Mapleton Item

              VOL. XII.
MAPLETON DEPOT, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1900.
NO. 6
LOCAL NOTES.
—May 2nd. .
—Look up Wm. Reed & Sons' news
this week.
—Mrs. M. £. Loug spent a portion ol
last week with friends in Spruce Creek.
—Mrs. T. C. Cowher and children
were guests of Huntingdon friends over
Sunday.
—Miss Dema Shore spent the past
week with K. D. Kinkead and wife at
Huntingdon.
—Lewistown and Huntingdon are to
lie connected by a direct telephone line
in the near future.
—James Foster, of Mapleton, has been
appointed night watchman at the chair
factory at Mt. Union.
—For men's dress suits, shoes, hats,
.   shirts, etc., it will pay to go to W.  G.
Ewing's, Mt. Union, Pa.
t —Rev. D. H. Campbell will preach in
f   the Presbyterian church Sunday evening, May 6th, at 7.30 o'clock.
—John Greenland and wite have been
enjoy lug a few days of the past week
with lriends in Clay township.
—Mrs. B. F. Godard and Miss Jennie
Carothers, of Huntingdon, were guests
of Mapleton friends recently.
—J. O. Heaton, Cassville, Pa., recommends and sells all of Chamberlain's
remedies advertised in the Item.
—15. F. Godard is having his house In
this place weatherboarded. The Improvement will be quite noticeable.
—A. C. Fisher, of Bolivar, is spending
a few days among friends and former
neighbors in Mapleton. He is looking
well.
—Miss Lillie Wagner, of Clay township, and Samuel Wagner, of Saltillo,
were    recent guests of Mr.   and Mrs.
;   Frank Yetter.
—McCarl's liniment is good for than
or beast.    It quickly brings relief when
(applied to aches, pains, sprains, ctlts or
bruises. Try it.
— At W. G. Ewing's, Mt. Union, .you
can get dress plaids as low as 5 cents
per yard and all wool 36 inch dress
goods at 25 cents per yard.
—A young man named Charles Mc-
Gafierty had his arm so badly crushed
1      at Petersburg yesterday as to make am-
L    putation necessary.   He was employed
Bj  on the railroad work at that point.
■       —Spruce Creek had another murder
Tuesday evening of last  week.    "Kid"
.      Wilson, colored, killed  Sims Gilchrist,
■colored, firing five shots at the latter.
—S. S, Taylor on Sunday departed
with Mr. and,Mrs. J. H. Shinier and Mrs.
J. R. Barkley for McKee's Rocks, where
he will make his home for the present.
—A box of salve Is a requsite in
every household. When buying get
McCarl's ointment   which   bas   healing
properties   unequaled   by   any    other
salve.
—"Gir-rtils are niver satisfied,"  mused the philosopher.   "Whin they are in
short skirts, they are crying  fer long
wans, an whin they git loug wans they
rfL    liave to hold thim up."
m       —Jesse L. Montgomery and wifs and
Wh  Harry Green and wife, of Pittsburg, and
B  James 13. Montgomery, of Altoona, have
^    been guests at the home of James Montgomery during the past week.
—VV. G. Ewing, Mount Union, carries
a big line of ladies' dress goods, muslin sheetings, table linens, sheetings,
ginghams, plaids, etc., and It will pay
to see his goods before purchasing.
—Mrs. Lou'Dell departed Friday of
last week for a Philadelphia hospital for
I treatment for an abscess which for some
months has caused her annoyance and
^convenience. We hope she may find
permanent relief.
—Judge Reppert, of Fayette county,
■laid down a remarkable series of rules
tor liquor sellers. They must not allow
1 politics to be discussed in their bar
\ rooms, they ars not to hold any office,
sKerve as committeemen for any political
$aWy» to do any w«rk at the polls, or
take'nart in politics In any way. Brew.
ers, moreover, must not become the fi-
uancial backers of saloon keepers.
"DeWitt's Little Early Bisers are the finest
pills I over used".—D. J. Moore, Millbrook,
Ala. Tbey quiokly oure all liver and bowel
troubles.   A. B. Gillam, J. L. Honek.
—The first quarterly conference for
this conference year wilt be held in the
Mapleton M. E. church at 6 o'clock
Thursday evening, 3d inst. The presiding elder, Rev. E. M, Stevens, will
preach at 7.30 o'clock.
—J. W. Weston, a brakeman on the
middle division and residing at Altoona')
narrowly escaped serious injury while
applying a brake on his train al Lewis-
town Junction. He was using a stick,
which slipped and he was thrown off,
sustaining a number ot bruises to the
body and a sprain ot the right wrist.
—Our neighbor, D. B. Miller, fired by
the exploit of his ancestors, on Monday
started In search of a bear which was
reported as being seen on Jack's mountain 'near Atkinson's Mills. "Dave"
was so confident of his success that he
authorised agents to dispose of a quantity of bear meat, but when he returned
he came in the back way bringing no ev.
idence of his skill.   Too bad.
—The Republican state convention
at Harrisburg last Wednesday was a
very harmonious gathering. E. B, Har-
denberg, of Wayne county, was nominated for auditor general, and Galusha
A. Grow, of Susquehanna, and Robert H.
Foerderer,of Philadelphia, for congressmen-at-large. M.S. Quay, John B. Steeb
Frank Reeder, James Elverson, Charles
A. Porter, William Cornell, B. W. Green
and John Leisenring were elected delegates-at-large to the Republican national convention.
—1 consider it not only a pleasure but
a duty I owe to my neighbors to tell a-
bout the wonderful cure effected in my
case by the timely use of Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
I was taken very Jbadly with flux and
procured a bottle of this remedy. A
few doses of It effected a permanent cure.
I take pleasure in recommending it to
others suffering from that terrible
disease.—J. W. Lynch, Dorr, W. Va.
This remedy is sold by J. G. Gillam.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad company, which is steadily continuing the
laying of the fourth track on the main
line of tbe middle division, has invited
bids for the laying down of one and a
half miles ot track near Lewistrfwn and
one and a half miles of track east of
Port Royal. The latter work will also
include the widening of the bridge across
Tuscarora creek. For some time past
the engineers have beep at work running
a line in the Lewistown Narrows, and it
Is now said that the tracks will be finished on the grade east of Bixler's.
—Sherwood Freed, a native of Union
county and a nephew of Mrs. James
Montgomery, of Mapleton, died in a
Pittsburg hospital last Tuesday. On
Monday he met with an accident on the
Monongahela Connecting railroad, on
which he was employed, in which he
lost both legs. He was removed to a
hospital and died as above stated. The
body was removed to the morgue. His
cousin, Jesse L. Montgomery, who Is
employed on the Allegheny Valley railroad, by chance heard of the occurrence,
claimed the body and accompanied to
the home of Mr. Freed's parents. The
'young man waa aged 30 years and 17
days.
—At the funeral of Miss Lou Gayton
at Mount Union on the 23d ult., a certain woman entered a room on the second "floor front in which friends had
placed their wraps and took' therefrom
ten handkerchiefs which belonged to the
deceased and were souvenirs from
friends. They were of the best quality.
A pair of black kid gloves belonging to
Mrs. W. A. Crotsley, of Huntingdon,
were taken from the same room. While
the friends were at the cemetery Mrs.
Crotsley's umbrella was also taken.
Mr. and Mrs. Gayton are much grieved
over the occurrence, the more so because ot the fact that they know who
took the gloves and handkerchiefs. The
woman could save herself much trouble
by returning the stolen property before
exposure is necessary.
MARCl OF THE $RIM REAPER.
SIMEON WRIGHT.
As stated in the Item last week,
Simeon Wright died at his home in
Trough Creek valley Tuesday evening,
April 24, 1900, of dropsy resulting from
paralysis, he having been stricken about
eight years ago.
Deceaaed was a son of Abraham
Wright whose parents emigrated from
Baltimore and settled in Clay township in 1787.' He is survived by three
brothers and one sister, vis: Levi
Wright, of Mapleton, James C. and A.
Wesley Wright, of Union township, and
Mrs. Katharine Foust, of Henderson
township. He Is also survived by the
following named children: James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Graham
and Mrs. B. F. Mierley, of Union township, Mrs. Martha J. Wensel and Mrs.
A. L. Steele, of Huntingdon. An Item
correspondent furnishes us with the
following sketch of Mr. Wright:
Had Simeon Wright lived five hours
longer he would have been eighty-two
years old, and it he had lived one month
and seventeen days longer he would
have lived sixty-two years after his conversion. On the 27th of September,
1838, he with his sister, Catharine,
joined the M. E. church. In his nearly
sixty-two years of membership he saw
the many changes that took place, lt
was on his motion, suggested by presiding elder, Rev. John Miller, that the
old parsonage near the Trough Creek
church was sold and the oue in Cassville
purchased. To him more than any
other one belongs the credit for the
building of the beautiful church In
Calvin.
