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Show IDAHO REGIMENT IS ALMOST FILLED UP - 4 Captain J. D. Watson Says Idle Ele. ment Has About Disappeared From Gem State. ' That the Tdaho regiment of national fai'ard infantry now in federal service 'is within a few men of its quota, and that. it will compare most favorably 'vitb anv infantry regiment in the country, coun-try, is the statement made yesterday by . Captain .1. P. VYatsou of the; local army recruiting station, who has just returned re-turned from a trip to Boise, Pocatello, Idaho Falls and Twin Falls. Captain Watson declares that the idle element lias entirely disappeared, even to the extent that 100 women are working work-ing in the railroad shops at Pocatello. The army recruiting office yesterdav received new posters showing a youth in citizen s clothing looking on a parade of soldiers going to the front. The title - is, "On Which Side of the Window Are Your' T. V. Kennedy, enlisted, at the local recruiting station of the navy, passed through Salt Lake yesterday, but stopped long enough to detail the prog-ress prog-ress he has made since enlisting, April 3. lie is now an electrician of the second class in the radio service. He is taking a thirty-day furlough, at the conclusion of which he will take the examination ex-amination as electrician of the first class. |