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MOUNT    PLEASANT.    WESTMORELAND    COUNTY.    PA..    THURSDAY.   JANUARY    27,   1921.
NO 4.
A SPLENDID
AFTERNOON'S
ENTERTAINMENT
Given by the Mount Pleasant
Chapter, Council of
Jewish Women
IN THE LOCAL BANK ASSEMBLY ROOMS
CROWDED   WITB   LADIES    FROM    THIS
PLACE AND NEIGHBORING TOWNS.
These Fair Daughters of Israel Not
Only Realize a- Neat Sum|for the
War Orphans of Eastern Europe
but at the Same Time Provide a
Pretty Function that ia] in Social
Class A. Even Though its Charming President Suffered a Nervous
Shock Early that Horning
One of the prettiest entertainments
in the town's social history wasjthat
given by the Mount Pleasant Chapter,
Council of Jewish Women, for the
benefit of the war orphans of Eastern
Europe, from two-thirty to five o'clock
last Wednesday afternoon in the bank
assembly rooms, tastefully decorated
with the chapter's blue and white colors and thronged with most handsomely gowned women from this
place, Pittsburg and surrounding towns.
A snug sum was realized for the charity named.
T e clever management was ia the
hands of Mrs. William Rakusin, president; Mrs. Myer Posner, vice president;
Mrs. E. L, Levinson, treasurer, and Mrs.
Hvman Glick who were equal to the occasion even with well on to two hundred guests on their bands. There were
twenty-eight card tables and a mnsical
program to look after, to say nothing of
the serving of refreshments in which the
red cross in the ice cream was a toothsome reminder of the lunction's object.
Cupids were tbe card prizes won by
Mrs. M. Goldenson, of Latrobe, and Mrs.
Nevin A. Cort, of this place.
The musical program embraced vocal
solos by Mrs. H. H. DeLong and Mrs.
Frank Cooper, accompanied by Miss
Ruth Byers, all of this place; a piano
solo by Mrs. Estelle Miller Sbrallow, of
Scottdale; violin duet by Essie Levinson
and Joseph Novak, accompanied by Miss
Ola Stoner, and recitations by Rath Dillon and Essie Glick.
Tbis article would not be complete
were no mention made of the nervous
shock suffered by the chapter's charming
presidr \t when called to the telephone
at her College avenue home earlv tbat
morning. The conversation was something very much like tbis:
"This is Margaret Slander speaking
from the Leader Store. Please tell me
what to do with the baby that has just
beeu left here."
"Why this is terrible! Whatcanldo?
Where's Mr. Rakusin? What is it, a
boy or girl?"
"You don't understand me. It's a
Cupid without any clothes and the party
who left the little fellow here said you
would know what to do with it."
"Oh! I understand you now, Margaret.
Please have Master Daniel properly appareled. He's to be one of the prizes at
onr party this afternoon."
And the sigh of relief that came in
over the store phone.before the receiver
was hang up was actually heard by
pretty Black-eyed Susan who was tacking away a stray raven lock away out
front at the time.
Nice Medal of Honor.
Mrs. W. W. Carr, of this place, has just
secured and sent her son, Milton, his
Medal of Honor to Benton Harbor, Michigan. It bas six bars and six stars with
the names of the six engagements in
which be took part on tbe French front
as a member of the Second Division,
Field Artillery.
Nice Royal Arcanum Spread.
The members of the Mount Pleasant
Royal Arcauum Council enjoyed a nice
spread in the social rooms of the United
Brethren church Tuesday evening. Tbe
guests of honor and principal speakers
were Supreme Regent James Langfitt and
fellow Pittsburg officials who are reviving interest in tbe order by personal
visits.
Kecksburg Woman's Mishap.
Mrs. Griffin, of Kecksburg, while here
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Norman
Foust, Saturday, fell down tbe stairs,
fracturing both bones of the right wrist.
Interned Sinn Feiners Try to Foil the Cameraman
Wl
ner at
camera
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tat at flnrt sight appears lo be a band of Hindus, is actually a body of Sinn Fein prisoners mnrctiln* ,
the internment camp at Ballyklnler, County Down.   They covered their heads with towels so as to elude
man.
