Punxsutawney Spirit, 1904-09-21

              w f fr 'rJf' . • >.: s»> 'v' ,* .. < inHH m PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., SEPTEMBER 21, 1904. NO. 17. FEAST OF IVOOIK'lll'Ch. MEN'S and BOYS' FURNISHER < j ?'<>u nil hn<r FcsHi l»« >;.!*< Is r H<i<i tlx* t* ■! i H.J.LOEB e nnnm i Mint c»f Ground !-• Club <1 v .'ii :' rontons (nind ahou: ♦herworks ;uul their 'ittsburg ;inet oiiuT i.erf to iu°t ;i,trt• "•hedulo for tin\v ;i t»• a>! (it' would be properly handled for an- I other year. C. M. Payne, the Gazette cartoonist, and John P. Cowan, a gifted staff correspondent of the tune paper described thehuntliterarily and pictorlally in Sunday's edition. Mr. Payne, who is the author of n»any charming; librettos, while here intro- j (lured his latest composition entitled. I 'In Punxsutawney " The son r. .1 ! a big hit with the crowd, who im mediately adopted it as the oflirial sonnet of the Groundhog club. I'he souk, which is suni; to the rune of "In Cincinnati," reads as follow It is the largest and best stock l>y farwehave ever gathered. "CLOTH CRAFT" make predominates. Did voil ever stop to think of the amount of work and brains which is put into the construction of good clothes before they are ready for your use ? Probably not. Did you know that the makers of "CLOTHCRAFf" clothes have been making clothes longer than any other wholesale tailors in the country. No one make of clothing can supply a store of this kind, so we gathered the cream of styles of the famous Hart, Schaftner and Marx clothing and other good makes. we tin vi* ever shown. All the new things in every line. . . H- V® V, FALL SUITS TOP COATS RAIN COATS HATS AND MEN'S SHOES ARE READY Ami the finest Men's Shoes $1.25 to $5. Hats $1 to $3. Men's Suits $5 to $22. Top coats $10 to $15. Rain Coats $5 to $18  H. J. LOEB Farmers' INmlonnl Bank Qullcilnig CHURCH XOTU'KS. .r)Oo suit, 10c up 'iOc <tiil J 4He to 1>Sc .'illi' ami ISc Car of peaches, next week. ROSA MAMBUCA r, PA. f 236 N. Find toy St., PUNXSUTAWN | SUMMERVILLE PHONE 148. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Kodaks and supplies, developing and finishing for the amateur. Summervllle Phone. v,: I've traveled quite a little bit in man> foreign lands, Berlin is quite a city and the sights are simply grand; My eyes were opened quite a little bit in gay Paree But still there's only one fine plact in all this world for me. Chorus: In Punxsutawney, in Punxsutaw-11 ey. In Punxsutawney, oh, that's the place 1 want to go. For real enjoyment, well I declare, You can't beat Punxsut > wney: tell ihe. were you ever there? Our correspondence takes in quite a lot of queer named towns, We write to lots of places that don't spell just like they sound. The Superintendent of the mails will back up what I say The name that makes us stop and think, and then spell the wrong way. The club roster, according to the Gazette, with some slight changes, is as follows: Is Punxsutawney, is Punxsutawney.Its likely you'll forget to put the "s" behind the "x." Of mixed-tip letters, there's quite a bunch, And you can't spell Punxsutawney till you're full of Groundhog Punch. J. THE ONE PRICE CLOTHIER A- WEBER PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA, This department has out grown its space. For nice dress shoes at $3.50 you have a wide range of styles in such makes as the "JIM" and "KEITH KONQUEKER." We have just added the James Bannister Shoes to sell for $5. These shoes are well known and the name stands for the highest footwear made. MEN'S FALL SHOES INEW FALL STYLES I IN H /\ T S All the leading shapes are here in soft or stiff hats. We are agents for the "KNOX" hats and if you want a GOOD hat buy the Knox. Good school suits at $L', $2..TO, $:! and lip. Bring vonr boys here. We are prepared and prices are very low. Splendid suits made from strictly all wool materials, fabrics that are stylish and will wear well. $10 and $12 Men's Suits at $15, $18 and $20 The finest line of garments at th<;se prices you have ever seen. High grade Worsteds, Casgimeres and Cheviots in the latest shades and colorings. The make, fit and trimmings are equal to the best merchant tailor's work. M E N "S TOP BOYS' CLOTHING COATS AND RAIN COATS President, W. A. Jordan; captaingeneral, Lemon Chambers; field marshal, Thomas Hoover; chief musician, Joseph Wilson; vice president, Dave Hoover; treasurer, Court Hoover; medal bearer, Col. Charles Chambers; chief of woodsmen, Jim Brewer; supreme secretary and poet laureate, C. H. Freas; patriarch, v on pressman W. O. Smith; chief of the signal service, Frank Boney; master of the hounds. P. O. Freas; official declaimed Col. William M. Fairman; assistant to Bre'r Groundhog, Col. Frand Ridgway; mixologist, Dr. S. J. Hughes; master digger, John Fackiner; rod man and commisary, A. (J. McBride; politician, A. W. Sutter; quartermaster-general. John Lnngan; surgeon. Dr. S S. Hamilton: color bearer, William McCartney; officer of of the day. C. E. Palmer; artist aixdL jsonnetteer, C. M. Payne; press