! Bellefonte, Pa., January 10, 1919. To Correspondents. —No communications published unless accompanied by the real name of the writer, Pr. GRAY MEEK, - - Editor ! Terms of Subscription.—Until further ! notice this paper will be furnished to sub- | scribers at the following rates: 5 | Paid strictly in advance - - Paid before expiration of year - nw Paid after expiration of year - 2.00 | J... he —————————————————— WORK OF THE ENGINEERS. Major H. R. Cooper Writes Very In- terestingly of Last Days of War and What the Engineers Found. Back in October, while the war was still at its height and the American army was driving the Germans out of the Argonne sector, the “Watch- man” published a letter written by Major H. R. Cooper to his father, H. S. Cooper. The fact that Major Coop- er, or “Rex,” as he is best known by his Bellefonte friends, spent many years of his life here would have, of itself, attracted attention to his let- ter, but in addition to that it was one of the newsiest epistles that came from the seat of war at that time. And this week the “Watchman” is privileged to publish another of the Major's letters written after the arm- istice was signed and we commend it to our readers as being unusually in- teresting. Major Cooper is with the 315th engineers and they evidently saw plenty of action and played their part well. Stenay, France, Nov. 16, 1918. Well, “le guerre finis,” and I'm safe, sound and hearty as a dollar; a little thinner, that’s all. Reckon I can give you some dope now, so here goes. Since we arrived in France we have been on the front for sixty-sev- en days fighting, gone over the top in three grand and four small attacks, have made some sixty odd raids and never failed to bring home the bacon. In fact in every attack the corps com- manding officer had to halt us to al- low the divisions on our right and left to catch up with us. Once we carried the whole corps along with us. We received two grand citations for our work on the St. Mihiel front, and have already received three for our work on this front, and have been told that the best is yet to come. The end of the fight, i. e., 11 o’clock, 11th day, 11th month, found us in Stenay, hav- ing just driven the Hun out after a house-to-house, barricade-to-barricade drive of about eighteen hours contin- uous fighting. We crossed the Meuse at Sassey on the 10th on our last grand attack, and they accuse us of not quitting at eleven sharp... Our last killed were at three minutes of eleven. Our regiment has had one lieutenant, one non-com., and one pri- vate get the distinguished service cross; two officers, four non-coms and two whole companies cited—this all from the St. Mihiel scrap—so Wwe are some “set up.” And as everyone ex- cept one officer and one non-com. was from my battalion, why I claim the best Bu., in the best regiment of en- gineers, in the best division, in the best army in the world, and the Bu. will lick anyone who says it isn’t so. Two of our officers were the first to enter this town (Stenay), which they did from the west side while on a bridge reconnoissance some four days before we took the place. They got in without being fired upon, but ma- chine gun bullets and one-pounders chased them out and followed them for a kilometer but “never touched em.” The last grave assault started No- vember 1st. We have been on this front since October 17th. Since Oc- tober 23rd my Bu. has moved; work- ed, eaten and slept under almost con- tinuous shell-fire, from guns of all calibres up to the 12 inch, (this won’t mean much to those who have not lived under it, but as a nerve- breaker it has everything in the world beaten), and this with no more shel- ter than shacks and pup-tents afford- ed. We moved so many times and! worked so continuously that we never had a chance to “dig-in,” so we dodg- ed shells all day and laid at night and wondered which one would get us. For seven days we woke up every morning to find that a shell or shell fragment had gotten some one or more of our men. One night (October 30th) my Bu. was ordered to rebuild a bridge the Huns had blown out and also build a ford to be available in case they shot the bridge out again. As this work ‘was to be within two hundred yards of the Hun lines, in a valley shaped like a horseshoe, the hills of which bristled with two hundred guns and God only knew how many machine guns and one-pounders, you can im- agine it was some job. Then when the “H” hour came (6:30 a. m., Nov. 1st), we were to open, clear and keep clear two certain roads, follow the in- fantry and open a road through No- Man’s land for the artillery. The Hun knew or felt that we were to attack. He knew this town (Bautheville) was the crossroads where our only road to him lay; that this bridge was our on- ly artillery passage, so for about twenty hours he poured everything he had on, or rather at, the town, crossroads and bridge. We built the bridge—no lives lost; we built the ford—no lives lost, but had twenty- seven slightly wounded and twenty- six gassed, all cases that will be o. in two or three weeks. Then came November 1st. I was so darned scared I took my motor- cycle driver and we beat it up to the crossroads about fifteen minutes ty minutes pash ast the ahead of my first company. At twen- ! came C company With Co Cte one at their head. They “an. in single | file, rifles slung Over their backs and | their tools over their shoulders. Hon- : est, I never was So proud of anything in my life as I was of that bunch. Shells were bursting around them and .-among them, so fast that it seemed as iif they would be annihilated. Yet I | never saw a single man falter or | break the line. They had to step over : dead and wounded men, dodge falling { walls, and all of them knew they were moving right up into direct machine gun fire, and were going up to work in it all day and maybe all night; that Yetically it is limited for such work | it was work and be killed, yet they | moved as steady as clockwork. B | company (Capt. Timmons) followed ! - were completely ransacked and every- then A company (Capt. Millender). A company stayed in the town and | i worked in the shell-fire all that day, ‘ then. moved on ahead. We drove the Hun so fast that at! times our own engineers could hardly | here yesterday, about fifty British and keep even a trail for artillery (light a lot of French and Italians, former 75s) to follow, but three times ma- prisoners, The Huns are simply turn- chine gun fire checked us and each |ing them loose and telling them to time my men got ahead of the infan- try before they noticed the check and twice I found nothing but space be- tween me and the Huns. We had to go ahead and reconnoitre the roads as the Beasts were destroying and ruin- ing as they retreated, and we simply had, to know how to get our bridging material to the Meuse. We finally reached the river, but were so far ahead of the rest of the corps they wouldn’t let us cross, so for six days we lay under shell-fire and nearly killed ourselves trying to make a two- ways road for guns weighing eighteen tons out of a bottomless mud trail. It kept us going day and night. Then on the 10th we got the order to cross and “sic em,” and we again went at it.” We put several foot bridges across and got onto a national highway. The Huns had utterly destroyed five bridges between Dun-sur-Meuse and Mousay, but in four and a half hours we had the infantry, artillery and am- munition trains over the river, into Mousay and after them. The Huns had machine guns by the hundreds on every hill, in every clump of woods, and Stenay was alive with them, but we went ahead, and at 9:45 on the morning of the 11th had cleared all but the northern edge of the city. Some prisoners we took, when they saw artillery in Mousay could scarce- ly believe their eyes, as they calcu- lated that two days would be a mini- mum time for us to get artillery over their destructions. So you see the engineers “went some.” And let’ me tell you: Fighting courage is one thing, but the man who can’t fight but has to take the hell and keep on working has more cold courage than any fighting man that ever lived. Our stretcher bearers all’ prefer work in the front line to work in the shell area, as they aver it is much safer and not so hard on their nerves." We had the ceremony of the presen- tation of the distinguished service crosses to our men today, and it was fine. one of them, but a poor, darned major of engineers: has about. as much chance for a D. S. C. as a snowball i in hades. | Qur divisions are now moving on to the Rhine, and through here are pass- ing two divisions—from daylight un- til dark one solid steram of men horses and horse-drawn vehicles, and auto-trucks—it seems as if they nev- er will pass. ‘Since the armistice we have been doing a lot of reconnoisance work, which is very interesting. We are finding “beaucoup” loot. The Hun may have been hard pressed for food on other fronts, but in this one" town we have found -about 20,000 loaves of Hun bread, 5,000 to 10,000 bushels of fine potatoes, hay, wheat and oats straw by the thousands of tons, and barrels of sauer-kraut, pickled onions, etc.; and in the fields hundreds of acres of beets, cabbage, rutabagas, sugar beets, onions, celery, lettuce, carrots and other vegetables, and so far as our “roughins” are con- cerned we are living high. We have also found large stores of Hun war materials, 10,000 cans of .solidified alcohol, thousands of tons of coal and other stuff. I have seen many interesting and wonderful things. The Verdun bat- tlefields, where every literal inch of the ground is part of a shell crater, all traces of trenches lost, Dead Man’s hill, (Le Mort Hommes) where we worked for four days and every time a pick or shovel went into the earth it brought up men’s bones or flesh; Hill 304 nearly as bad; Bethincourt Nealincourt, where not one stone re- mains on top of another to show that there had once been homes; Montfau- con, where the Crown Prince went to watch his troops take Verdun. He had a shelter with more than twenty feet of reinforced concrete and ten feet of earth on top of that. It was equipped with a wonderful periscope sort of thing through which, while seated in an easy chair, he could do all his watching. The last building in this town (Stenay) from which we drove the Hun was the chateau in which he lived for three years. The beasts had not injured it