Mount Pleasant journal (May 1, 1912)

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MOUNT   PLEASANT,    WESTMORELAND   COUNTY,    PA.      WEDNESDAY,    MAY    1,    1912.
NO.  18
ITATE ROAD .
WILL LIKELY
COME THIS WAY
|n the System Uniting Greensburg and Uniontown.
Ieeting of the road supervisors
Ield with westmorbland COUlXTY
COMMISSIONERS MONDAY.
Ihe Old Pittsburgh Pike Will be Im-
1 proved Throughout the Entire
Length of the County as Well as
the Main Highway Running North
and South Through Westmoreland.
Council to be Asked to Help Along
| With the General Plan Locally.
It seems altogether likely that Mount
lleasant will be benefitted by state
pad work to be done this summer
lith financial aid from the towns and
bwnships through which the different
putes have been projected.
(Supervisors of the effected townships
Eld an interesting meeting with the
Immissiouers at Greensburg Monday
Irenoon and discussed the question at
Ingth. The sentiment was strongly in
Ivor of following the general plan as
ktlined by the late act of the Legislate.    This will  mean that on  the two
iin highways running north and south
Id east and west in this county, cross-
|g each other at Greensburg, the state
111 meet  half  the  cost, the other half
be borne equally by the county and
le towns and townships.
|The East Huntingdon township superiors thought the road from the Fayette
lunty line at Scottdale on the south
lould run north through their district,
|a Alverton and Tarr, instead of com-
through this way as mapped out in
state system.    President of Council
irvey Mellinger and Councilman Chas.
{tnningham, who were both present at
meeting to look alter Mount Pleas-
It's interests, will present the matter to
luncil   at that  body's regular meeting
jnday evening next when it is expect-
that steps will be taken to have the
vn do its part to insure the improve-
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DEATHS OF THE WEEK.
|e Orim Reaper's Work In This Place and
Vicinity.
Roy E. McCracken.
The   body of Roy E. McCracken, for-
trlv   of   this  place, notice  of whose
lath of  typhoid fever at his Republic,
lyette county, home appeared in these
pumns last week, was buried Thursday
the   cemetery   at   Youngstown, this
inty, fallowing divine services in the
[formed   church  there   conducted by
[v. Mr. Deitzell, of Pleasant Unity.
Ie   was 29 years  of age  and leaves a
low, 19-month-old  daughter, one sis-
\,   Mrs. Roy  Miers, of   Scottdale, and
brothers,   William   M., Burrell   H.,
James E., of Mount Pleasant; T. E.
Homer W., of  Fayette county, and
mel O., of the regular army.
Mrs. Hannah Fisher.
Irs. Hannah Stevenson Fisher, widow
George   Fisher,   died Friday   at   her
krren,   Ohio, bome, aged  69.    The in-
Iment   took place   Monday at Millers-
rg, that state.   Mrs. Fisher was a sister
|J. A. and S. C. Stevenson and Mrs. J.
Werkman,   of  this place;  Daniel B.
Ivenson, of  Pittsburg, and G.   C. Ste-
isod, of Ohio.
Local Diamond Dust,
fhe two high schools, Mount Pleasant
township, clashed on the Frick Park
Lmond  Saturday  afternoon when the
pky   visitors   won   8  to  2.    Pitcher
amas  Cort, of  the vanquished   nine,
rather weak support.
Scottdale  team   came up Saturday
^ning and lost to the new Morewoods
to 4.    Constable   Edward Keller, in
bping   the   crowd   back,   was   pretty
Lghly  handled  by   several Scottdale
Hies.
The   Hill Tops   trom   the Smith glass
kory and Bridgeport played a nip and
fk game of thirteen innings at the lat-
place Saturday, the H. T.'s winning
4 to 2.    Will Parfitt, who was in the
for   the victors, struck   out 19 men.
Oreensburg Smallpox Scare.
greensburg had a smallpox scare last
esday when Margaretta Storey, a 13-
Lr-old pupil in the old Fourth ward
tiding, was thought to be ill of that
lad disease. It was found, however,
It the trouble was only a mild case of
lioloid and the school was re-opened
1 next day after the rooms had been
ligated.
WIT
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Photo of Smith by American Press Association.
Nf»ivn   SnA n««hnf S   ^ne cab,e sh'P Mackay-Bennett, under the command of Captain Lardner, succeeded in recovering orer 200 bodies oi* the victims
Hews   OnaySHUlS   ot the Titanjc disaster.   The remains of Isldor Straus, John Jacob Astor and George D. Wldener were among them.   Tbe sen-
Of   the   Week        ate mTesUg»tion of the catastrophe was resumed in Washington and the questioning of witnesses under the direction of Sen-
Vrl        C C aj.or gmjjh 0f Michigan continued.    An Impending strike of railroad engineers throughout the east was stopped by arbitration.
Warren S. Stouc of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and W. C. Brown of the New York Central were two of tbe principal figures tn the affair.
COMERS AND GOERS.
Paragraphs Abont Prominent   People Gathered Daring the Week.
Mrs. Raub, of   Ligonier, is here visiting her daughter, Mrs. Oliver Seaton.
Miss Idella Struble, of Pittsburg, was
here Sunday with her cousin, Miss Ada
Overly.
Miss Blanche Brinker was the guest of
Mrs. Daniel Rumbaugh, of Greensburg,
the past week.
Frank McHardy, of Greensburg, has
accepted a position in H. R. Rumbaugh's drug store.
Alex Showman, of Indian Head, was
here Wednesday swoppin' big fish stories
with old friends.
Miss Edna Parle and Mary Errett, of
New Stanton, were here over Sunnay
with Miss Lucy Errett.
Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey Boyd, of Mer-
rittstown, Pa., were here Sunday with
relatives and old friends.
Harvey J. Shupe was at Wilkinsburg
Sunday, returning with his wife who
was visiting relatives there.
James Musick, the well known Mor-
gantown, W. Va., glass worker, arrived
home last week to spend the summer.
Mrs. Harriet Ruff returned Thursday
from a pleasant two weeks' stay at Cambridge Springs with   Scottdale relatives.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ream, of Galesburg, Illinois, is here visiting her sister, Mrs,
John McAdams, of Braddock Road Avenue.
Miss Elizabeth McPhail had for Sunday guests Misses Stella Bitner, of
Kecksburg, and Nelle Sauerwein, of
Hecla.
Miss Mary Josephine O'Donnell has
returned to her Pittsburg home after a
visit paid her uncle, Rev. Father M. G.
O'Donnell.
Warren Wilson, employed in the U.
P. Book Rooms, Pittsburg, ran out Monday to see a few of his old Mount Pleasant friends.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bowersox, of Wilkinsburg, is here this week visiting her
brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
James S. Braddock.
Mrs. Henry Schaub, who was here
visiting her daughter, Mrs. M. A. Bowman, returned Wednesday to her home
near Steubenville, Ohio.
Mrs. William McNaughton, Sr., was at
Johnstown last week attending a meeting of her fellow Pythian Sisters of the
middle and western districts of the
state.
M. A. King and Ed. L. Rose left last
evening for Harrisburg to see that Dr. J.
W. Shelar did the elegant for the town
as a delegate to today's Republican state
convention.
EIGHT DISTRICTS
Gallagher Elected Chairman.
The Republican committeemen had a
lively and well attended meeting at
Greensburg Saturday. Interest centered
on the choice of a chairman. The candidates were James M. Gallagher and W.
S. Wible, both of Greensburg. The result
of the secret ballot was Gallagher 117
and Wible 72.
Stoyestown Tragedy.
Elmer Berkebile, of Stoyestown, aged
20, was shot and probably fatally injured Wednesday by Sam Arananna, an
Italian miner, it is alleged, at the Baltimore & Ohio station in Stoyestown.
Berkebile's father, Joseph Berkebile, a
mine foreman, had discharged Arananna,
and they met later and quarreled.
Into Which the Frick Base Ball League is
Divided.
The Frick Base Ball League, whose
games will begin not later than May 15,
has been divided into eight districts as
follows:
First, Latrobe Division—Baggaley,
Dorothy, Hosteter and Whitney.
Second, Pleasant Unity Division—
Brinkerton, Hecla No. 2, Mammoth, Marguerite, Mutual and United.
Third, the Mount Pleasant Division—
Central, Hecla, Southwest No. 1 and
Standard. Tbis division organized at
Standard Friday evening when Supt.
