Mount Pleasant journal (September 28, 1918)

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MOUNT    PLEASANT.   WESTMORELAND    COUNTY,    PA..    SATURDAY.    SEPTEMBER    28.    1918.
NO. 40.
LETTERS SENT
HOME BY BOYS
OF COMPANY E
Show that Famous Local Command Isn't Loafing
BUT THE ORIGINAL ROLL IS SHORT
ONLY    FIFTY FOUR      OF    TH08B    WHO
LEFT    HEBE    ON    DUTY.
This Doesn't Prove that the Company
has Lost Over One Hundred, of
Whom Doubtless Many are in the
Hospital. Top Sergeant Frank Car-
haugh is Back on Duty After Hav
ing Spent a Week in the Hospital,
hut he Doesn't Tell Even His Wife
Whether he Had Been Wounded or
was Sick.
Home letters, written by Company
E boys and received here during the
past week, show that famous local
command of the 110th Infantry has
played well its part in the series of
hard cracks General Pershing's First
American Army has been handing the
Germans over in Lorraine and in
front of Metz. Only 54 of the original roll of men who left here a year
ago for Camp Hancock have been on
th,e fighting line, but that does not
mean the remainder, 102, have been
lost, doubtless many of them are on
the sick, wounded and detached lists.
"Carby" is Close Mouthed.
Top Sergeant Frank Carbaugh writes
his wife here that he is back on dnty,
after having spent a week in the hospital. But "Carby" is mighty close
mouthed about what happened to him.
His better half as well as Journal readers are left to guess whether he got in
contact with a German bullet, was gassed or was just of) his feed, At all events,
the trouble wasn't serious.
Trials of Front Line Trenches.
Sergeant Morris Pigman, the oldest of
the three sons Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Pig-
man, of this place, have in army service,
tells of resting (?) in front line trenches
in wet blankets. He isn't of tbe kind
that complains, although he admits that
a fellow with tbe grip finds it pretty
hard to sleep in a gas mask to say nothing of "cootie" activity.
Wire Stringing Exciting Job.
William Olinger, writing from the
French front under date of August 16 to
his brother James here, says:
"This is tbe first chance I've had to
write you since I got my new job with
the Signal Corps.! I like the change. I'm
Dot nearly so busy as formerly. Oar
company has been all split np. I'm attached to brigade headquarters and have
things pretty soft. Thirty of the company are in charge of the wire carts.
Tbe men on the carts have four horses
and the others one each. The animal I
drew was a bird to go and I'll tell my
first experience in stringing wire.
"It was my job to ride back of the
cart and kept the kinks ont of the wire
as it was unwound. I used a long pole
with a hook in it and, believe me, I had
one b—1 of time when we began one
morning before daylight. I started in
about one hundred yards back of tbe
cart and hadn't gone over half a mile
until the d—n hook caught in a kink
and I was yanked off that horse too quick
to talk about, I wasn't much hurt, but
don't mention how stift and sore I was,
for I got steeu similar upsets before I
caught np with the cart. It went better
when day came, but your little brother
Willie had to use the cart when mounting his horse the next day. Still, we
strung thirty-five miles the first day. It
is my easy task now to keep the lines in
working order.
"We are billeted at a French town
about the size of Youngwood where is
also a bunch of Australians and New
Zealanders who are all good scouts.
They have a very warm side for us, too.
I could tell you lots more of these chaps
as well as the English "Tommies," but
the censor would only bluepencil it.
"The other night two of those pesky
German bombing planes came over and
stayed, both being shot down by our air
guns. One was a giant machine fitted
with five motors aud carried a whale
of a load of bombs. I saw it fall and
I'll never forget tbe sight. I got a piece
of the wreck and am keeping it for a
souvenir."
THE HUN HAS MORE HARD LINES
It is Not only that the Allies are Keeping Him Guessing
where they will Give Him the Next Hard Punch
but His Side Partners Get Theirs.
THE BRITISH LAND ON THE TURKS IN PALESTINE
Virtually Annihilating the Sultan's two Armies There and Destroying
the Centuries of Mohammedan Rule in the Holy Land.
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SERBIANS COME BACK AND TRIM BULGARIANS VERY PROPERLY.
The Hun has had more hard lines the past week. The Allies have been keeping him very busy on the French front
from Lorraine, where General Pershing's First American Army is pounding the city of Metz and its circle of fortifications
with heavy artillery, clear across the long battle line to the English Channel. He is trying in vain to guess where he will
get the next good hard punch that may make him scamper back to the fussed up Fatherland before winter closes the fighting season. He has reserves, of course, but he seems to be at a loss to know where to throw them in. The blows are kept
so scattered.
This is bad for Hunnie; but, it is not the worst that befell him. His side partners, or rather vassals, Turkey and
Bulgaria, were licked to a frizzle. The British turned the trick on the Sultan in Palestine where the "Tommies," infantry
and cavalry, near Nazareth, whose hallowed ground the Saviour once trod, literally annihilated two Turkish armies of some
80,000 men, capturing many thousands, 260 big guns, freeing the Holy Land from centuries of Mohammedan rule.
About the same time the rejuvnated Serbian army fell on its old Bulgarian enemies and what it did to the Bulgars
was a plenty. Of the Balkan bullies 9,000 were captured together with 120 guns. The Bolshiviki, Russian traitors, are
likely to be put through a course of sprouts by the Allied troops sent to that country—American, English, French, Italian
and Japanese—who will doubtless see to it that the Bear ere long escapes from the German robbers' hand. Then, too, it is
said, an Austrian regiment, rebeled against being sent to reinforce the Germans in France.
On Thursday American troops, including the 28th (Pennsylvania) Division, acting with the French, smashed twenty
miles of the German lines to a depth of seven miles west of Verdun, capturing 20 villages and 5,000 prisoners.
COMERS AND GOERS.
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Paragraphs About Prominent  People Gathered Daring the Week.
Mrs. Joseph Lakin, of Connellsville,
visited relatives here this week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Graham have moved back to Johnstown from near Ham-
mondville.
Stanley Kiter has returned to Orchard
Lake, Michigan, to resume his studies at
St. Mary's College.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Spence returned
Wednesday from a very enjoyable auto
trip to Adams county.
Miss La Vada Fulmer, a member of
last year's local high school class, has
entered Findlay College.
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Freed, of New Castle, California, were here this week visiting relatives and old friends.
Mrs. J. E. Freed, of Pitcairn, spent
several days here this week as the guest
of her sister, Mrs. Caroline Shnpe.
Mrs. P. Firmstoue was called to the
Cresson Sanatorium Monday by the illness of her sister, Mrs  Myrtle Myers.
Miss Mary Blaine, ot Pine street, entertained Tnesday evening in honor of
Miss Margaret Collins, of Homestead.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Page are at
New Kensington visiting their daughters, Mrs. George Co) born and Mrs.
Richard Myers.
Rev. C. G. Shupe, of Cochranton,Crawford county, was here this week settling
up the estate of his father, the late L. B.
Shupe, of which be is the administrator.
Miss Edith Warden, chairman of the
Surgical Dressing Unit of the local Red
Cross chapter, has just completed special courses in her line of work at the
Philadelphia headquarters.
First Sergeant Ray B. Bitz, in aviation
training at Fort Worth, Texas, is at bis
Brinkerton home on a furlough with his
parents, Superintendent and Mrs. John
Bitz. He expects to be sent overseas at
an early date.
Mrs. K. D. Walters and Miss Cora Gis-
bert, of Uniontown, were week end
guests here of the latter's sister, Mrs.
Laura Zundel. Mrs. Walters, who was
Miss Delia Wiley, of this place, is the
mother of twin boys, one of whom is iu
the army and other awaiting a call.
Jay Pigman, in the ordinance department at Camp ^.'iggs, Washington City,
was home on a furlough over Sunday
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. M.
Pigman, who have two other sons in
service, Sergeant Morris with Company
E in France and Seeley at Camp Forest,
Georgia.
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Mrs. Mary Malek, of this place, on Saturday last received official notice of the
death of her son, Joseph, who went with
Company E as a sergeant. As noted in
these columns, he was killed when a
German shell bit the 110th Infantry's
headquarters. His dead body fell at
Capt. John D. Hitchman's feet.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry W. Coulter,
of Greensburg, recently transferred from
the 110th to the 109th Infantry, has been
slightly wounded in the foot.
Corporal James Harkins, of Company
E, wounded in action on Augnst 19,
writes his parents, Coroner and Mrs.
James Harkins, of this place, that he ex
pects to  soou leave the hospital for the
firing line.
The death in action of Private Albert
Stefl, of Company E, has been confirmed
by the official notice received here Saturday by his mother.
John W. Conn, of Fairchance, has just
been notified that his seventeen-year-
old son Charles, who ran away from
home a year and half ago and joined
the Canadian artillery, was killed a
month ago in action in France,
Andrew Clausner, son of Fred Claus-
ner, of Staufier, and sergeant in Company
E, was' severely wounded in action on
the French front Augnst 16, but he wrote
his father August 28 that he was able to
sit up in bed at a base hospital.
DEATHS OF THE WEEK.
The   Grim  Reaper's  Work   in   This
Place and Vicinity.
David Hough.
David Kough, a Civil war veteran and
highly respected citizen, died at his East
End home Thursdayjmorning of paralysis, having suffered a stroke some two
weeks before. Rev. T. C. Harper, pastor
ol the United Brethren church, of which
he was a devout member, will conduct
divine services at the bouse at 2:30 this
afternoon, the interment to follow in the
cemetery.
Mr. Kough, who was 76 years of age,
was a tanner by trade, but was employed for almost thirty years at the Standard coke works, having only a few years
ago been retired as a Frick pensioner.
He leaves a widow, five sons aud one
daughter—Herbert, Norman, Edward,
Clark and Thomas, and Mrs. Rosella
Wadsworth, of Rockwood.
William J. Springer.
William J. Springer died at his Mount
Pleasant   township   home   Wednesday,
aged 71 years.    He leaves a widow   and
three married daughters.
GJaBS Plants Will Ban.
Rumors that local glass plants might
be compelled to shut down, not being
considered assential industries, have
proved groundless. Their output has
been curtailed, but their managements
are confident that the government will
encourage rather than in any way interfere with operation.
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COKE AND GOAL.
Items of Interest Gathered from Both Kin*
and Yard.
Well into a thousand coal men of the
county attended a fuel administration
meeting at Greensburg Saturday to hear
an address by Director James B. Neale, ol
Bloomesburg, Pa., who said that now as
never before, there must be a hearty
spirit of cooperation between the management and the men to meet the production of coal necessary to win the war.
Tbe receivers have turned back to the
stockholders the Tower-Hill-Connells-
ville Coke Company in Fayette county,
which went into their bands three years
ago following the J. V. Thompson failure.
The seven millions of indebtedness was
cut to less than two millions, leaving
the corporation solvent.
The fnel administration warns against
the hoarding of coal as well as the selling
ot dirty coal even though the buyers of
the latter are willing, lo pay tbe price
lor the inferior article.
Coke operators, meeting with fuel
administrators at Uniontown last Friday,
sent this message to President Wilson:
"The furnaces shall not bauk because of
lack of production of the Connellsville
coal and coke region."
New Penn Station Industry
The Witherow Steel Company bas
bought four acres of the J. E. Meyers
property at Penn Station for $75,000 for
a new site for its plant at Neville Island.
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EXCELLENT RECORD
Hade by St. Joseph's Congregation in the
Service of the Country.
The local St. Joseph's congregation has
given to war service seventy-five of its
sons which means ten per cent of its
membership, probably the highest record
of any local organization. It also has
an active unit of the Red Cross, which
turns out surgical dressings. The congregation donates its hall and light gratis.
The pastor, Rev. John Hackett, bas allowed the janitor to leave the employ of
the congregation to enter an amunition
factory. The pastor, besides his pastoral work and supervision of the school,
discharges the duties of janitor. He
takes care of the large lawns and the
furnaces.
This is an example of hard, patriotic
energy. Tbe pastor has volunteered for
army chaplain service. His name is on
the official list of priests, who are waiting to serve in tbe army, if Bishop Can-
evin calls them. This waiting list for
tbe Diocese of Pittsburg is large and the
number of priests required from tbe
diocese for the present has been supplied.
St. Joseph's congregation bas an enrollment of ISO pnpils in its school and
it saves tbe taxpayers of Monnt Pleasaut
five thousand dollars a year by conducting its own school without any assistance
from the taxes. This is now a very difficult undertaking, because tbe revenue
of the congregation is reduced by tbe
large percentage of its members in the
service. •
St. Josephs has a record that it will be
difficult to find any local organization
with a better one. May it be emulated
by others.
MURDER_AT_8C0TTDALE.
Mike Nicosia,  an Italian Mill Worker,
Stabbed to Death.