COMERS AND GOERS
Paragraph! About Prominent   People 0atb-
ered Daring the Week.
Mr.   and   Mrs.  Harry   Frankforter are
with Columbus, Ohio, friends, expecting
to return tomorrow.
Mrs. D. H. Stoner spent the week end
in Pittsburg as the local representative
at a W. C. T. U. regional conference.
Mrs. F. L. Marsh returned Friday from
Plainfield, New Jersey, rather proud of
her granddaughter's new name, Margaret
Katriua Van Oss.
Misses   Nellie   and Lulu  Rupert were
at   Connellsville   Thursday as guests at
the card aud tancv work party given by
the  Daughters ot the American Revolu
tion at the home of Mrs. Rice.
John Husband and daughter, Miss
Irene, left last Tuesday for Miami Beach,
Florida, where they expect to remain
until April. Mr. Husband's granddaugh
ter, Miss Margaret Overholt, accompanied them.
Miss Eva Timothy, formerly a member
of the local hospital's nursing corps, is
at present staying in Wilmerding until
she decides on a number of offers made
for her services by Western Pennsylvania hospitals.
Frank P. Haas, who was here last week
with his parents, Mr. aod Mrs. Anthony
Haas, of the West End, has returned to
Eldorado, Arkansas, where be is division accountant for the Chicago aud Rock
Island railroad.
Mrs. Harry Walter, of Wooster, Ohio,
was here tbe past week visiting her father aud sister, William S. and Miss Annie
Ramsay. Another daughter, Mrs. Paul
Deftenbaugh, of Faircbance, is here this
week visiting Mr. Ramsay,
Mr. aud Mrs. Homer Rumbaugb, with
their children, have returned from Long
Beach, California, where they had planned to spend at least the balance of the
winter. Tbe crowded condition of the
schools there prevented the regular attendance of their son, Robert.
NEW GAS WELL
CONTINUES TO
SHOW UP GOOD.
The new well of tbe Mount Pleasaut
Oil and Gas Company ou the Frank D.
Barnbart farm continues to show np
well. The drill is now over 100 feet in
the Big Injan sand at a depth of some
1,500 (eet in a hard rock similar, the
drillers say, to what resulted in long
and steady producing wells they got in
tbe same sand in West Virginia fields.
Tbis sand is about 400 feet thick.
Mncb Tried Murderer
On his third trial for having killed
Mrs. Edmund Humphries, of Philadelphia, near Carrolltown, Cambria couuty,
nearly four years ago, George Tompkins
was convicted of first degree murder in
the Blair county criminal court last
Wednesday. He had beeu found guilty
of second degree murder for having
killed the woman's husband at tbe same
time. It is claimed that the defendant
U insane.
Morning Greensburg Wedding.
A very quiet wedding was solemnized
at the Greensbnrg home of the groom's
sister, Mrs. James C. Lauffer, Wednesday
morning when Marion C. Sherrick aud
Miss LaVern O. Truxell, both of this
place, were married by Rev. T. C. Harper, of Latrobe, tbe bride's former pastor.
Young Mr. and Mrs. Sherrick left on an
eastern trip.
BANKER HONORED.
First National People Hake Oeorge W.
Btoner their Vice President.
When First National Bank directors
met Wednesday to reorganize they honored their veteran cashier, George W.
Stoner, and at the same time lightened
bis work by promoting him to the vice
presidency, filling the vacancy by advancing his assistant, Charles F. Stoner,
to the cashershipas a reward for twenty-
five years' faithtul and efficient service.
Vice President Stoner began his career
in this institution as a clerk just thirty-
eight years ago, becoming cashier following the death of the late Henry Jordan,
a position he filled with the highest
credit alike to tbe bank and himself.
The only other change at this time was
at the Peoples National Bank when Gilbert T. Clark was advanced from clerk
to teller At tbe Citizens Savings and
Trust Company Morris Pigman was
elected assistant treasurer when Norman
Hayes resigned ts go to Irwin Ihe latter
part of December.
BASKETBALL NOTES.
The Superiors Lose Fast Oame to Duqueme
and Change Night.
With a preliminary contest between
local fives as an added attraction at the
armory Friday evening, the Superior
basketball team lost a fast and well
played game to Duquesne at tbe armory
Friday evening by one point, 28 29.
Eddie Wall officiated. Tbe attendance
was only lair.
Hereafter tbe weekly game here will
be played on Monday evenings until further notice is given.
A team picked up from the local high
school was defeated 3919 at Scottdale
Friday evening by tbe East Huntingdon
Township High.
The Mount Pleasant Township High
lost at Yonngwood Saturday night 33 16.
In an extra period the Superiors lost
the fastest game of the season here Moo-
day evening to the Jeannette Internationals 37-31. The preliminary game between the local and Scottdale Sophomores was won by the home slndents
25 16.
The Superiors will play at Latrobe
Friday and then meet the Connellsville
K. of C. five here Monday evening following a preliminary contest.
SIGN OF THE CROSS.
WARM SESSION
Arguments Heard in Application for Adam
Bchwerba'a New Trial.
Arguments for a new trial in the case
of Adam Schwerba, the McKeesport undertaker convicted of involuntary mau-
slangbter lor having run down a party
of Irwin school teachers with bis auto,
killing Margaret McGrath, were heard
Thursday in court at Greensburg before
Judge McConnell.
Attorneys for the defendant charged
that Joseph McClain, of Smithton, one
of the jurors, had made damaging statements to Hugh Donnelly, a Greensburg
hotel keeper, before the case came to
trial. McClain not only denied this but
stated that the defendant had intimated
that the wituess would lose nothing by
favoring his side of the case.
Judge McConnell took the papers and
will hand down bis decision later.
Interesting Miiiionary Addreas.
Tomorrow (Friday) night Rev. H. W.
Rankin, of Idaho, will speak at the Re-
Union Presbyterian church. Mr. Rankin
is speaking in fifty churches of the Pitts-
bnrg District. He is a home missionary
from the Mormon and Indian field and
his message will interest christians of
all churches. There will be no collection nor solicitation of funds. Everybody is invited.
Items of Special Interest to Local
Church Goers.
Rev. H. G. Trimmer, the hustliog
young pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Madison who is a Mounl
Pleasant boy, has been conducting a series of successful revival meetings. His
invitation brought thirty seekers of salvation to the altar last Saturday evening
when Rev. Rhodes led the singing with
Miss Highberger in charge of tbe music.
Mesdames Farmer, Gjasko and Albright
and Miss Keefer rendered valuable aid
at the altar. There have been 34 conversions.
Inability to secure a prominent speaker bas so far prevented the fixing of the
date for the conference of Aministrative
Group 4 of the Sunday schools of the
Mount Pleasant, Scottdale, Yonngwood
and Mount Pleasant-Donegal township
districts to be held at the Mount Pleasant high school anditorium. President
Merritt A. King, of this place, is still
hopeful of getting Governor Spronl by
postponing tbe meeting until possibly
March.
A community Sunday school teachers'
training class will be o.-ganized at a meeting of all interested in that work to be
held at the local United Brethren church
at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow (Friday) evening.
The revival services, conducted at the
local First Brethren church by Rev. C.
C. Grisso, tbe Indiana state evangelist,
closed last Wednesday evening with the
names of fourteen new members added
to tbe church roll.
GET OFF EASY.
Looal Violators of Law Against Gambling
Have Only Costs to Pay.
George and Alex Graham, Nick Cost,
Joe Sttter, Albert Abraham, George Nast,
F. Capella, Louie Sabers, James Satura
and Abe Zaiden, all local poolroom and
store keepers here, charged with having
violated the law against gambling, were
sentenced to pay costs in court at Greensbnrg Friday and paroled for two years
iu the custody of Burgess Stevens.
Charles and Robert Miller went to tbe
workhouse for one year for Ihe C. A.
Brilbart store robbery iu Scottdale. Tbeir
black pal, Frank Payne, went to tbe penitentiary for from one to two years.
Emma Slater, aged 36 years and weak
minded who lived since childhood at
Stahlstown with her aunt, Miss Mattie
Anderson, was sent to the asylum at
Laurel, Pa. Her father, John Slater, who
lives at Morgan Station, will pay five
dollars a month to the institution.
