Centenarian Registers for War Service

Mrs. Esther [Gilmer] Dohoney who celebrated her 100th birthday in May of this year, came down to the Court-House last week and registered for war activities. Mrs. Dohoney says that she is ready for any service called upon her to do.

(It was that at point Kaiser Bill dropped his hot-off-the-press copy of the Adair County News and began frantically searching for a white flag of surrender. It most likely would have made no difference had he read the the rest of the article-Cyrus):

This grand mother of American patriots in the glory of beautiful old age spends much of her time knitting for soldiers.

Mrs. Dohoney's registration was in response to appeals for women 16 & older to register for the Women's War Census which stated "No service is asked or expected of a woman except what she may freely offer, but she is requested by the government to register, in any case..."