NEWS: Altoona Tribune, Dateline Huntingdon County, PA, August 27, 1918

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HUNTINGDON

  The schools of Porter township will open on Monday, September 9, under the 
following corps of teachers who were elected at a meeting of the board on August 
17.  Wayne Isenberg will teach the Ridge school; Arthur Kyper, the Valley 
school; Viola Coffman, Loop school; Ruth Kean, Aqueduct school.  No teacher has 
yet been secured for the school at Barree.  The board has laid a millage of six 
mills for school purposes, and have fixed the salaries of the teachers at $60 
per month.
  The school board of Henderson township has prepared for the opening of their 
schools on Monday, September 16.  They have elected the following teachers: West 
school, Mildred Bales; Union school, Mabel Endress; Sugar Grove, Pauline Rupert; 
Bark Ridge, John McCall; Ardenheim, Lois Shore.  The tax rate for the years is 
eighteen mills.  The salaried of teachers is $45 per month.
  A United States employment bureau was established last week at Mount Union for 
a district composed of Huntingdon county and Wayne township, Mifflin county.  
All made labor of the district is to be listed and calls for help by the various 
industries must be made through this office.  Ralph B. Cassidy, of Mount Union, 
has been appointed examiner in chief of the bureau.  Headquarters are in the 
Miller building, Mt. Union.
  Last Wednesday evening J. S. Cassells, one of the surviving members of the 
famous Scottish Black Highlanders, which went into one of the battles of the war 
with 1,500 men and came out with twelve, none of whom could stand except 
Cassells, for the wounds they had received, spoke to an audience composed 
chiefly of employes of the General Refractories company of Mt. Union at the 
works.  Veteran Cassells is preaching patriotism to the employes of the company 
at all their plants in various parts of the state, under the special auspices of 
the officers of the corporation.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday morning, August 27, 1918 page 3