Martinsburg Matters Carrie Ruth, an infant daughter of S. B. Isenberg, Esq., of Springfield Mines, was buried at Clover Creek, Lutheran Church, on Monday last, by Rev. F. A. Rupley, officiating. Miss Ida Stoner, daughter of C. P. Stoner, Esq., met with a painful accident on Thursday last, by which her arm was severely burned. Miss Ida was, with other members of the family, carrying some hot applebutter down stairs, when she tripped and fell, spilling the contents of a crock on her arm, with the result above stated. Daniel Bollinger, Esq., of the firm of H. L. Bollinger & Co., met with an accident on Tuesday afternoon by which his ankle was severely sprained. He was waiting on a customer, who inquired for a class of goods which are kept on the highest shelf in the store. To get them down, Mr. Bollinger climbed to the top of a high stool, one leg of which slipped into a hole while he was on it, precipitating him to the floor with the above stated result. ------------------------- NEARLY COMPLETED The Lewisburg and Tyrone railroad will be completed to Pennsylvania Furnace in a few days, and then taken out of the contractors hands. It will, however, take several weeks yet in trimming up before the road is finally open to traffic. As the work is so nearly completed, it is but just to say that the contractors, Messrs. Vandyke and Wilson, have proved themselves gentlemen, and in dealing with the many men to whom they have given work, they have acted as square and honest men. ------------------- BOGUS CHECK MAN ARRESTED One evening last week a young fellow hailing from Sunbury, was arrested at the Ward House, at the instance of S. R. Notestine, who keeps a hotel at Curwensville, on the charge of fraud. He had been boarding with Notestine and gave his check on a Sunbury bank in payment therefor. The check came back marked: "No funds." After going to Curwensville, he fixed the matter up in some way to their satisfaction and was released from custody. He passed through here again the following evening "chuck full." ------------------ A TIGHT SQUEEZE Mr. John Lowe made a remarkably narrow escape on Saturday. He was visiting furnace No. 1, and attempted to pass through the narrow space, near the car that ascends perpendicularly to the tunnel head of the furnace. While in the narrow passage the signal was given and the car began to ascend. The attendant pulled him from his dangerous position, but not in time to save him from getting a very tight squeeze and receiving a painful bruise on the hip. -------------------------- H. Z. Replogle, a butcher of New Enterprise, while driving cattle to market saw a paper pinned to a tie. He carelessly pulled it off and put it in his pocket. After getting home he examined the paper and was astonished to read thus: "You will find my body thirty feet from the tree, covered with leaves. I have five hundred dollars in my pockets and a good watch, which you can have if you burn my body. I do not want it buried." Mr. Replogle and some of his friends went in search, but failed to find the body or any clue of it. ------------------ Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair