NEWS: Personal Notes, Society News, People Coming & Going, Altoona Tribune, August 31, 1918, Blair County, PA

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PERSONALS 
 
  Lieutenant and Mrs. W. C. Fanning and baby, of Mt. Clemens, Mich., are 
guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bennett, of 217 Ninth avenue.  Lieutenant 
Fanning is en route to New York, from whence he expects to sail for France. 
  Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Baker, of Alexandria, were married twenty years 
yesterday and celebrated by visiting Mrs. Baker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. 
MacCartney, of 213 Ninth avenue. 
  Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hallett, of 514 Fifth avenue, are entertaining their 
niece and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. George Henry, of Akron, O. 
  Mr. and Mrs. John Schman, of 610 Fifth avenue, are entertaining their 
daughter, Mrs. Frederick Mitcheltree, of Clearfield. 
  Messrs. Ray Hawk, of 811 Sixth street, and Edward Benney, of 614 Fifth 
avenue, have returned from a week's visit with friends at Lewistown and 
Harrisburg. 
  Miss Helen Isenberg, of Alexandria, returned home last evening after a 
pleasant visit with Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Isenberg, of 709 Fifth avenue. 
  Mrs. A. L. Good and son James, of 815 Third street, and mother, Mrs. John 
O'Connor, of 721 Second avenue, have returned from two weeks of camping at 
Chalybeate Springs, near Bedford.

Altoona Tribune, Saturday morning, August, 31, 1918, page 5

Mrs. Gillimond Hostess.
 
  Members of class No. 12 of the Fifty-eighth Street Methodist Episcopal 
church were delightfully entertained at a corn roast held at the home of 
their teacher, Mrs. C. A. Gillimond, of 5507 Fourth avenue.  The evening was 
spent roasting corn and playing games.  Those present were Missed Nannie 
Howen, Ruth, Lillian and Sylvia Jones, Virginia and Lawson Bigolow, Erma 
Baird, Sue Miller, Edith Smaltz, Harold and Justice Gearhart, Charles Morris, 
Charles, Harold and Catherine Gillimond.

Party at East Freedom. 
 
  About twenty members of the sewing society of the Second Lutheran church 
journeyed to East Freedom yesterday.  The day was spent in knitting, 
crocheting and in having a good social time.  The main feature of the day, 
and one thoroughly enjoyed by all, was a delicious chicken dinner served by 
the Lingenfelter Inn at noon.  The ladies returned to the city well pleased 
with the day's outing. 
                 				-- (:) -- 
S. A. Hite Entertains.
 
  About fifty-four friends of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Hite were delightfully 
entertained at their cottage at Upper Reese yesterday afternoon.  Members of 
the party motored to Upper Reese early in the afternoon.  The time was spent 
in singing patriotic songs and in general good fellowship.  A basket lunch 
was enjoyed at 6 o'clock.  Those present were Mesdames and Messrs. L. A. 
Hite, Sweet, Bussard, E. O. M. Haberacher, George Bastian, J. S. Housser, 
Harold Hite, W. A. Green, Russel Burchfield, M. C. Markley, J. H. Bigelow, J. 
A. Elder, J. A. Baird, E. G. Hoover, George Carnill, C. E. Coreawoll, 
Aichlmen, S. A. Hite; Misses Barga Green, Luella Markley, Charlotte Markley, 
Dorothy and Grace Bigelow, Hazel and Marian Hoover, Anna and Elizabeth 
Garnill, Mesdames Rochel Keith, Leah Markley, Bowser, Clara Shelly and 
Messrs. Edgar Sweet, Vance Green, and Rev. J. Emory Weeks and wife. 
 
Altoona Tribune, Saturday morning, August, 31, 1918, page 4

PEOPLE COMING AND GOING 
 
  Mrs. Ida L. Kaiser and daughter, Drusilla Law, returned from Monticello, 
N.Y., where they spent the summer.  While in Monticello they sold their home 
and in the future will reside with Mrs. Kaiser's mother, Mrs. John H. Law. 
  David Garland, the aged Pennsy employe, who for some years has been night 
superintendent at the East Hollidaysburg bunk houses, is confined to his home 
at Reservoir, by illness of such a serious nature as to cause his family and 
friends deep concern. 
  Abram Stuckey, an octogenarian, who is well known in this section by reason 
of his frequent visits at the home of his sister, Mrs. M. J. Detrick, at the 
Catfish Inn, is lying seriously ill at his home in Everett, and friends are 
apprehending that he cannot much longer survive. 
  Frank Garland, a former well known resident of Gaysport, but who has been a 
resident of Bellwood for a number of years, where he held the office of chief 
of police, has resigned that position and is now employed by the Pennsylvania 
railroad.   
 
Altoona Tribune, Saturday morning, August 31, 1918, page 7 and 10