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€1)t M&nnl JHjea*ani journal VOL. 31. MOUNT l’LBAHANT, WESTMOKKLANI) COUNTY, PA., FI! I DAY, .JULY JO, 1903. NO. 28. lOAKFORD PARK LAKE BURSTS CAUSING AWFUL DESTRUCTION OF BOTH LIFE AND PROPERTY. I Sunday Pleasure Seekers Caught Like Rats in a Trap by a wall of Water That Leaves Wreck and Ruin From that Resort Clear Down to Irwin. COMtnS AND GOERS. BODIES OE 21 VICTIMS HAVE BEEN RECOVERED. Following a cloudburst Lake Placid at Oakford Park, a resort owned by [the Pittsburg, McKeesport & Greensburg electric road, on its line between Greensburg and Jeannette, broke through the 30-foot breast wall about 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon last and the wild waters caught many pleasure seekers there like rats in a trap and left death and destruction in their Brush Creek wake to points below Irwin. Some $3,000 have been subscribed to a |relief fund, but much more is needed. The park was full of pleasure seekers, many of whom reached places of |safety on the high ground when warned that the lake was liable to break, but I others ran for shelter to the street car station and barn where they were caught (like rats in a trap by the awful rush of water that also engulfed a car loaded I with people that was standing on the track about ready to start for Jeannette. I In an instant the debris of the ruined park buildings was strewn with struggl-ling men, women and children who were hurried down to death in the yellow I flood as it rushed down Brush Creek. The great Pennsylvania railroad embankment at Jeannette, a mile or I more below, stopped the flood for a time after the plant of the Greensburg (Machine Company had been carried from its foundation. Here were found (many of the bodies of the victims. This check doubtless saved Jeannette [much destruction of property if not of life, although the lower portion of the (town was flooded. The same was true of Burrell, Penn and Manor, although (at Irwin the old railroad freight station was washed away together with the (street and Youghiogheny railroad bridges, the wreckage of houses, stables, (fences and all manner of things gathered up by the flood being carried down (and scattered along near Larimer. Although it is feared it is not complete, ■the following is the list of victims whose bodies have been recovered largely [by gangs of men in charge of Sheriff 1 reseller: MISS EVA W1GG1NGTON, 20 MISS LUCY CRUM, 23 years old, lyears old, Pittsburg. Jeannette. BERT BROWN, 20 years old, son lot' Rev. N. L. Brown, of the Centen-ary Methodist Episcopal Church, ffttsburg. JOSEPH BROWN, 22 years old, Jeannette. MISS MAY BURD, 20 years old, Jeannette. JOHN McCANN, 24 years old, Jeannette. MARY GILLESPIE, 12 years old, laughter of James Gillespie, Grape- /ille. SOPHIA GILLESPIE, 9 years old, Grapeville. HENRY FINK, 26 years old, Jean-liette. MRS. HENRY FINK, 24 years old, Jeannette. MRS. KATE DONNELLY, 34years old, Jeannette. JOSEPH OVERLY, 26 years old, Indianapolis, Ind. MISS GERTRUDE KEEFER, 23 years old, Jeannette. JAMES WESTWOOD, 33 years old, Penn. MRS. ELIZABETH SCHRADER, 79 years old, West Jeannette. FRANK NIEGA, Penn. MRS. WILLIAM NIEGA, 44 years old, Penn. PAULINE NIEGA, 6 years old, Penn. JOHN W1GHTMAN, 15 years old, son of George Wightman, Burrell. MISS MARY DAVIS, 18 years old, a Radebaugh domestic. At Greensburg but one life was lost, that of Harry Fleming, a young Inine driver, who was drowned in helping to get horses out of the stables at ]the flooded old fair grounds. Six tine race animals were lost. The big Youngwood yards of the Pennsylvania railroad were badly washed out and [wo Southwest bridges swept away. Tracks were all twisted up and freight :ars tossed about in endless confusion. Traffic was entirely shut off and it vas not until late the next night that the 500 men hurried to the scene could jet a single track laid through. An engine was run out on the Sewickley branch bridge at this point and it went down when the water had washed the [ibutments away. There were many less serious washouts along this branch up the Sewick- (ey Valley, while much more damage was done on the New Alexandria line pwing to the reservoir at one of the J amison coke plants bursting. The leservoir at the Frick company’s Marguerite works, in the Latrobe district, (vas damaged and the Dorothy mines there were flooded, but the damage llone was slight in comparison with that wrought at the mines about Greens-ktrg and Irwin. The Greensburg electric light and power house was flooded, leaving the town in darkness, and the street car tracks south of that place vere badly washed out. It is roughly estimated that the losses of the railroad knd street railway people will foot up nearly $1,000,000. It is said that the founty lost $100,000 in bridges and then there are the coal and coke oper- |ors to hear from. There was a heavy downpour of rain here about the same time Sunday [veiling, accompanied by sharp thunder and lightning, the tower of the West End Church of God being struck. A thorough investigation will have to be (nade before the extent of the damage done can be learned. A number of East End cellars were flooded. The water got into the office and planing vill of John Husband & Bro., destroying much stationery and damaging hooks in the safe, to say nothing of mud deposited over machinery in the mill. The street railway bridge at McClure’s was weakened, delaying traffic (here for a few hours. There were several small washouts on the Mount pleasant branch of the Pennsylvania road, causing trains to be several hours ate, but the B. & O. schedule was not interfered with. Three Bold Bobbers. As the result of an attempted robbery Lt Stewart’s station, on the main line If the Pennsylvania railroad Friday |voning, Thomas F. Briney, a butcher, vas shot in the left breast and stabbed Ive times, while Thomas Donovan was |hot in the breast just over the heart, fhe shooting was done by Stephen lajestic and two other foreigners who |hen robbed an Italian of $200. An Ugly Little Fire. A skyrocket went through the front first story room at C. M. Galley’s Church street residence about 2 o’clock Satur-day morning, setting fire to Mrs. Road-man’s millinery goods. William Wise and a party of friends going home from Parfittown discovered the flames, wakened the sleeping inmates and gave valuable assistance in extinguishing the ugly little fire that did some $50 damage. Paragraphs About Prominent People Gathered During tbe Week. James McLean, of Jones Mills, is visiting friends here this week. Mrs. Anna Roadman is spending the week with Greensburg friends. Miss Flossie Znndell spent the past week with Wilkinsbnrg friends. Miss Clara Kreinbrook was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Anna Brinker, over Sunday. Edgar Criswell, of Pittsbnrg, was here over Sunday with his father, J. E. Criswell. William Uber, of Scottdale. was here Tuesday visiting his aunt, Mrs. Samuel Morrison. Miss Opal Berthel, who was visiting Pittsburg and Allegheny friends, return-ed home Monday. A. O. Horner, of Allegheny, was here over Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Horner. R. N. Hay, of Somerset, a former teacher here, spent Sunday with old Mount Pleasant friends. Miss Sarah Campbell, of near Buena Vista, was here visiting her neiee, Miss Flora Duncan, last week. Miss Anna Edwards returned Tues-day from New York after taking a six weeks' summer course in voice. Miss Isabel Rhoades is off on a two weeks’ visit to trieuds along the river from West Newton to McKeesport. Miss Lillie Shields, of Greensburg, is the guest of her grandmother, Mrb. Ruth Shields, of South Church street. Misses Pearl Harrison and Mame Eagan, of McKeesport, were guestB of Miss Kathryn Hartigan the past week. Misses Margaret Cunningham and Maola Giles spent Sunday near Scott-dale with the former's aunt, Mrs. Sto-ner. Mrs. B. Copeland, of Rochester, N. Y., with her two children, IB here visit ing Mrs. H. Goldstone, of College avenue. Miss Christena Ramsay, of St. Marys, Pa., spent the past week here with her cousin and Indiana Normal schoolmate, Miss Mary Ramsay. Prof. W. J. Zuck, who recently re-signed from the faculty of Otterbein University, is here visiting his father and other relatives, Lowell Barnhart and sister, Miss Ethyl, of Mt. Washington, Pittsbnrg, were here the past week as guests of Miss Hannah Lackman. Misses Laura and Etta Dillon left Tuesday for an extended trip to Colo-rado. They will stop in Chicago and visit the training schools. Mrs. W. E. Shope spent several days at Conuellsville last week as the guest of Miss Mabel Miller, who entertained at cards Friday in her honor. Misses DuShane and Brown, of Con-nellsville, and Reid, of Scottdale, guests of Miss Leona Marsh, honored this office with a call yesterday. Walter Lobingier, of the Pittsbnrg “Press,’ with his wife and little daugh-ter, was here over Sunday with his par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Lobingier. Charles Stough, now in the steam and hot water heating' business for himself at Washington, Pa., spent the Fourth here with his father and old friends. Chumpaboi Sunthankar, a native ladty of India and a student of Chesbro Sem-inary, North Chili, N. Y., is visiting her friend, Miss Elfreda Lackman, of North Hitchman street. Homer Huffman, with his wife and child, is here from Morgantown, W. Na., on a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Huffman. They were accompanied by young Mrs. Huffman's sister, Miss Mattie Mathers. Robert A. Ramsay, on the engineer corps of the Weaver Coal and Coke Company at DuQuoin, Illinois, is spend-ing a week’s vacation at home. His mother, Mrs. Sadie Ramsay, gave him a nice surprise party last evening. Second Lieutenant Will Colvin, who was graduated at West Point this year, was here over Sunday with relatives and old friends. He has been appointed to the artillery branch of the service, with orders to report for doty in September at Fort Adams, near Newport, R. I. Crosby-Mumaw. Mr. Eli Crosby, of Tarr, and Miss Maria Mumaw, of Hawkeye, were mar-ried last evening at the Church of God parsonage in the presence of a few in-vited guests by Rev. S. G. Yahn. They will reside at Tarr. GOLDEN WEDDING CEFEBRAFED By Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Graul on the Fourth. A VERY HAPPY GATHERING OF THEIR CHILDREN TO THE THIRD GENERATION. A Wonderfully Well Preserved Old Couple Who Were Both Born in Ger-many. Married in Pittsburg and, fol-lowing Many Active Years, Have Settled Down in Mount Pleasant as the Evening Shades Fall on Their Well Spent Lives. Mr. and Mrs Leopold Granl celebrat-ed their golden wedding on Saturday last at their East Washington street home, happy as only are parents when so honored by the presence of all tbeir living children who, upon this joyous occasion, extended to the third genera tion. The circle was complete with years Mr. Graul followed the huckster-ing and peddling business, at which he made many friends throughout West-moreland. They then moved back to the South Side, Pittsbnrg, where Mr. Graul worked for the Fisher Foundry Company for a time and then spent fourteen years as janitor of the South Side Odd Fellows’ building. Ten years ago. their children having been all married, they came here to reside in the evening of their well spent lives. COKE AND COAL. Items of Interest Gathered From Both Mine and Yard. The Wooddale Coal and Coke Com-pany, promoted by Jesse A. Stanffer and other Scottdale capitalists, has pur-chased the Samuel Clark farm of 700 acres, at Wooddale, Fayette county, and bas started a test for the Freeport and tinder veins of coal. Henry Duncan, a pioneer in the coke business, was found dead in bed at his Buena Vista home Tuesday morning, a supposed victim of heart disease, aged almost 73 years. He and his younger brother William, of Alverton, built and operated the first coke ovens at the Standard mines. He is survived by his ''I * U % MR. AND MRS. LEOPOLD GRUAL, SR. Gas*Line Extension. The Fayette County GasiCompany is preparing to lay a main from Scottdale to Youngwood, via Alverton, Tarr, Ruffsdale, Hunker and New Stanton. but one exception, Mrs. Joseph Adel man. of New York, who was unable to attend. July 3rd marked the half century these wonderfully well preserved old people had jogged along together, shar-ing each other’s joys and sorrows, and on that day they received the congratu-' lations of their sons and daughters and their children's children who all, thanks to early training, were able to address the celebrants in their native language, the German, before following their letters in person the next day. There were present at Saturday’s eele bration Mr. and Mrs. Jackson D. Hughes, of Pittsbnrg, and the latter’s son of her first marriage, Albert Roehn, wife and son. of McKeesport; Mr and Mrs. Andrew C. Graul, of Sharpsbnrg; Mr. and Mrs. John Koenig and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Graul, Jr., and two children, Mr and Mrs. Herbert Owen and son, Pittsburg, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Graul and three children, of this place, with John P. Werkman, Sr., of Greensburg, who, with his daughter, Miss Lizzie, was the only one of Mr. Graul’s old German friends able to be present. Of course, the main feature of the day was the big dinner that was in full keeping with the importance of the occasion; in tact, the good old mother confessed that the golden wedding cake fresh from “Charley’s” bakery was better than the one on her bridal table. Then, Andrew read an original poem that told of this country’s progress dur-ing the married life of his parents and, while he took all the poet’s license in the interest of rythm, “Andy’s” produc-tion was voted all right. The children saw to it that there was noise enough to maintain their well established repu-tations as strict observers of Indepen-dence Day. Leopold Graul, Sr., was born on Jan-uary 28, 1828, in Woerlitz, now a part of the kingdom of Prussia, the son of a weaver, although weak eyes prevented him from following his father’s trade. After traveling through Poland and as far east as St. Petersburg, Russia, he came to this country in 1850, locating in Birmingham, now the South Side, Pittsburg. Here he wooed and won Miss Christiana Wideman who was bom in Illfeld, kingdon of Hanover, Germany, January 18, 1826, and who came to Pittsburg in 1852. The wed ding took place there on July 8, 1853, Rev. Zimmerman, of the United Evan-gelical ProteBtant church, performing the ceremony. A year or so later they moved to Hempfield township, this county, near Adamsbnrg, and for the next twelve wife and four children, three sons and one daughter. The stockholders of the newly char tered Shade Coal Mining Company held their first meeting here Monday and organized by electing I. F. Overholt, of this place, president; William Gahagan, of Arrow, Somerset connty, vice presi I dent, and J. W. Overholt, of this place, secretary and treasurer. The company took over 717 acres of coal and timber lands in the Scalp Level Basin, Somer-set county, BD\ will complete develop-ments alrefc • well under way on the property. T ,o intention is to erect a tine steel tipple with automatic appli | ances and use electricity for both min-ing and hauling the coal, of which there are the 31 and 4 foot veins of high class steam quality. MEXICAN ENTERPRISE In Which Several OfhcerB are Well Known Here. The Pittsburg Plantation Company, of which Charles P. Parker, the H. C. Frick Coke Company's auditor, is presi-dent, and flon. W. F. Morrison, of this place, a director, held its annual meet-ing of stockholders in Pittsburg last week. The capital stock is $300,000, divided into 3,000 shares which are held largely by capitalists of that city who have firm faith in the future of tropical Mexico. The company owns one thousand acres of land at Tolosa. state of Oaxaca, Mexico, within one mile of the Tehuan-tepec National Railroad, which con-nects the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico and affords easy and rapid transit from the coast to all parts of the world. The property has three mile frontage on the Jumiapa river and tram-ways encircling cane fields to sugar mills and the Tehuantepec railroad. This section of the isthmus is the rich-est producing state in tropical Mexico. Millions of capital have been invested in this part of Mexico, and modern methods and machinery and Americans with their proverbial enterprise and en-ergy are making garden spots where only a short time ago were dense for-ests and wild vegetation. The com-pany will plant its entire field in sugar cane, rubber, coffee, cacao, ginger, pine-apples and oranges, and has at the pres-ent time two hundred acres planted in sugar cane. Want Tbeir Fries. The stockholders of the Crescent Brewing Company, of Jeannette, have voted to sell their plant to the Pittsburg Brewing Company provided they be paid $400,000. A FINE MUSICAL PROSPECT For the People oF the Coke Region DURING THE COMING WINTER. UNDER ARRANGEMENTS MADE BY MR. ROBERT McDOWELL. A Grand Chorus of Over Four Hundred Voices Conducted by Mr. James P. McCollum, the Famous Fittsbug Leader, will Give Concerts at Union-town. Connellsville, Scottdale and Mount Pleasant. Rehearsals Will Bsgin with the Return of Cool Weather. An announcement was made at the recent recital given by the students of Robert J. McDowell’s Private School of Music in Library Hall, Conuellsville, which will delight every lover of ora-torio music in the entire coke region. It was to the effect that early in the coming autumn choral organizations would be effected in Uniontown. Con-nellsville, Scottdale and Mount Pleasant with a view to oratorio perforformances on a scale never heretofore attempted in this region. While the chorus in each town will be a local affair. eRch will he a part of the complete organization which will be as-sembled for occasional mass rehearsals and concerts, and for such an event the total number of singers will probably be somewhat in excess of fonr hundred. A well drilled chorus of this size is sel-dom henrd even in the larger cities, but the material for it exists in abundance here in the coke region and only the executive ability and proper innsioal guidance are needed to unite and per-fect such an enterprise. Mr. James P. McCollum, the well known conductor of the Mozart Club, of Pittsbnrg, has been secured to take charge of the inu-si.' al work, directing each of the cho-ruses in person. A number of the most public spirited and substantial business men of each town have guaranteed the project against possible loss, and while the pro-ceeds of the concerts will undoubtedly make the organization perfectly inde-pendent, there will be no nervousness in regard to its future and no essential will be sacrificed on account of financial conditions. The chorus will then be-gin operations under doubly auspicious circumstances, both artistic and finan-cial, and from the commendation the plan has already received, there is no danger of its defeat through the indif-ference of either singers or public. Handel’s famous oratorio, “The Mes-siah,” has been selected for the first performance, which will be given, ac-cording to a time-honored custom, in the holidays. Each chorus will begin separate re-hearsals in the early fall and, as before mentioned, all will be combined for the performance. It is quite likely that each town will have a performance of the work, as protests have already been made against confining the concerts to any one town when both population and public interest seem sufficient to make the concerts a success in each city rep-resented in the chorus. The Library Orchestra, which has but just completed a series of subscrip-tion concerts, and which is so necessary to the support of such a body of singers, will be engaged on the same plan and will add greatly to the general effect. The credit of organizing this great undertaking and of having made the arrangements already consummated be-longs to Robert J. McDowell, whose ef-forts to improve the state of music in this region are well known. Mr. Mc- Dowell will spend the summer in Eu-rope but the chorus arrangements are already far advanced, and such work as will have to be done during the sum-mer will be left in the hands of able lieutenants, so that everything will be ready for the first rehearsals at the close of the heated term. The whole plan, so sensibly conceived and so ably supported by both musical and business people, commends itself to the warm approval of all those interested in the moral and musical upbuilding of the community, and will, by its success, place this re-gion in a notable position—as it already is through its wonderful coke industry— musically, in the United States. The Fourth at Scottdale. Scottdale had a large time on the Fourth although rain interfered some-what with the big parade. The cornet band, taken down from here’by £. K. Miller, manager of the Hazlett store, as part of the Union Supply Company’s exhibit, was awarded the $20 prize. THHi MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY, .TULA' 10, 1903. »■>#«» >**»«► N«*»» » '«*>»>* 3 July Clearance Sale You are actually losing money if you do not attend our great July Clearance sale. Our clearance sale must rid our shelves and * counters of all spring and summer goods. Low prices will do it, and low prices we have made. Run your eye over the list and ligure your saving. 0 . o w SKIRTS. Thrifty buyers will not be slow to take advantage of the pronounced bar-gains in ladies’ and misses’ skirts. All this season’s styles in voiles, etamines, and cloth in all colors, tan, castor, blue or blacks, l ake one-third oil the marked price. Any skirt in store 1-3 off. $15 skirts are sold for $10. $12 skirts are sold for $9. $10 skirts are sold for $6.67. $8 skirts are sold for $5.36. $7.50 skirts are sold for $5. $5 skirts are sold for $3.33. $3 skirts are sold for $2. Elegant line of wash skirts in pique and’duck, white and colors. All goat one-third off the regular selling price. Come and see the skirts. All skirts fitted by expert dress makers. No ex-tra charge for alteration. Cold type cannot do justice to these extraordinary offerings in skirts. See them. Money saved. RIBBONS at never to be forgotten prices. All silk taffeta ribbon, satin liberty, all widths, Nos.|60,'80|and 100. All the popular shades worth 5o, 60 and 75 cents- clearance sale price is 19 cents. Black velvet ribbon, extra value, satin back, Nos. 7, 9 and 12, at one-half the regular price 12 cents the yard. Black velvet ribbons in Nos. 18 and 22 at one-half the regular selling price 19 cents the yard. This certainly is a golden opportunity. MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. Corset covers at 10, 17, 22 and 25 cents. Drawers 17c to $1.50. Petticoats 25c to $6 each. Night gowns at 30c, 48c, 59c and 75c. Over a hundred gowns to pick from; only tell you of a few. Come and see. Children’s muslin drawers 10c to 25c, extra value. Children’s white muslin skirts, long or short, 29c to 48c. Special at this clearance sale. We never advertise unless we have special bargains. Something to save you money. Buy muslin wear here and he glad. BARGAIN POINTERS. Take advantage of our clearance sale it will pay you. Prices speak louder than words. Former selling prices not considered; everything goes regardless of cost or loss. Red and white and blue and white table damask, former price 30c, clearance sale 19c the yard. Bleached table linen worth 35c, clearance sale 22c the yd. Half bleached table damask worth 5oc at 38c the yard. Fine bleachedtable damask, extra wide, $1.25 value at 98c. Large sizes duck towel worth 15c, clearance sale price 10c each. Fancy bordered towels with knotted fringe at 19c each, former price 25c. Linen crash at money-saving prices; 5c a yard for crashes worth 7, 8 and 9 cents. Linen crash at 6 1 -4c worth 10c and 12 l-2c. Something for Almost Nothing. 200 percale shirt waists, all sizes, 32 to 42, fast colors. You never saw better bargains than these. l ake your choice at 19c each. No mistake; just pay 19c that all former prices 5oc. White shirt waists, cluney lace trimmed, just new but just one-half the regular price; instead of $2 and $4.50 clearance sale price $1 and $2.25. Other waists, slightly mussed and soiled, at one-half the regular price $1 waists 50c; $2 waists $1.00, $3 waists $1.50. There’s economy of the most radical kind in the above shirt waist prices. DRESS GOODS. The greatest saving opportunity of the season. Black serges and cheviots 40 inches wide, all wool, perfect dye and finish. Regular selling price 60c, clearance sale 38c the yard. Voiles in royal blue, navy blue, black, castor, in fact all the leading shades; elegant fine goods away under price at 89c the yd. Regular price $1.25. Al-batross in all shades, white, cream, sky blue, navy blue, red, cardinal, castor and black at 33c the yd. These goods are strictly all wool and never sold for less than 75c. Come quick if you want line dress goods for little money Fancy line all wool novelties in dress goods at 39c reduced from 65c. Summer-time Silks. A money-saving event without par-allel. Foulards in neat new patterns and colors, were 85c, clearance sale 60c. Big assortment of foulards at 45c, were 65c; they are beauties. 1,000 yards of printed foulards, special at this sale. Only come, see the goods and take your choice of any number of yards at 24c the yard. Wash silks, new colorings, all col-ors at 37c the yard; reduced from 50c. Children’s Dresses. Children’s percale wash dresses at clearance sale prices. Biggest bargain ever offered in the department. Just now you need everyday dresses for the little folks. Children’s $1.5o dresses go at SI.12, Children’s $1 dresses go at 75c. Children’s 75c dresses go at 56c. Children’s 50c dresses go at 37c. Just 25 per cent of the regular selling price. Bargains for All. 5,000 yds fine sheer lawns in pretty designs and colorings, 7 I-2c, just half former price. Apron gingham in all colors of check and sizes, fast colors. Former price 7c, clearance sale 5c. 1,000 yds fine dimities, all new styles, at 1-2 regular price, 12 l-2c. Pretty styles and colors in dress ginghams, were 12 1-2c, clearance sale price 8c. Best Alabama cheviots for shirtings, regular selling price 9c, at 6 l-2c. 5,000 yds of seersucker ginghams in stripe and checks. Former price 10c, sale price 5c yd. All our best prints. Extra wide percale in dark colors, black and white, blue and white, ele-gant for children’s dresses. Just think of the price - just 1-2 the former price. Your choice for 6 t-4c the yard. No matter how low the price this rule never waived. We guarantee what we sell and sell only what we guarantee. The Broadway Department Store, Cor. Pittsburg and Broadway sts., SCOTTDALE, PA. O. D WEIMER, General Manager. AN UNSUNG HEROIN£. Margaret Shaw, Brave and Unselfish, Saves a Little Child. In an obscure and unmarked grave In the burylng-ground of the old Mid-dle Presbyterian church, a short dis-tance to the north of the town of Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Penn-sylvania, lie the remains of a young girl named Margaret Shaw, one of the heroines of the fierce border warfare on the old Pennsylvania frontier in the eighteenth century. She was the daughter of a pioneer settler named Moses Shaw, who was the founder of a family which has always been prom-inently connected with the develop-ment of Westmoreland county. He was a maker of packsaddles. One of his most famous contracts was the making of the saddles used by the American legion of General Anthony Wayne on its memorable victorious campaign in 1794, which forever broke the power if the confederated Indian tribes of the Ohio country. The home of Moses Shaw was in the settlement at Hannastown, then a place of vast importance as the capital of West-moreland county, but now forgotten, save as a mere tradition, by all except those who like to dig among the ruins of the pioneer days. The prominent place occupied by old Hannastown in the life of the frontier made the town a shining mark for attack by Indians and British partisans during the Revo-lution. Such an attack took place in 1782 with disastrous results. Few lives were lost, but the old Western Pennsylvania court town was wiped out of existence for all time. This at-tack gave Margaret Shaw, then a young girl of only 16 years, the oppor-tunity to do a deed of devoted sacri-fice. She accepted the challenge of fate, did her duty, and lost her life. By her unselfish bravery she did not win fame, but she is full as worthy of being enshrined in verse and history as many another who is so honored. This is the simple story of Margaret Shaw’s heroism. On the day of the attack the people at Hannastown were fortunately warned of the approaching danger and were able to take refuge in the block-house near at hand. Here were gath-ered young and old from the vicinity. A sharp attack was made on the stronghold, but there were within trusty old double-barreled rifles and keen eyes to sight them. The savages soon learned this and gave their at-tention to burning the town. This they effectually did, and then depart-ed, leaving the frightened but valor-ous whites in safety, all save one. That lone victim was the tender girl, Margaret Shaw. Some time during the progress of the attack on the blockhouse a little child, innocent of danger, crept near the only really dangerous place In the structure, a gate through which were some ppen-tr. gs which gave entrance to an occa-sional bullet. Suddenly the little one’s peril was seen, and Margaret Shaw, brave and unselfish, rushed to snatch it away Into safety. One moment was enough. The child was saved, but the big-hearted girl came within range of a hostile rifle. She received the fatal ball through her breast into her left lung. Staggering back, she gave the child, all unconscious of the great sac-rifice which had been made for it, to its friends, and sank into the arms of those who rushed to succor her. The siege was soon over and the hostile redskins went hack to the farther frontier, but the stricken girl lay long and fought the grim battle for life. For two full weeks she struggled against the odds of death, amid terri-ble sufferings, and then the brief but noble chapter of her life was ended. She was burled in the old Middle church yard, and there she lies to this day. If her grave was ever marked the stone has long ago fallen away, and her sepulcher is lost. The writer and others have often searched for some trace of it by which it might be located, but In vain. Had not Guya-suta and his warriers gone on the war trail to the old Westmoreland capital the life of Margaret Shaw might have been as the lives of hundreds of othe1- frontier girls, but the moment of dan-ger and self-sacrifice came to her, and she was found to be made of the noble stuff of which are fashioned the he-roes, great and small, of human his-tory. CHARLES L. SMITH. Cause for Regret. A Scot, who had been a long time in the colonies, paid a visit to his "native glen,” and meeting an old schoolfellow, the two sat down to chat about old times and acquaintances. In the course of the conversation the stranger happened to ask about a cer-tain Gordie McKay. “He’s dead long ago,” said his friend, ‘‘and I’ll never cease regrettin’ him as long as I live.” “Dear me! Had you such respect for him as that?” “Na, na! It wasna ony respec’ I had for himself, hut I married his widow.” Overdose of Harmony. Qulzzer—What broke up the Young Men’s Political club, to which you be-longed ? Knoitt—Well, It was this way. There had been such beautiful and un-interrupted harmony In the organiza-tion from the first that each man claimed to be the sole cause of the harmoniousness. Of course, they couldn’t agree on that point and the thing broke up in a row. Another coal strike threatened! Won’t those people be decent enough to give the conutry time to get Its breath? "My turn next,” says the great American firecracker. The Best The Cheapest. This is true of all classes of goods, but particularly Shoes.' [ Just drop into our enlarged rooms and see what we have to offer you in footwear. FOR MEN.