The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-05-29
Dinner Dance
FORMAL WELCOME
Battery E Boys Are Guests
of the City and County At
Pretty Party AT
Elks Club.
SHOW JOY IN Being HOME
Leading Members Of the Battery Elk
tend Thanks To People of Kenosha
For the Interest Shown In the Unit
In Camp and In France.

Battery f boys who served with the
Bend division in France had their
formal and official welcome back to
Kenosha at the Elks club on Monday
evening when fifty-eight Of them
practically all Of the members of the
battery now in the city were the guests
Of honor at a dinner dance given by
the city and county Is official welcome
home committee. They marched into
the club under the command Of their
leaders, Captain John S. Coney and
Lieutenant Alexander, they were greet
ed by cheers by the large company Of
guests they were dined and feted and
shown that the people Of Kenosha
were glad that they were home and APP
preciative of the work they had done
for them in the army.
The long tables richly decorated with
flags and spring flowers were laid in
the Pompeian room of the club and a
dinner-fit for a king land none toe
good for d member of the 32nd was
served at half past seven.
There was music during the DINNER,
a five-piece orchestra under the di
rection of Fred Smith furnishing some
wonderful jazz and drifting into lot
of the old home melodies during the
dinner hour, and members Of the or.
Chestra furnished some wonderful vo-
cal and instrumental solo numbers.
The other people at the dinner were
kept in the background during the ev-
ening and the members Of the battery
were given to understand that they
were the guests of honor and the hon
ored guests and the whole show After
dinner was over George S. Whyte,
chairman of the entertainments commit
tee of the welcome hope committee of
ficiated as POSTMASTER. Tn few
words he told the members Of Battery
+ the appreciation which the people
Of Kenosha felt for the efforts they
had made to make the world decent
place to live in.
There was not long list of toasts.
Captain Coney was called and was re-
ceived with great applause. He
brought to the people who had stayed
at home a. message from the boys who
went to war and declared that Il had
been his pride to have commanded one
of the best bodies of men that any
town in America gave to the army OF
the Estates He spoke of the ap-
probation which the men felt for the
support that had been given to the boys
by the people back home and he de.
clared that every want of the men
in the field and in camp had been an
ticipated by the people Of Kenosha
The lavish way in which Kenosha car
cd for the comforts of the members Of
the battery, he declared, had made the
battery the envy of the whole 32nd
division.
Corporal Ralph Skinkle the battery
clerk, made happy reference to the feel
ings which the men held for the folks
at home" and declared that the mem.
bers of "E" battery were always
proud to let people know that they
were from Kenosha and that Kenosha
was back Of them. The rank and file
of the battery was represented in the
speaking by Gummel Sorrensen whom
the postmaster introduced as a pri
waite in the army but as the King q
Cognac" Private Sorrensen was given
real ovation from his fellows. He
didn' t have much to say but what he
said had real punch in it.
Captain Edward Dayton, who was
the commanding officer Of Company M
when it left Kenosha was the only sol
der outside of the members Of the bat
terry present. He spoke of the work Of
his old company overseas and declared
that the greatest feature Of The wal
was that it had made every man who
participated in it better and a
broader citizen. ~
The speech making at the dinner
closed with short response by Mayor
John 6. Joachim who told the soldiers
that the interest in them on the part
Of Kenosha and its people WOULD not
stop with the dinner but that Kenoshs
would stand ready to aid the members
Of the battery in every way possible,
The mayor announced that ne was
going to declare june 9th Thirty see
ond day in Milwaukee, holiday in
Kenosha and he urged every member
of the battery TO GO TO Milwaukcc to
attend the big entertainncnt provided
Aaea- Toastmaster Wllyta declared