Sewickley Herald

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Pear no man, and do justice to all men."
Vol. II
SEWICKLEY, PA., SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1905
No. 25
tewickley and Edgeworth Councils
Held Interesting Meetings.
JEORGANIZE   AT NEXT MEETING.
An adjourned meeting of council
convened in the council chamber
)n Tuesday evening of this week,
:or the purpose of straightening
ip all business in connection with
;he present body, as the next
neeting will include the newly
sleeted councilmen and will there-
:or be considered a new body.
Ihere were no members absent
md the following business was
lispatched:
The minutes of the previous
meeting were read and with slight
corrections accepted. Miss Sophia
Reibert, for the Reibert estate,
//as exonerated from paying a bill
)f $59 for a sewer along lower
3ank street, in front of their property, from the fact that they had
ilready built a private sewer over
oart of the street, which sewer
;hey are turning over to the Bor-
)Ugh free of charge, which will at
east offset the bill against them.
The bids for the construction of
570 feet of sewer on Bank street,
jelow Walnut. , were as follows;
Bishop Construction Gompany,
1287 and D. W. Ghallis, $311.
rhe contract was awarded to the
:ormer. Upon request from Mr.
Sonway Macon, he was granted
*e privilege of connecting his
louse on the corner of Academy
ind Linden avenues, with the
Academy avenue sewer, Mr. Macon
faring all costs.
An ordinance passed third and final
fading, establishing a new line for
ihe run through the Borough,
<nowh as Hoeys run, this action
3e!ng preliminary to the movement
°r covering this same run, which
*'H come up at a later date.
The solicitor explained a few
;echnical  points  of   interest   to
council, and the retiring members,
Mr. J. D. Miller and fc.r. Gharles
Atwell gave shortfarewell speeches
after which council adjourned to
meet Tuesday evening, March 2nd,
for reorganization.
EDGEWORTH.
Edgeworth Borough Gouncil
convened at 8 o'clock Monday
evening in the cozy council chamber over McGullough's store. The
pretty and substantial oak furniture gives the room a businesslike
appearance.
The members present were
Messrs. F. F. Brooes, George Herz,
J. A. Huston, Fred McGullough,
Alex Laughlin, and Burgess Russell, Clerk Nevin, and the borough
solicitor.
Mr. Alex Laughlin acted as president' pro. tem. and after the roll
call and the reading of the minutes
of the previous meeting there were
several reports from committees
made.
The committee on light reported
the need of placing about nine
lights in various sections of the
borough. The matter of adopting
a new street light was taken up and
the committee will report at the
next meeting.
Mr. James Gampbell, Esq., was
present in the interest of some of
the property owners of Sewickley
Heights township in relation to a
road they wish to open and improve. Mr. Gampbell spokj, cci.-
cerning the cost of this improvement and the advantages to be
derived from it, and was requested
by council to present a written
communication that the matter may
be taken up in detail
The fire committee reported the
purchase of equipment for the fire
department from the Pittsburg
Rubber Gompany, the amount being
$675.
Council then took up the matter
of appointing a street commissioner,
and Squire Buckley w'as named as
a possible candidate for this position, but no definite action was
taken.
There were several ordinances
presented of a general nature, one
of them to regulate the opening of
streets for the laying of pipe lines,
etc. They were turned over to
the solicitor for revision.
A resolution was presented to
the police committee to procure a
census for the borough board of
health.
Mr. D. W. Challis was present in
relation to a piece of property owned by his father, which the Borough is desirous of purchasing for
municipal use. The plot is on the
corner of Ghestnut and Beaver
streets. Gouncil took no definite
action but the property committee
will look the matter up and report
at next meeting.
After some minor business, Gouncil adjourned.
The Edgeworth Board of Health
met on Tuesday evening in the
council chamber and Squire Buckley administered oath of office to
the new • members. Rules and
regulations for the governing of the
body were adopted. The following
gentlemen constitute this body.
George H. Glapp, president; Dr.
Edward Stieren, secretary; Theodore H. Leake, George H. Guenther
and James Booth.
A Pine Address.
Rev. John E. Gummings, the
representative of the American
Baptist Missionary Union in Burmah, addressed an appreciative
audience at the Baptist Ghurch
last Sunday evening.
Rev. Gummings has spent seventeen years laboring for the salvation of the native Burmese, who
are very hard to win for Ghrist on
account of their pride and religion
Mr. Gummings' address was very
interesting and helpful, and it convinced his hearers that it was a
real joy to give up even home and
the comforts of civilization to work
in the harvest fields of the Master.
He also told of the struggle he
had in giving up everything to go
to the foreign field, but he said that
when he found that he would have
a parish of half a million souls in
Burmah, he knew that that was
where his services wer4e wanted
Mr. Gummings will return to Bu -
mah next October.
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OBITUARIES.
MRS. ELIZABETH CHRISTMAN. /"
After an illness of two weeks,
Mrs. Elizabeth Ghristman, widow
of the late John Gristman, died on
last Monday gffternoan at the family
residence, 504 Beaver street. Mrs.
Ghristman was in her 71st year and
came to this place with her husband,
twelve years ago, from Zanesville,
0., where she had previously spent
most of her life. " She is survived
by the following children: Henry,
Nicholas, Samuel, George Lawrence, Elizabeth and Catherine, at
home; William and Michael, of
Pensacola, Fla., and Gharles, of
Seattle, Wash. Mrs. Ghristman
was a member of St. James' Roman
Gatholic church, at which place
services were held Wednesday
morning at 7.30.
The remains were then taken to
the railroad station and the funeral
cortege proceeded to Stovertown,
near Zanesville, and Mrs. Ghrist-
was laid to rest in the family burial
plot at the side of her husband.
MRS. PERRY GIBB.
Mrs. Perry Gibb, aged 40 years,
died at her home in Quaker Valley
last Saturday evening after a brief
illness.
Mrs. Gibb was born in Washington, D. C, in 1865, and when she
was only five months old her family
moved this place. She was a
woman of sterling character, one of
the foremost christians of this place
and an active member of the local
Methodist Episcopal church for
twenty-five years. She was liked
by everyone who knew her, and a
large number of friends and acquaintances share the sorrow of
the bereaved family.
Mrs. Gibb is survived by her
husband and five children—three
sons, Joseph, Ward and Frank Gibb,
and two daughters, Margaret and
Dorothy Gibb. She is alro survived
by three sisters and four brothers—
the Misses Mary and Jennie Wharton, Mrs. William Graham, and
Messrs. Archie, John R., Harry G.,
and W. J. J. Wharton.
Funeral services were held in the
Methodist Episcopal church on last
Tuesday afternoon at 2.50. Interment was made in Sewickley
cemetery,
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