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MOUNT   PLEASANT,    WESTMORELAND   COTXNTY,   PA.      WEDNESDAY,    APRIL   24.    1912.
O. 17
HE ANNUAL
BASKET PICNIC
AND REUNION
field by the Mount Pleasant
Society in California
It eastlake park on april 6
fHEN   MAN?   FORMER  RESIDENTS OF
THIS PLACE PARTICIPATED.
fhe Gathering was Held Earlier than
Usual to Bid Farewell to Mrs. Lydia
Tinstman Who Comes East to Reside With Her Son Ben at Glens
Palls, NY. Captain James A. Loar
Asked to be Relieved of the Presidency but was Forced to Accept of
a Re-election.
Baldwin Park, California, April 8,
|°12, Editor Journal. The Mount Pleas-
Int Society held its annual basket picnic
lad reunion at East Lake Park, Los An-
leles, California, April 6, 1912. This was
larlier in the year than usual, but it was
lie wish of the members to bid farewell
Mrs. H. O. Tinstman who is soon to
leave for Glens Falls, N. Y., where she
Ixpects to make her home with her son
len, following the death of her husband,
laptain H. O. Tinstman, which occurred
february 6, 1912. An ideal day and a
lounteous dinner and a congenial crowd
Ire the essentials for a successful picnic
|nd as these requirements were fully met
: goes witnout saying that the aflair was
success.
Forty-three sat down to the long table
pread in the park, and did ample jus-
fee to the good things before them. Be-
ore leaving the table the business of the
ociety was transacted. Captain Loar,
Inder strong protest, was re-elected
Iresident, Mrs. Olive J. Hurst vice
(resident, Mrs. M. D. Heath and Mrs.
flizabeth Overholt Richey were re-elect-
secretary and assistant secretary, re-
pectively, aud Mrs. T. A. Cunningham
Iras re-elected chairman of the recep-
lon committee.
I The president stated why the meeting
|ad  been called  earlier than usual and
poke   feelingly of the death of Captain
O. Tinstman.    He paid a high tribute
i his character and also to that of Mrs.
tinstman.
On   motion   Mrs. H. O. Tinstman and
, C. Patterson, of Mount Pleasant, were
llected   honorary  life   members of the
ociety.   To Mrs. Tinstman the members
tndered their love and sympathy in her
fereavment   and best wishes for her fu-
ire peace  and   happiness.    Mrs. Tinst-
lian thanked the society and promised a
ptter for the annual meeting.   The sectary   was instructed   to write to   Mr.
tatterson, notifying him of his election
ithe society of which he was the origi-
lator.    After registering the society ad-
[jurned to meet at such time and place
i the officers should designate.
Those present were: Mrs. Emma West,
If  Cleveland, O.;   from   Pasadena, Cal,
Ir. and Mrs. T. A. Cunningham, Mrs. R.
McDowell, Mrs. H. O. Tinstman, Mrs.
Iharles   Wade,   Kenneth   Wade;    from
Jong   Beach,   Mrs. Olive Stauffer, James
ad Mrs.   Lavina  Stauffer; Mrs. John R.
leath,   Quiucy, 111.;   Andrew Williams,
Monrovia, Cal.; from Sawtelle, Capt. J. A.
(,oar and Mrs. S. W. Burchill; from Bald-
Park, Dr.   and Mrs.   M.   D.   Heath;
torn   Los   Angeles,   Mr. and Mrs. G. C.
falley and   daughter, Cleora, son, John
lerle,   Mrs. Olive J.   Hurst, Mrs. Elizabeth Overholt Richey, H. A. Richey, R.
Armor, Florence   Armor, Cleveland
teath,   Mrs. F. N. Wade, Mrs. McCand-
pss, Mrs. Jennie Stevens Bedell, Mr. and
W.   W.   Buckingham,   Miss Marie
Irown,   I. T. Tyson, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
labe, Mrs.   Geo.  Denning, Mrs. Frances
lyon  Eckles,  Mrs.  Letitia Lucas, E. T.