—Walkover $3.50 and Guaranteed Patent Leather, $2.50 to $4; for boys, Guaranteed Patent Leather, $2 to $3. • FOR LADIES.—Sorosis, $3.50; Guaran-teed Patent Leather, $2.25 to $3. If you want to save the lit-tle ones’ stockings you should get a pair of our Children’s Knee Pads. W. A. PYNE; 711 Main street, Mount Pleasant, - I UNION SUPPLY COMPANY. "T~7 Department Stores. 47. Everytliins you Used, Every flrlicle you Want you can get at the Union Supply Go. Stores. For Women and Girls. There’s everything new and novel that the market affords If you -want a made-up suit we have them—have the newest kind and the prices are moderate. If you want to buy material and have your clothes made, we have elegant stocks of the choicest goods made, all new styles. Very beautiful, really better than most extensive dry goods stores show you. For Men and Boys. The most stylish outfits that can be produced come from our stores. We can outfit you complete. Men’s and Boys’ Clothing is one of our strong departments. We sell only good, first-class goods, made by the most reputable clothing houses in the trade. If you can’t find what you want in our ready-made stock, we will have your suit made for you. We guarantee fits, we guarantee the goods, we guarantee the prices right. Try us. For Infants. Here’s a strong department and one that gets much atten-tion. Everybody likes nice things for the baby and we have them, the loveliest things out for babies are right in the Union Supply Company Stores. Dresses, Underwear, Hosiery, Caps, Cloaks, Ribbons, choice styles in Shoes. In addition to the choice styles the reasonable prices are another inducement. Household Furnishings. We can’t do this department justice in this little “ad”— haven’t the space. Would take half of this paper to tell you all about the stock and the many special bargains. We simply say this: it’s to your own advantage to see our stock, if you are in the market for anything in this line. We All Like Nice Shoes. By nice shoes we don’t only mean nice looking—we include good quality; it requires that to make shoes nice, and that’s what makes our shoes so much nicer than the general run—they have the stock that makes good quality. We have them for Men and Women, Boys and Girls, and the prices are right. We guarantee every pair. Come to the Union Supply Company for Groceries, Flour and Meats. We defy any store in Fayette or Westmorelond to equal our stock in Groceries, Flour and Meats in quality, quantity and pri-ces. Wb excel all, and the car loads of good, fresh, first-class goods that we sell weekly is our best evidence. Try the Union Supply Company. It will pay you to travel a long distance to trade with us. UNION SUPPLY COMPANY. 47 Large Department Stores located in Westmoreland and Fayette Counties. THTC MOUNT PT/KA8ANT JOUUNAIi. FRIDAY, JUDY 10. 1008, When the Nerves are Shattered When the nerves are shattered one cannot think, work, eat, sleep or ae compllsh anything. It’s a ease of force nil the time' a continued effort to keep going no life no energy no ambi lion upset at anything nervous head aches crying spells tits of depression and utter despondency. I>r. A W. Chase s Nerve Pills cure this condition to stay cored by rebuilding the shatter ed nervous system nourishing the nerve centers and resupplying what is lacking the active principle of life Nerve Force, Mrs John M. Green, of Mount Pleas ant. Pa , says:—“Some time ago my daughter was in such a run down—weak — nervous condition we were compelled to take her out of school. A nerve medicine was necessary and by advice we gave her Dr. A W Chase's Nerve Pills. The medicine acted finely giving her back health, strength, steadiness of nerves to such an extent I can safely say she is all right again. I am well pleased to recommend the nerve Pills to others.” 50c a box at dealers or Dr. A. W. Chase Med. Co , Buffalo, N. Y. See that portrait and signature of A. W. Chase, M. D are on every package. ittriniiln —7 The baby's kissing mouth is round And large and damp and full of sound: O The prim young miss is apt to pout With kissing relatives about: o The maiden aunt, whose joys are few, Presents a straight line mouth to you: While grandma’s lips are apt to be A-droop w ith age, as you can see: Papa, who furnishes the cash, Hides his beneath a big mustache: niiimiii But Mistress Flirt knows how to kiss; Her Cupid bow lips look like this: —Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. The wise man wants a sure thing. That's the reason he uses Four Fold Liniment it never fails to do the work. A sure cure for rheumatism, pains in-back, sprains, bruises and sore muscles. The best for man or beast. Sold by H. F. Barkley. At all druggists, 25c. 050m TOUR TO THE PACIfIC COAST Via Pennsylvania Railroad, Account G. A. R National Encampment, On account of the National Encamp-ment of the Grand Army of the Repub-lic nt San Francisco, Cal , August 17 to 22, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company offers n personally-conducted tour to Phe Pacific Coast at remarkably low rates. Tour will leave new York, Philadel-phia, Baltimore, Washington, and other points on the Pennsylvania Railroad east of Pittsburg, Thursday, August (I, by special train of the highest grade Pullman equipment. An entire day will he spent nt the Grand Canyon of Arizona, two days at Los Angeles, and and visits of a half day or more at Pas sndena, Santa Barbara, Del Monte, and San Jose, Three days will he spent in San Francisco during the Encampment. A day will be spent in Portland on the retnrn trip, and a complete tour of the Yellowstone Park, covering six days, returning directly to destination via. Billings and Chicago, aud arriving Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York September 1. Round trip rate, covering all expenses for twenty-seven days, except, three days spent in San Francisco, $215; two in one berth, $200 each. Round trip rate, covering all expenses to Los Angeles, including transporta tiou, meals in dining car, and visits to Grand Canyon and Pasadena, and /runs portal inn only through. California and returning to the east by Oct, 15, via any direct route, including authorized stop overs, $115; two in one berth, $105 each Returning via Portland $tl additional will he charged. Rates from Pittsburg will he $5 less in each case. » For full information apply to Ticket Agents, or Geo, W. Boyd, General Pas-senger Agent, Broad Street Station. Philadelphia, Pa. Working Night and Day. The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was made is Dr. King’s New- Life Pills. These Pills change weakness 'ALWAYS1 INSIST UPON HAVING! THT. GENUINE MURRAYS LANMANS FLORIDA WATER THE MOST REFRESHING AND DELIGHTFUL PERFUME FOR THE HANDKERCHIEF.TOILET AND BATH. n nTtTTTTTTTT-TTmi PROFESSIONAL CARDS. NA. OORT, • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office adjoining Eagle street residence, Mount Pleasant, Pa. RABE F. MARSH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 40 Hank & Trust Building, Greensburg First National Hank Building. Mount Pleas-ant. Pa.. Tuesday and Wednesday of each week. EUGENE WARDEN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 308 Main street, Greensburg. Braddock Block, Monnt Pleasant. GREGG & POTTS. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Barclay Building, Greensburg. \A7 A. KALP, vv • Heal Estate and Insurance Agency. 8B3 East Main street. S. C. Stevenson, NOTARY PUBLIC, REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE. 457 MAIN ST.. MOUNT PLEASANT. Stubborn. A little girl was heard talking to her rabbit. “Five times live,” she said, “six times six, seven times seven.” Be-tween times she shook the rabbit vio-lently. “Dorothy,” said her mother, “what are you doing to your rabbit?” “Well, papa says,” replied the child, “that rabbits multiply rapidly, and Bunny won't do It.”—Town Talk. Eczema Cured. Says Mr. J. H. Kelly, Washington, Pa.: "My wife has been cured of a very bad case of eczema or tetter from using three boxes of Ozoint. She is entirely cured.'1 Ozoint cures Bkin diseases and heals all kinds of sores Price 25 cents a box at M. A. Bowman’s. AM to Poetry. A now story is going the rounds about Mark Twain and a young poet. “How long does It take to get fume from a poem?” asked the poet. The sage thought and in a few min-utes said: “Well, it takes about four hours to write one and 19 years 11 months 30 days 24 hours and 55 minutes to get it published. Then it’s a toss up whether it’s famous or infamous.”—New York Times. 1 ito strength, listlessness into energj, brain-fag into mental power. They’rt wonderful in building np the health Only 25c per box, Sold by H, F. Bark ley. __ 10 24 Write for a Sample. A request to the Ozo Remedy Co,, New Brighton. Pa., for a sample pack age Ozo (Headache Powders will he promptly answered. There is nothing better for sick or nervous headache and neuralgia. Ozo Headache Powders are sold by M. A. Bowman. Four powders 10 cents. Hives are a terrible torment to the little folks, and to some older ones. Easily cured. Doan’s Ointment never fails. Instant relief, permanent cure. At any drug store, 50 cents. Application for Charter. Notice is hereby given that application will be made by James S. Mack. Jacob J. limit anil John I). lilt,oilman to Um Covernnr of Pennsylvania, on the 29l.li day of .Inly. IfOil. at 11 o’clock, a. m.. under the provisions of an Act of Assemply. entitled, "An act to provide for the Incorporation and regulation of cer-tain corporations," approved April 29, 1H71. and the supplements thereto, for a charter for an Intended corporation, to be called “Mount Pleasant Ice Company," the charac-ter and object of which is the manufacture and saic of ice and applying refrigeration for general coid storage purposes, and for t hese purposes to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges by said Act of Assembly and the supplements i hereto con-ferred. N. A. Oort, Solicitor. Brutally Tortured. A case came to light that for persist ent and unmerciful torture has perhaps never been equalled. Joe Golobick, of Colusa, Calif., writes “For 15 years I endured insufferable pain fi-om rheu-matism and nothing relieved me though I tried everything known. I came across Electric Bitters and its the greatest me-dicine on earth for that trouble. A few bottles of it completely relieved and cured me.” Just as good for liver and kidney troubles and general debility. Only 5Uc. Satisfaction guaranteed by H. F. Barkley, druggist, 10 24 A Hack Number. “The other day,” says Marshall Wild-er, “I got on a Fifth avenue stage and found that I had nothing less than a two dollar note in my pocket” “Well?” asked a friend. “I gave it to the driver,” said Wilder, “and he asked me which horse I want-ed.”— New York Times. A Puzzle to Her. “There is one thing I can never un-derstand,” said the patient looking wo-man, “and that is why a man who has been sitting with the crowd all the nft-ernoon at a baseball game will come home and say that the noise of the chil-dren makes him nervous."—Washing-ton Star. A little life may bh sacrificed to an hour’s delay. Cholera infantum, dys-entery, diarrhoea come suddenly. Only safe plan is to have Dr. Fowler's Ex-tract of Wild Strawberry always on hand. Ozo White Foam Liniment. An Ozonized and Ammonio-Camphor-ated Cream Liniment. Cures Rheuma-tism, Stiff or Swollen Joints, Lame Backs, Sore Muscles, Sprains and Bruis-es. Large bottles 25 cents. M. A. Bowman. What’s the secret of happy, vigorous health? Simply keeping the bowels, the stomach, the liver and kidneys strong and active. Burdock Blood Bit-ters does it. That “played out”—“done up” feel-ing makes life miserable for every sufferer from Kidney ills, backaches, headaches and urinary troubles, pain-ful aud annoying. Doan’s Kidney Pills bring new life and activity, remove the pain and cure the cause, from common backache to dangerous dia-betes. Mr. S. R. Bollnger, who resides at 428 Smith Dukes treet. bookkeeper nt W. H. Hottener’s elgnr factory. York, l*a., says: “Backache became so frequent that not finding anything to cure it or even to re-lieve it I could not do a day's work with-out suffering. AVhile trying one medicine after another my attention was attracted by an account of Doan's Kidney 1’IMs in the papers, and of course they in turn were given a trial. I procured them at Hodnett's drug store. Before I had taken n box of them I had no backache. I could work at the desk as steadily as I liked and did not even get tired in the back.” For sale by all druggists? 50 cents. Fos-ter- Mllburn Co., Buffulo, N. Y. CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH ENNYROYAL PILLS Original and Only Oenulno. PL PR_ I I Wf V*Si>^8AFE. Always reliable I.ml!,-. »sk Drurglit ^ for CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH v in ItK.il and (.old metallic boxen, sealed ) with blue ribbon. Take no other. Refuse j Danguruun Hubwtltnllonn and iinlta-r tloriM. Buy of your DruRRWt. or send 4c. In stamps for l’urtlouIurw, TcMlmuiiluIa ami Relief for Lu«l lea,” in lelfr, by re* turn Mull* 1 0,000 Testimonials. Sold by all Druftiiu. 4'hlcheater i’hemleul Oo., Mention this paper. Madlaou Huuure, 1’lliLA., i’A. L. S. RHOADES, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE&NOTARY PUBLIC. All kinds of legal papers prepared and exe euted. Collecting a specialty. Office HOP Main Street. Mount Pleasant FIRST NATIONAL BANK. OF MOUNT PLEASANT, PA. Capital Stock $100,000 OFFICER8: H. W. Stoner, J. I). Hitchman, President. Cashier. G. \V. Stoner,Vice President DIRECTORS. J. S. Hitchman, J. D. Hitchman, II. W. Stoner, Win. B. Neel, J. O. Grownover, Jos. It. Stauffer. 9 N. Warden, C. >V. Stoner. Particular attention Riven to collections, and proceeds promptly settled. CITIZENS' NATIONAL BANK MOUNT PI.EASANT. PA, Capital Stock, - - $.r>0.n00.0fi. Surplus Fund, - - $40,000.00. OFFICERS. J. S. Hitchman, President. J. L. Ruth, Cashier. DIRECTORS. J. McD. Bryce, John Husband. J. L. Ruth. O. P. Shupe. J. A. Warden, J. 9. Hitchman. J. O. Orownover, J. L. Myers, Jno. M. Stauffer. Farmers & Merchants ^NATIONAL BANK> OF MOUNT PLEASANT, PA. CAPITAL STOCK. - $50,000.00. Surplus and Undivided Profits, - $25,000. OFFICERS: U. K. Hls.^em, President, C. E. Mullin, Cashier DIRECTORS: R. K. Flissem, Abraham Ruff, Frank I). Barnhart, E. T. Fox, a. R. Ruff. L. S. Tlnstraan, D II. Persb g, C. E. Mullin, S. P. Zimmerman. fOR PROTECTION AND CORRECTION against the action of the sun and wind something must bej used. Sunburn is painful and freckles disfiguring. We carry a full line of all the high class and reliable Salves, Eace Powder, Cold Cream, and other toilet preparations. These are all effectual and absolute-ly harmless and necessary for the beau-tifying of the skin and producing a smooth complexion. M. A. BOWMAN, West Main st., Mutual ’phone 56 Mount Pleasant, Pa. I am Special Agent for the Weaver and Livingstone Pianos the sweetest toned, best finished, most perfect pianos on the mar-ket. Call and see these splendid instruments. A complete line of organs, small mu-sical instruments, sheet tnuBic, etc. Also agent for the Standard Sewing Machine. J. B. MYERS, Jr., 313 East Main st.. Monnt Pleasant. WARREN DOUGLAS, President. DOUGLAS BUSINESS COLLEGES, □ McKeesport, Connellsville, Union-town, Pa., offer to young men and women courses of study which prepare for business life. Catalogue B is free. Send for it to-day. Address either school. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE. Estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Ackerman, de-ceased. Letters of administration on the estate of Mrs.Elizabeth Ackerman late of Donegal Bor-ough. Westmoreland ^county, Pa., deceased, having been granted to the undersigned by the Register of said county, notice is hereby given to all persons indebted to said estate to make Immediate payment, and those having claims against the same will present them, properly authenticated, for settlement. W. A. Iv AM*, Administrator. Mount Pleasant, Pa.. June 15, 1903. 0t flcCORMICK HARVESTING HACHINERY. We handle not only all the McCormick Harvesting Ma-chinery but also Wagons, Carriages, Surreys, Buggies, Harness, Blankets, Robes, Whips, etc., all of the very best'and at lowest prices. Call and examine. PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM Cleanses and beautifies the hair. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Fails to Restore Gray Hnir to its Youthful Color. Cure* scalp diseases & hair falling. ikvan^L^aMTruggist^^^ J. J. East Main street HITCHHAN, ■ • Mount Pleasant, Pa. TItK MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, FRIDA'S, JULY 10, 1903. ®he3PounlflcaaantJournal JOHN 1,. BHIBI.UH. I'CBUBHBR. Mount Pleasant Is situated In tlie heart of the Great Oonnellsvllle Ooke Region. has a population of over 5,000s while, with offices surrounding within a radius of three miles the postoffice distribution Is 111,000. A new 31- pot, tableware glass factory, the finest In I,Ids Country and employing over 400 hands, Is In successful dally operation. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year, payable In advance. ADVERTISING RATES will be furnished on application. JOB PRINTING of every kind with the best workmanship and best material. FRIDAY. July 10. 11*0.1 SPLENDID WORK The amount just OP EXECUTORS, turned over to Treasurer Stoner, of the Jacob Justice Free Dispensary, by the executors of the estate of the late Jacob Justice, Messrs. Richard Randolph Parry and .Tames R. Magee, of Philadelphia, is $78,580.49. This is a goodly sum of money in itself, were nothing said of the splendid management of the exec-utors. The residue of the estate, left by the testator for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a free dispensary here, amounted to less than $50,000 when these two gentlemen tools charge a little over three veal's ago. Ry good business foresight on their part in de-ferring the sale of the rpal estate, stocks and other securities, the bequest was increased over 50 per cent. The law would have allowed the ex editors 5 per cent, for their trouble, but they did it without one penny of cost for the respect and esteem they have for the meuiorv of their dead friend. The dispensary board of trustees has ordered crayon portraits of Messrs. Parry aud Magee to hnng by the side of a flue oil painting of Mr. Justice to show its appreciation of their splendid services. This may seem small in the way of acknowledgement, but it was all these two modest Philadelphians would permit the grateful trustees to do. THE decision of Judge Rodgers in the Byers-Byers equity case will doubtless prove some water on the prosecution s wheel in the criminal suits that are to follow in this county. A JEANNETTE minister claims that the Oabford Park disaster was au act of Providence because of sinfulness; but, even were this true, the statement seems cruel when made at the funeral of a victim. EDWARD K. MILLER'S band rode off with the prize at Scottdale’s blowout on the Fourth. Mount Pleasant has always had high class musicians, the only trouble being that they wouldn't stick together. Pope Leo XIII is likely to have passed away before these lines reach the reader. There is much in his long official life that makes him worthy to be called the Grand Old Man of his church. HAD A GOOD TIME. Joseph’s CHAMPION. John Dumbanld, of Scottdale, is back running the mill and his many friends are glad to see him. Our celebration consisted of a parade given by “The boy” on his pony covered with the stars and stripes. Michael Solomon is home for a few days. Philip Geary and his son Wesley were visiting Alverton friends the paBt week. Ralph Hostetler, of Back Creek, spent the Fourth here with relatives. Riley McLean was at home the past week. The unpleasantness between Uncle Jake and I. P. has all passed away. Dr. Hunter has a nice new buggy bought in Somerset. Mt. Nebo church looks a whole lot better, thanks to the new carpet donated by the ladies. Mrs. Bertha Lowry, who was here visiting her sister, Mrs. A. J. Bowman, lias returned to her Pittsburg home. TARIt. Mr. Harry Perkins and Miss Amy Cunnard, both of this place, were mar-ried Saturday by Rev. Hildebrand. They left Tuesday for a trip and on their return they will reside at Cantral. A small son of Andy Yaneski, of this place, died Saturday from scalds re-ceived by falling into a boiler of hot coffee. The local coke plant did not run on Monday and Tuesday on account of the high water. Miss Hattie Stoner spent Sunday at home with her parents. A large crowd from here was at Scott-dale on the Fourth. The high water did much damage through this vicinity. Telephone linemen are busy working through this place. The Swedetown ball players came up here Saturday and badly defeated onr boys. - JONES MILLS. The teachers’ examination in Donegal left some of onr young would be wield-ers of the birch with downcast looks. The schools of Donegal township will be let here tomorrow. Jacob Craig intends purchasing the dry goods Btore at Champion from E. E. Laimer. The latter, we understand, contemplates removing to StahlBtown in a month or two to engage in the mercantile business there. The GloriouB Fourth passed off quietly in our midst owing to a pressure of farm work and rainy weather. All crops are growing finely owing to bountiful rains and warmth. Prof. Bert Faust, of Donegal town ship, a graduate of California State Nor-mal, has been elected principal of the Hnfftown school. His success is pleas-ing to his old friends here. A number of members and theirfami-lies visited the Pike Run Country Club preserves Sunday. Mount Pleasant, Pa., Bond Sale. Tliu Borough of .Mount Pluasant, lVimsyl-vunlii. hits authorized tli« Issue of (Joupotj bonds to the amount of sixteen Thousand (flH.000) Dollars. Unown as tlio Mount. Pleas-ant. Pa., Denver Bond. Series of Denomination of the bonds Five Hundred (inOO.OO) Dollars eauli, bearing Interest at Hu* rate of four and one-bill f (4H) per cent tun per annum; non pons payable on fcne llrst. days of January and July oaeli year. The puiubaser to pay tax. Principal and Interest payable at t he office of the Borough Treasurer, Mount Pleasant, Pa. Thu bonds are numbered consecutively and are redeemable In t he order of t heir number, MS follows: Nos. I toll. Inclusive, on July 1st. annually, from IIHH to 1910. Inclusive, ami thereafter two bonds annually from Hill to \m. Sealed bids will be received by the Borough Secretary up toHo'olock p. in. Monday, July 87th. 1903. A certified check for $$0-00 must be enclosed with each bid, which shall be forfeited to the Borough of Mount Pleasant. Pa.. In case of refusal or omission of the successful bidder to accent. I he bonds and make payment, there-for within fifteen (15) days from awarding of the same. The Borough reserves the right to reject any or till bids. Address all bids to B B. BELT/. Mount Pleasant. Borough Secretary. Westmoreland County. Pa. 7 10at. Rain ‘.Had no Terrors for Bt People on the Fourth. The heavy showers on the Fourth hail no terrors tor St. Joseph's people who, with their friends to a goodly number, celebrated the day in strict conformance with the well arranged program of all kinds of athletic contests and dancing, with fireworks and balloon ascensious thrown in at night, just as if there was no such a thing as rain. No little credit for the success of the different games is dne the untiring ef-forts of Peter Mullen and James McGee. At 9 p. m. Rev. Father CollinB an-nounced the result of the continued May Carnival contests. The silver tea set was won by Miss Agnes Falter with $251.60 to Miss Kate Burns’s $87.50. The parlor suit will go to “Paddy' Kelly, the clever Standard yard boss, who turned in $945 to $513.04 by his opponent, Daniel McElrov, mine fore-man at Central. The prizes presented in a few weeks. The carnival sale of tickets and minor contests amounted to $850 and the re-ceipts on the Fourth $420 which, with $1,797.14 from the parlor suit and tea set contests, makes the carnival grand total $3,007.14. Officer Murdered. Henry F., better known as “Darty" Bierer, a Greensburg constable, while trying to arrest Charles Kruger, a tough at Jamison No. 1 coal works, yesterday, was shot and died in a few hours. Kru-ger escaped, but will likely be captured More New Court House Bide. For the fourth time new county court house bids were opened at Greensburg yesterday. Of the seven firms bidding ffm. Miller & Sons, of Pittsburg, were the lowest, their offer running from $775,000 to $900,000, according to the material to be used. ULETGYIER. Nelson and Elmer Ferguson are said to have been so anxious to go west that in order to raise the wherewith, one sold his gun and the other borrowed the money from W. F. Rees, to whom he had hired to work for $20 a month William says he is always willing to pay for what he gets, but in this instance the price was a trifle high. ORDINANCE. An Ordinance to authorize an Increase of the Indebtedness of the Borough or Mount Pleasant., Westmoreland County. Pennsyl-vania. for the purpose of sewering the streets and alleys of the Borough and for t he com-pletion of sewer terminals of said Borough and to provide for the redemption of said Indebtedness. Section I. Be It. ordained and enacted by the Borough of Mount Pleasant In council as-sembled aud It Is hereby ordained and enact-ed hv the authority of the same, t lint the Chief Burgess, President and Secretary of said Council are hereby authorized and directed to borrow for the use of said Bor-ough. the sum of SIXTEEN THOUSAND ($111,000.00) DOLLARS, for the purpose of sew-ering the streets and alleys of the Borough, and tor the completion of sewer terminals of said Borough and for that purpose to cause to be prepared ami toexeeuteas herein directed, ami to sell at. not less Mum par. and accrued Interest on behalf of the Borough of Mould Pleasant, tldrly-two coupon bonds of FIVE IMTNDRED(f5O0.(H)) DOLLARS each, to secure the pay merit of t he said Increase of Indebted-ness of $16,090.00 hereby aid borlzed by council, which said Increase or indebtedness toget her with what has already been authorized with out an election, after deduct lug t he amounts authorized by public elections from the net Indebtedness, will not make the entire in-debtedness thereof, authorized 1% council wit bout a vote, to exceed a sum eoual to t wo (2) per cent of the assessed valuation of the taxable property therein; and that the said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of four and one-half (4*4) per centum per annum, layable semi-annually, said bonds to mature, rear date and be in t he following form: No FORM OF BONO. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. $500 00. syivai TUB Bouoirnii OK MOUNT PI.EASANT. Westmoreland County. Sewer and Sewer Terminal Bontdcf. Series of 10051. 'I’lie Borough of Mount Pleasant, for value received will pay to the bearer hereof, on t.lie 1st day of .1 uly, 1005, at the office of t he Treas-urer of said Borough, the sum of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, payable in lawful money of the United States of America, wit h interest t hereon from the date hereof, at the rate of 4Vi per cent urn per annum payable in lawful money of the United States or Amerl-a. at the office of the Treasurer of said Bor- High on the 1st days of 'Inly ami January annually from the date hereof, upon the pre-sentation and surrender of the annexed coupons rts they severally become due; and for the payment of the said sum and interest the property, faith and credit of said Borough are hereby pledged as well ns the sum of $1,102.27, annually, commencing A. D. 1903, which is assessed and levied .'111(1 to !