Mount Pleasant journal (January 23, 1903)

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VOL. 31. MOUNT PLEASANT, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1903. NO. 4.
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THE BOROUGH
REPUBLICANS
ARE LINED UP
Ready for the Annual Spring
Election Contest.
LAST SATURDAY’S PRIMARY
THK0U8H LACK OF CONTESTS WAS
OF THE TAME ORDER.
Democrats Will Get ToRether Tonight
and Select their Standard Bearers Pre-paratory
to Doing or Dying at the Polls
on February 17. They are a Trifle Shy
of Available Mayorality Timber but
have Several Strong Men on the String.
A comparatively small vote was polled
at the local Republican primary elec-tion
Saturday afternoon, doe largely to
the absence of contests, the only light
for a general office being that for Tax-collector.
The returns in full are:
Burgess.
W. M. Overholt 253
Justice of the Peace.
B. C. Stevenson 5534
Tax Collector.
W. W. Campbell
Harry O. Bonford W
F. B. Painter 42
Auditor.
A H. Strohm
FIRST WARD.
Council.
Charles Cunningham
School Director.
J. A. Stevenson
Judge of Election.
Orrln 0. Galley r’4
Inspector.
M. A. Rowman 29
Robert Wallace 24
SECOND WARD.
Council.
Dr. J. W. Shelar Ml
T. 8 Shaw 11
Judge of Election.
A. S. Overholt
Inspector.
Orbln O’Neal MB
THIRD WARD.
Council.
.1. C. t\ Hays (3 years). 74
D. It. Hershberger (1 year) 89
School Director.
T. N. Seaton “7
Judge of Election.
A. P. Myers 83
Inspector.
M. I. Barnhart 80
The borough Democrats are some-what
at sea regarding a candidate for
Burgess and it is still a question whom
they will put up tonight. There is,
however, some talk of John A. Warden
as well as of his younger brother, Sam-uel
N. Warden. Their frther, the late
Samnel Warden, filled this office one
term and did as mnch, if not more than
any of his predecessors, to suppress
lawlessness in the town that then
flourished nnder the speak easy system.
While a loyal party man, he was a firm
believer in a high tariff when it came
to imposing penalties for offenses
against local laws. A number of well-to-
do young men today who were then
wild boys hold him in grateful memory
for having made the broad road too ex-pensive
for them. The caucus will be
held this evening in McElwee’s Hall.
There are, however, two offices upon
the nominations for which the present
incumbents seem to have cinches.
These are Justice of the Peace and Tax
Collector. Justice I. J. McWilliams
will be renominated withont opposition
from present indications while Collector
J. M. Yothers is also near the head of
Easy street.
The returns from Saturday's Repub-lican
primary election in Mount Pleas-ant
township show the selection of the
following ticket:
Justice of the Peace—A. N. Crawford.
Tax Collector—A. Berbower.
Supervisors—M. J. Lemmon. James Get-temy,
James Hurst and Prank Crise.
School Directors—Isaac Sherrlck and W.
A. Myers.
Township Treasurer—J. H. Porch.
Auditor—Jack Newell.
Township Clerk—J. W. Bltner.
Some 300 votes were cast at Satur-day’s
Republican primary election in
East Huntingdon township. For school
director H. A. Waddell and W. H. Ruff
were tie for second place. A toss up put
the latter in for the short term. The
ticket chosen is this.
Taxcollector—Edward Workman.
School Directors—Prank Becker and II. A.
Waddel, 3 years; W. H. Ruff. 1 year.
Supervisors—(White’s District), J. B. Kun-kle;
(Stoner's District), H. M. Lakln.
Auditor—W. J. Latimore.
A Girls Hard Luck.
Miss Elizabeth McAdams, formerly
of this place, has typhoid fever at Wil-kinsbnrg
where she keeps honse with
her sister, Miss Edna, and brother Lute.
She wag just about ready to accept of a
new school that wonld have paid her
$300 more salary than she had befln re-ceiving.
Her old friends here will be
pleased to learn that her recovery seems
assured.
COMERS AND GOERS.
Paragraphs About Prominent People
Gathered During the Week.
Myer Posner, the Main street jeweler,
is in Philadelphia tliis week on business.
Miss Nora Black leaves this morning
to visit friends in Butler and Grove
City.
Mrs. George Markle, of New Haven,
spent Tuesday here with MB sister, Miss
Maria Overholt.
Mrs. Charles L. Smith was at Wil-kinsburg
Monday visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Chester.
Mrs. Charles Ganse, of Uniontown,
and two children spent Sunday here
with Mrs. John T. Tarr.
Jacob George, formerly of this place
but now a railroader located at Derry, is
home on a short vacatlbn.
MisseB Mary and Annie Uber, of
Scottdale, spent yesterday here with
their sister, Mrs Samuel Morrison.
Mrs. William Nixon and Mrs George
Lamer are in Connellsville attending
the funeral of their aunt, Mrs. Otto.
Will Lamb, wife and child, of Greens-burg,
spent several days here the past
week with relatives and old friends.
Mrs. Giles, of New Kensington, was
here the past week with her son Harry,
the Mount Pleasant Water Company's
chief engineer.
Mr, and Mm Fritz, who spent several
weeks here with their daughter, Mrs. C.
W. Haines, left Monday for thbir home
at Anondale, N. J.
D. F. McClintoek, of Pittsburg, and
sister. Miss Ada McClintoek, of Sewiek-ley,
visited Mrs. Adeline Black and
family last Sabbath.
Mrs. Mary Galley and daughters,
Misses Ethel and Araminta, were at
Dawson Saturday attending the fnneral
of Eli Galley who died there on last
Thursday, aged (11 years.
William Padfield, a coal operator at
Denver, Colorado, while returning from
a trip to Englant. stopped off here
several days with George Parfitt. The
two gentlemen met in England a year
ago and got very chummy.
Among those who accompanied Hon.
W. F. Morrison to Harrisburg Monday
and took in Governor Pennypacker’s in-augural
ceremonies were Dr. J. W.
Hunter, John B. Coldsmith, U. G. Wei-mer,
W. M. Smith and Justice L. S.
Rhoades.
THE MASTER’SVINEYARD.
RE-EXTENSION OE CHARTER
GRANTED A EOCAE BANK.
The Old First National Will Take on a New Lease of Life on the
24th of Febrrary Next by Permission
of the Government.
INTERESTING TALE OE CIVIL WAR DAYS.
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Religious Matters That are of Special
Local Interest.
Rev. D. W. Swigert, of Dunbar, for-merly
pastor of the First Baptist church
here, has accepted a call to Bethlehem,
Greene county.
Rev. McClure, the Greensburg evan
gelist, is conducting a series of very in-teresting
evening services at the First
Baptist church, this place. The good
work may he continued next week.
The genial Methodist Episcopal ladies
added over #50 to their chnrch treasury
from the receipts of the nice oyster
supper they gave last Thursday evening.
This is the second week of the well
attended and successful revival services
conducted at the United Brethren
church by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Law-rence
Keister. There have been a num-ber
on conversions and three accessions
to the church Sunday.
The Church of God, Rev. S. G. Yabn
pastor, closed a three weeks' series of
successful revival meetings Sabbath
evening. Twenty six new members
were added to the church. Revival ser-vices
will be continued during the win-teron
Wednesday and Sabbath evenings.
Rev. W. R. Swickard will preach this
evening at Trinity Lutheran church on
“Overcome Evil with Good” and on
Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock on “The
Church’s Missions and Trials.” He will
also fill the pulpit at St. Johns at 11
o’clock Sunday morning.
Sunday last was a particularly happy
day for Rev. D. M. Lyle, pastor of the
Re-Union Presbyterian • church, as
twenty-six persons, by letter and pro-fession
of faith, united with the church
and partook of communion. This is
the largest addition at one time to the
membership in the history of that
church.
FOURTH MONTH.
Report of the Mount Pleasant Public
Schools for December.
Report of Mount Pleasant Public
Schools for the fourth month, ending
January 7th, 1903:
I 1st I 3rd Total
Ward Ward
The First National Bank of Mount Pleasant, No. 38(1, the oldest institution
of its kind in Westmoreland county, will take on a new lease of useful life on
February 24th ueyf when the Government will grant it a re extension of its
charter. Otherwise there will he
changes in either system or manage-ment.
Its officers are: President,
Henry W. Stoner; vice president,George
W. Stoner; cashier, John D. Hitchman,
the other directors being James S.
Hitchman, S N. Warden, William B.
Neel, Dr. J. H. Clark, J. C. Crownover,
of Greensburg, and Joseph R. Stauffer,
of Scottdale.
This bank, at the corner of Main and
Chnrch streets, was chartered on Febru
ary 24th, 1804, one year after the natio-nal
banking act was passed granting
charters for twenty years. As the
Government’s intention then was to
have all such privileges expire at the
same time, the first charter ran but
nineteen years, the first extension hav-ing
been secured on February 24th.
1888. The original directors, of whom
bnt two, Messrs. Stoner and Neel, are
still in the harness, were: Henry W.
Stoner, William B. Neel, John D Me-
Caleh, Abram Horbaugh, John Sher
rick, C. S. Overholt, Dr. James Me
Conangby, J. B. Jordan and William D Mnllin. Mr Overholt was the president
and Mr. Sberriek the cashier. Messrs. Mullin, McConaughy, Horbaugh and
Sherriek have since passed away. Mr. Sherrick succeeded Mr. Overholt as
president in 1870 and wns succeeded in 1879 by Mr. Stoner who has ever since
held the position, the quarter of a century of service making him one of the oldest
officers of the kind in the country.
It will doubtless be news to many JOURNAL readers to learn that the money
of this bank was buried to save it from falling into the bands of General John
Morgan, the famous Rebel raider, yet such was a fact away back in the Civil war
days of ’04. Morgan and his bold troopers had dashed over into Ohio and then
came a report that he was headed for Mount Pleasant. Uniontown bankers
gathered up their wealth and hurried off to Pittsburg. Cashier John Sherrick, of
the new First National, was worried and finally decided to hide the cash and se-curities
on hand on the East Huntingdon farm of his brother, Abraham Sherrick,
now the John Strohm place, near Alice Mines.
“Uncle Henry’’ Stoner, coming in from his farm near Alverton with a little
danghter, now Mrs. H. R. Freed, in the buggy and being a direetor, was inform
ed of the scheme and offered to his vehicle as a means of transportation. Upon
returning from an errand down town to the bank, where the Hotel Cooper now
stands, the cashier brought the assets out in a sack and threw it into the buggy,
remarking loud enough for a crowd of bystanders to hear that he'd be obliged to
Mr. Stoner if he left the sack with the sender’s brother. The cashier followed on
horseback, got the sack at the forks of the road on Fox's hill and with his brother
buried the contents that night in the woods on the latter’s farm. Bnt, Morgan
was driven back and the cautions cashier had the money back and bank open as
usnal the next day.
HENRY W. STONER.
THE VETERAN PRESIDENT OF THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
HOODOO TOWNS.
Enrollment
Average per cent of at-tendance
Banner room In attendance.
R. N. Hay
Gertrude Berthel.
Girls per cent of attendance
Boys “ *‘ “
Number of pupils never ab-sent
Number of visits by patrons
“ *' ** “ directors
Amount of deposit
560
93
415
700
28
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S. GRANT MILLER, Principal.
Rev. Mr. Wilson’s Trying-Experiences in
the Lecture Field.
Rev. Howard S. Wilson, the genial
paBtor of the United Presbyterian
church, has decided not to give his
stereopticon lectures in any small towns
hereafter, especially if the places are
far distant from Mount Pleasant. He
looks upon them as hoodoos and his
recent experiences in that line would
seem to bear him out in taking that view.
Along about the first of the new year
he accepted an invitation to visit two
Ohio villages a few miles out from
Wheeling, W. Ya. But when he reach-ed
his destination his gaB tank had
sprung a leak and he was surprised that
the audience didn’t demand a return of
admission.
Early this week he was persuaded
very much against his wishes to try it
again there and. as a precautionary
measure, expressed his apparatus ahead.
A big railroad wreck this side of Wheel-ing
so delayed his train that he couldn’t
keep the engagement. He telegraphed
the local management to return his
outfit and the reverend gentleman came
home in disgust.
THE EICHER ROBBERS.
Three of the Notorious Gang Have Been
Released on Bail.
Jacob Saylor, the alleged leader of
the gang that tortured and robbed Levi
Eicher and his wife near Springfield,
Fayette county, was released from jail
at Uniontown Friday on #2,000 bail fur-nished
by Charles SoiBgon only to be
rearrested with Earl Shaw on a charge
of having stolen state property from
Company D, Connellsville. A search
of his home revealed a lot of the com-pany's
blankets. He was again released
on Mr. Soisson putting np #500 addi-tional
security. Charles Ritenour was
also let go on #500 bail at the same time.
Nathaniel Murray, another suspect,
was released Wednesday on #1,500 bail.
Saylor pleads innocence and offers #100
reward for the arrest of the guilty
parties.
HISTORICAL TALK
A Hite Missionary Campaign.
The Methodist Episcopal ministers of
the McKeesport district have planned a
missionary campaign which will bring
some of the leading men of the chnrch
to this vicinity about Easter time.
Great mass meeting will be addressed '
in the interest of missions -at Connells
ville, Ligonier, Pleasant Unity, West
Newton, McKeesport, Scottdale, Union-town,
Braddock and probably several
other places in the district. Rev.
Charles L. Smith, of this place, is on the
executive committee.
To be Delivered in the Methodist Epis-copal
Church by the Pastor.
On the evening of Monday. February
23rd, in the Methodist Episcopal chnrch,
the pastor, Rev. C. L. Smith, will de-liver
his popular talk on the campaign
of General Braddock against Fort
Duquesne, entitled “Braddock's Fatal
March.” The admission fee will be a
birthday sack presented at the door con-taining
as many cents as the giver is
years old, nnless he should be some-thing
like a century old, in which case
a rebate will be allowed.
After the lecture the ladies of the
church will serve refreshments in the
social rooms of the church at customary
prices. The proceeds of the evening
will go into the general church treasury.
SALE BLOWERS.
Nice Special Water Rate.
When Superintendent Hugh Coll, of
the Mount Pleasant Water Company,
was asked to give the local hospital
people a special rate he thought the
matter over and decided to supply the
institution free. While some hospitals
in neighboring towns get reductions,
others have to pay full rates for water.
Burglars Get a Few Dollars at Rum-baugh's
Meat Market.
Burglars broke into John H. Rum-baugh’s
meat market on Main street
this morning between 2 and 3 o’clock
and blew open the safe, bnt got only a
few dollars in change.
COKE AND COAL.
Items of Interest Gathered From Both
Mine and Yard.
The Penn Gas Coal Company intends
moving its car shops from Penn to
Irwin.
Joseph Angns, late pit boss for the
Frick company at United, is nov8 with
the Ilecla people in a like capacity at
Tratiger.
The Derry Coal and Coke Company
has bought the 70 acres of Derry town-ship
coal belonging to the Nichols es-tate
for #000 an acre.
The crossing of electric wires set two
of the Pittsburg Coal Company’s Scott
Haven mines on fire Friday last. Con-siderable
damage was done.,
Coal is now virtually on th
port list, as foreign operators w: (Jfor
the next year be allowed a rebate equal
to the duty imposed on the fuel. States-men
are divided ns to the wisdom of
the new law.
The herculean efforts put forth the
past week by the Pennsylvania lines
east and west of Pittsburg to break the
freight congestion are expected to
improve the coke car supply, although
only temporarily as the railroads have
neither the motive power nor the men
to meet transportation demands.
The annual examinations for mine
foremen and fire bosses were held this
week at Greensburg, Scottdale and Con-nellsville.
There were 38 applicants at
the first named place, 24 at Scottdale
and 59 at Connellsville The local rep
resentatives in the Scottdale class were
James Baldwin, George Smitley, Mat-thew
Kentorick. Henry Lowther, Frank
Rebenek, Frank Kentorick and Samuel
Smith.
DEATHS 0E THE WEEK.
PENNYPACKER
INAUGURATED
AS GOVERNOR
Ceremony Takes Place at Har-risburg
Tuesday
WITH ABOUT THE USUAL POMP
THAT MARKS A CHANGE IN THE
STATE’S CHIEF EXECUTIVES.
The Grim Reaper’s Work in This Place
and Vioinitv.
Miss Harriet Hitchman, danghter of
the late Robert Hitchman, died at her
East End borne yesterday morning fol-lowing
a long illness, aged 63 years
She was a devout member of the First
Reformed chnrch whose pastor, Rev.
W. H. Tnssing, assisted by Rev. C. R.
Ferner, of Scottdale, will conduct divine
services at the honse this evening at
7:30, the interment to take place at
Greensburg tomorrow morning.
Mrs, Lawrence Winsheimer, mother
of T. R. Winsheimer, one of the editors
of Greensburg “Democrat,” died at her
Greensbnrg home Snnday morning,
following an illness of several months,
aged 76 years. She was a member of
one of the oldest county seat families.
Samnel Silliman, one of Hempfield
township’s oldest citizens, died at his
home near New Stanton Snnday, aged
75 years. His wife and grown family
survive.
Samuel Pool, Sr., died Saturday even
Ing at his New Stanton home of heart
failure, aged 84 years. He is survived
by one daughter, Mary. He was born
and raised near New Stanton and fol-lowed
farming until a few years ago
when the infirmities of age compelled
him to retire.
Mrs. Emma Brothers, the esteemed
wife of Kelly Brothers, died of dropsy
Snnday at her home near the Mud
School House, Fayette county, aged 48
years. Rev. J. Woodhnll conducted
the funeral services at the church near
that place Tuesday In the presence of a
large concourse of relatives and friends,
the interment following in the Green-lick
cemetery. Mrs. Brothers was a
devout member of the Evangelical
chnrch and a loving wife and mother.
The husband survives with ten children
of whom three daughters are married
while four daughters and three sons are
at Lome. She was a half sister of H.
F. Barkley, the local druggist.
Dr. Samnel E. Burchfield died at his
Latrobe home of erysipelas Wednesday,
aged 48 years. His second wife and
four children survive.
. Eli Albright, one of Mount Pleasant
township's most prominent citizens,
dropped dead of heart trouble while at
the dinner table Wednesday, aged about
70 years. He served in the Civil war in
the 149th Regt., P. V., being the color
bearer corporal. His wife and four chil-dren,
two sons and two danghters,
survive.
Tonight’s Lectures.
Every parent should attend tonight's
educational meeting at 7:30 o'clock in
the Methodist Episcopal chnrch and
hear what Miss Anna Thomas, of the
California State Normal School, will
have to say in her lecture on “What
the schools are doing for the homes”
and what Mrs. Mary G. Noss will say
on “Art in school and home.” No ad
mission will be charged.
The two ladies will also speak at the
same place at 10 o’clock tomorrow
morning.
Everything Passes off as Per Program
And Frank Fuller, Esq, the Well
Known Fayette County Republican
Leader. Lands in the Cabinet. United
States Senator PenroBe Succeeds Him-self.
Distribution of Legislative Com-mittee
Plums.
Ex Judge Samnel W. Pennypacker, of
Philadelphia, whose inangnral address
in full will be fonnd on the sixth page
of this issue, was seated in the guberna-torial
chair at Harrisbnrg at noon Tues-day
with abont the nsual amount of
pomp and ceremony that mark a change
in the state’s chief exeentive office.
Governor Pennypacker’s first official
message to the Senate was the appoint-ment
of Bromley Wharton as his private
secretary and the latter then presented
the names of His Excellency’s official
family which are:
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
Frank M. Fuller, of Fayette.
Attorney General, Hampton L. Car-son,
of Philadelphia.
Adjutant General, Thomas J. Stewart.
Superintendent of Public Grounds
and Buildings, James M. Shumaker, of
Cambria.
In the announcement of Mr. Shumak-er’s
name, the Governor said be was ap
pointed to succeed T. L. Eyre '‘re-moved.”
The termsof InsnranceCommissioner
Durham and Banking Commissioner
Reeder have not expired, hence there is
no vacancy and no names were present-ee
for these offices.
Mr. Durham is expected to succeed
himself, and Robert McAfee, of Alle-gheny,
will probably succeed Gen.
Reeder.
United States Senator Boise Penrose
was re-elected at Wednesday's joint
session of the Legislature. He received
193 Republican votes to 52 cast for Col.
J. M. Guffey, his Democratic compet-itor.
In distributing the honors in the Sen
ate Wednesday a pleasing recognition
was given Senator Cyrns E. Woods, of
Westmoreland county. Senator Woods
was made chairman of the General Ju-diciary
Committee, regarded as the most
important in the Senate.
Of the Honse plums Westmoreland
got two chairmanships, Stevens, Law
and Order, and Whitten, Compare Bills.
The connty’s representatives on other
committees are:
Stevens—Insnrance, Fish and Game
and Railroads.
Morrison—Federal Relations, Iron and
Coal, Mines and Mining, Manufactures
and Ways and Means.
Whitten—Judiciary General and
Local, Law and Order and Ways and
Means.
Heister—Corporations, Counties and
Townships,Geological Survey and Labor
and Industry.
ALVERTON INDUSTRY.
The Foundry There Put in Operation by
New People.
The Alverton Foundry & Machine
Company, a new firm withC. H. Smith,
formerly superintendent of the National
Foundry Company’s plant at New Stan-ton,
as manager, has leased the build-ings
formerly used by the Alverton
Foundry Company and remodeled them.
On Monday the new firm began opera-tions,
having a 75-ton order for iron
castings from the H. C. Frick Coke
Company. The firm has also additional
orders that will keep the plant running
steadily for a year. The firm makes a
specialty of manufacturing iron and
brass eastings and bronze and babbitt
metals. The foreman is J. E. Ruffner,
formerly with National company. Some
twelve men are employed.
Victims of the Rail.
Mrs. W. H. Hoey, of Sewickley town-ship,
while on her way to chnrch Sun-day
morning, was run down by the
West Newton accommodation on the
B. & O. road and instantly killed. The
terrible accident was witnessed by two
children who occompanied her.
Irwin French, manager of the French
Comedy Company whicn showed here
last week, in crossing the Pennsylvania
railroad tracks at Jeannette Saturday
morning, was struck by an express
train and was a corpse the next instant
His home was in New York to which
place the body was sent for burial.
THK MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2,{. MM.U.
FRANTZ
INSANE.
Just Out of tlie Pen for Having
Stabbed ex-Chief of Police
Witt. He Attempts
Suicide.
CONFINED IN INE JOHNSTOWN HOSPITAL,
Lnpton Frantz, the young Scottdale
niau who got two years and six months
to the penitentiary for having stabbed
ex-Chief of Police Henry Witt, of this
place, attempted suicide Tuesday morn-ing
of last week at the Merchants Ho-tel,
Johnstown, by severing the arteries
of the wrist with a penknife. He failed
to accomplish his object and is now
confined at the Memorial Hospital, that
city, a raving maniac.
Frantz got six months off his sentence
for good behavior, but on being given
his freedom at once joined Gertie Kemp,
or Goldsborough, in Pittsburg. She
formerly kept a Scottdale resort of ques-tional
repute and at which he was a
frequent visitor. The Pittsburg police,
however, ordered them out. Frantz
promised a friend that he would go
straight to his Scottdale home, but in
stead went on to Jonstown where he
put up at the hotel as Frank Lewis,
trying to kill himself the same night.
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QIII.—The First Spring Flower. UIESCENT Nature! she is
hardly sound asleep, for she
Is ready to yield to the first
caressing tenches and undue
warmth of late winter suns, as may
readily bp demonstrated by the num-ber
of spring flowers to be found In
the woods throughout an unseasonably
warm winter.
All through an average winter the
buds on the red berried elder are big
or bursting, for this elder blooms early.
Many of these first flowers are tucked
at the tip of a root stalk, waiting, or
else hurry up the buds without think-ing
of the leaves, making those of last
year answer until the day of the flow-ers
Is over.
The very first among those plants
which spring directly from the ground,
for the trees are almost ahead of the
herbs, Is the skunk cabbage.
Perhaps you sec some bees winging
their way and wonder what they do
Spring Beauty.
for food, for even the crocus on the
lawn has not opened Its cup and the
pussy willows have not arrived.
Go to the brook where it runs marsli-ily
through the wood and comes out by
the fence in the deserted lots. The
grass everywhere else lies limp and
dead, with hardly a hint of green, and
the bnre branches rattle on the trees.
But there is a freshnoss, a new
warmth, in the air which stirs one and
causes him to realize that spring is
near. Yet here in this mnrshy spot
are groups of widespreading, beautiful
leaves, large and In shape like those
of our own garden cabbages. Instead
of being In head at this time, there are
but single handsome leaves, and be-side
them, half buried in the dead
i leaves and soft moist earth, are sin-dull
red flowers fashioned like
caricatures of the stately calla Illy.
Pull up the plant and smell it, and you
will never again have cause to ask
why it was given the hideous name of
skunk cabbage.
The real flowers are massed on the
tongue, and the seeming flower, the
dull red and spotted green, fleshy piece
j surrounding the tongue, is merely a
I covering, the spathe.
j There is a little hollow In the woods
j which sunnily face the south. Pro
£ I tected by the trees, young and old, the
' 1 warmth of spring will not have been
long In the suu before you will see
pairs of green leaves peeping above
the rich mold, bearing with them a
curled up cluster of green buds. The
lmds, as they feel the south wind,
straighten their stems, stand up and
bravely open little round pink and
white striped and rather fragrant
blooms. It is the spring beauty, or
claytonla. There lire two varieties of
It, one with broader green leaves
though the end conics to a point, and
the other with narrow, linear and
grasslike leaves of a warm reddish
green hue, making a pleasing contrast
and combination with the delicate
flowers. They feel the coming of the
clouds In the evening and shut for the
night. They close and seem to wither
In your hand when you carry them far
and will revive only at midday in a
bright, warm room when their roots
are in water.
Hidden under its own reddish and
dull green, three lobed leaves which
are left over from the year before Is
lurking the hepatica, or liverwort. Its
sepals, simulating petals, have caught
their color from the winter and are
blue or white or sometimes n solid pale
pink. The real flowers are those sta-meny
yellow things in the center. The
fuzzy green tilings which look ns if
they ought to be sepals are nothing
hut an Involucre, a curtain. The steins
are fuzzy, too, and come in numbers
beside the leaves spreading from a
common root.
So usually there Is on the ground a
little clump of three or four leaves and
n half dozen or so of flowers, each of
which is born on its individual stem.
Almost as early as these others,
sometimes coming sooner, is the bluet.
Indeed It seems to run a race with the
Clnytonia and liverwort. But while
the last two shelter themselves in the
woods the bluet chooses the open
meadow, even though It is the hilltop
and exposed to the most bitter winds.
Perhaps that Is why It nestles down so
closely to the ground and never grows
to he very tall.
The tiny flowers of a beautiful sky
blue look directly up toward the heav-ens,
the four small petals spreading
from the tube In the center, which con-talus
the yellow stigmas and stamens.
A few of the tiny round leaves are oh
the flower steins, though most of them
hunch themselves against the earth.
The blooms come together in thick
clusters, almost like a patch of long
moss with blue flowers all over the top
of it. The whole can he easily pulled
up. Carried home nnd placed in a
plate of water, it will bloom as long
and as well as if it were out in its
native resting place. The sweet de-mureness
of the blossoms is responsi-ble
for many of the names given the
plant—Quaker lady, innocence and oth-ers.
Its botanical designation is hou-satonla.
Now, in the swamps, where we must
step from hillock to hummock to es-cape
the black mud lying between, we
eagerly cross tb gather the wealth of
gold stored here. There is the marsh
marigold, with its five shining yellow
sepals dressed up, as are the hepatlcas,
to represent petals. They look like
enlarged and coarsened buttercups, for
they belong to the same general fam-ily.
Their stems are stout and hpllow
.. .. C53p ana rtrtu W-M—,
claiming nearly as much attention as
the blossoms.
In the drier woods and fields Is the
bloodroot. To insure its Bnfety from
the searching frosts this plant first
wrapped a woolly leaf blanket around
the solitary young bud. This blanket
held the hud warm nnd close until the
latter had raised Itself above its pro-tection,
then bloomed. Every one
knows the bloodroot because of Its
stem bleeding an orange red juice
when It Is broken off.
The pretty white flowers are short
lived. They are here nnd gone while
other varieties stay calmly on, day
after day. enjoying an untroubled ex-istence.
Close by Is the pepper root, which
raises Its pale, loose petaled flowers on
a long stem, In a raceme which Is
sometimes over a foot high. Below, on
the same stein, are three finely cut
leaves In a whorl. The single stem
springs from a fleshy root stalk which
is said to lie good to eat.
There Is another flower, belonging to
a related family, which is called the
rocket. It blooms at this same season
and resembles the pepper root more
closely than it does Its own brother,
the crinkleroot.
Tills other variety, the crinkleroot,
hns white flowers, which are not strik-ingly
placed on a raceme. It has on
the stem two leaves, which are merely
slightly lobed and toothed, though the
thick, fleshy root stalk has fine points
all over It, showing why it received its
name. It is better eating tlinn the
pepper root.
Then there are the anemones, dcli-c-
te. wind blown creatures—the true
or wood anemone, with its single flow-er,
like a fragile white star above its
cluster of thin, dainty leaves, and the
false or rue anemone, with its several
flowers, which are sometimes tinged
with pink nnd tremble on n slender
stem which quivers with every light
breeze nnd gives It the name of wind
flower.
Then there are the violets — such
hosts of them and of so many varie-ties!
First, there are tlie white, blue and
yellow. Of the white there are the low
growing, small, sweet white violet nnd
the tnll—branching, blue hacked, white
faced Canada white violet, which
blooms on steep, shady banks, all siim-
Pepper Root In Bloom.
mer long. I’crhnps you may he fortu-nate
enough to have other kinds about
you.
Of the yellow there are the leafy
branched, rather straight standing
dark veined downy yellow, the smooth
yellow nnd the round leaved.
The common blue violet is every-where,
hut there are also the arrow
leaved, the ovate leaved, the woolly
blue, the pale blue marsh violet with
the strong velnings, the dog or run
ning, the early blue and the bird’s foot
violets. They take welcome posses-sion
of tlie land In spring.
These flowers are all small and weak,
but this is not to be wondered at when
we recollect that they rushed out so
early In the season that they could re-ceive
little assistance from the sun.
[Copyright, 1S>02, bv Lewis D. Sampson.]
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of the body in healthy, regular ac-tion,
and in quickly destroying deadly
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Stomach, Liver and Kidneys, purify
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They work wonders in curing Kidney
Troubles, Female Complaints, Nervons
Diseases, Constipation, Dyspepsia and
Malaria. Vigorous health and strength
always follow their use. Only 50c,
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Made
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In every town
and village
may be had,
the
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Axle
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that makes your
horses glad.
fixtures for Sale. fixtures for Sale.
All Discount Sales are Overshadowed by the Mag-nitude
of our Great
Closing Out Sale
To Quit Business !
As we stated at the beginning of our present great sale,
Ours is not a Discount Sale nor a Celebration Sale,
but a Bona Fide Closing out Sale to Quit Busi-ness,
from the fact that we are leaving town.
Our store room is already rented and we are com-pelled
to vacate on or about March 1st, and rather than
move our present stock we have decided to sacrifice our en-tire
stock, and the proof of it is here in black and white. The
tremendous crowds we have been drawing attest to the genu-ineness
of our bargains. We challenge any and all competi-tors
to match our values. These prices must and will con-tinue
to draw crowds:
Men’s Suits,
$2.25
4 50
4 25
6 75
7 50
9 50
$5 Suits,
selling out price,
$8 Suits,
selling out price,
$io Suits,
selling out price.
$15 Suits,
selling out price,
$18 Suits,
selling out price,
$20 Suits,
selling out price
Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Over-coats
at accordingly sacrificing prices.
Young Men’s Suits.
35c Boys’ Knee Pants, IQr'
selling out price
Heavy Corduroy Knee Pants,
selling out price
$5 Suits,
selling out price, fcW
$8 Suits, M rn
selling out price, UU
$10 and $12 Suits, C Cft
selling out price, V Mil
Men’s Pants.
$2.50 Men’s Worsted Pants, Cl AC
selling out price, vl fcw
$2.25 Corduroy Pants,
selling out price,
$3 Men’s Worsted Pants,
selling out price,
$4 Men’s Worsted Pants,
selling out price,
$5 and $5.50 Worsted Pants,
selling out price,
75c Jean Pants,
selling out price,
$3 Linen Corduroy Pants,
every pair guaranteed,
selling out price,
Men’s and Boys’ furnishings.
4-ply linen collars for men or boys,
regular ioc kind, ftp
selling out price wb
Rubber collars for men or boj^s, reg-ular
25c kind,
selling out price
30c Men’s dress suspenders,
selling out price
5oc Men’s dress suspenders.
selling out price
Fine dress half hose, 15c kind
selling out price
Fine dress half hose, 20c kind
selling out puce
Men soft or stiff bosom dress shirts,
5o and 70c kind
selling out price
65c fleece lined underwear,
selling out price,
$1.00 wool underwear,
selling out price,
$1.25 wool underwear,
selling out price,
$1.75 men’s very fine all wool
worsted underwear,
selling out price,
ioc red or blue Handkerchiefs
selling out price,
25c heavy all wool Hose,
selling out price,
50c Sweaters,
selling out price,
$1.00 all wool Sweaters,
selling out price,
$1.50, $1.75, $2.00, $2.25 and $2.50
Sweaters at accordingly sacrificing
prices.
Men’s or Boys’ Shoes.
Men's Satin Calf Shoes of $1 50 fl'i Ar
value, selling out price wl UU
Men’s finest grade Calf Shoes, $2 50 < AA
and $3 kind, selling out price I vU
All men’s shoes of $3 50, $4 and A FA
$4 50 value, selling out price C UU
The above lines consisting of hand welt
and hand sewed, box calf, patent leathers,
vici kids or velour calf.
The space being too small to enumerate all the Money-
Saving Items we have for you, therefore, we invite you to
call in person. A call at our store will convince you.
KOBACKER’S
Clothing, Gents’ furnishing and Shoe House,
Main street, = MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
fixtures for Sale. fixtures for Sale.
• •
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1903.
AN AWFUL
EXPLOSION.
Young William Hunter and Robert
Pore Killed on the Saw Mill of
the Former’s Father, Hon.
A. B. Hunter.
THE STEAM BOILER BLEW IIP FUAT'
The boiler at the steam sawmill of
Hon. Archy B. Hunter, in Sonth Hunt-ingdon
township, burst Friday after-noon
last, instantly killing his son Will-iam,
aged 24 years and married, and
scalding and otherwise injuring the lat-ter’s
brother in law, Robert Pore, aged
20, whom death relieved from his agony
the same evening. The elder Mr. Hun-ter
was also hurt severely, but latest ac-counts
are that he will recover. It is
not known what caused the explosion,
although the gages may have been
frozen up and failed to show the amount
of water in the boiler.
The funeral services for the two vic-tims
were held in the Sewickley Pres-byterian
church Sunday morning, the
concourse of relatives and friends num-bering
some 000 people from far and
near. The body of William Hunter was
laid to rest in the graveyard there, while
that of young Pore was buried in the
United Presbyterian cemetery nearby.
As Judged From the Past Week's
Trade Reports
WHEN CAREFULLY COMPILED
FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF READ-ERS
OF THE JOURNAL
Heads Should Never Ache.
Never endure this trouble. Use at
once the remedy that stopped it for Mrs.
N. A. Webster, of Winnie, Va. She
writes "Dr. King’s New Life Pills
wholly cured me of sick headaches I
had suffered from for two years." Cure
Headache, Constipation, Biliousness.
25c at H. F. Barkley’s drug store. 9 23
SORE MOUTH There is nothing so
good as Ozoline. It never fails to cure.
M. A. Bowman.
Fuel Shortage is Still the one Serious
Disturbing Element in the Industrial
Situation, Transportation Facilities
Having Been Diverted to Other Mer-chandise
to the Disadvantage of Fur-nacemen
Who are Unable to Secure ^4
Fuel to Keep their Plants Running.
Fuel shortage is still the one seriously
disturbing element in the industrial
situation. Transportation facilities
have been diverted from other merchan-
,dise to the disadvantage of shippers,
yet iron furnaces are unable to secure
sufficient supplies of coke and many
other manufacturing plants are closed
because of inadequate coal deliveries.
Mines are more fully operated but there
is no prospect of normal conditions un-til
spring.
Extremely low temperature during
the past week stimulated distribution
of heavy clothing and other seasonable
goods. Retail trade was accelerated by
the customary clearance sales, especial-ly
in dry goods and kindred branches.
Traveling men are sending in large
orders for spring goods, the volume of
advance bnsineBS surpassing the cus
tomary amount for this time of year
Quiet conditions in the iron and steel
markets do not mean dullness or di-minishing
consumption, but merely the
oversold condition of furnaces and
mills, together with great uncertainty
about keeping plants active on a day to
day supply of fuel. Inquiries are num
erous, especially in structural lines, but
makers are not ready to accept bids un-til
the future appears more defiuite.
New plans constantly come forward
for large office buildings, notably at the
West, which means vigorous consump-tion
of structural steel, and the de-mands
from car builders are phenom-enal.
Practically the entire capacity
of (ffe leading plants is already booked
for six months, and at many concerns
the last half of the year will bring no
idleness unless orders are canceled
Only moderate fiuctations have occurred
in the great staples, with the tendency
upward and a conspicuously firm tone
in evidence.
Failures for the week numbered 207
in the United States, against 334 last
year, and 38 in Canada, compared with
4(Ja year ago.
GRAIN. FLOUR AND FEED—WHOLESALB.
Stops the Wboop - Cures the Cough.
Stewart’s Whooping Cough
Remedy never fails to
give immediate relief.
A. Bowman. 6TT d 12 tf
Good Upholstering.
Hiram Gilson is once more prepared
to do all kinds of upholstering work at
reasonable prices. If left either at his
West Main street borne or Gibbs &
King’s store, orders will receive prompt
attention. 11 14 tf
QUINSY—To prevent it take Ozoline
in time. There is nothing better, M.
A. Bowman.
2 Per Cent, on Checking
Accounts
ind 4 per cent, on Savings Deposits at
Pittsburg Trust Company. Interest com-pounded
semi-annually. Capital, surplus
ind profits exceeding $6,000,000, and
ieposits over $10,000,000. Do all your
ranking by mail. Send postal for two
Kindred year calendar free. 323 Fourth
\ve., Pittsburg, Pa.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
NA. OORT.
• ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Mount
ce adjoining E
it Pleasant, Pa.
RABE F. MARSH,
ATTORNEY-AT-bAW.
40 Rank & Trust Building, Greensburg
First. National Bank Building. Mount Pleas-ant.
Pa., Tuesday and Wednesday of each
week.
EUGENE WARDEN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
20S Main street, Greensburg.
Braddock Block. Mount Pleasant.
GREGG & POTTS.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Barclay Building, Greensburg.
W. A- KALP,
Agency.
Real Estate and Insurance
833 East Main street.
S. C. Stevenson,
NOTARY PUBLIC,
REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE,
4.S7 MAIN BT., MOUNT PLEASANT.
L. S. RHOADES,
JUSTICE IF THE PEICE&NOTIRT PI1ISLIC.
All kinds of legal papers prepared and exe
cuted. Collecting a specialty.
Office 1109 Main Street. Mount Pleasant
FIRST NATIONAL RANK.
OF MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
Capital Stock $100,000
OFFICERS:
H. W. Stoner, J. D. Hitchman,
President. Cashier.
G. W. Stoner,Vice President
DIRECTORS.
J. S. Hitchman, J. D. Hitchrnan,
H. W. Stoner. Wm. B. Neel,
J. G. Orownover, Jos. R. Stauffer.
S N. Warden, Dr. J. H. Clark.
C . W. Stoner.
Particular attention given to collections, and
proceeds promptly settled.
MOUNT PLEASANT. PA.
Capital Stock,
Surplus Fund,
$50,000.00.
$40,000.00.
Rumbaugh & Dillon.
619 Main Street.
WHY DO THE BEST DRESSED
MEN DEAE HERE?
The best dressed men throughout this locality are men who deal with us. The
reasons they deal with us, and the reasons they are the best dressed men are of
considerable importance toevery clothing buyer. This is one of the reasons “why.’’
Here is Reason No, 6.
Every man with social
aspirations must own a
Dress Suit--and a Tuxedo
Coat for less formal occa-sions.
Of course no man here-abouts
would think of buy-ing
a Tull Dress Suit or
I uxedo anywhere but from
this store. And for this
very simple reason--no
other store can assure the
easy, graceful fit so essen-tial
in garments meant for
social functions.
OFFICERS.
J. 8. Hitchman, President.
J. L. Ruth, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
J. McD. Bryce,
J. L. Ruth.
J. A. Warden.
J. G. Orownover,
Jno. M. Stauffer.
John Husband.
O. P. Shuue.
J. 8. Hitchman.
J. L. Myers.
Our Full Dress garments are from Schloss
Bros. & Co., of Baltimore, makers of the
“Best Clothing in the World.”
All their clothing bears this label®^*
THIS LABEL ON GARMENTS
Guaranies Superiority.
RUMBAUGH & DILLON,
High-grade Clothing and Furnishings for Gentlemen and Boys.
Zimmerman Block, Main street, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
5
HOARSENESS Take Ozoline. It,
cures all throat troubles. M. A. Bowman.
SORE THROAT—A few doses of
Ozoline cures it. M. A. Bowman.
Wheat, per bu._
Oats, per bu
Corn, per bu ..................
