60 years ago
SEPTEMBER 28, 1944
A telegram received Tuesday brings news to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Scharenberg that their son, Cpl. Leo Scharenberg, has been missing in action since August 30. Cpl. Scharenberg went into military service more than two years ago. He shipped out to North Africa in April 1943. Since then he has been through the Italian campaign and was sent into southern France in August.
A picnic was held at Central Park Friday evening, Sept. 14, after which the guests all went to the home of Nettie Ehrlich where a card party and slumber party was enjoyed in honor of Martha Hansen who left Tuesday for Oakland, California, where she will make her home. Those present were the guest of honor and Helen Seifert, Neva Heiser, Lois Keazer, Luella Regier, Helen Stenzel, LuVena Van Horn and Nettie Ehrlich.
L. King is confined to his bed as a result of wrenched ligaments in his back. While hanging screens Saturday, Mr. King was forced to leap from a step ladder which started to collapse under him. His back was hurt in the fall.
Bob Hagans, who is a Seaman Second Class at the Service Command School at Farragut, Idaho, couldn't feel too far from home. He writes that in the audience with him at a movie the other night were Warren Fike, Paul Minear and Bill Miller, all Marion County men.
The Hutchinson News-Herald had this to say of the Marion band at its recent appearance at the State Fair: "A patriotic note was lent by the 54-piece Marion band in its red, white and blue uniforms and directed by Marjorie King. Chief baton twirler is Helen Hett who has been flipping the stick for seven years. This is her first year as drum majorette but a neat job she was doing when she led her group by the New-Herald for a refreshing drink."
Pfc. Jack Summervill of the Marines, who was wounded on Guam, will soon be coming home for a rest is the news which reached his mother, Mrs. Robert Stack, Saturday in a letter from her husband, who is a Store Keeper 3/c in the Navy and had just seen his stepson in a hospital in Hawaii.
