Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-06 | Page 6 | Stewart W. Hoover

STEWART W. HOOVER. A g.'-llniif. young Idaho soldier, I'irst I , i 1 1 1 c n:j ii 1. Sli'uai't W. Hoover of I'd;. i -V. f.,ol, has met. death in bnll.lo with the lliiiis iii I'rauce, Lieutenant Hoover nrn dilated from Went Point, April 20, l!i7, almost at, the very limn the United Unit-ed St;it"s lifcuine involved ill tin- war, ;ind I'.'ivc every evidence of being an riccnnpli'ilied onicer. It. has been decreed de-creed by full- thai, he should full H uii'itvr ti 1'ie cjne'e f,f his country, that lie l.niild l,e mil i,IT duly in Hie Mm;: ; )' for ilei,i'i''r:n v. Cut lie went, down Pi'.c ;i true soldier mid lie will live in the memory of Ins fellow eili.ens. We are only at the threshold of the mightiest might-iest conflict of all the ages, and before it comes to a close hundreds of thousands thou-sands of homes in this fair land will be in mourning. Yet it has to be. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Hoover has yielded up his life at the outset. All honor and glory be his. The people of the beautiful little city of Blackfoot, where he grew to man's estate, while sympathizing with the bereaved parents, will take just pride in the fact that he belonged to their community, and they wiil claim the right to mourn at his bier. Let it be recorded that the sacrifice of this young man has been accepted and that although his life was blotted out in the flush of early manhood, his countrymen coun-trymen will not forget. "They never die who perish in a great cause."