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Show IWILL II DBS x ; LIKE MOTHER COOKS i Utah Society to Provide Holiday Meals for Camp Kearny Lads. IS HEADED BY PORTER Will Begin With Thanks giving' and Continue Through Holidays, i . By STAFF COEEESPONDENT. ! CAMP KKAF.XV. Cal., Nov. 11. Utah's 1 solillers at Cnip Kearny will not he without with-out their home-cooked dinners, so dear to ', them, durlns t-!eir training period here, ' if the plans of the newly organized Utah ; society materialize. The society, which was the idea of Samuel Porter, a former Salt Iake man, will shortly be compose.!4 of more than 2no former residents of Utah who are now living in San Diego. It is the rlan of the. society to take the Utah hovs into their homes dnnni; their holidavs from the camp and de.ignt them with 'dinners cooked in the home stvle, which has been so badly missed in the armv encampment. A certain number num-ber of the sol, Hers will be selected each holiday- and will be given the addresses of the Uiah people who have tendered the invitations. In time It is planned that everv man in the command will get bis chance to smack his lips over tna home-cooked food and eat things "lisa mother useV to make." For Thanksgiving. The officers nf tbe society are already mhins plans so that many of the Ltah bovs raav be guests of the former Utah people for Thanksgiving. It is now believed be-lieved that more tiian 6H0 can be taken care of In their homes for this day. In addition lo providing tbe men with the home-cooked food, it is the idea of the society to make the homes of the I tali people always open to the Utah soldiers whenever they visit San IT'iego. The. I'tah societv has already had its initlai meeting. More than eighty former for-mer residents of Utah were present and elected Mr. Forter as president. .vleet-ings .vleet-ings will be held each week at the San Diego hotel. Uamp Kearny was evacuated by the troons today. Bv thousands the Pammies climbed aboard the trains and auto stages earlv this morning to take them to San Jiiego. Br noon hardly lO-!". of the '24. ',,"' soldiers who are training here were left in camp. Boaters Swamped. Privates Paul and Rowland are two of the Vii'O who grace the car.ip with their presence. This afternoon they are within with-in their tents while their clothing dangles dan-gles from a line near by. They started a voyage across Scripps lake, near here, this morning, in a dilapidated rowhoat. Fifty yards from shore the boat sprung a leak", much to the delight of the artillerymen artillery-men who graced the shore. Row as "they might, the boat rapidly -began to settle and impeded progress. TYith a sudden tip it sank and left the artillerymen in the water. They swam ashore in their clothes and tramped to camp to spend the afternoon in their bunks. Tomorrow the Utah men will shoulder picks and shovels and begin the con- struction of elaborate communication 1 trenches east of the camp. When these jnre completed they w-'ll be equipped w-ith ; the latest Inventions in modern trench ; ) warfare. The trenches w iii be largo t enough when finished to house the entire j Sixty-fifth artillery brigade. |