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Show BODY OF HE TO ARRIVE II OGDEN ioffl Joseph Hanson of Preston, Idaho, secretary of the Franklin Counly Council of Defense, is in the city on the sad errand of awaiting the arrival of tho casket which contains the body of his son DeLIsle Hanson, a marine in the service of the U. S., who was taken sick at Quantico, Va., on Sept 29, and died on October 2, of pneumonia. pneumon-ia. The young man was only 22 years of age at tho time of his death, .and had been in the service of Uncle Sam but a short time, having enlisted in the month of July last when he was sent to Mare Island, Calif., from which station he was transferred to Quantico, Quan-tico, Va. It is but a matter of two weeks ago since DeLIsle was honored as one of tho oxpert marksmen of his unit and a career of ambitious and conscientious conscien-tious service is cut short by this sudden sud-den demise. The father notes it as a strange coincidence, that another boy, Harold Cox of Fairview, son of A. B. Cox, and cousin to DoLisle, of the same age, and of about the same length of service, has also died at Camp Lewis within a very few hours' of the death at Quantico and from the samo cause. The funeral service will bo held Tuesday at the Opera House, Preston, Idaho, and the arrangements are in tho hands of the Franklin County Council of Defense. The music at the service will be rendered by the County Liberty chorus, and the whole charac- s ter of tho service will be that of a military funeral. Friends are asked to bring no floral offerings. The young man was, before his enlistment, en-listment, the assistant cashier of the Idaho State bank, Preston, Idaho and was exceedingly popular and highly thought of. |