NEWS: Hollidaysburg News, Altoona Tribune, September 2, 1918, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG

PEOPLE COMING AND GOING

  Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Wilt, of 801 Juniata street, left on Sunday for St. Paul, 
Minn., to visit Mrs. Wilt's brother Charles Calvin Shoemaker, son of Mr. and 
Mrs. Simon Shoemaker, who was sent away by the local draft board for army 
service and is employed as a motor mechanic.
  Miss Ellen Stewart , of Petersburg, Va., is the guest of her uncle, Mr. 
William Bentley, of the Antler Hotel in Gaysport.  Miss Stewart is a charming 
and accomplished young lady, who has already made many friends in town.
  Miss Susie Baker, clerk in the grocery store of her brother, P. B. Baker, is 
spending several days with friend and relatives at Martinsburg.
  John T. Cameron, of Harrisburg, was a week-end sojourner in town.
  Mrs. C. F. Hays and two children, Robert and Doris, of Allegheny and Union 
streets, are spending several days with Mrs. Hays' sister, Mrs. Lela Swope 
Harvey, of Wilkinsburg.
  Merchant Thomas H. Suckling and wife have returned from a three weeks pleasure 
trip to Lake Chautauqua and other points of interest in that section of the 
country.
  J. A. Reed and W. T. Thompson, of Philadelphia, were motor visitors in the 
Burg on Sunday.
  Mr. and Mrs. Howard Simmons, of Everett, were week-end visitors at the home of 
the former's cousin, John Simmons, of North Penn street.
  William Clark, of Mt. Union, a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. William Caldwell, of 
North Penn street, was with relatives in Hollidaysburg over Sunday.
  Mrs. Mary J. Grass and grandson, Joseph Williams, of Kalamazoo, Mich., are 
visitors at the home of the former's granddaughter, Mrs. H. M. Sell, on East 
Hickory street.  Mrs. Grass formerly resided at East Freedom and later in 
Hollidaysburg.  It is six years since she was east.

Altoona Tribune, Monday morning, September 2, 1918, page 7