agent. [John P. Cowan; geologist, Conrad Aldenbergor; superintendent of water Carriers. I,. B. Palmer; head usher. I. F. Bailey; patron saints. Punxsutawney Spirit and Pittsburg (Jazet te. IT WILL PAY YOU to look al our line of new fall anil winter underwear fi>r women, hoys and children which is now on hands ready for your iiuu "j tion. All first class goods at the lowest prices. (  1 am receiving GRAPES, PEARS Women's light weight knit vests Women's heavy knit underwear Hoys heavy underwear Children's knit underwear DAILY QUINCES and will give orders for same, prompt attention and the best service. All choice fruit. E. T. WHITE of the family circle is often overlooked. It is brought most forcibly to mind only when to late. It's one's duty to one's self, one's family and one's friends to keep them supplied with photohraphs. Changes are subtle and the camera alone records them as your friends see them. TO FREQUENT PHOTOGRAPHS THE IMPORTANCE ATTACHING Ladies' flannelette night-gowns Ladies' flannelette underskirts A new stock of light and dark outings and flanneletts just in at Se and 10c. Hplscopal church services next Sunday, at 1'>::>U a. tn., in Knights nl Pythias' hall. Holy Communion and sermon. Rev. Donoghay. First Baptist church, Rev C. H. Krltzwilliam. pastor. Services in the Opera House. Rev. \V A Stanton, D.I)., of Pittsburg, will preach in the morning at 1 I o'clock and in the evening at 7:.'!() o'clock. He will also deliver an address on the occasion of the laying the corner stone of the new building on ttie lot at II p. m. All are cordially invited. Rev. \V O. Calhoun of Lindsey, who for the last four years lias ministered to the spiritual wants of the people of the Krostburg c. arfe, was transferred to the Tlonesta district, and on Monday moved his family to his new home. Rev. and Mrs. Calhoun are accompanied by the best wishes of the people of tne Krostburg charge, who will long remember Mr. Calhoun for his faithful and efficient service while among them and Mrs. Calhoun for her many virtues as a good neighbor and Christian companion.Drilled for Water lint Struck (ias. SCHOOL $1.00, $1.2.r> and $1.50. $1.10, $1.20 at CHINA DEP'T SHOES !Uiy,s shoes 75c children's shoes, button and $1.25 children** shoes, size s'. lace, size 5 to H 4Ne. to 11 all leather, good strong solrs Hoy's "Kant Kip" school shoes at l)Sc. nt $1.-W. Misses school shoes 1 1 1 ■< to 'J DINNER SET The er\ is "No Fruit,'' well smashed, we don't mean really w«* havt' the •II"1 broken, but the prices were plenty of them. smashed very badly W hen you need any, just $12.00 Dinner Set $9.00. have a look ;it our jars, for there that is the way we mean, you js „ hjg .iilWeuce in jars, had better investigate this. Michael Krenier, of Sykesville, dug a well which gave evidence at first of supplying the desired amount of wtiter, but which recently failed. Mr. Kretaier then engaged a driller and a hofk was sunK to the deptn of about 7 5 feot, wheq it developed a strong pressing of gas. The drill had been operaterfUbrough a hole In the pump porch. wfter removing the tools Mr. Kroiiiw threw a lighted match into th/orltVe, when an explosion occurred. whicfk (ossed the well porch and the proprietor as high as the house and sentAthem tumbling in a heap some distance from the well, fortunately, without much injury to man or porch. Last Friday this hole was tilled up with casing and ! "pipes and now Mr. Krenier has enough gas to supply half of the town. Low Kxcursloll Fares lo Pittsburg. it marry love nfiv «n hope- Mrs. Nettie Cohen J was t'on- Successor to easoiiH for exist. The the crown itenlor. Her .» one of the She hu unmunder o* > ,i cliurma dollar or more on e%,K theui Beautiful Pd the is displayed with blc',!'h7s (■*ud I tainnri;UlltU, Dea't letfcsr AM liwy If yam lin <n Iocm. If yo We w •r* lalM yon, loon That aad oat dise y< la am ever g As far I tied M Wares WINDOW V 'i LONG BROS. PIMS'L This is tiie best selling granite-\v ire we ever put on our shelves The quality is the best and the price is very reasonable. g| |\j  lild's suit. ime and inspect them and learn how to save a On account of the Pittsburg exposition the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Ry. will sell special excursion tickets from Rldgway, Du- Bols, Clearfield, Punxsutawney, Fenelton itnil intermediate points. Tickeis, including admission to the Exposition, will be sold on Wednesdays, September 14, 21, and 28; and October 5, 12 and 19, which win be good going on day of Issue and returning until the following Saturday. 10to5 —$1.50 shoes at Long's for $1.39. Workshoes—the right kinds. Brownell's. . It Ion mr T/K Thursday/r \V!l»* vas ully/ •I am fi-o'H, t h <> he official •Ufsts from? *J,V listricts assfftiihltoj} lu» meteorological  •ominu y».nr and eiii< voodchuofc. The delegation from Pittsburg, •omposed of John P. Cowan, C. M. 