NEWS: Bedford County Soldiers, September 3, 1918, Bedford County, PA

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OLD BEDFORD MOURNS THREE SONS KILLED

Four Are Also Wounded Severely in France, Report to Home Folks Says

ALL WERE FORMERLY GUARDSMEN

Special to the Tribune.
  Bedford, Sept. 2. - Bedford county mourns three sons killed and four 
wounded severely in France during August.  Official messages were received 
this afternoon.
  Corporal Howard P. Dotty, aged 25, son of Joseph Dotty, of Bedford; 
Adolphus Andrews Hymes, son of J. W. Hymes, of Schellsburg; William S. P. 
Cathers, son of Benjamin Cathers, of Pavia, were killed in action.
  Those reported wounded were Corporals George Mowry, of Kegg, and Samuel H. 
Ickes, of Wolfsburg; Private George Washington Clark, of Everett and Reuben 
Henry Gardner, of Pavia.
  All were in Company L, 112th infantry, having served on the border with the 
Eighth National Guard.  They were transferred to the 112th while at Camp 
Hancock, arriving over seas in May.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday, September 3, 1918, page 1