NEWS: Hollidaysburg News, Altoona Times, July 15, 1903, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG

  Professor Frank Morrow, of Harrisburg, is a guest at the home of his 
brother, Mr. George Cunkle.
  Rev. Patrick Vereker and Thomas Lawly paid a visit yesterday to Father 
Cornelius Sheehan, of Ashville.
  Mr. Lawrence Diamond, of Youngstown, O., a former resident of this place, is 
visiting old friends here.
  Mr. Andrew Long, after an absence of several years, is renewing old 
acquaintances in the county capital.
  Mr. William H. Gardner has finished cataloguing the library of the late Dr. 
David H. Baron.  It contains 560 books, many of them being of great value.
  Miss Nora, daughter of John Wesley Wiseman, of Canal street, a Fourth of 
July toy pistol victim, went to the Altoona hospital yesterday to have a wound 
in her hand treated.
  At the Masonic banquet at Caterer Moses Brown's on Monday evening, Richard 
Roeloffs inadvertently took an umbrella belonging to some other person in 
mistake for his own.
  W. S. Hammond, esq., auditor, appointed to distribute the funds in the hands 
of John Cree, assignee of Gardner, Morrow & Co., late Hollidaysburg bankers, 
will sit at the court house tomorrow to attend to the duties of his office.
  Martin L. Rhodes and the other heirs of George W. Rhodes, deceased, late of 
Hollidaysburg, instituted injunction proceedings in court yesterday morning 
against the Pennsylvania Railroad company, Roydhouse Ayer & Co., Reilley & 
Webber and the Vipond Construction company, to restrain the defendants from 
trespassing on the plaintiff's lands in East Hollidaysburg, or from doing any 
work or making any surveys or changes on said lands by diverting the course of 
the river or otherwise, except that defendants shall be allowed to proceed 
with the construction of the round house or any other building which is now in 
actual course of construction.  Judge Bell granted a preliminary injunction 
and fixed the hearing for Friday, July 17, at 9 a.m.  The plaintiffs are the 
owners of a farm in Blair township, containing 250 acres of land.  The 
Pennsylvania Railroad company was given the option last winter to purchase 
sixty acres of said land at $200 per acre, on which the new railroad yard and 
shops in East Hollidaysburg were to be constructed.  For some reason the 
purchase money has not been paid over, although the railroad company has taken 
possession of the land and has begun making the contemplated improvements.

Altoona Times, Wednesday, July 15, 1903