•alley:   from   Ramona  Acres,    Arthur
laupe, Mrs. J. J. Shupe, Mildred Shupe;
|f Colton, Roy Foster.
Margaret Heath, Secretary.
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The White Star liner Titanic, the largest, fastest and most Itmiriously appointed boat In the world, struck an iceberg when 600
miles off Cape Sable while on her maiden trip and sunk in less than two hours and a half. Of the 2,181 passengers and members of the crew only 705 were saved, having been picked up by the Cunard liner Oarpathla after drifting about In open boats
for hours. John Jacob Astor and Major A. W. Butt the president's aid, were among the notables who perished. Captain Smith
A senate committee met the Carpathia on her arrival in New York and began an Investigation into the cause of the wreck.   J.
News Snapshots
Of the Week
went down with his ship.
Bruce Ismay, head of the International Mercantile Marine, who was a passenger on the Titanic and was directing her maiden trip, was the chief witness.
COMERS AND GOERS.
Paragraphs Abont Prominent   People Gathered During the Week.
Mrs. Sadie Eaton, of Brownsville, was
the guest ol relatives here on Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Zimmerman is in Boston,
Mass., visiting her  youngest son, Rufus.
Miss Mary Grimm, of Kecksburg, spent
Sunday with Miss Dolly Kalp, of near
Carpentertown.
Supt. and Mrs. William Ramsay, of
Coral, Indiana county, spent Sunday
here with relatives and old friends.
Frank Reamer, wife and little daughter, of Greensburg, were here Sunday
wilh Mrs. Reamer's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. F. Miller.
Rev. R. L. Leatherman is at Jeannette
attending a meeting of the Greensburg
Conference of the Pittsburg Synod of
the Lutheran Church.
Mrs. J. R. Robinson returned Thursday from a six months' stay with her
father in New Castle, Pa., following the
death of her mother, Mrs. James McLane.
Rev. S. W. Douglas, formerly pastor of
the Middle Presbyterian church but now
corresponding secretary of Wooster College at Wooster, Ohio, was here over
Sunday with old friends.
Dr. M. W. Horner, the clever secretary
of the Westmoreland County Medical
Society, represented Mount Pleasant at
the annual banqnet held by that organization at the Hotel Seiler, Greensburg,
last Tuesday evening.
Robert A. Ramsay, mining engineer
for the Shawmut Coal Mining Company
at Byrnedale, Elk county, was here with
relatives and old friends several days
last week. He came to Greensburg to
take his wife and little son home.
NICE RECEPTION
|iven by the Local Protected Home Circle
Friday Evening.
The local Protected Home Circle hand-
bmely entertained over two hundred
kembers and friends in Red Men's Hall
Iriday evening. Frank P. Eicher was at
ke head of the excellent committee of
rrangement. A toothsome lunch was
erved following a short address by Su-
Ireme Orator Evans, of Sharon, Pa.
The full program was: Recitation, Al-
En Athie; recitation, Edna Eicher; song,
kichael Mullen; vocal duet, Mary Har-
lum and Ed. Huffman; recitation, Will-
Lm Carr; vocal solo, William McNaugh-
bu; dialogue, Misses Shupe and Easton;
local duet, Stewart and Roy Eicher; vi-
pin solo, Stewart Eicher.
DEATHS OF THE WEEK.
The Grim Reaper's Work In This Place and
Vicinity.
Col. George F. Ruff.
Col. George F. Hun, of Greensburg,
one of the most prominent coal epera-
tors, bankers and statesmen in Western
Pennsylvania, died early last Thursday
morning at his Washington City winter
home after a long illness of a complication of diseases, aged 69 years. The body
was brought to Greensburg Saturday
morning and buried from the Protestant
Episcopal church. He is survived by
his widow, who was Miss Henrietta Bur-
rell, three sons, Col. Lloyd B., Julian B.
and Burrell R., and Mrs. Murray Cobb,
ot Washington, D. C.
George Franklin Huff was born in Nor-
ristown, Pa., learned the carfmishcr's
trade in the Pennsylvania railroad
shops at Altoona and came in 1867 to
Greensburg where he first engaged in the
banking business and from that time
until ill health compelled his retirement
he took .a leading part in the development of Westmoreland county's great
coal and railroad interests as well as of
its moneyed institutions.
