The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05
Faithful Few Meet an d
Greet the Kenosha Sol
diers Who Survived a
Submarine Disaster.
men WHO SAN BLOOD FLY
Members OF the forth Supply Train
Come Back Home On Triday-Grand
March Moves Majestically From
Station To Market Square.

With Captain Edward Dayton, their
first commanding officer, marching
ahead, the torpedoed Tuscanians, form
| ~ the volunteers of Company M and
more recently soldiers in the 1o7th
Supply Train of the SIND Division,
came back to Kenosha Friday evening.
Men who had ridden rough seas in
open boats when their transport was
sunk by a submarine and who had seen
the blood fly on many fields in France,
they had kept the faith but the folks
back home forgot. Evidently some
several thousand people in Kenosha
thought more of their dinners than their
heroes. Whatever the reason only
few thousand patriots were at the sta
ton to welcome the boys back home
when the whole city should have turn
ed out en- masse to say Were proud of
you and glad to see you again.
At that, mothers, sisters, sweethearts,
and other service men, who knew what
it means to win war, were there to
greet the men who d helped to do that
little thing and to give them the well
come-home they deserved.
The members of the City Committee
also were among the folks who didn t
forget. Badged and buttoniered, they
were on the platform as the troop-train
came rolling in and took charge Of the
returning soldiers as they stepped from
the coaches into the arms Of relatives
and friends. There were, to be sure,
the usual reunions, too sacred to be
described; also an unusual blare of
whistles, horns, and klaxons, as the re-
patries "tore themselves away from
mothers and all the rest. to form for
the grand parade.
Next in command to Captain Dayton
in the work Of marshalling the soldiers
for their last adventure was Sergeant
Earl Lovejoy, the "Bud German of
other fighting days, whose broad
shoulders and broad smile proclaimed
him a Yank Of the type that laugh
ed as they cut their way through the
vaunted Hindenburg line.
Lilies for the Lads. in Khaki.
Conspicuous among the patriots at
the North Western station as the troop
train came whistling into Kenosha was
a little bit Of girl with an armful
of lilies Of the valley--they call them
= tears of the Hoy Mother in Spain.
She had gathered them g for the sold
iers" and she smilingly distributed
them among the bronzed heroes as they
]" fell in for the march downtown
Triurnphal Procession is Impressive.
The latter proved to be the same
"return in triumph which came to
Battery e more than week ago. Side
walks along the line Of march were
thronged with people all smiling or
cheering their welcome home as the
Tuscanians paraded down West Main
street, over on Prairie, around the park
and up Main street to Market Square.
At the head of the procession came
the City Welcome Committee composed
of Mayor Joachim, Alderman Shearer,
Judge Tully, w. T. Marlatt, M. o. My
rick, N. W. Werner, James German,
Alfred Terrell, Chief O'Hare, DR.. 9.
r. Adams, D. M Korf, and G. v. Voor-
his. Behind them came the Since
band playing martial airs for the re-
turned heroes and their friends who
marched raggedly but rhythmically
down the streets of the old home town.
The State Guards, the Home Guards,
and the Boy Scouts brought up the rear
and gave an appropriate touch of Olive
drab to the long line that followed in
the wake of the repatries.
On the lawn at Market Square an
informal reception completed the cere-
monial of the return in triumph Smiles,
handclasps, and even kisses were ex-
changed until the soldiers suddenly re-
allied that it was time for chow
and asked to be excused. They were
taken to their homes in motor-cars,
placed at their service by the We'll
come Home Committee.
Tuscanians are Well Known.
The oversee ers'' who came back
to Kenosha on Friday evening were
formerly wellknown in local business
and social circles. Their names and
their army serial numbers follows:
Sergeant, First Class.
250997- Edward L. Wold
sergeants, Qnarternaster Corps.
Earl Lovejoy.
Fred Mitchell.
Floyd S. Hill.
251001- Charles W. soukup.
251027-Otto Nelson.
Corporals, Drivers.
251026-Francis e. Anderson.
251011-Hans T. Anderson.
2Jl035-Harold W. Bresnahan.
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