Will county forms first official Red Cross home service corps
The first Will county Red Cross home service corps was certified on February 4 at Red Cross headquarters. Olga Wilkey and George Woodruff led the ceremony with certificates awarded to Joliet and county volunteers from Crete Lockport Manhattan New Lenox Morris and Grundy county participants. The corps will handle relief, employment aid, communications with service members and families, loans, government benefits information, and civilian reintegration with confidential records.
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Home Service
Will County
Red Cross
Olga Wilkey
Red Cross Corps
Lee Kofold
John Loughtin
Alfred Mitchell
Walter F. Pitcher
Thomas Salt
Martin Shepley
Joseph Talbot
Robert Thomas
Richard Vance
Charles Winston
M. J. Rice
Crete
Lester Ladd
Lockport
Anne Tennyson
Manhattan
W. W. Line
E. Strasburg
New Lenox
Charles Mitchell
National Red Cross
Home Service Corps
Elwood ordnance plant to award Army Navy E pins
Major General Harris will present the Army Navy E pins to Miss Alice Taskey Vincent Farrell and R G Richards for employees at the Elwood Ordnance plant. Harrison Smith will receive the E flag. Ceremony at 3:30 pm with local officials and military officers speaking. If inclement weather, ceremony moves to recreation building.
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Lwood
Charles T. Harris Jr
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Aberdeen
J. A. Flint
Naval Ordnance Department
Forest Park
Alice Taskey
Vincent Farrell
R. G. Richards
Harris
Harrison Smith
Sanderson and Porter
Joliet Township
America
Kenneth M. Haber
John B. Dalton
Camp Grant
F. W. Woodruff
First National Bank
Don M. Hoffman
Elwood
T. C. Gerber
Kankakeece Works
F. H.miles
Ordnance Works
Topeka State Journal Editorial on Marshall Band Death
The Topeka State Journal eulogizes Marshall’s band in Topeka and reflects on the passing of the group. The piece honors the ensemble’s contribution to local culture and community life in the city. The editorial notes the loss to music education and the city’s spirit.
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Topeka State Journal
Marshall
Topeka
Town Aims to Build A First Class Band
Community members envision shaping a town band capable of touring and earning pay for concerts, reviving the tradition of the great bands of the past and raising local cultural standing.
River as measure of nature's extremes
A reflective aphorism on perception, comparing unseen rivers to seas and suggesting the most grand discoveries arise from observing nature's full range. It emphasizes limits of knowledge and the vast scale of natural phenomena.
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Emone
Florence Lynk
Kansas
H. A. Marshall
J. B. Marshall
Emporia
161St Field Artillery
Knights’ Templar
Grant
William Allen White
Kan
Reliable Income Tax Report Service
Notary Public Service
LION
Fowler
Hits
E. Clinton St
The
ORP
Will County Loan CO
R. E. Cheadle
Mgr
Barber
Chicago St
Jefferson
Joliet
Valentine
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