Silver City, New Mexico – Tomorrow, Thanksgiving, will be marked in Grant county by the opening of the homes of the people of Silver City, Hurley, Santa Rita, Tyrone and Lordsburg to the soldiers now at Camp Cody, Deming. Hundreds of soldiers, including both officers and enlisted men, will be the guest of Grant county people at Thanksgiving dinner.
With more than 200 young men of Grant county far from home this year on military duty, friends, relatives and others whose hearts beat quick with patriotism, will welcome to their homes the soldiers from the big cantonment at Deming. Over 100 homes in Silver City will have from one to half a dozen soldier guest Thanksgiving. Likewise the people of Santa Rita, Tyrone and Lordsburg will entertain many soldiers, while at Hurley, which always carries off the honors for true western hospitality, has arranged to entertain over 20 soldiers. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – November 29, 1917