He was elected to the State Senate on
the Republiean ticket in 1884 and to
Congress from this district for four
terms in addition to serving one term as
a Congressman-at-Large. He was a hardworking member of tbe Lower House
where his greatest achievement was the
passage of an act establishing the National Bureau of Mines.
Mace Hartwig.
Mace Hartwig, a veteran coke worker,
died Saturday at his Bridgeport home,
aged 82 years. He leaves a tamily of
grown children.
THE OFFICIAL FIGURES
Make   Practically   No   Changes   in   Early
Election Returns.
The official figures make practically no
changes from the early returns of the
uniform primary election in this county.
The only contests on the Democratic
side were for national delegates, Captain
John B. Keenan and Major James M.
Laird, both of Greensburg, winning out
with 2,448 and 2,499, respectively; and
for state delegates, which Burgess Collins, of this place, and V. E. Gill got in
this district with 241 and 163 votes, respectively. The Republican vote was:
CONGRESS.
Keister    6,196
Robbins 5,736
McJunken      917
Robbins got the Keystone nomination
with 3 votes to Congressman Greggs 2.
STATE SENATE.
Sensenich            5,615
Ogden   5,187
McCurdy   1,995
LEGISLATURE.
(First District.)
Neel   1,996
Ulerich   1 955
Koontz   1,796
(Second District.)
Schuck  5.016
Ely 4,790
McAllister     4,625
Blank. .'  4,432
Daugherty.    3,730
Dickie 3,705
As noted last week, all the Roosevelt
delegates, national and state, were elected. Joe Kelly, of Latrobe, was the only
Taft supporter who landed safely, the
Roosevelt people having but one candidate in this district, Dr. J. W. Shelar, of
this place.
HON. GEORGE W. HUFF
WHO DIED AT HIS WASHINGTON WINTER
HOME THURSDAY.
Mrs. J. J. Miller, of Ronco, Fayette
county, returned home last week after a
visit paid relatives and old friends here.
Then her husband, the H. C. Frick Coke
Company's veteran mine roadman, came
over and remained until Sunday.
Mrs. Frank Simmons and son, Master
William, of West Leisenring, and sister,
Mrs. Ray Millward, and daughter, Jean,
were here last week in company with
Robert Nicholdson, wife and family, of
Hastings, Pa. The three ladies are daughters of Supt. and Mrs. W. S. Ramsay, of
Whitlaw.
SIGN OF THE CROSS.
Items of Special Interest to tha Local
Chnrch  Goers.
The Lutheran Sunday school and congregation of town will conduct "Rally
Day" service on Sunday next, beginning
at 9:30 a. m. The Sunday school and
church will be run together, making one
service. This service will consist of
special music and addresses. Mr. Augustine, Mr. Sipes and Mr. D. L. Ruff
will deliver the addresses. Come, you
will be made welcome. Rev. R. L.
Leatherman will also conduct preaching
service at Ruftsdale at 2:30 p. m.
The services at the Grand Opera House,
conducted by the United Brethren congregation of this city, still grow in size
and interest. If you are not going to
church and Sunday school elsewhere
come and be with us. Yon will find a
hearty welcome.
Rev. George Dietz, of Connellsville,
will hold German services in the Scottdale English Lutheran church at 2:30 p.
m. Sunday next on "If ye then be risen
with Christ, seek those things which are
above; for your life is hid with Christ
in God."    All are cordially invited.
Powder Mill Lets Go.
Wheel house No. 1 and a mixing department at the Oriental, Fayette county,
plant of the Dupont Powder Company
let go late Sunday night. No one was
hurt, but considerable damage was done,
many windows being broken in Fairchance, two miles away.
Preacher Fishes Well.
Rev. Mr. Postlethwait, pastor ot the
local U. B. church, M. A. King, H. C.
Morrison, W. F. Smith and R. H. Goodman were at Kregar two days the first of
last week for the opening of the trout
season. It was the reverend gentleman's
first try at trout, but he caught more
than his share of the thirteen dozen
taken. "Chip" King and "Billy" Smith
divided the table honors.
