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News From Our Neighbors |
HOWARD.
Father McKinney of Renova, visited
his aged mother here recently
Prof. Etters made a call on the How-
ard schools and was pleased with the
flourishing condition in “which he
found them.
Gifford Tebbs, “formerly of this ice
new of Williamsport, was a welcome
visitor among his young friends.
Two grand new arrivals recently—
wee Miss Carr and Master John Henry
Williams.’ : :
Mr. Wm. Mahaffey of Clearfield,
spent a day in town on his return trip
from Williamsport, having attended
the reunion of the Forty-fifth regiment
held at that place.
Mr. Wm. T. Turner of Keating Sum-
mit, secretary of the Emporium Lum-
ber Company, attended the funeral of
Mrs. W. T. Leathers of this borough.
Some party or parties entered the
side door of Peter Robb’s confection-
ery store and helped themselves to six
dozen eggs and some small change
left in the money drawer. These per-
sons should be apprehended and pun-
ished.
Mr. O. M. Lucas and friend Mr. Phil.
Stiner of Altoona, spent Sunday at the
home of the former’s sister, Mrs. An:
na Harvey. i
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Knarr mourn the
loss of their ten-months old daughter.
Rev. Rhoades has been returned
from conference to remain another
year as pastor of the Evangelical
church at this place.
Reynolds Shope of Bellefonte, con-
templates cutting the timber on the
Burdine Butler tract.
Rev. R. S. Taylor pastor of the M.
E. church, has gone to York, Pa., to at-
tend the annual conference of the
Methodist church held at that place
this year. :
We regret that ‘J. B. Harvey, tele-
graph operator, is about to move to
Tyrone. 3
Aged Mrs. B. Comer, mother of Mrs.
B. F. Wyland,
at this writing.
Our town is sadly in need of more
seamstresses, several competent dress-
makers will find ready employment at
all seasons of the year.
Dr. P. R. Kamp of Lock Haven,
made a professional call to our town
this week.
Those of our citizens who have had
the pleasure of reading the first issue
of The Snow Shoe Times, speak in
‘the highest terms of the neatness and
manner in which it is gotten up, and
wish for its editor continued success.
PINE GLEN.
Both the Laurel Run and Star
schools gave very pleasing entertain-
ments last week. The entertainment
at the Star school was on Wednesday
and the one at Laurel Run was held
on Friday. They were both well at-
tended and much credit is due the
teachers and pupils for the great ef-
forts put forth to make them such a
success. : :
We are sorry to hear of the mis
fortune of one of our school teachers,
Mr. Geo. Daugherty. On his way
home recently, he slipped and fell on
the ice and sustained some rather ser:
jous injuries. His school has been
closed for over a week. We wish for
him a speedy recovery.
Quite a number of horses were pur-
chased this week in our section by G.
B. Gentzel, Center county’s great horse
. Some who sold their horses
Harry Beates, two driving
horses; a team from Mr. Shoultz, one
horse from Samuel Hoover and one
from Alonza Hart.
George Loy of Clearfield, spent Sun-
day at his former home here.
Miss Bdith Viehdorfer departed on
Friday for a visit with friends in Belle-
fente.
is in very poor health
C ementine Cramer and her friend
Bruce Culver of Mioshannon, were seen
in our midst cn Sunday.
Rev. Erte! of the M. [E. church,
preached his last sermon a few even-
ings ago, and has gone to attend the
conference to be held at York this
week.
A chicken and waffle supper.was giv-
en in the camps near Daugherty’s, on
last Friday evening, for the benefit of
the M. E. church. It was well at-
tended and a general good time enjoy-
ed by all present i a
TH PAYMASTERS ROBBED
ON WAY TO MINES
Footpads Shoot One and Beat Two in
Bold Daylight Hold-Ups.
