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Girl Scbuti May Get
Hone Show Tickets
' with abont 75 ot the fineat
■how hones aTslIable entered,
the flrmt annual Wilkea county
7 horse show to be held July 4th
on the WUkesboro athletic field
is expected to be an oatatanding
anccess.
The show, which is to be an
f ennnal erent, is nnder aponsor-
shlp of the North WUkesboro
' Lions Clnb, which will use all
\ profits from the show In carry-
k. log ont the club’s many commend-
a^kble actlrltlee^
I A glance at the array ot entries
* already received Indicates that
, the show should be one of the
i largest ever held In Northwest-
^ ern North Carolina. In addition
^Olrl Scoots who wish to sell
horse show tickets may secure
them from Hn. lack Brame in
North WUkesboro or Mrs. Claude
Donghton in WUkesboro.
The horse show committee is
offering Boy Scouts and Girl
Scouts free tickets for seUlng
tickets. A free ticket will be gir*
en for each ten sold.
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Large Hroips Of
Wilkes Men Sent
For Examination
Hnmorist Speaker
At Kiwanis Here
Friday At Noon
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mb those entered, the central com
mittee of the show stated that
they expect that many entries
will be made at the post when the
show opens. There will be two
showB, two p. nh and 8 p. m.
The entries received to date In
clude horses owned by the follow
ing: W. J. Jones, Shelby: Dick
Freeman, Elkin; A. L. Newton,
Winston-Salem; Dr. R. P. Sykes,
Asheboro; L. P. Wrenn, Mount
Airy; N. B. Brewer, Winston-Sa
lem; Miss Audrey Pulliam, Win
ston-Salem; Robert Joines and
Tom Green, Saarta; Horace J.
Isenhonr, Newton; Dr. Moir S.
Martin, Mount Airy; Mrs. W. B.
Shnford, Hickory; Dr. Douglas
Hamer, Lenoir; Red Bird Farm,
Lexington; Bernard Dougherty,
Boone; Mae Coble, Lexington:
George S. Coble, Lexington:
Thomas Long, WUkesboro; Wade
C. Moody, Mount Airy.
Those from North WUkesboro
and WUkesboro who will place
horses in the show include; Celia
Carter, Jimmie Carter, -B. F.
G«r«ns i Dr. i. W. WUis, J. C.
[ayes, y«m Irfln, Palmer Hor-
A. A. Sturdivant. Ann Stnr-
t, Rick Hubbard, Dr. Fred
C. Hubbard, Tommy Donghton,
Mrs. T. H. Wiliams, W. P. Gaddy,
R. B. Prevette, Worth Tomlinson,
E. P. Hettlger, Jr., E. P. Hettlger,
III, Dr. R. P. Casey, Bobby Casey,
L. S. Spalnhonr.
North WUkesboro Kiwanis club
held a most enjoyable meeting
Friday noon.
Program Chairman A. C. Cham
berlain introduced R. M. (Pat)
Ormsby, of Winston-Salem, who
gave the club 30 minntes of fine
entertainment on the Subject:
“Wit and Humor.”
Mr. Ormsby pointed out the
value of every one acquiring the
habit of laughing. Laughter helps
one to acquire friends and there
by to live more satisfactorily. He
said, at best, life is a serious
business and none of us get out
of it alive.
He discussed the subject under
several heads: wise cracks. Jokes,
comic stories, humorous stories,
etc. He illustrated each division
with several stories suitable to
the discussion. Every one enjoyed
the address.
Prior to the program, Paul
Church made a report on comple
tion of the stock pens for the
livestock market here and stated
that the first shipment of Iambs
had been made.
Guests Friday were as follows:
A. B. Johnston and Dwight Nich
ols with J. B. Williams; B. A.
Lancaster, of Laurance, Ga.. with
C. Arthur Venable; W.*L. Mor»-
honse and W. J. Carooa, Jr., with
W. J. Caroon; George Prince, of
Colombia, 8. C., and Calvin B.
