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Show FAREWELL TO SOLDIERS WAS M WELL ATTENDED M 'l Probably 10,000 persons partlcl- .IPH pated in the farewell glvon our sol- IllilH dler boys on Saturday. Tho program liilH as announced, was carried out, and JillH a long procession marched along iM Main street boforo going to tho pub- lie meeting on tho tabernaclo square. 1 H Tho 42nd Regimental band from , H Fort Douglas headed tho parado, fol- 1 j fH lowed by tho members of Battery C, ffl members of tho Commorslal-Boostors' 1 H club and tho Box Elder club. LjilH Tho chief talk at tho open-air HiiH meeting was by Major B. II. Roberts. Ho says tho happiest day of his Ufo lH camo whon ho was Informed a wook tlH ago that ho had been assigned" to go JPPJ abroad with tho Utah national guard. ,H Ho advised the girls and others mt 'H homo to write often to tho boys whllo -l they are away. PJH Followlug tho meeting about 275 pPH soldiers, Including thoso from tho JPH fort, wcro banqueted at tho U. A. C, ( JH following which they returned nnd ll '1 participated In the big street dancing '1 furnlval. After tho dancing carnt- -JPPJ val, which took placo on Main street, LH the street being closed to traffic, jPPPJ there wan n dance nt tho auditorium, ' jH which closed tho day's activities. jPJH Tho dance at tho auditorium was HH tho largest social ever held In this .lH town. Over ono thousand tickets I JJJ woro sold. Thero was about eight Bl hundred dollars collected during tho fpH dny, which will all bo turned over pH as a soldiers' fund. It is understood ffH that at leant threo hundred Cache jPH valley boys havo enlisted In tho ser- tJH vlco of Undo Sam. tpfl |