Punxsutawney Spirit, 1909-08-20

              , PITTSmTIlCr, Aug. \ krtism'rio. aur. •jo. At lor- STOISK M:\VS. tiii; wioatiii:k. mund next work ■< ■ V<f§V A VV** ■ ' ' ♦ . nit TAFf'S GIRTH MOT RESPLENDENT IN NATIONAL COLORS oi# mom wFiiK Auauar n-as. FEATURE STATE WOE DEMAND FOR SEATS AT THE GOVERNOR'S BANQUET Electrical Decorations Are of the Finest Order---Will be Lighted Tomorrow Night. An Occasion Such as But Few Have a Chance to Enjoy. SATURDAY-WELCOME DAY President Indulging in Violent Phys- ical Kxeiviso. By United Press. BEVERL/Y, .Mass., Auff. -0. — Dr. Baker, (ho anti-fat physical instructor of Taft, has tak» n s< v» n inches from the President's waist line. The President probably weighs .'ION pounds now, and the reduction has not weakened him in the least. Violent physical exercise begins at eight o'clock In the morning, and continues practically until throe in the afternoon. The President is in excellent health. * A DECIDELY UNIQUE EVENT mo lor of wli hoi -0.—It was ATTEMPT MACE TO FIRE STEEL CAR PLANT During Old Homo Week they will dress for th«» parades In the boys' locker department, where their tlolb<*s may be left with perfect safety. Prof. Martin has 30 boys lined up already, and has room for all who have bicycles. Yesterday the boys were each provided with a costume or bicycle parade suit, and the Director expects to make his one of the leading features of the biff parades. The boys are requested to report at the Y. M. C. A. Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, wi'.h their wheels when Ihey willl receive instructions. PliyNicitl Direc tor of Y. M. O. A. will Have Large Number of floys In I'aratle. Prof. P. H. Martin, physical director of the Y. M. C. A., has organized a boys' bicycle squad which will take part in the Merchants' & Manufacturers' Parade Wednesday and the Cireumgyratory Parade Friday of next week. RTOi .1 IK \V( FORMED PUNICY WOMAN EXPIRES IN THE WEST a i •> OIK by 1 ' dis A MILE 1 MINUTE learned today that an attempt was madf- JnAt night to tire tlio shops of the Pressed Stool Car Company. Bundles of « xcolslor soaked in oil vvoro Set op 1hv ami thrown ovor tin fonce n<'Mr thi- paint shops. .VI■ *n inside saw tin- blaze and extinguished ii before any damage w;i done. Court is hearing arguments on the petition for nrhit ration tiled by strikers toda>. There is no serious trouble in Sohoeiiville at present. MO CRUSHES FOUR Looking about on the main streets of Punxsutawney today, one who has attended the inauguration of a President at the National Capital cannot avoid being impressed with tin- i*jtlon lliat the metaropoiis of this county has the city on the Potomac faded for Hag. bunting and electrical decorations. Tomorrow is welcome day and while the old custom of building welcome arches has been discarded in this town, as in all 20th century towns, the wealth of colors, light bulbs and colonades, speak volumes for the welcome that awaits those who will be the city's guests next week. Tomorrow will be Welcome IViy. and tomororw night will be welcome night, for then will be turned on of- ; Ilcially the thousands of el trie* llght.s that l'e.stoon the main stiv Relatives, in this place, of Mrs. Da- U| tin old own. vid Jones, nee Miss Marts.' Long. of" August tvrami ...... l.os Angeles, Oil.. yesterday wore no-Hompr Ada™» "0s a «UP8t of F- p titled of her death Wednesday night of'own Monday. heart trouble, aged about 5o'years. Mra P' L" Brown and ('hil'lr<'n. "f The decease d, who was a da |Khterkln- W" Va • vislt"d at F' P of the late George Long, of this place.p "r!,t of ""* woekhas a large number of relatives andW- S- Smith' who makps hls hpad" n host of aequalntan. es in Ihls place "r,prs 1,1 Morcer' 18 "P""'!'"* a fpw to whom the news will bring sorrow.ys wlth h,a fam"V- Miss Kmma Long, a trained nurse,W' f"' Cupp ha" movpd intu hls nPV of Windber, is a sister, and Irvln Long.,USP on Main 8treet or Pittsburg, is a brother of the dc-D' A' Sph"ab has »<>»rnc,l his propceased in Foxburg with a cement wolk. Hurlai will be made at Log Angeles1 thp othpr cltlzens uf the bun? slt tomorrow afternoon. and lake notl<,e' Misses Carrie Rowan and Oerald• Kurtz were the guests of Kuth [1 Geraldlne Schwab last week. Mrs. J. H. Barrelle, of Punxsutawy\ and Mrs. Thomas, of Pittsburg, company with a couple of lady ends, were the guests of Mr. and J. M. McC'lure Tuesday. FROSTBURG MKHor mmm men from the steamer l'. M. f'feil yesterday. Tin- nit n w<r. lal.'-n to the works fnmi the Hclbvue Station. A detail of ton troopers of !it< State constabulary In command <»f a all mourn «d, sallied fr->m the plant us the boat nrarcd the landing place and held the .strikers in cheek and dispersed thorn. It is said .one of the shots tired struck the boat. No one was injured. 'h' governor informed him that Slate }><»]it'<• had In < n sent to tin in of th« trouble .11 111• i ' st < I sheriff of the county, ami tin of tlull* stay ami the character [their service were largely for the til authorities to determine. The te authorities hml no personal i'\vledn• ■ of the < otiditioiv ami must Mini upon the sheriff to inform of any change in the situation nff action from headquarters. McNalr, as far as can be Icarni not make any specific chtrgoi w definite request, though he i governor tin- striker;- would have the state police r< moved. thousand strikers lined the f the Ohio river and linn in >wn tired more than one hun«' h ts from pistols when the I Steel < \tr < 'mupatiy, it Mi {neks, landed fifty more mi e l'r.sscd Steel <\ar Company, I• 1 mi (iov»>t*n<>r Stuart \? t• • r<In > ascertain the purpose <»f tin State horities with regard to the State striking employes of the Sehoen- Joh AIcNair, of Pittsburg. counsel for 1) DUTl'" here and mee their headqu: Week visitors We extend ai IT THE STATE POLICE REMOVED le i I collapse. ■ aid • i■ llarriman. tin railroad king, must cither »• i • .i*■ iv» participation in husin. . or suffer a « ''jmpleto phy«- Thc foregoing opinion was expressed b> Prof St .• 11• mp< I. tii. famous ■ i:11 it. w !i•. \ iios.-d llarriman'! < • 11' says llarriman has horn restored to a condition of "comparative health," which will remain satisfactory if h• "lives a most modi-rate life hereafter". The f.p. . ialist said that Harriman is* miIT' ring from a lack of proper nourishment, general nervous debility and exhaustion from overwork and umlcr-fc. tins. The professor says that he found llarriman w a suffering: from no organic troubP . The thins that surprises Pre'. St ru< in pel most, was the halt t.irved i -iicli11"n of llarriman. Metier feeding is tin most imperative need, h. said. on <i.;1 ■» when then is no sunshine the "champagne bath" is to be *■ ubstltut« d This bath is taken in water charged with carbonic gas. and it in . oilsmlered strengthening io the nerve*. llarri'iian, the specialist says, must li« quietly in bed for a few hours each day, akt food every two' hours, aid lie naked In the sun, 1>\ which means it is hoped to strengthen iiis nerves. Ni:\V YUKK. Aug. 20.—The stock market i.-s nervous and a tense feeling is evident everywhere. Ysterday's depression is still in evidence. On evei y hand tiie question is: "What is Hari ini.in's real physical condition?" This is affecting the market. V1KNNA, Vn-I fin Auk:. 20.—I'M- lieve we can vantage in oi Hy II- -rbert White, Staff Correspondent rnii'Ml Press. (Copyrighted lHOii) desire a con wishes for sui WILL TAKE REST CURE for their pas We wish to thi ing a Complete Physical Relapse. Great Railroad Man Is Fac- and price to o new added lin Much business will !»r transaeted at meeting, but din- attention will be 3»-n to the pleasure of the visitor*. of tin features of the program I be a I • a ll • | U e t, tile speakers t(» illido the officers of many national and ernational labor bodies as \\ • II as iminent members of the Stale «»r-liz.tlion. At t!i« opening session I visitors will be weleomed by Ma\ I'.. .1 Fogart.x and F. \ Miller, pr» pit of the South I 'end Chatnbi r of k federation is the oldest in the jited States. The eelebration will b< Id in conjunction with the federal's annual convention and will ex|d over a period of htree days. Ill 11(4(1 l-'lrsl Sliver .fiilwlee ill i south llcml. HnlTH RKNU. Ind.. Aug 20.—The it silver jubilee of t'i« >tatr labor lani'/.ation will be held in this city Lt month, when tie Indiana F<dera- L of Labor w ill meet to » eiebrate twenty-fifth anniversary■. The Indi PRICE TWO CENTS WE are n< veniei plete line of John B. Bair HARRIMAR'SCOROITIOR CAUSES URCERTAIRTT IR STOCK MARKET nfatottet) §o LABOR FEDERATION fit AUGUST 22-28. OLD BOMB VBI PUNXSUTAWNEY, UNITED STATES HAS 40,919 R.F.D. ROUTES By United Press. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug". 20.