Mount Pleasant journal (February 6, 1903)

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VOL. 31.
MOUNT PLEASANT, WB8TMOMLANI) COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, FKDRUARY 0, 1903. NO. 0.
saying: "These nre yours, Bill.” The
recipient returned theui to the attorney
for safe keeping Lawyer Byera said
the snme performan<,e was none through
with by the two men nnmed nnd him-self
with the check for #40,557 which
j the old man passed to W. R Byers with
the remark, "This is yours also, Bill
Attorney Moorehead, of Moorehead &
Head, put Attorney Byers under a se-vere
cross examination. He did not
deny that he had said that when Rev.
| Ferner discovered the money and bonds
were not in the vault at Greensbnrg
there would he trouble. It was also
developed that after he had told Rev
j Ferner he did not possess the key to the
strong box, and had placed the valua-
The Contest is for Possession of Almoit hies with the Fidelity Title and Trust,
a Quarter of a Million Dollars In Cash . Company, he returned to Greensbnrg
and Bonds That are Supposed to be in and gave up possession of the key he
a Safe Deposit Box in That City. Some j denied having. It was shown the de-
Striking Points in the Evidenoe as j fendant left the train at East Liberty
Brought to Light by the High-Priced i station in going to Pittsburg. He de
Legal Talent Engaged. nied that he had said the bonds
A Monday a.! “"»««! *7"J”' ™
Pittsbnrg in Common Pleas No. 2 be-fore
Judge Elliott Rodgers in the equity
case of Jacob Bvers against W. S.
Byers, Esq , of Greensbnrg, his grand-| fl18Piei””
nephew and former attorney, and the
Fidelity Title and Trust Company. The
bill was tiled for the plaintiff by Rev.
THE FAMOUS
BYERS SUIT
NOW ON TRIAL
Before Judge Rodgers in the
% Pittsburg Courts.
EXCEEDINGLY WARM FIGHT
BEING PUT UP BY BOTH PLAINTIFF
AND DEFENDANT.
C. R. Ferner, of Scottdale, as attorney
in fact. It is contended that the plain
tiff gave Attorney Byers 175 Mount
Pleasant Coke Company bonds, worth
$175,000, $40,755 55 in cash and other
securities for safe keeping, which the, , . . _...
def_end, ant. refused t.o ret. urn, and, pl,aceda on the dayy he took the bonds to Fitts-
i.n th. e vault of t.,he t, rust, company. bu,rn so h‘ e oould conoofil them r , ,, , - ,
_. , ,, JohnS Byers, father of the defend
Jac,ob By, ers,,,the plaintiff, was.ion* thue- ant William B Fe, gar, a neph. ew ol,
stand nearly all the first day. He is 85 *ul ■ h 1
I other person hnd carried the satchel con
| taining the bonds and money to the
j Greensbnrg station so as not to excite
He first denied he had said
he wonld sink the bonds in the river to
prevent any person from getting them,
hut later acknowledged having made
the remark, qualifying it with the sen
tence that he would do so to prevent
anyone from getting them "without
the proper authority ” He did not de
ny having said that he considered it for
tunate that he could wear his rain coat
years old, quite stooped nnd feeble.
When he did not care to answer a ques
tion he wonld pick up a pa per and read.
He told of having received the money
nnd bonds nnd explained thnt he had
placed them with his nephew for safe
keeping nnd never saw them after that.
. In explaining why he trusted Rev.
Ferner he said he had kept out of bis
relationship, believing it was a good
thing to do.
Rev. Ferner was on the stand Tues-day
and told how he was urged by tbe
old man to accept the power of attorney
which Attorney Byers at Hrst ignored;
how be finally found the key to the
empty safe deposit box in Greensbnrg,
all of which is well known to JOURNAL
readers. Attorney Sol Schoyer put
Rev. Ferner through a severe cross ex
animation to show that he paid more
attention to business matters than he
did to his flock. The witness acknowl
edged having taken options on coal
the plaintiff; Charles Hunter, a Greens
burg lawyer, and William Tice, a neigh
boring farmer, corroborated the story
thnt the bonds and cash were given
William R. Byers
EDUCATIONAL MEETING.
Dr. Fess, of Chicago University,
Lecture Hero February 13.
to
Dr. S. D Fees, of Chicago University,
will deliver his popular lecture on
"Abraham Lincoln” in the Methodist
Episcopnl church, this place, Friday
evening next, February 111th, at8 o’clock
for the benetil. of the Public School
Library, the admission being 25 cents
State Superintendent Schaeffer says the
Doctor never fails to please his audience.
Dr. Fess will speak again in the same
place the next morning, addressing the
teachers on the "Swords of Grant nnd
Lee.” He will be followed by Rev C
L. Smith, the pastor, with a talk on
DANIEL SHUPE JORDAN,
A PROMOTER AND DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL
PLEASANT UNITY.
BANK JUST OPENED AT
lands and buying some irou stock,
whereupon the other side objected to
this line of examination. Judge Elliott
Rodgers sustained the objection.
Attorney W. S. Byers, the defendant,
was also on the witness stand Tuesday.
He said that while the plaintiff and the
latter’s nephew, W. R. Byers, of near
Tarr, were in his Greensburg office he
handed the bonds to his grand uncle
who in turn gave them to W. R. Byers,
INCOLi
By MARY AUSTIN
Cwri(M. 190J. by Mwy Auitta
|UDE toil hi* thews ha.d cast.
Keen grief a.nd biting blast
His sure soul knit to serve our keener need.
It seemed the skies grew wide to give him room.
The sound, deep rooted peasant soul in whom
The sap of all old liberties was freed.
E ARTH bore him, &.nd his will
Ww toward the earthbom still.
But his no need to mind the rabble shout;
It is for king./- to spere and ape the part.
A poised a.nd consta.nl needle wa,s his heart.
And toward our proper star he put the prow about. 8”“ O did, and martyred passed.
And in his dying cast
A hyacinthine radiance on our skies.
The warning and the warrant that the- sun.
Once his appointed arc in heaven is done.
Prompt to the need of each new day will rise.
J
"Old Indian Trails: ” All interested in
education are cordially invited to
attend.
Killed at Central.
James Easter, aged about 30 years,
was run over by a dinkey engine at the
Central coke works Tuesday and almost
instantly killed. Tbe body was buried
yesterday at West Newton where he
formerly resided.
Photo ot Lincoln hy Courtesy S. S. McClure Co.
COKE AND COAL.
Items of Interest Gathered From Both
Mine and Yard.
The Hecla Coke Company has 50
ovens at its new No. 3 plant in operation.
Over 4,000,000 bnshels of coal left
Pittsburg Monday by river for southern
markets.
The contract has been let to add 100
ovens to the Jamison No. 2 coke plant,
in the Crabtree district, which has at
present 300 ovens,
Uniontown speculators headed by
the Barnes brothers, have built six coke
ovens on the Yough river, three miles
above Confluence, to teat the Upper
Freeport vein of coal.
O. W. Kennedy, general superinten-dent
of the H, C. Frick Coke Company,
left Monday with his wife on a vacation
of several weeks to be spent in the
Southwest and California.
The report that the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad is planning the construction of
a ent off road from Wheeling, W. Va.,
through Greene county, Pa., to the
southern part of the coke region was
confirmed at the office of General Man-ager
Potter in Baltimore.
The J. R. Laughrey & Son mines at
Victoria, in Perry township, Fayett)
county, were sold Tuesday to H. L.
Warner, of the Sterling Mining Com
pany, of Cleveland, Ohio, for $200,000.
This includes the coal tract of 60 acres,
mining equipment and company houses.
Dr. G. W. Neff, of Masontown, and
George Porter, of Uniontown, have sold
100 acres of coal and 146 acres of sur-face
in Nicholson township, Fayette
county, for $100,000. The Riverview
company will mine the coal and Union-town
parties will use the surface for a
town site.
CRIMINAL COURT.
Cases of Local Interest Tried at the Feb-ruary
Session.
The February session of criminal
court in this county opened at Greens-bnrg
Monday with Judges Doty and Mc-
Connell on separate benches. Among
the oases of importance were these:
Thomas McCartney, the New Alexan
dria beer agent convicted of illegal
liquor selling at the November term,
was fined $500 with costs and sent to
jail for three months.
C. E. Ellsworth, an insurance agent
who was also found guilty at the last
term of having embezzled money in the
cdke region, wa3 fined $5 and given
three months to jail.
Mary Jones, the Monessen hotel pro
prietress also convicted at the Novem
berterm of having sold liquor to minors
was fined $100 with costs. J. S. Shaul
of Vandergrift, was given the same sen
tence for a similar offense; while Charles
E. Fox, another Vandegrift illegal
liquor seller, got $500 fine and three
months to jail.
William Lewis, an Irwin colored man.
was sent to jail for four months for
having enticed Wilbert Sharp's child
away from home.
J. A. Eicbar was yesterday fined $5
and costs for having assaulted James
VanHorn, of this place.
The Irwin bank robbery case was
taken up Wednesday. Cedar Ross, the
leader of the gang, had to be taken back
to tbe penitentiary as the principal wit-ness
against him was too ill to appear.
John Conlin and Robert Simpson, the
other two suspects, were placed on trial.
COMERS AND GOERS.
Paragraphs About Prominent People
Gathered During tbe Week.
Miss Mary Hitchman Is visiting
friends at Mt,. Vernon, N. Y.
Miss Estella Miller spent Saturday
with her parents in Stallstown.
Mr. Leasnre, of North Dakota, is here
visiting relatives and old friends.
W. H Barnhart, of Heller’s Corners,
Ind., is here visiting old friends.
John W. Pool was in Pittsburg
Wednesday, taking in the Roger Broth-ers
show at night.
Mrs. D. A. Stevens and her daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Edwin Stevens, are visit-ing
New Castle relatives.
Misses Emma and Mayma Sherrick
have just returned from an extended
visit paid McKeesport and Duquesne
friends.
Rev. Dr. S. W. Keister was at Con
nellsville Sunday assisting in the dedi
cation of the new United Brethren
church there.
Mrs Idaho Jackson, of Latta, Iowa,
who was at Stauffer visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Pershing, returned
home this week.
Charles Pross, the Main street cloth-ier,
returned Tuesday from Philadel
pbia. He was accompanied hy his wife
who spent a month there with her
parents.
Will W. Patterson took his wife and
little daughter to Somerset Wednes
day, nnd then left, the next day for Col-orado,
where he will spend several
months for the benefit of his health.
Superintendent and Mrs. W. C.
Malian. of Brondford. spent Sunday
here with the latter's mother. Mrs
Sniah Shape, who will likely spend Un-balance
of the winter with this daugh
ter.
Rev. W. H. Tussing will spent Sun
day with his college friend nnd class-mate,
the Rev. C. B. Alspach, of Phila
delphia. In his absence Rev. Cormnny
will occupy the pulpit at the First Re-formed
church.
Mrs Ed ward Cooper gave a nice re-caption
Friday last at her East Wash
ington street, home in honor of her hns
band whose birthday it was. A number
of the guests who partook of the ele
gnnt dinner were from Greensbnrg.
Rev. R. L. Byrnes, pastor of the Ave
nne Church of God, was here Monday
calling on Rev. Yahn and other old
friends. Rev. Byrnes’s church, follow
ing a complete overhauling, will be
rededicated Sunday next when Rev
Yahn will go down and assist.
Charles Gishert, a B. & O. railroad
watchman at Glenwood where he had
both legs cut off a few years ago hy the
cars is here visiting his father, Charles
Gishert, Sr. Young Charley's right
arm is still stiff from a break at the
elbow got by a fall on the icy pavement
EIRE BRICK COMBINE.
Leading Manufacturers in this End of
the State in It.
The la*est combine is that of the fire
brick manufacturers of this end of the
state and includes those making a spe
Robbers Given Warm Reception.
Burglars who broke into J. G. Carnes’s
Youngstown store Wednesday morning
were driven off by the proprietor and a
lot of farmers, leaving bloody trails
behind.
VERY YOUNG
HORSE THIEE
GOBBLED UP
By a Somerset County Consta-ble
Monday Last.
RALEIGH BECK WAS ARRESTED
DAVID COLDSMITH,
AND PLACED IN JAIL AT GREENS-BURG
BY SHERIFF COLEMAN.
The Animal was Taken From Enos Ruff,
a Well Known Farmer Living North of
Town and an Uncle of the Prisoner
Whose Older Companion in the Crime
Hails From Bedford County and at
Last Accounts was Still at Large.
Raleigh Beck, tbe son of a respected
widow who lives on the Martin Wertz
farm in East Huntingdon township, was
placed in jail at Greensbnrg Wednesday
evening by Sheriff Coleman, of Somer
set county, on the charge of having
stolen a horse last Snndny night from
his grand-uncle, Enos S. Ruff, the well
known farmer who resides some four
miles north of town.
Young Beck’s companion in crime
was William Chamberlain, who hails
from Bedford eonnty, but who hns been
loafing about this section for some time.
They had the stolen animal above
the Big Springs the next morning as
they were passed by Mr. Pyle, the mail
carrier between thnt point and Somer-set,
as he was riding down to Jones
Mills for the mail. When the carrier
came up behind; them on his return to
his Boltz plncelhomeSwhore he hitched
in a sled, the thieves abandoned the
tired horse and took to the brnsh, con-firming
the mail man's suspicion that
they had stolen it.
Constable Nelson Mosholder, who was
waiting at Pyle’s house to be taken to
Somerset, was informed and with the
driver kept a bright outlook. Not far
above the Big Spiings they caught up
with the Beck boy who was trudging
along with a shot gun, taken from his
uncle, Lawrence Wert. About his
waist was a well filled cartridge belt,
while bullets and moulds were in his
pockets.
The lad gladly accepted the invitation
to get into the sled and he soon found
himself a prisoner and disarmed. When
the little party reached Somerset the
news of the robbery had been received
from Mr. Ruff and until the warrant he
at once took ont before Justice Rhoades
could reach Somerset the prisoner was
placed in jail. The stolen horse, having
been abandoned by the thieves, was put
up at the Pike Run Country Club's
place where the owner recovered it
Wednesday.
The Beck boy was brought here
Wednesday evening over the B. & O.
road by Sheriff Coleman who took bis
prisoner on to jail at Greensbnrg on
Justice Rhoades’s commitment. The
lad, who until recently was a student
at the Institute, had very little to say,
although he seemed te realize the
gravity of hisoffense. Somerset officers
are on tbe hunt ofJChaniberlain. He is
said to have spent Monday night in
Somerset and taken a train for Johns-town
the next morning.
