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A PAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SNOW SHOE AND SNOW SHOE TOWNSHIP.
VOL. I.
OST ASROR AND SNOW SHOE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1910.
NO. 14.
LOCAL 1 NEWS
Snow Shoe and Vicinity.
A number of strange faces were
seen at the dance on Monday even-
Remember Flag Day on June 14.
Have your flags ready to celebrate the
anniversary of the adoption of our
mational emblem.
“Nothing adds more to the attrac-
tiveness of a town and makes a bet-
ter impression upon visiting strangers
than newly painted residences, neat
picket fences, good sidewalks, clean
streets and alleys, and withal, a good
number of shade trees and ornamen-
tal shrubbery and flowers in your
yards. It is indicative of refine-
ment, culture, good taste and thrift.”
The dance held in the Pavilion on
Monday evening, May 20, was a Very
pleasing affair and quite well attend-
ed. Persons from Winburne, Karth-
aus, Bellefonte, Moshannon and else-
where were in attendance and appar-
ently enjoyed the occasion extreme-
ly. The proceeds for the benefit of
St. Mary’s church.
On Saturday evening and Monday,
May 30, the band gave us some very
fine music on the streets. Much in-
terest is being taken in the pand and
it is hoped they may win the prize at
the next band contest. :
The social at the Presbyterian
church on Saturday evening was well
attended despite the cool weather,
and was in every way a pleasant af-
fair.
Mrs. Mollie Baker, widow of the
late J. R. Baker of Howard, died while
ona visit to this place at the home of
Mrs. R. S. Malone. The body was
taken to Howard for interment.
gervices were conducted by Rev. R. S.
Taylor of the M. [E. church.
) AARON ESCAPE
And Team of Horses Killed
John Confer, of Clearfield, and a
former resident of Moshannon and a
small boy with him at the time, sure-
ly were fortunate in an accident
which occurred at a railroad crossing
in East Clearfield, on Saturday morn-
ing, May 28. While crossing the rail-
road near the East End station with a
load of coal the north-bound 10:15 pas-
senger train came along and struck
and almost instantly kill the team of
horses, valued at $400, but did
no injury to Mr, Confer, who when
he saw the team could not be saved,
jumped from the wagon. with the boy
in his arms and escaped uninjured.
The many friends of Mr. Confer in
this locality were surely glad of his
fortunate escape and hope he will be
reimbursed for the loss of his horses.
Plans for Boycott of Russian Goods.
New York—Representatives of the
federation of Jewish organizations
dere have laid plans for a nation-wide
soycott on Russian goods on account
of the action of the Russian authori-
les at Kief in banishing the Jews.
I'he federation also has before it a
position to bring to America all
e Jewish orphans from the vicinity
i Kiet.
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potsaam—The abscess on the right
wrist of Emperor William is healing
His Majesty’s physicians appear
d
PS satisfied with the results of their
‘reatment.
The
MEMORIAL DY
PLEASING SUCCESS
Appropriate Exercises Held at the
Cemeteries and Many Friends From
Near and Far in Attendance.
Memorial Day was very fittingly ob-
served at this place. The program,
as was previously arranged was parti-
ally carried out. The principal
speaker, who did not get here, gave
gite a disappointment to many. Other
speaking, however, was very interest-
ing and was listened to by some of
the immense crowd which gathered
around the platform. The speakers
at the Askey cemetery were, J. T.
Lucas and Rev. R. F. Ruch, also Mrs.
Harry Yeager and Miss Jennie Lucas
gave recitations which were very ap-
propriate to the occasion. Both the
Clarence and Snow Shoe bands ren-
dered excellent music which added
much to the program and gave the oc-
casion a spirit of patriotism. The
decorations of the graves was carried
out as usual. Many persons from a
distance greeted their living friends
and paid their respects to the depart
ed ones. Another point worthy of note,
was the condition of the cemetery.
Much labor had been expended in
cleaning and fixing up beforehand
and a very marked improvement over
former years was noticeable. The
people are to be commended for their
pains in this direction and also for the
interest taken in commemorating the
day.
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BLACK HAND VICTIM FOUND
A Letter Discovered on Beheaded
Corpse - Demanded $500 of
Vengeance.
Winkes-Barre, Pa.—With his head
almost severed and his body contain-
ing several razor gashes, the body of
a man identified as Peter Savatino, an
Italian of Broderiscks, was found in
a cave hole a short distanme from the
Pittston City Cemetery.
