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Show TO GIVE THE BOYS OFFICIAL FAREWELL Programme Is Being Arranged Ar-ranged for Young Soldiers Sol-diers at Ogden. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN", May 14. The drafted men from Weber county and Ogden City, who are to leave May 25 for Camp Lewis, will receive the first official farewell that has been tendered to any of the men who have been sent in the national army. It will be official, for the reason that it will be given under the auspices of the Weber county council of defense. The arrangements have been left to a committee composed of Joseph Chez, chairman; S. P. Dobbs and W. H. Reeder, Jr., who have been named by Dr. E. M. Conroy, chairman of the county council of defense. In the quota to leave Ogden, there will be forty-five men from the county and nine from the city. The programme for the entertaining of the boys has not been determined upon, but it is stated that it will be given upon the evening the boys are to leave, or the preceding evening. A band will accompany the boys to the depot. It is planned to give the programme in honor of the boys at such time as will not interfere with the banquet, which is given to the soldiers by the government, preceding their departure. This- dinner which in the past has been tendered the drafted men of the city and county has been under the direction of the city and county exemption boards and has marked the first meal the soldiers receive from Uncle Sam. The twenty-two meri who are to leave Ogden at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon for Boulder, Colo., where1 they will take special spe-cial training at the University of Colorado, Colo-rado, will meet at noon tomorrow in one nf the city cafes for their first meal with Uncle Sam. They will march to the depot at 4:30 p. m. |