Rankin’s Hardware and Supply, on Union Street in Camden, counts amongst the friendliest stores in the Midcoast. Customers are greeted as they walk in the door, with a “Can I help you?” or if they are regulars, a familiar greeting by name. It has.
From the Nov. 4, 1947 Telegram: "Believed to be the first woman archer ever to bag a deer in Wisconsin, Mrs. Nellie Jordan, 1608 E. Sixth St., shot a doe near Murray Lake in the southeastern part of Douglas County."
For some, this Christmas brings back memories of the 1940s
In today s Neighbors column, a reader tells Bob Lind that this holiday season has some things in common with December during the war. Written By: Bob Lind | ×
“This Christmas season reminds me of an earlier Christmas in the 1940s.”
So writes
Gene Rich, Fargo.
“The war caused a lot of stress,” Gene writes. “There were stars in the windows of homes where sons and daughters were off to war in Europe or Asia. We had a star in our window as my
Uncle Arnold was in the Pacific Theater at Guadalcanal.