McLaughlin with Carl E. VanDe-|
man; Master Marrion Gregory |
with S. V. Tomlinson; Zeb Stew-|
art with J. R. Hlx; Mrs. A. C.
Chamberlain, Dr. and Mrs. Koontz
and R. B. Ormsby with Dr. A. C.
Chamberlain.
MORTH WILKESBORO SOLDIER IS
GUARDING FRAU GOERIMG NOW
Nenhana, Germany.—Frau Em- listen to the radio. But that is Im-
my Goerlng has shut herself up
in the rickety old castle which
broods over this little farming
hamlet, while she awaits the out
come of her husband’s trial as a
war criminal.
Nenhsns is a short distance oft
the Autobahn, on the Pegnitz Riv
er about 25 miles northeast of
Nuernberg. The population prob^
ably doesn’t exceed 300.
The little cluster of stone-walled
dwellings was shelled heavily by
American artillery and many
homes are burned out. A lieuten
ant and nine OL’s are quartered
in a cobwebby wing of the old
castle, the only troops billeted
here.
The castle, built by Goerlng’s
family in the 19th century. Is fall
ing apart.
Goerlng had ordered some res
toration work this Spring and a
scaffolding was still up in places.
Tank artillery sent a couple of
through the place, wreck-
shells
taM one room and piercing one
iwer.
Frau Goerlng, who came here
June 9. is not living in luxury.
There are eight persona with
Frau Goerlng including her child,
adds, and her sister, Alsu Sonne-
mann Oltmann. When they ar
rived there was no furniture in
the castle.
irere told that 14 truck-
loads were hauled away three
days before we arrived, said
Goerlng. “We all slept on
the floor the first night.” Since
then the owner of an inn has
hauled bedsteads and other pieces
of furniture to the six rooms m-
ssiied by the Goerlng party,
are stlU no curtains on the
The castle has electric lights,
^nnf-r ^ter and modem plumb-
wtr. TOere is no fuel for heating,
an do cooktog, cleaning
washing.” said the governess.
**W« brought enough food to iMt
Ifour ifeoks. Fmn Goerlng said the
iasrfT*" unny.
not glflng them any-
«hf«r» said Pfc. Willard Whlttt-
M cnard duty «t the gate.
Oo«r^ pormiwioii to
possible because there Is only one
set In the house and that doesn’t
work.”
Frau Goerlng said she had
heard nothing from her husband
since he surrendered to the XT. S.
36th Division. Whlttemore said
she was not permitted to write
letters.
"One was smuggled out but In
tercepted down In the village,”
he Bald. "We don’t know what
was In It.”
The Mercedes sedan which
brought the Goerlng party to Neu-
hans has disappeared and they
have no transportation. Frau
Goerlng has not been out of the
castle since she arrived..
Sergt. Donald RexIUlus of Ce-
resco. Neb., said the guard is
more for t^elr protection than to
keep them from running away.
The reason—the folks In the town
think the town wouldn’t have
been shot up If It hadn’t been for
the Goering’s home.
“They don’t like them,” said
Rexilius.
Members of the guard include:
Carl Miller, North WUkesboro,
N. C., and Kc. James Pulliam of
Burlington, N. C.
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Refrigeration
Cooperative In
Meet Friday
Officials of the Carolina Refrig
eration Cooperative Association,
Inc., with other interested citi
zens, held an interesting meet
ing Friday evening at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Brown.
Carl E. YanDeman presided
and presented George Prince, of
Colnmbia, . 8. C. Mr. Prtnee, a
banker, discussed financing of a
freezer locker plant end explain
ed that' stock in a coc^amtiTe
•nch as the one formed here is
an excellent investment.
Hr. Shaping, of SaUsfenry, who
is affiliated with a firm making
refrigeration equipment, shoi^
an excellent motion pletnre de-
of
locker plants.
Both Selective Service boards
in Wilkes today sent men to Fort
Bragg for examination prior to
entering service. The lists of men
sent by the two boards follow:
' BOARD NO. 1.
Jamee Jos^th Davis.
iMnsner Voyd Sheets.
WllUain Howard Pennell.
