Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-09-20

              w Il STNCTLl MODERN AND IIP TO DATE History of Punxsutawney's Schools From Time of Beginning. PROMINENT TEACHERS Continued on Pago Three. HEAD THE SPIRIT MK.VT8 F.VEKV NIGHT AMD ntt CJOODS WHICH ARE ADVERTMU® —THEY ARE BETTER :: :: It TWO CEIT UW A FARCE PRICE 1 CENT Considered One of the Best Structures of Its Kind in the State. VOL II. No. 4 PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1907 4 HUNDREDS OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN INSPECTING THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING TODAY TWO MORE ARRESTS MADE IN THE GRAFT CASES YESTERDAY Judge Slmll Rays •'It Wns PaHen-d Without Keason in XnuH' of Reform." THE BIG DAY OF THE YEAR Oil GROUNDHOG NOB THE BEST EVER «Ol'l,l> HOB BON l> HOI.DKItS. Shumaker and Cassel Served at Their Homes—r-Put Up Bonds. ALSO CONDUCT AN OFFICIAL HUNT NO MORE AT PRESENT Proved to Be Most Clever Woodchuck Ever Found in Groundhogville. TO BE DISSECTED The oplnon states also that to compel tlis company to comply with the 2-cent law would rob the bondholders of their securities, deprive the community of the facilities for transportation of freight and confiscate tinproperty of the stockholders. He says that the art is a caprlco of a Legislature "many of whom* members, without rhyme or reason .facts or Inures, information or reputation, pledged to perform the act In the name of 'reform,' and that we might say reform as was said by Madame Holand <»f liberty in the days of the French Revolution, 'Oh, Liberty! liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!' " Tho law, he declares in his decree, is in derogation of both the United States and the Pennslvania constitutions. He quotes figures of tin- company's earnings to show that the enforcement of the rate ordained by the act would be confiscatory. HARRISBURG, Pa . Sept. L»0.—The | 2-cent-fare law.enaeted at the recent j session of the Pennsylvania Leglsla- j ture, was adjudged invalid, unconatitutional and void in its application to 1 the Susquehanna River Western Railroad Co.. in an opinion delivered yesterday at Bloomfield l»y Judge Shuil, of the Perry County Court Two Hundred and Fifty Believers in His Royal Highness' Absorb Official Punch. TELEGRAPHERS SCRAPING Dissatisfied With Manner hi Which Leaders Are Handling the Strike. THE SCHOOL BOARD COMPLETES PEAKS FOR DEDICATION Ni:\\ JKFFKKKON STUKIOT SCIIOOI. BUI 1.1)1 N(i, Pl'NXSlTTAWXF.Y, I'ENN'X New Books. J Meeting Held Last Night- Will Order Number of The story that ex-Governor Penny- ! packer might be named in an information to bo entered later is denied 011 all sides. It is altogether probable, however, that ho will be called as a witness in one 01* more of the eases. From Harrisburg comes the information that there will be no additional arrests this week. The prosecuting officers are utilizing every moment in preparing the fourteen cases for presentation to the grand Jury on Wednesday. If the grand Jury returns true bills the first case to be brought to trial will most likely be that involving the "baccarat" glass, for which the state paid $133,000, but which was bought by Sanderson from th«> Phoenix Glass Company of Pittsburg for $27,000. Payne was not served with his warrant, he being at Mount Pleasant, Mich. Service was accepted by his attorneys. A representative of the United States Fidelity Co., which became bondsman for Wetter, also went before Magistrate Gallagher to ensure the presence when needed of Payne. Constable White was unable to serve the warrant on Lewis, who has not been seen for months. His attorney is Samuel M. Clement, Jr., who agreed to insure the presence of hs client at the trial. Wetter answered in person to the summons, anil appeared before Magistrate Gallagher in Attorney John (\ Bell's office, whtjre the defendants entered $10,000 and $12,000 bail, respectively.PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 20.—Warrants reached the city from Iiariisburg shortly before three o'clock yesterday afternoon for the arfest of George F. Payne, builder of the State Capitol; Charles G. Wetter, his partner, and Sanford Lewis, Architect Huston's contidential man. SOME IMPROVEMENTS HUD MOW ESCAPE his security was served yesterday afternoon. Mr. 000, two of his neighbors becoming ed bail for court in the sum of $00,- ('assel waived a hearing: and funrlsh- XKW YORK. Sept. UO. — Apparently dissatisfaction prevails in the camp of the strlkiiK telegraphers here. President Small said t >day that Thomas L. Mahan antl Arthur G. K. Douglass, members of the local union, who Rave out statements in Washington that the* strikers worn dissatisfied an 1 wanted to return t>» work, will be repr wed today at a mass meeting: of the local union. Small declared that the men stated that the strikers wished to settle T *A rr « . the Strike over the heads of «thelr LANCAS TRR, Pa., Se„t. 20.