Who will volunteer to write a lead story...Duane Rushton of Salem, Oregon indicates his intention of joining the Naval Reserves as an aviation cadet.... It is Major Dallas Patrick of the 4th Air Force at San Francisco. He is a regular, dating back to 1926, at which time he joined the 31st Infantry in the Philippines.... Pvt. Bob Jorn spent a short time in Quantico, Va. after his transfer from the Marine Corps Base in San Diego, then went on to the new base in North Carolina, which is exceptionally fine. He is in the Aviation Quartermaster School of Administration and his training is in the field of accounting.... Pvt. Blaine Hagadorn has really been on the move the past several weeks and now is located at an Air Base near Richmond, Virginia-— one large enough upon which to get lost....It is Miami for Capt. Charles E. Hawkes, where he is taking training in the Army Air Corps. He says “Probably my greatest achievement to date was the salute which Clarke Gable was forced (under military courtesy rules) to render me when we passed on the street.” He and 2nd Lt. Alex Francis frequently meet while waiting in line. Marian Hawkes is in attendance at Kansas State College, Manhattan…Alvin Beers writes most interestingly of his particular corner of Ireland.... Sgt. Gene Pruden, fortunately is located on an island, world famed as a holiday resort.  His brother Ted started to college this fall at Warrensburg, Mo....Bob Emerson, Pvt. Virgil McKinzie, Raymond and Edith Smick-Hague staged a reunion in San Diego recently. Raymond, S. 2/c, has four more weeks in training there and then he knows not where.... Cpl. Dale McConnell locates these boys for me: Pfc. Aden McConnell at Camp Barkley, Roy McConnell, F. 1/c is ready for active duty after Diesel engineering training, Pvt. Elvin McConnell is at Camp Clairborne, La. while Pfc. Dale Van Meter is in a tank division at Ft. Riley.... Dale McConnell himself is a postal clerk at the Santa Ana Air Base...Pfc. Ray Votapka, in a recent transfer from Fort Ord, Calif. to Virginia was routed through McCook but was unable to leave the train. Previous to his departure, he was one of the 300 permitted to take the warrant officer exam for bandleader--an examination five days in length. One hundred thirty successful contestants will be chosen from the original 800 applicants. Good luck, Ray! Ray is considering advertising for a scooter for camp transportation-—and a washing machine, or better still, a laundress… The radio program I am listening to apparently is originating at Santa Ana—I’m listening for Mark Cleland and McConnell.... John Walker, Ph. M. 3/c. spends his spare time across the line in New Jersey——he says, “Her mother is a grand cook”. Recently He saw S/Sgt. Wayne Ridpath in Atlantic City…Capt. Joe Roberts writes from the British Isles of the lack of many (to us) commonplace foods. The Army-Navy heading on the V-mail envelope had me frightened--I thought it was a summons to Washington at the very least, if not Ft. Leavenworth.... It is the navy at San Diego for Louis Lorenson…And the Air Corps at Lubbock, Texas for Sgt. Dale Magers… Farewell parties are being held for Virgil Walker, Junior Jenkins, and Jiggs Bell...Aside to Harold Paschke--the pieces were all there--and Boyd Love and Glenn Gierhart completed the jigsaw before your bus left town…Adam (Weedy) Fleckenstein recently enlisted in the navy and was sent to the west coast.... Colonel Raymond Wolfe has returned from Egypt and is now in the War Department in Washington, D. C… Lloyd Meyers is stationed in Africa.... Glenn Schmoker, A. B. of the Merchant Marine, talked most interestingly of his experiences to and from South America and the British Isles. He has returned to New York City to resume duty…I’d say Mark Cleland was on the front row of that program--how about it...Richard Schiessler is employed in defense work at Kodiak, Alaska…Some time ago I was fortunate in reading a letter from Miss Millie Marvin, registered nurse and missionary, now located in Gauhauti, India. Miss Marvin passed over her opportunity for sabbatical leave this year as she felt the great need in Assam, which has been her home for nearly twenty years. The letter told in detail of the arrival of refugees from Burma and how they opened a hospital to provide medical care. She assisted the famous and great Dr. Seagrove for several days——then she and Miss Blakely, also well known in Oberlin--opened a hospital in some schoolroom under their supervision. Although free to return to America and eager to be under the Stars and Stripes she