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Show BEAVER COUNTY SENDING HER NUMBER OF RECRUITS Beaver City is throbbing with patriotism. Her young men are responding to their country's call to arms. If every community in the United States will furnish as many volunteers as have already enlisted from Beaver, Bea-ver, Uncle Sam would now have an army of more than a million men in training for active service. It is declared declar-ed that Beaver will furnish volunteer soldiers to the number of one per cent of her entire population. There is no need for conscription if all communities do as well. For the past ten days there has been little else thought of or discussed at the county seat. The war and the call for volunteers is the theme 'of the hour. Public mass meetings have been held on the street and in the county court house. Prominent citizens have in patriotic utterance -urged the young men to go. The city offiicals have taken up the matter and assisted the government recruiting officer of-ficer in every possible manner man-ner to secure a large number num-ber of fine appearing, able-bodied able-bodied young men for the various branches of the service. ser-vice. The boom of anvils parades, stirring military band music, enthusiastic discussion of the probabilities probabili-ties of active service, these have been the life at Beaver all this week. An officer of the naval and infantry branches of the government service have been in the country and are well pleased with the response re-sponse and co - operation found at Beaver. One of them speaking of the auto parade of 40 automobiles carrying the recruits and more than 200 representative representa-tive citizens from Beaver to Milford, said "It is one of which a city like New York might well be proud." The boys who have enlisted enlist-ed thus far are as follows: Naval Clifford McShane. Clinton McShane Farrell Kesler Dewey Bakes Stanley Oakden. ,s Army Ambrose Huntington. Ross Stoney- Willard Almon Thompson Hanmer Webb. Byron Gentry. Clarence Grimshaw. Owen Myron Gentry. James Vincent Thompson. Mervin Lorin Edwards. Nearly fifty girls of Beaver Bea-ver have sent their names in as being willing to serve the country in any capacity for which they may be called. One of these, Miss Stella Goodwin, received her call Wednesday and left on the evening train with the recruits re-cruits 'for Salt Lake City. From Milford the following follow-ing have enlisted in the infantry in-fantry branch of the army service : Wesley Carlisle. George Litchfield. James Nielson. Minersville Ellis LeFevre. Harvey Fotheringham. G. M. Snyder. A number of high school boys and others are considering consid-ering the matter and will probably enlist within the next two weeks. Wednesday aft e r n o o n was the biggest day of the week for Beaver, among her big days. ! About two o'clock a large i crowd gathered on the streets down town to see the enlisted boys depart and 'many of them to accompany the boys as far as Milford. ;More than five hundred i school children marched down the street and back again, carrying flags. When they ijeturned to the corner by the State Bank they sang several patriotic songs, including in-cluding "America" and "The Star Spangled Banner" During the day two or three citizens had circulated a paper, pa-per, and started a fund for the benefit of the Beaver boys and the Red Cross and had collected between $150 and $175 as a beginning. So after the singing Wm. Hurst in behalf of this finance committee, com-mittee, presented five dollars dol-lars to each of the boys who went Wednesday, of whom there were eight that had passed. Five dollars will be sent to each of those who went earlier. This fund will be kept up by subscription and sent to the boys from ! here from time to time, and also given to the Red Cross when that organization is completed. Forty-five autos containing contain-ing two hundred and fifty people accompanied the boys !to Milford. i . ... . |