>«• applied exclusively to the payment of the interest, and liquidation of the principal of said bonds when due, which bonds are payable as follows: Bond No. 1 on July 1st, 1005. Bond No 2 on July 1st. 1906. Bond No. ;t on July 1st, 1907. Bond No. 1 on July 1st, 1908. Bond No. 5 on July 1st, 1900. Bond No. <1 . on July 1st, 1910. Bonds Nos. 7 and H . on July 1st , 1911. Bonds Nos. 0 and 10 on Jury 1st, 1912. Bonds Nos. 11 aud 12 on July 1st. 1913. Bonds Nos. 13 and 14 on July 1st, 1914. Bonds Nos. 15 aud 1(1 Bonds Nos. 17 aud IS Bonds Nos. 19 and 20 Bonds Nos. 21 and 22 Bonds Nos. 23 and 24 Bonds Nos. 25 and 20 Bonds Nos. 27 and 2H Bonds Nos. 29 and 5)0 Bonds Nos. 31 and 88 This bond Is one of a series of bonds of like date, tenor and amount, except as to the date of maturity and numbered consecutively from ono(l) to thirty-two (28), bot h inclusive, amounting in the aggregate to SIXTEEN THOUSAND ($10,000.09). DOLLARS and Issued pursuant to t bo Actor the General Assembly, approved April20tb, 1874, entitled. "An Act to regulate t he manner of Increasing the in-debtedness of municipalities, to provide for the redemption of the same, and to Impose penalties for the Illegal increase thereof.” and Its supplements and amendments. IN WITNESS \VHEREOF. The Borough of Mount Pleasant has caused this bond to be signed by the Chief Burgess and by the Pres-ident of Council, attested by the Secret ary of Council and the corporate seal of said Bor-ough affixed, and the coupons tone signed by its Treasurer as of the day of A. D. 1903. Attest: W. M. OVERHOLT. B. B. BELT/, Chief Burgess. Secretary of Council. F. L. MARSH. President of Council. on J uly 1st. 1915. on July 1st, 1916. on July 1st, 1917. on July 1st. 1918. on J uly 1st. 1919. on July 1st, 1920. on July 1st, 1921. on July 1st. 1083. on July 1st. 1923. Out With Them! We are compelled to close out our Granite and Tinware Lines as vve must have the room lor our Clothing, Dry Goods and Shoe Departments,which we are going to enlarge. We do not have the room this week to quote prices, but it will pay you to to call and sec for yourself. SHOES. Our shoe department has many attractions row. Here are two them: ladies’ Fine Vici Kid Lace Shoes. We have this shoe made from genuine vici kid, witn patent tip[ and dull top, the sole is light and flexible with Cuban heel; has all the style of higher grade shoes, We have left the question of profit entirely out, so as to give yon a snappy shoe for a small price ) SizeR 3 to 7. Extra spe-cial for • $1,491 Men s Fine Velour Calf Lace Shoes Made of the finest Velour Calf, one of the best pieces of leather ever put on ft man’s foot, with good, solid oak bottoms and smooth sole leather inner soles; one of the best values ever of-fered and not to be duplicated in the regular shoe store for less than $2.50. Cl 10 Onr special price Ladies’ Tailor-made Skirts. Our reputation for having the very best selection of ladies’ skirts has been fully proven. Many of onr town ladies can vouch for the accuracy of our statement. Sale of Dress Skirts at $4.89. Made of broadcloths, cheviots, etainlnes and mistrals, with bands of st itched tall’eta. Some styles have drop skirt, of Hue quality percallne; others tiiillned. Actual $7 and (I Q ft $8 values. Special sale price V*r>0%J Etamlne Dress Skirts, made with panel front, full hare and sweep, hip trimmed with folds and taffeta hands, ^0 gg elther black or blue f,0 value on sale at. See how our Straws Blow. Men’s tine Straw Hats, unlimited choice of the best. Every hat from 75c to $1.48, choice at 50c. Men’s or hoys’ dress straw hats worth up to 50c at 24c. 20 per cent, off on ail Clothing from now until July 4th. r MAIN 5T. MT. PLEASANT- 9B 99 Local Baseball Field. The Southwest boys made a good re-cord here the past week. They lost on laet Thursday to Scottdale in a ten-inning game 8 to 7, but defeated the victors here neatly on Wednesday 0 to 4. At Pitcairn on the Fonrth they quit even. The Stars took a fall out of the South-west Juniors Saturday morning 11 to 7. The Standards took both of St. Jo-seph's prize games on the Fourth from Bridgeport, winning $10 in the double trick. The victors also defeated the Sterlings at Frick Park Wednesday evening 18 to 15. Much Wasted Wind. Counellsvllle Republican. We have yet to hear on any arrest within the state or out of it for a viola-tion of the Salus-Grady libel hill. If the law is a dead letter, there was con-siderable valuable time wasted at Har-risburg during the last session of the legislature. The petitions sent to the Governor asking him not to approve of the measure went for naught as did his 3,500 words of approval. Trouble for Fat Cops. Pittsburg Times. St. Louis is after the policemen who manage to contract the aldermanic stomach habit. With the people of the world coming to the town next year to lood at the marvels in the exposition and to wonder down the kike, it shows that St. Louis nas some sense of pride left, after theboodling, when she asserts that her guardians of the peace must be trim looking fellows. FORM OF COUPON. $11.25, The Borough of Mount Pleasant. Westmore-land County. Pennsylvania, promises to pay to the bearer on the day of A. I). 190 at the office of the Treasurer of the Borough of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, in lawful money of the United States of America. Eleven and 25-100 Dollars belli ir six months interest on bond No. . for Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, series of 1903. Treasurer. Section 2. That said bonds shall be signed by the Chief Burgess and by the President or Council, with the corporate seal of the Borough affixed to each bond, and tlie cou-pons shall be signed by the Treasurer of said Borough, except that in lieu of the signature of the Treasurer to t he coupons annexed to the bond, bis signature may be lithographed thereon. Section 3. That an annual tax. the collec tlon whereof shall commence A. I). 1903. of the sum of $1,192.27 be. and the same Is hereby lovied and assessed upon all property. real and personal, in said Borough, subject to tax-ation for borough purposes, and a like sum for each and every year thereafter until and including the year 1923, and appropriated to provide for the Interest aforesaid, and for the redemption of said bonds as hereinafter pro vided, and the Treasurer of said Borough Is authorized and required to apply the moneys arising from said annual tax to the payment of the interest of said bonds as It becomes due, and for the accumulation of a sinking fund for the liquidation of the principal of said bonds, and shall be applied to no other purpose whatsover until the principal and Interest of said bonds have been fully paid and discharged. Section 4. That before selling any of the said bonds the Treasurer shall give bond in the sum of Twenty Thousand [$20,000.00] Dol-lars. with two or more sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful application of the proceeds of the said bonds, and the per-formance of his duties under this ordinance Section 5. The Chief Burgess, President of Council and the Secretary of Council shall prepare and file In the office of the Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmore-land County. Pa., all statements required by law to validate and carry into effect this ordlna nee* Ordained and enacted Into an Ordinance this 23rd day of June, A. D 1903. Attest: F. L. MARSH, B. B. BELT/., Pres, or Council. Secretary of Council. Approved this 24th day of June. A. I). 1903. Attest: W. M. OVERliOLT, B. B. BELT/, Chief Burgess. Secretary of Council. Is tlie Now and Bettor Broakfast Food, so different from all others that it pleases everybody. Got a package to-day at your grocers. THE GENESEE' PUKE FOOD CO., LE ROT, N. V. The Peterson .Business College.... Scottdale. Pa. A school of actual business. Book-keeping, Shorthand, Touch Typewriting, and attendant branches. Cata-logue mailed to you Free. Ad-dress. PERCY O. PETERSON, Pres. NOTICE is hereby given that the llrm of W. C. Bakhaus & Co. is hereby dissolved, the said business having been sold to J. D. Renick who will continue tho business at the old stand. No. 212 East Main street, in the Kuhn block. Thanking our former trade for their favors we bespeak a continuance of the same for our successor. Mount Pleasant. Pa. W. C. Bakhaus. 0 26 3t June 19, 1803. J. L. Robinson. Doesn’t Pay to Blow. Believing this to be true, we have always been careful in making any statement in regard to our business. Keeping strictly within this line, we can and do say. how-ever, that our stock of Shoes and Boots cannot be excelled in town. Another most im-portant point to the pur-chaser of footwear is prices and right here, quality considered, we guarantee the reader satisfaction. All we ask is the chance to prove our claims. Call and be convinced. A. T. PETERSON, Main st,, Mount Pleasant. Don’t Miss Attending Our Closing Out Sale I Such Astonishing Values were never offered anywhere. $2.00 for $1.00 is mostly the prevailing price on all our • w m i / i Actual Cost for all Shoes. Did you ever hear anything like it before?—GUESS NOT, and you wouldn’t now, either, if twasn’t that we are compelled to close out owing to the extensive alterations that are to be made in our store room. Large as Our Stock Is the selection will soon be gone, at the rate the crowds are coming since we started this sale we will be closed out sooner than we looked for, so better come without delay. H.GOLDSTONE Cor. Main and Church sts., Mount Pleasant, Pa. M ountPleasant's Largest Men's Outfitting Store. Money refunded if purchase is not satisfactory. 9 THT5 MOUNT PT/EA8A.NT .TOURN ATJ. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1903, HAPPENINGS AT HOI For the Past Week Briefly Men-tioned. LITTLE TALK OF THE TOWN THAT WILL BOTH INTEREST AND ENTERTAIN. A Department in Which the Local Editor Holds Hlffh Carnival and Works off his Surplus Energy In Condensations That Deal Solely with Matters Relating to Mount Pleasant A sturdy son was born Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stoner, of Eagle street, Friday night last. Major Jeffries’s report of the spring inspections places Company E second iu the Tenth regiment. Postmaster Zuck has been laid tip the better part of the past week with rheu-matism effecting his back. Albert Rowan, of Connellsyille, and Miss Fay Bench, of this place, were married last Thursday at Cumberland. The Re-Union Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid Society cleared some $75 with its nicely arranged lawn fete Friday and Saturday evenings. Before Justice McWilliams the past week,on charges of illegal liquor selling, “Alcohol Ike” was sent to jail and Albert Domagola held in $500 bail. THE JOURNAL owes Carl Graul an apology for failing to mention the fine organ recital he gave in connection with the United Brethren centennial services. Mrs. Laura Zundell, of East Walnut street, was given a most enjoyable sur-prise party last Wednesday evening by some forty lady friends, the occasion being her birthday. Jake Thompson, a foreigner, who keeps a boarding house at Morewood, has been held for court under $500 bail by Justice Rhoades on a charge of illegal liquor selling. Roseby Hann and James Smith, neither of whom has drawn a sober breath for many moons, were sent to jail at Greensburg Monday for thirty days by Mayor Overholt. Thieves who have a weakness for good grub broke into John T. Tarr's South Church street home Tuesday night and cleaned out the family larder after ran-sacking the entire first floor. Some thirty gay masquerading friends gave Miss Carrie Huffman, of Sbupe street, and her visiting friend, Miss Mattie Mathers, of Morgantown, W. Va., the jolliest kind of a surprise party last night. L. S. Rhoades, secretary of the local branch of the National Protective Legion, has just given Mrs. D. H. Stoner a check for $00 for four weeks’ sick benefits. The membership here is over eighty. The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be administered in the Re-Union Presbyterian church next Sunday morn-ing with preparatory services this even-ing at 7:45 and Saturday afternoon at 2:00, at which time Rev. Kilgoro, of Rehoboth church, will preach. Four Assyrians, with Mayor Over- | holt’s help, paid $50 into the borough treasury Wednesday afternoon for dis-orderly conduct and interfering with | Policeman Nugent at Frick Park during a ball game. Several of the defendants were taken only after liyely chases. Treasurer George W. Stoner, of the Jacob Justice Free Dispensary, on Fri-day last received from the Philadelphia executors of the late founder’s estate four checks amounting to $70,580.49, that being the sum total realized for that purpose in the settlement of the | estate. James Brothers, manager of the Union Supply Company store at Mu-tual, who drove in here with his wife and family to spend Sunday with rela-tives, thought some one had stolen his horse until he found that the animal had gotten out of the stable and gone | back home. The Mount Pleasant Board of Educa- J tion held its regular monthly meeting I Tuesday evening. After granting I orders covering June bills, Simon 1 Affolter wus re-elected attendance offl- I cer and George Hitchman given the I contract to paint the Church street | building, inside and out. Elmer Whetzeh an employe at the I East End brewery, is quarantined at his I Shupe street home with a bad case of I smallpox. Confined with him are his I wife and four small children. Poor Di- I rector Thompson is looking after their I wants, while the patient is in charge I of Dr. J. B. Wakefield, of Grapeville. Meeting of Council. Council held its regular monthly I meeting Monday evening. Orders were (granted covering June bills and Com- (missioner Malaney was instructed in | regard to work on certain streets and (alleys that will be done at once. It | was decided to get after the street rail-way people for tearing up the West Main street pavement without the (necessary permit. Mayor Overholt's (report showed that his receipts from (fines and licenses for the quarter end-ling June 30 were $298. DEATHS Of THE WEEK. The Grim Reaper's Work in This Place and Vicinltv. Mrs. Sarah Jeffries, known all over Fayette county as ''Aunt Sallie,” died last Thursday at her home, near New Salem, aged 97. She was born within a mile of where she died, and lived in the house 78 years before her death. She was the mother of 17 children, of whom 12 are still living. Jacob Mathias died at his Manor home last Thursday, aged 84 years. Mrs. Nettie Stultzman-Gilbert, wife of Harry Gilbert, died Monday evening at her Vine street home, aged 81 years. She suffered from an abscess for some ten weeks. An operation was perform-ed a month ago in the hope of at least affording relief, but it was all in vain and only death brought freedom from the terrible pain. She was conscious to the last and calmly made every arrange-ment for her funeral even to the trim-ming for her dress. The tody was taken Tuesday to the Somerset home of the sorely afflicted husband s father, from which the interment took place Wednesday. Mrs. Gilbert was a con-sistent member of the Lutheran church and a loving wife. Herman Kreinbrook, a respected resi-dent of the Ridge southeast of Laurel-ville, died Wednesday, aged 74 years. Mrs. Eicher, widow of the late Daniel Eicher, of Bridgeport, died at the Le-mont home of her son William Tuesday night. The body was brought here yesterday for interment. Msr. John Brown died at her Stauffer home Wednesday of peurperal fever, | aged about 40 years. | Affidavits Furnished. When coming up Fligor's hill, just this side of Donegal, Tuesday morning, i “Jim” Logan, the hack driver, killed a biacksnake that measured 5 feet and 5 inches. On the return trip and at the same place three fair passengers from j here, Misses Viola Stevenson, Anna and Blanche Galley, who are now Donegal visitors, spied another reptile and didn't do a thing but hop out of the hack and kill it. This snake measured 5 feet and 9 inches. Thoughtful James had the other seven passengers make affidavit to the fact on reaching Donegal. AND ABOUT, But Principally Within the Bounds of This County. A FULL COLUMN OF GOOD NEWS SECURED FROM THE PAGES OF RE-LIABLE EXCHANGES. EXCURSIONS TO ATLANTIC CITY And Other Atlantic Coast Resorts via Pennsylvania Railroad. July 111 and 30, August 13 and 27, and September 10 are the dates of the Penn-sylvania Railroad annual low rate ex-cursions for 1903 to Atlantic City, Cape May, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Avalon, Anglesea, Wildwood, Holly Beach, N. J., Rehoboth, Del., or Ocean City, Md. Tickets, good to return within sixteen days, including date of excursion, will be sold from Mount Pleasant for $10, excursionists from here taking the reg-ular 7:10 a. m. train. A special train of Pullman parlor cars and day coaches will leave Pitts-burg on above mentioned dates at 8:55 a. m., arriving at Altoona 12:15 p. m., where stop for dinner will be made, reaching Philadelphia 6:25 p. m., in time for supper, and arriving Atlantic City, via the Delaware River Bridge Route, the only all rail line, at 8 35 p. m. Passengers may also spend the night in Philadelphia and proceed to the shore by any regular train from Market Street Wharf or Broad Street Station on the following day. Passengers for points other than Atlantic City will spend the night in Philadelphia, and use regular trains the next day from Market Street Wharf. A stop oyer of within limit will be allowed at Philadelphia on returning, if passengers will deposit their tickets with the ticket agent at Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, immediately on arrival. Tickets must be deposited with agent on arrival at seashore des-tination and properly validated for re-turn trip. Tickets will also be good for regular trains leaving Pittsburg at 4:50 and 9:00 p. m. from ail stations at which these trains stop, and from stations from which regular connection with them is made. Pullman sleeping cars through to Philadelphia on the 4:50 and 9:00 p. m. trains. Returning coupons will be accepted on any regular train except the Penn-sylvania Limited and the Chicago Lim-ited and the St. Louis Limited. For detailed information in regard to rates and time of trains apply to ticket agents or Mr. Thomas E. Watt, District Passenger Agent, 860 Fifth avenue Pittsburg. ♦ ♦ ♦ Fine Barber Shop. Proprietor Charles Shields has every reason to take pride in his Braddock block basement barber shop as it is, without question, the best equipped es-tablishment outside of the large cities. In addition to three new hydraulic chairs with complete furnishingB he has just put in an automatic air compressor that beats towels all hollow when it comes to drying the customer's face. The contrivance is especially handy following the shampooing of ladies' hair. July Clearance Sale of all summer goods began July 1st. Money saving opportunity for economical buyers. STRICICLER’S STORE. How these Articles Appear After They Have been Boiled Down Into Short Paragraphs That Speak to the Point But Briefly of Interesting Events Transpiring in the Old Star of the West Greensburg plumbers came out on a strike last week for a uniform rate of wages of $3.50 per day. A. J. Case wounded one of the robbers who visited his Jeannette home last Wednesday night, but the rascal got away. Harry Barnhart has bought eight acres of the Joseph Shuster farm, near Greensburg, for $8,000, and will use the land as a truck garden. Michael Carcello, a Jeannette fruit dealer, is in jail at Greensburg for hav-ing seriously stabbed a fellow Italian, George Ledardi, Friday. The Federal Telephone Company, which covers some 71 towns in this end of the state, has leased the local com-pany’s Greensburg plant. The Pennsylvania railroad will, it is said, extend its local train service from Pitcairn to Greensburg as soon as the fourth track system is completed. At last week's meeting of the Penn sylvania Bar Association at Cambridge Springs ex-Judge Nathaniel Ewing, of Uniontown, was elected president. In the contest for queen of the big labor carnival at Uniontown Miss Mar gery West, the candidate of the local bar tenders and brewers, won easily. The Pittsburg, McKeesport & Con-nellsville and the Pittsburg Railways companies have exchanged valuable franchises at McKeesport and Wilmer - ding. At last Thursday’s joint committee meeting in Pittsburg an agreement was effected looking to the union of the Congregational, Methodist Protestant and United Brethren churches. W. S. Hough, of Pittsburg, who re-cently purchased the McCoy farm, near New Stanton, for $15,000, has sold a por-tion of the tract to a Philadelphia man-ufacturing firm who will use it as a site for an iron bedstead factory. The morning express west on the B. & O. road sidewiped a freight train near Connellsville Friday morning last. En-gineer Frank Hughes and Fireman Ar-nold, both of Glen wood, were hurt and several passengers considerably bruised. Byers-Byers Case Decision. Judge Elliott Rodgers, of Pittsburg, on Wednesday handed down an opinion in the equity suit of Jacob Byers, the aged resident of near Tarr, against his nephew, Attorney William S. Byers, of Greensburg, to recover $175,000 worth of Mount Pleasant Coke Company bonds, said to be in a Pittsburg safe deposit vault, $40,000 caBb and the interest on the bonds. Judge Rodgers decides that the old man has proved his title to the property and that it must be surrendered to him. To MY MANY FRIENDS AND PA-TRONS:— The trouble that some un-scrupulous persons took to tell you that I am quitting the business and am go-ing to leave town is only done for a pur-pose; there is no truth in it. The only motive for my closing out my entire stock regardless of cost is to make badly needed alterations in our store room, to make more room for our large and in-creasing business. With better facili-ties and more energy, I hope to faith-fully and honestly serve you for many years to come. H. GOLDSTONE. 7 3 tf NOTICE:—The Mount Pleasant Board of Education will receive bids for fur-nishing about 5,000 bushels of coal until Saturday, August 1, at 8 p. m. All bids must be sent to F. E. Painter, sec-retary, on or before that date. 10 3 FOR SALE—Fine double lot on Vine street, 80 by 120 feet. Will be sold as a whole or divided in two to suit pur-chasers. Call at No. 220 Standard or address P. O. Box No. 341, Mount Pleasant. 7 3 1m Strickler’s store offers special induce-ments to thrifty housekeepers. REWARD—M. S. Brinker will pay a liberal reward for the return of his fox terrier which has either strayed away or was stolen. The animal is white with black spots over kindeys and at root of tail. 7 3 2 Matching coffees is one of our ways of winning trade. Match our Murry Hill Java with the coffee you are now using. 70c for 2-pound can. STRICKLER’S STORE, Grocery Department. You can get queensware and wall paper at the Benford store almost at your own price. J. B. Coldsmith, the new proprietor, is closing the stock out. 4 24 tf m' 't\ '0 m m (?) m mw y mw (t> mm wm m* m '*> vsm'♦> vs STRICKLER’S STORE. Established 135-4. Store* closes at 8i30 p. in, July 3. 1903, July Clearance Sale of All Summer Goods. A merchandise movement that will do what we want and what we’ve determined shall be done—sell down to where we want it the largest stock of summer goods the store ever owned. There is one to do it with—prices. It doesn’t take long to spend a lot of money for printers’ ink—good a thing as it is. We think it better to spend half the amount for printers’ ink and take dollars off the prices. Not only do we think this but we practice what we preach. Goods that will pay to get here for. Prices to make it interesting. All goods this season’s purchase. $1.00 white waistings reduced to 50c. 65c and 75 white waistings reduced to 40c. 45c and 50c “ “ “ “ 25c. Lawns and Dimities at prices that will interest you. 15c and 12 l-2c for 9^ 20c - - •“ 124c 25c and 35c “ 18c 50c and 65c Anderson’s Novelty Ginghams reduced to 25c. I) ress Goods This season’s novelties. $1.25 and $1.35 Flecked Knickerbockers reduced to 98c $t.oo “ “ “ “ 7§c 65c “ “ “ “ 48c Long Cloth Nice goods and suitable for many purposes—put up in 10 and 12 yd pieces—sold by the piece. 15c reduced to ||c. 18c “ “ 12k. 20c “ “ |5c. Black Silks Good, dependable, serviceable kinds that every woman.wants. $1.00 Peau de Soie reduced to (7 5c yd 51.35 “ “ “ “ D " $|,00 yd. Yard wide Taffeta “ “ $1.00 “ Domestics 5,000 yds best Calicoes made at 5c per yard. 13 yds Hill Bleached|Muslin for $1.00. 20 yds 7c Unbleached Muslinjfor $1.00. Sheets, PillowCases,Bolsters for less money than the muslin costs. 81x90 Sheets 50c. 42x36 Pillow Cases ||c. 42x72 Bolsters 28c. fjfK BED SPREADS hemmed ready for use at less prices—75c, 90c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $2. VS VS LACE CURTAINS, -heavy selling has left us with lots of one and two pairs each. $1.50 curtains $1.00; $2.50 curtains $1,50. Shoe Department contributes to make this Julylsale the greatestjn'the store’s history. ip Main street and Diamond Square, - Mount Pleasant, Pa. $ J.W. Swartz Dealer in Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, Window Shades, Oil Cloths, Roofing, Carpet & Building Paper, Picture & Window Glass, and heavy Plate Glass for store fronts. Paper Hanging and Sign Painting a Specialty. Main street, Mount Pleasant. Go TO HARY SWARTZ for Millinery. For the 20th Century buy the new 11 Ball Bearing Home Sewing Machine and the Sterling PIANOS and ORGANS. ^ J. L. ARMBRUST, of Armbrust, Pa. SEND FOR PRICE LISTS. Rcpdiriny ?fB?a<^ne8.a.ndorffans at- tended to with promptness. Application for Charter. Notice is hereby given that tin application will he truffle to the Governor of the Common-wealth of Pennsyl vania, on the twenty-second day of July, A. L)., 1903, at 10 o’clock, a. m., by Edward G. Benford. Harry U. Benford and A. E. Benford. uuder the provisions of sin Act of Assembly entitled "An Act to provide for the Incorporation and reg-ulation of certain corporations.” approved April 29th, 1H74. and -the supplements and amendments thereto, for a charter for an In-tended corporation to be called ’‘Mount Pleasant Distilling Company.” the character and object of which is the distilling and man-ufacture of vinous and splritous liquors und the sale of the same, and for these purposes to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges by said Act of As-sembly and tne supplements and amend-ments thereto, conferred. »5 20 4t McCurdy & Cunningham, Solicitors HOW TO SAVE ONE DOLLAR. If we have your size left come at once and let us save you one dollar on a good Shoe or Oxford. Men’s Shoes or Oxfords, $5 and $6, reduced to $3.50 and $4.00. Men’s Shoes, $3.50 W. L. Douglas, reduced to $2.50. Ladies’ Shoes or Oxfords, $3.50 and $4.00, reduced to $2.50. Ladies’ Queen Quality Shoes and Oxfords reduced to $2.25. We are getting pretty well broken up on sizes, as there have been so many of our economical shoppers who have taken advantage of these GREAT : SACRIFICING : PRICES. JIIST ARRIVED:—LotMeno:fo p r 0 ds at0'Toe Remember the entire stock is new and up-to-date. Goods will he cheerfully exchanged or money refunded. H SELIGMAN, (Successor to J. W. Faust.) Up-to-Date One Price Shoe House, 654 Main st., - Mount Pleasant, Pa. THE MOUNT PLKAHANT JOURNAL,, FRIDA?, JULY 10, 1903. Bowser Sticks To It He Insists “Regime” Is Nat Pronounced "Razheem" T'Copyright, 1903. by C. B. Lewis.) H13 Dowsers luitl dined well nnd spent n pleasant hour after-wnrdv and Mr. Dowser had alioilt finished ills cigar and his newspaper when lie looked up nnd said: “Under the regime of forty years ago those men who are squeezing the pub-lic with high pri'cs for everything would be hauled up pretty smartly.” He pronounced Die word ns if spelled “reg-l-tnee,” and, without thinking wlmt It might lead to, Mrs. Bowser In-tiHired: “Under the what, did you say?” “Under tin1 regime. Wasn’t my pro-nunciation clear?” “You don’t get the word exactly right. It is pronounced ‘razheetn.’” “What! Why, woman, you are way off! I have been familiar with the word for thirty years, and I think I know how it should be pronounced. It FINAM11AL STATKMENT Of the Borough of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, for the year ending March 2nd, 1903. H. C. MORRISON, COLLECTOR, 1896/ To balance clue oft 30 Rv balance clue 501 3ii ‘ W. M. OVERHOLT, COLLECTOR. To bnlance due, ’97, ’9s and ’99 IK.’ 03 1 By Amount paid Treasurer f | " By Commission, 5 per cent. ! i “ Balance line §8$ I;:I | 1$ M 311 Sol :m a«r so 20 to j>74 lit '.>>21 (13 A TItAMP STOOD TIIF.BE AND HUMBLY ASKED FOB A DIME. is reg-i-mee, of course. You have got it mixed up witli some of those French words you come across in novels.” “But I haven’t, my dear. It is ‘ra-zheem,’ and every well learned person will say so. I haven’t read a novel in a year, and I don’t pretend to under-stand French or try to get off any French words.” “And do you mean to tell me to my face that I am a numskull and an ass?” exclaimed Mr. Bowser as lie set his jaw and grew red as tire. “No, dear; I simply say that you don’t give 1110 word the right pronun-ciation. It Is nothing to dispute over, however, and we will drop It. I>o you think it will he colder tomorrow?” “Colder or hotter lie hanged! You have the same as called me a fool, and I propose to have the matter settled. If it lias come to the point where u husband must go to school to his wife, » —-.