Mount Pleasant journal (August 25, 1904)

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VOL. 31.
MOUNT PHEASANT, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY', AUGUST 25, 1004 NO. 34.
FRICK PEOPLE
GETTING BUSY
FIRING OVENS.
The Total For the Past
Being 2.114.
Week
GOOD WORK WILL CONTINUE
COMERS AND GOERS.
Paragraphs About prominent People
Gathered During the Week.
Miss Belle Clark, of Pittsburg, is the
guest of Miss Edith King.
Mrs. John Hartignn spent Thursday
With Connellsville relatives.
H. Goldstone, the local men’s outfitter,
went east for fall goods Thursday eve
nine.
Mrs. Obley. of West Newton, spent
Sunday here with her son, A. C. Don
aldson.
ACCORDING TO WHAT IS CONSIDER-ED
BEST AUTHORITY.
Time Was Not so Long When the Coke
Operator Fixed Prices to Suit Him-self.
but he Has Come Down Off His
High Horse in Company With the
Iron and Steel Master as the Poor
Consumer Did a Little Reduction
Stunt.
The coke business is on the np grade
and, from an authority nof to be ques-tioned,
will continue to move right along
in that direction. The Frick people,
who set the pace, fired up 944 ovens Fri-day
and Saturday last and this week
have increased the number in blast by
1,170. In this district Central is full,
having got 100: Alice, 70 and Buckeye
44. The ‘ 'B” shaft will have to be start-ed
before Morewood can resume her old-time
gait, while Standard awaits orders
The iron and steel makers, of course,
had to lead off after granting concess-ions
to consumers of their wire products
and the number of furnaces going hack
into blast insures an increased and
steady demand for fuel.
The arrest of Louis Sapolsky, a Con
nellsville junk dealer, is believed to have
solved the wholesale theft of brass from
the Frick company at its Davidson
works. Two valves worth $1-10 were
found in his house.
George Villino, of New Madison, has
brought suit against the Keystone Coal
& Coke Company, asking damages in
the sum of $5,000 for alleged injuries
sustained while operating an engine at
Arona a year ago when he was rnn over
and had his leg crushed.
C. H. Fogg, representing a Greens-bnrg
syndicate of coal men, is closing
options on thousands of acres of coal in
Fairview, Conrod and Donegal town
ships, Bntler county, which were secur
ed by the late L. L. Kamerer, who died
last year. Cash payments are being
made.
So many foreign miners, employed at
the Edna No. Splantof the Pittsburg and
Baltimore Coal Company, near Adarns-bnrg,
where there is a smallpox epi
demic, have left that it was necessary
to stop work at the plant Thursday last.
The only death was that of David Mor
gan on Friday last.
Damage suits aggregating $80,000
were entered at Uniontown Friday
against the Dunbar Furnace Company.
The suits grow out of the explosion in
the Ferguson mine, operated by that
company, on November 21, 1908, when
several men lost their lives and not
few others were hurt. Gross negligence
is charged.
Engagement Announced.
The engagement of Miss Emma A.
King, of Allegheny, to Rev. Prof. El
mer Krauss, of the Chicago Seminary,
has been announced. The wedding will
take place early in the autumn. Miss
King, who formerly livedjhere, is the
recording secretary of the Luther
League of Pennsylvania and has been
prominently connected with the work
for several years. Rev. Krauss is a
scholar and an educator of high repnta
tion.
Band Excursion.
The Connellsville Military Band will
run a $2 excursion to Woodland Beach
Park, Astabula Harbor, Ohio, on Labor
Day, September 6. If a sufficient nnm
her from here can be secured a special
street car will be run, catching the Lake
Erie train at New Haven that morning
at 6:85. Arrangements should be made
with the secretary, Charles H. Russell
115 W. Porter avenue, Connellsville.
Stoner spent Sunday in
with her nncle, Blair
Miss Anna
Wilkinsbnrg
Stoner.
W. S Myers was at llockwood last
week attending the Reformed people's
annual reunion.
Miss Floto, who visited the Misses
Schaub, left yesterday for her Steuben
ville, Ohio, home.
Miss Maria Overholt was at West
Newton last week visiting her sister,
Mrs. C. C. Markle.
Mrs. S. P. Mason was called to Som-erset
county Monday by the death of her
neice, Miss Lennie Hughes.
Miss Mabel Stryker, of Alexandria,
Pa., is here visiting her Jnniata College
chum, Miss Cora B. Myers.
Benjamin Reynolds, a Pittsburg police
patrol driver, spent Sunday here with
his cousin, Nick Martin.
Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Stanton, of Cin-cinnati,
Ohio, are the guests of the for
mer’s sister, Mrs. H. C. Dixon.
Miss Hattie Miller, of the postoffice
force, left Tuesday on a ten days’ viBit
to her brother. Will, at York, Pa,
Mrs. Jennie Snedden, of Bluffton,
Ind., is the guest of her sister-in-law,
Mrs. J. L. Duncan, of the West End.
S. C. Stevenson, wife and son, Will-iam,
spent Sunday at Uniontown as the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Abraham.
S. M. Clark, wife and family, of Pit-cairn,
were here Sunday visiting that
gentleman’s sister, Mrs. Frank S. Dul
linger.
Miss Jessie Shnpo and friend, MIBS
Byerly, of Greensburg, spent Sunday
here with the former’s cousin, Miss
Edna Page.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Coldsmith
left Monday for Cambridge Springs and
Niagara. They expect to be gone about
two weeks.
Mrs. M. A. Reifer, of Uniontown,and
Mrs. W. C. Mullan, of Broadford, were
here last week visiting their mother,
Mrs. Sarah Shupe.
Clark Warden, of Pittsburg, who
spent last week at Markleton with his
daughter, Miss Anna, is here with rela-tives
and old friends.
Misses Ella and Effie McCaleb are
spending a few days at Navesink High-lands,
N. J , before the former resumes
her duties at Vassar College.
Mrs. R. S. Simpson, of the state of
Washington, is here visiting at the home
of her mother, Mrs. Hutchinson. Mr.
Simpson will join her for a short visit
soon.
Mrs. J. C. Cort and son, who were at
the Pike Run club house and here as the
guests of that lady's sister in-law, Mrs.
N. A. Cort, left Friday for their home
at Clairton.
Miss Estella McWilliams went to
Wilkinsbnrg Saturday with Mr. and
Mrs. M. S. Baer who were here visiting
the latter lady's parents, Justice and
Mrs I. J. McWilliams.
William and CalviniSongster, of Exe
ter, Nebraska, were here this week vis
iting their sister, Mrs. Anna Roadman
having stopped off while returning from
the G. A. R. national encampment at
Boston.
ONLY DEMOCRATS WILL BE ON GUARD.
At Least it is Said Young Dick Coulter will be Named
for ControlEer and Either Dave Shupe or
John Sondles for Sheriff.
;01NTY COMMITTEE TO NAME TICKET TODAY.
The Democratic County Committee is in session at Greensburg; today,
having been called together by Chairman I.atta for the purpose of nominat-ing
a ticket for that party. While a candidate for Congress from Westmore-land
will be chosen, interest centers in two offices, those of Controller and
SherilT. It is said that Richard Coulter, Esq., of Greensburg, who is a son
of General Dick Coulter and served with the Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment
in the Philippines, will likely he named for Controller and for Sheriff either
David W. Shupe or J. C. Sondles, also prominent young county seat Dem-ocrats.
John is out for the place, but “Snap” is undecided as he has been
led to believe that he could succeed County Commissioner Mowry next year
without a fight.
There had been talk for some time of Controller Brown coming out as
an independent Republican and being endorsed by the Democrats; but it
seems that that was all Irwin wind that proved perfectly harmless, not a
single Republican leader being exercised to the point of making a personal
inquiry in regard to the “Grapeville Statesman’s” intentions.
BIG C0AE DEAL
Consummated a F6W Days Ago In Som-erset
County.
The largest sale of Somerset county
coal so far this year was consummated
few days ago, when Daniel B. Ztm
merman and Knepper & Good disposed
of a tract approximating 8,000 acres in
Jenner and Conemaugh townships to
William S. Kuhn, of Pittsburg, and A.
Converse, of New York, acting for a
syndicate of capitalists connected with
the Belmont interests. The deeds will
be transferred in a few days.
Meanwhile, the new owners of the
property have filed their application for
a charter for a corporation to be known
as the Jenner Quemahoning Coal Com
pany. Robert M. Wilson, Herbert Hunt,
Henry K. Belmont, Albert H. Parker
and Holman R. Linn, all of New York,
are the charter applicants.
Fatal Bleep.
George Malone, of Dunbar, while
sleeping on the siding in the Pennsyl
vania yards at Everson Thursday, was
run over by a shifting engine and in-stantly
killed. His wife, who was vis-iting
friends at Everson, was the first
person to identify the remains.
A Conundrum Supper.
A Conundrum Supper will be given
at the Geyer Opera House, Scottdale.by
the Y. P. S. of Trinity Reformed church
on Saturday evening, August 27th. Ad-mission
free; supper, 20 cents. Music
will be a feature of the entertainment.
Everybody is cordially invited.
Miss Lonetta Wadsworth, of Soath
erwood, and her neice, Miss Ruth Pain
ter, of this place, returned Tuesday eve
ning from a two weeks’ visit paid
friends at Stanton Mills, Somerset
county, and Johnstown.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Highberger, of
Mexico City; Mr. and Mrs. Clymer
Painter and Miss Carrie Painter, of
Greensburg, and Miss Lyde Highberger
of Pittsburg, spent Tuesday evening
here with Mr. and Mrs. Christian Pool
Mrs. L. C. Miller had for her guests
last week her brother, G. W. Errett, of
New Madison; Mrs. Albert Errett, of
Madison, and Miss Mary B. Altman, of
Adamsburg, her neices, and Misses Lida
Sparks, of Wheaton, Illinois, and Lena
Sparks, of Indian Head.
A Spry Old Lady.
Mrs. D. P. Patterson, who makes her
home near the Mud School House with
her daughter, Mrs. Mary Freed, spent
the past week here with her son, David
Patterson. The old lady will be ninety
on her next birthday.
DEATHS 0E THE WEEK
WHY HE OBJECTED.
Somerset “Herald” Subscriber Who
Didn’t Like Change in Form.
The Sculls were, as a rule, congratu-lated
upon the recent change of their
Somerset "Herald” from a big blanket
sheet of four page to a make up similar
to that of THE JOURNAL. “Timmy”
took the pleasing comments as a matter
NEW BUILDING CONTRACTS
The General Offices of Bryce Brothers
Company to Come Here.
Andrew Bryce, of PittBbnrg, the sen-ior
member of Bryce Brothers Company,
whose big tableware glass factory is
located in the East End, has broken
ground for a fine residence for himself
, on the hill above that plant and adjoin
ing the pretty home of his yonnger
brother and business partner, J. Mc-
Donald Bryce. With the elder Mr.
Bryce will come the company’s general
offices now located in Pittsburg.
J. B. Coldsmith, the wallpaper and
qneensware man, will replace his pres-ent
quarters on the hill with a new two-story,
buff brick front block, 39 feet
front by 80 feet deep. There will be
two store rooms on the first floor and
flats above. Edward B. Swartz has the
contract. Work will likelv begin next
| week.
The First National Bank and Citizens
Savings and Trust Company people are
receiving bids for tbeir new three or
four story block at the corner of Main
and Church streets.
BACK OF THE RETURNS
Greensburg Druggists Sued for Sunday
Selling on August 7th.
All of the Greensburg druggists were
The Grim Reaper’s Work in This Place
and Viclnltv.
Thomas Elwood Miller, a member of
the orthodox branch of the Religions
Socioty of Friends, died last week at
Fishertown, Bedford county, aged 77
years. S. Grant Miller, of Pittsburg,
and late principal of the schools here, is
one of the six surviving children.
Mrs. Catherine Hickerson, a colored
widow, aged about 45 vears, died Inst
Thursday morning at the hospital of
consumption following an operation for
the removal of a tumor. The interment
took place in the cemetery Saturday at
the close of divine services field in the
Second Baptist church, of which she
was a devont member. Three children
survive.
George W. Litman, a prominent citi-zen
of Uniontown, died Sunday, aged
84 years.
John Pox, a clerk in the H. C. Frick
Coke Company’s offices at Scottdale
whose home was in Hazelwood, Pitts
hnrg, died of typhoid fever at the
Greensburg hospital Monday, aged 18
years.
Ivan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Seligman, died Sunday of pneumonia
aged ]0 months. The interment took
place at Uniontown Tuesday.
Joseph Deaver died Sunday morning
of the infirmities of age at the East
Washington street residence of his
daughter, Mrs. David Slonecker, with
whom he had made his home for some
thirty years. The funeral services were
held at the house Tuesday afternoon by
Rev. C. W. Haines, pastor of the First
Baptist chnrch, of which Mr. Deaver
was a member, the interment following
in the cemetery. He was 81 years of
age and a boat carpenter by trade, at
which he worked at McKeesport for
some time, having, however, followed
gardening here for many years He was
married twice. His first wife was Mar
garet Shallenberger, of West Newton,
and his second Henrietta Shumaker, of
McKeesport, who died about thirty-five
years ago, their three children being
now all dead. Of the six children
born in the first union five sur-vive:
David, of Rockwood; Elmer, of
West Newton; Mrs. Felgar, of Greens
bnrg, and Mrs. Slonecker and Mrs. Mill
ward, of this place, who take this means
of expressing their gratitude for the
many kindnesses shown them by neigh
bors and friends during the long illness
and following the death of their father.
WE CAN BEAT
POOR SCOTTDALE
ALL TO PIECES
When It Comes to Rewarding
the Robber.
HERE IS THE PROOF POSITIVE
THAT OUR NRIGHBORS ARE NOT IN
IT WITH US.
of course, but the taffy was a little too , (irrested Saturday night on information
much for “Bob” whose old editorial hat | 8Worn out by the Christian Civic Union
Down There Seven Calls Netted the
Burglar Only 24ZCents, While Here
he Made But Four Such Visits and la
Rewarded With $2.40 in Cash, to Say
Nothing of a Suit of Clothes, Tooth-some
Beefloaf and a Prime Sunday
School Picnic Cake.
