NEWS: Altoona Tribune, Dateline Huntingdon County, PA, August 2, 1918

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HUNTINGDON

WANTED AT ONCE - RECRUITS For the U. S. School of Nursing, Ages 19 to 35.  
Further Information at Room 313, Commerce Bldg. Altoona, Pa.   Phone 2213

  The Beegle reunion was announced in these items with the wrong date.  The 
reunion will be held on Saturday, the 24th of August.
  State highways have been oiled in this sections as follows:  From 
McConnellstown to Huntingdon; from the Mifflin county line in to Mill Creek; and 
from Mt. Union out toward Shirleysburg.  The oiler was borrowed from Centre 
county and had to be returned, hence the cutting short of the oiling.
  A Jewish congregation was organized in Mt. Union on July 19.  In one of the 
first meetings they raised $225 for war relief under the auspices of this sect.
  The sawmill of the Reese-Sheriff lumber company in the wooded portion of the 
Meloy place two and one-half miles north of Huntingdon, was burned down on 
Monday night.  The mill was a new one and had been run but three days.  The day 
had been windy and it is thought a spark ad been fanned to flame breaking out at 
a time when no one was there to immediately discover it.  The loss is estimated 
at six hundred dollars.
  A canning demonstration will be held in the social room of the First M. E. 
church on Saturday afternoon, August 3, at 2"30 o'clock.  Miss Grace Armstrong, 
of the Pennsylvania State College will give the demonstration.
  The large motor truck of Lewis N. Noss, plying between Altoona and Mt. Union, 
burned up on the road between the latter place and Mapleton on Tuesday morning.  
It was a $4000 machine with $2500 insurance.  About 130 large beer cased were on 
the machine at the time it burned.
  Thirty-two colored men drafted from this county will leave on Saturday, August 
3, for Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich.  A complimentary send-off is being 
planned by the G. A. R.
  John Prodan, a Rumanian, one of the two men brought to the Blair Memorial 
hospital on account of the auto accident on the Big Valley state highway last 
Sunday, died in that institution on Monday from his injuries.  He lived at Mt. 
Union, being employed by the General Refracteries company, and was married.  The 
body was sent on Tuesday to Mt. Union.
  Mt. Union business men have combined to subscribe to the United Press service, 
and beginning August 1st will receive at least four bulletins a day on the war 
situation principally but also on other leading news.  These bulletins will be 
posted at the Mt. Union post-office, which had been headquarters for 
announcements for many years.
  Our Company F., of Huntingdon, in the 112th Regiment, has been fighting in 
France at least since July 15.  Reports have been received by relatives from the 
War Department that the following have been wounded: Harold F. Helsel and Roy S. 
Crownover, of Huntingdon; William Hamel, of Alexandria; and Harry F. Estep, of 
Shy Beaver.  Harry Estep is since reported dead; also corporal Donald T. 
Johnston, of McConnellstown; Glen Figard, of Saxton; and Frank Hommond, of 
Huntingdon.  A young soldier by the name of Moyer, of Alexandria, has been 
reported killed, but we are without verification on the latter's death.
  On the coming birthday of John Brewster, of Huntingdon, on Sunday August 4, 
special honors will be paid him by his family and friends at this summer home at 
Shirleysburg.  Mr. Brewster was born at Concord, Franklin county, and with his 
family, when quite young, he came to Shirleysburg.  He started in business at 
Saltillo, latter continued in merchandising at McConnellstown, and from there 
went to the Civil War.  Afterward he was a P. R. R. mail agent, later Register 
and Recorder of Huntingdon county, for many years until a couple of years ago, 
president of the Standing Stone national bank, and likewise for many years 
president of the Huntingdon board of health.  Mr. Brewster enjoys by common 
consent the title of "Captain" and is known to all as Captain John Brewster.  He 
has within the past few years suffered a breakdown of health and lives retired 
but is able to go about, upon these occasions greeting and being greeted by a 
host of friends who appreciate him as a valued acquaintance and citizen.

Altoona Tribune, Friday morning, August 2, 1918, page 9