Mount Pleasant journal (January 15, 1913)

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VOL. 87.
MOUNT   PLEASANT,   WESTMORELAND    COUNTY,    PA.     WEDNESDAY,     JANUARY    15,    1913.
NO. 3.
POLE FACTORY
TO BE PLACED
IN OPERATION
By the Crossarm Purchasers
as Soon as Possible
ACCORDING TO THE VICE PRESIDENT
WHO   WILL BE   HEBE FOB THAT PUR-
FOBE THIS WEEK.
He Will Have With Him General
Manager Wilson, of Hubbard & Co..
and in a Letter to Secretary S. C.
Stevenson Says the Business Outlook Makes it Necessary to Enlarge
the Local Plant to Meet the Demands Already Made For Their
Products.
That the East End steel pole factory will not only be placed in operation at an early date but is to be enlarged is the assurance given by Harry
D. McCutcheon, vice president of the
Pittsburg Crossarm Company whose
purchase of the local plant was noted
in these columns a few weeks ago.
The above information was contained
in a letter written from Pittsburg on
January 6th, by Mr. McCutcheon and
sent to S. C. Stevenson, of this place,
who acted as secretary for the steel pole
stockholders in the sale ol their holdings to the new crossarm people. In the
course of the letter the writer says:
"General Manager Wilson, of Hubbard
& Co., and I will be up within the next
ten days to arrange to put the plant in
operation just as soon as it can possibly
be done. From the statement enclosed
you will see that we will have to enlarge
the factory almost immediately to meet
the demands that are beiog made on us
for both poles and crossarms."
Mr. McCutcheon doesn't say how many
men his company expects to employ;
but, with an enlarged plant, the number
is pretty sure to run into the hundreds.
LICENSE APPLICANTS
News Snapshots
Of the Week
Great alarm was caused by the report thai the Doited States repair ship Panther was lost, with 120 meu, in the gale that swept
the Atlantic coast. It arrived safely at Quautanumo, however. George F. Baker, head of the First National bank of New
York, testified before the "money trust" inquiry at Washington. The Duchess of Counaught became seriously ill with peritonitis.    Frank Chance signed to manage the New York American league baseball team al a reputed salary of $25,000 a seasou.    It.
M. Johnston of Houston was named as successor to Joseph \V. Bfltley as senator from Texas.    "Lefty" Flynn, Yale's star fullback of the last season, eloped
with a N'ew York show girl and was not allowed to return to college.
COMERS AND GOERS.
Paragraphs About Prominent   People Gathered During the Week.
Sol Goldstone will leave Saturday to
spend a week with   friends at Bradtord.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Porter Borst, of Pit-
cairn, were here Sunday as guests of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Miller.
Misses Minnie
turned Saturday
visit paid Ohio
and friends.
and Etta Brinker re-
from a four months'
and Indiana relatives
They Number Six More This Year Than
Last.
Saturday, the last day for filing applications for license in this county, saw
the list grow to 228, six more than last
year. There are 3'i brewers and distilleries and 196 hotels that have applied.
There are at present 173 licensed hotels
in the county and 32 breweries and distilleries.
All the present holders of hotel licenses here have applied as has also Tony
Lombardi. There are likely to be two
changes, however, Thomas Boerio and
John Russo, Latrobe Italians, who recently bought the Mount Pleasant House
from James Gribbon, will apply for a
transfer of his license ten days before
license court which will be held on
March 24. John Polanofsky, who bought
back the East End Hotel from Terry
Donnelly some time ago, will also, it is
said, apply for a similar transfer.
GREAT MEETINGS
To be Held at Harrisburg on January 21-23
Next.
The four great agricultural organizations of this state—the Board of Agriculture, the Livestock Breeders, the Horticulturists and the Dairymen—all get together at Harrisburg next week (January
21-23) for their annual conventions and
shows of corn, fruit and dairy products.
Joint sessions three evenings, separate
sessions in the day time, show open all
the time!
Some names famous in American agriculture are found on the long list of
speakers. Among them: A. P. Sandles,
Ohio's Secretary of Agriculture; W. E.
Skinner, Secretary of the National Dairy
Show; N. H. Gentry, of Missouri, the
great breeder of hogs; Dick Stone, of Illinois, a noted sheepman and wit; Dr.
Chas. E. North, of New York, Secretary
of the New York Milk Committee; the
Fullertons, of Long Island, who have
solved the'problem of direct marketing;
and a host of others who discuss the
various problems before our people.
There will be demonstrations of many
kinds, illustrated lectures, and a show
of fruits, corn, dairy products, etc. The
slogan is boost Pennsylvania.
Miss Beatrice Walker, a trained nurse
now stationed at Homestead, was here
over Sunday with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John R. Walker.
Mrs. Laurence Wertz and daughters,
Mistresses Gladys and Romayne, and
sister, Miss Sadie Horner, left Saturday
for Meyersdale to visit friends.
Percy Shupe, a stenographer for the 4
States Coal & Coke Company at Farm-
ington, W. Va., spent Sunday here with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs, L. B. Shupe.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Jex celebrated
their 20th wedding anniversary Thursday by having a dozen friends to dine
that day at their Sycamore street home.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gisbert, of Myers-
dale, stopped off here last week to pay
their respscts to their uncle, Charles
Gisbert, while returning from a Pittsburg
trip.
Hon. Samuel Neel returned home
Wednesday evening following the adjournment of the Legislature. He was
one of the original Speaker Alter followers.
Mr. and Mrs. North W. Harrison, of
College avenue, had for their last week
end guests Mr. and Mrs. Gray W. Daugh-
erty, of McKeesport. The latter is Mrs.
Harrison's sister.
Captain J. Lloyd Kalp, of Company E,
returned Sunday from a convention of
his fellow national guard officers at
Scranton. Captains Kline and Anderson
were left behind at Williarasport where
they left the train to get a lunch.
Rev. E. R. Deatrick, of this place, and
Rev. Dr. E. S. Bromer, of Greensburg,
representing the Pittsburg Synod, left
last evening for Philadelphia where on
Friday next they will attend a meeting
of the Simultaneous Every Member
Canvass Committee of the Reformed
Church.
Mrs. U. L. Gordy returned Saturday
from Shamokin, Pa., where she was
called by the death of her mother, Mrs.
Weaver, on Christmas Eve. Mrs. Weaver
spent some time here with her daughter
and later went to California, from which
state she returned to her Shamokin home
when informed of the fatal nature of her
trouble.
ANNUAL   DONATION    DAY
To be Held at the Mount Pleasant Memorial Hospital
Tuesday Evening Next, January 21.
The annual donation day at the Mount   Pleasant   Memorial Hospital,
under the auspices of the   Hospital Aid Society, comes Tuesday afternoon
and evening, January 21,
the hours being from 2 to
5 and from 7 to 9. These
affairs, in addition to being
a source of considerable
revenue to that splendid
local institution, have very
enjoyable social features.
Everybody will be made
welcome. Miss Muller, the
■/ miP"UH BVHirO%l   thorough-going    superin
tendent, however, desires
to inform guests, wishing
to be shown through the
hospital, to be present during the afternoon hours, as
visitors at night disturb
patieuts.    Donations will be received both afternoon and evening.
MOUNT PLEASANT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
VALUABLE COPYRIGHT
Secured by Local Bank Cashier on New Interest Tables.
Cashier W. E. Shope, of the local Peoples National Bank, has just secured a
copyright on new tables for the rapid
computation of interest which he proposes to have published in book form
and have placed on sale for the convenience ol his fellow bankers And as a
trial shows that results can be secured
in about one-fifth the time required
when the leading publications of the
kind are used, "Billy" is likely to profit
in the coin of the realm through the sale
of his work.
The tables will cover but ten pages,
having the dollars run down the first column of each page, fitty to the page, beginning at one and running up to five
hundred. The months from one to six,
the time loan limit adopted by national
banks, with the rate of interest up to six
and the amounts of the same, are placed
in parallel columns so that a glance will
tell what the interest is on any sum from
$1 to $500 for from one to six months.
The book will contain much other information of special interest to men of
money.
Madison Horror.
After a two years' absence in Michigan, Peter Roman returned to Madison
Monday evening when with one load
from his double barreled shot gun he
killed his wife and with the other he
blew the right arm off his four-year-old
daughter, Lena. The state police are
after the murderer.
COKE AND COAL.
DEATHS OF THE WEEK.
EXCITING TIME
ON EAGLE STREET
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
When   a    Uniontown
Tried to Get Into
Man
THE RESIDENCE OF BLAINE COLDSMITH
WHEN   HI8 WIFE   AND   CHILD
THEKE ALONE.
WERE
QUITE AN HONOR
Parcel Post Information.
By remitting 75 cents by money order
to the Chief Clerk, Post Office Department, Washington, D. C, a parcel post
map and guide for determining postage
rates may be obtained. In ordering it is
necessary to specify the city or town
where the map is to be used. Postmaster
Jordan is distributing leaflets among
patrons of the office containing the table
of rates and other parcel post information.
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Auto Cases go to Court.
H. R. Rumbaugh, C. F. Coldsmith and
I. R. Smith, of this place, and Dr. L. T.
Gilbert and T. J. Diskin, of Scottdale,
against whom new indictments were
brought before Justice Rhoades for auto
speeding, were permitted to give bail for
court under the decision given by Mr.
Rhoades last night. The first suits against
these defendants were thrown out of
court.
That Has Come to John A. Warden, of This
Place.
Among the many very distinguished
Americans who have been appointed
delegates to the great Second World's
Christian Citizenship Conference to be
held at Portland, Oregon, June 29th-
July 6th, 1913, is John A. Warden, of
this place.
More than 100 of the world's greatest
orators will take part in the conference
which will doubtless attract 20,000 persons to Portland. The allair is everywhere regarded as the most important
social and religious event of modern
times. 	
Basketball Games.
The Jeannette and local Independents
played the roughest basketball game of
the season here at the armory Friday
evening. The visitors had loaded up for
the contest with players from Greensburg and Irwin and died hard at the
short end of the 20-18 score.
The Independents will play a return
game with the Point Marion team at that
place Friday evening of this week.
The  Connellsville Independents, who
claimed   the  championship of Western
Pennsylvania   last year, will play their
I namesakes here Friday evening, Jan. 24.
Items of Interest Gathered from Both Mine
and Yard.
The coke business is all that operators
can make it running full or as near full
as the scarcity of miners will permit.
Frequently some ovens drawn have to
remain so until the next day for lack of
coal.
Edward T. Hitehman, of Wheeling, W.
Va., head of the Hitehman Coal Company, who was here Friday night to see
his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hitehman,
and other relatives, is satisfied with the
1913 business outlook at least so far as
his company is interested. He was on his
way home from Baltimore where he closed a new five-year contract with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. He
had a two-year contract with the B. &
O. but the railroad people preferred to
annul it and make a new one for five
years, paying an advance to get the
longer agreement which calls for at least
400,000 tons a year.
One of the largest verdicts in Fayette
county in recent years was returned Friday at Uniontown by the jury in the
case of Walter Laughead versus Mrs.
Elizabeth S. Moore, of Greensburg. The
jury allowed Laughead $18,378. Laughead sued for $13,500 commission and interest since 1907 on a Fayette county
coal deal which he transacted for Mrs.
Moore. The jury was out almost three
hours.
C. W. Baker, a payroll clerk employed
by the H. C. Frick Coke Company at
Edenborn, pleaded guilty to altering the
accounts of the company in criminal
court at Uniontown Friday. It is said
that during the past two or three years
he has appropriated between $2,000 and
$3,000. He was senteneed to not less
than two nor more than three years in
the penitentiary.
The Greensburg Coulter estate is preparing to develop a 500-acre tract of
coal it owns near the county seat with a
shaft and steel tipple on the main line
of the Pennsylvania railroad just west
of the town.
Last Wednesday's heavy rain gave coal
and coke operators lots of trouble. Mines
about Greensburg were the greatest sufferers.
F. M. Coursin, representing a syndicate
of Pittsburg men, has purchased a tract
of 2,500 acres of coal in Washington
connty, just south of the county seat, at
prices ranging from $200 to $300 per
acre, the total amount involved exceeding $500,000.
The Grim Reaper's Work In This Plaoe and
Vicinity.
Harry Stevens.
Harry Stevens, next to the youngest of
the six sturdy sons of Rev. D, A. Stevens
and a brother of Frank, Edward and
Samuel Stevens, of this place, died Saturday in a hospital at Martins Ferry,
Ohio, where he was employed in a glass
factory, News of his death, which followed an operation for appendicitis, was
a great shock to his relatives and old
Mount Pleasant friends as word of his
good health and steady employment had
been received but a few days before. The
body was brought here Sunday and will
be buried with honors of war from the
Center avenue home of his brother,
Frank, today, the interment taking
place in the cemetery by the side of his
mother who passed away some eight
years ago.
Harry, or "Shadow," as he was better
known among his chums, was 37 years of
age and served in the famous Tenth
Pennsylvania Regiment in the Philippines as a member of Company E with
his brothers, Frank and Edward. He
leaves a widow and one child. Rev. J.
L. Updegraph, pastor of the Church of
God, conducted divine services at the
house yesterday afternoon, the interment being postponed until today to
await the arrival of a married sister.
Mrs. Mary Gardner.
Mrs. Mary Gardner died Saturday of
goitre at her Morewood street home,
aged 54 years. Following divine services conducted by Rev. J. L. Updegraph, of the Church of God, of which
her children are members, the interment
took place yesterday afternoon in the
cemetery. One son, James, and her only
daughter, Mrs. James Hatfield, whose
loving care was given her mother for the
past three years, reside here, while the
three other sons are employed near Uniontown.
Jerry Shatter.
