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Show TWO KINDS OF PROFITEERS Mrs. Henrietta Starkey, Le Sueur, Minn., Cited by Legion Boys as Most Valuable. There were two kinds of profiteers during the war one bad. the other goou me service men of Le Sueur, Minn., claim. One of the latter lives In Le Sueur and wears a cannon-metal cannon-metal decoration for the work which she did during the war to aid the various drives and the service man. She Is Mrs. Henrietta A. Starkey, own- er of a moving picture theater, whose constant willingness to throw open the doors of her amusement 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 things) -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 gatherings. The cost of the films which were often of-ten shown at the Starkey theater was berne 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. |