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Died. Colonel Moorhead Cowell Kennedy, 74, onetime (1920-32) vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Wartime deputy director-general of transportation for the A. E. F.; in Chambersburg, Pa. Famed were the annual outings at his estate, Ragged Edge, to which special trains from Washington and Philadelphia took Governors, Senators and tycoons...
...Ethelbert D. Warfield of Chambersburg, Pa.: This community . . . now labors under a misgovernment not very much less than that which drove the ancestors of this population from their native lands...
...before the crash. Born in Peoria. Ill., son of a minister, he was graduated with honors by Princeton in 1882, Princeton Theological Seminary in 1886 (after a year at Berlin University). In 1887 he married Jenny Davidson of Elizabeth, N. J. For four years he had a church in Chambersburg, Pa., then joined the Princeton faculty to teach logic, in 1897 becoming Stuart Professor of logic. His steady, friendly, patient disposition made him the best compromise for Princeton's presidency when the university was split into bitter factions at the end of his close friend Woodrow Wilson...
...York Times. Prize: a silver cup bearing the name of Francis Wayland Ayer, late founder of the agency. Honors also were awarded in two other classes. Among newspapers of 10,000 to 50,000 circulation: the Rockford (Ill.) Register-Republic. Among newspapers of 10,000 or less: the Chambersburg (Pa.) Public Opinion...
...grow and accumulate in trust, to be given 50 years later as a "foundation for the education of females in or adjacent to Philadelphia." In 1930 this trust, now worth $50,000 a year, was applied for by the Philadelphia School for Christian Workers, Wilson College at Chambersburg, and Beaver College, all Presbyterian Synodical institutions. The Curran fund was assigned to Beaver by Auditor Francis B. Biddle of Orphans Court. But litigation went on. Last fortnight Judge George Henderson decided in favor of Wilson as a "higher classical institution, highly cultural, with an emphasis on Bible teaching and a missionary...