Amanuensis Monday - squeaking under the wire

It is still Monday for another hour so perhaps I will get this finished and posted in time for it to count for Monday. 

A  man named John Newmark is the original creator  of the concept of a weekly amanuensis blog but other bloggers have joined in.  HERE is the original explanation of the concept.  I am the worlds worst skimmer when it comes to reading.  And the harder the item is to read the less of it I take my time and read word for word.   Therefore I know this would be a very worthwhile exercise for me to do once a week.  My lack of self discipline will probably not allow it to happen on a weekly basis but whatever I do get transcribed will help me to read that document carefully.  I have been very fortunate that I have a friend who loves to type and often will type things up for me.  But to do some of them myself will help me to look at the documents more carefully.

 

Oscar Rohrer

1878-1938

holding his grandson (my dad)

This week I chose my great grandfather's draft registration and his draft card.   There has been a lot of online activity about the one hundred year anniversary of WWI.  My great grandfather was not in WWI but he did register for the draft as was required.  I thought it might be interesting to examine a WWI draft registration and a draft card from WWI carefully.   If you click on the images they should enlarge so you can see them more clearly. 

The first one is hard to read as it is a poor digital copy.  It is the actual registration.  Starting with the left I see:

Registration card

??  3132

?? 13

1 Oscar Rohrer

first name middle name last name

2 permanent ? mail 

Route 6 Peru Miami Ind

street ? ? ? ? 

Age in years  Date of Birth

3                     4 

40                August 22, 1878

Race

White     Negro?  ????  Indian? 

                                      ?? ??

5check       6           7      8  9  

U S Citizen                                                            Alien

Natural Born?   Naturalized?   ????                        ?    ?

10check                   11                12                     13    14

15 ??

Present Occupation                         Employers name

16 Farming                                       17 Self

18. Place of Employment    ?????

Route 6 Peru Miami  Ind

Nearest Relative 

Name

19

Alice Rohrer

Address

20

Route 6 Peru Miami Ind

I affirm that I have  ???????   and that they are true

  ?????

Oscar Rohrer

On the right is: 

Registers Report

most of it is illegible 

I do see the numbers 

18 - 1 - 19 

and it looks like his eyes are blue and his hair is black

There are two check marks but I don't know for what.

Albert Donaldson signed it 

Sept 12, 1918

H.E.K

Local Board for the County of Miami, State of Indiana,  Peru Indiana

and I can't read the rest. 

And the lower darker colored draft card:

P.M.G.O. form No. 68.

REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE

To whom it may concern, greetings,

THESE PRESENTS ATTEST.  That in accordance with the proclamation of the President of the United States, and in compliance with law, Oscar Rohrer (first name) (middle name) (last name)  Route 6 Peru Miami Ind (no) (street or R.F. D. no) (city or town) (county) (state) has submitted himself to registration and has by me been duly registered on this 12 day of Sept, 1918, under the supervision of the Local Board designated on the back hereof.  3-6172 Albert Donaldson (Place stamp of Local Board on back of this card.)  H.E.R.