NEWS: Altoona Tribune, Dateline Huntingdon County, PA, September 6, 1918

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HUNTINGDON

  Dr. Charles C. Ellis, of Juniata college, is doing institute work in Indiana 
and Illinois.
  Juniata college opens on Monday, September 23.  Among the faculty additions is 
Dr. Galen B. Royer, from Elgin, Ill., general missions secretary of the Church 
of the Brethren, who is coming not only to teach but to assist in raising the 
much needed endowment fund for the college.
  Dr. Bruce P. Steel, of McVeytown, has answered the call for physicians needed 
in the army and on Monday last left to enter the service at Camp Upton, New 
York.
  Percy B. Seibert, a brakeman of Saxton, on Wednesday was brought to the Blair 
Memorial hospital on account of internal injuries which he sustained on the 
railroad at Six Mile Run.  A draft of heavily loaded cars was being drawn over a 
trestle when the rails spread, derailing six of them.  Seibert was thrown into 
the bed of the creek, striking upon his back in a fall of fifteen feet.  He is a 
young man, married but without children.
  The following are the Jackson township school teachers who have just begun 
their work: Professor M. B. Wright, principal of the high school; Pauline Oaks, 
at the Fort; Myrtle Wilson, the Branch; Esther Smith, Ridge; Clara Logan, 
Oakdale; Imogene Schnee, Slate Hill; Effie Stubbs, Steffy's school.
  The annual Hartslog valley picnic will be held on Saturday, September 14, in 
Huyettes' grove, near the top of the ridge along the state road between 
Huntingdon and Alexandria.  Professor W. H. Tomhave, of the Pennsylvania State 
college, and Professor W. M. Rife, of Huntingdon, will be the speakers.
  Miss Frances Isenberg, of Mapleton, and Miss Cora Pheasant, of Trough Creek 
valley, will teach the Mill Creek youngsters.  The term begins next Monday.
  Barree citizens last Friday evening unfurled a service flag of thirteen stars 
with appropriate ceremonies.  The Alexandria band furnished music and the 
address was delivered by Attorney Richard W. Williamson, of Huntingdon.  G. B. 
McCarty, of Barree, as three sons and a son-in-law in the service, which puts 
him in the list of prominent patriots himself.
  Charles B. Shore, a first lieutenant in the army veterinary service, stopped 
off in Huntingdon on Tuesday to see his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shore, of 
1328 Oneida street, while on his way from Camp Custer to Camp Lee.  The young 
man had left his wife with her parents at Fort Wayne on the day before, but he 
had not much more than reached Huntingdon when he received a telegram announcing 
the birth at 6 o'clock that morning of a daughter.
  Charles Brown, of this place, has purchased from Thomas A. Miller the latters' 
property at 1118 Moore street, for the consideration of $2,800.  The property 
consists of a six-room frame house, with modern improvements, upon a lot of 25 
by 150 feet.  The sale was occasioned by Mr. Miller's removal to Altoona.
  G. S. Long, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Long, of Trough Creek, who went to 
Philipsburg three years ago, is now engaged, with his partner, Mr. Crago, in 
opening a new mine.
  Foreman William T. Prough, of the municipal water plant, sustained a fractured 
left arm and injuries to the wrist late Wednesday afternoon, when he was caught 
by a cave-in at the intake of the new dam at Stone creek.  He was rescued by 
Manager J. G. Dell and another of the men, all of them being in danger of a 
further cavein.  While standing in water to the hips, Foreman Prough followed 
their directions when told to wriggle himself out of his boots, they assisting, 
and they then made good their escape from the perilous position.
  Donald Johnson, a corporal of our Huntingdon company F. 112th regiment, who 
was reported killed in France about the middle of July, has written to his 
parents at McConnellstown, which shows he is very much alive, although he 
suffered a gassing which put him into the base hospital.  By the tone of his 
letter, which was written in the hospital, he was anxious to get after the Huns 
again.

Altoona Tribune, Friday morning, September 6, 1918, page 8