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VOL. XVI.
MAPLETON DEPOT, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY __, 1904.
NO. 8
LOCAL NOTES.
—Oats for seed at O'OonBOW."
—The Smart Set magazine Will entertain
you.
—H. D. Tate, Esq., of Bedford, was
transacting business in Mapleton yesterday.
—M. B. Brenneman, of Smithfield town-
Ship, was a visitor to Mapleton last Saturday.
—Miss Olive Coder spent a couple days
last week visiting among friends in Huntingdon.
—B. F. Slates has painted his spring
street residence and otherwise improved
hie property.
—John L. Miller last Wednesday left
for Altoona wherfe he will be employed at
the carpenter trade.
"—Mrs. Frances* Wakefield's barn west
of Petersburg was totally destroyed by
fire last Friday night.
—Shapiro Bros, are having two large
display windows placed in the front of
their store room on Main street.
—Visit Shapiro Bros.' store and see the
late and artistic designs in wall paper.
Prices for single bolt, 4c and up.
—Mrs. J. G. Dell, of Huntingdon,
visited among friends and former neighbors in Mapleton from Monday till to-day.
—B. B. Shore attended a family gathering at t^e home of his brother-in-law Mr.
Masemore in Clay township last Saturday.
—Barnum & Bailey's circus wiU be in
Lewistown May I4fh, and John Bobin-
son's circus will exhibitlh the same town
May 24th.
—Mrs. Whitney, of Shirleysburg, has
been spending several days at the home
cf her sister, Mrs. Bachel Wright, in
Mapleton.
—The ladies of the M. E. cburch will
sell ice cream in the old cburch next
. Saturday evening and solicit the public
patronage.
—Washington Camp No. 321, P. O. S.
of A., of Huntingdon, will celebrate its
sixteenth anniversary on Friday evening
of this week.
—Co. C, 53d P. V., will hold their
annual reunion and basket picnic alt
Alfarata park, Alexandria, on May 28th.
Gen. John B. Brooke will be present
—Mrs. Louisa A. Dell and daughter
departed Monday for Braddo-k and East
Pittsburg where they will spend three or
four weeks with Mrs. DeH's sisters and
friends.
—Fresh beef, Dold's meats, country-
cured pork, eggs, bologna, chipped beef,
boiled ham and corned beef at J. B. Mc-
Clain's meat market.^. Your patronage
solicited.
—Henry Hatfield and family, of Allegheny, paid a short visit to friends in this
place last week, having been summoned
here 'on account of the death of Mrs.
•George Hughes.
*—-The first of the low rate excursion
'trains to the St. Louis exposition passed
through Mapleton shortly after five
o'clock last evening. There were eleven
day coaches, all fairly well filled.
—Mrs. H. D. Wicks and children, of
: Christiana, arrived in Mapleton Sunday
and will remain a short time. Her son is
not in good health and it is hoped the
return to Mapleton will be beneficial to
him.
—The Altoona wreck crew on Sunday
burned 125 old freight' cars at Newry.
In the lot were a number of condemned
cars of the low capacity-lass and cars that
had been In wrecks and so badly damaged
that they were not worth repairing.
—James Mort and wife, of Kearney,
Bedford county, spent a few hours last
Wednesday with his sister, Mrs. Werts,
-In this place. They were on their way
in spend some time with relatives and
friends in Mifliin and Juniata counties.
—Just in, a car load of feed and grain.
Corn and oats chop, |1.30; dairy feed,
•$1.30; buckeye wheat feed, $1.30; corn
meal feed, $1.40; cracked corn, $1.40;
•corn, oats and barley feed, $1.45. Be-
memberfull 100 lbs. to the sack. Benj.
O'Connor <_ Sons.
t —George Palmer and B, F. Pheisant
ire exchanging places of residence to-day,
Mr. Palmer moving into his house on
BeservSir street recentl y purchased from
Mrs. S. M. Duvall, and Mr. Pheasant to
the Railroad Company's property in the
eastern part of town.