Jerry Shalier, an esteemed citizen of
Kregar, this county, died last Tuesday
of a complicaiion of dropsy and asthma,
aged 70 years.    He leaves a widow.
Obituary Notes.
Henry Massey, a well known colored
coke worker, died Friday at his Parfit-
town home, aged 63 years.
Mrs. Henry Snyder was found dead in
bed at her home near Youngwood Saturday morning, aged 67 years. The coroner found death was due to natural
causes. The husband and several children survive.
Mrs. Mary Ofofosky, who made her
home vith a married daughter at Standard, died Friday, aged 94 years. The interment took place in the Polish cemetery.
Mrs. Louise L, Kennedy, wife of Tony
B. Kennedy, a well known theatrical
man, and who had many friends here,
died Saturday in a Chicago hospital following an operation for cancer. The body
will be buried at Ohiopyle. Mrs. Kennedy was a cousin of Harry Hann, of
this place.
Mrs. Coldsmith Was Badly Scared
Until Her Husband Got Home and
Captured the Caller With a Revolver and Held Him a Prisoner in the
Kitchen Until the Police, Answering a Call in Record-Breaking Time,
Came and Took the Poor Drunken
Fellow to the Lockup.
There was excitement galore on
South Eagle street about 9:30 Wednesday night when Mrs. Blaine Cold-
smith, who was alone with her baby
daughter, discovered some one was
trying to get into the house. In fact,
the lady was bordering on hysteria
when her husband popped in at the
front door about the usual time for his
return from the store.
This namesake of the great Maine
statesman was mad all over when informed of the fright his wife bad had and his
temper wasn't improved a little bit when
the prowler blundered up on the back
porch and began to knock at the kitchen
door. Quickly securing his revolver, he
threw the door open and poked the gmn
right into the knocker's face, ordering
him to come in and sit down until Mrs.
Coldsmith could get the police over the
telephone.
The prisoner, on squinting into the
barrel of the pistol, threw up his hands,
said "Youv'e got me, kid," and stumbled
into a kitchen cbair. The expression on
the poor drunken fellow's lace made his
captor put the gun in his pocket and
wish that the coppers couldn't be found.
But, Mrs. Blaine saw to it that the hurry
up call got to police headquarters all
right and in a very few minutes Policeman Smith and Night Watchman Zimber
were on the scene and soon had the
prisoner in the lockup.
When taken before Burgess Collins the
next day he said his name is Charles
Korbgweite, aged 30, and his home is in
Uniontown. He admitted being full, but
denied that he had any evil intentions
and claimed that he simply lost his
bearings while trying to go from town to
the Parfittown home of his brother. The
tale was told in such a straightforward
manner that the town's chief executive
made it five days to the lockup.
SUPREME COURT DECISION
That Takes Another Hard Crack at Bx-
Sherin Shields.
Another chapter was recorded at Philadelphia Monday in the hapless vicissitudes of ex-Sherift John E. Shields, of
Westmoreland county, now in the Western Penitentiary on a charge of retaining fees of office.
The Supreme Court gave the ex-sherift
another hard crack when it reversed the
Common Pleas of Westmoreland county
and ordered judgment to be entered tor
the Latrobe, Connellsville Coal & Coke
Company against which he brought suit
to recover money expended in the employment of deputies during the coal
strike of 1910.
It is now said that this county could
recover $42,000 from Shields or his bondsmen had there been an appeal taken in
the case where former Controller John
D. Hitehman surcharged the ex-sherift
to that amount. Limitation, however,
now prevents such action being taken.
Birthday Social.
The Willing Workers Society will hold
a birthday social at the First Reformed
church tomorrow (Thursday) evening,
beginning at 8. A nicely arranged literary
and musical program has been arranged
for the occasion, to be followed with lots
of good things to eat.
Stork Has Big Lead.
Registrar S. C. Stevenson's totals for
his district, comprising Mount Pleasant,
town and township, show that during
1912 there were 702 births and 269 deaths.
Goed Thing to Stop.
Miss Mary Koehle, while going to her
East End home Thursday evening, was
badly scared by two unknown men who
followed her back to the salety of Constable McCulley's home near wher"e she
fell and lost her eyeglasses, for the return ot which by the finder she will be
very grateful. Several other girls have
had Miss Koehle's experience on the
same street and the police are keeping a
special eye   on that section of the town.
Missionary Meeting.
Mrs. Ralph E. Fulton entertained her
fellow members of the United Presbyterian Missionary Society at her Church
street home Wednesday. Miss Martha
Warden presided and her sister, Miss
Elizabeth, led the devotional exercises,
while Mrs. Wm. M. Lorimer, Mrs. David
Robertson and Mrs. J. A. Barnhart gave
short talks on "China." Miss Alice Warden read a paper on "Mormonism."