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NOTICE OF REGISTRATION!
WARNING

All male persons who are twenty one (21) years of age on or before June 5,
1917, and all male persons who have not reached the age of thirty-one--31-- on or
before said date, and all males persons between the ages of twenty one -21- and
thirty -30-, both WHITE AND COLORED, are required under the laws of the
United States and the Proclamaton of the President of the United States to register
on said 5th day of June, 1917, for service in the Army. Any male person liable for
registration who shall fail to register on said date will be immediately prosecuted in
Federal Court under the laws of United States, and are liable to severe punishment.
Also any person making, helping to make, or causing to be made a false registration
There will be a Regeistrar in each Township who can give you the necessary in-
formation. There is only one day. JUNE 5th, 1917, for registering.

JUNE 5th For Registration
Our country is at war with a powerful enemy. It is your patriotic duty to reg-
ister. Furthermore, it is not safe to take chances with the Government at such a
time. I call upon the good people in the County to aid me in seeing that every man
who is liable registers on the 5th day of June, 1917
J. M. CLARK, Sheriff

LIST of REGISTRARS
Abbotts, J. L. Hall
Bethel, W. F. McNeill
Bladenboro, F. D. McLean.
Brown Marsh, T. L. Hutchinson.
Central, J. O. Ellis.
Colly, D. A. Marshburn.
Carvers Creek, J. L. Nicholson.
Cypress Creek, Angus Cromartie.

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Elizabeth, Bayard Clark.
Frenches Creek, Gilead Smith
Hollow, W. H. Fisher.
Lake Creek, W. H. Corbett.
Turnbull, B. F. Tatum.
Whites Creek, Priest and Monroe.
White Oak, R. I. Council.