Mount Pleasant journal (February 23, 1905)

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CONTESTS TOR
BOROUGH PLUMS
TULL OT GINGER
Although the Republicans Got
the Lion’s Share.
A BIG LOCAL VOTE WAS POLLED
AS BOTH PARTIES HAD THEIR
WORKERS OUT IN FORCE.
The G. O. P. Landed the Auditor. Hla'll
Constable and all the First and Sec-ond
Ward Odices, but by Narrow
Maralus In Several Instances, While
the Democrats Stood Fast In the
Third and Took Everythin* In Slulit
Down That Way.
Tuesday's election in the borough wan
a warm contest and drew to the polls e
bit; vote ns both parties lmd their work-ers
out in force. There was considers
bio cutting done, especially in the First
and Second wards, which are Republl
can when noses are counted and both
went that way, although the margin
was mighty narrow in several instances.
In the First ward the light centered
on Council and Constable and the Deni
ocrats almost wiped out the Republican
majority for both ofllees, the Republi-can
candidates. Walker and Landis,
winning out by eleven and ten votes,
respectively.
Candidates for Council and School
Director had the political lime ilglit in
the Second ward where the battle was
doubtless the fiercest. It was nip and
tnck all day and while the Democrats
fell outside the breastworks, the Re-publicans
knew that they had been in a
lively scrap,
Down in the Democrt do stronghold,
the Third ward, the unterrlfled were on
the firing line at daybreak, bent on hav-ing
the scalp of David! Edwards, their
Republican conneilmati who stood for
re-election. They got it. But the re-turns
tell the whole story.
AUDITOR.
Charles F. Stoner. R 431
Thomas Tigh. I> 300
HIGH CONSTABLE.
.1. G. Thompson, R 414
John Locke, I) Ml
FIRST WARD.
COUNCIL.
Clark Walker. It 102
W. O. Lowry, It 01
CONSTABLE.
Joseph Landis, It 101
L. M. Karncy, D 01
JUDGE OF ELECTION.
M. A. King. It 131
.1. E. Criswell, 1) 00
INSPECTOR.
John T. Tarr, It 11.1
,1. S, Braddock, D
SECOND WARD.
COUNCIL.
Herbert N. Smith, It 1S1
H. S- Barkley, D 145
BOIIOOL DIRECTOR.
M. W. lloruer, It 211
Avery S. Overholt. It 104
Clarence Zimmerman, D 121
B. M. Loar, I) 140
CONSTABLE.
J.G. Thompson, It 200
W. H. McCracken, D 114
JUDGE OF ELECTION.
James Harkins, It 201
John A. Baughman, D 100
INSPECTOR.
A. B. Coeper, R lilt
W. P. Ilouderson, D 125
THIRD WARD.
' COUNCIL.
James Baldwin, D 163
David Edwards. It to:
CONSTABLE.
John Locke. It 140
W. C. Imkoff, R 124
JUDGE OF ELECTION.
W. H. Spence, D 102
H. S. Witt, R 101
INSPECTOR.
J. B Fultz. D 112
M. P. McOulley, It 110
At Greensburg the Republicans elect
ed the Borough Treasurer, two mem
bets of Council and three School Di
rectors.
At Scottdale Republicans and Demo-crats
divided the honors and defeated
the proposed $50,000 improvement bond
issue.
Mount Pleasant township Republi
cans cleaned the platter with majorities
reaching 300.
All the Democrats got out of the East
Huntingdon wreck was Geyer for School
Director. The Republicans elected
Welsh Justice of the Peace; D. L. Ruff,
School Director and Lakin and Kunkel
Supervisors.
GroBSline-Shaw,
Mr. Emil Grosseline and Miss Mabel
Shaw, daughter of Mr. Ira C. Shaw
both of this place were married at
Greensburg Saturday. The young cou
pie spent Sunday here with the bride1
father and left the next day for Mor
gantown, W. Va., where the groom
who is a glass worker, had a house all
ready for occupancy.
MOUNT PLEASANT, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, 1*A., TRURSOA Y, FEBRUARY ail, 1005.
GRIM REAPER’S
HARVTST WAS
A LARGE ONE
In Mount Pleasant and Vicinity
the Past Week.
HON. J. S. WARDEN HEADS LIST
TELLING OF SORROWING HEARTS
AND DARKENED HOMES.
HON. JAMES H WARDEN.
A PROMINENT MOUNT PLEASANT UITI-ZKN
WHO DIED AT EUHT18, FLOR-IDA.
HATU It I»A V LAST.
Courtesy of the Row Mr. Wilson.
C0KI AND COAL.
Items of Interest Gathered Prom Both
Mine and Yard.
A fall, with grip •complications, laid
William 8. Ramsay, superintendent of
the Frick company’s Morewood plant,
up for repairs part of last week.
The mine drivers at Buckeye quit
Thursday because of the appointment of
a new boss driver. Those who did not
return had their places filled with new
men.
Samuel Gordon, now in charge of a
compressed air haulage in the Salem-ville
mines of the Keystone Coal &
Coke Company, nenr New Alexandria,
was calling on old friends here yester-day.
The report of 1. G. Roby for the samo
period shows that there were mined in
the Fifth district a total of 8,685,870 tons
of coal, of which 7,1B4,026 tonB were
manufactured into coke from 12,270
ovens.
The cnr shortage is Rtill a handicap to
the coke trade. In some instances stock
coke on the yards 1ms to he moved be-fore
ovene can he drawn at all aud not
a few ovenB “around” Saturday could
not he pulled until Monday.
Not a mine in the Irwin coal district
was in operation Friday on account of
the car shortage and fully 0,000 men
were idle. Over 800 cars of coal were
moved out of that district during the
week and it is said the trainB were tied
up on the Eastern divisions of the Penn-sylvania
railroad.
A 150-foot square section of ground,
extending acrossShupe’s Run and under
the Pennsylvania railroad, dropped sev
eral feet into the Frick company’s mine,
just south of town Saturday afternoon,
shutting in a train of coke at the Stand-ard
plant until late Sunday, As loose
dirt filled the crevices, very little water
from the creek followed the break.
According to Mine Inspector Ross’
report, just issued, there were mined in
the Second Bituminous District last
year a total of 8,448.087 tons of coal,
this county’s output being 7,476,584
tons, Indiana county producing the bal-ance.
The coke output from 5,072 ovens
was 1,170,000 tons. There were 11.880
employes; fatal accidents, 38; non-fatal
accidents inside, 99.
AT 1111 M. E CnilllCH
Series of Entertainments to Begin To
morrow Evening
The Epworth League of the Methodist
Episcopal church has arranged a series
of three entertainments for Friday eve
nings, February 24, March 3 ami March
10th. The object has been to provide
high CISHS talent at popular prices
Tickets for the three events are only
fifty cents; and from the large advance
sale it would seem that those entertain
meats meet the popular demand.
Tomorrow (Friday) evening Rev. Ar-thur
Staples, D. D., president of Beaver
College, will give “An Evening with
Riley," Including a characterization of
the famous Iloosler poet, and selections
from his writings. This should appeal
directly to persons of literary tastes,
while its humor and pathos cannot but
delight any representative audience.
The concert on March 3rd consists of
vocal and instrumental selections by
Miss Revels, of the Institute, and some
of our best local musicians; also read
ings by Miss Lulu Melick, a teacher in
King’s Hchool of Oratory, Pittsburg.
On March 10th Rev. O. L. E. Cart-wright,
I’ll. D , gives his interesting
lecture “The Marblo Waitetb,” Dr.
Cartwright is at present in the fnr south
delivering this and other lectures to ap
preciatlve and delighted audiences.
NICE BUNCH OF SHOWS
MUCH MINERAL WEALTH
Said to Have Been Discovered in Ligon-ier
Valley.
Valuable mineral wealth is said to
have been recently discovered in Lig-onier
Valley by a company of 77 citi-zens
who used a diamond drill with an
expert operator. They report that the
discoveries were beyond expectations.
On the Phillippi farm, near Rector, a
core of 391 feet was taken out, there be
ing secured the cores of three veins of
coal, two veins of limestone cement
elav, a vein of limestone and an eight-foot
vein of fine roofing slate.
W. K. Egner says that at the point
where the drill ceased to work a stratum
of what is known as plumbago limestone
was encountered, and this is said to
cover a valuable vein of coal.
After Denny Oaden’s Scalp.
Prominent Republicans of the county,
who do not take kindly to Denny Og-den’s
political dictation, have persuaded
Harry Bovard, of Greensburg, to come
out for county treasurer and also indu-ced
John M. Hawk, also of the county
seat, to remain ont of the race for that
office. The only other candidate yet in
the field is Harry Rinehart, of Moaes-sen,
Ogden’s protege.
Booked for the Grand Opera House by
Manaaer Goldsmith.
Manager John B. Coldsmith has one
of his best bunch of shows engaged for
the next ten days.
That everlasting success, “Uncle Josh
Perkins”, heads the list for tomorrow
(Friday) evening.
Holden Bros.’ sensation of the cen-tury,
“The Denver Express” will follow
Monday evening.
The next night, Tuesday, “For Fair
Virginia,” will be the attraction.
The thrilling western comedy drama,
“A Struggle For Gold,” will hold the
boards on Wednesday evening, March 1
Thursday evening, March 2nd, will
bring the pleasing idyl of the Arkansas
hills, “Human Hearts.”
The GnsSnn American Minstrels will
close the week on Saturday night,
March 4th.
WATT-GIBB0NY.
Pleasant Wedding Celebrated at the
Free MethodlBt Parsonage.
Miss Mabel Gibboney, of Alice Mines,
and Mr. Edward Watt, of Rnffsdale,
son of the late Wm. Watt, formerly of
this place, were married Thursday eve-ning
last at the Free Methodist parson
age by the Rev. G. C. Wadding, in the
presence of a number of friends. After
the ceremony the company were pleas
ingly entertained with piano, violin and
vocal music. Mrs. Wadding and her
neice played the instrumental part with
the pastor sharing the vocal which was
of the sacred order. After some time
had been spent thus, the newly married
couple left for the home of the bride’i
parents at Alice Mines where they will
spend a few days before going to house
keeping at Rnffsdale.
An Expensive Mistake.
After working on the new court hou$e
at GreenBbnrg for two months, placing
the granite blocks in place, it was dis
covered Monday laBt that the wall was
placed four or five inches out of place,
The discovery will necessitate the re
moval of every stone in the rear wall
The mistake was made in the elevations
He Pnsseil Away at Eiistts, Florlila,
Where he Hail Gone la u Valu Search
lor Health. Tuo Institute Loses An-other
of Its Teachers, Prof. S. E.
Hoardiima. who Dies of Kidney Trou-ble.
William Leonard, a Well Known
Local Merchant, Is Found Dead In
Bed at His West Main Street Home.
Other Obituary Notes.
Hon. Janies S. Warden.
Hon. Janies M. Warden, a prominent
itlzen of this place, who lmd been in
ior health for several years from
stomach trouble and who went, to Enstis,
Florida, on December 20th last with his
wife aud daughter, Miss Edith, died
there at noon Hntnrday last, a few hours
after his younger son, Eugene Warden,
Esq., reached his bedside, having left
here Thursday morning upon receipt of
a message stating that his father was
worse. It seems that Mr. Warden was
benetitted for a lime by the change, but
tlie recent cold spell there brought back
his old enemy, lie suffered no pain and
tlie end came peacefully.
The little party reached here Tuesday
morning witli the body that wns laid to
rest in the cemetery yesterday afternoon
following divine services held at the
darkened South Hide home by Rev.
Howard B. Wilson, pastor of the United
I’eeRliyteriati church, of which Mr.
Warden was almost a life long member.
Mr. Wnrilon, who was in the 78th
year of his age, was of Scotch-Irish pio-neer
parentage in East Huntingdon
township. He married nn March 17,
1857, Miss Harah Jane Cunningham
who survivee with three of the six chil
(Iron born in this long and happy un-ion—
Joseph, a merchant at McCracken,
Kansas, and Miss Edith and Eugene at
home. Mrs. Jennie Andrewe, Robert
anil Edward preceded their father
to the other side. Clark Warden, of
Pittsburg, is the only surviving brother.
Mr. Warden wns engaged in farming
during the greater part, of his life, al-ways
active in everything that concern
ed the best interests of his community.
He wns a Democratic member of the
Legislature in 1879-80 and at all timee
a jovial, chrietian gentleman who enjoy-ed
a wide circle of friendB.
Prof. S. Edward Boardman.
Prof. 8. Edward Boardman. teacher
of Latin at the Institute, died Friday
evening at the hospital of kidney trouble,
aged 24 years. His mother, who was at
the time in California, on learning of
hie illness, started east at once and
reached here Wednesday morning. Fol
lowing divine services conducted by
Rev. Dr. Keieter in the First Baptist
church yesterday afternoon, the sorrow-ing
mother left with the body for Talley
Lake, near Syracuse, N. Y., where the’
interment will take place. Out of res-pect
for the memory of the young teach
er there were no clnsseR heard at the
Institute until today,
William Leonard.
William Leonard, the well known
local merchant, was found dead in bed
Monday morning at hie West Mnin
street home. He and his only daughter
arose at (1 o'clock nml lie laid down
ngain Imelde his sleeping wife, request
ing to he called at 7. It was then found
thnt he was dead, a supposed victim of
heart trouble, He was 65 yeare of age
and R member of the United Presby
terlan church, In which his, with those
of Mr. Warden and Mrs Lewis Miller,
of Pennsville, makes three deatliH dur
ing the past week. Tie carried some
$5,000 insurance in local fraternal or-ders.
