Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-11-02

              - . . w< MERCHANTS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INDORSES CITIZENS' WATER CO. PRICE I CENT PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1907 , \ VOL II. No. 41 TAFT MAY WITHDRAW FROM THE RACE UPON HIS RETURN . TO UNITED STATES DEC. 12th BUR8LARS DESERT PUNX'Y FOR CLOE FOR SINGLE NIGHT Enter the Store of Sloan & Co. and Make Good Haul. MAY ADD ANOTHER NEW TRAIN TO C. C. SCHEDULE President Convinced That Secret; ry Has No Chance to Win. Evening. Resolution Adopted at Regular Meeting Held Last DUBOIS MAYOR REFUSES TO SIGN A FAULTY ORDINANCE Train That Runs From Cresson toIrvonaMay Be Brought Through to Punx'y—Present Service Paying. StiUHERNFRS WOULD KOI STAND ONE ATTEMPT HERE ALL CITIZENS SHOULD COOFERATE Says Sunday Closing Measure Infringes Upon the Rights of the People—The Demands Are Unreasonable. Running Full and Money Plentiful at Low Rates of Interest—Same Other Places. Will Ask Assistance of Water Company D rectors Chamber of Commerce. Utterances of Republicans of the South Enough to Convince Roosevelt. LARGE MAIN PLANNED lY NAME THE MAN "Third. The ordinance is vetoed for the further reason that its enforcement. us contemplated by the f miners, would, In many Instances, work a decided hardship on th«' eiti- Mayor Boycr's personal Ideas of Sunday closing arc shown in the third and fourth reasons for the vet », which follow: When the project >f Sunday closing was first launched .Mayor Boyer seemed heartily in accord with the idea, but thosie who were pushing the measure shoved too hard and asked unreasonable things of not »nly the merchants, but of the citizens as a whole. Had the framers of the ordinance embodied less in the ordinance, and not made the measure so stringent, it is possible th:i May >r I {oyer's signature w »uld have been affixed. Louis Buyer, mayor of* the neighboring town of DuBois has vetoed the ordinance known as • he Sunday Closing: Ordinance, anil in his return •jf the ordinance unsigned, gives seven reasons for his veto, any one of which seems to hi* sufficiently strong for the downfall of the Sunday closing idea. "Fourth. While it may not have been 11»•' intention «»f the trainers so to do. still the onfoivcnicnt «»f this measure has tin* effect of competing the citizens to regulate their personal habits and manners of living t<> conform to tin* terms of a Borough »r-dinance. and that in respe.-t to maters that should not be the object of legislative supervision—in matters that should }»<• l.-ft t > the personal taste of each individual. This is an era of enlightenment and the citizen should be pcrnitted his personal condue according to his own personal ideas of right and propriety, s > far a< is consistent with morality. honesty and liberal right. It is considered that tin* enforcement of this ordinance would work an unwarranted and to > radical restriction." ■sen, without working nnj substantia! <ood. Ordinances should bo reasonable and practical. This measure is not considered so. Administrates are instituted to protect the personal rights of citizens and not to curtail an 1 destroy them. The citizen should be given as much personal liberty as Is i onsistent with good government. BACK TO OLD HAUNTS DRUNKS III A HOLE In the event of the change passengers for ('reason and intervening points over the ClcafieUl A. Cambria, via Patton, \v >ul'd have the same advantages as those going via Irona, as all trains >ver the I\ *Vr N*. \V. and Irvona & ('resson and those over the Clearfield & ('resson make connections fit La Jose. The Clearfield & Cresson now operates its trains from Olen Campbell to Cresson on a in the event of increased service the train which lays over at Irvona from about 10:30 until 2:20 each day would be run into Punxsutawney. arriving here at about 11:35 a. m. fie-, turning it w >ul.i leave Punxsutawney at about 1:30 for Irovna and Cresson.At present the train which leaves Punxsutawney at ,1:15 a. m. goes to Cresson and returns to Irvona, where it lays oVer from about 10:30 to 2:30. It then returns to Cresson. leaving there at ♦#: 10 o'clock for the return trip to Punxsutawney. arriving here at eight o'clock p. m It is given oik on what is considered good authority that not only will the new train service from this place to