The folks that/ are responsible for getting it out each month surely deserve a lot
of crec’dt, as they do spend quite a few hours'at this work, but when they realize'their
efforts are pririarily for our boys* in servico, there are no further thnnks needed, and
it is well understood that anythinff we can do to give you any recreation or pleasure,
is a privilege.
While we hope to have many more anniversaries, it is our hope and prayer that the
other anniversaries vdll be under entirely different conditions than those now existing
John F. Schenck, Jr«
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Furlough News in Reverse
Mrs. Buford Hoi\i, Mrs, Thomas Hord ?jnd baby, Sherry, spent ten days during Nov
ember with A/C Thomas Hord at Seymour, Indiana. Can’t you just Imagine Tommy’s pleas
ure in having his Moms, his wife rnd his young daughter with him for awhile,
Mrs, Cliff Wallace, and Mrs^, Leonard Wallace returned home November 22nd after
spending ■ten days in Springfield, Mo, with the latter’s husband. Private Leonard Wall
ace — and we know a certaiii person, Mr, .Cliff Wallace, ;vho is very, very anxious to
hear all the details of the visit vjith his boy — too bad you couldn’t have gone along.
Cliff - maybe, next time,
Mrs. Ivo Bridges has returned home after spending a few days at Crjnp Shelby, Miss,
v/ith her husband, Private-First Class "Ikey" Bridges, Jesslyn reports a simply mar
vellous time, but it all'-ended too soon and now she’s back at work and just living it
all over in her memories,
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Two Men Lose- Lives in Disastrous Fire at Fallston
Eairly Tuesday morning, Nov, 21st between 5 and 6 o’clock, fire of an undetermined
origin was discovered in the Lackey Business Building in Fallston*
A large crovifd of townsp.eople ?jid from nearby communities quickly gathered'and’in '
attempting to save as much stock atJ possible from the business establishments, Mr,
Tom Sv^eczy and Mr. Claude Ross lost their lives. 'One negro was also injured, break
ing both legs. At the time of the fatal accident, those men and several others v;ere
worldng frrntically in the Dixon Store, when one of the side v;alls collapsed, pinn
ing Mr. Ross and Mr, Sv;eczy under the debris, Mr. Ross was dead by the time rescuers
removed his body from the building, but Mr, Sweezy lived for a short time, dying after
reaching the Shelby Hospitalo ' ' ’
Duo to an inadequate vtater supply and a high wind, the fire was uncontrollable,
The entire block was burned ^ the block were the Fallston Drug-Store, Dr. Lackey’s '
•Dental office. Dr. Holton’s Medical office, Dixon’s General Store, and a Beauty Parlor,
The building was owenod by the Lackey Estate,
Mr. Sweezy v/as constable of No^ 9 Tovjnship, He is survived by his vdfe, the
former Miss Ella Royster, riid two sons,
Mr. Ross ;vas a farmer in the Fallston community, .He is sui^ived by his vdfe the
former Miss Eliza Stamey r>nd one young daughter.
At two o’clock P. M, rescue squads were still working among the smoking ruins and
it is possible theirs'will be more victims, as no one knew just who or how many people
were in the building, when the wall collapsed,
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