in any way and it is a beautiful place, It is now a brigade P. C. Wish you could see ‘the wonderful system of 60 c. m. railroads the Hun had built all through this country. Vantillois was the railhead for his broadguage, and really Montigny was the big railroad for supplies, and everywhere he used the 60 c¢. m., or as we call it, the “Soixante.” We use it now, and during our drive between k. | the engineers of the division and the Twenty-third engineers (the nar- row guage railroad regiment—10,000 men) we had it working up almost to the battle front all the time. It brought up ammunition a distance of nearly sixty kilometres, although theo- I'd give five years to have been to about ten miles, but “limits” didn’t bother us at all. We are now (until moved again) | quartered in a very pleasant house, | formerly used by a Hun regimental ' commanding officer, and yesterday the lady who owns it came and brought her two daughters, aged 15 and 19. They all three were ravished three years ago and were forced to live and work for the officers all the | time they were here. Fifteen days: before the Huns moved out all the in- habitants were forced into the cellars and kept there for four days. When they came out they were herded to- gether and headed for Belgium. The houses during the four days the own- ers were forced to stay in the cellar thing in them literally torn to pieces and destroyed. The refugees are be- ginning to pour back now. Eighteen hundred Russians came in “peat it.” I noticed that they all seemed well fed. I think the Hun is lying about the starvation business. He may be short in’ fats, he is short on brass and copper, but he’s not starved by one “hell-uv-a-site.” His" new cartridges are iron, electro-plat- ed with copper. Lots of his big gun shells are all iron. He used high-ten- ! sion electricity everywhere and for everything. His high-tension lines ! radiate over the entire country. He had transformer houses—very neat! ones—in every village, town and camp, electric lights and motor-driv- ! en machinery everywhere. He utiliz- ed all the water-power he could find | to generate electricity. He had saw- mills wherever there was timber and | cut every available stick of hard wood ! throughout the entire country. We | have many thousands of feet of every | size lumber and timbers. He had baths, hot and cold showers, and de- | lousing stations everywhere. We have repaired and are using now in our division alone some twenty of these plants. In a word, the Hun carried on the war in every phase with perfect Teu- tonic thoroughness and let slip abso- lutely not one single opportunity to use everything he captured to the end of assisting him in carrying on the war; in fact his watchword was the elimination of waste and the utiliza- tion of everything he found at hand. Just below this town is a rendering plant capable of an output of 10,000 gallons a day. Evidence shows that every dead horse went there. His hide was salted down and everything in him used, including his hoofs and tail. We captured over 5,000 horse hides, nicely ‘sorted, salted and packed ready for shipment. I really believe that the Hun could get behind the Rhine and give us hell | right now, but I.don’t: believe he 'w One is -simply- forced: “fo-admire h wonderful organizing and ‘utilizative powers. I don’t believe anyone who hasn’t seen ‘behind the’ lines—away behind—can ever appreciate it, or re- alize just how sure of, and close to, winning the war he was. The regiment is changing a lot. So, many of our officers have returned to’ the States for promotion, some trans- ferred to other regiments, another regimental commanding officer, Lieut. Col. Knapp gone—his health broke down—(am hoping for. silver leaves myself but as yet have seen no signs) and while not a man of us would trade for any other regiment in the world, we all wish for our “Old Man,” Col. Boggs, and the rest of the crowd. I reckon it is the same with other out- fits, but we had such a plumb, nice, congenial bunch it seems very hard to sée it gradually scattering to the “four winds.” As to our future, God only knows. Reports say: e will be, we won't be; we are, we “aint” part of the ar- my of occupation. Or, we stay here, we don’t; we move, we don’t; we go front, we go rear, until we don’t much give a d—n about it, either one way or the other. REX. In a letter to his aunts, the Misses Benner, of this place, under date of November 26th, Major Cooper says: “At the present time we are a part of the army of occupation which is marching into Germany, and at this writing we are close to the Luxem- burg border. I have been some forty or fifty miles further on and have had some very interesting trips and recon- noissances, having visited many towns in Belgium, Luxemburg and Alsace. We have no idea how long they will keep us over here, or how long we will be a part of the army of occupation. In fact we know nothing at all about our future movements. Being a part of the army of occupation is a great honor which has been conferred upon this division, so they tell us, on ac- count of the very good fighting that we did on the two fronts we occupied. We are all very thankful that the war ended before we had