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MARi lET HERE IN OPI^HON
'URSE SHIPfNENT LAMBS ARE
^ 7 (KHRe OUT FROM HERE SOOR
A total of 750 lambs have been
Bblaved from the Northwestern
Litreatoca Yards at North Wllkes-
boro since Jane 15, when first
,sR|pMnts were made from these
penaeiected by cItIc clubs of
WUkea county for the convenl-
anco of livestock producers In the
northwestern North Carolina
counties. It is announced by R.
a. onrtls, sheep marketing spec-
with the State Department
oi Agrtculture,
US said that Watauga, Avery,
Yadkin, WUkes, and Alleghany
counties have participated in the
shipments. Further deliveries will
be made soon.
Curtis, who supervised the es-
tabllsntoent of the yard, expree-
sed the opinion that around 2,-
500 sheep will move through tiiem
during the first six months of
their operation.
Another shipment, the largest
for the yards here to date, will be
made August 9th and 10th with an
eetlmated 1,75U lambs expected
from Allephany and Watauga
counties.
Phillips Boy Hit
ByCar, Both Legs
Brokea As Result
Robert pumps, age 11. son of
Mrs. D. P Phimpe, of this city,
was severely Injured at noon, to
day when he was hit by a car.
Robert was hit by a oar travel
ing west on B street as he walk
ed into the street near Mrs. Phll-
Ups’ nome. The car was operated
by Hbelly Bynum, - colored man,
boy was carried to the
WUths hoiplUl by two military
pouce officers who were nearby
and who saw the accident. They
•Ud that the car which hit the
boy was speeding and that It pro
ceeded for some distance after
striking the hoy.
Apparently, both of Robert s
legs were broken and he suffer
ed other Injuries.
Mrs. Roby Pennell
Buried Wednesday
Mrs. Carrie Lou Pennell, age 58,
wife of Roby P. Pennell, died Mon
day afternoon at their home near
North Wilkesboro.
Mrs. Pennell is burvived by her
band and the following sons
daughters: Mrs. Emma Shew,
Omie Anderson, Mrs. Mary
.linsten, Mrs. Ruth Saunders,
Mrs. Eloise Johnson and Miss Faye
Pennell, of North '.Vilkesbdro, and
Roy Pennell, in the navy.
, Funeral service was held Wed
nesday afternoon, four o’clock, ai
Moravian Palls Methodist church.
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Baby Killed, Five
Others Injaredh
Bus - Car Crash
Family Of Walter Hunt, CJ-
ored, Victims of Acci
dent At Ronda
A five-months-old toby was
killed and five others of the family
of 'Walter Hunt, Ronda colored
resident, were injur^ Tuesday
evening when a Greyhound bus
Major Johustoi
Is Out Of Army
Air Corps Officer With Bril
liant Record Honorably
Discharged, Home
Major Richard B Johnston has
^^^jceived an honorable discharge
the army air corps and has
"mtumed to his home here.
Major Johnston, son of Mr. and
M-'S. A. B. Johnston, of this city,
ee^ed in the army four years and
three months, having volunteered
for the air corps in 1940. After
training he was sent to the Pa
cific and was a member of the ar
my fighter squadron which fought
the Japs during the early part of
the Gmwialcanal campaign in 1942
where he received a number of
decorations for meritorious serv
ice in combat.
Major Johnston letumed to the
St^s in July, 1943, and since that
IJimB served at Wright Field,
Dayton, Ohio, in testing planes
mui aircraft equipment His wife,
Ui^irmer Miss Hicia Caroon,
making her home with
him in Dsyton.
Major Johnston has purchased
tWhome'of Rl G. Finl^ on
SRh street when he and Mrs.
Johnson will make tlleir hom-^.
* After a brief vacation, he wffl re
turn to his former poaitfon in the
office of American Furniture Ck>.
^ Mr. Finley and family have
to their residence in Fln-
w PWk, which .Mr. Finley por-
come time ago from the
• Mts Btenett C. Johnson.
