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home &n a few days’ furlough. After now Flight Engineer on Cargo Planes
a year of extensive training Corporal He is the son of Mrs. Lucy H. Blum,
Blum received his wings at Billy of thiF city. *
Mitchell Field, Wisconsin, and he is
Calling cards. SO lor SLOC
Lowell Waggoner's
Letter From England
Any Coquille
Boys In London?
The following are extracts from
letters received by Mrs. S. H. Boo
sted from Lowell Waggoner, now
stationed somewhere in England, and
Floyd M. Marney, who is with his
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Winegar, who which will be interesting to his many
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outfit in London, writes his mother received word last month that their friends here:
here, Mrs. Bessie Marney, asking her son, Kenneth, navigator on a bomber,; Dear Friends:
to ascertain if there are any men in was missing in action, this week re
the service, stationed in London, who ceived further word from the War! After nearly two months we can
are from Coquille. So far he has Department that he is alive, but is a a«ain ’«rite, and we are getting all
been unable to locate anyone from prisoner of the Nazis, somewhere in 0“r back mail, and it la the most wel-
come thing imaginable. A fellow has
here, and Mrs. Marney solicits the Germany.
____________ to write prett/often so as to insure
Sentinel's help by asking anyone who
knows of a Cbquille young man sta Letter From Bob Bailey
• re»ular incoming
«r hy might
tioned over there to contact, her.
Who h No» h C.lifornU
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Extracts from Floyd’s recent letters
The
fallowing
letter
from
Bob
thing
and
everyone
is
the
kind
I like
are printed below and what he says
about the Red Cross activities are
especially worthy of note:
Kenneth Winegar
A Prisoner of War
I got a letter from home today and ; ot addrea< I^ve waited a little while
also four Sentinels. They come by just in case we mi«ht change again,
spurts and I enjoy them so much, i Hated to leave Texas to corne to
Every time I get my Sentinel I turn !the desert here in California. Abi-
to the column, “Local Boys in Ser- I tone, Texas, is a nice town and here
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. ’ fhnra
— newly arrived, have quite an edu-
lot of the
items are about
there ian
isn ’ ’ i t ne««.
any nlaM
place ♦-
to «to
goxex«pt 4 to
guys I don’t know but there are Los Angeles which is about 276 miles cation coming.
It h quiu chilly Bnd
here
quite a few about boys I went to from here.
school with and I enjoy finding out I We are really roughing it out here; now, but after all winter is setting
ar4 no dimouto here—just
about them, where they are, what living in tents, no lights and rations ¡in
they are doing. I. have hopes of but I guess it’s nothing compared to blackouts and how black are the
finding out if any of them are over what our buddies overseas are go- nights! No wher, can you see «
light Bt night. As yet I know very
here. Several of tfie fellows have ing through.
I sure erf joy the paper and sped- uttle about England but will write
met old friends of theirs but there
A lot of
isn’t a single soul that I have met ally the section for the Boys in Ser- „ r le>rn It
that I know. Surely I’m not the only vice. It shows where they are and material in the land and should prove
¡interesting.
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representative of Coquille over here. what they are doing.
We are a cavalry outfit now but, We are ln
En<ii,h money now.
We have a Red Cross truck that
■ $30.00
-------- --- to • be «xchanged
comes around, parks somewhere and mechanized, so haven't seen a horse I - turned • in
real American women hand out fresh yet.* That would be the last straw.
and received for it seven pounds,
doughnuts
eight shillings, a sixpence and two
Wm. A. Ulett Is Now
are good,
one penny pieces. They are larger
like that.
A Lieutenant, Junior Grade
than four bit pieces however. I am
I surely do hope the people
Geo. A. Ulett, recently received a
home don’t get to thinking the war letter‘from his so« William A., tell
is just about won. Thf hardest is
ing that he had Tteen advanced
yet to come, I think, and it will be
,from Ensign to Lieutenant, J. O., in
a lot slower going but we have .them 1
| i the Navy and has been transferred
on the run and that’s what counts.
from Kansas City to*Atlanta, Ga.,
We stay at Red Cross Clubs when
where he is instrument instructor.
we go into London and get our bed
and eats. The Red Cross is doing
Wally Moore Now At
a wonderful job over here. We fel
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lows would have a hard time getting Great Lakes Navy Camp
a bed and something to eat when we
Wally Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. ’
go there if it wasn't for them.
J. A. Moore and a C. H. S. graduate
I made a trip to London with two last May, recently completed his
of the fellows. Had a very good time. training at the Farragut Navy camp
Saw lots of things I read about in in Idaho, and is now attending the
history at school. About the most Hospital Corpsman School at the
interesting was Westminster Abbey. Great Lakes Navy camp near Chicago.
It is very old, parts of it were built
in the eleventh century. I was in the
rooms where all the kings' and
queens’ tombs are. I also stood over
tombs of Kipling and Dickens. Was
in the place where all the kings and
queens have been crowned. It was
all very interesting.
There are lots of people and a lot
of activity.
Practically two-thirds
of the people were in uniforms of
some kind of other. I believe a fel- :
low will see more different kinds
of uniforms from different countries
See Schroeder’s Jewelry Store in
in London than in any other city in Coquille for Diamonds and Watch
the world.
1 Straps.
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DAY BEDS
13.50 to $8.50
KITCHEN STOOLS
$2.75
NEW CHESTS
$7.05 to $12.50
Service and Protection
Buy Your
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Auto
Fire
Life
and
Accident and Health
INSURANCE
From
Corporal Lawrence J. Blum
Is Home On A Furlough
Corporal Lawrence J. Blum, now
1 JaiiaA4U|b*
Celebrate
Thanksgiving
Thriftily
don - t
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