Cresson. over the Clearfield & Cambria and the Jrvona & Cresson branches of the P. It. R. be continued but that another train will be addeJ when the new schedule goes into effect about the middle of this month. Passengers and mail pervlce would be equally well taken care of. and it is thought thai there is no doubt but what the schedule makers will give the additional train a trial. In the ev ' • ■ 'uinge it will be seen that express from Pittsburg and the west could leave the Smoky City early in the morning and arrive here via Adams at about 11:30, or leave in the afternoon and arrive here ai eight o'clock p. m., anil be delivered the same night. If desired. The incre-isq 1 husim ss, the officials *»f the railrop 1 company believe, is due to the new train service between this place an I the main line of the P. It. It. a Cresson. As Indicating what the new service from here to Cress >n over the two branch lines amounts to. is the fact that the Adams Kxpress Company In his place did as much business during the month of October, 1D07, as they did during the month of December in 190G. It is understood that the officials of the Trvona & Cresson branch, who also make the schedules for the Clear- Held & Cresson, are well please J with the business that the new service has been bringing them " believe that another train will be equally profitable.schedule similar to the one suggested for Punxsutawney. POPE HAS HURT TROUBLE EXPLOSION NEAR BUTLER I initials llcportcd in Old Barn Near Oiioiulngll lull Hive Police the Slip. Driftwood Merrymakers Refuse \ilniitilancc lo Inner Circle to Overloaded SI rangers. Five Hundred Quarts of Nitro Glycerine Kxpltxlo at Pretolln. .Many liijurcd. Compelled to Cancel All KngagcmcnC;. and Go to li«Ml—Inci- Incidental io Attack of Gout. t should be nominated, there little genuine feeling him, and without such feeling the ipalgn wust necessarily be list- ike headway. While that fact may t be to his liking, it suggests that if lere is very little sentiment for Taft itside of what may be called admlntration circles. He met enough hont men to become satisfied that there a strong feeling for him and while at exists the Taft boom cannot theless the President Is said to ive been Impressed by the fact «that long those who called on him. nev- !The President is said to have been Such Impressed with the utterances Republicans whom he met on the ip. They wero nearly all against aft and In favor of Roosevelt for anther term. While not Insensible to le fact that 'there are many flatterers pon the Republican Presidential sitatlon are expected immediately fol|wlng the return of the Secretary to fashlngton on December 12. irn from the Southern trip. Important developments bearing >8ident Roosevelt in conversations has had with callers since his re- ' disappointment with the cold re>ptlon of the Taft boom uttered by eared yesterday. Without doubt it epends for life upon the expressions lecretary Taft will take nlmself out >f the contest for the Republican lominatlon for the Presidency reap- WASHINQTON, D. C., Nov. 2.—Although once denied, the rumor thdt BOOTH DECRIES DIVORCE It is thought that this illness has been aggravated considerably by the news of the assassination of his favorite nephew. The correspondent adds that the illness is supposed to be incidental to"! the attack «»f gout from which the 1 Pope was reported to have been suf- j fering. By United Press. PARIS, Nov. 2.—The Pope had a severe attack of heart trouble, declares t,he Roman correspondent. The Pope has been compelled to take to his bed and cancel all appointments. The burglars wore reported to have 1 returned to their old haunts In the barn near Onondaga last evening and six of the State Police were dispatched to round them up. When th-» squad arrived at the barn they found nothing but a fresh looking piece of pa per which looked as though it migh have been just left the bakery shop indicating that some one had beei eating there but a short time before A small boy living in the vicinity o Onondaga told a neighbor that thre men had stopped him and asked if h were the son of the man who had in formed the State Polise of thei whereabouts. The lad did not tin dcrstand their meaning but watche* them enter the old barn and imme diately told the first man he sav about it, with the result tha thepo lice were