SNOW S
IMES
A PAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SNOW SHOE AND SNOW SHOE TOWNSHIP.
VOL. I.
MOSHANNON AND SNOW SHOE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1910
NO. 3.
LOCAL NEWS
Snow Shoe and Vicinity.)
Miss Betty Heinle of Karthaus, vis-
ited with Miss Mae Kelley over Sun-
day.
Mr. Baird “the candy man,” of Will-
iamsport, was a recent caller in our
town.
James F. Kelley has recovered from
a severe attack of acute indigestion.
Mr. H. T. Mann visited at the home
of T. B. Budinger over Sunday. After
June we will miss his smiling coun-
tenance every Sunday, as rumor tells
us that the happy event will take place
the latter part of that month.
Mrs. M. D. Kelley was a visitor to
Williamsport last week and also vis-
ited Mrs. McKinney at Howard, who
has been quite seriously ill for some
time. She was accompanied to How-
ard by her sisterin-law, Miss Cather
ine Kelley, of Philadelphia.
Mr. A. R. Grier, manager of the
Birmingham school for girls, was a
recent caller at the Budinger home.
Miss Blanche Budinger will leave
for the wild and wooly city of Wool-
rich soon. We wish the young lady
every possible success ‘in her under-
taking, and hope that she likes the
Rich Business as much as she assures
us she will.
Mr. Harvey Harm one of the effi-
cient clerks of Budinger’s store, has
been laid up with the grippe for a few
days, but is again able to be about his
work.
The young ladies of the High school
held a festival on last Thursday even-
ing, in the High school building.
Lost—A very valuable pipe, not a
‘lead pipe as one might infer, but a
genuine meerschaum. The. finder will
please return the same to Edwin.
We have heard nothing of the dog
poisoners this week, but by all ap-
pearances, Snow Shoe could afford to |
lose a few dogs and still have enough
left, to eat up good wholesome grub.
“A. F. Smith, general manager of
the United Telephone and, Telegraph
Company, contemplates erecting an
addition on the rear of the exchange
building, which will be used as a re-
ception room for the guests of the
operators.
It has been rumored that several
of the young men of our town are in
the habit of playing “Peeping Tom.”
Our advice to them is, be a little more
careful in the future, as a repetition
of the offense may prove disastrous
to them. —
Quite a little excitement was raised
at the suburban town of Clarence one
evening this week. Some of the good
ladies of that place armed with their
weapons of war, bombarded the up-to-
date Tonsorial Parlor, breaking the
doors and windows and putting to
rout those who were within. The
shop in general now appears as though
it had been demolished by one of our
modern battleships.
“Karl Krone and Florence Watson
were united in marriage on last
Wednesday, March 16, at the home of
D. R. Thomas on Nectarine street.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Meredith, They will make: their fu-
ture home in Clearfield. |
Wanted—A first class carpenter.
Mrs. Budinger would like to have a
nice large cozy corner built in her
sew room just to accommodate her
charming seamstress. Wouldn't that
be nice, Jim?
The A. O. H. society are making
great preparations for a dance they
expect ito {give on Easter Mondak.
This is always a nice social affair and
there is no doubt but that it will be
a greater success this year than it
ever was. :
The Rev. D. J. Bustin, formerly of
Jersey Shore, who visited Father Cor-
coran last week, has been appointed
assistant to the Rev. John F. Burke,
General Director of the Catholic board
for mission work among the color-
ed people. Father Bustin was or-
dained- about thirteen years ago at
the American College in Rome, since
which time he has worked with re-
markable success in the diocese of
Scranton. Latterly he had establish-
ed a parish in Jersey Shore, Pa., where
he built a substantial church and rec-
tory. He is admirably equipped for
the mission to whicn his superiors
have assigned him.
THT SHADOWS OF EVENING.
My darling, the shadows of evening
are falling,
The blue bird and robin have gone to
their rest.
A lonely nightingale on its mate is
calling,
And the evening sun has gone down
in the West.
When the last rays of the sun have
departed,
And the darkness like a mantel o’er-
shadows the earth;
May you retire to your couch light-
hearted,
Like the rural swain to his bed on
the hearth.
The coming of evening, how dear to
the soul
Of the wretch’d beings by sorrow op-
press’d.
How swift the still hours of night
seew to roll,
To those weary in body who longer
would rest.
The widow bereaved and the girl brok-
en-hearted,
Ah, how they both long for the com-
ing of night
That they may silently weep for loved
ones departed,
Who like fleeting shadows are lost
to their sight.
When the shadows of evening throw a
mantle around you,
And your slumbers are broken by"
grief and despair.
And you long for to break the bonds
that bind you,
And breathe once again freedom’s
sweet air.
When the night wind around your cot-
tage is sighing
Like a lost soul's weird ory of de-
spair;
May angels protect you, all Zingers
defying,
And soothe your sad heart o’erbur-
dened with care.
At evening I'm lonely without you, my
darling,
‘How slow the long hours of night pass
away,
At morning, I arise with the lark and
sparling
To greet the first beams of opening
day.
Ah, sweet be your
couch of repose.
May no sorrows disturb your sweet
dreams.
May your rest be as
river flows,
And only broken by morning's first
gleams. }
sleep on your
clam as yon
—Medicus.
U. S. STEEL REPORT
More Men Were Employed Last Year
Than in 1908.
New York—Large Increases over
1908 in the number of men employed
and in salaries and wages pald by the
United States Steel Corporation are
shown in the annual report of the cor
poration, issued in printed form.
The average number of employes in
the service of all companies in the
corporation is shown by the repori
to have been 195500 in 1909, ad
against 165,211 in 1908. Salaries and
wages paid during 1909 aggregated
$151,663,394, as compared with $120, :
510,829 in the year previous.
Chairman E. H. Gary says in th¢
report: ‘‘Substantial revival in busi
{ness activity which became evident in
the spring of 1909 continuel with in
creasing volume throughout the bal
ance of the year.”
Flattery, philosophizes the Com-
moner, is the food that fools fatten
upon. :
and 65 per cent pure alcohol.
EASTER LILIES.
O where are the tall white lilies
That grew by the garden wall?
We wanted them for Easter
And there is not one at all.
Down in the bare, brown garden
Their roots lie hidden deep, -
And the life is pulsing through them,
Although they Seethito sleep;
And the gardener’ Ss see
them—
Those germs that adder lie—
Shine in the stately beauty
That shall clothe them by and by.
eye can
-m
Even so in our hearts are growing
The lilies the. Lord loves best,
The faith and the trust and
patience
He planteth in the breast.
the
Not yet is their full went blossom,
But He sees their coming prime,
As they will smile to meet Him
In earth’s glad Easter time!
The love that striveth toward Him
Through earthly gloom and chill,
The humble, sweet obedience
Through darkness following still—
These are the Raster lilies,
Precious and fair and sweet
We may bring to the risen saviour,
And fy at His blessed feet.
FRR J STRIKE AVERTED
Western Railroads and Employes Ac
cept Federal Mediation.
~ Chicago—Danger of ‘an immediate
strike of 27,000 locomotive firemen on
Western railroads and
throwing out of stp
than 125,000 other en mp
Led thro 1 |
Washington under the Erdman act.
At the request of the general man:
agers of the 47 Western railroads in-
volved Chairman Martin A. Knapp of
the Inter-State Commerce Commis!
sion and Commissioner of Labor C. P.
Ueill telegraphed an offer of Federal
mediation to the union officers. This
offer was accepted, W. S. Carter, pres-
ident of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen and Snginemen, stipulat-
ing that action must begin without
delay. Neill and Knapp will reach
Chicago this week.
The appeal to Washington was tak-
en as an eleventh-hour hour to pre-
vent a walkout which threatened the
greatest railroad strike since 1894.
Thirty-seven members of the ‘Western
Federated Board of Brotherhood met
and formally voted for a strike. The
hour for striking had been set for
next Monday.
The mediators will determine first
what shall be arbitrated. The ques-
tions involve wages, which both sides
had agreed to arbitrate, and two
other technical points, involving pro-
mtion and representation in the
union. These latter subjects the
brotherhood contends must be arbi-
trated, but the railroads assert they
cannot be arbitrated
_ DOPED CANDY
Vilest Kind of Whisky in Sweets Sold
Sa in Chicago.