AMONG TITANIC SURVIVORS
Were Three   Ladles Well Known to Mount
Pleasant People.
Among the survivors of the White
Star liner Titanic, which struck an ice
berg and went down off the Grand Banks
of Newfoundland early Monday morning
of last week, were three ladies well
known to many Mount Pleasant people
—Mrs. Edward R. Robert, of St. Louis,
Missouri, her daughter by her first mar
riage, Miss Georgette Madil, and her
niece, Miss Elizabeth Walton Allen.
Mrs. Elizabeth Robert is the younger
danghter of the late Rev. Dr. John Mc
Millian, tbe first pastor of the Mount
Pleasaht Re-Union Presbyterian church
whose first husband was Judge Madil;
while Miss Allen is a daughter of her
older sister, Mrs. Lilly Allen.
A VETERAN
RIVER CAPTAIN
PASSES AWAY
When John Noss Dies at the
Local Hospital Thursday.
HE BUGAN AS CANAL BOAT DRIVER
BUT
SOON   ROSE TO COMMANDER AND
OWNER OF 8TEAMB0ATS.
MIGHTY NICE SPREAD
Given Monnt Pleasant Township School Directors by Teachers.
The teachers of Mount Pleasnnt township, headed by Supervising Principal
and Mrs. John H. Elliott, gave the members of the board of education a mighty
nice spread at the Ruder Inn Friday
evening last. While the directors were
all a trifle too full for utterance when
the last course had been served, each did
tell the genial hosts how grateful he was.
Representing the board there were
present: Isaac Sherrick and daughter,
Miss Sara, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bitz, Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Albert, Dr. and Mrs. A.
A. Beacom, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Fisher,
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Johnston and F. A.
Marsteller.
The specially invited outsiders were
County Superintendent and Mrs. Robert
S. Shaw, Prof. U. L. Gordy, head of the
local schools, and J. L. Spiegel, principal of the  Hempfield township schools.
COKE AND COAL.
Engagement Announced.
The Rev. and Mrs. H. A. Kimmel, of
Somerset, Pa., announce the engagement
of their daughter, Miss Nina B. Kimmel,
to A. Brooks Horner, son oi Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Horner, of this place. The wed-
ing will take place in June.
Items of Interest Gathered from Both Mine
and Yard.
The   coke   trade   continues   to move
right   along with all the Frick ovens in
blast, making six days.
The first shipment of Indian Creek
Valley coal for commercial purposes
was made from the W. G. Rogers mine
at Rogers Mill. It was but one car taken
by the Superba Coal Company, of Connellsville, for export.
The Frick people will remove all their
houses at Alice except the upper row
whose occupants, after the plant is
worked out in about three years, will
work at Morewood.
P. S. Wolfersberger, bookkeeper at
Tarr, has been transferred by the Frick
company to its Painter plant where the
work is much lighter for that gentleman
whose age will lead to his retirement
next December.
Local Weddings.
Frank Pfeiper and Miss Annie Hock-
man, both of this place, were married
Wednesday evening at the Shupe street
home of the bride's father, Frank Hock-
man, by Rev. R. L. Leatherman, the local
Lutheran pastor. Young Mr. and Mrs.
Pfeifer will reside here.
Ira Shaw, Jr., son of Ira Shaw, Sr., the
Fayette County Gas Company's local
agent, and Miss Bertha Welshonse,
daughter of Mr and Mrs. D. F. Welshonse, of near Acme postoffice, were married Thursday afternoon at the parsonage of the local Reformed church by
Rev. E. R. Deatrick. Young Mr. and
Mrs. Shaw will reside in Cleveland, O.,
where the groom is employed in the
White automobile works.
Charles A. Glendenning, ot near Scottdale, and Miss Annie Meltz, of Iron
Bridge, were married here Friday by
Justice Rhoades at his Main street office.
CHARLES PROSS
WHO HAS TO ENLARGE HIS LOCAL CLOTHING DEPARTMENT.
