Soldiers and recruits advance and relocate across training posts
Advanced in rank Howard McLaughlin of Los Angeles was promoted from corporal to sergeant at an air station November. Two Monticello boys William Raymond Thomas and Samuel Emery Reyner report to Camp Wolters Texas for basic infantry training in a battalion focusing on heavy weapons. Cpl. John H. Messerli nears overseas deployment after training at Sioux City combat crew station. Raymond J. Kula has been inducted and stationed at Camp Hood Texas. Harold Dunn of Fort Knox is on a two week furlough with his wife and daughters. Dorothy Allamand resumes duties at Ephrata Army air base after furlough with parents. Eugene Burrichter, son of Anamosa, promoted from staff sergeant to technical sergeant. Residents visit relatives as others travel for duties and training across bases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard McLaughlin
Los Angeles
Calif
Monticello
Camp Wolters
Texas
William Raymond Thomas
GC. G. Thomas
Samuel Emery Reyner
Rachel E. Reyner
Infantry Replacement Training Center
Cpl
John H. Messerli
Sioux City
Messerli
John P. Messerli
Iowa State Teachers College
Numerous Sunday Guests Visit Local Families In Jesup
Local society notes list numerous visits and dinners across Jesup including Miss Lucielle Huibregtse and E. H. Huibregtse family, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Koehn of Cedar Rapids, the Schrader and Ament households, and others from Cedar Rapids Anamosa Maquoketa Des Moines and Fort Leonard Wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucielle .Huibregtse
Jesup
E. H. Huibregtse
G. W. Koehn
Cedar Rapids
Ben Ament
Harvey Kurt
Elmer Kurt
Charles
Michael Cira, Jr
Marion
Walter Smit
Lena Smit
Anne Bloemendaal
Alton
Jack’ Westphal
Waterloo
Cpl. Paul House
Fort Leonard Wood, Mo
B. C. Hall
C. A. Palmer
Freeman Wray
Della
Louise Meyers
Maquoketa
Monticello Social Notes Highlight Family Visits
Mrs. Gerald Wells left for Newport Rhode Island to visit her husband Gerald Wells SED second class. Mrs. Ed Burrichter spent the weekend visiting relatives in Dubuque and met her sisters at a family gathering. Capt E Eckberg and Mrs Eckberg arrived from Memphis for a week with her parents in Monticello. George Schodde of Cedar Rapids visited on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Stutt
Cedar Rapids
Paul Kurt
J. P. Wilkens
Frances Hubbard
Peter Nervig
LaCenter, Wash
Charles A. Coxsee
Anna F. Korslund
G¢ Minnie Hanson
Eagle Grove
Milton Langer
Chicago
Lt. Langer
Monticello
New Orleans
Catherine Kehoe
William T. Kehoe
Max McCrabb
H. B. Rugg
Wellman
Mr. McCrabb
Rugg
Glenn Hargrave
Harold Swartzendruber
Tom Warner
Anamosa
van Underwood
R. E. Savage
G. D. Savage
Spencer
Gerald Wells
Newport
R. I
Gerald ‘Wells
Ed Burrichter
Dubuque
Mrs. Burrichter
E. M. Eckberg
Memphis
Tenn
George Schodde
Kenneth Jensen
Steven
West Branch
Ed Wirth
Fred Kellum
Ed Janish
Kellum
Bert Horsch
Seattle
Wash
Barbara Matthiessen
Minnie Butler
Horsch
Minneapolis
Louise Field
Margaret Field
Oxford Junction
Mrs. Field
Birthday Club Members Meet at Mrs Skelley Home
Mrs James Skelley entertained the Nelf Sexton birthday club of the Royal Neighbor lodge with a social gathering last Wednesday afternoon at the Skelley residence. Twenty two members attended and October birthday celebrants served refreshments at the close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Skelley
Nelf ‘Sexton
Royal Neighbor Lodge
Dessie Kammerman
Hulda Robinson
Chris Hartman
Anna Skelley
Mrs H S Richardson Hosts FP PEO Meeting
