NEWS: BEIGHEL Family Reunion, 1918, Huntingdon County, PA

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BEIGHEL REUNION
More Than 100 of the Clan Enjoy Outing at Spruce Creek

  The twenty-second reunion of the Beighel family was held at Chestnut Grove, 
on Fetterhoof farms, near Spruce Creek, on Saturday afternoon.  The friends 
came on trains and auto-cars until afternoon.  Mrs. Leila McKee and son 
Dickson and W. H. Beighel came all the way from Pittsburg in their Ford cars, 
and G. R. Gibboney and sister Mary came from Newark, N.J., all arriving on 
Friday evening.  Mr. Nicholson and wife, of Pittsburg, came in the morning.  
The day was spent in greeting relatives and friends.  At noon two long tables 
full of all good things to eat brought by the friends in great abundance, 
were partaken of.  The Stars and Stripes were floating near the table and a 
service flag called "Our Stars" was raised to represent the boys of friends, 
most of them now in France, doing their duty loyally for our country.  The 
names of these boys are: Earl Cavenaugh, Atlee Beighel, Stewart Brown, Russel 
Icker, George Pyle, Raymond Markley, William Greenleaf, Kenneth Houck, 
William Kuhn, Henry Sullivan, Paul Henderson, E. L. Zeek, Joseph Darnell and 
Dr. Joel A. Tilton.
  The officers for next year were reelected.  Elizabeth Henderson, in her 
86th year, with all her children, two sons and three daughters, was present.  
A fine program consisting of singing, addresses, a recitation of welcome by 
5-year-old Margery Kurtz and two beautiful recitations entitled "Our Flag" 
and "We Are Coming, Lafayette," by Miss Helen Brown, was well presented and 
thoroughly enjoyed.
  Supper was served at 5 o'clock and with farewell good-byes they departed 
for their homes, all hoping to live to meet at the same place next August.  
There were 102 present.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday morning, August 20, 1918, page 5