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(HJjc MUxtn tm mtnul VOL. 47. MOUNT PLEASANT. WESTMORELAND COUNTY. PA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1922 NO. 38, VERY LIITLE DANGER Of COAL FAMINE In Any Section of the Country This Year. OUTPUT IS NEARINQ NORMAL Even in Coke Region Where Strike is Still On. THERE SEEMS BUT ONE DANGER And That Would ComeTrom Scarcity of Cars. With the strike settled and men back at work in the union fields, there seems little danger of a coal famine in any part of the country this year, barring, of course, a car shortage. Even in the coke region where the strike is still on the output of both coal and coke continues to increase. This is due partly to the importation of colored labor from the south, although quite a few strikers have gone back to work, some here and others in neighboring union fields. There is room for belief that these changes will empty the camps of strikers before rough weath- |er comes, just as there is that when the present flurry is over local consumers will be able to get their winter supply of coal under present prices. Wholesale evictions of tbe families of striking miners in Fayette coanty are being made to make room for tbe new men shipped io. It is said Sheriff Shaw will fee called upon for 1,500 evictions during I this month. The six remaining units of the Pennsylvania National Guard doing strike Idnty in Western Pennsylvania were I withdrawn Thursday. The United Mine Workers of America J will, it is said, establish two new districts in the coke region, No. 3 in this |county and No. 4 in Fayette county. On complaint of George Whyel, presi Idcnt of the newly organized Fayette- ■Greene Coal Producers Association, the ■ Department of Justice sent six agents |into the coke region last week to investigate the claim that foreign secret societies, acting independent of the union, (have, by intimidation, kept miners from [returning to work. Early Monday morning a bomb was lexploded in front of Charles Bitner's ■new home near the Claire Coal Cora- Ipany's plant in Mount Pleasant township where the owner is hoisting engineer. None of the sleeping inmates was mrt but the porch was badly wrecked. IXhe engineer went to work as usual. Fifty state policemen were moved iMoaday from Washington county into |the southern part of Fayette county. While the family was absent Sunday lorning the home of J. H. Teets, a Fair- :hance coke worker, was badly damaged ay a dynamite bomb thrown from a neighboring cornfield. Thomas Skinkis is in jail at Union- town charged with having shot and ser- |ionsly wounded Harrison Rosenberger, fellow mine guard at Rainey's Royal rorks Sunday, wben wakened from sleep toy tbe victim. Ill KLLX KLAN TO BE EXPOSED HERE OCrOBER I. Prominent Pittsbnrg speakers will I'expose" the Ku Klux Klan in the Grand }pera House here at 2 p. m. Sunday, October 1. So much has been said or guessed at regarding this rapidly growing secret society and its aims that the facts will be of special interest. Admission vill be free and tbe local klan cordially Invites Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant. Vagabondia Is Secretary Mellon's Week End Home This 4s the Viigubondia, the yacht of Secretary Mello n, on which lie and his daughter Allsa are spending their week ends this summer cruising on the "Potomac river. COMERS AND GOERS. Paragraphs About Prominent People Oath- ared During the Week. Mrs. Marie Bossart is at Youngstown, Ohio_visittug her niece, Mrs. John Ros- ensteel. Miss Alice Ramsay spent the past ten days in Pittsburg with her sister, Mrs. J. P. Clarke. Louis Sohrey left Monday to resume his studies at Bucknell University as a stately junior. E. M. Kinsbursky, of Oil City, spent several days here last week with his brother-in-law, Hymau Glick. Misses Beatrice Reger and Mary Gag- liana are home from a two weeks' visit paid' New York City friends. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Keller, of Can- ton, Ohio, were here last week visiting that gentleman's father, Joseph P. Keller. Mrs. B, F. Parfitt and sons, Randall and Raymond, are visiting that lady's sister, Mrs. George Knox, of Johnstown. Postmaster Charles A. Graul is spending two weeks at Paw Paw, West Vir ginia, squirrel hunting and bass fishing Miss Genevieve Mullin took her sister, Miss Emily, and Miss Catherine Loar ba-k with her Tuesday to Otterbein University. Commander Harry Fiddler represented the James E. Zundell Post as last week's American Legion state convention at Williamsport. Mrs. Charles Hetzler, who was here visiting her mother, Mrs. Martha Binga- mau, has returned to her Fairmont, West Virginia, home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Bossart motored their son