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Show TROOP B TO BE GIM AN OVATION WIN THE A fitting reception will be tendered Troop B, Ogden's noldier boys who recently re-cently returned from the Mexican border and are now in camp at Fort Douglass waiting to be mustered out of the government service, according to tho announcement made today of plana being made for the event, when they come to Ogden next week. The boys will be here next Wednesday or Thursday, J. W. Farley of tho committee com-mittee stated today, find It is expected expect-ed that they will detrain at Hoy March from Roy to Ogden, mounted. Farley is an ex-sergeant of Troop B and served with the troop until about two months ago, when his term of enlistment en-listment expired. Speaking of the position of tho Utah troops among the others on the Mexican border, thfe morning, he said: "Utah performed Its part well. Troop B of Ogden was the first to take the federal oath at Nogales and theother Utah troops quickly followed. follow-ed. The Utah camp held first place in sanitation over all the camps on the border, including the regulars. Most of the mounted border police were recruited from our squadrons of cavalry and the Utah guardsmen, including in-cluding Troop B, were the first to bo assigned to border patrol. When Colonel Jenkins, formerly of General Pershing's staff in Mexico, look command com-mand of the combined Utah-California regiment of cavalry, he said: 'If all of the National Guards are as good as these. Uncle Sam has some splendid soldiers on the border.' It would take a keen eye now to distinguish any difference between the former Utah guardsmen and tho older regulars." I As announced by Joe Harris today, I the program to be held in connection with the reception for Troop B will open with a parade. Those particlpat-1 ing will meet the troop at Twenty-eighth Twenty-eighth street and Washington avenue and the order of march to tho city 1 will 'be as follows: City fire depart- i ment.cordon of police, Scowcroft's j "Never Rip" drum corps, Dix-Logan Post G. A. R. veterans and drum corps, Spanish war veterans, Ogden high school cadets and band, Troop B First Utah cavalry, N. G, U. S., Ogden band and school children with flags, Other organizations may participate in the parade and of special interest to the Ogden people will be the auto- J mobile truck donated to "Troop B by local citizens and business firms. This, Fort Douglass by the troop, the mem- 9 bers of which are anxious to demon- 3 strate in this way, the use to which the truck was put while in the government gov-ernment service. , The parade will disband at City Hall park and here the cavalrymen will pasB in review before the mayor and city commissioners and dismount to listen to a. program of speeches and music arranged In their honor. From the park, they will march to the National Na-tional Guard armory on Twenty-fourth street, where a dinner will await them. The dinner Is to be prepared f and served by a committee of local i I women, under the direction of Mrs. 1 Chris Flygarc, chairman of the Daughters Daugh-ters of the Pioneers' Pioneerday celebration cele-bration committee. The committee will holda meeting at City Hall at 7:30 Monday evening. |