Fire hits Riverton Church as funeral procession nears
A fire set the Riverton Methodist Protestant Church ablaze just as a funeral procession reached Sharptown Maryland. The procession returned to the deceased’s home where services were held.
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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1936
Page
16
A fire set the Riverton Methodist Protestant Church ablaze just as a funeral procession reached Sharptown Maryland. The procession returned to the deceased’s home where services were held.
A. J. Von Rosie Rosenburgh and W. L. Buster Spiegel announce a partnership to run Rosenburgh Garage in Sharp offering complete auto supplies and Chevrolet sales. Rosenburgh formerly managed the Sharp Cats and was a local Chevrolet dealer. Spiegel was head mechanic at Plaza Hotel Garage in San Antonio.
Bert M Redman told police he burglarized 108 houses since last July and that number equals about half of his total breaks, noting he forgot the rest. In Ohio, William Bus, 65, died when his car was hit at a grade crossing in Upper Sandusky where a prior crash occurred two years earlier.
Funeral services for Rufus Henry Davis a Cameron resident aged 59 who died in Tyler January 19 were held at Oak Hill cemetery with a Masonic ritual. He was born in 1877 in Georgetown Kentucky and long worked in oil in Oklahoma Cameron and Tyler. Surviving are his wife two stepsons and numerous friends.
George Ohlam, long regarded as a penniless hermit near Montrose Colorado, left $9,600 in cash when he died and reportedly used a $20 bill as a bookmark. In Missouri a stove explosion at Popular Bluff home of Poney Willard killed his wife and four children. he was critically injured.
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