sent for immediately. Pri vates Mullen. Carlton. McDonald Moselight, Hums and Florentein an swerod the call, but a search devel oped neither robbers nor booty. •I'OI'M) IN <«OOI> ('OXDITION" on the night before there had been a biff Hallowe'en celebrati >n at Driftwood and the three men had "butted" in, and all three of them were drunk. After putting- up with their 'antics for some time the merry-makers began to grow tired of it. especially aw the "drunks" were getting | worse every minute, and finally the storm broke. Hastily grabbing pjles and tying the offenders securely to the ends of them dumped them into the pit. which contained considerable water from the recent rains. Wet and cold the fellows stayed there al! night and were found in the m >rning by the workmen.—DuBois Courier. Yesterday morning when the workmen on the Huektail monument at DrLftwo .id went to work they found three men almost frozen to death in the pit excavated for the foundation of the monument. CJtRRlEO COW UPSTAIRS Says Faithful Not to Wile Hut to .Affinity Is Spirit of Times. lowe'cn Hevolers. Now Humane Officer Is After llal- HITCHCOCK IH HEW YORK? | The only attempt at burglary in ( Punxsutawney reported for last night j was at the home of J. < \ Smith, of ,101k Run. With Mr. Smith live his nelre. Mrs*. Harry I") >rset and family. Last night Mr. Dorset, who Is the I proprietor of the Home Bakery on Hast Mahoning Street, was awakened by someone trying to enter a winlow on the first floor. Securing a gun he located himself in a position to Rive the intrduer a warm reception. The would be burglar, however. either discovered that he was being watched from within, or was frightened away by some ine approaching. as the noise he was making suddenly ceased and was not again renewed. Lee Sloan who, wiih his wife and two children, occupy quarters over the store room, were not disturbed luring the night, and the robbery was not discovered until Mr. SI ian came down stairs to open the store, at abou six o'clock this morning. John Sloan, the other member of the firm, lives some distance from the store building.The window through which the burglars entered is 14x2S inches. It was cut with a diamond or steel glass cutter, close to the frame, all around. The looters made their exit thr »ugh the window also. The loss to Sloan »<* t'ompany cannot be easily determined as the show case contained many lines of small articles >f which they have no record. The loss will be several hundred dollars at least. The footwear secured consisted entirely of men's shoes of the Moscow make, some of them I 4-inch tops, and marked fr >m $l' to $"> per pair. One of the suit cases will be readily recognized. as It is odd*shaped, being 21i inches long and « i£ht inches wide, with brass finishings. ( The money drawer was broken open and. about -50 cents in pennies, all th<- money left in the store, taken. The safe, which was nit Nicked, was not molested, leading Sloan Brothers to believe that the parties who committed the theft are familiar with the fact that the company never keeps either money or the more valuable jeweliy in the.store aver night. Following is a partial list of the loot secured: 18 pairs mens' shoes, several gross men's socks, two suit cases, pocket knives, razors and the entire contents of a show case containing jewelry, such as cuff buttons, watch chains, stick pins, cutlery, etc. eti. Th<- gang )f ilrst-fluor artists that has been operating in this vicinity during the past week, last night took a little spin and landed in doe, where they removed a large window, also what goods they desired, from Sloan & Company's store. The detonation was heard at Chicora, seven miles away from the explosion.Windows in buildings within a mile and a half from the scene of the explosion were shattered and barns were almost demolished. Several animals belonging to J>hn Sykes were killed by falling timbers. ine, which were stored in the magazine. let go for some unknown cause, when no one was about. The glycerin exploded with such force that a factory building located one hundred yards away, was bl iwn into atoms. Five hundred quarts of nitroplycer- erty destroyed. By United Press. BUTLER, Pa., Nov. 2.