Charles and two of his Greensburg chums to their Mercersbnrg school yesterday. Dr. and Mrs. William A. Marsh left Wednesday on a week's motor trip to Indianapolis, Indiana, where they visited their nncle, Meade Spiegel. Samuel Schindel, wife and two children returned Friday from a week's motor trip to Warren, Ohio, where they were guests of Mrs. Schindel's people. Miss Helen Cort, of this place, was one of the honor guests at a reception give» Thursday by Miss Sarah Porter, of Conellsville, for Miss Phyllis Jayne, of Pittsburg. Frank Leonard, wife and three children, of Washington City, were here the past week as the guests of that gentleman's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Leonard, of the West End. Mr. and Mrs. George Eogle were among the 125 people who attended the More- land family reunion at Whistle Park near Connellsville Saturday. An excellent dinner was served. Mrs. Rice Freed and son Orrel spent last week with Pittsburg and Pitcairn friends. The latter graduated last year from the local high school and left Monday to take a commercial course at Indiana Normal. Clyde Kuliu and Charles Bnrkholder represented Mount Pleasant among tbe twenty-eight guests at the handsomely appointed dinner given Friday eveoing by Miss Mara Louise McDonald at her Connellsville home. Miss Marie Loucks gave a shower at her Scottdale home last Tuesday evening lor Mrs. James Harkins, Jr., of this place, who before her recent marriage was Miss Sara Inghram, one of Scottdale's fair daughters. She was the recipient of many nice presents. TWO KINDS OF LIBERTY. Engagement Announced. Mrs. Yative Rakusin, of Greensburg, announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Sara, to George H. Stern, of Al- toona. The bride-to-be has many Mount Pleasant friends made while staying here with her brother, William Rakusin, the Leader Store proprietor. Was it not Carlisle who said, "There are two kinds of liberty, liberty to do what we please and liberty to do what we ought?" It is the latter that our fathers sought when they founded this land. They established this nation as a home for those who longed for "liberty to do what they ought." It is this liberty which our Sabbath laws protect, and which the enemies of the Sabbath are striving to cast down. SIGN OF THE CROSS. Items of Special Interest to Local Church* Goers. Despite unusually hot weather the Mount Pleasant-Donegal Sunday school district convention at the Mouut Pleasant Township High School Auditorium Sunday afternoon and evening was well attended. Dr. H. B. Vanormer, of Juui- atta College, delivered two fine addresses, while excellent music was furnished at both sessions by Prof. Elmer Morrow, of Scottdale. Tbe banner for the largest attendance was awarded tbe Fairview Church of God Sunday school. The officers to serve the ensuing year are: President, Percy C. Hartzell; vice president, C. M. Metz; secretary, James I. Kalp; division superintendents, children, Miss Elma Neiderhiser; young people, Frank D. Barnhart; home, Mrs. T. A. Marsteller; teacher training, C. M. Metz; O. A. B. C, Proi. John C. Haberlen; missionary, Mrs. C. R. Fausold; temperance, Ray Stairs. The local United Brethren people are being congratulated upon the overhauling just given their church. There will be preaching at the Mount Joy Church of tbe Brethren Sabbath next at 11 a. m, and 8:15 p. m. with Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. and Young Peoples meeting at 7:30 p. m. The public is cordially invited to all these services. Rev. A. L. Austin, of Michigan, a World War chaplain, will preach for the Middle Presbyterians Sabbath morning next at 11 o'clock. Knnkle-lleaiman. James A. Kunkle and Miss Ella May Sleasman, young Indian Head people, were married here Thursday by Rev. R. T. Hull at the Mount Joy Church of the Brethren parsonage. Mr. and Mrs. Kunkle went at once to housekeeping near Indian Head. REV. DR. E. J. KNOX INTENDS RETIRING i ROM M. E. MINISTRY The many friends of Rev. Dr.E. J. Knox, made here during his six years' pastorate of tbe Methodist Episcopal churcb, will regret to learn that not only does be intend to leave here but to retire from the ministry at tbe approaching close of the conference year. He will eventually buy himself a home elsewhere, but he aud bis wife plan to travel extensively before going to housekeeping again. Dr. Knox has labored 43 years in the Master's vineyard. Farms Change Owner. Glenn Miller has purchased the J. W. Overholt "Emma Place" adjoining his Iron Bridge farm and containing 146 acres for $18,500 cash, giving him some 700 acres of surface and considerable valuable coal. Tbe purchaser began his successful business career as a stable boy for tbe late G. H. Hogg at Iron