—The leader*. Many .striker!, admit there warrant for the arrest of Congress- ,R uneaslnc„ ,n th,,lr ranU„. man H Burd Caasel, who Ik treamir- g0e8 t0 r„u.w, today er of (he Pennsylvania Construction aooount „f lho sorious mne„s „f hi!) Co., of Marietta, 'this county, who is son Jn tjiar t.jty involved in the State Capitol scandal, ' . By United Press. Two >loii Working llndor Car Have (■lose Call Wlim the Train Racks Fn. Aldcrman Harry B. Ma in hart was summoned to the Shumaker home, whore he took the bond of Nathan Miller and C. C. Wehn in the sum of $00,000. JOHNSTOWN, Pa.. Sept. 20.—Detective Walters of Harrlsburg, yesterday served on James M. Shumaker a warrant in connection with the Capitol frauds. Shumaker had been apprised of his coming", and his attorney, Percy Allen Rose, made a flying: trip from Ebensburg to Johnstown by automobile. and was present when the war- , rant was served. WHO IS DE LECEI .Man Said to be From Punx'y (iris Tangled lip With S?<'iglit of Hand Artist. The speed of the ore car was nearly spent as It struck the ear which was being repaired, to which, fact the two workmen likely owe their lives, or at least a limb. While working under a jackei up ear in the local yards of the Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburg railroad yesterday two employes of that road narrowly escaped serious Injury. Repairs were being1 made on a box ear j which the workmen had raised on j I jacks. The work was being done | w ithout a flap at the switch and the yard engine threw in an ore ear, Which struck the car which was being repaired, knocking it from the jack?*. CURE FOD RHEUMATISM School hours for the first and second grades will be from nine >'clock in the morning until 11:30 o'clock and from 1:15 o'clock in the afternoon until 3:45. F.>r the other rooms school will convene at nine o'clock and be dismisse 1 at 11:45 in the morning, while the afternoon session will last from 1:15 until l' »ur o'clock. The remainder of the books are uniform among the four schools and will be replenished where the supply is deficient or where they arc to.) badly worn for use. The books now in use, including a large number of tHe common branches, are badly worn and lack uniformity, the latter being caused in a great mVasure bj'' the ad lition of the West End schools, where the books used. differed almost entirely from those in use in the schools in this end of the town. Uniformity in books not only greatly facilitates the school course, but is also required by law. New readers, arithmetics by Prof. Samuel Hamilton, superintendent of the Allegheny county school,s Maxwell's grammars and the Brooks-Hubbard rhetjrie were the new books adopted. At a meeting of the school boar J last evening the directors completed all arrangements for the dedication exercises tonight and ad >pted several new series of bonks, which will (ill a long-felt want. August 20, 1006, the contract was awarded to Nixon & Lament, who immediately began the excavations an J by the time the weather became too severe to proceed with the work, had completed the foundations, the basement and part of the first story. As soon as the weather was propitious this spring operations were resumed and prosecuted with all possible Nixon & Lamont, of Titusville, who had received the contract for erecting the building after the first election, were retained after the second election. The original plans were changed, however, to include not only sixteen school rooms, but a basement and auditorium. The site was also enhanced by the acquisition of the Phalen lot, which gave ample room for the new building and lawns. growth of the town it would be wise to provide for the immediate future at least. With this end in view, the board on June 8, 1905, submitted the proposition bohding the district for funds with which to erect a sixteen-roomed building, to the voters. The measure carried by a vote of four to one, but when the bonds were offered for sale a technical flaw in regard to the time the bonds wore advertised made them illegal. The proposition was again submitted to the voters of the district April 19, 1906, and carried, but by a reduced majority. A long controversy over the site finally resulted in the directors deciding to build on the Jefferson street lot. with the rajfcd but that The handsome big educational building that today is being dedicated, for all time, to the use of t'ae public schools of Punxsutawncy is a fitting monument to the cause, a glory to America's greatest institution and the pride of every citizen of the town, especially of the boar! of directors who by their votes gav it being and by their faithfulness to duty directed its construction. Observing the overcrowded condition