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...rich, coal-operating Beurys for whom Beury, W. Va., is named, Charles Ezra Beury graduated from Princeton in 1903. When he received a law degree from Harvard three years later it was in absentia because that day he was marrying the Lutheran pastor's daughter in his native Shamokin, Pa. His stock joke: "I became a bachelor and a benedict on the same...
...rich coal and farming country, near the Susquehanna River within a few miles of Shamokin Mountain, it will be the first Federal penal institution in the northeastern quarter of the U. S. Not casually was Lewisburg selected for the honor. Abundant fuel and water supplies, the joint accessibility by many railroads from Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and the eastern seaboard, healthful climate, a long agricultural season for working convicts and the persuasiveness of Senator David Aiken Reed were all factors in the choice. Also, Lewisburg is the seat of the Federal Court in the Middle District...
Hayden, Stone & Co. engineers last year studied Shipman Coal Co.'s property at Shamokin, Pa., and estimated that 10,000,000 tons of hard coal could be mined thereon. Thus assured, Hayden, Stone sold $800,000 of bonds for the coal company. Back of the bonds was Hayden, Stone's moral support, but not legal liability...
Those bonds are now practically worthless. The engineers had made a mistake in their coal soundings at Shamokin; receivers administer Shipman Coal affairs...
Spencer W. Crowell at Algona, Iowa, and Robert J. Glick of Shamokin, Pa., died during the terrific suspense when the VOICE failed to announce the decision...