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Show ORANGEVILLE We are glad to know that one of our town boys, Jess Cox, has landed in France the first from Orangeville. Some time ago his paren'ts received a card stating, "I have landed abroad safe." A little later they received -a letter written in England and yesterday yester-day they got one from France. In fact, so far as we know, there have been no others sent across yet. Those' with whom Jess happens to be associated associ-ated will soon find out there has been one more of Uncle Sam's grand boy.v added to the ranks for he is one of our men who will fight for right and freedom free-dom and stand for the betterment of the world. He well knows of the great host of friends as well as his own parents par-ents and home people who are right at his back with all they have to help in the cause. May God's protecting care ever be with him! Mrs. Edgar Jewkes has been quite 111 for some time and is still very delicate. deli-cate. Ernest Childs and Jerry Page left a few days ago enroute for Wyoming. Quite a number of our people took in the big time at Huntington and all-felt all-felt paid for going. Two of our late soldier boys, Edgar Jensen and Edgar Sitterud, have returned re-turned home, not having been successful success-ful in passing the physical examination examina-tion at Camp Lewis, for which place they entrained May 27th. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Johnson are happy hap-py in once more welcoming a new-baby new-baby boy at their home. This maker four fine happy and healthy boys for them and never a girl. Miss Jennie Crawford writes from Chicago where she is visiting with her brother Edd to , the effect that she is having the best time of her life, seeing: so many grand sights; but with ali. these grand things to see, she is jusi beginning to want to see her dear old home and writes that she will soon be back where she knows all will be glad to see her again. Mrs. Ed Fox and some others were down from the camps to spend Memorial Mem-orial day. ovi:in;i'diii p:s S 1 ORANGE VILL Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Luke, with their I two youngest sons, leave Friday for I Camp Kearney, California, to pay a I visit to their son Leroy. Niels Niel-ison, Niel-ison, an old friend of the family, de- cided at the last moment to accom-j accom-j pany them on the trip. They expect to be gone some two weeks. . Guy Truman of Huntington, one of our soldier boys who has been home on a furlough, came over to pay a visit to the parents of some of the local boys who are at Camp Kearney, as he ' is right from that carnp. He said he ! promised them he would come and see their folks so he kept his word and those visited sure appreciate his coming. com-ing. w. s. s. j The high waters in the creek cut in on the bank by the brick kiln yester-' yester-' day morning and took out a pole car-I car-I rying the power lines, necessitating the turning off of the juice the greater part of the day. The scheduled eclipse, that is, the' beginning and end, was glimpsed by-local by-local people through moked glasses this afternoon, but the height of the phenomena was veiled from sight by the fake storm cloud which hovers in that particular part of the sky every afternoon. Though dark and a little less warm at the time of obscuration. Sol was back on the job right Boon after he got the job off his mind and the drugstore thermometer registsred 93 In the shade at about six o'clock. W. 9. S. |