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Show Widow of Yank VI Not Believe Report of Death Peace News Not Inter-Hear Inter-Hear of "Bill." While Joyful pandemonium expressed the city's feeling regarding the an -J nounrement of peirre vesterday; anrt i grocery stores aw well us most other places or liijfunesH were closed to allow 1 employes to Join in the celebration. : Hill's grocery store, a small gray frame ! hullding at Seventh Kast street and Broadway, was closed for a very dif-I dif-I ferent reason. t For Mrs. William Rhoden, keeper of ' the little shop, even the declaration of I peace failed to elicit a Jubilant demon-! demon-! titration, since the service flag with one I ntwr, which hangs from the window, hangs there tn honor of "Bill," her husband, hus-band, who la dead. In spite of the fact that she has been notified oy the war department that her husband was killed In action September Sep-tember 29. while f ik" ting with the Ninety-first division near Verdun, she refuses to believe thut he Is dead and I etts waiting for a cable reassuring her I that the former message was a mls-, mls-, take Since her husband went away with , the firnt draft in September, lit)'. Mrs. ! Khoden has kept the little shop and IncreuMed Its' business ugainst her husbaiKi's return. lie trained at Camp Lewis for several sev-eral months, after which he was sent overseas, arriving In France last July. The last letter received from him by his wife was dated September 15, and v.. written while on the w&v to the front A letter written Septemtrr It was received by an uncle. Mr. Khoden was a graduate of the All Hallows college and ati athlete of note, lie was 31 years of ape. |