Don Schroeder had quite a story to tell this week at Newton Public Library, one he told in front of a standing-room-only crowd.
His father, John A. Lingenfelter, was one of five children who were treated at Bethel Deaconess Hospital in May of 1919. Those five children, four girls and one boy, came to Newton on an “Orphan Train.”
“These are stories I have heard all of my life,” Schroeder said.
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