NEWS: Altoona Tribune, Dateline Huntingdon County, PA, August 16, 1918

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HUNTINGDON

  The Weaver family reunion will be held on Saturday, August 31, at the old 
homestead near Hummel station.  Rev. C. W. Fields will be the speaker for the 
occasion. 
  The Corbin reunion will be held on Saturday, August 31, in the vicinity of the 
Corbin school house in Juniata township.
  The Neelyton picnic, a large annual event in this county, will be held on 
Saturday, August 24, upon the regular grounds.  The speakers scheduled are Judge 
George B. Orlady, Judge Tomas F. Bailey, and Hon. Clem Chestnut, Fulton county's 
representative in the legislature.  Proceeds from the sale of refreshments by 
the management are to be given to the Red Cross.
 A notable occasion was the flag raising last Monday night at the Atlantic 
Radiator works.  A pole 75 feet high, with a large ball at the top had been 
placed for the flag, which with a program was unfurled.  At the same time a 
service flag of twenty-one stars was displayed, and the names of the men were 
announced.  Judge Thomas F. Bailey made one of his usual fine addresses, and was 
followed by H. H. McElroy with an excellent patriotic address.  The Municipal 
band furnished music.  Several hundred persons were in attendance.
  A board of management of the Mapleton borough water plant recently acquired, 
was last week appointed by the court as follows: George W. Wright, for three 
years; Lloyd L. Parker, for two years; and F. M. Emerick, for one year.
  John Ambrose, of this place, has just purchased part of the Cox property at 
the northeast corner of Sixteenth and Mifflin streets, consisting of a six room 
frame house, with lot facing Mifflin street 50 feet, the other frontage being on 
Sixteenth street, 100 feet.  The consideration was $1,650.
  Jimmie Kurtz, one of our Huntingdon soldier boys who was wounded, it has been 
reported is now on his way home from France with an arm shot off near the 
shoulder.
  A memorial service for Frank P. Hommon, a member of our old Company E. ho was 
killed in France on July 12 last, will be held in the First Methodist Episcopal 
church, which he attended, on next Sunday evening at 8 o'clock.  This is the 
first of this kind of service to be held here since the beginning of the war.
  Dorothea Beatty, the little 7 year old daughter of Dr. R. F. Beatty, dentist, 
who was run down by an auto in Fifth street on Saturday night, August 3, was 
brought to her home from the Blair Memorial hospital on Wednesday.  The little 
girl's condition is very good and that her injuries will not affect her normal 
development is assured.
  Mayor O. J. Cassady of Mt. Union, and his three vigilant police have started a 
crusade against gambling and speakeasies in that town.  Several houses have been 
raided at night with varying results, and on Tuesday evening last a couple young 
men from Shade Gap had their suit cases of liquor confiscated when they walked 
up to their auto which had been left in waiting with the lights out.

Altoona Tribune, Friday morning, August 16, 1918 page 7