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The Evening News from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 6

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The Evening Newsi
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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6
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THE EVENING NEWS, HARRISB0R6, PENNA, MONDAY, JUNE IS, 1 925 PAGE SIX klGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY V. F. W. Convention Scenes The Story of the Boxer Rebellion By J. CARROLL MXSSFIELD me reking Kelier Expeuiuon mfJi.Jr mii iwiiiiimngMifua jiHuhmimnimmm p- 28-- jljp UCUST TH THE RELIE" EXPEDITION BECAN in WW I DM9 THE LATTER PART OF JULY.

1900. A FORMI I tm HI 1 JlT THAT TIME THERE WAS A LARGE AMERI WAS AS PICTURESQUE AN ARMY AS EVER ITS MEMORABLE MARCH TO PEKING. HORDES OF BOXERS AND CHINESE TROOPS BARRED THE WAY THE BOXERS WERE NO MATCH AS SOLDIERS FOR THE ALLIED TROOPS. BUT THEIR GREAT SUPERIORITY IN NUMBERS MADE THE JNTERNATIONAL ADVANCE SLOW AND DIFFICULT TOMQMOW-yiOHTINO MFOWI WALLS OP PCKIN0. DABLE INTERNATIONAL FORCE HAD CATHERED AT TIENTSIN TO MARCH TO THE RESCUE OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS AND RESIDENTS BESIEGED BY THE BOXERS IN THE LEGATIONS AT PEKING.

CAN ARMY GATHERED IN THE PHILIPPINES TO FIGHT THE INSURGENT AGUINALDO. AND A STRONG BODY OF OUR TROOPS WAS SENT FROM THERE TO HELP SUBDUE THE BOXERS HAD BEEN ASSEMBLED. IT NUMBERED 20.000 MEN AND INCLUDED AMERICANS, BRITISH. JAPANESE. BEARDED.

TURBANED SIKHS FROM INDIA, RUSSIANS, AUSTRIANS AND ITALIANS. 8 o'clock at the Froehlich School, 211 State street. and Mrs. Marion Henna, of Philadelphia, sisters, a son, Frank A. Sheaffer, and two brothers, Frank and morningr, his brother William investigated and found him dead in bed.

He had attended a carnival on Saturday night, and apparently had been automobile in Herr street, near Fifteenth, on Saturday night. John D. Whitman, 220 North Union street, Middletown, driver of the machine, reported the accident. in eood health when he retirea. a brother, Gabl Wolfensberger, of Harrisburg.

Eleven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren also survive. Private funeral services will be held from the Hursh home at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. David Dunn, pastor of the St. John's Reformed Church, will officiate.

Burial will be in the Hum-melstown Cemetery. Heart disease was the cause of death, according to C. E. Dugan, deputy county coroner. Funeral services will be held from committee, and Mayor George A.

Hoverter. Two motorcycle policemen will join the parade at the bridge across the river. The procession will then move up Front street to State street and up to the Capitol Plaza, where there will be a formal reception. Brief speeches will be made by President Davenport and Mayor Hoverter. Chairman Rice will preside.

Prof. W. H. Norcross, of Dickinson College, of the Carlisle delegation, will respond. HIT BY AUTO Emil Dyblie, 69, of 1422 Herr street, suffered contusions of the hand and elbow when struck by an the Hoover Son Funeral Parlors, 1413 North Second street, at 1.30 o'clock.

Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. David Y. Brouse. pastor of the Greet Carlisle C.

of C. Tourists Here Tomorrow The Carlisle Chamber of Commerce caravan of sixty-five automobiles, carrying 800 persons will arrive here at 9.20 o'clock tomorrow morning on the first stop of the third annual good will tour. The motorcade will be met at Camp Hill by a committee of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce, including Frank F. Davenport, president; P. B.

Rice, chairman of the reception MRS. CHRISTIANNA SMITH Mrs. Christianna Smith died yesterday at noon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. B. F.

Hursh, 21 South Second street. She was 88 years old, and is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Charles Palmer, Hershey; Mrs. Mary Gallagher, Mrs. James Morgan and Mrs.

