PAUL, JOHNSON, DEMPE Michael PAUL, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph PAUL, died at nine o' clock Tuesday morning, February 20, 1917, at the home of his parents at Reissing, near Cecil, of acute nephritis. He had been in failing health three years. His father is a coal miner and the boy, too, had worked in the mine to some extent. Besides his parents, three brothers and a sister survive. Funeral services will be held this (Friday) morning at nine o' clock at St. Patrick's Church at Noblestown. Interment will be in the Noblestown cemetery. Pneumonia that developed from a cold contracted when he was forced to flee his burning home at Sturgeon three weeks ago, resulted in the death of George JOHNSON, aged 83 years early Friday morning, February 16, 1917. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joseph P. HAMPSON, at Laurel Hill with whom he had been residing since his home was burned to the ground. Mr. JOHNSON was a resident of Sturgeon for twenty-four years. Besides his wife, the following children survive: Mrs. J. I. SUTTON and Mrs. E. P. FREDERICK of Chicora, Mrs. J. P. CUNNINGHAM of Ambridge and Mrs. HAMPSON, at whose home he died. Funeral services were held at the HAMPSON home on Sunday afternoon, in charge of the Rev. O. A. EMERSON. Interment was in Robinson's Run cemetery. Julius DEMPE, aged 81 years, a well-know resident of this section, died at his home in Sturgeon at 11:30 o'clock Monday morning February 19, 1917. He had been failing for some time owing to the infirmities of old age, and had never recovered from the effects of a stroke sustained five years ago. Mr. DEMPE was born in Germany December 5, 1835, and came to this country thirty-seven years ago. During all that time he had lived at Sturgeon, where he was employed as a miner and where he conducted a little store. Fifty-six years ago he married Miss Anna ROTTH*** and to them born thirteen children, of whom four survive besides his wife. These children are: Fred DEMPE of Salt Lake City, Utah; Mrs. Anna BURKE, at home with her mother: Joseph DEMPE of Imperial and Peter J. DEMPE of Sturgeon. There are also thirteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Noblestown on Thursday morning in charge of the Rev. Father D. J. COX. Interment was in St. Patrick's cemetery, Noblestown.