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Show COLLIERIES SHUT DOWN FOR PRIEST'S FUNERAL A most remarkable tribute to a priest was paid recently at the funeral of the Iiev. 'Henry F. O'Reilly, rector of the Church of the Annunciation, Annuncia-tion, at Shenandoah, Pa.', for thirty years. Twenty-five Twenty-five collieries, employing more than 16,000 men and boys in. the Shenandoah and Mahonoy valley, were shut down to enable the workers to pay their respects to the dead, priest. The public schools at Shenandoah, Mahonoy .City and other surrounding communities were closed. All business busi-ness in Shenandoah was suspended. More than 200 priests attended the funeral services. Bishop Prendergast of Philadelphia celebrated the Solemn Requiem Mass. Father O'Reilly died suddenly November 23. He was 04 years old and a native of County Ca-van, Ca-van, Ireland. He celebrated the fortieth anniver- sary of his ordination last year. He had spent nearly all his priestly life in Shenandoah and was the most widely known and ighly respected priest in the Pennsylvania coal regions. The Philadelphia diocese lost another well-known well-known priest in the death of Rev. John P. Con-nell. Con-nell. pastor of St. Gregory's church. Philadelphia. He was 53 years of age and was born in Eaton, Pa. He was ordained in the Philadelphia cathedral cathe-dral in 1881. t |