Bridge. Edward Hostofter, the local butcher, has bought the old Jacob Sfrohm farm west of town from the heirs. It is underlaid with top seams of coal and also several acres ot the Connellsville vein. Fayette County Criminal Court. Edward Endsley, a prominent Revere farmer, pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the Fayette county criminal court last Tuesday for having shot and killed Mrs Mary Lape while she was picking berries in hfs patch last June. Homer W. Long, convicted of criminal assault upon Florence McCune near Broad Ford last June, was sentenced to the penitentiary to from 9 to 15 years. REV. IL LEATHERMAN FINALLY DETERMINES TO ACCEPT THAT CALL TO REYNOLDSVILLE, PA. The Lutheran people of Reynoldsville, Pa., having renewed their call to Rev. R. L. Leatherman, of this place, that reverend gentleman finally decided to accept it and will leave this week to take charge of his new pastorate, having preached his impressive farewell sermon Sabbath morning last. In severing his local relations he told how all the members of the congregation, Sunday school and Ladies Aid Society had his best wishes for continued prosperity and success with prayers that "we all may finally win for ourselves the crown of everlasting life." When Rev. Leatherman came here July 1, 1905, he had three parishes, Trinity here, St. Johns Middle and Zion at Ruffsdale. The latter two were made a separate parish some six and one-half years ago, leaving him in charge of the West Main street church from that time. During his pastorate of 17 years and 4^ months he conducted 491 baptisms. 332 being here. He received 437 persons into church membership, 293 of that number being here. He officiated at 59 marriages, 43 of that number here. He conducted 188 funerals. Of that number 129 were members of the local church whose present enrollment is 210 and ot that number 180 communed and contributed to the support of the church the past year. Trinity also gave $18,780.36 of the $36,147.15, the total amount of all monies collected during Rev. Leatherman's pastorate here. COKE AND COAL. Itemi of Interest Gathered from Both Hint and yard. The administration auti profiteering coal bill will be limited in its effect to six months. Steps are being taken to merge Western Pennsylvania coal interests whose annual production is some eight million tons with assets of $35,000,000. Io the big consolidation are the John A. Bell, Carnegie, Verner, Bnrgettstown, Henderson, Chartiers Creek, McClanet, Mead- owlands, Pittsburg & Eastern, Pittsburg and Erie, Youghiogheny and Ohio companies. The Brush Run coke plant had to suspend Monday on account of a scarcity of water. Other works in the northern end of tbe region are depending on Itme- treated mine water. GRATEFUL FIREMEN. West Newton Department Thanks Local Laddies for Timely Aid. The services rendered by the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department at the late big fire in West Newton have been acknowledged through a resolution passed by the West Newton Hose Company and sent Chief Arthur Gearhart as well as all the departments of neighboring towns that responded to "Robbs town's" S. O. S. calls on the night of August 19. The resolution reads: "That we acknowledge with pride as well as gratitude the remarkable willingness of each to cooperate with all throughout the long battle against tbe aggressive ruin which threatened the town; the efficient resoursefulness of the fighters, and the success attained in preventing the spread of the flames. "That these resolutions be pnblished in the West Newton Times-Sun and that copies be forwarded to each of the cooperating fire departments in grateful acknowledgment of Iheir assistance in our utmost need." Chief Gearhart regrets that he and his men were unable to accept the invitation sent them to attend asocial given by the West Newton ladies Saturday evening. EATAL Aljfo ACCIDENT NEAR UNITED. Mrs. R. E. McBeth, of Beuna Vista, Allegheny county, while going home from the funeral of her father in Fayette county, with her husband and Mr. and Mrs. William Veach, was almost instantly killed Sunday evening at the sharp curve on the Greensburg brick road beyond United where their auto broke a wheel off and upset. The other three occupants escaped with slight injuries. Walter Davis, of this place, who happened along in bis car, helped tores- cue the dying woman from the wreck. MURDER IN EIRST DEGREE Is the Verdict Found Against Fred Stefl WHO SHOT ANNA YEZEK HERE But Failed to Follow that Crime With Suicide. MANY OTHER HOMICIDE CASES Tried in County Criminal Court the Past Week. Looal Secret Society Honori. Two of the three delegates representing tbe Franklin & Marshall Chapter at the Triennial Council of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, this week are Rufns E. Zimmerman, formerly of Mount Pleasant, and Rev. Paul T. Stonesifer, pastor of the local First Reformed church. New Legislative Candidate. The Republican County Committee, meeting at Greensburg Saturday, appointed George A. Smith, of Derry, a candidate tor the Legislature in the First district to fill tbe vacancy caused by the recent death of David A. Wineman, of that place. Under a new rule, the committeemen of this district made the selection. Mr. Smith bad no opposition. HOW SECRETARY'S SHARP EYES SAVED COUNCIL. A Greensburg motor company would have unloaded an old 1913 White motor truck on Mount Pleasant Council for $1,400, guaranteed to be, it is said, a 1920 model, had it not been for the sharp eyes of the purchaser's secretary, Frank Overly, who is also stenographer iD Judge Dom's court at Greensburg. He discovered the truck's age in looking over tbe license and at once informed President Frank Simpson just in time to prevent the latter from attaching his signature to the contract. The ancient motor vehicle will be kept, however, as the agent, at a special meeting of Council Monday evening, knocked $500 ol! the price, guaranteed the truck for two years and promised to then allow the borough $900 for it io exchange for another truck. Fred Stefl, who served overseas as a sergeant in Company E, 110th Infantry, and who shot Anna Yezek here on Church street, opposite this office, the night of December 21st last, was found guilty of murder in the first degree in the county criminal court at Greensburg last Wednesday night at 10:15 after the jury had deliberated some six hours. The defendant showed no feeling either when called upon to hear the awful verdict or led back to his jail cell. He is now being closely watched, however, to prevent him from committing suicide. The history of this case is already known to Journal readers. The Commonwealth, with Attorney P. K. Shaner assisting Disfrict Attorney Nevin A. Cort, proved by reputable witnesses bow Stefl lay in wait and shot his victim, her death following from paralysis on April 17; how he then tried to commit suicide with the revolver bought of W. F. Smith, the local hardware man, but failed, inflicting a harmless wound; how both were taken to the local hospital from which he was taken to jail at Greensburg and she to die at tbe Alice postoffice home of her prrnnts. Attorney John J. Kennedy, who conducted the defense and brought home the company in which tbe defendant was a sergeant, pnt Stefl on the witness stand where he said he was under tbe influence of drink at the time of tbe double tragedy and did not know what he did. Tbe charge delivered to tbe jury by Judge Whitten, before whom the case was tried, favored the side of the prosecution. The testimony for the prosecution also showed that young Stefl had paid his victim marked attention before going to war and that he bad tried to renew an affair of the heart after he had been discharged and despite the tact that he had married Miss Laura Carson one year ago yesterday in Columbns, Ohio, while he was working there. He left her the next day, claiming she bad tried to poison him. On instructions from Judge Dom, the jury acquitted Abeu Gray who was charged with having shot and killed Noah Zellers at Herminie No. 2 July 15. It was shown that tbe defendant was a deputy sheriff and that he bad been shot twice by Zellers, a negro strike breaker, before he fired the fatal shot. Alex C. Davis, of Bovard, was tried before Judge Copeland for having shot and killed John Farrell.a fellow colored man, in a quarrel over a game of craps. He was found guilty of murder in the second degree. Judge Dom also heard tbe case of Ferdinand Cicerello, charged with having murdered D. C Mitchell, a watchman for tbe Westmoreland Coal Company at Export, some three months ago. The verdict was second degree. Andy Taylor, of Greensburg, charged with having shot and killed Mrs. Margaret Ivy at her county seat home last May, was tried before Judge Copeland and convicted of murder in tbe second degree. m -♦--» A Bright Loeal Studont. Miss Gladys Freed, a daughter of Mrs. Anna L. Freed, of this place, a graduate of the local high school and University of Pittsburg, will leave the latter part of the month to begin a three years' course in tbe University of Chicago. Her aim is to win a Ph. D. in Latin with a view to teaching that branch in a university.
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Title | Mount Pleasant journal (September 13, 1922) |
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Title | Mount Pleasant journal |
Subject | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County -- Mount Pleasant ; Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Mount Pleasant |
Description | Publishers: John L. Shields, [Jan. 10, 1923]; Howard M. Stoner and Clark Queer, 1923-1963; H. Ralph Hernley, 1963-. |
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Full Text | (HJjc MUxtn tm mtnul VOL. 47. MOUNT PLEASANT. WESTMORELAND COUNTY. PA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1922 NO. 38, VERY LIITLE DANGER Of COAL FAMINE In Any Section of the Country This Year. OUTPUT IS NEARINQ NORMAL Even in Coke Region Where Strike is Still On. THERE SEEMS BUT ONE DANGER And That Would ComeTrom Scarcity of Cars. With the strike settled and men back at work in the union fields, there seems little danger of a coal famine in any part of the country this year, barring, of course, a car shortage. Even in the coke region where the strike is still on the output of both coal and coke continues to increase. This is due partly to the importation of colored labor from the south, although quite a few strikers have gone back to work, some here and others in neighboring union fields. There is room for belief that these changes will empty the camps of strikers before rough weath- |er comes, just as there is that when the present flurry is over local consumers will be able to get their winter supply of coal under present prices. Wholesale evictions of tbe families of striking miners in Fayette coanty are being made to make room for tbe new men shipped io. It is said Sheriff Shaw will fee called upon for 1,500 evictions during I this month. The six remaining units of the Pennsylvania National Guard doing strike Idnty in Western Pennsylvania were I withdrawn Thursday. The United Mine Workers of America J will, it is said, establish two new districts in the coke region, No. 3 in this |county and No. 4 in Fayette county. On complaint of George Whyel, presi Idcnt of the newly organized Fayette- ■Greene Coal Producers Association, the ■ Department of Justice sent six agents |into the coke region last week to investigate the claim that foreign secret societies, acting independent of the union, (have, by intimidation, kept miners from [returning to work. Early Monday morning a bomb was lexploded in front of Charles Bitner's ■new home near the Claire Coal Cora- Ipany's plant in Mount Pleasant township where the owner is hoisting engineer. None of the sleeping inmates was mrt but the porch was badly wrecked. IXhe engineer went to work as usual. Fifty state policemen were moved iMoaday from Washington county into |the southern part of Fayette county. While the family was absent Sunday lorning the home of J. H. Teets, a Fair- :hance coke worker, was badly damaged ay a dynamite bomb thrown from a neighboring cornfield. Thomas Skinkis is in jail at Union- town charged with having shot and ser- |ionsly wounded Harrison Rosenberger, fellow mine guard at Rainey's Royal rorks Sunday, wben wakened from sleep toy tbe victim. Ill KLLX KLAN TO BE EXPOSED HERE OCrOBER I. Prominent Pittsbnrg speakers will I'expose" the Ku Klux Klan in the Grand }pera House here at 2 p. m. Sunday, October 1. So much has been said or guessed at regarding this rapidly growing secret society and its aims that the facts will be of special interest. Admission vill be free and tbe local klan cordially Invites Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant. Vagabondia Is Secretary Mellon's Week End Home This 4s the Viigubondia, the yacht of Secretary Mello n, on which lie and his daughter Allsa are spending their week ends this summer cruising on the "Potomac river. COMERS AND GOERS. Paragraphs About Prominent People Oath- ared During the Week. Mrs. Marie Bossart is at Youngstown, Ohio_visittug her niece, Mrs. John Ros- ensteel. Miss Alice Ramsay spent the past ten days in Pittsburg with her sister, Mrs. J. P. Clarke. Louis Sohrey left Monday to resume his studies at Bucknell University as a stately junior. E. M. Kinsbursky, of Oil City, spent several days here last week with his brother-in-law, Hymau Glick. Misses Beatrice Reger and Mary Gag- liana are home from a two weeks' visit paid' New York City friends. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Keller, of Can- ton, Ohio, were here last week visiting that gentleman's father, Joseph P. Keller. Mrs. B, F. Parfitt and sons, Randall and Raymond, are visiting that lady's sister, Mrs. George Knox, of Johnstown. Postmaster Charles A. Graul is spending two weeks at Paw Paw, West Vir ginia, squirrel hunting and bass fishing Miss Genevieve Mullin took her sister, Miss Emily, and Miss Catherine Loar ba-k with her Tuesday to Otterbein University. Commander Harry Fiddler represented the James E. Zundell Post as last week's American Legion state convention at Williamsport. Mrs. Charles Hetzler, who was here visiting her mother, Mrs. Martha Binga- mau, has returned to her Fairmont, West Virginia, home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Bossart motored their son Charles and two of his Greensburg chums to their Mercersbnrg school yesterday. Dr. and Mrs. William A. Marsh left Wednesday on a week's motor trip to Indianapolis, Indiana, where they visited their nncle, Meade Spiegel. Samuel Schindel, wife and two children returned Friday from a week's motor trip to Warren, Ohio, where they were guests of Mrs. Schindel's people. Miss Helen Cort, of this place, was one of the honor guests at a reception give» Thursday by Miss Sarah Porter, of Conellsville, for Miss Phyllis Jayne, of Pittsburg. Frank Leonard, wife and three children, of Washington City, were here the past week as the guests of that gentleman's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Leonard, of the West End. Mr. and Mrs. George Eogle were among the 125 people who attended the More- land family reunion at Whistle Park near Connellsville Saturday. An excellent dinner was served. Mrs. Rice Freed and son Orrel spent last week with Pittsburg and Pitcairn friends. The latter graduated last year from the local high school and left Monday to take a commercial course at Indiana Normal. Clyde Kuliu and Charles Bnrkholder represented Mount Pleasant among tbe twenty-eight guests at the handsomely appointed dinner given Friday eveoing by Miss Mara Louise McDonald at her Connellsville home. Miss Marie Loucks gave a shower at her Scottdale home last Tuesday evening lor Mrs. James Harkins, Jr., of this place, who before her recent marriage was Miss Sara Inghram, one of Scottdale's fair daughters. She was the recipient of many nice presents. TWO KINDS OF LIBERTY. Engagement Announced. Mrs. Yative Rakusin, of Greensburg, announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Sara, to George H. Stern, of Al- toona. The bride-to-be has many Mount Pleasant friends made while staying here with her brother, William Rakusin, the Leader Store proprietor. Was it not Carlisle who said, "There are two kinds of liberty, liberty to do what we please and liberty to do what we ought?" It is the latter that our fathers sought when they founded this land. They established this nation as a home for those who longed for "liberty to do what they ought." It is this liberty which our Sabbath laws protect, and which the enemies of the Sabbath are striving to cast down. SIGN OF THE CROSS. Items of Special Interest to Local Church* Goers. Despite unusually hot weather the Mount Pleasant-Donegal Sunday school district convention at the Mouut Pleasant Township High School Auditorium Sunday afternoon and evening was well attended. Dr. H. B. Vanormer, of Juui- atta College, delivered two fine addresses, while excellent music was furnished at both sessions by Prof. Elmer Morrow, of Scottdale. Tbe banner for the largest attendance was awarded tbe Fairview Church of God Sunday school. The officers to serve the ensuing year are: President, Percy C. Hartzell; vice president, C. M. Metz; secretary, James I. Kalp; division superintendents, children, Miss Elma Neiderhiser; young people, Frank D. Barnhart; home, Mrs. T. A. Marsteller; teacher training, C. M. Metz; O. A. B. C, Proi. John C. Haberlen; missionary, Mrs. C. R. Fausold; temperance, Ray Stairs. The local United Brethren people are being congratulated upon the overhauling just given their church. There will be preaching at the Mount Joy Church of tbe Brethren Sabbath next at 11 a. m, and 8:15 p. m. with Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. and Young Peoples meeting at 7:30 p. m. The public is cordially invited to all these services. Rev. A. L. Austin, of Michigan, a World War chaplain, will preach for the Middle Presbyterians Sabbath morning next at 11 o'clock. Knnkle-lleaiman. James A. Kunkle and Miss Ella May Sleasman, young Indian Head people, were married here Thursday by Rev. R. T. Hull at the Mount Joy Church of the Brethren parsonage. Mr. and Mrs. Kunkle went at once to housekeeping near Indian Head. REV. DR. E. J. KNOX INTENDS RETIRING i ROM M. E. MINISTRY The many friends of Rev. Dr.E. J. Knox, made here during his six years' pastorate of tbe Methodist Episcopal churcb, will regret to learn that not only does be intend to leave here but to retire from the ministry at tbe approaching close of the conference year. He will eventually buy himself a home elsewhere, but he aud bis wife plan to travel extensively before going to housekeeping again. Dr. Knox has labored 43 years in the Master's vineyard. Farms Change Owner. Glenn Miller has purchased the J. W. Overholt "Emma Place" adjoining his Iron Bridge farm