'ayne, L. E. Palmer, Conrad Alton >erger and I. P. Bailey, who represent the branch weatherworks in the Smoky City, arrived hero on the noon rain minus their chief. Colonel •"rank Ridgeway. Word having p; •ceded them that Col. Kidgeway h i n en pitched off into the Allegheny iver while the train was crossing he bridge at Mosgrove, a posse, com tosed of officials of the club under he leadership of Chief of Police Palner, met them at the station and the •mire band was summarily hustled i way to the lockup. The report was nvestigated at once when it was earned that Mr. Ridgeway had been suddenly summoned to St. Louis, vhero a convention of S. weather orcasters bad been hastily summon h1. The defendants gave it out as heir opinion that Chief Willis Moore, >f Washington, D. C., had called the neeting in order to set up a weather ichedule in opposition to the Pttnxsuawney weatherworks. As Mr Itidgeway's job was at stake he was •om pel led to drop everything and go. This explanation being considered uifficient the Pittsburg envoys were given their liberty, and soon after he members of the Groundhog Club iind a large procession of hunters, n carriages, left for the fastnesses >f Canoe Ridge. The party included the most famous groundhog experts in this community, Pittsburg, Brook ville, Reynoldsville, DuBois, Clearfield, Bell wood, Altoona, Glen Campbell and McGees Mills, who scoured the hills south oi Punxsuawney, rounding up at Miller Stoops, from where, later in the day. 1 groundhogs furnished forth a feast fit tor kings and princes The oficial woodchuek was captured on the Stoops' farm at about 5 o'clock p. m., find, for t!'e benefit of the unitiated, it might be well to state here somehing about this particular kind of a groundhog. It is well known that on one or i wo occasions since the advent of man upon the earth the groundhog in •barge of the weatherworks at the I.me either missed his calculations :>r wilfully deceived mankind in the ijuality of weather handed out for the six weeks following February 2. The descendants of this wicked wood ;huck have multiplied and it is the mission of the Punxsutawney Ground hog club to exterminate him. When, therefore, one of them has been located in a hole a great cry goes tip from the wise ones of the club, who alone are endowed with the power to identify his kind. The tabooed marmot is uneerimoniously yanked from his lair and held up to scorn during the remainder of the day. or until all of the uncontaminated groundhogs. which have been captured, are safely stowed away in the stomachs of their captors. The disreputable woodchuek is then boxed up and shipped to Colonel Frank Ridgeway. of Pittsburg, and when stuffed and mounted is placed conspicuously in the Pittsburg weather bureau. There he remains, as a horrible reminder of the fate that awaits the forcaster who makes a mistake in his predictions.The day passed off without a serious accident, but a few of the hunters were slightly maimed during the capture of the official woodchuck. When Brer groundhog was dislodged from his hole under a stump heap he seized Des F reas by the foot and in the seramole to get away John Weber and John Fackiner bowled several members of the club over an adjacent log heap. When the ceremoniefc attending the capture of the official groundhog had been completed Chef H. E. Beatty announced that tne feast was ready. Although I he long tables fairly groaned with the delicacies of the season the hungry hunters paid strict attention to their favorite dish in the shape of succulent chunks of groundhog, which they washed down with copious draughts of Dr. S. J. Hughs' celebrated groundhog punch. At the conclusion of the festivities William Painman Esq., orator of the club, mounted a platform and deliv ered an address which was reported officially, as follows: "When Columbus landed, when the noble red man roamed these h 11k, when the Pilgrim fathers pioneered, when Washington cut the cherry tree, when the wild tigers stole through this wilderness, before Cornwallis had surrendered at Yorktown, before Meade had thrown back the southern hosts from the bloody field of Gettysburg and before Grant had tak'en the stars and bars at Apomattox, there lived on this historic spot a citizen that we all have grown to honor and respect. His name is Br'er Groundhog. (Cheers.) "Columbus has gone, the noble red man has gone, the Pilgrim fathers; have gone, the cherry tree has disappeared, the wild tigers have left their pelts on the hardwood floors, f.rass has grown on the forsaken rampants at Yorktown, tombstones stand on the field of Gettysburg and we have for-! given and are tryng to forget all that closed there at Appomattox, but here among us—in our midst, as the country editor would say—Is Br'er Groundhog and Mistress Groundhog waxing each of them fat and hearty." Three cheers were then given for i the speaker and three cheers for Br'er Groundhog, after which the assembly returned to Punxsutawney satisfied that the weatherworks A T R ' S D V B E R EE A S IN MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING VOL. XXXII. I ~~~1 FALL STYLE NOW W E ,ir -'V  ..- • -i k  ..^.<c«v^£!'^ ' • ;!:?S tflBlflli ll^ •-/ V