HUton Edward Pearson.
Cecil li. CXmrcfa.
Welbom Endalle Minton, Jr.
Joe Bart Faw.
Augustas Flake Robbins.
Presley Brown Church.
John Glint Ednlnston.
Ernest Wilson Mathis.
Frank Harley Bdmlnston.
Lee Roy Mas tin.
GUfton Warren Johnson.
Van WUford Triplett.
Keelej’ Odell Church.
L. P. Pcntto^rass.
John CTlHord Minton.
Noah Lee Anderson.
Russell McKinley Anderson.
Albert Muriel Goforth.
Thomas Marvin Nichols.
Carl Monroe Adams.
James Monroe Snyder.
F;;^cls Gene Davidson.
Adward Gwyn Eller.
John Claude Felts.
Guy Talmadge Fletcher.
Wlllaijl Chambers.
Johnson J. Hayes Church.
John Marshal Hamby.
Paul Pinnix.
Charles Franklin Souther.
Richard Wesley Hamby.
Floyd Junior Edmlnston.
Blum Vestal Hendren. ^
James EvereCte Souther.
BOARD NO. 3.
Benjamin Odell Bluings.
Ira Samuel HaUory,
John Thomas Jones.
Dwight Dewitt Haynes.
Gm^ CbMide CoBSm.
James CSayton Shumate.
Jesse James Byers.
A]rchie Ray Taylor.
James Bynum Foster.
Jesse -EU Blackburn.
Ernest Paul Grouse.
Lonnie Bnrett Johnston.
Bnrl MUton WingleiC
Edward Engene Osborne.
Gilmer John Rhoades.
Early Bannw TUley, Jr.
Edward LeVem JoUy.
Andrew Horsoy KUby.
Calvin Gentry Bnllis.
WUIlam EJdon Billings.
Calvin Loyd ^nlthey.
VeetM Roland.
Edgar Eugene Combs.
Thornton Combs.
Ted McKinley Bluings.
Robert Lee Laws.
OUve Allen Brown.
James Irvin Lyon.
Odell Shepherd.
Howard Claude Hendren.
Lee Vem BenUeld.
Charlie Russell Cohee.
Effner Ambrus WUes.
EarUe A. Haynes.
Albert Harrison Parttue,
Vernon Albert Wood.
Mack Engene Wood.
Joe Daniel McLean.
William Arthur Rash, Jr.
James Franklin Lnffman.
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B29’$ POUR
FIRE BOMBS
ON JAP CITIES
Guam.—Nearly 600 Super Fort
resses—the greatest fleet of B-
29’s ever sent against Japan—
struck four of Nippon’s industrial
cities with a record 4,000 tons
of fire bombs before dawn today.
It was the greatest incendiary
strike of the Pacific war.
The targets, all fire-bombed
for the first time, were Kure,
Bite of Japan’s greatest naval
base on the Inland Sea; Shlmon-
osekl, on the northern shore of
Shlmonosekl Strait at the western
entrance to the Inland Sea: XTbe,
one of Japan’s major coal centers
and top magnesium-prodnclng re
gion in the empire; and Kuma
motto, a transportation hub and
military training center as well
as an important war Indnstrlee
city on Western Kyushu.
In a steadily rising campaign
of destruction against Japan’s
war Industry, the record fleet
from the Maralnas this morning
brought to 22 the total number
of Japanese cities hit In fira-
I>omb attacks.
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Bight farmers from Pasquo
tank and four from Camden re
cently shipped 186 lambs from
Elisabeth Clty,.«ayB Lelapd Case,
pictlng the ooBstructloa and uae|l!ztaosloh animal hnsbaiidman at
State CoU^.
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Bidlylloiided
By Pistol Shot
Lt. Fred E. Myers, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. G. Myers, of Halls
MUls, recently received a field
comziUsslon of second Ueaten-
ant with the 10th armored di-
yision in Germany. He went
oyerseas in September, 1044,
and fon^t with Patton’s third
army from Metz, France, to
the Rhine, and from the Rhine
Munich with the 7th army.
