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Almond Chesbro Killed
The Potter Enterprise
Coudersport, Pennsylvania •
Thu, Feb 9, 1933 p6
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• If he had had the courage to come home legless, Potter County would had two legless veterans, Michael Dunn and A. M. Cheesebro.
ick for some time. Editor Redfield, of the Covington sun, is offering fifty dollars for a girl r boy to learn type-setting. John Harrington, a woodsman, was astantly killed at Cole Creek, Wedneslay, by a log jumping from a slide and triking him.

At a recent meeting, Herman Schwarzenbach was elected president of the Schwarzenbach Brewing Company; Roland Schwarzenbach, vice president; James E. Schwarzenbach, secretary; Joseph C. Breunig, director.

The following epistle was found i in the post office in a nearby town: "Dear Tom: The reason I didn't laff throo the latis work when you laft at me in the post ofis yesterday was because I have a bile on mi face and kant laff. If I laff she'll bust. But I love you, Tom, bile or no bile, laff or no laff. Yure lovin till deth."
James J. Corbett has signed articles for a twenty-round contest with James J. Jefferies for the heavyweight championship of the world, the fight to take place at Fort Erie, Canada, on June 20. The contest is to be for a purse of

Twenty Years Ago
M. T. Stokes, Editor
February 8, 1923
Andrew J. Burleson, 84, a well known resident of Costello, is being held pending the death or recovery of his sonin-law, Alva Haze. It is alleged Burleson fired a .44-calibre bullet, striking Haze just below the left collarbone, taking a downward course, nipping the top of the left lung and coming out just below the shoulder blade. (Haze recovered from the wound.)

H. H. HALL WRITES OF GETTYSBURG TRIP
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and returned with Hon. Clair McGinnis (late of Genesee, Pa.) but now of Pittsburgh, a member from the district in the Smoky City. I can assure you the meeting was a very pleasant one, but he brought me the first news of the "passing" of my good friend, Dan McGinnis, of Genesee. That news ended my official visiting for that day and it put me in just the frame of mind to visit the grave of the man for whom Harrisburg, reflect was how named little and the gave great me as well as the small are missed, for I found children playing just outside the park where he was buried who did not know who was buried there; and to cure that unwholesome shock I went to the zoo and with my nephew and Billy and saw the animals that probably forgot as soon as we were out of sight.
Perhaps sooner.
In the afternoon, Henry Reuning, Clyde Hall, Billy Hall and myself drove Gettysburg where Mr. Reuning's brother, Carl, runs a bake shop. His daughter, Ruth, kindly consented to be our guide over the battlefield. More than fifty years ago, Frank Greenman, who was raised on Greenman Hill, and myself spent a long full day on the battlefield and in no place have I found greater changes than in the battlefield itself, as well as in the personnel of its guides. Miss Reuning was never at fault as to roads, monuments and general historic facts, but the personal human instinct stories

Mrs. Henry Mette, Miss Edna Mitchell, Mrs.

George Sharp, George Sterner, Miss Dorothy Bouder, Miss Pearl Fate, Robert Wolf, George Drake, Barney Forney, Mrs. O. F. Cochrane, Mrs. Charles Tomlinson, Miss Alice Whitney, Louise and Jane Crosby, Mrs. C. O. Olive and Robert King. Thirty Years Ago Cartlidge & Mundy, Editors February 13, 1913 C. Porter of Genesee has purchased the old Mannah Hotel at Ulysses and will open the place to the public.

Potter County is now in splendid financial condition. It now has $32,400 drawing a per cent interest for the taxpayers.

Theodore Ianson, a long time resident of Summit Township, was found dead in bed Tuesday.
Last Saturday, Joseph Golden lost his third horse in four years. The animal was valued at $150.
Roscoe S. Bush, the jeweler, has had his store front remodeled.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Monroe quietly celebrated their fifty-ninth wedding anniversary Sunday.
At 5:00 o'clock Monday morning the general store of Ray Long at Ulysses was discovered on fire. The building and stock were a total loss. The stock was worth about $3,500 with insurance of $2,800. The building, worth $15,000, owned by Mrs. Kate Lewis, was insured for only $750.

At the Presbyterian Church, Wednesday evening, Dr. G. P. Donehoo will give an illustrated lecture on Indians. He didn't know that Greenman had put in six months as lecturer for a cyclorama of the battlefield, the paintings made from photographs, so there was no part of the battlefield he did not know by sight.

Nor did he know that, as a teacher, I had made a study of the topography of the field and drafted it many for history classes and local teachers' institutes. When we got off the train we registered at the Eagle hotel and checked our overcoats and started out first day field. We hadn't gone 40 rods toward the first day's field before we were overtaken by a fine one-horse rig drawn by a veteran wearing an old moth-eaten bucktail, who stopped and asked us to ride. We told him we would be glad to ride with him provided he would only talk when we asked him questions. His horse would stand anywhere without hitching.