- CRIMES CAREFULLY PLANNED
Skull Crushed by Terrific Blow—One
Man Hanging With Head Be-
tween Buggy Wheels. |
Steubenville, O.—Three ‘thousand
dollars, the payroll of the Dexter Coal
mine, near Brilliant, was taken by
highwaymen, who climbed from behind
into the buggy in which the money
was being carried, and Chief Clerk
Charles Pommering was probably fa-
tally beaten, while his companion,
Paymaster Edward McGann, was ren:
dered unconscious from cuts on his
face and head. Both men are in the
Gill Hospital here, Pommering with
the right side of his skull crushed and
the sight of his right eye probably
destroyed, the other with a long gash
in his scalp and his right cheek torn.
Two men who later were seen run-
ning across a field toward Mingo Junc-
tion, carrying a satchel, are being
trailed, while officers in all towns in
this vicinity are conducting a hunt
for suspects. Panhandle railroad de:
tectives are watching trains, but late
tonight the robbers had not’ been ap:
prehended.
Officials of the Dexter Coal Com-
pany, who called men out of the mines
to search the hills for the highway-
men, have offered $1,000 reward for
the capture of the fugitives.
Stricken Down From Behind.
Paymaster McGann, whose home Is
in Canonsburg, Pa., left the main of-
fices of the coal company in Pittsburg
in the morning, and arrived at Bril-
liant, seven miles from here, at 12;30
o'clock on a Cleveland & Pittsburg
passenger train. At Brilliant Chief
Clerk Pommering was waiting at the
station with a rig to meet McGann,
and the two started for the Dexter
mine, two miles southwest of the
town. The satchel containing the
money rested on the seat between the
men.
After traveling a mile the horse
started slowly up a hill, while the two
men chatted, unsuspicious of danger.
Shortly after they passed a large oak
tree, McGann says he felt, a terrific
blow, and remembered nothing more.
When he returned to consciousness
15 minutes later he was lying at the
side of the road.
saw the horse and buggy standing In
the middle of the road.
Hanging with his head down be-
tween the wheels, he saw Pommering,
unconscious, his head covered with
blood, while a red stream ‘trickled
down the hill, He himself was cov:
ered with blood. He arose, weak from
his injuries, and staggering to 'the
buggy, lifted Pommering, stil uncon:
scious, into the seat and drove to the
Dexter mine. He missed the satchel,
and realized they had been robbed.
BIG RESERVOIR BURSTS
Train Stops in Front of the Spreading
Waters.
Julesburg, Col.—The Big Jumbo
reservoir belonging to the Julesburg
frrigation district went out suddenly,
washed out tw# miles of Union Paci
fic tracks and did about $150,000 dam:
age. No lives were lost so. far as
known.
A Union Pacific limited train en
route from Chicago to Denver stop
ped close to the waters, the engineer
seeing the flood spread out for miles
before him. Officers of the irriga
tion plant have been unable to discov:
er the cause of the accident.
Indian. Schools: Under Five,
The Indian appropriation bill, carry:
ing about $10,000,000, passed the sen.
ate. A number of western senators
engaged in discussion of the relative
merits of reservation and non-reserva:
tion Indian schools. The debate was
precipitated by Senator Heyburn, who
would have a system of “little red
gchoolhouses” on the reservations, be-
cause the latter plan would have the
effect of keeping the Indian pupil at
home and would give all the members
of his family some of the benefits ot
| the school. *
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Barney Oldfield Breaks Record.
Daytona, Fla—Barney Oldfield, driv:
ing his 200-horsepower Benz in prac
tice, covered a mile in 28 seconds, be
ing one-fifth of a second faster thar
‘the world’s record made by a steam
car here four years ago.
Turning over, he
~ HUGE PEACE SHAFT.
Te Cost $5,000,600 and Stand on
Hudson's Bank.
F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, the New
York sculptor, who was chief of
sculpture at the World's Fair at St.
Louis, has announced the starting of
a movement to erect a great national
peace monument on the Hudson at a
cost of about $5,000, 000. It will not
only be larger than the Eiffel Tower,
in Paris, but will be the largest mon-
ument in the world, about 1200 feet
high.