Fair Warning.
The Third ward scandal mongers,
j who have connected an innocent young
married man nnd his wife down that
way with the silly $700 story published
in last week's JOURNAL, wonld do well
to let up at once and thereby avoid
figuring in the ugliest kind of a lawsuit.
Their names and purpose are both well
known.
THE LOCAL WHOLESALE HORSERADISH
MANUFACTURER.
cialty of blast furnace bricks, coke oven
bricks and special shapes for steel
plants. The plants which it is said are
now included in the new combination
number 32, scattered throughout the
counties of Westmoreland, Fayette,
Bedford, Cambria, Clinton and Clear
field.
The new company is capitalized at
$1,500,0011, and the combination will
control an output of 2,250,000,000 bricks
a year. The works merged in the ab-sorbing
company, it is said, have been
purchased outright at a valuation made
by expert engineers and enter into the
trade with advantages that the lesser
independent companies cannot over-come.
FATAL QUARREL
Between two Well Known Young Fair-chance
Men.
Mark Ward, of Faircbance, is dead
as the result of an alleged attack upon
him by Omer Stewart, an old school-mate
and associate from the same town
and a nephew of the late Congressman
Andy Stewart.
The two met at Uniontown Saturday
and clashed. They started ont of the
borough to settle the old grudge of their
school days. The police interfered and
separated the pugilists after each had
been severely punished. They renewed
the fight Saturday evening and again
Monday.
Ward's opponent got the better of
him, and fatal effects resulted. Stewart
has been apprehended, but the seconds
aud backers of the bloody affair, some
thirty persons, escaped across tbe border
into West Virginia. Indignation runs
high at Fairchance.
DARED DEATH.
Gertrude Price, a Little Everson Girl,
Killed Near Unionrown.
Gertrude, the 9-year old daughter of
James Price, of Everson, was instantly
killed by a Pennsylvania train while
sitting on the track with some compan-ions
at Youngstown, near Uniontown,
on Thursday last.
She and her friends were sitting on
the rail as the train approached, and, it
is said, dared each other about who
could remain the longest. The Price
girl was hurled from the tracks and,
died almost instantly.
TRK MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1903
OF LOCAL
INTEREST.
Representative McWhinney s Legislative
Re-apportionment Bill Would (live
this County Another Member.
SOME DOUBT III REGARD TO ITS PASSAGE,
Representative Robert McWbinney,
of Homestead, bas introduced a legisla-tive
re apportionment bill, of whose
passage there is some donbt, although
the father of the measure says that it
has the backing of Governor Penny
packer. There will, of course, be
strong opposition from counties that
would lose a member by it. The mem
bership would be increased from 204 to
208 by its passage.
Among the counties that would gain
a member is Westmoreland. The bill
provides for a division of this county
into four districts. The first and largest,
including Mount Pleasant. Greensburg
and Seottdale. would elect two repre
sentatives. Ligonier Valley, Latrobe
and Vandergrift, New Kensington,
Irwin and Jeannette and West Newton,
Monessen and the Yongh river section
would get but one each. It is claimed
all four districts would be safely Re
publican.
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,<v~ -Ol
Reminiscences of
Lincoln ^ By J. Ii.
ROCKWELL
Copyright, 1909, till X II. Rockwell
r^yiTitE following account of one of
Jl I the most important events in
[y_yv, -tl Mr. Lincoln's history was pru-
BBajjl cured from General Kmitli I>.
Atkins, the veteran editor and politi-cian.
who was present at the conference
of Republican leaders in Freeport, 111.,
just previous to the famous Lincohi-
Douglas delude of Aug. 27, 185N:
“Abraham Lincoln was the grandest
man of all the centuries. My personal
acquaintance with him was very slight.
I met him on two occasions only, the
first time in 1850, when Mr. Lincoln
came to Freeport wUli a party of ladles
and gentlemen as ter guests of the Il-linois
Centrul ItailrpaU company, mak-ing
a tour over the lines of that com-pany.
A telegram was received to have
dinner prepared for the company at the
Brewster House, and flic news spread
in Freeport, then a small village ot
some ii.ooo or 4.000 people. I was in-troduced
lo Mr. Lincoln at the Brew-ster
House, and his attention was at-tracted
to a cane i carried With a head
of polished Iowa birdscye marble, beau-tiful
and curious.
“While I was talking Mr. Lincoln's
little hoy took possession of the cane.
Dinner was announced, but he insisted
on keeping the cane. I urged Mr. Lin-coln
to let him keep it as a present from
me, but he replied, 'That would not be
right,’ and lie patiently plended witli
the boy to give it to us and finally suc-ceeded
in securing the cane by giving
the boy a dollar. Mr. Lincoln then went
into the dining room, where the others
of tlie party had been for some time
seated at the table.
“The second and the last time that I
met Mr. Lincoln was on Aug. 27, 1858.
Mr. Lincoln came to Freeport at that
time to engage in one of the series of
joint debates with Stephen A. Douglas,
a new interest in which has been re-cently
created by Winston Churchill’s
novel. ‘The Crisis.’ My recollections of
that day are vivid and never to be for-gotten.
I was then a young man prac-ticing
law in Freeport and was present
in a room in the Brewster House in the
forenoon of Aug. 27, 1858, with a num-ber
of others who were calling on Mr.
Lincoln. Among them were E. B.
Washburn, Owen Lovejoy, Norman B.
Judd, Joseph Medill, James O. Church-ill
and John Wilson Shaffer. Of course
there were others coming and going,
but I especially remember tlio gentle-men
named.
“The subject under discussion when I
entered the room was the solemn man-ner
of Mr. Lincoln’s oratory in the first
joint debate in Ottawa on Aug. 21, all
present who engaged In tiie conversa-tion
urging Mr. Lincoln to drop his
solemn style of argument and tell sto-ries.
as Tom Corwin of Ohio did, and
catcli tlie crowd. Mr. Lincoln appeared
greatly amused
and others strenuously argued {tint Mr.
Douglas would answer Unit under his
doctrine of ‘popular sovereignty’ any
territory could by unfriendly legisla-tion
exclude slavery, and Mr. Douglas
would catch the crowd and beat Mr.
Lincoln as candidate for United States
senator from Illinois.
"Mr. Lincoln listened attentively and
I with wonderful patience while these
arguments were being urged against
the course he proposed to pursue, but
at last slowly and deliberately replied
in substance (and in ids own words, as
nearly as I can now remember them) as
follows: ‘Well, as to changing my style
of argument, I will not do that: the
subject is too solemn and important.
That is settled. Now, as to the other
point, 1 do no* know how Mr. Douglas
will answer, if he answers that tlie
people of a Territory cannot exclude
slavery, I will beat him. but if be an-swers
ns you say he will and as I be-lieve
lie will lie may beat me for sena-tor.
but he will never lie president of
the United States.' According lo my
recollection, that closed tlie discussion
upon these two points. Freeport had
an enormous crowd that day. The peo-ple
had come from all the surrounding
counties, many driving down from Wis-consin.
The joint debate took place at
2 o’clock in the afternoon on an open
space nearly hack of the Brewster
House, where a platform had been
erected for the occasion. George B.
McClellan (afterward general), then
connected with the Illinois Central rail
road, had provided Mr. Douglas with a
special car, but Mr. Lincoln traveled in
the ordinary day coaches.
“Judge Douglas was taken to the
grounds in a line carriage belonging to
Samuel F. Taylor, liveryman, by Fran-cis
W. F. Brawley, then postmaster at
Freeport. It was drawn by a splendid
span of gray horses. It was the only
tine carriage in any livery stable in
Freeport at that time, and there was
no way for the Republicans to match
in splendor the equipage that took
Judge Douglas to the grounds. They
therefore sent for a farmer, Joha Wolf,
living near Freeport, who had recently
| arrived from Pennsylvania, to bring his
j six horse team and Conestoga wagon,
with its queer box high at each end, to
i take Mr. Lincoln to the debate.
I “Mr. Lincoln strongly protested, but
| finally good naturedly yielded and stood
done in the wagon, the farmer riding
Bill
anil said very lit-tle,
but after a
short time he
cl r e w from his
pocket a list of
questions that he
had carefully
prepared and
Which be pro-posed
- to ask
Douglas.
“The reading
of those ques-tions
created a
storm of opposi-tion
on the part of
nearly every one
present, especial-ly
Joseph Me-dill,
who vehe-mently
Insisted
that It would be
a fatal mistake,
especially the
second one, ‘Can
the people of a
United States
territory In any
lawful way, against the wish of any
citizen of the United States, exclude
slavery from its limits prior to the
formation of a state constitution?’
Mr. MediU. Mr. Washburn. Mr. Judd
LINCOLN PLEADED
WITH THE BOV.
11 i ll
mfJ
ask .lunge Douglas tlie question thnt
had been the subject of so much dis-cussion
at the Brewster House, and
Mr. Douglas did answer ns Mr. Medill
anil others said ho would, and Mr.
Douglas did heat Mr. Lincoln as a can-didate
for United States senator from
Illinois.
“But in making that answer Mr.
Douglas put himself in direct opposi-tion
to the decision of the supreme
court of tlie United States In the Dred
Scott case, and he so offended the Dem-ocrats
of tlie south that they Instantly
denounced him, and that answer made
by Mr. Dougins to Mr. Lincoln's ques-tion
in Freeport on Aug. 27, 1858, split
tlie Democratic national convention at
Charleston in 1860 and made tlie elec-tion
of Mr. Douglas as president im-possible,
as Mr. Lincoln had predicted.
The popular opinion was and Is that it
made Mr. Lincoln so well known
throughout the country as to result In
his own nomination anil election as
president of the United States.”
The men who personally knew Abra-ham
Lincoln grow fewer each year,
hut there is none who during the time
he grew into prominence saw more of
him than Mr. J.
p
IP* warn
O. Stewart of
1208 East Jeffer-son
street, Spring-field,
111. In 1857
he was a photog-rapher,
and he
says he distinctly
remembers o n e
day when he saw
a big, tall, raw-boned,
cadaverous
looking man
crossing the
street. The ob-ject
of his inter-terest—
photog-raphers
are al-ways
looking for
some odd speci-men
for their
cameras—wore a
sort of raglnn
coat, pantaloons
that seemed to
fit only In spots
and a tall hat. ’DIE VAST CROWD WAS
He had on a pair
of short top
boots, and negligence of dress or choice
caused him to leave a trouser leg
caught on the top of one of his boots.
Mr. Stewart inquired who on earth that
"gawk” could tie, and his friend, Mr.
George Sawyer, replied: “Well, you’d
be surprised to hear tlmt fellow talk,
lie is one of tlie brightest lawyers in
Illinois. Yon ought to go over lo the
courthouse and hear Dim. His name's
Lincoln—Abe Lincoln.”
A little later Mr. Stewart did go and
hear Mr. Li.*,coin, and he was very
much impressed. An introduction re-sulted
in an acquaintance which lasted
during the president’s life and carried
with it memories of the president and
his family that will never lie forgotten.
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Careful appraisement of values.
Promptjattention to interest when dne.
Money loaned for principals only.
Thirty-two years experience in this
line; guaranteed reference as to busi-ness
standing. Lock Box 205, Pitts-burg,
Pa. 1 30 8t
IT’S A BAD HABIT
to spend all you earn. To insure comfort and
happiness in advanced years start a savings
account with the Real Estate Trust Company,
311 Fourth avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. Four per
cent, interest annually.
Ce.plte.1 a,r\d Surplus $3,70000.00.
HOARSENESS Take Ozoline. It
care8all throat troubles. M. A. Bowman.
AVICA
AXJLE
jMund light loads.
AREASE
^i^^ood for everything
that runs on wheels.
Sold Everywhere.
Bind* by STANDARD Oil. CO.
Chas. Pross,
Hen’s and Boys’ Outfitter,
603 /Ylain Street, Mulliri Block.,) mount Pleasant, F*a.
You May Win
$1,000
for hifty Cents.
THE
Pittsburg Leader
WILL PAY THE FOLLOWING 21
PRIZES, TOTAL VALUE $2,000.00,
AS FOLLOWS:
$1,000.00 for the closest guess,
$500.00 for the next closest guess,
$100.00 for the next closest guess,
4-$50.00 for the next closest guesses,
4-$25.00 for the next closest gnesses,
10-$10.00 for the next closest gnesses,
to the actual vote cast in the Recorder
ship election in Pittsbnrg, Feb. 17, 1908.
All ties to be’ divided. All gnesses must
be mailed before midnight Feb. 16, 1903.
Vote for Mayor 1899 31,665
Vote for Controller 1902 54,872
Vote on Connty Ticket 1902 55,936
The conditions are as follows: All
guesses must be recorded on blank
coupons cut from this paper, each vote
to be accompanied by 50 cents in cash
aud sent to the LEADER GIJESSING
BUREAU, 43. Fifth Ave., Pittsburg.
Office and Works Near R. R. Stations Bell P’hone 34.
IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS,
Hot Water and Steam Heating.
Boilers, Engines and all kinds of Hachinery Repaired
“HIS NAMES LINCOLN—ABE LINCOLN.”
the nigh wheel horse, as he had done
in his long journey from Pennsylvania,
and driving with a single rein. Mr.
Lincoln was taken to the grounds amid
the wildest applause.
“Ills equipage was in such strong
contrast to that of Senator Douglas
that every one. Democrats and Repub-licans,
could not help laughing, and the
vast crowd was filled with good nature.
“During the debate Mr. Lincoln did
Chance to <Jo!u a Club That Will
Moke and Wave Money for Ton.
Everybody ehould join tiie Mutual LUcra-y Mu-sic
Club of America. There is nothing clso lika It
anywhere. It costs almost nothing to Join arid the
benefits it gives are wonderful. IferaMes you to
purchase booksand periodicals, outdoand musical
nstruments at special cut pi let 8. 11 secures re-duced
rates at many hotels. It answers questions
free of charge. It offers scholarships ondvalua-j
blecash prizes to members. It maintains club
rooms in manydtiesfor Itsmerrbora. In addition,
overy memberreceives the official magazine enti-tled
“ r.v’ry Month** amiblicutlonla a class by
itself,Including 6 pl-oes of high-class vocal and In-strumental
music(full size; each month without
extra charge; 73jbleces la one year in all. YOU
CAN GET ALL OF THESE BENEFITS FOR AL-MOST
NOTHING.