A Star Pupil.
Russell Miller, the 12-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Miller, is one of the
happiest youngsters in Donegal township. He has just finished a full term
of school at Gay's without having missed
either a day or a single word in spelling. He has two stars for each day to
prove its excellent record, too.
He Bendered the Union Cause Valuable Services on Southern Rivers
During the Civil War as he Did the
Canadian Government Later Exploring the Big Streams of tha
Great Northwest. He Came to
Mount Pleasant With the Bryce
Glass People for Whom he Worked
Until 111 Health Compelled Him to
Retire.
Captain John Noss died at the Mount
Pleasant Memorial Hospital Thursday
morning at 5:30 o'clock of dropsy, aged
76 years, having been born of pioneer
stock in Beaver county March 10, 1836.
The funeral services were conducted at
the East End home Saturday afternoon
by Rev. Mr. Lorimer, pastor of the United Presbyterian church, of which the
deceased was a member, and the interment followed in the cemetery by the
side of his son Jesse who fell in the battle of Malate, Philippine Islands, July
31, 1898, in the Spanish-American war
for which he enlisted with Company E,
Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment.
Captain Noss' life work was done on
the great rivers of this country—the
Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri and Red, of
the North. His river experience began
when a mere boy, riding the horses that
towed the keel-boats from the mouth of
the Beaver river to Pittsburg, the month
of the Beaver being the southern end of
the old Erie canal.
As soon as steam came into use on the
Ohio, the keel-boats were abandoned
and Captain Noss began his real experience as a steam boat-man, rising rapidly
from position as cabin-boy on the Equator to captain of the Fontonelle.
During the Civil war he owned the
steamer Iron City and was drafted with
it and all its crew into government
transport and dispatch service. At one
time a whole company of cavalry, Capt.
Cottman, commander, was marooned on
a point of land along the Tennessee
river, near Gravelly Springs, Florence,
Alabama. The river was at the highest
flood stage and all the low country i«-
undated. A farmer in an old dugout or
canoe came out to the Iron City as she
was speeding down the river with dispatches for General Grant at Corinth,
and told of Capt. Cottman's danger. The
Iron City was immediately turned shoreward and went inland over the flooded
district about three miles until they
came upon the marooned company, most
of whom rfere up in trees. Their horses
were nearly frozen, as it was early
spring, and had to be hauled aboard the
boat with ropes. Not a man was drowned
—600 in all—nor a horse—but almost
the whole stock of commissary goods
that they were guarding went sailing oR
on the flood.
At the elose of the war the Iron City
was sold and the Oil City was built.
Later on the large steamer Importer was
built. After selling the Importer, Captain Noss worked for the Kountz Line
lor ten years and then went to Canada.
to work for the Hudson Bay Fur Company and incidentally to aid in exploring and opening up the territory of the
great North West. He took the little
Steamer Marquette up the Assiniboine
river, the first trip of white men in a
boat propelled by steam on any river of
the Northwest. The Canadian government survey corps were with him on
this trip and also on exploring trips up
the Saskatchawan and McKenzie rivers.
The last fifteen years of his life were
spent in Mount Pleasant where he was
employed by Bryce Brothers Company
as long as he was able to work. Besides
his widow and daughter, Miss Carrie E,
he leaves five sons—George W., of Pittsburg; R. Wallace, of Freedom; James R.t
of Aliquippa; John G. and Frank, of
Mount Pleasant.
Philippine Veteran Drowned.
The dead body of Richard J. Cross-
land, of Connellsville, a sergeant in the
regular army, was found last Sunday in
Pensacola harbor, Florida. He was 36
years of age, served with Company D in
the Philippines aud leaves a widow and
three children in Connellsville.
The Store That Grows.
Charles Pross, the Main street men's
and boys' outfitter, finds that his clothing department has again outgrown its
present space, and is compelled to enlarge his clothing department and remodel the store front in order to accommodate his growing patronage. F. H.
Hurst has secured the contract for the
necessary alterations and will commence
work within a very short time. When
completed Mr. Pross will have the most
complete and up-to-date store in Western Pennsylvania.