to spend the winter in the trenches. It was begin- ning to get very uncomfortable, to say the least, and knowledge of the fact that this winter will be spent in fair- ly comfortable billets or camps, in- stead of in the trenches, will do a lot to reconcile us to not getting home quite so soon. “I have never had a chance to see Bertha Laurie, as I found out where she was when it was too late. I am sorry, too, because I was down near Isurtile a great many times, and had I known she was there could have made it a point to see her. Haven’t seen any other Bellefonte people late- ly, either.” {oe waives) bons REX, ——Two dozen or more Bellefonte men and their wives enjoyed a turkey dinner at the Nittany Country club last evening. IS FRANK CRISSMAN DEAD? Father Received Official That Effect on Tuesday. The following brief notice was re- | | 1 CHARLES McCOY NOT DEAD. Proves Incorrect. When private Charles McCoy Jr, | ceived from the War Department on son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCoy, ; of Bellefonte, reaches home, as he is “likely to do soon, he will be able to | read a notice of how he was killed in | action in France as published in the Tuesday by W. Homer Crissman: Regret to inform you that bug- ler Frank H. Crissman, of the military police, died on October 3rd of wounds received in action. According to information that is | considered very reliable bugler Criss- | man was wounded on October 2nd, and letters received from other Belle- | fonte boys during November stated that he was getting along fine. father, however, has not received any | word from him since letters written | from the War Department that tHelr in September and, although after , hearing of his being wounded he ! made every effort to find out through | | the War Department his condition he | could get no further information than | | the very unsatisfactory statement’ | that he had been severely wounded in . action on October 2nd. And now, | after more than three months of un- | | certainty, along comes the message announcing his death from wounds. ' But the date given of his death is pri- or to the time that other Bellefonte . boys reported seeing him alive, SO | ' that the question of his death is very | | uncertain. Bugler Crissman, who was twenty- | | six years old on the 5th of last June, | went to Camp Hancock on September ‘ 11th, 1917, with Troop L. He trained i there and when the First Pennsylva- nia cavalry was broken up he was as- signed to the military police. He went across with the Twenty-eighth divis- ion in May and as is generally known : the Pennsylvanians were thrown into | action at Chateau Thierry in July, and | later transferred to the Argonne sec- i tor. They were in most of the hard | fighting preceding the signing of the ! armistice and their casualty lists were i unusually heavy. Mourning the uncertainty ‘of the young man’s fate are his father, two sisters and a brother, namely: Mrs. A. B. Cromer, of Erie; Mrs. Maurice Broderick, at home, and Luther, a member of the supply company of the 109th field artillery in service in France. DAVID LAUCK KILLED IN ACTION. On Sunday the sad message was re- ceived in Snow Shoe announcing the fact that David H. Lauck had been killed in action in France on Novem- ber first. Private Lauck was a son of William and Lillian Lauck and was twenty-six years old. The family moved to Snow Shoe about seven years ago and prior to going into the service young Lauck was a trombone player in the Moore band. ‘He was in- ducted into the national army by the local board and sent to Camp Medde on May 28th. After five week’s train- units that suffered heavy losses dur- ing the big drive in the Argonne sec- tor. While the announcement of his death was naturally a great shock to his parents their grief is somewhat assuaged by the fact that he died such a glorious death. Prior to his being called for serv- ice he was employed as a brakeman road and was a most faithful and ef- ficient employee. He had many friends in Snow Shoe and surrounding community who. deeply regret "his death and will long cherish his mem- ory as one of the brave boys who gave his life in requiting the debt the Unit- ed States owed to France. Surviving him are his parents and the following brothers and sisters: Newton Lauck, of Runville; Mrs. Thomas Stark, Mrs. Clark Huey, Mrs. Howard Woleslagle, all of Snow Shoe; Anna, Mabel and Mary, at home. DIED OF WOUNDS. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Elton Kuhn, of State College, last week received a notice from the War Department that their son, Charles E. Kuhn, had died on October 5th of wounds received in action on October 2nd. Private Kuhn was one of the original Troop L boys and in France served in the 109th field artillery. The young soldier was twenty years and six months old. + A Brief Letter from LeRoy Gates. LeRoy Gates, a former Ferguson township boy who went overseas as a member of Ice Plant company 301, un- der date of December 9th, wrote his mother, Mrs. John Quinn, of Penn- sylvania Furnace, as follows: Just a few lines tonight, as every- thing is practically the same. I had a bad cold when I wrote last week but I soon lost it. I think I have become