The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-06-19
LOCAL AND Personal.

scbonl will hold picnic at tho close of
school.
The FREEMAN office is the place To get
ropr lob printing. Good work at low
prices.
MIR. Albert Williams and wife of Home
.rrad. Pa. are visiting relatives and friends
I'm this place.
Mfr. Emmett Mulvehil, of Ehrenfelt.
,,rmcrlv of this place. was II visitor To our
town on Tuesday.
The sale of the HollidaySburg and Gap
rr,p Works has again been postponed un-
JuIy 18th \ bid Of S.9.OD was refused.
Mr.. William II. Moudy, of Portage. and
Mis-, Orlrna Dirhl. OF Ncwry, Pa. were
married al the home of the brides mother,
near the latter place. ON June End.
Owing to the depression in the coal
trade the Frugality Coal and Coke Com
many. on the CrcSSon Il COalport railroad,
ba. suspended operations for short time.
Best quality of roll butter Is selling 1T
scent, per pound in Somerset. Tn" oldest
ipbabltant cannot recall the time when
the choice of the dairy brought 80 low II
price.
e NV people are ilullllS t""'
t.r> and from the inquiries received by our
hotels and boarding houses. the prospects
arr that the town will soon be filled with
summer hoardcrS.
-prnu,, lvania girls marry young.
During the past year twenty three girls
v,rr married At the age Of fourteen; 25
at fifteen: a5a at sixteen, 3l5 at seventeen,
and l3a3 at eighteen.
The grounds at the railroad depot at
Crr,,on have been planted with flowers ac-
cordiug to the usual custom of the Penn
.ylyaua railroad company. and presents an
attractive appearance.
Scarcely day passes without some
horses and carts going through town.
their destination being the new railroad,
beginning at Kaylor'S station. Several
hundred men are already employed on the
work.
In the rr-ratiug that has been in pro-
gross in the Post office Department the
salary Of the postmaster at JohnstOwn has
increased from 5000 to ZOO and that of
the postmaster at Altoona from 200 10
$3.50
There are Is counties in Pennsylvania
that have no debt. They ar" Lchigh,
Beaver Cameron. Center, Columbia. Erie.
Forest. Franklin. Green. Lawrence, Mcr-
GER Moutour. Perry, Pike. sullivan, SuS-
quchanna. Wyoming and York. TIL" COM
blnrd debt of all the other counties is 5S,-
g79,g7s
BY the law which goes into effect this
year providing that the tricnnal assess
mcut shall be- made 10y one assessor in each
borough and township instead of by one
assessor and TWO assistants aS heretofore.
each county in the state will save eonSid-
erabr money in the cost of making the
RSScmuntS.
Miss Ellie Myers and her sister Ag-
gle are Justly entitled TO the thanks Of
many uf the willing hands who laborcd
hard and earnestly in saving property at
the burning of Cr"Swell'S mill. The
Misses Myers prepared a bucket OF hot
coffee which was gratefully partaken of
and rrli>hrd by many Of the tired workers.
Superintendent Doyle. of the Long
Distance Telephone Company. with u large
force Of men and teams, = here buSily at
work, distributing the poles for the wires
The poles used through town will be- cedar
and will be- planted seven feet in the
AA'ANb- nv lll'' W III lOllON Nlif Nputh
Side OF High street.
The bin recently signed by Governor
Patt>uu aud which i now law, makes
telegraph. telephone and other electric
companies responsible for the damage done
10 shade trees by cutting them down or dis
figuring them TO make way for their wires.
Owners of properties may be- trusted To en-
force this law To its full extent.
About SiNty-iivr Pennsylvania Rail-
road men. some Of them high officials in
IN" company, are expected To arrive at
MapI" Park on Saturday. where some OF
ihrm will. >oiourn for few days while
making Investigations into the project of
extending the EbenSburg Il CrcsSon
branch railroad. Let 'rm come
y dangerous counterfeit half dollar,
mat is claimed to have a large circulation,
! 'd'>crthcd ~ follows: Itis dated 1857 and
ha' au excellent ring. The coin is little
thicker than th" genuine and TO a keen eye
o''h the Goddess Of Liberty and the eagle
ar a httl" uneasy. The engraving is
so'u and IL requires an expert To detect
The bad money
"hii" the fire at CrcSwelHS planning
miiI was in progress four freight ears and
Nv" passenger ears stood ON the railroad
Ha,N ln close proximity To the burning
building. The locomotive was taken out
VI 'h" shed, backed To the cars and hauled
.H'in away out Of the reach of the fire.
was discovered afterwards that one OF
'Ne ears was loaded with considerable
quanttyof powder.
"hSrrS>man Scull, Of this district.
Ia gwen notice that the cadetship at
''>' F"lht, which l. expected To become
c@'aI' 900 June ls92 by the graduation OF
e"u'' hrphsrt. VIII be- filled by compcti-
N'' examination. Said examination will
H''a Al Somerset. Wednesday. June II,
81" can be- participated in by all young
u'i"rcn the ages of Il and % years.
district
H""rt Finan. of Braddock, while
IINg With party of friends i'm NJ
I'm! grove, uear that pla CO, on Mon
"'4h'. was struck by a stone that was
'"H INTO the crowd and 80 badly in
iu'.N That he died at Mercy Hospital,
g., ,'"rS' whittier he was taken, on the
ing evening. Finan has "A wife and
'1 'h JuhnStown where he formerly
'"'l. II iS not known who threw the
'''n' that killed him.
4h' giving out of the water from the
works during the fire on Thursday
a '''"R hec">Sitated the closing down of
= water to private consumers. which
,HRd down VIII last for several davs-
- thr reservoir Is filed. Necessity.
- j. III" mother of invention. and
d''ai oi ourpeOple began early on Thurs
~ morning, after the fire, to accustom
b>'iieS 10 drinking substitute for
0orough water. wv -0'
L grand picnic will be held on the
I'm OF July at ArbuteS Glen Dcan STA
INlhl ON the frrssnr La -. -,