NEWS: News Events of By-Gone Days, July 22, 1948, Blair County, PA

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News Events of By-gone Days
  From the Altoona Mirror Files.

Fifty Years Ago.

  The Blair county Prohibition party held its nominating session yesterday at 
Lakemont park.  Those nominated are: Assembly, J. T. Baldrige of 
Hollidaysburg and J. J. Irvine of Altoona; register and recorder, C. E. 
Steele of Bellwood; county treasurer, S. C. Cowan of Tyrone, and district 
attorney, A. G. Pascoe of Altoona.

  Plans were completed for the annual Methodist day on July 28 at Lakemont 
park, with Rev. George Edward Reed, president of Dickinson college, Carlisle, 
scheduled as a speaker.

  East side residents of Altoona are petitioning the city councils for a 
policeman, mounted on a bicycle, to patrol the area and keep the speeding 
cyclists in check.

Twenty-five Years Ago.

  Edgar Manning, aged 18, of 3013 Broad avenue and Robert Kessler, aged 16, 
of 203 Fifth avenue were drowned while swimming in the Raystown branch of the 
Juniata river.

  Rev. Father James C. Egan, pastor of St. Mark's Catholic church, announced 
the purchase of the five properties adjoining the church on the Sixth avenue 
side.

  The large bank barn at the Spruce Creek Rod and Gun club was destroyed by 
fire.  The loss is estimated at $10,000.

  Searching parties are endeavoring to find Mrs. Mary Burk of Duncansville, 
who has been missing since June 27.

Ten Years Ago.

  The Puritan Knitting Mills company announced plans to acquire one of the 
Schwarzenbach-Huber buildings to provide additional space for its expanding 
business.

  John B. Elliott of Hollidaysburg was named vice president of the 
Pennsylvania Association of Prothonotaries at the group's meeting in 
Gettysburg.
 
  Miss Catherine Brannon, aged 86, of 1306 Fourteenth avenue was seriously 
injured in an accidental fall from a second-story window of her home.
 
Leroy Myers, aged 18, of 605 East Sixth avenue was seriously burned in a 
powder explosion at the lower East side dump.


Altoona Mirror, Thursday evening, July 22, 1948, page 8