indicated her intention of remaining at her post.... James Vavroch has been appointed a first lieutenant in the Coast Artillery unit in the Reserve Officer Training corps at Kansas State. He will continue his study of military science until the time of his graduation at which time the cadet officers will be commissioned second lieutenants in the army.... Reva Mae Kelley, employed in the War Department at Washington, D. C., recently visited here, and with Mrs. Cletus Kelley visited their brother and husband, Cletus Kelley, confined at the hospital at Ft. Logan, suffering with asthma...Pvt. Dean Brown is located in a spot in Alaska where but 15 white men had been before the arrival of the armed forces. His salmon and trout fishing was done with bare hands-—somewhat different from that out at State Lake...In the first draft of World War I, the first men to report to the colors were: George Gardner, Glen Wookey, Frank Tacha and Leo Bendon. War had been declared some five months prior to the call.  In the second contingent were 

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twenty-six, among whom were:  Robert Diehl, John Siegenthaler, Clarence Harmon, Mike Roach, Raymond Birdsell, George Guenther, Horace Reasoner and Wincle Shaffer from Oberlin…Evan Clark is attending school in Tucson, Arizona…Sgt. Willis R. Kusy is stationed in the Canal Zone...It is Ft. Rosecrans, Calif. for Pfc. Henry Jording, while his sister Mildred is employed in defense work at San Diego....Vincent Landau is awaiting call to training in the Naval Air Corps, probably at St. Mary’s College, Calif.…Mrs. Bernice Wilson-Meixner has gone to Athens, Ga. to join her husband, Pvt Elvin Meixner is attending radio school there,...John Cook, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Miller Cook of Wichita, is now stationed at Camp Crowder, Mo. His brother Dale has taken his job in the freight department of the Santa Fe Railway Co….Cpl Harold Neidermeyer is in the QM Corps at Rapid City, N. D....Pvt. Harry Steier is in the Engineering Corps at Bowling Green, Va....It is the Great Lakes Training school for Troy Rubendall…Jack Dryden has completed training for junior transport pilots and is continuing advanced training for ferrying work.... It is a “Safe Arrival” cable on Sept. 15 from Lt. John Willcoxon in Hawaii.  He has been appointed assistant operation officer… The pilot training school at Goodland has been closed with the completion of the primary training of the glider pilots stationed there…Mr. and Mrs. Harold Guilliams of Topeka visited in Oberlin recently with his mother and with his sister, Mrs. Ross Riley, prior to Harold’s reporting at the Great Lakes Training center.... Cpl. Rollie Beardsley is continuing his glider pilot training at Janesville, Wis...It was a daughter, Sandra Jane, for Pvt. and Mrs. Dean Miller. He is now located at Camp Robison.... Pvt. John Wernette has completed work at Shepherd Field, Texas and is now located at Santa Monica, Calif. Eric Holmdahl of Alameda, Calif., welder in a shipyard, was to report to the army on Sept. l0.  It is a transfer from Buckley Field, Colo., to Walla Walla, Wash. for Darrell and Mereald Carter.... And the navy for Glenn Marcuson where he is in the hospital at the Great Lakes center...Mrs. Amy Anderson-Rehm has resigned her position in the F.A.A. offices and plans to join Harold at his camp in Alabama in the near future.... And its sea duty now for Charles Vavroch, H. A. 2/c.... Leo Bendon visited in Oberlin prior to the date on which he is to report to Fort Leavenworth.... Pfc. Frederick Helmkamp’s theme song is (I hear) “I’ve been working on the railroad, the whole live long time.” Pvt. Lemoin Landau has comp1eted his training in radio at Scott Field...It is officers training at Ft. Benning for Cpl. Roy Fortney… Pvt. Alton Carman is with an engineering corps at Marion, Ohio....Philip Meitl is now at Fort Sill, Okla. in officers training... Joy Huff, aviation cadet is located at Minter Field, Calif…It is Camp Robison for Pvt. Louis Pachner…Lt. Bill Faderberg is waiting call to active duty in the Army Dental Corps.... Virgil McKinzie of the Marines is in the radio training division at San Diego.... It is Fort Bliss, Texas and the Coast Artillery for Darrel Haas. He likes the anti-aircraft as it is easy on the feet--or should the term be easier...The Coast Guard has directed the coming and the going of Joseph D. Metts—better known to us as Junior Metts, since July. He is now located at Honolulu. His wife, a trained nurse, the former Alma Brown, is located in