and containing 146 acres for $18,500 cash, giving him some 700 acres of surface and considerable valuable coal. Tbe purchaser began his successful business career as a stable boy for tbe late G. H. Hogg at Iron Bridge. Edward Hostofter, the local butcher, has bought the old Jacob Sfrohm farm west of town from the heirs. It is underlaid with top seams of coal and also several acres ot the Connellsville vein. Fayette County Criminal Court. Edward Endsley, a prominent Revere farmer, pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the Fayette county criminal court last Tuesday for having shot and killed Mrs Mary Lape while she was picking berries in hfs patch last June. Homer W. Long, convicted of criminal assault upon Florence McCune near Broad Ford last June, was sentenced to the penitentiary to from 9 to 15 years. REV. IL LEATHERMAN FINALLY DETERMINES TO ACCEPT THAT CALL TO REYNOLDSVILLE, PA. The Lutheran people of Reynoldsville, Pa., having renewed their call to Rev. R. L. Leatherman, of this place, that reverend gentleman finally decided to accept it and will leave this week to take charge of his new pastorate, having preached his impressive farewell sermon Sabbath morning last. In severing his local relations he told how all the members of the congregation, Sunday school and Ladies Aid Society had his best wishes for continued prosperity and success with prayers that "we all may finally win for ourselves the crown of everlasting life." When Rev. Leatherman came here July 1, 1905, he had three parishes, Trinity here, St. Johns Middle and Zion at Ruffsdale. The latter two were made a separate parish some six and one-half years ago, leaving him in charge of the West Main street church from that time. During his pastorate of 17 years and 4^ months he conducted 491 baptisms. 332 being here. He received 437 persons into church membership, 293 of that number being here. He officiated at 59 marriages, 43 of that number here. He conducted 188 funerals. Of that number 129 were members of the local church whose present enrollment is 210 and ot that number 180 communed and contributed to the support of the church the past year. Trinity also gave $18,780.36 of the $36,147.15, the total amount of all monies collected during Rev. Leatherman's pastorate here. COKE AND COAL. Itemi of Interest Gathered from Both Hint and yard. The administration auti profiteering coal bill will be limited in its effect to six months. Steps are being taken to merge Western Pennsylvania coal interests whose annual production is some eight million tons with assets of $35,000,000. Io the big consolidation are the John A. Bell, Carnegie, Verner, Bnrgettstown, Henderson, Chartiers Creek, McClanet, Mead- owlands, Pittsburg & Eastern, Pittsburg and Erie, Youghiogheny and Ohio companies. The Brush Run coke plant had to suspend Monday on account of a scarcity of water. Other works in the northern end of tbe region are depending on Itme- treated mine water. GRATEFUL FIREMEN. West Newton Department Thanks Local Laddies for Timely Aid. The services rendered by the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department at the late big fire in West Newton have been acknowledged through a resolution passed by the West Newton Hose Company and sent Chief Arthur Gearhart as well as all the departments of neighboring towns that responded to "Robbs town's" S. O. S. calls on the night of August 19. The resolution reads: "That we acknowledge with pride as well as gratitude the remarkable willingness of each to cooperate with all throughout the long battle against tbe aggressive ruin which threatened the town; the efficient resoursefulness of the fighters, and the success attained in preventing the spread of the flames. "That these resolutions be pnblished in the West Newton Times-Sun and that copies be forwarded to each of the cooperating fire departments in grateful acknowledgment of Iheir assistance in our utmost need." Chief Gearhart regrets that he and his men were unable to accept the invitation sent them to attend asocial given by the West Newton ladies Saturday evening. EATAL Aljfo ACCIDENT NEAR UNITED. Mrs. R. E. McBeth, of Beuna Vista, Allegheny county, while going home from the funeral of her father in Fayette county, with her husband and Mr. and Mrs. William Veach, was almost instantly killed Sunday evening at the sharp curve on the Greensburg brick road beyond United where their auto broke a wheel off and upset. The other three occupants escaped with slight injuries. Walter Davis, of this place, who happened along in bis car, helped tores- cue the dying woman from the wreck. MURDER IN EIRST DEGREE Is the Verdict Found Against Fred Stefl WHO SHOT ANNA YEZEK HERE But Failed to Follow that Crime