—Miss Agnes Cowan, Maggie Paul, Mrs. J. Colvin, and Ira Parry, chauffeur, were killed today when an automobile going at high speed, dashed over a trestle and dropped twenty feet, crushing the occupants. Tide was at flood stage when the accident occurred, and the victim.s were hurled into several feet of water. PITTSBURG HAPPY  Miss Mary Paul, a sister of one of the victims, and Kate Hiscoek, who FROSTBURG, Aug. 20. was also in the* car, was rescued by Mrs. Aaron Depp, who had been a boatman who found them clinging the home of her daughter, Mrs. to the wreckage. All the younp wo- *rlan Jodan, of Punxautawney, lor men are aid t<» belong to prominor%e past week, has returned to her Vancouver families. »me. and l« slowly Improving. A Miss Elizabeth Williams, who had •en visiting at the home of George illiams, returned to her home in mxsutawney Wednesday. imuel Milliard and daughter. Vio- OVER COMING BOUT The machine worked perfectly, hut on the third Migiit the canvas rudder was torn ami lie was forced :o descend. Willard Hew in tho machine that is involved in a suit, the Wright brothers bringing an action for alleged infringement on their patents. NKW YORK, Aug. 20.— Wilbur and Orvilie Wright, I lit* aviators, yesterday brought suit ill the United States District Court here against tin- Aeronauti( Society of this city, alleging that the Herring-('urtiss aeroplane which the .society r<c.ntly purchased, and tvhich the society reei-ntly purchased and which luis ad several try-outs at Alirudo, L. I . is a violation of their patents. The Wrights demand that tiie infringing machine l»e turned over to them for destruction, and in addioitn asks the court to assess damages for threcfobi tin- amount of whatever losses they are found to have suffer. <1 by reason of the infringement and the public exhibition or rental of tin- infringing machine. A hearing in tinsuit will probably be held early in Oc- tober The aviator made two flights, covering a distance of two and one-half miles, flying southeast to Meadowbrook Club and then to Hempstead, toward Garden City and back to his starting place. Aviator Makes FiXcellciit Time— W right llrotliers' Bring Suit. Hy United Press. XKW YOKK, Aug. 20. c. F. Willard in an aeroplane flight carl> this forenoon, was timed as traveling a mile a minute at times. To ask the Governor of the State and the other statesmen who will be here to go out into the woods would be too grotesque and impossible to contemplate, and furthermore was entirely out of the question. First, no committee would make such a request, and no committee would take such a risk, for in the event of a storm or inclement weather the demoralization would amount to a calamity to the Old Home Week Asso* elation, and all concerned. The prospects arc that the banquet will be a notable one in point of attendance, interest and personnel, and there is a State-wide demand lor seats at the festal board. If the real and ethical value of dining with the Governor of the State and the other notables that will be here, is not worthe price asked; if the citizens of this community art* not willing to blow themselves just once in order to entertain and be entertained by the Chief Executive, it will appear as of record after next Friday night. The price was determined at a meeting of the Old Home Week Executive Committee, an well as the plan of entertaining Governor Stuart and others by producing what the outside world has come to regard as the Punxsutawney Weather Works, with a banquet as an evening attraction. 'When the pricc per plate for the Governor's banquet is compared with the price charged in other towns and other cities, it will be found to be about one-half what others have paid for plates at functions of much less note. • The local social clubs have no trouble in getting $2 for a ticket to a dance of any note, where the music costs from *00 to $100. In the case of the proposed banquet the expense will be clear out of proportion in comparison with the banquet feature of a ball. The groundhogs and the groundhog punch will be added to a regular menu. A professional caterer must come from Pittsburg and bring the table decorations, and the big rink auditorium must be appropriately decorated. Tlfe banquet receipts will also b#1 drawn upon for the expenses of the circumgyratory pageant, which will cost up in the hundreds. Some criticism has been heard concerning the price of plates for the Groundhog Banquet, and the policy of having a banquet instead of a hunt. Mu i/ri K \n i> i oodsti i i s HARKISIU'RG, Aug. 20. Dairy and Food < 1ommis.sionei Koiisl y«• t<• iday ordered proseculion.