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Show TWO KINDS OF PROFITEERS Mrs. Henrietta Starkey, Le Sueur, Minn., Cited by Legion Boys a's Most Valuable. There were two kinds of profiteers during the war one bad. the other good the service men of Le Sueur, Minn., claim. One - of the latter lives 1 In Le Sueur and tfgv, J wears a cannon- .f metal decoration .JS1 Jj for the work 'V"' which she did -during the war . e . to aid the various ,V drives and the ff f I i service man. She ? f ;) r S Is Mrs. Henrietta h V , jt A. Starkey, own- d - er of a moving picture theater, whose constant willingness to - throw open the doors of her nihusement house for Liberty bond, Red Cross and other campaigns won her the plaudits of all and caused her bank account to diminish. One of the fhlnga which Mrs. Starkey did to arouse war-time morale was. to show the pictures of all the boys from Le Sueur who were in the service 237 in all. Lights and heat In her theater were all furnished gratis for war-time community gathering The cost of the films which were often of-ten shown at the Stnrkey theater was borne by its proprietor and the funds to help the service men were augmented aug-mented so much more. Le Sueur Legionnaires Hold Mrs. Starkey up as the unusual who profiteered prof-iteered In their good will instead of cash. |