* u»niy it. You have said +>•»+ haven’t I got just as good a right to my way as tills infernal old inosshaek nf a Webster has to his? I’ll bet dol-lars to cents that even the tramps on the streets call it reg-i-mee. I’ve a good mind to go out and"— lint he didn’t have to. The hell rang, mid as he passed down the hall and opened Die door a tramp stood there and humbly asked for a dime to pay for lodgings. “Come right in here," replied Mr. Bowser as lie seized him by the arm. “Now, then, do you know beans from pumpkins?” “1 think I do,” was the reply. “Then tell me how you pronounce the word r-e-g-i-m-e.” “I—I don’t think I’d call it ‘bee,’” re-plied the man after some thought. “Of course not.” "And it can’t be buttermilk.” “Have you got sawdust in your bead?” “I wouldn’t say it was cold chicken or mince pie, but it may lie”— “May he what?” asked Mr. Bowser as the other hesitated. “Durned if I don’t believe it’s n high-ball, and I want to thunk you for it In advance. If all men were us generous as you are, us fellers”— lie got no further—that is, he got a good deal further. He got outdoors, and the door struck his heels as he went. Mrs. Bowser was trying hard to keep a placid face as Mr. Bowser returned to the sitting room, nnd not-ing the fact lie pointed a finger at her and sternly said: “This performance is not half over with yet. I will not sleep until I have proved my case.” “I am willing to let it go as you say,” she replied. “What do we care wheth-er it is reg-i-mee or ra-z.heem?” “I care because I have been called an ass and an idiot, and I don’t propose to stand it. I will go out on the street nnd put the ease to the public. You needn’t protest, for it will do no good.” lie went. Ills experience with the tramp warned him against that class, but meeting an intelligent looking man with a bundle under his arm lie stop-ped liini and said: “A word with you, if you please.” “Same old story, I suppose,” sneered tlie man In reply, “nnd I haven’t time to listen to it.” “Sir, I am no tramp!” said Mr. Bow-ser with great dignity. “No? Then what is it?” “How do you pronounce the word spelled r-e-g-i-m-e?” “Hump! Don’t you monkey with me, old man! I wasn’t born yesterday.” The mail passed on, and it took Mr. Bowser ten minutes to get over his an gcr and accost a second pedestrian lie was told to forget it. The third asked him when he got out of the lu-natic asylum, and the fourth [licked up a club from the street nnd whistled for the police. Mrs. Bowser nnd the cat >.~A pepi, looking out of the front win J. JV1. YOTHERS, COLLECTOR, 1900. To Balance Due •* Penalty 1 225; 70 j By Amount paid Treasurer $ 500: 00 28: 07 : ” Commission 20; 1* “ Balance Due ; 604- 20 1 259 so ! :f T253; "gfl r! IT WILL PAY YOU tt To give us a call. J. M. YOTHERS. COLLECTOR, 1901. To Balance Due •• Penalty 07:! 42! By Amount Paid Treasurer •• Commission “ Balance Due $ 1 404: 80 77: 00 1 355; 00 If 2 707: 40 > Everything in our store is re- # duced from 20 to 40 per cent. Y /Always as Advertised. J. M. YOTHERS. COLLECTOR, 1902. To Face of Duplicate To Face at 6 months To Face after 6 months Penalty 12 037 By Amount paid Treas. 6o days $ ** Discount, 5 per cent. " Commission ’* Balance Due 5 4 284 87 2 7721 88! j By Amount paid Treasurer “ Commission “ Balance Due By Amount Paid Treasurer •* Commission '* Balance Due $ 1 444 70 03 2 704 20 $ 4 284 87 j 603 Main Street, Muliin Block. Chas. Pross, Men’s and Boys’ Outfitter, Mount Pleasant, Pa. TAXES OUTSTANDING. To H. C. Morrison, 1996 •• W. M Overholt,’97.’98.’99 “ J. M. Yothers, 1900 •* 1901 *• 1902 By Amount due Borough 574 07 0041 29 1 2551 liO 2 502 57 is . 5 ml 49 SEWER LIENS OP 1895. To J. H. Boltz, “Heirs” ? ’* W. M. Jordan “ Mrs. G. W. Boyd “ penalty and int. 104 20 By Mrs. G. W. Boyd By balance unpaid To Geo. Cooper Abram Ruff F. L. Marsh To Fines licenses i’ermits SUBSCRIPTION TO COOPER ALLEY. 10: 00 By A. Ruff, cash 20; OOi “ F. L. Marsh, cash 10: 00: *• Balance unpaid 40 0011 BURGESS M. S. KUHN. 30 Oft JO 00 10 00 4ftl 00 To Burgess M. S. Kuhn Pole Tax Board of Health •Walnut Street Sewer A. Ruff, subscription I. J. McWilliams $ 205; 00 | By Amount Paid Secretary 214 50 32 75 ; $ 5121 25! 1 SECBETARY W. W. CAMPBELL. nr Mlil Si 233 By Amount Paid Treasurer SOLICITOR RALPH D. HURST. To Mrs. Kmma Shaw “ G. W. Boyd U. B. Parsonage Matthew Shields Mt. P. Klee. Light Co. By Amount Paid Treasurer 1 210, 04 12101 64 948 94 948 94 To Amount Outstanding FIVE PER CENT. BONDS OF 1896. $ 22 5001 Oftli 2 22~ii0i)l 00 | By Redemption By Balance Outstanding 3 2 000 20 500 3 22 500 FIVE PER CENT. BONDS OP 1897. To Amount Outstanding I? 24 000 2-4 000 00 By Redemption By Balance Outstanding 3 COO 00 21 000 00 To Amount Outstanding To 5 per cent. Bonds of 1896 1897 .. 4 •• •• “ “ 1899 POUR PER CPNT. BONDS OP 1*99. * 7 J400; 00 By Balance Outstanding 7 900: 001 24 000! 00 • 90»; 00 ’900: 00 BONDS OUTSTANDING. 13 20 500 00 21 000 00 7 900 00 3 49 400 00 By Balance Outstanding SINKING FUND. I To Amount on hand Amount Paid Treasurer 4 4211 4 704, 9 1851’ By Orders Issued “ balance on hand 7 433 40 1 751 98 9 185:" 33 STREET IMPROVEMENT FUND. To balance on hand 2 203: 2 2031" By Balance on hand NEW SEWER FUND. “DON’T YOU MONKEY WITH ME, OLD MAN!” To balnnee on hand Penalty and Interest Lien No. 3134, paid To Amount on hand Liens unpaid Penalty and Interest To balance on hand Amount from State To Sinking Fund Street Improvement Fund New Sewer Fund Sewer of 1895 Fire Fund By redempt’n Sewer Cert. No. i 3 ** Interest on same. 1 year “ Balance on hand 500 00 25 00 201 40 5451 40 SEWER OP 1895. By amount on hand “ balance unpaid 238: 57 107j 00 845? 57 FIRE FUND. [ By balance on hand B_18 1 CASH. tho word was not pronounced reg-1- mee. Now prove it.” "Won’t you let it go, dear?” she pleaded, now realizing that alio had been anything but diplomatic. “Never—never in this world. If I am an idiot, I want to know it right here and now. Produce your authority or admit tlint it was simply a specimen of your audacious cheek.” Mrs. Dowser waited a minute nnd then took a dictionary from the re-volving bookcase and limited out tho word and laid the book before him. Under the caption of “Re” ho read: “Regime (ra-zheem, n. Fr. regime, Pr. regisme, regesme, regeme, Sp. regi-men. See infra). Mode or style of rule or management; character of gov-ernment; administration.” “Well?” she asked as lie looked up. “Well, wlmt does tills prove?” lie de-manded ns he heaved the book upon Hie lounge nnd gave tlie cat a great scare. “Haven’t I told you a hundred times over that 1 was) not to be hound down by a dictionary? Would I spell frog with two g’s because some idiot of a man put It so in a dictionary?” “Then how can wo settle it?” "By what the public says. I can bring a thousand people here to say that the word is pronounced reg-i-mee. Is one mnu to be set up against a thou-sand? To come right down to It, dow for a quarter of an hour when a boy appeared with a note for her. It was from Mr. Bowser. It read: “I say it’s reg-i-mee, and I’ll be hanged if I don’t prove it or die in tlie attempt. You can go to bed or sit up or hang yourself.” Ten o’clock came, 11, 12, 1. Then the cat fell asleep, and Mrs. Bowser heaved a sigli and gave it up and went to bed. She knew Mr. Bowser. She knew he Would find that reg-i-mee or break both his logs and lose the rest of his hair trying. M. QUAD. By General Fund 1 Balance on hand 174 HO 4 009: APPROPRIATIONS REQUIRED. To Ain’t due Sinking Fund “ *• required as per Ord. 829 1 MOO 2 200 020 5 449 40 To Am’t Paid Sinking Fund 3 4 704 OOi 00 00|| *’ Balance due Sinking Fund 085 40 02 GENERAL FUND. Killing Two IHrdn. Citiman—I heilr that friend of yonrs from Brooklyn has moved out to your town. Subbubs—Yes, and lie’s a genius. He wasn’t with us a week before be bad invented a combination carriage and lawn mower.—Philadelphia Press. To Amount on hand *• from Burgess Walnut St. Sewer Pole Tax Electric Light Co. Penalty Pole Tax Frick Coke Co. “ I*., McK. & C. Ry Co. C. D. & P. Tel. Co. Liquor License Co. Treas. Board of Health Subscription Cooper Alley I. J. McWilliams j. M. Yothers, Collector County Treas. Ret#Tax Orders Outstanding .in By orders outstanding 1901 ” Brick “ Light *• Lumber *• Miscellaneous ” Police “ Rents *• Board of Health “ Salaries " Auditors Engineers " Street Repairs ” Water " Street Commissioner Sidewalks ” Hauling and Carting “ Bond Issue Priutiug and Advertising *• Quarantine Small Pox “ Hardware and Sewer Pipe “ Fire Alarm and Apparatus 10 178 35 1 LNDE15TEDNESS. The Nitflit Hute. Chemist—Are you interested in the | 1 use of nitrates? Customer—I should say yes. I never wire a line to anybody till after G p. m. ►-Baltimore American. lit* Word Good Knougli. “My word is as good ns my bond.” “I hope it is better. 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[,V,V(V.V.V.,iV.V.Vi%VA,iV.V,V.Vi,iV«V.V.Vi,.%Vii MASTER and | ; c] Ayr *y— ?! ; uL/ilf EL/ T. H. THORPE X* ' vi ; v! ' Copyright, 1901, by T. H. Thorpe. Vi tCOSTIirtTED.) CHAPTER XV. THE OLOGRAPHIC TESTAMENT. ■ EVER had Evariste breathed so deeply and freely, never liad his pulse beat so strong-ly, ns after hearing Valsin, an eyewitness; rehearse the roic fall of his brother. His spirit |ounded; he felt Ids powers expand; saw tlie pntli to the goal cleared. It l as nn effort to feign grief in tlie rep-etition of the story to tearful Mrs. Wy-jy, but ids acting was superb, and it lifliced to excuse hasty retirement to lie privacy of his room and the re- |uest that no one should lie permitted disturb him. Tiptoeing steps past |ie locked door and underneath the attained windows testified the respect the household for ids sorrow. | With hands unsteadied by tlie ex-eme of exultation lie opened the small Irass ribbed box of ebony in which the paled envelope had lain since the day bail received it from Horace and fconiised to defend Estelle from harm, ^rawing his chair into the subdued ght which filtered through the win-low curtain, he broke the seal, took at tlie one sheet of paper and, unfold-hg It, read: ■ PARISH OF AVOYELLES, LOUISIANA, M:iy l-n. ■I, Horace Oakfell, of “L’Esperance” plantation, j the parish and state above written, of lawful age nd without forced heirs, being of sound health pth in mind and body, but knowing the cet* linty of death and the uncertainty of the time lereof and especially having in view the perils of , into which I am about to enter, do make this ■y last will and testament in the olographic lrm. ■I give and bequeath unto my brother, Evariste Jkfell, one-half of all my estate of whatsoever Ind and wheresoever situated which I may pos- ■89 at the moment of my death. ■I give and bequeath unto Estelle Latiolais. landdaughter of Leonidas Latiolais of the parish Id state above written, the remainder of my es- Ite of whatsoever kind and wheresoever situated Jiich I may possess at the moment of my death. |l appoint my said brother, Evariste Oakfell, sole ■ecutor of this testament and dispense him from |ving bond, and 1 direct him to make partition my estate by Imitation within one year after lobate and deliver to said Estelle Latiolais her Bare in gold money or its equivalent in interest faring securities to be approved by the parish |dge. This testament has been dated, written and ^ned by me on one sheet of paper at one writ- HORACE OAKFELL. |So Intense was the shock lie experi-liceil from this perusal that his head 111 forward, and for a moment his late was one of senilconsclousness. lut rage, hitter, unspeakable rage, sent lie blood surging hot from his heart, me veins of his neck and temples prged; his face grew livid. Had he pen of full physical habit he would sve died in the tempest of wrath Ihich burst within him. An hour he lit motionless except for the twltch- Jgs of his countenance, like those of anaesthetized patient under tlie sur-feon’s knife. But one thought was de-led in his dazed, congested mind, and lat took the form of an Infinite, uialig-ant curse upon the brother who jwarted him even from his umllscov-lable grave. Exhausted, weak as a ]iild coming out of a cataleptic spasm, tottered across the room and fell |inting upon his bed. The calmness collapse came upon him, bringing a l-adual return of connected thought. Iln Ills view Horace’s malevolence to Im was manifest. The purpose of the Jquest of half the estate to Estelle las so to burden the conscience of the Intimentni girl with a weight of grat- |ude to his memory that the bestowal her hand to another would to her Icm the basest of crimes. He had lught to make her life one of virgin lidowhood or religious seclusion. The lain animus was to bailie the suit |hlch he anticipated that Evariste ould press. The latter would uot ad-lit that his passion was unknown to lorace. How was this stroke to be lirried? Now, If ever, was the crisis It of which his boasted cunning, the |ft of his Latin ancestors, should bear victorious. What was this weapon led against his life’s life? What was le character of an olographic will? [hat was his status without the will, living person but himself having len it? JHe dared not consult a lawyer. No |e of the craft known to him possess-the degree of secretiveness to in- Ite Ills trust. Rising and borrowing pength from a decanter of brandy, be ok down the civil code of Louisiana Id, turning over the leaves, every one ] which bore the pen notes and thumb irks of his brother, rested his eyes |on these lines: •tide 1081. The olographic testament is that |ieh is written by the testator himsell. in or- • to be valid it must be entirely written, dated signed by the testator. It is subject to no Ler form and may be made anywhere, even out |the state. Ide 1048. The olographic testament shall be if it be sealed, and it must be acknowl-and proved by the declaration oi two cred-persons, who roust attest that they recognize testament as being entirely written, dated signed in the testator's handwriting, as hav-often Been him write and sign during hia ptime. [‘The perfection of simplicity,” Eva-fte muttered, “and from all the forms testament allowed by the law he deliberately selected this one for discomfiture. Shall I suffer It to ck my hopes? Shall I not strangle |before It sees the light? What would the effect of that? Let me look fuf- Jelvlng again into the code, he found it he, though only half brother, t>uld have inherited the whole estate the exclusion of other collateral |Irs had Horace died Intestate. “Oh, Horace, you stupid American dolt,” he soliloquized gloatingly, “to leave in my hands this cursed instru-ment of your ill will and expect me to turn it upon myself—to commit suicide with i|! You never understood me. You never tried to understand me. It Is too droll. Between me anil success stands only tills flimsy barrier, erected by a stolid mind, and away it vanishes In smoke!” He seized the will and struck a match, when he was startled by a sharp knock at his door. Throwing away the match and thrusting the will Into his pocket, he demanded: "Who Is there?” "it is I," Mrs. Wyley answered. “A letter 1ms been brought by a messen-ger, who says an immediate answer is required.” He opened tlie door anil received the following note: Como to Dodo’s at once. Matters of importance require consideration and action now. <)UILLEBERT. “Tell the messenger, please, that I will come,” lie said to Mrs. Wyley, and then to himself: ‘ l’erhaps this is for-tunate. It may be well for me to breathe fresh air and got back to tlie uornial, possibly to consult Quillebert, before taking steps which could never lie retraced. He is an expert on all matters of tills complexion.” He was soon at tlie cabaret ntid sent-ed In the rear room with Qullleliert. “1 have news for you,” said the lat-ter. “Tell it.” “Tlie Latiolais girl wants to become a nun.” “She will forego that wish when 1 make her realize the consequences to her grandfather.” “Y’ou are still resolved on that?” “More Inflexibly than ever.” “Then I have other news.” “Tell It.” “l'our brother left a will.” Evariste paled and exclaimed: “Who says so?” “Valsin Mouillot.” “How does he know?” “Your brother told him he had left his will with you.” A cold moisture bathed Evariste's brow. “Moreover, he made the same state-ment to the priest Grlie the day before lie went away. But neither of them knows Its dispositions,” continued Qulllebort. “The people will expect you to produce it soon.” “My Goil!” said Evariste, realizing the futility of denying the existence of the testament and his need of an ad-viser. “Y'our summons came in the nick of time to save me from ruin.” “How so?” asked Quillebert. “I was on the point of burning the testament.” “Why?” “Because It divides the estate evenly between Estelle and me.” “Hone!” grunted Quillebert. “Maybe that is an intimation of his wish that she should marry with you.” “No. It was intended to make her his widow and fortify her against the duress I meant to apply through old Leonidas. She will never consent to become my wife if that will goes Into effect.” “You are right,” Quillebert said after a moment's thought. “Where Is the document?” “1 have it here,” replied Evariste. “Let me see It,” Quillebert demand-ed. The testament was exhibited. Quille-bert read It slowly and deliberately with half closed eyes and knit brows. For an hour he labored thus. proof that his genius was actively working. Looking up without raising his bead, he said: “Who has seen this besides your-self?” “No one but you.” “Are you sure?” "Yes. It has been locked In my desk since Horace gave It to me, and the key has never been out of my posses-sion." “Hone!” Quillebert stretched himself to a half reclining position, thrust his hands deep Into his pocket and, with his eyes riveted upon the will, plunged Into a cogitation so profound and apparently so forceful that It seemed a bodily ac-tion instead of an Intellectual ooera-tlon. This silent function was pro-longed, and Evariste became Impatient, though he ilnreil uot disturb It. Sudden-ly Quillebert rose, drew from Ills pock-et a number of letters, and, tearing from one a blank page of tldn French made paper, lie took up the will, turned the ke>v in the door and walked to the •(ear end of the room, where a single window let in tlie light from tlie west. Finding pen and Ink on the wide man-tel, he placed them on tlie window ledge. “What are you doing?" nsked Eva-riste. “Stay where you are,” Quillebert re-plied. He spread tlie will against the dirty window pane, illumined by the almost vertical rays of the evening sun. and over It tlie page n! translucent paper. With slow movement lie plieil the pen, stopping at intervals to rest his hand and wrist, anil for nn hour labored thus, uttering never a word. Then, emitting a satisfied snort, he removed the two sheets from the glass and. lay-ing them before Evariste, said: “How does that strike youV” Evariste was amazed nnil exclaimed admiringly: “Y'ou certainly are a master, Con-stant!” “But you can Improve on that. Your fingers nud wrist are more supple and steady than mla*. Only take time and be careful.” And Quillebert drew the thin sheet toward him and lit a match. “Don't do that. Give it to me,” Eva-riste cried. “No, no,” his companion answered, with a sapient grin. “This is mine. You have the suggestion." And. touch-ing tlie (lame to it, he turned tlie burn-ing paper with Ids fingers until every part was converted to ashes, which lie crumbled with ids hand and stirred with those in tlie huge fireplace. For many days Evariste remained on tlie plantation. His reticence and thoughtful mien were taken for sorrow-ing. Much of lids time was spent in his room. He aged visibly. The poignancy of bis grief was attested. A month litter, wearing on Ids Hat a baud of I Jack, he sought audience of Father Grlie, who received 1dm witli courtesy, but not with warmth, briefly •speaking the expected words of condo-lence. “Father,” he said, "my dear, generous brother left with me a sealed envelope Instructing me to open it on learning of his death. I have just done so and found it to be his last will anil testa-ment In the olographic form. Here it is. Kindly read it nnd say whether you recogn i lie band writing to be entirely his. lor I know you linve often seen Him write nud sign during ids life-time.” He had got by rote the very wording of the code’s formula. The priest carefully studied the pa-per, throwing now nml then a search-ing glance upon tlie subdued coun-tenance of ids visitor, nml said: “Y'es, I recognize tlie writing to be that of your brother.” “You will so testify in court, father?” “I must, If called.” His tone implied reluctance. “Y'ou were one of Ills closest nnd most highly esteemed frierds and for that reason, father, I deem it meet and de-sirable that you should be one of the witnesses to prove his testament.” “Be it so,” said the good man, though lie piously wished the request had not been made. Evariste now sought Noreau, the old time clerk of court, P.nd, putting to him the same Interrogatories, received the like responses. And in due course, on proof of hand-writing delivered by Father Grhe and Lucien Noreau nnd of death made by Valsin Mouillot, the parish judge at-tached his paraph nnd ordered to be executed “in all Its parts anil particu-lars” the following Instrument pro-pounded by Evariste as the last will and testament of Horace Oakfell: PARISH OF AVOYELLES. LOUISIANA, May 6, 1861. I, Horace Oakfell of “L’Esperance” plantation, in the parish and state above written, of lawful age and without forced heirs, being of sound health both in mind and body, but knowing the cer-tainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and especially having in view the peril* of war, into which I am about to enter, do make this my last will and testament in the olographic form. I give and bequeath unto my brother, Evariste Oakfell, all my estate of whatsoever kind and wheresoever situpted which 1 may possess at the moment of my death. I appoint my brother, Evariste Oakfell, sole ex-ecutor of this testament and dispense him from giving bond. This testament has been dated, written and signed by me on one sheet of paper at one writ-ing. HORACE OAKFELL. Receiving the letters testamentary sealed with seal of the court, his war-rant of dominion over all the Oakfell fortune, Evariste proudly traversed the parish, returning to “L’Esperance” as its master. “Ah, Horace,” to himself he said, “In your narrow bed beneath the apple trees do you dream ? Can you see your mean craftiness made a stepping stone to my will? Do you now believe that I am fit for neither law nor politics? 0 wise Horace, do you not know that suc-cess Is the only thing worth striving for; that with it I rise in my own es-teem and advance in the respect of my fellow men? Do you not understand the difference between your arrogant daring and my patient courage? Have you visions, sleeping hero? Behold this one. The beautiful, melting Estelle is no longer a virgin widow. Her sweet, blushing face Is under the bridal veil. Rouse yourself, dear brother, and be present at the marriage fete.” “I will,” said a voice, which froze his blood and caused him to reel In his saddle. “I will send a squad with the corporal to guard the cotton,” continued the voice, and, looking around, he saw and saluted two officers of the Union forces passing behind him on the crossroad to Coude de Francals. [TO BB CONTINUED.] nusDantl (angrily)—I neveT saw a woman as hard to please as you are. Wife (calmly)—My dear, you forget that I married you.—Chicago News. Diphtheria relieved in twenty inin-n tes. Almost miraculous. Dr Thomas Eclectrio Oil. At any drag store. BANK REPORTS. DEPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE MUST iX National Rank of Mount Pleasant, at Mount Pleasant. In tlie State of Pennsylva-nia. at tl.e close of business, June 0th, 1903. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts * $807 381 is Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 1 419 15 U.S.Bonds to secure circulation . 50 000 00 Stocks, securities, etc so 000 00 Banking-House, furniture and fix-tures 10 000 00 Due from national banks (not re-serve agents) 1 005 11 Due from state banks and bankers 10 000 00 Due from approved reserve agents 55 368 90 Checks and ot her cash Items 1 000 *0 Notes of other National banks 20 0*0 00 Fractional paper currency, nlckles and cents 580 51 Lawful money reserve In bank, viz: Specie $20 551 00 Legal tender notes 10 loo no 48 011 00 Redemption fund with F. S.Treas’r (5 per cent of circulation) 2 500 00 Total $011 s2s25 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid In .fiooooooo Surplus fund 00 000(H) Undivided profits less ex ponses and taxes paid 7 802 28 National hank notes outstanding 50 000 00 Due to state banks and bankers. . Due to other National Ranks Dividends unpaid 08100 Individual deposits subject to ch’k 889 *01 25 Demand certificates of deposit 8 854 18 Certified checks Cashier’s checks outstanding 170 50 Total $61182825 State of Pennsylvania, i County of Westmoreland. I. J. I), llltchrnan, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. .1.1) Ifttchman. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of June 1008. S. C. Stevenson, Notary Public. Correct Attest: GEO. W. STONER, | .1. S. 111TCHMAN, r Directors. .S. N. WARDEN. 1 L3 EPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE CITIZENS National Rank, at Mount Pleasant. In the State of Pennsylvania, at the close of busi-ness. J une 9th. 1908. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $194 425 51 Overdrafts.secured and unsecured 11 806 04 U.S.Bonds to secure circulation...- 50 000 00 Premium on U.S.Bonds 1 250 00 Stocks, securities, etc - 46 000 00 Banking-house, furniture and fix-tures 80 000 00 Due from national banks (not re-serve agents) Other real estate and mortgages owned Due from state banks and bankers Due from approved reserve agents 118 096 45 Checks and other cash Items 2 845 56 Notes of other national hanks 14 107 00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents 200 84 Lawful money reserve In hank, viz: Specie 8 211*5 Legal tender notes 16 50000 24 711 85 Redemption fund with U. S. Treas-urer (5 per cent, of circulation).. 2 500 00 Total $491 07825 LIABILITIES, ill ISO 000 00 40 000 00 Capital stock paid Surplus fund Uuuiv’d’d profits, less expenses and t:i xes paid National bank notes outstanding .. Due to other national banks Due to state banks and bankers .. Dividends unpaid Individual deposits subject to ch’k 212 064 09 locates of deposits 9 291 63 50 000 00 Demand cert Time certificates of deposits Cashier’s checks outstanding 126 259 89 3 458 14 Total $491 078 25 State of Pennsylvania. County or \Westmoreland, (s,s* I. Jno. L. Ruth, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Jno. L. Ruth. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of June 1903. Jno. D. McCaleb, Notary Public. Correct Attest: O. P. SHUHE. I J. McD. BRYCE, < Directors. J. S. HITCHMAN, I OEPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FARMERS & Merchants National Bank, at Mount Pleasant, in the State of Pennsylvania, at the close of business. June 9th. 1903. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $271 *74 48 Overdrafts.secured and unsecured 5 678 88 U.S.Bnndsto secure circulation ... 25 000 00 Premium on U.S. bonds Stocks, securities, etc 25 000 00 Banking-house, furniture and fix-tures 20 000 00 Other real estate owned 2 641 60 Due from approved reserve agents 9 108 86 Internal Revenue stamps Checks and other cash Items - 6 232 77 Notes of other national batiks 971000 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents 1422 31 Lawful money reserve In bank, viz: Specie 20 105 00 Legal tender notes 6 820 00 Redemption fund with II. S. Treas-urer (5 per cent, of circulation)^ Total . 26 925 00 1 250 00 S408 143 90 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid In $50 000 00 expenses and Surplus fund.. 2*5 000 00 Undiv1ded pr< >fi ts. I ess e taxes paid 492 89 National bank notes outstanding— 25 000 00 Due to approved reserve agents 3 210 4s Dividends unpaid i 45 00 1 iKlividual deposits subject to ch’k 162 929 17 Demand certificates of deposit 141 354 74 Certified checks 11162 Cashier’s checks outstanding Total $408 143 90 State of Pennsylvania, f County of Westmoreland, fs* I. C. E. Mu11 in. Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true to the best of my knowl-edge and belief C. E. Mullln. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of June, 1908. W. A. KALP, Notary Public. Correct Attest: It. K. HISBEM, j 9. R. RUPP. >Directors. L. S. TINSTMAN. ) Application for Charter. Notice Is hereby given that an application will be made to the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania on Monday, July 13, 1903, by J. M. Rowland, 0. E. Mullln, W. A. Kalp and their associates, under the Act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, en-titled “An act to provide for the Incorpora-tion and regulation of certain corporations.” approved April 29th, 1874, and tlie supple-ments thereto, for the charter of an Intended corporation to !»<• called “Mount Pleasant Tool Company,” the character and object of which the manufacture of tools. Imple-ments and other articles of commerce from wood or any metal, or both, and the sale of the same; and for that purpose to have abd possess and enioy all the rights, benefits and privileges of tne said Act of Assembly and Its supplements. Llghtcap & Warden, 6 12 4t Solicitors. Application for Charter. Notice is hereby given that application will be made by O. P. Sliupe, John A. Warden, J. McDonald Bryce. John Husband. James S. Hitchman and others to the Governor of Pennsylvania on the 29th day of July. 1903, at 11 o’clock a. m., under the provisions of an Act of Assembly, entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of cer-tain corporations," approved April 29, 1874, and the supplements thereto, for a charter for an Intended corporation, to be called “Citizens Saving and Trust Company,” the character and object of which Is the engag-ing in and carrying on the business of the insurance of owners of real estate, mortgages and others interested In real estate from loss by reason of defective titles, lions and en-cumbrances, and for these purposes to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges of the said Act of Assembly and the supplements thereto. 7 3 4 N. A. Cort, Solicitor. m i ti rtfiiJ Just Drifting into a store because it is convenient and buying because the things of-fered seem cheap is not the way to get the best value for your money. Make it a point to come here when you want good value in Furniture at the right price. The superior quality of the goods will more than repay you if it en-tails any inconvenience. Prices compare favorably with any elsewhere. GIBBS & KING, Furniture, Carpets and Undertaking. • ’ 760 Main St., Mount Pleasant. on -SAvings accounts o/o. BAN K ' MAI 1^ Write for literature explaining how easy It is. f\ saets Over *-7.300,000.OO GERMAN IA SAVINGS BANK WOOD AND DIAMOND ST'S. PITTS BURG, PA. H.S. ACKERMAN, DEALER IN "YNCWS i HIGH GRADE Pianos = = AND <^-(Jrgans, Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise. Densmore and Yost Typewriting Machines Gramophone Talking Machines an?he Standard Sewing Machine NEEDLES, OIL AND ATTACHMENTS. H. S. ACKERHAN, 20i Main Street. GREENSBURO I'i NNA. Is’ Addres* Pimples? 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Title | Mount Pleasant journal (July 10, 1903) |