—By the explosion of a magazine which belongs to the Petroleum Torpedo Company, located sixteen miles from here, two miles north of Petrolia, at last midnight. several persons were injured more or less seriously and twentyfive thousand dollars worth of prop- ind iln ('hambor < r rommerce the ask would be made much lighter. the Sta e Hoard an 1 sf lire a charter, and tlun ft .d that with the as--istance of the Merchants' Aasociati >n. of water company are sha;.i'ur matters ai rapidly mi po- %'<■ in order to met the requirements Vf pany Chamber of Conim-n e should he vitally interested in the new can- aries an I that fur th's r«.<-««n the it is claimed that since the station hni the Harnett farm, whet-- the company is erecting its waier plant. is about seventy-five f» et abov« the level at Punxsutawney, a gravity line cviuld be constructed via Canoe Creel, and CJoe that w -uld insure a uj. y of good water h«r any numbir . fae- the Snyder Mill, a large main that will bring an abundance >f water into Punxsutawney for factories and industrial plants. line that will supply the reservoirs on ommend It to the people of Pun\- sutawney, and especially to the memhew Of the Association and believe It 1 should rcooive the co-operation of all citizens having the welfare of the llorough at heart.'* The. vote showed that the resolution had carried unanimously. It Is understood that the committees will also endeavor t<> secure the endorsement of the Chamber ««f Comment and that a be called In the near future for the purpose of submitting the proposition for their consideration. | li is claimed that the Citizens' Wat*- • r Company is considering a proposition f«» construct. In addition to the tective Assiiclatlon endorse the «* 1«i-zens' W'ati-r Company project and rec- Itesolved, hat the MercluUns' Pro- of tie- plans of the company and the merits of the project had ben dl>- i • u.ws»*d thoroughly by the members of that body, a resolution was adopted which reads as follows; detail. The committee included \. J. Trultt, Ksq.. J. F. Sprankl. . Joint PlnU and I-:. N. Wehrle. After the members of the Association had heard looking toward a better suj of water were outlined and discussed In There w as pre-eiit at th • meeting .1 committee representing the water ( impany, and the steps aire ; i iken heir members, ife last night, when :he Merchants' Protective Association, of Punxsutawney, at their regular meeting, passed a resolution < ommending the «»hj« ■ of the new company, and r commended the plans of tin- organization The affairs of the Citizens' Water Company, which have been languishing for a few weeks, took on new CONTEST IN MARYLAND Try Saturday's order with N. P. Geer, Weber building. Flndley Sreot. —4 012 We have everything for Sunday eating—fresh and cold meats—and would appreciate it if you would call and inspect our way of dolus business.State Inspector Jobson this week made a careful inspection of our meat market and. in his return to his superior, lie says; "Kourul in (f)ofl condition.'' Remember that this market is always cleanly and that our meats are properly handled. NEW YORK CITY flfCIION XF.W i 'ASTLR. I 'a Rev. E. It. Tail, of the Princeton Presbyterian Church, has just received a call to the Wampum Presbyterian Church. tfo one realizes more keenly than evident Roosevelt the fact that the ht next year is likely to be a hard 8, because the Democrats appear be around to an acceptance of their e, which is the nomination of Rry- Many men tell the President that ia the only man who can defeat ran. That also impresses him and Is to his perplexity, because he reles that, having said he would not ept another nomination, it is innbent upon him to find a man who carry with him the enthusiasm f would be felt for Roosevelt, ecretary Taft is a sensitive man. would not think of asking anyone upport him if either the President any other big man in the party bted his ability to bring out the >le party strength at the polls. The retary has said more than once : he could not be made an avail. candidate. eprsentative E. F. Acheson was ; today and added to the chorus is being shouted into the Presi- L's ears that he is the man whom voters want for another term. In ng that he is not throwing bricks lenator Knox, either, because the ttor's most ardent supporters are aware that the Roosevelt sentit, up to this time, is overwhelm- Continued on °age Three. HEV. SWEZEY HOME Humane Officer Crawford is working on the case. LATROBE, Pa.. Nov. 2.