Chicsago—Getting drunk on candy
has become such a wide-spread prac
tice among men, women and children
in the stockyards district of Chicago
that the state food department an
nounced its purpose to put a stop to
it.
“One particular candy has got the
for intoxicating results,” said Assist
ant Commissioner John B. Newman.
“It is a medical intoxicant with 323
per cent ether, 23 per cent ether oll
causes not only drunkenness, but sick:
ness. We also found that lots of
candy filled with Whisky is sold to
women and children.”
No Basis for Japan War Talk.
pnaese representatives of the news-
papers of America and Europe being
present, resolutions were adopted
“unanimously that in view of the per-
attitude of Japan the correspondents
express themselves as wholly unable
to discover any basis in circumstances
for the sentiment warranting disquiet-
ing speeches.
he contingent |
X | ternational Molders’ union stands to-
- | day in the first rank among the trades
: : “And it has
ion fron: the Federal cain |
vilest whisky backed off the boards.
*. Tokio—At a general meeting of the
i International ‘Press Association, Ja-
sistent reports abroad concerning the |
LABOR NOTES
The committee of the National Civic
Federation having under consideration
the question of workingmen’s compen-
sation and employers’ liability held a
| session at the Metropolitan Life build-
ing, Manhattan, last Saturday and de-
clared in favor of a uniform law cov-
ering those subjects throughout the
states. A sub-committee was appoint-
ed to further such movement,
At Cincinnati, Ohio, the eyes
of the labor world are turned on
Cincinnati this week. Members of the
United Mine Workers of America are
flocking to Cincinnati for the special
convention, which opened its sessions
| today and which will decide whether
more than 200,000 miners are to be
plunged into an industrial war, or to
resume labor under improved condi-
tions for the next two years.
Demands the miners have submitted
to coal operators of Ohio, Indiana and
Pennsylvania have been refused in
joint conference, and no terms have
| been reached, after. a two-day confer-
ence of a joint scale committee of
miners and operators. The issues are
now in the hands of a subscale com-
mittee of eight miners and an equal
number of coal operators, in secret
session at the Sinton Hotel.
The miners are asking $1 a ton for
each ton of coal vZned, the product
to be weighed before screening, or on
what they term a ‘run-of-mine basis.”
This is an increase of 10 cents a ton
over what they have been receiving.
The coal operators have thus far
to comply with the demands and by
some of them jt is feared the wage ad-
vance would operate to the injury of
the union fields and only help non-
union operators. Ruinous competition
from West Virginia #4nd Kentucky,
where the miners are non-union is de-
| clared by the operators to be the
cause of a most critical situation In
the mining industry.
With a record of upward of fifty
years behind it, having celebrated its
fiftieth anniversary last July, the In-
this country.
won its place, through many and hard
fights, by being one of the first labor
‘organizations to favor wage agree-
ments with its employers, The pic-
ture on this page of Ernest L. Reed,
president of local union No. 96, is il-
lustrative of the intelligent type of
men who are to the fore in this im-
portant organization.
Local union No. 1 was formed In
Philadelphia in 1855, and it was main-
ly through its efforts that the trade
organization became nationalized In
1859. This was brought about by the
Philadelphians requesting such local
unions as could be reached to send
delegates to Philadelphia to a conven-
tion called for July 5, 1859. Responses
were made by the unions of St. Louis,
Albany, Troy, Peekskill, Utica, Port.
Chester, Providence, Jersey City, Wil-
mington, Baltimore and Cincinnati, and
to the delegates of these unions be-
longs the credit for the present na-
tional organization.
Twenty years later, after passing
through many strikes, a convention
held in Chicago adopted a total disa-
bility or death benefit. of $100 to be
paid from the general fund. It was to
apply to all members who at the time
of death or total disability had been
members of the union for twelve con-
secutive months and were not more
than three months in arrears for dues.
This endured for twenty years, when
the convention of 1899 amended the
rule so as to provide that a member
in good standing for from one to five
‘years should receive $100; from five to
ten years, $150; from ten to fifteen
years, $175, and from fifteen to twenty
years or over, $200, membership to
date from October 1, 1895. From its
inauguration, as now in force, in 1899
up to the end of the fiscal year 1909
there was paid in death benefits from
the general fund $619,886; disability
benefits, $45,225; total, $665, 111.