He was a man of rather strong prejudices but of late years these grew less.
He always took an active part in, the
affairs of the township as well as the
church and was one that helped defeat
the public school system when the cause
was left to the vote ot the people, but
the one term satisfied the growlers
and from that time on the system continued. This was done by the friends
ot education in order to whip the
growlers into measures. He served
as justice of the peace twenty yeara, one term as county commissioner and one term as poor
director. He was firm in his convictions of what he considered right and
would not yield even when his own interests were at stake. He gave a plain
illustration bf this iralt of character
wi^en a candidate for associate judge,
choosing defeat rather than make a
pledge as a bribe to voters to secure his
election. He closed up his financial
afiairs over five years ago by disposing
ot his farm to his son, Graham, and
making his will to which there has been
no codicil added.
His remains were taken to the church
at Calvin where an appropriate, address
was delivered by Rev. N. B. Smith after
which they were laid to rest in the shade
of the monument that he had erected a
number of years-ago by the grave of his
wife. Thus one by one we are passing
away to the great judgment day. In
looking back, seemingly but a brief
space of time, we see him a stout, rug.
ged man, but he is gone the way ot all
the earth and our earnest prayer is that
when the summons come to the rest of
us that we may be as well prepared as
we have every reason to believe be was.
WM. A. HAMILTON.
At midday on Easter Sabbath, April
15, 1900, while the sun was shining so
brightly and all nature looked gay, the
home at 1624 Mifflin street, Huntingdon,
Pa., was turned to sorrow and mourning
caused by the death of Wm. Albert
Hamilton after a week of intense suffering from pneumonia and pleurisy, which
wus borne with Christian submission and
fortitude.
Deceased was a consistent member
of the Second M. E. chnrch, having been
converted about fifteen years ago. He
was a kind and affectionate husband
and father', a good neighbor, never los
ing a chance to do an act of kindness
to all with whom he came in contact.
Twenty years ago Mr. Hamilton was
united in marriage to Miss Maggie A.
Henderson, ot Cassville, Pa., and to
them was born one child, Miss Belle,
who is now attending Juniata College.
He is also survived by his mother and
three sisters. They are Mrs. David
Posten, ot Hollidaysburg; Mrs. Ellen
Brown, of Fresno, Cal., and Mrs. Sallie
Swope, of Ramey, Pa., and two brothers,
John and Brinton, ot Saxton, Pa.
When spoken to concerning his future
he camly said, "If I live, it is alright,
and if I die, it is alright, just as the
Lord wills." And as the end drew near
the look of suffering and pain disappeared and his face shone with a radiance that only comes to those who bave
conquered sin and his spirit calmly and
peacefully soared aWay to the God wbo
gave It to bask forever in the eternal
sunlight of God's love to await the coming of his loved ones.
Rev. Dunkerley, his pastor, conducted
the obsequies at the home Monday evening at 8 o'clock in a very pleasing and
impressive manner and on Tuesday the
remains were taken to Cassville, Pa.,
where loving hands sorrowfully laid
them to rest In the Odd Fellows' cemetery. To the sorrowing wife and
daughter we extend our heartfelt sympathy in this their sad hour of bereavement, but human sympathy is frail and
we commend them to the Heavenly
Father from whose loving hand the
blow has come.
Gone from us is our loved one
Gone to his heavenly home;
Never more will we behold him;
Never hear his gentle tone.
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Oft, ah I oft your eyes will turn
Upon his accustomed place;
You'll sigh to hear his voice again
And look in his dear face.
But this should soothe your grief to know
He has laid life's burden down,
And in exchange gone to receive
The victor's heavenly robe and croWn.
One Who Knew Him.
LOUELLA R. GAYTON.
In the death of Miss Louella Gayton,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William C.
Gayton, at the home of her parents In
Mount Union, Thursday evening, April
19, 1900, a home was bereft of the last
child. Miss Gayton was a native of
Union township, having been born on
the old homestead north of town. In
1871 llje family moved to Mount Union
where in March, 1875, she united with
the Presbyterian church. More than a
year ago it became evident that the
germ of consumption had lodged in her
system and though everything possible
was done for her relief the angel ot
death claimed her. Through her long
illness she suffered much but bore it all
with marked patience. No murmur nor
complaint escaped her lips and she appeared more solicitous tor the comfort
of her parents and friends than for herself. Her death was a heavy stroke to
her father and mother, who had previously consigned to the tomb two
daughters, one, Mrs. Mary McCarthy,
in 1876 and the other, Blanche, in 1886.