Mrs H S Richardson was hostess at the October meeting of Chapter FP PEO Tuesday afternoon at her home. The session opened at 2 30 by vice president Mrs A J H McNeill. Mrs James Maurice presented the program topic English Schools of Today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. S. Richardson
P.E.O
A. J. H. McNeill
James Maurice
Burlington trio visits relatives this weekend
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Eilers and their son from Burlington spent the weekend visiting relatives, staying with family members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon Eilers and Son
Burlington
Around Town Return Visit with Flash the Milk Horse
A Marion Dairy horse named Flash enjoys rides with friends. An admirer rode him to greet people and give him lumps of sugar. The next morning the milk wagon stopped on the same street as Flash watched deliveries unfold nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flash
Marion
Flat Tire Delays Heroic Rescue Then Big Steam Plant Explosion
A Creston Salvation Army drive reports swift aid for wounded soldiers in England. Joe Oberbreckling survives a deadly DuBuque Packing Co incident after a late tire delay. Creston volunteers win a national first with a wartime hospital aid shipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Oberbreckling
Dyeraville
Dubuque
England
Creston Salvation Army Corps
R. McCalip
Creston
Salvation Army
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Owen
Raymond J. Kula
Army
Camp Hood
A.S.N
Co. D
Lr.t.c
Dunn Home
Pvt
Harold Dunn
Fort Knox, Ky
Fort Knox
Allamand Home
Dorothy Allamand
Army Air Base
Ephrata
Abe Allamand
Allamand
Air Corps
Eugene Burrichter
O. B. Burrichter
Harry Buedecker
Barbara
Ricklets’ Dry Goods
Iowa
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Paints
McNeill's Hardware
Eugene Wink
Herman Cordes
John Bunting
Arlene Anne
Wink
Will Shellhammer
Springville
John Wilcox
Olin Howie, Jr
Sandra Kay
Augusta
Howie
Camp Gordon
O. R. Howie, Sr
Gladys Shelley
Mrs
James Shelley
H. L. Adix
C. G. Hankamafier
Adix
Yorktown
Robert Niederwimmer
Grinnell
Sandusky
Ohio
American Lutheran Church Convention
Glenn Jones
Alice
Vincent Kane
DeWitt
Leo Kane
Edward Brokens
Oklahoma City
Okla
Brokens
Elaine Havlichek
A.I.B
Des Moines
Frank Havlichek
Elaine
Alpha Iota
Roy Taylor
Almon Scott
St. Louis
Betty Thomas
Iowa City
C. G. Thomas
James Murray
Maxine Carroll
Chris Petersen
Hallowe'en
Wayne No. 9
Maxine Poppe
Albert Burrichter
Wheatland
Emil Burrichter
Martin Burrichter
Will Burrichter
Anna Brazelton
Dorothy Funkey
H. A. Severn
Francis Smith of
Ray R. Fuller
C. F. Shimanek
F. W. Less
Cascade
Iowa-Purdue
W. W. Grings
James Robertson
Isaac Schneider, Jr
Larry Robertson
Jimmie
Fred Miller
Clear Lake
John O'Rourke
Watertown
S. D
Ambrose O’rourke
Robert Barne
Minneapolis, Minn
del McVay
Mabel Hudson
Muscatine
Frank McNeilly
Charles Luett
William H. G. Reuter
Well Township
Mers Hospital
Mary Bohlken
Luella Gilman
R.N
South Shore
Pauline Oltman
Madison
Wis
Elesa
Kate Hanken
Ellen Bohlken
Kate Bardill
Chauncey Robinson
J. W. Schweitzer
Farm Equipment and Metal Workers
South Bend
Ind
Franklin Equipment Company
George Hallouer
Davenport
Rudy Flack
France
Northwestern
Telephone “Company
Ninth Air Force Service Command
Second Ward
Lovell
Matthiessen Auto
Sycamore Street
Post Office
Seraphine
John Ross
Paris
Jake Widmer
Merle Roach
Mary Hayden
Frank Hayden
B. T. Perrine
Henrietta Franks
J. H. Perrine
M. J. Hogan
John White
Lois Barrack
Francis Shimer College
Mount Carroll, al
L. D. Burrack
Indy
Treet
Epic
Express
Women’s Club OF the Air
Husking Egs
Our Leader
Rath
Long's Dept. Store
United States
O.C.R
Abe
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