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Show (DcfsPriisSM VtoDsEoyJcias UsSsRfiaigFcrce LACONIC was the telegram, received by Dean H. Gross, yeung American patriot, whs has just joined the United states navy. He wired his father, insure nee man at Sioux City, la, whs Mplied thusi "I empreud of yeu, my bey. Study hard, obey promptly. There Is wonderful shanes fee promotion.- Writs me often. Our ' nsvy is surpassed by none. E. L. GROSS." Veuns Grass enlisted in the nsvy at Billings, Ment, and cams to Salt Lake with a crowd of nine ethers yesterday. Twenty-ems naval recruits srrived from Butte this mecnina also. After traveling 300 miles leaving leav-ing 160-ecre farm all plowed snd seeded te wheat, Robert Neilsen of Woodruff, Utah, went to the en seine seres recruiting ststisn tedsy to enlist. But a lea, stiffened with rheumstiem, barred him at the doctor's office. Neilsen begged hard to bo permitted per-mitted to take his aha wees with the first oxoeditisn, but the doctor doc-tor wss obdurate, and tonight Neilsen is en route book to his farm with the knowledge that ho hae dons his bit. Eighteen men enlisted In a body today, all employes of the Mountsin States Telephone com-" com-" pany. They enrolled os members' of the reserve cor pa and will bo aasianed to atonal corns work as soon aa- tha rmmmrv carpa ia callsxJ ia tKa color, ftawiham Idaho aani aixtaan man ta tha army aorvioa this maming. |