Mapleton Item

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VOL. XVI.
MAPLETON DEPOT, PA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1904.
NO. 41
LOCAL NOTES.
—- Tht Smart Set magazine will entertain
you.
—Foster Bell spent Snnday and Monday
with friends in Altoona.
—Have you read that very interesting
magazine, The Smart Sett
—Miss Pearl Neice is visiting relatives
and friends in Huntingdon.
—Real enjoyment is bad when reading
that clever magazine, The Smart Set.  .
—Ambrose A. Bratton, Of Byde, spent
Friday nigbt with friends in this place.
—S. P. Pheasant, of Page, was a welcome caller at the Item office yesterday.
—When you want fresh beef, pork or
■sausage go to C. H. Hooper's meat
market.
■—Dale 0. Wrtght, of Henderson township, called Oh friends in Mapledon yesterday.
—A. W. Wright, Esq., and his estimable wile, of Colfax, were calling on friends
in Mapleton Monday.
—*H. O. Andrews and family enjoyed
the holidays with friends and former
neighbors «t Newport
—Miss Ida Hooper, of Huntingdon, was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Lou A. Dell,
in Mapleton last Friday.
—We hope all onr readers have had a
Merry Christmas and we certainly wish
them A Happy New Year.
—Michael Brumbaugh and grandson,
Emery, are spending this week with relatives in Altoona and Juniata.
—D. K. Parker and daughter, Mrs.
Jones, of Juniata, are visiting friends and
relatives in and about Mapleton.
—Charles H. Hooper, our local butcher,
is building an ice house on the lot of Mrs.
Elizabeth Shore, sonth of town.
—The Pennsylvania legislature will
•eon ven ce next Tuesday and after organizing will adjourn until January 15th.
•-—Messrs. Clarence Schock and Balph
Wilson, pf Huntingdon, were calling on
friends in Mapleton Monday evening.
—The borough schools are closed this
week and the boys and girls are
thoroughly enjoying the holiday vacation.
—B. Frank Quarry and wife, of Union
township, spent the holiday season with
Mn. Quarry's relatives in Mifflin county.
—Joseph A. Parks, of Olay township,
was in town last Saturday on his way to
"visit his children who reside at Warrior
Bidge.
—For sale—a practically new Connor
piano. For further particulars call on or
address, Mrs. W. H. Mounts, Mapleton
Depot, Pa.
—Miss Bessie Neice returned home Saturday evening from Cumberland, Maryland, where she had been visiting relatives
for several weeks.
—Mrs. Laura Smith and daughters, of
Altoona, spent part of the past week with
the families of Mrs. Smith's brother and
sister in Mapleton.
—Isaac Brumbaugh and wife, of Penn
township, are visiting friends and relatives in this vicinity and are guests of
Bruce Yocum's family.
i—T. L. Banks and wife, of Altoona,
were in town last week, having stopped
on their way home from a_trip to Philadelphia and Harrisburg.
—George W. Morgan, who for the past
three months has been with the Parthenia
Sand Company in Warren county, returned home last Saturday evening.
—Samuel Feldman, clerk in Shapiro
Bro.'s store at this place, departed Saturday night on train No. 10 for Norrlstown
where he will remain for several days.
—Alvin Decker, of Union township,
last week purchased of George L. Smith
the dwelling heuse on Grant street now
occupied by J. 0. Griffin and expects to
move thereto.
—Miss Lillie Wagner, of Olay township,
who had been in Northumberland county
for medical treatmeat, stopped Friday on
her way home with her sister, Mrs. Frank
Yetter, in Mapleton.
—H. K. Swope, who is teaching" at
Windber, Pa., called on friends in Mapleton Monday, fie was on his way to his
home In Trough Oreek valley to spend
'the holiday vacation.
—H. W. Truax, wife and daughter, of
Trenton, New Jersey, spent a portion Of
the past week with Mr. and Mrs. B. C.
•Fields. At present they are visiting Mrs.
Truax's friends in Tyrone.
