Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-08
HEX DOCTOR"
STERS UP TOWN
Auburn Has Its Fingers
Crossed and Courts Have
$4,000 Suit
WITCHCRAFT Is DENIED
BY M'LISS
POTTSNILLE. Pa. Sept 3.

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Auburn, n specraCularly neat little town
tom miles from, pnttsviIlc has. pnt IT'S fingers
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''''Seu Auoui" "oo'e"''e9' ""' az n''
sleeping as well as formerly rise earlier 70
peer auxiouslv at their gates and fences and
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u'ol' AMY VIC '''"."7 A'i ''' "''0
chalEed cross Whlch no hex VINO IS reGu-
lar hex fails to leave behind her when she
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nos
tact' she mas nI'Nen H. OF some MEMBER OF
1t, to cast n spell upon
In tho breasts of tho second rcneration
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" ocSper"'' o''''e oe'"''" i'oo'i' SNe''"-
clsm ana ancient superstition Is pellls
wagcd But the mysterious "goings-ou" at
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ated but hrmIy DelieNea ruh'or Oh Leroy
Siegfrieds detention in his fathers cellar,
o,,d finally tho euit which Mrs .Tohu Dis
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Pottsvile to file against the elder Siegfried
because of the accusation she declares he
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i'''''e ',"' '''' nav -
is proving too much Tor the community
balance.
The old people VINO hod thelr heaus
knowingly. believe course OF nonlhtcrItr-
enCe the wiseSt one to follow Where Witch
craft is concerned.
a hex woman, though she resemble n h'n-
evolcnt edition of your grandmother Is no,
person I" h" trlHch WIN, Shc can make
your fortunes with"r and your children
grow III and dlc' Snc can hul " curse upon
you of the most dlahollc nature. tier pow
ers are not of this earth. sometimes even
the heN-doctor. with all his uncannH ART
Is no a'S,.n ,rnat ~" or ,he bex'. yctins is
too rigorous Once a little child was killed
because the heX.doctor advocated stamping
the devils out of her. All this the old people
believe
But the young people, with the toxin of a
high school education in their veins want
the Siegfried house raided and the "goings-
ON" explained.
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ALL EACuLfAlH Mrs bio9iNoEN
However one and all, they eNculpate
Mrs. Dssinger. There may be heXes, but
the little Woodworking woman VINO mas
had eleven children whose Two strapplns
sons she gladly gave to the army, who, al
most unaided, works szable farm, and
who has scraped and saved TO own the
home she lives in, could not possibly he III
league with the devil, they aasert
IN nutshell, the story as | picked II
M from neighbors, the notary public, the
restaurant proprietor aud other business
people from the town in general IS TINS;
Leroy SeGfriod, nineteen years old' 'oulh
not get along at school, despite inc ahloi,
tions of his parents to give h'iu Eoou
education, They sent hlm 10 high SChool
and to business college IN fotlsNlle' 10
no avail A.
Several weeks ago haoy was no1'' 10
Mrs Siegfrleid' the boys motner, anu oe-
fore lts coming the community VOC ~, 80