Tlie funeral will take place tills
afternoon at 2:30.
NO. 8.
A FATAL CLASH ~
BETWEEN SUITORS
ATCONNELLSVILEE
hat the Girl in the Case Could
Not Prevent.
OlIARLKS E. ANDERSON KILLED
BY
Obituary Notes.
Jacob J. Spence and wife were called
to Gettysburg, Pa., Tuesday evening by
a message telling of (be death of that
gentleman's father, Jam s Spence, aged
86 years.
Mrs. IJBWIH Miller, a sister of William
A Hunter, of near this place, died at
her Pennsville home Monday night of
cancer, aged 65 years.
Amlrow'NeiHh, formerly in charge of
the II. 0. Frick Coke Company * Enter
prise plant, died at his Donnelly home
last Thursday, following a long illness
The interment took place in tlie Alver
ton cemetery Saturday.
Christopher Rchenot, for many years
proprietor of the Hough House, Smith
ton, died at his home in Castle Shannon
last Tuesday from pneumonia and grip,
lie was 48 years old and is survived by
iiis wife and eight children. Michael
Kelly, of tiiis place, and John Graf, of
Tarr, both old friends, attended-the ftm
eral Friday.
Mrs Marion Rbome died Friday at
tiie Htrickler coke works, near liecla, of
puerperal fever, aged 35 years. The
interment took place at, Greenlick Sat
urelay.
William Riley, a well known citizen
of Mount Pleasantstownship residing
near Keckstmrg, dropped dead of apo
plexy at the Mammoth hotel Sunday,
aged 78 years.
BU0NGSJT0 COUNTY.
Controller Hitohman After Flnee Iin-posed
by Justices of the Peace,
Controller John D. Hitchtnan on Fri
day laet sent a letter to all justices of
the peace, informing them that the
auditor of his office will make from
three to four trips each year over the
county for the purpose of examining the
dockets in their offices, to see that the
money properly belonging to the county
is turned over withont delay. It is es
timated that many thoneandR of dollars
have been held back.
According to the report of Controller
John H. Brown for laet year there was
returned to County Treasurer Shumaker
only $219.50. This amount was returned
| by only eight of the justices. Mr. Hitch
man thinks that in view of the fact that
there are over 100 'squires in the county
the returns should have been in a much
larger sum. It is provided by law that
in cases of summary conviction the fines
imposed shall be turned into the county
treasury, the justices retaining the costs
alone.
LOT OT TROUBLE IN OLD ABBOTT BLOCK
William Brier, When Found There by His Wife, At-tacks
Dr. D. n. Cannon, the Informant,
With a Big Knife.
THE DOCTOR USES REVOLVER OKI HIS ASSAILANT
There were lively times in the second story of the old Abbott block, on
West Main street, Monday evening when young Mrs. William Brier callec
there for her husband, who she claims has been neglecting her and her little
children. Brier, it seems, had rented a room in the block, using it first for
raffling purposes and later as a place of assignation for women and girls of
the town. Across the hall are two rooms occupied by Dr. D. M. Cannon
who has been sick and whose story as told a JOURNAL scribe is this:
“I was lying on the bed in the front room when Mrs. Brier called anc
in reply to her civil question, told her of her husband’s doings. She told him
where she got her information and it wasn’t long until Brier burst into my
rooms with a big cheese knife in his hand, threatening to kill me. He hac
already hit me on the chest several times with his fist. As he lunged at me
with the knife 1 threw up my arm, thus turning the blade whose back hit me
on top of the head and cut a deep gash. I finally got him out, but he came
back and threw the knife at me. There’s the dent it made in the door which
I threw shut. 1 shot at his arm as he threw, but missed, although he went
out when 1 aimed at his breast, telling 1 would kill him if he didn’t go at
once. I am in a bad way from a complication of heart and liver troubles.
Brier is said to have been paying marked attention to Katie Hurley,
grass widow who cooked at the Hotel Cooper. She was promptly given her
walking papers and left town early the next morning, it is alleged, in Brier
company. Dr. J. W. Shelar, who owns the block, has ordered his second
story tenants out.
HIS MORE SUCCESSFUL RIVAL.
CHARLES AUSTIN.
Austin Was Calllua oil Clara Nath
When Anderson Came for the Same
Purpose, and It Is Said That tlie Girl
Tried In Vain to Prevent the Meetlnr
That Was Followed hy a Shot From
the Pistol of Austin Who Promptly
Gave Himself Up.
A Kill’s attempt to prevent a tragedy
by sending liorsweethonrt upstairs while
siie engaged the yomiK man's rivnl in
conversation at the door proved nnavail-iriK
ntOonnellsville Monday nlKht, when
Charles Austin, 19 years old, shot and
killed Charles E. Anderson, 22 years
old. Austin is in jail at. Uniontown.
Both men weresnitors for the hand of
Miss Clara Neth, 17 vears old, daiiKhter
of Mrs. John Wilkie. Anstin was re
elved wtth the Krenter favor. Anstin
on that day was ennaged to go to work
iisa brakeman on the Baltimore & Ohio
■ailroad, and lie was to have made his
first run that night after meeting the
girl at the home of G. E. Holbrltter.
Tlie two were talking in the parlor of
the Holbrltter home at 9 o’clock, when
there was a knock at the front, door.
Miss Neth snspected that the visitor
was Anderson, and told Austin to go
upstairs for a few minutes. A moment,
later Austin heard Miss Neth trying to
persnade Anderson to leave the honse.
This Anderson angrily refused to do.
Austin then came downstairs, and when
hnlf way to the bottom fired. The bnl-let,
etruck Anderson in the shoulder,
taking a downward course and lodging
near the heart,. He died 15 minutes
later. AiiRtin went at once to the police
station, where he snrrendered. After
the key wns tnrned he broke down and
cried.
Several days before Anstin told the
police thnt Anderson wns following him
and that there wonld be trouble if it
was not stopped.
C0MFRS AND OOtRS.
Paragraphs About Prominent People
Gathered Durlnatbe Week.
Alfred J. Kohacker, of the Fair, went
east on Insiness Saturday night.
Mrs. Sadie Eaton, of Brownsville,
spent Mondny here with relatives.
Mrs. Jnlins ElkeH, of St. Louis, Mis-souri,
is here visiting her father, Hirsh
Kobacker.
Harvey Wible, of Pittsburg, now a
Westinghonse employe, spent Sunday
with old friends here.
Mrs. Minnie Ober, of Alverton, and
her son Rre spending the week here aa
guests of the former’s annt, Mrs. Will-*
lam Giles.
After performing his dnty as a good
citizen at Tuesday's polls, “Billy” Nixon,
all “partied up,” went over and spent
the day with Connellsville relatives.
Clyde Morrison, of this place, a stu-dent
at the University of Pennsylvania,
was called to Greensburg last week to
attend the fnneral of his grandmother.
Mrs. Anna Weinman.
Mrs. Will E. Shope gave a nicely ap-pointed
reception in her bank flat home
Thursday afternoon last when some
eighteen of her lady friends were hand-somely
entertained, the only out-of-town
guest being Miss Mabel Miller, of
New Haven.
Local Hospital Inspected.
Cnairman Taylor Pusey, with his four
fellow members of the Honse Appro-priation
Committee, inspected the local
hospital Friday last. They seemed very
much pleased with the institution and
could see for themselves the need of ad-ditional
room as every bed was taken
up, the management having been com-pelled
to dismiss a convalescent in order
to admit the victim of an accident. The
distinguished visitors were given a nice
luncheon at the National Hotel.
Court the Muse.
An old and valued friend of THE.
JOURNAL left two curious sticks at this
office the other day, one a sassafras and
the other a wild cherry, and both en-twined
thronghont in the bark with a
vine. He offers $3 in cash or two years’
subscription to this paper to the person
writing the best poem on the queer, bnt
pretty, growths which can be seen at
this office by contestants or any others
1 desiring to examine them.
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 33, 1005.
ALL HOPE
GIVEN UP.
William J. Byers, the Convicted Turtle
Creek Murderer, Must Pay the
Death Penalty.
GKHR FIXES MU 21 AS THE DATE,
Interesting
Features
of Medicine
By George Thomas Palmer, M. D.
XII.—America’s Contributions
T to the Science. HERE Is n certain national
pride characteristic of Ameri-cans
which leads us to feel
that whatever we undertake
we do better than any other nation of
the world. To a certain extent we are
justified In this, and to a certain ex-tent
we are In error. The American
people are a big people. They like big
things and excel in those where mere
magnitude is desired or where energy
and ingenuity will win.
The Germans do not regard us very
seriously in a medical way, and yet
they are compelled to admit that
American surgery is the most brilliant
and ingenious the world lias ever seen.
They are willing to concede that where
brilliancy is essential we are the peers
of them all. In the field of slow, labo-rious.
painstaking investigation, how-ever,
we fall below the standard of
excellence maintained by the Europenn
schools.
In the exact branches of the profes-sion—
In bacteriology, puthology, ehem
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m ro Jr
a> o >1
George M. Sternberg,
PEx-surgeon general United States army.]
lstry and internal medicine—we have
no masters in the present day whose
names are familiar to the ears of our
foreign neighbors or whose teachings
are given consideration by the Euro-pean
schools.
One reason for this Is that money is
a great consideration in America, und
a thirst for gain is always inimical to
the greatest scientific attainments.
Then the American teacher and inves-tigator
must earn his living out of ac-tive
practice when he is interested in
his study. Very few American medical
schools pay salaries to their teachers.
In Europe this is different. Every one,
from the lowest clinical teacher to the
greatest professor, is so compensated
that he can follow his scientific pur-suits
without concern os to his daily
bread.
But, whatever the causes, we must
admit that the American medical man
does not stand particularlyTiigh in the
eyes of other nations. But it Is not
the purpose of this paper to establish
the position which the American phy-sician
holds in the medical world or
to set a fair comparative value upon
his labors. Mine is merely the duty
of reciting what he has done for medi-cine
at large.
The earliest medical investigation
which America can claim was done
by Abraham Staats, a surgeon who
came to New England in 1029 to teach
his art to the colonists. Exactly .what
he did or what he taught is not a mat-ter
of record. In 1047 Dr. Giles Fir-man
opened the medical department
of Harvard, thus establishing the first
American medical school.
In 1077 Dr. Thomas Thatcher nro-pny
is characteristic or America, with
its Ingenious simplicity. I refer to tho
button by means of which a severed
intestine may in a few moments be re-united
so firmly as to make tho union
perfect. Prior to Dr. Murphy’s Inven-tion
the deaths from leakage after In-testinal
suture were extremely numer-ous,
while now they are rare indeed.
It was an American who devised the
treatment of fractures of the leg by
means of pulleys and weights, and,
great as this advance was, it necessi-tated
rest In bed for weeks. Now an-other
American lias devised a pneu-matic
splint whereby the extension of
Friends of William J. Byers, convicted of murder in the first degree for
the killing of August Layton at Turtle Creek in June, 1901, has given up all
hope of saving his life. Hvery resource of the law has been exhausted to save
him. Governor Pennypacker has set March 21 as the date for the execution.
Attorney John C. Haymaker, who was district attorney when Byers
turned states evidence, said he had kept his promise to do everything he could
to save Byers. He said lie had made no direct promise to Byers, but only an
implied one, and that such was recognized as good practice not only in this
. state but all others.
Byers, who has been in the Allegheny county jail for over two years,was
morose and did not greet his keepers after he heard that his petition had been
refused by the Board of Pardons last Wednesday. He read the fact in the
newspapers which were supplied him, and sat moodily in his cell all the rest
of the morning.
uuceu me nrsi piece or American med-ical
literature, u treatise on smallpox
and measles, and in 170(1 Philadelphia
opened the first general hospital in
America. In 1797 the first American
medical journal was published.
These events were not of interna-tional
consequence, save that they
were the groundwork of the great
American school of medtelne, which
must lie regarded as a potent factor in
(lie world of healing.
To Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse of
Harvard belongs the credit of early ex-perimentation
with vaccination, and
his reports upon the subject in 1800
Were of considerable importance.
In 1809 America contributed through
Dr. Ephraim McDowell of Danville,
Ky., her most important lesson to the
world. Although antiseptics were not
then in use and anaesthesia was un-developed,
tlds country doctor per-formed
an abdominal Incision success-fully,
removing an ovary. This wns
America’s first great contribution to
surgical science.
In 1817 Dr. Nathaniel Chapman pro-duced
the best textbook upon materia
tnedicn that the English language had
ever known, while In 1818 Dorsey of
Philadelphia tied off the iliac artery
for the first time.
To American enterprise Is due the
operation of trephining the skull in n
case of epilepsy, done In 1828 In Lex-ington,
Ky., by Benjamin W. Dudley.
This eminent surgeon wns nlso known
in Europe ns the lltliotomist of the
nineteenth century, as he had operated
on 225 bladder stone cases, with only
six unfortunate results.
In 1844 John Watson, a New Yorker,
performed the first operation of esoph-agotomy,
while three years later the
value of collodion in dressing wounds
was shown by Dr. Maynard.
Professor Bigelow of Harvard taught
the world the excision of the hip joint
(1852), while Dr. Elkanab Williams of
Cincinnati developed diseases of the
eye as a specialty, and Dr. Horace
Green was the first specialist on the
nose and throat.
In 1840 the Interest of the medical
world was aroused by the introduction
of ether as a surgical anaesthetic by
Dr. John C. Warren.
The teachings of J. Marion Sims in
diseases of women were felt the world
over, while at about the same time
Buck taught the cure of fractures of
the leg by means of extenslrgi by pul-ley
and weight, F. S. Hamilton did
valuable original work In skin graft-ing,
J. B. Wood performed the opera-tion
of removing the entire lower Jaw,
and Snyre tuught much that "was new
In regard to orthopedics.
The vulue of the works of those who
still contribute to American medicine
it is too early to determine, but Amer-ica
Is keeping her place with other na-tions
in medicine as la other lines.
In a branch closely allied to medi-cine—
1. e., dentistry—Europe has had
to turn entirely to American genius.
It Is an art which is almost entirely
mechanical and consequently particu-larly
within the range of Americans.
But one thing stands in the way of
America In winning the greatest stand-ing
In the more scientific phases of
medicine, and that Is the tendency to
rush. The German takes seven years
to cover the same ground that the
Amerlcun student must cover In four,
and the German Is willing to spend
years at problems to which the Ameri-can
will devote only days. No Ameri-can
would accomplish the work of the
painstaking German who recently
counted the hairs of the head.
But, while the foreigner is the one
who does the careful, long drawn out
investigation, it is the American’s wit
which has given him the clever de-vices
whereby this work may be prop-erly
accomplished.
Today we have in our country a
large number of men who are doing
serious work. The east has many
earnest students, among whom Osier
stands high In Internal medicine.
Sternberg, of the army medical corps,
has done valuable work.
In the west Senn, Murphy and Fen-ger
are advancing wonderfully In sur-gical
procedure.
This hasty review of what America
has done only shows what America
Is capable of doing, and It Is safe to
say that our surgery, if not our medi-cine,
will always stand far ahead of
that of any other nation.
The recent invention of John B,.Mur-
AN average of thirty poems, idyls,
refrains, etc., reach this office ev-ery
week from parties living at a
distance. While the Kicker publishes a
great deal of poetry, it is poetry written
at home by local poets. We want no out-side
contributions in this line. This ap
parent unjust discrimination is entirely
governed by circumstances. When a
local poet dashes off something good he
Or she at once canters down to this of-fice
nud hands it in for publication. We
must either publish it or be shot at.
For a year or so we preferred the
shooting; but, finding that the noise
and excitement unstrung the nerves of
the compositors and interfered with
getting out job work on time, we final-ly
accepted the poetry. It is no better
than outside poetry, but outsiders can’t
shoot at us.
The boys at Pine Hill sent us word
the other day that they had hung our
agricultural editor and wnuted to know
what should be done with the body.
We replied that our A. E. was at that
very moment sitting in the sanctum of
the office and busy with a column arti-cle,
entitled ‘‘Will the Coming Cow
Make Use pf the Cactus For Fodder?”
The boys had made a mistake. We are
not quite certain who their victim was,
but we suspect he was a naturalist
from Chicago who wrote us about four
weeks ago that he was headed this
way. M. QUAD.
Dr. P. M, Rlxey.
[Surgeon general United States navy.]
fractured legs Is regulated by a key
and the patient is permitted to walk
about within n few hours after the ac-cident.
It Is these clever devices which have
made American surgery what It Is to-day,
and this ingenuity, coupled with
careful thought and consideration,
which will make our surgery of tomor-row.
[Copyright, 1902, by Lewis D. Sampson.]
Didn't Know Any New*.
“Do you know anything new?”-was
nsked of a fanner by a newspaper man
the other day. 1
“No, guess not,” wns the reply. Then
he added, “I just came to town to send
a doctor out to my place.”
“What’s wrong out there?” was ask-ed.
“Well,” the farmer replied, “two of
the triplets are sick, my oldest boy is
down with malaria, my hired man
broke his collar bone and my nearest
neighbor fell off a load of hay and
fractured Ills right leg. You see, we
need a doctor pretty badly. Sorry
haven’t any news for you.”
“Wait a minute,” said the newspa-per
man. “I’ll go with you. You’re
full of news.” —Tarrytown (N. Y.)
News.
Is it a bum? Use Dr. Thomas’Electric
Oil. A cut? Use Dr. Thomas’ Electric
Oil. At your druggists. ,
NOTICE!
We will close out our entire line of up-to-date heavy
Shoes at very deeply cut prices.
W. L. Douglas Shoes
Patent colt, leather lined, double
sole, $4.00, now . . $3.00
Patent colt, leather lined, double
sole, $3.50, now . . . $2.75
W. L. Douglas shed water
shoes, some high cut, $3.50,
now $2,75
Box and velour calf, with or without leather lining, $3.00. now S2.75
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}GO, <( $2.35
Slow as a Wink.
Wo very often hear persons say
“quick ns u wink” when they wish to
express time tlint is very short. There
is no wonder that we use the compari-son,
for a wink lias been measured,
and it lias been carefully ascertained
that the time consumed in the opera-tion
Is four-tenths of a second in the
average Individual—that Is, two-twen-ty-
fifths of a second are consumed in
closing tho eye, four-twonty-fiftlis in
resting and four-twenty-fifths in open-ing
it again.
Winks come close to us, for we make
them and see them every day, and
there is nothing with which wo are
really familiar ttiat impresses ns ns
consuming so little time; yet, suppos-ing
we should talk to light and elec-tricity
about “quick as a wink,” they
would laugh at us—tlint is, if they
could understand us and knew how
to laugh—for, when we start our
wink, If light should start to dart
around the world it would make three
circuits of tile globe and be back in
time to see the wink completed. It
considers n wink too slow for any use.
Electricity looks with yet greater
scorn on the quickness of a wink, for
while the eyelid is closing it can girdle
the earth once, go around twice more
while it is resting and make the fifth
circuit by the time it IR open.
Arizona. Kicklets as
A Cure For the Blues
CRAWFORD SHOES.
Wax calf in button and lace, $3.50 now
Box and velour calf, with or without leather lining, $3 50 now
Crawford shed water shoes, $4.00 now
$2.75
$2.75
$3.00
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JAMES MEANS SHOES.
The Shoes with a Reputation.
Box and velour calf, $3.00 now $2.35
“ “ “ “ $2.50 now $2.00
Boys’ Shoes *n at accordingly reduced prices. Don’t wait till
your size is gone. Come early and make your selection.
You can’t afford to miss this chance.
Chas. Pross,
Biggest Head-to-Foot Outfitter for Men and Boys.
Our New Room, Main street, Mount Pleasant, Pa
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THE OLDEST, PUREST AND MOST
RELIABLE BAKING POWDER MANU-FACTURED.
NO OTHER EQUAL TO IT.
PARKER’S
HAIR BALSAM
Cleanses and beautifies the hair.
Promote! a luxuriant growth.
Never Falla to Restore Gray
Hair to its Youthful Color.
Cures scalp diseases J1 hair failing.
50c, and $1.1X1 at Druggists
FOLEYSH0NEY«'TAR
Cures Colds) Prevents Pneumonia
PYNE’S.
BIG CUT IN PRICES
OF ALL
Men’s fine Heavy Shoes.
Stetson $5.00 and $6.00 Shoes
will go at $3.50 and $4,00
Crossett $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 Shoes
will go at $2.50 and $3,25
Walkover $3.50 and $4.00 Shoes
will go at $2,50 and $3,00
Men’s $2.50 and $3.00 Shoes
will go at $|,75 and $2.00
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PYNE’S,
711 Main st., Mount Pleasant.
We only have a sale every six months
—not every month—and when we do
then look out—we do it O. K.
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THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1006.
A BOLD
ROBBERY.
Two Men Relieve J. F. Dunn, Night Tele-graph
Operator at Hickman Run, of
His Money and Gold Watch.
THE VIC* IS EIRST BOUND Ii
J. F. D^inn, the Baltimore and Ohio railroad night telegraph operator at
Hickman Hun, a block station between Broadford and Dawson, was bounds
gagged and robbed by two robbers early last Thursday morning. Dunn did
not pay much attention to the men when they came in the office, thinking
them railroad men, but after a revolver was put under his nose he knew the
men had come to rob him.
The thieves secured a gold watch and some money. Dunn managed to
release himself from his bonds and telegraphed the news to his fellow opera-tors.
An engine with armed men was sent from Connellsville, but the high-waymen
were not caught.
REDUCED RATES TO NEW OREEANS,
MOBILE AND PENSACOLA
Via Pennsylvania Railroad, Account
Mardi Gras.
On account of the Mardi Gras festivi-ties
at New Orleans. Mobile and Pensa-cola,
March 2 to 7. the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will sell round trip
ticketB to either of these places from all
stations on its lines, March 1 to 0, at
reduced rates. These tickets will be
good for return passage until March 11,
inclusive, on date of validation by agent
of terminal line at Mobile or Pensacola,
or Joint Agent at New Orleans. If
tickets are deposited with agent at
either of the above points not later than
March 11, and fee of 50 cents is paid, an
extension of return limit to March 25
may be obtained. For specific rates,
routes and stop-over privileges at south-ern
Winter resorts consult Ticket
Agents. ^ » — 1
A Night Alarm.
Worse than an alarm of fire at night
is the brassy cough of croup, which
sounds like the children’s death knell
and it means death unless something is
done quickly. Foley’s Honey and Tar
never fails to give instant relief and
quickly cures the worst forms of croup.
Mrs. P. L. Cordier, of Mannington.Ky.,
writes: “My three-year old girl had a
severe case of croup; the doctor said she
could not live. I got a bottle of Foley’s
Honey and Tar, the first dose gave quick
relief and saved her life.” Refuse sub-stitutes,
All dealers.
Her Partin*? Shot.
af
He (after the quarrel)—You will miss
me when I’m gone.
She—Yes, and I’d probably miss you
before you go if I bad anything to
throw at you.
IT CURES LIQUOR HABIT.
Orrine is the only perfectly successful
cure for the liquor habit the world has
ever known. It is better than institutes
or sanitariums, because it is nsed at
home and does not interfere with the
daily work: better than will-power, be-cause
it never fails. It strengthens the
nerves and gives good appetite, regu-lates
digestion and makes you sleep like
a child.
Orrine No. 1 will cure the hardest
drinker and destroy his craving for
drink without his knowledge, as it can
be given secretly in tea, coffee or food.
Orrine No. 2, in pill form, is for those
who wish to be cured. The cost of
either is 1# per box. Orrine has the en-dorsement
of ministers, physicians and
(prominent members of the W. C. T. U.
It is the one remedy for tlje liquor habit
that can be relied upon to cure at little
■expense and restore the drunkard to
perfect vigor of manhood. Write to the
Orrine Company, Inc., Washington, D.
C., for book on "Drunkenness,” sent
free in plain envelope. Call on C. F.
Coldsmith, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
LAST OF THE SEASON
Personally Conducted Tour to Florida
via Pennsylvania Railroad.
The last Pennsylvania Railroad tour
to Jacksonville for the present season
will leave New York, Philadelphia, Bal-timore
and Washington by special train
on February 28.
Excursion tickets, including round-trip
railway transportation and Pull-man
accommodations (on^bertb), and
meals en route on the special train go-ing,
will be sold at the following rates:
New York, $50; Trenton, $49; Philadel-phia,
Harrisburg, Baltimore and Wash-ington,
$48; Pittsburg, $53, and at pro-portionate
rates from other points.
Tickets will be good returning on reg-ular
trains until May 81.
For tickets, itineraries, and other in-formation
apply to ticket agents, or to
Geo. W. Boyd, General Passenger
Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadel
phia. ^ 1
Winter coughs are apt to result in
consumption if neglected. They can be
soon broken up by using Foley’s Honey
and Tar. All dealers.
Afraid of Widow,.
She—And you say you want to mar-ry
me?
He—Yes, I do.
“Well, you must ask by mother first.”
“But suppose she accepts me!”—
Yonkers Statesman.
Man of HIR Word
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Coughs and colds, down to the very
borderland of consumption, yield to the
soothing healing influences of Dr. Wood’s
Norway Pine Syrup.
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Physician—Why don’t you settle that
account I have against you? You said
when I was treating you that you could
never repay me for my efforts.
Mr. Broke—And I meant It.
Kidney complaint kills more people
than any other disease. This is dne to
the disease being so insidious that it
gets a good hold on the system before it
is recognized, Foley's Kidney Cure will
prevent the development of fatal disease
if taken in time. All dealers.
Only one remedy in the world that
will at once stopitchineBS of the skin in
any part of the body; Doan’s Ointment.
At any drug store, 50 cents.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
L. S. RHOADES,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE & NOTARY PUBLIC.
All kinds of legal papers prepared and exe
cuted. Collecting a specialty.
Office 1109 Main Street. Mount Pleasant
Dr. CLAUDE W. HcKEE,
SPECIALIST.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat,
Office Hours: 8 to 10 a. m..?lto8and 7to8p,m.
Bell ’phone 68. Boyd Building.
SUOTTDALE, PA.
S. C. Stevenson,
NOTARY PUBLIC,
DEAL ESTATES INSURANCE,
4*7 MAIN ST„ MOUNT PLEASANT.
JSJ A. OORT,
ling Ei
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office adjoining Eagl treet residence,
McGEARY & HARSH,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
McOausland building. \VestOtteiman St.,
Greensburg.
EUGENE WARDEN,
■ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
208 Main street, Greensburg.
Braddock Block, Mount Pleasant.
JOHN D. McCALEB,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Foreign Exchange.
SHIP TICKETS to and from Europe
by best lineB.
Main street, opp. Citizens National Bank,
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
GREGG & POTTS.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Barclay Building, Greensburg.
Foley’s Honey and Tar cures the
cough caused by attack of la grippe. It
heals the lungs. All dealers.
Largest, Oldest and Leading
Jewelry Douse
It. C. MORRISON,
653 Main Street.
Money—time—labor—worry—all are
saved by coming to this place to buy
anything in my line.
Diamonds
and other precious stones.
Watches
for men and women—best makes.
Jewelry
in most elaborate selections.
Silverware
only most dependable qualities.
Clocks
from the smallest to the largest.
Cut Glass
exquisite and exclusive designs.
China and Bric-a-Brac
The finest imported wares.
Umbrellas and Canes.
H. C. MORRISON,
F, Ac M. Bank Bid?. Mount Pleasant.
DR. C. L. SHEPPARD,
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN.
All diseases successfully ireated without the
use of knife or drugs.
Special attention given to diseases of the
Nervous System.
Office and residence 443 Main street, Mount
Pleasant, Pa.
J. LLOYD KALP,
(Successor to W. A. Kalp.)
Real Estate and Insurance Agency.
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Clothing Sale!
A legitimate clearance in all departments. You don’t need to take our word
for it merely—select the Suit or Overcoat you like and pay us exactly two-thirds
the regular price." You know Dillon & Sherrick’s standard for style—simply
THE BEST the market affords. Quality is the first consideration in this estab-lishment.
Nobbiest Materials—Nobbiest Styles—Snappiest Effects.
$20 Suits and Overcoats now $13-33
$15 Suits and Overcoats now $10.00
$7.50 Suits and Overcoats now $ 5-oo
$5.00 Suits and Overcoats now $ 3-33
Too many high-priced goods on hand, hence
this awful sacrifice.
©ENTLEMEN
MADE BY
^ SCHLVSS BROS LL, CO
FINE CLOTHES MAKERS)
ALL RAINCOATS
NOW ONE-THIRD OFF.
ALL FANCY VESTS
NOW ONE-THIRD OFF.
Hadras Shirts Third Off
Choice now 67c. (Were $1 00 and $1 50
each). Many handsome patterns to select
from.
Hen’s Hose i8c, were 25c.
Men’s Derbies 90c
Good shape—the regular #2.00 kind to
be closed out at 90c.
$1.00 to $1.50 Mufflers now 75c,
Dillon & Sherrick,
Outfitters to Particular People,
Zimmerman Block, Main street, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
833 East Main street, Mount Pleasant,
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
OF MOUNT PLEASANT, #A.
Capital Stock $100,000
John D. Hitchman, President.
G. W. Stoner,Vice President and Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
J. S. Hitchman, J. D. Hitchman,
H. W. Stoner, Wm. B. Neel,
J. O. Orownover, Jos. R. Stauffer.
S N. Warden, C. \V. Stoner.
Isaac Sherrick.
Particular attention given to collections, and
proceeds promptly settled.
Care and
Ability....
These are two qualifications
without which the druggist
would become a menace to any
community. We aim to exercise
both in the compounding of all
medicines and the putting up of
all prescriptions,
Using Only Pure Drugs.
Farmers & Herchants
^NATIONAL BANK>
OF MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
CAPITAL STOCK. - $50,000.00.
Surplus and Undivided Profits, - $25,000.
OFFICERS:
R. K. Hissem, President,
C. E. Mullin, Cashier
DIRECTORS:
R. K. Hissem, Abraham Ruff,
Frank D. Barnhart, E. T. Fox,
8. R. Ruff, L. S.Tlnstman,
S. P. Zimmerman. O. E. Mullin,
M. M. BYBPS.
It*s a Habit when using STEVENS
ARMS—hitting BnU’s-Eyes and bringing
down your game. All requisite firearm vir-tues
are embodied in our famous line of
RIFLES, PISTOLS and SHOTGUNS. How can
you help hitting the mark when shooting a
STE.VE.NS?
Ask your dealer and In-sist
on our products. If
you cannot obtain the
STEVENS, we ship di-rect,
express prepaid
ii|>on rcccfiit of price.
Send 4 cents Postage for
new 140 page illustrated
STEVENS book; de-scrihcs
entire output, all
additions; hints on shoot-ing,,.
ammunition, etc.
Handsome cover design
by A. Ii. Frost,
“ IT CAN BE DONE!”—that new and attractive
puzzle of ours, but will keep you guessing until you
solve it. Try your luck these evenings. It’s free.
Semi for it.
F STEVEHS ARMS AN0 T00L CO.
P. O. BOX 4001
CHICOPEE FALLS, MA88. U. 8. A.
In addition to this we believe
we have as complete a line of
TOILET ARTICLES
as can be found in the town and
these goods—everything needed
by either ladies or gentlemen—
will speak for themselves when
given a close inspection, which
is all we ask.
M. A. BOWMAN,
West Main st., Mutual ’phone 56
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
GREAT OPPORTUNITIES
SUPPLY CO, STORES,
J.W. Swartz
has the agency for the
Greatest Gas Burner
in the world.
One-half More Light,
One-half Less Heat,
than other 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,
GO TO
Mount Pleasant.
HARY SWARTZ
for Millinery.
Clearance Sale Continued.
With stock taking this month every store, every section in
each store, has for the time being forgotten the cost of its mer-chandise.
Odd lots are disposed of, lots that are to be discontin-ued
are let go at prices that will bring crowds of people to our
stores in a hurry.
Women’s and Girls’ Garments
That are Just a Little Mussed.
New, fresh goods, fashionable, are being sold at half their
value. Step into any one of our stores and see. We are putting
prices on these goods that must sell them, so that nothing must
be carried over to our new business year. The women know about
the bargains and they are after them.
Great Bargains in
Furniture and Bedding.
Spring time coming—time now to look after furniture. We
have more stock in most any one of our stores than some exclu-sive
furniture dealers have; it is one of our strongest departments.
We have brass, white enameled and all kinds of wooden beds.
Mahogany, Birds-eye Maple and Golden Oak Bureaus, Chiffoniers,
Tables, Chairs and Davenports. The selection is large and the
prices reduced in some instances one-half.
The Great Clearance Sale Includes
every line of goods we handle—something special in each depart-ment.
We cannot specify; merely the announcement of a Clear-ance
Sale in our stores is evidence of bargains. This month the
offerings are going to be better, greater than they were in January.
The Model Grocery Department
also has bargains. We always have them. Any time of the year
you visit our grocery or fresh meat departments you will find the
choicest goods that the market can produce, and you will always
find us lower in price than you can get same goods elsewhere.
Union Supply Company.
52 LargevDepartment Stores 52
in Fayette, Westmoreland and Allegheny Counties.
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THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1905.
©he<Pount peasantJournal
JOHN L. SHIELDS. PUBLISHER.
Mount Pleasant Is situated In the heart of
the Great CJonnellsvllle Coke Region, has a
population of over 5.000; while, with offices
ourroundlng within a radius of three miles
the postoffice distribution Is 15,000. A new 84
pot tableware glass factory, the finest In this
country and employing over 400 hands, is In
raccessful dally operation.
SUBSCRIPTION J1.50 per year, payable In
advance.
ADVERTISING RATES will be furnished
OB application.
JOB PRINTING of evory kind with the
beet workmanship and best material.
THURSDAY. February 23. 1905
RIGHT TO THE POINT.
THE JOURNAL notes with no little
pleasnre the disapproval of a county
bridge contract by Jndge McConnell.
The agreement thus annuled was that
made by Commissioners Earnest and
Mowry with the Nelson and Buchanan
Bridge Company, of Chambersbnrg.Pa.,
allowing the latter $8,130, with the
privilege of charging for additional
work, to erect a bridge over Fonr Mile
Run, in Ligonier township, near Nicelys
mill, and to move the bridge now in use
at that point and place it across Four
Mile Run near Bethel church, in Cook
township.
It may-not be true, as alleged, that
the commissioners named have enjoyed
nice little ontings at the expense of this
company, but it cannot be denied that
the "chummy” ways they have long had
with the Franklin county bridge build
era give good ground for just such sus-picion.
The judicial bait called is,
therefore, right to the point.
It might also be said that Jndge Mc-
Connell’s action in this matter, espe-cially
at this time, on the eve of his
candidacy for re-election, is poor poli-tics;
but, we do not think so, nor do we
believe that he allowed such thoughts
to bother him when considering the
gTeat need of reform in county bridge
building. If proof of this claim is need
ed the vigorous manner in which he re
cently took the new court house bull by
the horns certainly furnishes sufficient
evidence.
Our esteemed old friend could very
easily have side-stepped both these im-portant
questions. But, that isn’t his
way of dealing with disputed legal
points; he has opinions, hands them
down and the beauty about it all is
that they stand just as well in the Su-preme
Court as they do in Westmore-land’s
temple of justice. Stick a pin
Tight here: There is no lawyer at the
Greensburg Bar who, as an opponent,
could get close enough in the next judi
cial campaign to smell Judge McCon-nell's
smoke; provided, of course, that
Alex uses the weed.
RUSSIA’S EVIL GENIUS REMOVED.
Within the walls of the far famed
Kremlin palace at Moscow and almost
underneath the historical tower from
hioh Ivan the Terrible watched the
eads of his enemies falling beneath the
ax on the famous Red square, and within
a stone’s throw of the great bell of Mos-cow,
Grand Duke Sergius, uncle and
brother-in-law of Emperor Nicholas,
and the chief of the reactionaries, met
a terrible death Friday afternoon.
The deed was committed by a single
Terrorist, who threw beneath the car-riage
of the grand duke a bomb charged
with the same high power explosive
which wrought Minister Von Plehve’s
death. The missile was packed with
nails and fragments of iron, and its ex-plosion
tore the imperial victim’s body
to ghastly fragments, which strewed the
snow for yards around. Every window
in the great lofty facade of the palace
of justice was shattered, and bits of iron
were imbedded deeply in the walls of
the arsenal a hundred yards awav. The
assassin, who, although himself wound-ed
by the explosion, tried to escape, but
was promptlv arrested, glories in his
horrible deed.
The result of the removal of Grand
Dnke Sergius, who was known as "Rus-sia’s
Evil Genius,” is a question that
time alone can tell. The tone of the
Russian press, although censured, of
course, leads to the hope that better
things are in store for the downtrodden
people of that country.
panies from entering the field to com-pete
for the Kansas oil trade. Also that
there exists a conspiracy between the
Standard company and the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad to pre-vent
other parties from handling oil or
purchasing oil in Kansas.
In support of these charges are sub-mitted
facts and figures from the books
of I. N. Knapp, in his office at Chanute,
Kan., which show that $18 per car for
oil was charged from Chanute to Kan-sas
City, while the rate on a car of
stock, cattle or hogs was $25.50 and on
a car of strawberries was but $30. In
June, 1904, notice was given that on
August 15, 1904, the rate on crude oil
would be raised to 17 cents per hundred
pounds in carload lots from Chanute to
Kansas City—an increase of 70 percent.
And the Standard’s pipe line to Kansas
City was completed about August 15,
1904.
It has always been claimed—in fact,
it is a common belief, if not a well
known fact, —that the Standard Oil Com-pany
has flourished like the proverbial
green bay tree and has been able to
strangle the life out of every competi-tor
solely by means of rebates got from
the railroads. And is not the same true
of the beef, steel, coal and other trusts?
The railroads are, by means of the rebate
system, the real fo9tersof trusts and the
deadly enemies of the “little fellow” in
nearly every line of business. But the
President’s "square deal for every man
can be secured by wiping out that per-nicious
system.
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will have a better opinion of you if
your letters are written on good sta-tionery.
No matter whether it is love
or business of which you write,
Good Stationery Pays.
The best place to get it is right here.
We have all the correct papers for
both social or business.
Visiting Cards Engraved.
Your name printed on 50 cards from
a copper plate engraving for $1.00.
No other kind is good form. Sam-ples
free.
RUTHERfORD’S BOOK STORE,
Scottdale, Pa.
SION Of THE CROSS.
Items of Special Interest to Local
Church Goers.
After a course of skilful treatment by
Dr. W. A. Marsh, Rev. S. G. Yahn, of
the Church of God, has recovered from
his throat trouble and is filling his pul-pit
as usual.
The elaborate program of exercises
arranged for the installation of Rev. R.
C. Carr as paBtor of the Second Baptist
chnrch, published in fnll in these col
limns, was brought to a successful close
Sunday. Rev. W. W. Boone, a former
pastor, preached at 11:30 a. m. At the
close of the discourse Brother L. R.
Wilson introduced the new minister
when letters of congratulations from old
friends at Waynesboro, Virginia, were
read by Miss Lillie Meggs, the chnrch
clerk. At 3 p. m. Rev. C. W. Haines,
pastor of the First Baptist church, de-livered
the charge to the pastor. Rev.
J. T. Moore, of the Scottdale A. M. E.
Zion chnrch, was the next speaker.
Following the reading of a commnnica
tion from the Ministers' Union at Dan-ville,
Virginia, by Deacon S. H. Dan-dridge
were addresses by James S
Braddock and Rev. Simmons, of the
local A. M. E. Zion church. In the eve-ning
the principal speakers were Will-iam
McAbee, C. W. Alexander, George
Thompson, J. S. Wilson and Archy
Hickerson with Sisters Eliza Boone,
Maggie Rhodes, Daisy Coy, Sallie
Thompson and Eliza Turner. The col-lection
made up by members and friends
to cover Rev. Carr’s expenses in bring-ing
his wife and family here from Vir
ginia amounted to $137.50.
There will be no service on Sunday
morning next at the First Reformed
church as the pastor, Rev. W. H. Tus-sing,
will be at St. John’s. The evening
subject wiil be; “Grieving* the Spirit.”
GREAT TRUST FOSTER.
Congress and the administration have
joined hands looking to a thorough in-vestigation
of the oil business, which is
without doubt one of the most fertile of
the trust fields. That great monopoly
is not named, but the Standard Oil
Company is the one that will be put in
the government’s sweat box to the en-tire
satisfaction of the common people
of the whole country in common and to
the delight of Kansans in particular.
They charge that the Standard Oil
Company has endeavored to secure a
monopoly of the oil business of that
state from the beginning of its develop-ment;
that it has prevented other com-
INDIAN HEAD.
M. D. L. Brooks, of Connellsville,
paid his mother here a visit over Sun-day.
Bert Porch, of Kecksburg, was a caller
at this place last week.
John Davis and his annt, Mrs. G. W.
Pritts, of Prittstown, were visiting re-latives
here last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Cramer were vis-iting
at Jones Mills Sunday last.
We wish to say to the correspondent
from this place last week that some of
the people classed as seriously ill are
well.
Big meeting is still in progress at Mt.
Zion, conducted by Rev. Dehaven.
Mrs. John Solomon is very ill at
present.
S. G. Lohr, of White, was at this
place over last Sunday.
Mrs. William Miller is slowly recov-ering
from an attack of typhoid fever.
Ira Craig has gone to work at farming
near Pleasant Unity.
Mrs. Joseph Berg is ill of rheumatism.
Mrs. Samuel Pritts is confined to her
bed with stomach trouble,
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Myers, of Cham-pion,
were visiting the latter’s mother,
Mrs. Berg, last Friday.
Change of Occupation.
Will E. Shope, the clever bookkeeper
at the Citizens National Bank, whose
resignation was noted in these columns
last week, will leave tomorrow for Mt.
Union, Pa., where he has been made
the manager of a keg stave factory. He
leaves a host of friends here whose best
wishes will follow him and his to their
new home. His wife and little daugh-ter
will remain here with relatives for
a month before joining him.
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REMODELING SALE
After remodeling THE FAIR our present room will
be taken up with an exclusive line of ladies’ ready-made
garments and dry goods; also will have the room now occu-pied
by Reichman Bros, for an exclusive Clothing, Gents’
Furnishings and Shoe store. The second floor also will be
turned into a part of our store where Mattings, Rugs and
House Furnishings will he kept.
Now to clear our shelves and counters to give room
for the carpenters. Cut prices will do it, so now take a
straight line to The Fair and see what might interest you.
Washlngton's Directions
to his officers were always clear
and explicit. So are the direc-tions
on every
BOTTLE OF MEDICINE
or toilet preparation we sell.
Follow them carefully and you
will get the benefit you expect,
for the articles themselves are
the best obtainable, even if our
prices are the lowest. Prescrip-tions
are given special care.
Crystal Pharmacy.
C. F. Goldsmith.
646 Main St. Mount Pleasant, Fa.
50c corset covers 29c
Apron ginghams, the best quality,
such as Dresden, in the nicest
light and dark colors, now per yd 5c
Calicoes in the best colors, light
and dark, the best makes, such as
Wm. Simpson, and indigo blues.
The best 6c quality now on sale
at, per yd 5c
50c golf gloves now on sale at 25°
A Great Muslin Under-wear
Sale.
All %5 and $6 Coats, $2,00
Children’s $5 Coats at $2.00
New
Premi-ums
Just
Arrived
New
Premi-ums
Just
Arrived
Everything for Everybody. Always the Cheapest.
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ARE YOU INTERESTED
in the fact that until March ist you can select any winter Suit or
Overcoat in our store for either
Man, Boy or Child
Exactly One-Half the Regular Price ?
Will it pay you to buy now? Of course it will. Wear it for the next
two or three months, then put it away and have a good suit or overcoat
for next winter. Can you invest a little money to any better advantage?
Have Your Pick of Any
$10.00 Suit or Overcoat for only $ 5,00
$12.00 Suit or Overcoat for only $ 6,00
$15.00 Suit or Overcoat for only $ 7,50
$18.00 Suit or Overcoat for only $ 9,00
$20.00 Suit or Overcoat for only $10,00
$22.00 Suit, Overcoat or Rain Coat for only $ ||,00
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dise rather than pack the goods away until next winter. It will pay i
you to buy now when you buy at one-half the regular price. j
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THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1906
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 Hiffh Carnival and Works off his
Surplus Energy in Condensations
ThatDeal Solely with Matters Relating
to Mount Pleasant
Connellsville parties will open a de-partment
store in the Wade block
April 1st.
Clyde Yothers has succeeded W. E.
Shope as bookkeeper at the Citizens
National Bank.
The regular meeting of the Hospital
Aid Society will be held Tuesday after-noon
at 3 o’clock.
Washington’s Birthday was observed
here yesterday by the public schools,
Institute, banks and postoffice.
Thieves broke into W. H. Smith &
Son’s hardware store Sunday night,
taking a lot of revolvers and razors.
Elmer Miller, one of the young clerks
in Strickler's store, is still very ill of
rheumatism at his Eagle street home.
Orrin Zuek, who had a rough tnssel
with appendicitis, was able to resume
his place in the postoffice Saturday.
Andrew Vansash, the Hecla foreigner
who had both legs broken by a fall of
slate, died at the hospital here Saturday.
Friends of John D. Leonard, of the
West End, will regret to learn that he
is having a serious time with the grip
which has affected his legs.
Mrs. Charles Arnold, an Alice colored
woman, was brought to the hospital
Saturday suffering from severe burns
caused by a fall on a hot stove.
The music pupils of Miss Eva Andrew
gave two nice recitals at that lady’s
South Church street studio yesterday,
the hours being 3 and 7 o’clock.
The Foreign Missionary Society re-ceived
some $26 at its free will offering
in the Re-Union Presbyterian church
Tuesday evening. Light refreshments
were served.
An agent distributing free samples of
some patent medicine here Saturday
was followed up by two boys who got
the bottles from door steps and porches
almost as soon as he left them.
A pension of $10 a month, with back
pay from 1898, has just been granted
Captain James A. Loar, of this place,
for disabilities sustained while with the
Tenth Pennsylvania regiment in the
Philippines.
Andy Borviak. a Pole, fell down the
“B” shaft at Morewood, some 70 feet,
early Saturday morning and escaped
with a compound fracture of the left
leg that will lay him up in the hospital
for some time.
The oyster supper for the benefit of
the local firemen was successfully open
ed in the new Goldsmith block last eve
ning and will be continued tonight
The boys are in everyway deserving.
Help them along.
A few lines of local in last week’s
JOURNAL got Company E that much
needed bookcase, a present from Gibbs
& King, to whom Captain Loar desires
to thus publicly express the gratitude of
himself and men.
The benefit ball for the High School
base ball team, given in McElwee’s Hall
last Thursday yvening, was not a finan
cial success. The boys are not, however,
discouraged and will try some other
means to raise the cash needed for
proper equipment.
Rev. Way Reynolds, son of the late
Rev. N. L. Reynolds, formerly of this
place, preached a fine discourse in the
First Baptist church Sunday while on
his way to Washington, Pa, He will
be his father’s successor at Wellsboro,
Pa., on April 1st.
Judge McConnell Sits Down Hard on a
Bridge Contraot.
In court at Greensbnrg Monday Judge
McConnell disapproved of a contract
entered into by George M. Earnest and
D. A. Mowry, two of the Westmoreland
county commissioners, with the Nelson
Buchanan Bridge Company, of Cham
bersbnrg. Under the terms of the con-tract
the bridge company was to erect a
bridge over Four Mile Run, in Ligonier
township, and to move the bridge now
in use at that point and place it across
Four Mile Run, near Bethel church, in
Cook township. The contract price was
to be $8,130, together with allowance for
additional work. The signature of
Commissioner Hugh Price does not ap-pear
on the contract.
Judge McConnell also commented at
some length upon the very great need
of some decided reforms in the matter
of bridge building.
BIG BAIL ASKED.
Judge McConnell Fixes Mr6. Kennedy’s
Surety at $7,000.
Mrs. Margaret Kennedy, of New Ken-sington,
wifeof James C. Kennedy,who
is in jail at Greensbnrg charged with
complicity in the killing of Howard M.
Ebner, whom her husband shot at New
Kensington on February 4, was given a
habeas corpus hearing before jTndge
McConnell Friday.
Bail was fixed at $7,000, much more
than the prisoner expected, and she ex-pressed
doubt of her ability to give bond
for that amoune. It was contended that
Mrs. Kennedy, while she knew of her
husband’s threats against the murdered
man, did not believe him to be in
earnest. Her father, however, secured
the bail and she was released Monday.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Subjeot to the Deolelon of the Republi-can
Primary Election. Saturday,
April 16, 1906.
For Recorder of Deeds.
JAMES H. GALLAGHER,
Of New Alexandria.
LONG LELT NEED
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.
FOR SALE:—Bargain for a quick
buyer—Fine farm of 40 acres in Mount
Pleasant township, with good house,
barn and all necessary outbuildings;
known as the old Mnhlenburg farm.
Call on premises or address George H.
Barkley, Mount Pleasant. 2 23 3
REDUCED RATES TO WASHINGTON
Via Pennsylvania Railroad, Account
Inauguration of President
Roosevelt.
On account of the Inauguration of
President Roosevelt on March 4, the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
sell round-trip tickets to Washington,
March 2. 3 and 4, good for return pass-age
until March 8, inclusive, from Har
risburg, Pittsburg, Oil City, Erie, Buf-falo,
Canandaigua, Williamsport,
Wilkesbarre, Mt. Carmel, and interme-diate
stations, at rate of single fare,
plus 23 cents, for the round trip. De-posit
of ticket with Joint Agent at
Washington on or before March 8 and
payment of fee of $1.00 will secure ex-tension
of return limit to leave Wash-ington
on or before March 18. For spe
cific rates and full information apply to
ticket agents 2 16 3t
All the late patterns in parlor suit and
lounge coverings at Cox's, Church street.
Both phones. 2 16 tf
WANTED:—A dining room girl at
Finch & Duncan’s Church street restan
rant. 2 16 tf
Over Nineteen Hours Saved
To Mexico City. Double daily through
Pullman Car Service from St. Louis via
The Iron Mountain Route, Texas &
Pacific Ry., International & Great
Northern R. R., and National R. R. of
Mexico. The most scenic route to the
Capital of Old Mexico. For rates and
descriptive pamphlet address Jno R
James, C. P. A., $515 Bessemer Building,
Pittsburg, Pa. 2 9 tf
FOR SALE;—A slightly used piano
Will sell at a sacrifice. Inquire at this
office or write P. O. Box 223, Mount
Pleasant. 11 17 tf
FOR SALE:—A High Grade Motor
Bicycle, made by the Pope people. It
is a Rambler wheel, 15 horse power and
practically as good as new. Can be seen
at this office. Bargain for a quick
buyer. ^ 2 23 tf
Mothers can safely give Foley’s Honey
and Tar to their children for coughs and
colds, for it contains no opiates or other
poisons. All dealers.
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. Copies sent free by
E. L. LOMAX, G. P. & T. A., U. P. R
R. Co., Omaha, Neb., on receipt of four
cents postage.
Strange Disease.
Physicians are puzzled over the case
of the fonr-month-old child of Nickolas
Venoila, of Dunbar, which died last
Thursday. The child was perfectly well
until the first of the week, when a black
spot was noticed on the forehead. The
spot gradually spread until the whole
face became black.
FOR SALE:—A one-horse Ft. Pitt
wagon and one set of express harness,
both practically new. Inquire at this
office.
FOR RENT:—A good 6 room dwelling
house with all modern conveniences on
Eagle street. Inquire at this office.
10 27 tf,
Two LOTS FOR SALE:—One on Vine
street and the other on Center avenue
East End Terrace, ‘the latter having a
stable erected thoreon. Inquire of J. G
White, Mount Pleasant. 12 1 tf
Good. Goode Cheap.
J. B. Coldsmith, who bought the en-tire
Weimer Btock of glass and queens
ware, is selling these good goods at
greatly reduced prices. This special
offer will be of short duration. 1 5 tf
Foley’s Honey and Tar is best for
croup and whooping cough, contains no
opiates and cures quickly. Caneful
mothers keep it in the house. All dealers.
How these Articles Appear After They
Have been Boiled Down Into Short
Paragraphs That Speak to the Point
But Briefly of Interesting Events
Transpiring in the Old Star of the West
Dr. J. C. Miller, of Jeannette, was
committed to jail Sunday, charged with
disorderly conduct.
Congressman Huff has secured an ap-propriation
of $23,000 for a site for a
public building in Greensburg.
The Jeannette National Bank at Jean-nette
has beeh merged with the Jean-nette
Savings and Trusl^Company.
Seville Custard, of Smithton, was
probably fatally burned Sunday, her
clothes catching fire at an open grate.
Gregory Smith was killed by a fall of
slate in a coal mine at Larimer Monday.
He was 23 years old and was unmarried.
Emma Lester, four yearn old, was
burned to death at Jeannette Friday,
her clothes catching fire from an open
grate.
The county commissioners are arrang-ing
to give Greensbnrg a town clock
which will be placed in the tower of the
jail.
John Snssa and Ignaps Susco, both
single foreign miners, were killed by
falls of slate Thursday, the former at
United and the latter at Marguerite,
The Pennsylvania railroad people will
spend twenty-three millions of dollars
this year for engines and freight cars
for their lines east and west of Pitts
burg.
John Henry Denner, of Youngwood,
and Miss Pearl R. Trout, of Hunker,
were married Thursday morning by Dr.
E. J. Knox at the Greensburg Methodist
Episcopal parsonage. (
Solomon Smail, a well known farmer
of Delmont, committed suicide Monday
by shooting himself in the head. He
was about 63 years old, and leaves a
wife and several children.
F. S. Clark and Edna Divins were ar-rested
at Scottdale last Wednesday and
taken back to Punxsntawney where the
former is charged with a statutory of-fense
against the girl who is under 16
years of age.
Frank Rushnick. Sr., a driver for the
Crescent Brewing Company at Manor,
while driving across the Pennsylvania
railroad tracks there Saturday, was
struck by an express train and instantly
killed with one of the horses.
Jacob Farr, one of the oldest citizens
of Georges township, Favette county,
and a veteran of the Mexican war, has
been held for court on a statutory charge
preferred by John Braddee, on behalf of
his 14-year-old daughter, Elizabeth.
A fire that started in the basement of
the Rhodes & Bradley building at Scott-dale
last Wednesday morning did about
$300 damage. The firemen experienced
considerable difficulty in securing a
water supply owing to frozen fireplugs
The residence of James Tunycliff at
Hermienie waB entered by burglars last
Wednesday night. The thieves chloro-formed
the entire family and were not
interrupted while they ransacked the
residence. They took some silver and
$125 in cash.
J. S. Roadman, a well-known citizen
of Stahlstown, was found dead in his
stable Thursday. He left the house in
his usual health and a half hour later
was found dead. Heart disease was the
cause. He wap 75 years old and is sur-vived
by a wife and family.
Mrs. Catherine Sailor Brown died at
her home in Nicholson township, Fay-ette
county, last Thursday as the result
of her clothes catching fire from an open
grate. Her husband, Andrew Brown,
a stock dealer, disappeared over 60 years
ago and was never heard of, althongh
she never gave up hope of his return.
CORPORATIONS CLASH.
Strickler’s Store.
1854-1904,
Wanted Cottons.
Long Cloths I2%c, 15c, 20c, 25c per yd.
Sheetings, bleached and unbleached, 9-4, 10-4, in
best makes.
Pillow Tubing and Pillow Case Muslin.
Percales, Cambrics, Bates’ Seersuckers, Ging-hams,
Calicoes, Muslins in best makes—reliable goods
that you can depend on to give good service.
White Waistings
Neat designs in mercerized Madras and dotted
Swisses, 25c, 35c, 40c, 50c and upwards.
NEW NECKWEAR, 25c and 50c.
Mohairs.
Sales increasing in these desirable dress goods.
Browns, blues, reds, greys, black, whites.
Cloth Waists.
Broken lines at prices to make quick clearance.
Main street and Diamond Square, MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
Indian Creek Water and Railroad Peo-ple
Ready to Fisrht.
Employes of the Indian Creek Rail-road
Company and the Mountain Water
Supply Company are standing guard on
contested ground along Indian Creek,
Fayette county.
Both concerns are chartered under the
laws of the state of Pennsylvania. The
railroad company is surveying a line
that passes through the basin of the
water company. The water company
is trying to prevent the railroad from
crossing its possessions. A serious clash
is looked for.
Opener
For people in need of Clothing, Gents’
Furnishings or Shoes.
Big Discount until February
40 per cent, off on all our Clothing and
Gents’ Furnishings that embrace everything
in the wearing line for men and boys. 25
per cent, off on Shoes, of which we have
full lines for men, ladies and children.
Overcoats.
$15.00 Overcoats now
$11.00 Overcoats now
3.00 Overcoats now
$9.00
$6.60
$4.80
Suits.
$14.00 Men’s Suits now
$12.00 Men’s Suits now
.00 Men’s Suits now
$8.40
$7.20
$4.80
Remember that all Underwear, Neckties, Col-lars,
Cuffs and the like have also been reduced
40 per cent.
260 pairs Men’s $2.25 to $3.50 Pants now $|,69
The latest and best $1.00 Shirts now only 60c-
Shoes to Fit Everybody.
Don’t forget that we have ’em, whether the Just
Right at $3.50 for men or the $2.50 Perfection^
for ladies, or any of the cheaper grades, and that
we have reduced prices on all shoes 25 percent.
A Faithful County Officer.
Recorder of Deeds James H. Gallagher
is out as a candidate on the Republican
ticket in this county to succeed himself,
having, as the county chairman, fixed
his party’s primary on Saturday, April
15. “Jimmy,” as everybody calls him,
has proved himfelf to be a faithful and
competent official and it looks as if re-nomination
will come to him without
opposition.
LEVINSON,
Opera House Block,
THE NEW STORE.
Main Street, Mount Pleasant,
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1905.
A BOGUS
COIN PLANT
Discovered at Irwin by Burgess Rodgers
Who Reports the Find to Secret
Service Agents.
RESULT IS HE ARREST Of TW SUSPECTS
A counterfeiters’ den was found at Irwin last 1 hursday and two of the
alleged operators, John Lewis, one of the men held for car robbing there, and
Larry Barnhart, of Greensburg, were arrested that day.
The discovery was made by Burgess Rodgers while searching Lewis’s
house for stolen plunder. In a room upstairs he found molds for making
silver coins and a brass die for striking ofl nickels. Hidden nearby were sev-eral
silver dollars. Burgess Rodgers at once communicated with John Washer,
a secret service officer, who came to Irwin, l.ewis, who was in the lockup,
was “sweated” and is said to have confessed. He claims, however, he was
only experimenting.
The officials made another search of Lewis’s premises and in the kitchen
stove a plate for making $5 bills was found, and hidden under the house
were the ink and rollers for making the paper money. The officers discovered
that several of the silver coins were put in circulation, one or two having
been thrown out of banks. For several months counterfeit nickels have been
circulated, a large number being played in slot machines.
Mr. Bowser Is Lucid
Has AR Evening of Self Control Th&t Greatly Alarms His
Wife—Excuses Cook’s Blunders, Condones Gas Bill
and Keeps Temper After Losing at Cards.
[Copyright. 1904, by T. C. McClure.] JUST ns Mr. Bowser reached his
gate the other evening ns he
cume home from the office a man
drove up with a patent fire es-cape
in a wagon and sought to interest
him. He had called a day or two pre-viously,
and Mr. Bowser had been in-terested
and ulmost ordered one, but
now lie gave the tiling a careless look-ing
over unci said:
“It may be a good thing and doubt-less
is, but I don’t care for it.”
“But I must show you how it works.
These hooks can be attached to”—
“Yes, I know, Liut we’ll let it go.
1 wish you well, but I don’t care to
bother witli it.”
Mrs. Bowser was looking out of the
Window and following the matter, and
her surprise was great that the man
should be turned down. She had fur-ther
cause for wonderment when Mr.
Bowser entered the house. He was
calm and serene. One of his umbrellas
had fallen from the rack to the floor,
but lie picked it up and replaced It
without a word about that being the
worst run house in America.
As he got off the car at the corner
the butcher’s boy had handed him a
bill for (10 cents as balance on the
week’s account. Ordinarily he would
have produced it with a groat flourish
and demanded if Mrs. Bowser was do-ing
her best to send him to the poor-
Airs. Bowser took three or four rurtive
glances at him and then asked:
“Are you not feeling as well as usual
this evening?”
“Just the same, dear, or even bet-ter.”
Just then a belated banana peddler
came along and stopped in front of the
house and yelled and shrieked and
screamed for flve minutes. On other
occasions about the fourth scream
would have brought Mr. Bowser to
the door with blood in his eye, and if
the noise had not been cut off short
the banana man would have felt a
house hit him, but this evening no at-tention
was paid to the sounds.
Mrs. Bowser couldn’t make tilings
out. She had a feeling that Bowser
was not Bowser, but some one else.
After a little deliberation she said:
"I was overhauling one of the old
I-links today and found a big package
nf your old love letters."
“Yes?” he replied. “Well, I suppose
I put it in pretty thick in those old
days, though I don’t know ns I would
take anything back now.”
His old love letters have always been
n sore point with him and have had to
lie only casually mentioned to set him
working his ears, and there was some-thing
almost like spite in Mrs. Bow-
»r’s heart ns she continued:
“1 just had to laugh over each one.
x ou wanted to drown yourself to show
vour love for me, and you were always
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house and demanded how she dared
run in debt when he gave her a stipu-lated
sum every week, but on this oc-sometbing
was said.
“I presume this is for you, hut if you
don’t happen to have the change I’ll
give it to you.”
The cook had burned the steak, and
the potatoes were underdone, and Mrs.
Bowser had been in fear and trembling.
She expected something to bg,said, and
something was said:
“This seems to be one of the times
when the cook is off,” remarked Mr.
Bowser without feeling nnd at the
same time doing his best to make a
meal.
“Yes, she has spoiled your dinner,
<uid 1 am very sorry for it.”
“Oh, well, we cau’t expect too much
from hired help! She’ll probably do
better tomorrow night.”
At other times Mr. Bowser would
have taken advantage of the occasion
to pound on the table with his fist
and vow by the beard of his father
that he was not a dog and would not
fed like one, and he would have
gone on to say that there was no sys-tem
In the house and he expected to
become a pauper within a year. His
eyiiduet appeared so Inexplicable that
writing anout weeping willows and
graves In a woodland dell. If it wasn’t
for making such a guy of you, I’d show
them to Mrs. Green.”
“I admit, to being in love clear up to
my ears, nnd. of course, I made an ass
of myself. Bring the letters down
some evening, and we’ll read and laugh
over them together.” '
Mrs. Bowser’s shaft had gone wide
of tile uiaFk, and she had further
cause for wonder. The cat had crept
under the piano to be out of the way
of flyiug splinters, but she now came
forth and had the audacity to rub
against Mr. Bowser’s leg and pur in
Ids face, lie didn’t lift her to his knee
nnd stroke her back, but be looked
down on her In a fatherly way and set
her to puzzling whether he felt the
shadow of death over him or was ex
liibitiug the first symptoms of Insanity.
“Aren’t you going to get a cow or hog
or some chickens for the winter?” con-tinued
Mrs. Bowser after an Interval,
and still hitting at the sore spots.
“I don’t think so, dear,” was the re-ply.
“I have come to the conclusion
that I don’t know much about such
things. It’s laughable what blunders
I made.”
Her words failed to reach, but she
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observed:
“I must tell you that the coal for the
range won’t last over two days more
and that the gas hill for the last month
is something outrageous.”
That ought to have lifted him to his
feet and set him to roaring, but it was
a dead failure. He continued to read
his paper for two or three minutes and
then quietly answered:
“Well, as the cook has to have a fire
all day now she naturally uses more
coal, and ns the evenings are getting
longer we naturally use more gas.”
“But the amount of this gas bill is
sheer robbery.”
“People are prone to complain of the
gas company, and yet I believe they
are honest men. I have no doubt we
burned all the gas we were charged
with.”
She had another card to play. Hunt-ing
up the euchre deck, she laid it on
tlie table before him and said:
“You have bragged around what a
good euchre player you are, hut I’ll
show you that you know- nothing about
the game.”
On other nights that challenge would
have been met with snorts of defiance,
but on this occasion Mr. Bowser softly
laid aside his literature and picked up
the cards with a smile. She won both
tricks, but he hadn't a word to say
about fool’s luck. She won one trick
on the second hand, but was not charg-ed
with cheating.
As a matter of fact, she sent him to
Chicago in three hands out, and when
she clapped her hands and laughed the
cat's heart jumped into her mouth, and
she said to herself:
"If that don’t make the old man get
up and howl and smash furniture, then
he’s a goner for sure.”
“I'm an easy mark at any game of
cards,” was Mr. Bowser's answer to
the outburst of elation, and even when
it was found that lie had won only one
game out of seven there was no row.
There was just one tiling more Mrs.
Bowser could think of, and in her des-peration
she applied It.
“There are times,” she said in a
trembling voice, “there are times when
you threaten to apply for a divorce.
If you want a divorce, why don’t you
go ahead and get one?”
“Yes, my dear, there are times,
many times, when I make a fool of
myself, nnd you are very foolish to
pay any attention to anything I say.
It will he a sad day when I really feel
that I ought to get a divorce from
you.”
Nothing more could be said. While
(Jrs. Bowser pretended to rend, al-lliough
her eyes were filled with tears,
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[CONTINUED.)
0 CHATTER IV. TLLYER went out into the star-lit
night and made ids way
down to tlie business portion of
the town. He was about to
pass the barroom run by Luke Hill-house,
when, hearing the clicking of
billiard balls and the rapping of cues,
he looked in at the screened door. Two
countrymen, without their coats nnd
under broad slouched lints, were play-ing
at the green table, over which hung
a glass lamp under a tin shade con-structed
from n new disbpan with a
role cut in tlie bottom, and three or
four half drunken negroes were en-gaged
in betting small amounts on a
fortune wheel against the wall. See-ing
the merchant, Illllhouse, a fat, red
faced man with a dyed and waxed
mustache, came round to him from
behind the counter.
“Lookin’ fer George, I'll bet,” lie
said in a friendly, half conlidential
tone. “He's jest gone, squire.” Hill-yer
had years before been a justice of
the peace. “I went with 'im clean to
the door of the warehouse an’ seed
that he went in.”
