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The Potter Enterprise (Coudersport, Pennsylvania) 06 Aug 1908, Thu Page 1i
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LOSES A LEG
JOE RlGGLES, WELL KNOWN LUMBERMAN INJURED AT WHARTON.
(Autograph.)
Ruggles, who has held the contract for supplying the Austin mills with logs, handling the loader and log trains in the woods, most of the time for 22 years, met with his first serious accident at Wharton on Wednesday last, resulting in the loss of his left leg below the knee.
Mr. Ruggles had been to Austin on business and missed the noon passenger train and started home on the log train. At Wharton he got off the train to transact a little business, and as the train was starting up he attempted to board one of the log cars. His foot slipped, and although Joe knew in an instant that it had gone where it ought not to, he could not pull it out before one of the wheels caught It. His foot and ankle was ground off so it only hung by a few shreds of skin and flesh.
The engine was cut loose from the train, and with the caboose hurried back to Austin with the unfortunate man, where he was taken to the hospital and Dr. Potter amputated the injured leg, just below the knee.
It was a most unfortunate accident for Mr. Ruggles, owing to the nature of his work and his heavy weight, as it will be next to an impossibility for him to follow this occupation on an artificial leg.
Joe Ruggles is a man who is known and respected by every person who ever had any conection with the lumbering industry of Potter county, and all will regret to learn of his sad misfortune.
PRETTY LAWN PARTY
Miss Elsie French and Her Little Cousins Entertain
Tuesday afternoon Miss French and little Miss Kathryn Wolverton and her brother, Lorrain entertained a number of their little friends in a very charming manner.
Games were played and refreshments served on the lawn. The little folks present were:
- Katherine Stocum,
- Mary Stocum,
- Cora Stevens,
- Jeanette Stevens,
- Edith Russell,
- Helen Russell,
- Laura Russell,
- Joseph Parish,
- Madeline Parish,
- Katherine Elliott,
- Margaret Elliott,
- Norma Allen,
- Kenneth Allen,
- Katherine Wells,
- Frederick Dinehart,
- Bernice Dinehart,
- Paul Potter,
- Robert Potter,
- Milton Potter,
- Lois Gordnier
- Wilson Lugg,
- Albert Reese,
- Katherine Zerfoss,
- Georgianna Daniels,
- Joe Daniels,
- Dorothy Newton,
- Thelma Reed,
- Florence Galusha,
- Harold Higgins,
- Romeyn Higgins,
- Mildred Metzger,
- Howard Heck,
- Marjory Heck,
- Mildred Keith,
- Elizabeth Stocking,
- Arthur Covey,
- John Covey,
- Maurine Millard,
- Geneieve DeVall,
- Ruth McGoey,
- Robert LeCompte,
- Lettie Le-Compte,
- Willard Schutt,
- Howard Orcutt,
- Clarence Loghry, and
- Walter Stevens.
Other little folks invited but who for various reasons were un able to be present were:
- Eugene GilIon,
- Edward Gillon,
- Josephine Abson,
- Florence Abson,
- Willis Potter,
- Lucile Clark,
- Madeline Clark,
- Thelma Shaw,
- Robley Swetland,
- Gilbert Robinson and
- Beldon Elliott.
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The Potter Enterprise
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
06 Aug 1908, Thu • Page 1
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Abt 1874 - 1950 (76 years)
