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LueIIa and Jackie Halverson spent
Thursday evening at the Fay Hus-
ton home.
Sylvester and Fred Botz spent
Thursday evening at the G. F. Botz
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Walker, Mr..
and Mrs. George Grundman and
Dola and Ray Botz spent Sunday
evening at C. +. Botz's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Halverson and
Jackie spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Botz.
Miss Marvilla Dwyer was a caller
at the Chas. Kortan home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Dusek and
children. Mr.. and Mrs. Will Kortan
and son, Louis, and Mrs. Herb
Norgarden and Marie took dinner
at the Chas. Kortan home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Grundman
took their niece, Carol Grundman,
to her home near Osakis Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer Broaden
moved to the Doolittle farm Satur-
day.
Harry Huston, Bob and Jack
Freeman, Mrs. Chris Huisman and
Alice left Wednesday for Omaha,
Nebr. Bob and Jack will stay there
and work, while the rest will visit
a week.
Steve Kortan left Monday for
Fort Atkinson, Iowa, where he will
help manage the farm Of his aunt,
Mrs. Emma Jirka.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Knapp spent
Sunday afternoon at the G. F. Botz
home.
Ed Lenzmiere, county agent,
spent Friday afternoon at c. f.
Botz's.
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PAGE NINE
WPA Employment
Figure Is About IS, 900
VIII BE Reduced To $4,000 BY Or
der-Transferred To Other
Federal Agencies

Transfer of approximately 18,400
WPA workers to work projects Of
other federal agencies beginning
operations in the state this Spring
is ordered in letter from Harry
l.. Hopkins to Victor Christgau,
State WPA administrator.
Mr.. Christgau said the reduction
in the WPA rolls will be made
gradually between now and June
80. The WPA employment figure at
present is approximately $1,000. It
will be reduced to $4,000 under the
order from Washington.
In establishing the reduced quo
ia for Minnesota, which Is in line
with the 100000 nationwide slash
in WPA employment, consideration
was given to such factors as season.
al employment, the opening of
spring farm work and jobs avail
able in other phases of the work
program, the letter from Mr.. Hop
kins states.
The reduced quotas for each Of
the nine WPA districts in Minneso-
Ia are now being prepared, Mr..
Christgau said, and will be made on
a basis Of efficiency and relative
need of the individual workers. Dis
elimination on any basis, personal,
political or otherwise, will not be
tolerated, he declared.
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Brake. At this writing she is some
what improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Doege and
family, who resided on the Johnston
farm for several years, moved onto
a farm west Of Spaulding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bense and
daughter, Eileen, Of Grey Eagle,
and Mrs. Ed Albers and Adella were
visitors in st. Cloud a week ago
Saturday.
Miss Malva Johnson, Of Grey
Eagle, was weekend guest at the
Fred Mossman home.
Chas Hunter and VIM. Alderman
were business callers at Long
Prairie Saturday.
Geo. Cokely and Peter Ritter
were Sank Centre callers Tuesday.
Catherine Terway returned Sat-
urday from a weeks visit with the
Joe Osterhaus family at Flinsburg.
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State Highway "a

Mrs. Ray walker accompanied
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Huber to st.
Cloud Saturday.
Mrs. Herb Norgarden spent
Thursday with her folks, Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas Kortan.
Fred Botz was a caller at the Fay
Huston home Sunday.
Martin and Loren Kennedy spent
Sunday evening at the Chris Huis-
man home.
Harlem Pickett was a caller at
Iwinski's Monday.
Miss Mildred Huston, Of st.
Cloud, spent last week at the Fay
Huston home.
Miss Dorothy Stewart was a call
er at the Ole Halverson home Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Grundman
and Dola and Stella Ferrian spent
Tuesday evening at the Ray Walk
er home.
Miss Fern Pickett spent Saturday
with Mae Huisman.
Mrs. Joe Middendorf and Miss
Stella Beckerman spent Sunday
evening at the Chas. Kortan home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Lilienthal
and son, Dickie, spent Thursday
evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Walker.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Grundman
and Carol and Harold, of Osakis,
spent Wednesday at the George
Grundman home. Little Carol stay
ed until Sunday with her grand
parents.
Butch Iwinski and his friend, Mr..
Whitman, of Elbow Lake, spent
Sunday at Iwinski's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Huber took
supper with Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Walker Saturday.
Mrs. C. F. Botz, accompanied by
Rosa Otte, Alice Polipnick and
Norman Sieben, attended the All
leader meeting at st. Cloud Satur-
day.
Mrs. Jake Key was a caller at
Ole Halverson's Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vern Soltau and
son, Bud, Mr.. and Mrs Louis But
Ter and son, Jackie, were visitors
at the Herman Iwinski home Sun
day evening.
Luella and Alvin Halverson were
callers at the Chris Huisman home
Tuesday.
Fred Botz was caller at the
Herman Iwinski home Monday.
Mrs. Sylvester Botz, Of Green
wald, spent Thursday at the G. f.
Botz home.
Martin and Loren Kennedy and
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Ward Springs

