The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-14
local correspondence.

a eNA NAEEAAN-hS were invited NY Col
David Hamilton TO visit the Fair grounds OF,
Saturday last, and taking a seat in his carriage
We We're taken over two miles of terra tirma in
less shan the twiukling of an eve Col Ham
i.ton seems 20 be one of the leading snirits-if
not tie leading sp.rit-of the coming Fair. He
Is boss, deSisuee, p!anner, manager. pavmas-
ter, etc. In iact the Fair couldn't do without
him. We do not say this in dispara cement of
others who take an active part, but because
every body knows that NJ. Hamilton is a Ii, e
man at any hing Nell the Fair needs such
men 1t IS 4 large enterprise About FIVE
thousand dollars is being spent for buildings
ana accommodations alone, besides as much
more that will De spent in other wavs One
building is one hundred and fifty feet long bv
thirty six wide. Another is nine buudred feet
long by sixteen wide Another is six hundred
feet long. Then there are two boarding houses
QUIZ each thirty by fifty feet, and Office
sixteen ieet by thirty FIVE, A music stand a
large number of stalls tor sheep, hogs and neat
catte, aud stabiIng for horses, etc. The
judges stand was erected long ago. Just op-
Fo-ite tl.iS stand, however seats are being
erected for about two thousand persons, the
rear seats being elevated after the manner of
circus seats. A Il lying horse ard other means
of amusement are being coustruc led. Thus
II viii be seen the FAIR is to be a grand AFFAIR.
The lie tiers already received indic%ie that there
will be large number of articles eotered from
( ecjoining counties. But more of this next
week.
a farmer named Howard told me, last Sat
urday, that he has been hauling mine props for
the Cambria Iron Company for twelve wears
lie hauls two loads per day, twelve Props a
I load, at forty cents prop. and he hauls every
working day. This would be nine dollars an
Sky cents per day. Say nine dollars per day.
and three hundred days i'll the year, il would
/ foot up 100 for year. For twelve years
/ the total sale would be S32, ,400. This is only
/ one small item of this Companys yearly ex
penses,
/ The Benedictine Sisters have men engaged
plastering their new building, which is very
hne structure indeed. 1t will soon be ready
/ for opening their schools in it. There is not IL
/ better arranged school room in town, and of
| course not in the county.
! We saw a lump of kidney ore at the Cam
bria Iron Company's store on last Saturday
that weighs three hundred pounds. 1t came
from the region about Stoystown.
Couemaugh borough is looking up There
| are many substantial improvements going on in
the borough, both in the streets and tie
Arivate residences of its citizens. Not only are
| nSw buildings going up, but old ones are being
| reAaired. Conemaugh will be ahead OF Johns
I tOSn in few years. The authorities
gotl. l.ting for two large plots of ground-one
Tor b school and one for borough purposes -
! The old basin will soon be entirely built up
anh ali the ancient land marks ob.itera ted and
Cbnemaugh borough will be A. No. as 20
bOTOuEIS. mere Is A NO. II w nv tue
s<llttle bOrOBgh of Woodvale, which contains the
largest building in Cambria county, or in any
adjoining county, and great many nice peo
Pile
Men now employed excavatiug the bluff
between the Penna. r. r. and the Cor cmaugh
river, opposite the Cambria Iron Co.s- s-butcheI
shop, for the purpose of making room, it j:
saId, FOR a cattle yard.
James j. Murphy has just put two splendil
new show windows in the front of his store OF
Clinton street at cost of some three or fou
Auudred dollars. We do not believe that thcs,
. ( windows will make him sell any more cheaI
clothing, but they add greatly to the appear
ance OF his establishment. Nevertheless j Lme
was just as honest and otIieing before as he i
now. and that is as hCnest and ohlging as
man can be, but then we must all submit Il
the iashiors, you know. Jeemes has truly
Star Clothing Store" now.
! WD Berlin, druggist. No 232 Main street
. as modest lives, has also snccumbe
. TO the inexorable laws of custom and fashion
and has put in a couple of show windows at
{ cost Of FIVE hundred dollars. The glass alon
cost two hundred and fifty Though this i'm
! prorement makes the house look more attract
! i've. it could not add anything to the meritor.
a business of Mr.. Berlin, who is gentle man il
all respects.
We are going to have new market hous
: next year, and we viii bet that some one vii
: make speculation in its erection. It s s
: common 70 fatteD on public money, from Pres
ident Grant down to Governor Geary, and 9
! on, ab libitum, IN the descending scale, that
will be a subject of remark If some one doe
$ nos make few thousand dollars on this con
tract.
Look out for that great shower of meteor
{ that Is tp cone down this fall. We should no
HondE 4 i H9ula be fre and birthstone. fo
Tie x6f;9 IS Hz<k Il al kinds OF wiekedness
1<=sHs z<zxtz <l.7<x{1z down TO the most trifin
IS F|s4, &c, the woFl