-, in Allegheny, M« K«:in, Warcn and Venango counties lor sales of liilsnp containing more than one-tenth of inn' per - «• nt. of benxoate of soda, tin- maximum quantity allow, d b> tin* new loud at :. lie also ordered three prose utions i!i Blair County lor wheat flour bleaching with nitron, arid. Sevan ty-six prQisecutions -dried in variou = counties for sales of adultera • d or watered milk. I'M I l.A Dl .I.I'll I A. Au-: . " Many congratulations were received today at a t the r« s i d»• 11 • « mI tin Most Kev. Patrick .I liyan to remind him that the • lay mark-d the twenty-lifth anniversary of Ins . ntrano upon his duties as An hbishop of Philadelphia. Al elnboi i: e , el. l.ration of the event had been pntpoBi'd, liiit at the special re«lin i of the Archbishop tne plan was abandoned and the only observance was a low mass of thanksgiving, which was « • lebrat' d this morntng in the i "at hedra I of Si. I'- '• r and Si Paul. Archbishop Uyan, who, during the t weiiiv -11 v» y .it i nleiic n I "hi I - ulelphi.i ha end' .n il himself t" many thou.-md "l Protestants, a A ell as to i he Human < 'at holies of the eity cani' iici < from St. I amis in H-S I. A professional costunter with about 200 cos: utiles will be here from Buffalo t.» tog the pageant, which will be a peach. Hot weather, squaiis, , Inlng, i'<>1<I weather, rain, clear, cbonl, and partly cloudy wJWfier, fair or. clearing up, milky way, hackwaid weather, bell weather, Spring, Summer, Full. Winter, cyclone, rainbow, heavy weather, Rale, breeze, mist, hull, sleet. foR, dog star, evening stir, threatening weather, Icicles, sloppy weather, muddy weatlu-r, dopey weather, sunset, sunrise, a No. 1 weather, mixed weather, volcano, thermometer, hot air .c.old air, weather laboratory, typh changeable weather, windy weather, open weathci', tii:111 ill Hi'' moon, Indian .sumnuT, do# days, morning star, anything Imti wrathiT, growing \v« afher, pleasant weather, groundhog eather, "i" " weather. GREAT WESTERN R. R. FOR SALE AT AUCTION Choice creamery butter today. J. I». KIJKHMAUT CO., LTD. Fast colored hunting and flass, We can supply your wants in carpets and furniture for Old Home We.k. Our milliners have returned from attending: the lir.st openings and will show a niee line of ready-to-wear alfd street hats, new shapes and colors, beginning tomorrow. WASHINGTON. I» AUK. 20.- Following is the forecast for West, in Pennsylvania: fair tonight and Saturday. Moderate temperature. The ace. ptani • lor th Alumni banquet should all l»< in b> tomorrow night.— l. com• now her- - m-ar filling tho do- Don't v. it to pur'-base an < )ld jlone Week souvenir bonk until it is l>»o la i' .In ! :ii'-A from f « present .sale, it i.- lokely tha the supply wllj Now Willis Brltt is back after Dime again for another bid and it is quite possible that the Langfonl-K'tchell match will still come here and in the meantime the fans will have an opportunity of looking at the two classiest lightweights In the country. PITTSBURG, Aug. 20.—(Special) — Down in New York the fight fans are on pins and needles for fear the much talked of and celebrated bout between Stanley Ketehel and Sam Langford is to get away from them. Here in Pittsburg they are all happy and congratulating themselves that they are to .see one just as classy, which is an assured fact, when Ad. Wolgast, who beat Rattling Nelson to pieces in ten rounds, faces Harlem 'Pommy Murphy at DuQuesne Garden, on Wednesday evening. September 1st. From here it looks as If Pittsburg has put another one over on New York. Jimmy Dime, the popular local matchmaker, was also negotiating for the Ketehell-Langford go, and it is by no means certain that it will not come here yet. Rut the lighters dilly-dallied so long that he decided to look around and see if he couldn't hook up something just as good. While tin- New York promoters were busy answering wires from Willis Rritt, et al., and wiping the perspiration from their manly brows, he slipped quietly into the big town, sighted Murphy and then landed Wolgast. ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 20.—Promptly at noon tomorrow Albert R. Moore, special master in chancery, will stand on the block in the West Side freight depot in this city and auction off the Chicago Great Western Railway, including its subsidiary lines, the Mason City and Fort Dodge Railroad, the Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pacific, and the DeKalb and Great Western, together with the company's 259 locomotives, thousands of freight and passenger cars and buildings, rights and franchises, aggregating in value millions of dollars. And a representative of the reorganization committee, which has been formed by J. P. Morgan and Company of New York, will be on hand with the $500,000 cash