of the local schools during the 1904-05 term the school board, which then included William M. Falrman, president; George C. Brown, secretary; A. C. Robinson, McKean Harl, James C. Green and M. H. Smith, recognized the imperative need of a lurge addition to the number of school rooms, if the children of Punxsutawncy were to be given advantages anything like the times and modern school ethics demanded. They were also awake to the fact that not only present needs must be This is the day 'that all streets in Punxsutawncy lead to the imposing structure that rears its classic outlines above North Jefferson street. All arrangements looking toward the successful rendition of the days' program have been completed and the prospects for a large attendance at the reception in the new building as well as at the dedication exercises in the opera house tonight, are exceedingly favorble.Woman Tortured to Death to Drive the Kvll Spirits Out of ller Itody. HUDSON DONE CONE Wide cement walks lead to the entrances. At the head of the stairs you enter a large foypr 30x84 feet. All of the eight roooms and the principal's room open from the foyer. On either side of the main entrance to the foyer on the second floor are stairs'leading t«» the third floor with a union landing half yay up. Froyi the landing the stairs continue at right angles, leading to the opposite sides of the foyer on the third floor. Standing on the landing one may ser The second (lopr is reached by a wide stairway leading from the main entrance n the Jefferson street side and an entrance each, on the north and south sides of the building. Fourth story: Auditorium and two large coin muni eating dressing rooms, stage, etc. Third story: High school department. including study hall with a seating capacity of 1G0 pupils, and foui1 recitation rooms, four school rooms, director's room and teacher's private room. Second story: Eight school rooms and principal's room. Basement, or first story: Two large laboratories, fronting on Jefferson street; two large and well-equipped toilet rooms; two play rooms, janitors' rooms, engine room, furnace rooms, fan rooms, halls, air filters, stock room and filter room. The basement or first story Mo >r being on a level with Jefferson street, precludes any annaoy-ance from seepage. especially for the further reason that' the floors ami Walls' of all apartment are constructed of the very best cement. The various stories contain the following apartments: The building in style of architecture, material, symmetry, equipment, conveniences, interior arrangements, lighting and heating, embjdles all that is modern and essential and It is doubtful if there Is any other building in the state or country that possesses so many up-to-date characteristics.Tin- lot »n which tho building stands Is 150 feet square and the building In the clear is 8 5x131 feet, four stories high, inclu ling the basement, and the auditorium which occupies the fourth floor. speed, so that the contractors had completed their part of the work in ample time for the opening of the school". What IJmLsay Said Alter .Murdering Friend at Sagamore hi I>c- MOORISH SULTAtt IN PERIL They are accused <»f torturing to death Mrs. Letitia (Ircenhaugh, of Zioii City. In an effort to cast "devils and evil snirits" ,from her rheumatism rucked body. C1II('A(.i(), Sept. 20. — Five members of the sect known as the I'arhamites, have been arrested m charges of manslaughter. By Unite 1 Press, Thereupon a council of war wa.« held which v.'as participated iv. by forty of the most expert groundhog hunters in the world. New "smelling sticks' were ordered. th« diggings were in-surveyed, and llnally ;i subcommittee composed of Hill Jordan, Park Walker. Steve Palmer. Court Hoover, Hoe Means. Des Proas. (Hen Jordan Doc Miller, John Phllliber, The diggers could hav. stood for all this but af'er they had excavated and trencht l i large section of Mr. K rust's best clover llebl. they came to the end of the hole and drew a blank. •illars after him of the earth, tlrst to the left, then to the right, then up, then to the east, here a heading and there a shaft, now a main drive and further on a diagonal cut, and to make matters more conf Minding the rascal had pulled the emergency. The foxy woojehuck had descended deep Into the b iwels >ig had | i rep:; red for Just such an ore gr« at hides lt< tin- earth. And hey were needed, for the wily wood- Soundirj s were made and split sticks w t re Inserted into the hole t > get the bearings and In less than the proverbial "Jiffy" a score <»f expert excavators were making the ilirt lly over the luckless head of the intrepid weather sharp. The daring diggers, took turns with the grub hoes, while sr.ires of excited spadists the assistance of tht enemy, shrieked a fierce defl and darted into his subterranean fortUca t