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Last Tuesday the Burke-Gregory Middle School Wresters attended the Valentine boys wrestling tournament and took home the first place team trophy. Schools that participated were Ainsworth, Broken Bow, Burwell, Gordon-Rushville, Winner, and Valentine.

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I come from a long line of veterans, a proud heritage that reaches back to the Revolutionary War. My great-great-great-grandfather came to America and served as an aide to General Lafayette. My grandfather served in World War I, and my father fought in World War II at the Battle of the Bulge.

The information for this column was taken from one of the volumes written by George Kingsbury who was editor of The Yankton Press and Dakotan in the late 1800s. At that time there was a conflict between the State Nonpartisan League and the State Defense Council which had a representative living in Dallas. As best that I am able to determine from the newspaper articles, both of these organizations had an unusual amount of hatred and distrust for the other. They did not like the other and it appears that most of their history and involvement with the other was a “cat and dog” affair.