—Great preparations are being made in
.Hartford, Conn., for the annual encampment of the Society of the Army of the
Potomac and the Connecticut Department
of the Grand Army of the Republic, May
18 and 19. The line of ■ march for the
parade of the veterans is wisely to be a
.shortone.   ' '
—Have you read that very interesting
magazine, The Smart Sett
—Miss Myrtle Wright, a member of the
(junior class at Millersville 'state normal
school, oame home Friday to attend tbe
examination for permanent certificates
held at Huntingdon Saturday. It affords
much pleasure to note that Miss Myrtle,
who is a successful teacher, stood at tbe
head of tbe class' examined.
—Mrs. Bussel Hyssong and daughter,
of Cassville, Mrs. Catharine Wright and
son Je.sse, of Smith Valley, and Samuel
Dell, of Teagertown, are the guests of
Mrs. Geo. Beed, of Ninth street. Mrs.
Hyssong attended the commencement at
Spruce Cieek, and Mrs Wright Will visit
her daughter in Altoona.—News.
—FishTJommissioner Meehan yesterday
made a ruling that .dip nets with a mesh
the size of shad nets can be used in dipping for shad. These nets can be used
only in the Susquehanna river from the
Clark's Ferry dam to its mouth, and in
the Juniata as far north as Huntingdon.
These are the only two waterways In the
State containing shad.
—The Pennsylvania railroad will
shortly put down 100 feet each of Pennsylvania steel company's "inanard" rail
and of Wharton's manganese steel rail on
the sharpest curves of the Horseshoe
curve to test the wearing qualities of. the
rails. These kinds of rails cost $250 a ton,
but they are said to be of a quality to last
as long as rails will be needed.
—D. B, Etnier died at -the home of
his daughter, .Mrs. Arthur B. Dayton, at
East McKeesport Monday night of last
week, aged 81 years and 6 months. He
is survived by his wife, one son and four
daughters. The remains were brought
tb Mill Creek where the fflneral was held
from' the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Florence Mailey, on Thursday.
—George B. White, who was convicted
fourteen months ago of making false returns to the comptroller of currency in
the case of the Hyndman National bank,
was on Tuesday of last week released from
jail at Pittsburg. Tbe indictment on
which White was convicted was nolle
prossed by District Attorney James S.
Toung. White was given bis liberty late
on Tuesday afternoon,
—A careful canvass of the Seventeenth
Congressional District reveals the undisputed fact that the present efficient Congressman, the Hon. Thaddeus M. Mahan
will be re-nominated by a large majority
of the conferees, and at no time will the
conference be deadlocked. If it were
deemed advisable to do so facts and figures
could be printed here to show the reason
for the above positive announcement.—
Juniata Herald.
—Ida, daughter of J. Lee and Enva Rex
died at the borne of her parents in Altoona
last Thursday of bronchial pneumonia.
Ida was a bright interesting child and was
aged 1 year, 2 months and 18 days. The
remains were brought to Mapleton Friday
morning and Saturday afternoon were
interred in Mountain View cemetery,
services conducted by Bev. J. H. Ake,
assisted by Bev. W. F. Gilbert being held
at the home of M. L. Rex.
—Altoona Times: The Kock Lung Cure
company, which has its office in the Altoona Trust building, and which has been
doing business on a large scale in this city,
came to an end on Saturday, when, the
resident physician, sent here from the
main office in New York, suddenly took
his departure and is alleged to be among
the missing. The company was formed
of a number of prominent business men
of the city and something like $20,000 was
invested by the- Altoona stockholders.
The office furniture was purchased by one
of those stockholders and those who had
shares in the company are now looking
for the absent physician.
—The Baltimore and Ohio is making all
possible haste in the completion of the
plans for the proposed new line between
Hancock, Md., and a point on the main
line west of Sand Patch. .The cut-off is
intended to do away with the heavy grade
at Sand Patch and give the Baltimore and
Ohio a much shorter and easier line from
Pittsburg to the east. The surveyors
have been out in the territory for some
time and recently additional corps were
pat to work to hurry tbe plans as much
as possible. The surveyors are now
located at Bedford and will soon begin to
work irom there to Everett,, running the
line through Fulton county. When com'
pleted this road will give the Baltimore
and Ohio much improved facilities for
through freight from Pittsburg to tbe
east.