Wichita…Letters received by his friends here indicate the safe arrival in Ireland of S/Sgt. Frank Meyers.... It is Cpl. Maynard Wennihan down at Camp Rucker…George Wennihan has reported to service via Sheridan County... Also at the Great Lakes is Frederick P. Welter of Dresden...It is Corp. Carl Frickey out at the Denver Induction Center. Have you learned any new flourishes, Car1? Even Brownie is too busy any more to sign with a curlicue.... Capt. Harold Love turned censor after he had written a letter to the Farmers National force and did some clipping, I understand…Take your choice of my abbreviations for corporal—no doubt neither are correct.... She is to be designated “Victory Queen” this year instead of “Football” and votes are obtained by the sale of scrap, votes doubled if converted into defense stamps. Freshmen candidate is Geraldine Bobbitt, sophomore--Marian Norton, junior--Betty Townsend, senior--Doris Pierce. The drive gets underway in earnest next week but several have reported the sales within the past week of better than a ton each.... Lawrence Worcester is both senior president and student council president and alternates with Archie Vernon in calling signals in the football games. ..Warren Johnson of San Diego visited here recently. He is employed in a plane factory as a machinist…It is Carol F. Anderson, Box 488, Balboa, Canal Zone. Carol taught in the Zone last year but with the removal of so many American families, he is now employed in government work.... Pvt. George Carver was inducted in New Mexico and is now located at Camp Stewart, Georgia.... We have missed listing Ray Lohoefener in the Army Reserves, now in attendance at Fort Hays State. Twin brother Rex is due for his physical soon...Emerald Kahlor writes of his work down in the Carribean and asked that his letter be sent directly to his particular island...Sgt. Archie M. Vale of the Marines is located in North Carolina where he is connected with the rifle range.... S/Sgt. James O’Toole is located at the air base near Topeka. He is senior radio operator and machine gunner on a B-24 and is flying hither and yon in training flights. Recently one was made over his old hometown. Was it you that sent the football boys to cover and made me reel in the chimneys? That is exaggerated of course but the noise of the engines was so much greater than usual that it must have been much lower than customary. Just float down the next time you come over——we guarantee a real welcome.... Raymond Linn writes he left the U.S. en route to England so fast that he still is dazed. He suggests that others fill their barrack bags with cigarettes, candy, and toilet articles before leaving.... It is S/Sgt. Arthur May over there on the “auld Ireland’s sod.”....

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Pfc. Frederick Helmkamp of Toledo, Ohio, Glenn Schmoker of the Merchant Marines, Sgt. Silver Chambers of Camp Hulen, Texas, Pvt. Junior Jones, Pfc. Carrol Hall of Camp Carson, H. L. Silvers of the navy, Pvt. Ervin McKenna of Ft. Bliss, Pvt. Merlin Hanchett of Camp Crowder, Pvt. Jim Montgomery of Ft. Baker, Calif., Pvt. Harold Scott of Omaha, and Pfc. Virgil Cathcart of Santa Monica, Calif., Pvt. Elmer Carlson of Camp Haan, Calif. The Cathcart family has learned this week just how much these furloughs mean to the folks at home as well as to the visitor...Wives in transit: Mrs. Berneice Claussen to join Vic at Little Rock, Ark… Mrs. French Landau is visiting in Oberlin. Mrs. Alex Francis and Mike visited in Oberlin recently and will join Alex in Montgomery, Ala. where Alex expects to be stationed soon. Mrs. Millie Stowell-Carter and daughter and Mrs. Darrel Carter and son will visit their husbands and fathers in Rapid City, S D.... Flavis Foster has been transferred from the Pacific Coast to Virginia....It is the Navy and the Great Lakes for Marvin Foster… Sgt. and Fern Simpson-Hines and 1st Sgt. Lester and Dorothy Simpson-Coon, both fami1ies living near Fort Riley, visited their parents, the Holden Simpsons, recently…it is rumored that Charles Maddox reported from Salina as a selectee.... Let’s do a swift transfer from the Coast Guard to the Coast Artillery for Darrel Haas and to the infantry for Raymond Adams…It is radio technician training for Dennis Nelson at Scott Field——Dale Wickham is also located there…The last I saw of Leo Bendon indicated he was enjoying the wieners at the G. R. membership picnic-—but Bard Claar got into the Hi-Y watermelon feed...Clarence Barenberg has been inducted at Ft. Logan.... Pfc. Louis Riepl of the west coast recently met his parents in Denver...Sgt. Elmer Lippold and S/Sgt. Joseph J. Leitner, both of Herndon and who enlisted together three years ago, with neither knowing the other’s location, met recently on a Honolulu street. It was their first meeting since their enlistment when Lippold went into the Air Corps and Leitner in the Medical service. S/Sgt. Leitner is to return to the States soon for officers training and to make the acquaintance of a small daughter he has never seen. She and her mother live in Greeley, Colo..... 2nd Lt. Dean Blickenstaff is located at Camp Robinson.  