He was awarded the bronze
star for heroic achievement
eai'Uer this year and the pur
ple heart for wounds received
In Germany. Lt. Myerg entered
the army November 21, 1043,
received training at Port Hen
ning and Camp Gordon, Ga.
He was promoted to Sergeant
in March, 1043, laier to staff
sergeant and on June 12 this
year to second Uentenant. He
has also been awarded the good
conduct ribbon. He was employ
ed by the Parkway Bns com-
.pany before entering service.
His wife, the former Miss Ger
trude Taylor, makes her home
In Winston-Salem.
Presley Higgins, resident ot
the Ronda community, was /bhot
and seriously wounded Sunday,
11 a. m., at the home of Marshall
ChUdress at Ronda.
Childress tel^honed Sheriff C.
G. Poindexter and Informed the
sheriff that he had shot Higgins
and asked the sheriff to come to
hla home.
Sheriff Poindexter, with De
puties Blaine Sparks and S. U.
Reynolds, went to (Jhlldress’
home and Childress told them
that Presley Higgins, his son-in-
law, had come to his home after
his wife, Childress’ daughter
Childress told the sheriff that
Higgins had been abusing his
wife and that she had taken re
fuge at his home. He also stated
that Higgins, who had a gun in
his car, told Childress that he had
"come to kill the whole family”,
and tried to push his way into
the house. Childress said be pro
cured his gun and shot Higgins,
the bullet entering his abdomen.
Higgins was taken to the hospital
in Elkin, where his condition is
described as serions.
Childress filled bond for ap
pearance at the next term of
Wilkes court.
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Y. M. C. A, Board-
To Moot Jn^^Odk
Dlraotors of the WUtiMi T. M.
C. A. will meet July 10, .ffy .p.m.,
at Hotel XVttkee. ThOs mee^bt^wus
originally scheduled^ for :Tuly 8
but has been poetponed...
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DeitMWorluig
li Wilkes Schools
Dr. B. T. Koonce, dentist with
the North Carolina State Board
of Health, Dental Division, is
working in the county during the
summer. He will be at the fol
lowing schools daring the month
of July:
Jnly 2—Moravian Falls; July
3, 5, 6—Whittington; July 9, 10
—Shady Grove; July 11, 12
31—Mtn. View.
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Buy War Bonds and Stamps
BUY MORE WAR BONDS
Tom Osborne Killed
Gets Bronze Star
For meritorious service T5
Paul N. Howard, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. ©..Howard, of Roar
ing River, has been awarded
the bronze star medal. ITie ci
tation was as follows: “By di
rection of the president and un
der provisions of army regu
lations 600-45, Paul N. How
ard, technician fifth grade,
medical corps, medical detach
ment, 101st calvary reconnnals-
ance squadron mechanized,
United States army, is awarded
the bronze star medal for meri-
torions s«rvlce in connection
with military operations a-
galnst an enemy of the United
States during the period 11
February, 1945, to 13 May
1946. His devotion to duty, ver
satility and initiative have been
responsible In the successful
completion of the primary mis
sion in combat.”
Roy Osborne Is
Aileged.to Have
Killed Brother
Officers Search Blue Ridge
Mountains For Killer Who
Shot From Thicket
Bnsiness Houses
WillBeCiMedAII
Bay On July 4th
In accordance with a scbednle
ot holidays agreed upon by a
majority of local stores and busi
ness honses, Wednesday, July 4,
will be observed by stores and
other business honses as a holi
day and will be closed through-
ont the day.
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Stewards to Meet
Board of stewards of the First
Methofist chnroh will hold an
Important meeting ’■Wednesday
evening inuaedlaMy after the
Sheriff C. G. Poindexter and
deputies are combing tLe Blue
Ridge mountains in Wilkes and
Asbe counties for Roy Osborne,
who is alledged to have shot and
killed his brother, Tom Osborne,
Sunday.
Tom Osborne died at the
Wilkes hospital Sunday, six p m.,
from a bnllet wound inflicted at
11:16 Sunday near his home a
few hundred yards from the Blue
Ridge Parkway at Sheets Gap.