—The McKean Democrat last week
contained the following aoconnt 'of tbe
marriage of Miss Lizzie Chilcote, daughter
of H. A. Chilcote, a former resident of
Mapleton, and a sister of Mrs. Loren
Neice, of this place: Mn Leo Edmund
Digel, of this borough, and Miss Lizzie
Ray Cliilcote, of Ormsby, Pa., were
united >io marriage at the Baptist church
parlors, Wednesday morning, May 4,1904,
at 8.30 o'clook, Bev P. S. Cal vin officiating.
The groom, who is a highly respected
Smethport young man, has for some time
past held a position in E. W. Strong's
plumbing establishment. He is a young
man of correct habits, and has a wide
circle, of friends. Tlie charming bride,
who has spent some time in Smethport
and has during her stay here made many
warm friends, all of whom will unite with
the Democrat in extending to the happy
couple their heartiest congratulations,
with the'hope that their journey through
life may be attended with much joy.
Mr. and Mrs. Digel will reside in Smethport.
Memorial I>ay at Cassville.
Capt. Charles Mitchell JPost No. 521,
Department of Pennsylvania, will hold
services as follows: At Wright's cemetery'
in Union township at 9 o'clock a. m., detail in charge of Past Com. J. C. Shaffer ;
at the Baptist church cemetery in Cass
township at 1 o'clock p. m., detail in
charge of J. M. Harbaugh; at Bowman's
cemetery at 9.30 a. m. At 3 p. m. the
Post will form in front of the Post hall In
Cassville and march direct to the cemetery and after the usual services there will
be an address delivered by Bev. S. W.
Gehrett, D. D., of Philadelphia. Bev.
Gehrett is one of our Cassville boys who
enlisted in Co. K, 22nd P. 0. and served
until the close of the war. If you fall to
hear him you will miss a treat. All are
invited to participate and especially al)
orders of P. O. S. of A. and the I. O. O. F.
J. M. Wiison,
Ephraim Dell, Adjutant.
Post Commander.
[Huntingdon papers please copy.]
Made Young Again.
"One of Dr. King's New Life Pills each
night for Wo weeks has put me in my
'teens' again" writes D. H. Turner of
Dempseytown, Pa. They're the best hi
the world for Liver, Stomach and Bowels.
Purely vegetable. Never gripe. Only
25c at Wright & Dell's.
and
Marriage Licences.
W. Warren Cope, of Johnstown,
Jeanette Williams, Hopewell, Pa.
William Hipwell, Beeton, Canada, and
Kate Hile, Lumber City, Clearfield Co.,
Pa.
Alvin B. Linn and Hettie Stewart,
both of Morrell, Pa.
James H. Gates, Altoona, and Wymena
P. Clark, Orbisonia, Pa.
Pierre Tascher and Marie Ebule, both
of Bobertsdale, Pa.
J. M. Baker, Tod, and Lula E. Morningstar, Lincoln township, Pa.
Maurice Querry and Jennie F. Hinish-
both of Liberty township, Bedford Co.,
Pa.
B. L. Bobley, Mapleton, and Buhama
Anderson, Brady township, Pa.
J. D. Brumbaugh and Carrie M.
Wright, both of Lincoln township, Pa.
Carl 0. Grissinger and Edna B. Griffith,
both of Broad Top City, Pa.
Quick Arrest.
J. A. Gulledge, of Verbena, Ala, was
twice in .the hospital from a severe case
of piles causing 24 tumors. After doctors
and all remedies failed, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve quickly arrested further inflammation and cured him. It conquers aches
and kills pain.   25c. at Wright & Dell's.
Almost .Another Murder ln Perry.
Enraged at trackmen tearing up the
rails on tbe old P. C. B. R. on his premises, Daniel Bear, who owns the Titzell
property, near Bernheisel's Mill, Monday
evening, purposed to stop the proceedings
summarily. . He first endeavored to pull
with his horse a rail from io front of the
engine; tbis failing, he ordered tbe workmen to stop, and when told that could
not be done but by an injunction, he ran
to bis house and came out with hig shot
guU» This he fired, the load narrowly
missing Foreman Wm. A. Myers, of
Bloomfield, passing through the roof of a
car. His wife and children, in great die-'
tress, coaxed him to desist. Tuesday he
was in Bloomfield seeking legal advice.