The murder is attributed by the po-
lice’ as a Black Hand crime, and ‘it is’
snurposed to be a sequence of a mur-
de: committed at Brodericks some
months ago.
In Savatino’s pockets was found a
letter dated Bernice, July 26, 1909,
and postmarked Maltby Swoyerville,
July 27, 1909.
that the sum of $500 was to be left
at the station at Maltby on the night
of July 27, 1909, if he desired to avoid
the vengeance of the Black Hand.
The dead man has been missing for
some time.
PREDICTS LUNACY FOR RACE
A Michigan Doctor Declares That in
265 Years World Will Be’
Vast Asylum.
Boston, Miss.—In 265 years this
world. will be one vast insane asylum,
declared Dr. J. H. Kellogg of Battle
| Creek, Mich. Then he stepped aside
to permit the doctors of this “seat of
tulture” to engage in a warm wrangle
| aver his statement, most of them in-
Amating that Kellogg should go to a
specialist and have his ead examined.
“Physical degeneracy and chronic
liseases are increasing,” declared
Kellogg, “and insanity has increased
LOO per cent in 50 years. This is due
to degeneracy originating from our
manner of living. Only three women
put of four nurse their infants, owing
.0 physical degeneracy which makes
t impossible, and 75 per cent of the
oottle-fed babies die before they are
4 year old,
“The increasing use of tea, coffee,
obacco and alcohol spells the end
)>f a sane, human race.”
Gross Earnings Large.
The total gross earnings for all the
railroads in the United States report-
Ing for the first two weeks of May ag-
gregate $18,050,808, an increase of
12.1 per cent compared with the earn-
Ings of the same roads in the .corre-
sponding period last year. All the
leading systems continue to make fa-
yorable returns, and in no section of
the country is there any decided in-
fication of a setback in railroad
sraffic.
AB hae Eo of
‘we got it that much cheaper.
The contents stated
BLAMES DEAD MAN
FOR SUGHR FRADS
Defendant On Stand Declares That
Trust Magnate Ordered Falsifi-
‘cation of Tests. ;
HOW PLANTERS ARE SWINDLED
Polariscope Tests Falsified by Orders
of Havemeyer ‘to Show Lowest
Possible Grade.
New York—That the sugar trust
was founded in fraud in which not
only the government of the United
States, but the growers of sugar in
Cuba, Java and India suffered, was
the declaration dragged from Ernest
W. Gerbracht, former: superintendent
of the Williamsburg refinery of the
American Sugar Refining Co., who
with other officials of the company,
is on trial for defrauding the govern-
ment of custom duties.
“I was ordered by the late H. G.
Havemeyer to falsify polariscopic
tests of sugar, so that we would have
to pay less to the sugar grower,” said
Gerbracht as he writhed ‘before the
merciless cross-examination of Spec-
ial Assistant Attorney § [General Henry
Stimson.
- That the sugar trust had robbed the
government of great ums # duties
has been proven and the trust has
made money restitution. But that
the trust had also robbed the men
with whom it did business and from
whom it purchased raw sugar was a
‘new development. -
Sugar is purchased from the sugar
‘planters on weight and. grade, the low-
er the grade the less paid by the |
trust. To cheat the owner of the
sugar by underweighing was not as
easy as cheating the government by
underweighing, for the owners usual-
dy have men to check4gainst the com-
pany’s weighers. Some new scheme,
that of reducing the grade of the
sugar by fraud, was devised, accord-
ing to Gerbracht.
The grade of sugar is determined
by a polariscopic test, the angle of
refraction of light through a solution
of sugar.
“I was ordered by the late H. O.
Havemeyer to make these polariscopic
tests as low as possible,” said Ger-
‘bracht. “If we made the tests show
that the sugar was of a low grade,
Then
we refined it.”
| “Was not this an order to falsify
the tests, so that you got high grade
sugar for what you would have had
to pay for low grade sugar?’
“No, I object to the word falsifica-
tion,” said Gerbracht, who squirmed
in his seat for half an hour under a
pitiless fire of questions, and then
said:
“Well, if you want to. call making
the tests low falsification, then we
falsified.”
Gerbracht was forced to admit that
this falsification of tests went as far
as the Wall street headquarters of the
sugar trust.