With Suicide. MANY OTHER HOMICIDE CASES Tried in County Criminal Court the Past Week. Looal Secret Society Honori. Two of the three delegates representing tbe Franklin & Marshall Chapter at the Triennial Council of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, this week are Rufns E. Zimmerman, formerly of Mount Pleasant, and Rev. Paul T. Stonesifer, pastor of the local First Reformed church. New Legislative Candidate. The Republican County Committee, meeting at Greensburg Saturday, appointed George A. Smith, of Derry, a candidate tor the Legislature in the First district to fill tbe vacancy caused by the recent death of David A. Wineman, of that place. Under a new rule, the committeemen of this district made the selection. Mr. Smith bad no opposition. HOW SECRETARY'S SHARP EYES SAVED COUNCIL. A Greensburg motor company would have unloaded an old 1913 White motor truck on Mount Pleasant Council for $1,400, guaranteed to be, it is said, a 1920 model, had it not been for the sharp eyes of the purchaser's secretary, Frank Overly, who is also stenographer iD Judge Dom's court at Greensburg. He discovered the truck's age in looking over tbe license and at once informed President Frank Simpson just in time to prevent the latter from attaching his signature to the contract. The ancient motor vehicle will be kept, however, as the agent, at a special meeting of Council Monday evening, knocked $500 ol! the price, guaranteed the truck for two years and promised to then allow the borough $900 for it io exchange for another truck. Fred Stefl, who served overseas as a sergeant in Company E, 110th Infantry, and who shot Anna Yezek here on Church street, opposite this office, the night of December 21st last, was found guilty of murder in the first degree in the county criminal court at Greensburg last Wednesday night at 10:15 after the jury had deliberated some six hours. The defendant showed no feeling either when called upon to hear the awful verdict or led back to his jail cell. He is now being closely watched, however, to prevent him from committing suicide. The history of this case is already known to Journal readers. The Commonwealth, with Attorney P. K. Shaner assisting Disfrict Attorney Nevin A. Cort, proved by reputable witnesses bow Stefl lay in wait and shot his victim, her death following from paralysis on April 17; how he then tried to commit suicide with the revolver bought of W. F. Smith, the local hardware man, but failed, inflicting a harmless wound; how both were taken to the local hospital from which he was taken to jail at Greensburg and she to die at tbe Alice postoffice home of her prrnnts. Attorney John J. Kennedy, who conducted the defense and brought home the company in which tbe defendant was a sergeant, pnt Stefl on the witness stand where he said he was under tbe influence of drink at the time of tbe double tragedy and did not know what he did. Tbe charge delivered to tbe jury by Judge Whitten, before whom the case was tried, favored the side of the prosecution. The testimony for the prosecution also showed that young Stefl had paid his victim marked attention before going to war and that he bad tried to renew an affair of the heart after he had been discharged and despite the tact that he had married Miss Laura Carson one year ago yesterday in Columbns, Ohio, while he was working there. He left her the next day, claiming she bad tried to poison him. On instructions from Judge Dom, the jury acquitted Abeu Gray who was charged with having shot and killed Noah Zellers at Herminie No. 2 July 15. It was shown that tbe defendant was a deputy sheriff and that he bad been shot twice by Zellers, a negro strike breaker, before he fired the fatal shot. Alex C. Davis, of Bovard, was tried before Judge Copeland for having shot and killed John Farrell.a fellow colored man, in a quarrel over a game of craps. He was found guilty of murder in the second degree. Judge Dom also heard tbe case of Ferdinand Cicerello, charged with having murdered D. C Mitchell, a watchman for tbe Westmoreland Coal Company at Export, some three months ago. The verdict was second degree. Andy Taylor, of Greensburg, charged with having shot and killed Mrs. Margaret Ivy at her county seat home last May, was tried before Judge Copeland and convicted of murder in tbe second degree. m -♦--» A Bright Loeal Studont. Miss Gladys Freed, a daughter of Mrs. Anna L. Freed, of this place, a graduate of the local high school and University of Pittsburg, will leave the latter part of the month to begin a three years' course in tbe University of Chicago. Her aim is to win a Ph. D. in Latin with a view to teaching that branch in a university. |
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