The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21
Plans Already Talked Of for Real keo.
L<uk Kind Of Welcome to Sol
diers Who Went to War
from Here.
MAYOR HAS COMMITTEE
Not Likely That Any Large Squad
Will Arrive at Any One Time,
as Men are Scattered
Thoroughly.

| Mayor Lotion has appointed Charles
S. Abel chairman of committee, with
power to appoint the other members,
Of Keokuk soldiers until they are all
back home.
Knowing full well that the home
coming Of the soldiers will receive
the attention they deserve if you
are in charge of their reception" is
the reason given for the appointment
| in the letter from the mayor to Mr..
Abel.
Keokuk people are already talking
much about greetineg her soldiers
when they come home from the war.
IF you think we did much escort
| ing the departing soldiers and BID
ding them Godspeed, you just wait
and see what we do when the boys
come marching home again." said a
man who has had much to do with
(, making the Splendid record keoku&
has for showing honors to her re-
cruits going to war.
when they come back, every man,
woman and child in town will be
| down at the station to greet them,
! and there will be time in this OLD
town that will make the victory cele-
| bration look like a pink tea," said
another man who hears people talk
| When They Filter Into Town.
| The trouble is, that many Of the
soldiers will probably not come
marching home at all, and there will
be no opportunity to meet some of
them at the train-because many of
them will filter into town one or two
at a time for a long while.
No definite detailed plans for the
rehabilitation of the American army.
at home and abroad, have been an
nounced, and are not likely to be
known for a long time, since the
peace conference is a considerable
distance in the future.
l. But in any event, the Keokuk sol
diers who left here in a score of
groups cannot return together, I'M
les the war department takes great
pains to accomplish exactly that for
all the cities in the United States.
keokuk Men Are Everywhere.
They are scattered to the utmost.
The old Company l., the nucleus
of them all, was divided soon after
reaching Camp Dodge and over sixty
of it's members were transferred to
the now immortal 16Sth regiment,
which went across the pond early
and did things for some time to the
Huns.
The Company l. unit was sent to
Deming, and there some of its men
were transferred to other units, and
some other men were added to 1t, I'M
til it's officers were the thing that
made it recognizable as keokuk
company. It went over there later.
The selectives were sent from Keo-
kuk to almost every cantonment In
the country, one time or another.
Are Thoroughly Scattered.
The first large increment to leave
here under the auspices of the ex-
emption board and some of the off,
GERS gaining commissions in training
schools. went to Camp Dodge and
became part of the sSth division. This
division sent men across the Atlantic
in large numbers before its head
quarters moved eastward and got to
France too late to be in much of the
war work in the front.
The Keokuk men at Camp Dodge
last Christmas were in literally ev-
ery organization and unit in the en-
fire SSth division, infantry, white and
eolored. artillery, medical, hospital,
signal, munition train, quartermas-