Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
OVERSEAS VETS
HERE FOR HOUR
Members of One Hundred Tenth
Engineers Parade In Rock Is
land at Noon Today.
SERVED IN LARGER BATTLES
Replaced Infantry in AFgonne For
est Offensive and We're at
Front Against Huns.

Rock Island gave a rousing re-
ception today noon to 1900 season.
ed overseas veterans. members OF
headquarters company. and Com
panies D and E of the One Hundred
Tenth engineers, Thirty-fifth di-
vision, who saw service in prac-
tically all OF the larger offensives
waged against the Germans IN
France
They served in the Belleau Woods
and st. Mihiel offensives as engln-
GERS. In the Argonne Forest they
spent 80 hours at the front as in
fantry. replacing other infantry
companies that had been reduced TO
but a few men by the Germans.
Headed by the regimental band,
coo members of the regiment
marched from the Milwaukee depot
shortly after noon, south on Sew
enteenth street to the residence sec
tion Of the city and then east to
Twentieth street Wheng the veter
ans returned west on Second ave-
nue. from Twentieth street back TO
the depot, cheer after cheer greeted
them. The band brought hundreds
of people from the stores and resi-
dences to greet the home comers.
The soldiers are enroute TO Kan
sas City in three special trains,
having a total of 80 coaches. Cpl
onel <. NJ. Slayton, in command,
told an Argus representative that
his men were battle-scarred veter-
ans, having been in much of the
heaviest fighting.
Arrive at Noon.
The first coach carrying 600 men
arrived shortly after noon. The Sec
and train was in the city at 1890.
The third and last train, arrived aft
er l o'clock
Incidentally, Rock Islanders
were treated to the first parade of
a large body Of overseas men since
the signing of the armistice, Nov.
IL. Prior to that time. numerous
troops stopped off at Rock. Island,
but restrictions on the news gov
erning the movement of soldiers
prevented the newspapers from
mentioning the visits.
Citizens probably would have ex-
tended more rousing welcome had
it been known yesterday that the
veterans were to stop at Rock Is
land. First word of their coming
was received by the Rock Island
Red Cross canteen committee from
Colonel Slayton just before noon.
The canteen committee served hot
coffee. sandwiches and other
goodies" to the men afterthey had
hiked.
Want Eats.
1--WE don't want to exercise. What
we want is eats one veteran said
when orders were given to leave the
coaches for a march.
And the Red Cross saw that they
got eats
The regiment will parade at Kan
sas City and Topeka tomorrow, 60
ing to Camp Funston for demobili-
cation. The regiment is composed of
national guardsmen
ReiOins Regiment.
For Sergeant Don Jones, a Rock
Islander, son of Walter L. Jones, of
Kansas City, the visit of the en-
gineer regiment was one of joy.
Jones served with the regiment IN
many of the larger battles, but be-
cause of wounds, was forced to
leave France and to return home.
Jones fell in with a squad of vet
Grams as soon as the marching
started and his presence in civilian
clothes among the uniformed men
attracted no little attention
Sergeant Jones was stabbed in 1
the neck at Alsace Lorraine, was
wounded by shrapnel in Flanders
and gassed at Verdun on Oct Is.
He returned to the United States as
q casual.