The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-27
FIRST REUNION

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Continued from Paee One,
other half was in a coma from fatigue
Every rod gained had been won by
fighting against fire as battling as it
| was powerful. To say that the 35th
fought for five days as a division is
hardly doing it justice. a division
may be said to be fighting when only
one brigade is in line while the other
is resting. All the men of the 18th
were fighting. There were soldiers
who did not have five hours sleep in
that period of unbroken battle strain
in the midst of the dead ana dying.
/ Only the powerful physique of the
men, with their store of reserve en-
ergy which they drew on to the last
fraction, enabled them to bear it as
long as they did. Their courage and
endurance and dash performed a
mighty service in a most critical sec
tor. Instead of being the object of any
Iungenerous reflections by captious
pendants or commanders who did not
! know how to command after they had
| given their generous all they should
I have been welcomed with a warmth
of praise in keeping with their proud
and justifiable consciousness that they
had done their red-blooded best"
Meeting This Afternoon.
The meeting this afternoon at the
state house opened with a concert by
the Herington Ladies band from 1870
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wine welcomed the former soldiers in
the name of Topeka.
Units Form Organizations.
The various units of the Thirty-fifth
! division met this morning at their
headquarters and were to form per-
manent organizations. Delegates were
elected to the division. convention.
which will be held Tuesday morning.
There was plenty of entertainment at
each unit headquarters, provided by
the committee for each unit. Colored
singers gave selections for the boys at
| the different meeting places.
From to O'Clock this afternoon,
a reception for visiting ladies was to
be given at the governors mansion by
| the Military Sisterhood.
Big Night Tonight
Tonight's program calls for a band
lconcert. singing by the Modos, vaude-
/ vile and moving pictures on the state
house grounds and dancing, with all
| the jaZzy frills, on the walks and in
the corridors of the state house, COM
mencing at $40 o'clock. When the
formal program breaks up, there will
be plenty of other things to do, yea,
plenty to do.
Carnival Tomorrow.
Everything is in readiness for the
big carnival parade tomorrow night.
according to Pete He'll, in charge of
the plans.S Twenty floats will take
part and the parade will be a rousing
/ climax to tAe big reunion. The city
will be lit up by trench flares and the
din of squawkers, horns, and whistles
/ will fill Kansas avenue. Confetti will
be thrown and false faces will lend the
| true carnival aspect to the night.
| Stay over for it, buddy.
Plant Memorial Elm.
AT memorial services Tuesday after
NOON, a tree will be planted by the
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grounds, if possible where it will cast
a shade over the Lincoln monum ent,
in honor of the members of the df-
vision who gave their lives in France
The division also will hang a wreath
on the memorial at Topeka high
school. Governor Allen will speak al
the services.
A few stragglers began drifting into
\ Topeka Saturday, but the crest of the
Thirty-fifth wave hit the city Sunday
morning, when every train entering
the city poured forth its boistrous
happy, pep filled load. Heads craned
from the windows OF. each approaching
train, eager for the sight of some bud
die which the owner of the head
hadn't seen since the division broke
up When the train stopped there was
a mad rush for the station, followed
by the glad, rough greetings of regular
| fellows.
Hi there. Bill. you old horse, where
7, va been keepir' yourself. I'm damn
lent you just before you got outa
prison? You're still as ugly as you
always were; guess you always will be
We'll, I'm a cross-eyed giraff-Ja ok
Smith! What va dom here, Smitty,
thought you were married, etc. etc.
Even the first sergeants and second
louis" got glad hand and a slaI
on the back that would knock the
ordinary man clear across Kansas ave-
nue..
By 10 o'clock Sunday morning, the
, rotunda of the state house wa:
damned to the guards with Thirty
fifth members. The clerks, each reg
istering members of a different unit
Of the division, were Kept hitting the
ball from Z until noon and all the
rest of the day some of them were or
duty to get the late arrivals. This
morning. registration of visitors to-
tailed near 5000, with more expected
n to arrive today.
The former soldiers were not the
-only ones who crowded their way tC
the state house grounds Sunday. A
noon the citizens of Topeka begaT
turning out to meet the boys and be.
sons completely filled the benches ir
front of the platform. BY 2 O'CLOCK
it had overlooked most of the avail
able places on the lawn.
A concert was given by the Herring
ton Ladies band. Military motion pic
lures were displayed at the Orpheun
theater.
While the crowds were awaiting tn,
arrival of the bands on the state hous'
grounds Sunday afternoon, Avia tor
Herbert Willingham and L. L. Well
in their big Curtiss airplane CAM
hopping over the trees from the west
With a roar the big machine swoopeC
down below the top of the capito
, dome and tipping on one wing swerveC
around the huge tower. Dipping
lodging high buildings and flag pole
and smokestacks. sideslipping ant
ducking down into the space between
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