Mount Pleasant journal (November 30, 1921)

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VOL. 46.
MOUNT    PLEASANT.    WESTMORELAND    COUNTY.    PA..    WEDNESDAY.    NOVEMBER    30,  1921.
NO. 48.
A GOOD JEWISH
WIPE AND MOTHER
TAKESJER LIEE
When Loss of Health Finally
Robbed Her of Reason.
SHE WAS MRS. BESSIE MICHELSON
WHOSE    HUSBAND    IB    M.    MICHELBON,
THE MAIN 8TBEBT JEWELER.
With the Cunning of a Diseased Kind
She Took a Bottle of Silversmith's
Acid from the Store and Drank the
Deadly Contents About Seven
O'Clock Saturday Morning and was
a Corpse Before Anything Could be
Done to Counteract the effect.
Mrs. Bessie Michelson, a Jewess,
aged 34 years, the loving wife ot tvt
Michelson, the well known Main street
jeweler, and the mother of two bright
little children, a boy and girl, on Saturday morning last at her home ended
her life made miserable by long
months of suffering that finally de
throned heNttason.
With the conning that of tea marks the
diseased mind, she managed to get possession of a silversmith acid from ber
husband's store, a componnd in which
muriatic acid forms a large part, and
drank the deadly contents abont seven
o'clock. She at once told her husband
what she had taken; but, before anything
conld be done to counteract the eftect,
the spark of life had fled and the mis-
cries of many months were at their final
end.
Mrs. Michelson, who enjoyed a wide
circle of friends, had gone bravely to the
hospital operating table in both Pittsburg and Uniontown on a number of occasions within the past year or so, but
they all failed to restore her health and
strength Everything that loving attention or money could supply was hers.
That, however, was all in vain. For,
then came loss ol both appetite and
sleep beyond human endurance and until she sought and tound her own and
only relief. And surely the Recording
Angel will leave her name without score
in the Book of Eternal Life.
The remains were taken by auto hearse
Sunday forenoon to Uniontown and
there buried in tbe cemetery of ber
people.
UGLY EXPLOSION
IN LABRATORY
AT HIGH SCHOOL
There was an ugly explosion in tbe
labratory at the local high school Wednesday forenoon while Miss Fairchild,
the teacher of chemistry, was instructing
the class how to generate hydrogen.
Pieces of bottles aud other glass vessels
were blown in all directions into the
faces of both teacher and pupils of whom
a half dozen were cut and bruised. Miss
Fairchild had her cheek so badly bruised that Drs. VV. A. Marsh and G. T. Mc-
Nish ordered her home.
Ethel Bobbs, a freshman, thirteen-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Bobbs, was the most unfortunate of the
^victims. She had ber right eyeball severely cut by a piece of glass and was
aken to the hospital for treatment. The
attending surgeons cannot tell whether
or not tbe sight has been destroyed until
the iuflamation subsides.
Louvain Library as It Will Appear When Completed
Close of Football   Season.
Rain and mud marked tbe close of the
local football season at Frick Park
Thanksgiving.
The Smith aud Bryce glass factory
teams wallowed around in the forenoon,
the former winning 13 6.
In the early afternoon tbe Mount
Pleasant high teams, town and township,
did a lot of wading and sliding. Tbe
township lads won 7 6.
As tbe Pitcairn Mohawks canceled on
Company E at tbe last minute, Manager
Lloyd Shaw substituted Braddock and
tbe soldiers shut the visitors out 19 0.
East Huntingdon Township High lost
to South Brownsville Wednesday 7 0.
The new library for Louvain university, for which Dr. Murray Butler of New York laid the foundation stone, as
It will appear when completed. Thirty-three nations have contributed to the rebuilding of the famous library destroyed by the Germans.
COMERS AND GOERS.
Basinets Dull With Hooslers.
Marshall Brooks, the East End taxicab
operator, returned Wednesday from a
ten days' rest taken with his brother, Dr.
Sparks L. Brooks, of Anderson, Indiana.