Subject | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County -- Mount Pleasant ; Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Mount Pleasant |
Creator | Mount Pleasant journal (Mount Pleasant, Pa.) |
Publisher | Mt. Pleasant Pub. Co. |
Place of Publication | Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pa |
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Description
Title | Mount Pleasant journal |
Subject | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County -- Mount Pleasant ; Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Mount Pleasant |
Creator | Mount Pleasant journal (Mount Pleasant, Pa.) |
Publisher | Mt. Pleasant Pub. Co. |
Place of Publication | Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pa |
Contributors | Publishers: John L. Shields, [Jan. 10, 1923]; Howard M. Stoner and Clark Queer, 1923-1963; H. Ralph Hernley, 1963- . |
Date | 1873 |
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Full Text | €1)t M&nnl JHjea*ani journal VOL. 31. MOUNT l’LBAHANT, WESTMOKKLANI) COUNTY, PA., FI! I DAY, .JULY JO, 1903. NO. 28. lOAKFORD PARK LAKE BURSTS CAUSING AWFUL DESTRUCTION OF BOTH LIFE AND PROPERTY. I Sunday Pleasure Seekers Caught Like Rats in a Trap by a wall of Water That Leaves Wreck and Ruin From that Resort Clear Down to Irwin. COMtnS AND GOERS. BODIES OE 21 VICTIMS HAVE BEEN RECOVERED. Following a cloudburst Lake Placid at Oakford Park, a resort owned by [the Pittsburg, McKeesport & Greensburg electric road, on its line between Greensburg and Jeannette, broke through the 30-foot breast wall about 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon last and the wild waters caught many pleasure seekers there like rats in a trap and left death and destruction in their Brush Creek wake to points below Irwin. Some $3,000 have been subscribed to a |relief fund, but much more is needed. The park was full of pleasure seekers, many of whom reached places of |safety on the high ground when warned that the lake was liable to break, but I others ran for shelter to the street car station and barn where they were caught (like rats in a trap by the awful rush of water that also engulfed a car loaded I with people that was standing on the track about ready to start for Jeannette. I In an instant the debris of the ruined park buildings was strewn with struggl-ling men, women and children who were hurried down to death in the yellow I flood as it rushed down Brush Creek. The great Pennsylvania railroad embankment at Jeannette, a mile or I more below, stopped the flood for a time after the plant of the Greensburg (Machine Company had been carried from its foundation. Here were found (many of the bodies of the victims. This check doubtless saved Jeannette [much destruction of property if not of life, although the lower portion of the (town was flooded. The same was true of Burrell, Penn and Manor, although (at Irwin the old railroad freight station was washed away together with the (street and Youghiogheny railroad bridges, the wreckage of houses, stables, (fences and all manner of things gathered up by the flood being carried down (and scattered along near Larimer. Although it is feared it is not complete, ■the following is the list of victims whose bodies have been recovered largely [by gangs of men in charge of Sheriff 1 reseller: MISS EVA W1GG1NGTON, 20 MISS LUCY CRUM, 23 years old, lyears old, Pittsburg. Jeannette. BERT BROWN, 20 years old, son lot' Rev. N. L. Brown, of the Centen-ary Methodist Episcopal Church, ffttsburg. JOSEPH BROWN, 22 years old, Jeannette. MISS MAY BURD, 20 years old, Jeannette. JOHN McCANN, 24 years old, Jeannette. MARY GILLESPIE, 12 years old, laughter of James Gillespie, Grape- /ille. SOPHIA GILLESPIE, 9 years old, Grapeville. HENRY FINK, 26 years old, Jean-liette. MRS. HENRY FINK, 24 years old, Jeannette. MRS. KATE DONNELLY, 34years old, Jeannette. JOSEPH OVERLY, 26 years old, Indianapolis, Ind. MISS GERTRUDE KEEFER, 23 years old, Jeannette. JAMES WESTWOOD, 33 years old, Penn. MRS. ELIZABETH SCHRADER, 79 years old, West Jeannette. FRANK NIEGA, Penn. MRS. WILLIAM NIEGA, 44 years old, Penn. PAULINE NIEGA, 6 years old, Penn. JOHN W1GHTMAN, 15 years old, son of George Wightman, Burrell. MISS MARY DAVIS, 18 years old, a Radebaugh domestic. At Greensburg but one life was lost, that of Harry Fleming, a young Inine driver, who was drowned in helping to get horses out of the stables at ]the flooded old fair grounds. Six tine race animals were lost. The big Youngwood yards of the Pennsylvania railroad were badly washed out and [wo Southwest bridges swept away. Tracks were all twisted up and freight :ars tossed about in endless confusion. Traffic was entirely shut off and it vas not until late the next night that the 500 men hurried to the scene could jet a single track laid through. An engine was run out on the Sewickley branch bridge at this point and it went down when the water had washed the [ibutments away. There were many less serious washouts along this branch up the Sewick- (ey Valley, while much more damage was done on the New Alexandria line pwing to the reservoir at one of the J amison coke plants bursting. The leservoir at the Frick company’s Marguerite works, in the Latrobe district, (vas damaged and the Dorothy mines there were flooded, but the damage llone was slight in comparison with that wrought at the mines about Greens-ktrg and Irwin. The Greensburg electric light and power house was flooded, leaving the town in darkness, and the street car tracks south of that place vere badly washed out. It is roughly estimated that the losses of the railroad knd street railway people will foot up nearly $1,000,000. It is said that the founty lost $100,000 in bridges and then there are the coal and coke oper- |ors to hear from. There was a heavy downpour of rain here about the same time Sunday [veiling, accompanied by sharp thunder and lightning, the tower of the West End Church of God being struck. A thorough investigation will have to be (nade before the extent of the damage done can be learned. A number of East End cellars were flooded. The water got into the office and planing vill of John Husband & Bro., destroying much stationery and damaging hooks in the safe, to say nothing of mud deposited over machinery in the mill. The street railway bridge at McClure’s was weakened, delaying traffic (here for a few hours. There were several small washouts on the Mount pleasant branch of the Pennsylvania road, causing trains to be several hours ate, but the B. & O. schedule was not interfered with. Three Bold Bobbers. As the result of an attempted robbery Lt Stewart’s station, on the main line If the Pennsylvania railroad Friday |voning, Thomas F. Briney, a butcher, vas shot in the left breast and stabbed Ive times, while Thomas Donovan was |hot in the breast just over the heart, fhe shooting was done by Stephen lajestic and two other foreigners who |hen robbed an Italian of $200. An Ugly Little Fire. A skyrocket went through the front first story room at C. M. Galley’s Church street residence about 2 o’clock Satur-day morning, setting fire to Mrs. Road-man’s millinery goods. William Wise and a party of friends going home from Parfittown discovered the flames, wakened the sleeping inmates and gave valuable assistance in extinguishing the ugly little fire that did some $50 damage. Paragraphs About Prominent People Gathered During tbe Week. James McLean, of Jones Mills, is visiting friends here this week. Mrs. Anna Roadman is spending the week with Greensburg friends. Miss Flossie Znndell spent the past week with Wilkinsbnrg friends. Miss Clara Kreinbrook was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Anna Brinker, over Sunday. Edgar Criswell, of Pittsbnrg, was here over Sunday with his father, J. E. Criswell. William Uber, of Scottdale. was here Tuesday visiting his aunt, Mrs. Samuel Morrison. Miss Opal Berthel, who was visiting Pittsburg and Allegheny friends, return-ed home Monday. A. O. Horner, of Allegheny, was here over Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Horner. R. N. Hay, of Somerset, a former teacher here, spent Sunday with old Mount Pleasant friends. Miss Sarah Campbell, of near Buena Vista, was here visiting her neiee, Miss Flora Duncan, last week. Miss Anna Edwards returned Tues-day from New York after taking a six weeks' summer course in voice. Miss Isabel Rhoades is off on a two weeks’ visit to trieuds along the river from West Newton to McKeesport. Miss Lillie Shields, of Greensburg, is the guest of her grandmother, Mrb. Ruth Shields, of South Church street. Misses Pearl Harrison and Mame Eagan, of McKeesport, were guestB of Miss Kathryn Hartigan the past week. Misses Margaret Cunningham and Maola Giles spent Sunday near Scott-dale with the former's aunt, Mrs. Sto-ner. Mrs. B. Copeland, of Rochester, N. Y., with her two children, IB here visit ing Mrs. H. Goldstone, of College avenue. Miss Christena Ramsay, of St. Marys, Pa., spent the past week here with her cousin and Indiana Normal schoolmate, Miss Mary Ramsay. Prof. W. J. Zuck, who recently re-signed from the faculty of Otterbein University, is here visiting his father and other relatives, Lowell Barnhart and sister, Miss Ethyl, of Mt. Washington, Pittsbnrg, were here the past week as guests of Miss Hannah Lackman. Misses Laura and Etta Dillon left Tuesday for an extended trip to Colo-rado. They will stop in Chicago and visit the training schools. Mrs. W. E. Shope spent several days at Conuellsville last week as the guest of Miss Mabel Miller, who entertained at cards Friday in her honor. Misses DuShane and Brown, of Con-nellsville, and Reid, of Scottdale, guests of Miss Leona Marsh, honored this office with a call yesterday. Walter Lobingier, of the Pittsbnrg “Press,’ with his wife and little daugh-ter, was here over Sunday with his par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Lobingier. Charles Stough, now in the steam and hot water heating' business for himself at Washington, Pa., spent the Fourth here with his father and old friends. Chumpaboi Sunthankar, a native ladty of India and a student of Chesbro Sem-inary, North Chili, N. Y., is visiting her friend, Miss Elfreda Lackman, of North Hitchman street. Homer Huffman, with his wife and child, is here from Morgantown, W. Na., on a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Huffman. They were accompanied by young Mrs. Huffman's sister, Miss Mattie Mathers. Robert A. Ramsay, on the engineer corps of the Weaver Coal and Coke Company at DuQuoin, Illinois, is spend-ing a week’s vacation at home. His mother, Mrs. Sadie Ramsay, gave him a nice surprise party last evening. Second Lieutenant Will Colvin, who was graduated at West Point this year, was here over Sunday with relatives and old friends. He has been appointed to the artillery branch of the service, with orders to report for doty in September at Fort Adams, near Newport, R. I. Crosby-Mumaw. Mr. Eli Crosby, of Tarr, and Miss Maria Mumaw, of Hawkeye, were mar-ried last evening at the Church of God parsonage in the presence of a few in-vited guests by Rev. S. G. Yahn. They will reside at Tarr. GOLDEN WEDDING CEFEBRAFED By Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Graul on the Fourth. A VERY HAPPY GATHERING OF THEIR CHILDREN TO THE THIRD GENERATION. A Wonderfully Well Preserved Old Couple Who Were Both Born in Ger-many. Married in Pittsburg and, fol-lowing Many Active Years, Have Settled Down in Mount Pleasant as the Evening Shades Fall on Their Well Spent Lives. Mr. and Mrs Leopold Granl celebrat-ed their golden wedding on Saturday last at their East Washington street home, happy as only are parents when so honored by the presence of all tbeir living children who, upon this joyous occasion, extended to the third genera tion. The circle was complete with years Mr. Graul followed the huckster-ing and peddling business, at which he made many friends throughout West-moreland. They then moved back to the South Side, Pittsbnrg, where Mr. Graul worked for the Fisher Foundry Company for a time and then spent fourteen years as janitor of the South Side Odd Fellows’ building. Ten years ago. their children having been all married, they came here to reside in the evening of their well spent lives. COKE AND COAL. Items of Interest Gathered From Both Mine and Yard. The Wooddale Coal and Coke Com-pany, promoted by Jesse A. Stanffer and other Scottdale capitalists, has pur-chased the Samuel Clark farm of 700 acres, at Wooddale, Fayette county, and bas started a test for the Freeport and tinder veins of coal. Henry Duncan, a pioneer in the coke business, was found dead in bed at his Buena Vista home Tuesday morning, a supposed victim of heart disease, aged almost 73 years. He and his younger brother William, of Alverton, built and operated the first coke ovens at the Standard mines. He is survived by his ''I * U % MR. AND MRS. LEOPOLD GRUAL, SR. Gas*Line Extension. The Fayette County GasiCompany is preparing to lay a main from Scottdale to Youngwood, via Alverton, Tarr, Ruffsdale, Hunker and New Stanton. but one exception, Mrs. Joseph Adel man. of New York, who was unable to attend. July 3rd marked the half century these wonderfully well preserved old people had jogged along together, shar-ing each other’s joys and sorrows, and on that day they received the congratu-' lations of their sons and daughters and their children's children who all, thanks to early training, were able to address the celebrants in their native language, the German, before following their letters in person the next day. There were present at Saturday’s eele bration Mr. and Mrs. Jackson D. Hughes, of Pittsbnrg, and the latter’s son of her first marriage, Albert Roehn, wife and son. of McKeesport; Mr and Mrs. Andrew C. Graul, of Sharpsbnrg; Mr. and Mrs. John Koenig and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Graul, Jr., and two children, Mr and Mrs. Herbert Owen and son, Pittsburg, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Graul and three children, of this place, with John P. Werkman, Sr., of Greensburg, who, with his daughter, Miss Lizzie, was the only one of Mr. Graul’s old German friends able to be present. Of course, the main feature of the day was the big dinner that was in full keeping with the importance of the occasion; in tact, the good old mother confessed that the golden wedding cake fresh from “Charley’s” bakery was better than the one on her bridal table. Then, Andrew read an original poem that told of this country’s progress dur-ing the married life of his parents and, while he took all the poet’s license in the interest of rythm, “Andy’s” produc-tion was voted all right. The children saw to it that there was noise enough to maintain their well established repu-tations as strict observers of Indepen-dence Day. Leopold Graul, Sr., was born on Jan-uary 28, 1828, in Woerlitz, now a part of the kingdom of Prussia, the son of a weaver, although weak eyes prevented him from following his father’s trade. After traveling through Poland and as far east as St. Petersburg, Russia, he came to this country in 1850, locating in Birmingham, now the South Side, Pittsburg. Here he wooed and won Miss Christiana Wideman who was bom in Illfeld, kingdon of Hanover, Germany, January 18, 1826, and who came to Pittsburg in 1852. The wed ding took place there on July 8, 1853, Rev. Zimmerman, of the United Evan-gelical ProteBtant church, performing the ceremony. A year or so later they moved to Hempfield township, this county, near Adamsbnrg, and for the next twelve wife and four children, three sons and one daughter. The stockholders of the newly char tered Shade Coal Mining Company held their first meeting here Monday and organized by electing I. F. Overholt, of this place, president; William Gahagan, of Arrow, Somerset connty, vice presi I dent, and J. W. Overholt, of this place, secretary and treasurer. The company took over 717 acres of coal and timber lands in the Scalp Level Basin, Somer-set county, BD\ will complete develop-ments alrefc • well under way on the property. T ,o intention is to erect a tine steel tipple with automatic appli | ances and use electricity for both min-ing and hauling the coal, of which there are the 31 and 4 foot veins of high class steam quality. MEXICAN ENTERPRISE In Which Several OfhcerB are Well Known Here. The Pittsburg Plantation Company, of which Charles P. Parker, the H. C. Frick Coke Company's auditor, is presi-dent, and flon. W. F. Morrison, of this place, a director, held its annual meet-ing of stockholders in Pittsburg last week. The capital stock is $300,000, divided into 3,000 shares which are held largely by capitalists of that city who have firm faith in the future of tropical Mexico. The company owns one thousand acres of land at Tolosa. state of Oaxaca, Mexico, within one mile of the Tehuan-tepec National Railroad, which con-nects the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico and affords easy and rapid transit from the coast to all parts of the world. The property has three mile frontage on the Jumiapa river and tram-ways encircling cane fields to sugar mills and the Tehuantepec railroad. This section of the isthmus is the rich-est producing state in tropical Mexico. Millions of capital have been invested in this part of Mexico, and modern methods and machinery and Americans with their proverbial enterprise and en-ergy are making garden spots where only a short time ago were dense for-ests and wild vegetation. The com-pany will plant its entire field in sugar cane, rubber, coffee, cacao, ginger, pine-apples and oranges, and has at the pres-ent time two hundred acres planted in sugar cane. Want Tbeir Fries. The stockholders of the Crescent Brewing Company, of Jeannette, have voted to sell their plant to the Pittsburg Brewing Company provided they be paid $400,000. A FINE MUSICAL PROSPECT For the People oF the Coke Region DURING THE COMING WINTER. UNDER ARRANGEMENTS MADE BY MR. ROBERT McDOWELL. A Grand Chorus of Over Four Hundred Voices Conducted by Mr. James P. McCollum, the Famous Fittsbug Leader, will Give Concerts at Union-town. Connellsville, Scottdale and Mount Pleasant. Rehearsals Will Bsgin with the Return of Cool Weather. An announcement was made at the recent recital given by the students of Robert J. McDowell’s Private School of Music in Library Hall, Conuellsville, which will delight every lover of ora-torio music in the entire coke region. It was to the effect that early in the coming autumn choral organizations would be effected in Uniontown. Con-nellsville, Scottdale and Mount Pleasant with a view to oratorio perforformances on a scale never heretofore attempted in this region. While the chorus in each town will be a local affair. eRch will he a part of the complete organization which will be as-sembled for occasional mass rehearsals and concerts, and for such an event the total number of singers will probably be somewhat in excess of fonr hundred. A well drilled chorus of this size is sel-dom henrd even in the larger cities, but the material for it exists in abundance here in the coke region and only the executive ability and proper innsioal guidance are needed to unite and per-fect such an enterprise. Mr. James P. McCollum, the well known conductor of the Mozart Club, of Pittsbnrg, has been secured to take charge of the inu-si.' al work, directing each of the cho-ruses in person. A number of the most public spirited and substantial business men of each town have guaranteed the project against possible loss, and while the pro-ceeds of the concerts will undoubtedly make the organization perfectly inde-pendent, there will be no nervousness in regard to its future and no essential will be sacrificed on account of financial conditions. The chorus will then be-gin operations under doubly auspicious circumstances, both artistic and finan-cial, and from the commendation the plan has already received, there is no danger of its defeat through the indif-ference of either singers or public. Handel’s famous oratorio, “The Mes-siah,” has been selected for the first performance, which will be given, ac-cording to a time-honored custom, in the holidays. Each chorus will begin separate re-hearsals in the early fall and, as before mentioned, all will be combined for the performance. It is quite likely that each town will have a performance of the work, as protests have already been made against confining the concerts to any one town when both population and public interest seem sufficient to make the concerts a success in each city rep-resented in the chorus. The Library Orchestra, which has but just completed a series of subscrip-tion concerts, and which is so necessary to the support of such a body of singers, will be engaged on the same plan and will add greatly to the general effect. The credit of organizing this great undertaking and of having made the arrangements already consummated be-longs to Robert J. McDowell, whose ef-forts to improve the state of music in this region are well known. Mr. Mc- Dowell will spend the summer in Eu-rope but the chorus arrangements are already far advanced, and such work as will have to be done during the sum-mer will be left in the hands of able lieutenants, so that everything will be ready for the first rehearsals at the close of the heated term. The whole plan, so sensibly conceived and so ably supported by both musical and business people, commends itself to the warm approval of all those interested in the moral and musical upbuilding of the community, and will, by its success, place this re-gion in a notable position—as it already is through its wonderful coke industry— musically, in the United States. The Fourth at Scottdale. Scottdale had a large time on the Fourth although rain interfered some-what with the big parade. The cornet band, taken down from here’by £. K. Miller, manager of the Hazlett store, as part of the Union Supply Company’s exhibit, was awarded the $20 prize. THHi MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY, .TULA' 10, 1903. »■>#«» >**»«► N«*»» » '«*>»>* 3 July Clearance Sale You are actually losing money if you do not attend our great July Clearance sale. Our clearance sale must rid our shelves and * counters of all spring and summer goods. Low prices will do it, and low prices we have made. Run your eye over the list and ligure your saving. 0 . o w SKIRTS. Thrifty buyers will not be slow to take advantage of the pronounced bar-gains in ladies’ and misses’ skirts. All this season’s styles in voiles, etamines, and cloth in all colors, tan, castor, blue or blacks, l ake one-third oil the marked price. Any skirt in store 1-3 off. $15 skirts are sold for $10. $12 skirts are sold for $9. $10 skirts are sold for $6.67. $8 skirts are sold for $5.36. $7.50 skirts are sold for $5. $5 skirts are sold for $3.33. $3 skirts are sold for $2. Elegant line of wash skirts in pique and’duck, white and colors. All goat one-third off the regular selling price. Come and see the skirts. All skirts fitted by expert dress makers. No ex-tra charge for alteration. Cold type cannot do justice to these extraordinary offerings in skirts. See them. Money saved. RIBBONS at never to be forgotten prices. All silk taffeta ribbon, satin liberty, all widths, Nos.|60,'80|and 100. All the popular shades worth 5o, 60 and 75 cents- clearance sale price is 19 cents. Black velvet ribbon, extra value, satin back, Nos. 7, 9 and 12, at one-half the regular price 12 cents the yard. Black velvet ribbons in Nos. 18 and 22 at one-half the regular selling price 19 cents the yard. This certainly is a golden opportunity. MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. Corset covers at 10, 17, 22 and 25 cents. Drawers 17c to $1.50. Petticoats 25c to $6 each. Night gowns at 30c, 48c, 59c and 75c. Over a hundred gowns to pick from; only tell you of a few. Come and see. Children’s muslin drawers 10c to 25c, extra value. Children’s white muslin skirts, long or short, 29c to 48c. Special at this clearance sale. We never advertise unless we have special bargains. Something to save you money. Buy muslin wear here and he glad. BARGAIN POINTERS. Take advantage of our clearance sale it will pay you. Prices speak louder than words. Former selling prices not considered; everything goes regardless of cost or loss. Red and white and blue and white table damask, former price 30c, clearance sale 19c the yard. Bleached table linen worth 35c, clearance sale 22c the yd. Half bleached table damask worth 5oc at 38c the yard. Fine bleachedtable damask, extra wide, $1.25 value at 98c. Large sizes duck towel worth 15c, clearance sale price 10c each. Fancy bordered towels with knotted fringe at 19c each, former price 25c. Linen crash at money-saving prices; 5c a yard for crashes worth 7, 8 and 9 cents. Linen crash at 6 1 -4c worth 10c and 12 l-2c. Something for Almost Nothing. 200 percale shirt waists, all sizes, 32 to 42, fast colors. You never saw better bargains than these. l ake your choice at 19c each. No mistake; just pay 19c that all former prices 5oc. White shirt waists, cluney lace trimmed, just new but just one-half the regular price; instead of $2 and $4.50 clearance sale price $1 and $2.25. Other waists, slightly mussed and soiled, at one-half the regular price $1 waists 50c; $2 waists $1.00, $3 waists $1.50. There’s economy of the most radical kind in the above shirt waist prices. DRESS GOODS. The greatest saving opportunity of the season. Black serges and cheviots 40 inches wide, all wool, perfect dye and finish. Regular selling price 60c, clearance sale 38c the yard. Voiles in royal blue, navy blue, black, castor, in fact all the leading shades; elegant fine goods away under price at 89c the yd. Regular price $1.25. Al-batross in all shades, white, cream, sky blue, navy blue, red, cardinal, castor and black at 33c the yd. These goods are strictly all wool and never sold for less than 75c. Come quick if you want line dress goods for little money Fancy line all wool novelties in dress goods at 39c reduced from 65c. Summer-time Silks. A money-saving event without par-allel. Foulards in neat new patterns and colors, were 85c, clearance sale 60c. Big assortment of foulards at 45c, were 65c; they are beauties. 