“Then he was”—
“The wust I ever seed, squire. Oh,
he could walk all right an’ knowed
what he was about, but he’s a reg’lar
rippin’ terror. He come in here, I
reckon, about an hour ago an’ tuck a
eouple o’ drinks an’ then set down
ever thar at the little table. I Towed
he was asleep, he was so quiet, an’ I
reckon everybody else did, fer Bascom
Truitt from over in the mountains
come in an’ begun to talk about old
man Buckley’s sentence. He hadn't
said a word that was wrong, but
George heard it an’ riz suddenly an'
come up to him. ‘Yo’re n-sayin’ that
to insult me,’ he said, right in Truitt’s
face. As big as Truitt is you could
’a’ knocked ’im down with a feather,
but he told George ns straight as he
could that he never knowed he was
thar an’ didn't mean no harm nohow;
but, sir, George hauled away'an’ hit
’im in tlie jaw. It popped like the re-port
of a pistol, an’ Truitt mighty nigh
went down. We parted ’em without
any trouble. In fact, Truitt thinks the
world an ’all of 'im. George did ’im a
favor a long time back, an’ instead o’
gittin’ mad about it Truitt is worryin’
over offendin’ the boy. He would have
apologized to ’im, but we all persuad-ed
’im to wait till George was at his-se’f.”
The merchant took a long, trembling
breath.
“I wish, Hillhouse,” he said, “that
you wouldn’t let ’im have any more
liquor if you kin git around it.”
“Git around it?” laughed the bar-keeper.
“If you’ll show me a mixer o’
drinks in this county that would re-fuse
that feller when he’s off I’d like
to see ’im. It would cost ’im his life.
He’s one mnn, squire, that ortn’t to
fetch a drap, an’ between you an’ me
I don’t think anything but this scrape
of his daddy’s would have started ’im.
George Buckley is the high strung sort
that makes either the finest citizens ur
the scum o’ creation.”
“I reckon yo're right,” agreed Hillyer,
and, turning, he went down to the
warehouse, which was in the next
block below. He found the front door
ajar and saw a light burning in his
clerk’s room in the rear. Entering
and softly treading over the rough
floor, which was strewn with chaff and
grain and the metal ties of cotton
bales, Hillyer stood in the doorway of
the young man’s room. In a cloud of
cigar smoke George Buckley sat near
a little table, without his coat, his col-lar
off and his powerful neck showing
through his open shirt. He glared up
at his employer and then rose to his
feet and looked straight at him.
“George,” the old man began in a
voice that quivered through excessive
embarrassment, “I was troubled so
much about you that I couldn’t sleep,
so I got up an’ come down. I seed
yore light an’ couldn’t keep from corn-in’
in.”
"I don’t see that you need bother
about me,” was Buckley’s surprising
retort. “I’m no blood kin of yours,
Mr. Hillyer.”
“George, I’m as good a friend to you
as I know how to be, an’ I jest want
you to know that, an’ ef thar’s any
way under the sun that I kin help you
I’ll do it.”
“Then let’s me ’n’ you come to an
understanding,” said Buckley. “I don’t
know exactly how to size you up. I’ve
been thinking about you all this even-ing,
and if I don’t understand you bet-ter
than I have done for several years
you and I will part. You can keep the
money I’ve made and saved up, and
if I could do it I’d throw the education
you guve me in your face. My intelli-gence
has been insulted. You have
done all these things for me under the
pretense of love, but it was not that.
Now let’s understand each other.”
Hillyer turned as white as death
could have made him. His eyes sank
to the floor, and, with a halting step, he
went to the young man’s bed across
the room and sat down on the edge
of it.
"You do me a great wrong, George,”
he faltered. “If you knowed my
heart”—
“Well, that’s all I'm asking. I want
to know what it all means. I tell you
I'm no fool. It's not whisky in me
talking either, for I’ve puzzled over it
for years, an’ now that this thing has
happened—an’ I don't care whether I
stay in your town anyway—I’m goin’
to be told the truth. What did you
give me my education for, and this
start in the world? Why, ns I look
tt you gazing at me now it seems to
tie you are the very personification of
the fate that hns mocked me ever since
I was old enough to know I was aliVe.
Curse it, what’s the matter with you?
Can’t you talk?”
Hillyer rose to his feet. “I'm goin’
to leave you. George,” he said. “To-morrow
we’ll talk this over. You are
In no condition to”—
Taking a swift, steady stride for-ward.
the young man laid his hands on
the merchant’s shoulders nnd forced
him back to his seat on the bed. “No,”
he said; “you don’t leave hero tonight
until you have answered my question
and satisfied me.”
Hillyer leaned forward, his face in
his hands, and groaned.
‘Then, George, I’ll be obliged to
speak of something that has not passed
my lips in thirty years, but maybe it is
best fer me to do it. considerin’ every-thing.
Set down. I kin talk better if
you won’t stand so close an’ look at
f.e so straight. You’ve had yore trou-file,
an’ ef you have the heart I think
you have you’ll be sorry fer me, an’ me
an’ you maybe will be truer friends in
the future. Gl’ me time. I'll git it
out.”
George Buckley threw himself into
the chair at the table. There was a
pause. A train passed on the track
within twenty yards of the rear door
of the warehouse, and the floor shook.
A pistol shot was heard, followed by
the yelping of a wounded dog at the
other end of the street. The town slept.
“George,” began the merchant in a
strange husky voice, “yon are now
niectin’ the biggest trouble of yore
whole life. I was jest about yore age,
an’ everything was about ns promisin’,
when my trouble overtook me. George”
—the old man gulped—“did you ever
hear that I—killed a feller jest at the
close o’ the war?”
Buckley stared steadily, his brows
raised.
“I think—yes, I knew about it. But I
didn't think you”— The young man
seemed unable to formulate his
thoughts into words. “I knew you
were acquitted nnd that nobody blamed
you.”
“Yes, I was acquitted, but how—ah,
how? Y'ou wonder why you was se-an
"1—killed a feller jest at the close o’ the
war.”
lected to go through yore present trial,
an’ I’ve wondered many an' many a
time why mine was put on me. The
whole world thinks I don't bother
about it, but few folks know about the
vermin that’s gnawin' at the secret
souls of their neighbors. Why, my
own wife don’t know my feelin’s. I
reckon she thinks I’m as happy as the
average man. That’s the trouble with
jest—jest that sort of a thing. It hain’t
what folks will dare mention to the
person concerned, an’ somehow he
never kin bring it up. I said I’d never
had it mentioned to me, but I did
about five year ago. I’d been makin’
a sort of a pet of a little, yaller haired
child stoppin’ at the Johnston house
with her ma fer the summer, an’ one
day, settin’ up thar in the office, I tuck
’er on my knee. She sorter squirmed
off, an' when 1 asked ’er what was the
matter she said she’d heard I’d killed
a man. It set me back so that I didn’t
detain ’er, an’ she looked scared ever’
time I passed whar she was at. Huh!
Talk about trouble, George, yore’n
hain’t a circumstance! (I had Jest got
married, an’ ever’thing looked bright.
“It was at an election. The feller
was a friend o’ mine, but a few years
younger. We was on opposite sides
an’ had sharp words. The lie was
passed, an’ then we come together.
Some o’ the crowd parted us, but I was
a ragin’ demon. I was a drinkin’ man
then—that is, I took a dram occasion-ally—
an’ I got full an’ went home fer
a revolver. Then I set out to find ’im.
It was about 10 o’clock at night when
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I run acrost ’im at a livery stable, a
old shack at t’other end o’ the town.
He was in the back end with Hank
Williams, the man that run it, an’ I
heard 'im tollin’ Hank good night an’
seed ’im a-cowin’. I didn't know what
1 was a-doin'—as God is my Judge, I
didn’t. I hated ’im with the hate of
hell, an' I wanted—I wanted 'im out
of the way. I drawed as he come
nigh, an' 1 think 1 cussed 'im. I re-member
lie was a-gazin' right at me—
scared—scared mighty nigh out o’ his
senses. lie raised his linn's sorter,
like a body will to ward off anything,
but the revolver was aimed right, an’
cocked an’ easy on trigger, an’ it went
off.”
Hillyer paused. Ills hands were fold-ed
one in tlie other, and both were
quivering. George Buckley was star-in*
at him with bewildered fixity, his
long, slender hand stayed in his heavy
Lair.
“I'm sorter scared at the sound o’ my
own voice,” said Hillyer. “It's like
somebody else was a-tellin’ about it.
I hain’t even whispered it to myse'f.
An’ in all my prayers in regard to it I
never have spoke ills name ur tlie name
o’ tlie crime. I always said, ‘You know
what I mean, Lord. Show me how to
unload it!’ Well”—Hillyer swallowed—
“he fell dead In his tracks. I was
sober in a second. I heard Williams
a-cotnin’, an’ when lie seed me an’ the
smokin’ pistol an’ my deed lie give a
little cry an’ started to break an’ run.
but I th’owed the revolver down an'
called to ’im an’ begged ’im not to
leave. Then I stood in a boss stall
while he went an’ examined—the body.
I couldn't teteh it. Then he come hack
to me an’ told me Lynn Hambright
was a corpse. Thar was a pile o’ dirty
hay in the stall, an’ I remember I jest
fell on it, face downward, an’ begun to
cry an’ beg the Lord to save me.
“Williams had a heart like a child’s.
He stood thar an’ watched an’ listened
to mv ravin’s of fear ah’ regret till all
at once he begun tryin' to pacify me.
He told me I’d come clear; that it was
in seif defense; that lie had seed it all
an’ would go on the stand an’ testify
in my behalf. I know now—in fact, I
knowed when I heard him on tlie stand
—that he was lyin’ to save my neck,
but I wanted to escape the penalty an’
couldn’t ’a’ stopped ’im. The fear o’
meetin’ my God was awful. I wasn’t
even jailed. It was in unsettled times
jest after tlie war. My folks was prom-inent,
an’ public sympathy fer me,
young ns I was, was liigji. The hard-est
tiling of all to bear was the grief of
Hambright's mother. It looked like it
ud mighty nigh kill ’er. He was her
youngest an’ pet. Her other boys nev-er
amounted to anything an’ had gone
west an’ left ’er. Finally I come clear
in the eyes o’ the world, but, as God
knows, not in my own. That crime is
before me, wnkin’ or Bleepin’. I often
dream that I never done it, an’ day-light
gives that the lie. Seemed like
ever’thing I went into turned out mon-ey,
an’ I prospered, though I did all I
could to alleviate suffering an' help
the different churches. Mrs. Ham-bright
jest had a little farm over in tlie
mountains that turned out a bare liv-in’,
an’ I sent a friend to ’er to offer
her help, but she indignantly refused
it. She’d come in town once in awhile,
but she’d never come nigh whar I was
at. Then I heard she was tryin’ to git
a pension through congress. Her hus-band
had claimed to be a Union man,
an’ that he was forced Into the Con-federate
ranks, whar he fit an’ was
killed, an’ somebody told ’er she was
entitled to a pension. Old Trabue tuck
up the claim an’ writ on about it to
Washington, an’ one day he happened
to tell me that he had had a final de-cision
an’ that she couldn’t git it an’
that he hated to have to tell ’er the
outcome. Then I got him to pretend
to her that the pension was allowed,
an’ I paid the $15 a month. I’ve been
doin’ It fer twenty year now, an’ It
has kept ’er from sufferin’, but I’m in
mortal dread o’ her findin' out whar
the money comes from an’ sellln’ her
place to repay It. She’s still in good
health over thar in the mountains.
About once a year, generally in the
fall, she comes in town, but she shirks
meetin’ me. Somehow I always breathe
freer when she’s gone out o’ town.
The sight of 'er fetches it all back
wuss than anything else. I’ve tried to
find out what she thinks about it now,
but she never mentions the subject to
a soul. I’ve suffered the torments of
the damned. I made a public confes-sion
in meetin’, as well as I could, to
show my contrition without imnllcatin’
Hank Williams, but it didn't do a speck
o’ good. All the members swarmed
round me and patted me on the back
an’ said I was nigh the throne, but
the’r puts jest seemed to beat my guilt
deeper in. I was afeard o’ the slight-est
sound nt night or my slindow in
daytime an’ was always countin’ on
bein’ tuck off by disease. One mornin’,
in shavin’, I noticed a little red spot
on my cheek an' tuck it fer a cancer.
I was shore then tlint tlie Lord intend-ed
to make me die a slow, loathsome
death, an’ all at once I felt weak at the
knees an’ couldn’t hardly stand. My
wife come an’ found me. I didn’t tell
her about my earner, an’ she thought
I was jest sick from some’n’ I’d eat,
an’ when the doctor come I was afeard
to tell ’im about the sore place, lie
left some medicine, an’ I made out like
I tuck it, but I th’owed it away. After
that I’d make a point to stop an’ talk
to ’im every day to see ef he’d notice
my face an’ speak of it, but he didn’t.
I’ve started up to his office fifty times
an’ backed out. jest beea’se I couldn’t
bear to be told that it was a cancer.
Howsomever, one day, when it was
more inflamed than ever, I went to his
office—as Weak as a sick kitten, feelin'
jest like a man goin’ to the scaffold.
I went In an’ set down an’ waited fer
’im to git through with somebody else,
an’ when lie turned to me I said, ‘Doc,
I want you to take a look at my face.’
He put on his specks an’ examined it;
then he laughed an’ said: ‘I’ll bet a dol-lar
you thought It was a cancer. Folks
nowadays is more anxious to raise can-cers
’an they are good taters.’ ‘But
ain’t it?’ I axed ’im. ‘No,’ said he, ‘it
hain’t nothin’ o’ the sort. Ef you’ll
quit rubbin’ it every minute in the day
an’ stop tliinkin’ about it, it’ll go away
in n week.’ I felt as light as a feathei
when I left him, but it wasn’t twenty-four
hours 'fore I had some other ail-ment.
“I was always lookin’ fer the Lord
to show designs agin me. Fer one
thing, no children come to me ’n’ Mar
tha, an’ I Interpreted that as meanin
that, sence I'd put life out o’ the world.
I shouldn’t fetdn it in. Most married
folks worry when they hain’t got some
offspring, but it worried me powerful.
I never seed a happy child or a proud
mother an’ father without feelin’ the
Lord’s rebuke. Oh, George, George,
I've led the most awful life that was
ever led by a human bein’, it seems to
me—an’ I kept it all to myself, smilin’
along with the rest, an’ tryin’ to find
some loophole of escape. Now here's
whar you come in. an’ you’ll think it
odd, but I’ve started in to explain in
full, an’ I’m goin’ to do it. You know
I used to pass yore pa’s place pretty
often, goin’ to my river mill an’ farm,
an’ nt the mill I frequently seed you
cornin’ on that swaybacked old mitre,
n-straddle of yore bag o’ shelled corn,
barefooted even in winter, with yore
hands an’ feet cracked with the cold.
It was common report about how bad
you was treated by yore daddy an’
what a awful character he had. May-be
you remember the talk me ’n’ you
had, an’ how you told me how anxious
you was to git Schoolin’ an’ books.
That was the fust day after my crime
that I got a benin of spiritual light. It
come all over me like a flash that ef I
could take you out'n yore degradation
an' raise you to a respectable, useful
place in life I could utone in part for
wbnt I’d done. Do you remember that
day, George?”
[TO BE CONTINUED.)
No Resemblance.
Teacher—Your spelling is frightful!
Why don’t you look in the dictionary
when you write your essays?
Pupil—I do, but I can never find the
word I’m looking for.—Detroit Free
Press.
Dynpeplic Finance.
First Flutocrat—I’d willingly give a
million dollars for a new stomach.
Second Plutocrat—I’d give two mil-lions
if I could get along without a
stomach at all.—Chicago Tribune.
Perhup* Slie Meant It.
Insurance men tell of a woman who
wrote to an insurance company;
“I take great pleasure in informing
you of the death of my husband.”—
New York Press.
No Results.
Skinner—At tlie cry of distress my
hand goes instinctively to my pocket.
Mildway—I see; you want to make
sure your pocketbook is safe.—Boston
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THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THUR8DAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1905.
l NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS, t
1 I
» II KOLA.
Mm. N. A. Cort, of Mount Pleasant,
spent Friday here with her mother,
Mrs. Thos. Laird.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Kiatler, of Greens
burg, were here over Sunday with T.
H. Wright.
Mrs. Harbangh spent Thursday after-noon
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Wright, of Armbrnst.
Andrew Vanseez, a foreigner, who
was injured at the No. 8 mines here
Friday, died at the Mount Pleasant
hospital Saturday morning. A wife and
five children survive him.
George MacPhail was unable to re-turn
to his work at Greensbnrg Monday
morning on account of a severe cold.
Jack Snedden, of Harrisburg, was
here Tuesday for the election.
Joe Jeffrey, who is working at the
Edenborn mines, spent Sunday at his
home here.
Harry Giffith called on his brother,
John, at Armbrnst Sunday.
The revival meetings held in the
Methodist Episcopal church here have
been quite successful and will be con-tinued
this week.
Mrs Coughenour, who had been
spending the winter with Mrs. G. E.
Wright, has returned to Connellsville.
LAURKLV1JLLiJS.
next time they try to mRke yon kiss
anybody come directly to me.” Jimmy
replied in a hesitating manner: ’ If its
all the same to yon, ma'am, I 1 believe
1 I'd rather kiss the little girl.”
The directors and teaehers of the In
dependent district met at llrldgeport
Friday evening Inst. They discussed
educational matters and had a splendid
social time.
Several of the Independent teachers
attended the Mount Pleasant township
teachers’ institute at Spring Garden.
They were very much impressed with
Supt. W. W. Ulerich’s address.
Agents with axes to grind always find
some bewildered pilgrim to turn the
stone- George Mason, Jim Gans and
Jim Gilbert were turners last week.
SHAULIs* P. O.
We have an abundance of snow in
Laurel Hill, it being three feet, eight
inches deep.
Elmer Nedrow was a business caller
at Mount Pleasant the first of the week.
<•
Quite a number of our young sports
are attending the revival meeting at
Bakersville.
Herman Baldwin and Elmer Nedrow
had bad luck last Friday evening com
ing across the top of the mountain.
They got off the road and threw the
animal on its back in the snow.
Why Sew
by hand, or use an old,
worn-out sewing ma-chine
when a high-grade,
easy - running
machine can lie purchased for $12.50 ?
That’s the price of the Helping Hand,
which is one of the best.
SEWING MACHINES
manufactured. It is up-to-date, high
grade, drop head and has many improve-ments
not found in other machines. This
is an opportunity to get a guaranteed ma-chine
for a little money.
Will be pleased lo explain the good points at the store.
8. B. COLYIN,
121 East Main St., - Mount Pleasant, Pa.
February Birth Stones.
J. Brown took a slodload of jolly peo-ple
to the hospitable home of Cyrus
Barkley Saturday evening.
Miss Anna Sipes, of Jones Mills, is
here visiting her sister, Mrs, J. W.
Barkley.
Miss Mary Lewis was called from here
to her Mount Pleasant home by the ill
ness of her mother, Mrs. Elmer Lewis,
who is now much better.
Mrs James Shaffer and children were
with Perryopolis friends from Saturday
until Wednesday.
P. H Baker was the guest of William
Droutz last Sunday.
Miss Rosa Myers was a welcome
caller at D. P. Shanlis’ Friday evening
last.
The Big Springs draw a fine young
man’s attention; sometimes he walks,
and sometimes he goes with a gray
horse. Towards spring he will have to
be careful or he will drown in high
waters.
William Miller went back to the Pop
larB last Saturday evening. What are
the attractions, William?
The February born will find
Sincerity and peace of mind--
Freedom from passion and from care,
If they the Amethyst will wear.
Rings of All Kinds and Sizes
D. L. Joyce, of Greensburg, greeted
many friends here Tuesday.
While the Jacobs Creek German Bap
tist church is still without a pastor, El
der H. A. Stahl, of Somerset, will preach
there Saturday evening and Sunday
morning and evening next.
Mrs. Albert Smith and Mrs. Edward
Morev are reported on the local sick list.
S. E. Shaulis took a drive last Sunday
to McClellan Shaulis’ to see how the
road was. He found it bad.
D. P. Shaulis and wife were welcome
callers at Somerset Monday last.
Lloyd Nedrow passed through here
Monday morning early. What kept
you so long, Lloyd? It is believed he
had Foxes trapped.
—AT—
Posner’s Jewelry Store,
Main Street, - - Mount Pleasant, Pa.
We Engrave your NAME TREE on any article bought at our store
Wsnail I Waal?
A common question just now but not
a difficult one to answer if you’ll let us
assist you when you are ready to look at
the new styles.
I he line of Ladies’ Tailor-Made
Cloaks we are now selling offers pleas-ing
possibilities to the woman who prides
herself in dressing neatly and stylishly.
Coats $5.98 to $175
Stylish Rain Coats.
They are waterproof and the close
weave of the light weight cloth affords a
comfortable protection from the cold.
We show a variety of styles, shades and
sizes ranging from $10.00 to $l8.0O.
(Successor to Braddock & Co.)
Braddock Block, Corner Main and Church Sts.,
MOUNT PLEASANT, PA. 5 While hauling lumber for Herman
Hamel last week, a horse belonging
to Hanson Myers dropped dead in the
harness.
Mrs. William Kuhns, of Uniontown,
was here Wednesday visiting her daugh
ter, Mrs. F. Greenawalt.
HAMMONDVIIiLE.
Sleighing parties have been very num
erons for several weeks. The girls and
boys complain of having frozen fingers
and enlarged toes; however, they are
always ready for a sleigh ride.
Grandfather Forspring was very tired
when he reached D. P. Shaulis' resi-dence,
where he remained about half
an hour with Simon E. Shanlis Sunday
last.
Irwin Faust, the local blacksmith,
went for a load of coal Monday last
with a mule and a horse. He says he
has nothing for mules; they take too
much blacksnaking along the road.
John Pyle said there was some more
snow back yet. ‘‘You bet, tben we can’t
get through to Somerset. No we can’t.”
Store open evenings, Monday end Saturday.
J. S. PARKER CO
YA/e- Give Trading Stamps.
Of the Pretty Things for Spring
\
Miss Edna Woodhull spent Thursday
evening with her friend, Miss Sylvia
Harbangh, of Bridgeport. They had
some very important matters to talk
about.
Elmer Bell has ordered a hundred
weight of Emerson Pershing's egg
producing food. He is tired feeding
chickens and buying eggs. Some of our
thinking citizens are spending their
evenings endeavoring to invent a cack-ling
machine They contend that a hen
wastes an enormous amount of energy
in cackling. How to save this waste of
energy is the problem that confronts
the farmer.
Messrs. Stairs and Rishebegar attend-ed
divine service at Paradise last Sun-day.
Rev. Fasic is conducting a series of
Tevival services at the Fairview U. B.
church.
Miss Effie Ellenberger has gone to
Scottdale to sew, much to the regret of
one of onr bright young men.
Alex Gilberts very ill with paralysis.
All his sons and daughters have been
summoned to his bedside. John, of
Mars, Bntler Jcounty, arrived last Sat-urday.
Walker Stouffer and Bob Washabangh
attended the revival at Bridgeport Sat-urday
evening.
Sammy Swope accidentally struck his
left eye with thejpoint of his pick last
Wednesday while digging coal at Buck-eye.
Surgical attention was immedi
ately rendered, and he is now able to be
ont; bnt his sight will be very much
impaired.
Rural free delivery of mail actually
began here last!'week. All residents
have put up‘boxes.
Kissing is the- principal misdemeanor
that vexes the-schoobjuia’ams of Bull-skin
township. This Ibrings to our
mind the story ofJJJimmy Ryan when
he came running into] his teacher and
said; “Some of the —boo boo— big boys
made me knk— kiss a little gng— girl
ont .on the pnp— pup— playground.’’
Schoolma’am; “That was too bad. The
ARMBHU8T.
The valentine venders did a land of-fice
business here on that day.
The thermometer registered 24 de-grees
below zero here the last cold spell.
Peter Stauffer and family moved last
week to Blooming Valley, Crawford
county. Pa., where he has purchased a
farm located near Meadeville. Our best
wishes go with them.
The new reservoir on the Rnmbaugh
farm and the prospects of the new trol-ley
line to Mount Pleasant will doubt-less
boom onr little town this summer.
(Additional Correspondence on page 4.)
THE MONEY QUESTION
was a terrible burden during the
days of the Revolution. Wash
ington had all he could do to keep
his little army together without
it. The money question is just
as important to-day. Are you
saving yours as you should for
the inevitable rainy day? Are
you preparing for the time when
you cannot work? If not
The Citizens Savings &Trust Co.
MOUNT PLEASANT. PA..
urges you to begin now, even if
you start with only one dollar.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE J. B. COLDSMITH, Manager,
The Big
Fun Show
Friday Evening, Feb. 24.
Uncle Josh Perkins
Monday Evening, Feb. 27.
An Everlast-ing
Success.
The greatest
Scenic Play on
AmericanStage. The Denver Express The Sensation
of the
Century.
Tuesday Evening, Feb. 28.
A Southern Play
of
Romantic Interest. for fair Virginia Beautiful Scenic
Details and
Artistic Features.
Wednesday Evening, March 1.
The Thrilling
Western
Comedy Drama A Struggle Tor Gold Dramatic Story
of California
Gold Fields.
Thursday Evening, March 2.
HUMAN HEARTS.
Saturday Evening, March 4.
The Gus Sun American Minstrels.
Every day more exquisite new fabrics and garments for spring
and summer wear are coming in--you will wonder what we will
do with them but their beauty is so appealing that we feel certain
you will want a part of them.
You find here choice of the markets of the world-=01d
World and New.
French Challis 35c.
Neatest and sweetest designs you could
wish for and all the favored shadings for
spring.
Satin stripes in all this line, cream gar-ments
with colored dots and figures—reds,
blues, greens in dainty shadings.
Fashionable Mohairs.
It is a fabric with merit and deservedly
popular.
You should see the wealth of patterns
we show and in correct colorings.
There are shepherd’s checks, swell green-blue-
red checks, plaids, pin stripes, ombre’
effects, invisible plaids, sicillians and bril-liantines
priced to sell at 5oc to $1.75 yd.
We buy these direct from importers and
so can save you 15 to 25 per cent.
Special English Mohair Sicillians at 55c
yd—value 75c—all colors.
Special English Mohair Sicillian, 54 ins.
wide, at 85c yd—value $1.00-black, navy,
cream.
More Fine Table Linens
Underpriced
Five as pretty open-border designs as
you ever saw—plain centres, dots, tiger
lily, poppy, and carnation-at 90c yd—much
superior to the usual $1.00 quality.
Weighty, elegant finish.
22-inch napkins to match.
Covert Jackets $5.
Several good kinds at this price--fitted
back with short belt and box front. An-other
for misses and ladies is a 30 inch box
coat, back finished with wide tucks and
belt- Then there are other styles of this
grade, all good.
Of the better ones there is a beauty at
$9-5o, §10, $11.50 and $15.
Exclusive Designs
in Curtains
Come from best makers in this country
and styles confined to us for Scottdale.
Never had such a showing of lace cur-tains
and never before such good things
for little money We are offering special
values this week at $1.00 pr., $2.00 pr.,
$3.00 pr. and $4.00 pr.
Wire-net, cable-cord, Nottingham, Brus-sel
nets, Bobinet and all the meritorious
kinds are here.
We ask your inspection and judgment.
New Silk Suits.
Just placed in the line new silk coat suits
and new coat and skirt suits that are worth
more than a look.
SCOTTDALE, P A.