TOPpV DRV
E TOUGH POPPIES"
Poppies by tho hun
dreds comb from
flying fingers of
o. vounc votoren.
- confined by rrer
oj iiijuries to n vot
\ ornn’s hospital.Ho
vrorkod at high spied
every possible minute,
apparently driven ay determination to matcc
an many poppies as possible.
The American Legion Auxiliary vorkcr in
charge of the poppy making project ra3
rorriod. ^ao fear el the veteran frould
overtax his strength and urged him to
"take it easy." Then ho told her about
the fox hole and his buddy.
Three days they more trapped in that fox
hole. ho and'his buddy. They told onch
other things.'Confidences cemo naturally ‘t
in a fox hole. •
His buddy told him'about a cripulod dau«s
ghtor. If the little girl could just have
an operation oh her spine she night bocomo
a normal child. But sho must have this
operation before she grer too old or her
condition could not be corrected.
Three days in a fox hole is a long time.
Finally,the father of the crippled girl
could stand it no longer. He crarlod out.
A sniper’s rifle cracked. He crarled back
to the fox hole.
"Look in on my family rhen you got home,
rill you Joe?" he ras able to say before
he died.
hen the poppy-moleing veteran gets cut of
the hospital'he Trill look in on tho family
of his buddy, and he rill have rith him
the money for the operation to mako his
ucldy’s little girl like other little
girls, if he can just make enough poppies.
MRS. SHOWN OPENING A
LAUNDRY AND CLEANING
. . . PLANT
'"re. J. F. Era.n has announced that she
v- ons to open a Laundry and Dry Cleaning
.ant ’ the ].5th of this month at her resi
.nco. She rill specialise in bachelor’s
j-aundry and’hand rashing & ironing of
silks. !'rs, Brora also plans to continue
r.th her fur rork that she has been doing
in the past. •
The Lester Monroe farrfi ro.s sold this reek
to 3ill Roark of ITapa, California. The
Roark family is here. There are three
girls in tho family.
CACHE y 0 UR
FOOD
THE
(110 DERI! UJOO
POULT Ry OF ALL
KINDS - -OVEN READY
f i S H HALIBUT-COD-SALMON
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