The fuII yearly membership fee Is OneDollnr for
which you get all &bovo, and yon may with-draw
any time within three month* If you
want to do so and get yotar dollar lmck. If you
don’t care to spend $1.00, seud 25 cents for three
months membership. Nobody can afford to pass
this offer by. You wl’.I got your money buck lu
value many times over. Full particulars will be
seut free or charge, but If you uro wise you will
send In your request for membership With the
proper fee at once. The 25 cts. three months mem-bership
offer will soon change. Write at once ad-dressing
your letter and enclosing $1.C0 for full
year’s membership or tweuty-hvo oeuta for throe
months to
MUTUAIi LITEHARY MT7SIO C) UB i
No. IftO Nnnaun Nt.. N . Y. ftly.l
Estimate..
Name
Street..
Postottiee.
State
City
Date..
I herewith enclose 50 cents and my
estimate on the total vote for record,
er of the city of Pittsburg, election
to be held Feb. 17, 1903. I subscribe
to the conditions of the offer as pub-lished.
THE JOURNAL, Mount Pleasant.
Cut flowers
—and—
floral Designs
Long Distance Telephone.
P. R. DeMuth & Sons,
Connellsvllle, Pa,
We make Castings for all kinds of Stoves and Heaters
and have patterns for the Tropic Heaters.
BE GOMFORTABLE
And you can be so in cold weather only when your house
or place of business is warmed by a good heater. There are
three agents for this purpose, hot air, hot water and steam,
but the greatest of these is steam and especially is this true
when it is used in 1 IDEAL BOILER,
A plant of this kind, put in by .T. A. Stevenson & Co. can
be seen in successful operation in THE JOURNAL BIOCK.
CALL AND SEE IT WORK
Chicago to Colorado.
New overland service via
Chicago; Milwaukee & St.
Paul and Union Pacific line.
Thro’ sleeper and free reclin-ing
chair car to Denver from
Chicago 10:25 p.m. daily. No
changes, no delays.
JOHN R. POTT,
District Passenger Agent,
Room D, Park Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
G. N. CRAMER,
AUCTIONEER.
30 Years Exoerlenee.
WHEAT
CORN and OATS
AS WELL AS
STOCKS
Bought and carried on moderate mar
gins. You can make more money by
investing in these commodities in a
short time than in any other way. Our
DAILY FORECAST mailed free. Call
or write for further particulars.
E. B. JENKINS & CO., Inc.
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
314 FOURTH AVE.,
1 1 i3t Pittsburg, Pa.
Orders sent to me at Mount Pleasant will
receive prompt attention. 2 12 -y
PARKER’S
, HAIR BALSAM
Cleanses and beautifies tho hair.
Promote* a luxuriant growth.
Nover Fails to Bostoro Gray
Hair to its Youthful Color.
Cures scalp disease* 3t hair lallliur.
^^^iOc^iKl^LuMu^DruggistB^^^
THE MOUNT PHEASANT JOUKNAL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1903.
SORELY
AFFLICTED
Elizabeth Bennett, the Latrobe Girl, Who
Had her Scalp I orn off Last April,
Is Now in the Hospital.
IS NUT SUCCESSFUL
On account ot' the impossibility of se-curing
any more cuticle to graft onto
the scalp of Elizabeth Bennett, that
young Latrobe woman has been re-moved
to the Greensburg hospital as a
last resort. Physicians hope that
enough persons can be found who will
volunteer portions of flesh to make the
skin grafting operation a snccess.
Her scalp was torn off April 28, last,
while at work in the Latrobe laundry.
Her hair caught in a revolving shaft
and before she could release herself al
most all the scalp was torn off. Physi-cians
sewed the scalp in place, using 78
stitches, but it refused to knit properly
and they resorted to skin grafting.
During the past eight months almost
8,000 grafts have been made. Some-thing,
however, always prevented the
grafts from taking. She has not been
able to lie down since the accident and
for eight months, night and day, has
been compelled to sit in a chair.
TOUM TO CALIfORNIA
As Judged From the Past Week’s
Trade Reports
WHEN CAREFULLY COMPILED
FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF READ-ERS
OF THE JOURNAL
F
Domestic Trade and Industry Coninuet
to Prosper, While the Fuel Situation
Has Become Somewhat Less Disturb-ing
Through the Special Efforts Put
Forth by the Railroads that were aided
By Mild Weather.
Domestic trade apd industry continue
to prosper, while the fuel situation has
grown less disturbing through the spe-cial
eiforts put forth by transporters,
aided by mild weather. Distribution
of other products has been restricted by
the discrimination in favor of coal, and
, shippers are importunate. Clearance
sales are about, ended, leaving only
small stocks of winter goods.
Advance business in spring deliveries
is very heavy and fall contracts are also
placed liberally. In most cases where
there is no delay on fuel account manu-facturing
plantB are busy, though cost
of material and labor is very high.
Firm prices for linished products are
consequently to be expected.
Favorable returns of railway earnings
are constantly issued, figures thus far
available showiug an increase of 5.7 per
cent, over last year's and 17.9 per cent,
over 1901. Miles of loaded cars and
thousands of tons of coke piled in the
yards of this region tell of conditions in
the iron nnd steel industry. Furnaces
are closing because of the fuel shortage.
By giving coal, live stock and perish-able
goods precedence over all other
freight, the railroads helped consumers
everywhere, but at the expense of the
leading manufacturing industry. Many
plants are closed or running only part
time, and few orders for distant deliv-ery
are either sought or offered, owing
to the uncertainty as to when normal
conditions will prevail.
It is stated that deliveries of pig iron
to the leading consumer are several
months behind, and spot Bessemer has
risen sharply, yet there is much irregu-larity,
as evidenced by the decline in
cast pipe. Locomotives are being turn-ed
out of the shops with record-break-ing
rapidity and other railway equip-ment
is in equally good demand, while
structural material is still a feature
Many additional contracts for bridge
building are recorded.
Failures for the week numbered 243
in the United States, against 301 last
year, and 30 in Canada, compared with
40 a year ago.
UUAIN. FLOOH AND FEED—WHOLESALE.
Wheat, per bu.
Oats, per bu...
Oorn, per bu..
Corn Meal, per bbl„ bolted
Flour, patent, per bbl -
Chopped feed(corn and oatslper ton
Bran, per ton
Middlings, per ton
Mill Feed, per ton.
Hay, baled, per ton
Hay, loose, per ton
GROCERIES AND PRODUCE—RETAIL.
Breakfast Bacon, per lb
Brooms -
Buckets
Buckwheat flour, per sack
Butter, per tt>
Candles, per lb
Carbon ofl, per gal
Cheese, per lb
Chickens
Coffee, per lb
Dried Apples, per 1b
Dried Beef, per can
Eggs, perdoz..
Ham, per lb .
Lard peril)
Maple Molasses, per gal
New Orleans Molasses, per gal
Potatoes, per bu..
Rice, per B>
Rolled Oats, fl lb packages..
Balt, per bbl...
Salt, per sack
Balt Fish, per pall
Smoked slue bacon, per lb
Salt side, per lb
Soap, per cake..
Starch, per lb
Sugar, per 1(1 lb
Sweet Potatoes, per 9)
Tea per lb .
Underthe Personally-Conducted System
of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The second Pennsylvania Railroad
Personally-conducted tour to California
for the present season will leave New
York and Philadelphia on the Golden
Gate Special, February 19, going via
Cincinnati, New Orleans, San Antonio
and El Paso to Los Angeks and San
Diego. Three days will be spent in
New Orleans, during the Mardi-Gras
festiivties. Should a sufficient number
of passengers desire to travel under the
care of a Tourist Agent and Chaperon,
a delightful month’s itinerary in Cali-fornia
has been outlined; and a return
ing itinerary to leave San Francisco
March 28, visiting Salt Lake City, Glen
wood and Colorado Springs and Denver,
arriving in New York April 6. Rate,
$275 from all points on the Pennsylvania
Railroad east of Pittsburg, covering all
expenses of railroad transportation, side
trips in California, and berth and meals
going on the special train. No hotel
expenses in California are included.
Tickets are good for return within nine
months, bnt returning cover transpor-tation
only. For detailed itinerary ap-ply
to ticket agents, or address Geo. W.
Boyd, Assistant General Passenger
Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadel
phia, Pa. » 2 6 8
Dyspepsia—bane of human existence.
Burdock Blood Bitters cures it, prompt-ly,
permanently. Regulates and tones
the stomach.
70
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4 00
26 00
21 00
24 00
22 50
18 00
16 00
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SORE MOUTH—There is nothing so
good as Ozoline. It never fails to cure.
M. A. Bowman.
Is it a burn? Use Dr. Thomas’ Elec-tric
Oil. A cut? Use Dr. Thomas’
Electric Oil. At your druggists.
Stops the Whoop — Cures the Cough.
Stewart’s Whooping Cough
Remedy never fails to
give immediate relief.
M. A. Bowman. 611 d 12 tf
FOR SALE:—An almost new 12 expos-ure
magazine camera. Inquire at this
office. 12 19 tf
OZO COUGH SYRUP is good to cure
coughs. Enough for any cough 25
cents. M. A. Bowmau.
ROFESSIONAL CARDS.
NA. OORT,
• ATTORNEV-AT-bAW.
Office adjoinIns: ERRIO street residence,
Mount Pleasant, Ea.
RABE F. MARSH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
48 Bank & Trust Building, Greensburg
First. National Bank Building. Mount Pleas-ant,
Pa.. Tuesday and Wednesday of each
week.
EUGENE WARDEN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
208 Main street, Greensburg.
Braddock Block, Monnt Pleasant.
GREGG & POTTS.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Barclay Building, Greensburg.
Rumbaugh & Dillon.
\AT A. KALP, vv • Real Estate and Insurance
Agency. 833 East Main street.
S. C. Stevenson,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
0E11L ESTATE & INSURANCE,
467 MAIN ST.. MOUNT PLEASANT.
L. S. RHOADES,
JUSTICE DF THE PEACE & NOTARY PUBLIC.
All kinds of legal papers prepared and exe
cuted. Collecting a.specialty.
Office 1109 Main Street, Mount Pleasant
FIRST NATIONAL RANK.
OP MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
Capital Stock $100,000
OFFICERS:
H. W. Stoner, J. D. illtchman.
President. Cashier.
G. W. Stoner,Vice President
DIRECTORS.
J. S. Illtchman, J. D. Illtchman,
H. W. Stoner. Wm. B. Neel.
J. U. Orownover, Jos. It. Stauffer.
S N. Warden. Dr. J. II. Clark.
C. vV. Stoner.
Particular attention given to collections, and
proceeds promptly settled.
MOUNT PLEASANT. PA.
Capital Stock,
Surplus Fund,
OFFICERS.
J. 8. Illtchman, President.
$50,000.00.
$10,000.00.
619 Main Street.
WHY DO THE BEST DRESSED
MEN DEAL HERE?
The best dressed men throughout this locality are men who deal with us. The
reasons t hey deal with us, and the reasons they are the best dressed men are of
considerable importance toevery clothing buyer. This is one of the reasons “why.’’
Here is Reason No. 6.
Every man with social
aspirations must own a
Dress Suit--and a I uxedo
Coat for less formal occa-sions.
Of course no man here-abouts
would think of buy-ing
a Full Dress Suit or
Tuxedo anywhere but from
this store. And for this
very simple reason--no
other store can assure the
easy, graceful fit so essen-tial
in garments meant for
social functions.
J. L. Ruth, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
J. McD. Bryce, John Husband.
J. L. Ruth. O. p, Shupe.
.7. A. Warden, J. 8. Hltcnman.
J. C. Crownover. J. L. Myers,
Jno. M. Stauffer.
Our Full Dress garments are from Schloss
Bros. & Co., of Baltimore, makers of the
“Best Clothing in the World.”
All their clothing bears this label®^3* Guarantees Superiority.
RUMBAUGH & DILLON,
High-grade Clothing and Furnishings for Gentlemen and Boys.
Zimmerman Block, Main street, Mount Pleasant, Pa
Escaped an Awful Fate.
Mr. H. Huggins, of Melbourne, Fir
writes, “My doctor told me I had C01
sumption and nothing could be doi
for me. I was given up to die. Tl
offer of a free trial bottle of Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption, in-duced
me to try it. Results were start-ling.
I am now on the road to recovery
and owe all to Dr. King’s New Discov-ery.
It surely saved my life.” This
great cure is guaranteed for all throat
and lnng diseases by H. F. Barklev,
druggist. Price 50 cents and $1. Trial
bottles free. 6 20
5
Bookkeeping.
Classes in this and other subjects will be or-ganized
at the opening of our second term.
Coughs and colds, down to the very
borderland of consumption, yield to the
soothing healing influences of Dr.
Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup,
SORE THROAT—A few doses of
Ozoline cures it. M. A. Bowman.
You Can Have $100
Without notice out of your savings
deposit, bearing 4 per cent, interest, in
the Pittsbute Trust Company, 323
Fourth avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. $6,000,-
000 capital, surplus and profits. Start
with $1,00. Bauk by mail.
Pyrography.
The art department is active in this popular
subject just now. Everybody wants some “burnt
wood work” for home decoration or for presents.
Pyrography can be learned in a short time at
little cost.
Qood Upholstering.
Hiram Gilson is once more prepared
to do all kinds of upholstering work at
reasonable prices. If left either at his
West Main street home or Gibbs &
King’s store, orders will receive prompt
attention. 11 14 tf
Only one remedy in the world that
will at once stop itebiness of the skin in
any part of the body; Doan’s Ointment.
At any drug store, 50 cents.
QUINSY—To prevent it take Ozoline
in time. There is nothing better. M.
A. Bowman.
Choral Classes.
Children’s Class at 10.00 a. m. Saturday.
Advanced Class at 10:30 a. m. Saturday.
A young ladies’ class will be organized at the
opening of the second term to meet Wednesday
afternoons at 3:30 *
The above work and much more at the
Mount Pleasant Institute.
Spring Term Opens Mar. 25.
H. C. DIXON,
Principal.
■vA-Excelsior
Bakery.
mm ■y+./+./*/*/+./+/+.
Fine
Bread aM
Cakes,
WRoiesaie and Retail.
C. A. GRAUL, Prop’r
SAAVAVN/W^)
HcCORMICK 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.
