NEWS: Altoona Tribune, Dateline Huntingdon County, PA, August 9, 1918

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HUNTINGDON

  Kenrock company is applying for a charter for the operation of coal property 
in Carbon township, this county.
  Albert W. Myton, one of our best known citizens and a wealthy farm owner, was 
taken seriously ill Tuesday night.  His brother from Petersburg was summoned.  
Mr. Myton has been in gradually declining health for a couple of years.
  Only one in thirty years has the official thermometer of the Juniata college 
government weather station registered higher than on Tuesday last.  On that day 
it registered 103, whereas about three years ago it once rose to 104 on a July 
day.
  Judge Harris Richardson, of near Marklesburg station, was currently reported 
dead last Monday in Huntingdon.  The rumor was without foundation and appears to 
have been connected with the burning of his barn in last Sunday night's 
electrical storm.  We congratulate our good natured friend, Judge Richardson, 
and we believe he now has good chances of living many more years in the 
enjoyment of his retired life.
  The name of the intended Miller's Run Coal company has been changed to Kenrock 
Coal company, as it was found there was another company already operating under 
the first chosen name.
  The Emergency Aid society of Huntingdon made sixteen shipments during July, a 
total of 6,044 articles, with a money value of $864.  The ladies are as busy as 
bees and thee is always an attendance of the faithful at headquarters, 
continuing the good work.
  The Grange picnic at Mooresville last Saturday, of a Pomona session in 
connection with Shaver's Creek valley grange, was such a success with its social 
features, speaking and festival for the benefit of the community building there, 
that it has been decided to hold a similar Pomona special session with a picnic 
on the first Saturday of September, at Birmingham.
  Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Morrison and granddaughter, Edith Morrison, of Tower Hill, 
Ill., made the trip from that place in an auto and are visiting among relatives 
and old-time friends in Stone Creek valley.  Mr. Morrison and family left this 
county many years ago.  For the past eighteen years he has been in the U. S. 
mail service at Tower Hill.
  The large bank barn of Herman Griffith, a Trough Creek valley farmer, was 
struck by lightning in last Sunday night's storm and was burned to the ground 
with all his crop of wheat, an unusually large crop of hay and all his store of 
farming machinery.  The animal stock was all saved but a heifer.  The loss on 
the hay alone is estimated between $1,500 and $2,000.
  The Shade Gap picnic last Saturday kept the record of the largest picnic in 
Huntingdon county for thirty successive years.  The attendance was over eight 
thousand.  The management arranged a system of auto checking, also conducted a 
refreshment stand and donated the proceeds of over $200 to the Red Cross.
  Huntingdon borough council, at its meeting Tuesday night, voted to keep the 
water committee of council in control of the municipal plant and not to apply 
for a commission appointed by the court.  Under this action J. G. Dell becomes 
permanent instead of temporary manager of the plant.

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