He is a graduate of Oregon U. where he had four years of military training…Carl Haresnape spent a few days in the Ft. Logan Hospital but has long since departed to other scene…It is radio and mechanical training for Pvt. Morris Nitcher at Sioux Falls, S.D.  Prior to his army service he had been located at Gresham, Oregon, where he was recently married to Grace Stanley... John R. Sawdon, who has been in the coast guard service nearly two years, has recently received a new rating in radio. He has been stationed on a coast guard clipper and was in Honolulu at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. Recently, John spent some time in San Francisco, where his mother joined him for his stay.... It is the Great Lakes for Donald Shaw. Bill and Bob Murphy are at the Marine Corps Base at San Diego.... It was a “safe arrival” cable for Sgt. Bud Raymond on Sept. 21....Bill Eiler returned to the States from his construction work in Alaska but we understand he has returned to Alaska…S/Sgt. Harold Nitcher of Camp Chaffee recently accompanied patients to Denver and was able to meet his parents at Brush, Colorado for a visit. ...Among the marriages: Olivia Urban and Pfc. Guy Bryan at Los Angeles on Aug. 29; Ruby Ellis of Stafford, Tex. and Pvt. Bryce Cody on Aug. 24. --They visited in Oberlin several days, Wilma Loretta Snyder of Longmont, Colo., and. Pvt. Lester Mc Dowell at Riverside, Calif.; Evelyn Cullison and Pfc. Carl Hatch of Camp Barkley on Sept. 26. Others include: Violet Henningson and Carl Schiesler, Sept l; Arvilla Cody and Basil Olinger of Burns, Ks; Mrs. Pansy Leake-Stapleton and Melvin Winder on April 20 in Leadville; Norene Hurst and Howard Cox of West Huntsville, Ala. on Sept. 24.... Recent visitors here include: Claude Burnett of Civil Service Washington, D.C.—his mother returned to Washington with him. —Mrs. Blanche Johnston-Vigo of L. A.; Dale Claar, attending business college in Denver; Mrs. Mary Roe-Jackson-Willets, Mr. Willets and their children of Denver; Ila Robertson and Mrs. J. H. Young, both of Denver, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tilden of K. C.; Mrs. Ruth Beam-Hill and her husband of Pensacola, Fla., Mrs. Herbert Morrison, Jr. of K. C.; Mrs. Mable Wickham-Allan of Denver; Cadet and Dorothy Paddock-Gierhart and son Gary of McCook, and Orville and Nadene Gierhart- Ferguson of Wichita; Jack and Dorothy Garrett-Johnston and daughter of Hoxie; Oran and Elsie Bolin-Harger and children of Kansas City; Mrs. Rhobia Anderson-Mosher and daughters of Salina; Eldon Smith employed in defense work at Wichita, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Curry of Sioux City, Ia.; Oral and Doris McGee-Brunk of Manhattan; Mrs. Ruth Kump-Hanson and Marilyn of Wichita; Dale and Olive Jordan-Bates and son Larry of Nampa, Idaho, Loy and Vivian Dyer-McMullen and three daughters of Wakeeney, Mrs. Dorothy Olson-Kirk of Scott City, Mrs. Joyce Wilson and son Wilson of L A--she will join her husband, Capt. Neale, in Virginia later, Premysl Ruzicka of Omaha where he is located in a defense plant; Ralph Stevenson, wholesale fruit dealer of Colorado Springs; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Ridgway and son of Atwood; Daughn and Roderick Avery and Jack O’Toole of K. C.--Leo is returning there for defense work… Odds and ends--John Nitsch is constructing an extra shop at the rear of his present implement store to consolidate his auto shop with the other…the speed limit caused two local boys to pay a fine recently. Now with the speed cut to thirty-five miles it will behoove everyone to be more careful...Mrs. Cora Kathka visited Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Kathka in Nashville, Tenn...Archie Hamilton lost a transport recently by fire--presumably from the exhaust...Earth tremors at Hays shook the dishes and greatly alarmed folks....Recent deaths include Emery Van Vleet of Harlan Township, Charley Buswell, and George Johnston of Oberlin…

October 10-—page 5.

