Show Utah Sl Shares ares in ill Veterans' Veterans Bonus Bonns As Result of Naval Service vice in Washington I II I S I- I I p c c r F S S q S ef J f 4 t S. S S S S 4 S 5 S Esther L Laubach On One of few few feminine b l r Miss Esther Laub Laubach ch Worked in Capital During War service during the World war Monday earned one Salt Lake Lak City woman a bonus bond She is Miss Esther Laubach 29 South State street clerk at the United States bur bureau au of mines station station station sta sta- sta- sta tion here the last seven years Miss Laubach is believed to be bethe bethe bethe the only woman in the state except for those who saw service as war nurses to be receiving a bonus Few perhaps ever heard of the or as they were officially titled the yeoman F women F-women women who were enlisted in inthe inthe inthe the United States n navy navy vy for shore duty so the men could be sent to sea These Miss Laubach reports wore vore uniforms drilled regularly regularly regularly reg reg- marched in innumerable parades parades parades pa pa- rades and on several occasions stood as honor guard for President Woodrow Wilson Miss Laubach became the first Oklahoma woman to enlist on Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day August 13 1918 I had just finished school school-at the University of Oklahoma and on this particular day was advising a friend In no uncertain terms that he should go to war because a mans man's first duty was to his country Miss Laubach said He Ho retorted that the same applied applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied to women and told me how women were Yere enlisting in the navy As much to show him as anything else I enlisted that very afternoon She was a clerk in the tho navy office at Washington D. D C. C more than a year car before being discharged President Franklin D. D Roosevelt then assistant secretary of the navy had his office only two doors from mine Miss Laubach said He was wasa a delightful personality with a smile and friendly gre greeting for everyone rt rJ fr I 4 S I I 4 S. S 4 4 4 I I L T 1 j jj j 11 u 5 s i. i 4 I Ip f v. v p At A- A 0 x kI t li V 4 ty S S l M- M Z oj 5 5 L John B. B Brennan Breiman receives bonus bond from Postmaster I I. I A. A Smoot First Salt Lake City war veteran to receive his adjusted service I bond Monday was John B B. Brennan East First South street I Brennan a postal clerk served more than tw two years in the United States navy during war time He was presented his bonds Monday Monday Mon Mon- day by Postmaster I. I A. A Smoot who is supervising distributing of letters containing bonds for tor ex- ex service men living Jiving here Brennan's bonus totaled nearly There are plenty of ot places I can canuso canuso uso use that money to advantage Brennan said Sorting of the bone bond for delivery was under the hD charge of ofA A. A G. G Taylor Taylor Tay Tay- lor foreman of tho the registry section at the postoffice |