Corn Meal, per bbl., bolted..
Flour, patent, per bbl
Chopped feed(corn and oats)per ton
rCop/rujh+^
Pure Cod Liver Oil
is one of the best, if not the very
best remedy, for loss of flesh and
vitality. Our Norwegian Cod
Liver Oil at 50c per bottle is ex-cellent.
For those who cannot take the
^„up|JBu — oil in its natural state we have a
1100 full line of Emulsions including
such well known brands as
Scott’s, Phillips’, etc.
Anything one expects to find
in a complete stock of Drugs and
Medicines is here.
M. A. BOWMAN,
West Main st., Mutual 'phone 56.
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
Bookkeeping.
Classes in this and other subjects will be or-ganized
at the opening of our second term.
Excelsior
Bakery.
Pyrography.
The art department is active in this popular
subject just now. Everybody wants some “burnt
wood work” for home decoration or for presents.
Pyrography can be learned in a short time at
little cost.
Middlings per ton - 24 00
Mill Feed, per ton 22 ;>0
Hay, baled, per ton- lh 00
Hay, loose, per ton . 10 00
GROCERIES AND PRODUCE—RETAIL.
Breakfast Bacon, per lb
Brooms
Buckwheat Hour, per sack
Butter, per lb
Gandies, per lb
Carbon oil, per gal
Cheese, per lb
Chickens
Coffee, per tt*
Dried Apples, per lb
Dried Beef, per can .
Eggs, perdoz
Ham, per lb
Lard per lb
Maple Molasses, per gal
New Orleans Molasses, per gal.
Potatoes, per bu
Rice, per lb - ,
Roiled Oats, 2 lb packages
Balt, per bbl
Balt,jper sack
Salt Fish, per pail ,
Smoked side bacon, per
Halt side, per tt>
Boap, per cake
Btarcb, per lb
Sugar, per l(Jlb
Sweet Potatoes, per 1b
Tea per lb
18
25035
15030
35
33
12*
10012
10
35040
13035
11 28
33
20
15
95
40060 l :«)
10
12
1 25
305 j
05 1
10
10
55
1 00
2 !
35060
ATTEND
GREENSBURG
The Largest.
Choral Classes.
Children’s Class at io.oo a. m. Saturday.
Advanced Class at 10:30 a. m. Saturday.
A young ladies’ class will be organized at the
opening of the second term to meet Wednesday
afternoons at 3:30
The above work and
Mount Pleasant Institute.
much more at the
The Best.
OZO COUGH SYRUP is good to cure
coughs. Enough for any cough 25
cents. M. A. Bowman.
FOK SALE:—An almost new 12 expos-ure
magazine camera. Inquire at this
office. 12 19 tf
Ten competent instructors. Individual atten-tion.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Graduates cheer-fully
assisted in securing positions. Winter
term will open-
Monday, Jan. 5, 1903.
Office open daily.
Call on or address
ALVAN V. LEECH,
i i 4t Principal.
Spring Term Opens Mar. 25.
H. C. DIXON,
Principal.
516
Church Street,
mnnmnmmm
SsHMisra
Bread and
Cakes,
aa-^.^--*k-aa
Ca A. GRAUL, Prop’r
HcCORMICK HARVESTING MACHINERY.
W s. y. — ’ & 'V
We handle mot only all the McCormick Harvesting Ma-chinery
but also Wagons, Carriages, Surreys, Buggies,
Harness, Blankets, Robes, Whips, etc., all of the very
best and at lowest prices. Call and examine.
J. J. HITCHiTAN,
East Main street - - Mount Pleasant,
I
THE MOUNT PLKAHANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY' 211, 1008.
Hhc Iflount jJleassantJournal
JOHN L. SHIEI.US. PUBLISHER.
Mount Pleasant Is situated in the heart of
the Great Oonnellevtlle Coke Region- has a
■population of over S.OUO; while, with offices
surrounding within a radius of three miles
the postoHloe distribution is 111,000. A new 24-
pot tableware glass factory, the finest. In tills
country and employing over 400 bauds. Is in
successful dally operation.
SUBSCRIPTION *1.80 per year, payable in
advance.
ADVERTISING RATES will he furnished
on application.
JOB PRINTING of every kind with the
best workmanship and best material.
FRIDAY. January 23. 1003.
DANGEROUS CARELESSNESS.
Local patrons of the Mount'{Pleasant
Water Company who left theirjihonse
spigots open and thus drained the stand-pipe
one cold night last week did
not stop to think of what might have
been the consequence or they certainly
would not have taken that means to
prevent their pipes from freezing.
Low temperature means heavy firing
of furnaces and grates, increasing the
danger of setting Are to the building.
Had a fire broken out in the early morn
ing hours with an empty tower, it is
not pleasant, although easy, to imagine
the damage that might have resulted,
and then what a howl would have gone
np against the water people!
The company is paid to provide pro
tection against fire and, in order to do
this at night, the pumps at the Eagle
street station are kept in operation i f len
until a late hour, Chief Engineer Giles
never retiring until the tower is full
insuring a good force on the mains un-til
operations are resumed the next
morning.
We feel sure that consumers, when
they realize the danger there is in open
spigots to all town property, will not
repeat the offense The proper way to
keep pipes from freezing is to drain
them by shutting off the water in the
cellar.
A COWARDLY MURDER.
N. G. Gonzales, editor of “The State,’
who was shot last Thursday by Lieu-tenant
Governor J. H. Tillman at Colum-bia,
South Carolina, died on Monday.
The crime was a most cowardly one.
The victim, who had opposed Tillman
in politics, was on his way home to din-ner
and about to pass the Lieutenant
Governor on the street when the latter
suddenly drew a pistol and. without a
word of warning, fired the fatal bullet
into the body of the unarmed newspaper
man who bravely clung to the side of a
building and dared his assailant to shoot
again. Tillman at once gave himself up
to the authorities and is now in jail,
having, upon the death of Gonzales, re
signed his state office.
If the press reports are to be relied
upon, and there has been no denial of
them, the foul crime makes the mur
derer richly deserving of execution, al
though hanging is too much to expect
of South Carolina justice in this case.
SPLENDID NERVE.
Mr. H. S. Ackerman, of Greensburg,
still looks upon his handsome self as the
Chairman of the Westmoreland Demo
cratic County Committee, despite the
fact that a large majority of the mem
bers of that body, at their late annual
meeting, elected George H. Hugus, Esq ,
another county seat citizen pleasing to
look upon, to that position.
It is true that Mr. Ackerman, acting
upon the authority of Captain John B.
Keenan, a member of the Democratic
State Central Committee, when that
smooth politician saw the old boss jig
was up, did order the convention to ad
journ; but, it wouldn’t do it. It stayed
'right there after the chairman, the cap
tain and a corporal's guard of the de
feated Keenan faction had fled, and
■then elected a new chairman.
Circulars signed by him as chairman
have been sent out by Mr. Ackerman
making suggestions with reference to
'the party's primary election tomorrow
and urging a meeting of the committee
men following the February election
We are consumed with admiration for
Henry’B nerve.
JONES MILLS.
Miss Lizzie Ross was laid away for
the last long sleep, awaiting the glad
Resurrection Morn, in the U P. ceme -
tery in the Ligonier Valley last Satiir
day. Her life was lived quietly on the
old Ross farm near .Tones Mills. Beloved
and respected by all who knew her, she
has gone to join the large family circle
who preceeded her across the River of
Death.
The Republicans of Donegal town
ship held their caucus at Gay's school
house last Wednesday evening and the
Democrats theirs on Saturday evening.
The popular and worthy pastor, Rev.
Hackman, is conducting a successful
revival meeting in the M. E. church.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Miller took ad
vantage of last week’s fine sleighing
and visited their daughter Ida.
Miss Georgia Davis, of Donegal, spent
Friday here as the guest of Mrs. E J.
Friedline.
Irwin Pletcher, whose recent mar-riage
was noted in THE JOURNAL, has
rented the D. D. Horner mill property
and will take possession in the Spring.
Mrs. Rev. McCauley has opened a
sewing school. Among the large at
tendance is Miss Linnie Showman, of
Laurelville.
We can now boast of a first class
barber shop at which Gay Reece is the
artist.
Mrs. Edward Shaffer is again on the
sick list.
A. G. Williams spent Sunday with
Mount Pleasant friends.
IIECLA.
The scribe has been laid np with the
grip for the past two weeks. That’s
the reason JOURNAL readers didn’t hear
from him, but is all O. K. again and he
will do business at the old stand again.
George MacPhail went to Scottdale
on Tuesday to take the examination for
mine foreman.
Misses Gert Mears and Delia Stoever,
two of Herminie’s fair daughters, spent
Sunday with MiBS Nell Naylor at this
place.
Miss Grace Harvey, of Mount Pleas-ant,
spent Saturday and Sunday with
friends here.
Miss Grace Weaver, of Armbrust, is
spending this week with Mrs. John
Jeffrey, who was laid up with the grip
for a few days, but is able to be around
again.
This is the second week of the revival
services being held in the Methodist
Episcopal church here by Rev. Hamil-ton.
There have been a number of con
versions thus far.
Miss Anna Thomas returned to her
home in Turtle Creek on Tuesday after
spending a couple of weeks here with
Miss Bertha Sauerwein.
Those boys at Armbrust who would
like to have a girl so bad ought to wake
up. No faint heart ever won a fair lady.
The No 3 works will soon be finished
and making coke.
NewU P. Mission.
The Westmoreland Presbytery of the
United Presbyterian Church will estab
lish a mission at Youngwood. At a spe-cial
meeting in Pittsburg Monday it
was decided to purchase a site for a
church edifice at the new railroad town.
A mission will also be established at
Monessen.
Barn Burned.
TheDonegal townshipbarn of Charles
Cooper was, with hay, grain and farm
machinery, destroyed by fire early Fri-day
morning last. By some means the
hired man, while feeding the stock,
knocked a lantern over, causing it to
explode. The building was soon a mass
of flames, the stock being saved with
difficulty. The $1,000 loss is partially
covered by insurance.
A Great French Inventl on.
Pittsburg Leader.
A Parisian doctor has invented a chalk
bullet which leaves only a harmless mark
where it hits. That’s the very thing for
French duelists.
With Coal on the Free List.
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Now we shall see what Canada will
be able to do in the way of warming us
up with Dominion coal.
We continue to progress. Just the
other day President Teddy and King
Ed exchanged wireless telegram greet-ings
that were full of taffy.
THE JOURNAL owes Mr. Simon Cam-won
Stevenson a double apology for
'having, in its last week’s issue, not only
neglected to give Miss Anna Smith's
home as the place where the McMillan
Home Missionary Society gave last
night's enjoyable entertainment but
kactually failed to get his name for Jus-ee
of the Peace on the Republican
aary election ticket. Well, a fat
’ awaits a new local man and our
Is off to you, “Cam.”
More Power to Butler.
Pittsburg Times.
Butler county lugs in a dead burglar
this trip. It is becoming apparent that
Butler county is no place for the man
who runs counter to the law.
Fine Combination.
West Newton Sun.
They say the speakeasy men and the
prohibitionists have joined forces and
will appear before the Legislature in one
body. What queer bedfellows politics
makes!
What May Bappen.
Oounellsville Courier. .
The anti-trust campaign has been
launched at Washington. If the profit-sharing
plan of the United States Steel
Corporation comes into general use the
politicians will be up against the Army
of Labor.
PRICE
On all Winter Clothing is Making
Big Gaps in our Stock. |j|
Any Suit or Overcoat
marked $10, only
Any Suit or Overcoat
marked $12, only
Any Suit or Overcoat
marked $15, only
$5.00
6.00
7-50
HH and so on to the highest priced Winter Clothing in the house. Hf
Pants, Underwear, Gloves, hats and Caps,
1-4 less than the marked price.
Winter Shoes, Rubbers, Rubber and felt Boots,
1-4 less than the marked price.
% No hard-luck stories or anything of the kind. We are simply §§
going to close out all winter goods.
H. Goldstone,
CLOTHING, SHOES and FURNISHINGS.
Mount Pleasant’s Largest Men’s Outfitting Store. Cor. Main and Church sts.
Dealers in General Merchandise.
45 Department Stores -4S.
Sell Everything.
We have some very desirable bargains to offer in
all our departments, and would like to see you, if you
need anything, or if you think you are not in need of any-thing;
come iu anyway and look at us—you may fiud
something you want and did not kuow it. Come and
see our stores—you will feel benefitted at least by your
visit, just by having seen what we are doing, what
great, progressive mercantile establishments we are
conducting, and how much good we are doing for the
general public by keeping down prices and keeping up
quality. We are leaders in our business; we never
follow. The other fellow gets his cue from us, and we
keep them all moving. We are the competition you
have heard so much about, “The Life of Trade ”
Now we are going to close out a lot goods in our
Dry Goods departments, Dress Goods departments,
Ladies’ Tailoring departments, Fancy Goods depart-ments,
All Woolen Goods departments, Men’s Clothing
departments, Overcoats in particular, Shoe depart-ments—
we are right at home in this line. You will
never have your shoes exactly right until jTou buy
them from us. Our Men’s Cap departments have some-thing
particularly attractive to show you.
Our Furniture and Carpet departments are uot the
least by any means—in fact, there are few as good.
Our Grocery and Provision departments are be-yond
comparison. Our goods are always fresh and
the best. Have you never been told so by one of our
customers? If not, please ask them; we are sure they
will tell you that we are the best people for the cus-tomer
in the business.
We dress our own fresh meats and have nicely
equipped markets connected with all our stores.
UNION Slum COMPINl.
C
START
NEW YEAR
RIGHT.
You cannot do this better
than by looking to your feet and
seeing that they are supplied
with the best shoes on the mar-ket.
There are none better than
these world famous lines of ours:
For Hen,
Walkover and Stetson.
For Women,
The Sorosis.
For Boys,
The School Boy’s Pride.
For Misses,
The ITaloney Bros.
