OBIT: Howard R. SPIDEL, 1918, Union Furnace, Huntingdon County, PA

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UNION FURNACE MAN KILLED IN ACTION

Private Howard R. Spidel Is the First Huntingdon Countian Slain in  France.

 Private Howard R. Spidel, of Union Furnace, is the first Huntingdon county 
soldier to be slain in France, according to the official casualty list 
announced at Washington yesterday, and Private James W. Hicks, of Cove Forge, 
near Williamsburg, has been severely wounded in action.
 Spidel's name appears with fourteen other Americans killed on the French 
front. His relatives at Union Furnace were informed of the soldier's death, 
yesterday, by the war department.
 Private Hicks enlisted more than a year ago at the Altoona recruiting station 
of the regular army, and was one of the first Blair county men to get into 
France. His father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson J. Hicks, of Cove Forge, 
were apprised of their son being wounded, yesterday, but no other details were 
given. He is not 21 years old and previously worked in a quarry at Carlim, with 
his father and several brothers.

Altoona Tribune, Saturday June 1, 1918, page 1