In 1895 action was taken at a con-
vention, also held in Chicago, estab-
lishing a sick benefit fund. From the
dues of 25 cents per week it was de-
cided that 8 cents should be deducted
to establish a fund which would pay
sick members $5 per week each for a
period of thirteen weeks in any one
year. This was the rule until July,
1902, when the benefit was increased
to $5.25 a week, and later, in July,
11907, to $5.40 per week, the dues Dbe-
ing raised to 40 cents a week in the
following October. From the time the
law went into effect in 1896 down to
the last fiscal year $1,660,097 was paid
in sick benefits.
W
After all a monopolist is a sont of
a farmer. Only he raises prices in-
stead of raising crops, defines the
Pittsburg Dispatch.
been unable to come to any agreement.
-ernment to purchase peace.
LOCAL NEWS
Moshannon and Vicinity.
The “Spelling Bee’’ held on last Fri-
day evening was well attended and
the majority took part in the speli-
ing, ‘which was very interesting.
Teacher—Won’t you have another
one?
The family of Simeon Hazzard of
Clarence, formerly of this place, have
removed to Grampian, where the boys
have found employment in the mines.
They want The Times sent to them
regularly.
The work on: the new siding into the
Lehigh mines, near here, is being
pushed rapidly. Already we feel the
throb of more prosperous times, and
great hopes are entertained for simi-
lar developments to take place in the
near future. The new shanty, which
was built for the accommodation of
the laborers on this work, is quite an
imposing structure and is plainly seen
from many view points.
The large ‘balm o’ Gilead” tree
that stood in the corner of the yard
of the Murphy property, on the corner
of Main street and Cooper avenue,
was cut down this week, and that
leaves a bare looking spot in that lo-
cality. The roots had spread to such
extent that the old tree was really
more of a nuisance than a benefit. We
hope some other tree or trees will be
planted to fill its place.
Quite a number of our young folks
took in the literary exercises, at Snow
Shoe, on last Friday evening, and re-
port a very excellent program render-
ed.
_GUNBOAT SENT TO MONROVIA
Appeal Is Made to the United States
to Quell Insurrection fn Liberia.
Washington — The United Btates
cruiser Birmingham, Captain Ftetch-
er, has heen ordered to proceed to
Monrovia, Liberia, on the northwest
coast of Africa. This action is taken
upon the urgent request of the gov
ernment of Liberia, which has repre-
sented to the state department that {it
is powerless to check the rebellious
tribes now in revolt.
It appears that the tribes of Gre-
boes, a powerful people inhabiting the
region of the Cabally river, have re-
belled against the Liberian govern-
ment and are besieging the town of
Harper, at Cape Palmas, where there
are American missionary interests.
The object of the insurrection
seems to be to force the Liberian gov-
The Li-
berian government requested, through
the American legation, that the United
States send a gunboat to Liberian
waters so as to add prestige to its ef-
forts to regain and assert its author-
ity over the disaffected .natives. Un-
der the treaty of 1862, Liberia confers
upon the Government of the United
States the right to intervene on their
‘request, in such affairs.
The report of conditions in Liberia
and trecommendations for their im-
provement, which have been prepared
by the United States commissfon sent
to Liberia more than a year ago, prob-
ably will be sent to congress within
the next few days.
WOMAN SUES FOR $500,000
Mrs. J. R. Wells Charges Husband's
Parents With Alienation cf
Affections.
New York—A suit for $500,000 dam-
ages for alleged alienation of her hus-
bnad’s affections has been begun by
Mrs. James Raynor Wells against Mr.
and Mrs. William Storrs Wells, her
husband’s parents. She charges that
they deliberately induced young
Wells to enlist in the United States
navy in order to keep him from her.
J. Raynor Wells married Irene Bishop
in 1906, while she was a chorus girl.
at Weber & Fields’ theater.
ELLIS STILL ON JOB
Ohican Retained by Attorney Genera:
in Missouri Rate Cases.
Washington—Wade H. Ellis, who.
recently resigned from the office of
- | assistant to the attorney general to
manage the Ohio Republican cam~
paign, will be retained by the attor-
ney general as special counsel in the
Missouri rate cases which have been
assigned for argument in the supreme
court,, April 4.