A bnllet, thought to have been
fired from a 30-30 calibre rifle,
entered Osborne’s left side and
went through his body.
Sheriff Poindexter, Deputies S.
U. Reynolds, P. H. Dancy and a
number of citizens deputized for
the search, learned that the Os
borne brothers had bad some dif
ficulties and the officers received
sufficient Information to convince
them that Roy Osborne murdered
his brother. They were informed
that Roy Osborne
leave his home, earring his high
powered rifle, and walking In the
direction of the spot where Tom
Osborne was shot while walking
along the road toward his own
home a short distance away.
The officers found the spot In a
laurel thicket from which the
fatal shot had apparently been
fired, and they found tracks
which led'up the mountain and
across the Bine Ridge Parkway
toward Ashe county. There they
lost the trail but have continued
the search over a wide erea.
Tom Osborne was 63. years of
age and Is survived by his irife
and nine children. EHs brother,
charged with the murder, is also
a middle aged man and has a
family. ’
Funeral service for the slain
man will be held Wednesday, 11
a. m., at Peak Creek church.
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Mrs. T. J. McNeill
Funeral Tuesday
Wilkes StiU Has
Good Opportiaity
ToReaekHsOoal
Sake Briik Liut Week Bat
Total Has Not Reached
I320W Qaota
Mrs. Lelia Felts McNeill, 58,
wife of Thomas J. M(^elll and
member of a prominent Wilkes
Connty family, died at 3 o’clock
yesterday morning at her home
at Roaring River, following a long
illness.
She was a daughter of the late
B. R. and Theo Haynes Pelts,
and was a member of Roaring
River Baptist Church.
Mrs. McNeill is survived by her
hosband; nine danghters, Mrs. S.
L. Grimes of Lansdowne, Pa.,
Mrs. Lillian Minor of Winston-Sa
lem, Mrs. J. R. Hackman of Wash
ington D, C., Mrs. W. K. Hngglns,
of Chester, S. C., Mrs. B. L. Pat
terson and Mrs. J. M. Sears of
Chreengboro, ajid Mis. Tommye
^K&im
the Itr
children; three brothers, L. M
Felts of Baltimore, Md., J. T.
Pelts of Roaring River and T. E.
Pelts of High Point; and two sis
ters, Mrs. L. J. Salmons of High
Point and Mrs. Hassle Warren
of Lanrinibnrg.
Funeral services will be con
ducted at Roaring River Baptist
Church at 2 o’clock Tuesday by
Rev. N. C. Teague of Lexington,
a former pastor. Burial will be in
the church cemetery. The body
will lie In state at the church
from'l until 2 p. m
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Mother Of 14 Is
Taken By Death
WTIim!
Tie name of every Wil^
service man h*»,^** ““
life during WoridsW**" ^
aiUo Uie namet and Moretsos
of his parento. '
PleaM aend tidb Hifonu*
tion at once to Mn;
Last rites were held Saturday
at Pleasant Home Baptist church
for Mrs. Louise Barr Faw, age
82' member of a well known
Wilkes family who died Thurs
day night.
Mrs. Paw is survived by 14 sons
and daughters: Monroe Faw, Mil
lers Creek; Doley Faw, W^kes
boro route one; Oscar Faw, Mil
lers Creek; Chal Faw, North
WUkesboro: W. H. Paw and Ed
gar Paw, WUkesboro route one;
Lester Faw, Landis; Vestal Faw,
Millers Creek; Mrs. Elbert Mc-
Olamery and Mrs. Roby Nichols
Wllkesboro route one; Mrs. J. E.
Pierce, Reddies River; Mrs. Char
lie Griffin, Wllkesboro route one;
Mrs. J. B. Pierce, Reddies River;
Mrs. Charlie Griffin, Wllkesboro
route one; Mrs. J. N. Austin and
Miss Chessle Paw, North Wllkes
boro.
Rev. W. S. Luck and Rev. L.
B. Murray conducted the last
rites.