—Miss Myrtle Wright, a student at
Millersville state normal school, is spending the holiday vacation with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Wright. She will
return to her studies next Tuesday.
—On Monday the telegraph'operators
were all put to work on {he Petersburg
branch after being idle for a number of
months, and the transfering of through
freight over this branch was resumed.'
—Mrs. J. P. Wilson was summoned to
Enid, Fulton'county, last week on account
of the serious illness oi her brother. He
has since died and was buried yesterday
morning. We have not learned further
particulars.
-^George W. Smith, of Cassville, was a
visitor to Mapleton last Saturday. Mr.
Smith 'runs the stage and mail line
between Cassville and Mill Creek and is
rendering the people along the route
excellent service.
—Last Wednesday evening Mon tie McCarl while coasting on the Grant street
hill ran into a sled that stood in the road
and had her left ankle sprained .and
bruised. She was removed to her home
and at this writing her condition is very
much improved.
—J. Calvin Pheasant, of Cromwell
township, spent a few hours with friends
in Mapleton last Friday. Mr. Pheasant
has been very unfortunate in the past few
years, having entirely lost the sight of
one of his eyes while the vision of the
other is much obscured.
—Harry Jacobs, superintendent of transportation for the Standard Steel Oompany
at Burnham, circulated among Mapleton
friends Monday. Mr. Jacobs was with
C. A. Sims & Company when the latter
were engaged on the railroad work at
Mapleton and he made many friends here
who are always glad to see him.
—The heavy freezing of last winter did
considerable damage to the coping and
top of the wall of the railroad reservoir
on Sherman street but the damage was
not attended with any preceptible results
during the summer. The recent cold
snap, however, lifted the damaged portion
and caused leakage. The railroad masons
last week tore off the coping and about
eighteen inches of the wall and are now
rebuilding it.
—At five o'clock last evening a fatal accident occurred on the middle division at
Tipton which cost Engineer E. E. Wilson
his life. Engineer Wilson had got down
out of the cab for the purpose of oiling
his engine when he was struck by the
locomotive hauling train No. 24. His
body was hurled a distance of 300 feet and
badly mangled. The unfortunate man
was aged 38 years, married and resided
in Harrisbnrg.
—It was a white Ohristmas. Those
who feared the thaw on Saturday meant
a snowless Ohristmas had their super*
stitions smothered by the snow fall wbioh
commenced Saturday night and continued
until Sunday morning. Monday was an
ideal winter day. Yesterday warmth and
rain destroyed the coasting and skating
while to-day is cold and blustry with
frequent snow squalls. Already the snowfalls for this month has exceeded those of
any other December since 1884.
—The Greenwood Furnace in Jackson
township, which for a century has had
the reputation of furnishing a superior
grade of charcoal iron, a few days ago
closed down indefinitely. Jackson township still has an abundance of excellent
iron ore but wood for charcoal has become
scarce and the expensive methods of
transporting tbe product to market makes
it impossible to continue the business
wfth profit. Harvey Thompson, wbo for
several years has been superintendent,
has been assigned to a responsible position
at Burnham.
—The holiday season has brought back
to Mapleton many boys and girls who
have gone out into the world to carve for
themselves a name. No doubt many
other distant ones would bave been glad
to have had opportunity to return for the
festive season but the pleasure was denied
them. No sweeter occasion can be conceived than when loving hearts are permitted to mingle in the home circle after
an experience in fighting the battle of life.
What peace and joy and comfort abound
in the family reunion. Among those who
returned were James Spangler (Patrolman
Spangler) and family, of Altoona, J. Lee
Rex and wife, of Altoona, Arthur i F.
Parker and wife, Bobert Brumbaugh and
Jesse Brumbaugh, of Juniata, Miss Annie
Shore, of Altoona, D. F. McConahy, of
Uniontown, George Hohman and wife, of
Huntingdon, L. B. Wagner, of Allegheny,
Frank Hill and family, Of .Mount Union,
Jesse Estep, of' Harrisburg. There may
have been otbers whose names we have
unintentionally missed.
—The Harrisburg Patriot of Saturday
contained the following: Biding in the
cabin of an east-bound freight train at
Van Dyke last evening at 10.25 o'clock, a
portion of the crew had a miraculous
escape from being smashed to jelly when
tbe engine of the "Moon Shine", local
plunged into the rear of the train with
terriffic force. The crew in the cabin saw
the engine coming around the curve and
leaped from tbe train before the crash
came. Van Dyke is a small town on the
middle division, forty miles west of this
city. A slow freight train was going
around a curve at a low rate of speed.
The "Moon Shine" local leaves this city
every evening for Mifflin and was on. its
homeward trip when, the collision occurred. The engineer of the local could
not see around the bend until it was too
late to avert a collision. Three cars
loaded with lumber and coal and a cabin
were reduced to kindling wood. All tbe
belongings ofthe men in the "cabin were
destroyed. A.1 freight traffic was stopped
for over three hours. The lumber Was
pushed-'all over the'tracks and coal was
thrown -around in large quantities. The
Mifflin wreck force was called dot and
cleared the tracks ofthe debris. As there
were no passenger trains due at the time,
the passenger movement, was not much
delayed.
Pomona Granite Meeting.
The fourth quarterly meeting of Huntingdon County Pomona Grange No. 6,
P. of H., wiil convene in the hall of Saulsburg Grange, No. 1211, January 11th and
12th, 1905. The following program will
be rendered:
The first session will open Wednesday
evening at 7 o'clock. Opening song; invocation by H. H. Summers; music; topic, "What Is Causing the Present Depression in the Price of Land?" opened by
W. H. Henderson* Open parliament; music; topic, "Should Boys be Trained to do
House Work as well as Girls?" opened
by John Wilson; open perliament; musio;
question box.
Thursday morning session, 9.30 o'clock.
Music; welcome address by J. A. Harman; response by R. P. Smith; music;
reading the minutes of last meeting; naming committees; topic, "Shonld Farmers
and Poultrymen be Protected by Premiums paid on Fox, Skunk, Mink, Weasel and Hawk Scalps?" opened by W. T*
Boring; open parliament; music; recitation by H. C. Boyer; question box; intermission for dinner.
Thursday afternoon session, 1.30 o'clock
Music; question, "Home Comforts, Who
Should Provide Them, the Wife or Husband?" by Mrs. J. A. Harman, Miss
Amelia Hurst, B. B. Miller, N. Q. Wright*
music; topic, "How to Realize the Greatest Profit from a Dairy Cow During the
Year," opened by W. S. Hewettand J.
O. Steinbach; music; reports of Granges;
question box.
Thursday evening session, 7 o'clock.
The work of the Fifth Degree will be
transacted during tbis session. All delegates and visiting patrons coming by rail
will be met at Petersburg on Wednesday
at noon by notifying the secretary, J. A.
Harman, Saulsburg, Pa. Bring your song
books with you.
Committee: J. M. Drake, M. R. Boring, Ella Glasgow.
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serious trouble in your system is nervousness, sleeplessness, or stomach upsets.
Electric Bitters will quickly dismember
the troublesome causes. It never fails to
tone the stomach, regulate the Sidneys
and Bowels, stimulate the Liver, and
clarify the blood. Run down systems
benefit particularly and all the usual attending aches vanish- under its searching
and thorough effectiveness. Electric
Bitters is only 50c and that is returns,\ if'
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Fight "Will Be Bitter.
Those who will persist in closing their
ears against the continual recom mendatiou
of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, will, haye a long and bitter fight
with their troubles, if not ended earlier
by fatal termination. Read what T. R.
Beall, of Beall, Miss., has to say: "Last
fall my wife had every symptom of consumption. She took Dr. King's New
Discovery after everything else had failed.
improvement came at once and four
bottles entirely cured her." Guaranteed
by Weight & Dell. Price 50c and $1.00.
Trial bottles free.