1,000 yards of printed foulards, special at this sale. Only come, see the goods and take your choice of any number of yards at 24c the yard. Wash silks, new colorings, all col-ors at 37c the yard; reduced from 50c. Children’s Dresses. Children’s percale wash dresses at clearance sale prices. Biggest bargain ever offered in the department. Just now you need everyday dresses for the little folks. Children’s $1.5o dresses go at SI.12, Children’s $1 dresses go at 75c. Children’s 75c dresses go at 56c. Children’s 50c dresses go at 37c. Just 25 per cent of the regular selling price. Bargains for All. 5,000 yds fine sheer lawns in pretty designs and colorings, 7 I-2c, just half former price. Apron gingham in all colors of check and sizes, fast colors. Former price 7c, clearance sale 5c. 1,000 yds fine dimities, all new styles, at 1-2 regular price, 12 l-2c. Pretty styles and colors in dress ginghams, were 12 1-2c, clearance sale price 8c. Best Alabama cheviots for shirtings, regular selling price 9c, at 6 l-2c. 5,000 yds of seersucker ginghams in stripe and checks. Former price 10c, sale price 5c yd. All our best prints. Extra wide percale in dark colors, black and white, blue and white, ele-gant for children’s dresses. Just think of the price - just 1-2 the former price. Your choice for 6 t-4c the yard. No matter how low the price this rule never waived. We guarantee what we sell and sell only what we guarantee. The Broadway Department Store, Cor. Pittsburg and Broadway sts., SCOTTDALE, PA. O. D WEIMER, General Manager. AN UNSUNG HEROIN£. Margaret Shaw, Brave and Unselfish, Saves a Little Child. In an obscure and unmarked grave In the burylng-ground of the old Mid-dle Presbyterian church, a short dis-tance to the north of the town of Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Penn-sylvania, lie the remains of a young girl named Margaret Shaw, one of the heroines of the fierce border warfare on the old Pennsylvania frontier in the eighteenth century. She was the daughter of a pioneer settler named Moses Shaw, who was the founder of a family which has always been prom-inently connected with the develop-ment of Westmoreland county. He was a maker of packsaddles. One of his most famous contracts was the making of the saddles used by the American legion of General Anthony Wayne on its memorable victorious campaign in 1794, which forever broke the power if the confederated Indian tribes of the Ohio country. The home of Moses Shaw was in the settlement at Hannastown, then a place of vast importance as the capital of West-moreland county, but now forgotten, save as a mere tradition, by all except those who like to dig among the ruins of the pioneer days. The prominent place occupied by old Hannastown in the life of the frontier made the town a shining mark for attack by Indians and British partisans during the Revo-lution. Such an attack took place in 1782 with disastrous results. Few lives were lost, but the old Western Pennsylvania court town was wiped out of existence for all time. This at-tack gave Margaret Shaw, then a young girl of only 16 years, the oppor-tunity to do a deed of devoted sacri-fice. She accepted the challenge of fate, did her duty, and lost her life. By her unselfish bravery she did not win fame, but she is full as worthy of being enshrined in verse and history as many another who is so honored. This is the simple story of Margaret Shaw’s heroism. On the day of the attack the people at Hannastown were fortunately warned of the approaching danger and were able to take refuge in the block-house near at hand. Here were gath-ered young and old from the vicinity. A sharp attack was made on the stronghold, but there were within trusty old double-barreled rifles and keen eyes to sight them. The savages soon learned this and gave their at-tention to burning the town. This they effectually did, and then depart-ed, leaving the frightened but valor-ous whites in safety, all save one. That lone victim was the tender girl, Margaret Shaw. Some time during the progress of the attack on the blockhouse a little child, innocent of danger, crept near the only really dangerous place In the structure, a gate through which were some ppen-tr. gs which gave entrance to an occa-sional bullet. Suddenly the little one’s peril was seen, and Margaret Shaw, brave and unselfish, rushed to snatch it away Into safety. One moment was enough. The child was saved, but the big-hearted girl came within range of a hostile rifle. She received the fatal ball through her breast into her left lung. Staggering back, she gave the child, all unconscious of the great sac-rifice which had been made for it, to its friends, and sank into the arms of those who rushed to succor her. The siege was soon over and the hostile redskins went hack to the farther frontier, but the stricken girl lay long and fought the grim battle for life. For two full weeks she struggled against the odds of death, amid terri-ble sufferings, and then the brief but noble chapter of her life was ended. She was burled in the old Middle church yard, and there she lies to this day. If her grave was ever marked the stone has long ago fallen away, and her sepulcher is lost. The writer and others have often searched for some trace of it by which it might be located, but In vain. Had not Guya-suta and his warriers gone on the war trail to the old Westmoreland capital the life of Margaret Shaw might have been as the lives of hundreds of othe1- frontier girls, but the moment of dan-ger and self-sacrifice came to her, and she was found to be made of the noble stuff of which are fashioned the he-roes, great and small, of human his-tory. CHARLES L. SMITH. Cause for Regret. A Scot, who had been a long time in the colonies, paid a visit to his "native glen,” and meeting an old schoolfellow, the two sat down to chat about old times and acquaintances. In the course of the conversation the stranger happened to ask about a cer-tain Gordie McKay. “He’s dead long ago,” said his friend, ‘‘and I’ll never cease regrettin’ him as long as I live.” “Dear me! Had you such respect for him as that?” “Na, na! It wasna ony respec’ I had for himself, hut I married his widow.” Overdose of Harmony. Qulzzer—What broke up the Young Men’s Political club, to which you be-longed ? Knoitt—Well, It was this way. There had been such beautiful and un-interrupted harmony In the organiza-tion from the first that each man claimed to be the sole cause of the harmoniousness. Of course, they couldn’t agree on that point and the thing broke up in a row. Another coal strike threatened! Won’t those people be decent enough to give the conutry time to get Its breath? "My turn next,” says the great American firecracker. The Best The Cheapest. This is true of all classes of goods, but particularly Shoes.' [ Just drop into our enlarged rooms and see what we have to offer you in footwear. FOR MEN.—Walkover $3.50 and Guaranteed Patent Leather, $2.50 to $4; for boys, Guaranteed Patent Leather, $2 to $3. • FOR LADIES.—Sorosis, $3.50; Guaran-teed Patent Leather, $2.25 to $3. If you want to save the lit-tle ones’ stockings you should get a pair of our Children’s Knee Pads. W. A. PYNE; 711 Main street, Mount Pleasant, - I UNION SUPPLY COMPANY. "T~7 Department Stores. 47. Everytliins you Used, Every flrlicle you Want you can get at the Union Supply Go. Stores. For Women and Girls. There’s everything new and novel that the market affords If you -want a made-up suit we have them—have the newest kind and the prices are moderate. If you want to buy material and have your clothes made, we have elegant stocks of the choicest goods made, all new styles. Very beautiful, really better than most extensive dry goods stores show you. For Men and Boys. The most stylish outfits that can be produced come from our stores. We can outfit you complete. Men’s and Boys’ Clothing is one of our strong departments. We sell only good, first-class goods, made by the most reputable clothing houses in the trade. If you can’t find what you want in our ready-made stock, we will have your suit made for you. We guarantee fits, we guarantee the goods, we guarantee the prices right. Try us. For Infants. Here’s a strong department and one that gets much atten-tion. Everybody likes nice things for the baby and we have them, the loveliest things out for babies are right in the Union Supply Company Stores. Dresses, Underwear, Hosiery, Caps, Cloaks, Ribbons, choice styles in Shoes. In addition to the choice styles the reasonable prices are another inducement. Household Furnishings. We can’t do this department justice in this little “ad”— haven’t the space. Would take half of this paper to tell you all about the stock and the many special bargains. We simply say this: it’s to your own advantage to see our stock, if you are in the market for anything in this line. We All Like Nice Shoes. By nice shoes we don’t only mean nice looking—we include good quality; it requires that to make shoes nice, and that’s what makes our shoes so much nicer than the general run—they have the stock that makes good quality. We have them for Men and Women, Boys and Girls, and the prices are right. We guarantee every pair. Come to the Union Supply Company for Groceries, Flour and Meats. We defy any store in Fayette or Westmorelond to equal our stock in Groceries, Flour and Meats in quality, quantity and pri-ces. Wb excel all, and the car loads of good, fresh, first-class goods that we sell weekly is our best evidence. Try the Union Supply Company. It will pay you to travel a long distance to trade with us. UNION SUPPLY COMPANY. 47 Large Department Stores located in Westmoreland and Fayette Counties. THTC MOUNT PT/KA8ANT JOUUNAIi. FRIDAY, JUDY 10. 1008, When the Nerves are Shattered When the nerves are shattered one cannot think, work, eat, sleep or ae compllsh anything. It’s a ease of force nil the time' a continued effort to keep going no life no energy no ambi lion upset at anything nervous head aches crying spells tits of depression and utter despondency. I>r. A W. Chase s Nerve Pills cure this condition to stay cored by rebuilding the shatter ed nervous system nourishing the nerve centers and resupplying what is lacking the active principle of life Nerve Force, Mrs John M. Green, of Mount Pleas ant. Pa , says:—“Some time ago my daughter was in such a run down—weak — nervous condition we were compelled to take her out of school. A nerve medicine was necessary and by advice we gave her Dr. A W Chase's Nerve Pills. The medicine acted finely giving her back health, strength, steadiness of nerves to such an extent I can safely say she is all right again. I am well pleased to recommend the nerve Pills to others.” 50c a box at dealers or Dr. A. W. Chase Med. Co , Buffalo, N. Y. See that portrait and signature of A. W. Chase, M. D are on every package. ittriniiln —7 The baby's kissing mouth is round And large and damp and full of sound: O The prim young miss is apt to pout With kissing relatives about: o The maiden aunt, whose joys are few, Presents a straight line mouth to you: While grandma’s lips are apt to be A-droop w ith age, as you can see: Papa, who furnishes the cash, Hides his beneath a big mustache: niiimiii But Mistress Flirt knows how to kiss; Her Cupid bow lips look like this: —Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. The wise man wants a sure thing. That's the reason he uses Four Fold Liniment it never fails to do the work. A sure cure for rheumatism, pains in-back, sprains, bruises and sore muscles. The best for man or beast. Sold by H. F. Barkley. At all druggists, 25c. 050m TOUR TO THE PACIfIC COAST Via Pennsylvania Railroad, Account G. A. R National Encampment, On account of the National Encamp-ment of the Grand Army of the Repub-lic nt San Francisco, Cal , August 17 to 22, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company offers n personally-conducted tour to Phe Pacific Coast at remarkably low rates. Tour will leave new York, Philadel-phia, Baltimore, Washington, and other points on the Pennsylvania Railroad east of Pittsburg, Thursday, August (I, by special train of the highest grade Pullman equipment. An entire day will he spent nt the Grand Canyon of Arizona, two days at Los Angeles, and and visits of a half day or more at Pas sndena, Santa Barbara, Del Monte, and San Jose, Three days will he spent in San Francisco during the Encampment. A day will be spent in Portland on the retnrn trip, and a complete tour of the Yellowstone Park, covering six days, returning directly to destination via. Billings and Chicago, aud arriving Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York September 1. Round trip rate, covering all expenses for twenty-seven days, except, three days spent in San Francisco, $215; two in one berth, $200 each. Round trip rate, covering all expenses to Los Angeles, including transporta tiou, meals in dining car, and visits to Grand Canyon and Pasadena, and /runs portal inn only through. California and returning to the east by Oct, 15, via any direct route, including authorized stop overs, $115; two in one berth, $105 each Returning via Portland $tl additional will he charged. Rates from Pittsburg will he $5 less in each case. » For full information apply to Ticket Agents, or Geo, W. Boyd, General Pas-senger Agent, Broad Street Station. Philadelphia, Pa. Working Night and Day. The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was made is Dr. King’s New- Life Pills. These Pills change weakness 'ALWAYS1 INSIST UPON HAVING! THT. 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A little girl was heard talking to her rabbit. “Five times live,” she said, “six times six, seven times seven.” Be-tween times she shook the rabbit vio-lently. “Dorothy,” said her mother, “what are you doing to your rabbit?” “Well, papa says,” replied the child, “that rabbits multiply rapidly, and Bunny won't do It.”—Town Talk. Eczema Cured. Says Mr. J. H. Kelly, Washington, Pa.: "My wife has been cured of a very bad case of eczema or tetter from using three boxes of Ozoint. She is entirely cured.'1 Ozoint cures Bkin diseases and heals all kinds of sores Price 25 cents a box at M. A. Bowman’s. AM to Poetry. A now story is going the rounds about Mark Twain and a young poet. “How long does It take to get fume from a poem?” asked the poet. The sage thought and in a few min-utes said: “Well, it takes about four hours to write one and 19 years 11 months 30 days 24 hours and 55 minutes to get it published. 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IfOil. at 11 o’clock, a. m.. under the provisions of an Act of Assemply. entitled, "An act to provide for the Incorporation and regulation of cer-tain corporations," approved April 29, 1H71. and the supplements thereto, for a charter for an Intended corporation, to be called “Mount Pleasant Ice Company," the charac-ter and object of which is the manufacture and saic of ice and applying refrigeration for general coid storage purposes, and for t hese purposes to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges by said Act of Assembly and the supplements i hereto con-ferred. N. A. Oort, Solicitor. Brutally Tortured. A case came to light that for persist ent and unmerciful torture has perhaps never been equalled. Joe Golobick, of Colusa, Calif., writes “For 15 years I endured insufferable pain fi-om rheu-matism and nothing relieved me though I tried everything known. I came across Electric Bitters and its the greatest me-dicine on earth for that trouble. A few bottles of it completely relieved and cured me.” Just as good for liver and kidney troubles and general debility. Only 5Uc. Satisfaction guaranteed by H. F. Barkley, druggist, 10 24 A Hack Number. “The other day,” says Marshall Wild-er, “I got on a Fifth avenue stage and found that I had nothing less than a two dollar note in my pocket” “Well?” asked a friend. “I gave it to the driver,” said Wilder, “and he asked me which horse I want-ed.”— New York Times. A Puzzle to Her. “There is one thing I can never un-derstand,” said the patient looking wo-man, “and that is why a man who has been sitting with the crowd all the nft-ernoon at a baseball game will come home and say that the noise of the chil-dren makes him nervous."—Washing-ton Star. A little life may bh sacrificed to an hour’s delay. Cholera infantum, dys-entery, diarrhoea come suddenly. Only safe plan is to have Dr. Fowler's Ex-tract of Wild Strawberry always on hand. Ozo White Foam Liniment. An Ozonized and Ammonio-Camphor-ated Cream Liniment. Cures Rheuma-tism, Stiff or Swollen Joints, Lame Backs, Sore Muscles, Sprains and Bruis-es. Large bottles 25 cents. M. A. Bowman. What’s the secret of happy, vigorous health? Simply keeping the bowels, the stomach, the liver and kidneys strong and active. Burdock Blood Bit-ters does it. That “played out”—“done up” feel-ing makes life miserable for every sufferer from Kidney ills, backaches, headaches and urinary troubles, pain-ful aud annoying. Doan’s Kidney Pills bring new life and activity, remove the pain and cure the cause, from common backache to dangerous dia-betes. Mr. S. R. Bollnger, who resides at 428 Smith Dukes treet. bookkeeper nt W. H. Hottener’s elgnr factory. York, l*a., says: “Backache became so frequent that not finding anything to cure it or even to re-lieve it I could not do a day's work with-out suffering. AVhile trying one medicine after another my attention was attracted by an account of Doan's Kidney 1’IMs in the papers, and of course they in turn were given a trial. I procured them at Hodnett's drug store. Before I had taken n box of them I had no backache. I could work at the desk as steadily as I liked and did not even get tired in the back.” For sale by all druggists? 50 cents. Fos-ter- Mllburn Co., Buffulo, N. Y. CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH ENNYROYAL PILLS Original and Only Oenulno. PL PR_ I I Wf V*Si>^8AFE. Always reliable I.ml!,-. »sk Drurglit ^ for CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH v in ItK.il and (.old metallic boxen, sealed ) with blue ribbon. Take no other. Refuse j Danguruun Hubwtltnllonn and iinlta-r tloriM. Buy of your DruRRWt. or send 4c. In stamps for l’urtlouIurw, TcMlmuiiluIa ami Relief for Lu«l lea,” in lelfr, by re* turn Mull* 1 0,000 Testimonials. Sold by all Druftiiu. 4'hlcheater i’hemleul Oo., Mention this paper. Madlaou Huuure, 1’lliLA., i’A. L. S. RHOADES, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE&NOTARY PUBLIC. All kinds of legal papers prepared and exe euted. Collecting a specialty. Office HOP Main Street. Mount Pleasant FIRST NATIONAL BANK. OF MOUNT PLEASANT, PA. Capital Stock $100,000 OFFICER8: H. W. Stoner, J. I). Hitchman, President. Cashier. G. \V. Stoner,Vice President DIRECTORS. J. S. Hitchman, J. D. Hitchman, II. W. Stoner, Win. B. Neel, J. O. Grownover, Jos. It. Stauffer. 9 N. Warden, C. >V. Stoner. Particular attention Riven to collections, and proceeds promptly settled. CITIZENS' NATIONAL BANK MOUNT PI.EASANT. PA, Capital Stock, - - $.r>0.n00.0fi. Surplus Fund, - - $40,000.00. OFFICERS. J. S. Hitchman, President. J. L. Ruth, Cashier. DIRECTORS. J. McD. Bryce, John Husband. J. L. Ruth. O. P. Shupe. J. A. Warden, J. 9. Hitchman. J. O. Orownover, J. L. Myers, Jno. M. Stauffer. Farmers & Merchants ^NATIONAL BANK> OF MOUNT PLEASANT, PA. CAPITAL STOCK. - $50,000.00. Surplus and Undivided Profits, - $25,000. OFFICERS: U. K. Hls.^em, President, C. E. Mullin, Cashier DIRECTORS: R. K. Flissem, Abraham Ruff, Frank I). Barnhart, E. T. Fox, a. R. Ruff. L. S. Tlnstraan, D II. Persb g, C. E. Mullin, S. P. Zimmerman. fOR PROTECTION AND CORRECTION against the action of the sun and wind something must bej used. Sunburn is painful and freckles disfiguring. We carry a full line of all the high class and reliable Salves, Eace Powder, Cold Cream, and other toilet preparations. These are all effectual and absolute-ly harmless and necessary for the beau-tifying of the skin and producing a smooth complexion. M. A. BOWMAN, West Main st., Mutual ’phone 56 Mount Pleasant, Pa. I am Special Agent for the Weaver and Livingstone Pianos the sweetest toned, best finished, most perfect pianos on the mar-ket. Call and see these splendid instruments. A complete line of organs, small mu-sical instruments, sheet tnuBic, etc. Also agent for the Standard Sewing Machine. J. B. MYERS, Jr., 313 East Main st.. Monnt Pleasant. WARREN DOUGLAS, President. DOUGLAS BUSINESS COLLEGES, □ McKeesport, Connellsville, Union-town, Pa., offer to young men and women courses of study which prepare for business life. Catalogue B is free. Send for it to-day. Address either school. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE. Estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Ackerman, de-ceased. Letters of administration on the estate of Mrs.Elizabeth Ackerman late of Donegal Bor-ough. Westmoreland ^county, Pa., deceased, having been granted to the undersigned by the Register of said county, notice is hereby given to all persons indebted to said estate to make Immediate payment, and those having claims against the same will present them, properly authenticated, for settlement. W. A. Iv AM*, Administrator. Mount Pleasant, Pa.. June 15, 1903. 0t flcCORMICK HARVESTING HACHINERY. We handle not only all the McCormick Harvesting Ma-chinery but also Wagons, Carriages, Surreys, Buggies, Harness, Blankets, Robes, Whips, etc., all of the very best'and at lowest prices. Call and examine. PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM Cleanses and beautifies the hair. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Fails to Restore Gray Hnir to its Youthful Color. Cure* scalp diseases & hair falling. ikvan^L^aMTruggist^^^ J. J. East Main street HITCHHAN, ■ • Mount Pleasant, Pa. TItK MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, FRIDA'S, JULY 10, 1903. ®he3PounlflcaaantJournal JOHN 1,. BHIBI.UH. I'CBUBHBR. Mount Pleasant Is situated In tlie heart of the Great Oonnellsvllle Ooke Region. has a population of over 5,000s while, with offices surrounding within a radius of three miles the postoffice distribution Is 111,000. A new 31- pot, tableware glass factory, the finest In I,Ids Country and employing over 400 hands, Is In successful dally operation. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year, payable In advance. ADVERTISING RATES will be furnished on application. JOB PRINTING of every kind with the best workmanship and best material. FRIDAY. July 10. 11*0.1 SPLENDID WORK The amount just OP EXECUTORS, turned over to Treasurer Stoner, of the Jacob Justice Free Dispensary, by the executors of the estate of the late Jacob Justice, Messrs. Richard Randolph Parry and .Tames R. Magee, of Philadelphia, is $78,580.49. This is a goodly sum of money in itself, were nothing said of the splendid management of the exec-utors. The residue of the estate, left by the testator for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a free dispensary here, amounted to less than $50,000 when these two gentlemen tools charge a little over three veal's ago. Ry good business foresight on their part in de-ferring the sale of the rpal estate, stocks and other securities, the bequest was increased over 50 per cent. The law would have allowed the ex editors 5 per cent, for their trouble, but they did it without one penny of cost for the respect and esteem they have for the meuiorv of their dead friend. The dispensary board of trustees has ordered crayon portraits of Messrs. Parry aud Magee to hnng by the side of a flue oil painting of Mr. Justice to show its appreciation of their splendid services. This may seem small in the way of acknowledgement, but it was all these two modest Philadelphians would permit the grateful trustees to do. THE decision of Judge Rodgers in the Byers-Byers equity case will doubtless prove some water on the prosecution s wheel in the criminal suits that are to follow in this county. A JEANNETTE minister claims that the Oabford Park disaster was au act of Providence because of sinfulness; but, even were this true, the statement seems cruel when made at the funeral of a victim. EDWARD K. MILLER'S band rode off with the prize at Scottdale’s blowout on the Fourth. Mount Pleasant has always had high class musicians, the only trouble being that they wouldn't stick together. Pope Leo XIII is likely to have passed away before these lines reach the reader. There is much in his long official life that makes him worthy to be called the Grand Old Man of his church. HAD A GOOD TIME. Joseph’s CHAMPION. John Dumbanld, of Scottdale, is back running the mill and his many friends are glad to see him. Our celebration consisted of a parade given by “The boy” on his pony covered with the stars and stripes. Michael Solomon is home for a few days. Philip Geary and his son Wesley were visiting Alverton friends the paBt week. Ralph Hostetler, of Back Creek, spent the Fourth here with relatives. Riley McLean was at home the past week. The unpleasantness between Uncle Jake and I. P. has all passed away. Dr. Hunter has a nice new buggy bought in Somerset. Mt. Nebo church looks a whole lot better, thanks to the new carpet donated by the ladies. Mrs. Bertha Lowry, who was here visiting her sister, Mrs. A. J. Bowman, lias returned to her Pittsburg home. TARIt. Mr. Harry Perkins and Miss Amy Cunnard, both of this place, were mar-ried Saturday by Rev. Hildebrand. They left Tuesday for a trip and on their return they will reside at Cantral. A small son of Andy Yaneski, of this place, died Saturday from scalds re-ceived by falling into a boiler of hot coffee. The local coke plant did not run on Monday and Tuesday on account of the high water. Miss Hattie Stoner spent Sunday at home with her parents. A large crowd from here was at Scott-dale on the Fourth. The high water did much damage through this vicinity. Telephone linemen are busy working through this place. The Swedetown ball players came up here Saturday and badly defeated onr boys. - JONES MILLS. The teachers’ examination in Donegal left some of onr young would be wield-ers of the birch with downcast looks. The schools of Donegal township will be let here tomorrow. Jacob Craig intends purchasing the dry goods Btore at Champion from E. E. Laimer. The latter, we understand, contemplates removing to StahlBtown in a month or two to engage in the mercantile business there. The GloriouB Fourth passed off quietly in our midst owing to a pressure of farm work and rainy weather. All crops are growing finely owing to bountiful rains and warmth. Prof. Bert Faust, of Donegal town ship, a graduate of California State Nor-mal, has been elected principal of the Hnfftown school. His success is pleas-ing to his old friends here. A number of members and theirfami-lies visited the Pike Run Country Club preserves Sunday. Mount Pleasant, Pa., Bond Sale. Tliu Borough of .Mount Pluasant, lVimsyl-vunlii. hits authorized tli« Issue of (Joupotj bonds to the amount of sixteen Thousand (flH.000) Dollars. Unown as tlio Mount. Pleas-ant. Pa., Denver Bond. Series of Denomination of the bonds Five Hundred (inOO.OO) Dollars eauli, bearing Interest at Hu* rate of four and one-bill f (4H) per cent tun per annum; non pons payable on fcne llrst. days of January and July oaeli year. The puiubaser to pay tax. Principal and Interest payable at t he office of the Borough Treasurer, Mount Pleasant, Pa. Thu bonds are numbered consecutively and are redeemable In t he order of t heir number, MS follows: Nos. I toll. Inclusive, on July 1st. annually, from IIHH to 1910. Inclusive, ami thereafter two bonds annually from Hill to \m. Sealed bids will be received by the Borough Secretary up toHo'olock p. in. Monday, July 87th. 1903. A certified check for $$0-00 must be enclosed with each bid, which shall be forfeited to the Borough of Mount Pleasant. Pa.. In case of refusal or omission of the successful bidder to accent. I he bonds and make payment, there-for within fifteen (15) days from awarding of the same. The Borough reserves the right to reject any or till bids. Address all bids to B B. BELT/. Mount Pleasant. Borough Secretary. Westmoreland County. Pa. 7 10at. Rain ‘.Had no Terrors for Bt People on the Fourth. The heavy showers on the Fourth hail no terrors tor St. Joseph's people who, with their friends to a goodly number, celebrated the day in strict conformance with the well arranged program of all kinds of athletic contests and dancing, with fireworks and balloon ascensious thrown in at night, just as if there was no such a thing as rain. No little credit for the success of the different games is dne the untiring ef-forts of Peter Mullen and James McGee. At 9 p. m. Rev. Father CollinB an-nounced the result of the continued May Carnival contests. The silver tea set was won by Miss Agnes Falter with $251.60 to Miss Kate Burns’s $87.50. The parlor suit will go to “Paddy' Kelly, the clever Standard yard boss, who turned in $945 to $513.04 by his opponent, Daniel McElrov, mine fore-man at Central. The prizes presented in a few weeks. The carnival sale of tickets and minor contests amounted to $850 and the re-ceipts on the Fourth $420 which, with $1,797.14 from the parlor suit and tea set contests, makes the carnival grand total $3,007.14. Officer Murdered. Henry F., better known as “Darty" Bierer, a Greensburg constable, while trying to arrest Charles Kruger, a tough at Jamison No. 1 coal works, yesterday, was shot and died in a few hours. Kru-ger escaped, but will likely be captured More New Court House Bide. For the fourth time new county court house bids were opened at Greensburg yesterday. Of the seven firms bidding ffm. Miller & Sons, of Pittsburg, were the lowest, their offer running from $775,000 to $900,000, according to the material to be used. ULETGYIER. Nelson and Elmer Ferguson are said to have been so anxious to go west that in order to raise the wherewith, one sold his gun and the other borrowed the money from W. F. Rees, to whom he had hired to work for $20 a month William says he is always willing to pay for what he gets, but in this instance the price was a trifle high. ORDINANCE. An Ordinance to authorize an Increase of the Indebtedness of the Borough or Mount Pleasant., Westmoreland County. Pennsyl-vania. for the purpose of sewering the streets and alleys of the Borough and for t he com-pletion of sewer terminals of said Borough and to provide for the redemption of said Indebtedness. Section I. Be It. ordained and enacted by the Borough of Mount Pleasant In council as-sembled aud It Is hereby ordained and enact-ed hv the authority of the same, t lint the Chief Burgess, President and Secretary of said Council are hereby authorized and directed to borrow for the use of said Bor-ough. the sum of SIXTEEN THOUSAND ($111,000.00) DOLLARS, for the purpose of sew-ering the streets and alleys of the Borough, and tor the completion of sewer terminals of said Borough and for that purpose to cause to be prepared ami toexeeuteas herein directed, ami to sell at. not less Mum par. and accrued Interest on behalf of the Borough of Mould Pleasant, tldrly-two coupon bonds of FIVE IMTNDRED(f5O0.(H)) DOLLARS each, to secure the pay merit of t he said Increase of Indebted-ness of $16,090.00 hereby aid borlzed by council, which said Increase or indebtedness toget her with what has already been authorized with out an election, after deduct lug t he amounts authorized by public elections from the net Indebtedness, will not make the entire in-debtedness thereof, authorized 1% council wit bout a vote, to exceed a sum eoual to t wo (2) per cent of the assessed valuation of the taxable property therein; and that the said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of four and one-half (4*4) per centum per annum, layable semi-annually, said bonds to mature, rear date and be in t he following form: No FORM OF BONO. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. $500 00. syivai TUB Bouoirnii OK MOUNT PI.EASANT. Westmoreland County. Sewer and Sewer Terminal Bontdcf. Series of 10051. 'I’lie Borough of Mount Pleasant, for value received will pay to the bearer hereof, on t.lie 1st day of .1 uly, 1005, at the office of t he Treas-urer of said Borough, the sum of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, payable in lawful money of the United States of America, wit h interest t hereon from the date hereof, at the rate of 4Vi per cent urn per annum payable in lawful money of the United States or Amerl-a. at the office of the Treasurer of said Bor- High on the 1st days of 'Inly ami January annually from the date hereof, upon the pre-sentation and surrender of the annexed coupons rts they severally become due; and for the payment of the said sum and interest the property, faith and credit of said Borough are hereby pledged as well ns the sum of $1,102.27, annually, commencing A. D. 1903, which is assessed and levied .'111(1 to !