ions. the pesky prognosticator, who, after giving battle agalnsrt great odds ami with new recruits coming to had ha 1 a desperate encounter with to peer through the portals of a pig hole. Glen Jordan, Court Hoover, Doc Miller and Art Cocvhran er trooped, from all points on the compass, posses of perspiring pickets and in less time than It takes to write it the entire bunch was frying flith- woodchuek had been located. In just thirty-three minutes from the time the scouts were unleashed, Prank Boney appeared on an eminence overlooking the John Ernst farm and blew a fanfare that was interpreted to mean that the official each one eager to secure tho'1 prize. spaders, linemen and sniffers, promptly at three o'clock p. m., charged , through the fastnesses tens. an equal number of guides, diggers. As per calculations of the mathematicians, the 33rd groundhog t .> fall a victim to the prowess of the hunters was to be the ofttclal catch, the Nlmrods, in squads of tlfty, Including Center bagged an equal number, while the faithful at Punxsutawney and Groundhog Knob slaughtered tlve marmots each. Colonel Jim Mitchell, Doc Miller und Scout Glen Jordan, was the iirst to rep irt with eleven woodchucks. The clans from I'anoe Uidge and Marion The Perrysvllle .posse in charge of thirty-two luscious, '.ardaeeous carcn> <x were tossed Into the frying pans. in their respective bailiwicks, and when Chef H. E. Beatty an l Assistant <'hef and Capt. Lem Chambers started the llres under the boilers, For three days the scouts from Punxsuta wney, Perrysvllle, Valier, Georgeville, Marion Center, Canoe I:idge and Groundhog Knob had been getting a line on the wily woodchuck tol of Groundhog Knjb, yesterday afternooji, when over 250 «ticlples of the Sag.- ot Marmotville answered at roll call. The most largely attended and successful annual hunt ever pulled off by the Punxsuta wney Pittsburg Groundhog Club was that which wad convoked at Highland Park, the capl- Sultan Abd-el-Azlz has dismissed his Ministry. TANGIER, Sept. 20.—The Zemmour tribe at Rabat has announced Its intention of stopping Sultan Abd-el-Aziz. unless he arrives very shortly. Other tribes who are wavering in their allegiance are certain to go over to Mulai Hatlg. This will create a most dangerous situation for Abd-el-Azlz, whose escort numbers only 4.000. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TODAY All advertisements, to insure a change on the day desired, or to be inserted in the regular classified column. must reach tnis office not later than 10 a. m. Mosoley, who lives !n Washington at root, la 29 years old. It was while waiting for the wagon that Mosoley endeavored to pull off his mystifying stunt of transferring the money back to LVLeggi's pocket. Ho had almost succeeded when discovered by the policeman, but had to admit that he was stung. Nary, when he saw what had occur* red. placed Mosoley under arrest and took his victim along as a witness. He marched them over to the patrol box. the alleged hold-up man protesting his innocence. He said he had m» money. DeLeggi's story was false and and all his belongings were in his pocket. Mosoley said this would be demonstratod when DeLoggi and he were searched. Just as ho was about to make off with the loot Mosoley was intercepted by Officer Nary, otherwise his other accomplishment might not have come to light. Mosoley, it is charged by the policeman held up Philip LoDiggi, aged IK, of Punxsutawney, last night at the point of a revolver. As DeLeggl was unarmed Mosoley had very little difficulty In going through with this part of the performance. He secured $11. John Mosoley is a bold, bad hold-up man—and also some pumpkins as a legerdemain artist. These qualities are attributed to him by Officer Nary, who saw him give a description of both yesterday evening at Short and Water streets. Who is the Philip DeLeggi described in the following article that was printed in Wednesday's issue of the Pittsburg Gazette Times?: BIG GASSEH FOR PITTSBrUG CANOE RIIX3JS (Office of the Weatherworks)—Rain and cooler tonight and Saturday. Clearing Saturday afternoon. The building complete and furn- Contlnued on Puge Six. The .