deposit required before anyone may bid, and buy it. » The foreclosure sale and the reorganization of the Chicago Great Western road is an advent of great importance in the railroad world. For years th# road was under the absolute control of A. B. Stickney, who managed to keep the property independent of all other interests and operated it regard les* of what other lines in the Middle West territory might do. As a consequence the Great Western has been known as a rate disturber among other .lines. necessary for 400 pirls aild young be made a complete success It will i>«■ flag will have the advantage of seats while tin* big parades are on next wick, and that convenience will well repay those who take part in this patriotic feature of the big celebra- A book with 148 tine hulf tone illustrations and a history of Punxsutawney is well worth double the money, nnd thnt this Is the general opinion Is indicated by the manner In which they are selling. Get one* before It Is too late. (Continued on Page Three) The Innovation was so great that It took time for the people proposed to The honor of the llrst attempt to test the practicability of .such a radical broadening of the operations of individual delivery, rests *vlth five routes from three postofflces In West Virginia.On October 1, 1901), will have been reached the thirteenth anniversary »f th<> Installation of Rural Delivery in the United States. In commemoration of the event some suitable recognition Is suggested as no branch of the Postal Service has had so recent a beginning with equally remarkable results. Special to The Spirit. WASHINGTON, D. <\. Aug. 20.— The popularity of rural delivery among farmers and others living away from communities lin ing city mail facilities is shown in a summary of this service, prepared in the office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, to August, 1009. This exhibit gives 40,919 routes in operation served by 40,804 carriers. Of the total number of routes 622 are tri-weekly. In bringing the service up to Its present high state of organization and efficiency, 00,180 petitions were received, referred and investigated. Of this number 17,103 were reported upon adversely. At the close of this report 1.4 32 petitions were pending, of which 202 have been assigned for establishment between August 16 and October 1, 1909, leaving 1,230 unacted upon. The seeming discrepancy between the number of rural routes and carriers is accounted for by instances where there exists tri-weekly service on more than one rural route out of an office, one carrier serving two routes, alternating each day. The state having the largest number of rural delivery poutes at this date is Illinois, 2,824. There are seven states with more than New York (1,84 1 ) first in population, and four with more than Pennsylvania (2,168) second in number of inhabitants. Punxsutawney's Old Homo The ladies have been working faithfully for several weeks drilling the girls and lDtting' them up with the proper paraphernalia and costumes, arid tomorrow at three o'clock p. m. they will give their first practice drill on the pavilion which has been erected on the plaza for them. In order that the human flag may PICNIC. Tile members of the Jefferson County Medical Society held tlieir annual .outing at the Driving Park, DuBnla, yesterday afternoon. Dinner was was served at 2 o'clock and luncheon again in the evening that for rari ty of preparation and consumption went a long ways toward a record. Last evening a shirtwaist dance proved a succefsful Innovation after which the gay gathering broke up and left on Special cars for the city and surrounding territory from whence they came. —DuBols ourler. A committee of ladies has been delegated by the Old Home Week Association to organize a similar flag for The accompanying cut, which Uhe Spirit is enabled to present through the courtesy of the Pittsburg Dispatch, is a halftone of a photograph taken of the human flag that mad" the big hit with the veterans who were in annual encampment at Salt Lake City last week. ladics to present themselves tomorrow, prepared to take ;i part in this most beautiful and inspiring picture. One hundred young la id lea and 300 little girls will be required ami it is hoped that the response tomorrow at three o'clock will be adequate. All who take part In the human tlon. Come tomorrow prepared to get your red, white or blue adornments and to becotne part of a beautiful human flag. m shi jm b . i"'l i,: " ■ ,ts 'li ; N , . I- 1 flTL > »* • * % v:v ' ' "  <~