He reports mighty dull timea with the
Hoosiers. He got for fifty cents turkey
dinners with all the trimmings except
the one denied by the Volstead act.
Paragraphs About Prominent   People Oath
ered During the Week.
Mrs.   Samuel   N.   Wareen   visited  her
people in Mercer last week.
Miss Grace Brown, a teacher at Do
nora, was home to give thanks.
Mrs. William Brinkley, of Youngwood,
visited old friends here-the past week.
Miss Charlotte Benford, who teaches
in EastoD, was home for Thanksgiving.
Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Madden spent
Thanksgiving with Brownsville friends.
Frank C. Keefe, of South Greensburg
called on a few of his old friends here
Saturday.
Miss Margaret Jones, a student at Highland Hall, Hollidaysburg, was home for
tbe weekend.
Miss Annie Ramsay was at Faircbance
over Sunday visiting her sister, Mrs.
Paul Deffenbaugh.
Miss Ruth Byers entertained the Par-
ci-Par-la Club at her country home Sal
arday afternoon.
Clyde Yotbers, of Cincinnati, Ohio.was
home for Thanksgiving with his mother
and sister, Miss Anna.
Mrs. Nancy Elliot, of Hermioie, spent
several days here last week as the guest
of Mrs. Milton S. Kuhn.
Edward Sweeney has brought his wife
and three pretty babies from Connellsville to reside on South Diamond street.
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Leonard had
with them ^for Thanksgiving their son,
John, Jr., wife and family, of Vander-
grift.
Captain Thomas Laird Cort, manager
of the Consumers Supply Company, is
doing eastern cities on a two weeks' vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carbaugh and son,
Frank, Jr., of Warren, Ohio, were here
over Sunday with relatives and old
friends.
William M. Hitchman, wife and family
were Thanksgiving guests of former
State Senator and Mrs. John M. Jamison,
in Greensburg.
Mrs. Nan Craig, who spent several
years with Kentucky relatives before
coming to Ford City, Pa., has returned
here for tbe winter.
Miss Laura Dillon is home from a
two weeks' visit paid her sister, Mrs
John Harris Adams, of Bellevue, and
Dr. Mary Compton, of Pittsburg.
Mrs. George W. Stoner, treasurer, entertained her fellow officers of tbe Westmoreland County W. C. T. U. Saturday
afternoon at her Eagle street home.
Misses Virginia and Marcella Noss had
as guests at their Orchard Place home as
weekend guests Harold Mann and Kenneth Becker, of Jordon, New York.
Mrs. Marion M, Byers spent last week
at Honey Brook, Pa., with her sou Edward and his wife. She was accompanied
by her daugbter-in-law, Mrs. Frank Byers.
Harry Ramsay, of the University of
West Virginia, Charles DePriest, Matthew and James Shields, of Washington
& Jefierson College, were home for tbe
weekend.
James Cowan, Jr., a second year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and bis sister,
Miss Elizabeth, a sophomore at the Pittsbnrg College for Women, were home for
Thanksgiving. "Young Jim" was unanimously elected president and surgeon
of his class.
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Dufty, after a
week's visit here with the latter's sister,
Mrs. E. E. Poorbangh, have returned to
their Dixon, Illinois, home.
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Bossart had wilh
them on Thanksgiving their daughters,
Mrs. Conghenour, of Fairchance, and
Miss Ruth Bossart, of Philadelphia, with
tie former's husband.
B. G. Bntton and George Baker, of Connellsville, wilh their wives and families
took their Thanksgiving dinner here
with Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Mclntire.
Tbe three ladies are sisters.
R. K. Hissem and cousin, Miss Jennie
Hisscm, partook of a family Thanksgiving dinner served by that gentleman's
son-in-law and daughter, Rev. and Mrs.
T. A. Gibson, at New Keusiogton.
Miss Vineta Smith, a student at the
Margaret Morrison School, Pittsburg, after having had her mother and sister,
Mrs. Walter R. and Miss Winona Smith,
as weekend guests, came home Tuesday
for Thauksgiving.
