First Contigent of Draftees Depart

WILL GIVE DRAFTED MEN FAREWELL RECEPTION AT DELASSUS

A big demonstration is being arranged by the St. Francois County Council of Defense for the drafted men of the county next Friday when the first contingent leaves the county from DeLassus station. The details of the program are now being arranged by committees that were appointed last Saturday by A. I. Foard, chairman of the County Council of Defense. The program in general will be as follows:

Friday, September 21 --

10:30 o'clock. March by 700 school children of Farmington, the old soldiers of the county and the boy scouts of Farmington and the drafted men.

11:00. Patriotic band music, patriotic songs by school children and a short address.

12:00. Lunch served to all the drafted men that are leaving at this time by the ladies of Farmington and Home Defense organizations of the county.

1:00 o'clock. The soldiers leave Farmington on the electric line for DeLassus. Everybody is expected to go with them to DeLassus and remain until their train arrives at 2:00 o'clock.

1:15 o'clock. Until the train arrives, music by the band and a short address.

About 126 drafted men will leave Friday and it is hoped that the entire county will turn out to bid the soldiers good bye and show them that the people of the county are back of them in every respect. Schools are asked to dismiss for this occasion and attend in a body. Any school or other organization from any portion of the county desiring to be in the parade or take part in any way at this demonstration will be greatly appreciated, and should apply at once to the chairman of the County Council of Defense.

It should be readily understood that this occasion is a county affair and the whole county should take part. It happens to take place at Farmington and DeLassus because this is the place where the soldiers leave.

Following is a complete list of the boys who will entrain at DeLassus:

John Fred Wilson
Marshal Inman
James Martin Puller
Benj. Peter Sherman
W. F. Marratt
Geo. William Ambery
Howard Raymond Moore
Albert Detring
Ransom Hunt
Jasper Grady
August William Jaster
August Maigre
Lee Emmett Polk
James Walter Chilton
Alvin Thurman
Otto Harrison Flanery
Elsworth Baker
Martin Dee Eeaves
Floyd Ernest Coffman
Emil Komadino
Wm. Washburn
James Austin Aubuchon
Bert Lawson
Joseph Rokocsky
Virgil Earl Pirtle
Homer Noel Lesser
Ben Jarvis
Albert L. Weiman
Arthur Cox
Sam Watson McCord
Daniel J. Coleman
Newton Parks
Wm. Robt. Boring
Frank Huff
Arch Benj. Byers
Wm. Sago
Louis Wichman
Harry Homer Crocker
Diab Salem
Peter Fred Selzer
Chirs Wise
John B. Lancaster
Norman A. Stockett
Jasper Frank Falk
Thos. Edward Sippy
Edward Paul Lindeman
John Henry Coplin
Jesse Lee Ritter
Edward Morris
Henry Newbrand
Roscoe Paul Morris
Wm. Dettmer
Kasher Herman Lunsford
Raymond Aubuchon
Floyd Herbert Montgomery
Arthur Clay Miller
Clifford Richmond
Ernest Henry Mathews
John Todd
Clinton Edwin Conrad
Albert Raymond Ross
John Henry Stevens
Jesse Prather
Elvy Everett Jennings
Gladstone A. Davis
John Butwin
Gus Ludwig Halter
Jeff Daniel Moore
Willard Henry West
Samuel Henry Miller
Harmon Swarigin
William Edw. Smith
Clyde Ben Good
Walter Culp
Russell John Barger
Marion Francis McGee
Aud H. Yount
John Quincy Cottrell
Adalia W. Bono
Edw. W. Bono
Edw. William Wichman
William F. McCaister
Ellis Lee Horton
Austin August Henry
Robert McKinley White
Harry Henry O'Leary
Frank Dudley
Claud E. Baldwin
Fred Marvin Forshee
Mike Balas
Roy Turner
Milo Boyd Clark
Alma Henry Horn
Ernest Earl Beck
Frank Andrew Lassource
Ferdinand E. Turley
John Albert Murphy
Orion Brothers
Roy Willmont
Wellington Floyd Oder
Fred Alden Warfel
Albert Crimp
Geo. Jackson
Marcus Emory LaBrot
Otto Harrison Miller
Benj. F. Halter
Erwin O. Schmidt
Charley Forister
Benj. Crawford
Gladden N. Kinkhead
Lawrence Edgar Barfield
Blandy Robert Hunt
Robt. Enut McDuffer
Bert Sebastian Allen
Jas. William Vagn
James L. Tibbs

Published by THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Sept. 21, 1917.