J. J. HITCHHAN,
East Main street Mount Pleasant,
TIIK MOUNT PLEASANT JOUItMAIi. FIUKAV, FEBRUARY 0, 100!!.
©heJJlount peasantJournal
JOHN L. SHIELDS. PUBLISHER.
Mount Pleasant. Is situated In the heart of
the Great Oonnellsvllle Coke Ronton, has a
population of over 5,000; while, with offices
surrounding within a radius of three miles
the postoffice distribution Is 15,000. A new 04-
pot. tableware glass factory, the finest In this
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.
Dakota has the enviable distinction of
granting a divorce for the mere asking
of it, on the sole oondition of a brief
sojourn within her borders.
SMALLPOX CASES
FRIDAY. February 0. IHOIl.
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.
While smallpox, even in the mild
form iu which it has appeared in this
place and vicinity, inspires dread, there
does not seem to be any good ground
for alarm. Superintendent Maek,
acting for the H. C. Frick Coke Com-pany,
seems to have the Standard cases
so well in hand that a further spread of
the disease there is not likely, although
it will require several days yet to con-firm
the belief. The local Board of
Health has acted with commendable
promptness in establishing a strict qnar
antine over the two new cases on More
wood street and with the Mt. Pleasant
Board of Education and the teachers
keeping a close watch on the schools,
there is little to be feared from this
source. Even with all these precautions,
it would be well for everyone who has
not been vaccinated within the past few
years to have that operation performed.
EVEN POISON PROOF.
A dispatch from Washington last
week tells a good story on United States
Senator Quay who, it seems, wasn’t
feeling very well, doubtless due to the
worry he has been having over his
omnibus statehood bill. His liver was
not working right and he sought what
every well regulated household should
have, the private medicine chest, and
took from it some pills which he thought
were calomel. He hadn't the dose down
long, however, until he discovered that
he had taken a compound of strychnia
in mistake.
A physician was at once summoned
and an emetic administered, the result
being that in a very short time the dis
tinguished patient was his smooth self
again. And when it has thus been
shown that he is proof against poison
his political enemies might as well re
tire and patiently wait for Father Time
to get the “Old Man.”
One Death and Three More Patients
About Here.
Smallpox reports for the past week in
this section show that there have been
one death and three new cases. Mrs
Robert Mclndoe, of Parfittown, died
Friday morning last and the body was
buried the same day by her husband
and brother. Dr. Wakefield, physician
for the county, viewed the remains a
few hours after death and was of the
opinion the woman did not have small-pox.
He changed his mind and said
that was the cause after getting a his;
tory of the case from Dr. Shelar A
singular fact is that the child continues
in good health. The Independent direc-tors
closed the Parfittown school for a
week.
The H. C. Frick Coke Company is
looking after the eases at Standard, the
Mount Pleasant township school direct-ors
having delegated to the company
whatever power they had in the matter.
As noted in these columns last week.
Charles Cole, colored, and a Pole were
the first to take the disease in a mild
form. The houses in which they live
are still quarantined, the only spread
being to a colored child in the house
with Cole.
On Tuesday Dr. Shelar discovered Joe
Rega and one of his children, who live
on Morewood street near the borough
line, had their bodies covered with a
rash which he at first thought was
chickenpox. But, not wishing to take
any chances, he had the local Board of
Health call Dr. Wakefield who pro-nounced
it smallpox on Wednesday.
The board at once quarantined the in-mates
and established a guard about
the place.
DEATHS 0E THE WEEK.
NOT IN THIS STATE.
The Attorney General has just given
an opinion that offering a transportation
pass to a member of the Legislature is
a misdemeanor, and that its acceptance
by the Legislator would constitute
misdemeanor and make him subject to
forfeiture of his office.
The giving of the Attorney General's
opiuion arose from the fact that the
Pullman Palace Car Company sent to
a member of the Assembly an annual
pass, and the recipient referred the mat
ter to the Attorney.
It is needless to add that this opinion
was not banded down by a Pennsylva-nia
official, bnt by Attorney General
Cunneen, of New York. Onr legislators
not only accept annual passes as a mat
ter of course but get all the free traus
portation they can lay their hands on
for their friends; while, Father Penn
continues to allow every one of his law
makers mileage. There’snothing mean
about us.
A OREAT NATIONAL NEED.
In the course of his sermon in the
Baltimore cathedral last Sunday morn-ing
on “Christ the only enduring name
in history and the only true reformer
of society,” Cardinal Gibbons said:
“Twothonsand years ago pagan Rome
had all.the temporal blessings this
country now enjoys. And yet, while
she was in the zenith of her material
splendor, she was in a state of moral
and political decay. There is a barbar
ism more dense than the barbarism of
the savage tribes of the forest.
“I speak of a barbarism which elim
inates God and an overruling Providence
from the moral government of the
world, which takes no account of a life
to come and of the responsibilities at
tached to it. There is a social scourge
more blighting and more destructive of
family life than Mormonism. It is the
fearfully increasing number of divorce
mills throughout the United States
These mills, like the mills of God, are
slowly but surely giinding the domestic
altars of the Nation. ”
The need of a national divorce law
could not be made stronger than when,
as the Cardinal points out, husband aud
and wife are separated on the most
flimsy pretexts. And as if the different
fates of the Union were not sufficiently
commodating in this respect, South
The Grim Reaper’s Work in This Place
and Vicinity.
Mrs. M. L. Porch died at her Pleasant
Unity home Sunday, aged 78 years She
leaves one daughter, Mrs. Mary Brown,
wife of Dr. Brown, of that place.
Frederick Carl, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick Sandusky, of Dice's Exten-sion,
died Monday of pneumonia, aged
9 months.
LAURELVILLE.
Peter O’Donnell has moved to Mount
Pleasant.
Squire Hamel has his steam sawmill
in full operation on a tract of timber
near the Laurel Run school house.
very scarce
number of
Jim Shawley finds foxes
owing, he says, to the
chickens stolen
VV. S Leeper has his farmer hauling
lime on to his corn ground.
J R Bash wants to teach Charley
Keitn all the trout fishing tricks,
Old Johnny Morris kept close Monday
for fear he would see his shadow
Silas Solomon is able to he about
again
Ab. Cooper continues to neglect his
local council duties in the hope of get
ting even with Henry Mechling on the
captured 'possum record.
PLETCHFJR
Jacob Murray’s people are on the
sick list.
Wasn’t that storm on last Friday a
ring tailed pealer?
All business at the Ferguson quarry
has been suspended on account of wet
weather.
Wes Hostetler came down street the
other day looking more pleasant than a
basket of chips. Wes will have to be
hooped.
Ho! Boy Billie, got that black eye yet?
Peck is ’most dead of laughter.
Sleighing has played out to the entire
unBatisfaction of the girls.
Austin Barron was the guest of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs Dan Barron, over
Sunday.
The Misses Miller have gone to Mauns-ville
where they will make their home
for some time.
Hello! Prof Ferguson. Have a care,
and lookout for those "specs.” O, yes,
they’re all right. Will last many a day
yet. Good material.
John Barron is home from Alverton.
Frank Faust is a frequent caller at
the Peck mansion.
Henry Pletcher has lost faith in scales
now that they credit him with only 06
ponnds.
Lewis Pletcher will soon he a million
aire if he continues to carry the mail.
Jerry Murray the other day captured
a 'coon that had ten rings on its tail.
Richard Berger was here visiting old
friends the past week.
William Blongh is well stocked np
with maple sugar.
Frank Faust wants money of a lower
denomination. He thinks a penny is
too much for a working man to blow in
at one time.
THE 1-2 PRICE
FOR ALL WINTER CLOTHING STILL CONTINUES.
ALL THINGS FOR ALL MEN.
c^pyfum
In this line of Winter Clothing every age from the “first pants” upward
can be appropriately suited from the big stock of
Winter Clothing for Men and Loys
at Just 1=2 the Price.
We clothe the body with comfort and the mind with satisfaction.
Blowing Considerable
about goods and the extraordinary
cut in price on |
HH men’s Furnishings.
good quality is the essence of true
value. These Men’s Furnishings
are all essence. Prices touch the
pocketbook lightly. Seasonable goods
at next to nothing prices—^ an^ % ^
the regular price.
Feel lhatthey are deserving of as
many blasts as we can give them (if
0W? See that you are well equipped for your expedition through the mud
and rain this winter. Our
WATER-PROOF SHOES,
made of water and wear-resisting leather, defy the damp. All sizes and
styles for men, women and children.
Small Prices-Excellent Value. Copy ttfhfr-
H.Goldstone,
CLOTHING, SHOES and FURNISHINGS.
Mount Pleasant’s Largest Men’s Outfitting Store. Cor. Main and Church sts.
Dealers in General Merchandise.
46 Department Stores 46.
Annual February Cleaning Out Sale.
As usual every department in every Store is now of-fering
special low prices on all odds and ends and all
heavy winter goods in general. It’s an opportunity to
outfit the family at actually one-half original price.
For the Women and Girls.
There are here now numerous nice things in skirts,
coats, capes, heavy underwear, and hosiery, handsome
dress patterns, many novel things, all closing out this
month at enormous bargain prices.
For Men and Boys
Here is a line of winter overcoats, suits, underwear,
caps and gloves, all going out at the special February
reductions. If you want an overcoat for yourself or
boy, you can buy them now at half price. We want to
close out the entire stock and must do it.
Shoes for Everybody,
Men. \A/ome-ra and Children,
For men, dress shoes or working shoes, rubber boots
or other boots—whatever you may need iu the footwear
line you will find here and you will find the prices the
lowest named.
Women’s Shoes.
Hundreds of pairs of women’s shoes going now at the
special February reductions. We urge you to take ad-vantage
of these genuine bargains.
For rough and ready, playful boy, we have good,
strong waterproof shoes that will stand his knocks.
They are going out, at greatly reduced prices.
Our Grocery aud Provision departments are beyond
comparison. Our goods are always fresh and the best.
We dress our owu Fresh Meats aud have nicely equip-ped
markets connected with all our stores
Thousands of Bargains for Everybody.
These Union Supply Company bargains wouldn’t
amount to much if the only attraction were that of mere
cheapness. The importance they hold on the public
lies iu the fact that it is invariably a case of Quality
Eirst, Price Afterwards- and the cleverness of the achieve-ment
consists of maintaining the quality on so high a
footing, while forcing the prices down to such a low
one by means of powerful aud well directed purchasing.
Today’s news does not begin to tell the true extent of
the February bargains for men, women and children,
but even this fragment is strikingly attractive.
UNION SUPPLY COMPANY.
NOTTHE
CHEAPEST
BUT BEST.
You cannot do any better
than by looking to your feet and
seeing that they are supplied
with the best shoes on the mar-ket.
There are none better than
these world famous lines of ours:
For Hen,
Walkover and Stetson.
For Women,
The Sorosis.
For Boys,
The School Boy’s Pride.
For Misses,
The Maloney Bros.
W. A. PYNE,
711 Main street,
Mount Pleasant, - Pa.
iljrt^|.n 1 ' A •
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1!W>8.
For the Past Week Briefly Men-tioned.
LITTLE TALK OF THE TOWN
THAT WILL BOTH INTEREST AND
ENTERTAIN.
A Department in Which the Looal Editoi
Holds Hifrh Carnival and Works off his
Surplus Enerfry in Condensations
That Deal Sololy with Matters Relating
to Mount Pleasant
Dr. F L Marsh was confined to his
West Main street home several days
this week hy illness.
W. C. Bishop, of Connellsville, is ne-gotiating
for the purchase of the restaur-ant
in the opera house block.
The Mount Board of Education had
only routine business to transact at its
1/ regular monthly meeting Tuesday eve-ning
A lot of First ward boys greatly an-noyed
an old lady Friday by stopping
her horse on the street. She finally
drove them off with her buggy whip.
Old Mount Pleasant friends of Ed-ward
Jordan, of Pittsburg, will be
pleased to learn that he has about re-covered
from a severe attack of typhoid
fever.
People who take stock in the ground-hog
expect, six weokB of rough weather
as that animal could have had no trouble
seeing his shadow in Monday's bright
snmhine.
The Mount Pleasant Ceramic Club
held its annual election of officers at
Friday's meeting at the home of Mrs.
Geo. W. Stoner. The old officials were
all retained.
Garfield Bell, a well known young
colored man. was arrested Wednesday
and bound over to court by Justice
Rhoades on a charge of carrying con
cealed weapons.
The pastor, Rev. W. R. Swickard,
will preach at the Lutheran church at
7:30 this evening on “Living Unto the
Lord," and on Sunday evening at 7 on
“The Church's Unity.”
The pastor, Rev. D. M. Lyle, will be-gin
a series of illustrated sermons in
the Re-Uniou Presbyterian church next
Sunday evening on the “Missionary
Journeys of St. Paul.”
A $5 gold piece was either lost or given
out for a penny here the other day.
The loser can only hope that the finder,
guided by this notice, will leave it at
this office for the owner.
While Marshall Busko, the proprietor,
was out at supper, Wednesday evening,
thieves broke into his opera house pool
room and made a futile attempt to
smash open the slot machine.
Hunter Greenlaw, the well known
colored barber, has signed to play short
stop the coming season with New York’s
crack colored base ball team, the Cuban
Giants. His contract calls for $125 a
month and expenses.
Rev. C. W. Haines will preach at the
First Baptist church Sunday next, in the
morning on “Without God, Without
Hope,” and in the evening on "Decide
Tonight” preceded by a few remarks
c mcerning our coming Burgess.
At Monday evening's meeting Coun-cil,
after granting orders to cover Jan-uary
bills and selecting a bond for the
new sewer series, took the necessary
steps looking to a full settlement of the
year’s business at its March meeting.
Nearly all Gibbs & King thermome-ters
hanging in front of business houses
along Main street were smashed by a
gang of had boys Monday night, The
police are working on the case and the
little rascals will likely be arrested and
punished.
The finder of the lost Singer Manu-facturing
Company’s pocketbook re-turned
it to the local agent, F. M. Sar-gent,
by mail, keeping the $20 it con-tained
and giving DO name. Mr. Sar-gent
regrets that he does not know
whom to thank.
The verdict of Captain Loar, who
held a coort-martial at Connellsville
last week for Private Charles Shumaker,
of Company D, found the defendant
guilty of desertion, but let him off with
$15 fine and costs. The D boys are very
much pleased with the finding.
Thomas and John Frowen and August
/Follicker, of Unity township, were held
for court Saturday by Justice Rhoades,
of this place, on charges of having cru-elly
beaten four foreigners at Pleasant
Unity. A warrant is out for the arrest
of John Smith on the same charge.
Mrs. Ogle and Anna Clark, of
Hawkeye, and Mrs. Wilbert Moore, of
Greensburg, had a hearing before Jus-tice
Rhoades Tuesday on a charge of
larceny preferred by a local Assyrian
peddler The case was dismissed and
the costs divided between the parties to
the suit.
Some four hundred men attended the
service which Rev. McClure, the evan-gelist,
conducted in the Grand Opera
House Sunday afternoon for their spe-cial
benefit. The stereopticon views on
the life of Christ, as shown by Rev. H.
S. Wilson, added an impressive feature
to the program.
KILLED HER LOVER.
Jennie Roman Shoots John Vino Near
Latrobe.
During a fit of jealousy, Jennie
Roman, a Hungarian woman, shot and
killed John Vino, her lover, at Lloyds
ville, a mining town near Latrobe,
Monday morning.
Vino was sitting in the kitchen of his
home talking to two neighbors, Mrs.
Mary Ritz and John Vilkey. Suddenly
the Roman woman rushed into the room
and grasping Vino by the coat, hauled
him to his feet and exclaimed: “You no
love me any more; yon die." She fired
four shots into his body. He fell to the
floor and expired.
The woman was calm and self-pos-sessed
and expressed no feeling over the
matter. She was placed in jail at
Greeusburg the same evening.
At the Grand Opera House.
The Johnston company will give that
most beautiful pastoral play, “Maud
Muller,” Monday evening next, with
magnificent costumes conforming in
every particular to the characters in
Whittier's pretty poem.
Keene, the famous magician, will fol-low
Tuesday evening with the cele-brated
Nevarro children. The local
paper for this attraction was lost.
An Exchange of Pulpitg.
Rev. Wilson, of the United Presby-terian
church, will exchange pulpits on
the coming Sabbath with his college
friend, Dr. Charles Robinson, of Wheel
ing. Dr. Robinson is one of the popu-lar
preachers of his denomination, and
an invitation is extended to any who
make a weekly selection of the place of
worship to hear him either at the morn-ing
or evening service.
Invited to Somerset.
The Second brigade of the Pennsyl -
vania National Guard will be asked to
camp this summer at Somerset. In
order to make the offer of the grounds
more enticing, W. A. Scott, head of the
syndicate that has optioned the ground
for a permanent government camp site,
will provide a complete water and elec-tric
light service if the brigade encamps
there.
A Veteran Guardsman.
The commission of Captain James A.
Loar, commander of Company E, ex-pired
Wednesday after a continuous
service of fifteen years. The captain is
one of the oldest company commanders
in the Guard. He is not a candidate
and will only accept re-election with
the unanimous consent of the company.
Colonel Barnett has not as yet fixed a
time for holding the election.
Large Consignment of Flour.
On Monday, January 26, the Pills—
bury Mills, of Minneapolis, shipped a
solid train load of Pillsbnry’s BeBt
Flour to Pittsburg. This train was
routed via the C., B. & Q. to Chicago,
and Ft. Wayne from Chicago to Pitts
burg. This is the largest consignment
of flour ever shipped to this market, and
consisted of 35 cars, aggregating 10,060
barrels, 6,000 barrels of which was for
Ward-Mackey Co., the large Bakers
who make the Celebrated Mothers’
Bread, and it would seem that the phe-nomenal
success they have made is due
to the fact that they use only the best
flour.—Pittsburg Leader, Jan, 30.
WANTED:—A lady of 40 years of age
to become a housekeeper. Call on or
address Charles Hyde, Alverton, Pa. 0 2
FOR RENT:—A good store room on
West Main street. Apply to John A.
Stevenson. 2 6 tf
Yes, Tinstman has a full line of
Simons Pure Extracts, vanilla, lemon,
strawberrv, raspberry, rose, violet, pis-tachio,
banana, orange, pineapple-with
red, blue, green, yellow and violet
colors, for ice cream, sherbet, gelatine,
etc. 2 6 2
To LET—At Iron Bridge on the B &
O. R. R. between Mount Pleasant and
Scottdale, a 12 Room Frame House
with bath and water in kitchen, large
yard and garden and some fruit. Call
at residence or address G. A. Hogg, 24th
st. and A. V. R. R., Pittsburg, Pa.
2 6 4t
WANTED:—A stout boy. about 16
years of age, to learn the carriage black
smith trade. Apply at once to Galley
Bros., Mount Pleasant. 1 30 2
REWARD:—The finder of the lost
pocketbook, belonging to the Singer
Manufacturing Co. and containing
some $20 and valuable papers, will, upon
returning the same to the company’s
agent, F. M. Sargent, Church street,
Mount Pleasant, be allowed to retain
not only the money btit will be given a
liberal reward besides. 1 30 tf
AROUND AND ABOUT,
But Principally Within the
Bounds of This County.
A FULL COLUMN OF GOOD NEWS
SECURED FROM THE PAGES OF RE-LIABLE
EXCHANGES.
fixtures for Sale. Fixtures for Sale.
FOR RENT —Seventy acre farm in
Monnt Pleasant township, Westmore-land
connty. Inquire of C. J. Rose,
Greensburg, Pa. 1 80 4t
FOR RENT:—A furnished, lighted and
heated room on South Church street.
Apply at this office. 1 23 tf
If you are not using Presto you are
missing one of the good things. Tinst-man
has it.
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
W. T. Dora has sold the Central
Hotel, Dawson, to Cyrus Critchfield, of
Glen wood, for $25,000.
Lockport and vicinity liRve twelve
cases of smallpox. One victim, John
Parr, aged 20 years, has died.
Armstrong county, never having had
an execution, will borrow Allegheny
county’s gallows to hang Frank Dntosh
on March 5.
O. M. Tinsley was brought back last
week from Ohio to Connellsville to an-swer
the charge of having raised a B. &
O. railroad check.
John Sheridnn, a respected Latrobe
citizen who disappeared last week, was
found ill of fever at the Pittsburg home
of his daughter.
Dr. J. J. Siuger, of Connellsville, lias
the smallpox, caught in a scratch on his
finger while attending one of the Pisula
children at Everson.
Tilden Buttermore repeated his con-fession
to the Levi Eicher robbery in
court at Uniontown Monday and was
then remanded to jail.
Miss Clara Tomer, of Pittsburg, has
been declared sane by the court in
Greensbnrg, and thereby comes into an
estate valued at $60,000.
Harvey Gregory’s general store at
Beatty's station, for the fifth time
within the past six months, was robbed
last Thursday night of $100 worth of
goods. .
George Tobin, of Donora, who was
assaulted by his son-in law, Albert
Armes, with an axe, died Friday.
Armes is in jail at Washington charged
with murder.
An unknown man, probably 30 years*
old, was run down and instantly killed
on the Southwest branch of the Penn-sylvania
railroad near Coalbrook Satur-day
evening.
The War Department will arm the
guards of all the states with the Krag-
Jorgenson rifle as fast as the arm can
be turned out from the U. S. arsenal at
Springfield, Mass.
Because of the reduction in the wages
of girl employes and laborers, the Na-tional
Glass Company's Jeannette plant
was dosed Friday, throwing some 900
hands out of work.
Vaughn & Co.’s broker's office at
Connellsville was closed Friday by the
sudden disappearance of the operator,
M T. Vaughn. John McEvoy, of
Scottdale, was a member of the firm.
Boqnet, this county, has a preacher-musician,
Rev. C. L. Perch, pastor of
the Denmark Manor Reformed chnrch,
who has organized a brass band of 14
pieces, which he will lead withacornet.
Twenty five persons, converted by
Evangelist Alex Ditmore, of Uniontown,
were immersed in the icy waters of
Tucker Run, near Dunbar, last Sunday.
Many of them nearly perished from
cold
Friends of Nicholas Wilhelm, a Madi-son
man who died last week, aged abont
50 years, at his request made before
death, strung two decks.of cards about
his neck and played a game of Forty-five
on the lid of his coffin.
Charles Smith, colored, is dead, and
William Clark, also colored, is perhaps
fatally wounded as the result of a re-volver
dnel that occurred Sunday night
at Clairton, which place sprang into sud-den
prominence last week with two
murders.
Louis Wayman, of West Newton,
while attemping to board a moving B.
& O. freight train at Suterville Satur-day,
was caught and so injured that he
died while being taken to the McKees
port hospital. He was 23 years of age
and single.
William Logan and Laura Zimmer
man, both of Arnold, were jailed at
Greensburg Saturday, the former charg-ed
with keeping a bawdy house and
practicing medicine without a diploma
and the latter with keeping and main-taing
a bawdy house.
MEMBERSHIP CONTEST
That Will be on Monday Next in the
Local W O. T. U.
A membership contest has been ar-ranged
for by the local W. C. T. U. with
Mesdames Mary F. Warden and Kate
S. Stevenson as captains. An even
! number of helpers has been chosen
from the roll and a canvass will be
made for new members. The contest
| opens Monday, February 9th, and closes
Thursday, February 19, 1903.
The losing side will furnish a program
and refreshments for a reception to be
given to the new members on Saturday
evening, February 21st, at which time
Mrs. Ruth S. Etnier, who has been
around the world with Miss Jessie
Ackerman, will be the guest of honor.
KOBACKER’S CLOSING Oil SALE TO
QUIT BUSINESS.
The entire stock of Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing, Furnishings and Shoes goes
at a sacrifice. Don’t lose the great opportunity to select an up-to-date Suit, Overcoat, or
anything in the line of Clothing, Furnishings and Shoes. Why go to other dealers and pay
full price when you can come here and get the same goods at almost half price and some for
less than half? We must vacate our present store in a very short time, as we are leaving
town, and therefore we sacrifice our entire stock at the following prices:
Men’s Suits,
$5 Suits, «c
selling out price £u
$8 Suits, a CA
selling out price “ 9U
$10 Suits,
selling out price
$15 Suits,
selling out price
$18 Suits,
selling out price
$20 Suits,
selling out price
Young Men’s Suits.
35c Boys’ Knee Pants,
selling out price
Heavy Corduroy Knee Pants,
selliug out price
$5 Suits,
selling out price
$8 Suits,
selling out price
$10 and $12 Suits,
selling out price
Men’s Pants.
$2.50 Men’s Worsted Pants,
selling out price
$2.25 Corduroy Pants,
selling out price
$3 Men’s Worsted Pants,
selling out price
4 25
6 75
7 50
9 50
40c
$225
4 50
5 50
$1 25
I 25
I 50
$4 Men's Worsted Pants,
selling out price
$5 and $5.50 Worsted Pants,
selling out price
75c Jean Pants,
selling out price
$3 Linen Corduroy Pants, every pair
guaranteed, selling out price
2 50
2 90
45c
I 75
Men’s and Boys’ Furnishings.
35c Men’s Dress Suspenders, |Ap
selling out price I5fv>
50c Men’s Dress Suspenders, QRr
Fine dress Half Hose, 15c kind, Qp
Fine dress Half Hose, 25c kind, i-ip
selling out price lib
Men’s soft or stiff bosom dress Shirts Qlp
50c and 75c kind, selling out price wlb
$1.00 wool Underwear, RKf
$1.25 wool Underwear, c
$1.75imen’s very fineall wool worsted (hi TOA
Underwear, selling out price >51J*»U
10c red or blue Handkerchiefs, A
selling out price dC
25c heavy all wool Hose, i|?
selling out price IOC
50c Sweaters, AA
selling out price dllC
$1.00 all wool Sweaters, AE
selling out price OOC
$1 50, $1.75, $2.00, $2.25 and $2.50 Sweaters
at accordingly sacrificing prices.
Clothing, Gents’ Furnishing and Shoe House,
Main street, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
Fixtures for Sale. Fixtures lor Sale.
V ? Strickler’s Store. I
Established 185-4.
What counts ? Jan< 2
9>
Large advertisements--or goods and prices ?
For this store--goods and prices.
Never as now at this Clearance Sale of Winter Goods.
Never did it like this year as to goods and prices.
Proof--read and then see the goods.
KID GLOVES.
One dollar black and assorted tans, lace, for . 68C
Dollar twenty-five blacks and all colors, lace and clasp, for 85C
LACE CURTAINS.
Broken Lots of two and three pairs each.
$1.00 Curtains for 75C
$1.35 - “ “ 90C
If you need curtains in two or three pairs of a kind now
is the time to buy. No matter what quality, the price is
cut thirty, forty and in some instances fifty per cent.
LADIES’ J ACKETS.
Not many left but whatever the price you buy now at OWS-llalf
of former prices.
SHOES.
Missss’ $1.25 and $1.35 box calf and kid shoes reduced to 95C
“ 2.00 “ “ “ “ “ “ “ $150
Men’s 3.50 box calf, best quality, “ “2 50
“ 2.50 grain bluchers . . • “ “ 1 75
Every department contributes in making this the greatest clear-ance
of winter goods in this store’s history.
/Wain street and Diamond Square*.
\
THK MOUNT PUKAHANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 0, 1003.
TERRIBLE
DEATHS.
Two Little Children of An
McCauley, of near Lenient,
Cremated by the
House Burning.
FLIES
i in me fiont ne strolled out where the
1 engineer corps was at work and watch
i eil the axnien chopping timber. After
J chatting genially with them for a few
| minutes lie asked for an ax and, wield-
! ing It skillfully, remarked, “They do
| say 1 used to he good on the chop," then
; made the chips fly from a cut as smooth
as polished wood. When Lincoln had
loft the spot with a pleasant word, the
i engineers cheered the feat, and this
IVw| caused (he story
About 3 o’clock last Thursday morn- i the other two children were also burned,
ing the house of Andrew McCauley, of but not dangerously. The tire is sup-
North Union township. Fayette county, posed to have caught from the k tchen
near Leinont, was discovered to be on j flue,
fire. Only part of tbe family had time
to escape when the roof fell in and two
of the smaller children, Ruth and Gro
ver, perished in the flames. The mother,
in her frantic efforts to save her chil-dren,
was so badly burned that fears are
had for her recovery. Tbe father and
It seems that Mr. McCauley had risen
at a still earlier hour and started the
fire in the kitchen stove, goiug back to
bed. It is thought that the fine w as
defective and that the fatal flames were
started in this manner. The victims
were i> and 11 years of age.
to spread over
the camp, bring-ing
Father Abra-ham
a little near-er
to the hearts
of the rank and
file of the array.
Next to a hand-shake
with the
president the sol-d
i e r s delighted
most to stand In
line when Lin-coln
reviewed
the army. It was
a good chance to
study ills per-sonality,
for he
rode close to the
ranks and looked
the men iff their
faces. Lincoln
never saw any
army but the one
that battled In
front of Wash-ington,
the Army
of the Potomac,
I
V
Lincoln and the
Soldiers - ByTS,
Copyright, 1903, by G. J.. Kilmer
ll.MOST to a man the soldiers
who took up arms in 1801
were familiar with the type
of manhood upon which the
great war leader was modeled, t lie hon-est,
large hearted, patient and indom-itable
yeoman. City life and country
life wore then closer together than in
these times. At best the city man was
only one generation removed from the
'countryman. So while the farm boy
and the westerner claimed Lincoln as
of their own stamp their city comrades
were not a whit behind in personal ap- j
predation and loyally.
In the early days the campaign ti-tles
“Old Abe” and “Abe” Lincoln were
caught up lightly, for the war was
looked upon as part of the comedy of j
a heated political campaign to be quick-ly
ended. But when, after some blood-letting,
a poet coined the phrase,
"We’re coining, Father Abraham,” he j
struck a cord which lay. dormant in J
every soldier’s heart, for it linked the
man with the musket to the great head
of the government in the relation of j
parent and son. The title Father Abra- |
ham was universally adopted in the
same spirit as the camp nicknames
“Unde Billy” and “Pap” were fasten- j
ed upon Sherman and Thomas. It j
wasn’t levity, hut filial respect seeking
the simplest form of expression. Liu- ;
coin was the noble “father” of his
boys, Sherman the good “uncle,” Thom-as
the quiet, resourceful, everyday
“pap” or “dad.”
Every soldier who passed through
Washington or was encamped near it j
sought a chance to shake hands with
Father Abraham on reception days, j
Countless stories of these incidents,
.which stood out as events In the lives .
of the fortunate ones, became current
In camp. Even though these hand-shakes
grew to he commonplaces and |
Linodhi a familiar figure around the 1
nearby camps, men were proud to re- 1
hall “the first time I saw Lincoln,” ;
or “the day I shook hands with Lin- j
coin.” After his assassination hun-dreds
of thousands of boys in blue !
who had missed the opportunity or de- j
ferred it, purposely, till the day of ex- j
pected victory, were filled with regret.
Lincoln's first acts of executive clem-ency
and kindness In the cases where
untrained recruits had been condemned
to death created a Lincoln of camp
tradition. Father Abraham stood be-tween
the soldier boy and injustice
and wrong of every form. He could he
appealed to. He was appealed to. If
a soldier couldn’t get a furlough
through the army channels and thought
he had a good
ST
r H'UB'Bi1
42>u~*K£&■»«»
rrouniea with a surplus, greenbacks
not having been invented, brought to
camp a story which made the boys for-get
their lean pocketbooks for a time.
A paymaster was introduced to the
president with great eclat, and while
shaking the honest hand held out to
him said: “1 have no official business
with you. Mr. President. I only called
to pay my compliments.”
*
%
“l USED TO BE GOOD
OK THE CHOP.”
Of them came under the satire of the
president the soldiers took sweet re-venge
by retailing the story In camp
and writing it home to the folks and
to the papers. One of the callers
at the White House on a reception day
tn 1862, when the treasury was not
' “I THINK THAT IS Al.ij YOU DO PAY.
“Yes, I understand,” responded Lin-
, coin curtly, adding as he nodded to-
| ward several soldiers who were looking
: on, “from the complaints of these boys
! of mine I think It is all you do pay.”
Whenever a rascally commissary,
quartermaster or paymaster was dis-missed
the service the president got
the credit for it In camp. He made no
public professions of his good will to
the hoys and never praised them with
eloquent harangues, but now and then
he dropped a homely phrase which
showed the place they held in his
heart. One day there was an issue in
the councils between the soldiers and
their general. Lincoln sided with the
man with the musket, and, when re-monstrated
with for risking giving of-fense
to a prominent officer, he ex-claimed,
“But I can make a general
any time with a stroke of the pen, and
good soldiers are hard to get.”
All through the war the soldiers dis-liked
military frills and ceremony and
for that reason took to Lincoln, the
American ideal of democratic simplic-ity.
Every story which was racy of
the rail splitter president, especially if
it related to the army, was eagerly
caught up and made camp property.
One day a German nobleman who had
seen service in the fatherland appeared
at the White House as an applicant
for a commission. Lincoln liked the
young fellow for his personal bearing
solely and promised him an appoint-ment.
Being overjoyed at his good
luck, the foreign sprig began to Impress
crToshse tiheeasvoielsetr || j, president with his importance at ome saying that he belonged to one
0f tjle oldest noble houses In Europe.
“Oh, never mind that,” said Lincoln,
with gravity in his look and tone. "It
will not be a serious obstacle to your
advancement in this country.”
The soldiers In turn treated foreign
officers sent among them In the same
spirit. If they fought well, their old
world records didn’t count against
them and on the other hand didn’t do
them any good.
After the army grew to vast propor-tions
thousands of soldiers joined it and
served without a close view of Father
Abraham. Whenever he visited camp,
only the few who were cantoned along
the route or stationed near headquar-ters
and the points he Inspected saw
anything of his personality. One dav
claim, he wrote
flic president. If
the soldier's let-ter
failed in its
mission, then the
mother or sister
or wife wrote
and Lincoln or-dered
the fur-lough
granted if
the circu in-stances
warrant-ed
it
to bear was the
slow paymaster
and the rascal-ly
commissary,
quartermaster
and army con-tractor.
For all
his Ills he made
some of these
worthies the vic-tim
of a “roast-ing,"
and If one
LINCOLN REVIEWING
THE ARMY AT AN-TIETAJf.
and two of his most
notable reviews of that body were at
Antietnm immediately after the great
battle and on the Rappahannock soon
after “Fighting Joe” Hooker assumed
command. Both reviews took place
at a crisis In war’s fluctuations and
in the temper of the army, and Lin-coln’s
appearance just at the time had
the effect of Impressing his personality
as commander ill chief upon the minds
of the troops above the immediate gen-eral
in command. For a couple of weeks
before the battle of Antietam he would
have been a rash man who would open-ly
champion the administration’s way
with the army. It had been withdrawn
from the James river, McClellan liad
been deposed, and his successor, an un-tried
westerner, lmd led the troops to
fisaster which ended in n retreat to the
fortifications of Washington. Then Mc-
Clellan had been recalled and had
checked the Confederate invasion of
Maryland, driving Lee uml Stonewall
Jackson across the I’otomac. The feel-ing
in the camp was that the army had
suffered from loo much meddling at the
war department: that McClellan, left
to himself, had won a brilliant triumph.
Lincoln came to the field and rode
down the line, facing the men in tlieir
ragged and battle stained uniforms.
Around and behind him were the gen-erals
resplendent in brnhl and glitter-ing
harness, but the president's somber
black suit, Ids high silk hat, liis strong,
honest and serious face, singled him
out ns (lie head of the body politic, that
creation from which tlie army had
sprung. In n day It came and van-ished,
that mighty presence which
swayed tlie destinies of nation and
army alike, and for weeks following
the apparition no word fell from the
lips of the soldiers more softly and rev-erentially
than the name of Lincoln.
Four months later the conditions and
tlie review of Antietam were repeated
on the banks of tlie Rappahannock.
Agnin McClellan had been removed
and his successor Involved in the blood-ieBt
disaster of the war, the Fredericks-burg
slaughter. Moreover, another un-tried
commander had been placed at
Hie head of the army, General Hooker.
Hundreds of officers had resigned and
prominent major generals had asked
to he relieved from serving under
Hooker in another Rappahannock cam-paign.
Lincoln came and spent some
days talking it over with tlie generals.
Then the army was called out, and
Lincoln rode down the line accom-panied
by his little son “Tnd” riding a
pony. A hitter spirit could quarrel
with tlie president, off in Washington,
but not with Father Abraham, right
there at the front with Ids favorite
boy, his heart already torn by fresh
grief at tlie loss of “Tad’s” baby play-mate,
Willie. Veterans have happily
long since buried the war's controver-sies
and quarrels, but whenever the sub-ject
of Lincoln’s reviews of the army
is called up at a G. A. It. campfire tlie
comrade who can tell of “Tad” and Ids
pony in tlie review at Falmouth is the
hero of the hour.
As n military man the president nev-er
aroused (lie respect of the army and
after the disasters of Second Bull Itun
and Fredericksburg, which, rightly or
wrongljvwere laid at his door, the idea
of his interference wns to the mass In-tolerable.
He told Grant In so many
words that he didn’t profess to be a
military mail or to know how cam-paigns
should he conducted and never
wanted to interfere. He liad done so
at times under pressure from the peo-ple
of the north and congress, but was
lertain his interference had been wrong
in some cases, possibly In all. One sto-ry
of Ills nagging the generalB was told
with great gusto by the critics of the
army, which, if true, would have
stamped Lincoln as A man of coarse
fiber and vacillating mind. This was
to tlie effect that at one time he wired
McClellan to either “attack Richmond
or give up the job.” The truth is that
the Joke was upon the scared heads In
Washington, Philadelphia and New
York. The army was carrying out the
actual campaign set by the war de-partment
and investing Richmond.
Suddenly Stonewall Jackson swooped
down upon the army of Banks in the
Shenandoah valley and drove it to the
Potomac. Washington got news that
the Confederates were threatening
Leesburg and the Manassns Gap rail-road
in front of Washington. Lincoln
wired tbe particulars to McClellan, tell-ing
him how the three armies, of Mc-
Dowell, Banks and Fremont would be
disposed so us to protect the capital.
Even then lie feared the result and
ndded. “1 think Clio time Is near whe,
you must either attack Richmond o
give up the Job and come to the del’enst
of Washington.”
The Immediate defense of Washing-ton
while (he army was at a distance
coping with the inn In enemy gave tin
president great concern and also an op-portunity
to exercise liis military in-clinations.
At the time of Early’s raid.
In 1801. Lincoln went out to the point
of danger with a column of fresh
troops which Grant hail sent up from
Petersburg to strengthen the local gar-rison
of clerks nml convalescents.
While watching the skirmishers in
front of Fort Stevens, which Early at
tacked, Lincoln got within range and
was urged by the generals to retire
and lie did so only after considersbl<
protest.
The capture of Richmond was Hie
one great problem of Lincoln’s Incnni
bcncy. It became a bugbear, s-i of : e
was it attempted under his ninnipi:!.:-
tion without success. It was during
a talk with Grant as to how lie—Grant
would proceed that Lincoln confessed
Ids military mistakes and want of ex-perience.
Grant refrained from laying
bare Ids plans for the reason, as he de
elared, that while they looked hopeful
they might fall, and he didn’t wish to
disappoint Lincoln, who had had the
matter oil Ids heart for three years.
After Grant laid siege to Petersburg
and Richmond and Lincoln was candi-date
for a second term an admirer said
to the president. “Nothing can defeat
yon but Grant’s capture of Richmond
and his nomination by the opposite
party.”
“Well,” said Lincoln. “1 feel very
much like the man who said lie didn’t
want to die particularly, but If lie had
got to die that was precisely the dis
e.isB he’d like to die of.”
At la.st the hour came for tlie final
blow which was to decide once for nil
the fate of Richmond. Lincoln visited
Grant’s headquarters at City Point, on
the James, miles In rear of the besieg-ing
lines. Grant requested him to re-main
there while he went In person to
the front to direct tlie troops, the gen-eral
promising to send the president
frequent dispatches of the progress
made by the advance. On the heels of
the victory at Five Forks Grant wired
the president to join him and received
Ids call in a house In tlie captured city
of Petersburg, Richmond having fallen
a few hours before Lincoln arrived.
After expressing Ills thanks to the
army for the victory, Lincoln said, “Do
you know, general, that 1 have had a
sort of sneaking idea for some days
that you intended to do something like
this?”
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THE MYSTERY
OF GRASLOV
By Ashley Towne
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SAME OLD
SCHEME.
Johnstown Has Another Attack
of New County Itch and
Wants a Slice of Old West-moreland
to Help Along.
PROPOSED NEW COUNT) OF CONEMAUGH.
At lust the whistle led her Into one
of the passages, and she swung her
lantern high to see where there was a
dungeon. It was not far away, and
the gleams of the lantern went through
the door of a gloomy cell. The light
fell upon a man chained to the walls.
One chain was around Ids waist, an-other
held his feet, and each arm was
extended and held to the wall by a
smaller but stout chain. These chains
were built Into th^ wall and their ends
locked together.
vwho are you?” asked Olga. “Why
are you a prisoner here?”
“My name Is Denton,” was the reply.
“I am an American, and my arrest is
an outrage that will not go unpunish-ed.”
“It shall not, I promise that, if any
of us ever gets out alive."
“Hut who are you, and what are you
doing here?” asked Denton.
"1 am a Nesterov and came to liber-ate
you and Vladimir l’nnlpoff,”
In the light of her lantern she could
set' him stare.
“You a Neslerov! When did you come
to Tomsk?”
“Two days ago. The governor Is a
distant relation of mine. 1 am here
upon a mission that you will under-stand
when I speak—the mystery of
Graslov.”
“Y’on are trying, you are seeking”—
“I am a cousin of that Prioress Ne-elerov
who married the son of the Duke
of Graslov. Is that sufficient?”
“It Is. Then, if we work together,
justice will be done.”
“First we must work to get out of
here," said Olga. “How were these
chains fastened?”
“With a small iron key. It was on a
long chain, so 1 presume it hangs in
that passage at the head of the stairs.
The stairs are not far from this spot.
It was not n long distance when I was
brought here.”
“It may not be far, but in what direc-tion
?”
“There was a stupid kind of fellow
down here once after I was brought in.
He brought tne some food. I watched
him and think I can guide you to the
stairs. Count three passages to the
left from that black stoue in the wall.”
“Yes; this Is the third.”
“Now go through that till you reach a
heap of rubbish in a little court. 1 re-member
the rubbish heap, for I stum-bled
over it. At this rubbish heap the
passage divides, and one lane leads to
the left and the other to the right. The
one on the right will lead you to the
stairs.”
“Come, Tberese!”
Taking her lantern, Olga again start-ed,
carefully following the directions ol
Denton. She found the rubbish heap
and, tnking the passage to the right,
soon catne to the stairs. She left The-rese
at the foot of the stairs while she
crept softly up.
In the guardroom Itzig still lay snor-ing,
and Olga glanced at the door tc
make sure the bolt had not been dis-turbed.
If a dozen Cossacks had been
hammering at. the door she would not
have faltered now. Sae searched in
the little passage end found a small
iron key suspended from a peg by a
chain.
“It must be the one.” she said, and
she seized it and sped below.
“Remain here,” she said to Thcreso.
“and if I am lost again you can guidt
me hack to the stairs as the American
guided us to him.”
Site wound her way through the pas-sages
and at Inst reached Denton.
“Y'ou are a brave little woman.” IK
said. “1 did not think there WJIS a wo
man like you in the; world—except one.’
“I suppose you mean Frances Gor
don.” said the princess.
“What! I>o you know her?”
“I met her at the great fair in Mos-cow.
She was very charitable.”
While she talked she tried the key.
It fitted the locks In the chains and one
by one they dropped clanging against
the wall, and Denton was free.
“Now. then,” she said, "Vladimir
Paulpoff .s here. Do you know how to
find him?”
“No; I do not know where they put
him. I know it was not near me, for 1
have been calling him. I received no
answer.”
“AVe cannot remain here in safety
much longer,” she said. “The day-light
will bring activity In the palace.
Jansky, superintendent of police, is
lying drunk in his office, and Itzig,
the guard, is also unconscious. The
superintendent will he discovered and
there will he an uproar. It will spoil
all if we are now discovered.”
“AVe must make huste and find
Vladimir,” said Deuton. “I do not
feel that we can leave him. If they
discover my absence, they may kill
him.”
“Find him if you can. If not, I must
watch over his welfare till you re-turn.”
“Return! From Perm?”
“No. Perm is too far. I have work-ed
to bring the denouement in the pal-ace.
1 have sent a message to the
governor general at Tobolsk. I have
with me a woman whose testimony is
worth millions. All we need now Is
what Papa l’aulpoff can tell us. You
must bring him.”
“I will.”
He tried to find some clew to the
pmee wnerc Vladimir was incarcer-ated.
but there was nothing to guide
him.
“I cannot find hint, and I believe he
Is safer than you will he if Neslerov
traps you here. Neither you nor I will
ever get out alive. AVe must leave
him.”
“Then come, and may God give him
Ills protection till we can give him
justice!”
They hurried to the stairs. The door
was relocked, the Iron key hung In
its accustomed place and the door to
the guardroom unbolted. The halls
were still lighted by the brilliant
lamps of the fete, though daylight was
coming on. Rut there was no one
stirring.
“Quick!" said Olga. “Let us under-stand
each other. Therese, who is
here ns my attendant, is the widow of
a servant of the Graslov household-loyal
to the old duke. She is willing to
tell the truth. Has Paulpoff spoken?’
“Yes. lie told me all, and I was
about to start for Perm with the por-trait
of Princess Alexandra when I
was arrested by Jansky and brought
here.”
“And now you are free! Why did
you take this Interest iu the mystery
of Graslov?"
“Because,” he answered after a slight
pause, "Miss Gordon, whom I have
known for a long time, loves Vladimir,
and 1 think ATaditnir loves her.”
“All.” she exclaimed, peering at him
closely, “and for her—for her sake—
you wanted to publish—the truth?”
“Yes, and for his sake also.”
“Then he is not the only one who
loves her, this American girl,” she said.
HU face became flushed, but lie did
not answer.
“Now go,” she said. “Find Paulpoff
ami bring him here. You know where
he is.”
“lie is still in the lint at Tivoloffsky,
if Jansky lias not spirited him away.”
“Then look for hint there, and if lie
is gone the governor general will help
us find him. Oh, I wish De Muloff
would come!”
She sped into Jansky’s room and re-placed
tlie keys in ills pocket. Then,
returning, she said:
“God bless you! Help me establish
the truth, and the gratitude of the Ne-slerovs
will he yours.”
“You may count on me,” ho answered
as lie passed through Hie palace door.
“I will bring old Paulpoff to tell the
truth.”
CHAPTER XV.
NESl.KROV KNOWS HIS PERIL.
BOLT the time Governor Nesle-rov
was rousing himself from
a deep slumber which had not
refreshed him after the ball,
Jansky, superintendent of police, was
groaning and muttering in his own ef-forts
to wake up. He knew he was
awake, but the effect of the heavy drug
was still upon him. Itzig, however,
having succumbed to n lesser quantity
than was taken by Jansky, was sooner
awake and had been relieved by the
day guard and gone to his own quar-ters.
The first question Neslerov asked
was for Princess Olga. AA’hen ho learn
ed that she was still sleeping, he went
to see Jansky.
“AA'liat is the matter with you?” he
asked. “A’ou seem to he ill.”
"I do feel rather ill,” said Jansky. “1
don’t know when I felt like this.”
“You were drunk; that's all. You
were drunk when I left you. Did you
drink any more?”
’Yes; in making the round of inspec-tion
I discovered Itzig asleep and a
bottle of wine half gone. I drank the
rest.”
“Itzig asleep! At his post! And this
danger near us?”
“Pooh! The girl suspects nothing. A
girl of her age, even though she he a
princess, could tot dissemble so well. 1
tell you Olga suspects nothing.”
“Then why is she here?”
’•Well, she is eccentric, as you know,
and it is quite possible that she would
like to be tin* wife of the governor of
Tomsk.”
Neslerov laughed.
“She would like to kill him. rather.”
“Even so, she does not suspect.”
“But this thing of Itzig being asleep
st his post—we must examine into it.”
“The poor devil wanted his share in
the festivities. I suppose. AVe must not
deni too severely with him. He cer
tainly did not steal the wine. Some
Due must have givetl it to him.”
"AATJO? I must fitjd that out. But,
since ho has been asleep, you had bet-ter
examine the prisoners.”
“They are there all right. How could
they lie otherwise.”
“But you know what it means to me
If they escape.”
“Escape! I will stake my head they
cannot escape. AVhy, to pass out from
the dungeons they must open the iron
gate and the door of the guardroom.
See, her*-- s the key to the guardroom
door.”
“Still,” -said Neslerov hesitatingly, “I
wish you would make an examination.”
“Oh, if your excellency wishes it, I
will do so gladly. But I promise you
they are there.”
Jansky was still stupid from the
drugged wine, but lie knew what lie
was doing. lie went to the guardroom
and unlocked the door leading to the
dungeons. In the passage he obtained
a lantern and passed through the iron
gate. He went down the stairs and
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inrougn tne passages, which lie knew
well, to (lie dungeon. lie entered and
stood horror stricken at the empty
chains hanging on the 'Stall. Willi
fear in Ids heart he crept back to the
stairs, glancing nervously around him,
for lie know the strength of the Ameri-can.
Neslerov, to whom he went, look-ed
in surprise at the ashen face.
“Curses upon us all!” said Jansky
hoarsely. “They are gone!”
Jansky looked sheepishly at the gov-ernor,
and Neslerov looked at Jansky
like ati angry wolf.
“Gone! Both prisoners gone!” cried
the governor. “Is tills true?”
“Unfortunately—the thing I thought
impossible is a fact.”
Neslerov’s face was white.
“1 thought—you told me they were
both In chains!” he said. Ids voice
strained and tense.
“I did, and it was true. AVith my
own hands I chained them. The
American was in the dungeon at the
first landing and Paulpoff was down
in the lower cellar. With my own
hands 1 chained them, and I hold the
key to the door. The key to the chains
still hangs where I placed it. This is
a miracle. The men must be devils in
human form.”
“The American is something like a
devil,” said Neslerov grimly, “but I
doubt if he lias supernatural powers.
If those chains have been loosened,
Jansky, some human agent has done
it, and there Is a traitor in the pal-ace.”
“AA'liom does your excellency sus-pect?”
“My cousin Okra.”
[TO HR CONTINUED.]
Nearly Forfeits His Life.
A runaway almost ending fatally,
started a horrible nicer on the leg of J.
B. Orner, Franklin Grove, 111. For four
years it defied all doctors and all reme-dies.
But Bueklen’s Arnica Salve had
no trouble to cure him. Equally good
for Burns, Bruises, Skin Eruptions and
Piles. 25c at H. F. Barkley’s drug store.
Pretty, but so Thin!
man would be a beauty if she
were not so horribly thin.”
“ Yes,” said the doctor, “ she
is really ill; most thin women
are ill.”
Unusual thinness may mean
worry, extra work, care of the
sick, nervousness, dyspepsia,
bowel troubles, or the first
consumption.
The best thing we have found
for thin people, whatever the
cause, is Vinol.
To combine the medicinal
properties of cod liver oil with
organic iron in such a powerful
and yet well-tasting prepara-tion,
was a great discovery. If
you try it and are not pleased,
we pay the money back.
H. f. BARKLEY,
DRUGGIST.
town is situated are at a great disad-vantage,
the nearest railroad ronte to
Ebensbnrg, the county seat, being 88
miles. It is proposed to form a new
county out of the southern portion of
Cambria and small parts of Somerset.
Indiana and Westmoreland counties,
which are adjacent to Johnstown, and
in which 90 per cent, of the people are
iu favor of the m v-mient. It is propos
ed that the new county shall be named
Conemaugh. No time has been fixed
for the mnss meeting.
GROVER SEEMS
TO GROW YOUNG
Former President Talks of Mor-gan
and Frick to Pittsburger.
HALE AND HEARTY MAN
Joseph Kornbluin Tells of Quiet Family
JLife in Colonial Princeton Home—In-terested
in Pittsburgh’s Proposed
Universities.
Ex -President Grover Cleveland may
not have visions of a third term as chief
executive of the nation, but according
to a Pittsburgher who has just returned
from a visit to the Cleveland mansion
in Princeton, Grover is in better health
than he bas been foryears, and actually
seems to be getting younger instead of
older.
Joseph Kornblum, the optician who
attended to Mr. Cleveland’s eyes when
he was in the White House, was recent
ly summoned to the plain old colonial
homestead at Princeton, where the ex-president
is living in quiet.
Mr. Kornblum tells his friends that
the sage of Buzzards Bay hnR one of the
happiest homes in America. He lives
in a modest, old fashioned house, sur-rounded
by large grounds, in the little
town, which hardly numbers 1,500 in-habitants,
when the college is closed.
When Mr. Kornblum stepped upon
the porch of the Cleveland mansion
Tuesday afternoon his eyes were greeted
by the sign, “Bell broken; knock at the
door.” Mr. Cleveland was at home, as
he is to all callers at Princeton, and the
three children were playing about the
house. Dick iB a wiry little 4 year-old,
full of health and spirits.
As for the girls—well, the time is not
so far distant now, when the eldest.
Ruth, will make her debut in society.
She is a tall, handsome girl, 13 years
old, and already reaches above the
shoulder of her father. Esther is only
a few years behind.
Mr. Cleveland was much interested iu
the Gazette’s exclusive story of the uni-versity
which H. C. Frick proposes to
give Pittsburgh. “What are yon going
to do with all these good things in
Pittsburgh?" asked the ex-president.
Speaking of Pierpont Morgan, Mr.
Cleveland said:
“I know Mr. Morgan very well. He
is a much better man than the general
public seems to believe. He is a phil-anthropist
and a charitable man."
“Mr. Cleveland looked 10 years young-er
than he did two years ago.” Mr.
Kornblum said. “He is not so stout and
his activity is remarkable."
The optician said the ex president's
eyes would he in better condition if be
exercised more, and recommended walk
ing, but Mr. Cleveland said he was not
fond of walking, “except.” he added,
“when I am out hunting; then I cun
outwalk them all.” He said he had
planned to start on a hunting trip on
December 12.
Will remove our Pittsburg establish-ment
to the Arrott Building, Wood
street and 4th avenue, February 9th next.
EVERY CHURCH or iu
stitutiou supported by voluntary
contribution will be given a lib-eral
quantity of the Longman &
Martinez Pure Paints whenever
they paint.
NOTE: Iia\re done so for twen-ty-
seven years. Sales: Tens of
i millions of gallons;painted near-ly
two million houses under
guarantee to repaint if not satis-factory.
The paint wears for
periods up to eighteen years.
Linseed Oil must be added to the
paint (done in two minutes). Ac-tual
cost then about $1.25 a gal-lon
. Samples free. Sold by our
agents. C. L. Kuhn, Mount
Pleasant; Calhoun & Co., Cou-nellsville.
2 6 2m
People in the valley in which Johns-
Can’t Hear
of any one who has ever been long
dissatisfied, it dissatisfied at all,
with anything purchased here.
If there seems to be anything
wrong after purchase it either
turns out all right or is made all
right We are here to make our
word good.
The high quality of our
[
permits us to fully guarantee its
goodness. Purchasers will be well
satisfied with it.
GIBBS & KING,
furniture, Carpets and Undertaking.
760 Main St., Mount Pleasant.
W. G.
BAKHAUS
JGO.
Sanitary
Plumbing and Gas titling
Steam and Hot Water Heating.
N, B —12 Years’ Prac- Only Competent Me-tical
Experience. chanics Employed.
( Jewel Gas Ranoes and Hot Plates.
Agents for Classic, Wilson and Mentel Heating Stoves.
( Rudd Automatic Instantaneous Water Heater
Call and see the Rudd Automatic Instantaneous Water Heater in
operation iu our store, 212 E. Main street. ’Phone 139.
H. S. ACKERMAN,
DEALER IN. HIGH GRADE Pianos = =
ANDOrgans,
Sheet Music and Musical
Merchandise.
Densmore and Yost
Typewriting Machines
Gramophone Talking Machines an?he Standard Sewing Machine
NEEDLES, OIL AND ATTACHMENTS.
Addreu« H. S. ACKERHAN,
2oi Main Street, GREENSBURG PENNA.
FREE
Don’t forget to ask for the Consumers’
and Merchants’
Benefit Scrip.
J. W. Swartz, - Wall Paper j
J. J. Hitchman, - Harness j
Rumbaugh& Dillon, Clothiers
M. A. Bowman, - Druggist
S. B. Colvin, - Hardware
Goodman & Springer, Photos |
W. R. Smith, - Jeweler
A. T. Wible, - Groceries I
Gibbs & King, - Furniture
G. W. Overholt & Co., Bakers |
J. B. F. Smith. Dry Goods
W. A. Pyne, - Shoes
Mary Swartz, - Millinery
Vogel Brothers, - Tailors I
The Journal, - Job Work
Customers Take Notice.
That for every Cash Purchase of
ONE DOLLAR from any Mer-chant
whose name is printed iu
the margin Entitles You to a
s Pei tel. Snip,
which they will accept for Five
Cents on every
And take SPECIAL NOTICE that the
Merchants who belong to this Associa-tion
are the most wide-awake and keep
the Best Selected Stock of Goods and
their prices are the Lowest.
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, FMIOAT. FEBRUARY 0, 1908,
l NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS.
A OVERTON.
Miss Minta Boyd, of Scottdale, spent
a few days last week here with her
sister, Mrs. D. R. Chougenour.
Miss Katherine Htinsherger spent a
few days this week in Braddock calling
on her sister.
F. Sterrit, of Turtle Creek was here
last week with his aunt, Mrs. J. L.
Loncks.
O. P. Medsgar, principal of the High
8cbool, Verner Unistead, John Byars,
Janies Bair and Ray Barnmn spent Sat
nrday exploring Dehaney’s cave.
William Byars and Walter Hill spent
Snnday with Yonngwood friends.
Adam Fleisher, who had been sick for
some time, died on Tuesday morning at
the home of Luther Fleisher.
One of our local pugilists had better
be careful or one of the High School
boys will claim the belt.
Miss Bell Fleisher, of Greensburg, is
here visiting friends this week.
The Alvertou foundry isdoing a rush
ing business.
Be careful, boys, when you go to a
Hungarian wedding.
UPPER BACK CREEK.
The people of this vicinity are com-mencing
to clean out their sugar
vessels.
Rev. Dillon preached to a very lnrge
congregation at Mt. Nebo Sunday
night.
F. L. Foust would do well if he were
to call on some of the fair maids of
Back Creek.
Norman Yotbers, of this place, is in
the logging business.
Mrs. Elizabeth Geary, of Somerset
county, visited friends and relatives
aloDg Back Creek the past week.
The young people are anxiously wait-ing
for that spelling to be held at Long
Wood.
Prof. W. H. Dnmbanld says he thinks
he can out spell the Back Creek scholars.
Well, come along, Billy, and we will
give you an opportunity of showing
your spelling qualities.
ARMBRU8T.
the New
made a
the local
General Agent Niekols, of
Home Sewing Machine Co.
short call on J. L. Armbrust,
agent, last Tuesday.
Mrs. Frank West, who formerly lived
at this place but now resides in Indiana
county, spent several days of last week
at this place with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Jones.
T. F. Armbrust, an engineer, and
Ross Tice, a fireman, both from Yonng-wood,
spent a short time this week here
with their parents.
Mrs. H. P. Tice and daughter. Miss
Ruth, spent last Friday visiting one of
our former residents, Mrs. Hart, of
Welty.
The entertainment that was given in
the hall at this place on last Friday and
Saturday evenings by Prof. Henderson
was well attended and every one seemed
well pleased with the performances.
Earnest Tice claims the championship
for big hogs. The last one he killed
tipped the scales at almost COO pounds
and required six men to hang it. It had
to be scalded by blankets as no barrel
could be obtained of sufficient capacity
to hold the animal.
and William Gorton, Canada, all of
whom were present Sabbath when the
funeral services were conducted by
Rev. S. W. Douglas. The interment
took place in the Mount Pleasant ceme-tery.
Mrs. Henry Porch, of Kecksburg,
spent Tuesday with Mrs. M. J. Lemmon.
Mr. Melka moved from here to Hecla
last week.
HECLA.
Dave Sellers, a nephew of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Bailey, arrived here from
England last week and intends taking
up his abode with ns.
Fred J. Bailey, the popular store
manager, is off duty this week on ac-count
of sickness.
Miss Agnes Piusky, of this place, was
taken suddenly ill on Sunday evening,
but is improving slowly.
The condition of Steve Dey, who has
a very bad case of pneumonia, at this
writing shows no improvement.
Paul R. McCann, our popular “lady’s
man,” was a business caller in Greens
burg one day this week.
A crowd of our “Smart Set” attended
a surprise party in Mount Pleasant on
last Thursday evening It was a snr
prise all around.
John Bronson, one of our progressive
farmers, intends leaving for Lawrence
county where he has bought a farm.
We are all sorry to see him go.
The program that has been arranged
for tomorrow evening’s meeting of the
local Epworth League is:
Song League
Address . T. H. Tudor
Recitation .EtnmalSauerwein
Reading W. L. Weaver
Instrumental Solo Margaret Bailey
Recitation Ray McPhail
Solo (vocal) Margaret Laird
Reading .*... . T. II. Wright
Recitation.. Miss Smith
Music McPhail Brothers
Reading 0. II. Fries
Recitation Eva Naylor
(juotatatlons Mrs. John Naylor
Duet Nell Naylor and Geo. McPhail
Recitation Mrs. John Jeffrey
Oration F. P. Bull'd
Reading George McPhail
Solo Lottie Sauerwein
Recitation Walter Wright
Recitation . Bertha Sauerwein
Music McPhail Brothers
Recitation Clara Sauerwein
Farewell Address .J. W. Bronson
Closing Hymn League
Chairman, Nell Naylor.
W. A. Bailey, j
Agnes Laird. '-Corn.
Margaret Bailey. 1
SOUTHERWOOD.
George Sheets has purchased a fine
new horse and expects to catch her now.
Miss Ella Davis, of Moyer, was the
guest of Miss Wadsworth over Snnday.
There will be preaching at the
Southerwood school-house February 22.
Mrs. Susan Lankey is visiting friends
at Bridgeport.
Robert Goodman came out to South-erwood
and took a picture of the school
and the teacher, Miss Cora Mae Chis
nell, who is doing excellent work.
Dorsey Wadsworth is a frequent
visitor at the home of D. F. Welshonse.
What is the attraction?
CARPENTERTOWN.
Members of Lemmon’s school will
hold a festival Thursday evening next.
All are cordially invited.
The teachers of Mount Pleasant town-ship
will hold their next institute at
Kecksburg, February 14.
Beulah, the infant daughter of M. J
Lemmon, has been ill the past week but
is now improving.
Miss Lizzie Faith is here visiting at
the home of Lewis Carey.
Mrs. Gorton, or later Griffith, died at
her home near Kecksburg Thursday
evening of paralysis, leaving four sons
and two daughters to mourn her loss,
John and Mark and Mrs. Sarah Brom-yard,
of Kecksburg; Samuel, Mount
Pleasant; Mrs. Christ Smith, Tranger,
J. S. PARKERCO.
Savoring Strongly of Spring.
The pretty new cottons give new life to the store appearance
after the subdued colors of winter.
There are stacks upon stacks of beautiful fabrics in light, me-dium
and heavy weights such as are approved of fashion for waists
and wash suits.
Nearly all these cloths are American made—the best styles,
most clever weaving on the market—and, to cap the climax, sell-ing
for only a little more than half of cost of the foreign makes.
15c and 20c.
to these two special lots—
Corded Printed Madras-
Just want to call your attention
worth 20c and 25c respectively.
The 15c lot isof line quality. 36 inches wide—polka dots and
neat figures, absolutely fast colors—styles that are appropriate
for waists, wash suits or child’s dresses.
The 20c lot is 32 inches wide, satin striped and corded, very
effective neat designs in big variety.
These fabrics will largely take the place of striped ginghams
and cambrics so much used the last few years.
New White Goods--Underpriced.
For early February selling we have taken several qualities
and marked them down to introduce the immense general line.
India Linens.—Lot No. 1 is marked 12c yd—our regu-lar
15c quality—it is an unusually good one even at the regular
price.
Lot No. 2 is marked 15cyd—our regular 18c and 20c qualities—
fine, sheer cloths of which we sell thousands of yards at regular
prices later in the season.
Mercerized l/V/aistings 25c-Special as-sortment
taken from the 30c and 35c lines—oxford cheviot, crepe
surfaces and stripes—you will appreciate the qualities when you
see them.
Then there are the lower priced ones at 18c and 20c and some
of the most exquisite weaves we have ever seen at 40c and 50c.
imbroideries ioc.
Special assortment of new design embroidery,
dallions and insertings offered for early selling at
12c to 18c yd—forty-two different patterns.
Opening Mourning Millinery,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Feb. 12th, 13th, and 14th.
Special showing at this time of newest ideas in
slack hats, black and white hats, bonnets and mourning
veils.
Attractive styles ms de up in our best manner and
that of leading importers.
Would be pleased to have you call.
SCOTTDALE, F*A.
INDIAN HEAD.
Abraham H. Barron had public sale
on last Tuesday after which he moved
to Mount Pleasant. He sold his farm
to William Kaufman.
Lavan Kuhns and Elmer Nedrow
have had attractitns along Back Creek
for the last few weeks.
Quite a number of pgople attended
church at Mt. Nebo on last Sunday
night. There will be services at that
place again tomorrow evening.
Morgan Horner and family, of Scott-dale,
were visiting relatives at this
place over Sundry.
It is rumored that there will be a
great many political funerals in the near
future if some of the Democratic can
didates get defeated for the office of
supervisor. If Jacob Albright is snow
ed under he and William Christner will
raise frogs and turtles for which they
think there will be a great demand.
The local Lutherans held their com-munion
service on Sunday last.
Philip Geary, of Champion, was a
business callerat this place last Monday
John E. Keller, of Stahlstown, paid
his best girl a call last Snnday evening.
CHAMPION.
Rev. McCauley and family visited
friends here last week and had for their
guests Mrs. Jacob Albright and daugh-ter,
Miss Alary, of Indian Head. The
reverend gentleman is conducting a re-vival
service at the Calvary church.
There was a good meeting of society
at the Washington school, which also
seems to be a good place for a young
man to get a girl.
Revs. Stevens and Dillon exchanged
pulpits Snnday. The latter will preach
again at Mt. Nebo, Snnday evening.
The German Baptists will hold a series
of revival meetings to-morrow evening.
Miss Sadie Newill has returned from
a visit paid her cousin, Mrs. Jennie Ken
nell, of Scottdale.
Al. Larrimer, onr local merchant,
all smiles over his new boy whom
Grandpa Simeon Larrimer was here to
see Saturday.
Edward Kuhns, onr blacksmith, while
chopping wood several weeks ago, cut
his toe, but paid little attention to the
wound which grew worse until Dr.
Earnest had to amputate it the other
day.
Indian Creek is on a high as the re-sult
of heavy rains and melting snow
Philip Geary and George Sleasman
are tickled all to pieces with the stov
Riley McLean put in his blacksmith
shop.
(Additional Correspondence on fourth page)
appliques, ir;e-
10c yd--worth
What the Talking Machine
will do for you.
*• HIS MASTER’S VOICE”
It will bring new life to your home.
It will make it easier to entertain company.
It will make everything more delightful.
I can reproduce the “Overture from William Tell” and you will
think a grand operatic orchestra is right before you. You hear
the strains of an inspiring march, and almost imagine that you are
listening to Sousa and his wonderful band. It plays everything.
It sings everything. It recites everything. It talks everything.
We have them from $5 00 up- It costs you nothing to come
and hear them at
Posner’s Jewelry Store,
Opposite United Brethren'Church, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
Grand Opera House
J. B. COLDSMITH, Manager.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9th,
Special Announcement
The Popular Young Actress
Miss Irma Roldi,
In the Beautiful Pastorial Play,
“MAUD MULLER.”
(Founded on Whittier’s Poem.)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10th
Inventor KEENE Magician.
In his Original Experiments in Sleight
of Hand.
The Celebrated
Neuarro Children
In their Charming Specialties.
V&v
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V
Wmn
WILL BEGIN
Monday, Feb. 3, 1903.
No
Sweat-shop
Work.
Prices
arc
Right.
Corset Covers
10c, 24c, 29c, 39c, 44c,
49c, and up to $| |g.
Gowns
49c, 59c, 89c,
up to $149
Skirts
49c, 75c, $119
up to $4 89
Drawers
25c, 39c, 49c
up to 119
A Great Sale of
HUSLIN UNDERWEAR.
(Successor to Braddock & Co.)
Braddock Block, Corner Main and Church Sts.,
HOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
Farmers & Herchants
°ONATIONAL BflNK.tx>
OF MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
CAPITAL STOCK. $50,000.00.
OFFICERS:
R. K. Hissem, President,
James Neel. Vice President,
0. E. Mullin, Cashier
DIRECTORS:
R. K. Hissem, Abraham Ruff,
Frank D. Barnhart, E. T. Fox,
Q. R. Ruff. L. S. Tinstman,
D H. Persb c, James Neel,
S. P. Zimmerman.
Headquarters
—FOR—
Pianos, Organs, Violins;
in fact, everything in the line of Mu-sical
Instruments and Sheet Music.
All the latest designs and the
largest stock in town
We ask simply that you call
and examine goods and sam-ples
before purchasing
IT
If you wish to have the hanging
done on paper bought of us,
remember we employ only
the most competent work-men
and guarantee all work.
Respectfully
J. B. Coldsmith,
“On the Hill,”
MOUNT PLEASANT.
J. B. MYERS, Jr.,
31J East Main st.. Mount Pleasant.
We also buy al. kinds
of Furs.
Low Rates West.
Only $33 Chicago to San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Port-land,
Tacoma, Seattle, and
many other Pacific Coast
points, every day February
15 to April 30, 1903. One-way,
second-class, colonist
rates via Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul and Union Paci-fic
line. To the Northwest
via this route, or via St. Paul.
Additional information on
request.
JOHN ft. POTT, District Passenger Agent,
Room D, Park Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
Burglar and Fire Alarms
To protect your stores and residences.
Telephone and Bell Work.
Write or call for estimates.
FRANK J. REESE,
704 Main st. 7 4 Mount EMeasant. Pa.
fry Our Pork.
We make a specialty of this
line of meat. We aim to kill
animals of medium weight so as1
to avoid the fat found in very
large hogs.
As in other lines this is all of
the home dressed order and em-braces
both the smoked and
fresh meats of every description.
All We Ask is a Trial.
All orders filled promptly and
delivered free.
John Vetesk,
Propr EASTEND MEAT MARKET