Elizabeth Cramer, who, with Marie
Doyle, recently broke out of the Greensbnrg jail, was sent to tbe Morganza Reform School. The case against the Doyle
girl was held over as she withdrew her
plea of guilt to a charge of larceny.
Fatal Auto Accident.
Mrs. John Gower, of Greensburg, aged
35 years, was killed last Wednesday evening when a Ford touring car, in which
she, her mother in-law, Mrs. William
Gower, and the latter's daughter, Mrs.
Henry Harman, turned turtle near the
old fair grounds. The other iwo women
were badly hurt. Louis Marie, the driver of the car, was arrested and is undsr
bail for a bearing on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.
Dorow Sbanln.
Edward Dorow and Miss Alta Shanlis,
well known young looal people, were
quietly married at tbe Lutheran parsonage by Rev. R. L. Leathermao last Wednesday evening. The principals will
spend the balance of the winter with the
bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Simon
Shaulis, on North Church street.
COKE AND COAL.
Itemi of Interest Gathered from Both Mm.
and Yard
Tbe Frick plants, as a rule, will, like
at Standard, make coke but five days,
laying oft Thursday. Morewood will get
full time by shipping roal on Saturday.
Jules Qnertinmont, of Point Marion,
has beeu given judgment for $2,5CO
against the Fancy Hill Coal Company as
a royalty on reserve coal mined by the
defendant company.
In order to help meet the state's expenditures of some $60,000,000 for the
next two years, Governor Sproul, in his
message to the Legislature, proposes an
advalorem tax of 4 cents a ton on bituminous coal aod 8 cents a ton on the anthracite output.
Letters urging mine inspectors in both
the anthracite and bituminous regions to
make special studies of mine fires and
see that every precaution is taken to
prevent them have been issued by State
Chief of Mines Seward E. Button as the
result of bis recent investigations of fires
in Lackawanna and Fayette counties.
The chief also had consultations with
commissions of inspectors who inquired
into the fires and with operators.
Mine Inspector W. H. Howarth, formerly of this place, estimates tbat it will
cost $100,000 and three months' work to
reconstruct the Simpson mine of the
Union-Connellsville Coal Company in
Fayette county, which has been sealed
up for 45 days, to smother out a fire.
Half that sura will, it is said, be required to restore the Fayette mine near Fayette City, following a similar fire.
Masontown, Fayette county, was shaken up last Thursday mnrning by two
charges of dynamite that wrecked the
boiler and engine rooms of the Nicholson Coal Company's Patrick mine, a
mile and a half south of town, entailing
a loss estimated at $1,500. It is said to
have been the work of miners who refused to work because the company
would not furnish free blasting powder.
CAPTAIN ZUNDELL'S BODY.
Local American Legion Taking Steps to bave
it Brought Here for Burial.
Tbe local American Legion Post, named in his honor, with the consent and
approval of his sister, Mrs.Wiley Overly,
of Washington, Pa., is taking steps to
have tbe body of Captain James E. Zundell, commander of Company E, One
Hundred and Tenth Infantry, who fell
on the French front, brought back here
for burial in the cemetery. Captain Zundell was wounded in the hip by a piece
of shrapnel and died a few hours later
in a field hospital.
The post's plans, roughly outlined as
yet, embrace a divine service in the local United Presbyterian church, with
which Captain Zundell was connected,
to oe followed by a monster funeral cortege accompanying the remains of the
heroic dead to their final resting place
in the cemetery.
It is expected to have present on tbis
occasion Brigadier Richard Coulter, staff
and line officers of the old Tenth and
One Hundred and Tenth infantries led
by "Jimmy's" own old boys of Company E.
HOW DR. MARSH
GOT A PATIENT
FROM GERMANY.
Dr. F. L. Marsh, the well known local
physician, while in a reminiscent mood
the other day, told how, by cleaning out
the wax, he restored the hearing in the
ear of a German girl living here. Some
months later she returned to the office
with her sister for whom she had sent to
Germany and who suffered from con-
ginitai deafness. The disappointment
of both girls was great, but tbe doctor
could do nothing in this case.
Dead Man Found.
While in Pool's woods hunting timber
Monday, D. F. Cramer, of New Stanton,
found the dead body of a poorly dressed
unknown man of about 50 years of age
leaning against a tree. A blnrred postal
card in the pocket was addressed to
"Mrs. Margaret Clark, Rufbdale."
Harried at Uniontown.
Henry McClain and Miss Grace Trout,
both of this place, were married at Uniontown last Wednesday in the presenoe
of a few members of tbe two families.
Supper and an oldfashioned square dance
followed the ceremony.
Local Boy Makes Qood.
John H. Rumbaugb, son of Mrs. Elizabeth Rumbaugb, of this place, has just
been elected manager of the bond department in the Federal Reserve Bank
at Chicago.
RUDOLPH IIRIBAI
PLAYS THE PART
Or" HONORABLE MAN
By Bringing his French Common Law Wife Here for
Legal Marriage.
HE WANTED TO DO THAT OVER THERE
WHEN    HE      WON    HER    HEART      IB
WOKLD    WAR    DAYS.
But he was a United States Regular
and Uncle Sam Had Other Uses for
his Fighters at that Time, so the
Mount Pleasant Soldier Lover Had
to Wait for the Happy Home that
is Now His for WithhisIBride Came
a Pretty Little Daughter.
While some of society's conventions had to be ignored to provide it,
there is no happier local home than
that of Rudolph Hribal, a young Bohemian man, at Parfittown. After
having it newly furnished throughout
he brought to it last Monday evening
his French bride and their pretty little
15-month-old daughter. The story is
full of World War romance.
Shortly after this country joined the
Allies yonng Hribal enlisted and was
sent overseas with Company B, Seventh
Infantry. While encamped near Jarville
he met and fell in love with a fair
French maid, Louise Goetz. He won her
heart aod proposed marriage that could
not be consummated as American military law forbade the bans. Bnt love
langhted at the restraining order just as
it does at locks and these lovers lived as
man and wife under the common law of
all lands until Rudolph went to the
front to play his part in the defeat of
the Hun and to be brought home and
honorably discharged after the armistice
was signed.
But he did not forget his sweetheart
with whom he got in communication by
letter and learned of the birth of his
daughter. He finally persuaded the
mother to join him with the child, forwarding ample means for the long journey.
The Travelers Aid Society looked after
the mother and baby until New York
was reached Sunday week. Then the Red
Cross people extended a protecting hand
and sent them along to Greensburg where
tbey arrived safely the next day and
were provided with a winter outfit by
the county seat chapter of the society.
It was there also tbat tbe happy husband and father joined them later in the
day and had performed tbe marriage
ceremony required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. They partook
of the evening meal in their own home.
As Mrs. Hribal speaks oo English as yet,
Rudolph has since been very busy brushing up on his French.
DEATHS OF THE WEEK.
The   Grim  Reaper's  Work   ir   This
Place and Vicinity
Obitnary Notes.
Mrs. Hazel Thompson Miller, of New
Stanton, died at the Greensbnrg hospital
last Tuesday evening of a complication
of diseases. The husband and two children survive.
John David Berry, a former well
known journalist ot this county, died at
a Pittsburg hospital Thursday, aged seventy-two years. He was born at Pleasant
Unity and was twice married, leaving
four sons and four daughters.
Miss Margaret Whiteman, for the past
six years librarian of the Connellsville
Carnegie Library, died at her Latrobe
home Sunday. She was a sister of Assemblyman Thomas M. WbitemaD.
Walter, 8-month-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Brown, died Sunday at his
Bridgeport home.
Sauerkraut Sapper.
The B. F. Mechling Re-Union Presbyterian Bible Class will hold a 75-cent
sauerkraut supper in the Sunday school
rooms ot that church from 5:30 to 7
o'clock on Thursday evening, January
27. The class wishes you to attend, taking your friends along.
Sodality Card Party.
The St. Joseph Sodality will hold a
card party in the St. Joseph Auditorium
tomorrow (Friday) evening with twenty-
five cents as the price of admission. Tbis
will be the society's last entertainment
before Lent.