Laborers and construction men are greatly needed for the nearest airbase.... Bard Claar of the merchant marine talked most interestingly of his experience on a torpedoed tanker weeks ago. Of the things he might mention, he told of the rough sea that noon, when just ready to remove his daily ration of bread from the oven (Bard is a second class cook and likes it very much) he felt the torpedo hit and he was dazed by the shock. Fortunately he landed on a table and the bags of flour in storage muffled the shock, He escaped before the fire in the kitchen spread and made his way to a life raft. The only death was that of the chief engineer who had just gone to his quarters. Bard was slightly burned. The tanker carried water ballast, did not burn and sunk in one and a half hours. He remained on the raft two hours, and then joined the lifeboat, which carried sufficient supplies to make the coast some distance away. There the entire population (some seventy- five) dressed up in their best and turned out to greet them and turned the town over. Soon they were transferred to a larger, and then to a still larger town. It was here that Bard learned the conga and rumba and swam daily. When another boat was ready they started on the voyage back to the state. True to the superstition of the sea that a cat brings good luck, some enterprising seamen “induced” the ship cat from a neighboring vessel to “choose” theirs instead, to the extent of remaining out of sight when its former masters appeared. It is just possible they were a bit unconvinced of the old superstition--at any rate before they put to sea the cat had its own life belt and cou1dn’t retire for the night without it. The return trip was quite uneventful and Bard is looking forward to returning to duty at the end of the month, and remaining on the tanker for the duration…It is Pvt. Warren H. Wilson at Ft. H. G. Wright, N. Y.... Charles Corcoran writes from his particular overseas point that he is studying to be an aerial gunner and radioman combined… “Somewhere in Australia” is the address still for Sgt. Kenneth M. Williams. He notes that Cpl. James Young is/was stationed at West Palm Beach. He says, “ He is in a mighty fine camp there, because my outfit helped build it and I hope to return to it some day as it is our permanent base--not a bad town, either.” Perhaps Mr. Hawkes will be there to greet you. He says, “We are still doing our best over here as you can tell if you read the papers”— and then a great blank space. Aside to Kenneth, “How did you guess so well what I planned these letters to be like?” He insists they are as good as a ladies aid, and that is what I have always had in mind, only the gossip censored a bit. Or does the gossip in a 1adies aid need censoring? I never have time to go...It is Fort Warren for Rex Berry..... When you are home on a furlough, stop in at the high school--we are always happy for a visit with you!!  Much land has changed hands in Decatur County this summer and the prices have been good...Class presidents are: Dixie Riley, Jack Hague, Warren Kump and Lawrence Worcestor...The G. R. girls are helping fold these letters.

