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Local News Briefs Highlight Military, Illness and Visits
Glendale residents host and visit relatives while many townspeople face illness. Navy enlistment for Hugh Farnham prompts travel to Chicago for training as others report to hospitals, camps, and Des Moines on business. Friends and officials attend meetings at Presby terian church and Evergreen Lodge events as citizens share travel and care notes.
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Frank Mulenix
Glendale
A. L. Coop
Hugh Farnham
Rockford, Ill
Fairfield
Navy
Chicago
Ill
David Casett
Edmund Linder
Ralph Peebler
Ottumwa
Viva Valentine
East Washington Street
J. W. Oliver
Jefferson County Hospital
Elmer P. DeVoe
St. Louis
Aviation Corps
John Mount
Brighton
Des Moines
Carl Renfrow
Baby
Bert VanTassel
West Stone Street
Hazel Barnette
B. A. Dill
Quinnevy
Presbyterian Church
George C. Fracker
D. D
Kansas City
SS. R. Ferguson
Cedar Rapids
L. E. Koenig
Camp Dodge
Evergreen Loge D
H. C. Anstead
East Jefferson Street
C. E. Mendenhall
Vermont
Verna Schoen
P. H. Staves
Burlington
Henry Pierson
May Williams