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«Largest and Most Enthusiastia Delegation of Selects Go toCamp Meade.OVER 3,000 PERSONSGATHER AT STATIONNewest Soldiers Are Given Fine Banquet at Mitchell Inn on Sunday Evening.Fore®, fore® without stint orlimit, to which President Wilton ha® recently alluded, waaclearly demonstrated Monday when 181 cheering and hueky •elective eervice men from Third Exemption district of thie county left for Cemp Meade, Mary, .and, where they arrived Monday evening at 6 o'clock. A crowd estimated at ieaat 3,000 persona, gathered at the Erie station on James street and there, withiuaty cheers and cord ill hand•hakes, sent the selects happily on their way to the cantonment, which ie located near Annapolis. The men, representing practical, ly every occupation, were doubtless the most enthusiastic unit to leave tho city. Every manteemed determined to do hie•hare in the military service.When the train w'ich boro them to camp left the station, a•ea of hands, bearing flutteringhandkerchief* as token* of ••teem, arose, and each personseemed tc vie with the other indemonstrating his enthusiasm.It was truly an American sendoff 1the men received.A banquet in honor of the men was held Sunday evening. The contingent was In charge of Ernest K. Aldrich, as generallsemo, and had as his assistants Edgar V.' Friend and A. C. Ieyo, of Middletown, and Jas. F, Cryer, of Walden.Assemble at Armory.The men assembled at the big state armory promptly at i.iO o'clock If any of them had been on hand for j reveral minutes before the roll cali startod, but all were punctual. The j registrant# showed a good percent oge of attendance, although several ; were marked as delinquent*. In answering to his oame, each man seemed to give s military air to his answer Here responded the reg(Continued on page seven* I
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Middletown Orange County Times Press
Middletown, New York, US
Tue, Jul 23, 1918
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