Mrs. Mike Kortuem and children,
Virginia, Norbert and Norma, Of St.
Cloud, arrived here Saturday for
visit at the home Of Mrs. Henry
Harmeling. They returned to their
home at st. Cloud Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Tucker and
children and Mrs. C. Tucker Of
Detroit Lakes, spent a week ago
Sunday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Costello.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Albers and
Adella were supper guests and spent
Thursday evening at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Stadtherr.
Miss Fern Swatfager, who is at
tending high school at Grey Eagle,
spent the weekend at her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Cokely and
family visited with relatives at Wa
dena over the weekend.
Mrs. Leonard Warnecke and
baby, Of st. Paul, and Geo. Brake,
of jamestown, N. D., were called
home last week bv the serious ill
ness Of their mother. Mrs. Joe
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Pleasant Valley

There will be no school in Pleas
ant Valley Friday, March q, as Mr..
DeLong will attend teachers con-
vention In st. Cloud.
Mr.. and Mrs. AL Bohn and son,
Norman, and Mrs. A Eckberg Wis
tied at the Jens Lying home Sum
day.
James Christie and Harold HAL
version called at the o. C. Hardin
home Sunday.
A new telephone was installed
Monday on the Klemm farm, now
occupied by Henry Voller. Mr.. Vol
ler's number Is 20F111. Theo. VIDE
ner did the installing.
Mrs. Ella Christie and children
moved from the Dodge place where
they have resided the past year, to
the Gamradt home on the corner
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Of End and Pine streets Thursday.
Thelma Lying, who attends high
school in Osakis, spent the week.
end at the home Of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jens Lying.
David Hooper was st. Cloud
visitor Thursday.
Mrs. Mcdonald and Sylvester
Kennedy Of the Twin Cities, spent
over the weekend at the home Of
their brother, Chas. Kennedy.
Alvin and Arnold Blank were
callers at the Henry Adrian home
Sunday afternoon.
Viola Christie, Of Osakis, spent
over the weekend at home. She re-
ports the arrival of an 8h pound
son at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. M. Bluhm, where she boards, on
March 23rd.
Sam Graham and p. s.. Graham
were visitors at the home Of their
sister, Mrs. Charles Kennedy, Fri
day. p. s. Graham will return to
his home at Havre, Mont, the lat
ter part OF this week.
Mrs. Ella Christie called on Mrs.
Elmer Grindy Sunday.
Martha Billmeyer was up from
the cities and spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Billmeyer.
John Blair and family expect to
move onto the Emblom farm near
Sank Lake, recently vacated by the
Meyers family.
Mrs. Christie had telephone in
stalled in her residence Tuesday.
The ring Is 251J.
John Schumann and Frances
Billmeyer called at the Henry Ad-
rian home Saturday.
Mr.. DeLong expects to start a
primary class at Pleasant Valley
school some time soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Neal motored
to st. Cloud Monday. jamie and
Beverly Neal spent the day with
their grandmother, Mrs. James
Neal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Dickson
moved from the Lockead place to
Sank Centre Saturday. Donald
Dickson will continue at Pleasant
Valley school, riding out with Mr..
DeLong.
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Northwest Ashley

