Tank Disappoints Crowds. New Willmar Date Planned
An armored tank planned for Willmar failed to appear after breaking down at Cassel causing the local event to be abandoned. Officials hope conditions will improve for a future visit. A separate note reports Raymond resident Henry Freese arriving home from Camp Dodge after serving in the 47th Infantry, 4th Division, wounded in France and honorably discharged.
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Cassel
Odellustration
Raymond
Henry Freese
Camp Dodge
Iowa
France
47Th Infantry
Chateauerry
Freese
Hoboken
John 0
Henry
Pleasant social honors for local families at church
Mesdames 0. Kjos and K. M. Kalbak were surprised by friends at a Thursday night gathering in the Bynod church basement. Rev. Andersen spoke for the attendees. The Kjos family plans to move to Renville and the Kalbak family to Kandiyohi.
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Kjos
K. M. Kalbak
Bynod Church
Rev
Andersen
Renville
Kalbal
Kandlyohi
Willmar Presbyterian Church Business Session Highlights
The Willmar Presbyterian Church held its annual meeting noting Herbert Hengatler’s resignation as trustee due to overseas service with the colors. Maxfield Lewis was elected to fill the unexpired term, and F. Millard elected elder for three years. The Ladies Social Union reported a strong year with 500 refuges garments made. the Astrurians disbursed over 380 dollars, and the Sunday School 180 dollars. Also mentions a double wedding and local military returns and appointments.
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Presbyterian of
Herbert Hengatler
Maxfield Lewis
F. Millard
Ladies Social Union
Tabernacle Draws Crowds and Special Night Program
Rev A Lea Aldrich preached on Everything in Its Place in a full Tabernacle. City election yesterday was a quiet affair with Odell and Gunderson reelected treasurer and clerk. N E Ewenson led caucus nominees. Gunderson won three of four wards for city clerk.
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A. Lea Aldrich
Odell
Gunderson
N. 8
Ewenson
Hana Gunderson
Harry W. Otoa
Otos
C. W. Odell
Saan i
EC. Welling Ps Ur
S. Swenson
Rykken
Aldred
Bjornberg
Lawson
J. Melvin
Tonneon & Johnson
Ong
Peter Pearson
J G. ‘Ick Holt
Ath We
Freeberg
Ind
Four hundred fifty Sunday School reps lead Willmar revival parade
A large Willmar revival drew 450 Sunday School representatives from English Swedish Baptist Presbyterian and Swedish Mission churches. The event featured a farmers night, plan for weekly theme nights, and sermons stressing Bible familiarity for lay teaching. Mr Aldrich addressed men and women separately, with a major Sunday attendance praising What It Means to be a Christian and God Home and Country.
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Willmar
St. Paul
The
Tabernacle
Aldrich
Presbyterian Church
Big
Willmar High School Senior Play Delights Full House
The annual Senior class play All of a Sudden Peggy at the Willmar Opera House drew a packed audience Friday. Florence Kielty as Peggy and William Loney as Lord Crackenthorpe won acclaim, with strong turns from Buena Aaring, Roy Erickson, Luella Grangaard, Clarence Hanson, Elsie Skoog, Hallin, Millard, Lulu Faringham, and Irene Anderberg guiding and costuming. Nordstrom’s promotion as assistant cashier noted. Garfield Cutts resigns to return to retail, effective April 1.
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Peggy
Willmar High School
Willmar Opera
George Broadnar
Peggy O'Mara
Misa
Florence Kielty
Gretae
William Loney
Lord Crackenthorpe
Value of the Dollar Investment Propaganda
An outdated ad promotes the dollar's value rising with a good investment. It touts careful merchandise selection and solid business policies as proof, naming “Vioginia' or Hardwars Wils Willmar” and claiming hosting plant or pipsisan furnace are the only good investments.
World War Veterans Meet Thursday Evening
The newly organized World War Veterans of the county will meet at City Hall on Thursday evening April 10 to discuss ways to perfect their organization. All returned soldiers and sailors are urged to attend.
Local and Personal Notices Roundup in Willmar
Local and personal notes from Willmar list residents visiting, traveling or returning from trips to St. Paul Minneapolis Duluth and other towns. The column cites multiple names with movements including visits to Atwater, Minnesota polls, and business travels, plus a few new jobs and hospital stays. Read like a daily ledger of community activity with names, places, and brief outcomes.
