Mount Pleasant journal (March 1, 1911)

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MOUNT    PLEASANT,    WBSTMORBILAND   COUNTY,    PA.,    WEDNESDAY,    MARCH    1,     1911.
NO. 9
iAMILLE SHELAR
IS THE VICTIM
OP A H
rho Assaults Her Near Alice
Mines Monday Evening
S SHE WAS RETURNING TO HER HOME
Irom the alice school of which
she is teaches.
[he Brute in Human Guise Slipped
Pp Behind Her as She was Walking Along the Lonely Boad and
Choked Her Into Insensibility
After Dragging Her Into the Woodn
in Which He Laid in W ait and Accomplishing His Vile Purpose, He
Help"d the Poor Girl Back to the
Highway Belore Making Bis Es
cape.
Miss Camille Shelar, a daughter of
br J. W. Shelar, of this place, ot
lis first marriage, who lives with her
frandmother, widow of the late Solo-
|non B Stoner, near Alverton, was
ssaulted and outraged Monday evening while returning trom the Alice
\ines school, of which she is teacher.
|iy an unknown fiend in human guise
»-ho seems to have made good his
Jscape.
Miss Shelar, who is twenty years of
Ige, dismissed her school in the afternoon at 4 o'clock and, as was her custom,
(tarted to walk to Alverton where she
would take a street car that carried her
lo her home near Scottdale. As she
passed along the road made famous a
few years ago as the scene of the bold
lp and murder of Paymaster Will Hosier,
>f tbe H. C. Frick Coki» Company, she
taw a strange man in tbe thicket that
Borders the highway on the west side,
ind quickened ber steps as he started In
per direction so that when he reached
ihe road she was some little distance
jihead.
A glauce over  her shoulder  showed
fche fellow bad his back  turned and she
vent  on,   believing   he had no evil in
Itentions  and was going away from her.
lew moments later she  heard  a  step
behind   and   turned   to have her throat
grabbed   by   the  man   who spoke good
Lnjjlish but looked like an Italian.    Hi
vore a brown suit of clothes and a black
slouch hat and had black bair and mustache,   of good height and would weigh
about 160 pounds.
The   poor  girl   struggled desperately
but the cruel hands ol the monster only
closed the tigater on the fair throat and
soon   the unequal contest was over and
|the young teacher sank to tbe road   unconscious, an easy victim of his hellish
{designs   when once he bad dragged her
■into the bushes where   be   had   laid  in
Iwait for her.    The brute afterwards   led
■her  back  to  the  road  and then made
|good his escape.
Weak   from  her   futile struggle, Miss
IShelar staggered  on out the road to the
iByerly  homestead   at   top   of   the   hill
Iwhere she was taken in by the family oi
Ithe farmer, Hiram Voght.     On  learning
lof   her    awful   experience,   Mr.   Voght
I started out single handed to   run  down
Ithe.fiend.    Much valuable time was lost
I in this unsuccesslul hnnt as it was about
|6 o'clock before the larmer reported the
outrage at Alverton, Irom which place a
telephone   message was sent, informing
Dr. Shelar of   his  daughter's   condition
and whereabouts.    He at once ran out to
the Voght place  in his automobile and
brought   her   to  his   West   Main  street
home   where  she received the care and
| attention she stood in such great need of
Telephone messages were at once sent
I to all neighboring points, telling of the
outrage and offering a liberal reward for
the arrest of the miscreant.
SURPRISE PARTY
| Given at Alice Postoffice in Honor of Hoy
Leeper Baturday Evening.
A surprise party was given at the
Alice postoffice home of Mr. and Mrs. J.
G. Leeper Saturday evening in honor of
their son, Roy, it being his eighteenth
birthday. The entire evening was spent
in a very sociable way and Roy was the
recipient of many beautiful presents.
An elegant lunch was served.
The guests were: Misses Ida Shafler,
May Myers, Nellie Stahl, Grace Marstel-
ler, Bertha Myers, Mary Grimm, Viola
Shatter, Ruth Dillon, Violet Summy
Leua Myers aud Irene Perkey, Clyde
Howard, John Bitner, Nevin Fry, George
Marsteller, Mehrl Keck, Frauk Howard,
Harrison Myers, John Grimm, Harry Hoff
man, Roy Dillon, Clayton Shaffer, Earl
Myers and Burrell Leasure.