The design has just been finished,
and is herewith reproduced. At the
National Arts Club Mr. Ruckstuhl
disclosed his plans. He said that
competent engineers had passed fav-
‘orably upon the feasibility of the
plan, and that it was believed in real
estate circles that the syndicate
formed would have no difficulty in
getting the $5,000,000 required with-
in a reasonable time.
“The project,” said Mr. Ruckstuhl,
“is to choose a plateau on the Hudson
between here and Ossining and build
a platform about 250 feet square.
From this platform, which at its cor-
ners will be ornamented with four
groups of sculpture, will rise a cube
about 125 feet high of two stories.
“. “The first story will be the faver or
column about 800 feet high, at the
bas of which will be a group symbol-
izing America, holding in her hand
the Genius of Peace, while by her side
hangs the sword of war, sheathed and
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entwined with olive branches.
“In the capital of this column will
be observation galleries, from which
visitors may enjoy the surrounding
panorama. On the capital will be a
sort of cap, having a room about
forty feet square, which will serve as
a weather station for the United
States Government or as a wireless
telegraph office. On top of this a
circular globe of glass in the daytime
will tell the time and at night, with
the aid of a powerful revolving light,
will serve as a lighthouse.
“The interior of this column will
be divided into twenty different sto-
ries, one for each of the last twenty
centuries, and each devoted to an his-
torical review of the evolution of
peace from a state of social chaos and
war. Elevators will take visitors
from the basement to the top, and a
circular stair will enable them to as-
cend or descend.
“The total height of the monument
will be about 1200 feet, the highest
in the world. Erected in the interest
of the propaganda of peace, it is be-
lieved that it will be a most effective
sermon,
PROPOSED PEACE MONUMENT.
Project of F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, Sculptor.
It Will Be 1200 Feet High
(Loftiest in the World) and Will Cost $5,000,000, With Its
Elaborate Sculptural Embellishments.
assembling hall, which will be orna-j
mented with busts of the great men
who have contributed, toward the pro-
paganda of peace; a statue of Jesus in
‘the character of the Prince of Peace,
and illustrations in oil and stained
glass of the history of the evolution
of peace. :
‘‘On the second floor will be a con-
cert hall, with a great organ, to be
used for musicals, peace conferences, |
and even small art exhibitions. The
outside corners of this cube will be
ornamented with eight high reliefs of
sculpture symbolizing the arts and
fruits of peace.
“On the outside of the second story
of this cube will be four colonnades,
between the columns of which will be
statues of about forty of the greatest
benefactors of mankind. Among
them the only man represented ‘who
had any relations to the military life
will be Washington, who was ‘first in
peace.’
“Rising from this cube will be a
“Revenue will be derived from the
renting of the restaurant, cafe, con-
cert hall, vaudeville show and other
| concessions on the ground beneath
the big platform. (
“The Eiffel Tower, it is‘well known,
has paid for itself since its erection,
about twenty years ago, and has had
as revenue producers only the eleva-
tor service, a restaurant and a small
theatre. As the moneyspending pow-
er of the 5,000,000 people who live
within a radius of five miles from the
centre of the city of New York is
greater than that ef any other such
population, the projectors of this
monument believe that it will pay for
itself sooner than did the Eiffel Tow-
er, which cost about $3,500,000. 1
have already had sufficient financial
encouragement to make it worth
while to undertake this enterprise,
and it is believed in well informed
real estate circles that all the money
needed for it will be raised within a
reasonable time.””—N. Y. Tribune.
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CANDIED VEGETABLES. ¢
Pumpkins, Beets and Carrots Among
the Mexican Sweetmeats.
“l was surprised at the Mexicam
sweetmeats,” said a New Yorker just
back from Mexico. “I do not think
there can be any fruit or vegetable
which they do not candy, preserve im
syrup or convert into jam.