W. A. PYNE,
711 ITain street,
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
I'HK MOUNT PLKA8ANT JODltNAU, FRIDA Y, JANUARY 23, 1003.
For the Past Week Briefly Men-tioned.
LITTLE TALK OF THE TOWN
THAT WILL BOTH INTEREST AND
ENTERTAIN.
A Department in Which the Local Bdltoi
Holds High Carnival and Worke off his
Surplus Energy In Condensations
That Deal Solely with Matters Relating
to Mount Pleasant
A fine little daughter was born Mr.
and Mrs M. S. Baer Sunday.
The Ladies Hospital Aid Society will
hold an important meeting at the Jus-tice
Free Dispensary Tuesday afternoon
next, January 27th, at 2 o’clock.
The ladies of the First Baptist church
have made their pastor’s charming wife,
Mrs. C. W. Haines, a birthday present
in the form of a very pretty silk quilt.
Thomas Evans, the well known Pitts-burg
architect, was here Tuesday con-sulting
with the local hospital directors
with reference to remodeling their Main
street building.
Joseph F. Gradler, an employe at the
Union Supply Company’s Standard
slaughter house, last week made a 78-
foot sausage that was without a break
and weighed 60 pounds.
Hon. W. F. Morrison, of this place,
will introduce the bill for the repeal ot
the West Newton local option law, but
it will remain for those who favor the
measure to push it along.
The Westmoreland County Agricul-ture
Society reorganized Monday, but
made no change except to add the vice
presidency to the directorship held by
Frank D Barnhart, of this place.
The Blairsville and Derry Street Rail
way Company, which proposes to unite
the towns named, has increased its cap-ital
stock to $;500,000 and will eventually,
it is said, extend the lines to this place.
There was splendid skating the fore
part of this week on the Bridgeport
dams and crowds from here went down
and enjoyed the fine sport both day and
night, booming the electric road re-ceipts.
Will Brown was brought from the
glass factory to his East End home in
an unconscious condition Wednesday
evening, but is now better. The trouble
is due to a sunstroke he suffered some
years ago.
There was a nice turnout of members
Monday night when Deputy Cook, of
Dunbar, installed the new local Royal
Arcanum officers. At the close of the
ceremonies a toothsome lunch was par
taken of at Albright’s restaurant.
Would-be burglars went through B.
F. Miller's new Willow street residence
one night last week, their progress being
marked with burnt matches. They‘evi-dently
sought money, but got none ns
the family roll is kept in the bank.
David S. Fox got an ugly fall Friday
last on the steps at the West End home
of his son, Adam, but was able to make
his Morewood residence, to which he
has since been confined. There were no
bones broken, but “Uncle Dave” is very
stiff and sore.
A freight wreck near Dunbar blocked
the Southwest railroad tracks Wednes
day morning, causing a transfer of pas-sengers
and baggage. The Mount Pleas-ant
branch accommodation was run on
to Greensburg and as a result the first
mail did not reach here until noon.
Denver Patterson, son of David Pat-terson,
of this place, is confined to the
Greensburg hospital with a severe at-tack
of appendicitis. The young man
was operated on three weeks ago and
for a time seemed to improve, bnt now
there are grave fears for his recovery.
“The Drummer Boy of Shiloh,” given
under the excellent management of
Fred B. Wigle in the Grand Opera
House Friday and Saturday evenings
for the benefit of the local Fire Depart
ment, greatly pleased both audiences
and netted the deserving laddies $100,
Mrs. Monroe’s famous stereopticon
lecture on the “Scottish Reformation
will be given in the Grand Opera House
on the evenings of March 30th and 31st
for the benefit of the Re-Union Presby
terian Sunday school. Some fifty local
people will take partin the presentation.
Constable Locke, of this place, arrest-ed
Max Gorman, a well known Lud-wick
Hebrew, Tuesday on a charge of
embezzlement preferred by Joseph
Shultz, whose son was recently killed at
Morewood by a fall of slate. The de
fendant gave bail for a hearing that
will be held here before Justice Me
Williams Wednesday.
Mr. Joseph Falter, of this place, and
Miss Rose Reagan, of Uniontown, were
married last Wednesday forenoon in
the Catholic church at that place in the
presence of several hundred guests.
The wedding breakfast was served at
the Titlow House and the couple then
left on a trip to Louisville, Ky.
J. A. Eichar waived a hearing and
gave bail for court Friday last before
Justice Rhoades on a charge of assault
and battery preferred by James Van-
Horn whose restaurant on the Diamond
was the scene of the lively scrap noted
in last week’s issue. It is said that the
prosecution of other participants will
follow.
AltMBRUHT.
Rev. Wilson and wife spent the latter
part of last week and the former part of
this visiting friends at Derry.
S. J. Wright was prevented from
teaching last week on account of sick-ness,
bnt he h as returned to his duties
at Ludwick.
Ruth Tice was confined to the house
dnring the past week by an attack of
chicken pox. She is about again.
Mrs. C. S. Armbrust is suffering from
a serious attack of typhoid fever.
Although the weather is rough, the
stone quarry is running as full as possi-ble
on account of the lively demand for
stone.
T. M. Ballevv, who was confined to
the house with a very sore leg, is now
able to be about again.
Some of the boys can be heard making
frequent inquiries as to the whereabouts
of “Any Old Place” and “Puckerty
Shoot.” Anybody knowing the location
of these places can oblige the hoys
greatly by giving them the desired in-formation.
Box 20 is doing a rushing business.
PI/ETCHER.
Miss Mollie Pletcher says it is mighty
cold weather to raise young chickens.
John Peck, while singing Sunday
night, inhaled so much cold air that he
has had toothache ever since.
Miss Rose Sturbntzel, the pretty Trout
Run school mistress, thinks of resigning
to go into the fortune telling business,
in which there is more money.
D. E. Ferguson has the colic since his
return from Trent.
Adam Reece will give his friends a
big turkey roast on January 30th.
The roads are so bad that Jerry Mur-ray
has to wear his gum boots when he
goes courtin’.
Mrs. Mary Pletcher is alone now, her
son Norman having moved to hie
brother Adam’s place.
Elmer Ferguson got so stiff from his
long walk to see his best girl that he re-mained
for breakfast the next morning.
France Murray has broken off all his
front teeth eating stick candy.
All of John Pletcher's dogs froze to
death the other night despite the fact
that they were wrapped in blankets and
laid under the kitchen stove.
Robert Faust feels elegant over his
last sharp horse trade.
Smooth Swindler.
A smooth stranger called on John
Menoher, a Ligonier hotel proprietor,
the other day, representing himself in
the employ of the county court and
explaining that $150 paid him would
save Mr. Menoher from a suit, for hav
ing sold liquor to minors The victim
finally agreed to pay $100 which the
rascal took and then proceeded to make
himself scarce.
Marriage Licenses.
The following marriage licenses have
been granted for this vicinity during
the past week:
Pierce Park, of Kecksburg, and Alice
Snively, of Acme.
FLORIDA.
Two Weeks’ Tour via Pennsylvania
Railroad.
The first Pennsylvania railroad tour
of the season to Jacksonville, allowing
two weeks in Florida, will leave New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington by special train on Feb-ruary
8.
Excursion tickets, including railway
transportation, Pullman accouimoda
tions (one berth), and meals en route in
both directions while traveling on the
special train, will be sold at the follow
ing rates: New York, $50.00; Philadel-phia,
Harrisburg, Baltimore, and Wash
ington, $48.00: Pittsburg, $53 00; and at
proportionate rates from other points.
For tickets, itineraries, and other in-formation
apply to ticket agents, or to
Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Pass
enger Agent, Broad Street Station,
Philadelphia. 1 23 1
WANTED:— Salesmen to sell oils,
greases, paints and compound. Salary
or commission. Fairfax Refining Co.,
Cleveland, Ohio. 23 2
All customers who like to ride on the
street cars can get tickets without cost
by buying their groceries at Albright’s.
Almost everybody knows what “King
B” is—Tinstman has it. 28 2 2
FOR RENT:—A furnished, lighted and
heated room on South Church street.
Apply at this office. 1 23 tf
AROUND AND ABOUT,
But Principally Within the
Bounds of This County.
A FULL COLUMN OF GOOD NEWS
SECURED FROM THE PAGES OF RE-LIABLE
EXCHANGES.
WANTED:—A reliable man to take
agency for us in Mount Pleasant and
surrounding territory, liberal terms;
write us for particulars; small bond re-quired.
The Great Atlantic & Pacific
Tea Co., 206 8rd ave., Pittsburg, Pa. 2 4
There are those who say “King B” is
better than Maple. It costs less than
half.
How these Articles Appear After They
Have been Boiled Down Into Short
Paragraphs That Speak to the Point
But Briefly of Interesting Events
Transpiring in the Old Star of the West
A child of C. A. Bloom, of West
Overton, has the smallpox.
A naval recruiting office will be
opened at Greensburg next week.
Rev. Dr. Johnathan Sarver, of New
Stanton, has declined the call to the
Delmont Lutheran church.
B. & O. telegraphers have been gran -1
ted a 12-per cent, advance in wages, a ;
9-hour day and two weeks’ vacation j
with pay.
Charles Sidwell, a Connellsville rail-:
reader, died at the hospital at Roches I
ter, Pa., Sunday from injuries received j
on his engine.
While sinking an artisan well at Ir ;
win the Crescent Brewing Company
struck a strong flow of gas at the depth
of 875 feet.
The wife of Rev. Beck, pastor of the
Oakville Methodist Episcopal church, is
conducting a successful revival for her
husband who is sick.
The coining mill at the Cambria
powder works at Seward blew up last
Thursday, killing Robert Woods, an
employe aged 40 years.
The street car people have secured
the Scottdale electric light plant and
now own all in the coke region. The
purchase price was not made public.
Nelson Hicks, a West Penn carpenter
whose home was at Blairsville, was run
down by the cars and instantly killed
at Blairsville Intersection last Thurs-day
morning, ,
Mike Suachman, John Lonzon and
John Schlok, Slavs, were jailed at j
Greensburg Tuesday charged with hav-ing
tried to wreck a P. & L E. passen-ger
train near Webster.
The dead body of O. Kornrumph, of
Penn, aged 65 years, was found on the
railroad crossing at Manor Sunday. It
is not known whether he was hit by the
cars or died of apoplexy.
Daskais & Abramson, Latrohe jewel-ers,
were arrested Saturday charged
with having robbed their own store
in order to get the insurance against
theft held in a Pittsburg concern.
Rev. F. S. Beistel has resigned the
pastorate of the Jeanette Trinity Luth-eran
church in order to accept of a call
to St. Paul, Minn. He will remain,
however, nntil his successor is chosen.
At the Kiskiminetas Springs school,
near Saltsburg, one day last week Prof.
Fiaherty was blown out with the wall
on striking a match in a class room full
of escaping gas. He was severely
burned.
Nettie Hickman, a Jeannette girl,
married David Taswell in jail at
Greensburg Saturday so that as his
wife she could not te compelled to tes-tify
against him on a felonious shoot-ing
charge.
Rev. Dr. S. C. Boyd, pastor of the
St. Clair United Presbyterian church,
Pittsburg, has had to give up his pas-toral
work because of illness that is
feared will prove fatal. He is a native
of this county.
Cecci Dorato, an Italian from Traf
ford City, thought to be the head of a
gang of counterfeiters, was captured in
Pittsburg Saturday by Detective Leo
Metzgar, after a long chase, and is now
in jail at Greensburg.
C. E. Colbert, a B. & O. freight fire-man,
whose home was at Smitbton,
died at the Connellsville hospital
Wednesday from a fractured skull got
by his head striking the Pennsylvania
overhead bridge at the latter place.
Prof. J. B. Snyder, principal of the
Rockwood schools, who escaped the
quarantine there, has isolated himself
at his home in Upper Turkeyfoot town
ship, Somerset county, for fear be might
take the disease and communicate it to
his parents.
Charles Chesuey, a Lewistown whole-sale
fruit dealer and married man, was
arrested there Friday and brought back
to Jeannette on a charge of bigamy.
He was married to Inez Keighley, a
Jeannette girl, on New Year's Day.
He is now in jail at Greensburg.
Margaret Beers, a former employe,
has sued Harry Williver, a Donora
hotel keeper, for $1,000 for stopping
payment on a check for that amount
given her that he might be freed from
a promise to marry her. The defendant
says Bhe forced him at the point of a
pistol to write the check.
William Yancey, a Connellsville
colored hotel waiter, tried to elope to
Cumberland with Lelia Hunter, a local
colored belle, but the latter’s mother
was too sharp for him. To escape ar-rest
he came back home, while Miss
Lelia was shipped to Roanoke, Va., to
keep another matrimonial engagement.
and find we have too much winter stock on hand and we are determined to
get rid of same regardless of costand are offering you strictly new, up-to-date
CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS
for Men, Boys and Children far below their actual cost.
Remember our stock is not five or ten years old, and by coming to our store you are sure
of getting NEW GOODS. Read carefully the items below and bring this with you to be
convinced that we advertise nothing but the truth.
Sizes 12 to 18. Our entire line of soft and stiff Dress Shirts, Gold,
Silver and International brands. All that sold for $1.50 now
at $| 00; all that sold for $1.00 now at 60c.
Men’s and Young Men’s Overcoats.
Short, Medium and Long. Lengths to suit
yourself. Every Overcoat guaranteed by
the maker.
$7.00 and $ 8.00 ones now at $5 00
0.00 and 10.00 ones now at 6 00
So on accordingly, up to the best in the
house.
Men’s and Young Men’s Suits.
The very newest, all this season’s goods.
Remember all our Suits are guaranteed by
the maker. For any unreasonable wear, a
new one free. All Suits that were sold at
$ 7.50 to $ 8 00, now at $ 4 50
9.00 to 11.00, now at 6 00
12.00 to 14 00, now at 7 50
15.00 to 18.00, now at 10 00
Come and take your pick, heavy or medi-um
weight, and no remodeled prices. Strict
ly the truth.
Boys’ Double Breasted Knee Pants
Suits, 1-3 Off.
Pants made with double knee and seat.