…These new addresses: Alabama——Marshall Field—A/C Harold Rehm; Arkansas--Little Rock--2/Lt. Shelburne Hendricks, Camp-Robinson: 2/Lt. Dean Blickenstaff, Clarence Nauer, Kenneth Vernon; Calif. Camp Roberts——Raymond Adams; Navy at San Diego--Louis Lorenson, Fort Ord, Pfc. Bill Bystrom, San Diego Marine Corps Base, Bill and Bob Murphy; Terminal Island, Ensign Herb Dyer; Buckley Field-.—Glenvyn Hayward; Miami: 2/Lt. Alex Francis, Capt. Chas. Hawkes, Douglas Jorn; Drew Field, Ivis Hanson; Camp Blanding, Sgt. Enoch Matheny; Key West, Robt. Riley, A.S.; Sarasota——Francis Hackney; Georgia——Camp Stewart, Geo. Carver; Honolulu—Joe Metts of the Coast Guard; Illinois——Great Lakes, Harold Guilliams, S. 2/c, Glenn Marcuson A.P., Delbert Johnson, S 2/c; Scotts Field——Dennis Nelson, Dale Wickham; Camp Funston, T/Sgt. Virgil Davison; Topeka S/Sgt. James O’Toole; Kentucky, Bowman Field——Don Lawver; Mississippi——Meridan, Bob Brown; Michigan, Lansing, John Fawcett; Jefferson Barracks, Mo Dallas Kolsky;  Mo. Ft. Leonard Wood——Vollie Kathka, Lt. Orville Harold; Nebraska—Cpl. Vike Francis, Omaha--Harold Scott; Nevada-—Las Vegas--Ernest Rydquist;  New York City--Navy, Charles Vavroch; Army--Kenneth Schmoker, Overseas, Sgt. Frank Meyers,. S/Sgt. Bud Raymond; Fort Wright--Warren Wilson; North Carolina——Marine Base, New River——Bob Jorn, Sgt. Archie Vale; Ohio, Toledo--Frederick Helmkamp; Oxford, Don Thornburg, AP; Okla.

-— Ft. Sill, Frederick Rezner; Oregon——Camp Adair, Royce Head; South Dakota-—Sioux Falls--Morris Nitcher, Wayne Schmahl; Texas: Duncan Field——Cloyce and Cloyd Railsback, Floyd Brown, Alfred Wade; Bruce Field, Av/C Russell Vernon; Harlingen—Lemoin Landau, Lubbock, Sgt. Dale Magers; Fort Bliss,Darre1 Haas, Dale Brunk; Camp Barkley —Tom Townsend, Norman Bainter ;  San Angelo, Av/C Marvin Barrett; Sheppard Field—- Kenneth Matheny; Utah, Kearns, Eric Holmdahl; Virgin Islands--Emerald Kahlor; Virginia--Camp Pickett, Ray Votapka; Richmond, Blaine Hagadorn; Washington, D. C.——Col Raymond Wolfe; Washington--Ft. Wright——Clarence Johnson; Wyoming—-Ft. Warren--Eddie Robertson, 0. C., Rex Berry; Wisconsin, Madison, Ed Vavroch, A.S…St. Francis and Colby stand at the head of the N.W.K.L in football with two wins each, Norton 2 won and a loss to St. F; Hoxie 1 and 1, Atwood has lost 2, Goodland 2, and Oberlin 1—-to St. Francis. St. Francis is probably the league winner, having defeated Norton in addition to Oberlin. Likely Sainty’s team is the best to be seen in this area over a long period of years. Topping, all state of last year, has improved immensely (any of you former wrestlers ready to take him on) and a number of the rest of the team are good. Our boys are playing nice ball but show inexperience as Archie Vernon, “Wooch”, and Boutz were last year’s regulars. Kenneth Manning has been doing some nice ball toting. Our second league game is this week with Colby…There is no other faith as great as that of the man who travels up a hill on the wrong side of the road…The Best of luck to the each of you!

