The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-11-23

| Agricultural Association will meet IN the
council room, EbenSburg. on Saturday.
| Dec en- Der /. 1894, from ! to Is o'clock, for
che purpose OF nominating officers to be
elected al the regular meeting, to be held
| Tuesday, December 1Ith-
Harry Gable. an engineer on the Glen
| White branch of the Pennsylvania rail-
road. while trying to board freight train
at Kittanning Point on Wednesday night
! TO ride to his home. missed his footing and
| was thrown To the ground. HewaS taken
| on Wednesday To the Altoona hospital on
| East line. suffering from a diSlOcation of
! the left collar bone. a laceration of the
scalp back of the left ear and lacera-
/ tiOn of the left ear. A portion of the
ear IS missing. Gable is Is years old
married and lives al Glen White.
! One of the most interested attendants
| of t9e recent Huntingdon county teachers
! institute was a man 81 years old, who
/ walked To Huntington from his country
! home each morning to be present at the
sessions He was a teacher for many years
/ and only retired from active work in the
/ school room six years ago. Many of the
\ most prominent men of the county were
| his pupils and he has taught the classics
/ and mathematics To hundreds of scholars.
/ He i still hearty and none was a more eager
I listener TO instructors and lecturers at the
| institute than he
/ The young American wage worker who
/ puts forth his best efforts. and who prac-
/ JiceS what economists call abstinence. or
/ the limiting of expenditure to less than III
! come. has as good ground for expecting to
/ become capitalist a. the gardner to ex-
! pect crop from good seed deposited in
/ rich and fertile soil. 1t is no less true that
! he who does little as possible to keep
| him in his position. and who has slight re-
! gard for the interest of his employer, has
I the elements in him that make it almost
| certain that he will always be a member of
/ the dependent class.
"A delegate meeting was held on Friday
at ReynoidSville, Jefferson county, Pa, at
which the miners of that place and Du-
BOiS, Clcariield county. were represented.
FOR the purpose of taking action on the
proposition of the Bell, Lewis * Yates
Coal Mining Company to reduce the price
OF mining to thirty five cents ton, and all
other work prOpOrtionately. The delegates
decided To report in favor of accepting the
reduction for the time being. and on Fri
day evening the report was accepted by
mass meeting of the miners at Dubois
and il is understood at RCynOIdsville also.
James O'Bricn. man about 30 years
of age, is Low ia the HoIlidaysburg Jail
awaiting u hearing at court on the charge
of rObbinG freight cars on the PennSyI-
vania railroad. The specific charge on
which he Is likely be tried is the one COM
mitted at Remington on or about April >,
1924, when hc broke open and entered box
car 7l.s53 ana stole a number of hats val
Ued AT 81 and box of VarniSh valued at
50 His accompliceS in this robbery were
Sloan and Dillon. who live near BcnnIng-
ton. and who were captured. tried and
sentenced to six months i'll the county Jail
last June.
-Enoch IScuburg. of yellow Springs.
has AN apple tree that has blOsSomed and
brought forth two crops of fruit this year.
The first crop of apples was gathered in
June last. and at the present time the tree
has several hundred apples thereon. Ar
thur McMurtrie. of this place, has shown
u some of the fruit and left u sample at
this office. They are about the size of
crab apples and we'll formed. When the
fruit was shown TO Henry Greene, an aged
citizen of Toi township, he said he gath
cred the second crop of apples from Il tree
on the same farm in 1871, fifty-tree years
ago Huntington Local Nctcs.
This is the latest SwindIe practiced on
farmers who can't afford To take paper"
Stopping at farm house that is insured,
the swindIers represent that they are
special agents around inspecting risks.
and 30 get the name of the company who
have insured the house. Later they re-
turn with a typewriter letter TO the eff
Il. IL hos fol nd
they were empowered with the authority
to transfer the policy to another. The
farmer Is prevailed upon to sign what he
suppoSeS to be Il promiSsOry note for a sum
ranging from SO to 500. The swindlerS
are reaping a rich harvest and rarely fail
y work their game.
A StoyestOwn correspondent of the
Somerset HcrdId writes: On last Monday
night quite a singular patient was brought
To the Office of DR.. J. H Gardner. He was
a man by the name of Christner, who lives
with Nelson Simpson. about five miles
south Of this place. The unfortunate man
had retired. and shortly after fell into a
sound sIeep-SO SOundly did he sleep and
so deeply did he SnOre that his lower jaw
became di>IOcated on both sides, in which
condition he was brought 10 the doctor
about O'Clock in the morning. With con
siderable difficulty the taxation was
reduced and the man was taken home,
feeling a. though nothing had happened,
except with a a sore jaw from his eXper-
ience.
What may prove fatal accident to
one unfortunate young woman occurred at
Huntingdon at 6:2s on Monday evening,
as Fast Line west. on the L. L. r., was
approaching the station. Clara Martin.
aged twenty-five, and Elizabeth Mil Ter
aged nineteen. cousins, were crossing the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad at the station.
and. their view of the north track be-
ing obStructed by mOtionleSs freight,
they were unaware OF the approaching
passenger train and were run down. The
pilot Of the engine struck Miss Martin and
hurled her a distance of thirty-live feet
along the platform. She sustained fract-
ures Of the right jaw and right elbow, was
severely injured about the hips, and SUI
frrcd ugly gashes on the head and face.
Her injuries may prove fatal Miss Mil
Ter sustained slight confusion on the
back part Of the head. and was soon able
10 move about.
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