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Circuit Court Authorities Deny One Petition; Continue Four For Further Study; Told of Honor, Duties of Americanism. Fourteen of 19 petitioners of dif ferent nationalities, representing different parts of the country, were granted citizenship in the circuit court, Judge Fulton presiding, Mon day morning. Of the five who did not pass, one Was rejected outright, while the ex aminations of the other were con tinued, pending further study on their part. Tells of Citizenship As usual, the federal government sent an examiner. The Rev. F. H. Weichlein, rector of St. Peter's Epis copal church, spoke to the new citi zens, dwelling on the pleasure and the duties of citizens of the United States. One of these great duties was allegiance to the flag, or royal ty, privileges of being an American citi zen, and the duty one imposed upon himself when he voluntarily countrie allegiance to other Judge Fulton also stressed its countries and took out naturaliza tion papers. Mrs. E. G. Cooper, as a represen tative of the D. A. R., presented each of the new citizens with an American flag. The new citizens, the country to whom they owed allegiance and their DeKalb county residence fol lows in the order they are written on the circuit court docket. George Knutson, Norway, DeKalb; Wiliam O'Brien, Great Britain, Genoa; Vitus Muhlak, Lithuanian, Somonauk; Margaret Walker Mc Nab, Great Britain, Genoa; Karl Einar Persson, Sweden, Sandwich; ‘Marcel Gauer, France, Sandwich; Edward Clamer, Germany, Syca more; Emil Griesmar, France, Hinckley; Carl Victor Olson, Swe den, RFC Sycamore; Frank Bed ford, Great Britain, Genoa; Agnes ‘Amelia Nelson, Sweden, Sycamore; Otto Stahl, Germany, Somonauk, and James Welch, Great Britain, ‘Kiriland.
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Sycamore True Republican
Sycamore, Illinois, US
Wed, Sep 13, 1939
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