Bellwood Harvey Figart, wife and son, have occupied the new dwelling recently built by L. R. Kyper. W. F. Balsbach is confined to his home by illness. Mrs. Robert Pratton returned home after spending the week-end in Harrisburg. James Uhl returned home from over seas where he will spend a few days with his parents and will return over seas again. Ralph Isenberg, wife and daughter are spending a few days with Mr. Isenberg's mother at Alexandria. Miss Mary Cornmesser is visiting friends in Petersburg. --------------------------------------------------------------- Roaring Spring Bare park, the public playground donated to the borough by D. M. Bare, will be formally opened on Friday evening with a splendid program of exercises. District Attorney Marion Patterson will be the principal speaker of the occasion and there will also be other addresses and music by the Roaring Spring band. The matter of turning the Park avenue grove into a public park has involved much labor and heavy expense, all of which has been brought about without asking the people for money with which to carry on the work. Mr. Bare furnished the big portion of the funds in addition to donating the park, while the business men of the town also contributed liberally. Under the direction of the borough school board, through whom the park was donated by Mr. Bare, the work of transformation has progressed rapidly and beyond the fact that a sidewalk has not been laid, in completed. Now it is up to the people of the borough to make use of the park as intended by the donor and it is hoped that a representative audience will attend the exercises on Friday evening. Returning from his annual vacation last week Professor H. B. King, supervising principal of the local public schools is busy arranging for the opening of the 1920-21 term next Tuesday, September 7. A few of the conditions which must be complied with by the pupils and interesting information for parent, teacher and student, alike, are pointed out by Professor King. Owing to the crowded conditions in the lower grades it will be necessary to have two sessions. No child will be admitted without a vaccination certificate. All children who will be 6 years of age some time during the school year, will be admitted provided they enter within two weeks after the opening of the school term. On Friday evening of this week an important meeting of the teachers will be held to arrange for the opening of the schools. On Saturday morning at 9:30 o'clock in the High school building an examination will be held for the students of the eighth grade who failed in any branch of their work last year but who have made a thorough review of such work during the summer and desire to be examined. The Roaring Spring Light, Heat and Power company has notified its patrons that effective Oct. 1, 1920, all charges for light, heat and power will be advanced 26 per cent, except the minimum monthly charges which will be advanced 20 per cent, and the minimum charge for installation, which is not advanced. The tremendous advance in the cost of coal is given as the reason for the advance. This is the second advance in rates made by the firm this year, a new schedule of rates carrying with them a 25 per cent increase becoming effective on Jan. 1, 1920. The minimum charge of light in the borough will now be $1.50 per month, instead of $1.25, the present rate and $1 the rate prevailing last September. David P. McGee, well known Pennsy shopman, was pleasantly surprised at his home on Monday evening by friends and relatives who gathered to honor him on his 56th birthday. The feature of the evening was the elaborate dinner served by Mrs. McGee, spring chicken forming the chief piece de resistance. An enjoyable evening was passed by all present, the number including J. P. Martin, Miss Sadie Garber, Miss Sara Hite, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hanley, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Butler, Mr. and Mrs. George Dick, Mr. and Mrs. P. S. McGee, Charles and Merrill Butler, Jean and Doris Dick, Misses Nellie and Bessie McGee, Mr. and Mrs. D. F. McGee and C. M. McGee. With the arrival of cooler weather Roaring Spring people who have been spending part of the summer camping at points in this and in Bedford county are returning home. A party consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Mock and children, Mr. and Mrs. George Dick and daughters, Jean and Doris, returned early this week from Hughes station where they spent more than a week. A feature of trip was a groundhog hunt by the lady members of the party, the quartet of women digging out three groundhogs on the Friday previous to their return. The catch graced the table of the campers on Sunday. The male members of the party landed five groundhogs, making a total of eight caught in the week. Fish were also plenty in that section and the party thoroughly enjoyed the week in the open. A party of campers including Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Hileman, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hileman, Bruce Brumbaugh, Mrs. Charles Wright, and two daughters, Julia and Pauline, returned from a most enjoyable outing in Loysburg gap, where they occupied a cottage. On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Allen Shoenfelt, Mr. and Mrs. Collins Shoenfelt, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Butler and sons Charles and Merrill, C. C. Wright and Mr. and Mrs. P. S. McGee motored to the gap and took dinner with the party. Mr. and Mrs. Blair Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Butler and a party of friends also spend the week-end camping in the gap. Mr. and Mrs. E. I. Brenneman and son, Johnson, have returned from an extended visit with relatives in Maine and other New England states. Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair