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VOL.  37.
MOUNT   PLEASANT,    WESTMORELAND    COUNTY,    PA.     WEDNESDAY,    JULY    16,    1913.
No. 29
LIKE A THIEF
IN THE NIGHT
DEATH (HIS
To Two More of Mount Pleas-
ant's Old Soldiers.
JOSEPH   S.   OVERHOLT    IS   FIRST
TO ANSWER THE CALL OF  THE OKEAT
CAPTAIN.
Ill for but a Day or So, He Rises from
the "Breakfast Table Friday Morning to Fall Dead on the Floor, a
Victim of Heart Trouble—Samuel
Anderson Quickly Follows to the
Other Side at His East Washington
Street Home Monday Night.
Joseph S. Overholt.
Joseph S. Overholt died suddenly at
his South Church street home shortly
after 7 o'clock Friday morning, aged 69
years. He spent but part of one day at
the Gettysburg reunion and came home
in his usual excellent health. On Wednesday last he took the first illness of
his life, a sort of cold, he called it, that
effected the whole body although he was
able to be out on the street. He arose
at his usual early hour Friday morning.
At the breakfast prepared by his wife
he drank a glass of milk just as she
stepped from the room and on her return
she found him lying on the floor unconscious. His son, Avery, had not then
come down from his room, but in a few
minutes E. E. Zuck, who was called in
from the street, summoned Dr. J. W.
Shelar, although before that physician
could respond the attack of heart trouble
had proved fatal. Another old Civil war
veteran had answered the Great Captain's
call.
Joseph Shallenberger Overholt was a
son of Martin D. Overholt and was born
on a farm just north of where Scottdale
now stands. Robbed of his mother by
death when a small boy he was reared
by Grandfather Abraham Overholt at the
old West Overton homestead. He enlisted and served in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry during the Civil war
and after being discharged was married
to Miss Annie Smith, of this place.where
they spent most of their married life
with a few years residence in Virginia
and New Jersey. He ran a store here for
a time and for some years past manufactured tobies.
With their mother there survive two
sons, Avery at home and Edward in New
York; three grandchildren, Misses Anna
and Eva Plotner. and Master Joseph St.
Clair who was on his way with his
cousin, Miss Eva Plotner, to visit his
father and the latter's sister at Gary, Indiana, when their grandfather died. One
sister, Mrs. Lizzie Overholt, who married
her second cousin, is living at Maybell,
Colorado. Two married daughters are
dead.
JOSEPH  S.  OVERHOLT.
Mr. Overholt was for many years a
member of the Methodist Episcopal
church whose pastor, Rev. C. P. Salla-
day, conducted divine services at the
house Monday afternoon, the interment
following in the cemetery.
Samuel Anderson.
Samuel Anderson, aged 76 years, another fine old gentleman and veteran of
the Civil war, died suddenly of apoplexy
at 2 a. m. yesterday at the East Washington street residence of his only son, T.
O. Anderson, with whom he made his
home. He was able to attend Mr. Over-
holt's funeral the day before and retired
in his usual health that night. An unusual cough about 11 o'clock drew his
son to the bedside to find his father unconscious and three hours later the end
came.
Mr. Anderson enlisted in the 122nd
Ohio Volunteers and was a rebel prisoner
at both Andersonville and Belle Island.
He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. The body will be taken
to Newcomerstown, Ohio, for burial by
the side of his wife who died three years
ago.
Mrs. William Richardson, Jr.
Mrs. Carrie Mae Richardson, the young
wife   of   William   Richardson, Jr., and
oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. K.
Miller, of Scottdale, died at her Birmingham, Alabama, home, last Monday
following an operation. The body was
brought to Scottdale where the interment, which took place there Friday afternoon, was attended by many of the
bright young woman's Mount Pleasant
friends. Her father is the H. C. Frick
Coke Company's chief engineer.
Obituary Notes.
Harry Harbaugh, a well known Bull-
skin township citizen, died Tuesday at
his Cross Roads home aged 77 years. He
leaves a widow and four children.
Mabel Irene, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Lentz, died Friday at her Hitchman
street home, agen 6 months.
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Grindle, of East Washington street,
died Sunday.
COMERS AND GOERS.
Paragraphs About prominent  People Gathered During the Week.
Mrs.   David   Shafter  is  spending two
weeks with Donegal friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Sherrick, of
Baltimore, are here visiting relatives and
old friends.
Mrs. Sadie Ramsay spent last week at
Brownsville with her daughter, Mrs.
Sadie Eaton.
Mrs. Susan Hay and her son, Harry,
are spending two weeks with relatives
at Casselman.
Misses Ethel and Isabel Rhoades visited relatives and friends about Beuna
Vista the past week.
Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Shively, of Bush-
nell, Illinois, are here visiting that gentleman's old mother.
Miss Gertrude Neel, of Greensburg,
spent last week here with her aunts,
Misses Rachel and Sarah Neel.
Mrs. Mary J. Myers is just home from
an extended visit paid her sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth Shafter, of Greensburg.
Miss Edith Walker, who was here visiting Miss Bertha Springer, has returned
to her home at Dillonvale, Ohio.
J. M. Leasure, wife and two children,
of Altoona, were here last week visiting
Mrs. A. B. Kautz, of West Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. William Dorwart, of Detroit, Michigan, are here visiting the latter's  parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Miller.
Mrs. L. W. Truxal and daughter, Mrs.
John Selvis, of Youngwood, were here
Wednesday as guests of Mrs. Anna Mor-
timore.
Mrs. Howard Wright and daughter,
Mistress Christine, of Akron, Ohio, spent
Sunday here with their cousin, Mrs. S.
M. Kennedy.
Miss Edith Warden, who is now privileged as a Kansan to vote if she wishes,
is here to spend the heated term with
her brother, Eugene.
Charles Swartz, one of the seven hundred or more Union Civil war veterans
who reside at St. Cloud, Florida, is here
visiting relatives and old friends.
Master Marshall and Mistress Gladys
Williams, of East Pittsburg, were here
the past week as guests of their uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Williams.
Mrs. Lloyd George, of Pittsburg, who
was here last week visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Rose, took her sister.
Miss Mary Rose, back with her on a
visit.
Mrs. Richard Gerecter went to New
York Monday to meet her husband on
his return yesterday from his trip to
Germany. They are expected home tomorrow.
J. George Jackson, a Baltimore electrician, is the guest of his cousin, Postmaster H. J. Jordan. He is chief engineer for the Pennsylvania Water and
Power Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Frick, of Woos-
ter, Ohio, were here over Sunday as
guests of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Braddock. Mr. Frick and Mrs. Braddock are
brother and sister.
Christopher Lobingier, a Union veteran now living in Georgia and a brother
of the late Jacob Lobingier, is here visiting relatives and old friends after having attended the Gettysburg reunion.
Mrs. Frank W. Jackson and daughters,
Mistresses Marion and Margaret, of New
York, and Mrs. Mary Shupe, of West
Newton, spent part of the past week here
as guests of their aunt, Miss Maria Overholt.
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Express Agent in Trouble.
H. A. Lewis, late agent for the Adams
Express Company at Scottdale, is under
arrest charged with embezzlement of
some $1,800. He admits a shortage which
he says is due to drivers not having
turned over their collections to him.
Frances P. O'Hara, a driver, has also been
arrested.
THE    NEW   KOBACKER    BLOCK
As it Will Look When Completed About October Next and Occupied by That
Firm all Except one Room for the Woolworth People.
ANNUAL REPORTS
Of the Memorial Hospital and Justice Free
Dispensary.
Following are the annual reports of
the Mount Pleasant Memorial Hospital
and the Jacob Justice Free Dispensary
for the year ending June 1, 1913:
HOSPITAL.
Patients admitted  600
Patients remaining June 1, 1912  30
Total treated  690
Free patients  441
Pay patients  249
Roco veries  601
Improved.     41
Unimproved  9
Deaths  39
Births      12
Hospital days  16,192
Operations  366
HOSPITAL, JUNE,  1913.
Patients treated  78
Males  45
Females  43
Free patients  46
Pay patients  32
Births  1
Hospital days 1,130
DISPENSARY 1912-13.
Patients admitted  450
Return visits  824
Prescriptions        464
X- Ray photos  24
Dressings  678
Admitted to hospital  46
Examined by doctor  67
Minor operations  44
Total  2,597
DISPENSARY FOR JUNE.
Patients treated  22
Admitted to hospital  1
Return visits  29
Prescriptions filled.  13
X-Ray photos  2
Minor operations  8
Dressings  57
Examined by doctor  7
Total  139
Trotter Horror.
In a supposed fit of jealousy over an
unborn child, George Meholic, a Slavish
coke worker at Trotter, early Monday
morning last, with a revolver shot and
killed his wife and three children, Irene,
Andrew and Anton, aged, respectively,
8, 6 and 3 years, and then committed
suicide by the same means. Two older
sons sleeping in another room escaped
by running from the house.
Free Band Concert.
The Municipal Band will give a free
concert in Frick Park tomorrow (Thursday) evening, beginning promptly at
8:15. A varied program will be given.
Mr. William McNaughton, the popular
local singer, will render two numbers,
accompanied by the band. It rain interferes the concert will be given on the
following Tuesday evening.
DIVORCE MIXUP
In Which the Head of the Jeannette Schools
is a Principal.
Nearly two years ago Theodore B.
Shank, for the past six years the head of
the Jeannette schools, got a divorce on
the grounds of desertion from his wife,
Helen Louise Weybell, who is now living with her mother in Harrisburg. He
agreed to pay her a monthly allowance,
but it seems be got back in these payments. Mrs. Shank then petitioned the
court for an annulment of the divorce
decree, claiming collusion, and Judge J.
W. Reed, ot Jefferson county, specially
presiding in Westmoreland county, on
June 14, annulled the divorce decree.
Last week Mrs. Shank's suit for maintenance was heard in the Dauphin county
court and she was awarded $50 a month.
In the meantime Shank had become engaged to Miss Marie Reese, aged 23 and
pretty, a daughter of a wealthy lumberman at Snow Shoe. Several showers have
been tendered in her honor, although the
date of the marriage had not yet been
announced. In order that the nuptials
may not be delayed, Shank has just filed
another application for divorce at Greensburg.
SIGN OF THE CROSS.
Itejas of Special Interest to the Local
Church   Goers.
The local ministers and Bible classes
have decided to have an evangelistic
meeting here early in 1914 conducted by
Rev. Mr. Hall, of Braddock, who carries
his own street tent.
Rev. R. L. Leatherman, the local Lutheran pastor, will preach on Sunday
next in town at 10:30 a. m. and at Rufts-
dale at 2:30 p. m. The public is most
cordially invited to attend these services.
The general public will find a generous
welcome at the local United Brethren
church next Lord's Day at 9:30 a. m.
Come and bring your friends.
There will be communion at the First
Baptist church Sunday morning next
when the pastor, Rev. E. T. Humpton,
will speak on "Christian Fidelity; It's
Constancy."
Quiet Weddings.
Martin Fedders, of this place, and Miss
Barbara Sinkula, of Scottdale, were married Wednesday at the local Church of
God parsonage by Rev. J. L. Updegraph.
Monday afternoon last the same reverend gentleman tied the nuptial knot
for John McCormick and Miss Hazel
Halley, both of this place.
Sabbath Evening Union Meetings
for July and August
DATES, PLACES AND SPEAKERS
July 13—Re-Union Presbyterian Church Rev. E. N. Bowman
July 20—United Presbyterian Church  Rev. H. C. Hutchison
July 27—Baptist Church Rev. Wm. M. Lorimer
August 3—Reformed Church Rev. C. P. Salladay
August 10—Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. E. R. Deatrick
August 17—United Brethren Church Rev. E. T. Humpton
August 24—Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. Lawrence Keister, D. D.
August 31—United Brethren Church Rev. S. L. Postlethwait
SERVICES   AT   7!30   X   EVERYBODY  WELCOME
COKE AND COAL.
Items of Interest Gathered from Both Mine
and Tard.
With the long drawn out Fourth of
July celebration over and cool weather
prevailing, coke making was a lot better
and easier the past week.
The Frick Veteran Association will
hold its seventh annual basket picnic at
Idlewild Park Thursday, July 24. The
special Southwest train's time at Tarr is
8 a. m. and the round trip rate from there
is adults, 70 cents; children, 45 cents. Returning, the train will leave the park
about 6 p. m. The association will furnish all with free coffee, cream and lemonade.
Work will soon begin on the erection
of sixty houses at the model plant of the
Greensburg Coal & Coke Company on
the Zellers farm northwest of Greensburg.
Applications for receivers for six coal
companies, in which the Kuhns are interested, were granted in the United
States Court at Pittsburg Wednesday.
The companies affected are the United,
Pittsburg & Baltimore, Somerset-Smokeless. Isabella-Connellsville, Merchants
and Naomi.
The Etna-Cbnnellsville Coke Company
has entered suit at Uniontown against
the Whyel Coke Company, a Uniontown
concern, for $10,442.62, $7,459.65 of which
is for coke shipped by the plaintiff and
accepted by the defendant during the
month of May, 1913, and the remaining
$2,982.97 is for loss on the sale of coke
which the plaintiff elaims to have man-
factured for the defendant on a contract,
but which the defendant refused to accept.
MOTOR CYCLE RACES.
Exciting Events Prmised at Youngwood Fair
Grounds Saturday Next.
The second series of motorcycle races
will be held at Youngwood fair grounds
Saturday, July 19, at 2 p. m.and gives
every promise of thrills aplenty for the
most ardent speed fan.
Four crack Cleveland, O., riders will
be there and Youngstown, O., Columbus,
New Castle and Pittsburg and vicinity
will compete. Johnstown will send
down a couple of crack riders.
All of the riders in the last races with
one or two exceptions will ride there
again. Roth, the great Altoona rider
who won all the races at the fair last
fall, and Schmidt, the Pittsburr star, are
great rivals. They will ride in a number
of races and in addition these two riders
will go in a special 25-mile event. This
will be for an attractive side bet.
The track has been improved and
brought up to date since the last races
and it will, the managers ^declare, be in
perfect condition. Motorcycling is grow-
sng in popularity and Dr. Murray and
his associates will give the public what
it wants. The cash prizes are very attractive.
Murder at Forbes Boad.
Wyns Tunkas, a Hungarian, aged 25
years, was stabbed by Steve Lorencz, in
a drunken fight at Forbes Road, this
county, early Sunday morning and died
a few minutes later. Steve Lorencz, the
alleged murderer and his brother, Martin, were arrested and brought to the
county jail by state police.
HAPPY OCCASION.
AT THE HOME OF
MRSJUVODGB
To Celebrate  70th   Anniversary of That Lady's Birth,
AS    ARRANGED   FOR   BY   FRIENDS
WHO   GATHER   AT   HER HOME WHILE
SHE IS AB8ENT.
While of Course Greatly Surprised on
Her Return, She ±»roves a Willing
Victim of the Loving Scheme and
Enters Heartily Into all the Day's
Pleasures That Include Feasting,
Music and Social Intercourse. Other
Equally Enjoyable Social Events
in the Town the Past Week.
There was a happy gathering of relatives and old friends last Tnesday to the
home of H. B. Vough on the Alverton
road west of town to celebrate the 70th
anniversary of Mrs. Vough's birth. The
goodly company, bearing big baskets of
edibles and many tokens of love and esteem, assembled in the absence of Mrs.
Vough at the home of Mrs. Bair, a
scheming neighbor who brought her back
in due time very much surprised but
able to enjoy to the fullest the day's
festivities, in which the big dinner was
the leader, At the close of the repast J.
Clendenning made a few appropriate remarks in presenting the gifts, the remainder of the day being spent in games,
music and social intercourse.
There were present: W. H. Wadswortb,
wife and daughter Eleanor, Mr. and Mrs.
W. M. McMichael, Benjamin Bair, Mrs.
M. Beeson and daughter Jessie, Nellie
Morrow, Mrs. Clark Morrow and daughter Ethel, Mrs. W. Morrow and daughters Dessie and Zella, Miss Lida Reynolds, Mrs. J. H. Bair, Mrs. McGrew,
Mrs. C. L. Bair and children, Margaret
and David, L. K. Vough, wife and sons,
Warren and Harold, Mrs. J. H. Miller
and daughters, Mabel and Ida, Mrs. John
Bnttermore and daughter Olive, Miss
Ethel Porter, J. Clendenning, wife and
daughter May, Mrs. D. M. Fox and
daughters Imogene and Esther, Mrs. C.
M. Stoner and daughters Alberta, Sadie
and Emma Jean, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Morrow, Mrs. E. M. Shafter, Louis Miller,
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Swartz, Mr. and Mrs.
Stairs, Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. A. Shaffer and
children, Ethel and Clayton, Mrs. W.
Porter, Mrs. Mary Myers, Mrs. John Mc-
Bride and children, John and Lela.
A Few Social Events.
Mrs. Donald Keister gave a nickelodeon party for a few of her girl friends
at the Grand Opera House Thursday
evening, serving a lunch later at the East
End home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry C. Morrison.
Misses Juniata Husband and Viola
Kalp will give a tea this afternoon at the
former's South Eagle street home.
Mrs. Gerard S. Bryce gave a bridge
party at her Orchard Place home Friday
afternoon. The out of town guests were
from Pittsburg, Uniontown and Greensburg.
Miss Hattie and George Rose gave a
moonlight party for friends Friday evening at their country home west of town.
The Pittsburg guests were Mrs. Floyd
Rose and son, Robert, and Mrs. George
Rose and daughter, Miss Anna Myrtle.
Happy Family Gathering.
Mr. and Mrs. John L Beal, of near this
place, had the most glorious Independence Day celebration, with their sons,
daughters and grandchildren at the
"Pleasant Farm" home of J. E. Stewart
near Jeannette from which the round
trip was made as a hay ride. The national colors were in evidence even in the
orchard where the celebrants partook of
the fat of the land from the 60-foot tables
spread beneath the cool shade and on
the velvety grass. The joyous occasion
will likely be repeated next year at the
Beal homestead.
Home From Camp Gridley.
Captain Kalp's Company E boys returned Saturday morning from an eight
days' camp with the Second brigade at
Erie looking brown as berries. The work
done was comparatively light and, with
the Fourth of July and Perry celebrations as holidays, they greatly enjoyed
the outing while playing well their part
in all the Tenth regiment movements.
Little Bill Keller, who went along as
Captain John D. Hitchman's mascot, had
the time of his life.
Rev. Humpton Resigns.
Rev. Elliott T. Humpton on Sabbath
last announced his resignation to the
First Baptist people, to take effect at the
end of August. His plans for the future
are not yet complete.