The Clearfield Progress
Clearfield, Pennsylvania
3 June, 1932

Ralph Gilliland, Former
Countian, To Represent
Philippines At Chicago
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    Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gilliland of Manila, Philippine Islands, spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. William Gilliland and other relatives in Clearfield on their way to New York, where Ralph Gilliland will report to headquarters of the electrical firm which he represents in Manila.
    Mr. Gilliland is also in the United States to attend the Democratic convention in Chicago this month, having been named to represent his party from the Philippines. He is in the United States on furlough after spending three and one-half years in the islands in charge of electrical engineering for the Manila branch of the Associated Gas and Electric System. He and his wife will remain in the United States until next October.
    Mrs. Gilliland was formerly Miss Peggy Friday of Philipsburg. She and her husband will visit relatives in Philipsburg before going to New York. After the Chicago convention, they will travel through the West, where both of them have relatives.
    Ralph Gilliland is a brother of William and Frank Gilliland and is remembered by a number of friends in Clearfield.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard,. 2011