The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-09-03
fALLON PEOPLE WERE HOSTS
TO U.S.. CONVOY SOLDIERS
The Government Motor Truck Train
Came Friday Evening. Men
Accorded Wonderful Reception

1ne great government motor truck
train, consisting of rs automobiles
80 officers and $50 men, the largest
caravan to cross what was once call
ed the great American desert since
the days of the prairie schooner, ar
rived in Fallon Friday evening. Tie
local population OF men. womea,
boys-and of course the girls
turned out in full force and gave the
visiting army folks what our Eng
lish cousins might term quite some
time" and no spoofing Guests
proved to be entertainers and from
tie time of their arrival on the af-
ternoon of Friday until the early
hours of Saturday morning there wa
never a dull moment. Reyeille sound
ed at 4:3O a. m, to announce the
quick resumption of travel to
sleepy and dead tired bunch of
khaki clcd youth, who moved out of
Fallon with the positive and unani
nous asseveration that the local eff
fort 10 entertain eclipsed everything
else put forward in their behalf dur
ing the entire course of the journer
westward from Washington. d. c.
Fallon melons end small fruits
dancing at the p vilion. swims in the
placid canals. entertainment at pri-
vate homes and a ball at the pavil-
ion, a smoker at the high school re-
eeption rooms and other forms of di-
yerfIon were put forward by fallon-
ties in the rnest hope that goo1
impression would be created and thu
appreciation unanimously se'sed ~
lfe visitors conYla eed people her
that local effort was amply repaid
The soldiers we forward from here
to acclaim this as tie brightest lit
t'e spct in their transcontinent !
trip. In truth our striving was for
I is single conclusion and what Fall
lon wants she usually gets.
During the period of the stay the
splendid Goodrich rubber compan s.
factory bard d from Akron, Ohio, gave
concerts and the numbers proved
special treats for local people. The
Is pieces we're selected from band
OF SIS back In the factory and the
class OF music produced here give
frequert rise to the remark that the
man who did the picking knew his
business. Demonstrations we're
made by the crew In charge OF the
great search'ight equipment, which
threw its rays about In the heaver S
In exactly the same manner as enemy
aeroplanes IRE exposed to the view
of enti-aircraft batteries
Leaving Fal'on at 6:30 O'Clock
Saturday morning the convoy pro-
cscdnd on the way to Carson City
where 1t was due to arrive that even
i7g ard spend the sund y rest perl
cd The highway in the North m
neighbofhood proved almost impass-
hpit lot Tue HtdNs .liuNho anu ~ W.
late Saturday evening before Lahon-
tar IN was reached. In a number
Of instances the big trucks were pull
cd through the soft roadway by the
doughty little caterpillar which is
being carried for the purpose and
considerable time was lost in cover
Ing the several mi'es between the
northern limit of the E. S. Hartman
ranch and the Edmund Dietz place.
II is here that canal seepage has
long made effective road building
difficult and County Commissioner
W II. Williams, VINO accompanied
the train TO Lahontan, has expressed
bis decision to advocate the changing
of the route to higher ground, thus