Boyd and Bookkeeper Yahner, of the
Tarr plant, were elected, respectively,
president and secretary.
Fourth, Connellsville Division—Leisenring No. 1, Leisenring No. 3, Trotter,
Bitner, Juniata and Philips.
Filth, Uniontown Division—Continental No. 1, Continental No. 2, Continental No. 3, Leith, Lemont and Foote-
dale.
Sixth, Fairchance Division—Collier,
Kyle, Oliphant. Redstone, Shoaf and
York Run.
Seventh, Masontown Division—Buf-
fington, Edenborn, Leckrone, Dearth,
Gates, Lambert and Ronco.
Eighth, Brownsville Division—Bridgeport Works, Colonial No. 1, Colonial No.
3 and Leisenring No. 2.
SERIOUS CHARGES
Made Against a Connellsville Piano Dealer
and Clerk.
Clarence W. Kiferd, a Connellsville
piano dealer, and his clerk, Frank Ruff,
were arrested Friday and held for trial
in the Fayette county criminal court on
charges of incendiarism preferred by the
insurance people who claim the defendants tried to burn their stock on which
was carried   a   total of $4,075 insurance.
According to the testimony brought
out at the hearing it is alleged that Kiferd had arranged a "plant" at his home
on Peach street. It is claimed that he
saturated pieces of muslin and a table
cloth in carbon oil and ingenuously arranged them at the gas jet and near a
box of candles so that they would be
fired a few hours after he leit the house,
thus communicating the blaze to the
pianos stored there and other furniture.
The fire occurred at eight o'clock
Wednesday evening. The fire department responded to the alarm turned in
by some one who saw smoke pouring
ont of the house and put the flames out
with chemicals, although they failed to
notice the cause which K. T. Hitchcock,
the insurance adjuster, claims to have
discovered the next day.
Bank Stock Sale.
Local bank stock of the estate of J. C.
Crewnover, late of Greensburg, deceased,
46 shares of the First National and 100
shares of the Citizens Savings and Trust
Company, was oftered at public sale here
Friday by the administrators, Morton
W. and Arthur W. Crownover, sons and
heirs. John C. Sondles, of Greensburg,
acted as auctioneer. John E. Kunkle,
attorney for the estate, bought all in.
His bid for the First National stock was
$251 per share and $152.50 per share for
the trust company stock. The par value
for both stocks is $100 per share.
SIGN OF THE CROSS.
Cofiman-Blue.
Jess Coftman, of Bear Rocks, and Miss
Blue, of Armbrust, were married April
20 and have just returned from an extended wedding trip. They will go to
housekeeping near Bear Rocks in a
dwelling furnished throughout by the
groom's father, Isaac Cofiman.
Items   of   Special   Interest   to   the    Local
Church  Goers.
Rev. R. A. Zahniser, District Elder,
will hold the third quarterly meeting in
the local Free Methodist church May 3
to 5. There will be preaching Friday
and Saturday evenings at 7:30, Sunday
morning at 11 and evening at 7:30.
Rev. R. L. Leatherman, the local Lutheran pastor, will preach on Sunday
next in the Middle Lutheran church at
10:45 a. m. and in town at 7:30 p. m. He
will also conduct "Rally Day" services
at Ruftsdale at 1:30 p, m. Mr. Frank
Landis, of Jeannette, will be tbe principal speaker. There will also be several
recitations by the Sunday school children, two anthems by the church choir
and a solo by the Rev, Mr. Leatherman.
Rally Day services drew a large congregation to the Lutheran church Sabbath last. Excellent addresses were
made by Mr. Augustine, of Somerset; Mr.
Sipes, of Freeport, and Mr. D. L. Rufi, of
Tarr. The songs by the Sunday school,
the vocal duets by Mr. and Mrs. Strange
and Mrs. Sauers and Miss Lucy Errett
and the vocal solo by Rev. Mr. Leather-
man were equally pleasing features. The
classes and plate oflering amounted to
$142.18, of which the men's division of
the Bible Class gave $62.50 and that of
the ladies $60.35.
ENJOYABLE OCCASION.
J. 0. C Class Gives Farewell Party for Mr.
and Mrs. Korring.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Korring, who will
shortly move to Greensburg, were given
a very enjoyable farewell party at their
home last Tuesday evening by the J. O.