acclimated now to all the different changes of weather in France. I am | afraid we will all get sick at first when we arrive in the States, but I am willing to be sick a little while. I think we will be back some time in the spring, but the exact date is very indefinite. It is reported over here that some of the people back home are reporting that all the enlisted men are in the service for four years, which shows how much they know about it. All men who enlisted in the regular army are good for four years, but we fel- lows who enlisted in the national ar- my are for the duration of the war. Of course, we are all regular army now, but our enlistment period has never been changed. I sent you a chevron several months ago and in five weeks now I will get my second one. I am enclosing a sou- venir coin—five centimes, equal to our cent. aT a LeROY. Whatever you do don’t miss the great photoplay, “Eye for Eye,” January 13th, matinee and night. on the Bellefonte and Snow Shoe rail-. ' Bellefonte papers and also see his pic- ture in the same papers. Private Mec- Coy went from a national army train- ing cantonment to France in August, i and according to reports was slight- ly wounded and gassed on September His | | th. On November 20th his parents re- i ceived the customary official notice son had been killed in action in the | Argonne sector on October 3rd. From ! other sources information was glean- : ed which was considered correct that private McCoy had been discharged «from the hospital and rejoined his | company on October 1st and was kill- | ed in action on the third. His name also appeared in the regular list of ; ; killed in action given out by the War | 1 Department. Naturally there was nothing else | for the family to do but accept the 8, Was sent AEToSS. to. France, : oH 3 neds to Com- | , 314th” ‘infantry, one of the at the Scenic theatre next Monday, ' | facts as correct and mourn their boy as being one of those who gave his | life in the great cause. But during { the past two weeks persistent rumors have been in circulation that private McCoy was not dead. Like all rumors it was impossible to chase them down to a solid foundation. But all doubt as to McCoy’s being killed in action was dissipated on Friday when Mrs. McCoy received a letter from her son, | who is now in this country and ex- pects to get his discharge soon and return home. The letter is as follows: Camp Stuart, Newport News, Va. January 1, 1918. Dear Mother: — Well, mother, I am back in the good old U. S. once more and I hope that I will never leave it again. We sailed from Bordeaux, France, on December 18th and landed in port here or the 30th, so you see that was making good time. I am in the best of health and feeling fine. I had a small wound on my right side which has been healed up for about two months. We will leave here in a day or two, and I found out that I am to be sent to Pittsburgh, and I guess I will get my discharge there. I have not re- ceived a letter from home since Au- gust, and I sure would like to know how my dear son Donny is, and teil him that his papa will be home soon; and I would like to know how all of the family are getting along. I will Notice to Report that He Was Killed in Action | | close for this time but will write soon. again. Your loving son, CHARLES McCOY. ovo “Watchman” Has Located the . Lost Boys... : Some weds ago the “Watchman” volunteered to ascertain the location of any boys who are in the service, who have not been heard from for such a length of time as to give con- cern to their relatives. : We received a number of requests for information and immediately wir- ed. them to our correspondents,” the Home Paper Service of America, with the result that we are able to give this information concerning their where- abouts. CHARLES R. HEVERLY Charles R. Heverly, of Howard, Pa., has not been on the casualty list. The address given by his relatives is in- adequate to locate him for it indicates him to be in a replacement detach- ment. Mail should reach him through that address, however. But the De- partment in Washington has no way of locating where he might have been assigned, if he has been moved out of the replacement detachment at all. PATRICK QUIRK ; Patrick Quirk, of Snow Shoe, has no casualty report. His unit, Co. A, 28th infantry is part of the army of occupation, located on the Rhine river near Boppard, Germany. LINZY ROSS Linzy Ross, of Port Matilda, has no casualty report. His unit, Co. L, 145th infantry, according to latest re- ports, was located at Hondschoote, France. It is on the priority or pref- erence schedule and is apt to start for home at any time, as shipping condi- tions permit. ROBERT H. COLE Robert H. Cole, of Port Matilda, has no casualty report. His unit, Battery F, 314th field artillery, is located at Dun-sur-Meuse, France, and is not on the priority list. DORS. A. PETERS Dors. A. Peters, of Mill Hall, left hospital after suffering slight wound and returned to duty on Octo- ber 12th, 1918. His unit, headquar- ters company 77th field artillery, is part of the army of occupation and latest reports had it located near the city of Kirchberg, in Germany. Otlier inquiries which the “Watch- man” has receivnd since the above were made have been sent in and will be reported on immediately they are received. The information given above is ab- The solutely correct and is all that can be , procured on this side of the Atlantic. It seems to us, however, that it is highly reassuring to anxious relatives and should set their minds at rest against the time when they should surely hear from their loved ones per- sonally. If the “Watchman” can be of any further service in any of these cases or others command it. —Mrs. David | R. Foreman has purchased from Enoch Hastings the | old Hastings home on” Spring street : now occupied by Lewis Daggett and family. Mr. and Mrs. Foreman will occupy their new home on April first. rn, | WILLIAM A LVON LYON.