Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-11-26

              PRICE 1 CENT The corps of State engineers which VOL. II. No. 61 PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1907 The Greater Punxsutawney Holiday Exposition Will Bring Hundreds of Visitors to This Town STATE ENGINEERS COMPLETE SURVEY BANK OPENS AND MANY MEN RETURN IB IRK IN WEST COMMITTEE FOR RALLY DAY NAMED Service and Sunday School Institute to Be Held in Central Presbyterian Church. ney Will be Improved Early Next Spring. Roads in and About Punxsutaw- EXPECT TO REACH BIG RUN BY LAST DAY OF FEBRUARY Almost Every Business Man in Town Has Been Enlisted in the Movement ONLY TWO CASES 10 BE TRIED ill THIS SESSION 0E COURT OF CITY SHOPPERS WILL GET REBATES position Beginning December Sixth Will Also Help to ' Stretch Out the Holiday Buying—Christmas Week Rush Cause of Much Sickness. Attendance For First Two Days Is Unusually Small. Work 011 Trolley IjIiio From Sykew- vi.le Ileitis Pushed as Fast as Possible. New York Market Much Im- proved and Conditions Better Everywhere. STORM ALMOST PAST |\V AT HOUKllT IjOXIX>X I'.llt.M PUNX'Y CASE UP PUNXSUTAWNEY PEOPLE SHOULO INVITE THEIR FRIENDS .Application for Stat ■ aid on six other roads are now in the hands of the State Highways Commissioner and it is believed that these will also be granted anil the improved roads reconstructed before the end of next Thus far these four sections comprise all the r ads on whic h State aid has been granted for tlie coming year, in vicinity of Punxsutawn«y. Pour roads were laid off by the corps: Indiana Street, from the en-i «>f the brick paving on Gilpin Street to the borough line; Altman Avenu from Indiana Street to the borough line, and sections of both the Rossiter and Indiana r« :uls. have been surveying on the roads in about town, on which State aid has been granted, have finished their work for this year and departed to do similar service for another section in the central part of the State. summer. INTEREST !ti H DilEH ABSENT MNEKS Unless the winter should tighten up very hard, the extension should be ready for the public in the second month of the new year. The new line traverses a section underlaid with coal, a large part of it holdings of the Erie company, and a littl*' later on it will become very busy and quite populous territory.—DuBois Courier. vanqed past the farm of Robert London, below Kramer station, which is a little more than half way. Although the w«ather has been unfavorable a considerable portion of the (time of late, Contractor Asa Skyes has kept the job moving, and last week had 101 men at work. The company has a large gang ba lasting also, so the track-laying will be but little behind the grading when the heavy work is done. rradlng and wiring had been ad- line from Sykesville to Big Run hen work censed for the week on irday on the extension of the trol- WILL BREAK RECORD Reception Committee — Miss Clara Crissman, Miss Blanche Dilts, Miss Teressa VIat/., Mrs. Thomas Shearer, M. II. Brown, Leon Hoffman. Decorating Committee Miss Margaret Hinn, Mrs. Ella Smith, Miss Flora Sadler. Miss Twila Freas. Miss Celia Duff. Walter Morris, North M<- Crelght, Eugene Winalow, Samuel C. Me I Jen ry. Music Committee:—Laura I-ubeek. Mary Rinn, George Morris, Thomas North. The following committees have been appointed: In the evening there will be an address by l)r. Humble describing the mountaineers of tin South. This will be illustrated by views in which Dr. Humble will be assisted by Superintendent <•?' Schools A. M. Hammers, <»f this city. In the afternoon a Sunday S.'hool Institute will be held under the direction of Dr. C. H. Humble, of Parkersburg. YV. Va.. and Dr. J. A. W'ormer, of Philadelphia, secretary of Sunday School work. Extensive preparations are being1 made for Rally Day services in the Central Presbyterian Church on Sunday, December 1. Many Prominent Democrats Seiul Regrets—Many Others Accept and Will Support llim. Enter in Daytime. Edward Pay son Weston Could ltcncli CI lien go Toniffliti but Wants to ny Searched Every Pocket, Then Uie Floor and Finally tlie Cuspidor—Nothing Doing. Other examples of re-employment reported throughout the country, are also expected to contribute towards an early resumption of business above the normal during the past year. The announcement today 'that the Union Pacific Railroad Company had put back C.000 men recently discharged, also had a tremendous Influence and the general feeling In financial circles Is the most optimistic since the panic set in. A. a further unmistakable mark of returning confidence and Improvement in the financial situation, it was announced on Stock Exchange that the United States Exchange Bank, which shut down early in the panic, and which opened its doors yesterday, had more deposits than withdrawals to report at the close of the l day. The figures Indicated that currency premiums had fallen from four to three-fourths per cent., in consequence of which banks expert to cash all • ■he'-ks by the end of the present week. XlvW YORK, Nov, L'G. A leading trader, when the Stock ICxchange opened this morning exhibited a pasteb' ard s 1 ip on which was written the words "Hull Points." which, ho said, should cheer everybody. And they had that effei t on all who saw them, almost instantly. By United Press. MBS. WILLIAMS HOSTESS The ether cases to be tried this term are that of Worn! Dumenskl vs. The Northwestern & Mining Exchange Co. Louisa Cowley vs. the B., K. & P. Railroad company. occupy «ll- today. the court The first cast* t«» . ome up for trial was P. Bilanti & Company vs. Cesare (.'on.it, Charles P. O'Connor and A. Sunseri. This case, it will be remembered, went up from Punxsutawney, and grew out <»f an alleged irregular merchandising scheme on the part of A. Sunseri hi' Pittsburg, and P. Bilanti & Company, of thi.s place. About a year ago, readers of The Spirit will remember, a large quantity of peanuts and imported groceries were located in the apartments occupied b> P. Bilanti & Co., and siezed by officers in the employ of Charl-s V. O'Connor. A. Sunseri, who had previously gone into bankruptcy, was charged with having shipped, and P. Bilanti was accused of receiving the goods clandestinely. The matter has been in the courts ever since. This case is now on trial, and will probably The Court of Quarter Sessions of Jefferson County convened in the court house at Brookville yesterday with Judge John \\\ Heed on the bench. The attendance was unusually light, all but three of the twenty-six cases <»n the calendar having been settled or continued. li ving Club M ceits at Kust End Home to Discuss "The Taming of tlie Shrew.*' Other departments will start before the end of the week. urday. I YOUNGSTOWN, O., Nov. Cfi. — All J jhe finishing: mills and a portion of the puddling: furnaces of the valley plant and two finishing: mills and one puddle mill of the Brown-Bonnell plant. Republic Iron and Steel Company, will resume operations next Wednesday after having1 been shut down last Sat- •vlng Clnb hold its weekly last night at the hme of Mrs. In East End. Tvvenresponded to roll call with .tions from Shakespeare tlons are among the floating labor gang*. whose work for the winter, especially In the railroad department, has practically been completed. JOHNSTOWN. Pa. — Practically all of the Cambria workmen suspended two we ks ago, partly by reason of needed repairs and partly on account of a shortage of >rdcrs, have resumed their employment. tv- only excef>- Probably the most interesting feature of the banquet will be the attendance. The list of Invited guests Includes practically every Democratic leader of prominence In the country. Many of these, Including some of the nn»st prominent Democrats, declined the Invitation. A number of others oi' equal prominence have signified their Intention to be present, and their acceptance of the Invitation Is naturally regarded as evidence of their willingness to support Mr. Bryan for the presidential nomination. It Is not expected that Mr. Bryan will have anything new or startling t<» add to the announcement alrea ly made In regard to his attitude on the presidential nomination. Nevertheless the affair Is attracting much attention among- the political leaders of both parties and the speeches are awaited with keen Interest. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2G.— Within easy range of the White House this- evening, William J. Bryan will bo hailed by Democratic leaders gathered from all parts of the country, as trie next President of the United States. The occasion will be a banquet given at the Hotel Raleigh in Mr. Bryan's honor by the Bryan Club : of Washington. Covers will be laid for 500 guests. Special to The Spirit. WHEELING. W. Va. — The Pittsburg Standard Coal Company, a syndicate composed of prominent New Yorkers, will start extensive development In the Hancock County coal I Held within the next few days. VIE GAME OF lit YEAR Army and Navy Will Battle for Gridiron Honors at Pliiluilcljliia \ Saturday Afternoon. Mrs. Edward Murray will be the hostess at the next meeting. A paper entitled, "London in Shakespeare's Time" was read by Mrs. J. A. Weber. Act II of the play was read by the club with Miss Margaret Campbell as critic. Thi meeti: Alex. wfl ty nemb< short quo) on nature. Poetical coma fro mthe first act of "The Taming of the Shrew*' were read by Atiss Evans. Character sketches of the subordinate characters of the play