C. Sunday school class of the Methodist
Episcopal church. Games, social intercourse and a nice lunch were the main
features of the evening.
There were present: Rev. J. A. Younkins, wife and daughter, Miss Ethel,
Mrs. Jacob Miller, Mrs. J. W. Ritenour,
Amberg Knappenber, Mrs T. O. Anderson, Mrs. Lydia Heffling, Mrs. Feagley,
Miss Brown, Ethel Whetsell, Mrs. Mae
Crusan, Miss Ola Weaver, Ivy Holds-
worth, Mrs. D. B. Stairs, Mrs. Arthur
Sheppard, Misses Lillian Zundel, Rosa
Patterson, Pearl Bitner, Edna Keifer,
Bessie Nelson and Ida Everett, Mrs. L.
Morris and Mrs. Milton Metz.
RELIGIOUS PLAY
Given by the St Joseph Junior Domestic Society Friday Evening.
The St Joseph Junior Dramatic Society gave an excellent rendition of
"The Maid of Desmonzo," a religious
play, in the St. Joseph Auditorium Friday evening under the auspices of Rev.
Father M. G. O'Donnell, the rector of
that church.
The dramatic personel was made up
of Agnes Mnrray, Alma B. Fitzpatrick,
Catherine Gibboney, Susau Fitzpatrick,
Anna Gradler, Florence Frances, Mary
Mullen, Mary Kelly, Margaret McKenna,
Margaret Remlinger, Pauline Arkwright,
Mary O'Toole, Catherine Bonning, Frances Hanse, Mary Steiner, Annastacia Harmon, Catherine Donnelly, Catherine
Madden, Hilda Hoke, Josephine Grose-
lin, Ellen Murray and Veronica Fitzpatrick.
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Windber MyBtery.
Mystery surrounds the finding of a
man's body in an air-course ot mine 40
of the Berwind-White Company near
Windber last Thursday. At the coroner's inquest that day it developed that
the man had been stabbed to death. A
letter written in Polish, found in the
pockets, was signed "George Hull."
ANXIOUS MOMENTS.
M. Adolphns King Dreads the Departure of
His Grandson's Nnrse.
Merritt A. King is if anything prouder
of his grandson, Merritt Gillespie Page,
than when the stork brought the little
chap to his West Main street home a
dozen days or so ago; but, still, he is
getting anxious as the time approaches
when the nurse takes her departure.
Master Page has a stout pair of lungs
which he exercises almost exclusively
at night when spurred on by attacks of
colic. Papa Page has to be away over
at Bitner looking after his duties as a
Frick coke superintendent, "Uncle Frederick" is too young to be trusted with
such a precions bundle of manhood and
"Grandfather Chip" fears that he will
have to do the good, old-fashioned midnight baby trot. But he vows and declares that if the worst comes to the
worst "Grandfather Charley" Page must
come up and spell him or by the great
horn spoon that "Gillespie" will be con-
spicious by its absence when it comes
to christening "Little Chip."
RIDGEVIEW CAMPMEETING.
The Dates Fixed for 19th Annual Season are
July 12 to 21.
The dates tor the nineteenth annual
season oi this successful campmeeting
have been fixed for July 12th to 21st.
Indications point to one of the most
successful seasons in the history of these
meetings.
The workers corps for 1912 is an exceptionally strong one. Rev. J. W. Mc-
Intyre, of Washington, Pa., is in charge,
and will be assisted by Evangelist Jos.
H. Smith, of Meridian, Miss.; Rev. C. H.
Babcock, of Portsmouth, Va.; Rev. Jos.
Owen, of Boaz, Ala.; Mrs. Elizabeth W.
Ward, of Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. Jean K.
Smith, of Meridian, Miss., and Prof. R.
A. Jennings, of Pittsburg.
NO CHANGES MADE
In the Fayette County License List For
This Year.
Practically not a single change was
made in the .'icense list at the annual
session of license court of Fayette
county Saturday when Judge Van Swear-
ingen handed it down. Not a single
new license was granted either a hotel
keeper, brewery or distillery. All of
the old applicants were granted.
The court refused the petition of the
Hotel Keepers Association for a change
in hours permitting the bars to be opened from 6 a.m. until 10 p. m. instead of
from 5 a. m. until 9 p. m. as at present.
