Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-15
BOISE VETERANS Of
WORLD WAR ARRIVE
HOME FROM FRANCE
Delegation Of Fifteen Members
Of Company H. Met by Band
and Paraded Through Streets
of City.

Fifteen happy, smiling soldier boys
of old company H, Second Idaho regi-
ment, now the 10th engineers, who
participated in the hard, gruelling
campaigns In France that spelled de-
feat for the Hun, arrived in Boise this
morning at o'clock. They We're cheered
and given royal welcome by over O
| thousand loyal citizens, wives, sweet
hearts and friends, and escorted
| through the streets of the city in a
| triumphal parade, led by the Boise
municipal band. They are heroes Of
| Chateu Thierry, Argonne Forest, St.
Mihiel and Scissors.
| Among those who arrived this morn
ing were: Sergeants (first CLASSY By
ron Meacham and Orville Hull; Ser
geants Arthur Riede, Martin Nelson.
Robert Evans, Albert Rankin, Leonard
Ulrich, John McMenimin and Baird
WEIGH, and Corporals Curtis Harring-
ton, Lester Asbury, Mark A. Shields
and Lyle Ulrich.
| When the news was told exclusively
In the Capital News last night, It
seemed as If every person in Boise
called up the Boise Commercial club
by phone and wanted to know the
exact arrival of the train bearing the
boys.
At midnight the streets of Boise, US
ually so quiet and calm, were filled
with myriads of strolling people
awaiting the coming of the train which
would bring back to many, loved ones
whose absence had been keenly felt
but who had answered the call to duty
and citizens ransacked the stores OF
Chinatown to get fire-crackers and
other noise-makers to celebrate the
Homecoming Of the heroes.
Early this morning, crowds begar
gathering around the Commercial club
and as the time for the train to ar
rive drew near, Adjutant General Viii.
son lined up the parade and it started
on it's welcoming way toward tht
Short Line depot. The Boise Munica.
pal band led, followed by hundreds oi
happy, laughing mothers. fathers
wives, sweethearts and friends of the
I boys coming home and their footstep.
were light and springy as the parad,
wended its way down Main street
then down Tenth street to the depot.
GIVEN RoUsING WELCOME.
The depot and it's grounds wer,
packed with a dense, laughing, seeth
ing, noise making multitude of peopl,
when the train arrived and came to
. stop. AS the first boy made his ap
: pearance from the platform of the ca
in which the men were riding, vas
cheer rang out upon the air and tn
band played. Immediately, bedlan
broke loose.
AS each returning, smiling, happ
e boy dropped from the car step to tn
t platform, anxious, eager hands grabbe
$ him, and in few minutes he wa
0 wrapped close to the loving breast o
some mother, wife or sweetheart
n Father was not SO effusive, but hi
9 eyes, though radiant with joy, wer
|. filled with suspicious mist, Will
n mother did not disguise her feeling
in the least, and shed tears Of pur
: happiness.
e AS the last man embarked fror
the car and was swallowed up in tn
throng, the band started up a livel
march, and a happy parade took u
its march. Soldier boy marched wit
arm around mother, wife or sweet
heart, with proud father, his head higl
stepping in perfect time to the inspira
- tional music. After making the round
u Of the principal streets of the city, tn
II parade broke up and tired, but happ,
70 soldiers and others left for the joys
e homo and happiness, with the love
Is ones so long left behind.