Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-22
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TYRONE GIRL MARRIES
State Armory Board Recon-
mends Erection of Drill
hall for Cavalry Troop

Tyrone, Pa, Feb. %. Word
comes from Washington of the pass
ing of a bill that grants to Tyrone
900 for the erection of gov
ernment building. The site for this
structure has already been pur-
chased, and the Tyrone citizens
thereby displayed some commend
able enterprise in their citizenship.
But $4,000 was allotted for the
site and the plot desired cost about
$4,000, and the balance of the
money, or $1,000, was made up by
popular subscription.-A military
wedding this week was solemnized
when Sergeant James c. McConahy
was married to Miss Iva Elizabeth
Wertz. Young McConahy was a
member of the 305th Engineers, and
was wounded in the hip in France,
but excellent care in hospitals in
France and in America restored him
to his perfect self. The wedding is
the elimination of a pre-war ro-
mance.-The action of the state
Armory Board in recommending the
erection of drill hall for the local
cavalry company of the State Guard
here was welcome news to the town
in general and to the troop in par
ticular. The armory, Il handsome
VI DlONl SIOhSf 10 SAi S'ANs
built and has been in use for three
years, and was built with the in
tention of a drill hall being added
TO the same. 1t is trusted that the
erection of this drill hall may be
commenced this spring, If the state
provides the authorization at once.
Charles Snyder, one of the most
poular employees of the railroad,
being employed as a lineman, and
who is also an officer in the State
Guard, met with an unfortunate ac-
cident this week. when on a pole.
on which he was working. The pole
proved to be rotted at the bottom,
and under Snyder's weight broke
off, precipating him violently to the
street, fracturing one leg and pune
turing the other one. Snyder is now
in the Altoona hospital in a rather
serious condition.-Mrs. w. F. Tay-
lor, Jr.. is visitor at Philadelphia.
Miss Mabel Taylor left this week
on a trip TO eastern cities.-James
Love, of this ylace, is visiting this
week in Lancaster. Paw. +.
Stambaugh. of Carlisle, was in Ty-
rome this week.-Mr. and Mrs. II.
&. Fernau, of Piedmont. Va, are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Plummer.--L. f. Myers, Of Johns
town, was a visitor with his parents
here this Week.-Mrs. Helen Love,
who was taken sick at Wilmington.
Del, where she is employed, is at
her home here, where she will re-
main until she is entirely recovered
from her illness.-Samuel Smith, OF
Curwensville, was the guest of
William Taylor and family. Young
Smith was all through the fighting
on the other side and was wounded
, i'm action, and has now been honor
ably discharged as incapacitated for
military service.-Marshan Musser
and family have returned to Tyrone
after a two weeks sojourn in Flor
ida.-Miss Margaret Read. of Hunt
ingdon, was a visitor with friends
during the week-Ensign Lawrence
Piper who has enjoyed a thirty-day
furlough since his return from the
battle line in France, which time
was spent with his parents here,
has returned to his command, now
lcated at Cape May. \. IA re-
duction of so cents Il ton in the price
of coal was welcome news to many
consumers, as this has been the
first reduction for at least a year
Miss Margaret Dodson, who has
been the treasurer of the Wilson
theatre for nine years, surprised her
large host of friends this week,
when she returned from a business
trip to Baltimore, Md, by announc-
ing that on Saturday last in st.
Patrick's Cathedral at Washington,
d. c., she was married to j. Bernard
Ellinger, of Baltimore, Nd.