The accident occurred in the
town of Ronda when Hunt’s car
entered highway 288 on the north
side of the highway at the inter
section in front of the Ronda Bap
tist church. The bus was travel
ing toward North Wilkesboro and
the time was 8r30 p. m.
'The injured, all of whom were
carried to the Chaitom Memorial
hospital in Elkin, were: Walter
Hunt and wife, minor injuries, in
cluding cuts and bruises; Bobby
Hunt, age 2, leg broken, other in
juries, was unconscious for some
time after the accident; Josephine
Hunt, age 11, leg broken; Leroy
Hunt, age five, leg broken.
The car was demolished. No in
juries were reported among the
bus passengers.
Calvin Lewis Stead, of Winston-
Salem, driver of the bus, posted
bond of $1,000 on a chargre of man
slaughter and hearing was set be
fore Magistrate R. T. Pardue in
North Wilkesboro August 11.
Highway Patrol Sgt. A. H.
Clark, who inveatigatod tbe acci
dent, said that Hunt claimed that
he stopped before entering the
highway, while Steed, driver of the
bus, said Hunt did not stop and en-
terto the highway directly in the
path of the bus he was driving
and that it was impossible for him
to avMt a collision.
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VetgriispiBe
Ghea EdmitMi
Schools, CoHe^es
Liberal Educational Oppor
tunities Prowided Men
Serving In War
The Wilkesboro High School, due
to its central location in the coun
ty, has been selected as the one
in which returning veterans who
have not .completed high school,
but who vrah to do so, will be di
rected. While this does not mean
that the other high schools in the
county will not be glad to enroll
these returning veterans in their
clashes, the U. S. E. S. personnel
requested Superintendent C. B.
Eller to designate one school for
the ftdlowing reasons: 1. The
returning veteran, due to his age
and expwience, Wl feel more at
home in a schod where there are
other veterans enrolled of his age
and like experience. 2. There
would not be enough enrolled at
all of the county schools to en
able them to get individual atten
tion and accelerated courses which
plan will be put into effect at the
Wilkesboro High School. It is the
concensus of opinion by the school
authorities and U. S. E. S. person
nel that any veteran who has had
two or thrw years of service ov
erseas. following military training
would be able to take this acceler
ated course and be able to finish
high school in half the length of
time that it takes tbe average stu
dent.
Mrs. Kathryn A. Lott, manager,
Troy Perry, veterans' representa
tive, and the personnel of the U.
S. EL S., together with Superin
tendent Eller and Wm. 'T. Long,
superintendent of the Wilkesboro
High School, urge all returning
veterans who have not completed
high school, regardless of age to
call at the U. S. E. S. for particu
lars and assistance in applying for
subsistence, under the G. I. Bill of
Rights, if desired. In the post
war years ahead, every year of
education will be a weapon with
which to cope with the problems
ahead. All vriie ere high,
-gred«a*ee--e«*'^ai*ed-^4»-icaft->-ait
the IT, S. JL S. office for assistance
for applying for the government
paid college education provided un
der this bill. Some veterans, 22
and 23 years of age, who are en
titled to a four year’s college edu
cation have stated that they are
too old. There will be hundreds
and even thousands who will be
attending schools and colleges
who are much older. “We urge
every veteran to take advantage of
these wonderful opportunities",
Mrs. Lott said in discussing bene
fits provided veterans.
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Mrs. C. R. Higgins
Dies In Baltimore;
Funeral Held Here
Funeral service was held ’Tues
day momtng a i 10 o’clock at Hin-
shaw Street Baptist church • for
Mrs. Minnie Lon^ Ulgglns, who
uled Saturday night at the home
ot a dangbter, Mrs. A. C. Pruitt,
in RaiUmore, Md. Rev. J. C. Pru
itt conducted the last rltee, assist
ed by the Rev. W. N. Bayee and
Rev. R. F. Day.