We went over the first day's battleground and I'll gamble he learned much more than we did. He was as good as his word. He never spoke unless spoken to, but when we got beyond Spangler's Spring he helped us a great many times.
My cousin, Almond Cheesbro, was wounded in the forenoon of the second solid day's shot. fight, He both corded knees both shattered legs with by a pair of tanned buckskin suspenders. It was in the wheat field. During the night he crawled under a pine tree for shade the next day. He lay under that and another bigger pine and lay there until the forenoon of the sixth before he was taken to the hospital. You will understand his case looked hopeless, and the rule was to pick the most hopeful-looking cases first. When he arrived at the hospital he asked for the head surgeon and asked the surgeon to promise not to amputate if the case was hopeless. He was put on the table and when he came out of the opiate sleep he found both legs gone a little below the hips. He called for that surgeon and told him not to bury those legs for he was going with them. The surgeon put nurses to watch him, but the first chance he had he pulled the ligature off a femoral artery and was dead when nurse came back. If he had had the courage to come home legless, Potter County would had two legless veterans, Michael Dunn and A. M. Cheesebro. When we got around to the cemetery, Mr. Bucktail led us to A. M. Cheesbro's grave and we heard his story as above, and then he woke up to the fact that both of us were eager to hear human instinct stories of that great battle.

He led us to a grave and told the following: "Two student friends in a near Boston school enlisted. One of them was wounded in the peach orchard. They were filemates. Both thought the wounded one must die sO the unwounded one got leave and took his friend back and wrote to the wounded one's parents a farewell letter, which the wounded one signed and which the unwounded one put in his pocket and started back for his place in the line, but was instantly killed before reaching his place, and that letter was the only way of recognizing him. He was buried under the name on the letter.

The wounded man recovered and for some time after the war came to decorate his own grave." Mr. Bucktail showed us the grave. Here's another of his stories: "On the old road that runs between the two lines of battle, just about opposite the Bloody Angle in a shallow cut that gave cover to men who lay down during the battle, it became necessary for the officer in command there to have reliable information. So he asked for a volunteer to stand and all he could see standing answer the questions the officer asked. A volunteer stood up and was almost instantly killed.

Another and a third were quickly killed. Then a mere boy, the youngest of the company, stood up and answered all necessary questions, and lay down again without a wound. The association passed on all, monuments and that company or regiment sent many designs that were rejected by the association. Finally the regiment, thinking of the above incident, sent the boy soldier, now grown to be an aged man, with some of his comrades who saw the incident, together with a photographer, with instructions to pose the man as he stood as a boy for a photograph to be put on a stone block by a sculptor for the monument of that regiment. You can see it today, a square stone set cornerwise on a supporting stone shaft--a man standing with one foot length of morticed port rail fence let down like a pair of bars, looking at the woods in front of him as he stood THE WEALTH OF THE PATRIARCHS The wealth of the patriarchs consisted principally on the day he took the place of three dead comrades to answer officer's questions.

To me it is the most unique interesting monument on the whole Battlefield of Gettysburg. Cordially, H. H. Hall. HARRISON VALLEY FAMILY ON FARM Have Moved from Town to Their Farm and Will Work It the Coming Season Harrison Valley, Feb.

6. - George Church and son, Muriel, have moved from town onto their farm, which they expect to work this coming season. Mrs. Florence Simons, of Westfield, spent last week with Mrs. Steven Clark.

They shopped one day in Westfield. Mrs. Kit Fortner and Mrs. Edith Edwards were dinner guests of Rev. and Mrs.

Harold Douglas, of Westfield, one day last week. Mrs. Grace Seagers, Mr. and Mrs. John Schweitzer and son, Ted, attended a party at the home of Miss Alice Mattison at Knoxville on Tuesday evening.

Mrs. Edith Borst spent one day recently with Mrs. Truman Moore at North Fork. Mrs. Amelia Martin, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia, is slowly improving.

Mrs. Edith Edwards and daughter, Angeline; Mrs. D. C. Harvey and Miss Elizabeth Holcomb were in Westfield and Knoxville on Saturday.

Mrs. Horace Holcomb was quite ill last week. Nate Fletcher and daughter, Ava Cotrell, are seriously ill. Dr. Lawrence, Hammondsport, was a recent guest of the Michelfelder family.

Mrs. Hattie Dibble, who has been ill at the home of her parents for the past year, was able to go back to her home last week. Carlos Erway shipped a carload of potatoes from this place Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs.

Gilbert Cornish, of the town of Independence, N. Y., visited his mother, Mrs. Darius Shelley, on Thursday. W. F.

Cady and sons are building a chicken coop with two floors, the lower one for chickens and the upper for rabbits. Mr. and Mrs. James Miller and daughter, Abbie, of West Union, N. Y., visited his sisters, Mrs.

Louise Hubbard and Mrs. Ida Scoville, Wednesday. Several from this place attended Men's Brotherhood meeting of the Baptist Church at Westfield last Monday evening. Music was rendered by the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Quartette of Harrison Valley. Rev.

D. Shepard, Harrison Valley, delivered the address of the evening and took for his subject, "Friendship." in of in P PUZZLES 357 $1.00.

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