Local Social News and Visits Across Charlottesville Area
Charlottesville and Greenfield residents host guests and relatives through the weekend. Rev. Homer Biddlecum returns from Ohio. Nancy Sowder returns from Riley hospital. Private Walter Bell takes furlough from Ft George Meade to visit his mother Flora Bell. Gerald Holden and son Myron, officer trainees, visit from McDill Field. Distant relatives and friends gather at homes in Greenfield, Indianapolis, Elwood, Monroe, and Rushville for dinners and church events.
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Nancy Sowder
Walsh Sowder
Riley Hospital
Walter Bell
Ft. George Meade, Md
Flora Bell
Harold Bell
Myron
Muskegon
Mich
R. O. Scott
Ralph Mason
Emma Domsie
East Chicago
Danville Normal
Ruth Ann Clements
Charities Reeves
Indianapolis
Paul Williams
Billy
Greenfield
John Bell
George Holden
Goldin Haynie
Alfred Dyer
Walter Jessup
Don Addison
Milroy
Lee Silver
Elwood
Frank Weeks
Nancy
Joe Faull
Monroe
Mir
Lake Erie
Fannie BE. Havens
Sandra Brady
Anderson
Henry Schmaltz
Harold
Wilbur
Wapakoneta
Ohio
Ralph Zapf
Joseph Walker
Rushville
Claude Walker
Charles
Ila Collins
Methodist Hospital
Luke Walton
Charlotte
Lucia
Charles F. Reeves
Herman Smith
Franklin
Funeral Attendees Honor Arnold Duke in Kokomo
Mr and Mrs Wendell Tribby Mrs Celia Alexander and Mrs Frank Alexander visited the Dukes in Kokomo for the funeral services of Arnold Duke. Mr Tribby served as a pallbearer and others from the mill attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell Tribby
Celia Alexander
Frank Alexander
Curtis Duke
Kokomo
Tribby
Herbert McCorkhill
Arnold Duke
America Battles Axis On All Fronts At Home And Abroad
Wartime appeal urges citizens to back the war effort with thrift and investments. It promotes War Bonds, stamps, and savings to fund military action while opposing inflationary influences at home. Details note a $25 bond available for $18.75 and a 10 cent stamp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Marshall
Camp Shelby
Ernest A. Schlender
WLW
Camp Snelby
Mississippi
America
U. S
New York
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf of Mexico
Cape Cod
California
USO Liberty Belles Help Keep Home Front Cheer
Thousands of girls perform as USO Liberty Belles and Chevronettes nightly, each wearing a badge. Local clubs and national organizations supply refreshments, orchestras, and hobby teachers to support troops. Across the nation men serve abroad while home folk fund and staff morale efforts via USO as a stand in for their absent partners.
Rio Rita at Alhambra Theatre Promises Explosive Comedy
The Rio Rita comedy at Knightstown's Alhambra stars Kathryn Grayson and John Carroll with Abbott and Costello in top form. The plot follows stowaways in Carroll's roadster amid romance and song, with elaborate MGM production touches and musical numbers including The Ranger's Song and The Shadow Song.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alhambra Theatre
Knightstown
Kathryn Grayson
John Carroll
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Miss Grayson
M-G-M
Carroll
Dinorah
Rio Rita
Carrol
Abbott and Costello
Citizen Classified Ads Pay Try Them
Local classified ads promise payoffs for readers trying the services advertised. The notice urges exploration of opportunities and claims potential earnings and benefit from engagement with the listings.
Farmers Oppose Gas Rationing Amid War Efforts
Indiana Farm Bureau president Hassil E. Schenck argues against gasoline rationing citing farm crops as sources for synthetic rubber and warns rationing could hinder food production. He says tires deteriorate less with careful use and calls for better coordination of war programs before nationwide decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hassil E. Schenck
Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc
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Carthage Howe
P. O. Box
Carthage
Indiana
Monte Womack
Ind
Green House
Charlottesville
Homer Biddlecum
Oregonia
Jason Biddlecum
U. S. Army Medical Corps
Walter Hatfield
O. E. Lowe
Lester Nibarger
Charles Hudson
Charles Pearson
Milo Holden
Gerald
McDill Field
Tampa
Fla
Doris Binford
Mrs. Nelson Castle
Tillie Garland
Mina White
W. C. Overman
Reectio
Carthage, Ind
Bausback Fertilizer Co
U. S. Treasury Department
USO
Eros Volusia
Brehon B. Somervell
U. S. Army
London
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
BABY
Arlington Hatchery
Arlington, Ind
Srine
Maurice T. Moore
National Women’s Committee
Usc
Marine
Coast Guard
Jersey Flats
Arizona Desert
Army
Navy
Middlewest
Mr. Schenck
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