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Show LOCAL RECEPTIONS PLANNED ON RETURN OF OVERSEAS MEN Local receptions only are to be ' arranged ar-ranged for homecoming soldiers until all shall have returned, when a great state reception will be arranged to cover probably prob-ably three or four day 3. This decision was arrived at in a meeting held late yesterday afternoon at the governor's office of-fice in the capital. The conference was presided over by Governor Bamberger and attended by Mayor W. Mont Ferry, chairman chair-man of its executive committee; Joy H. , Johnson, chairman of the home service committee, and Augustus Reeves, chairman chair-man of the canteen section. 1 In view of the fact that the bovs will , be arriving in Utah at different times, tt was decided that as each detachment I comes home the men would desire to first go to their own towns. The dates of homecoming will probably range over several sev-eral months and it will perhaps, be far into next summer before ail shall reach , the state. Under these circumstances the conferees concluded that it would be the part of 1 wisdom to leave to each local chapter in the several counties the arrangement for their own reception jollifications, to be held at the county seats or some other designated towns, at such times as shall ; be deemed locally appropriate and convenient. con-venient. ! When all Utah soldiers who are to , come home shall have arrived the governor gov-ernor will call a committee to arrange for and take charge of a mammoth reception re-ception and homecoming celebration for the entire state, to be held probably at Salt Lake and to cover two or three days. That the great wind-up jollification is to be a worth-while occasion for unbounded un-bounded joy. was Indicated in expressions of the committeemen who attended ves-terday's ves-terday's meeting. Necessarilv no inkling of tlfe nature of the plans, further than an intimation that in scope the celebration celebra-tion will outshine all carnival events which have so far marked the historv of Utah, was suggested, because the details of the mammoth affair are to be left entirely in the hands of the state committee com-mittee to be named by the governor as the last of Utah's war heroes reach their home' state. |