P. R. ft. Company Will Resume Construction of Low Grade Freight Route.
A Lancaster dispatch dated December
26th says': With the opening of the new
year the construction work on the low*
grade freight li ne which tbe 'Pennsylvania
[Railroad Company is building from At-
glen, on the main line, to "'the Susquehanna river will again be resumed along the
entire route, and it is said authoritatively
that there, will be no 'further delays and
that the road will be pushed to an early
completion, lt 4s stated that the construction of this branch line has for years
been a pet project of Chief Engineer
Brown, of the Pennsylvania company, and
as he will soon retire, under the age-limit
system, ft is his ambition to have it finished 'before that time. There are several
thousand employes at work at the present
time on the various contracts, and by the
'fi_t Of February it is expected that at
ieast 6000 men will be employed. The
'largest and most extensive contract is that
of H. S. Ker'baugh <_ Co., which extends
from Martic Forge to Washington borough, on the Susquehanna, a distance of
probably four miles.
Contractors have declared the improvement to be one of the largest ever undertaken by a railroad. A great portion of it
extends along the top nf the Susquehanna
river hills and those of the Conestoga, a
number of them from 500 to 600 feet high,
and at one point, a ravine fully 300 feet
wide, must be spanned by a steel trestle
work. The sides of some of these hills
will be entirely cut away, and as they are
all of the most .solid rock formation the
task will be an enormous one.
• Near Washington borough the road will
be built out into the river from 80 to 100
feet beyond present roadbed of the Columbia and Port Deposit division, and the
"filling-in"' work there will require thousands of carloads of earth and rock. At
the present time Contractor Kerbaugh has
1200 men at work, with fifteen steam
shovels, and by the first of February his
force will consist of 3000 men and at least
twenty-five steam shovels.
The work has been a great boom forthe
towns of Safe Harbor, Pequea and Washington borough. Every place where boarding can be obtained is being rapidly taken
and all the hotels from Washington borough to McCall's Ferry are doing a big
business.
Besides the hundreds of Italians who
have been engaged by the contractors,
hundreds of men living along tbe route of
'the new line have been given employment
many of them as foremen and overseers,
and nearly every farmer in tbat section
has been given plenty of work hauling
the heavy machinery.
Prompt 1'
The following subsc
received at tbis office:
M. J. Deeter
T. J. Masemore
Mrs. Minnie Smith
J. Frank Wright
Miss Beulah A. Starr
E. E. Querry
White Shaver
Miss Etta Cutshall
Mrs. Maggie Green
Mrs. Elsie Douglas
Miss Annie Starr ,
George E. Leidy
J. C. Pheasant
George W. Smith
Jos. A. Parks
George Hohman
Silas Bush
S. P. Pheasant
Dale C. Wright
Mrs. Linnie O'Connor
'ayers.
nptions have been
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Dec. 14, 1905
Feb. 4, 1906
July 1, 1905
Nov. 13, 1904
July 30, 1905
Dec. 10, 1905
Dec. U, 1904
Oct. 20, 1905
Dec. 21, 1905
Jan. 1, 1906
April 1, 1906
Dec. 28, 1905
Dec. 16, 1905
Jan. 28, 1902
Dec. 16, 1906
August^' 1905
Jan"; 13, '06
Jan. 1, '06
Jan. 9, '05
I.A'I"1'A <iltO*t r..
E. O. Stever visited friends in the valley over Sundsy.
Ora Querry is. speneing this week with
friends in Altoona.
Sunday, December 25th, this section
was visited by snow and rain,
Bert Chilcote, of Burnham, was a visitor in the valley for a couple days'during
the past week.
i D. H. Dell, teacher of Latta Grove
school, gave his pupils a Christmas treat
last Friday evening.
Geo. L. Smith's new house in Mapleton
is nearing completion and we understan*.!
Mr. Smith will leave bis old home in-the
valley and move to town.
A Costly Mistake.
Blunders are sometimes very expensive.
Occasionally life itself is the. price of a
mistake, but you'll never be wrong if you
take Dr. Kind's New Life Pills for Dyspepsia, Dizziness, Headache, Liver or
Bowel troubles. They are gentle yet
thorough.   25c, at Wright & Dell's store
MILL CREKR.