NeWS   SnanshoiS   ExState Senator Frank J. Gardner of New York, charged with an attempt to bribe In connection with the antl race track bill.
oiiapsiiuis   wa8 acquitted.    By decision of interstate commerce commission, Judson  C. Clements  chairman,  eastern and  western  rail
Of   the   Week        r0ads may not raise frelSht ^t^ Permission being given to southwestern roads In certain cases.    Sir Wilfrid Lanrler, premier, and members of Canadian parliament are unanimous In their statement that reciprocity agreement will not mean ultimate
annexation to United States.   Alfred G. Vanderbilt will sail for Europe, where Mrs.  Smith Hollins  McKIm, recently divorced,  may join hlni  and theli
marriage take place.   Settlement was made with Mrs. McKlm's former husband.   Representative Ralney made charges against Betlilehem Steel company,
which Charles M. Schwab heads, of having furnished defective armor plate and gun fittings to the navy.
COMERS AND GOERS.
Paragraphs About Prominent  People Gathered During the Week.
L. M. Wertz was in Pittsburg on business Monday.
A. O. Horner, of Pittsburg, was here
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Isaac
Horner, on Sunday.
Mrs. Wm Grindle and Mrs. Wm. Baker
spent Sunday in Greensburg visiting
their annt, Mrs. Martha Colledge.
Misses Valita Gray and Lai a Essiug-
ton, of Uniontown, were here Friday as
the guests of Miss Charlotte Miller.
Mrs. James McDonald Bryce received
yesterday afternoon at her Orchard Hill
home in honor of Mrs. Phillips, of Columbus, Ohio.
Deputy County Controller Stewart S.
Kennedy, of this place, is at Ebensburg
helping to introduce the new controller
system in Cambria coonty.
The members of the Mount Pleasant
Fancy Work Club were entertained by
Miss Viola Stevenson Thursday afternoon at her Eagle street home.
George Gritt, an engraver at the Bryce
glass factory, has returned from a seven
months' stay at the Mount Alto sanitarium very much improved in health.
Miss Clara Burkholderentertained her
fellow members of the Colonial Club in
a handsome manner at her East Wash-
i igton street home Wednesday evening,
Russell Myers, the young East End
musician, returned Wednesday from
York, Pa,, where he completed a course
in repair work at the factory of the
Weaver piano people.
Ezra Summy, the president, with his
wife and daughter, and Abraham Pershing represented Monnt Pieasant at the
annual meeting of the rural mail carriers
held in Latrobe on Washington's Birthday.
W. M. Drontz, manager of a big Pittsburg construction company, called on a
few old friends here Monday. He
started in nine years ago with his firm
as a day laborer and rapidly went up
the line.
Mrs. T, L. Rossiter, of Meadvillc, Pa.,
who has been spending a few weeks with
her daughter, Mrs J. A Younkins, will
leave today lor home, going by way of
Pittsburg, where she will spend a few
days with relatives.
Rev. W. H. Tussing, formerly pastor
of the local First Reformed church but
now stationed in Columbus, Ohio, stopped ofi here Wednesday evening with
Clarence E. Zimmerman while returning
home from an eastern business trip.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mclntyre, of Wilkinsburg, celebrated the 38th anniversary of their marriage on Monday last.
Mr and Mrs. George Parfitt, the latter a
sister of Mr. Mclntyre, were down from
here. Mr. Parfitt was Mr. Mclntyre's
best man at the wedding which took
place in Swissvale in 1873.
Mr. and Mrs. James S. McBride, of
Latrobe, gave a nicely appointed dinner
last Sunday evening in honor of Mrs
McBride's mother and sister, Mrs. and
Miss West, who are leaving to reside in
Pascoe county, Florida. All but one of
Mrs. West's children were present. Miss
Garnet West represented Mount Pleasant.
SIGN OF THE CROSS.
An Enjoyable Occasion.
A very pleasant surprise party was
given Mrs. Wm. Grindle at her home on
Thursday evening by some forty ot her
friends and neighbors. A very pleasant
evening was spent in games and music,
after which a dainty lunch was served.
Items of Special Interest to tha Local
Church Qoers.
