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SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1940 PAGE THREE Noted Poet Dies V7nll IdU EVANGELICALS HEAR REPORT ON DEBT FUND fx A POET MARKHAM DIES ATAGE 87 Author of 'Man With the Hoe' Expires at Staten Island Home Conference Also Informed on Progress of Merger Plan EVERYBODY'S STORE AMERICAN LEGION BUILDING SHAMOKIN, PA. Use Our "Lay-Away" Service! Now is the time to outfit your entire family without a great outlay of money. It easy. Come in and select whatever you want and have it laid aside in our lay-away department. A small sum will hold your selection and by making small payments each payday your famiy outfits will be practically paid for by Spring and Easter.

VLTi NEW YORK, March 8 (U.R Edwin Markham, the bearded poet who wrote "The Man With the Hoe," died last night at his home on Staten Island, at the age of 87. Mrs. Pauline Joy, his housekeeper and nurse, was at the bedside. He had been bed-ridden since Tuesday and in virtual retirement since 1936, when he suffered a stroke that ended 60 years of prolific writing. Three years ago he was declared incompetent "by reason of old age, loss of memory and understanding," on the petition of his sister-in-law, Miss Mary Murphy.

Only a son, Virgil Markham, a writer, survives. "The Man With the Hoe," inspired by Millet's painting of that name and written in 1899 when Markham was a school-teacher in California, is regarded as a masterpiece cf American literature. LOCAL GIRL BRIDE OF TREVORTON MAN Edwin Markham MAN ARRESTED 40 TIMES IN 6 YEARS Chief of Police John Simasek. of McAdoo. vesterday told Schuylkill County Court that John O'Donnell, on trial for assault and battery by his sister, Mary, also of McAdoo, has been arrested 40 times in the past six years and has been in jail on 36 occasions.

Simasek told the court that no sooner is O'Donnell out of jail than he becomes insulting, drinks heavily, becomes vicious and will attack anyone, even those closely related. After O'Donnell was found guilty the court ordered him sent to jail while weighing just what sentence is to be imposed in order that relatives and others of the McAdoo area may be protected. NEW NURSE HEADS COALDALE STAFF Harry Derk, Trevorton. and Miss Dorothy Snyder, Shamokin, were married at Towson, early this week, it was reported from the Maryland city this morning. Mr.

Derk is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester R. Derk. the former a clerk in the registration office at Sun-bury and secretary of the Zerbe Township School Board.

YORK, March 8 (U-R) Reports on the Albright College debt liquidation fund and the progress made by representatives of the Evangelical Church and the Church cf the United Brethren in Christ towards a merger today occupied attention of delegates attending the one hundred and first annual sessions of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church. Bishop John S. Stamm of Harris-hjirg, chairman of the merger commission said the group expected to have the report in final form for presentation to the general conference of the United Brethren at Fort Wayne, in 1941, and to the Evangelical General Conference at Naperville, in 1942. During a three-year campaign, delegates were informed, the conference raised its assigned quota of $39,500, for Albright over and above its normal budget. Bishop Edwin H.

Hughes of the Washington area the Methodist Church told the conference last night that the Christian church must cease its compromise with the liquor traffic. He called upon Christians to join forces and fight to the death the "moral emergency o. country is facing." The Rev. J. H.

Fleckenstine of York was elected conference secretary for the tenth consecutive year at the organization meeting. He named as assistants the Revs. F. E. Remaly of Carlisle; Paul A.

Werner of York and C. R. Ness. District superintendents were reassigned to the areas they served last year Dr. A.

F. Weaver to York district; Norman L. Hummel to Wiiliamsport and G. C. Garbiel to Lewisburg.

An increase of more than 1,000 members during the year was disclosed in the report of district superintendents. Two ministers, the Revs. J. O. Biggs of Enola and A.

D. of Marysville announced their retirements. The Rev. Biggs complet-ed his ninth year at Enola and his 47th in the ministry, while Rev. Gramley has served for 45 years, the last three at Marysville.

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