The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-08

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/ mas secured a situation with Messrs Walton /
. & Co, miners and shippers of coal, at $40 /
per month.
/ Issac Trout, living near Paintersville, West
mOreand county, has been missing several
days and the neighbOrhood is excited with
TumOrs of foul play. The girl was only thT-
teen years old. She disappeared in the night
and was only dressed in her night clothes.
I The burden of suspicion seems to rest upon
her adopted father.
Our butcher friend Mr. Edward Fara-
baugh, brought a beet of this years pTOduc-
tiOn TO our Office the Otheriday which weighed
FIVE pounds and measured nearly fifteen
. inches 1t was grown on the farm of another
good friend of the FREEMAN, Mr.. Thomas
Bishop. of Allegheny township, and all who
I saw II pronounced il a beet which would be
hard to beat so early in the season.
/ The aged mother of Mr.. w II. Swartz
. editor of the Altoona Tribune, was stricken
with paralysis on Monday at her home in
Hollidaysburg, She received her first stroke
Of paralysis two years ago and has been in
+ delicate health ever since. She remained
. unconscious all day Tuesday, and at latest
accounts her physicians and family enter
4 taineC but slight hopes for her recovery.
/ John Owens, INV Jolly 10 John, when first
I youistarted store, you hadn't such stock as
now is kept within your door. bat then you
did your best to win a gOOdly share of trade.
and thus, we're glad to know, you many
. friends have made. So push along John
! Owens, my boy, with honest goods to sell of
/ every kind at prices cheap--you always will
do well. Summer goods selling off at cost.
Our old friend and always interesting
J correspondent, Major G.. Nelson Smith spent
| several davs in Ebensburg this week, receiv-
I Ing the congratulations Of his numerous
/ friends herea way, and manifeSting to all be-
/ holders the fact that very shaky pair of legs
I are still able with considerable effort TO nav
\ igate a massive mind and, considering the
/ Majors age, about seventy six years, an ex-
/ ceedingly well preserved body.
/ We have been handed the opin ion of
/ Judge Dean IN the case of Pmdle VS. Emp
| field and other election officers of BIackHck
/ township tried at the June term of our
County Court, with request to publish that
portion of It which lays down the law rela-
tive to the right of any man 20 acquire q
/ residence and enjoy the election franchise
separate and apart from his wife and family
/ We shall wrestle with the matter next week
Any man with the aim and ambition TO
shoot squirrels has legal right TO do it now,
! provided he can find 'em. Which same leads
[ US to remark that the stupid member of the
/ Legislature who got the section prohibiting
the shooting of squirrels before the first of
September Incorporated into the game laws,
ought 20 be shot himself for not knowing the
[ season of the year when these destructive rO-
dents are brought into this breathing, gnaw-
I ing world
/ The length of the notice sent us bv w
/ l.. WoOdcOck, Esq, EX. Com, Altoona, OF
the eighteenth annual convention of the
/ Pennsylvania State Sabbath School AssOcia-
/ ton which is to be held in Easton, Pa, Oct.
. Ober 11th to 18th, and the late hour at which
. It was received, precludes the possibility of
1 its publication this week For the same rea-
/ son Tale the Second" Of the "Weird Tales
/ of the Moutains" must take back seat for
/ the present.
/ "A party of Altoona nimrOds came hither
| Thursday evening, and went hence early the
following morning to Blacklick township
and parts adjacent, where they succeeded in
bagging forty two large black and grey squir-
. Tels, returning home Saturday. Beginning
/ with the oldest and leaving the reader to de-
I teTmine each for himself as to the best look
ing we append the names of the nimrods
Sampson Taylor Billy Brady, a. Y Dively,
II. II. Herr and Mike Yeager.
&C. 7. Roberts Variety Store has Just
/ been replenished with the best stock of boots
, and the finest lot of shoes, of all styles and
qualities, to suit big men, pretty ladies, smil-
/ ing misses, uncoIth urchins, or prattling in
/ tants, and which will positively be sold at
/ the lowest cash prices. Gents furnishing
goods and-wel, hundreds of other things
. which everybody needs, can be bought very
cheap from Cham. Go, see for yourself and
! be convinced. Ru5bers of all kind always
on hand
/ Mamma. is the old hen going to be sent
away for the summerP' "NO, Charlie, but
why DO you ask 2'' 'Well, I heard papa tell
the new gOveruess that they would have a
fine Slime when he sent the old hen away for
the summer" Mamma put little Charlie to
bed, after giving him a dose of Sine's Tar,
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telling him he would be well in the morning,
and then she laid for papa-and only for his
/ having a bottle of Roberts EmbTOcatiOn in
the house, might have been a cripple for life.
We mad a call on Wednesday from our
staunch friend and subscriber Mr.. Philip II
Jones' of Blacklick township. who was de
livered a few days ago from the house Of
hOndage--yclept Castle Grffith-and. thanks
to arnumber Of influential friends, had the
fine imposed upon him at the last term of
. n ic
one Of the most industrious, well meaning
men in the county, and were II not for prov
OcatiOnS almost beyond human endurance he
I would probably never get into trouble with
any one.
/ The readers of the Johnstown Doily
+ Tribune were no doubt as greatly surprised
. as we know they were highly pleased when
. they received fast Mondays issne of that live
. little journal to find that it had been enlarged
. by an additional column to each Of its four
pages and clothed throughout with one of
the prettiest suits. head and all, that the
. founders art nd furnish. Mr.. Swank
the eGitOr and proprietor, has few EQUALS and
/ no supeTioTs as a master workman and Wig
/ OrOus writeI and the Tribune in its new and
elegant dress is but ar other evidence Of his
skill, proficiency aud good taste as printer
. and publisher
Our old friend David Peelor. of Johns
town, who would be immensely rich if he
. was monarch Of all he surveys, dropped in on
us on Wednesday, and among other things
. Of interest told rs that on three several Occa-
stons during his long and eventful life the
first Of which was in the year 1923, he had
walked from beyond the town nf Indiana TO
. HOlldavSburg, a distance of siXty-two miles
/ between sun rise and sun down of the same
/ day. Mr.. Peeler is over seventv-One years
( Of age, and although staunch and we'll
/ preserved Republican, he SAYS he is bound to
/ vote for J. Simpson Africa for Surveyor Gen
! eTal and is not sure but what he will 90
further and fare still better than he would by
/ voting with his own party.
Some time last winter Martin ROuzer.
who worked in a coal mine at South Fork
/ fired a pistol at Thomas a. Wentz, also a
coal miner, because he had made fun of
ROuzer about his attentions to a certain
/ yOung girl. The bullet struck an obstacle in
I the pocket of VENTS cavalry Jacket and nc
serious injury resulted. Wentz got war
. rant for RouZer's arrest, but when Constable
/ Waters, Of JOhnstown, went up 10 SOuth
Fork TO capture him, he had left for Bradford
county. though for some weeks has been liv-
/ ing with a farmer in Somerset county. One
/ day last week he came in a wagon with bis
I employer 20 JOhnstOwn, where Mr.. Waters
espied him in attendance at market, and at
/ once took him into custody. The arrest was
made on a process issued by the Court the
. Grand Jury having returned a true bill
against RouZer at last March sessions. The
accused was subsequently brought here to
i Jail and committed for trial
On the 4th of last July George Feeg. a
young German employed at the G. I. Co s
machine shop. JohustOwn, discharged sew
eral rounds of cartridges from his revolver
/ in celebrating the day, and thinking he had
/ emptied all the chambers laid it away. Some
time time afterward his cousin. with whom
be boards, took charge of the revolver and
put 1t in more secure place. On Monday