The union evangelistic services, after
a three weeks' successful course, were
closed Sunday evening in the Re-Union
Presbyterian church where the final discourse was preached by Rev. G L. Graham, the United Brethren pastor, before
a congregation that lelt no vacant seats
in the big house. The reverend gentleman's most impressive sermon was from
Revelations, "Behold, I stand at tbe door
and knock."
There will be services at the First
Reformed church tonight and Friday
evening at 7:30 with confirmation preparatory to the celebration of the Lord's
Supper at 10:30 Sabbath morning, the
usual Sunday evening service following
at 7. The pastor, Rev. Mr. Deatrick,
will preach at St. Johns at 2:30 p. m. on
Sunday.
Special services, preparatory to communion on next Sunday morning, will
be held at the Methodist Episcopal
church Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings of this week with a praise
service each evening from 7:30 to 8
o'clock, at which hour the preaching
will promptly begin. The subjects
chosen by the pastor, Rev. Mr.Younkins,
are: "Jesus in the Garden," "Jesus Before Pilate" and "Jesus on the Cross."
Ttiere will also be loye feast Sunday
afternoon at 2:30.
At the United Presbyterian church
there will be preaching next Sabbath at
11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. by the pastor,
Rev. Wm. M. Lorimer. The morning
theme will be "In the Fiery Furnace"
and the evening theme "Sent as Christ
was Sent."   Sabbath school at 10 a. m.
At the First Baptist church Sabbath
morning next the pastor, Rev. E. T.
Humpton, will preach on "A Difficult
Task Made Easy" and in the evening
"Winning the Game." The subject for
tonight's prayer meeting at this church
is "Please Shut the Gate." The hour
for service Sunday evening is now 7:30.
Owing to repairs beini made, there
will be neither preaching nor Sunday
school at the local Lutheran church Sabbath next, but Rev. R. L. Leatherman
will preach at Rufisdale at 2:30.
MORE STREET RAILWAYS.
The West Penn Company Will Spend Millions This Summer.
The West Penn Railways Company
will spend several million dollars this
year on extensions in Allegheny, Westmoreland and Fayette counties. In all
about 50 miles of new track is contemplated, and it is estimated $2,500,000
will be spent. Several miles of the new
road will be in the Monongahela valley,
taking in Monessen and Webster.
Connection will be made with present
lines at Brownsville. At the end of the
McKeesport division, at Scott Haven,
the line will be continued to West Newton. From that point a new line will be
constructed to Herminie and Madison,
with a straight line of about 10 miles to
connect at Hunker with the line in
operation. It is also said that a line
from Greensburg to Jamison No. 2 and
on to Latrobe will be constructed. Part
of tbe materials are already on hand.
The new territory to be opened is rich
in coal and populous, with practically
no transportation outlet.
DEATHS OE THE WEEK.
The Orim Reaper's Work in This Place and
Vicinity.
George 8. Ramsay.
George S. Ramsay, general superintendent of the Shawmut Mining Co.,
after an hour's illness of acute indigestion, died at his home in St. Marys, Elk
county, on Tuesday last, aged 53 years.
The interment took place Friday afternoon in the Ramsay family section in
the cemetery at Irwin.
Mr. Ramsay, who leaves a widow and
three daughters, was for a time some
twenty five years ago in charge of the
Morewood coke plant here and of the
large family Superintendent William S.
Ramsay, of this place, a brother, is the
sole survivor.
Mrs, Elizabeth Abbott
Mrs. Elizabeth Abbott, widow of the
late Michael Abbott and for many years
a citizen of Mount Pleasant, died Friday
at the Mansfield, Ohio, home of her
daughter, Mrs. J. A. Brinley, aged 85
years. The body was brought here Sunday to the home of her younger sister,
Mrs. Kate Lozier, and was laid to rest in
the cemetery Monday alternoon following divine services conducted by Rev
R L. Leatherman, pastor of the Lutheran
church, of which she had been long a
devout member.
Alter the death of her husband, Mrs.
Abbott left here and made her home
with her son, Jordan H. Abbott, at Pit-
cairn. Last fall she went to Mansfield
lo visit her daughter and it was there
that the infirmities of age befell her and
she gradually grew weaker until theend
came. Besides the children named Mrs.
Abbott also leaves a daughter, Kate McClelland, Lincoln, Nebraska.
John W. K. Solomon.
John W. K. Solomon, for twenty-five
years a justice of the peace in Saltlick
township, Fayette county, died Wednesday of Bright's disease, aged 62 years.
He is survived by three sons' and five
daughters.
John C. McGee.
John C, the bright little son of Mr.
and Mrs. James McGee, died yesterday
of rheumatic trouble at his East End
home, aged 5 years.
A Oreat Minstrel Show.
The third annual minstrel performance, given by St. Joseph's Literary Society Monday aud Tuesday evenings,
was tbe best in the society's history and
St. Joseph's Hall was packed with exceedingly well pleased people both
nights. In fact, many who were there
the first evening were so tickled with
the burnt cork article put up by local
talent that tbey returned last night.
The affair was also a big financial success.
Basket Ball Games.
The   local   Independent   basket   ball
team was trounced 41 to 4 at Youngwood
Wednesday evening by tbe High School
boys there.
The Scottdale High School Juniors
came up Saturday afternoon and trimmed   their local fellow students 28 to 9.
The victors' older brothers, however,
got their bumps here that evening at the
hands of the Independents who took the
game 36 to 15.
A Wonderful Record.
Benjamin Fraunholtz, of Latrobe, aged
56 years, was killed by a Ligonier Valley
train Tuesday, the first fatal accident in
the 35 years' history of that road.
Steinman Seeks Pardon.
E. H. Steinman, convicted and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary
for aiding and abetting in the misapplication of funds of the defunct Farmers
and Merchants National Bank and who
was refused a new trial three weeks ago,
has petitioned President Talt lor a
pardon.
COKE AND COAL.
Items of Interest Gathered from Both Mice
and Yard.
The improvement in the coke business
continues this week as the Frick plants
will all mike six days,
Frank Simmons, traveling bookkeeper
for the Frick compauy, has beeu permanently located at Leisenring No. 1, to
which place he will move with his wife
and baby from here this week.
The annual report of Mine Inspector
I. G. Roby. of Uniontown, for the Fifth
Bituminous District of Pennsylvania,
shows that during the year 1910 the total
production of coal was 7,294,758 tons, of
which 6,728,660 tons were used in the
manufacture of coke, the coke output
reaching a total of 4,527,432 tons.
Options on some 5,000 acres of coal
about Mill Run and in Springfield town
ship, Fayette county, have been taken
by John H. Prinkey and Charles Newell.
Fires have been started in the first
battery of the United States Steel Corporation's 560 coke ovens, adjoining the
Gary steel plant, at Gary, Indiana. The
eight batteries, which were erected at a
cost of $8,000,000, have a daily capacity
ol 5,600 tons and will supply coke (or
the local blast furnaces, thus doing away
with the long haul from Ihe Pennsylvania coke fields It will require 888
men to operate the ovens already built
On Thursday last the Scottdale Coal
Company closed a deal with J. J. Hob-
litzell, of Meyersdale, for several tracts
ol coal about Waltz Mills, this county,
amounting to some 85 acres. The con
sideration was $24,800.
Under its voluntary relief system the
H, C. Frick Coke Company paid out to
its employes last year a total of $91,
083.67, divided as follows: Deaths and
accidents, $53,413.97; pensions, $30,
479 90; services of physicians, $4,955;
hospital charges, $1,453.30; funeral expenses, $781 SO.
Jndge Lindsey Coming.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of the Juvenile
Court, Denver, Colorado, will appear at
the Grand Opera House in the fifth and
last number of the season's lecture course
in the "Misfortunes ol Mickey," on March
14th. Notice the change in date. School
children will be admitted to the gallery
for 10 cents, with the exception of the
first three rows which will be the regular price of fifty cents. There will be
no admission except by reserved seat
any  place  in the house until after 8:15
o'clock.
 »-•«.	
What's Yonr Number 1
The two weeks' guessing contest on
the pile of pennies in the window of
Myer Posner, the jeweler, closed last
night for prizes of a $2.50 gold piece and
a gold ring for the two closest guessers.
Ths correct number, given out by the
First National Bank this morning, is
2,272. The pennies will be given to the
youngsters under 16 years of age who
were not permitted to enter the contest.
