Looking Back at "News of the Men In Service"
Over the balance of this year, the Post Messenger Recorder will be running News of Men In Service, which ran on the front page, column 6 of each week’s New Glarus Post, compiled by Kim Tschudy
September 17, 2020
Miss Barnes To Tell Lions Of European Conditions
Miss Flavel Barnes will speak to the Lions and their Ladies at the first meeting of the fiscal year, Sept. 20th at the Wm. Tell Hotel.
She is the only woman to motor from Finland to South Africa during the war years, 1939-42. Traveled through twenty-six countries of Europe, Asia and Africa in a four cylinder car which had a Yugoslav license.
She worked for several months in Africa with the Kenya Women’s Emergency Organization Canteen for British soldiers in Nairobi and returned to the United States on an unconvoyed and unarmed freighter at...
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