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Marthaler,
Jr., Reta Bromenschenkel and
Alois Didier spent Wednesday ev-
ening at the Anton Bentfield home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Marthaler
were callers at the Frank Marth-
aler home Saturday night.
Miss Martha Minette called at
the Henry Matthiesen home Friday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Marthaler
and Miss Arvilla Uphus spent Sun
day evening at the Joe Pischke
home.
Henry Matthiesen and daughter,
Marie, made a business trip to st.
Cloud Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Marthaler
were dinner guests of Mrs. c. A.
Marthaler and daughter, Louise, at
West Union, Sunday.
A large number of people from
this vicinity attended the Charles
Williams auction sale Wednesday.
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ties for the following two weeks.
Alyce Marthaler was elected as IL
brarian.
A new duty was added to the list.
That person is called the yard sup
ervisor.
A theme song was selected for
the school:
Oh me! Oh my!
Oh me! Oh my!
Well get there by and by
II anybody loves their Busy Bee
club
It's I, I, I, !, l.
Oh, my! oh me!
We're happy as can be
If anybody loves their school work
It's We, We, We, We, We.
The meeting was adjourned by
singing the theme song.
Miss Ethel Wruck was our prac-
tice teacher for two weeks. We all
enjoyed having her with us.
For geography the seventh grade
Is studying Minnesota; sixth grade
Asia; fifth grade United States;
fourth grade, Holland. We think
geography is very interesting.
Matthiesens and Norbert Marth-
aler were absent from school due
to colds.
Teacher: Why do railroads usual
ly follow rivers?
Evelyn: Because the trains need
water.
Last Monday evening a meeting
was held in our school about rural
Identification.
Miss Minette gave us diognastic
tests in language. Those who scor-
ed above average were: Alyce
Marthaler, Vernon Marthaler, Their
esa Marthaler, Evelyn Marthaler
and Willis Matthiesen and Mary
Ann Marthaler.
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Westport

Mr.. and Mrs. A. e. Johnson, of
Sank Centre, were supper guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Thoen on Friday.
Mrs. Earl Erwin and the Misses
Lailah Peacock and Julia Schaub
spent Tuesday evening of last week
with Miss Jessie Tipler.
Mrs. v. L. Prosser visited with
Mrs. Fred Schaub at Glenwood part
of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Frederick and
family spent Sunday at the j. r.
Frederick home.
Russell and Kathryn Hopkins
went to DeMoines, Iowa, on Mon
day. Miss Emma Hines accompan-
led them to Minneapolis where she
spent the day.
Mrs. L. j. Buchholz and son,
Walter, and Mrs. Walter WEIGH
were st. Cloud visitors Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Krummery
and family are moving onto the
farm vacated by Mr.. and Mrs. Les
ter Stalker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Erwin and Miss
Erma Prosser spent Monday after
noon in Alexandria.
Henry Peterson and Adrian Her
manson went to Minneapolis Mon
day where Mr.. Peterson attended a
Shelly Oil convention.
Miss Esther Schaub spent last
week at the Weisgram home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Flannery, Of
Sank Rapids. spent Sunday with
relatives in Westport.
Miss Blanche Pfenninger, who
teaches at Roscoe, spent the week.
end at the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Pfenninger.
Mrs. Chris Thoen was an over
night guest at the Elmer Grindy
home in Sank Centre Sunday.
Rev. and Mrs. Glare, Of Willard,
called on Mrs. v. L. Prosser on
Tuesday.
Maybelle Close spent Sunday with
Alvilda Streitz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kittleson and fam
lily, of Veblen, S. D., visited at the
home of the formers cousin, Mrs.
Christ Thoen, on Monday.
Vincent and Billy Sells, of Car
yer, arrived Saturday for a few
days visit with their sister, Mrs.
E. ]. Olson.
Mrs. e. H. Pfenninger and son,
Gordon, were supper guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Pfenninger on
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Freder-
lex and sons visited on Sunday at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Lyons at Grey Eagle.
Mrs. John Daniels called on Mrs.
M. c. Frederick on Monday. Mrs.
Daniels has been confined to her
home the past six weeks following
an injury to her eye.
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District 157
Teacher Miss Minette
Busy Bee Club

President-Bernard Marthaler.
Vice President-Paul Marthaler.
Secretary-Alyce Marthaler.
The Busy Bee club held it's meet
ing March Goth. The meeting was
called to order by the president.
The secretary took the roll call and
read the minutes of the last meet
ing. Pupils were appointed for du-
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Boldly a thief entered a garage
of the Ohio highway patrol head
quarters at Columbus and stole one
of the parked patrol cars.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Franzen, Of
Red Oak, Iowa, have announced
their marriage after keeping it a
secret for 13 years.
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Miss Vera Moreland, Editor and
owner Of the Hominy (Okla.) News,
has recently been appointed acting
postmaster of Hominy.
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STAR
DUST
Movie /. Radio
tkBy VIRGINIA VALE %+s

