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The coming of the soldier boys to our town has brought us some magnificent women, the wives and mothers of the Camp Grant charges. And among the finest is the mother of two of the colonels of the regular army who were sent here to teach the Sammy boys how to do the trick. Mrs. George H. Palmer is seventy-six years "young", and young is the right word. She is as spry as many a woman of fifty -- walks three or four miles daily and could do five or six and never know it. She takes her cold plunge every morning, eats all that is good for her and has the rare wisdom to leave what is not good, for others. She is the widow of a major in the regular army and her two fighting sons have been in the service all their adult lives. Lieut. Col. Bruce Palmer is now on his way to France but the other son, Col. Guy Palmer, is on duty at Camp Grant. The S. T. takes off his hat to the Mrs. Palmer type of army women. She is, by the way, an old timer in this section. The Palmer farm in the town of Shirland is still in the family, a third son who took to the plough instead of the sword, being in charge of the Palmer place.