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Frank Beneda is able to be in a wheel chair now, following his injuries in the tornado last April.... Bill O’Toole and Ross Reeves, en route to Hawaii for construction work, were greatly surprised to meet on deck one morning.... Mrs. Velma Fleming-Peters (John Frederick) was injured severely while cooking but is coming along satisfactorily…The first killing frost occurred near the end of September --24 degrees....Phyll Cramer is employed in building a ski camp somewhere in Colo....Three winning entries at the state fair were won by the wheat of Theo May, Carl Johnson and Bartos Brown…Phyllis Armstrong is the new office girl for Dr. Thomson. Russell Leake has a job in the ship yards at Seattle....Lloyd Vernon was injured in a freak accident involving a plank and barrel at Norton and has been in the hospital there with back injuries....Lois Bogart has been transferred from Washington D. C. to Denver...Mrs. Kiser visited her daughter, Helen, in Denver, recently....Mr. Francis and Billie Shields-Winkler are living in St. Paul. He will be remembered as the bookkeeper on the high school construction job.... Sept. was above the average in rainfall but we would like some early in October… Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hagadorn and Velma have moved to Concordia.... The 1942 pheasant season will be on the afternoons of Nov. 8, 9, 10, and 11. If indications along the highway are representative there should be plenty. As in duck hunting the feathers and fowl must be saved for use, but even then ammunition will be scarce.... In case you need a new auto tag you will buy a little square (at the price of the large one) to fasten on over the old, bearing the date, 1943… “The state of bachelorhood is maintained under increasing difficulties. If common report is to be accepted, the hunt, which the Government has instituted, is not the first in which the bachelors have been the quarries. It is commonly said that bachelors have been hunted down by the fairer sex for years with no closed seasons. Between the girls and the Government there appears to be no escape. If nobody else loves a bachelor the Government does”—quoted… The scrap drive is in motion--today, Monday--I’ve checked in over thirty tons of metal (via receipts) sold eighty-five dollars of defense stamps, purchased by the receipts. If the remaining nine days are equally fruitful we will have some pile.... The war bond quota for October was exceeded. Our next campaign will be a bond drive.... The labor situation is becoming serious. Students are being excused on authorized excuse to aid on the farms and in the stores...The state has estimated that it will produce the largest corn crop since 1932. All other crops are in the same proportion with the prospects good for wheat in the coming season——to date, as any cautious Kansan would say.... Lund is rebuilding its church by the help of the congregation. Each man contributes a day in his turn and the ladies see that they are fed…Warren Claussen is employed by Boeing Aircraft.... Neil Morton is located at Wellington, Ks…The second generation includes: Mr. and Mrs. Merle Smith (Helen Thummel) of Chase, Ks. a daughter; Merlin and Irene Sedustine-Shorey of Oakland, Calif. a son; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Huff, a daughter; Lt. and Mrs. Berta Frickey-Fore a son; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Torluemke of Manhattan, a son; Mr. and Mrs. Bob Beardsley of Russell, a son; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Walters  (Betty Barrett) a son; Nancy Lou, daughter of Ernest and Marjorie Coldren-Nemeth; Brenda Lee, daughter of Melvin and Lois Miller-Stimbert; Maribeth, daughter of Ival and Neva Fringer-Kathka; Vincent Arthur, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Miller of Hoxie…College students include: Kansas U.—Maxine Walker, Sidney Morrish, Norton and Lawrence Frickey, Rex, Diehl, Martin Chapman;--Ft. Hays State—Ray Lohoefener, Lester and Ethel Cathcart, Virgil Wenger, Helene Wurm, Betty Metcalf, Gertrude Morrish., who plays first flute in the band, Creta Sproul, Rev. Ralph Smith;

--Manhattan--Charlotte and Carol Stevenson, Melvin Simpson, James Betts, Noel Thomsen, Ethel and Mary Rogers, Kenneth Muirhead, James Vavroch, Delbert Townsend, Joe Ridgway, Laverne Moore, --Ottawa University--Fred Jordan; Wheaton, Illinois-- Don Anderson; -- Colorado Women’s College--Mary Beardsley.  No doubt others have been overlooked… You would be greatly gratified to note the pride of your parents in you and your accomplishments and the great interest the entire community has in hearing from and of you. You may be gone from here for a while but you are anything but forgotten and I wish that each of you might know the pride we feel in each of you… Noticed early in the fall--a junior high boy attired in football helmet and shoulder pads, dragging his* pants, bursting into a run as he neared home.  No one could have been prouder!   Most women are saving fat and a 1ot of them are trying to lose it…Mercy, are we going to have the sixth stencil?...Dale and Helen Johnson-Johnson live in Chicago where he has an excellent teaching position in connection with the University of Chicago, where both are attending, I believe…Lester Kirkendall is at the University of Oklahoma--and the title should be Dr… LaVona Deknight is in K. C. where she does clerical work by day and art school by night—Mrs. Bernice Larson-Schear lives in New Mexico. Her husband is of the navy…Harold Machart and Bill Deknight are attending a N.Y.A. radio school in Topeka,

Notice: If at any time you fail to receive your letter within a reasonable time after the 10th of the month, drop a note of inquiry and your present address. Very rarely a letter is returned but usually we have no way of knowing it failed to reach you. Unless you tell us you do not care to receive the letters (and there will be no misunderstandings about it) once we have you on the list you will stay there.  And PLEASE send that change of address--you keep it on file and we will do the rest.

*Football . The humor was unintentional.

 

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