The Adair News Adair, Iowa 10 May 1918

Sergeant Earl Caddock on Monday evening at Kansas City won from Hussane in a fast wrestling match, getting two falls in less than an hour. Wednesday evening in Chicago, Caddock met Zbyszko in a second match and while he did not get a fall he was given a clear referee's decision Zbyszko weighed 230 pounds while Caddock weighed 183. [Transcriber's Note: Draft Registration card for Earl Caddock lists address as Anita, Iowa, Cass County; occupation, wrestler and farmer] The town purchased a total of $60,300 in Liberty Bonds and the two banks of Adair handled the subscriptions of the patrons of their banks living in the territory surrounding. Adair handled a total of $122,200.00. Bernal Trumbul, Maurice Hickey, Howard Cubberly, Kenneth Rowley, Melvin Magarrell, Ernest Schmidt, Oliver Shobert, James Cooper and Fred Lovell are the Adair boys in France. C. H. Brandt, junior member of the firm of I. J. Swarzman & Co., has responded to the call of our country and is now in the service in the National Army.

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