Mrs. Ulgglns Is Burvlved by her
nusband. C. R. Higgins, and the
lollowing sons and daughters;
Mra Ada Sue Pruitt, Baltimore;
Mrs. Ruth Hillam, Wilmette, 111.;
Mrs. Mae Pruitt, Mrs. Wilma
Blankensblp, Bryce and Junior,
all of North Wilkesboro, and
James Higgins, of the D.8. Army;
lour sisters, Mrs. Florence Law-
son, Mount Airy; Mrs. Ellen
Blackburn, Darlington, Md.; Mrs.
Annie King, Blkln; one brother,
Uleve Long, ot Laurel Springs.
She also leaves twelve grandchil
dren.
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Will Begin Revivad
Hunting Creek 5th
Revival services will begrin at
Hunting Creek Baptist church on
Sunday. August 5. Rev. P, C.
Parka, pastor, wfll be assisted by
Rev. EMd Hayes. .The public has n
cordial invitation to all aervicea
License to Wed
During the past week five coup
les obtained license to wed from
Wilkes KegUter of Deeds Troy
r’oster. They were; Arnold Milam,
North Wilkesboro, and Marie
Church, Buck; Faire Foster, Wil
kesboro and Bertha Wyatt, of
North Wilkesboro; Charlie B.
Brown, Jr., of North Wilkesboro
route 1, and Syirania Call, of
North Wilkesboro; Boy B. Stout,
of Joneavllle, and Mae P. James,
of WllkesboroT John G. Owens,
of Halls Mills, and Nellla Beck
netl, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Four Big Aietioii
Sales Frulay And
Saturday Planned
outi
WITMTIMid
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PVT. MtAOK TBlPMPTT ' "
IS HOME PROM OVBBfiBM
FTt. Mack Triplett, wbb has
returned from 21 montlis^ servlee
in ungUnd, U spending a SO-day
furlough with his parehto, Mr.
and MTS. P. O. TripietL of Pur-
lear.
HIP MTHOGER
PLAHTS RAKEB
BY BOMBEHS
Methodisto-BaptSsts'
Pliui Union Senriceiii
SOT. HAROLD PBOFFIT
VISITING ms MOTHKB
Btalt Sergeant Harold Profflt,
of Washington, D. C., is spending
a lew days furlough with his
mother, Mrs. A. J. Profflt, of Pur-
lear.
SEAMAN BILL COOPER
AT PERU, INDIANA
William H. (Bill) Cooper, sea
man first class in the navy and
wno was in business here before
entering service, is now stationed
with the naval fire department at
the naval air station at Peru, In
diana. In a recent letter to this
newspaper he stated that he had
recently attended the navy’s fire
fighter school at New Orleans’an J
is expecting duty in the Pacific at
an early date.
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PFC. GRIFFITH PATIENT
MOORE GENERAL HOSPITAL
Pfc. Harry M. Griffith, iWilkes
boro, has b^u admitted to Moore
General Hospital, Swannanoa, for
treatanent. He has served in the
European Theatre ol Operations, a
member of the 318th Infantry Reg
iment, 80th Division and has
Combat Infantryman’s badge, the
European ’Theatre of Operations
ribbon and the Good Conduct rib
bon.
Manila.—B-26 medium bomb
ers blew up nitrogen plants at
Marusaema on Bonthwest Kyu
shu Wednesday as fighters and
bombers of the Far Eastern Air
Force battled bad weather to
spread attacks over Kyushu and
adjacent enemy waters, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur announced to
day.
Heavy, medium and fighter
bombers lashed at enemy com
munications, factories, and fuel
dumps, spotting the Kynshn land
scape with huge fires and rock
ing explosions.
P-61 lighter bombers and B-
24 Liberators dumped bombs on
rayon and explosive manufactur
ing plants at Kagoshima, and on
the industrial and coal mining
center of Fukuoka on Monday and
Tuesday. Two groups of B-24’s
dropped their bomb loads on the
Miyasakl group of airfields.
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First Baptist and First Metii-
odist churches here will on Sanday
night begin a series of union serv
ices for Sanday evening daring tiie
month of August.