>nly anyone cenccrned regreted in the handsome structure can feci is been use of the delay in the shipment of the furniture (hat should have been in place to greet the eyes of those who today are thronging- Its stately corridors and otherwise cheery apartments. together Is a structure that the directors, contractors and citizens may well feel proud of. The building, which is constructed of Hummelstown brown stone and buff pr.ssed brick and covered with llle roofing, i& as near Hreproof as It is possible* to make a bundling that has wooden finishings. It is finished thrmghout in yellow pine, with mahogany effect, and all lights, which will be Installed as soon as the fixtures arrive. All! ofl the apartments, including the hallways and foyers, excepting the school rooms and the recitation rooms, have been wired f.»r electric rid vice versa. A switch board in the principal's room makes it possible for any teacher or pupil, by securing permission, to use the Sum* merville' pllone, also. All messages however,-must go through the principal's room. The building has been wired for an Independent telephone system, so that when the instruments have been installed the principal may c mimunlcate with any room in the building -opting tho school ro mis and recitation rooms. timet* is kept pure, regular and abundant. The water first passes through a large filter t> the various drinking fountain and lavatories and from them to the closets. The water flows continuously and th- pupils drink from the fountains without the use of tins or vessels, thus avoiding all probability of contagion by contact. There are two f am tains and four lavatories in each foyer and lavatories in every apartment, ex- the room at the exact number of degrees desired, while the air at all erlcan Heating & Ventilating Co.. of Pittsburg, is the best that modern Ingenuity has devised, as by it each teacher may have the temperature of The heating and ventilating system which was installed by the Am- Xo: fhe least interesting feature of the building is the basement or first story with its two large laboratories, well appointed closets, furnaces, 35- horse power dynamos for driving the fans and furnishing the power for the filter, air filters, fuel room and play rooms. From the basement the janitor regulates the heat In every room and watches >ver a pair of fans that drive pure air to every chamber in the building. The auditorium, which is reached by stairways on the north and south sides of the second floor foyer, has a raised floor and will contain 4 00 opera chairs. It Is also well lighted and ventilated arid will be as convenient as any theater. Each school room is provided with a commodious clothes locker and dryer, and a book case, the former being shut; from view by roll doors, and the latter being built in the wall. The rooms are neatly finished and have wide black boards on all sides. When they receive the new furniture they will be both comfortable and cherry. One of the features of the building is the extraordinary lighting'facilities, light. being admitted to each room through seven large windows, a triple window on one side and a quadruple window on the other side. the entrance to any seh >ol room in the building, the view of the third floor entrances being made possible because of a cresetnt opening 64 feet long immediately over the stairway and landing. Owing to the view obtained from the landing between the second and third floors, the principal can, If lie chooses, observe the movements of every pupil from the time they enter the building until they have entered their respective rooms. rldur. Stairway of New Jefferson Street School Building, vluiv from third lloor cor- Rumberger—Change. Punxsutawney Fruit & Produce .Co. —Change. John B. Balr—-Chance. Robinson Hardware Co.—Change. For Sale—Theatorlum, reader. Wanted—Vest maker; special column.led cream jupper; reader. WASHINGTON, Pa.. Sept. 20.—The' Manufacturers Light and Heat Company of Pittsburg, yesterday struck a big gasser on the farm of Christina Deed, four miles from Claysvllle. On searching him a case knife sharpened to a keen edge, was found. Ward secured from the man in detail his movements since the day of the murder. He admitted being with Hudson at 12 o'clock and that he left Sagamore two hours later, on the 24th of December. Detective Ward says that ho can produce witnesses to whom Lindsay had shown a roll of money and heard him say "Hudson is done gone." The prisoner said that he had been hit on the head, in Pittsburg about three weeks ago, with a black jack and robbed of thirty-tlve dollars. In the report of the arrest of John Lindsay, night before last by Railroad Detective Ward and Chief of Police Palmer a mistake was made as to the manner in which the negro was found. Ward had been informed thai a straw negro was in the yard and after hearing a description of the man suspected that it was Lindsay. Knowing that he was a desperate character Ward asked Chief Palmer for assistance and the two searched the yards in plain clothes. Near the freight house is a large tie pile and in walking In the rear of this Ward saw the negro lying down. He grabbed him by the arm and lifting it up, noticed that a linger was gone Ward's exclamation of "You're the man I'm looking for," brought the chief to the tie pile and he immediately laid hold on the other arm of the man. - * . • A J""**" *^" | '^w''' f1""  : " H ' II IfiS^' ■ft w I' I jB  I &*4« » I' •"•*;''••' iwjm r i ;-r ■ - i-0 w * — OKI