were given by Mrs. S. S. Hamilton. JEALOUSY CAUSE OF SHOOTING ST. JOHNSBTTRY. Vt.. — The B. & T. Fairbanks Scale Company, employing about 1,300 men, which went on a i five hours' schedule two weeks ago, started today on an eight-hour basis. BUFFALO, N. Y. — The Snow Steam Pump Works has ordered it9 forces back on full time. About 1,- 000 men are concerned. Weston hopes to arrange a profitable lecture tour after his? present trip is completed, on the result of which no wager has been , placed, nor does it involve any pecuniary profit. Tomorrow will make Weston's thirtieth day from Portland, and he has stuck during all these days rigidly to his promise made his mother many years ago, that he would never walk on Sunday. Excepting such times as he stops nt hotels, he eats and drinks as he walks, taking only light refreshments. Pavson has lost but nine pounds since he started on his remarkable walk, and although it is getting colder as he nears Chicago, Weston only wears a light-weight flannel shirt, and is in a healthy state of perspiration all the time. Payson left Llgonier on Sunday and had taken only two hours' rest at Laporte, Indiana, until arriving here, lie Is now almost sixty miles ahead of the record, and could make Chicago tonight, hut will not do so, as he wishes to enter the city in daylight. When he reached hero, he stopped for a short rest at a local hotel, after having walked ninety-five and four-tenths miles, tho distance between here and Ligonier Indiana. 26. — By United Press. CHESTERTON, Ind., Nov. Edward Payson Weston, the sixty-nine year old pedestrian, completed at four a. m. this morning the most remarkable step of his journey on foot from Portland. Maine, to Chicago, with th«' object of beating the record made forty years ago. JOHN LEMON INJURED IIi( liy Street Car hi Chicago-—'I Indiana County Couple Weeks Ago. TROY, X. Y. — The outlook for a busy year in the knit goods industry in Cohoes, one centers of that work in the country, is becoming brighter dally. It is expected that all the mills in that city will be running* in full by January 1. The backward glance of the conductor and the look on the face of the surprised and thoroughly nonplussed Tony were truly and eloquently antipodean.A glance at the face of the stoical statue with hand extended for the ticket that never came, was always followed by a more and more furious reconnoiterlng expedition that included every pocket in Tony's clothing, the seat, the floor, the window sill, the carpet sack and the cuspidor, and just as the now thoroughly excited Unman was about to rush out and .search the platform Mr. Reed nonchalantly reached toward Tony's face I and secured the ticket which the fren- I zied foreigner had, all the time, been ! holding between his teeth. Then he dove. >o to speak, into his outside coat pockets, .still using both hands, now and then resting long enough to catch a full breath that was part sigh and part exhaustion. Then the passenger began to look distressed and work faster, his perturbation being perceptibly aggravar ted because of a broad grin that swept athwart the countenance of the conductor. After searching both lower vest pockets simultaneously and failing to strike pay dirt, the distracted passenger repeated the performance with his upper vest pockets with similar results. When Conductor Itceci, always bland, patient but Insistent, came to get Tony's ticket the latter fumbled in his vest pocket, but was unable to locate the pasteboard. .A dive with the left hand into a receptacle on the other side of the waistcoat resulted In a second disappointment. An abnormal case of absent-mindedness was witnessed by tho passengers that were on Conductor Oil Reed's train when it pulled out from Dayton, northbound, last night. Among those to board the train was Antonio itilere, bound for the capital j of the bituminous coal regions. The inauguration of an early shopping season as a feature of "The Greater Purfxsutawney Holiday Shopping Exposition" as well as the many other benefits to accrue, is most commendable on the part of our merchants, and deserves every encouragement. It furnishes another proof of their enterprising business methods, and should attract thousands of visitors to their stores during the Exposition."While we are keeping our Christmas festival," the letter says, "while we are feeding the lame and the halt, the blind and the friendless we are nightly reducing to illness and exhaustion the young and the strongest of the faithful who serve us." A letter asking co-operation has been sent to 5,500 women's clubs, 750 newspapers and 1,307 department stores. Some of its signers are Mark Twain, Lymann Abbott. Jacob A. Rils, Richard Watson Gilder, Nathan Straus, Edward Bole, Florence Kelvey, and Edward T. Devlne. The idea came from Cleveland, where for several years the Consumers' League has been pushing back holiday shopping into November and early December. This year the charities publication committee is trying to do the same thing nationally, and is urging wherever it can, the importance to both the shopper and clerk of making obsolete the great Christmas rush. "To Christmas Shoppers: — Buy your presents early—early in the day and early in December. That will bo your biggest gift of the holidays to the workers behind the counters and on the delivery wagons." Philanthropic societies are taking a laudable stand in favor of early Christmas buying, and in many of the large stores in the cities cards arc already being displayed bearing an inscription which reads as follows: The hardships endured by those who, for a week or ten days, have to handle as much goods as they do ordinarily in three months, is attracting the attention of humanitarians everywhere, to such an extent that an organized effort has been set on foot to induce Christmas shoppers to buy early in the month of December.The opportunity this early shopping season will present to get first selections will also be of great advanatge. besides it will lift a great load from the shouiders of the busy regiment of clerks and proprietors who, under the old regime, are worked to death during the week that precedes Christmat'.Buy at home where you can have a chance to see what you are ge'tlng, and because you owe loyalty to home enterprises. This Kxposltlon will come in holiday buying season and there is great promise of a big trade. Cive the city mail order house the go-by this season and see (f you do not fare as well, or better, not to mention the satisfaction of feeling that you are doing your duty to your home community and its business men. growth .and welfare of your home towns, and send your money to some distant city to merchants who have no local Interest and who pay nothing in the way of taxes toward maintaining: the municipal government. SYRACUSE..!* v — Tho Syr*CU** branch of the resumed operation. ™arloae.1 for two wee to'- drrd men are t-mpW- ❖ MORE MERCHANTS JOIN + ** + * + + *** + + **** + We are without particulars further than that he is in a Chicago hospital, and is In a serious condition. Mr. Lemon was going to Arlzon on account of his wife's health. John Lemon, formerly of Ambrose, Indiana County, who left or Arizona wiith his wife and family about two wj'ckd 4|go, was the vlctttm of a street car accident in Chicago, in which he had his skull fractured and an arm broken. L'S on.n.W.'UwX I has sued W. K. Archer, former sales f manager of .the company, for *100.000 damages. alleging defamation of character. "I could not stop loving her even I after shie was married. I was jealous. That Is why I shot her." ! Friend related a romance of how they had both been sweethearts years ago, but that after all the woman married Ira Walker. He explained: The police say that Mrs. Walker made a teasing remark to Friend about sonic handsome man she had met while at work as a private exchange telephone operator. The authorities claim that the couple eloped from Leighton, where Mrs. Walker left a husband and two children. The woman is at the hospital in a serious condition. Although his injury is seruios, Friend was attended by a surgeon and then locked up. CLEVEIjA.VD, (>.. Nov. 2 0. — Maddened by jealousy Hilbert Friend, aged twenty years, today iircd three bullets into the head of Mrs. Ira Walker, twenty-three years old, with whom he had come here from Leighton, Fa. He then turned the revolver and shot himself. By United Press. Big scenic production "Monte Cristo" at Jefferson theatre Thangsgiving. Matinee, 10,25, 35; night, 25 to75. OIL CITY—Mrs. Mary C. Hines, a pioneer resident of Corry, aged 59 years. Two daughters and one son, J. J. Hines, publisher of the DuBois Journal, survive. CUMBKR1.AND—Marry Ilemlra, a hermit of Charleston, near 1-onacon- Inp. was found (lead on iho porch of his home by a lif.le glr. who delivered milk. Mrs. E. Williamson Mrs. R. G. Melson Milliners Emma Burkett The following names were added to the list of merchants entering the "Holiday Exposition" plan, whose names were received too late to be classlflefid with those announced on page three today:See "Monte t'rlsto" at Jefferson theatre Thanksgiving. Maitinee. 