NEWS: Hollidaysburg News, Altoona Times, July 16, 1903, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG

  Justice Sell, of Windber, was a visitor here yesterday.
  Miss Mary G. Lotz left yesterday for a visit among friends in Pittsburg.
  A. W. Martin's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is billed to give two tented exhibitions 
in Hollidaysburg on Wednesday, July 22.
  Misses Fannie and Elizabeth Bollinger, of Baltimore, are visiting their 
uncle, Engineer Bollinger, on Front street.
 Mirs.* Maggie Roller and her granddaughter, Miss Fay Roller, of Williamsburg, 
were visitors in the county capital yesterday.
  At a meeting of the Hollidaysburg school board held on Tuesday evening the 
bond of the treasurer, James R. Humes, was approved.
  Mr. John Kingman, of Hinesdale, N. Y., and Miss Maud E. Smith, of 
Williamsburg, were married at the Methodist parsonage on Tuesday by Rev. A. S. 
Bowman.
  Hollidaysburg taxpayers will pay the following assessments this year: County 
3 mills, borough 3 mills, water 1 1/2 mills, school 5 1/2 mills, building 1 
mill, total 14 mills.
  Mr. J. G. Stewart, a tenant of one of Mr. P. S. Duncan's farms at Baker's 
Summit, had three valuable cows killed by lightning during the thunders storm 
last Friday.
  County Solicitor Frank H. Fay, esq., had his rubber tired buggy almost 
totally destroyed yesterday in an accident.  Two of his lady friends were out 
driving with his rig, when another team attempted to pass, and the two 
vehicles collided.  The ladies narrowly escaped being thrown out and injured.

Altoona Times, Thursday, July 16, 1903


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