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Social notes of Pur din area residents and visitors
A long list of visits and travels from Pur din and surrounding towns notes Joe Schrock of Pur din visiting relatives in the city, several weekend guests at the Lumsdens in Cora, and many family and friend gatherings across Milan Shafter Kirksville and Linneus. Mentions enrollments at Missouri Aviation Institute and Northeast Missouri State Teachers College.
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Joe Schrock
Purdin
Ernest Lumsden
Janet
John Lumsden
Cora
Gene
Eva Doris Carter
C. B. Fleming
Chula
Ernie
Big Miller
Chillicothe
George Robinson
Glen
Marjory Campbell
Phyllis
Sunny
Eunice F. Dickinson
Canton
Jennie Glaze
Phillip Bond Grice
Joel D. Russell
Missouri Aviation Institute
Kansas City
Bertha Faulkner
Pearl Daly
Jane Phillips
Milan
J. B. Harmon
W. D. Grice
Arthur Brassfield
Norfolk
DeVon
Parse Brassfield
Wayne Bagley
Evelyn Brantner
James Morris
Shafter
Browning
Shirley Foster
Gandmother
Matilda Haley
M. Smith
Charley
North Salem
Haskell Spencer
Near Cora
Ola F. Creason
Near Purdin
Frank Creason
Joe Christy
Lola Rae Bartow
Harvey F. Dickinson
Centerville
Iowa
Columbia
Dickinson
John Burkholder
Lorene
Edith
Bobby
Kirksville
Burkholder
Grim-Smith Hospital
Frank F. Tooley
Montebello
Calif
Ernie Warren
Clive Freeland
Billie Jeanee
St. Charles
College Players
Northeast Missouri State Teachers College
Hinda Rush
R. A. Thurlo
Dorcas Harvey
Bert Trippeer
Linneus
Cora Lee Haley
Alva Bagley
Ronald
Edgar Hoselton
Harold Rinehart
A. M. Baker
Eugene McArtor
T. R. McArtor
Bob Ball
Calvin and
Bill
New Boston
Hossess
Emporia
Kansas
Trusten McA