Local Happenings and War Time Telephone Delays
Local society notes list residents visiting relatives and traveling for work in Detroit Chicago and Michigan towns. Names include Haskins Trolla Enstrom Carr Morrison Gribble Trebilcock Johnson Raisanen Trettin Webber Luoma Hemkes and Johnson. A separate item reports Michigan Bell says 75 000 waiting orders for phone service due to wartime demands with 7 000 monthly backlog and shortages of cable wire and equipment.
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Michigan Bell Telephone Company
M. D. McKay
Western Electric Company
Bell System
Western Electric
Wakefield Exchange
McKay
WPB
Pacific Coast
Service News From In Military World And Home Front
Mrs George Steinmetz learns her husband Lt George Steinmetz has been promoted to Captain and serves in India on the Burma Road project with B 29s. Sgt and Mrs Leo Pitkanen visit his parents as he serves at Camp Grant Illinois. Harold Jarvi promoted to Storekeeper 3/c and stationed in San Diego. Rudolph Jarvi returns to Norfolk after emergency leave. Jarvi anniversary noted. Mrs Lloyd Benson reports husband promoted to staff sergeant in New Guinea. Joseph Perotti MM 3/c visits Chicago wife’s family. Veitto Lehto promoted to sergeant now at San Francisco after Drew Field. Sgt Kenton Barringer visits family. Pvt John Augustiniak furloughing from Fort McClellan to his wife and children. Captain V E Lepisto and baby Linda Beth visit Fort Leonard Wood. Cpl Jack Hill on first furlough in San Antonio.
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George Steinmetz
Grace Wojciechowski
India
Intelligence Department
Burma Road
Leo Pitkanen
Andrew Pitkanen
Camp Grant
Ill
Freeport
Harold Jarvi
Naval Repair
San Diego
Cal
Matt Jarvi
Rudolph Jarvi
Norfolk
Anna Ahonen
Jar
Sydney Barringer
Pvt
John Augustiniak
Fort McClellan
Ala
Joseph Urbanski
Infantry
V. E. Lepisto
Linda Beth
Victor Lepisto
Captain Lepisto
Fort Leonard Wood
Cpl
Jack Hill
William Hill
San Antonio
Tex
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James Haskins
J. Haskins
Detroit
Tomy Trolla
Middie Trofla
Harold Enstrom
Crystal Falls
W. Arthur James
John Carr
Darlene Carr
Homer
Lelia Morrison
St Joseph's Hospital
Ashland
Bert Morrison
James Gribble
Ann Arbor
Arlene Ross
Sty
S E Mattson
Law
Erwin Cormier
George Williams
John Williams
Robert
Ernest Swanson
Mountain
Pezzetti
Arvey Aho
William Nicholas
Ishpeming
Hubert
Frank Maloney
Mildred Doucette
Arthur Doucette
Chicago
Wally Anderson
U.S. Coast Guard
Axel Johnson
Anderson
Helen Johnson
Ward Gremore
Verona
Ironton
M. A. Hanna
Gremore
Wakefield
Virginia Trebilcock
East Lansing
Michigan State College
J. H. Trebilcock
Trebilcock
Raisanen
Jackson
Irene Pitkanen
Laine Ranta
William Kuivinen
Wausau
Gust Niemi
Marshfield
Lila Niemi
Robert Peters
Winfield
Kansas
W. 8. Peters
Marilyn Johnson
Army Cadet Large Corps
University of Minnesota
Harlan Johnson
Robert A. Burns
Hal B. Sutter
Rotary
Verne Gone
Menominee
Patsy Hemkes
Saginaw
Charles Hemkes
Dorothy Bommer
Peggy Hemkes
Ernst Trettin
Milwaukee
Trettin
Great Lakes
Walter Webber
Gretchen
Anne Simonson
Evert Butler
Gertrude Luoma
Butler's
Battle Creek
Waino Luoma
Butler
Velma Luoma
Laona
Wis
Gertrude
Lower Michigan
Michigan
THE
Vernon Brown
Vermes
Brown
Uncle Sam
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Henry
Columbia Broadcasting System
Lake Sup. Dist. Power CO
Bernard E
Act
Gogebic County
Bessemer
Anvil-Palms
American Legion, Elks
Charles J. Scavarda
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