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WHKSUHSTO GET MESSAGES1 !BEFORE THEY LANDRelatives and friends of the men of. I'ompwiy F. llfth Infantry. 2$th Dl-ri vision which unit will land at New-port News next Tueedsy, will b« ableL I A a.a. .1 —- • A ... t . . * ... M ■ _to send messages. letters snd pack* ■*«■* to the returning soldiers and hare them delivered before they set foot on Virginia soil. The War Camp Community Service. Anchor Buildinn. will receive all letters and package* and will have them delivered to the men on board the Matsonla before It docks.*rA telegram received by the local I service office this morning from Director H. 1$. Jones, of Newport News, states that the Matsonla will dock Tuesday next. The War Camp Community Service there has chartered a tug and will go out to meet the incoming transport with the Roanoke and other Virginia soldiers on board. , t The letters snd packages brought »o t.rhe office here will he delivered on * board the shtp from the tugSiAll letters snd packages should hear full postage, but It is unnecessary to us© special delivery starmps. The postage will be cancelled hern and all1 the letters and packages will be sent 1 dtreot to the Community Service work- . | ere at Newport News. Packages snd letters received here up to Monday-night will be delivered on board the Matsonla Tuesday.J All returning Roanoke soldiers will .! woJcomo signs at the debarkation 1 ports, said Director W. 5L Shack lette. this morning. “Welcome Home1* to Roanoke cards have also been sent toS* ?Aal1 ” N«w York City,tn*? \irj*inia auction of which la in 1 charge of Mra. LeRoy Brown,Cards of greetings prepared by the I SIS *f the Roanoke |war Camp Community Service have,^n pr***red *nd ««nt to all red circle cluba sat War C amps. A thousand “Welcome Home carda have already been placed In Roanoke and others who dr.ra cards will he furnished them free on application at the office.A movement is already under way to have a big Welcome Horn© Week- in Roanoke later In the aummer. after the m«*n or ih# KlffhtfMh IMvlnlon havn altio arrived. A program of genuine entertainment would be arranged^for each day of the week. Including baseball games and various amusements The ■pteoe rfe resistance” would be a great outdoor barbecue. perhaps on Mill Mountain. Mr. Henritze has tendered the use of this property for the barbecue. The executive committee of the War Camp Community Service will cooperate In promoting the big welcoming occasion. It Is said. This committee is composed at Major John Izard, C. K Michael. Tt. Lee Lynn. Lucian H. Cocke. Samuel Simon. T T Fishhurne. Chnrles ‘ | M. Broun. John R Newton, C. L. Rent-Uey, Miss Lucinda Terry. J. .1. Fhsehan.» I John Wood, N. D. Maher and Mayor W.I W. Bozley.i*R
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Roanoke World News
Roanoke, Virginia, US
Sat, May 17, 1919
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