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Show I 1IIEE1 COLORED I MEN DEPART FOR I .. J1YC1P WL Nineteen colored men drafted from II ' Ogden into the national army left the H city last night, after a colebration which was one of the most successful H ever accorded departing soldiers. The H boys -were guests of honor at a big IH dinner at the WaU avenue Baptist H church and later at a dance, and a HI goodly part of Ogdon's colored popu- ft lation turned out to make the event n! H gala affair for the young men who U wilt soon be wearing Uncle Sam's' H olive drab. The soldiers were escorted HI on a' parade from the church to the H corner of Twenty-fourth street and H Washington avenue by the Southern: D Pacific band and a large number of H relatives and friends. In the line oti II parade were Mayor T Samuel Brown - H ing, Chairman A. 11. Hey wood of th; H . city exemption board, Walter Richoy, secretary of the board, Chlof of Police H Thomas E. Browning and Captain of I Police O. H. Mohlman. B The dinner was served in the Wall H avenue Baptist church and consisted H of eight courses a "feed" the boys H will remember when hard tack and H coffee is the onlv ration obtainable. H The speakers at the dinner were May- H or Browning, Chairman Heywood. H Chief Browning, Rev. H. L. Marque. H pastor of the church; William H. mm Weakley, one of the draftees; Mrs. D Blflingsley and Mrs. Fleming. F. K. 1 Turner, of the Cooks' and f Walters' H - club, acted as toastmaster. H Judge Heywood congratulated the' jH men on the splendid spirit of willing- H ness which they had displayed and H said they could not help but make H successful soldiers and representatives Rl of the United States of whom it could mm be proud. He compared the condition Hf of the colored Americans In Civil war H times and today, and said the negro Hi men and women had advanced thoni- H Bolves mentally, socially and economi- HI cally since those days to a great ex- H lent until today they were valued citi- HI icns of a great republic composed of Hj many races mid creeds. H Mayor Browning reminded the men! WL that they had been chosen with other! H Americans for the common cause of j mm conquering the militaristic philosophy W of Germany and bringing it back to H Lnc standing of a sane nation. H Chier Browning gave an appropriate H address, telling of the wonderful work H the men had cut out for Ihem in keep- H ing the world safe for democracy, of j H the vast benefits enjoyed in such a J H country as America and of their duly I Hi as citizens of this country to help It1 HI and fight for it in a time of need. H Rev. Mr. Marque, pastor of the H church, gave a few words of kindly H advice to the men. This was followed H by short addresses by William WeaK-ley, WeaK-ley, Mrs. Billingsley and Mrs. Fleming. H During the dinner, five vocal solos fH ?.ere rendered. The bourses were serv- H d on tables beautifully decorated with HH (lowers and patriotic colors. |