—Notwithstanding the fact that he had been a sufferer for three years or more with diabetes, and his condition of late had been such that it was evident that his end was near, yet it was with extreme regret that the people of Bellefonte heard of the passing away at eleven o'clock last Friday morning of William A. Lyon, at his home on east High street. Dur- ing the most of his long illness he kept about by the sheer force of his unusual will power and looked after the details of his business, but much of the time last summer he spent at home. During the month of August he was down at his place of business several times but in September he grew worse and was compelled to take his bed. From that time on he suf- fered considerable distress and misery and the fact that his passing away was calm and peaceful came like a blessing. He was a son of Moyer and Hannah Lyon and was born in Danville on March 6th, 1849, hence had reached the age of 69 years, 9 months and 28 days. He first came to Bellefonte in 1872 and spent a short time here, but in 1876 came here again and engaged in the butchering business, making it his life’s work. He exercised remark- able judgment in buying stock for his block with the result that he acquir- ed a reputation at home and abroad for his choice output. He was shrewd and honest in all his dealings, with a decision of character that is possess- ed by few men. His perception of human nature was unusually acute and his rare judg- ment was frequently consulted by men in various walks of life, He was jovial by nature and disposition and had cultivated the art of witticism and story telling to a remarkable de- gree. In fact his reputation along this line was more than state-wide, and in the days when the late Gov- . ernor Curtin was a prominent figure in official life at Washington Mr. Ly- on’ accompanied him on several occa- sions to the national capitol and pit- ted wits against some of the best ra- conteurs of Washington, and always to his credit. ; He always took an active interest in the affairs of the town and county, but never sought any special prefer- ence for himself. He served one term as a councilman from the North ward, | having been elected in 1913 for four years. Prior to coming to Bellefonte, or on January 15th, 1875, he was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Green- slade, of Bristol, England, whose ac- quaintance he formed while she was visiting friends in America. She sur- vives with five children, namely: Rob- ert V., of Buffalo, N. Y.; Mrs. C. B. Williams, of Bayonne, N. J.; Mrs. J. E. Maginnes, of Atlanta, Ga.; Lieut. Edward and Jack B. Lyon, both in service in France. He was one of a family of five boys and five girls, and a peculiar incident of the family is that the birth of each boy was follow- ed by the birth of a girl. Of the fam- ily of ten children six survive, as fol- lows: Henry, of Norfolk, Va.; Charles, of Danville; Jacob, of Belle- fonte; Mrs. James Scarlet, Mrs. How- ard Shultz and Miss Caroline Lyon, all of Danville. Funeral services were held at his late residence on east High street on Sunday afternoon and the remains were taken on the early train Monday morning to Danville for burial. Il | RUNKLE.—Maurice Runkle died at his home at State College on Friday of last week after a brief illness with pneumonia, the result of an attack of the flu. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Runkle, and was born at Tus- seyville on Jenuary 8th, 1879, hence was within a few days of being forty years old. He was united in marriage to Miss Mamie Kline who survives with no children. He leaves, howev- er, two brothers, Lawrence, of Centre Hall, and Wilbur, of Tusseyville. Bur- ial was made at Boglspurg on Monday afternoon. [I Il DUNKLEBARGER.—Grace Helen Dunklebarger, daughter of Alfred and Hannah Gettig Dunklebarger, died at the home of her parents at Pleasant Gap on Tuesday of cerebro spinal meningitis, following a siege of whooping cough. She was born on February 17th, 1916, hence was 2 years, 10 months and 20 days old. Owing to the nature of the disease burial was made at Pleasant Gap on Wednesday. li he SAGER.—Russell W., the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sager, died on Wednesday of last week following a brief illness with influenza, aged 4 menths and .27 days. Burial was made in the Union cemetery last Fri- day. r- a Subscribe for the “Watchman.” - “
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