Heavy and some medium weights, good for
all year round
Children’s Suits.
in medium and heavy weight. In the new
Norfolk and Vestee Suits, ages 24 to 8 years.
Come and take your pick of any suit in the
house at One-Half Off their actual cost.
Children’s Overcoats.
Reefers, f and extra long coats. A very
fine selection, ages 3 to 9, at One-Half Off.
It will pay you to convince yourself.
Men’s Waterproof Working Coats.
Blanket lined, $2.50 at $| 25
300 at 150
Trousers.
Sweet, Orr & Co. ’s Corduroy Pants, the
best in the world, $4.00 grade at $2 90
Cord, pants, made by the reliable Union
houses, all that were sold at $3 now $2;
$2.50 now at $| 50: $2.00 now at | 25
Dress and Working Pants.
No room to go into details but positively
1-3 off their actual cost.
Hats, Caps, Gloves and Handkerchiefs, all accordingly reduced. We have the goods
to back up what we say here. Everything in our store must be as represented or money
refunded. Nuff Ced. Remember the place.
CHAS. PROSS,
MEN’S AND BOYS’ OUTFITTER.
<303 Main Street, /Wu111n Block.,) Mount Pleasant*
IStrickler’s Store.?
Established 1054.
....January....
Clearance Sale
of Winter Goods.
It is the dependableness of good goods at these reduced prices that brings
the people to this store. Fine dress goods at one-third, one-fourth, and in some
instances one-half of former prices is a chance that doesn’t come often, but this
Clearance Sale continues.
Fine Dress Goods.
The interest in this department increases. The prices, backed by the goods, make
busy days.
56-inch Black Cheviot, $1.75, reduced to $| 00
50 inch dollar-fiftv Broadcloths, “ “ j 00
50-inch dollar-thirty-five Storm Serges, reduced to 90c
All fine goods and greatlygreduced.
FRENCH FLANNELS, from 75 to 50c,
FANCY WAISTINGS at reduced prices.
Silks.
75c and 85c reduced to 60c
50c and 60c, reduced to 374c
25c and 35c, reduced to 15c
36-inch guaranteed Black Taffeta, $| 00
Fancy Silks in 4-yd patterns, reg-ular
$1.25 and $1.35, reduced to 75c
m
flUSLINS—Hill 4-4 Bleached, 8c, 15 yds for $| 00
Elannelettes.
124c and 15c reduced to 9c
25c and 20c reduced to 12 jc
Ladies’ Jackets.
You don’t find this season’s jackets at half price at any other store.
$15.00 jackets reduced to $7 50
And so on down the line.
$10.00
$8.00
Alain street ancL Diamond Square.
THE MOUNT PUEABANT JOURNAL, Fill DAV, JANUARY 28*1903.
CLOSE TO
THIS PLACE.
The B & O.’s New Line, That of
tlie Old South Penn, Semi-officially
Located,,
EVERYTHING READY FDR CONSTRUCTION,
Port Perry, on the Pittsburg division,
will, it is said, be the iunetion point be-tween
the Baltimore & Ohio’s new line
over the mountains and the present line
of the Pittsburg & Connellsville. Such
is the information obtained from a semi
official source. It is further stated that
all the rights of-way have been pur-chased,
all necessary land details con-cluded,
and that everything is in good
shape for an early beginning of build-ing
operations.
The exact route to be followed is n
carefully guarded secret. All the coin
pany’s plans, as far as possible, are un-der
lock and key in the general offices at
Baltimore. The new road, according to
present plans, will be built eastward
from some point adjacent to Port Perry
or Brinton. It will be to the south of
the main line of the Pennsylvania, and
yet will be sufficiently far north of the
present B. & O. to avoid the tortuous
meanderings of the Youghiogheny val
ley. At a point some distance north of
Gratztown it will strike the old South
Penn line, running to the east and pass
ing very close to Mount Pleasant.
JV. PENNYPACKHS UI
Citizens of Pennsylvania—The event
in which we participate presents some
unusual features. This state has a
population of 6,302,115, greater than
that of England in the time of Eliza-beth,
twice that of Holland when the
leading maritime power of the world,
and twice that of the United States
when Washington became president.
Her resources are almost boundless.
Her revenues amount to the annual
sum of $17,727,432.46. The floating in-debtedness
of about three and a half
millions of dollars which existed four
years ago has been paid off during the
last administration, and she is now
substantially without debt of any kind.
She pays each year for the mainte-nance
of public schools and of chari-ties
more than any other American
commonwealth. The lands of her citi-zens
are not taxed for her benefit, and
the tax rate in her large cities is less
than in any other of the great munici-palities
of the. country. The governor-ship
of Pennsylvania is an office there-fore
which is one of the great execu-tive
places of the earth. No man,
whatever may be his capacity or what
the manner in which he has been
called, ought to approach it save with
humble steps and with a grave sense
of its importance and responsibilities.
Relying upon Divine Providence, proud
of the exceptional achievements of
this forceful and efficient people and
depending for support upon their vir-tue
and good sense, I have taken in
your presence the oath of office, and 1
go forward to the performance of the
duties and to see to it so far as I may
be able that, under the constitution,
the laws are faithfully administered.
It is my wish always within reason-able
limits to confer with all persons
who may have facts to impart or con-clusions
to present, and it is my pur-pose
to consult especially with those
who in common parlance are called
politicians. There is no more danger-ous
public vice than the prevalent af-fectation
ot disrespect for those who
are engaged in the performance of the
work of the cities, the commonwealths
and the nation, because it is in effect
an attack upon popular government,
and its tendency is to undermine our
institutions. There was a time when
proper deference was shown even to
those officials lowest in authority and
the cultivation of a like spirit is a
much-needed public virtue.
There is too much legislation. Sir
William Blackstone said in 1758 that
“The common law of England has
fared like other venerable edifices of
antiquity which rash and inexperi-enced
workmen have ventured to new
dress and refine with all the rage for
modern improvements.” This truth
needs to be reiterated. It is far bet-ter
to leave the law alone unless the
necessity for change is plain. Stabil-ity
and certainty are more important
than absolute accuracy. It is wiser
not to disturb an imperfect rule to
which business relations have become
adapted and with which the communi-ty
has become familiar. The purpose
of the constitution, in making the ses-sions
of the legislature biennial, in-stead
of annual, was that the bulk of
legislation should be lessened and
longer consideration given to it, and
our duty is to heed the provision.
The modern tendency to invent new
crimes ought to be curbed. To oblit-erate
the marked line which distin-guishes
between mere breaches of
contract and crimes is to bring the
law Itself into disrepute. To threaten
with Imprisonment him who has filled
a bottle entrusted to him, the contents
of which he has bought, or him who
sells a railroad ticket, the evidence of
a right of transportation for which he
has paid, is no doubt a convenience to
corporations and others in enforcing
their contracts, but it takes from the
prison much of its effect as a restraint
upon those who do evil. Juries re-
, fuse to convict where they believe the
pharge ought not to be sustained, even
bough the facts come within the terms
oi a statute, and thus men are taught
to disregard the law. The principles
of right and wrong are immutable and
as old as the human race, and ex-treme
care ought to be exercised in
adding to the list of offenses things
done which were never known to be
offenses until they become “statu-tory.”
The constitution directs that at the
completion of each United States cen-sus
there shall be a senatorial and
representative reapportionment of the
state. There is practical difficulty in
making a senatorial reapportionment
in the manner directed by that in-strument.
If these difficulties prove
to be insurmountable then the con-stitution
must be interpreted like every
other written instrument in such a way
as to reconcile inconsistencies and
carry out the purposes r/hich it was
intended to serve. A serious effort
ought to be made to apportion the
state according to its terms, and if
there are any of the counties which
cannot be made to fit into the scheme
then such plan as will most closely ap-proximate
the required result ought
to be adopted.
The present ballot law suggested in
the interest of reform and adopted by
the legislature in an effort for the im-provement
of public affairs has proven
in practice to be both cumbersome and
inefficient. It needs either careful
amendment or reconstruction. Our sys-tem
of government depends primarily
upon the right of every elector to vote
according to his judgment and prefer-ence,
without interference by or ob-struction
from any other person or in-fluence
and to have all of the votes ac-curately
counted. In providing the
necessary means it ought to be re-membered
that the more simple they
are and the less complicated the de-vice
the more likely are they to be ef-fective.
The great mass of voters
have neither the time nor the inclina-tion
when they reach the polls to
study the methods of voting, however
meritorious they may be, and the plan
adopted ought to be one easy for them
to understand. The thought that
something ought to be done by means
of the law to encourage independent
voting and to make it difficult for the
Prohibitionist, Socialist, Democrat or
Republican to vote his full party
ticket, if he so wills, is mere'fvicious
theorizing and would be an interfer-ence
with the right of the voter which
should not be attempted.
In Pennsylvania, as in all of the oth-er
American states, the principles
upon which the right of eminent do-main
are based have been too often
neglected and forgotten. The consti-tutions
of both the United State's and
the state protect the citizen in his in-dividual
right of property. But when
there is public need for the good of
the community the state may inter-vene,
and, giving him compensation,
compel him to surrender his individual
right for the general welfare. The
test is the public necessity, and the
thought upon the part of corporations
or individuals that if they had his
property they could use it to advan-tage
is utterly foreign to the inquiry.
There ought to be some means pro-vided
for ascertaining the existence of
such public need, before franchises are
granted giving the right of eminent
domain. Yet under our general rail-road
law any nine or more persons
may unite upon their own judgment
of the profitableness of the venture to
foul streams, cut through forests and
destroy homesteads. Often they are
mistaken, both as to the need and the
profit, and this is learned after and
not before th* harm has been done.
Eminent jurists have doubted the con-stitutionality
of the act, and at all
event its wisdom in this respect is
more than questionable. In our haste
to accumulate we are in some ways in
danger of losing sight of manhood and
even of fundamental legal principles.
In my view, before any franchise is
granted, either by special or general
law, involving a disturbance of the
individual right of property and before
any exercise of the enormous power of
eminent domain by a private corpor-ation
there ought to be express as-sent
by the state itself, based upon an
ascertainment of the public need.
This would mean the employment of
a competent engineer to give informa-tion
to the proper department. If
hereafter, In any way, tne state is to
exercise control over public roads
there will be further need for such
technical Information.
In Pennsylvania conflicts between
concentrated capital and organized la-bor
are of frequent occurrence and
often result In cessation of production,
loss of both profits and earnings, viola-tions
of the law and disturbance and
inconvenience to the community. They
present some of the most difficult and
complicated problems with which mod-ern
administration is confronted.
They occur more frequently here than
elsewhere because of the great number
of our Industries requiring the employ-ment
of masses of men, many of them
born in other lands, and some of them
uneducated, unfamiliar with out lan-guage
and indifferent to our Institu-tions.
While it is difficult to prevent
these occurrences and the situation
when it arises and becomes acute is
perplexing, there are certain principles
governing the relation of the state to
them which may be announced with
safety. Whatever tends to bring about
an improvement in the condition of the
masses of mankind and assists in their
cultivation and elevation is an advan-tage
to the state and ought to be en-couraged
by legislation. Especially is
this true in a state where every man is
a factor in the government. There is
lo corresponding good to the state from
the mere accumulation of unused re-sources
in the hands of an individual.
The state is therefore interested within
reasonable bounds in bringing about a
condition of things in which in the dis-tribution
of rewards resulting from
business ventures capital shall have
less profit and labor more of compen-sation.
No capitalist is strong enough
and no laborer is insignificant enough
to escape obedience to the law. When
the laborer sells his labor for a com-pensation
he ought to render the ser-vice
during the period of the contract.
No man should be permitted to inter-fere
upon any pretence whatever with
another who may choose to sell his
labor, and violence from whatever
source it may come should be promptly
and rigidly suppressed, using whatever
force may be necessary for the pur-pose.
Pennsylvania has been very generous
ltd bountiful in handling her great
ftatural resources and while perhaps
this method of treating them has not
been unwise the query arises whether
it would not be well to give heed to
the future. The commercial idea put
briefly and in gross is that forests,
coal, oil and iron are to be sent into
the market, as soon and as rapidly as
possible, in order that they may be
converted into money and the
men of today may live in
luxury and enjoyment. The
duty of the statesman is to look be-yond
the indulgence of the time, to re-gard
these resources as gifts of Provi-dence,
to be husbanded with care and
used as need requires rather than
wasted or poured upon glutted mar-kets,
with a sense that when once ex-nausted
they can never be restored.
While it is a satisfaction to see li-oraries
in England and Universities
in Chicago being erected from the out-come
of the iron and oil of Pennsylva-nia,
due primarily to her liberality, we
may be pardoned a feeling of regret
that so much of the wealth of her pro-duction
is controlled and utilized else-where.
1 suggest that the legislature
consider the propriety of imposing a
slight tax, say upon some one of her
productions, the proceeds to be applied
to the betterment of our roads, such a
tax as would not be a serious burden,
but would result in securing for our
own people a proportion of the bene-fit
of the natural deposits. If done at
all the tax so imposed should be so
small in amount that it wwuld be re-garded
even by the producers them-lelves
as fair and equitable.
No people are ever really great who
art neglectful of their shrines and
have no pride in their achievements.
The history of the world shows that a
correct sentiment is a more lasting and
potent force than either accumulated
money or concentrated authority. The
theses which Lutner nailed to the
church door at Wittenberg still sway
the minds of men and the Puggers
disappeared when they died. What
would have been the influence of
Greece without the memories of Mara-thon
or of England without those of
Runnymede? Around Fort Duquesne
in Western Pennsylvania at one head
ol the great river of the world was to
a large extent determined, in the
French and Indian’ War, the question
whether the American Continent
should be dominated by Latin or Teu-ton,
involving the destinies of the hu-man
race, and around Philadelphia in
eastern Pennsylvania the real struggle
of the Revolutionary War occurred.
