Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-01-03 | Page 7 | Mandell, Promoted, Races for Bride; 1st 1917 Wedding

Mandell Promoted Races for or Bride 1st 1917 Wedding Mrs Harold f Mandell andell t I I 4 A a Utah Lieutenant Made Regular Regular Regular Reg Reg- ular Officer but Cupid CupidI I Scores First I I II II ET fiction cower amid the I L LET guilty blushes of or flowering lowering simile while Harold Haroldi i Mandell U. U S S. S A. A and Mrs Mandell switch on the resplendent I ent cut light of ot truth i Taking raking the reader down to that place of cactus soup and seared Southern bouthern sands the Mexican border we will vill designate someplace some someplace place on the border as the setting setting set set- ting for the time first act The time I was several days das ago in the last I illness of or 1916 The long rays r ys of or the setting sun I slanted into a tent of the officers' officers quarters o of the Sixth United I ctt and ered o our our l- l hero i r- r pip pipe pipi i In mouth leaning back in a camp chair and humming the bars of ot an old tune It was The Girl 1 I Left Behind Me Entered a bo boy In blue an A A. A D. D T. T boy Lieutenant Mandell for tor forIt forit it was was none other ceased his hia a as io Jo the dist distance to t Salt Lake Lak and ripped open open the message It was from the war depart depart- ment It notified him of or his commission as a United States army officer of the fact that he had four Thur days in which to report at Fort Leavenworth three years before he could get a leave of or absence Whereupon Lieutenant Mandell consulted a time table of a road that leads not to Leavenworth but to Salt Lake The license clerk at the city and county count building smiled Mulled a New Year Yeal greeting to the first couple to appear in 1917 They gave their names name as Harold Mandell and Miss Grace Parke She is the daughter of Mrs Mary L. L Parke F street streeL He HeIs Heis Heis is the son o of Mrs F. F C C. Mandell J street He was graduated d from oni the Salt Lake high school attended the University of ot Utah was as one of the first first to to go so to the tho front and has the distinction of o being one of the youngest officers in the United States army A train today is speeding toward Kansas carrying Lieutenant Lieuten ant Mandell and Mrs Mandell and it will arrive within the four- four da day limit I