>«• applied exclusively to the payment of the interest, and liquidation of the principal of said bonds when due, which bonds are payable as follows: Bond No. 1 on July 1st, 1005. Bond No 2 on July 1st. 1906. Bond No. ;t on July 1st, 1907. Bond No. 1 on July 1st, 1908. Bond No. 5 on July 1st, 1900. Bond No. <1 . on July 1st, 1910. Bonds Nos. 7 and H . on July 1st , 1911. Bonds Nos. 0 and 10 on Jury 1st, 1912. Bonds Nos. 11 aud 12 on July 1st. 1913. Bonds Nos. 13 and 14 on July 1st, 1914. Bonds Nos. 15 aud 1(1 Bonds Nos. 17 aud IS Bonds Nos. 19 and 20 Bonds Nos. 21 and 22 Bonds Nos. 23 and 24 Bonds Nos. 25 and 20 Bonds Nos. 27 and 2H Bonds Nos. 29 and 5)0 Bonds Nos. 31 and 88 This bond Is one of a series of bonds of like date, tenor and amount, except as to the date of maturity and numbered consecutively from ono(l) to thirty-two (28), bot h inclusive, amounting in the aggregate to SIXTEEN THOUSAND ($10,000.09). DOLLARS and Issued pursuant to t bo Actor the General Assembly, approved April20tb, 1874, entitled. "An Act to regulate t he manner of Increasing the in-debtedness of municipalities, to provide for the redemption of the same, and to Impose penalties for the Illegal increase thereof.” and Its supplements and amendments. IN WITNESS \VHEREOF. The Borough of Mount Pleasant has caused this bond to be signed by the Chief Burgess and by the Pres-ident of Council, attested by the Secret ary of Council and the corporate seal of said Bor-ough affixed, and the coupons tone signed by its Treasurer as of the day of A. D. 1903. Attest: W. M. OVERHOLT. B. B. BELT/, Chief Burgess. Secretary of Council. F. L. MARSH. President of Council. on J uly 1st. 1915. on July 1st, 1916. on July 1st, 1917. on July 1st. 1918. on J uly 1st. 1919. on July 1st, 1920. on July 1st, 1921. on July 1st. 1083. on July 1st. 1923. Out With Them! We are compelled to close out our Granite and Tinware Lines as vve must have the room lor our Clothing, Dry Goods and Shoe Departments,which we are going to enlarge. We do not have the room this week to quote prices, but it will pay you to to call and sec for yourself. SHOES. Our shoe department has many attractions row. Here are two them: ladies’ Fine Vici Kid Lace Shoes. We have this shoe made from genuine vici kid, witn patent tip[ and dull top, the sole is light and flexible with Cuban heel; has all the style of higher grade shoes, We have left the question of profit entirely out, so as to give yon a snappy shoe for a small price ) SizeR 3 to 7. Extra spe-cial for • $1,491 Men s Fine Velour Calf Lace Shoes Made of the finest Velour Calf, one of the best pieces of leather ever put on ft man’s foot, with good, solid oak bottoms and smooth sole leather inner soles; one of the best values ever of-fered and not to be duplicated in the regular shoe store for less than $2.50. Cl 10 Onr special price Ladies’ Tailor-made Skirts. Our reputation for having the very best selection of ladies’ skirts has been fully proven. Many of onr town ladies can vouch for the accuracy of our statement. Sale of Dress Skirts at $4.89. Made of broadcloths, cheviots, etainlnes and mistrals, with bands of st itched tall’eta. Some styles have drop skirt, of Hue quality percallne; others tiiillned. Actual $7 and (I Q ft $8 values. Special sale price V*r>0%J Etamlne Dress Skirts, made with panel front, full hare and sweep, hip trimmed with folds and taffeta hands, ^0 gg elther black or blue f,0 value on sale at. See how our Straws Blow. Men’s tine Straw Hats, unlimited choice of the best. Every hat from 75c to $1.48, choice at 50c. Men’s or hoys’ dress straw hats worth up to 50c at 24c. 20 per cent, off on ail Clothing from now until July 4th. r MAIN 5T. MT. PLEASANT- 9B 99 Local Baseball Field. The Southwest boys made a good re-cord here the past week. They lost on laet Thursday to Scottdale in a ten-inning game 8 to 7, but defeated the victors here neatly on Wednesday 0 to 4. At Pitcairn on the Fonrth they quit even. The Stars took a fall out of the South-west Juniors Saturday morning 11 to 7. The Standards took both of St. Jo-seph's prize games on the Fourth from Bridgeport, winning $10 in the double trick. The victors also defeated the Sterlings at Frick Park Wednesday evening 18 to 15. Much Wasted Wind. Counellsvllle Republican. We have yet to hear on any arrest within the state or out of it for a viola-tion of the Salus-Grady libel hill. If the law is a dead letter, there was con-siderable valuable time wasted at Har-risburg during the last session of the legislature. The petitions sent to the Governor asking him not to approve of the measure went for naught as did his 3,500 words of approval. Trouble for Fat Cops. Pittsburg Times. St. Louis is after the policemen who manage to contract the aldermanic stomach habit. With the people of the world coming to the town next year to lood at the marvels in the exposition and to wonder down the kike, it shows that St. Louis nas some sense of pride left, after theboodling, when she asserts that her guardians of the peace must be trim looking fellows. FORM OF COUPON. $11.25, The Borough of Mount Pleasant. Westmore-land County. Pennsylvania, promises to pay to the bearer on the day of A. I). 190 at the office of the Treasurer of the Borough of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, in lawful money of the United States of America. Eleven and 25-100 Dollars belli ir six months interest on bond No. . for Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, series of 1903. Treasurer. Section 2. That said bonds shall be signed by the Chief Burgess and by the President or Council, with the corporate seal of the Borough affixed to each bond, and tlie cou-pons shall be signed by the Treasurer of said Borough, except that in lieu of the signature of the Treasurer to t he coupons annexed to the bond, bis signature may be lithographed thereon. Section 3. That an annual tax. the collec tlon whereof shall commence A. I). 1903. of the sum of $1,192.27 be. and the same Is hereby lovied and assessed upon all property. real and personal, in said Borough, subject to tax-ation for borough purposes, and a like sum for each and every year thereafter until and including the year 1923, and appropriated to provide for the Interest aforesaid, and for the redemption of said bonds as hereinafter pro vided, and the Treasurer of said Borough Is authorized and required to apply the moneys arising from said annual tax to the payment of the interest of said bonds as It becomes due, and for the accumulation of a sinking fund for the liquidation of the principal of said bonds, and shall be applied to no other purpose whatsover until the principal and Interest of said bonds have been fully paid and discharged. Section 4. That before selling any of the said bonds the Treasurer shall give bond in the sum of Twenty Thousand [$20,000.00] Dol-lars. with two or more sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful application of the proceeds of the said bonds, and the per-formance of his duties under this ordinance Section 5. The Chief Burgess, President of Council and the Secretary of Council shall prepare and file In the office of the Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmore-land County. Pa., all statements required by law to validate and carry into effect this ordlna nee* Ordained and enacted Into an Ordinance this 23rd day of June, A. D 1903. Attest: F. L. MARSH, B. B. BELT/., Pres, or Council. Secretary of Council. Approved this 24th day of June. A. I). 1903. Attest: W. M. OVERliOLT, B. B. BELT/, Chief Burgess. Secretary of Council. Is tlie Now and Bettor Broakfast Food, so different from all others that it pleases everybody. Got a package to-day at your grocers. THE GENESEE' PUKE FOOD CO., LE ROT, N. V. The Peterson .Business College.... Scottdale. Pa. A school of actual business. Book-keeping, Shorthand, Touch Typewriting, and attendant branches. Cata-logue mailed to you Free. Ad-dress. PERCY O. PETERSON, Pres. NOTICE is hereby given that the llrm of W. C. Bakhaus & Co. is hereby dissolved, the said business having been sold to J. D. Renick who will continue tho business at the old stand. No. 212 East Main street, in the Kuhn block. Thanking our former trade for their favors we bespeak a continuance of the same for our successor. Mount Pleasant. Pa. W. C. Bakhaus. 0 26 3t June 19, 1803. J. L. Robinson. Doesn’t Pay to Blow. Believing this to be true, we have always been careful in making any statement in regard to our business. Keeping strictly within this line, we can and do say. how-ever, that our stock of Shoes and Boots cannot be excelled in town. Another most im-portant point to the pur-chaser of footwear is prices and right here, quality considered, we guarantee the reader satisfaction. All we ask is the chance to prove our claims. Call and be convinced. A. T. PETERSON, Main st,, Mount Pleasant. Don’t Miss Attending Our Closing Out Sale I Such Astonishing Values were never offered anywhere. $2.00 for $1.00 is mostly the prevailing price on all our • w m i / i Actual Cost for all Shoes. Did you ever hear anything like it before?—GUESS NOT, and you wouldn’t now, either, if twasn’t that we are compelled to close out owing to the extensive alterations that are to be made in our store room. Large as Our Stock Is the selection will soon be gone, at the rate the crowds are coming since we started this sale we will be closed out sooner than we looked for, so better come without delay. H.GOLDSTONE Cor. Main and Church sts., Mount Pleasant, Pa. M ountPleasant's Largest Men's Outfitting Store. Money refunded if purchase is not satisfactory. 9 THT5 MOUNT PT/EA8A.NT .TOURN ATJ. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1903, HAPPENINGS AT HOI For the Past Week Briefly Men-tioned. LITTLE TALK OF THE TOWN THAT WILL BOTH INTEREST AND ENTERTAIN. A Department in Which the Local Editor Holds Hlffh Carnival and Works off his Surplus Energy In Condensations That Deal Solely with Matters Relating to Mount Pleasant A sturdy son was born Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stoner, of Eagle street, Friday night last. Major Jeffries’s report of the spring inspections places Company E second iu the Tenth regiment. Postmaster Zuck has been laid tip the better part of the past week with rheu-matism effecting his back. Albert Rowan, of Connellsyille, and Miss Fay Bench, of this place, were married last Thursday at Cumberland. The Re-Union Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid Society cleared some $75 with its nicely arranged lawn fete Friday and Saturday evenings. Before Justice McWilliams the past week,on charges of illegal liquor selling, “Alcohol Ike” was sent to jail and Albert Domagola held in $500 bail. THE JOURNAL owes Carl Graul an apology for failing to mention the fine organ recital he gave in connection with the United Brethren centennial services. Mrs. Laura Zundell, of East Walnut street, was given a most enjoyable sur-prise party last Wednesday evening by some forty lady friends, the occasion being her birthday. Jake Thompson, a foreigner, who keeps a boarding house at Morewood, has been held for court under $500 bail by Justice Rhoades on a charge of illegal liquor selling. Roseby Hann and James Smith, neither of whom has drawn a sober breath for many moons, were sent to jail at Greensburg Monday for thirty days by Mayor Overholt. Thieves who have a weakness for good grub broke into John T. Tarr's South Church street home Tuesday night and cleaned out the family larder after ran-sacking the entire first floor. Some thirty gay masquerading friends gave Miss Carrie Huffman, of Sbupe street, and her visiting friend, Miss Mattie Mathers, of Morgantown, W. Va., the jolliest kind of a surprise party last night. L. S. Rhoades, secretary of the local branch of the National Protective Legion, has just given Mrs. D. H. Stoner a check for $00 for four weeks’ sick benefits. The membership here is over eighty. The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be administered in the Re-Union Presbyterian church next Sunday morn-ing with preparatory services this even-ing at 7:45 and Saturday afternoon at 2:00, at which time Rev. Kilgoro, of Rehoboth church, will preach. Four Assyrians, with Mayor Over- | holt’s help, paid $50 into the borough treasury Wednesday afternoon for dis-orderly conduct and interfering with | Policeman Nugent at Frick Park during a ball game. Several of the defendants were taken only after liyely chases. Treasurer George W. Stoner, of the Jacob Justice Free Dispensary, on Fri-day last received from the Philadelphia executors of the late founder’s estate four checks amounting to $70,580.49, that being the sum total realized for that purpose in the settlement of the | estate. James Brothers, manager of the Union Supply Company store at Mu-tual, who drove in here with his wife and family to spend Sunday with rela-tives, thought some one had stolen his horse until he found that the animal had gotten out of the stable and gone | back home. The Mount Pleasant Board of Educa- J tion held its regular monthly meeting I Tuesday evening. After granting I orders covering June bills, Simon 1 Affolter wus re-elected attendance offl- I cer and George Hitchman given the I contract to paint the Church street | building, inside and out. Elmer Whetzeh an employe at the I East End brewery, is quarantined at his I Shupe street home with a bad case of I smallpox. Confined with him are his I wife and four small children. Poor Di- I rector Thompson is looking after their I wants, while the patient is in charge I of Dr. J. B. Wakefield, of Grapeville. Meeting of Council. Council held its regular monthly I meeting Monday evening. Orders were (granted covering June bills and Com- (missioner Malaney was instructed in | regard to work on certain streets and (alleys that will be done at once. It | was decided to get after the street rail-way people for tearing up the West Main street pavement without the (necessary permit. Mayor Overholt's (report showed that his receipts from (fines and licenses for the quarter end-ling June 30 were $298. DEATHS Of THE WEEK. The Grim Reaper's Work in This Place and Vicinltv. Mrs. Sarah Jeffries, known all over Fayette county as ''Aunt Sallie,” died last Thursday at her home, near New Salem, aged 97. She was born within a mile of where she died, and lived in the house 78 years before her death. She was the mother of 17 children, of whom 12 are still living. Jacob Mathias died at his Manor home last Thursday, aged 84 years. Mrs. Nettie Stultzman-Gilbert, wife of Harry Gilbert, died Monday evening at her Vine street home, aged 81 years. She suffered from an abscess for some ten weeks. An operation was perform-ed a month ago in the hope of at least affording relief, but it was all in vain and only death brought freedom from the terrible pain. She was conscious to the last and calmly made every arrange-ment for her funeral even to the trim-ming for her dress. The tody was taken Tuesday to the Somerset home of the sorely afflicted husband s father, from which the interment took place Wednesday. Mrs. Gilbert was a con-sistent member of the Lutheran church and a loving wife. Herman Kreinbrook, a respected resi-dent of the Ridge southeast of Laurel-ville, died Wednesday, aged 74 years. Mrs. Eicher, widow of the late Daniel Eicher, of Bridgeport, died at the Le-mont home of her son William Tuesday night. The body was brought here yesterday for interment. Msr. John Brown died at her Stauffer home Wednesday of peurperal fever, | aged about 40 years. | Affidavits Furnished. When coming up Fligor's hill, just this side of Donegal, Tuesday morning, i “Jim” Logan, the hack driver, killed a biacksnake that measured 5 feet and 5 inches. On the return trip and at the same place three fair passengers from j here, Misses Viola Stevenson, Anna and Blanche Galley, who are now Donegal visitors, spied another reptile and didn't do a thing but hop out of the hack and kill it. This snake measured 5 feet and 9 inches. Thoughtful James had the other seven passengers make affidavit to the fact on reaching Donegal. AND ABOUT, But Principally Within the Bounds of This County. A FULL COLUMN OF GOOD NEWS SECURED FROM THE PAGES OF RE-LIABLE EXCHANGES. EXCURSIONS TO ATLANTIC CITY And Other Atlantic Coast Resorts via Pennsylvania Railroad. July 111 and 30, August 13 and 27, and September 10 are the dates of the Penn-sylvania Railroad annual low rate ex-cursions for 1903 to Atlantic City, Cape May, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Avalon, Anglesea, Wildwood, Holly Beach, N. J., Rehoboth, Del., or Ocean City, Md. Tickets, good to return within sixteen days, including date of excursion, will be sold from Mount Pleasant for $10, excursionists from here taking the reg-ular 7:10 a. m. train. A special train of Pullman parlor cars and day coaches will leave Pitts-burg on above mentioned dates at 8:55 a. m., arriving at Altoona 12:15 p. m., where stop for dinner will be made, reaching Philadelphia 6:25 p. m., in time for supper, and arriving Atlantic City, via the Delaware River Bridge Route, the only all rail line, at 8 35 p. m. Passengers may also spend the night in Philadelphia and proceed to the shore by any regular train from Market Street Wharf or Broad Street Station on the following day. Passengers for points other than Atlantic City will spend the night in Philadelphia, and use regular trains the next day from Market Street Wharf. A stop oyer of within limit will be allowed at Philadelphia on returning, if passengers will deposit their tickets with the ticket agent at Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, immediately on arrival. Tickets must be deposited with agent on arrival at seashore des-tination and properly validated for re-turn trip. Tickets will also be good for regular trains leaving Pittsburg at 4:50 and 9:00 p. m. from ail stations at which these trains stop, and from stations from which regular connection with them is made. Pullman sleeping cars through to Philadelphia on the 4:50 and 9:00 p. m. trains. Returning coupons will be accepted on any regular train except the Penn-sylvania Limited and the Chicago Lim-ited and the St. Louis Limited. For detailed information in regard to rates and time of trains apply to ticket agents or Mr. Thomas E. Watt, District Passenger Agent, 860 Fifth avenue Pittsburg. ♦ ♦ ♦ Fine Barber Shop. Proprietor Charles Shields has every reason to take pride in his Braddock block basement barber shop as it is, without question, the best equipped es-tablishment outside of the large cities. In addition to three new hydraulic chairs with complete furnishingB he has just put in an automatic air compressor that beats towels all hollow when it comes to drying the customer's face. The contrivance is especially handy following the shampooing of ladies' hair. July Clearance Sale of all summer goods began July 1st. Money saving opportunity for economical buyers. STRICICLER’S STORE. How these Articles Appear After They Have been Boiled Down Into Short Paragraphs That Speak to the Point But Briefly of Interesting Events Transpiring in the Old Star of the West Greensburg plumbers came out on a strike last week for a uniform rate of wages of $3.50 per day. A. J. Case wounded one of the robbers who visited his Jeannette home last Wednesday night, but the rascal got away. Harry Barnhart has bought eight acres of the Joseph Shuster farm, near Greensburg, for $8,000, and will use the land as a truck garden. Michael Carcello, a Jeannette fruit dealer, is in jail at Greensburg for hav-ing seriously stabbed a fellow Italian, George Ledardi, Friday. The Federal Telephone Company, which covers some 71 towns in this end of the state, has leased the local com-pany’s Greensburg plant. The Pennsylvania railroad will, it is said, extend its local train service from Pitcairn to Greensburg as soon as the fourth track system is completed. At last week's meeting of the Penn sylvania Bar Association at Cambridge Springs ex-Judge Nathaniel Ewing, of Uniontown, was elected president. In the contest for queen of the big labor carnival at Uniontown Miss Mar gery West, the candidate of the local bar tenders and brewers, won easily. The Pittsburg, McKeesport & Con-nellsville and the Pittsburg Railways companies have exchanged valuable franchises at McKeesport and Wilmer - ding. At last Thursday’s joint committee meeting in Pittsburg an agreement was effected looking to the union of the Congregational, Methodist Protestant and United Brethren churches. W. S. Hough, of Pittsburg, who re-cently purchased the McCoy farm, near New Stanton, for $15,000, has sold a por-tion of the tract to a Philadelphia man-ufacturing firm who will use it as a site for an iron bedstead factory. The morning express west on the B. & O. road sidewiped a freight train near Connellsville Friday morning last. En-gineer Frank Hughes and Fireman Ar-nold, both of Glen wood, were hurt and several passengers considerably bruised. Byers-Byers Case Decision. Judge Elliott Rodgers, of Pittsburg, on Wednesday handed down an opinion in the equity suit of Jacob Byers, the aged resident of near Tarr, against his nephew, Attorney William S. Byers, of Greensburg, to recover $175,000 worth of Mount Pleasant Coke Company bonds, said to be in a Pittsburg safe deposit vault, $40,000 caBb and the interest on the bonds. Judge Rodgers decides that the old man has proved his title to the property and that it must be surrendered to him. To MY MANY FRIENDS AND PA-TRONS:— The trouble that some un-scrupulous persons took to tell you that I am quitting the business and am go-ing to leave town is only done for a pur-pose; there is no truth in it. The only motive for my closing out my entire stock regardless of cost is to make badly needed alterations in our store room, to make more room for our large and in-creasing business. With better facili-ties and more energy, I hope to faith-fully and honestly serve you for many years to come. H. GOLDSTONE. 7 3 tf NOTICE:—The Mount Pleasant Board of Education will receive bids for fur-nishing about 5,000 bushels of coal until Saturday, August 1, at 8 p. m. All bids must be sent to F. E. Painter, sec-retary, on or before that date. 10 3 FOR SALE—Fine double lot on Vine street, 80 by 120 feet. Will be sold as a whole or divided in two to suit pur-chasers. Call at No. 220 Standard or address P. O. Box No. 341, Mount Pleasant. 7 3 1m Strickler’s store offers special induce-ments to thrifty housekeepers. REWARD—M. S. Brinker will pay a liberal reward for the return of his fox terrier which has either strayed away or was stolen. The animal is white with black spots over kindeys and at root of tail. 7 3 2 Matching coffees is one of our ways of winning trade. Match our Murry Hill Java with the coffee you are now using. 70c for 2-pound can. STRICKLER’S STORE, Grocery Department. You can get queensware and wall paper at the Benford store almost at your own price. J. B. Coldsmith, the new proprietor, is closing the stock out. 4 24 tf m' 't\ '0 m m (?) m mw y mw (t> mm wm m* m '*> vsm'♦> vs STRICKLER’S STORE. Established 135-4. Store* closes at 8i30 p. in, July 3. 1903, July Clearance Sale of All Summer Goods. A merchandise movement that will do what we want and what we’ve determined shall be done—sell down to where we want it the largest stock of summer goods the store ever owned. There is one to do it with—prices. It doesn’t take long to spend a lot of money for printers’ ink—good a thing as it is. We think it better to spend half the amount for printers’ ink and take dollars off the prices. Not only do we think this but we practice what we preach. Goods that will pay to get here for. Prices to make it interesting. All goods this season’s purchase. $1.00 white waistings reduced to 50c. 65c and 75 white waistings reduced to 40c. 45c and 50c “ “ “ “ 25c. Lawns and Dimities at prices that will interest you. 15c and 12 l-2c for 9^ 20c - - •“ 124c 25c and 35c “ 18c 50c and 65c Anderson’s Novelty Ginghams reduced to 25c. I) ress Goods This season’s novelties. $1.25 and $1.35 Flecked Knickerbockers reduced to 98c $t.oo “ “ “ “ 7§c 65c “ “ “ “ 48c Long Cloth Nice goods and suitable for many purposes—put up in 10 and 12 yd pieces—sold by the piece. 15c reduced to ||c. 18c “ “ 12k. 20c “ “ |5c. Black Silks Good, dependable, serviceable kinds that every woman.wants. $1.00 Peau de Soie reduced to (7 5c yd 51.35 “ “ “ “ D " $|,00 yd. Yard wide Taffeta “ “ $1.00 “ Domestics 5,000 yds best Calicoes made at 5c per yard. 13 yds Hill Bleached|Muslin for $1.00. 20 yds 7c Unbleached Muslinjfor $1.00. Sheets, PillowCases,Bolsters for less money than the muslin costs. 81x90 Sheets 50c. 42x36 Pillow Cases ||c. 42x72 Bolsters 28c. fjfK BED SPREADS hemmed ready for use at less prices—75c, 90c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $2. VS VS LACE CURTAINS, -heavy selling has left us with lots of one and two pairs each. $1.50 curtains $1.00; $2.50 curtains $1,50. Shoe Department contributes to make this Julylsale the greatestjn'the store’s history. ip Main street and Diamond Square, - Mount Pleasant, Pa. $ J.W. Swartz Dealer in Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, Window Shades, Oil Cloths, Roofing, Carpet & Building Paper, Picture & Window Glass, and heavy Plate Glass for store fronts. Paper Hanging and Sign Painting a Specialty. Main street, Mount Pleasant. Go TO HARY SWARTZ for Millinery. For the 20th Century buy the new 11 Ball Bearing Home Sewing Machine and the Sterling PIANOS and ORGANS. ^ J. L. ARMBRUST, of Armbrust, Pa. SEND FOR PRICE LISTS. Rcpdiriny ?fB?a<^ne8.a.ndorffans at- tended to with promptness. Application for Charter. Notice is hereby given that tin application will he truffle to the Governor of the Common-wealth of Pennsyl vania, on the twenty-second day of July, A. L)., 1903, at 10 o’clock, a. m., by Edward G. Benford. Harry U. Benford and A. E. Benford. uuder the provisions of sin Act of Assembly entitled "An Act to provide for the Incorporation and reg-ulation of certain corporations.” approved April 29th, 1H74. and -the supplements and amendments thereto, for a charter for an In-tended corporation to be called ’‘Mount Pleasant Distilling Company.” the character and object of which is the distilling and man-ufacture of vinous and splritous liquors und the sale of the same, and for these purposes to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges by said Act of As-sembly and tne supplements and amend-ments thereto, conferred. »5 20 4t McCurdy & Cunningham, Solicitors HOW TO SAVE ONE DOLLAR. If we have your size left come at once and let us save you one dollar on a good Shoe or Oxford. Men’s Shoes or Oxfords, $5 and $6, reduced to $3.50 and $4.00. Men’s Shoes, $3.50 W. L. Douglas, reduced to $2.50. Ladies’ Shoes or Oxfords, $3.50 and $4.00, reduced to $2.50. Ladies’ Queen Quality Shoes and Oxfords reduced to $2.25. We are getting pretty well broken up on sizes, as there have been so many of our economical shoppers who have taken advantage of these GREAT : SACRIFICING : PRICES. JIIST ARRIVED:—LotMeno:fo p r 0 ds at0'Toe Remember the entire stock is new and up-to-date. Goods will he cheerfully exchanged or money refunded. H SELIGMAN, (Successor to J. W. Faust.) Up-to-Date One Price Shoe House, 654 Main st., - Mount Pleasant, Pa. THE MOUNT PLKAHANT JOURNAL,, FRIDA?, JULY 10, 1903. Bowser Sticks To It He Insists “Regime” Is Nat Pronounced "Razheem" T'Copyright, 1903. by C. B. Lewis.) H13 Dowsers luitl dined well nnd spent n pleasant hour after-wnrdv and Mr. Dowser had alioilt finished ills cigar and his newspaper when lie looked up nnd said: “Under the regime of forty years ago those men who are squeezing the pub-lic with high pri'cs for everything would be hauled up pretty smartly.” He pronounced Die word ns if spelled “reg-l-tnee,” and, without thinking wlmt It might lead to, Mrs. Bowser In-tiHired: “Under the what, did you say?” “Under tin1 regime. Wasn’t my pro-nunciation clear?” “You don’t get the word exactly right. It is pronounced ‘razheetn.’” “What! Why, woman, you are way off! I have been familiar with the word for thirty years, and I think I know how it should be pronounced. It FINAM11AL STATKMENT Of the Borough of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, for the year ending March 2nd, 1903. H. C. MORRISON, COLLECTOR, 1896/ To balance clue oft 30 Rv balance clue 501 3ii ‘ W. M. OVERHOLT, COLLECTOR. To bnlance due, ’97, ’9s and ’99 IK.’ 03 1 By Amount paid Treasurer f | " By Commission, 5 per cent. ! i “ Balance line §8$ I;:I | 1$ M 311 Sol :m a«r so 20 to j>74 lit '.>>21 (13 A TItAMP STOOD TIIF.BE AND HUMBLY ASKED FOB A DIME. is reg-i-mee, of course. You have got it mixed up witli some of those French words you come across in novels.” “But I haven’t, my dear. It is ‘ra-zheem,’ and every well learned person will say so. I haven’t read a novel in a year, and I don’t pretend to under-stand French or try to get off any French words.” “And do you mean to tell me to my face that I am a numskull and an ass?” exclaimed Mr. Bowser as lie set his jaw and grew red as tire. “No, dear; I simply say that you don’t give 1110 word the right pronun-ciation. It Is nothing to dispute over, however, and we will drop It. I>o you think it will he colder tomorrow?” “Colder or hotter lie hanged! You have the same as called me a fool, and I propose to have the matter settled. If it lias come to the point where u husband must go to school to his wife, » —-.