The first be held Snday eve
ning, August 5, at the First Meth
odist church .with Dr. Da'vid E.
Browning, First Baptist pas^,
in the pulpit. On the following
Sunday evening Rev. A. C. Wag
goner, F’irst Methodist pastor,
will preach in the First Baptist
church. Members of both congre
gations are urged to attend and
a cordial welcome is extended all
visitors.
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TORIBGIHBS
HIPS GIVE OHLY
SLIGHT EFFORT;
FLEET SILERT
Erection Of Large
Garage Building It
Under Way Close In
Four auction sales of valnable
real estate in this community will
be conducted Friday end Saturday
of this week by Penny Brothers,
widely known land auctioneers. .
The first of the four big sales
will be Friday, two p. m., when
the Midway Service station and
ten other valnablc business lots
between the Wilkesboros will he
sold. This property is part of tiie
{Rousseau e^te.
The second sale will begin on
Friday, three o’clock, when the
Parkway Cafe and service station
property on highway 115 near this
city will be sold to the highest
bidder. This property consists of
a new, 12-room, three-story brick
building and two-car brick garage
with living quarters overhead.
’The third sale will also be on
Friday afternoon, four o’clock,
when the Absher store and service
station property near the intersec
tion of highway 268 and 18 will be
sold.
The fourth sale will be on Sat
urday, two p. m., when 75 home
fites .'and small acreqjge farms
on highway 421 (me mile west of
this city will be solL 'Hiis prop
erty is owned by Judge J. A. Eous-
seau.
At every sale will be free cash
and war bond prizes and high (dass
entertainniMit.
S.SGT. BLAIR GWYN
RETURNS FROM OVERSEAS
Stiff Sergeant W. Blair Gwyn,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Gwyn.
of this (uty, has returned to the
States after a long period of serv
ice in Esiope aMis turg, faagoifef
aray ‘ ^trohhd
hospital at Swamianoa. He sprat
Saturday night hers with bis par
ents. S.Sgt. Gwyn will go to Port
Bragg within the next few days,
where he will be granted a 30-(iay
furlough before receiving his next
assignment. His brother, Capt.
R. W. (Dick) Gwyn, Jr., is still in
France.
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S. SGT. EMERSON IS
GOING TO PAOIPIO
Staff Sergeant James W. Emer
son, son or Mr. and Mrs. J. O.
i&merson, of this city, has gone to
California and will be shipped to
the Pacific. He had been stationed
at Fort Bragg.
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BEX T. OAIili VISITS
HOMB FOB FEW DAYS
Re* T. Call has returned
the naval training station at Bain-
brldge, Md., after spending a few
days with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Rufus Call, of Moravian
Falls.
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PVT. JULIUS B. MINTON
HOME FROM OVEB8EAS
Pvt. Julius B. Minton, who has
been in service in Europe, arriv
ed home July 9tb, to spend 30
days with his wife and son, the
former Miss (%al Church, and
Nelsou JflddiA
They are now vlslUng his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Minton,
in Baltimore.
Pvt. Minton was transferred
from the infantry to the chemical
warfare service while serving ov
erseas, and was awarded the Good
Conduct Medal.
to
LT. Wm. HENBT TODD
RETURNS TO DUTY
Lt. Wm. Henry Todd, army art
force, returned Saturday to Fort
Meade, Md., for re-asslgnment,
after spending several days here
with his mother, Mrs. Paul Mc-
Ghlnnls, and other relatives. He
was accompanied to Pulaski, Va.,
by Mrs. HcGfainals, Mr. and Mrs.
Bradley Dancy and Mrs. Henry
Pittman.
