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Special Truitts AiTive in Cheyenne F-ant Saturday Morning—Rip: ReceptionClear skinned and lean limbed, hardand tit nh men should In* who have fought the alkali and the dust andborne the weary marches that are the I part of the soldiers, they filed from the trains before noon lust Saturday, The first train of fourteen coaches rolled into Fort Russell ton minutes after !» o'clock. The second train hearing the remainder of the Wyoming contingent arrived shortly ater 10 o'clock. All morning the telephone lines to the fort were kept busy bymothers, sweethearts and si stern of the returned guardsmen, all anxiousto greet the men from the border.During the afternoon when it became known that the entire Wyoming contingent had arrived, the boulevard from the city to the fort was lined with automobiles bearing an anxious throng, all hastening to the reservation in the hope that they might have n word with returned friends. Many of the hoys whose homes are elsewhere in the state hastened to write relatives of their arrival in Cheyenne and assure them that only » few* dayslie between the present and their final discharge from the service,Itetween the Colorado companies and the Wyoming battalions the greatest good fellowship prevails, for after all they are not natives of Colorado or Wyoming, but men who answered the call, and wrought in the common service of their country— Cheyenne Tribune, Saturday, Mar. X A banquet was belli in honor of the Wyoming troop* in the Capitol building last evening, a fitting ovation to the patriotism of the militia hoys.
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Douglas Enterprise
Douglas, Wyoming, US
Tue, Mar 06, 1917
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