The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-05-22
Captain Coney and His Men
To Be Guests of City and
County AT Party On
Monday Night.
TO TAKE OVER ELks CLUB
Dinner Will Be Served At Pompeian
Room AT Seven and Dance Will Begin
At Nine with the Soldiers Nominal
ing the Ladies for Guests.

Members Of Battery E of the 120th,
who served under Captain John S.
Coney and Lieutenant Alexander, are
to receive their formal welcome home
from the city and county Of Kenosha
at the Elks Club on next Monday
evening with the members Of the Bat
terry will be the guests Of the city and
county at a dinner dance.
1t is to be strictly military evening
and the list Of guests will be limited
to the soldiers and few of the of
ficials of the city and county and
the members Of the Welcome Home
Committee. In keeping with the
wishes Of Captain Coney and his
men the dinner will be for the
soldiers only and the young women Of
the city who are anxious to extend just
little more personal welcome to the
boys than they had chance to extend
on Saturday when the boys came home,
viii be the guests Of the committee
at an informal dancing party to fol
low the dinner.
The dinner is to be served in the
Pompeian room at the club at seven
CLOCK. Covers will be laid for one
hundred and fifty and Captain Ooney
will lead to the handsomely decorated
tables eighty members of his bat
terry. In addition the guests will in
clude the members of the committee
on Home Coming, the members of
the Common Council and other city Of
ficials, the County Board and county of
ficials and a few prominent men who
have been very active in the organiza-
ton Of Battery E and support Of that
organization, while it was in the field.
The dinner will be one of the best ever
served at the club and after dinner is
over there will be, a short program of
music and toasts. 1t is expected that
George s. Whyte, chairman of the COM
mittee, will preside at the post prandial
exercises and that there will be short
addresses by Captain Coney, Lieuten-
ant Alexander and number of the
members of the Battery, by the Mayor,
and a number of prominent citizens Of
the city and Chairman Martin of the
County Board.
The Welcome Home'' ball will be
held in the big dance hall at the Elks
Immediately following the dinner. The
ladies are expected to join the mem
bers Of the Battery after dinner and
invitations to them will be issued
through the committees of the War
Camp Community Service.
Every one Of the soldier guests at
the dinner dance will be asked to indi-
cate just what young lady he desires
to be invited to this party and the in
vitation will be sent to her. The COM
mittee will see to it that there is no
lack of young women to make the dance
a grand success.
Dancing will continue until early
morning and it is expected that dur
ing the evening many people who have
been prominent in the war work in
Kenosha will stop at the Elks Club long
enough to express to the boys the APP
probation Of the city for their work
in camp, and in the field.
The plans as worked out will make
the party one of the most interesting
ever held in Kenosha. It is the plan
of the committee to give similar
party following the return of the mem
bers of Company NJ from service.
Definite announcement Of the plans for
the "Welcome Homeo party will be
made later in the week.