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I-1nhnIO116TH REGIMENTIS BACK HOMEVirginians Who Distinguished ThcmselvcK in France Given Housing Welcome nt Newport Neews Tuesday..Newport News, Vii., May 21. loilu} t ho tvlebrmion Livt'i Maw look iiinco whon the 110th y ' ,,yf wlm-li was the Old VlrgimnKm i'm! i ,lt; ,U! '1' Second andmho tli luiuntry, arrived from Franceon the transport MnUonlu. There,| ion ,,, tlu, outfit from every'■ II V' . ' slale* *'’hiding Tozu-l' ,•!?.. i country.'*Hv (hciiiMuiil people crowded tho. r I V !'1' m‘, tl’ hung uuL Windows.climbed telegraph polos,» .um-d up tl.,* Sidra Of building,., andV m iM every eon-i«Until,* plaee and |tuaturu to get aglimpse (he Did lloiniuioii Veto-mi: whin they ulioiilii come...f'iVr1, 1,f l|‘ A,vh '*» Triumph,f In i ! MM.iiutm.ni I,mil honor ;‘ll ol America■« Iivioim „f tho warhint I l,r!i.,,l,l,nr|y »f from theMot her State, a hurriedly constructed 'peuUei a da in I WUM ,rraeed by thewile lh*' ° Governor and his. ’ \'y mnyor of Uichimmd, l.yneh-oK, Kimiioku this city, and many0 h. i oilieinls from all parts of the •dale, (pelhe. with the military dig-mIrines ut this port. Also, there were '■‘‘ores «,r prominent |ieo]le on thoi, !iVt .1, r 'VI,lUl! two hotiriiuntil I lie first ciutingim! ,,f tJ,o khaki1 iiiillHli mint* into view.The .stria;Is v. are roped off, andw Vl» ft | r,H !il,’r“,ly wavered1 111 iin,! biuinorw df all kimli.■»lt;K he lure the Ship had (Wl,c into doeks airships „m| ohaervallim halliniiis had likliiuiH'd and flouted ,l' uiirhor, ill op,,in,r on hoard mcommg ship floweiH, roodinrip.il to vnl, an.I of wel-«*«nue anJ i*lu*or.* *.. deUarked to tho Bimmhi mum, t • ..in i,e vein I hands, and h the •'lt; hoes uf cheers from tlmuuuil.h f viueeii. Uelalives u„,| friemhi olI hi' h.urn, hoys’' crowded and packet ' ose tu the pier giiton, eager to ,;i!i the lust rJiiopsi. of Home lovtd «uo.Mounted soldiers patrolled UnI'-.vh,, keeping the main 'hc rourlr lures seen rely ro,M*d off and dealVo rnio Up,“- , 11,0 “hipyurdH with it,111,1X10 employees, el„„ed down uni - Ml U hand to join the other mutd and mdse milking—nggnigntions I,very store is the city shull‘ Hlmp, and pmelinilly every mnniyoninn aml eliild of the entire localn.y won present and waiting.l umlly, idiool 11:110, un army nmhnliin,' Imvo nit,, night, and tho firsf the Old Virginia (,’imrd laid com, haek from war.Another ambulance ennm behind and the cheers timt went up threat ene.l to split the ear drums of tlu rliireniijf and the liHleneni.A huge army truck, eon verted fot the time into a float, was loader down with I lowers of every doscrip tion, and a |„,Vy of pretty seliool go ■ i, dressed to represeiit some ofI lie spring figures of tho classics s,-atiered flowers in the wake of tinapproaching fighters.And *he heroic of tin, Argonnc and Stain ri, «til| the piuuiu-lovinu boyn from the .Shenandoah, tlio cun-torn Mho re, the Clinch Valley and the SUii-klHHed valleys „f old Virginia inaidiwi triumphant Lhrouyh the cheeriiiK wvuping, happy luiun of liomefoIkH on a carpel of rose petals the Irllmle In ,;lory they had nchiev-ml.And while they nmrclitHt a sile host, mvifdhle, iioiHeh'HH dead yet ii in,:, there though luisecri, march with them.None hiiw them, yet they we there. Heads erect, shoulders hut faces net and eyes u-glunminic t deathless dead marched with t daintlleHri livinjr.Kriu forma they w re, those aplrl of the members of the I IOth who fi on Kl a i id era Fields. They mode i no sound as they trod the carpet roses strewn hy loviu,: mid ^rutof children.A triumph with team for tho who sleep.”Thus lt;iid the city remember the in the inscription un the. Arch Triumph. There were no tears i tlie faces of the human walla L tween which they passed. This wi in deference to the living that the honio-cominK should be all joy in Kindness.Hut Liu* burstinK heart of inothc knew when “those who were n there” had passed.Now—An aeroplane whirred nho' the procession us they passed throu, the streets. Girls met them on tl way, and showered them with flowe I and kisses—but, pity he, tho lntt were wrapped in little yellow tissi paper.At Camp Stuart, where they nro qua Iters, Virginia headquarters w set up. and relatives of tho men m them there. Thero were scores touching little scenes, when fumili were reunited after nil those ncrv racking months of anxiety. And whs a happy day.Thursday night the city is to I turned over to them. A street enrr vul will take place, when an enti street will he roped off, lighted wi Japanese la liters, and a big dan given wtih two hands furnishing tl music. A thousand home-made cak will be one feature of the entertnimerit, and everything else will be doito make the doughboys luippy. TIlCV will entrain P rinnv
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Tazewell Clinch Valley News
Tazewell, Virginia, US
Fri, May 23, 1919
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