—-Advocate.
Smallpox and Vaccination.
BY PR. A. J. HAMILTON.
pPhird paper.]
THE TWO COMPARED.
It is not rare to hear persons of intelligence and sonnd judgment declare that
they would as soon have the smallpox as
undergo the discomfort of vaccination, but
when asked their experience these persons
will invariably admit that they have
never been In contact with a case of the
former disease. For the benefit of these
people,* a paraded is here drawn, not
complete, for no pen picture can do
justice iii a case .ike this, but a feeble
attempt to depict the gravity of the one
and the mildness of the otber.
After consultation with your Mends
you decide to get vaccinated. The smallpox perhaps is in a near-by town, and
the safe.y which always hedges the truly
good don't seem to afford you the ample
protection which the case requires. In
other words, you still put your trust in
(he Lord, but at the same time' think it
advisable to keep your powder dry. You
visit your physician, who, after carefully
cleansing tbe arm, proceeds to insert
beneath the cuticle a small quantity of
vaccine virus prepared after the strictest
modern aseptic methods. After a few
days the seat of operation becomes' reddened. The blush is deepest, sometimes
taking on a purplish tint, around the
point of the insertion of the virus, but
shades off upwards and downward into
the pink of tbe healthy skin. The g-lands
beneath the arm are swollen and somewhat tender, there is chilliness, loss of
appetite and an indisposition to Work.
These constitute about all ■ tbe inconvenient phenomena which attend- the
disease. You are not a walking menace.
You are not a center of contagion. You
are neither anathema nor incommunicado
—you are simply a guileless citizen, nursing a sore arm and a worse temper, and
no one is in the slightest danger except,
perhaps, your wife, who is expected to
step lively in administering to the wants
of your sick lordship.   Tbat is all.
Now watch the course ofthe vaccinated
spot. A few vesicles soon make their appearance. Their contents rapidly become
opague and assume an orange hue. Tbeir
summits become umbilicated, cup shaped,
and they Will either coallesce, run together, or remain discrete, separate from
each otber. In other words they show a
miniature pioture of the behavior of a
typical case of smallpox, either of the
confluent or discrete variety, as the case
may be. And, let it be understood, that
the vaccinated spot must undergo the
above changes in the order mentioned or
the patient cannot be assured that he is
fully protected. The mere fact of having
had a sore arm after vaccination and that
there is a scar to show for it is not sufficient proof that he has been successfully
vaccinated. But if the above phenomena
have followed the operation, no fear of
smallpox need be entertained for some
years at least.
To justly portray a.case of smallpox .by
means of a pen picture is obviously impossible. The bloated, loathsome, festering flesh, the foul, sickening odor, the
dismal buzzing of the ravenous blow flies,
the red flag on the outer battlements
silently speaking of tbe accursed pest
within, must be seen to be realised. The
ensemble forms a picture which can
scarcely be duplicated in the whole world
of medical knowledge. As a comparison,
however, with the simple tale of vaccination, the following brief history of an
average case of the disease is inserted.
Some day on the street, in the railway
carriage, in the crowded station, at the
postoffice, even in church or at tl m theatre
you may come into'proximity with some
one who seems to have a strangely reddened skin. You think little of it at the
time, but later you discover that you
bave been in the neighborhood of one in
the first stage of smallpox. In a few days
you have a chill and may be you are attacked with vomiting. The chill is followed with fever and the fever is accompanied with a strangely oppressive pain in
the head and back. , Every vertebra in
your spinal column seems determine to
dissolve partnership with its fellows and
set up in business on its own account,
White your brain has suddenly discovered
that the domicile wherein it lias dwelt so
many years is entirely too small. You
now recollect your contact with the red-
faced person. The gravity of the situation
flashes before you, and you set your house
in. order,   A. physician must be   em
ployed, to whom you must pay ten
dollars per day. A trained nurse must
be hired at a minimum salary of twenty-
flve dollars per week. For tbe last time
for many weary weeks you look upon the'
bright world outside and then retire to a
darkened room, where you must stay lest
you loose your eyesight.