“We took the polariscopic tests at
the refinery and another test was
made at the Wall street office. @We
made the refinery tests as low as pos-
sible, but often the tests made in the
Wall street offfee were lower than the
If such happen-
ones we had made.
ed to be the case we were notified by
the Wall street office and forced to
make our own figures lower still. The
merchants who sold the sugar had to
take their pay on the lowest tests.”
AEROPLANE RECORD
Englishman Crosses Channel and Re-
turns in Wright Machine.
Dover, Eng.—The Honorable Char-
les Stewart Rolls, captain in the Lon:
don section of the army motor re
‘serve, driving a Wright bi-plane vin.
dicated Anglo-Saxon aeronautics by
crossing the English Channel twice
without alighting. He made the round
trip between Dover and Calais in 90
minutes.
‘While two Frenchmen, Louis Bier
fot and Count de Lesseps, have cross:
ed the channel in an aerophane, it re.
maified for an Englishman jn an
American machine to perform the dou:
ble feat. The distance across be
tween the two points named is 21
miles, so that his over-water flight ot
42 miles without a Stop establishes a
new record, :
Ev Captain Carter Loses Last Appeal.
Washington, D. OC. The United
Btates supreme court has denied the:
petition for the rehearing of the case
of ex-Captain Oberlin M. Carter, con-
victed of defrauding the ‘government.
{ will turn back
PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARIES
REPUBLICANS SLATE WINS
Alfred D. Garner, Cannon Supporter,
Loses Congressional Fight.
Philadelphia—Returns of the uni-
form primary election held by all par-
ties throughout the state June 4, show
that the Republican organization has
succeeded in nominating nearly all of
its slated candidates and in many in-
stances succeeded also in having
them placed upon the tickets of the
opposition parties. The only break
in the Republicam machines’ congres:
sional slate was in Schuylkill county,
where the present Congressman, Al
fred D. Garner, a supporter of Speak
er Cannon, was defeated for the Re
publican nomination by R. D. Heaton
on an “insurgent” platform. The
seven present Democratic Congress:
men from this state were all renom-
‘inated by their party.
Lewis Emery, Jr., who was the in
dependent fusion camdidate for gov-
srnor at the last gubernatorial elec-
(ion, was defeated for Republican
congressional nomination in the
T'wenty-first district by Charles E.
Patton, the candidate of the regular
wing of the party.
In this city the greatest interest
tentered in the nomination of candi-
fates for the State Senate and Legis:
‘ature. Despite the efforts of the op-
ponents of the present organization
0 nominate independent candidates
‘here was very little interest taken
oy the people, and the vote was light.
Fhe Republican candidates for state
senator, Ednest L. Tustin, G. Van
Phul Jones and John T. Murphy, have
tlso been nominated orn the Demo-
cratic ticket. The Republicans cap:
tured the latter ticket in three out of
the four senatorial districts. which
will elect senators this fall.
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ANOTHER GOLD RUSH .
New Field in Alaska Attracting Theu-
sands of Miners.
Iditarod City, Alaska.—Three hun-
ired and fifty ' prospectors, the first
‘sarty of stampeders to reach the new
iditarod gold fields, arrived from Fair-
banks, a three weeks’ trip down the
Yukon river.
All say that the stampede will be
the greatest since the famous rush
on the Klondike, 13 years ago, but
many oldtime gold seekers are pessi-
nistic over the prospects for getting
sudden wealth from the gravel along
the banks of the Iditarod and the In-
10ko rivers.
Estimaates place the number of
prospectors who will arrive during the
arly summer at 5,000. Many say
‘hat the summer camp will not sup-
port more than 1,000 miners, as only
seven miles of pay dirt have been
‘ound, and of ‘that none is extraor-
linary.
It is belived that at least half of
‘hose in the main camp, Iditarod City,
to the Kuskokwill,
where they expect to build a camp,
50 miles across the divide.
At present Iditarod City consists of
1 few cabins. No wharf has been
built and freight is dumped on the
ground.
HUGE MELON TO BE CUT
Singer Company to Divide $30,000,000
Among Stockholders.
New York—One of the largest “mel-
ons’’ ever sliced for the delectation of
stockholders will be cut by the Sing-
er Manufacturing Company, which has
called a meeting of directors on June
18 to declare a $30,000,000 stock divi-
dend to its stockholders. The com-
pany is capitalized at $30,000,000 and
‘the stock dividend is 100 per cent.
The company has a surplus of $30,-
000,000, but the directors feel that a
stock rather than a cash dividend is
advisable.
