NEWS: FINN, SELL, STIFFLER, HEWITT Celebrate Birthdays, 1918, at Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG

BIRTHDAYS CELEBRATED

  John T. Finn, a well known resident of Garber street, had a birthday on 
Saturday.  There are a few people in addition to John himself, who know how 
old he is, but they are friends of his and are not going to tell on him.  It 
is no violation of confidence, however, to state that if the draft age is 
made 45, he will be in it.  He made no particular fuss over himself, on his 
natal day.  Just followed his usual vocation, and enjoyed his birthday 
dinner, surrounded by his family.  That he may live to celebrate many of 
them, is the wish and hope of all his friends.
  A joint birthday party was held on Saturday at the home of Howard M. Sell, 
editor of the Altoona Times, at his home on Hickory street, the participants 
being Mr. Sell and his aunt, Mrs. A. L. Stiffler, of Canoe Creek.  It happens 
that the birthday of aunt and nephew falls on the same day, so that one 
celebration sufficed for both.  The immediate families of both were present 
and spent a fine day together, the birthday dinner, as usual being the chief 
feature.  Both celebrants received a number of very fine presents.  Those 
attending the function were: Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Stiffler and son Lewis and 
Mrs. Ira Stiffler and daughter Janet, of Canoe Creek; Mrs. Grant Smith, son 
Glen and daughter Fern, of Altoona; Mrs. Sarah E. Metzker, of Martinsburg; 
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew W. Sell and daughter Ruth of Roaring Spring; Rev. and 
Mrs. James A. Sell, of Leamersville; H. M. Sell, wife, daughters Dessa, Leona 
and Frieda and son Russell.
  William G. Hewitt, north Juniata street, more familiarly known to his 
friends as Uncle Billy, was 76 years young yesterday.  It would be wrong to 
say that he was that old, for he is the youngest old fellow in Hollidaysburg.  
The reporter meeting Uncle Billy on the street the other day, inquired about 
his health: "Well I helped whip the Johnny Rebs in the sixties and if I had a 
little bit better pair of legs, I would like to go to Europe and help trim 
that d--d dirty Kaiser."  Few men in this section of the country are better 
known than Mr. Hewitt, who has conducted a blacksmithing business where he 
now resides, for many years.  Always jolly and plain spoken, Mr. Hewitt has 
made a host of friends and all join heartily in wishing him many returns of 
the day.

Altoona Tribune, Monday morning, August 19, 1918, page 4