“In a queer little pueblo in the
State of Zacatecas I heard a woman
calling monotonously, ‘Cimarrones,
calabasas.’
lish mean sweet potatoes and pump-~
kins. She had a small tray held im
place by a leather thong that went
around her neck. }
“I crossed the plaza and asked her
for five cents’ worth of calabasas.
She placed several pieces of a sugary
yellow substance in a paper bag, an@
I realized that I was going to have
the experience of tasting candief
pumpkin.
“If you can imagine pumpkin Ye
frozen hard and saturated with sugar,
you can get an idea of the flavor of
that queer confection, One grows te
like it after one has lived in Mexice
for a while.
‘““The cimarrones were also rather
nice. The sweet potatoes are boilel
in water until they are soft. They
are then soaked in hot syrup and
candied. A final coating of powdered
white sugar is added and gives them
the apeparance of large Easter egge.
“Beets, carrots, turnips and arti
chokes are some of the vegetables
made into sweetmeats in Mexice.
Tropical fruits of every deseription
are also used for this purpose, ané
candied watermelon peel is a great
favorite.
“The regular stand of the sweet-
meat venders'is on the plaza, but af
night they turn out in force around
the doors of the theatres. A Mexi-
can senorita would not enjoy the
show unless she had a good supply of
her native confections to munch. I
is her substitute for the chocolate
creams that we buy for our matinee
girls.
“Last New Year's eve I was in No-
gales, a pueblo on the internationad
line between Arizona and the Mexi-
can State of Sonora. A vaudeville
.entertainment was being given at the
little theatre, and about 8 o’clock
strolled over to take in an act or twa.
It was almost impossible to make my
way to the ‘box office through the
crowd of peddlers that blocked the
street and sidewalks. v
‘“ ‘Pumpkins, carrots, sweet potae
toes, senor!’ they shouted in Spanish,
while the light from many oil lamps
flickered over their wares. “Very
cheap. Only ten cents for as muck
as you can eat.’
“It was a strange scene, full of
color and racy of the soil. Indeed, it
is the sweetmeat venders that will
always recur to my mind when I think
of my visit to Mexico.””—New York
Sun.
Mark Twain’s Grievance,
Mark Twain was talking about the
famous robbery in his beautiful eoun~
try house.
‘““Had I still been living in Hart-
ford,” he said, whimsically, “some of
my Hartford friends would certainly
have accused me of robbing myself.
They had a poor opinion of me in that
town.
‘“Marshall Jewett, the ex-Governor,
used to take up the collection in our
Hartford church. They never asked
me to take it up. I fretted a good
deal over this matter.
‘“ ‘See here, Jewett,” T said one day,
‘they let you take up the collections
every Sunday, but they would never
let me do it.’
‘““ ‘Oh, yes, they would,” said Jew-
ett—‘that is, with a bellpunch like
the horse car conductors use.” ”—
Boston Herald.
Pekin to Mukden.
‘The distance overland from Pekin
to Mukden is about 1100 miles. The
traveled route passes through Kale
gan and Dolon Nor and thence gener
ally eastward through southeasterm
Mongolia to the centre of southerm .
Manchuria. The country is rolling te
about 100 miles north of Jehol, but
from that point on it is perfectly
level, and for the most part it is good
grass land, occupied by Mongolians
and their flocks. There are no high
mountains, no wide rivers, no grow-
ing forests and no indications of min-
eral wealth, but the country. offers
fine agricultural and stock raising
possibilities.
Matches in Brazil.
The number of boxes of mafches
produced in the Federal district of
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1907, was
202,041,400, of which 189,550,000
were wood and 12,482,000 wax
matches, The stamp revenue was
$1,218,384, or about six-tenths of a
cent a box. The output is used im
the district itself. The match tax
alone amounts to a little over $1.50
for each man, woman and child. The
explanation for this exceedingly large
consumption of matches is in the fact
that almost every male inhabitant of
the district is a smoker, and most of
them smoke cigarettes,
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