DEPARTMENT STORE MERGER
Company Just Incorporated Is Capital-
ized at $20,000,000.
Albany, N. Y.—The May Depart-
ment Stores Company of New York,
capitalized at $20,000,000, was incor-
porated to conduct general depart-
ment stores. Of the capital stock
$5,000,000 is to be seven per cent
cumulative preferred and $15,000,000
common,
The papers state that the company
intends to take over the property of
the Shoenberg Mercantile Company of |
St. Louis, the May Shoe and Clothing
Company of Denver and the May Com-
pany of Ohio, It is said the compa-
ny will locate stores in the principal
| cites’ of the Middle West.
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thing of public interest occurs in your
neighborhood. We want all the big
and little things,
LOCAL NEWS
Moshannon and Vicinity.
Israel Hoover has built an additiom
to his barn. Bruce Culver was thee
“boss carpenter.”
The wet and
cold weather has
greatly retarded the farming in this
locality. It ig past time for almosit
all seeding to be done. However, som¢e
are still engaged in planting with a
determination to never give up.
A new industry in the shape of @&
butcher shop is slated for our town.
Ground was broken and work begum
on a new building for the same this
week. It is to be located on North
Main street, adjacent to the home off
Mrs. Jno. Leeder.
Lost! Like the ‘babes in the:
woods,” the Misses Patsy and Helem
Budinger. For several hours excite--
ment ran high among the friends off
the “little tots” until they were foundl
wandering on the streets of Moshan-
non. They were picked up by the:
charitable lady, Miss Eva McGowan,
whose kindness reaches to all who
are in distress, and safely returned
to their home, to the joy and satisfac-
tion of their parents, brothers and
sisters and all.
A fire broke out’ in the vicinity of
the ‘“Harshberger Place,’ about one-
half mile south of town, on Sunday
about 11 o'clock. The flames spread!
rapidly and for some time it was fear--
ed that the sawmill of J. T. Lucas and!
lumber piles of the Lehigh Valley Coal.
Company would be in danger and also:
that it might give the restful inhabi--
tants some cause for alarm in that.
part of town nearest the fire, but the:
prompt action of willing firemen and
a timely rain were sufficient to check
the flames and prevent any serious
damage.
TOWN IS NOW IN RUINS
The Former Metropolis of Portuguese
Possessions Is. Devastated by
Fierce Windstorm.
Lisbon, Portugal — More than 500
persons have been drowned and many
ships lost by a cyclone that swept east
Africa, according to meager advices
received here from Mozambique.
The storm did tremendous damage
on land, and it is believed that sev-
eral large ships, as well as smaller
ones, were lost. Four hundred ne-
groes en route to the Rand mines were
on a ship that was wrecked. The
blacks were drowned.
Practically the entire city of Mozam-
bique was destroyed, according to dis-
patches published in the Diario No
ticias.
All reports agree that the wind-
storm was the fiercest known on the
African coast in many years, and that
the death roll will be enormous.
A number of small native crafts
vere swamped, with loss of life, and
nearly every house on the three is-
‘ands in the harbor was demolished.
- Mozambique was formerly the me:
‘ropolis of the Portuguese possessions
Mn Africa. Its harbor is world famous.
Three small islands, on which the city
is built, block its entrance, so that
the water within is one of the safest
refuges from storms on the coast. 6 At
he head of the bay, on the mainland,
stands the village of Mesuril, where
'he Europeans live. It is reported that
the cyclone did less damage there
‘han at the mouth of the harbor,
The population of Mozambique is
about 6,000, of whom about 300 are Eu-
ropeans. The town was substantially
puilt and one of the most picturesque
in the world.
EIGHT KILLED IN EXPLOSION
Premature Blast Fatal at West Coplay,
Pa., Stone Quarry.
Allentown, Pa.—A premature explo-
tion of a blast in the quarry of the
vehigh Portland Cement Company at
Vest Copley snuffed out the lives of
tight men.
: Among those killed was Daniel
zannon, foreman, of Allentown, who
eaves a family of 10 children. The
thers were foreigners.
The men were preparing three
doles 60 feet deep, and had put in
500 sticks of dynamite when the ex-
tlosion occurred. No one knows the
rause, but it is believed something
ell into one of the holes, causing the
ap to explode. Gannon and two men
vere hurled 200 feet away and four
| thers were thrown into a wheat field