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Sept. 9, 1894 A Fine Monument

Robert Hamilton, of Perry township, has had erected in Perry cemetery a large and beautiful granite monument, to the memory of himself and family. The monument is the largest in the south side of the county, and is one of the finest in the county. The monument was built by Robinson & Neal, of this place. Robert Hamilton is the oldest living native born citizen of Jefferson county. He was born on the old Hamilton homestead, in what is now Porter township, in 1813, and has resided in the county ever since.

Sept. 9, 1894 A Striker for One Night

A prominent coal operator in Clearfield County, who, less than twenty years ago was working in the mines, and who was one of the most intrepid and uncompromising labor leaders of his day, got full during the recent strike and gave his employees, who were then on strike, the freedom of the town. He fell in with the boys as he did in the old days, gave them all the stuff they could drink, and they had a roistering time together. He harangued them in the bitterest terms about the cruel exactions of coal operators, and made a most eloquent recital of the hardships they endured and the wrongs they suffered. For that one night he was by far the biggest striker of them all. He confessed all his sins. But the next day, when he recovered from his carouse, and realized in a vague way what he had done, he felt very sore. He had said many things that were inconsistent with his practices, and the men would believe him either a knave or a hypocrite, and he was compelled to make quite a number of reforms about his mines that he had not intended to make. To the gentleman to whom he related this circumstance he said that the most expensive and embarrassing experience he ever had, when results were considered, was when he was a striker for one night.