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    1. [PABLAIR-L] Altoona Mirror, 1929, Community News
    2. Tyrone The Ladies Aid society of the First English Lutheran church will hold its regular meeting this evening at 7:30. The Catholic Daughters of America will meet this evening at 8 o'clock in the K. of C. rooms. All the members are urged to be present. Ralph Rhodes and wife of Akron, O., are spending some time with friends and relatives in Tyrone. Mr. Rhodes was formerly a Tyrone man. Tomorrow evening the members of the Young People's Society Christian Endeavor of the Presbyterian church will hold a picnic-hike up the Jamesville pike as far as the first landing. Past affairs of this kind have been a great success and all members and their friends are urged to go along and give the plans of the committee a fair trial. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Stine have been spending some time with friends in Easton. Guy Hess, assistant road foreman on the Cumberland division, Pennsylvania Railroad, spent the weekend with his family on Fifteenth street. Theodore Grazier is in the Altoona hospital under treatment. Mr. Grazier is the well known caretaker of the Washington school. Miss Betty Garman accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Stewart to Ashland, Ky., where she will spend some time with her sister, Mrs. Robert Stewart, formerly Miss Virginia Garman of Tyrone. George Wills of Tyrone, a well known young man, left yesterday for State College where he has accepted a position in the State College garage. Mr. and Mrs. James Harvey have moved to their new home at Howard where Mr. Harvey has been assigned by the Pennsylvania Railroad company. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey have resided in Tyrone for a number of years and have a host of friends who regret their going. Thomas Lynn, assistant signal foreman on the Middle division, has been promoted to construction foreman of telegraph and signals on the Middle division. Allen Fetters spent the week-end with his parents at Northwood. Mr. Fetters is employed in Hollidaysburg. This morning at 6:30 o'clock the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Tenth street was the scene of some little excitement and it proved to be the members of the class of 1929 leaving for their trip to Washington by way of the highway motor-bus. The following made up the party: Misses Bernice Ada Gates, Dorothy Hawke, Evelyn Eberts, Sara Robison, Adaline Barlett, Louis Holt, Joe Hutchison, Jack Chamberlain, Clayton Gates, Tony and Basil Mannino, Mariah Kamour, Max Beringer and Miss Rose Ziegler, chaperone. E. H. Waite left yesterday for Allentown where he has accepted a position. Mr. Waite has been employed for some time at the Rothert Company store in Tyrone. Mrs. Helen Eschbach motored to Harrisburg to spend some time with relatives and friends. Ward Meyers, a student at Carnegie Tech, has returned to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Meyers of Fifteenth street to spend the summer vacation. On May 28, fifty years ago, Franklin Roberts Waring was united in marriage with Grace Thelma Beyer. It was a double wedding as Miss Beyer's sister, Vida, married Dr. Silas B. Baer, the double ceremony being solemnized at the home of the brides in Tyrone. The bride, Grace Beyer, was the daughter of F. D. Beyer, who came to America from England in 1830 in a sail boat, was first head at State College and later acquired holdings in Tyrone real estate. Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Waring lived in Tyrone for a period of thirty years after their wedding. For twenty-one years they occupied the home built by Mr. Waring at 861 Jefferson avenue. Going to California in 1910 the couple have made their home in Denair. The Warings and Baers would have had a double wedding jubilee had Dr. Baer survived. Mrs. V. Baer has been a widow for fifteen years and is now visiting Jerusalem on a tour of the world. The Warings had five children, Carl (deceased), William Waring, a farmer at Denair, Calif., Elizabeth Switzer of Watsontown, Pa., Robert Waring, San Francisco, and Richard Waring of Modesto, Calif. Buckhorn Mr. and Mrs. William Raffner and family, Mrs. Aida Palovsky and children, Miss Leone Fisher, Robert Toffley and Edmund Hugh, motored to Ligonier on Thursday and spent the day. Mr. and Mrs. Albert McMullen and family of Cresson visited at the Froutz home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. William Evans spent Thursday with Mr. Evans' father and mother at Houtzdale. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Yon of Altoona were pleasant callers at C. H. Yon's on Thursday evening. Canan Station S. M. Brubaker has just returned to his home after making an overland trip to Ohio with his son, Russell Brubaker of Altoona. They visited several nephews living in the vicinity of Tipton and Fostoria, O., their trip covering about 600 miles. While in Ohio they were guests of nephews, including Oscar and Amos Brubaker, Lester Willmer and Ardie Brubaker. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Black and children, Sara Edith and Martha accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Stanger, motored to Pino W. Va. on Memorial day. Port Matilda On Wednesday evening, Mr. and Mrs. H. Williams of near Port Matilda welcomed the arrival of a new born son. Their many friends extend congratulations. Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair

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