' Mrs. Nancy Eby continues in a very '
feeble condition.
Chalmer Simpson spent Xmas. at home,
also Duane Hicks.
Mrs.. Thomas Maley is reported improving after a sick spell of a few weeks.
Mr. Isaac Gorsuch, our village black*
smith, who has been on the sick list, is
again about his work.
Mrs. Margaret Speice, of Girard College,
Philadelphia, spent Xmas with Mr. and I
Mrs. W. H. Stonebraker.
Mr. and Mrs. George Laidlow, of Mingo
Junction, are at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Fultz, where they   spent J
Xmas.
Miss Genn Stewart, of Eden Hill near
Spruce Creek, visited a few days with
Miss Edith Sharar and other friends in
the Village.
Miss Ethel Menold recently returned
from a trip through the western part of
the state where she was visiting relatives'
and friends.
Mrs. I. N. Foust was called to York,
Pa., on account of the serious illness of
her father, Dr. McKenna. Recent news
advises that he is improving.
Miss Mary Wolverton, who has been
staying with Mrs. Julia Foust, returned
this week to Alexandria where she makes
her home with her sister, Mrs. Beyer.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stonebraker are
domiciled in their new home which when,
fully complete will be one of, if not the
best equipped residence in the home
village.
The regular drunkards of the village
had their usual high old time at Christmas.
The ordinary citizen is lost in wonder for
an explanation of such scenes and
especially on such a day as the natal day I
of the Christ child.
Jno. Hicks is at home on account of
having no nse of his eyes. Treatment ,
received in Altoona promises ultimate
relief bnt it will be some time before he
can use them. He goes to Altoona once
a week for further treatment.
Sunday forenoon the M. E. folks held
Xmas service in their own ohurch which
has been thoroughly renovated, having
had a steel ceiling placed, vails handsomely papered and paint renewed, mak- I
ing a substantial improvement as well as I
beautifying the whole interior.
Rumor of prospective improvements in I
way of railroad facilities, trolley line,
brick manufacture and other industries
continue to furnish topics for discussion
among our good people. The doubting <|
"Thomases" bas better get under cover
and join the rocks of "I knew it would
come.'''
Precepts of the Golden rule must have
been forgot when the handle of a certain
pump was locked and no water from the
well allowed to go. The Master in his
lessons plainly taught that our action with
no malice must be fraught to each other
while we linger here below. "Unto
otbers you should do, as you would they
do to you."
Saturday night or Sunday, December I
19th, a number  of  miscreants  held  a
drunken carnival in the school house. ■
The condition of the room  when  the iv
teacher came to it on Monday was such
as to compel her to dismiss her scholars
and thoroughly disinfect the premises as
the room was so befouled as to make it
impossible for occupancy  by  children.
It's about time some of these rowdies are
made an  example  of  and  the school
directors should take such action as would
demonstrate to this faction  of citizens,,
that our public school rooms are not intended for such disgraceful ribaldry.
Captain Wm. Simpson, of Alexis, Illinois, does not confine his farming entirely J
to large corn crops as was evidenced by
the' thirty-six pound turkey which  he
sent to grace the Xmas dinner given at
I the home of Dr. and Mrs. G.' W. Simpson
in lienor of their sister,   Mrs.   Martha;
Sharar, and daughter, Edith.   The. following   guests   enjoyed   the   occassion:
Mrs. Mary Westbrook, Mrs. Nancy Simp-
sou, Mrs. David Simpson and son, Vance, i!
Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Simpson, Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew P. Simpson and son, Chalmer, |
and Messrs. Frederick and Jay Simpson,
sons of tbe host and hostess,  having a
week of holiday from their studies at
Carlisle college.   The social feature of the
occassion, which enabled  the ladies,  in
whose honor the dinner was held, to meet
their eastern relatives, was much enjoyed'
by all.   Mrs. Sharar and her daughter-
left Monday for their Illinois home with
many regrets from friends on account of
their short sojourn among them.  '.'
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