Claysburg Chips Hewed Out by a Sharp Blade and Gathered Up for Our Readers Mr. Birdine Dodson is quite ill. Mr. M. W. Black of Eldorado looked in on us Saturday. B. H. Lehman, editor of the Martinsburg Herald, was in town on Friday. H. M. Reighardt and Crawford M. Black of Altoona, were hereaways on Saturday. C. R. McVicker is going around on a crutch, the effect of a severe cut with a knife. The Sunday school of the Lutheran church of this place will hold their reorganization on Saturday next, at 9 o'clock a. m. We are sorry to note the serious illness of Mrs. William Ickes, but we trust it will not be many days until she can be about again. The Missionary Society of the Reformed church of this place will hold their anniversary exercises on Sunday evening, the 10th inst. Communion services will be held in the Reformed church on Sunday next, at 10 o'clock, a. m. The Regular preparatory services on Saturday previous. Our friend, C. M. Zeth has returned from Altoona to spend the summer here. He had been employed as a teacher in the Mountain City College. Mr. Zeth is one of our best young men, and we gladly welcome him to our midst again. At their regular meeting, on Saturday evening last, the Lodge of I. O. O. F., of this place, elected the following board of officers for the ensuing term: Noble Grand, William P. Shaeffer; Vice Grand, G. W. Mosser; Secretary, Jacob Carn; Assistant Secretary, L. E. Shaeffer; Treasurer, S. E. Hoenstine; Trustee, Christ Emeigh. Tyrone Topics The Daily Budget of Local Gleanings from the Lower End of the County Zerbe's is the place to get your meats. Joseph Williams, coal merchant, is improved in health. The Entracht Singing Society proposes having a good time on Easter Monday. Miss Mollie Hendricks, after an eastern visit of a month's duration, returned home yesterday afternoon. Such is life. We are here today and may be buying a suit of clothes at Charlie Conrad's tomorrow. Who knows? "Monte Cristo," by the Aiden Benedict Company, of New York, at Conrad's Opera House on the evening of the 15th inst. Mrs. J. Morgan, wife of the head clerk of the Seventh Avenue Hotel, Pittsburgh, is the guest of Mrs. MacOmber, of the Ward House. Harris figured quite conspicuously in Tyrone Topics of the Tribune yesterday, and the consequence was an interesting letter from Dave. Get your fishing tackle and trout flies ready for the 15th. Mal Hanscom has the biggest and finest stock on hand ever brought to Tyrone. Cheap, too. Commencement exercises took place yesterday at the Patton school building, at Curwensville. Lots of flowers were being bestowed on the scholars of the graduating class. The postoffice appears to worry Brother Caldwell. But, if he expects to get the appointment under the Blaine regime, he will have to wait till lightning strikes him in a better world. We saw an old railroad employee yesterday, coupling cars from the inside curve of the track. Of course it was done thoughtlessly, but that is just the way so many accident occur. Services will be held every evening this week at the Lutheran church, and on next Sunday morning the Lord's Supper will be administered at the same place, Rev. Oberholtzer officiating. Points on Persons Mr. George Swartz of Philadelphia is in the city. Miss Emma Litzinger, of this city, is visiting relatives and friends in Ebensburg. Mr. Fred. Lomax, formerly of Altoona, but more recently of Oil City, is about to locate in the Far West. Hon. John S. Rhey, one of Cambria's representatives in the Legislature, came to the city yesterday on a brief visit to friends, of whom the writer hereof ranks A No. 1. Mr. Clarence A. Sentman, who for the past four years has been employed in the Company's soft iron foundry, left on Thursday night for Ft. Wayne, Ind., having accepted a position in the shops at that place. Mr. Sentman's many friends, while regretting his departure, wish him unbounded success in his new home. Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair