board. Those not answering were temporarily excused by the board.

John E Lovell of Bicknell was selected as the man to lead the 107 men tomorrow and Lester McKinley of Wheatland was chosen as assistant. All the men appeared to be in the best of spirits.

Tomorrow morning the 107 Knox county selective service draft men will leave on a special train for Camp Taylor, KY, where they will go in training preparatory to leaving for “somewhere in France,” or some other place in Europe. At 6:30 in the morning each and every patriotic citizen, man, woman, and child, is urged to be present at the court house where the drafted men are to report to the local board, for final orders, preparatory to entraining at 7:30.

In addition to the farewell address to be delivered by Hon. James Wade Emison, which will be short, a parade to the union depot will be held. The parade as well as the balance of the program, is given under the auspices of the Knox County Bar association and the county officers.

The committee in charge of the affair earnestly requests that as many as possible march to the union depot with the selective service men, the veterans of the civil war, the police, and band. Autos should be used only in case of necessity where the person desiring to participate in the program is unable to walk. Chief of Police Adams will have as many of the police as possible in the parade, which will go up Eighth street to Hart, then to Sixth and out Sixth to the Baltimore & Ohio platform.

This evening, an informal reception is to be held at the Young Men’s Christian association. Friends and relatives of the drafted men are invited to visit the building and spend the evening with their friends who are to depart tomorrow morning. Music will be furnished by the Kimberly orchestra from 8 to 9, and the Red Cross girls in their uniforms will serve refreshments. Hon. Thomas H. Adams, chairman of the Knox County Council of Defense, will deliver the farewell address.

This afternoon the 107 men are attending a called meeting at the courthouse where they are answering the roll call. Special instructions will also be given to the men and the “leader” is also being selected.

It is the duty of everyone in the county, not only Vincennes, to see the boys off in the morning. The merchants, it is thought, will make arrangements this evening in order to permit their clerks a short leave of absence from the stores due to the fact that the clerks usually do not report until 8 o’clock. Many of the merchants it is understood do not intend to open their stores until after the special train departs.

The following is a list of the boys who leave in the morning. In event several take sick and can’t make the trip Chairman John Wolfe, of the local board, has the names of possibly twenty-five or thirty who were not called, but who are anxious to get to Camp Taylor, and some of them will probably be on hand to fill the vacancies in case any are make:

Nicholas F. Fielding, city; Charles F. Somes, city; Grant Savoree, city; Samuel Pipher, city; Alexander Bell, city; Harry Conrad, city; Noel Chastain, city; Jacob T. Carnahan, city; Horace Snyder, city; Paul Warren, city; Thomas H. Rasico, city; Elzie D. Rowe, city; Leonard Roy Crow, city; James Asa Phillips, city; Leo A. Stallard, city; Charles T. Forbes, city; Clark Harry Johnson, city; Henry Davis, city; Albert B. Forler, city; Jesse Smith, city; Walter Allega, city; Elek Erkson, city; William Bacher, city; Earl Mills, city; James H. Seals, city; Royal Jacobs, city; John Harris, city; Herman Weber, city; Henry Kroeger, city; Albert T. Pepmeyer, city; John E. Tarnell, city; Harrison Johnson, city; Alonzo C. Cox, city; Forrest Alton, city; August C. Bezy, city; Raymond Utley, city; George E. Sipple, city; Ora Heischman, city; Louis Lieberman, city; Louis Wenshelbaum, city; David B. England, city; Grover C. Mulaiter, city; Fred Biddle, city; Warren H. Cox, city; John Ellerman, city; Joseph Primus, city; James Morgan, city; Edward B. Cook, city; Frank Theaman, city; John Hobson, R.R. 8, city; John E. Wyatt, city; John Nick, city; Hugh F. Vallely, city; Joseph Clarence Watson, city; Carl Strong, Bicknell; Felix Emmons, Bicknell; Cella R. Craig, Bicknell; Alvin Booker, Bicknell; Frank Gorman, Bicknell; Marcel Chandoired, Bicknell; John E. Lovell, Bicknell; Emory Faith, Bicknell; Henry H. Frazier, Bicknell; Philip N. Nicholson, Bicknell; Harry Noble, Bicknell; Joseph Marr, Bicknell; James B. Russell, Bicknell; Grover S. Meyers, Bicknell; Charles Fallon, Bicknell; James Cartwright, Bicknell; Frank Helburn, Bicknell; William C. Green, Bicknell; Joseph Burleigh Hendricks, Bicknell; Joseph R. Welton, Bicknell; Albert F. Pepmeyer, Freelandville; Ira M. Anderson, Edwardsport; George M. Johnson, Edwardsport; Otto Carter, Edwardsport; Harry Atkinson, Edwardsport; Edwin H. Kirchoff, Edwardsport; Charles O. Lankford, Edwardsport; Bejamin W. Long, Wheatland; Lester McKinley, Wheatland; Arthur E. Snyder, Wheatland; Isaac Davis, Wheatland; David J. McClure, Wheatland; Paul Jenkins, Wheatland; Ora Hatfield, Wheatland; Charles Wagier, Pleasantville; Cecil (????), (???); Frank W. Steimel, Oaktown; James A. Hall, Oaktown; John C. Gaither, Oaktown; Arthur J. Grizzel, Oaktown; Edward Deppe, Oaktown; Fate Yeagle, Sandborn; Harrison Johnson, Decker; William E. Talley, Decker; Albert Morgan, Decker; Arvel J. Meyers, Monroe City; Harry D. Hannah, Monroe City; Charles C. Cockerham, Monroe City; Emory J. Gayer, Princeton; John Raymond Barr, Bruceville; Ernest O. Flack, Bruceville; Edward F. Johanningsmeyer, Sandborn; Earl Foreman, Bruceville; George Preston, Bruceville

- submitted by Raymond Chanley