Woodbury Splinters Our band has reorganized and is preparing music for July 3. Dr. F. B. Berkhimer is repainting his office and dwelling house. Woodbury will celebrate the glorious Fourth under the direction of the Odd Fellows. William Dall, constable of South Woodbury township, is down sick with very poor hopes of recovery. Rev. Peter Keagy raised a new bank barn on Tuesday of this week. He is making two farms out of one. Miss Allie Replogle, of your city, is paying a friendly visit to her old home. Her familiar smile and courtly manners are admired by all. W. H. Burns was here last week and bought the fine dapple gray mare of Rev. Joseph Bedford. A gayer driver cannot be found in Altoona. Our Dunkard brethren are holding weekly prayer meetings among their membership during the summer months. Thus far their gatherings have been well attended. David Imler is again on the sick list. He is building a new house and was helping the carpenters to put on siding, when he made a misstep when he fell some fifteen or twenty feet to the ground, receiving a sever shaking up. Fortunately no bones were broken. The Star hotel is now under the supervision of Harry Bollinger. He has remodeled the bar and office rooms, which gives them a very handsome and inviting appearance. Harry keeps everything in order and in keeping a first class public house. In short he is the right man in the proper place. Dr. Charles S. Oellig has had an experience of forty-six years with the afflictions of humanity. He has compounded a tonic which certainly merits notice and patronage from those that are not in the full enjoyment of life. He does not claim to cure all diseases, but says that he will guarantee it to invigorate, and even restore broken down constitutions when other great medicines are failing. --------------------------------------------- Sinking Valley Items Once more again we bob up serenely from below. Don't forget the election on Saturday afternoon. The hay crop will be a good one but the wheat in many parts will be no better than last season. Communion services were held in the lecture room of the new church on last Sunday at 11 o'clock. Mr. Lee Goodman has a horse which was so unfortunate as to break its lower jaw one day last week. It is thought it will die. Mr. Samuel Roseberry has been appointed mail carrier between Arch Springs and Union Furnace in place of Mr. McCaulay, who resigned. Mr. Morrow Tussey will raise his new barn today, the lower part was put in place on Monday afternoon. Last summer Mr. Tussey built a new house and now a new barn, and in a short time will have a fine home. John A. Crawford's team of blacks was the center of attraction in Bob Seed's parade at Tyrone on last Saturday. John Tennis, the driver, knows how to drive a team and also how to rig it up to make a good appearance. Dr. W. H. Morrow, one of the valley's best young men, and who recently graduated from Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, will arrive home this week. We are glad to welcome him back after undergoing a siege of hard study and having M. D. attached to his name. The Ladies Aid society of the Presbyterian church will hold a fair and festival in the basement of the new church on Thursday and Friday evenings, June 10 and 11, commencing at 5 o'clock. Ice cream, cake, strawberries and all the delicacies of the season will be on hand. All are invited to come and spend an evening, both pleasantly and profitably. Since the warm weather has come there are numerous picnics held on Sunday at the cave and Arch by people from different parts of the country. Now this is something that should no be allowed, as Sunday is not the day for having picnics, playing games, etc. They could certainly find some other day on which to hold their picnics. No one that has any respect for themselves or the Sabbath would be found taking part in a picnic on Sunday. If they must go some place on that day, go to church. Wild strawberries and cream are luxuries with us now. The clatter of the mowing machine will soon be heard in the land. Communion services were held in the new Presbyterian church on Sunday last. The hard winter was injurious to the wheat crop, but it was undoubtedly healthy for candidates. Morrow Tussey and Winfield S. Love are erecting themselves a new barn. Mr. Love's barn was consumed by fire some time ago. C. O. Templeton is now studying law in a Huntingdon law office. He will most certainly become as efficient in that profession as he was in teaching the young ideas to shoot. On Memorial Day some forty conveyances, loaded with human freight, wended their way to the different resorts for which our valley is famous. No doubt the parties enjoyed themselves hugely. While Martha, wife of Abram L. Fleck, was attempting to open a tin can with a knife she was using for that purpose, slipped, striking her on the left wrist and severing an artery. The wound bled profusely and is quite painful. It is thought there will be more mad dogs this season than ever before. The supposition is not founded from the disease being more contagious, nor because the dogs are more plentiful, but simply because there are so many candidates for them to howl at. Owners of good canines hate to lose them, yet fear to shoot the candidates. ---------------------------------- A Frightful Death From the Johnstown Tribune we learn that John Hughes, a young man about 22 years of age, met death in a horrible manner shortly after 12 o'clock Sunday morning. He had been in attendance at a picnic and hop at Morrellsville on Saturday. The festivities continued into the night, and at their close he escorted to her home in the vicinity of the Ten-Acre one of the young women in attendance, Miss Burns by name. After leaving her he started for his home in Cambria, intending to cross the Ten Acre railroad bridge of the Cambria Iron company. He had been drinking heavily, and while walking along the track of the company, sank to the ground and fell asleep, his head resting on one of the rails. An engine happened along about the same time above indicated. The engineer and fireman did not notice the prostrate form on the road until within a few yards of it. The fireman at once jumped from the engine and rushed forward in the hope of being able to save the man's life by dragging him from the track. He saw him throw up his arms and apparently make an effort to rise, but he sank back just as the fireman took hold of him and the engine struck him before the fireman could move him. His head was almost severed from his body and he was otherwise mutilated. The engineer at once proceeded to notify Mr. Alexander Stackhouse of what had happened. Men were sent to the scene of the accident to have charge of the young man's body, and they removed it to the residence of the father, Mr. Peter Hughes, on Railroad street, Cambria borough.