NEWS: Altoona Tribune, Dateline Huntingdon County, PA, September 10, 1918

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HUNTINGDON

  Rev. C. W. Fields, pastor of the Marklesburg charge of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, has been appointed pastor of the Mifflintown charge, the change being 
made by Bishop McDowell owing to the death of the Rev. F. G. Sleep.  By the same 
authority, Rev. L. W. McGarvey, of Cross Roads, York county, is transferred to 
the Marklesburg charge.  The change of pastors will be made October 1.
  The Alexandria should and will have a bank is the persistent sentiment of that 
community.  It is a prosperous community of farming and manufacturing interests, 
and as well, one of the fairest spots to look upon in Huntingdon county.
  Professor Peter Buys, the talented leader of the Municipal band, has been 
engaged as leader also of the newly organized Mt. Union band.  The arrangement 
is looked upon with favor by the Huntingdon wing as the interests of both 
organizations are much the same and each at different times will need the 
other's help.
  B. F. Isenberg, esq., secretary of the Pennsylvania Millers' state 
association, arrived home last week from the annual convention, which was held 
at Lancaster.  He was again elected secretary.  Mr. Isenberg had the distinction 
of adding sixty-nine new members, which is more than in any previous year.  He 
said the members were very attentive to the proceedings, which indicates that 
the millers are alive to the situation and expect to do the service that is 
desired of them by the government.
  A flag-raising was a matter of patriotic interest at the Grazier school house 
on Friday evening last.  Professor W. M. Rife and Professor Ira C. Gross, of 
Huntingdon, also Editor Harry A. Thompson, of Tyrone, were the speakers.  Miss 
Ida Mae Confer and Miss Florence Chilcote, of Huntingdon, sang.  Owing to the 
cool weather, the exercises were given in the church nearby.
  William H. Davis has purchased from Jesse S. Borst the latter's farm of one 
hundred acres situated south of Neff's Mills.  The consideration was $3,200.
  Mrs. Sarah Livingston, principal of the Alfarata building, is again at her 
post, although the term for her was cut short last spring by a spell of serious 
illness.

Soldiers Wounded.

  Wilbur Corbin, a well known former grocery clerk but now an enlisted soldier 
of our company F. 112th regiment, it has been learned through a letter to his 
sister, Mrs. Isaac Acker, was severely wounded on August 9, in France.  The 
bullet struck him in the small of the back and came out of his leg near the 
knee.  When he wrote he was in the base hospital, unable yet to be moved.
  Ernest Ambrose, at first a soldier of company F. of this place, but later 
transferred to the 109th machine gun battalion, is among the wounded in France.  
He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Ambrose, of College Hill.  The young man wrote 
from the hospital on August 13 that he will bear a scar from a shell that the 
Germans fired and evidently was under the impression that the authorities had 
notified his parents, but this was the first they knew that he had been wounded.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday morning, September 10, 1918, page 6