NEWS: Williamsburg News, Altoona Tribune, June 1, 1918, Blair County, PA

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WILLIAMSBURG

  The Catherine township school board will meet at the Roller school house this 
evening to elect teachers for the ensuing school term.
  Miss Cora Wagner, student nurse in the Homeopathic hospital. Pittsburg, was a 
visitor this week at the Wagner home on Second street.
  Ralph Wagner, of Lewistown, formerly employed here with the Juniata 
Manufacturing company, and family were visitors Thursday with Williamsburg 
friends.
  Hereafter all draftees and enlisted men of this district are requested to 
report to Mrs. Frank P. Ross, who has charge of the yarn belonging to the Red 
Cross, and who will furnish them with the necessary articles made by that 
department, such as sweaters, socks, etc.
  Mrs. Milton Poet, of Hollidaysburg, was a visitor in Williamsburg on Memorial 
Day.
  Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Stewart and young son, Frank, jr., of Oil City, are 
guests at the home of Mr. Stewart's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Dean Stewart, on 
First street.
  In compliance with the president's memorial proclamation requesting the 
people to assemble in their several houses of worship for a brief period of 
prayer in behalf of the allied nations at war, a union service was held in the 
Presbyterian church on the morning of the 30th, which was both impressive and 
helpful.
  Mrs. Charles Pifer and son Gilbert, of Newark, N.J., spent Thursday with Mrs. 
Pifer's brother, O. S. Brown.
  A message was received here Friday morning by Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Hicks, of 
Cove Dale road, informing them that their son, James Hicks, a member of the 
regular army serving in France, had been severely injured while in action.
  Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hoover and son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond 
Sorrick, recently returned from Camp Upton, N.Y., where they visited Walter 
Hoover, prior to his embarkation. Private Hoover had been stationed in Texas 
since his enlistment about a year ago and came east shortly before leaving for 
France.
  Howard, the 2-year-old invalid son of Mr. and Mrs. Mary Kifer, of Plum 
street, fell from a couch on Tuesday and sustained a fracture of the hip bone. 
He was taken to the Altoona hospital Wednesday, where he was examined by a 
specialist, and later brought home.
  Williamsburg's quota of the thirty honor men of county draft district No. 1, 
who leave today for Hollidaysburg, where parting honors will be accorded them 
in front of the court house before leaving for Columbus barracks are: Andrew 
Shell, Glenn Zinlinger, Orville Sparr and Guiseppe Mondo.

Altoona Tribune, Saturday June 1, 1918, page 10