Poor Scottdale is not in it with Monnt
Pleasant even when it comes to giving
the festive bnrglar something substan-tial
for his trouble and the risk he rnns.
Recently he visited seven residences
down there and bis net financial gain
was but twenty-four cents. It’s differ-ent
here.
Last Thursday night he tried his hand
on West End homes, calling at the resi-dences
of N. A. Cort and S. C. Stevenson
on Eagle street and of Lvuian W. Fox
and Lawrence Grabiak on Main street,
and please note his success.
The lawyer was so sleepy on retiring
that he forgot to close one of the parlor
windows, a kindness for which the
robber showed his appreciation by tak-ing
nothing, althongh he went through
a bundle of legal papers and was exam-ining
the kitchen larder when the hired
girl got np to see what time it was and
her footsteps led him to take a sneak via-the
kitchen door which he had evidently
opened in case he had to rnn for it.
He then dropped across the street and
broke into S. C. Stevenson's place. Here
he confiscated 46 cents and a beefloaf
and big cake Mrs. Stevenson had care-fully
prepared for the Re-Union Pres—
byterian Sunday school picnic the next
day. He didn’t take either the loaf or
cake along, but the generons samples he
removed from their centers spoiled both.
Lyman Fox did still better for the
midnight mechanic who departed from
there quietly but richer by two dollars
which Mr. Fox had left laying loose;
while Mr. Grabiak contributed a suit of
clothes to the support of the festive bnr-glar
who in no way disturbed his nn-conscions
hosts.
got to be several sizes too small for him
It remained for an old Somerset county
farmer to reduce the swelling with this
statement made when renewing his snb-subscription
the other day;
‘See here, Robert, I’ve been takin’
this paper for the last fifty years and I
want to say that I don’t like yonr new
tangled way of printing it. Ye see
mother always nsed to put it back of
the kitchen sink to keep the dishwater
from plashin’ the wall and this little
thing ’ye mail UB now is too durned
small to cover the space.”
Chautauqua Service Recalled.
Preaching services will be resumed at
the United Presbyterian church Sunday
next, Rev. Howard S. Wilson, the pas-tor,
and his sons having returned from
Chantauqua Monday evening. Rev.
Wilson reports that the services of Dr.
Chapman marked the high tide of in-terest
in this year's program at Chau-tauqua.
On Sabbath evening next some
account of one of these services and the
unique and effective nse of a peculiar
passage of Scripture by the Doctor will
be given. Anyone interested in these
services is invited to attend.
before Justice of the Peace Carey, of
Jeannette, charging them with violat
ing the laws relating to Sunday selling.
They are charged with selling soda
water and cigars on August 7. The de-fendants
on three separate occasions
have had themselves sued and have
thereby avoided paying big costs by
pleading gnilty and paying their fines.
They neglected to do so the week fol-lowing
Angnst 7.
The fight between the druggists and
the union is bitter. All the stores were
open Sunday last. The druggists say
they will pay their fines just so long as
they realize the present large profits
from the sale of soda water.
Great Summer ReBort Scheme.
After a three weeks’ stay at Chantau-qna
Rev. Howard S. Wilson, of this
place, felt sure he was heavier and
proved it, too, by getting on the hotel
scales there just before leaving for;
home. He had gained six pounds and
so had everybody else weighing at the ;
same place. One of the bell boys had
removed the shot from the balance.
»—•
Farmer’s Heavy Lose.
The barn of David M. Griffith, a well
known farmer living near Keckshnrg,
was struck by lightning about 11 o’clock
last Wednesday night and burned, to-gether
with a cow and calf, this year’s
crops. a lot of old wheat and rye and one
wagon. The IOBS is a heavy one as
there was only $600 insurance.
Andrew Bryce Very 111.
Andrew Bryce, of Pittsburg, the sen-ior
member of Bryce Brothers Company,
suffered a stroke of paralysis Tuesday
morning and is still very ill althongh
his condition was slightly improved this
morning.
East End Receptions.
Mrs. J. J. Spence gave a nice recep-tion
at her East End home last Wednes-day
evening for her nephew and neice,
Ralph and Miss Flora Spence, of Wil
kinsburg. Almost a score of yonng
people enjoyed the hostess’ generons
hospitality.
W. E. and T. S. Mnrray, of the East
End, proved themselves royal hosts at a
reception they gave Thursday evening
for their sister. Miss Edna Mnrray, of
Montour county. Sopie twenty people
from town made np the list of hand
somely entertained guests.
Base Ball Notes.
Hecla’8 heavy Dntchtownere came in
Thursday afternoon and tronnced the
St. Joseph boys 21 to 9. The victims
got the dose repeated at Hecla Tuesday
12 to 7.
The Connellsville Royal Arcanum
boys, with a special street car load of
rooters, came over Friday afternoon to
do business with their local lodge breth-ren,
but rain stopped the game which
will likely be played at Connellsville on
September 2nd.
Rain stopped the Hist and Shaw Stars
game Monday on the 8th inning when
the score was 1 to 1.
The League and Silver Stars had to
quit on the 7th inning the same day
when the score was 7 to 7.
The Junior A. C. beat the Parfittown
Stars yesterday 12 to 5.
’Fessed Right Up.
Constable Thomas Washabangh, of
Greensburg, recently severely wounded
while trying to arrest alleged Italian
freight car robbers, was able to visit the
jail Monday where the four suspects are
for safe keeping. Tom picked out Joe
Ponsetti as the one who shot him, and
Joseph ’fessed right up, claiming, how-ever,
that Guiseppi Barber’s, whom the
constable plugged, had instigated the
shooting.
Not Known Here.
A telegram from New Brunswick, N.
J., told of the finding on the railroad
Monday of the dead bodies of Harry Hef
fley and Harry Williams, discharges on
the remains showing that they had
served on the U. 8. cruiser Topeka and
that their homes were at Mount Pleas-ant,
Pa. They do not belong here, an-other
town of the same name near Phil
adelpbia probably being the place men
tioned.
Rumbaugrh-Duncan.
Mr. Daniel C. Rnmbangb and Miss
Flora Dnncan, both of this place, were
married yesterday morning at the Meth-odist
Episcopal parsonage, Tarr, by the
pastor, Rev. Mr. Hildebrand. Leaving
their carriage there, Mr. and Mrs. Rnm-bangh,
immediately following the cere-mony,
took the train for St. Lonis where
they will spend several weeks at the
World's Fair before returning home.
Quiet Youngwood Wedding-.
Mr. Perry Farrel, of Greensbnrg, and
Miss Kate McPhaii, one of Hecla's fair
daughters, were quietly wedded last
Thursday afternoon at the Yonngwood
home of Mr. and Mrs. George Hill, Rev.
Mr. Hickman officiating. The attend
ants were Miss Mabel Woods, of Mc-
Keesport, and Mr. John Hill, of Scott-dale.
They are spending the honey-moon
in the mountains of Virginia.
Hitchman-Clanc; Nuptials.
Mr John J. Hitchman, the well
known East End merchant, and Misa
Annie A. Clancy, a sister of Mrs. James
McGee, of the East End, were married
Tuesday morning in Pittsburg by Rev.
Father Michael Boyle, a classmate of
the bride’s. Mr. and Mrs. Hitchman,
who will visit Niagara and Toronto,
Canada, will be home next week and go
at once to housekeeping on East Maiir
street.
Marriage Licenses.
The following marriage licenses have
been granted for this vicinity during
the past week:
Anson D. Meyers, of Lanrelville, and
Lanra White, of Alice.
Perry Farrell, of Greensbnrg, and
Kate McPhaii, of Southwest.
Unknown Body Found.
The report sent out that the badly de-composed
body found Friday at Old
Meadow, near Scottdale, was that of
Frank Kitenonr is denied by Ritenour's |
friends. The body had evidently been
Mrs. Ruth’s Will.
The will of the late Mrs Jnlia Ann.
Ruth, which was probated at Greens-burg,
Saturday, leaves her estate to be
divided equally between her daughters*,
lying where it had been found for six to Mrs. Weaver and Mrs. Love, and her
eight weeks, while Ridenour has been ]
seen within the last 10 days.
New GonnellsvlUe Bank.
L. F. Rnth, president of the Title and
Trust Company, Rockwell Marietta and
E. K. Dick are leading stockholders of
a new bank to be started at Connells
ville. It will have $100,000 capital and
likely be called the Colonial National
grandson, John L. Ruth, except, that
$600 additional goes to Mrs. Weaver.
George W. Stoner, of this place, is the
execntor.
Typhoid Fever Epidemic.
Typhoid fever is epidemic at Con— •
nellsville and the region around about-
About 75 cases have been reported...
Several deaths have occurred and many
Bank, being rnn in connection with the I cases are now serious. Vanderbilt has
trust concern named above.
Davidson Family He-Union.
Sixty descendants of James Davidson,
inclnding the Monnt Pleasant members,
held their annual reunion at Ellsworth
Park, Scottdale, yesterday. A very en-joyable
time was had.
15 cases. Heavy rains, following a pro-tracted
dry spell and washing surface
filth into wells and springs, is the caose-assigned
by physicians.
A Great Show.*
Remember the Elks minstrel on Sep-teinber
10 and 17.
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1904.
CATHOLIC
JUBILEE
As Announced by the Pope in Observance
of a Marked Event in the History
of That Church.
The Rt. Rev. Richard Phelan, Bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburg, has
issued a letter to the clergy and laity of the diocese calling their attention to
the jubilee announced by Pope Pius X. to observe the fiftieth anniversary of
the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate Conception and announcing the
conditions required to secure plenary indulgence. The jubilee lasts for three
months, beginning September 8, and will be observed as a matter of great
religious moment.
The conditions required by the Sovereign Pontiff require three visits to
the church designated by the ordinary, devout prayers to be oftered up on
each occasion for the liberty and exhaltafion of the church and the Apostolic
Sea, fast of one day and a worthy confession and communion.
i)er German Cobbler
He Makes an Empty Barrel and a Si^n
a Source of Profit. DOT little tnilor comes In to see
me iler odder day, und vlien I
snys I don’t lmf no shoes to
repair for tlireo dnys ho
ehrugs his shoulders und replies:
“Vhell, If you don’t lmf some brains
In your head, how can I help It?”
“But vhy don’t 1 lmf some brains?”
I snys.
“I can't say. I guess you vlins porn
dot vhny. I tell you more ash one
boonered times dot you don't under-stand
der peoples of America. If you
did, you slinll lmf plenty of work.
Look at my case. I pegin peesness mit
a cent, und I can now draw a check
for ten t’ousnnd dollar. It vims pe-cause
I understand der peoples. I
know how to draw ’em to my place, I
It vims hotter If you go und work in
a coal yard. If I lmf your cobbler shop
one day I bet I bring In ten pairs of
shoes to be fixed oop. Poor Hans!
Vhy do you effer leaf Germany?”
Dot night my wife cries, und I sit
down by der stove limb think und
"I VHAS NO MAN MIT CUEIOSITY, HOT I
LIKE TO LOOK INTO l)OT BAKUEL.”
think. Mnype it vims two hours, und
den I vims all right. In der morning
I put an empty barrel in my shop
window, und on it I hang a sign dot
reads, “Dls Barrel Vims Empty.” It
don’t seem to be over ten minutes pe-fore
a man comes in und snys:
“Cobbler, you may fix oop my heel
vhile I wait, but don't be too long
about her.”
He looks around vhile I work, und
pooty queek be smiles und says:
“I vims no man mlt curiosity, but
I like to look Into dot barrel.”
“All right.”
He looks In and sees nottings, und
he laughs und says:
“Vhell. dot vims a pretty good Joke
—pretty good. It shows you vims a
smart mail, und after this yon shall
baf all my work. Yes, It vims a good
joke. Ah, ha, ha!”
I don't see where somg Joke comes
in, but 1 laugh uud wink at him, und
bis heel vims fixed, he pays me a quar-ter
und pats me oil der back. He vims
hardly oudt doors pefore a woman
comes lu mlt some children’s shoes.
She vims a woniuns who always goes
by a dago cobbler, but she talks mit
uie about der weather uud vims werry
pleasant. All at once she pretends to
see dot barrel und says:
“Say, now, I like you to speak to me
in confidence, und I don’t gif It avhay.
Vhas It some rats in dot barrel ?”
“Oh, no.”
“Vhns it a goat?”
“No.”
“Vhas it a fox or wolf?”
“No.”
“Come, now, plense be a dear good
mans und tell me how it vhas. I
pledge you my word I don’t speak to
some living soul about her.”
“You may look in.”
She goes oafer on tiptoe und looks
In und don't see nottings. She looks
mad at first, but den Bbe laughs und
says:
“Vhell, dot vhas der best Joke for a
year. If anybody takes you for a fool
he gets left From now on you shall
fix oop all der shoes In my family, und
I vhlll send you all der customers I
can. Ha, ba, bn!”
I laugh, too. but I don’t know vhat
I 1 laugh al, und In a leetle time a man
stands pefore my shop and looks Into
tier window for ten minutes. lie can’t
make dot barrel oudt. He shakes his
head und talks to himself, und by uud
by.be comes In mid says:
“Cobbler, 1 guess you may put n
i cement patch on my toe for feeftceu
cents. I vims going to run for office
next spring mebbe, und it vhas a good
thing to keep my shoes In repair.”
“I begin to fix his shoe right avhay,
mid he speaks of tier price of coal uud
politics und den says:
“Cobbler, do you know I lmf met
ton t'oiisaiul liars on my time? Yes,
sir, 1 lmf met ten t'ousand wans who
lie to me like Texas.
“Dot vims had,” I snys.
“I meet so many liars dot I don’t pe-
| fief nobody no more. If a man tells
me lie runs oafer a street enr I know he
vhas a liar, und 1 like to bang him In
der eye. 1 see you haf a barrel In your
window.”
“Yes.”
“Dere vhns a sign dot snys she vhas
empty.”
“Yes.”
“Vhell, I vhns going to look in, but I
know you vhas n liar.”
He looks In und finds nottings, und
he shakes Ills head und sits down to
think it oafer. After fife minutes he
holds oudt Ills hand to tne, und dere
vhas some tears in his eyes ash he
snys:
"Cobbler, I lmf found one man In dls
wide world who vhns not a liar. Dot
barrel vhns empty. In one hour I
shall send my boy mlt all my shoes to
he fixed oop, und you can charge your
own price. Keep right on telling der
truth und you shall haf a funeral two
miles long vlien you die.”
Der next person to come In vhas a
womans. I see her looking at dot bar-rel
through the window, und she goes
home und gets a pair of shoes uud
comes back to say:
“You may fix dose oop if you will.
How much vhas potatoes n barrel?”
“I don’t know," I says.
“How much vhas apples?”
“I don't know.”
“If you haf some alligator in dot bar-rel
he don’t get out sometimes?”
“He vhas no alligator.”
“Den he vims some chickens."
“No; he vhas only nottings.”
Dot womans winks at me und looks
in der barrel. Vlien she sees dot
emptiness she keeps still fur two min-utes
und den laughs und snjs:
"I see how it vhas. Dere vhas some
false bottoms lo der barrel, und der
poy gets oudt und bides down cellar if
nuypody looks in. Ha, hn, ha! 1 like
a mans who can make Jokes, und I
shall gif you all my work to do. How
long vhas you in dis shop?”
“More ash fife years.”
“Und vhas you a joker all der time?”
“All der time, madam.”
“Dear me, und I don’t know aboudt
him! How many good things I haf
lost! Vhell, I shall come In now every
week, und I like you to haf a new joke
every time.”
In three days more ash feefty peo-ples
comes In my shop und brings me
work uud looks Into dot barrel, und I
haf work ahead for two weeks. Some-times
a man gets mad vhen he don’t
see nottings, but most of ’em says it
vhas a good Joke und I haf .brains.
Dot little tailor finally comes aroundt
to see If I vhas in der poorhouse yet,
und when I tells him how she vhas he
goes oop by dot barrel und strikes her
mlt bis fist und shouts:
"I tell you, Hans, you don’t under-stand
der American public. If you do
you haf plenty of work.”
“But I haf plenty of work now, und
eaferypody says dot barrel vhas a
Joke.”
“It makes no deeference. You vhas
some pumpkin beads, der public vhas
fools, und I vhlll go right home und
leave you to smell of your old wax und
leather.”
I guess dot little tailor vhas no joker
und he vhas Jealous of me.
M. QUAD.
Some Foolish People
Allow a cough to run until it gets be-yond
the reach of medicine. They often
say, “Oh, it will wear away,” but in
most cases it will wear them away.
Conld they be induced to try the suc-cessful
medicine called Kemp’s Balsam,
which is sold on a positive guarantee to
cure, they would immediately Bee the
excellent effect after taking the first
dose. Price 25c, and 50c. Trial size
ree. At all druggists.
'SCHOOL BOYS!
Money as a Backing.
is a very useful thing, and it will often
stand you in good stead. But it is poor
policy to run your business without a
banker. The Citizens Savings and
Trust Co. will take care of your funds
and give you all necessary
FINANCIAL FACILITIES
in the nature of checks, drafts, etc,
thereby enabling you to do business
with speed and satisfaction. Checks
are as good as receints. Be dollar wise
by calling on us for an interview.
The Citizens Savings&Trust Co.
MOUNT PLEASANT, FA.,
—THE—
II. S. Continues to Win.
At the Illinois Buttermakers’ meet-ing'
at Springfield, 111., March 30 to
April 1, 1904, the butter that scored
the highest was made from U. S. Sep-arator
cream by Mrs. W. M. Carring-ton,
the winner of the dairy sweep-stakes
at the Illinois state fair last fall.
The Best Separator produces the Best
Product, which accounts for the large
number of prizes won by users of the
U. S. Remember also the U. S. Sep-arator
skims the cleanest; holds world’s
record; wears the longest; has low
supply can and many other features of
excellence which make the U. S. the
most profitable separator to buy.
For sale by G. W. SHAFFER,
!) ill Om BoxfJDO, Mount Pleasant, Pa
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If it’s l
JEWELRY
You’re looking for,
We’ve got It All.
Watches,
Chains,
Rings,
Collar Buttons,
Studs,
Brooches,
Gold Pens,
Clocks,
Charms,
Bracelets
CuffButtons,
Scarf Pins,
Ear Rings,
Inkstands,
some line of
and a complete and very hand-
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which will be well woith your
while to come and see. We never
^ had a finer line of these goods
j than we have this season, and the
n prices are very reasonable. Come
■I and see the goods before making
your purchases.
II. C. MORRISON,
At the New Stand,
Farmers & Merchants Nat. Bank Block,
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
We always have something- for the boys
before school opens. Come in and take
a look at our
Boys’ Knee Pants Suits,
Boys’ Long Pants Suits,
Caps, Hats and Shirts.
We Save you from 30 to 40 per cent.
W. L. Douglas Shoes,
Janies A. Banister Shoes,
For Men and Young Men.
CHAS. PR05S,
The Biggest Head-to-Toot Outfitter for Men and BoySj
J| In Our New Room, Main Street, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
J. W. Swartz Union Supply Company’s
I! URGE DEPARTMENT STORES, has the agency for the
Greatest Gas Burner
Any Rags, Any Bones,
Any Metals Today?
I am always in the market and
paying the highest prices for
old Iron, Metal, Rags, Bones,
Copper, Rubber, etc. If you
have anything in that line don’t
bother with anybody—bring it
right to the right place and get
your full value for it. Orders
by mail promptly attended to.
My wagons are always ready
to clean off your place.
The Old Reliable Dealer,
M. LEVIN,
Parfittown, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
The biggest dealer in West-moreland
county.
in the world.
One-half More Light,
One=half Less Heat,
thanother burners on the market
I put them up in your house
or store for $1.50 each with
burner, fine large globe and
mantle complete. Call at my
store and see them.
J. W. SWARTZ,
Dealer In
Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Var-nishes,
Brushes, Oil Cloths, Win-dow
shades, etc.
Main street, - Mount Pleasant.
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for Millinery.
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Going Out In the
Great Clearance Sale.
If you have money to invest, want to make a good quick turn,
go to any of the Union Supply Company stores, and take advan-tage
of the big cut prices Hundreds of people throughout the
coke region, and towns adjoining, can be seen daily carrying large
packages of bargains away from our stores.
The Stocks are
All Large and
Season Advancing.
We do not want to carry goods over; must move them out.
This is the one sure way of creating a demand.
The Marvelous
Bargains Extend to Every
Department in our Stores.
Dry Goods, Notions, Jewelry, Clocks, Trunks, Satchels, Um-brellas,
ready-made clothing for Men and Women, Boys, Girls
and Infants. Shoes for Men, Women and Children. Furnishings
for Men and Boys. Hats and all kinds of headwear." Novelties
in Women’s and Girls’ fixings. Furniture of all descriptions, com-plete
outfits from kitchen to parlor. The cut extends to prices of
hardware, tinware and everything in house furnishings, even in
the grocery departments you will find special bargains.
Very Interesting Places
To Visit Just Now
Are Union Supply Company stores. During all this mpnth the cut
in prices will continue in effect. Visit us if only to inspect.
Union Supply Company.
49 Large Department Stores 4g
in Fayette, Westmoreland and Allegheny Counties.
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25. 1904.
MONKEYING
WITH MONEY.
Foreigners Get Busy at Connellsville Try-ing
to Pass Counterfeit Aus-trian
Bills.
THEY WED Off SOI Ml WORTH.
Counterfeiters, circulating Austrian money, invaded Connellsville last
Thursday. At the foreign bank of Peter Rutsek they received American
money for $37 in Austrian bills. Rutsek did not notice the counterfeit until
some time after his visitor, a small man, had left.
A tall man, well dressed and speaking broken English, called at F. A.
Kail’s bank and steamship agency and asked to have some money exchanged.
He produced 5 20 Kronen bills. Mr. Kail thought they were bad and went to
his safe for some genuine bills for comparison. His clerk looked at the bills,
and at once said they were bad, whereupon the stranger scooped them up and
darted out the door.
He was chased by the banker and his assistant, but to no avail. Oliicers
are on the track of the man, and foreign banks all over the coke region have
been notified of their presence in Connellsville. The counterfeits were fairly
good, the main defects being in the coloring and the alignment of the printing.
What Shall We Have for DesertP
This iinestion arises in the family
every day. Let us answer it to-day.
Try Jell O, a delicious and healthful
dessert Prepared in two minutes. No
boiling! no baiting! simply add boiling
water and set to cool. Flavors:—Lemon,
Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry.
Get a package at your grocers to day.
10 cents. ^ 4 28 1?
Reduced Rates to Grangers’ Picnic at
Williams’ Grove, via Pennsylvania
Railroad.
For the Thirty-first Annual Inter-
State Grange Picnic Exhibition, to be
held at Williams' Grove, Pa , August 29
to September 3, the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company will sell excursion tick-ets
from August 24 to September 3, in-clusive,
good to return until September
0, inclusive, at reduced rates, from all
stations on its lines in the State of
Pennsylvania, and from Baltimore,
Frederick, and intermediate stations on
the Northern Central Railway.
Tbere will be an elaborate display of
farm machinery in actual operation
during the exhibition, and addresses
will be delivered by well known agri
cultural speakers.
For information in regard to train
service and specific rates application
should be made to ticket agents. 1
No such thing as “summer complaint”
where Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild
Strawberry is kept handy. Nature s
remedy for every looseness of the
bowels.
A Physician Healed.
Dr. Geo. Ewing, a practicing physi-cian
of Smith s Grove, Ky., for over
thirty years, writes his personal experi-ence
with Foley’s Kidney Cure: “For
years I had been greatly bothered with
kidney and bladder trouble and enlarged
prostrate gland. X used everything
known to the profession without relief,
until I commenced to use Foley's Kid-ney
Cure. After taking three bottles I
was entirely relieved and cured. I pie-scribe
it now daily in my practice and
heartily recommend its use to all phy-sicians
for such troubles. I have pre
scribed it in hundreds of cases with per-fect'success.”
All dealers.
Eczema, scald head, hives, itcbiness
of the skin of any sort instantly reliev-ed,
permanently cured. Doan s Oint-ment.
All druggists.
Consumption Threatened.
C. Unger, 211 Maple St., Champaign,
111., writes: “I was troubled with a
hacking cough for a year and I thought
I had consumption. I tried a great
many remedies and was under the care
of physicians for several months. I
used one bottle of Foley's Honey and
Tar. It cured me, and I have not been
troubled since.” All dealers.
EXCURSIONS TO ATLANTIC CITY
And Other Atlantic Coast Resorts via
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Thursdays, August 18 and Sep-tember
1, are the remaining dates of
the Pennsylvania Railroad annual low-rate
excursions for 1904 to Atlantic City,
Cape May, Ocean City, Sea Isle City,
Avalon, Anglesea, Wildwood, Holly
Beach, N. J., Rehoboth, Del., or Ocean
City, Md.
Tickets good to return within sixteen
days, including date of excursion will
be sold from Tnrr nt #10; proportionately
low rates from all other points.
A special train of pullman parlor cars
and day coaches will leave Pittsburg on
above mentioned dates at 8:55 a. m.,
reaching Philadelphia 0:25 p. m., in time
for supper, and arriving at Atlantic
City, via the Delaware River Bridge
Route, the only all rail line, nt 8:85 p.
m. A stop will be made for luncheon
en route. Passengers may also spend
the night in Philadelphia, and proceed
to the shore by any regular train from
Market Street Wharf or Broad Street
Station on the following day.
Passengers for New Jersey points
other than Atlantic City will spend the
night in Philadelphia, and use regular
trains the next day from Market Street
Wharf. Passengers for Rehoboth, Del.,
or Ocean City, Md., will use regular
trains the following day from Broad
Street Station.
A stop over within limit will be al-lowed
at Philadelphia returning, if pas
sengers will deposit their tickets with
the Ticket Agent at Broad Street Sta-tion,
Philadelphia, immediately on ar
rival. Tickets must be deposited with
Agent on arrival at seashore destination
and properly validated for return trip.
Tickets will also be sold for regular
trains leaving Pittsburg at 4:55 and 9:00
p. m. from all stations at which these
trains stop, and from stations from
which regular connection with them .is
made, and at the higher rate only on
train leaving at 10:00 p. m. Pullman
sleeping cars through to Atlantic City
on the 10:00 P. M. train, and to Phila-delphia
on the 455 and 9:00 P. M. trains.
Returning coupons will he accepted
on any regular train except the Penn-sylvania
Limited and the Chicago Lim-ited
and the St. Louis Limited.
For detailed information in regard to
rates and time of trains apply to ticket
agents or Mr. Thomas E Watt, District
Passenger Agent, 300 Fifth Avenue,
Pittsburg. 7 14 2
Foley’s Kidney Cure
Will cure Bright’s Disease.
Will cure Diabetes.
Will cure Stone in Bladder.
Will cure Kidney and Bladder Diseases.
All dealers.
Healthy Mothers.
Mothers should always keep in good
bodily health. They owe it to their
children. Yet it is no unusual sight to
see a mother, with babe in nrms, cough-ing
violently and exhibiting all the
symptoms of a consumptive tendency.
And why should this dangerous condi-tion
exist, dangerous alike to mother
and child, when Dr. Boscbee’s German
Syrup would put a stop to it at once 1
No mother should be without this old
and tried remedy in the house—for its
timely use will promptly cure any Ring,
throat or bronchial trouble in herself or
her children. The worst congh or cold
can be speedily cured by German Syrnp;
so can hoarseness and congestion of the
bronchial tubes. It makes expectora -
tion easy, and gives instant relief and
refreshing rest to the congh racked con-sumptive.
New trial bottles. 25c; large
size, 75c. A. D. Rumhaugh, druggist.
“I had diabetes in its worst form,
rites Marion Lee of Dnnreath, Ind. I
ied eight physicians without relief
nly three bottles of Foley’s Kidney
ure made me a well man. All dealers
Burdock Blood Bitters gives a man a
clean head, an active brain, a strong,
vigorous body—makes him fit for the
battle of life.
Foley’s Kidney Cnre will cure all dis
eases arising from disordered kidneys or
bladder. All dealers.
Quick Relief for Asthma Sufferers.
Foley’s Honey and Tar affords imme-diate
relief to asthma sufferers in tho
worst stages and if taken in time will
effect a cnre. All dealers.
Economical
People
Who have their washing and
ironing done at the laundry will
appreciate the high-class work
we do, as it means a practical
saving to them—we don’t tear
their clothes all to pieces. There
is a big difference in laundry
work and you appreciate this
fact after you have seen the
kind of work we do.
Mount Pleasant
Steam Laundry,
F. S. DULLINGER, Prop’r.
Local ’Phone 1211.
“THE YELLOWSTONE
NATIONAL PARK
is something absolutely
unique in this world”—
/’resident linonevcU. ]
The popular route to this
delightful spot is via Union
Pacific to Monida, thence by
stage to all points in the
park.
The stage ride from Moui<
da, by the splendid Concord
Coaches of the Monida &
Yellowstone Stage Compa-ny,
through scenery hardly
inferior to the park itself.
Very Low Hates during June,
July, August and September.
Inquire of
G. G. HERRING, G. A ,
514 Park Bldg, PITTSBURG, PA.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
NA. OORT,
• ATTORNEY-AT-UAW.
Office adjoining Eagl treet residence.
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
McGEARY & HARSH,
oATTOltN EYS-AT-LAW.
McOausland building. WestOtterman St..
Greensburg.
EUGENE WARDEN,
ATTOUNEY-AT-LAW.
208 Main street, Greonsburg.
Braddock Block, Monnt Pleasant.
GREGG & POTTS.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Barclay Building. Greensburg.
J. LLOYD KALP,
(Successor to W. A. Kaip.)
Real Estate and Insurance Agency.
833 East Main street, Mount Pleasant,
Dr. CLAUDE W. HcKEE,
SPECIALIST.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat,
Office Hours: 8 to 10a. m.,Jl to8and 7 to8 p,m.
Bell ’phono 08. Boyd Building,
8COTTDALE, PA.
L. S. RHOADES,
JUSTICE If Hi PEJCE4 HOHIY PUBLIC.
All kinds of legal papers prepared and exe
cuted. Collecting a specialty.
Office 1109 Main Street. Mount Pleasant
Low Rates to California.
On account the Triennial Conclave of
Knights Templar at San Francisco, the
Union Pacific will sell round trip tickets
from Missouri River (Council Bluffs, to
Kansas City, inclusive), to San Francisco
and return at #45,000. Tickets on sale
August 15th, to Sept. 10th, inclusive.
Shortest line, fastest time. Electric
lighted trains. Pullman Palace Sleep-ing
Cars, Dining Cars, meals a la carte,
Tourist Cars, etc.
From Chicago and St. Louis, propor-tionally
low rates are in effect by lines
connecting with Union Pacific.
Inquire of G. G. HERRING, G. A.,
514 Park Bldg, Pittsburg, Pa.
Foley’s Kidney Cure is a medicine free
from poisons and will cure any case of
kidney disease that is not beyond the
reach of medicine. All dealers.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
OF MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
Capital Stock $100,000
OFFICER8:
H. W. Stoner, J. D. Hitchman,
Presldont. Cashier.
G. W. Stoner,Vice President
DIRECTORS.
J. 8. Hitchman, J. D. Hitchman,
II. W. Stoner, Wm. B. Neel.
J. C. Crownover, Jos. R. Stauffer.
S N. Warden. C. W. Stoner.
Isaac Sherrlck.
Particular attention given to collections, and
proceeds promptly settled.
A Bulletin of
Deeply Cut Prices
We are taking radical measures to clean out our
stock of
Summer Clothing
Straw Hats
during July and August) There is but one way
to accomplish this and that is to SLAUGHTER
PRICES. Step in and look over our Bargain
Counter.
All Children’s Suits that were $2.50 to $4.00
QMKECTQ.OTHC3 £
r on
OENTLEMEN
MADE BY
SCIIUPSS BROS
FINE CLOTHES MAKERS,
All Boys’ Suits that were I
now
All Men’s Suits that were
now
now $1.50
50 to
Coo to
.00
$3.50
uo.oo
$4.00
And so on ALL through our large and varied
stock. They MUST be closed out. Now is the
chance for all shrewd buyers to procure the
Greatest Bargains Ever Offered
to the Public.
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We have NO SHODDY GOODS to offer
back up everything we say with the goods
“WE HAVE SAID IT.’’
We COWRlGHtfD
/> BY
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1 Dillon & Sherrick,
*w Outfitters to Particular People,
ft Zimmerman Block, Main street, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
S. C. Stevenson,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE,
4x7 MAIN ST.. MOUNT PLEASANT. Excelsior
Bakery.
516
Church Street,
Flies and Mosquitoes
and other objectionable insects can be
successfully fonght' with the weapons
we provide. The “fly in the batter”
will be unkown if our
FLY PAPER
is used aronndtthe house. It catches
the flies and the germs they carry.
OUR MOSQUITO LOTION
is a sure cnre for the bites of these ma-laria
carriers. It counteracts the effect
of the poison and stops the itching and
burning.
M. A. BOWMAN,
West Main st., Mutual ’phone 56
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
HMiaiHl
mnnwomm
Bread «
Cakes,
Wholesale and Retail.
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C. A. GRAUL, Prop’r
Farmers & Merchants
^NATIONAL BANK.tx>
OF MOUNT PI.EA8ANT, PA.
CAPITAL STOCK. - 150,000.00.
Surplus and Undivided Profits, - $25,000.
OFFICERS:
R. K. Hlssem, President.
O. E. Mullln, Cashier
DIRECTORS:
R. K. Hlssem, Abraham Ruff,
Frank i). Barnhart, E. T. Fox,
8. R. Ruff, L. S.Tlnstman,
S. P. Zimmerman. O. E. Mullln,
M. M. BYERS.
A Lyre holds the music on a Clarionet.
Wessel, Nickelson and Gross .
Action holds the music in a
Weaver Piano.
Full in tone, light and elastic touch.
Nothing better in the world.
Before buying a piano ask the agent
if his piano had the above action in it.
If his answer is not “Yes” his head
will drop and his appearance tells you
he is selling a cheap piano.
We sell the latest
Weaver Upright Pianos,
styles 47, 37, 35, 27, 25. Also the
York and Livingston Pianos, manu-factured
by the same firm.
J. B. MYERS, Jr.
A Word to the Farmers.
311 E. Main St.. Mount Pleasant
You know there is nothing better in
their respective lines than the Imperial Plow,
the Superior Grain Drill, the Roderick-Lean
all steel Land Roller, the McCormick Corn
Harvester.
We have them all for sale.
We continue to handle Buggies, Sur-reys,
Wagons and Harness.
FLY-NETS AT A BARGAIN.
J. J. HITCHMAN,
East Main street^ - - Mount Pleasant, Pa.
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOUBNAL, THUBSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1904.
®hc<Pount peasantJournal
JOHN L. SHIELDS. PUBLISHER.
Mount Pleasant Is situated In the heart of
the Great Oonuellsvllle Coke Region, has a
population of over 5,000; while, with offices
surrounding within a radius of three miles
the post-office distribution Is 13.000. A new 34-
pot tableware glass factory, the lines! In tills
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.
THURSDAY.
tifke
August 35. 1004.
BROWN'S A GONER.
While there has been considerable talk
abont the independent Republicans and
Democrats of this county getting up a
fusion ticket with Controller John H.
Brown at its head, it seems altogether
likely that when the unterrified com-mitteemen
meet at Greensburg today to
name that party's candidates only names
of Democrats will be considered.
It is said upon good authority that
Richard Coulter, a Bon of "Fighting
Dick” Coulter and who shared in the
Philippine honors, of the Tenth Penn-sylvania
Regiment, stands the best show
of being nominated forController;while
either David W. Shupe or John C. Son-dles,
both well known Greensburg citi
zens, will be named for Sheriff.
The sane and sound element of West
morelaud’s Democracy doubtless recog-nizes
the fact that, while Mr. Brown has
some Republican friends who would
follow him in a fusion movement, that
number, especially in a Presidential
year, would be small in comparison with
the self-respecting Democrats who could
not stomach such a rank political dose
For Controller Brown to do an inde-pendent
solo would simply be political
suicide and it becomes THE JOURNAL’S
duty, more or less painful, to state the
cold fact that the time has come for
him to step down and out of county pol-itics
that would have beeD all the bettt r
had he never broken into it.
Sterling has been ordered to keep hands
off, and further than this Consul Gen-eral
Goodnow, our representative there,
has been instructed that he is to act only
when he is certain that Japan is to make
an attempt to capture the Russian ves
gels now moored at Shanghai and other
ports. His action then is to be this:
A protest to Japan that the United
States will demand full payment for any
damage that results to American life
and property by her acts. He has been
told to follow his protest with a demand
for sufficient time to remove life and
property outside the zone of danger in
case his protest is ignored.
In no other way, so the administra-tion
has decided, can the United States
act so as to prevent the neutrality of
China and yet not overstep the well-de-fined
principles of international law.
While Russia might the more grace-fully
sue for peace should she become
involved with another country, the sit-uation
in the far east is decidedly tick-lish,
and your Uncle Samuel wants to
go slow.
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Time Will Tell.
Oonuellsvllle Courier.
The proposed new Somerset county
court house is going through the para-lytic
stage which Westmoreland’s expe-rienced,
but the attack does not promise
to be so lingering and certainly no more
fatal.
Warm Time Promised.
Unlontowu News Standard.
There is a report that Carrie Nation is
on her way to visit the Bishop Potter
subway saloon in New York. An extra
cordon of Tammany policeman will
doubtless be placed on guard to protect
the dedicated saloon from Carrie's dedi
cated hatchet.
We Please
the doctor and his patient by our pains-taking
preparation of prescriptions. A
slight mistake by "the Drug Store man"
in such matters may have disastrous
consequences. We seek to protect your
health by minding our own business.
DRUGS, CHEMICALS, ETC.,
of guaranteed purity and strength, at
attractive prices. Wise housewives
keep on hand at this season of the year
bottle of our Cholera Remedy, the
famous specific for bowel troubles.
Prescriptions a specialty.
Crystal Pharmacy.
C. F5*. Goldsmith.
040 Main St. Mount Pleasant. Pa.
Wabash
Excursions
Pittsburgh
Meat Haa Come Down.
Pittsburg Gazette.
Meat prices have reached the level of
three months ago, and we can now re-sume
our eating. The reduction will
have the effect of also reducing the
number of vegetarians.
OVERZEALOUS CHRISTIAN.
The Western Pennsylvania Retail
Druggists’ Association is preparing to
make a final decision about keeping open
stores on Suhday. The indications are
that all of the drug stores in Allegheny
county will be closed next Sunday, and
the people who need prescriptions filled
will simply have to wait until Monday
to get their drags, no matter how nec-essary
they may be. The closing of the
drag stores, it is alleged, would work
much hardship on the general public
but the druggists, in closing, simply re-fer
to the position of the Allegheny
County Sabbath Observance Associa-tion.
The so-ca’led Christian Civic Union is
prosecuting the Greensburg druggists
in a similar manner, the peosecutlon
going back several weeks in order to
even up with the defendants who have
escaped heavy fines by having a friend
make the information, to which they
then entered pleas of guilt and sfettled
by payment of a nominal fine.
It is not, however, hard to see that
much suffering, and even death itself,
might follow the closing of all drug
stores on Sunday, all due to the biased
views of a few overzealous Christians
who have thus become the self-consti-tuted
enforcers of ancient laws that are
of no practical use in this day and gen-eration.
RUSSIA’S HEAVY LOAD.
The commercial life of Russia is upset
and everything is said to be in disorder.
The continuance of the disasters at the
seat of the war only intensifies this feel
ing and makes it more certain that that
country must face a gigantic revolution
The advisers of the Czar are face to face
with the problem of suing for peace
with Japan or opening the gates to
wild war within their midst.
Russia cannot, it is claimed, send
more soldiers to the front without with
drawing from Warsaw and Moscow and
Helsingfors the soldiers who now intim
idate the populace, for these cities are
surrounded and overrun with the flower
of the Russian army, and once this ar
ray of glistening bayonets is removed,
the people will be in an uproar and
bloodshed will ran riot in Russia.
And the ministers know it. They fear
the result of this withdrawal of the army
to send it to Manchuria, and yet they
know that Japan will annihilate the
Russian forces in the east if it is not
done. Those who believe that Russia
stands on the brink of a revolution are
watching for the decision of the minis
ters with eager interest.
Where Gassaway was Weak.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The part of the veteran Davis’ speech
that does not fully meet the views of the $42.00
wheel horses is a failure to plant him
self in a clear attitude on the paramount
issue of coughing up.
Foolhardy Policeman.
Pittsburg Leader.
The policeman who said that there is
grafting in Allegheny has been ignomi-nously
dismissed. Men in uniform mnst
learn not to converse too freely with the
public.
JIMMY SHEPPARD.
To
$12,00 St. Louisand return, August 9th,
23rd, September 8tli Tickets lim-ited
seven days and good in Free
Reclining Chair Cars or Coaches.
$15.00 St. Louis and return. Limit fif-teen
days. On sale dully.
$18.10 St. Louis and return. Limitslxty
days. On sale dally.
$22.60 St. Louis and return. Limit De-cember
15th. On sale daily.
$40.00 Denver, Pueblo or Colorado
Springs and return. On sale dally.
Limit fifteen days.
$43.10 Denver, Pueblo or Colorado
Springs and return. On sale dally.
Limit sixty days.
$46.80 Denver, Pueblo or Colorado
Springs and return. Un sale daily.
Limit, October 31st.
$60.50 San Francisco or Los Angeles and
return. Tickets on sale August
15tli lo September litli. Final re-turn
limit, October 23rd.
San Francisco, Los Angeles. Port-land
and other Pacific Coast points.
One-way Colonist tickets on sale
dally from September loth to Onto
her 15th.
Pullman Sleepers and Free Reclining Chair
Cars on Wabash trains.
Detailed Information regarding rates and
routes to allpoints west, together with folder
containing map of St. I,mils and the World's
1-air grounds, cheerfully furnished on appli-
•atton to
F. H. TRISTRAM,
, . Ass't General Passenger Agent.
320 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh. Pa. 8 4 (it
Girls’ Dresses.
A complete line. 75c dresses at 39c
Boys’ Suits.
Big lot of Suits, worth $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $4.00,
at 75c, $1.48, $1.98 and $2.48
School Shoes.
Boys’ School Shoes, guaranteed $1.25 grade, at 98c
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■MAIN ST. Ml. PLEASANT.
Everything to Wear.
sr r
- Always the Cheapest.
TIME TO GO SLOW.
This government does not propose to
get mixed up in the threatened interna-tional
complications over Japan’s al-leged
attempt to capture Rnssian war
vessels that sought safety in the neutral
Chinese port of Shanghai. Admiral
A Friend Pays a Touching Tribute to hie
Memory.
"Jimmy” Sheppard is dead; such was
the unwelcome news that startled our
town on the morning of Friday, August
12, causing a sadness to prevail here
where he was so well and favorably
known. "Jimmy, "as he was familiarly
called, was the oldest son of Mr. and
Mrs. Win. H. Sheppard and was 3t years
old. Seven years ago, while serving as
a passenger brakeman on the B. & O. R
R. he was stricken with paralysis, from
the effects of which he never recovered
As the years passed he continued to grow
worse though everything possible was
done for him. In the last year of his
life he was in such a state that he could
not recognize those about him, became
entirely helpless and had to be cared for
like a small child.
In all these years his mother cared for
him with a tenderness a mother only
can. He was an unusually bright young
man and wherever he was known was
loved and respected by everybody. His
was a quiet and obtrusive life but withal
a life to the eternal principles of truth
and right. It is sad that such a bright
young man should have so- soon been
called to his last resting place. But he
is gone to return no more; his voice is
silent; his heart forgets to beat; his body
is shrouded; a coffin holds the remains.
Peace be to thy ashes. Calm be thy
slumbers in the grave and all thy
dreams of joy may be calm.
“Green lie the turf above thee,
Friend of our early days;
None knew thee but to love thee
None named thee but to praise."
Our good young friend is dead; it is
sad to utter it. To us who have been
accustomed so long to look upon him as
he moved in qniet and unobtrusive dig
nity among us, the ideal of a perfect
physical organization, it is startling that
he is gone on earth; we shall see his face
no more. We think of him as still in
terested in ns in this land of sin and
watching and waiting for us to land on
those blissfull shores where sin can
never reach us and sorrow can never
come.
“Sweetly his form will be sleeping
Under the cypress shade
8ad though we he fondly will we
Cherish the name of the dead.
“He 1ms gone down the valley, the deep
dark valley,
We’ll see his face never more
’Till we pass down the valley the dark
death valley
And meet him on the other shore."
Mount Pleasant, Pa. GEO. W. FULTZ.
Ang. 24, 1904.
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Remember the Elks minstrel on Sep-tember
10 and 17.
The Last Week
OF OUR GREAT SALE
WITH THE GIVING AWAY PRICES.
Thanks to our landlords for their generosity. In order that we don’t lose an entire Fall Business our
landlords have postponed the contemplated alterations to the building we are in for the present. We will
therefore close, our Closing Out Sale, with the Lowest Prices on Record, on Sept ist.
But for One Week More the Lowest Prices on Record will Prevail.
Good Luck for
Men and Boys.
For Suits.
$6 00 Suits.
$8.50 Suits .
$9.00 Suits..
$10 00 Suits.
$12.00 Suits..
$15.00 Suits
$3.65
$4.90
S5.25
$5.90
$7.25
$8.40
Rain Coats.
$12 Raiu Coats, while they
last , $6.90
Hats.
Hard and soft hats, all shapes
and shades, $1.50 and $2, 98c
Pants or Trousers.
$1.50 Pants.
$1.75
$2.00
$2.50
$3.00
$3.50
$4 and $5
98c
$ 1.10
$1.38
$1.75
$1.98
$2.65
$2.98
Overcoats.
Pall or winter, what we have
on hand at I-.2 F*ric©.
25c bow ties', 2 for a quarter.
50c four-in-hand ties.. 29c
Lisle thread Hose the pair 12c
Overalls, both kinds.. 38c
Shoes
for Man, Woman and Child.
$4 lace or button, guaranteed
Patent Colt, Bal. or Blu-cher
$3.15
$3.50 vici, velour, or box calf
every pairguaranteed $2.65
$3 vici, boxcalf or velour $2,15
$2.50 vici or box calf $1,90
$2.00 “ “ “ $1,48
$1.75 misses’pat. leather $j,40
$3 ladies’ pat. colt -$2.15
$2.50 ladies’ guaranteed
shoes $1.90
$1.75 dongola pat. tip $1,18
Dress Shirts.
50c dress shirts ........ 38c
$1.00 Monarch shirts 75c
$1.25 11 “ 75c
$1.50 Cluet “ $|,|3
$2.00 “ best “ $|,38
Good Luck
for Mothers.
For Child’s Suits.
$1.50
$2.00
$2.50
$3.00
$4.00
Suits...
Suits...
Suits....
Suits....
Suits....
$5 and $6 Suits.
98c
$ 1.45
$1.67
S 2.18
$2.68
$3.38
Underwear.
40c grade 18c
50 and 65c “ 38c
$1.00 Pine balbriggan 69c
$1.00 light weight wool 75c
H. GOLDSTONE,
Clothing, Shoes and Furnishings,
Mount Pleasant’s Largest Men’s Outfitting Store.
Cor. Main and Church Sts., - - - -
Your money’s Worth, or Money Back.
Mount Pleasant.
IIMttlllMfi t*TYn ri ffriiir rirni Matilda.
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1904.
For the Past Week Briefly Men-tioned.
LITTLE TALK OF THE TOWN
THAT WILL BOTH INTEREST AND
ENTERTAIN.
A Department in Which the Local Editoi
Holds High Carnival and Works off his
Surplus Energy in Condensations
That Deal Solely with Matters Relating
to Mount Pleasant
The United Brethren young people
will hold a lawn fete this evening in the
rear of that church.
William Cunningham, of Tarr, and
Mise Elizabeth Wilson, of this place,
were married at Cumberland Tuesday
Mr. and Mrs. H. Goldstone are the
happy grandparents of the fine little
daughter born Sunday at Connellsville
to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ruben.
A good thing to remember is that the
local Elks are going to give a bang up
minstrel show at the Grand Opera House
on the evenings of September 16 and 17
TARR.
Miss Kathryn Bennett, one of Old
Bethany's fair daughters, was married
Ion Thursday to Mr. George Naly, of
1 Ruffsdale.
Theodore Hockey spent..Sunday here
with his parents.
A few of our boys went to the Grang-ers’
picnic and they say they wTill never
go back, anymore for they will not get
brushed up for a month.
George Hite has moved to East Lib-erty
with his family.
Walter Hubbs, the store manager,
moved here on Monday.
ALVERTON.
Misses Mabel Edmundson, Edna
and Mabel Woods, of McKeesport, were
visiting at the home of Robert Hill the
past week.
The Alverton ball team defeated the
Scottdale Pipe Mill nine by a score of
9 to 8
The M. E. Sunday school picnic was
held last Thursday near Hecla. The
Church of God people held theirs at
South Connellsville Wednesday.
Misses Bell Flesher and Edith Shra-der,
of Greensburg. visited friends here
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.
How theBe Articles Appear After They
Have been Boiled Down Into Short
Paragraphs That Speak to the Point
But Briefly of Interesting Eventa
Transpiring in the Old Star of the Weat
George G. Gans has bought the John
son distillery at Uniontown for $60,000
John Thompson, of Layton, had his
left arm cut off by the cars at Dunbar
Tuesday
The new management of the Scottdale
Independent” now issues that paper in
an attractive sixteen page, four column
form.
The new water company recently or-ganized
at Uniontown has been refused |
a charter. No reason was assigned by
the state authorities
A three-year old daughter of James
Orislow, of Dunbar, was burned to death
Thursday. The child pulled hot grease
from a stove and set fire to her clothes.
the past week.
James Byars has been off duty for sev
The oats crop in this vicinity premises 6raj ,jaya 0n account of a sprained ankle
be unusually heavy. W. L. Byers ,-eceived while playing ball at Everson
xpects to get 80 bushels to the acre, John Ober, Jr., who had been ill of. ...
A -rrnTr.'taCiT;,- S.JC.SX,
Jonday by falling in an attempt to | interment took place in Alverton ceme |^ |
jump off a rapidly moving street car iu
the West End. He was taken to the
hospital.
In the tog near the Polish cemetery
early Wednesday morning a street car
ran over and killed a fine cow belonging
to a man named Moody at the Acme
coke works.
A. J. Smith, formerly of this place
whose store at Monessen was destroyed
by fire some time ago, has sued the
North American and German insurance
companies for $1,400 each
Mr Anson D. Myers, of Laurelville
and Miss Laura White, of Alice postof
fice, were married at the Walnut street
United Brethren parsonage by Rev. Dr.
Lawrence Keister Saturday.
The ReUnion Presbyterian Sunday
tery Sunday.
A. A. Cornelius has been appointed
sexton at the Alverton cemetery.
What Did the Woggle Bug Say P
It’s Worth $260 to Know.
Join the Woggle Bug Society and be
happy.
Men, women and children are eligible
to membership. It was organized for
the benefit of children only, with the
intention of educating and elevating the
minds of the young from lessons set
down by the merry Woggle Bug and his
followers, the Tin Woodman, the Scare
crow and Jack Pumpkinhead. Parents
who wished to investigate the society
before allowing the children to join
have insisted upon becoming members
also, and, since it was decided to admit
all, it is hard to tell who are the most
-hool picnicers had a jolly time Friday enthusiastic. One thing sure, they all
t Dillinger Park, near Ruffsdale, as laugh alike and don’t have to leave
nly a few props of rain fell there while home to do it, either. If you are not
lere was a heavy shower here ready to join yourself now see that
your children become members, and
you will be sure to come in later. No
charge for membership fee. For full
particulars see The Pittsburg Sunday
Dispatch, August 28.
$250 in prizes. 1
J. L. Washington, the young colored
irodigy, who is known as the “Walking
3ible,” will lecture in the First Baptist
■hurch tomorrow (Friday) evening un
ler the auspices of the Second Baptist
people.
O. R. Ulery, a Donegal huckster, was
very much exercised here Monday over
the loss of his pnrse containing $241
He had left it at the home of J. B.
Myers, Jr., who promptly returned the
wealth,
Peterson Business College.
The fall term of The Peterson Busi-ness
College begins Monday, August 29,
1904. All people anxious to secure tbor
ough training in Bookkeeping, Arith
metic, Shorthand, Typewriting, Pen-
. ,. , Imanship, etc. should prepare to enter
Dr. Fulton while a is s a y ' g Don't delay. Onr night sessions | on
ay, tramped on a rusty nail that ran i J
knee. i
G. H. White, whose home was at
Scottdale, was killed last Wednesday by
an explosion of gasoline in the mine at
Zeigler, Illinois, where there is a strike
going on.
Rev. William Ward West, of Will-iamsport,
has accepted a call to the
First Baptist church of Greensburg,and
expects to begin his pastoral duties on
September 25.
Bert Bacon; a boy employed in the
workB of the Grapeville Specialty Com-pany,
at Grapeville, was stabbed and
seriously wounded Wednesday by an
Italian who fled.
D The Uniontown Water Company has
begun work on a reservoir which will,
have a capacity of 125,000,000 gallons, !
It will be located at Hutchinson, four j
miles from town.
Colonel J. M. Reid, of Connellsville, !
offers to Company D, Tenth regiment,
N. G. P., three medals for marksman-1
ship. One is of gold, one of silver and
the third of bronze.
Burglars visited two hotels and a
number of business houses nt Penn
early Thursday morning, taking liquor,
two gold watches and a lot of goods.
Their trail was lost at Shafton.
In a freight wreck on the Baltimore
and Ohio near Uniontown Saturday
morning, caused by a closed switch,
Brakeman O. J. Sheaf was thrown be-neath
the cars and instantly killed.
A handsome new hotel will be erected
Strickler’s Store.
1854-1904.
Cleaning up all summer goods.
Plenty of hot days to come and reduced prices of summer
goods may be an inducement to buy.
Firs Shipment Fall Goods
Goods suitable for school dresses---Percales, Ging-hams,
prints in the new fall colorings.
Dress Goods.
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New things in suitings at 25c, 50c, 75c and $1.00 per yard.
Black Goods.
Black goods business on the increase and new weaves
constantly received. We cordially invite inspection.
being
the Bite of the Girard House at
r. . n I offer great opportunities to those who Brownsville, whose license was revoked
eep into his right foot. Di BiUy*™ cannot enter th0 day achool. Write {or Thursday by the Fayette county court
id the necessarv cnttln “ particulars. The Peterson Business Col following a sheriff’s sale of the property
oout the ugly wound that bids fair to P pa lt
inse no further trouble. 1 B
A postal to THE JOURNAL from Rev
V. H. Tussing, the pastor, then at
linona Lake, Indiana, announces
(teaching at the First Reformed church,
To FARMERS;—I have bought the
Enos Ruff cider press and will operate
it there, beginning Wednesday next,
Lcaimug — August 31st. l-t- will be runnin*g-• Wed
anday next, morning and evening, at nesday of each week until the close of
he St. Johns at 2:30 that afternoon.
In a row between colored gamblers at
he Davidson coke works, near Connells-
•ille, Sunday, Ben French, of this place
mptied a big revolver at Logan Mitts,
if Connellsville, who escaped as the
hooter’s aim was bad. Benjamin has
lisappeared.
Conncil held a special meeting Mon
lay evening and approved the $2,300
,ond of Samuel Schenck who was given
he contract to put in the new Swartz
illey and Diamond and Smithfteld street
lewers. J. I Dick, of Scottdale, was
;he surety.
John Pochley. a Standard Pole, in jail
it Greensburg on a charge of felonious
issault made by Joe Padlow, of Bridge
port, was brought over Monday and
?iven a hearing before Justice MeWill
iams who held the defendant for court
In $300 bail.
Arrangements for the entertainment
of Regiment
the season. Nelson Poorbaugh.
FOR RENT;—Furnished room. In
quire at 840 West Main street, Mount
Pleasant. 8 25 2
WANTED—A girl for waiting on
tables. Good wages. Apply at The
New Cafe. FINCH & DUNCAN,
8 25 tf Prop’s,
WANTED:—A woman to do cooking
and general pastry work. Good wages
paid with board, room and washing in
eluded. Inquire at once at Albright's
Church street restaurant. 8 18 tf
NOTICE;—All persons desiring to save
5 per cent, on their school taxes for this
year must pay the same on or before
Saturday, August 27.
8 18 2 J. M. YOTHERS, Collector.
Ferdinand Carothers, a Latrobe tin-smith,
was saved Tuesday from a fall
from the top of the 85-foot steeple of the
Presbyterian church there by his shirt
sleeve catching on the fastening of the
ladder.
The coroner's inquest on the body of
William Noback, found drowned in the
river at Monessen, showed that the de-ceased
had committed suicide. He was
22 years of age and was a miner at
Princedale.
The body of Samuel I. Long, of Brad-dock,
was found along the railroad
tracks east of Greensburg last Wednes-day
morning and death ensued soon af
ter the injured man was taken to the
Greensburg hospital. He was 35 yeats
of age.
While attempting to swim the Cone-maugh
river Coyle Hale, aged 18, was
drowned in mid stream at 3 o’clock Sat-urday
afternoon near the Bolivar plant
of the Reed & Hammond Firebrick
Company, where he was employed. The
body was recovered.
The Rockwood “Gazette” office was
wrecked the other night by unknown
parties. The editor, Charles F. Over-cracker,
recently had some trouble with
the survivors of the 142nd Regiment, I DON’T FORGET that G. J. Jandeleit, I the paator of the local Methodist Epis-mnsylvania
Volunteer Infantry, who No. 422 East Main street, does all kinds | (;0pa[ church. The newspaper man was
ill hold their annual reunion here on of upholstering, decorating, paper hang
iptember 23rd, are already well under | ing and polishing. 8 114
The details are being looked after
Captain U. B. Hubbs, of this place
cretary of the association,
Frank K. Fox, who lives a short dis-ance
west of town, had a four-horse
ragon smashed to pieces and several
3ts of harness damaged Saturday by a
treet car running down his team as it
FOR SALE:—A good property at Ruffs-dale,
containing 11 rooms and three
halls with a 3-story storeroom, 25 by 50
feet; also 4 room dwelling in the rear,
all necessary outbuildings and large lot;
also 8 good building lots. The rental of
this property is now $420 a year. Bar-as
passing over a private crossing on!gain for a quick buyer. Inquire of F.
_s farm where it is said the company | H. Sheppard, Mount Pleasant. 7 14 tf
ever secured any right of way.
Will Leonard, a 14-year-old boy whose
lother resides in the West End and
rho had been working for John MeAd-ms,
the Sand Hill avenue nurseryman
ihile taking a horse to water Friday
without his employer’s knowledge had
is skull fractured either by falling off
r being kicked by the animal. The
ojnred lad Is on a fair way to recovery
t the hospital where the physicians had
o trephine the broken bones.
Birds eye View of the Columbia River.
An attractive topographical map, in
colors, giving a comprehensive idea of
the country on and tributary to the Co-lumbia
River. This map is in folder
form, and on the reverse side contains
on interesting description of the Colum-bia
River route. CopieB sent free by
E. L. LOMAX, G. P. & T. A., U. P. R.
R. Co., Omaha, Neb., on receipt of four
cents postage.
copal church. The newspaper man was
superintendent of the Sunday school.
A demented Slav, armed with an axe
with which he cut his way into the
house of a man named Oram, near the
Ridge church, Tuesday, threatening to
murder the whole family, had to be shot
in the legs before he could be overpow
ered and taken to jail at Greensburg.
At Uniontown Thursday Charles
Jones, alias D. C. Kent, colored, who
says his home is in Pittsburg, was sen
tenced to two years in the Western pen-itentiary
by Judge Reppert on a charge
of horse stealing, to which he had
pleaded guilty. The prisoner then
thanked the court.
Eberhart Moyer, a brakeman employ-ed
by the United States Cast Iron Pipe
& Foundry Company at Scottdale, was
caught between a large pipe and a car
Thursday morning and so badly injured
that he died that afternoon. He was
about 26 years old and single.
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We beg to announce that on Thursday,
September ist, we will open our new estab-lishment
with a new and complete line of
Clothing,
Gents’ Furnishings
and Shoes.
where we will cater to the public trade at
large. We have sold out our place at 706
Main street and will start in a larger and more
commodious building and will be in a position
to show the trade a larger and finer selection
of merchandise.
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Opera House Block. Mount Pleasant.
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1904.
NOVA SCOTIA
COKE RIVAL.
What United States Consul General Hollo-way,
of Halifax, Has to Say in
Recent Report.
COIL MEASURES IIP THERE 10 FEET THICK.
The Connellsville coke region is to have a dangerous rival for the west-ern
trade if reports from Nova Scotia are correct. Under date of July 7,
1904, United States Consul General Holloway, of Halifax, N. S., transmits
the following interview from the British Columbia “Mining Record” with the
senior member of a tirm of Pittsburg coal mining engineers who are installing
a plant for the International Coal and Coke Company at Coleman, N. S.
“The bituminous coal measures of the International Coal and Coke
Company are the largest 1 have ever seen. In Pennsylvania the largest seam
in the famous Connellsville region is nine feet thick, while one of the seams
at Coleman is fully 18 feet in thickness.
“The Coleman coal is clean, being free from slate and other foreign sub-stances.
The output of the International company will be limited only by the
number of plants the company chooses to build. 1 he measures at Coleman
are especially ample for cheap mining for several generations.
“Unlike the Pennsylvania coal, the coal at Coleman can be mined and
extracted by gravity. As the mines will be self draining no pumping plant
need be maintained. The plant will be modern and complete, compressed air
being utilized in hauling the cars. Electrical machinery will also be used very
extensively.”
A BasebaJ! Sermon.
HE stood within the pitcher’s box nnd
figured on his man.
He tried to scheme a scheme by
which he’d make the fellow fan.
He squirmed about ti little bit, as ail good
pitchers do,
Then sent ail inshoot o’er the plate. The
willing willow flew
To meet the sphere, which In its turn
went to the outfield fence
And scored three men, to the disgust and
misery intense
Of him who twirled—he was indeed a
broken hearted duck,
And yet he didn't blame himself—he laid
it on to luck.
That pitcher came to bat at length; he
waited for a chance
To send that ball to kingdom come, three
runners to advance.
He watched a slow one creeping o'er the
path so often trod—
A billion miles below the sky, three feet
above the sod
Then made a wild and wicked swing that
would have let it land
In Chincoteague, if he had but connected
as he'd planned.
Third strike It was—it landed In the catch-er's
mitt “kerchuck!”
And yet 'twas not the batter’s fault—
’twas just his much blanked luck.
O luck, what shoulders must be yours, to
carry, all unhumped,
The fardels and the faults by tons upon
them daily dumped!
The world Is full of foolish folk who make
a listless try
To bring about the thing they crave and
then sit down and cry
Because the feeble effort didn’t bring the
thing they sought—
A boon for which far better rrfbn had
toiled and bled and fought.
Much blame you get from folk who lack
the necessary pluck—
Who hall things up egreglously and blame
It on to “luck.”
—S. W. Gillilan in Baltimore American.
Fominine Jolt.
“I toll you, my automobile can go.”
“What a splendid example.”—San
Francisco Examiner.
Moral of the Lennon.
One Sunday a teacher was trying to
Mlustrute to her small scholars the les-son
“Return good for evil.”
To make it practical she said: ‘‘Sup-pose,
children, one of your schoolmates
should strike you and the next day you
should bring him an apple. That would
be one way of returning good for evil.*'
To her dismay one little girl spoke
up quickly, ‘‘Then he would strike you
again to get unother apple.”—Youth’s
Companion.
Hin Firmt Experience.
“After being rejected by all the other
Twirls town that young lawyer as a
last resort has begun to pay court to
Miss Oldish.”
“Well, I can say this for him—it’s the
only court of last resort he’s had any-thing
to do with since beginning the
practice.”—New Orleans Times-Demo-
<*rat.
Prefers Advertised Goods.
Advertising is a great force and a suc-cession
of accumulated Impressions,
and the greater number of people who
are influenced by it are never known
to liavo been reached. George Horace
Lorlmer, editor of the Saturday Even-ing
Tost, says, ‘‘I buy advertised arti-cles
by preference, but 1 never write to
the advertisers.” They do not all write
letters nnd mention the name of the
advertiser, but simply go and buy. We
doubt if any one force, with the excep-tion
of the public school and the daily
press, has done ns much for the educa-tion
of the human race ns advertising,
nnd the man who can so plan advertis-ing
work as to bring about large re-sults
is exercising professional ability
of the highest order.—Profitable Adver-tising.
Nearer Hail If.
A short time since a number of ama-teur
musicians in a town of western
Pennsylvania made an effort to organ-ize
an orchestra. They were success-ful
in procuring all the performers they
desired except a clarinet player. One
of the number finally volunteered to
take up tin1 instrument and try to learn
to play it. lie had no clarinet; but,
hearing that lie could probably borrow
one from a young man in the place
who was thought to own one, lie met
him on the street one day and accosted
him with:
“How are you. Brown? I heard you
had a clarinet."
Tile fellow looked at him in amaze-ment
and stammered out:
“Well, I—I was sick about two weeks
ago. but I don’t tliink I had that!”—
Philadelphia Ledger.
Maternal Advice.
“Judging from the appearance of
that bright tiling up there,” remarked
the young trout, “I conclude it’s a nice
fly.”
“My child,” cautioned the wise moth-er
trout, “don’t jump at your conclu-sion
or it will be your finish.”—Phila-delphia
I’ress.
The Fact* In the Cn*e.
Judge—Did I understand you to say
that the parties used high words?
Witness—Their voices were pitched
rather high, but the words they used
were extremely low.—Cincinnati En-quirer.
Telltale.
Jaggles—Henpeck lias acquired a de-cided
stoop, high up near his neck.
Waggles—Oh, I guess that’s the stoop
his wife sits on.—Judge.
Spoiled It All.
A Small Bur’. Hueatlon.
Tommy Figgjam—Paw?
Figgjam—Yes, sonny.
“‘Doesn’t ‘beheaded’ mean havin' yei
bead taken off?”
"Not ueeessurily mine, Tommy, but
somebody’s.”
“Then why don't ‘bejeweled’ mean
havin’ yer jewels taken off?”—Bultl-
■more American.
He (aside)—Ah, how I loves to be wld
her—an’ den de awful thought dat dis
Is leap year comes up an’ spoils mo
day!—New York American.
A Berth Mark.
He traveled in a sleeping car.
The llghta were low and dim.
He had an upper berth, and so
The thing closed up on him.
His arm got caught and tightly squeeted—
Don’t ask If he wus calm,
But this I’ll say, that now he has
A berth mark on his arm.
—Yonkers Statesman.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE SCHOOL DIRECTORS OF MOUNT PLEASANT BOROUGH
DISTRICT FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 6, 1904.
Whole number of schools 24
Average number of months taught. 8*4
Number of male teuchms employed 2
Average salaries of male teachers' £69 HO
Average salaries of female teachers §51 20
Number of male pupils in attendance 4S7
Number of female pupils lu attendance 400
Whole number in attendance 9'6
Average daily attendance 7S9
Average per cent, of attendance 94*4
Cost of each pupil per month ? 1 85
STATEMENT OF' TAXES.
W. M. OVERHOLT, Collector.
1903—
June J. To balance duplicate 1899 $286 68
6286 68
1903—
Oct.. 28. By amount paid Treasurer.15 00
1904- ‘ I
June 6. Balance .\.. 271 64 !
$ 2 6 68:
1904-
June 6. To balance due.. ..6 27168
J. M. YOTHERS, Collector.
1900-
ro balance Duplicate 1900 6 998 20
“ 5 per cent, penalty 8248 84 12 34
6 1010 63
1900—
By amount paid Treasurer..
•• 5 per cent, commission...
“ balance on Duplicate
..6 246 22
1898
750 45
$ 1010 63
To balance Duplicate 1901
•* 5 per cent, penally on 8387 58
l 248 88
17 88
1901—
By amount paid Treasurer $ 336 74
“ 5 per cent, commission 17 72
*• balance on Duplicate 908 78
6 1 263 24
1902—
To balance Duplicate 1902
** 5 per cent, penalt y on 6900 13..
2 172 61
45 01
1902—
By amount paid Treasurer $ 897 88
* 5 per cent, commission 47 26
“balance Duplicate 1 272 4s
1903-
To face Duplicate within 60 days.. ..6 8 884 19
* 8 884 19
1903-
By amount cash paid Treasurer..
•• 5 per cent, discount
“ 2 per cent. Commission
-6 s 2:0 18
IM21
169 80
6 8 8s4 19
To face Duplicate In 6 months 6 1 681 SO By amount paid Treasurer 6 1 597 71
, “ 5 per cent. Commission 84 09
6 1 681 80 i
Ai
6 1 6S1 SO
To face Duplicate after 6 months..
•• per cent. Penal ty
. 6 <35 81 By amount paid Treasurer « 733 97
36 79 “ 5 per cent. Commission 38 63
6 772 60 i . 6 772 60
RECAPITULATION FOR 1903.
To gross amount Duplicate 1903 6 14 014 is By amount cash paid Treasurer 6 10 60186
“ per cent. Penalty 36 79 “ Commissions 292 52
: ’* 5 per cent. Discount 444 21
! ” balance on Duplicate 2 712 38
J 14 050 97 6 14 050 97
RECEIPTS.
State appropriation for year ending
June 1st, 1903 6 3 762 31
Bui. State Appropriation held back
1900 189 57
From W. M. Overboil, col. taxes 1M99 15 00
“ J. M. Yothers. " " 1900 216 22
“ •• - •• “ 1901 425 90
“ “ •• .... 1J)02 792 75
“ 1903 11 156 99
“ Tuition 249 82
“ Temporary Loan 6 000 00
To amount due Treasurer 250 02
6 23 088 58
EXPENDITURES.
By cash paid Teachers..
attending co. Ins
Attendance Officer
Janitors
Auditors
for School Books
“ Printing and Adv...
“ Water. Tel. & Light
*‘ Interest
“ School Supplies
*‘ B’ld’gsand Ground
” Fuel
Post.ex.&lncidentl’s
“ Salaries Secretary.
Treas. and Solicitor
“ Insurance
“ Notes Lifted
Bonds Lifted
" Uverdraftdast year)
“ Freight & Drayage
II 091 9-
21:2101 0000
1 060 00
15 00
363 83
10 00
119 80
1 227 81
392 17
875 10
507-81
205 93
125 00
1166
5 000 00
1 000 00
683 20
35 85
? 23 088 58
H. W. GILES, Treasurer.
To amount received from W. M. Overholt., Tax Collector 1*99
•• *• •• •* J. M. Yothers, •• 1900
“ “ 1901
* “ “ •• “ “ 1902
•• “ •• “ “ " 1903
“ •• •• State Appropriation
•» “ *• •• •* held over
»• •* *• “ Secretary, Tuition. Etc
•• “ “ •• Loans from First National Bank
(OR.)
By Vouchers paid
•* “ Nos. 1769.1948,1976.1087,1989. outstanding amounting to..
By amount due Treasurer..
15 00
246 22
425 90
897 8.3
... 11 051 .-0
6 762 31
189 57
219 82
... 0 900 00
f 22 838 56
23 009 69
78 99
$ 23 088 58
..6 250 02
RESOURCES.
To amount duo Certificate W. M. Ov-erboil,
1899 $
To amount due on Duplicate J. M.
Yothers, 1900
To amount due on Duplicate. J. M. Yothers, 1001
To amount due on Duplicate J. M.
Yothers. 1902
To amount due on Duplicate J. M.
Yothers, 1903 2 712 38
To amount due from County Treas
urer, Taxes, Hol’d
To amount due from W. J. Shaw
271 08
750 45
908 78
1 272 48
328 92
20 00
§ 6 204 69
Excess of Liabilities oyer Resources. £2
LIABILITIES.
Bonds outstanding ?26 50000
Temporary loan 5 000 00
Accrued Interest 011 bonds 265 00
Due Treasurer (overdrawn) 250 02
« 32 015 02
750 33.
Estimated valuation of School Buildings. Grounds and Furniture, 875 000 00.
The above resources are as the books show; the actual resources are about §3 000 00; the
difference of S3 264 69 Is caused by no settlement or allowances being made for exonerations
or error on Duplicates of 1900,1901.1902 and 1903. F. E. PAINTER, Secretary.
Wo, the undersigned. Auditors of the Borough of Mount Pleasant, Pa., do hereby certify
that we have examined the above accounts and find them correct.
JAMES S. BRADDQCK, ) »
A. PERSHING. J Auditors.
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TROUBLE
ALREADY.
West Virginia Firm, one of the New Som-erset
County Court House Bidders,
jeOt } ourself to much unnecessary un-
ICONTINUED.]
"To what am I indebted for this sec-ond
visit from you?” he asked of Coro-ner
Z., with an admirable presence of
mind. “Are you not yet satisiied with
what we have been able to tell you of
my poor wife’s unhappy end?”
“We are not,” was the plain re-sponse.
“There are some things you
have not attempted to explain, Mr.
Jeffrey—for instance, why you went
to the Moore house previous to your
being called there by the death of your
wife.”
It was a shot that told, an arrow
whicli found its mark. Mr. Jeffrey
flushed, then turned pale, rallied and
again lost himself in a maze of con-flicting
emotions, from which he only
emerged to say:
“How do you know that I was there?
Have I said so. or do those old walls
babble in their sleep?”
“Old walls have been known to do
this.” was the grave reply. “Whether
they had anything to say in this case
is at present quite immaterial. That
you were where I charge you with be-ing
is evident from your own manner.
May I then ask if you have anything
to say about this visit? When a per-son
has died under .such peculiar cir-cumstances
ns Mrs. Jeffrey, everything
bearing upon the case is of interest to
the coroner.”
“Mrs. Jeffrey’s death was a strange
one,” her husband admitted, with tar-dy
self control. "I find myself as much
at a loss to understand it as you do
and am therefore quite ready to an-swer
the question yon have so openly
broached; not that my answer has any
bearing upon the point you wiBh to
make, but because it is your due and
my pleasure. X did visit the Moore
house, ns I certainly had every right
to do. The property was my wife’s,
pleasantness you had better make clear
to us today the cause of that special
quarrel which to all intents and pur-poses
led to your wife's death.”
"I will, try to do so,” returned Mr.
Jeffrey, rising and pacing the room in
his intense restlessness. “We did have
some words. Her conduct the night
before had not pleased me. I am nat-urally
jealous, vilely jealous, and I
thought she was a little frivolous at
the German ambassador’s ball. But I
had no idea she would take my sharp
speeches so much to heart. I had no
idea that she would care so much or
that I should care so much. A little
jealousy Is certainly pardonable in a
bridegroom, and if her mind had not
already been upset she would have re-membered
how I loved her and hope-fully
waited for a reconciliation.”
“You did love your wife, then? It
was you and not she who had a right
to be jealous? 1 have heard the con-trary
stated. It is a matter of public
gossip that you loved another woman
previous to your acquaintance with
Miss Moore, a woman whom your wife
regarded with sisterly affection and
subsequently took Into her new home.”
“Miss Tuttle?” Mr. Jeffrey stopped
in his walk to fling out this ejacula-tion.
“I admire and respect Miss Tut-tle,”
he went on to declare, “lout I nev-er
loved her—not as I did my wife,”
he finished, but with a certain hard ac-cent,
apparent enough to a sensitive
ear.
‘Tardon me, it is as difficult for me
to put these questions as it is for you
to hear them—were you and Miss Tut-tle
ever engaged?”
I started. This was a question which
half of Washington had been asking
Itself for the last three months.
Would Mr. Jeffrey answer it, or, re-membering
that these questions were
rather friendly than official, refuse to
Files a Protest.
RCHITECT CHARGED WITH UNFAIRNESS,
The Brady Construction Company, of Fairmont, W. Va., through its
attorney, has tiled a protest with the county commissioners against awarding
the contract for Somerset county’s new court house to the Caldwell and Drake
Company, of Columbus, lnd., at its bid of $247,444.
The Fairmont concern alleges that Architect Fulton withheld the plans
and specifications from it, after it had made the required deposit for a set of
blue prints, until Thursday, August 11, and that the time intervening between
then and the hour for opening proposals was not sufficient to permit of its
making the necessary estimates.
The Brady Construction Company’s b'd was $249,733, for similar ma-terial,
or $2,289 less than Caldwell and Drake Company’s bid for limestone
acing. The successful bidders were at Somerset last week anxious to sign
the contract, but the award is not likely to be made for a few days, and it is
not improbable that the building will be re-let.
Late advices are that Caldwell & Drake, of Columbus, Indiana, have
been awarded the contract and will use Bedford limestone, the building to be
240x110 feet. There is talk of an injunction being taken out.
and It was for my interest to learn If I Bntisfv R curloslty whlch be might well
/ckortuiilLdI 4t1hieA snAeAcHreAtt oAIf* iittos ImWOannyTf AcrflitmtlOeQs ^ _ «
“Ah!”
Mr. Jeffrey looked quickly up. “You
think that an odd thing for me to do?”
“At night—yes.”
“Night is the time for such work. I
did not care to be seen pottering
around there in daylight.”
“No? Yet it would have been so
much easier. You would not have had
to buy candles or carry a pistol or”—
“I did not carry a pistol. The only
pistol carried there was the one with ]
which my demented wife chose to take
her life. I do not understand this allu-sion.”
“It grew out of a misunderstanding
of the situation, Mr. Jeffrey. Excuse
me if I supposed you would be likely
to provide yourself with some means
of defense in venturing alone upon the
scene of so many mysterious deaths.”
“I took no precaution.”
"And needed none, I suppose.”
“And needed none.”
“When was this visit paid, Mr. Jef-frey—
before or after your wife pulled
the trigger which ended her life? You
need not hesitate to answer.”
"I do not.” The elegant gentleman
before us had acquired a certain fierce-ness.
“Why should I? Certainly you
don’t think that I was there at the
same time she was. It wns-not on the
same night even. So much the walls
should have told you and probably did,
or my wife’s uncle, Mr. David Moore.
Was he not your informant?”
“No. Mr. Moore has failed to call
our attention to this fact. Did you meet
Mr. Moore during the course of your
visit to a neighborhood over which
he seems to hold absolute sway?”
“Not to my knowledge. But bis
house is directly opposite, and as he
has little to do but amuse himself with
what he can see from his front win-dow
I concluded that he might have
observed me going in.”
“You entered by the front door,
then?”
“How else?”
“And on what night?”
Mr. Jeffrey made an effort. These
questions were visibly harassing him.
“The night before the one—the one
which—ended all my earthly happi-ness,”
he added in a low voice.
Coroner Z. cast a glance at me. I re-membered
the lack of dust on the nest
of little tables from which the upper
one had been drawn forward to hold
the candelabrum and gently shook my
head. The coroner’s eyebrows went
up, but none of his disbelief crept into
his voice as he made this additional
statement:
“The night on which you failed to
return to your own house.”
Instantly Mr. Jeffrey betrayed by a
nervous action, which was quite in-voluntary,
that his outward calm was
slowly giving way under a fire of ques-tions
for which he had no ready reply.
“It was odd your not going home
that night,” the coroner coldly pur-sued.
“The misunderstanding you had
with your wife immediately after
breakfast must have been a very seri-ous
one, more serious than you have
hitherto acknowledged.”
“I had rather not discuss the sub-ject,”
protested Mr. Jeffrey. Then as
If he suddenly recognized the official
character of his Interlocutor he hastily
added, “Unless you positively request
me to do so, In which case I must”
“1 am afraid that I must Insist upon
it” returned the other. "You will find
that It will be insisted upon at the ln-auest
and if you do not wish to sub-consider
intrusive? The set aspect of
his features promised little in the way
of information, and we were both sur-prised
when a moment later he re-sponded
with a grim emphasis hardly
to oe expected rroni one of Ill's impul
sive temperament:
“Unhappily, no. My attentions nev
er went so far.”
Instantly the coroner pounced on the
one weak word which Mr. Jeffrey hart
let fall. '
“Unhappily?” he repeated. “Why
do you say ‘unhappily?’ ”
Mr. Jeffrey flushed and seemed to
come out of some dream.
“Did I say ’unhappily?’ ” he Inquired
“Well, I repeat it—Miss Tuttle would
never have given me any cause for
jealousy.”
The coronet bowed and for the pres-ent
dropped her name out of the con-versation.
“You speak again of the jealousy
aroused in you by your wife’s Impetu-osities.
Was this increased or dtrnln
ished by tlie tone of the few lines she
left behind her?1
The response was long In coming. It
was hard for this man to lie. The
struggle he made at it was pitiful. As
I noted what it cost him, I began to
have new and curious thoughts con-cerning
him and tlio whole matter un-der
discussion.
“I shall never overcome the remorse
roused in me by those few lines,” he
finally rejoined. “She showed a con
sideration for me”—
“What!”
The coroner’s exclamation showed all
the surprise he felt. Mr. Jeffrey tot
tered under it, then grew slowly pale,
as if only through our amazed looks
he had come to realize the charge of
inconsistency to which he had laid
himself open.
“I mean,” he endeavored to explain,
“that Mrs. Jeffrey showed an unex-pected
tenderness toward me by taking
all the blame of our misunderstand-ing
upon herself. It was generous of
her and will do much toward making
my memory of her a gentle one.”
He was forgetting himself again.
Indeed his manner and attempted ex-planations'
were full of contradictions,
To emphasize this fact Coroner Z. ex
claimed
“I should think so! She paid a heavy
penalty for her professed lack of love.
You believe that her mind was un
seated?”
"Does not her action show it?”
“Unseated by the mishap occurring
at her marriage?”
“Yes.”
“You really think that?’’
“Yes.”
"By anything that passed between
you ?”
“Yes.’
“May I ask you to tell us what pass
ed between you on this point?”
“Yes.”
He had uttered the monosyllable so
often it seemed to come unconsciously
from his Ups. But he recognized al
most as soon as we did that It was not
a natural reply to the last question,
and, making a gesture of apology, he
added, with the same monotony of
tone which had characterized these re-plies:
“She spoke of her strange guest’s un
accountable death more than once, and
whenever she did so It was with an
unnatural excitement and in an un
balanced way. This was so noticeable
to us all that the subject presently
was tauooeu among us, but though
she henceforth spared us all allusion
to It she continued to talk about the
house Itself and of the previous deaths
which had occurred there till we were
forced to forbid that topic also. She
was never really lierself after cross-ing
the threshold of this desolate house
to be married. The shadow which
lurks within its walls fell at that in-stant
upon her life. May God have
mercy’’—
The prayer remained unfinished. His
head, which had fallen on his breast,
sank lower.
lie presented the aspect of one who
is quite done with life, even its sor-rows.
But men in the position of Coroner
Z. cannot afford to be compassionate.
Everything the bereaved man said
deepened the impression that be was
acting a part. To make sure that this
was really so the coroner, with just
the slightest touch of sarcasm, quietly
observed:
‘And-to ease your wife’s mlnd--the
wife you were so deeply angered with
—you visited this house and, at an
hour Which you should have spent in
reconciliation with her, went through
its ancient rooms In the hope—of
what?"
Mr. Jeffrey could not answer. The
words whicli enme from his Ups were
mere ejaculations.
T was restless, ma 1. 1 found tilts
adventwe diverting. I had no real
purpose in mind."
"Not when you looked at the old pic-ture?”
“The old picture? What old pic-ture?”
“The old picture in the southwest
chamber,- You took a look at that,
didn’t you—got up on a chair on pur-pose
to do so?”
Mr. Jeffrey winced, but be made a
direct reply.
“Yes; 1 gave a look at that old pic-ture;
got up, ns you say, on a chair-to
do so. Wasn’t that tile freak of an idle
man, wnndering, be hardly knows why,
from room to room in nn old and de-serted
house?”
His tormentor did not answer. Prob-ably
hts mind was on his next line of
inquiry. But Mr. Jeffrey did not take
his silence with the calmness he had
shown prior tactile last attack. As no
word came from his unwelcome guest,
he paused in his rapid pacing nnd,
casting aside with one Impulsive ges-ture
his hitherto imperfectly held re-straint,
he cried out sharply:
“Why do you ask me these questions
in tones of such suspicion? Is it not
plain enough that my wife took her
own life under a misapprehension of
my state of mind toward her? Why
should you feel it ne&ssary to rake up
these personal matters, which, how-
1 ver interesting to the world at large,
are of a painful nature to me?”
“Mr. Jeffrey,” retorted the other,
with a suddeu grave assumption of
dignity not without Its effect in a case
of such serious Import, “we do nothing
without purpose. We nsk these ques-tions
and show this interest because
the charge of suicide which has hither-to
been made against your wife is not
entirely sustained by the facts. At
least she was not alone when she took
her life. Some one was in the house
with her.”
It was startling to observe the effect
of this declaration upon him.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
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hue Did It After All.
“I remember you once sakl to me
that Miss Muggs would never catch
any man that had a thimbleful of
brains.”
“I believe I did make some such re-mark
quite awhile ago.”
“Of course you did—ha, ha, ha! Now
that you hnve met her as my wife,
what have you got to say, eh?”
“Why—er—I was mistaken. She
caught him, all right.”
“You bet she did!—ba, ha!—but bold
on—say, confound you, what do you
mean?”—Kansas City Journal.
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backache very near nil the time. It hurt
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Medicine did very little to relieve, nnd I
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THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1904.
I NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS. H
IIECLA.
Mrs. John Naylor and son, Francis,
-pant Sunday with the former's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Patton, of United.
Miss Essie Wray, of Greensburg,spent
a few days of last week here with the
Misses Dean.
Misses Margaret Percy and Hazel
Kregar, of Connellsville, are visiting the
latter's sister, Mrs. G. E. Wright.
C. H. Fries left Thursday for Pnnx-sntawney
and other points, where he
intends spending his vacation.
The many friends of Miss Kate Mc-
Phail, and Mr. Perry Farrell were
greatly surprised to hear of their mar-riage,
which occurred at Youngwood
Thursday last, but all join in wishing
them much happiness.
Miss Sue Shaffer, of Johnstown, is
here visiting her sister. Mrs. Perry
Whitehair.
Misses Margaret and Agnes Jeffrey,
of Trauger, spent a few days here with
their cousin, Miss Martha Bailey, this
week.
Misses Lucy Sellers and Lola Conner,
of Mount Pleasant, called on friends
here Tuesday evening.
John Laird is spending a few days
with his cousin, Robert Jeffrey, of Con-tinental.
George Miller spent Monday after-noon
in Pittsburg.
Mrs Jos. McPhail, with daughters,
Misses Leona and Hazel, is visiting her
sisters, Mrs. Coughenour and Mrs.
Conn, of Confluence.
Alex Jeffrey and John McPhail spent
Sunday with friends in Irwin and Brad-
_ dock.
811 AULTS P. O.
Our people are busy picking back-herries.
Mrs. S. W. Shaulis took five
buckets to Jones Mills on one trip.
P. H. Baker ran down to the Pike Run
club house last Monday evening.
Prof. S. E. Shaulis is home to spend
this fall with his father.
McClellan Shanlis picked nine buckets
of berries. That is pretty good, Mc-
Clellan.
The Sunday school picnic is put off
one week. It will be held on Septem
ber 10th at Bakersville.
Miss Emlna Nedrow and Elmer were
the guests of D. P. Shaulis Sunday last.
John Pyle says he has the best trav-eler
on the road.
E. H. Nedrow says his pony works
better now than it ever did.
D. E. Ferguson has gone to Maryland
on a marriage trip. E. F. Nedrow is
talking about going, too.
Mrs. John Kooser says A. L. Fisher
peddles the best medicine she ever knew
of, stomach bitters especially.
Sunday with the latter's sister, Mrs. J.
F. McCracken, at Edenborn. Mr.
Wright is all taken up with that coun-try
down there, and bis friends have a
hard time to keep him here.
Miss Essie Ray, of Greensburg, and
Miss Laura Dean, of Hecla, were visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Laird last week.
Mr and Mrs. Win. Dean, Sr , of
Hecla. spent Sunday here with Mr and
Mrs. George Laird.
James Walker has been laid off work
for a couple of weekB with a very sore
leg.
Sandy Walker, the popnlar deliveiy
man here, is seen out driving pretty
often lately. There must be a girl in
the case.
Miss Clara Mae Walter attended the
campmeeting at Millwood on last Sun-day.
DONEGAL.
Hubbs Weimer, wife and family, of
Pittsburg, arrived here Tuesday on a
visit to relatives and old friends.
A Jones Mills special says that one of
our young society men on calling to see
his best girl the other evening asked for
the lady of the house. Better write her
name down the next time, Charlie.
Mr. Jameson, wife and two children,
of Connellsville, were here the past week
at the Donegal House.
Mrs. Abram Eichar, of Mount Pleas-ant,
is at the St. Elmo with her little
bass drummer.
Mrs. Amos Mahaney was the guest of
Seottdale friends last week.
Last spring Council passed an ordi-nance
requiring cows to be penned up at
night. Petitions are now being circu-lated
to have the order reversed.
LAURELV1LLE.
Christopher Griffith, aged about 68
years, fell on his axe Tuesday while en-gaged
in work on Herman Hamel’s saw
mill, and sustained a badly cut knee.
The directors of Bullskin township aVe
having the local school house beautified
with a new coat of paint.
Rev. Richards, of Champion, is hold
ing an interesting bush meeting in Fay-ette
Brother's grove.
Miss Carrie Showman, of Mount
Pleasant, is spending several days with
Mrs. Bungard and Mrs. Osterwise, of
this place.
We hope to hear a fair report from
the Franklin Sunday school’s chosen
delegates to the Sunday school conven-tion,
which was held at Dawson Tues-day
and Wednesday last.
Miss Milly and Albert Steigerwald,
who were visiting friends here, went
Sunday to Greensburg where they will
spend the balance of the week before re-turning
to their East End, Pittsburg
home.
Frank Brown, of Greensburg, spent
Sunday here with his friend, Daniel
Joyce.
The base ball team which was re-cently
organized played an undecided
game of an inning and a half with the
Pleasant Hill team Friday. The rain
intervened, which caused the contest to
be postponed.
We Have Often Heard This Remark:
‘ I do not want to buy a Gas Range for fear the gas plays out”
This is a penny wise and a pound foolish policy. Gits
as ft fuel has come to stay and is being more generally used
every year, and, in all probability, there will be plenty of
it to burn when we are not here to use it.
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Here is Something for you to
Consider:
V m
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At the present cost of natural gas per
thousand feet, you can save the price of
a Prizer Gas Range in a short time, over
the crude and extravagant way of burn-ing
gas or coal in the ordinary stove or
range—say nothing about the comfort,
convenience and cleanliness. If the price
was doubled,-it would be still cheaper to
burn it in a Prizer Gas Range than to
burn coal in the ordinary cook sjove.
The Prizer Gas Range is complete in all its appointments and con-tains
advanced ideas of practical worth, and great advantages to the
housekeeper, that are not found in other gas ranges.. You can bake,
roast, boil or broil to your entire satisfaction with the least cost.
Come in and let us tell you more about them.
S. B. COLVIN,
121 East Main St., Mount Pleasant, Pa.
ARRIVED!
ARMBRUST.
Mrs. James Skillen, of Monongahela,
who had been visiting friends here, re-turned
home last week.
Sam and Dick Wright are Bpending
their vacations at home, the former from
Grove City and the latter from Gra-ham,
Va.
W, A. Armbrust has left with his
prize poultry. He will attend fairs in
Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia before
returning for the Youngwood exhibi
tion.
Friday night three masked men at
tempted to break in the front door at
G. W. Rumbaugh’s home, near this
place, but they left suddenly when that
old gentleman fired his gun throngh a
panel at them.
J. L. Armbrust has been elected a di
rector and secretary of the Central Cem
etery Association to fill the .vacancy
caused by the death of pbrist Holtzer
W. D. Wright, of Wilkinsburg, made
a short business trip to our town last
week.
Harry Armbrnst left Monday for the
Kentucky oil fields, where he has secnr
ed a very desirable position.
John Armbrnst has captured the thief
which was stealing his chickens. It was
a large mink.
Mrs. J. L. Armbrust and daughter,
Miss Edna, went back to McKeesport
with Mrs. Thomas Dixon and sister who
spent two weeks here with them. The
Armbrust ladies will also visit Monon-gahela
friends before coming home.
Mrs. Thomas Hutchinson, of East
Pittsburg, who was here with her chil-dren,
took her mother along back on
Tuesday.
The condition of Mrs. John Jones,
who suffers from a growth on her face,
remains about the same.
C. E. Wright, recently appointed a
teacher in the Philippines and now on
his way there, writes back very enter
taining letters.
Plums are plentiful in this section,
selling as low as 40cents a bushel.
Luther Armbrust has returned from
Philadelphia, New York, Atlantic City
and other points of interest in the east.
TRAUGER.
Mr. John Moore was called to his
home in Armstrong county last week on
account ot the death of his uncle.
David L. White, the hustling and
obliging clerk in the local company
store, was a business caller in Greens
bnrg on Friday.
Miss Dessa Smitley, onr local store
cashier, is off on her vacation, visiting
Connellsville, Seottdale and Manor re-lations.
Billy Bailey and John Moore spent
Sunday at their Hecla home.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Wright spent last
WOODDALE.
Mrs. Bishop,iof New Castle, is spend-ing
a few days here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rhodes.
Lloyd Yothers is slowly recovering
from an attact of typhoid fever.
Play parties are pretty numerous just
now, there beingtwo Saturday evening,
one at Mrs. Tillie Glassburn’s and one
at William Freed's.
The picnic held Saturday by the Fair-view
U. B. Sunday school was attended
by a small crowd on account of the bad
weather.
Emory Pletcher, of White’s P. O.,
spent Monday and Tuesday calling on
friends here.
Prof. L. G. Chorpenning, of Indian
Head, spent a few honrs here Tuesday
calling on friends.
Engraving Free!
The engraver’s chisel commemorates on any
gift the time, occasion and name of the giver.
An engraved gift is a double gift—it gives the
article more personal value and dignity. It is a
reminder for years.
Many jewelry articles can be engraved in mon-ograms,
single letters, quotations and otherwise.
Any article purchased at our store will be engraved
FREE OF CHARGE.
Rings, Silverware, Spoons, Watches, etc., are
suitable objects for artistic engraving.
Posner’s Jewelry Store,
in their new room, one door above the old stand.
Main Street, - - Mount Pleasant, Pa.
(Continued on fifth page.)
PYNE’S.
Must Make Room
for tall Goods.
Pyne continues his Shoe Sale
for Ten Days.
All $5.00 Stetson Oxfords at $3.50
All $4.50 Walkover “ at $2.75
All $3.50 Sorosis “ at $2.75
All $3.00 Kelley “ at $2.00
A lot of men’s women’s and chil-dren’s
summer weight shoes and
oxfords at •
1-2 and 1-3 Off.
These goods must go at your
price to make room for fall goods.
PYNE’S,
711 Main st., Mount Pleasant.
More New Summer Goods,
and we can sell them to you cheaper that you can buy
the goods. Twenty-two dozen in all. Sizes 32 to 44.
Colors, blue, silver grey, red. and black and white.
Same made exclusively for us and every wrapper
bears the maker’s brand, (B. B.)
Also a lot of
Black Sateen Petticoats.
Ask to see our $1.00 one. Plenty at higher prices;
none cheaper.
Stormy Weather is with us. Call and see our
Rain Coats.
Spring styles, all new.
or
(Successor to Braddock & Co.)
Braddock|Bloch', Corner Main and Church Sts.,
*
MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
Store open Monday and Saturday Evenings. J. S. PARKER CO.
The Best of Everything, aod Lots of It.
Advance Style ot Shirts.
Elegant tailor-made garments that set the pace for
fall. Medium weight materials such as make the best kind
of shirts for early fall wear.
Nobbiest in Town. Style, quality, perfect fitting are
first consideration. Our $5 line is a marvel of beautiful
things.
IT DOESN’T PAY
To Neglect Your Eyes.
You only increase your trouble by allowing the errors
of refraction in your eyes to go uncorrected.
The eyes are very delicate in structure and when
abused, either by hard use or by careless treatment, they
soon fail to do their work and glasses are necessary.
I make a specialty of correcting errors of refraction
and feel fully confident to be able to fit you properly with
glasses.
Examination Free.
C. H. Jaquette, j } s PARKER co
Graduate Optician, j seottdale, p«.
Member Penna. State Optical Society.
SCOTT DALE. PA.
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