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Show I MISS CAREIE ROBERTS, Red Cross nurse of Salt Lake, news of whose safe arrival overseas has been received by local relatives. - i 'UP", MVWVrWW''Tr','0?li, 'I I J f H iff - ft I " - h 8 H n v H l - I MISS ROBERTS 101 II OVERSEAS DUTY Safe Arrival of Salt Lake Nurse Reported to Lo-cal Lo-cal Relatives. Word has been received by relatives in Salt Lake of the safe arrival overseas of Miss Carrie Roberts, Red Cross army corps nurse, who enlisted in the army service from here more than a year ago. Miss Roberts is a native Salt Lake girl and was one of the best known and most popular nurses of the city health department depart-ment for several years. She was engaged en-gaged in work as a school nurse in the city health department when the United States entered the world war. When the first call for volunteer Red Cross nurses came after the beginning of the war. Miss Roberts was one of the first to respond, she and five or six other nurses from the city health department j volunteering in a body. They were sent j to the base hospital at Fort Bliss, Texas, for duty, and Miss Roberts was on duty at this place for nearly a year. I She had expected to be in France before be-fore this time, -but, on account of illness, her departure for overseas was delayed. She is the daughter of J. J. Roberts, 1372 Third East street, who was formerly captain cap-tain of the Salt Lake police department. Miss Roberts has a brother. Captain George Roberts, medical corps, who is surgeon with the Utah field hospital, now in France with the 145th field artillery. |