Soon a bright red rash appears on"Jneck
and forehead, rapidly speeding down-1
ward. This is followed by very small
lumps which feel like shot beneath the
cuticle. These papsules are soon filled
with,a watery liquid; which'-'in turn becomes viscid 'and opague, forming pustules.
These pustules soon "run together," coallesce, and now. we have a typical case of
confluent smallpox. But we are not
ready to ring down the curtain. The
scene is but half over.
The mass formed by the coalescence of
the pustules covers great ulcers, the oontents of which mingle with the blood and
pus. These partially dry, covering the '■
whole face like a mask, broken by
crevices, out of which issues a. greenish
yellow matter indescribably repulsive to
smell and sight.
By this time, fortunately, perhaps, your
brain is benumbed and you show but
little interest in your surroundings. But
you are a pitiful object. Your eyes are
swollen and pasted shut with a" glutinous
exudate. The lining membrane of your
nostrils is tumid arid covered with a discharge which effectually cuts off breath**
ing by this route. Your hot breath
comes and goes over your parched lips
and senseless tongue, whose moisture is
still further exhausted by the process
until they -crack open, making fissures
from which thickened blood exudes
slowly to mingle with the horrible accumulation wbich already covers the face.
The ears stick out like bits of sole leather,
The uncombed hair is a tangled heap,
reeking with foulness. The face has lost
its contour and the head reminds
yon somehow of an enormous rotten
apple.
If you live through this the crusts are
slowly detached, leaving deep and wide
cicatrices, whose healing is slow and
whose contraction always disfigures, often
drawing the features into fantastic shapes
and not Infrequently resulting in a sardonic expression which is permanent.
For months tbe face looks as though
scalded and the deep pitting never
entirely fades away.
But suppose you are just a trifle r worse.
Then you die. And even though {lead,
the curse still follows you. You are
denied a Christian "burial. Like the
ancient Hebrew king, you are buried
with tbe "burial of an ass, being drawn
and cast beyond the walls of Jerusalem."
When you are dead no hand will touch
you. A sharp hook is driven beneath a*
tendon and you are dragged to some con*
venient hillside, where a hole is hastily
digged, into wbich you are bundled with*
out ceremony. As in the case of Sir John
Moore, the sods are turned upon you
"By the struggling moonbeam's misty
light
And tbe lanterns dimly burning."
■And the little ohildren in their play
will shun the spot where you lie. Even
it is accursed.
You would as soon have smallpox as
undergo vaccination, would you ? Wei 1,
perhaps. *
Deeds Entered for Record.
S. T. Henderson et al. to Thomas H. Kyper*, •
property  in  Walker township,   Consideration
{i_*>.
'Mary A. Weight etal. toll. N. Norris, property
in Three Springs.   Consideration $300.
Benj. O'Connor and wife to Humphrey D. Tate
property   in  Union   township.   ^Consideration
$lt,QOO.
Humphrey D. Tate and wife to Juniata White
Sand Co., property in Union township. Consideration $18,000.
S. P. Smith and wife to S. X.. Smith, property
in Union township.   Consideration $1500.
M. _\ Brumbaugh et al. to I. B. Brumbaugh,
property in Peiin township.  Consideration $5000.
The Farm Club to Roy. W. Jacobs, property itt.
Hnntingdon.   Consideration $11,000.
D. W. Anderson and wife to F. B. Cutshall,
property in Three Springs.   Consideration J1300
Geo. W. Putt et al. to James Ramsey property -
in Hopewell township.   Consideration $600.
Mary Lynn to G. Calvin Parks, property in
Cass towuship.   Consideration $1200.
Marion F. Robley to Snyder & Andrews, property in Mapleton.   Consideration $1300.
Margaret 11. Himes and husband to Elizabeth
Peterson, property in Mount Union, Consideration $1700.
Wm. M. Phillips .to John Phillips, property in.
Alexandria. 'Consideration fi.oo.
Kate M. Foster to Temperance Laney, property in Oneida township.   Consideration $3000.
Win. 1.. Chilcote and wife to G. r„ isoyles and
wife, property in Orbisonia. Consideration
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