B. F. Hursh, all of Harrisburg; two sons, Edward G. Smith; of Lancaster County, and John C. Smith, of Harrisburg; a sister, Mrs.

Julia A. Shaffner, of Steelton, and FIVE KILLED IN CRASH By United Press JAMESTOWN, N. June 18. Two girls and three men were killed in an automobile wreck early yesterday, just a few hours after the city's official "safety week" was ended. The wreck was the result of a race with another automobile, which ended when one machine col-lided with a high speed trolley car.

Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Prospect Hill Cemetery. The body may be viewed tomorrow evening. WILL GIVE RECITAL Miss Hazel Watta, of Duncan-non, a student of the 1929 class at the Froehlich School of Music, will give a studio recital this evening at Survivors are Mrs. Carrie Marbold and Mrs.

Harry Sheaffer, Harrisburg, Scenes taken during the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The top picture shows the crack Spring Garden Band of York, white the lower picture is a general view of the headquarters of Aurand Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. El ii ii II VVJl a WMwaaw BiIaMiiiMiMmaBMBawMMMMOMM State street. Private funeral serv-ices will be held tomorrow afternoon Frederick A. Haehnlen, 73, Dies; Lived, on Farm at 2 o'clock at the home.

Burial will be in the East Harrisburg Cemetery. sales Oliver Attick to Be Buried Tomorrow P. M. Funeral services for Oliver Attick, Civil War veteran, who died yesterday at his home, 209 Kelker street, at the age of 84 years, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock at his late residence. The Rev.

Dr. C. Waldo Cherry, pastor of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church, will ofj ficiate at the funeral. The Rev. John Funeral services for Frederick A.

Haehnlen, 73, who died yesterday at the home of his nephew, Fred P. Haehnlen, 320 North Stratton street, Gettysburg, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock, at the Haehnlen home. Burial will be in the Hai risburg Haehnlen, who had teen a lifelong resident of Harrisburg-. until he went to live in Gettysburg fcur years ago, was a member of one of three generations who lived in the old Haehnlen farmhouse, at Twelfth and Walnut streets. The Haehnlen farm, which consisted of seventeen ticres of land, was probably the last no be farmed within the city limits.

State street was opened through the farm, together with a number of streets in the vl--cinity of Twelfth and Wajnut streets. The property was sold about twenty-five years ago, when the old farmhouse was razed. After the death of his Frederick A. Haehnlen, about thirty-five years ago, the farm was conducted by his father, Frederick P. Haehnlen.

As a young man HaehnDen was a Warden will assist. Burial will be in the Harrisburg Cemetery. records break tlt Mr. Attick is survived by two daughters, Miss Esther Attick, at home, and Mrs. w.

H. Bishop, 3002 North Front street; a brother, Harry Attick, of Mechariicsburg, and two grandchildren, Miss Esther Bishop, of this city, and Mrs. W. li. Griffin, of Washington.

Mr. Attick had enlisted in the First City Zouaves of Harrisburg beforo the Civil War. On July 27, 1862, he enlisted in Company 127th Penn syivama volunteers, for a nine months' service. At the expiration ot that time he enlisted for the sec ond time in Company D. Scventv- eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, for a three years service or the dura tion of the war.

He was sent to Tennessee, and fought in the battle of Lookout Mountain. He was dis confectioner and baker foir Weaver and Hubley for a number years. He later became associated with the farming machine business with Piatt and Company, and continued with the International Harvester Company when they absorbed iAdriance Piatt and Company. He married Ella E. Miller of Carlisle, who died in 1922.

He is survived by his brother, Ed-Vard W. Haehnlen, of Harrisburg; his sister, Mrs. A. C. Logan, of Har-jisburg, and two nephews, Fred P.

Haehnlen, of Gettysburg, and Arbour Xj, Yingst, of Harrisburg, and one niece, Miss Adelaide Yingst, of Hariri sburg. charged. September 11, 1865. Mr. Attick was born in Mechanics burg September 6, 1843.

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