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Iredell McNeill
Funeral Sunday
Funeral service for R. Iredell
McNeUl, age 66, who died Fri
day morning at his home near
Millers Creek, was held Sunday,
three p. m., at New Hope Baptist
chnrch.
Mr. McNeill, a member of one
of WUkaa county's best known
families, was a son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. P. Miui*al
of Pnrlear. He is snrvlv^ by hla
wife, Mrs. Rebecca McNeill, four
sons and one daughter: Roy V.
and Richard A. MoNetU, of Mount
Airy; Jamee B. and Oeefl D. Mc
Neill, Ih the army; Mlse Geral
dine MbN^, ot MUlen Cre^
Rev, Isaac Watts and Rev. A,
W. laier conducted the funeral
servioe. “ ' .
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Btgfat Of every X® inoUim l^
liiirei now shown -In tran arp
their neighbors and friends and
asking that they purchase E bonds
in liberal numbers and larger
amounts this week.
Wilkes has never failed on a
War Loan quota, and the mighty
7th should be no exception.
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Junior Council
Elects Officers
MacARTHUR
LEADS TROOPS
IN AT PORT
Manila.—Rugged Australian
Seventh Division infantrymen
landed In force Sunday on the
sandy beaches before the great
Borneo oil port of Bailkpapan and
quickly pushed inland after the
most Intensive preinvasion bom
bardment yet made in the South
west Pacific. Losses were light.
Gen. Douglas MacArthnr. who
personally'commanded the Inva
sion forces, announced the land
ing today.
In a triumphant oommonlque,
he declared that this third lad
ing on Borneo, following those
May 1 at Thrakau and June 10
at Brunei Bay had “secured dom
ination of Borneo and ditven a
wedge south, splitting the East
Indies” and virtually eompletlag
'our tactical cen^I of the 'en
tire Soothwest Pablfle.*; .:" '
When ^eatOmms saldeuly to
cattle after'they have heeii ^aead
on pasture, the trouble may be
The eatoals shoald be
exandaed !iy a veterianriuur -
Sale of B bonds In Wilkes dar
ing the latter part of the week
showed substantial gains bnt did
npt put Wilkes over the top in
the 7th War Loan campaign.
However, the Treasury Depart
ment has annonneed that sale of
aU B 'bonds tbrongb this week
will count on quotas and Wilkes
still has a chance of reaching the'
1320,000 goal in B bond sales.
The response to the appeal last
week to rally in the final phases
of the 7th War Loan ano reach
the quota resulted in more liberal
purchases than daring any other
week in the campaign, and the
quota can be reached if the bond
sales continue thiough this week
at the pace set during the past
few days.
A complete report of sales dur
ing the latter part of the week
here was not available today, but
nnofficial reports from the banks
and postoffjees indicated liberal
■buying. The total sales will be re
ported by the Federal Reserve
system, which handles bond pur
chase money from all issuing
agents.
Members of district commit
tees, personnel of retail stores
and any other volunte^ workers
who are lending their efforts to
this vitally Important phase of
the war effort are asked to con
tinue their efforts through this
week. All patriotic citizens are
Charles Leckle 'will head the
North Wllkesboro council of the
Junior Order during the latter
six months of 1945.
Other officers elected by the
council were as follows: Quincy
Brooks, vice councilor; C. A.
Canter, recording secretary; J.
M. Eller, assistant recording sec
retary; Wilson -Pardne, Inside
sentinel; A. C. Parker, outside
sentinel; Johnson Sanders, finan
cial secretary; Northwestern Bank,
treasurer; A, O. Anderson, war
den; Clay Pardue, past councilor;
J. M. Eller, B. F. Bentley and A.
A. Cashion, trustees; R. B. Chnrch
and Clay Pardue, representatives
to state council; Charles Leckle
and B. F. Bentley, alternate rep
resentatives; H. L. Mechem, chap
lain; D. E. Elledge, assistant
chaplain.
Degree work will be carried
out in the meeting to be held
Tuesday evening, eight o’clock,
and a large attendance of mem
bers is urged for tffd' meeting.
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