Mrs. H. A. Long, ol Somerset, who
spent a month here with her aunt, Mrs.
Izora Pershing, of South Eagle street,
has gone to Pittsburg, her former home,
to spend several weeks after which she
will return to tbe hills of Somerset.
Among other college students home
for Thanksgiving were: Misses Gertrude
Goldsmith, Minnie Mae Crosby, Elizabeth Daniels, Dorretta Zimmerman and
Dorris Barkley, Indiana State Normal,
and Misses Marguerite Harmon and Mary
Margaretta Fox, of Carnegie Tech.
Attorney aod Mrs. Rabe F. Marsh, of
Greensburg, gave the family Thanksgiving dinner at the Rappe Hotel. The
guests from here were the host's parents,
Dr. and Mrs. F. L. Marsh, and brother,
Dr. W. A. Marsh, with his wife, daughters, Misses Rebecca aud Louise, and
son, William II.
Railroad Fatalities Dsorease.
An improvement of 53 per cent in tbe
number of fatalities and 40 per cent in
the number of injuries to employes of
tbe Pennsylvania railroad during the
first six months of this year as compared
with the accident record for the same
period last year is announced in an analysis prepared by R. H. Newbern, Super-
intendent of the Insurance Department
of tbe Pennsylvania System.
Ecbard- Whetzel.
Harry Ecbard, of Wooddale, and Miss
Margaret Evelyn Whetzel, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bart. Whetzel, of the East
End, were married Thanksgiving forenoon at the Church of the Brethren parsonage east of town by tbe pastor, Rev.
R. T. Hull. The yonog couple will go
to housekeeping here.
W. C. T. V. Due Social.
The local W. C. T. U, which will hold
its annual due social with special music
Tuesday evening next at the Eagle street
home of Mrs. G. W. Stoner, has received
tbe $30 Thanksgiving ottering; $17 from
individuals and $14 48 and $69.71 worth
of groceries from the public schools.
Popular Speaker.
Rev. F. J. Scott, pastor of tbe Connellsville U. P. church, will address tbe
First Reformed Boys Bible class tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 7:30. Every
M juut Pleasant boy should bear him.
NEW OFFICERS
ELECTED BY
MS) CROSS.
The officers chosen to serve the ensuing year at the annual election of the
Mount Pleasant Chapter of the Red
Cross Society of America held last Tuesday 'evening are: Chairman, Morris N.
Pigman. vice chairman, John A. Warden
and Mrs. Gerard S. Bryce; secretary, Mrs.
J. R. Madden; treasurer, Charles Bobbs;
executive committee, John L. Ruth,
William Bailey, J. P. Murtha and Mes-
dames William Rakusin and M. W. Horner.
Dr. B. M.   Loar, the retiring chairman
i
who presided at the meeting, received a
vote of sincere thanks for faithful and
efficient work as did also Revs. Erbe and
Stoncsifer and their membership solicitors.
CUKE AND COAL
Items of Interest Gathered from Ruth Mine
snd Yard
Business iu the coke region has slumped a little this week as tbe Frick plants
are, as a rule, making less time. In this
district Morewood and Hecla No. 1 will
make but four days. Standard, however,
will run tbe slope six days on coal and
lay the coke workers of) one day. Cleaning up mines that have been idle lor
many months is some job. Out at Hecla
No. 3, which it is expected will resume
operation ere long, it is said 3,000 wagons
of slate bave been taken out on the
dump and tbe haulage roads are not yet
C ear. Carpentertown is down to three
days this week.
Tbe mine fire iu the old Hilicrest pit
along the Connellsville-Mouut Pleasant
road developed a new phase the past
w ;ek when flames ate their way through
an overlying strata and shot some 15
feet into the air at a point between tbe
tracks of the West Penn street car line
and the state highway. A cut through
made in the W. E. Baldwin mine, which
immediately adjoins the mine fire, is believed to bave caused the lire to break
out. No attempt is being made to extinguish the Are.
SIGN OF THE CROSS.
STEVE OETTO
FOUND DEAD
AT MARGUERITE.
