The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-11-28
Declare That They Have a
Mighty Warm Spot in
Their Hearts for Cordial
KenOsha People.
many COME FOR WEEK END
Crowds Attend Parties Given in Honor
of Men in Uniform and Many Visit
CIub--No Considerable Number
to Be Mustered Out.

fThe boys down at Great Lakes
any place else in the country. These
fellows who have just twelve hours
leave at q weekend want to make the
most of it. They like the cordial spirit
shown by the people of Kenosha and
somehow the provisions made for us
seem to indicate that Kenosha people
believe that a man in the navy is just
as good as any other man, We fellows
are approaching what Kenosha is do
ing for us and no man ever comes to
Kenosna once who does not wants to
come back again. The other places
are all right, but the great majority
of the boys at our station want Keno
sha. We are going to carry away to
the ships and back to the homes some
time mighty pleasant recollections of
Kenosha and Kenosha people. Its
come to be sort of second home
for us and we want the people to
know that we are not lacking in
dppLGCAdUAOu.
This was the statement Of clean
cut young fellow up at the Army and
Navy Club on Sunday afternoon. He
wore the togs of an enlisted man in
the navy and wore them with distinc-
ton. When he stopped to talk of his
appreciation 7of Kesosha ha was read
ing the Literary Digest and he ap-
peared to know just what he was read
ing eyes am going to the old home
town again some time. I've got bust
ness interests that need attention, but
so long as 1 am at Great Lakes
you can expect me to come to
Kenosha" was his parting shot as he
returned to his reading.
Appreciation of what Kenosha is
doing was written all over the faces of
more than hundred boys who we're
at the club on Sunday. They have now
learned the new trail and they are
hitting it regularly. Forty-fve were
up for supper on Saturday night and
more than seventy were on hand for
dinner at noon on Sunday and when the
skating parties let out in the evening
an even larger crowd registered at the
club for the Sunday evening meal.
All of the weekend entertainments
provided for the men in the uniform
Of the nation proved most interesting.
Sixty couples attended the club dance
at Grosvenor s Hall in charge of the
unit of young girls chaperoned by Mrs.
w. j. Birmingham and Mrs. Natalie
Wilkinson, as many of the boys
attended the dance given by the
Daughters of Rebekah. Scores of the
sailors found lodging in the new club
quarters on Park avenue. Churches on
Sunday morning had large sprinkling
Of men in uniform and large number
of the boys attended the Sunday even
ing social at Park Ave. M. e. Church,
Tt is interesting to know that the
boys have found the trail to Kenosha
again and that they are coming and
more Of them coming every weekend,
The boys gave assurance yesterday
that no large number of men will be
discharged from the Great Lakes Train.
ing Station. "We have some 10000
men enlisted in the navy" said one of
the young men. "These men are
scattered all over the country and all
over the seas. Only $4,000 of them
win be mustered out Of service and
the rest Of them win be either in train.
ing or on ship board. Great Lakes il
to be made larger and I feel certain
that it will be long time before Keno
sha will give up its weekend entertain
ments on account of the fact that there
are no men in uniform to attend them