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Community Notes Highlight Local Visits and Moves
Area residents exchanged weekend visits across multiple towns including Garnett Independence Brookfield Milan and Kirksville. Local families hosted guests from Brookfield Purdin and Chillicothe while others announced sales relocations and upcoming arrivals and military assignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Owens
Lizzie Austin
Will Peters
Garnett
Kansas
Dean Knight
Near Milan
Browning
J. H. Dunlap
Purdin
Jas. P. Nevins
Independence
Rachel. Nevins
M. W. Hanna
Brookfield
John Keithley
Floyd Fanning
Clifford
Fannin
Cora
Sedalia
Willard Jones
Chillicothe
Bob Jones
John C. Dutton
Dutton
Milan
D. G. Freeland
Glenn
Plano
Iowa
Marilee Seaman
Okmulgee
Okla
Billie Jo Twymar
Poteau
Mary
Frances Overall
Dallas
Texas
Frances
Genevieve Whaley
Wumphreys
de Graw Theatre
Ray Kelly
Goodland
Wichita
Kearney
Earl Palmer
John Kachman
San Diego Naval Training Station
U. S. S. Henderson
San Diego
New York
Carl Brassfield
Marceline
Jersey
Mary Smith
Maude Jordan
Eugene Ross
Kansas City
Jordan
Newtown
W. F. Roach
Silas Bartow
Laredo
Emma Brassfield
J. K. Williams
Lyle Wampler
Rose. van Seggan
Johnnie Myers, Jr
Amarillo
Edgar Carter
Harvey Fields Dickinson
Elmer
Missouri
Eva Doris
Jack Frost
Kirksville
Carl Norvell
Lloyd Norvell
Marshall
Grover Murrell
Near Shafter
Nan Powell
Humphreys
Nellie Seaman
Crawford
Ann Johnson
Johnson
Ella Thurlo
J. H.‘Calhoun
L. C. Lantz
Eva Hope
Susan
Peggy
Elaine Ingraham
Trenton
Barnie Lay
Omak
Wash
Lay
Leon Kenley
Chicago