Steve Detlo, a Polish coke worker at
Marguerite, aged 55 years, was found
dead in a sulphur creek at that coke
plant Friday morning with his neck
broken. It seems from the investigation
made later in the day by Deputy Coroner M. W. Horner, of this place, that tbe
victim, in order to keep money from bis
wife who spends everything for drink,
to wbich he was also addicted, took several hundred dollars the day before and
gave it to a cousin living near Pleasant
Unity for safe keeping, reserving ten
dollars found in his clothes. It is supposed be drank too much there and in
going home iell over a high embankment
into tbe creek.
Card of Thanks.
The children of the late Mrs. Mary
Jane Kuhn take this means of expressing
their deep sense of gratitude for the
many kindnesses shown by neighbors
and friends following the death of their
mother.
Items of Special Interest to Local
Church Goers.
An audience, fairly representative of
the churches of town, assembled at the
United Presbyterian church on Thanksgiving morning, in spite of the rain. The
pastor being in quarantine, Samuel N.
Warden presided. The singing was led
by a union choir. The Rev. John A.
Erbe, of the First Baptist church, based
his sermon ou Psalm 144:15—"Happy is
the people tbat is in such a case—yea
happy is the people whose God is Jehovah."
Briefly he enumerated the temporal
blessings of the nation, deplored the devotion of Thanksgiving day to unrelig-
10ns purposes, sports and social occasions, and emphasized especially the
spiritual benefits and progress of the
world.
Among these he mentioned ibe promise of the present Congress for disarmament in Washington. He alluded to the
cause for gratitude in the fact that tbe
nation's leaders are men of christian
convictions and habits—the president,
vice president and every member of the
cabinet save two, being active members
of the church.
He also commended President Harding
for leading tbe vast audience at the funeral of the unknown soldier at Arlington in the Lord's Prayer, and for opening the World Conference for Disarmament with prayer by a Washington pastor.
The offering amounting to some thirty
dollars was placed in charge of the W.
C. T. U. for local charity.
As the diphtheria quarantine at the
United Presbyterian parsonage will be
lifted Friday, Rev. James E. Springer
will conduct the usual divine services
at that church Sabbatb next, morning
and evening. Tbe subject of bis morning discourse is: "Obedience and Salvation."
DEATHS OF Tilt WEEK
The   Grim  Reaper's   Work  ir   This
Place and Vicinity
HisB Mabel Hailes.
Miss Mabel Hailes, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Hailes, of United, died
Wednesday at the Cresson Sanatorium,
aged twenty years. She was a graduate
of tbe Mount Pleasant Township High
School and a member of the Mount Pleasant First Baptist church whose pastor,
Rev. John A. Erbe, conducted divine
services at the United home Sunday af
ternoon, the interment following iu the
cemetery here.
Mrs   William Connors.
Mrs. Catherine Connors, wife of William Connors, of the East End, died last
Wednesday following an operation at
tbe hospital, aged 45 years and leaving
the husband and large family of children. Tbe interment took place in tbe
St. Joseph cemetery following requiem
high mass conducted at the St. Joseph
church Friday morning by the rector,
Rev. John Hackett.
Mrs. John Sprinkle
Mrs. Ethel Marie Sprinkle, wife of
John Sprinkle, of Alverton, died at the
local hospital Sunday of puerperal fever,
aged twenty years. The bodies of the
mother and child were buried yesterday
in the same grave at tbe Alverton cemetery.
Obitnary Notes.
Mrs. Minnie Thompson, of near Hecla.
died at tbe hospital here on Thursday,
aged fifty-two years.
Brooilawa, nine year-old son of Lucas
Balurak, died Saturday at his home on
the Neel farm west of town.
HEALTH WEEK
To be Observed in this State December
Fifth to Eleventh.
In connection with this year's Christmas Seal Sale in Pennsylvania, tubercu
losis day will be observed iu tbe schools
on Friday, December 9th, and tuberculosis day in the churches on Sunday,
December 11th.
These days will be features of Health
Week, December 5th to 11th, inclusive,
which will be observed by local branches of the Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Society and other local health and civic
organizations in co-operation with Rotary Clnbs.
Education Week.
Holding tbat the future of America
rests in the bands of tbe public schools,
Governor Sproul has proclaimed December 4 to 10 "American Education Week'
in this state, calling upon the schools
and public to observe it as sucb. He
asks that tbe fifty thousand Pennsylva
nia teachers call attention of the school
army to tbe events of history in the
making of the disarmament conference
now in session at Washington.
SATURDAY LAST
WINDS UP COUNTY
CRIMINAL COURT
When the Verdict in the Fifth
Homicide Case is Returned
THERE WERE 5 CHARGES OF MURDER
DISPOSED    OF    DURING    THE    SECOND
AND    CLOSING     WEEK.
Theodore Taylor, of Monessen, Pleaded Guilty of Manslaughter and was
Sentenced to the Penitentiary for
from Three to Five Years. Henry
McFarland, Slickville Negro, was
Convicted of Second Degree, Gets
from Five to Eight Years in Prison.
Joseph Gelp, of Forbes Road, and
Charles Drews, of New Kensington,
ware Acquitted. Beddy Visnish, of
Export, was Found Guilty of Manslaughter.
The February term of Westmoreland county criminal court closed Saturday evening when the jury found
Reddy Visnich, of Export, guilty of
involuntary manslaughter for having
stabbed to death Reddy Vukmanovich,
a fellow Russian, in front of their
club house there September 18 last.
The defendant was remanded to jail
to await sentence.
Mary Minish, charged wtth having
aided and abetted Visnish, was acquitted
and allowed to depart for her Export
home.
Theodore Taylor, of Monessen, who
pleaded guilty to manslaughter for having killed Louie Catis, was sent to the
penitentiary by Judge Beacom for from
three to five years,
Henry McFarland, who shot and killed
George Walker, a fellow colored man at
Slickville, was found guilty of second
degree murder and sentenced by Jndge
Whitten to serve from five to eight years
in the penitsntiary.
Joseph Gelf, of Forbes Road, was acquitted on a charge of having murdered
Joseph Peepi, a fellow Italiau. It was
shown that he shot in self defense.
Charles Drews, a New Kensington policeman, was also acquitted on a similar
charge. He shot and killed Ambrose
Terrell, colored, when the latter resisted
arrest.
SPLENDID GAME
OE BASKETBALL
IN STATE ARMORY
Company E and East Liberty put up
a splendid game of basketball at the armory Thursday evening before a good
crowd of local fans who were kept on
the anxious bench from start to finish.
The teams were evenly matched and it
was nip and tuck all the way with Manager Johnny Miller's soldiers nosing out
victory 36 35.    Tbe line up was:
Hume F McCarthy
McKinuey..  ....  F O'Connor
Guest   C Scott
Kiizpatrick  G Brown
Bobbs  ..    G      Myers
Field goals, Hume 6, McKinney 1 and
Bobbs 1; fouls, Hnme 20 out of 28; McCarthy, 15 out of 27.
Another good game is promised for
Friday evening next when the Latrobe
Marathon Club will be here to tackle
Company E.
Hospital Nones Entertain.
Miss Burroughs, the superintendent,
and her corps of hospital nurses, a pretty
bunch if any one should ask you, enter-
laiued about one hundred invited frieuda
in tbe most hospitable manner Friday
evening in the bank assembly rooms.
The main features were cards and dancing to the music of Myers Singing Orchestra. Special mention is also due the
Hospital Ladies Aid Society for the
toothsome refreshments served with the
assistance of Mesdames John D. Hitchman, William M. Hitchman and Nevin
A. Cort.
Free Home Fruit Garden Plan.
County Agent W. L. Treager will furnish, upon request, a planting plan for a
home fruit garden of approximately one
acre. It will consist of bush fruits, cane
fruits and tree fruits, with varieties selected so as to give a succession of the
highest quality of fruit from early to
late. He will also be glad to furnish a
list of nurseries where good plants may
be obtained.