NEWS: Altoona Tribune, Dateline Huntingdon County, PA, August 7, 1918

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HUNTINGDON

  Thirty-four more drafted soldiers will leave this county on Thursday Aug. 8, 
for Camp Wadsworth, Spartansburg, South Carolina.
   Wilmer Varner, who is employed by contractor Nevin Peightal, took his 
employers' autotruck without permission and with half a dozen companions, one or 
more of them fellow employes, went out along the McConnellstown state highway.  
They ran into Edgar Kidd, driving a horse, and the horse was injured so badly 
that it had to be shot.  The affair is being adjusted by the payment of damages 
all along the line. (both to Peightal and to Kidd).
  Lawrence Bowman and Clyde Hoffman, two young employes of the express company 
at this place, are in jail as the result of taking a package of $8,000 which was 
to be transferred from P. R. R. train to a Huntingdon and Broad Top train.  They 
have confessed and the express company have recovered all but about three 
hundred dollars.  The money, it is said, was to be used in a payday of the 
Thropp Furnace Co., of Everett.  The youths signed for the package in the name 
of a fellow employe, who afterward was put through the sweatbox by the 
detectives but stoutly maintained his innocence.  Detection of the guilty ones 
came about through learning that both had purchased a motorcycle, with attendant 
details indicating more than usual expenditure of money.  They have no bail, 
hence it is likely that they will receive sentence at an early session of court.
  Rev. Father C. E. Haley, rector of Holy Trinity Catholic church, of this 
place, sustained painful injuries of the right knee which have kept him confined 
to bed for over a week.  He was traveling in his auto from Altoona homeward when 
he had a puncture and while at work with it, a man on a motorcycle with a side 
car came along and hit him with the attachment.  The man just "rumbled along" 
never stopping to help or inquire.  It was with difficulty that Father Haley was 
able to get home alone, and he has been confined to bed ever since.
  On Saturday afternoon the local W. C. T. U. lost by death two good and 
faithful members.  They were Mrs. Frances Etnier, of 426 Church street, and Mrs. 
Mabel Haines, wife of Rev. Dr. A. H. Haines, of 1415 Moore street.  The funeral 
of both will be held this Tuesday afternoon, with interment at this place.

Altoona Tribune, Wednesday morning, August 7, 1918 page 11