Taylor County GaArchives News.....Colored Selectmen Called To Service Next Week - 1918 July 11, 1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 3, 2005, 11:48 pm The Butler Herald July 11, 1918 The Butler Herald Thursday, July 11, 1918 Page One Colored Selectmen Called To Service Next Week The Call is for 42 Men Who Will Be Sent to Camp Gordon. Day Appointed for Leaving Not Set The following is a list of colored registrants, to whom the local board is this week sending out notices to appear in Butler next week, day yet to be determined, ready for entrainment for Camp Gordon to be inducted into military service of the United States. These names are drawn in accordance with positive instructions from the Adjutant General’s office, and it is earnestly requested by the board that no one intercede in behalf of any registrant to have him placed in later call, as little or no changes will be made. While the list includes fifty-five registrants only forty-two will be inducted into the service at this time. The following are included in this call: Frank Cummings Hoke Smith Dave Andrew Jackson Sims Charley Dent Willie Everett Ed Lockett John Henry Raines Allen Sanders Johnnie Ward John Lee Harris Wilchar Monroe Lockett Henry Hill Judge Willie Newsom Brown Mathews Martin Millirons Chas. A. Counter Clifford A. Walker William Searcy Monroe McCrary Earnest Corbin Charley Roquemore John Alford Charley Dugger Leslie Wilchar Eldridge Russeau John Henry Jackson Ramon Carson Roy Dugger Davis Hicks C. Isaiah Lockhart Lonnie Mathews Thomas Beall Sam Collatt Homer Shines Horace Tenyson Sam Character Lonnie Nailor Letcher Ross Clifford Hicks Asa Drain Andrew Edwards Albert Troutman Ira Lockhart Willie Mosely L-ron* Turner Abe Searcy Eugene Rogers Charley Lockhart Freeny Edwards Henry Raines Birdie Dowd Steve Turner *Transcriber’s note: The second letter of Mr. Turner’s first name was blurred – it may be Leron, Loron, Laron – I am unable to tell. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/taylor/newspapers/coloreds2243nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb