Business Changes- Mr. R. S. Gamble, the successful and reliable Eleventh avenue merchant, has branched off in his business connections, having purchased the grocery store of Morrison, Bare & Co., Roaring Springs, this county. He will take possession on the first of July next, and will run both the main store and branches with the same energy and business correctness that have heretofore characterized his operations. We wish him success both in the new and old fields of enterprise. --------------------- An Omission- In our notice of the Silver Jubilee of Father Tuigg, last week, we unintentionally omitted from the musical part of the programme a very delectable instrumental trio, "West-End Polka," performed by Misses Annie V. Carr, Ellie Haas and Nettie Plack. We cheerfully make the correction as a just tribute to the young ladies who participated in the trio. ---------------- Valuable Mare Dead- A valuable mare belonging to W. Lee Woodcock, Esq., of this city, died one night last week very suddenly from some unknown cause. She was in charge of Mr. Samuel Orr, at Allegheny Furnace at the time, and the loss is a deplorable and heavy one, as Mr. W. would not have taken $500 for the animal. -------------- A Hollidaysburg Old Timer- Every resident of Hollidaysburgh of Thirty-five years ago will remember a man familiarly known as Rob Lowry-a genial whole souled fellow, brimful of humor and business vim. He was a passenger conductor on the old Portage railroad in 1837-9; afterward kept a hotel at the foot of Plane No. 2, and in 1844 removed to Davenport, Iowa, where he took charge of the first class hotel in the town, and where he did a thriving business and amassed considerable property. Subsequently he was elected to the State Legislature and the State Senate. At the session of the Centennial Commission, held at the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, last week, Mr. Lowry was chosen one of the Vice Presidents of the Commission and many of his old friends who worked on the old Portage with him nearly forty years ago will be pleased to learn this fact. He was young man at the time he acted in the capacity of conductor on this road and many of his old friends and cronies are still living in this county who kindly remember him. ------------------------------ Plenty of It- On Saturday afternoon we counted no less than twelve games of baseball in progress at the same time. The players were gamins of all the tender years verging on incipient manhood, with occasionally a more advanced specimen who boasted a profusion of silky down on lip and chin, and who strutted in conscious superiority accordingly. There was no aristocracy, however, among the more tender aged juveniles-if any, it was the rank of superiority in the play; in all else the youth of whole breeches and well washed face and groomed hair was no more than the equal of the gamin whose unmentionables wore baywindows in the stern through which soiled linen peeped defiantly out, and whose faces and hands were as much strangers to soap and water as their hair was unkempt. The national game is at least a social leveler, and those who would wear its honors and pleasures must also tolerate its social ignorings. ------------------------ Married- At the Eighth avenue M. E. Church, on Thursday evening, the 20th inst., Mr. John Grove and Miss Rebecca M. Lewis, both of this city. The officiating clergyman was the pastor, Rev. S. C. Swallow, pastor of the church. ---------------------- Runaway Apprentice- A lad named John Wicker, aged about thirteen yeas, bound to the undersigned as an apprentice to the farming business, on the Charles Mason farm near Duncanville, having absconded. I will pay the customary reward of six cents for his return. John Forsht ------------------------------ Died Colyer- In this city on the 2d inst., Howard Livingston Colyer, son of J. W. and M. E. Colyer, aged 18 months and 3 days. Leckie- In this city, on the 7th inst., Edwin R. S., son of Rev. J. W. and E. S. Leckie, in the 3rd year of his age. --------------- Married- ZOLLINGER-HAUSFIELD On the 4th inst., by Rev. A. C. Whitmer, Mr. Charles E. Zollinger to Miss Catharine Hausfield, both of this city. MILLER-GREEN May 23, at the First M. E. Parsonage by Rev. James Carns, Mr. James G. Miller and Miss Rachel Green, both of this city. HOLSINGER-STREIGHT At the Delta House, June 1, by the same, Mr. John R. Holsinger and Miss Essie A. Streight, both of Bedford county. MCDONALD-CURRY At the residence of G. W. Anderson, June 7, by the same, Mr. Edward McDonald and Mrs. Margaret M. Curry, both of Osceola, Pa. Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair