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Show APPLES AND PAPERS GIVEN TO THE SOLDIERS v- Tho Ogden chapter of the Red Cross had an opportunity of filling its function as an aid to the soldiers when on Saturday and Sunday troop trains stopped at Ogden. Women of the organization and officers met each train at tho depot and gave the boys a reception which they will remember for some time. Newspapers, magazines, maga-zines, apples nnd other gifts wore given each car of soldiers and the boys expressed their delight in hearty terms to the local people who mot them. This is the first time, they said, that they had been treated with so much consideration and kindness since leaving their mobilization centers. cen-ters. A box of lasty Jonathan apples was supplied each car of soldiers by the Red Cross. Twenty .newspapers wero also placed in each car. The papers were up to date. Magazines, such as the Saturday Post and Collier's and other timely periodicals were also distributed dis-tributed In each car so that tho boys I would have plenty of reading material 'of a good nature. In addition to this the members of tho Red Cross collected col-lected scores of letters and postcards which had been written by tho boys and mailed them, as the soldiers were given slight opportunity for doing this. The soldier boys en route to the training camp at Linla Vista from different dif-ferent parts of the western country aro making the best of their time in getting all the enjoyment there is out of a trip such as they aro making. Yesterday a' train carrying 500 men from Camp Funston, Kansas, passed through Ogden. Tho soldiers wero here for more than an hour. They were quickly lined up on the station platform and taken at "double quick" up and down the tracks, until they were all aglow with energy. Then they went through setting-up exercises, to give them tho necessary exercise to keep them from overflowing with pent-up energy. They are a part of the last draft quotas. While some of them had complete com-plete equipment, they wore, on the whole, without uniforms. They will not be fully attired as soldiers until they reach Camp Kearny. oo |