Louella Gayton was ft lady who left
her impress wherever she went. In her
home life she was loving, affectionate
and dutiful. In church work she was
devout, consistent and faithful. In social life she was agreeable, bright and
courteous. She possessed a keen sense
of humor but no shaft was ever ventured
to wound a fellow creature. Though
admired in every circle she was modest
and unassuming. She- was an angel of
mercy to those In need and many bless
her ministrations. Her real worth is
best estimated by the real goodness of
her heart, the greatness of her soul aud
the purity and sweetness of her character. The flowers 00 her casket were
not more fragrant than were her good
deeds which drew about her a host of
sincere friends. These mourn her death
but rejoice in the hopes of Resurrection.
We extend our sympathies to tbe grief
stricken parents.
GEOROE B. HIGHT.
At 11.10 o'clock Saturday morning
George B. Hight, an ex-councilman and
a well known resident of the Second
ward, died at hts home, 1104 Second
avenue, of consumption. He had been
ailing for some time and had been bedfast for three months. Deceased was
born in Trough Creek valley, November
6, 1852, and had been a resident of this
city since 1866. He was for a number
of years employed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, but at the time he
was taken sick he was employed as a
toreman under Contractor W.V. Hughes.
He was an industrious man, highly esteemed'by a host of friends, and had
served during the years of 1885-1886 in
common council. He was a member of
the Second Lutheran church and is survived by his wife and three sons, Ira,
William and Emory, also by his mother,
Mrs. Sarah Hight, and these sisters:
Mrs. Anna Ebbs, of Pittsburg ; Mrs. Lila
Taylor, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Jennie:
Heilman, of Altoona, and Mrs. Calvin
Bryan, of Pittsburg.—Altoona Tribune.
MRS. ELIZA BUCHER GOOD.
At to o'clock Saturday morning Mrs.
Eliza Bucher Good, wife of Dr, Daniel
Royer Good, formerly of this city, died
at her home in Osceola, Clearfield county.
Deceased was the second daughter of
the late Dr. D. Houtz, the founder of
Houtzdale, and was born in Alexandria,
Huntingdon county, June 28, 1838. She-,
was married June 9, 1859, to Dr. Good,
one of the early practicing physicians of
Altoona, and this city was their first
home. She was a fathtul member of
the Presbyterian chWch from her girl.
hood. Besides her husband she is survived by four children—George M. H.,
David D. and Clare H., of Osceola and
Mrs. Elizabeth Royer Knapp, of Chisago.—Altoona Tribune.
>   Minister Deposed.
A dispatch from Scranton, dated
April 25, says: Rev. Ingram N. W.
Irvine, D. D., of Huntingdon, Pa., where
he had been rector of St. John's Protestant Episcopal church, and who was
convicted by an ecclesiastial court of
conduct unbecoming a minister of the
church, was to-day at St. Luke's church,
this city, degraded and deposed by the
Right Rev. Ethelbel Talbot, D. D.,
bishop of the Central Pennsylvania
diocese. He did not appear belore the
bisbop. The deposed minister made
another effort to have tbe Lackawanna
courts interfere in his behalf this morning by temporary injunction restraining
the bishop from carrying out the order
of the ecclesiastial court, but the application was refused.
A Huntingdon dispatch, dated April
26, says: Rev. I. N. W. Irvine,.rector
ot St. John's Episcopal church here,
who was deposed from the ministry yesterday by Bishop Talbot, on charges of
unministerial conduct, announced tonight that he would ignore the bishop's"
decree, which, he asserts, is based on
an unjust trial, false evidence and contrary to the requirements of the .fhurch
"Canons.
"I am still rector of St. John's church
here," said the doctor, "and I will continue as such until the supreme court of
Pennsylvania says I am not. My vestry
supports me in my stand aud I am convinced the community does also."
As St. John's is an independent church
unaided by diocesan missions, the interesting question arises  whether Bishop "
Talbot's decree can be enforced.
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—The ancients believed that rheumatism was the work of a demon within
a man. Any one who has had an attack
of sciatic or inflammatory rheumatism
will agree that the infliction is demoniac
enough to warrant the belief. It has
never been claimed that Chamberlain's
Pain Balm would east out demons, but
it will cure rheumatism, and hundreds
bear testimony to the truth of this statement. One application relieves the
pain, and this quick relief which it affords Is alone worth many times Its cosir 5
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