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Show IBiEE CORPS GOES TO ROCKFORD Large Throng at Depot to Say Farewell to Members of Local Unit. The Sp'rague ambulance corps No. 27, headed by Its organizer, Captain Hugh B. Sprague, entrained early yesterday morning morn-ing for Camp Grant at Rockford, III., there to enter intensive training before being sent to the battle fields of France. A long period of training is ahead of the Sprague organization, according to all information concerning the method of n.nrnflnr Qmhnlnncp corns are teOUlred to undergo before being considered fit. to take up war duties at the front. Information telling of the departure of the Sprague corps for the front will be awaited with keen interest by many Salt Lakors, as the personnel of the unit is composed mostly o former residents. The train which Is taking the ambulance ambu-lance unit to the Rockford training camp was due to leave at 7:20, but so many friends and relatives of the soldiers of mercv were on hand to bid them protracted pro-tracted good-bys that the railroad men held the train for 5 minutes. Two sleepers and a baggage car are transporting the hospital men. They will go from here to Council Bluffs, lwa, by Union Pacific and thence to their destination desti-nation over the Illinois Central. The men anticipate that after a short stay at Rock-ford Rock-ford they will be sent with other hospital units to some southern training camp and there prepared for speedy dispatch to the European battlefields. |