The court stated that sufficient reason
was not given to warrant the change.
Sacred Concert.
The Girls Glee Club of the Mount
Pleasant Institute will give a sacred
concert in the Middle Lutheran church
on Friday evening, May 3rd, at 7:45
o'clock under the auspices of the Lutheran Ladies Aid Society of that congregation. The club will be assisted by
Miss Ruth Taylor, the violin teacher at
the Institute. Admission for adults is
25 cents and for children half price.
Bright Westminster Boy.
The many Mount Pleasant friends of
James Russell, youngest son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Russell, of this place, and
a student at Westminster College, will
be pleased to learn that he captained the
debating team which went to West Virginia Friday last and took a fall out of
their brother students at Bethany College. "Jimmy" summed up for the affirmative on the question of recall of
judges.
FIRST-CLASS
HIGH SCHOOL
IS
Mount Pleasant Township by-
its Board of Education.
ARCHITECT HAS THE PLANS DRAWN
READY   TO   SUBMIT TO DIRECTORS OK
SATURDAY NEXT.
This Means Either Additions to the
Present Building or the Erection of
an Entirely New Structnre with an
Auditorium That Will Seat Five
Hundred People. Outline of Program for 24th Annual Commencement of the Public Schools of That
District at the Middle Presbyterian
Church Saturday Next With Morning and Afternoon Sessions.
Unless all signs fail, Mount Pleasant township will soon be in the educational vangard with an A 1 high
school, complete and up-to-date in
every respect—classical, scientific and
commercial.
Some two weeks ago at a special meeting Supervising Principal John H. Elliott laid the matter before the board
whose members were so favorably impressed with the needs of a new or the
enlargement of the present building that
they called Architect Sloan, of Greensburg, before them on Friday last and
asked him to draw up plans which he
will submit to  them   on Saturday next.
The present high school building may
have additions put te it or it may be
used as the house for the Hurst district
and an entirely new structure erected
for the high school and its different departments with an auditorium that will
seat five hundred people. This is, however, a matter for the board to decide
after the architect's plans shall have
been submitted.
The 24th annual commencement of the
public schools of the township will be
held at the Middle Presbyterian church
Saturday next, May 4th. Ths morning
session, beginning at 10:15, will be devoted to the teachers. There will be
vocal and instrumental music, essays,
recitations and orations. Rev. R. L.
Leatherman, of this place: will make the
address of welcome, to which Miss Ida
Weaver will respond.
Beginning at 1:30 p. m., sixteen of the
forty-two graduates, whose names were
published in last week's Journal, will
hold forth with a similar program. The
special features will be an address by
County Superintendent Shaw and a
vocal solo by Miss Irene Bowers, of this
place. The Mount Pleasant Orchestra
will furnish the instrumental music.
COKE AND COAL.
Items of Interest Gathered from Both Mia*
and Yard.
The coke business continues its six
days a week course with some slight increases in the total output caused by the
Northern Connellsville and Echard companies firing up their plants, the former
having 40 ovens in this county and the
latter 60 at Star Junct ion, Fayette county.
It is announced that the New England
Coal & Coke Company of Boston has
placed with the Cambria Steel Company
at Johnstown an order for 500 coke cars
of 50 tons capacity. AH will be of steel
construction and delivery is to be made
the coming summer.
John Humpage, formerly of Barricks-
ville, W. Va., is a new mine foreman of
the H. C. Frick Coke Company at Coal-
brook.
In order that the children of the
miners of the Dorothy plant of the H.
C. Frick Coke Company, near Latrobe,
observe Arbor Day Friday last fittingly,
the company sent a carload of North
Carolina poplars to that place. The
children planted the trees in the yards
about their homes.
The independent coal and coke operators from Western Pennsylvania had a
hearing at Washington yesterday before
the Interstate Commerce Commission on
the freight rates charged by the railroads.
Uniontown Hero.
Raymond I. Coldren, of Uniontown,
has received a silver medal and $1,000
toward liquidating indebtedness from
the Carnegie Hero Commission. He is
a foreman of linemen and rescned Clark
Trump, a lineman, January 14, 1911,
from death from shock of an electric
line charged 8,160 volts. He made three
attempts before he got Trump away from
the live wire, but Trump died later.