Clay County Schools - 75 Years Ago
The County Superintendent annually published the Educational Directory for Public Schools. This is the 1944 edition of that publication by County Superintendent Mary Ward Rippeteau.
The primary information included data about each teacher in the county and the list of school board members for every school.
The first draft for World War I was held on June 5, 1917, with men from age 21 to 30 eligible. The list below is dated August 17, 1917, and lists the Clay County men identified in that draft. There were 1237 men drafted in Clay County from #1, Frank M. Korgan of Inland, to Geo. B. Krug of Harvard, #1237.
A second draft on June 5, 1918, and its supplement on August 24, 1918, picked up men who turned 21 since the prior drafts. The third draft was held on September 12, 1918, with eligible ages expanded to 18 to 45. Armistice Day came two months later.
The men were called up in sequence as levies were placed on the county. The men then appeared at the induction center, on date certain, for physicals and other evaluations to determine their fitness for service.
Each man's serial number is on the left, the Order of Drawing on the right. The Order of Drawing became the sequence that they were called. The list is not alphabetical so it is a challenge to find Grandpa.
We stumbled upon The Harvard Courier newspaper from 1894 while working on our weekly column. We used an image of some of these ads for our photo of the week in the column and promised a more robust presentation here on the Sutton Museum blog. So, here you are:
