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Shamokin News-Dispatch from Shamokin, Pennsylvania • Page 2

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SHAMOK1N NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1956 PAGE TWO linquish her duties due to ill health I Prominent in affairs of tht American Legion and Veterans ol SMART HOMI I Local Barber Released From Wills Eye Hospital Willard Rebuck, widely known Shamokin barber, has been re STARTS WITH. North Rock Street Resident Expires Mrs. Ivy Leona Ofen, 63, of 225 Regional Mines Scheduled to Work THURSDAY This schedule is printed as re-ceited from the various mining companies. The New Dispatch cannot accept responsibility for inaccuracies in company reports. leased from Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, after undergoing a second operation for removal of a cataract.

North Rock Street, active worker i in local war veteran auxiliaries. Recuperating in his home at 221 Berwick; Van Nuys. Calif; John, Shamokin. and Mrs. William Cerklewski, Middletown; a brother George Martz, Potts; three sisters Mrs.

Donald Kenned v. Eiysburg; Mrs. Harry Snyder, Philadelphia and Mrs Asa Shipe, Shamokin, and threw grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 3:00 in Farrow Funeral Home. Sixth and Chestnut Streets.

Rev. Charles Flook. rector of Trinity Episcooal Church, will officiate. Burial will in Northumberland Memorial Park Friends may call at the funeral home Friday evening, from to 9:00, and Saturday until time of the services. A Mass will be celebrated Saturday morning at 10:00 in Trinity Episcopal Church.

Hard wick and Magee South Fourth Street, Rebuck underwent severance of the growth from his left eye. In February, 1955. a cataract was removed from his P. R. Corn.

ROOM AND WALL-TO-WALL SIZES Installed by Skilled Men Roxbury Firth Gulistan Magee o. right eye. Rebuck entered the hos Foreign Wars Auxiliaries. Mrs Owen became widely known be--cause of her activities in auxiliary affairs. She served a past president of Blyler-Quinn Post of tht V.

F. was a member of the Past Presidents' Club and a member ol the Twelfth District of Northumberland Schuylkill County Auxiliary. During the four-year perioo Mrs. Emily Markle occupied office in the State Department of tht Pennsylvania Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Mrs. Owen served as her personal page.

Mrs Owen was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church and St. Mary'! Guild. Survivors include the husband. Guy Owen, to whom Mrs. G'en was married May 20, foui children, Mrs.

Stephen Thomas Downs-Wilton Alexander Smith Hightstown pital October 8. He expects to re sume work in several weeks. died this morning at 3:45 in Shamokin Hospital after an illness ot two years. Mrs. Owen was a patient in the hospital since September 30 A daughter of the late George and Mary Ellen (Otto) the late matron was born October 23 1893, Shamokin.

She attended Shamokin elementary schools, and for a number of years prior to her marriage to R. Guy Owen was employed at the Taubel Knitting Mills. Mrs. Owen was employed at Selinsgrove State Colony for tow years, but was compelled to re- "Locust Summit Flotation Plant. Shenandoah Stripping Oak Hill Susquehanna Glen Burn Maysville Slope No.

1 Maysville Slope No. 2 Stevens Trevorton Hazlebrook Midvalley Raven Run Coal Co. Germantown IE ITS 5 FLOORS OF FURNITURE 704 NORTH LIBERTY STREET (Next to Penna. Bus Station) DIAL 8-4802 BAB Elderly City Man Dies in Hospital Samuel Elias Fryberger, 77. Pax There ar? at least 51 cities in the world wh a population of one million or more.

Directors Attend School Dedication Members of Shamokin Area Joint School Board annex dedication committee, headed by Dr Clifford V- Jones, superintendent of schools, yesterday attended dedication ceremonies of the new 000 Abington Senior High School. Abington Township, Philadelphia. Dr. Harold Hunt, under secretary of health education in President Dwipht D. Ei'-nhower's cabinet.

Washington. D. C. was the principal speaker. The new school building, according to Dr.

Jones, is one of the most modern and outstanding institutions of learning in the United States. The new building will provide facilities for teaching a regular academic program. It has such special features as a gymnasium, cafeteria, swimming pool an auditorium which seats at least 1.20C persons. The dedication ceremonies las evening were held in the new auditorium which -was almost filled, Dr Jones declared. Open house fot visitors was held during the weekend.

Upon arrival yesterday, the local delegation was received by Dr. O. H. English, superintendent, who personally escorted the group on a tour of the explaining the purpose of the visit, Dr Jones said members ot the dedication committee obtained many ideas concerning the plan-red dedication of the local high school annex which is expected to take place shortly after the first of the year. The local building now in course of erection is expected tn rrt tl.102.M0.

inos, a descendant of one of Sham- okin's oldest families, died yesterday afternoon in Shamokin Hospital shortly after he was admitted as a medical patient. Dsath, due to a complication, terminated an ill A SMi i'mxim I Style Shop's biggest ness of five years' duration. Born in Shamokin April 9, 1879 the late local resident was a son of the late Samuel and Margaret mm milt 7 ff Ml ys 7 tmm miss imm 1 1. "I KCTKSt JJoaows vu lvar (MttfiMM kusossj (Gehring) Fryberger. He attended local public schools, and was married in Shamokin in April, 1898, to the former Miss Ellen Young, deceased.

He lived in Shamokin 62 years. Mr. Fryberger worked many years at the former Enterprise Colliery after which he served approximately 10 years as a fireman foi the Rieser Paper Company. He retired in 1951. The late Shamokic resident attended Sunbury Bible Church.

Surviving are a son, Deemer Washoueal, one daughter. Mrs. William L. Harper, Paxinos, with whom Mr. Fryberger resided since 1941: two brothers, Frank and Marion.

Buffalo, N. four sisters, Mrs. Lottie Wurst. Mrs. Margaret Smith and Miss Eve Fryberg-ei, Shamokin, and Mrs.

Dora Batman, New York City; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 3:00 (DST) in Those other than Dr. Jones who made the triD to Abington included Charles P. Miller, Mrs. Madeleine Vastine, George Troxell.

Paul A. Bwank, Prank Supolee, Miss Irene Fritz and Claude E. Readly, mem-tours of the dedication committee BEGINS TOMORROW WITH THE BIGGIES? OFFERING IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA OF Miss Kay Barr, a member of the Farrow Funeral Home. Sixth and Chestnut Streets. Rev.

Robert Lan caster, pastor of Sunbury Bible Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tomorrow evening, from 7:00 to 9:00 (DST), and Friday until time of services. Senior Class and president or the Student Council, William H. Rosier, president of the Shamokin Area Joint School Authority; Prank VanDevender, supervisor of elementary education, and Miss Helen Sanner, head school nurse, accompanied the dedication committee.

Elderly Resident 01 Shamokin Dies Mrs. Cora (Klinger) Bixler, 86, a guest in Northumberland County Institutional District Home, Trev-orton Road, during recent years, died yesterday afternoon in the unit's hospital where she was admitted 18 months ago as a medical patient. Death was due to a complication. Born November 7, 1869, in Locust Dale, Mrs. Bixler was a daughtei of the late William and Jestine (Zerby) Klinger.

She attended public school in Clark's Valley, and resided in Trevorton, Valley View Janitor and Boy Killed In School Explosion SHERMAN, Tex. (U.R) A Janitor and a 16-7ear-old boy were killed Tuesday when escaping gas exploded and blew up a country school. Minutes earlier some 200 stu dents had marched out of the building in what they thought was 1 a fire drill. The school's roof was blown off and all the windows smashed. After the 200 students reached safety, Custodian E.

L. Dlnwoodie, 69, investigated the He was and Tower City, in addition to Locust Dale. One of the oldest members ot assisted by Larry McGee, 16, the son of a Methodist minister. Dinwoodie was killed instantly. The youth died six hours later in a hospital.

This Week's Emergency Physician Dr. 3. R. Vastlne Dial 8-4663 (Shamokin Medical Society tub the Good Shepherd Lodge, Mrs. Bixler was a resident of Shamokin approximately 53 years.

She was married first in Valley View on May 15, 1886, to Charles M. Carl, who died in 1907. Mrs. Bixler was married in Sunbury February 17, 1910, to Emanuel E. Bixler, who died in 1948.

Survivors include four sons, Ralph, Ray and Francis Carl, Sha- mokin, and Harvey Carl, Connec-1 ticut; two daughters, Mrs. Harvey Osman, Sunbury, and Mrs. Clement Snyder, Paxinos; two sisters Mrs. Laura Delcamp, Philadelphia and Mrs. Katie Shaffer, Valley View; 28 grandchildren, 60 greatgrandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:00 (DST) in Farrow Funeral Home, Sixth and Chestnut Streets. Rev. Russell R. Fry, pastor of Stonington Baptist week assigns one doctor for emergency duty on Wednesday and Sunday. Residents should call the phy-iltian assigned to emergency duty only if they are unable to reach their family doctors) When you buy a BETTER GOAT at the STYLE SHOP, you'll buy a coat fashioned of the (J 7 If 1 ff( nYnl finest fabrics available, meticulously styled I cj) 1 I I I I I II II II 1 i and detailed with the finest workmanship and painstaking care that immediately identi- Vs fy a premier quality Here is your 7 I I LlTj a I chance now during our 27th Anniversary II II Saleto pick up a superbly beautiful coat I I featuring all the newest fashion interest and I I I I styling at a usual big, big STYLE yx JJ I SAViHG' IJSk II Forsrmonn Wool Tweedi Shiny Black Forstmann 41111 11 IItV 11 I Panel Back Interest Bow Trim Coat I IL Wwllln Twd' wim" VIM '-'(III I Kill ihK mmmw If heMII w' EEs tszzz IILInlUllJ II II 1 Forrtmonn Wool Eyelash Cope Flare Coof FREE Prescription Delivery Servic CITY PHARMACY Michael Moliniok, A.C.A.

Phone 8-5851 Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Trevorton. Friends may call at the funeral home Friday evening, frov 7:00 to 9:03 CDST), and Saturdaj until time of services. CD The News-Dispatch Extends Birthday Greetings to Llewellyn Richards, city school principal. Lester Albright, Northumberland County register and recorder.

1 Jems IPOOSTSWEM KDB8T $7.95 to $14.95 Shamokin Community Concerts 21st Year in Shamokin Takes Pride in Announcing Its 1956-57 Season THE CHANTICLEERS Nov. 17 Male Quartet JOSEPH BATTISTA Feb. 4 Pianist cm cm 22 YARD $5.95 and $7.95 Reg, $19.95 to $39.95 CAK COATS DRASTICALLY REDUCED March 4 'CHRISTINE CARDILLO Soprano Season Tickets Still Available Adults, $6 Students, $3 at Liachowitz Jewelry Stoie or any local representative. SUITS 60 Gauge, 15 Denier WYLW 7C Regular $1.00 $29.95 to $49.95 pr, TEAM CAPTAINS AND WORKERS: Please complete returns and payments of pledges to Irvin Liachowitz, treasurer, during store hours. r1 57T7 T7S1 II HOP OPEN A CHARGE ACCOUNT USE OUR LAY-AWAY PLAN 2 214-216 EAST INDEPENDENCE STREET.

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