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Show SALT LAKE LAD ANXIOUS FOR DUTY AT FRENCH FRONT f CHARLES LEEOY WOOD. 1 I ui TTAVING finished a year of the eight years of service in the navy leading to an education as an army surgeon with the rank of major, Charles Le Roy Wood, 18 years of age, writes letters to his father, Deputy Sheriff C. E. Wood, breathing a hope that he may see service In the present war. And the letters conclude with a string of those hieroglyphics hiero-glyphics that in any language are known to denote hugs and kisses. The boy's mother has been dead since he was ten years of age. One of the proud possessions of the father is a letter let-ter of commendation of the boy from his commander. He is now bugler of his company and has von his first bar of recognition. It will take seven vears for him to get the other two, his father explains. ex-plains. LeRoy was a student of the Salt Lake high school and went to San' Francisco Fran-cisco a year ago to enter the navy, with his mind made up then that he wanted the eight years' training in army surgery. The fiual two years of the course will be on land at school. He now writes his letters from New York, when they come, and gives the usual warning that "Dad" may not be worried if he does not hear from him for considerable periods of time. |