Mike Nicesia, an Italian mill worker,
was stabbed to death on Bridge street,
Scottdale, Sunday evening, in a fight
with fellow laborers. It is said that the
fatal cutting was done by Joe Domain,
aged 23 years, who disappeared before
the police reached the scene.
Tony Tuca and Felix Adella, two other
Italians, and Justes Brown and Otha
Gordon, colored, were arrested and taken
to jail at Greensburg, being held as witnesses.
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Only a comparatively few copies of
the Photographic History of the 110th
Infantry, containing a good cut of every
man in that famous command, and that
includes all the Company E boys, are to
be had. The Journal can secure a share
that will be sold so long as they can be
had at $2 50 each.
INTERESTING
LETTER PROM
GEO, W. BILLS
A Mount Pleasant Boy Now
in the Chicken Business
at Everett. Wash.
KEEPS IN TOUCH WITH OLD TOWN
BY STAYING ON   THK   JOURNAL'S IWB-
8CBIPTI0N LIST.
He Learns With Sorrow of the Death
on the French Front of his Old
Friend, Captain Zundell, and Lieutenant Stevenson and Extends
Deepest Sympathy to Those Wh«
Were Nearest and Dearest to tha
Fallen Company E Men.
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The following letter is written to
The Journal at Everett, Washington, September 15, by George W.
Bills, a Mount Pleasant boy, in renewing his subscription. He is engaged there in the chicken business,
having moved from Getchell, that
state, where he had been living with
his mother while on the road for a
time. That prevented him from getting his highly prized home paper
regularly.
I noticed in one of the copies with no
little pride how our Mount Pleasant
boys on the French front are carving a
name for themselves in history. They
showed the Huns bow to fight. Bnt it
was with deepest sorrow I read how my
old friend, Captain Zundell, and Lien-
tenant Stevenson fell ii action. My
heartfelt sympathy goes out to all those
who were nearest and dearest to these
brave young men who laid down their
lives on the world's altar of Freedom.
Chateau Thierry seems to have marked the high tide of bated Prnssianisna
and I hope the Allies will continue their
drive until they reach Berlin, cage the
war-mad Kaiser and bring him to America so that we can see if he really is a
human being. Then he should be pickled,
for he is too rotten to keep without the
use of some strong embalming fluid.
Billy Sunday, whom I heard when he
was out here, has the right idea. He
says the German "All Highest" will have
to haVe "aeroplane to reach Hell." Billy
knows; he has used a digging iron to
raise some of those he has lifted from
the mire. But won't the old town carry
on when the boys get home! I can imagine a celebration extending over weeks.
If I can feed tbe chickens enough
broken dishes and table scraps to make
each lav two eggs a day, perhaps I'll be
able to bny a ticket and see the show.
Bnt the way we are Hooverizing these
days makes food even of that kind
scarce. The Coast isn't blowing much,
but I assnre yon it is doing its full patriotic duty in tbe way of ship building,
bond buying, subscribing to the Red
Cross and the like.
Our flock of chickens for the past two
seasons has not been as large as formerly,
for to keep two thousand hens on $100
a ton feed means some outly of cold
cash. We had to sell off some of the
stock last year, not being able to get feed
as most of tbe Coast grain was shipped
to middle west mills. A neighbor killed
400 ol his roosters and fed the meat to
bis laying hens. Dairymen and hog
raisers had about as hard lines. Thanks
to Hoover, tbe Coast grain will be kept
here this year and to it will be added
tbat grown in the Spokane field.
We are putting in a new brooder
system with a capacity of 2,000 chicks
which, with the two Buckeye brooders
of 1,000 we have, will next year increase
our present stock to about 3,000 in four
16x16-foot rooms. I'll send you a picture
of the plant when it is finished. Our
old hens will average about 16S eggs each
this year, which isn't so bad for common
stock. We hatched imported eggs this
season and naturally expect an increased
output. We have orders booked for
eggs at $5 a setting. The Holly Wood
Farms, not far away, employ twenty-five
men to care for their 17,000 chickens.
I am in on tbe last draft registration
and will go if needed as I think I could
hit a Hun if be was close enough. But,
don't forget to change that Journal address. If my good mother doesn't get
that dear old paper there will be no living with her.
Well Worth Seeing.
Uncle Sam's War Trophies Train will
stop at Scottdale tomorrow (Snnday)
from 9:30 a. m. until 1 p. m,, giving a
free exhibit of all sorts of spoils captured by Yankee soldiers in France.
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