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QfoteM kasawf Svnvwal roi..t36. 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- M. 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 ftftQwa.1 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. ^~» » 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.
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Title | Mount Pleasant journal (May 1, 1912) |
Subject | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County -- Mount Pleasant ; Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Mount Pleasant |
Description | Publishers: John L. Shields, [Jan. 10, 1923]; Howard M. Stoner and Clark Queer, 1923-1963; H. Ralph Hernley, 1963-. |
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Date | 1873- |
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Description
Title | Mount Pleasant journal |
Subject | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County -- Mount Pleasant ; Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Mount Pleasant |
Description | Publishers: John L. Shields, [Jan. 10, 1923]; Howard M. Stoner and Clark Queer, 1923-1963; H. Ralph Hernley, 1963-. |
Creator | Mount Pleasant journal (Mount Pleasant, Pa.) |
Publisher | |
Place of Publication | Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pa. |
Contributors | Mt. Pleasant Pub. Co. |
Date | 1873- |
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Full Text | QfoteM kasawf Svnvwal roi..t36. 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- M. 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 ftftQwa.1 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. ^~» » 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. |
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