The good example set by Philadelphia
in its care of Independence Hall and
Congress Hall should be followed by
the state. The fields of Fort Necessity
where Washington first became known,
Bushy Run where Bouquet won his
important victory, and the camp
ground of Valley Forge should be ten-derly
cared for and preserved. The
state has appointed a commission to
provide for Valley Forge and much of
the ground has been secured. The rest
should be taken and the reasonable
needs of the Commission must be sup-plied.
There is one institution of learning
which occupies a unique relation to tho
state. The constitution of 1776 for the
first time in America made it the duty
of the state to provide for higher edu-cation
by the erection of a university.
In accordance with this provision the
state took hold of the college of wnich
Thomas Penn had been the patron, Dr.
William Smith the real founder and
Benjamin Franklin an adjunct, about
which clusie-ed these associations as
well as the memory of George White-field,
and made of it a university and
continued to provide for it by gifts of
lands. Control was assured under the
Act of 1791 by making the governor
of the state president and member of
the board of trustees and requiring it
to report to the legislature the condi-tion
of its funds. In later years both
duty and relation were forgotten and
control was permitted to slip away.
The institution has become one of the
most useful and efficient now existing.
It shall be my effort to restore the re-lation
of patronage and control, the
outgrowth of colonial conditions and
made a constitutional requirement, anu
to regain and retain for the state the
credit for this early and unprecedented
recognition of the cause of learning.
Experience has shown that men are
neither strong enough nor virtuous
enough to be entrusted for any length
of time with unlimited and irrespon-sible
power. Institutions of the high-est
utility when established often be-come
dangerous to the community.
Even the church has been at times used
for the worst of personal ends. The doc-trine
of the liberty of the press, con-ceived
at a time when it was neces-sary
to disclose the movements of ar-bitrary
power has become in
recent days too often a cover
for base and Ignoble purposes,
and like the sanctuaries of old a
place of retreat where any wrongdoer
may secure immunity from punish-ment.
Sensational journals have aris-en
all over the land, the owners in
concealment and the writers and pur-veyors
undesignated, and they have
thriven by propagating crime and dis-seminating
falsehood and scandal, by
promulgating dissension and anarchy,
by attacks upon individuals and by as-saults
upon government and the agen-cies
of the people. They are a terror
to the household, a detriment to the
public service, and an impediment to
the courts of justice. It would be help-ful
and profitable to reputable journal-ism
if they could be suppressed. The
time is near at hand and may have al-ready
come when society will find
means to prevent this development of
vicious life which constitutes the most
conspicuous instance of existing ills.
I know of no reason why Pennsyl-vania,
which has been foremost in so
many directions in the past, should
not take the lead In a needed effort to
improve manners and morals by such
I reform. Our constitution imposes
responsibility for the abuse of the lib-erty
of the press and I suggest for the
consideration of the legislature
whether or not it would be well to
extend to such cases the law of neg-ligence
as developed by the decisions
of our courts, so that there should be
liability in damages for the physical
and mental suffering caused by pub-lications
made without "reasonable
care.”
I further suggest an inquiry as to
the propriety of requiring the names
nnd residences of the owners of news-papers
to be published with each issue.
It may be that On consideration the
legislature in Its wisdom will be able
to devise othef means which, while
protecting journals of good repute, will
tend to eliminate the unworthy.
Upon a like occasion in 1738 Andrew
Hamilton, the eminent man who es-tablished
the fame of the Philadelphia
lawyer and who built the Pennsyl-vania
State House, since adopted by
the nation and called Independence
Hall, wrote: "We enjoy a greater
share of civil and religious liberty
than any of our neighbors.” Pennsyl-vania
took from the* cavalier the coat
of mail with which the habits of the
middle ages had encased and bound
him. She taught the narrow and big-oted
Puritan to be cheerful and liberal.
She fixed In the national constitution
those principles, taught by William
Penn two and a quarter centuries ago,
which have come to bn typical of
American civilization. She needs to
overcome certain tendencies to diver-gence
and dissension existing among
her people. She wants to have no
sects and factions and no traditions of
Quaker and churchman to hinder her
efforts or rend her garments. There
must be no separate interests of city
and country. She wants to feel a real
pride in the lives of Penn and Wayne,
of Rittenhouse and Meade, and to
still with her frown of displeasure
those at home and abroad who cry
aloud against her. Pittsburg must aid
Philadelphia to find an outlet to the
sea as Antwerp, Glasgow, Manchester
and other inland towns have done be-fore,
and Philadelphia must aid Pitts-burg
in her effort to unite the vast
population about the headwaters of
the Ohio and \o outdo the chief city
of the west, and both must be not for
themselves alone but for the good of
the state and its people. And then will
soon be realized what has been prophe-sied
by many clear-headed observers,
and Pennsylvania will take her place,
not foremost alone in achievement and
traditions, but in wealth and popula-tion
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Olga, whose travels had given her a
clear Insight to human character,
singled Colonel Bnrakoff out at once
as a man of sterling integrity and a
fearless soldier. To him she was ex- I
tremely gracious, and encouraged him
to talk, and he was proud of her at-tention.
When the dancing began, the
crowd scattered through the palace,
and it was not long before Colonel
Bnrakoff and Olga found themselves
sitting in a retired spot with the
colonel’s wife.
“It is the first time in my experi-ence,”
said the colonel, “and that li*s
not been a short one, that one of our
noble ladles has condescended to visit
our capital. And now ove of the pow-erful
house of Neslerov is here. It
enuses wonder that she would forsake
the pleasures and gayeties of St.
Petersburg for this dismal place.”
“I have seen enough of St. Peters-burg
gayeties to last for a time,” an-swered
Olga. “My life is not all spent
in pleasure. I am not yet your age,
colonel, but 1 have learned that to be
happy and to be contented with one-self
one must find some work to do.
and do it well.”
“You are very young,” said the
colonel slowly, "and very wealthy to
have found that out. I, of course,
learned it long ago, but my age is three
times yours. You say you have found
pleasure in work. Would It be pre-sumptuous
to ask what work has
found favor in your eyes?”
“Presumptuous? Not at all, colonel.
I am always pleased to talk with one
who is able to appreciate it. I have
become thoroughly convinced that there
are faults in our social system. I am
neither a nihilist nor a socialist, but i
do think that the wealthy nobles of
Russia are not doing their full duty to
those who, it is true, are dependent
upon them, but upon whom nlso they
are dependent.”
“It is a bold stai d for a young wom-
”an to take. Men 1 ave been sent to Si-beria
for those sentiments.”
“And the sentiment sent me to Sibe-ria,
but not under sentence. 1 have
come partly to visit the governor, who
is a relative, and, more than that, to
study the convict system ns worked
out under his rule in Tomsk.”
The colonel became enutious.
“You will find plenty to study,” he
answered, “but 1 fancy you will not
proceed rapidly. Our system—well, it
is the same. I suppose, ns that in vogue
at Tobolsk.”
“Perhaps it will prove so. 1 am ac-quainted
with Count de Muloflf, govern-or
general, and I know that, while he
is a stern roan, he is just. When he
can be merciful without lending an
apparent aid to the unwrorthy, he does
not hesitate to show leniency. I hope I
shall find the same spirit prevailing
here.”
The colonel smiled grimly.
“Shall you, th*n, write a book upon
the penal system?”
“I may do so, although that is not
yet one of my plans. I may tell you in
confidence, however, that I have the
entire confidence of the czar and that
he is interested in the outcome of my
studies.”
“In my youthful days we did not hear
of such things,” said the colonel. “A
young woman who at your age and
with your wealth and position took
*
“The hey never leaves the packet of the
superintendent of police.”
upon herself so great a task would he
sent forthwith to a lonely castle and
kept a semiprisoner.”
"I fear that some of that same spirit
dominates our society today.”
“1 think it will prevail for a time.”
“Where would you advise me to go to
study the convict system at its worst?”
“Us worst? Do you not wish to see
it at its best?”
“I understand it at its best.”
“Well, it is a serious matter to ad-vise,
yet if you are working under the
protection of the czar we must help
you. I should say Tivoloffsky.”
“I shall go there. Where are your
prisons?”
The colonel rubbed his grizzled mus-tache.
“We have guardhouses in all settle-ments.”
"Dungeons?”
“Not many dungeons. There are
dungeons under this very palace, but
tney nre obsolete. I do not think tney
have been used In years.”
"Then they could be inspected.”
“1 see no reason why they should not.
But that would be for the governor to
sny. Shall I ask him?”
“No; since they nre under his palace
I shall have an opportunity later. I
suppose they are entered by way of a
secret door.”
“There was a door at the end of the
police offices,” replied the colonel. “Of
course, being a soldier, 1 know scarcely
anything about them. They are wholly
in charge of the police.”
“But you formerly had no police in
Siberia save the Cossack guards.”
“True, but I was not at Tomsk then.
I came here from Tobolsk.”
Olga spoke then to the colonel’s wife,
and tlie subject of the dungeons did
not recur.
Neslerov came and presented a young
officer, a member of a noble family, and
he asked Olga for a waltz. She thank-ed
the colonel, and they did not meet
again. The dancing continued till a
very late hour, after which there was
a supper served with the true Russian
prodigality. Olga was becoming weary,
but she maintained her usual spirits.
She chanced to pass near the governor
and heard a young officer speaking.
“Lieutenant Dermsky Is not present.
Whom will you name as the lieutenant
of the palace guard?”
“None will be necessary,” answered
Neslerov. “Itzlg will be at ids post.
As it is nearly morning, no more will
be necessary. Dismiss the guard, take
them to the banquet hall and give them
supper.”
Soon after that Olga found occasion
to cross the hall to the offices of police.
People were passing to and fro, and no
one could think it strange that the
princess went where she pleased. Site
found at the end of the suit of rooms
devoted to police affairs a small apart-ment,
tlie door of which was closed.
Turning, to see that Neslerov was not
in the hall—she did not care for the
guests—she entered. Sitting there in
lonely state was a man. He was not
particularly agreeable looking and
seemed to be of a stupid order.
“Are you not being feasted with the
tubers?” asked the princess.
“No; they forget poor Itzig,” was the
reply.
“What Is your duty here?”
“To guard the door to the passage
yonder. Stupid! No one could enter,
The key never leaves the pocket of the
superintendent of police.”
Jansky had been constant in his at-tendance
at the bottle and already
showed the effect of his heavy pota
tions.
“You shall not be overlooked,” said
Olga. “1 will send you some refresh-ments.”
Site first went to her room and return-ed
to tlie bnnquet hall. She ordered one
of the servants to open a fresh bottle
of wine, which was done. Then a tray
was prepared, and she ordered it taken
to Itzig. Quickly, without a second’s
delay, a small vial in her hand was
emptied into the wine.
“Take this also,” she said.
When she returned to the throng, the
guests were leaving. They came in
throngs to bid her adieu, and she saw
the last one leave. Jansky, Neslerov
and tlie servants were left.
“I am exhausted,” said Neslerov. “1
feel completely worn out. And you,
cousin, must be weary also.”
“I am,” she answered. “I shall not
be long getting to sleep.”
“Nor I. I hope you enjoyed your
ball.”
“Very much. I thank you for the
kind attention. And now good night.”
“Good night.”
“I’m going, but I shall first make a
round of inspection,” said Jansky.
“There being no guard this morning
it will do no harm. It will not be day-light
for two hours.”
They parted, and Olga went to her
room, but not to sleep. Therese was
asleep in a chair, waiting for her mis-tress.
“Therese!” said Olga.
“Oh, pardon me! I was asleep!” said
Therese, starting up.
“Hush! I do not wish any one to
hear us. I have work for us both to
do.”
“I am ready. Command me, prin-cess.”
“I know, faithful Therese, but this
is work that will require all your
nerve. Listen. The ball is over and
the guests have gone. Chance has fa
vored us tonight. It has enabled me to
plot and plan for what we are to do,
Neslerov dismissed the guard, and
there will be in a short time no one
awake in the palace. The superintend-ent
of police carries tlie key to tlie dun
geons, and he is now Half drunk. The
door to tlie dungeons is guarded by a
stupid fool named Itzig. I found him
at his post, and sent him a bottle of
wine and tray of food. Into the wine
I poured that vial of toothache rnedi
cine 1 obtained from you. It is enough
to make any one sleep for hours
Where Jansky sleeps I do not know
but we must find him. We must wait
—it is too soon—but in half an hour it
will be safe to descend. Jansky said
It would not be daylight for two hours,
That will give us an hour and a half
to work.”
“And that work?”
A BOY’S LEG
GROUNDOFF
Terrible Accident That Befell
Ilonier, the lb-year-old Son
of William H. Boyer, of
Near Stauffer.
Homer, the 10-year-old son of Will-iam
H. Boyer, who lives on the Hartzell
farm, a short distance above Stauffer,
met with a terrible accident Thursday
of last week at the new Oliver coke
works near Uniontown. where he and
his older brother, Oliver, were employed
as teamsters by Charles Bossart, of this
place, the contractor.
The cold weather had caused the other
outside workmen to lay off, but the two
Boyer boys were determined to lose no
time. On last Thursday Homer was
hauling a load of brick and had occasion
to use a rough lock ou the icy road. In
[TO BX CONTIHUKD.]
CAUGHT IN ROUGH-LOCK OF HEAVY WAGON
attempting to back his team, likely to
loosen the lock, the wagon tongue broke
and he fell in front of the wheels that
on one side passed over him, the one
with the chain lock dragging him by
the left leg for some twenty feet as the
horses moved slowly on. The nervy
youngster, when finally released, stop-ped
the horses by calling whoa, dragged
himself tip and onto the rear of the
wagon, driving the tongueless wagon on
in to the works from this position. He
was at once taken to the Connellsville
hospital where the terribly crushed limb
was amputated below the knee.
Actl Vlt> .
Wigwag—It makes me hustle to pay
my rent.
Harduppe—Tlie question of rent keeps
me moving too.—Philadelphia Record.
Alway* a Snperflnity.
Mrs. Jones—Willful waste mnkes
woefiu want.
Mr. Jones—Nonsense! Lots of wo-men
wnste their breath talking, but
never seem in want for more.—Judge
Facts about Medicine.