Prominent University Pastor Lectures Here at Bethel Church
Rev. C A Wendell of Minneapolis speaks at Bethel church this Thursday night on Mean Things. No admission. Lutheran Brotherhood hosts with a coffee hour afterward for ten cents. Wendell, Grace Church pastor and university Lutheran work leader, is famed for eloquence and chautauqua appearances.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
Albert C. Rykken
Wang, N. D
Lutheran Free Church
Rykken
K T. Rykken
Odell
Carl Reese
Elmar Odell
Montgomery
Ala
Willmar
Pittsburg
Rev
C. A. Wendell
Minneapolis
Bethel Church
C. A Wendell
Minneapolia
Lutheran Brotherhood
Wendell
Grace Church
University
Tax commiss-ion talk to assessors in Willmar
James T. Hale of the state tax commission spoke to county assessors at the county auditor's office in Willmar. He gave instructions and suggestions on assessing work. Attending assessors named span Willmar, New London, Burbank, Dovre, Kandiyohl, Saint Johns, Pennock, Roseville, Irving, Harrison, Atwater, Arc nder, and other locales. Also noted were visitors from St Paul and various local visits.
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A. A Anderson
Glenwood
M. Mathiason
Atwater
Carl B. Amenrude
St. Cloud
Fred Carlson
Capital
George Halverson
Minnes
W. FE. Scott
Levi Dahl
I. CG. Olson Furniture
Lee Somerville
St. Paul
Ethel Wilson
O. H. Redfield
David Peterson
Pennock
Paul Peterson
Harry Ekdahl
Se Paul
G. W. Swenson
Raymond
Fra Bierkelund
Dunuth
Arm
Ruth Carldona
DE Jacobs
Ferrmayer
Halvorgen
Minnenolla
Watertown
Geo. H. Freeman
Ceoree van Hove
Clara City
Herald Handy
Lewis
Twin Cities
Jon ¢. Berg
Havin
Second St. East
Caroline Hillstrom
Frank A. Holmberg
N. A. Tierney
New London
Hialmar Peterson
Duluth
Minneapolis
Hazel, Herrmeyer
Ruth
Proctor
Hileman
Laverne
A. B. Blfstrom
Bricksey
James Doyle
Darwin
Mia
Andrew Patchell
Mina Sa “Ijaimar Peterson
Gladstone
Mich
Arthur Peterson
Searl Hendrickson
First National Bank
Henry Linder
Brown
Armstrong
Wm. C. Peterson
Erick Englund
Erickson
Misa Edith Peterson
Singer
Joe
Lucy Son
Walter Seivig
Pittsburg
Willmar
Niobe
N. Dak
Harry Hanson
Omaha
Neb
George Brill
Henry D. Johnson
Geo. Johnson
Montevideo
George Johnson
Factivity
Kansas
McNeen
Santa Pee
Halvor Nilsen
Prev. Nicolay ‘Nilsen
Lutheran Free Church
Adolph Olander
Aberdeen
Dale He Ieaven
Minnea Police
Lincoln National Bank
Victor Selvig
Mankato
Fortore
CC. Beivng
Victor Vickstrom
Selvig
James T. Hale
State Tax Commission
Albert J. Johnson
Town of Willmar
K. T. Rykken
City of
Elias Johnson
L. A. Metcalf
Burbank
J. & Bjombere
Two Casualty Companies of Returning Soldiers
A Great Northern special train carried returning soldiers from Camp Merritt to Camp Meade and then to town. The train included 348 and 362 casualty companies with a mix of regimental units and support personnel. Aboard were canteen workers and volunteers serving troops en route to post cards and a planned supper in Annapolis. One soldier, Albert Lindell, was injured in an engine incident at Minneapolis Apollo and transported to Frost-Benson Hospital in Willmar. The day also saw community notices from township mutuals aiding recovery, plus local updates on Lt. Reuben Anderson’s discharge and E G Pagel’s visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindell
Burt Albert Lindell
Freman
Great Northern
Minneaapollo
Willmar
Frost-Benson
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Corinne Griffith
Olive
Billie
Priscella Dean
Boston
Alice Brady
Carlatti
Guronte
Lyons
A. "Moran
Hart
Harte, Osborne
Dolly
Presbyterian Church IN Business
Madlees
Six Pioneer Press
Sophus Larson
Blanche MacNees
Frank MacNees
Carroll Avenue
Sophus Larsen
Willmar, Minn
Minnie Larsen
St. Mark's Church
Larsen
Green Lake
Minn
Sam F
Gabe Lillian Boy
George H. Anderson
Lawrence Anderson
Lake Lillian
Camp Grant
Anderson
349Th Infantry
George
Willmar, Post Office
Washington, D. G
L. H. Landberg
Willmar Vost
Evameo
Melvin Erameo
Lake Andrew
McArthur
Texas
University Farm Hamline
Phillipa
Stafvery
McDonald Halverson
Herbert W. McDonald
Mia Tilie Halvorson
Presbyterian Parsonage
W. Bryn Jones
C. T. Lee
Cyrus
Aldrich Tabernacle
Handy-Lewis Motor Company
City Hall
Minnesota
Willmar Hospital
B. J. Branton
Etriod Modern
Becker Ave
Fourth St
Davison Hospital
Fourth Street
Litchfield Avenue
FP. C. Davison
M.D
C. M
Mary Brugman
Murese
Wien
Anelione
Gia
Rex J. Moon
Aldrich Evangelistic Campaign
Nordstrom
Albert Nordstrom
Kandiyoki
Garfield Cutts
Cutts
Lutice
Greenleaf
Axel Bjorklund
St. B
Vikra
Bjorklund
Wertheim
Nicholas J. Wertheim
Alice Lorraine
St. Michel
Infantry
Or Berg
Parnell
Emery
University Farm
Traction Engineers
Threshermen’s
L. B. Bassett
Hjalmar Hoglund
Signal Corps
Paris
Hoglund
Presbyterian Canreb
Givan
Av. Chine
Gelock
Babbath School
Boles
N. Mire
Ata
the Town
Jean Dawn
Dreamland Balance
Red Cross
J. W. Kent
Stree
L de le
Norman DeLaHunt
Camp Grants
Ft. Barrancas
Florida
DeLa Hunt
76Th C. A. C
J.T. Hale
TAX Commission Speaks
Iwal
Inelty
J. Sundgaard
Jorgen Berke
Nickelgon
Edith Rosen
Thompson
Remus Swenson
Hillstrom
Ruth Hedeen
Harry Nelson
Lottie Nystrom
Louise Rosen
Hildur Hoglund
Marion He
Min Jing Selvig
Lutheran Bethel Church
Jesper Holmquist
Bethel
Axel Hedin
Olof Brogren
G. E. Qvale
Lewis Johnson
E. Ohsberg
C. A. Nelson
Fairview Cemetery
Meetizur
Willmar Woman's
Christian Temerance Union
A. Gilbertson
J. D. Nell
Red Cros
Draymen
Wulf & Erickson
Jens Peterson
Lars A. Joratad
Nelson Ave
Golden Red Farmers’ Club
Golden Rod Farmers’ Club
Nyeree
Monte
Brokiam
Alice Jon
Eutherville
Toda
Federal Reserve System
Free Liberty Bond Service
Kandiyohi
Lewis E. Goss
D. C
Geo. C. Mickelson
D. C. Dooter
Chiropractic
Palmer School of Chiropractic
Mc.a
Ofice
Loney Blook
Sveno Ee Ates
Sao Tar
Ts Cnet
Camp Meritt N. J
Camp Fave Fon
Darsara Olney
Gars
Larson
Sr. Fostertay
Butieranditchureh
Anneapolia
Moxor Boo
Mutual
Departmentulletin
Great Forest
Acton
Paynesville
Willmar Fi
Asa
Ladies Aid of
Methodist ‘Episcopal Church
Casament
Reuben Anderson
E.G. Pagel
Harrison
John Barrymore
Here Comes the Bride
Dorothy Dalton
Wallace Reed
Mike Morgan
Mr. and
Mrs. Sidney Drew
Pauline Frederick
Geraldine Farrar
Laases
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