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THOME8 L. KBNERLY
RECEIVES PROMOTION
'Thomas Locke Kenerly, ABM
3-c (OP), has recently been pro
moted to bis present rating. He is
serving as catapanlt specialist a-
board an aircraft carrier in the
Pacific. He participated In the
Invasion ot Okinawa and support
ed complete operation by neutra
lizing airfields on Sasklshlma and
Mayako Islands. Petty Officer
Kenerly completed a'rtatlon ma
chinist mate school in Memphis,
Tenn., and catapanlt Khool in
Philadelphia. His wife, the former
MlB lOveiyn Faw, Is residing In
this city with her mother for the
present time.
A large brick building, 60x80
feet. Is now under oonstrnctlon at
the city limits on highway 18.
'The structure is being erected by
4J111 Johnson, who will move his
garage into the building when It
is completed. T. J. Kenerly, of
this city, Is In charge of construc
tion of the building.
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Annual Communion
And Foot Washing
At Mulberry Church
Annual oosuaanion and foot
nshMc wRl be held on
-'•fittenif-fi, nt-e|tol»try-f“
PrlmftlTe Baptist church. The ser
vice will begin at 10:30 a .m., and
several elders will take part. The
public la cordially invited. Mul
berry Primitive Baptist church is
moTe than 100 years old.
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Shady Grove Revival
Will Begin Aug. 12th
Revival services will begin at
Shady Grove Baptist church near
Brown’s Ford, five miles west of
Wilkesboro, on Sunday, August
12. The pastor, Rev. C. L. John
son. will be assisted by Rev. FVed
Blevins. The public is cordially
invited to all services.
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Guam.—U. S. Pacific Fleet car
rier planes igid warships attacked
long iby-passed Wake Island yes
terday as Adm. William F. Hal
sey’s 'Third Fleet remained un
der a security black-out now al
most 60 hours old.
The tiny island where a few
marines held off the Japanese in
a heroic 14-day stand at the
start of the war was blasted by
war-plane bombs and battleship
shells, Adm. Chester W. Nlmitz
announced.
'The attack, first in months by
major fleet .units on Wake, was
designed to harasp the hunger-
weakened garrison cut off from
Its homeland by the Allied ad
vance to the homelands of Japan.
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Guam.—‘la the greatest single
air raid . Of all time 800 Bnper
FortroMM dropped 6,ooo tou of
incendlatr bombs and two-ton
blookbusiirs on four fore-warned
Japdneee clUee and a petroleum
center today in the first B-29
strike executed under command
of Gra. Garl A- BpaatTs Tf. 8.
Army Htateg^ Air Forces.
A glgantle sky train of Bnper
Forts stretching more than 150
mlleo over the enemy’s homeland
spread fiery devastation throngli
the Honshu Industrial and trans
portation centers of Hachloji, To
yama, Nagabka and Mlto.
'The tonnage of bombs exceeded
the weight dropped In single larg
est previous raids by both U. 0.
and Royal Air Force bombers,
making it the greatest individual
aerial blow struck in history.
Headquarters also disclosed
that Thunderbolt fighters had
Joined the assault on Honshu,
Striking from Iwo along with Mus
tang fighters yesterday against
tue Nagoya-Kobe area.
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Americai Legion
Post Is to Install
Ansrust Meeting To Be Held
At 8 P. M.; Buchan Is
New Commander
Funeral Held Today
For R. C. Cothren
r'uneral service was held today
at Round Hill church for Richard
Cornelius Cothren, age 81, citizen
of iTapbUl township who died on
Tuesday. Rev. L. B. Sparks and
Rev. Gharlle Miles conducted the
last rltsa.
SurvlTlng Mr. Cothren are two
sons, William B. Cothren, of
Ronda, and W. Clarence Cothren,
of Benham; also two daughters,
Mrs. Dora Belle Spicer, of Pel
ham, and Mrs. H. N. Cannon, of
lYaphllL
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Largo Docket Of
Cases Calendared
Court Hnt Week
Judge Bobbit To Preside Ov
er Term To Begin On
Monday Morning
With the largest number of
criminal cases in recent years on
the docket, Wilkes superior court
will open the August term on
Monday, August 6, with Judge W.
H. Bobbit, of Charlotte, presiding.
Fending trial In Wilkes court
are 160 lases. Solicitor Avalon E.
Hall, of Yadklnvllle, recently
made out the -calendar for the
two-weeks’ term, which listed 144
cases, but since that time addi
tional cases have been added by
reports ol magalStrates to C. C.
Hayes, superior court clerk.
The capital case of Roy Os
borne, charged with the first de
gree murder ol his brother, Tom
Osborne, recently near Sheets Gap,
on the Blue Ridge, is set for trial
on 'Tuesday, August 14. Roy Os
borne U aUeged to have waited
under cover,by the side of a road
and to have shot Us brother with
a rifle as he walked along the
road.
Wilkes post number 126 of the
American Legion will install of
ficers at the meeting to to held
Friday night. August 3, in the
Legion and Auxiliary club house.
A full attendance of members for
the •meeting is earnestly requested.
Heading tbe post as commander
for the coming year will be H. C.
Bnchan, Jr., a veteran of World
War number 2. Other officers to
be installed are as follows: H. C.
London, vice commander; A. C.
Sidden, vice commander; W. J.
Church, vice commander; Kyle
Hayes, adjutant and finance of
ficer; Troy Perry, service officer;
A. F. Kilby, assistant service of
ficer; C. D. Coffey, Jr., guardian
ship officer; Richard Byrd, serg
eant at arms; W. C. Grier, chap
lain; E. P. Robinson, historian;
W. J. Bason, athletic officer; Dr.
E. N. Phillips, child welfare offi
cer; T. A. Finley, Americanism of-
Mrs. Anderson, 73,
Is Taken By Death
Last rites were conducted to
day at Pleasant Grove church for
Mrs. Joanna Anderson, age 73,
citizen of New Castle township,
who died Tuesday. Rev. R. R.
Crater conducted the last rites.
Surviving Mrs. Anderson are
one son, R. H. Anderson, of Ron
da, and three daughters: Mrs. E.
J. Honeycutt, Wilkesboro: Mn. L.
F. Frevette, Ronda; and Mrs.
Marcus Mathis, Roaring River. Al
so survIVfcg are two sisters, Mrs.
Della McCarter and Mrs. Cling
Johnson, of North WUkoabom
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• • • • •
ENNICE SOLDIER IS
DECORATED IN ITALY
With the Fifth Army, Italy.—
Frlvate First Class Cure ,T. Ev
ans, Eunice, recently was awarded
tbe Bronze Star Medal for merl-
torlons service in combat In Italy.
He served on the Fifth Army
front in tbe 368rd Infantry Regi
ment of the 9Ist ‘‘Fowder River”
Division.
HlB wife, Mrs. Alverta Evans,
lives at Eunice.
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HARROLD BROTHERS
meet in GERMANY
Upl. Ranzle Harrold bad not
seen his brother, Pfc. Coy Har
row, in 31 months when he learn
ed that he, too, was In Germany,
and they were only 25 miles a-
part. They were granted leave
and spent 48 hours together. They
hare another brother, Pfc. Albert
Harrold, that they haven't seen In
over 3 1-2 years. They are sons
ficer; John W. Leyshon, national Martin Harrold,
defense officer; W. P. Kelly, graves
re^tration officer; John & Jus-j gpent 26 months
tice, employment offi(»r, Pam J. Is expecting to come
Vestal, Boys’ State officer; Iv^ states as soon as transpor-
Moore, Boy Scout (ifficer, E. P. jg^gg jg gyguabie and he Is dls-
of 1 charged under the point system.
^ ' I He was promoted to corporal soon
P. Mittoell, oratorical cont^t o -1 Germany BiiTrradMMfi. !O0K
ficer; W, N. Momson, chairman •
Sons of Legion.
irlU Itty la Germany for some-
-T-.,. . , I time yet on guard duty. He has
With many veterans ^ months of overseas service. Al
bert spent 80 months In Dutch
Harbor, Alaska, and Is now sta
tioned at Asheville.
ent war enrolled, the Wilkes post
now has a large membership.
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