Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-07-02 | Page 20 | Rock Island Laundries Are Washing Blankets

Rock Island Laundries Are Washing Blankets ROCK ISLAND Ill July 1 Ten i. Ten thousand army blankets have been shipped to the Rock Island arsenal to tobe tobe tobe be washed and repaired The contract for washing has s been let to two local f laundries nJ li The blankets I are tp be washed at the rate of 1000 a day and will be delivered to the arsenal where they will be repaired and shipped to i the troops on the border The blankets have been shipped in from army posts all over the country A call for additional men has been i issued at the arsenal and the plant will work all day Sunday loading loading- equipment nt and supplies for the border bor bor- der the supplies are going out I bor-I at atthe atthe atthe I the rate of a trainload i a day