High School Night Lights Up Revival Services
Friday's big tabernacle program featured a High School night with classes attending en masse and singing. The sophomore class won a two dollar prize for the largest attendance. Fern Young of Fairfield Iowa sang solo, and Reverend Harper drew crowds with talks. The Big Swede choir and soloists plus visitors Frankie Hendricks and Ethel Elsberry were noted.
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Frankie Hendricks
Plymouth
Ethel Elsberry
H. O. Cannon
Mae Brown
Camp Point
Dana Daugherty
Fern
Nauvoo
Conscientious objectors assigned to non combatant duties at cantonment
Five Mennonite men from Metamora Illinois were assigned as non combatant mess assistants by order of Major General E H Plummer in line with a war department order. They will not wear uniforms but must obey military laws and are excused from drilling. About 300 objectors are expected in camp once mobilization is complete.
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Metamora
E. H. Plummer
War Department
Fourteen Lives Lost In Gulf Coast Storm
New Orleans report from September 30 states at least fourteen people died as a hurricane hit the gulf coast. Pensacola remains cut off with no casualty or damage reports. Nine fishermen drowned near Houma Louisiana when a shrimp schooner capsized. Crestview Florida reports five fatalities. Details on deaths are incomplete.
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New Orleans
Objectors Assigned as War Service Mess Assistants
At Camp Dodge in Des Moines Iowa the War Department has decided to treat conscientious objectors drafted into military service as mess assistants. The move appears in several recent cases, indicating a policy toward these objectors and their role in camp life.
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Camp Dodge
Des Moines
War Department
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Sutter
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Hiheimy
Hamilton
Ane Gassell
He & Martin
Peoria, Illinois
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Reid
Hampshire Street
Illinois
Dell
J.H. Brown & Son
Maine Street
Humphrey
Quincy Gas & Electric Heat
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