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Show SUCCEEDS II GUI RECRUiTING Eighteen Men File Applications Applica-tions for Service in Mexican Mexi-can Trouble. V OFFICERS GRATIFIED Citizens Show Great Enthusiasm Enthu-siasm and More Will Be j Enlisted, Special to The Tribune. PROVO, Juno Z2. Mayor James E. Daniels received Adjutant General E. A. Wedgwood's telegram asking for twenty-five twenty-five voiuntc-ers from Provo for the troop of cavalry for the increase of the Utah militia a i 10 o'clock this morning. The telegram asked that General Wedgwood be advised by 3 o'clock this afternoon of the progress made in getting the met) together for physical esa mi nation. Mayor Daniels and the city commis-sioners commis-sioners at once conferred with citizens at a meeting hold in the city commission's room on the s;eps to be taken to comply with the cider. Bands Play in Streets. i There were present at the meeting Mayor Daniels, Commissioner Le Roy Dixon, City Recorder Fred Evans, President Presi-dent A. P. Merrill, Vice President James Clove and Secretory "Henry Nutali of the Provo r'ommercial club,'.!. L Lytel, project manager of the Strawberry valley reclamation recla-mation project, and Irving Hanson of the Provo band. It. was decided to call a meeting- for this evening at S o'clock in the city park for the purpose of advising advis-ing the citizens of the call. Two bands the Provo band and Epperson's Ep-person's Military bond were secured to advertise the meeting and this afternoon they drove through the city in floats carrying "Call to Arms" banners and playing martial airs. Boy Scouts Advertise. The Boy Scouts also distributed handbills hand-bills through the city with announcement of the meeting and its purposes. A re-iiues-t waw made of the adjutant general's gener-al's office that he send some officer of the L'. X. G. to the meeting to make an explanatory a-idrt-ss relative to enlistment. enlist-ment. This was promised, if an officer could be spared. Arrangements were also made for local speakers to address the meeting. Approximately 3f00 persons assembled in the City park at the mass meeting tonight. Captain W. B. Wallace. Captain Cap-tain J. F. Shi'vp and Captain Freeman V , Hassett. representing the adjutant gen eral's office, attended the meeting and gave patriotic talks. Among others who spoke were Guy (.,'. Wilson, president of i lie L. D. S. L". at Salt Lake, who spent several years In Mexico: United States District Attorney W. W. Ray of Salt Lake, Colonel C. E. Doose, Jesse- Knight and James Clove of Provo. Will Help Families. Colonel Doose assured the audience that any employees of the concerns with which he' is., connected who wish to join the f' troops' may do so with the assurance i hat their families will be amply cared for during their time of service. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed during dur-ing the meeting and when the call for recruits was made eighteen men filed applications for enlistment. This city wns supposed to furnish only twenty-five men for thft new troop and that number num-ber vill he easily supplied within the next twenty-four hours. There Is a strong sentiment to procure as large a membership from here as possible, so that a troop may be located in Provo permanently. Those who filed applications applica-tions for enlistment tonight will be ex-a ex-a mined at the Commercial club at 1 o'clock this afternoon. They are James Clove. Jr.. A. W. Morrison, Kenneth Decker, Kenneth South worth, William C. Crawford, Ray J. Cunningham, Melville Taylor. Peter J. Benson, Joy Jones, Wayne Christian, George M. Harris, Carl C. Boshnrd. Dan Odyssinn. Frank Kekeas, Frank Jackson, Bryan Olsen, C. T. Taylor, Tay-lor, Albert Henry. |