Oy VANJ1N1A VALE HNH
TINE death of Thomas Meig-
han may not, mean very
much to the younger movie-goers,
but it will shock those who re-
member him as one of the big
stars of the days of silent pictures.
Like many stage stars, he was not
too sure at first that he would like
pictures. .
But he did ''The Miracle Man"
and with it hit his stride. Oddly
enough, Lon CLANCY made his
name in that picture too. And so
did Betty Compson, who was find
ing it none too easy to climb the
ladder Of fame.
Nobody suspected that "The Mir
acle Man. would be such an epoch.
making picture as it was. But II
established its three leading actors
as stars almost overnight.
And speaking of star-making pic
lures, see what's happened to the
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HQIWARE
DR.. JAMES W. BARTON
Talks About
Distribution Of Fat

f.t%H&u ia=#N AASsX1UVekUn " - Z. 49,
MATURE meant that We
~ should have a certain amount
of fat in and about the body. In
side. the fat forms a cushion for
supporting organs. q partial COW
ering for the nerves; in the skin
fat helps regulate the body heat.
and forms cushions for important
nerves.
Thus, q certain amount Of fat Is .
sign of health, and only in rare in
stances is fat accumulated during
illness. However, when too much
fat is formed inside and outside the
body, while still a sign Of health, It
can gradually interfere with the
workings Of the body-heart, liver,
6dneys-with the result that over
weights are considered poor risks
by life insurance companies, and
also in cases where a surgical oper-
alton is found necessary.
Sometimes an individual who has
always been underweight, skinny,
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and Binnie Barnes have been well
coined by Hollywood. All have been
extremely successful in American
pictures.
Since her marriage Jean Parker
has been luckief than many Holly
wood brides; she has had assign
ments that provided . pleasant
honeymoon. First they went to
Texas, on location with the COM
pany that was making "The Texas
Ranger; now they're of to Mann
moth lake and the mountains for
'tKing Of the Royal Mounted" Now
al she needs Is an engagement
with some company that's headed
for Honolulu, Hollywood's pet HON
eymoon spot.
Joe Penner is going to make that
picture at last. And because chill
dren have become sure-fre hits on
the screen, he'll be assisted by
Patsy Lee Parsons, fve-year-old
who sings and dances. The dane
ing teachers of this land ought to
give Shirley Temple a medal or
something. Everywhere-even out
in the country where you wonder
where and how they can take dane
ing lessons. you see little girls do
ing tap dancing nowadays. And
Shirley is responsible for that!
Just one more story Of the way
things happen in Hollywood. Sam
uel Goldwyn wanted q German ac-
tress for a role in ""Come and Get
It." He was sure that none Of the
local talent measured up. So he
had old German films run off for
him, for days and days, in the hope
Of seeing exactly the right actress
in n Of them. # he found her,
OF course he'd have to find out
where she was, and put her under
contract, and have her brought to
California at once.
He found the girl in a picture
called "Frederika" and the wheels
began to turn. Then it was dis
covered that she is Mady Chris
tians, who has been right in Hol-
lywood for two years, yearning to
make a lot of pictures but not get
ting too many assignments.
s+ta%t -
Remember Joan Crawford in
Dancing Lady,? The picture is
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being r Ell s s u e d,
not b e c a u s e of
Joan's popularity,
but because Fred
A s t a r e had q
small part in it.
Nelson Eddy had a
bit, t o-j u s t a
flash a d h e's
gone. And now see
what fame the gen.
e m e n have at
t a j n e d on the
screen! Fred As
taire has achieved
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"Maude has had a dozen pro-
posals since she started wearing
her new bathing suit. Why don't
she marry, ! wonder?"
"She says none Of 'em would let
her wear it after marriage"
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CAP ] IA
ANDAM
BELIsM
Hearing o. Angels

Simpson Nv Whatever induced
your uncle to marry the widow Of
man who was hanged?
Jimpson-He has been married
% widows before and says he
was tired Of having the virtues
ST q former husband flung In his
tace.-Tit-Bits Magazine.
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Round and Round

Round and Round
"At twenty-six you left the
farm and came to the city. And
for 80 years you've been work
ing like the dickens. Whatsfor?"
K ""To get money enough to live
in the country"
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Remember Joan Crawford in
Dancing Lady,? The picture is
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Just 4 Tale

Just . Tale;
p, II know an artist who painted
a cobweb so real that q maid
spent a full hour trying to get it
down."
"Sorry, old man, but I don't
believe it."
"Why not? Artists have been
known to do such things"
eyes, but maids haven't
London Answers.
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And speaking of star-making pic.
lures, see what's happened to the
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people w ap-
p e a e d in "The
Priv a t e Life of
Henry the Eighth"
none of whom were
well known in this
country till it was
released-and t h e
rest of the world
had acclaimed only
Charles Laughton,
of the cast.
But s i n c e then
Laughton, Robert
Donat, Merle Ober-
on, Wendy Barrie
Evening star., 1936-10-15
RITES TOMORROW
FOR DR.. W. H. MACkAY
Veterans Administration 0rtho.
pedic Specialist Was
Long III.