“If yourVinoI is such won-derful
stuff, what’s the need of
harping about it so much in the
paper? There are twenty medi-cines
advertised in every sheet,
and I don’t believe what they
say about any of them.” Such
was a remark heard in the
store.
We answer: We advertise
Vinol because we have found
it a good thing for cough, lung
troubles, insomnia, weak
women and children, old
people and run-d8wn folks.
We advertise Vinol underour
own name, and with our own
guarantee because it is different
from the twenty medicines our
friend alluded to. For instance,
it is not a secret preparation.
It is endorsed by physicians.
It has a surprising record of
cures right here in town. It
has our absolute guarantee of
money back if you are not
helped.
We advertise Vinol to in-crease
its usefulness.
It’s pleasant to take.
II. f. BARKLEY,
DRUGGIST.
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AND ^
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Sheet Music and Musical
Merchandise.
Densmore and Yost
Typewriting Machines
Gramophone Talking Machines an?he Standard Sewing Machine
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NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS. |
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DONEGAL.
Wallace Fletcher, professor of in-1
Strnotion in Mount Pleasant township,
paid a short visit to the family of J. F.
Hauger Sunday.
Misses Carrie and Grace Cavanaugh,
formerly of Stahlstown but now of
Ligonier, are here visiting friends
Mayland Lenhart, our enterprising
merchant, is a Pittsburg visitor this
week.
Last Sunday evening a number of our
young folks enjoyed themselves by
visiting the Mills in sledding parties.
Reports regarding the B. & O.’s re-vival
of the South Penn railroad has
sent land here up a hundred per cent,
in price nnd a scarce article at that.
A branch on the Fliggor farm is ex-pected.
H. F. Hays has his store front, broken
in the Christmas night fracas, fixed and
ready for the Fourth of July.
Col. George Taylor, the hustling local
agent of the Anti Cruelty Society, was
in Greensburg the past week consulting
with his superior officer's.
Mrs. Bert Faust, nee Miss Annie
Hauger, was the guest of Donegal
friends the past week.
Grip has Billy Kurtz down.
The newly organized Mozart Social
Club, Albert Kurtz secretary, has leased
the Cease property where many enjoy-able
winter evenings are promised.
Knhns; tax collector, John Ritenour;
school directors, M. H. Berger and S. D.
Kramer; supervisors. George S. Miller,
Jacob Albright and William Coddy; in-spector,
W. H. Dumbauld; auditor,
William Bundorf; township treasurer,
Lavan Kuhns; township clerk, L. C.
Kramer.
There has been some fine sledding in
this country this winter.
The big meetings are still in progress
around here but have failed to make
much success.
D. C. Kramer, who is working at the
blacksmith trade at Mammoth, was a
caller at this place over Sunday.
Misses Mary Albright and Myrtle
Eicher, of this place, paid Robert
Stahl’s and Samuel Keller’s, of Jones
Mills, a visit last week.
Charles Witt and Albert Davis were
business callers in Somerset last week.
The former purchased a new sleigh for
future use.
MT. HOPE.
Everybody goes Bleigbing.
Freeman Kalp is said to be looking
for a property for his son Harry who is
expected ere long to lead one of Done-gal’s
fair daughters to the altar hy-meneal.
Mrs. Lloyd Sleasman is at Hammond
ville visiting her father.
Quite a crowd of local young folk at
tended the M. E. church Sunday even-ing.
Samuel Seger and D. B. Baker paid
ns a business call the past week.
A. J. Bowman is suffering with a very
sore eye.
“Pud" Hitchman, our champion rab-bit
hunter, is now a shepherd.
Richard Berger wants a girl who can
make a living for two. Dick will be
chief blower at the new glass factory
Charles Bolby & Co. think of starting.
David Berg was the only Republican
to attend that party’s primary Saturday.
James Stanton ane B. O. Wadsworth
were here Saturday after witnesses for
their court suit.
Rumor says Daniel Singo and Miss
Della Geary are on the local matri-monial
list.
CARPENTKRTOWN.
Candidates are all the rage in this
community at present.
Mrs. Robert Queer has been on the
sick list for some time.
S. E. Reese, of Hyndman, with his
brother, John, of Fairchance, was here
with his father in-law, W. A. Eicher.
The first named gentleman was accom
panied back home by Miss Lottie
Eicher who will spend a few weeks
there.
William Greenawalt, who had his
arm amputated, is getting along all
right.
Mrs. Charles Sperling, of Wilkins-burg,
was visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. William Springer, in Springer
town the past week.
Robert Smith is busy sawing timber
for William Lemmon and others.
Lawrence Grabaick is hauling lum-ber
from the Ridge to build himself a
butcher shop in Mount Pleasant where
he intends to move in the spring.
W. S. Lemmon spent Sunday with
deaf and dumb friends at Hunkers.
M. J. Lemmon gave a nice oyster
to a dozen or more friends Monday
evening.
Miss Callie Porch is visiting her
brother, Henry, in Kecksbnrg.
Miss Virgie Porch, of Kecksbnrg, was
here a sew days the past week with M.
J. Lemmon.
EAURELVIELE.
Calvin Hoke is now at work in the
old Kuhns blacksmith shop.
Peter O’Donnell’s little girls have
about recovered.
Henry Mechling the other day caught
a female ’possum that rendered out al-most
a half gallon of fat.
Robert O’Donnell claims the local
checker championship and is the proud
owner of fifteen rabbits.
Robison Berg has returned to the
new Oliver coke works where he is en-gaged
as a carpenter.
W. S. Leeper's local post factory is
now in successful operation.
William Hunter is doing good work
at ’Squire Hamel’s barn with his corn
Bhredder.
D. R. Berg spent Friday night with
Prittstown friends.
Adam Snyder and wife sleighed here
the other day on the bare ground.
Adam Berg made his regular weekly
twenty four courtin’ visit here Sunday.
UPPER BACK CREEK.
Eli Stout is on the sick list.
The other day while Joseph Foust
was hauling coal he found a very soft
piece of that fuel which greatly sur
prised him.
The demand for coal along Back
Creek is so great that the diggers can
not supply it.
Misses Iva and Emma Adams were
the guests of Miss Elva Witt Sunday.
Lee Kramer passed through this
place last Thursday.
John B. Adam is preparing his corn
ground.
Some of the boys of Saltlick are glad
because there will be another young
lady here very soon.
TARK.
Revival meetings are still in progress
at the local Methodist Episcopal church.
A little moving picture show exhib-ited
here Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. John Graf gave a birth-day
party Friday night in honor of their
daughter, Miss Mary. About one hun-dred
young people were present and en“
joyed the nice function to which an ele
gant supper came as the grand finale.
Grant Sloan and a couple of young
ladies, while out driving the other eve-ning,
were thrown out of the buggy by
the king bolt breaking. They all es-caped
with a few scratches.
The continued scarcity of cars cuts
the local coke plant down to five days a
week.
Harvey Maxwell, the popular young
bookkeeper at the store here, had to
shoot his horse last week on account of
a broken leg. The animal was worth
about $125.
The twin daughters of William Det-wiler,
of Bloomsburg, who were visiting
here, have returned home. Some of our
boys feel all broken up over their de
parture.
J. S. PARKER CO.
Wednesday, Jan. 28th, to Wednesday, Feb. 3rd.
Elbert Hubbard says; “Art is the beautiful way of doing
things.”
This is true whether the work in hand may be painting, com-posing
music or in the manufacture of articles for our every day use.
Just now we wish to tell you of the beautiful, dainty creations
of under-muslins we have for our January white sale.
Certain it is that the healthful girls who made these garments
in a well-ventilated, sanitary factory must have had lots of joy in
their work or they would not have done such complete, clever
work.
Every piece is cut on ample lines and sewed perfectly.
THE UNDERSKIRTS.
The white underskirts with their dainty ruffles and lace inser-tions
are the leading favorites in muslin wear. We have thirty
pretty styles to show you ranging in price from 50c to $6 00 As
there are so many kinds and all underpriced we can only mention
three lots priced at 95c, #1 40 and $|. 85--worth respectively $1.25,
$1.75 and $2.50—two or more styles at each price,
CORSET COVERS.
These are second in popularity only to the skirts.
Exquisite corset covers with their garnitures of lace ribbon,
embroidery, tucks and hemstitching—made up in a way that will
appeal to women who love pretty lingerie.
More than forty styles, priced at 15c to $| 50 The greatest
varieties and prettiest ones we have ever seen for the money are
those priced at 25c, 40c, 50c, 05c—each kind marked to save you
10c to 20c each below regular prices.
GOWNS.
We make it an important point to have every one cut very
wide and full length.
Good laces, embroideries and ribbons—neat tucks and hem-stitching
are lavishly used in ornamenting these garments.
It is a marvel how the manufacturers can use such line mate-rials
and make them so well for the little prices at which they sell.
For 40c we are showing gowns with etnbroidsry in-sertion
and tucked yokes, hemstitched ruffle on neck.
For SOc gowns with yokes of hemstitched tucks, hem-stitched
ruffle on neck and sleeves,
SOc for gowns that sell regularly at $1.00, lace or em-broidery
insertion yokes, full ruffles of lace or em-broidery
to match—perfect in every detail.
Then there are the better ones up to $3.50, all priced to save
money to early buyers.
DRAWERS.
Kinds to please those who want plain, serviceable garments
or fancy articles to please the most fastidious. Twenty-live styles
for your choosing priced at 22c to $2 00—with especial emphasis
on the arrays marked 22c, 4Uc, 50c and 65c.
i
SCOTTDALE, PA,
START NOW
If you haven’t been dealing with
us, now is a good time to make a
start. Any time—all the time—
we have special inducements to
offer. Others like to come here,
so would you; they find it profit-able,
so would you.
Will these offers start
you coming our way ?
Lady’s 14k Stiffened Gold Watch with Elgin
Movement, Warranted for 25 years,
1847 Roger Bros.’ Knives and Forks,
per set
$14.00
$3.75
INDIANIIEAD.
The Democrats of Saltlick township
met Saturday at the residence of 8. C.
kBrooks and held their nomination for
andidates for the general election as
mows: Judge of election, Benson
CLINTON.
Simon Fulton, who had been sick for
some time, died Saturday last. The in-terment
took place at Snyder’s ceme-tery
on Monday.
The people are having quite a nice
time attending the protracted meetings.
All Buchanan are invited.
The people of this place are well
pleased with their new teacher at Nor-malville.
Albert Miller looks proud over his
new mustache.
David Workman calls often at John
Riehler’s and it is not to see John,
either, but his tair young daughter.
Hampton Leichliter expects to call at
Ahituas Knopsnyder’s soon to see the
latter’s fair young daughter.
John Richter is about to choose for
himself a better half.
Albert Robbins was seen the other
day climbing the Geary hill with his
best girl on his horse.
Miss Mollie E. Knopsnyder happily
enjoyed Sunday last.
Elmer Knopsnyder and family were
guests of E. Wilson Sunday last.
Posner’s Jewelry Store,
Opposite United Brethren Church, Mount Pleasant, Pa,
Grand Opera House
J. B. COLDSMITH, Manager.
(Additional Correspondence on pages 4 and S.)
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN, 28,
“LOST IN NEW YORK.”
n SALE.
A Master Stroke in Coat and
Suit Price Cutting.
Before stock-taking always comes bargain time—so it
is with us now. We can count money easier than we can
inventory goods. So now we have made every preparation
to make it the most auspicious money-saving event held in
your town. All stocks of women’s, misses’ and children’s
outer garments are now at their floodtide.
Monte Carlo Coats, $10, now $7 00
“ “ “ 12,75, “ 9 00
Women’s and Misses’ Jackets,
$10 to $12, now - - - 7 50 8 50
Women’s and Misses’ Ja ckets,
$7.00 to $8.00. now - - - 5 00’ 5 50
Biggest Reduction of all in Furs.
$2,00 ones now $| QQ
$4.00 and $5.00 ones now $3 00
$12.00 and $15.00 ones now $9 and $|0
See our Blanket prices.
All Flannels and Underwear must suffer same cut.
We shall need all room at our command as soon
as our stock is taken.
Successor to Braddock & Co.)
Braddock Block, Corner Main nd C'nrcli Sts.,
HOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
Farmers & Herchants
^NATIONAL BANK>
OF MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
CAPITAL STOCK, $50,000.00.
OFFICERS:
R. K. Hissem, President,
James Neel. Vice President,
O. E. Mullin, Cashier
DIRECTORS:
R. K. Hissem, Abraham Ruff,
Frank D. Barnhart, E. T. Fox,
g. R. Ruff, L. S. Tinstman,
L), H. Persb K, James Neel,
8. P. Zimmerman.
Headquarters
—FOR—
Pianos, Organs, Violins;
in fact, everything in the line of Mu-sical
Instruments and Sheet Music.
All the latest designs and the
largest stock in town
We ask simply that you call
and examine goods and sam-ples
before purchasing
IT
J. B. MYERS, Jr.,
313 East Main st.. Mount Pleasant.
We also buy al_ kinds
of Furs.
If you wish to have the hanging
done on paper bought of us,
remember we employ only
the most competent work-men
and guarantee all work.
Respectfully
J. B. Coldsmith,
“On the Hill,”
MOUNT PLEASANT.
Burglar and Fire Alarms
To protect your stores and residences.
Telephone and Bell Work.
Write or call for estimates.
FRANK J. REESE,
704 Main st. 7 4 Mount Pleasant. Pa.
THE PRETTY SOUTHERN COMEDY,
“ON THE SUANEE RIVER,”
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31.
Tickets on sale at Overholt’s News Stand.
Low Rates West.
Only $33 Chicago to San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Port-land,
Tacoma, Seattle, and
many other Pacific Coast
points, every day February
i5 to April 30, 1903. One-way,
second-class, colonist
rates via Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul and Union Paci-fic
line. To the Northwest
via this route, or via St. Paul.
Additional information on
request.
JOHN R. POTT, District Passenger Agent,
Room D, Park Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
Try Our Pork.
We make a specialty of this
line of meat. We aim to kill
animals of medium weight so as
to avoid the f