* u»niy it. You have said +>•»+ haven’t I got just as good a right to my way as tills infernal old inosshaek nf a Webster has to his? I’ll bet dol-lars to cents that even the tramps on the streets call it reg-i-mee. I’ve a good mind to go out and"— lint he didn’t have to. The hell rang, mid as he passed down the hall and opened Die door a tramp stood there and humbly asked for a dime to pay for lodgings. “Come right in here," replied Mr. Bowser as lie seized him by the arm. “Now, then, do you know beans from pumpkins?” “1 think I do,” was the reply. “Then tell me how you pronounce the word r-e-g-i-m-e.” “I—I don’t think I’d call it ‘bee,’” re-plied the man after some thought. “Of course not.” "And it can’t be buttermilk.” “Have you got sawdust in your bead?” “I wouldn’t say it was cold chicken or mince pie, but it may lie”— “May he what?” asked Mr. Bowser as the other hesitated. “Durned if I don’t believe it’s n high-ball, and I want to thunk you for it In advance. If all men were us generous as you are, us fellers”— lie got no further—that is, he got a good deal further. He got outdoors, and the door struck his heels as he went. Mrs. Bowser was trying hard to keep a placid face as Mr. Bowser returned to the sitting room, nnd not-ing the fact lie pointed a finger at her and sternly said: “This performance is not half over with yet. I will not sleep until I have proved my case.” “I am willing to let it go as you say,” she replied. “What do we care wheth-er it is reg-i-mee or ra-z.heem?” “I care because I have been called an ass and an idiot, and I don’t propose to stand it. I will go out on the street nnd put the ease to the public. You needn’t protest, for it will do no good.” lie went. Ills experience with the tramp warned him against that class, but meeting an intelligent looking man with a bundle under his arm lie stop-ped liini and said: “A word with you, if you please.” “Same old story, I suppose,” sneered tlie man In reply, “nnd I haven’t time to listen to it.” “Sir, I am no tramp!” said Mr. Bow-ser with great dignity. “No? Then what is it?” “How do you pronounce the word spelled r-e-g-i-m-e?” “Hump! Don’t you monkey with me, old man! I wasn’t born yesterday.” The mail passed on, and it took Mr. Bowser ten minutes to get over his an gcr and accost a second pedestrian lie was told to forget it. The third asked him when he got out of the lu-natic asylum, and the fourth [licked up a club from the street nnd whistled for the police. Mrs. Bowser nnd the cat >.~A pepi, looking out of the front win J. JV1. YOTHERS, COLLECTOR, 1900. To Balance Due •* Penalty 1 225; 70 j By Amount paid Treasurer $ 500: 00 28: 07 : ” Commission 20; 1* “ Balance Due ; 604- 20 1 259 so ! :f T253; "gfl r! IT WILL PAY YOU tt To give us a call. J. M. YOTHERS. COLLECTOR, 1901. To Balance Due •• Penalty 07:! 42! By Amount Paid Treasurer •• Commission “ Balance Due $ 1 404: 80 77: 00 1 355; 00 If 2 707: 40 > Everything in our store is re- # duced from 20 to 40 per cent. Y /Always as Advertised. J. M. YOTHERS. COLLECTOR, 1902. To Face of Duplicate To Face at 6 months To Face after 6 months Penalty 12 037 By Amount paid Treas. 6o days $ ** Discount, 5 per cent. " Commission ’* Balance Due 5 4 284 87 2 7721 88! j By Amount paid Treasurer “ Commission “ Balance Due By Amount Paid Treasurer •* Commission '* Balance Due $ 1 444 70 03 2 704 20 $ 4 284 87 j 603 Main Street, Muliin Block. Chas. Pross, Men’s and Boys’ Outfitter, Mount Pleasant, Pa. TAXES OUTSTANDING. To H. C. Morrison, 1996 •• W. M Overholt,’97.’98.’99 “ J. M. Yothers, 1900 •* 1901 *• 1902 By Amount due Borough 574 07 0041 29 1 2551 liO 2 502 57 is . 5 ml 49 SEWER LIENS OP 1895. To J. H. Boltz, “Heirs” ? ’* W. M. Jordan “ Mrs. G. W. Boyd “ penalty and int. 104 20 By Mrs. G. W. Boyd By balance unpaid To Geo. Cooper Abram Ruff F. L. Marsh To Fines licenses i’ermits SUBSCRIPTION TO COOPER ALLEY. 10: 00 By A. Ruff, cash 20; OOi “ F. L. Marsh, cash 10: 00: *• Balance unpaid 40 0011 BURGESS M. S. KUHN. 30 Oft JO 00 10 00 4ftl 00 To Burgess M. S. Kuhn Pole Tax Board of Health •Walnut Street Sewer A. Ruff, subscription I. J. McWilliams $ 205; 00 | By Amount Paid Secretary 214 50 32 75 ; $ 5121 25! 1 SECBETARY W. W. CAMPBELL. nr Mlil Si 233 By Amount Paid Treasurer SOLICITOR RALPH D. HURST. To Mrs. Kmma Shaw “ G. W. Boyd U. B. Parsonage Matthew Shields Mt. P. Klee. Light Co. By Amount Paid Treasurer 1 210, 04 12101 64 948 94 948 94 To Amount Outstanding FIVE PER CENT. BONDS OF 1896. $ 22 5001 Oftli 2 22~ii0i)l 00 | By Redemption By Balance Outstanding 3 2 000 20 500 3 22 500 FIVE PER CENT. BONDS OP 1897. To Amount Outstanding I? 24 000 2-4 000 00 By Redemption By Balance Outstanding 3 COO 00 21 000 00 To Amount Outstanding To 5 per cent. Bonds of 1896 1897 .. 4 •• •• “ “ 1899 POUR PER CPNT. BONDS OP 1*99. * 7 J400; 00 By Balance Outstanding 7 900: 001 24 000! 00 • 90»; 00 ’900: 00 BONDS OUTSTANDING. 13 20 500 00 21 000 00 7 900 00 3 49 400 00 By Balance Outstanding SINKING FUND. I To Amount on hand Amount Paid Treasurer 4 4211 4 704, 9 1851’ By Orders Issued “ balance on hand 7 433 40 1 751 98 9 185:" 33 STREET IMPROVEMENT FUND. To balance on hand 2 203: 2 2031" By Balance on hand NEW SEWER FUND. “DON’T YOU MONKEY WITH ME, OLD MAN!” To balnnee on hand Penalty and Interest Lien No. 3134, paid To Amount on hand Liens unpaid Penalty and Interest To balance on hand Amount from State To Sinking Fund Street Improvement Fund New Sewer Fund Sewer of 1895 Fire Fund By redempt’n Sewer Cert. No. i 3 ** Interest on same. 1 year “ Balance on hand 500 00 25 00 201 40 5451 40 SEWER OP 1895. By amount on hand “ balance unpaid 238: 57 107j 00 845? 57 FIRE FUND. [ By balance on hand B_18 1 CASH. tho word was not pronounced reg-1- mee. Now prove it.” "Won’t you let it go, dear?” she pleaded, now realizing that alio had been anything but diplomatic. “Never—never in this world. If I am an idiot, I want to know it right here and now. Produce your authority or admit tlint it was simply a specimen of your audacious cheek.” Mrs. Dowser waited a minute nnd then took a dictionary from the re-volving bookcase and limited out tho word and laid the book before him. Under the caption of “Re” ho read: “Regime (ra-zheem, n. Fr. regime, Pr. regisme, regesme, regeme, Sp. regi-men. See infra). Mode or style of rule or management; character of gov-ernment; administration.” “Well?” she asked as lie looked up. “Well, wlmt does tills prove?” lie de-manded ns he heaved the book upon Hie lounge nnd gave tlie cat a great scare. “Haven’t I told you a hundred times over that 1 was) not to be hound down by a dictionary? Would I spell frog with two g’s because some idiot of a man put It so in a dictionary?” “Then how can wo settle it?” "By what the public says. I can bring a thousand people here to say that the word is pronounced reg-i-mee. Is one mnu to be set up against a thou-sand? To come right down to It, dow for a quarter of an hour when a boy appeared with a note for her. It was from Mr. Bowser. It read: “I say it’s reg-i-mee, and I’ll be hanged if I don’t prove it or die in tlie attempt. You can go to bed or sit up or hang yourself.” Ten o’clock came, 11, 12, 1. Then the cat fell asleep, and Mrs. Bowser heaved a sigli and gave it up and went to bed. She knew Mr. Bowser. She knew he Would find that reg-i-mee or break both his logs and lose the rest of his hair trying. M. QUAD. By General Fund 1 Balance on hand 174 HO 4 009: APPROPRIATIONS REQUIRED. To Ain’t due Sinking Fund “ *• required as per Ord. 829 1 MOO 2 200 020 5 449 40 To Am’t Paid Sinking Fund 3 4 704 OOi 00 00|| *’ Balance due Sinking Fund 085 40 02 GENERAL FUND. Killing Two IHrdn. Citiman—I heilr that friend of yonrs from Brooklyn has moved out to your town. Subbubs—Yes, and lie’s a genius. He wasn’t with us a week before be bad invented a combination carriage and lawn mower.—Philadelphia Press. To Amount on hand *• from Burgess Walnut St. Sewer Pole Tax Electric Light Co. Penalty Pole Tax Frick Coke Co. “ I*., McK. & C. Ry Co. C. D. & P. Tel. Co. Liquor License Co. Treas. Board of Health Subscription Cooper Alley I. J. McWilliams j. M. Yothers, Collector County Treas. Ret#Tax Orders Outstanding .in By orders outstanding 1901 ” Brick “ Light *• Lumber *• Miscellaneous ” Police “ Rents *• Board of Health “ Salaries " Auditors Engineers " Street Repairs ” Water " Street Commissioner Sidewalks ” Hauling and Carting “ Bond Issue Priutiug and Advertising *• Quarantine Small Pox “ Hardware and Sewer Pipe “ Fire Alarm and Apparatus 10 178 35 1 LNDE15TEDNESS. The Nitflit Hute. Chemist—Are you interested in the | 1 use of nitrates? Customer—I should say yes. I never wire a line to anybody till after G p. m. ►-Baltimore American. lit* Word Good Knougli. “My word is as good ns my bond.” “I hope it is better. Some scoundrel I may be on your bond.”—New York | Tress.. 5 per cent Bonds 1896 Outst’d’g :$ 5 per cent " 1897 4 per cent “ 1899 ** Order No. 750 * 20 500: 21 000: 7 900; 4; 49 404: 05;; RESOURCES. Cash on hand i$ 4 434 Taxes due 5 137 Sewer Liens of 1895 j 107 Subscription George Cooper : 10 County Commissioner j 24 Mutual Telephone Co. 268 Western Union Telegraph Co. 98 Postal Telegraph Co. 132 Garbage Removal 13 Ain’t due acc’t C. Walker 7 Net indebtedness j 39 1?3 49 40-1 We. the undersigned. Auditors of the Borough of Mount Pieosant, Pa., hereby certify that we have examined the above accounts uud found them correct. F. P. EIOHER, JAMES S. BHADDOCK. Auditors. | Juue 23, im JAMES 0. GUY, 1 Now’s the Time to Decide where you will send your son or daughter to school next year. The Institute is the best endowed secondary school in Western Pennsyl-vania. Complete departments --Literary, Music and Art. Send for catalogue to o H. C. 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[,V,V(V.V.V.,iV.V.Vi%VA,iV.V,V.Vi,iV«V.V.Vi,.%Vii MASTER and | ; c] Ayr *y— ?! ; uL/ilf EL/ T. H. THORPE X* ' vi ; v! ' Copyright, 1901, by T. H. Thorpe. Vi tCOSTIirtTED.) CHAPTER XV. THE OLOGRAPHIC TESTAMENT. ■ EVER had Evariste breathed so deeply and freely, never liad his pulse beat so strong-ly, ns after hearing Valsin, an eyewitness; rehearse the roic fall of his brother. His spirit |ounded; he felt Ids powers expand; saw tlie pntli to the goal cleared. It l as nn effort to feign grief in tlie rep-etition of the story to tearful Mrs. Wy-jy, but ids acting was superb, and it lifliced to excuse hasty retirement to lie privacy of his room and the re- |uest that no one should lie permitted disturb him. Tiptoeing steps past |ie locked door and underneath the attained windows testified the respect the household for ids sorrow. | With hands unsteadied by tlie ex-eme of exultation lie opened the small Irass ribbed box of ebony in which the paled envelope had lain since the day bail received it from Horace and fconiised to defend Estelle from harm, ^rawing his chair into the subdued ght which filtered through the win-low curtain, he broke the seal, took at tlie one sheet of paper and, unfold-hg It, read: ■ PARISH OF AVOYELLES, LOUISIANA, M:iy l-n. ■I, Horace Oakfell, of “L’Esperance” plantation, j the parish and state above written, of lawful age nd without forced heirs, being of sound health pth in mind and body, but knowing the cet* linty of death and the uncertainty of the time lereof and especially having in view the perils of , into which I am about to enter, do make this ■y last will and testament in the olographic lrm. ■I give and bequeath unto my brother, Evariste Jkfell, one-half of all my estate of whatsoever Ind and wheresoever situated which I may pos- ■89 at the moment of my death. ■I give and bequeath unto Estelle Latiolais. landdaughter of Leonidas Latiolais of the parish Id state above written, the remainder of my es- Ite of whatsoever kind and wheresoever situated Jiich I may possess at the moment of my death. |l appoint my said brother, Evariste Oakfell, sole ■ecutor of this testament and dispense him from |ving bond, and 1 direct him to make partition my estate by Imitation within one year after lobate and deliver to said Estelle Latiolais her Bare in gold money or its equivalent in interest faring securities to be approved by the parish |dge. This testament has been dated, written and ^ned by me on one sheet of paper at one writ- HORACE OAKFELL. |So Intense was the shock lie experi-liceil from this perusal that his head 111 forward, and for a moment his late was one of senilconsclousness. lut rage, hitter, unspeakable rage, sent lie blood surging hot from his heart, me veins of his neck and temples prged; his face grew livid. Had he pen of full physical habit he would sve died in the tempest of wrath Ihich burst within him. An hour he lit motionless except for the twltch- Jgs of his countenance, like those of anaesthetized patient under tlie sur-feon’s knife. But one thought was de-led in his dazed, congested mind, and lat took the form of an Infinite, uialig-ant curse upon the brother who jwarted him even from his umllscov-lable grave. Exhausted, weak as a ]iild coming out of a cataleptic spasm, tottered across the room and fell |inting upon his bed. The calmness collapse came upon him, bringing a l-adual return of connected thought. Iln Ills view Horace’s malevolence to Im was manifest. The purpose of the Jquest of half the estate to Estelle las so to burden the conscience of the Intimentni girl with a weight of grat- |ude to his memory that the bestowal her hand to another would to her Icm the basest of crimes. He had lught to make her life one of virgin lidowhood or religious seclusion. The lain animus was to bailie the suit |hlch he anticipated that Evariste ould press. The latter would uot ad-lit that his passion was unknown to lorace. How was this stroke to be lirried? Now, If ever, was the crisis It of which his boasted cunning, the |ft of his Latin ancestors, should bear victorious. What was this weapon led against his life’s life? What was le character of an olographic will? [hat was his status without the will, living person but himself having len it? JHe dared not consult a lawyer. No |e of the craft known to him possess-the degree of secretiveness to in- Ite Ills trust. Rising and borrowing pength from a decanter of brandy, be ok down the civil code of Louisiana Id, turning over the leaves, every one ] which bore the pen notes and thumb irks of his brother, rested his eyes |on these lines: •tide 1081. The olographic testament is that |ieh is written by the testator himsell. in or- • to be valid it must be entirely written, dated signed by the testator. It is subject to no Ler form and may be made anywhere, even out |the state. Ide 1048. The olographic testament shall be if it be sealed, and it must be acknowl-and proved by the declaration oi two cred-persons, who roust attest that they recognize testament as being entirely written, dated signed in the testator's handwriting, as hav-often Been him write and sign during hia ptime. [‘The perfection of simplicity,” Eva-fte muttered, “and from all the forms testament allowed by the law he deliberately selected this one for discomfiture. Shall I suffer It to ck my hopes? Shall I not strangle |before It sees the light? What would the effect of that? Let me look fuf- Jelvlng again into the code, he found it he, though only half brother, t>uld have inherited the whole estate the exclusion of other collateral |Irs had Horace died Intestate. “Oh, Horace, you stupid American dolt,” he soliloquized gloatingly, “to leave in my hands this cursed instru-ment of your ill will and expect me to turn it upon myself—to commit suicide with i|! You never understood me. You never tried to understand me. It Is too droll. Between me anil success stands only tills flimsy barrier, erected by a stolid mind, and away it vanishes In smoke!” He seized the will and struck a match, when he was startled by a sharp knock at his door. Throwing away the match and thrusting the will Into his pocket, he demanded: "Who Is there?” "it is I," Mrs. Wyley answered. “A letter 1ms been brought by a messen-ger, who says an immediate answer is required.” He opened tlie door anil received the following note: Como to Dodo’s at once. Matters of importance require consideration and action now. <)UILLEBERT. “Tell the messenger, please, that I will come,” lie said to Mrs. Wyley, and then to himself: ‘ l’erhaps this is for-tunate. It may be well for me to breathe fresh air and got back to tlie uornial, possibly to consult Quillebert, before taking steps which could never lie retraced. He is an expert on all matters of tills complexion.” He was soon at tlie cabaret ntid sent-ed In the rear room with Qullleliert. “1 have news for you,” said the lat-ter. “Tell it.” “Tlie Latiolais girl wants to become a nun.” “She will forego that wish when 1 make her realize the consequences to her grandfather.” “Y’ou are still resolved on that?” “More Inflexibly than ever.” “Then I have other news.” “Tell It.” “l'our brother left a will.” Evariste paled and exclaimed: “Who says so?” “Valsin Mouillot.” “How does he know?” “Your brother told him he had left his will with you.” A cold moisture bathed Evariste's brow. “Moreover, he made the same state-ment to the priest Grlie the day before lie went away. But neither of them knows Its dispositions,” continued Qulllebort. “The people will expect you to produce it soon.” “My Goil!” said Evariste, realizing the futility of denying the existence of the testament and his need of an ad-viser. “Y'our summons came in the nick of time to save me from ruin.” “How so?” asked Quillebert. “I was on the point of burning the testament.” “Why?” “Because It divides the estate evenly between Estelle and me.” “Hone!” grunted Quillebert. “Maybe that is an intimation of his wish that she should marry with you.” “No. It was intended to make her his widow and fortify her against the duress I meant to apply through old Leonidas. She will never consent to become my wife if that will goes Into effect.” “You are right,” Quillebert said after a moment's thought. “Where Is the document?” “1 have it here,” replied Evariste. “Let me see It,” Quillebert demand-ed. The testament was exhibited. Quille-bert read It slowly and deliberately with half closed eyes and knit brows. For an hour he labored thus. proof that his genius was actively working. Looking up without raising his bead, he said: “Who has seen this besides your-self?” “No one but you.” “Are you sure?” "Yes. It has been locked In my desk since Horace gave It to me, and the key has never been out of my posses-sion." “Hone!” Quillebert stretched himself to a half reclining position, thrust his hands deep Into his pocket and, with his eyes riveted upon the will, plunged Into a cogitation so profound and apparently so forceful that It seemed a bodily ac-tion instead of an Intellectual ooera-tlon. This silent function was pro-longed, and Evariste became Impatient, though he ilnreil uot disturb It. Sudden-ly Quillebert rose, drew from Ills pock-et a number of letters, and, tearing from one a blank page of tldn French made paper, lie took up the will, turned the ke>v in the door and walked to the •(ear end of the room, where a single window let in tlie light from tlie west. Finding pen and Ink on the wide man-tel, he placed them on tlie window ledge. “What are you doing?" nsked Eva-riste. “Stay where you are,” Quillebert re-plied. He spread tlie will against the dirty window pane, illumined by the almost vertical rays of the evening sun. and over It tlie page n! translucent paper. With slow movement lie plieil the pen, stopping at intervals to rest his hand and wrist, anil for nn hour labored thus, uttering never a word. Then, emitting a satisfied snort, he removed the two sheets from the glass and. lay-ing them before Evariste, said: “How does that strike youV” Evariste was amazed nnil exclaimed admiringly: “Y'ou certainly are a master, Con-stant!” “But you can Improve on that. Your fingers nud wrist are more supple and steady than mla*. Only take time and be careful.” And Quillebert drew the thin sheet toward him and lit a match. “Don't do that. Give it to me,” Eva-riste cried. “No, no,” his companion answered, with a sapient grin. “This is mine. You have the suggestion." And. touch-ing tlie (lame to it, he turned tlie burn-ing paper with Ids fingers until every part was converted to ashes, which lie crumbled with ids hand and stirred with those in tlie huge fireplace. For many days Evariste remained on tlie plantation. His reticence and thoughtful mien were taken for sorrow-ing. Much of lids time was spent in his room. He aged visibly. The poignancy of bis grief was attested. A month litter, wearing on Ids Hat a baud of I Jack, he sought audience of Father Grlie, who received 1dm witli courtesy, but not with warmth, briefly •speaking the expected words of condo-lence. “Father,” he said, "my dear, generous brother left with me a sealed envelope Instructing me to open it on learning of his death. I have just done so and found it to be his last will anil testa-ment In the olographic form. Here it is. Kindly read it nnd say whether you recogn i lie band writing to be entirely his. lor I know you linve often seen Him write nud sign during ids life-time.” He had got by rote the very wording of the code’s formula. The priest carefully studied the pa-per, throwing now nml then a search-ing glance upon tlie subdued coun-tenance of ids visitor, nml said: “Y'es, I recognize tlie writing to be that of your brother.” “You will so testify in court, father?” “I must, If called.” His tone implied reluctance. “Y'ou were one of Ills closest nnd most highly esteemed frierds and for that reason, father, I deem it meet and de-sirable that you should be one of the witnesses to prove his testament.” “Be it so,” said the good man, though lie piously wished the request had not been made. Evariste now sought Noreau, the old time clerk of court, P.nd, putting to him the same Interrogatories, received the like responses. And in due course, on proof of hand-writing delivered by Father Grhe and Lucien Noreau nnd of death made by Valsin Mouillot, the parish judge at-tached his paraph nnd ordered to be executed “in all Its parts anil particu-lars” the following Instrument pro-pounded by Evariste as the last will and testament of Horace Oakfell: PARISH OF AVOYELLES. LOUISIANA, May 6, 1861. I, Horace Oakfell of “L’Esperance” plantation, in the parish and state above written, of lawful age and without forced heirs, being of sound health both in mind and body, but knowing the cer-tainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and especially having in view the peril* of war, into which I am about to enter, do make this my last will and testament in the olographic form. I give and bequeath unto my brother, Evariste Oakfell, all my estate of whatsoever kind and wheresoever situpted which 1 may possess at the moment of my death. I appoint my brother, Evariste Oakfell, sole ex-ecutor of this testament and dispense him from giving bond. This testament has been dated, written and signed by me on one sheet of paper at one writ-ing. HORACE OAKFELL. Receiving the letters testamentary sealed with seal of the court, his war-rant of dominion over all the Oakfell fortune, Evariste proudly traversed the parish, returning to “L’Esperance” as its master. “Ah, Horace,” to himself he said, “In your narrow bed beneath the apple trees do you dream ? Can you see your mean craftiness made a stepping stone to my will? Do you now believe that I am fit for neither law nor politics? 0 wise Horace, do you not know that suc-cess Is the only thing worth striving for; that with it I rise in my own es-teem and advance in the respect of my fellow men? Do you not understand the difference between your arrogant daring and my patient courage? Have you visions, sleeping hero? Behold this one. The beautiful, melting Estelle is no longer a virgin widow. Her sweet, blushing face Is under the bridal veil. Rouse yourself, dear brother, and be present at the marriage fete.” “I will,” said a voice, which froze his blood and caused him to reel In his saddle. “I will send a squad with the corporal to guard the cotton,” continued the voice, and, looking around, he saw and saluted two officers of the Union forces passing behind him on the crossroad to Coude de Francals. [TO BB CONTINUED.] nusDantl (angrily)—I neveT saw a woman as hard to please as you are. Wife (calmly)—My dear, you forget that I married you.—Chicago News. Diphtheria relieved in twenty inin-n tes. Almost miraculous. Dr Thomas Eclectrio Oil. At any drag store. BANK REPORTS. DEPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE MUST iX National Rank of Mount Pleasant, at Mount Pleasant. In tlie State of Pennsylva-nia. at tl.e close of business, June 0th, 1903. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts * $807 381 is Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 1 419 15 U.S.Bonds to secure circulation . 50 000 00 Stocks, securities, etc so 000 00 Banking-House, furniture and fix-tures 10 000 00 Due from national banks (not re-serve agents) 1 005 11 Due from state banks and bankers 10 000 00 Due from approved reserve agents 55 368 90 Checks and ot her cash Items 1 000 *0 Notes of other National banks 20 0*0 00 Fractional paper currency, nlckles and cents 580 51 Lawful money reserve In bank, viz: Specie $20 551 00 Legal tender notes 10 loo no 48 011 00 Redemption fund with F. S.Treas’r (5 per cent of circulation) 2 500 00 Total $011 s2s25 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid In .fiooooooo Surplus fund 00 000(H) Undivided profits less ex ponses and taxes paid 7 802 28 National hank notes outstanding 50 000 00 Due to state banks and bankers. . Due to other National Ranks Dividends unpaid 08100 Individual deposits subject to ch’k 889 *01 25 Demand certificates of deposit 8 854 18 Certified checks Cashier’s checks outstanding 170 50 Total $61182825 State of Pennsylvania, i County of Westmoreland. I. J. I), llltchrnan, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. .1.1) Ifttchman. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of June 1008. S. C. Stevenson, Notary Public. Correct Attest: GEO. W. STONER, | .1. S. 111TCHMAN, r Directors. .S. N. WARDEN. 1 L3 EPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE CITIZENS National Rank, at Mount Pleasant. In the State of Pennsylvania, at the close of busi-ness. J une 9th. 1908. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $194 425 51 Overdrafts.secured and unsecured 11 806 04 U.S.Bonds to secure circulation...- 50 000 00 Premium on U.S.Bonds 1 250 00 Stocks, securities, etc - 46 000 00 Banking-house, furniture and fix-tures 80 000 00 Due from national banks (not re-serve agents) Other real estate and mortgages owned Due from state banks and bankers Due from approved reserve agents 118 096 45 Checks and other cash Items 2 845 56 Notes of other national hanks 14 107 00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents 200 84 Lawful money reserve In hank, viz: Specie 8 211*5 Legal tender notes 16 50000 24 711 85 Redemption fund with U. S. Treas-urer (5 per cent, of circulation).. 2 500 00 Total $491 07825 LIABILITIES, ill ISO 000 00 40 000 00 Capital stock paid Surplus fund Uuuiv’d’d profits, less expenses and t:i xes paid National bank notes outstanding .. Due to other national banks Due to state banks and bankers .. Dividends unpaid Individual deposits subject to ch’k 212 064 09 locates of deposits 9 291 63 50 000 00 Demand cert Time certificates of deposits Cashier’s checks outstanding 126 259 89 3 458 14 Total $491 078 25 State of Pennsylvania. County or \Westmoreland, (s,s* I. Jno. L. Ruth, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Jno. L. Ruth. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of June 1903. Jno. D. McCaleb, Notary Public. Correct Attest: O. P. SHUHE. I J. McD. BRYCE, < Directors. J. S. HITCHMAN, I OEPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FARMERS & Merchants National Bank, at Mount Pleasant, in the State of Pennsylvania, at the close of business. June 9th. 1903. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $271 *74 48 Overdrafts.secured and unsecured 5 678 88 U.S.Bnndsto secure circulation ... 25 000 00 Premium on U.S. bonds Stocks, securities, etc 25 000 00 Banking-house, furniture and fix-tures 20 000 00 Other real estate owned 2 641 60 Due from approved reserve agents 9 108 86 Internal Revenue stamps Checks and other cash Items - 6 232 77 Notes of other national batiks 971000 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents 1422 31 Lawful money reserve In bank, viz: Specie 20 105 00 Legal tender notes 6 820 00 Redemption fund with II. S. Treas-urer (5 per cent, of circulation)^ Total . 26 925 00 1 250 00 S408 143 90 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid In $50 000 00 expenses and Surplus fund.. 2*5 000 00 Undiv1ded pr< >fi ts. I ess e taxes paid 492 89 National bank notes outstanding— 25 000 00 Due to approved reserve agents 3 210 4s Dividends unpaid i 45 00 1 iKlividual deposits subject to ch’k 162 929 17 Demand certificates of deposit 141 354 74 Certified checks 11162 Cashier’s checks outstanding Total $408 143 90 State of Pennsylvania, f County of Westmoreland, fs* I. C. E. Mu11 in. Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true to the best of my knowl-edge and belief C. E. Mullln. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of June, 1908. W. A. KALP, Notary Public. Correct Attest: It. K. HISBEM, j 9. R. RUPP. >Directors. L. S. TINSTMAN. ) Application for Charter. Notice Is hereby given that an application will be made to the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania on Monday, July 13, 1903, by J. M. Rowland, 0. E. Mullln, W. A. Kalp and their associates, under the Act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, en-titled “An act to provide for the Incorpora-tion and regulation of certain corporations.” approved April 29th, 1874, and tlie supple-ments thereto, for the charter of an Intended corporation to !»<• called “Mount Pleasant Tool Company,” the character and object of which the manufacture of tools. Imple-ments and other articles of commerce from wood or any metal, or both, and the sale of the same; and for that purpose to have abd possess and enioy all the rights, benefits and privileges of tne said Act of Assembly and Its supplements. Llghtcap & Warden, 6 12 4t Solicitors. Application for Charter. Notice is hereby given that application will be made by O. P. Sliupe, John A. Warden, J. McDonald Bryce. John Husband. James S. 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