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Readers around Lincolnville were surprised and pleased Monday to find that a picture, taken at the time of Lincoln's death, published in the Daily Drovers Telegram, depicted, as the guard of honor, an old friend and neighbor of many years, the late William Henry Gilbert. It had been at tradition in the family that the young Union soldier had been so honored. Abner Gilbert of the Youngtown neighborhood is a surviving son.
Warren Hayen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hayen, and Bob Reinke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Reinke were elected president and vice president of the Marion High School student council in a hotly contested event of the school term. Other officers of the council are Cherridah Mullikin, secretary, and Nora Zeller, treasurer.
Mrs. Bud Ensminger announces in this issue that she has leased Aline's Beauty Shop located above Wingerd's Grocery and will begin meeting appointments there November 10.
During the game with Planeview Friday night a bone was broken in Max Merrill's left hand, just below the third finger. The hand will be in a cast for perhaps three weeks.
Lt. Bernard N. Hayen, who is stationed at Tachikawa, Japan, is now making a few weeks trip to Cairo, Egypt, according to word received by Mrs. Hayen. He is taking a planeload of serum there for the plague epidemic, stopping on the way at Shanghai, China; Bangkok, Siam; Calcutta and Karachi, India; and on to Cairo.
The Paul Seifert Motor Company made the following new car deliveries during the past week: Bill Ollenberger and Homer Stenzel, Chevrolet Fleetline Areo sedans; John Weitzel, Chevrolet cabriolet; Carl Bass, Chevrolet Stylemaster Town Sedan; Marion County Farm Bureau, Fleetline 4-door sedan; Harry R. Kline, Stylemaster Town Sedan.
