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Show ROBERTS 10 BEGIN RECITIMK Major to Start Tour of Utah Cities at Mt. Pleasant on Wednesday. RESULTS PROMISED Lieutenant Foster Assigned to Headquarters Duty; Young Volunteers. Yesterday's Recruits. NATIONAL GUAED. Hugh G. Taylor, Salt Lake, artillery. ar-tillery. Charles E. Wright, Salt Lake, car-airy. car-airy. Chester J. Deane, Salt Lake, sanitary san-itary detachment. U. S. ABMY. Eoy A. Willoughhy, Philomath, Ore., infantry. Monroe H. Clark, Springvllle, signal sig-nal corps. Morley Batt Logan. Wallace . E. Durbar, Logan. Byron M. Whitney, Logan. TJ. S. NAVY. Daniel James Chickerlng, Montana, Mon-tana, fireman, third grado. A. O. Fleming, Bozeman, Mont., ex-oiler, re-enlisted and assigned to recruiting service at Bozeman. Howard M. Kirk, Bozeman, Mont., apprentice seaman. Adam Eodoski, Flushing, N. Y., ex-oiler, re-enlisted. Boy A. Sell, Pocatello, shipwright. Arrangements were completed yesterday yes-terday for Major Brigham H. Roberts, chaplain on tho governor 's staff, to officially of-ficially begin his recruiting campaign through the state at Mt. Pleasant Wednesday night, where a big mass meeting of patriotic citizenB will be held and Major Roberts will urge the young men to enlist in the National 'Guard of Utah for training and preparedness. pre-paredness. It is announced that on Thursday night the major will address a mass meeting in Ephraim and on Friday night another meeting in Manti. The major will return to Salt Lake Saturday Satur-day and if possible arrangements will de'made to navo him hold meetings in the northern section the following week. It is also planned to have thf major address a meeting in Provo on Tuesday afternoon, if arrangements ran be made for him to be in the Garden Gar-den City at thit time. M'.ijor Roberts will conduct his meetings in cities where there are National Na-tional guard recruiting stations, and it is proposed by Major Williams, adjutant adju-tant general of the guard, to havo the recruiting officers on duty at each meeting, so that the active work of enlisting en-listing men may be taken up immediately imme-diately following each meeting. Foster Called to Duty; As a further aid to the recruiting work, Lieutenant T. DeWitt Foster, First cavalry reserve, was called back iuto active service yesterday by an order or-der issued by Adjutant General Williams, Wil-liams, and will be assigned to special duty at staff headquarters It is expected ex-pected that he will take up publicity work in behalf of the recruiting service rind iu this way v.se his efforts toward briuging recruits to the guard. Recruiting for the guard in Salt Lake yesterday was rather quiet, but the officers are not discuoraged. They believe that with the meeting of congress con-gress in special session Monday the war sentiment will stimulate the young men of the city and state and they expect to see tho enlistments greatly increase during this week. Yesterday Dr. A. Carrington Young, stato livestock inspector, applied for enlistment in tho medical corps of the national guard. At the recruiting station sta-tion at 113 South Main streot several new recruits were enrolled during the dar. The station will be closed today, this being Sunday, but it will be open again Monday morning and the officers in charge are planning to do some active campaign work during the week. They believe that general conditions will be favorable for enlistment, and they propose pro-pose to take advantage of every opportunity op-portunity to bring moro men into the guard. Examinations in Ogden. YeBterdav afternoon Major John F. Sharp of the field hospital, Dr. W. Christophersou of the medical corps and Sergeant Karl Scott went to Ogden Og-den and spent last night making a phvfrical examination of the men and officers of the new K troop which has been formed at the Junction Citv. This work is expected to be completed this rooming. At the regular army recruiting station sta-tion yesterday it was learned that postmasters post-masters in various parts of the stat? are sending in requests for enlistment blanks for prospective recruits. It was announced from the station that wheu postmasters have one or more prospective prospec-tive recruits they should simplv tako their names and forward them "to the recruiting officer and the recruiting officer of-ficer will then send out a man to look the applicants over and bring them to Salt Lake, where they have to be brought for examination and enlistment. enlist-ment. Blanks for this purpose cannot be sent out by the office, it is pointed out. At tho navy recruiting station Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Edwin Guthrie and his staff of assistants are laying their plans for the whirlwind campaign that is to be waged to raise 00 bluejackets from the Salt Lake recruiting district for the navy between now and April 20. Sub-station for Ogden. In connection with the navy campaign cam-paign for recruits in the Salt Lake district, dis-trict, a recruiting sub-station is to be opened Monday at Provo, according to announcement made last, night by Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Edwin Guthrie, in charge" of the local navy station. The lieutenant announces an-nounces also that sub-stations will be opened at Butte, Helena and Miles City, Mont. It is probable that other sub-stations will be opened in Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada. The Rev. P. A. Simpkin informed the lieutenant yesterday that he would I- I preach a patriotic sermon at his church tonight, in which he would refer to 1 the recruiting work for the navy and encourage as much as he could enlistment enlist-ment in this branch of the national service. ' |