Mrs. John K. Fox, Arthur Rumbaugh
and Andy Virostek are tied for first
place, each having guessed 2,250.
TS
Of HENRY FOX
JEtT AGAIN
And Have a Jolly Good Time
on Saturday Last
WITH MUSIC. SPEECHES AND DINNER
IN   THE   BANK   AND   TRUST   COMPANY
ASSEMBLY   ROOMS.
In Addition to This Nicely Arranged
Program Clark K. Fox, "Who waa
Re elected President of the Famous
Clan, Rend an Interesting History
of the Scheibor Family That was
Closely Connected by Marriage
with the Foxes.
The descendants of Henry and Mary
(Ruth) Fox held their annual mid-
wi ter reunion in the bank and trust
company assembly rooms Saturday
and, as was to be expected, had a jolly
good time.
The forenoon was taken up in social
intercourse aud then followed a big dinner provided from the well filled baskets
taken along by the participants. The
alternoon program was:
Prayer Rev. R. L. Leathermae
"My Country 'Tis ot Thee"	
.... Miss Margaret, Ralph and
D. W. Fox and Mrs. Ella Andrews
Our Hero C. K. Fo*
Vocal Solo, "Pickaninny Lullaby"..
 Miss Irene Bowers
Recitation, "A Sisterly Scheme" ...
 Miss Sadie Fox
Recall        .Selected
Piano Duet Misses
Margaret   Fox  and  Delia Leeper
Short Talks	
George   W.   Stoner, Mrs. Williana
Stoner,   Mrs.   Ella Andrews, Mrs.
Burton, William Stoner,   John   L.
Ruth,   Revs.   Messrs.    Updegraph.
and Guyer.
Vocal Solo, "I Love You, Dear"....
    .  Miss Anna Edwards
Illustrations David W. Fox
Vocal Quartet	
.. Misses Nettie Fox and Clara
Stoner, J. L. Ruth and Erskine Fox;
"Uncle Dave" Fox, tbe honored head
of the clan and a nonegenarian, was
booked (or a speech, but he begged to be
excused owing to his splendid performance at the table.
The election of officers resulted as
follows: President, C. K. Fox; vice
president, D. W. Fox; secretary, E. T.
Fox; treasurer, George W. Stoner. These
officials and tbe chairmen of the various
committees will constitute the executive
committee. It was decided to hold next
year's reunion one week earlier. The
following interesting history was read by
President Fox:
Having in August traced the other
Fox families I now haste to trace the
(Continued on page two.)
Probably Fatal Explosion.
John Smith, aged 16 years, was probably fatally burned Saturday last by the
explosion of a keg of powder in the
basement of the general store of his
father, James Smith, at Westmoreland
City, this county. He wanted to get
powder for a customer and is thought to
have dropped a match into the keg. The
fire that followed damaged the building
to the extent ol some $2,000.
COMMON PLEAS COURT.
A Number of Cases of Local Interest Bit.
posed Of.
In common pleas court at Greensburg
Saturday Judge Doty granted an order,
on tbe petition of G. B. Shaw, one of
Hon. Berkey H. Boyd's attorneys, directing tbe state to pay the costs in Mr.
Boyd's legislative contest. The amount
is between $400 and $500.
A petition of Mouut Pleasant township
taxpayers, asking viewers for a bridge at
Shoup's across the Sewickley creek, was
presented.
Sewickley and North Huntingdon
township taxpayers asked in a petition.
the appointment of viewers for the location of a bridge across the Big Sewickley creek.
Busi less Men With Us.
The third annual meeting of the Retail
Merchants and Business Men's Association, held at Greensburg on Wednesday
last, was attended by representative citizens from all over Western Pennsylvania who were addressed by able speakers on topics of vital interest to that
body. Among tbe resolutions adopted
was one recognizing the justice of the
demands made by Mount Pleasant ok
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for
an adequate passenger service by the
extension of its Mount Pleasant branch,
through to Hecla. Charles A. Grant,
spoke on behalf of this action.
Silver Wedding Jubilee.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Carr, of Church
street, celebrated the 25th anniversary ot
their wedding Saturday evening with
some thirty gift-bearing friends from,
this place, Scottdale, Vanderbilt and Iron.
Bridge.    A dainty lunch was served.