—Hallowe'en revelers Thursday night carried a cow belonging to John Dalton up a llight of five steps to the porch of the residence. There the animal was tied to a door knob and remained all night. "When I was a lad divorce was considered next door to being cast out of Paradise, and it seems to me now that the law is trying to determine not whether a man is faithful to his wfe but to his affinity." NEW YORK. Nov. 2.—General William Booth returned here yesterday to say nls farewell to the American people in the city where the Salvation Army standard was first planted on this side. He said In the eourse of an interview: Mrs. Hitchcock, the actor's wife, continues to play her part in "The Yankee Tourist." . NEW YORK. Nov. —it Is a grow - ing belief here that Raymond Hitchcock. the indicted actor who is charged with wiring ing little girls, for whom a wide search has been instituted that Hitchcock is not far from Broadway. KENTUCKY'S BATTLE SEVEN WANT TO BE GOVERNOR M' DONALD, Pa. — The Citizens* Water Company awarded the contract for the sinking of two gas wells on the company's property on the edge of the town. Gas In paying quantities was recently discovered there and by the sinking of wells it is hoped to secure an abundance of fuel at a minimum cost. DNDITIONS Afc PANICKY IN P SUTAWNEY THING BUT Will Klect at l.rulslutiipo That Will Name Two fulled KUiU*n Senators. light Between Iii«lepeii(lcn<*e League and Tammany Due of fiercest in History. .MassuoliusotlH Citizens It live I .urge \KHurtnx-iil to Scli-ot From—All Kinds of Platform)). Democrats Have Brought the Temperance Question Onl as leading Issue of Campaign. Pastoi of I lie Central Presbyterian Church Much Pleased Willi the Vdlroiidack*. in many if the cities are advertising money to. loan. During the last few (toys the Buffalo, N. Y.. papers have been carrying many advertisements of banks that offer to loan money on terms that indicate anything hut $ panicky condition of the country. Rev. George S. Swezey, pastor of j the Central Presbyterian church. of this place, who hail been in the Adirandack mountains for several weeks 1 recuperating from a severe attack of the KTlp, yesterday returned home completly recovered and fully equip*-I peel to take up the work again. Mrs. | Swezey and her two sons, who are 1 at Saranac Lake, will return soon, j Rev. Swezey Is not only greatly pleasep with the Adirondacks as a place to recuperate, but is most enthusiastic over the grandeur of the scenery and hunting facilities. Although he was not able to join in the chase he had his appetite for venison whetted when at one station in toe mountains New York hunters loaded the carcases of ten deer and he has resolved to return some time and bring back a live pronged buck. Rev. Swezey expects to prepare and deliver an llustrated lecture on the beauties of the Adirondacks some time in the near future.The Republicans have nominated Augustus E. Wilson for governor, and the Democratic standard bearer is Judge S. W. Hager. The Republicans have resurrected the Goebel .Affair and its ramillcations as one of the issues of the campaign, while the Democrats have brought the temperance question to the f »re. Special to he Spirit. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 2.—Ken- Kentucky, of the. half dozen or more States to hold elctlons next week, probably has the most interesting contest on her hands. The interest | is due chiefly to strong efforts that the I Republicans arc making to elect the | I governor and the equally determined | campaign put up by the Democrats. Not only are the Republicans working for their State ticket, but they are ; also seeking t > capture the legislaj ture. Should they be successful in j the latter endeavor It would mean j the defeat of Governor Beckham for .the United States Senatorshlp. Perhaps the fusion arrangement \vouUl not attract so milch attention except f >r the fact that it was brought about by Herbert. Parsons, chairman of the Republican County Committee ami hitherto looked upon as President Roosevelt's pers >nal representative in New York politics, county and State. A consldrable element among: 'he Republicans appears to be d Is sat islled with the alliance I with Hearst and as a result it g< ♦ rally believed that Tammany will j i elect its county ticket by a larger j [majority than usual. j The {S&cmh 'and""t | Special to The Spirit. NEW YORK. Nov. J.