DR.. william Henry MacKay. IS.
orthopedic specialist Of the United
States Veterans Administration. died
yesterday after o long illness at
Oteen, N. C.
A World War veteran. DR.. MacKay
was married here on Christmas day.
1919, to Miss Florence Gompers, the
daughters Of Samuel j. Gompers,
chief clerk Of the Department Of
Labor, exactly one year after he had
met her in France. At the time Of
their meeting on Christmas day. 1918,
DR.. MacKay was an oficer in the
Army Medical Corps and the then
Miss Gompers Red Cross worker.
DR.. MacKay had gone overseas with
the Harvard Medical Unit and served
with English forces prior to the
United States entering the war. He
was commissioned a first lieutenant
in the United States Army Medical
Corps after this Nation declared war
on Germany.
After the war. DR.. MacKay prac-
ticed medicine for some time near
Pittsburgh, Pa, and came here about
IL years ago to accept the position
with the Veterans Administration,
then known as the Veterans Bureau.
He was q native Of Boston and was
Evening star., 1936-10-15

graduated in medicine from Tufts
College.
DR.. MacKay was member Of Fort
Stevens Post. American Legion: the
Stansbury Lodge Of Masons and the
Veterans Of Foreign Wars.
He Is survived by his widow, q
daughter, Shirley MacKay, IS: son.
James Calvin MacKay, IL; his mother,
Mrs. Josephine MacKay, and sister.
Mrs. Florence Kolb. The mother and
sister live in Philadelphia.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow at Hines Funeral
Home, 290l Fourteenth street. Burial
will be in Arlington National Gene
terry, with full military honors and
Masonic rites at the grave.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
FUNERAL SERVICES SET
FOR LIEUT.. R. H. GRIFFITH

Funeral services for First Lieut..
Russell Hunter Grifith, 20. Army Air
Corps, who was killed Monday In an
airplane crash near Dallas. Tex, will
be held at / pm. tomorrow in the
Fort Myer Chapel. Rev. DR.. H. H. d.
Sterrett will officiate. Burial will be
in Arlington National Cemetery.
A member of a family long promi-
nent in Army circles, Lieut.. Grif1th
was graduated from West Point In
1881. His father, Col. F. d. Grifith.
is a Cavalry officer on duty at Louis
vile. His mother is the daughter Of
Brig. Gen. George K. Hunter, retired.
Lieut.. Grifhth's wife, Mrs. Virginia
Griffith, is the daughter of Brig. Gen.
Gerald c. Brant, Air Corps, com.
mandant Of Barksdale Field, Shreve-
port, La. An uncle Of Lieut.. Grifhth.
Col. George B. Hunter, is stationed at
the Army War College here.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
f. MD. HARMAN,
COALLEADER, DIES
Southern West Virginia
Operator Was Frequent
Visitor Here.

Everett Mcdowell Harman, Al, prom
inent Southern West Virginia coal
operator. died yesterday Of heart dis
ease at his home at Puritan, w. Va.
Mr.. Harman. who frequently had
visited this city, was brother OF
Frank P. Harman. jr., Of 3025 p street,
vice president of the Hamilton Ma
tional Bank, and son Of Mrs. Frank
p. Harman, ST, Of the Highlands
Apartments.
The body was brought to Washing
ton today. Funeral services will be
held tomorrow at II am. at Gawlers
chapel, 1850 Pennsylvania avenue. fol-
lowed by burial in Rock Greek Gene
terry.
Mr.. Harman figured prominently
for many years in the industrial and
civic life of Southern West Virginia.
He was president and general mana
ger Of the Puritan Coal Co. and
director of the Turkey Gap Co. at
Dott, w. Va. He had been in i'll
health for several months, but physi-
clans said his condition did not be-
come alarming until a few hours be-
fore his death.
Mr.. Harman was born in Mcdowell
County. w. Va. His father, the late
Frank P. Harman, sr., was a pioneer
coal operator. Mr.. Harman was
graduate of Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute.
Besides his brother and mother, he
Is survived by his widow, the former
Ada Birmingham Of this city; a
daughter, Evelyn. and two sisters, Mrs
Mary Snider of Salisbury. N. c., and
Mrs. Harriet Early of Richmond, Va.