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Local News Briefs From South Main Street and Nearby
Mrs. W P Sullivant is ill at home on South Main Street. J C Webb of Abingdon was in the city on business yesterday. Mrs. Thomas Hannah has returned from a visit in Des Moines. Clyde L Simmons of Birmingham visits his brother Frank. Mrs Earle Mosse of Washington came for a few days with relatives. Stanley Workman, recently home from Coast Artillery duty, arrived Wednesday. Feldman of St Louis came for his cousin Joe Feldman's illness. Glenn Willits returns from a visit with his parents in Washington. Mr and Mrs M A Webster visit their niece Mrs Herbert Rapp on North Third Street in Burlington. Mrs Joseph Ricksher hosts the Birthday Club this evening on South Main. Ruth Garber Strausse, a Burlington nursing alum, returns home. Bert Bowermaster family called home from Fowler Hli Moss due to son Willard’s scarlet fever. Wanda Barnes attended Parlor Bedroom and Bath at the Grand Opera House in Ottumwa. William Patterson, discharged from U S S Robin and at Great Lakes, Illinois, returns home. Corp and Mrs Harry Quick back in Davenport after visit with grandparents August Keller and other relatives. Miss Irma McGee leaves for Burlington to visit relatives and friends, then Biggsville and Monmouth en route home. Harold Day returns from Camp Dodge on discharge. recently from overseas with the 45th Coast Artillery band. Lieut Cator, once at Fairfield with S A T C, leaves for Baltimore to accept a discharged army position.