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Show WELCOME-ASSURED FDR M BATTERY Mayor Ferry Says That Soldiers Sol-diers Recently Released Are to Have Reception, j j Flans are already taking shape ror the welcome of the members of the Utah battery bat-tery on their return to Salt Lake after nearly six months of active border duty at Nogales, Ariz. Committees which had charge of the home-coming welcome given to the first squadron on their return a few weeks ago will have charge of the work. Funds are already on hand to carry on the work of preparing the welcome. wel-come. Although no definite date lias as yet been announced for the return of the battery boys, it is understood by the committees com-mittees that the organization will leave Nogales within a week. Mayor W. Mont Ferry, who took a prominent part in the welcoming of the cavalry boys back to Salt Lake, said last night that everything possible would be done to makefile reception of the artillery organization a success. He said that the boys deserved the best that could be given them and their welcome should be just as sincere and demonstrative as that of the soldiers who returned first. "We ' shall not let the cold weather cool our enthusiasm for the boys who so promptly upheld the honor of the state," he said. Captain William C. Webb of the Utah battery left yesterday afternoon to join his command at Nogales. While he said he had no definite orders giving the date for breaking of the border camp, he said that probably the organization would entrain en-train for home within a week. Captain Webb has been in the city during the past three days on leave of absence to attend the funeral of his brother-in-law, Orrin R. Grow. With the home coming of the battery, only two Utah national guard organizations organiza-tions will remain on the border. ( These are the second squadron of Utah cavalry and the Utah field hospital corps. The cavalry organization consists of approximately approxi-mately 32i men, while the hospital corps consists of sixty. The second squadron of cavalry, under command of Major W. B. Wallace, is at present doing active border patrol duty over more than 150 miles of the international interna-tional line. A portion of the hospital corps is with the cavalry, while the balance bal-ance is stationed with the Utah battery. It was announced by the war department depart-ment yesterday that the organizations relieved re-lieved from border duty will be mustered out of federal service as soon as possible, also that the movement is in connection with the general policy of returning the guardsmen to their home states as fast as conditions warrant. |