—The present contest for county ollicers in New York has excited almost as much interest as usually centers in a mayoralty eletion In the metropolis. The I interest Is due chiefly to the fact hat | the Republicans have fused with I Hearst's Independence League on the county ticket. BALTIMORE, Mil., Nov. 2 —The present campaign in Maryland is an exciting contest for big political | stakes. In addition to the state tlek< t. |4ni luding the governor, controller are.' (attorney general, a legislature is t-» j be elected that will elect two United States Senators—one to til he unexpired term of the late Senator dorman. another for the succeed 1?.;,' full term. The Republican Stole ticket, beaded by George R. (ia'lhor. Malt!- mure, for S"v.ni»r !'• "m-of the sir,Hi.n Hi" l;»r'V "■?" I ov. r nuni.'il In Maryland. Austin L. i «■!... n.-icno l trr-i, h- udlWar. .'II 8 * ..rii..i- I" I he D.-n.'» rnt|i, if •' ot j goi'.l fnml > and hlffli per*, ma I i-.iarj 1,1 Tl'i*. iasui- 111"1 y'r Ih ! i,1Ws marled by .1 Democratic K.sk Irtturi' Tli ■ republicans a!te*e that under :hif laws innst «C tlx colored voters are disfranchised. T'1<' pait\ has waged ; v c«r»ni mnt.-t ml U hopeful o.- ele .<ng i:s < nndbl-to for governoY. The Di-jii'H'rn - ire believed to be somewhat handicapped by the fact that they ha\c lacked a t orn, potent leader since the death of Senator Gorman. Special o The Spirit WARREN. Pa. — William Oleson, aged lifty-six, Is at Emergency Hospital in this city puttering from a fracture >f the skull and a broken wrist sustained in a battle with an Infuriated maniac from the North Warren State Hospital for the lr*« Isatie. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A. V. Hewitt—Change. Find ley Street Shoe Store—Change. W. B. Adams—Dwelling houses for saie—Tales of town. , h Calendars given away—LWJe Reisnell.—Tales of Town. Telephone Directors Meeting. j Our standard of serials is always l,lKh—and "The PI""' «'m"n "m not lower It. One of the most interesting contests I is that for District Attorney In Suffolk ! county, which includes Boston. Dlsj triet Attorney John B. Moran, who i is completing a two-years' term, is up for re-election on the ticket of tho Independence League, and also on Independent nomination papers. He Is opposed by Joseph A. Dennison, who served as his assistant for a short time, and wh.i defeated him for the Democratic nomination, and by Walter A. Webster, the Republican nominee.BOSTON. Mass.. Nov. 2. — Seven candidates are seeking the governorship in Massachusetts, including the Republican Governor Curtis Guild, Jr.. who is seeking re-election for a third term. Henry M. Whitney, millionaire and brother of the late \\ il-1 liam C. Whitney, of New York, is the | regular Democratic candidate. Charles ! W. Bartlett, who failed to secure the j Democratic nomination, is running on | an independent ticket and a plati f >rm which has as its chief Issue opposition to the proposed merger of the New York. New Haven and Hart| ford Railroad and the Boston and j Maine liallrwcl. In addition there lare candidates on the Socialist Labor, j Socialist, Prohlbtion and Independence League tickets. Special to The Spirit, CANOE RIDGE, (Ofllce of tho Weatherworks) — Rain and colder tonight. Sunday fair and colder. all trades at good wages. True, have advanced all along the Imost, but people generally have oney to buy. I money is not scarce la evll from the fact that the banks the freight and men are need- In Europe, which Is preparing p in return, during the coming about $25,000,000 in gold. Tho ids are taxed to their utnust to wheat, etc., are being mar- urinous surplus crops of cotton. er of miners who are steadily yd at good wages* as well as eneral activity In all lines are alatable food fbr the pessimist. ,e llurry in Nefv York tlnanci.V i a rich man's panic, a Roose>anlc, or a Wall S reet panic, let remains that tho country at J* prosperous. Ing the current week, the large pse who whine about hard times hofe.-s to be able to discern conhg that are bom\ to result In a , will find but slight grounds on l to base such predictions In this ty. The expaslon >f the coal tlons of this section, the openr many new mines, note of which een male In The Spirit, especial- ■m M 1 if Gtty Sdltion MB m ■»