10, 25, 35; night 2 Bto 75. Seat »ale now on. *e basis as the town purchaser. But the out-of-town shopper will ; find all of his opportunities or adltagcs accruing from the Holiday jpositlon wrapped up in the propo|on of having his fare paid. They it participate in other advantages ;,great or greater for the hustling who are conducting the enprise are making extensive prepara- Us to offer prices and inducements |A as have never before been enjoyipy the tradespeople of this sec\t. And these advantages will not ite come to the out-of-town shop- | , for the city trade will share In that goes with big stocks of goods, sales and special prices. fhlle, naturally, the prime object he movement Is to increase busli, a special effort will be made Ing the Exposition to explode, by actual showing of goods, the fairy frequently given circulation In ading towns and. communities, that fcautawney stores do not offer as 1 trading facilities as Altoona, itourg and Buffao, and some of the pf towns in trading distance. The Esutawney merchant knows how Ktore compares with those in the \B mentioned and he does not fear parteong. id Just here, a word to those who away to the catalogue houses for ■ Christmas goods. The habit of way from home for goods h can be purchase# as advanlagef and often more so, in your home ♦ U one that Is most harmful and trlotlc. It Is absolutely wrong lore the merchants of your home fealties who are Interested In the ; here. fhe plan is a good one and is extlned in detail in a half-page ad lich is printed in another part oi' |s issue of The Spirit: the ou'.-of- Vi purchaser is simply ">ut on the reach by train, trolley or vehicle, lwever, have always been at a disvantage when compared with their ore fortunate cousins in town, beuse they are at an expense to get re. The central idea of the Great- Punxsutawney Holiday Exposition, erefore, is to offer those coming >m a distance a rebate on their purases equal to the cost of travel to the right price, better. *Those living out of town, but with- Ivantages of getting what you want To their patrons in town, those who ade here regularly, not much need s said as an inducement to buy, for tperience has taught them that in no !her town in this section are the Iter by celebrating the forward movement with a grand reception week, fvlng special inducements to the »adlng public within shopping disince of the town. imunitles know what they have to tfl alse have ever aspired, and the irogressive men who are at the head f these splendid establishments feel hat the time has arrived to let the eople of the surrounding towns and tched to which but few towns of For several years the leading merchants of Punxsutawney have been enlarging and Improving their stores unil now a point of excellence has been A nine-days' shopfest, beginning with Friday, December 6, will witness something new in Punxsutawney business circles, when the leading merchants of the town will hold what will be known as "The Greater Punxsutawney Holiday Exposition." During a period of nine days they will unite in presenting to their patrons what bids fair to be the greatest Holiday opening week ever projected by the merchants of any town outside of :he largest cities in the country. Punxsutawney enjoys on enviable reputation for "getting there with both feet," but during the Holiday shopping period of 1907, the people of this town and section of the State are to be given a demonstration of jpTq-gressive business methods that will cause all previous efforts of a similar nature to fade into insignificance.♦ Prampton Photo Co. j "Monte Cristo" at the Jefferson ■ theatre Thanksgiving—Mat. 10,25, 35; [night, 25 (to 75. CANOE RIDOE (Offloe of the Waatlierworto)—**lr •"<> «»"- ar tonight. ralr W«dn~d«y. I Results so far this season would in| dlcate that the Army will have a i shade 'the heter of the argument, aii ithough those who keep In mind the j surprise of last year, will be slow to give odds on the last big gridiron bottle of the year. The relative strength ! of the two elevens cannot be Milmated by comparing scores ot caused Army stock m soar wh <• Swarthmore's victory over Annapolis brought gloom In naval football elides, which, however. was almot-' eradicated by Navy's defeait of Pom State. V P( Intel conte! 1 i 11 fi< e lever doubt the yel greater in atte] <ibly the football game of most ?t to the public In general Is the ft yet to be fought out on Franked with the Army and Navy, as contestants. It is without he greatest soc ial gathering of ar. The President and the ' part of liis cabinet are always pdance and the naval an£ army officers from admirals and generals to ensigns and second lieutenants would traverse ithe globe to be present on that day. The result of the game is known in all parts of the globe where American naval and army officers are -to be found, as fast | as 'the telegraph and ( able can get it } there. SHARON—John Sunderland, aged 65 years, is dead. His widow and four children survive. ?"■». 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