| WK ID FINK I | BOOK and JOB PRINTING I TRY US I | VOf(TM* II No. 61 In the Criminal Court The Criminal week of December court opened on Monday with the j conclusion of the cases set fo trial Judge Telford vill conclude' his last, terra of court. In the case of Commonwealth vs. John Stewart, of near Dill town, charged with assault with intent to kill, the jury found the defendant gi.ilty. Constable W. A. Kunklo, of Creekside, who was charged with the malicious kill ing of a dog, was found not guilty; by the jury and the costs werej placed upon the county. The jury in the case against John Sinclair, charged with assault with intent! to rape, was found guilty in man- ■ ner and form as indicated and rec •mmendod him to the mercy of the Oourt. In the case of Commonwealth vs. KVank Pellegrino, of Ernest, charged with blackmail was found guilty by the jury. In the case of Salvatoro Bronchi charged with adultery and rape, he entered his plea of guilt and the jury on that case was dismissed. The Corn Show i Sixty-two boys and girls com-; pcted for the prizes offeied by the Savings & Trust Company for the! best yield of corn grown on one fourth of an acre during the past season. The exhibit was shown in tie reception room of the Y. M. C. A. Tuesday and was the finest ev er shown in the county. The fist prize was awarded to Ernest Cross, of Montgomery town ship. lie grew 2461 pounds of Yellow Dent corn on one-fourth of an acre. Two second prizes prizes were awarded : One to Bes- j sie Wright, of Grant township, who grew 2246 pounds of Yellow Dent corn, and the other to Arth ur Amond, of Cherryhill township, who grew 2033 pounds of White Cap Yellow Dent corn on a quar-: ter of an acre, respectively. Six awards of $2.00 each were I awarded te the next best displays and six awards of $l.OO each to six other displays. The contest was managed by i Supt. James F. Chapman and was teld Tuesday in the Y. M. C. A. j Fifty-six contestants are enteed, this year and the results are at c.edit to the boys and girls of the • county who compose the member ssl ip of the Club. V ' A Careful Business Man Is Careful of His Stationery The Stntionery That We Turn Out In Our Job Department Is OW USING INDIVIDUAL SEARCHLIGHTS. I More and more as the war progresses is it evidenced that, so far as Germany is concerned, the most modern Mppli: l ees wich the inventive genii of the Kaiser's forces candevis > are being used to good purpose in the Ger man lines, both in the trenches and on the battle front. The photo shows one ofthe most m-tdern of the 11 ven. tion a portable searchlight. This searchlight, smal as it is, is aremarriably powerful one. When not in use it ' is takm apart and distributed anion fve n en of the company. Playgrounds for School Children. Ways and means of providing modern playgrounds for the school children of Indiana and vicinity i , | formed the theme for the speeches j at the meeting of the New Cen : tury Club Monday afternoon. A number of members took part in the discussion. The New Cen tury Club is one of the most ac tive organizations in the county in the playground movement, and much is expected to be accom plished next summer. Old Case Has Been Settled. The Superior court sitting at i Philadelphia has affirmed the ver diet of the Indiana county court in the case of R. T. Marl in, admin istrator of the estate of Mary Ann Re id, deceased, agamst the Bor : ough of Indiana . A mandamus | was awarded against the borough : for land damages after a like pe tition had previously been refus ; ed. The damages were for the open ring of Twelfth street through the lands of the deecdant. The report | of viewers was confirmed in 1883. j The Superior Court holds that the! | petitioner presented ample .evi-j denee to justify the finding of thej j court, helow that the damages had ; never been paid and thus rebutted the presumption arising from the lapse of time. Attorney David Blair represent ed the plaintiff in the proceedings while the borough's interests were taken care of by Attorneys D. B. and John S. Taylor. Teacher Charged With Cruelty Is Arrested Hummer Clark, teacher in the, Elderton schools, has been arrest-! Ed in a charge of cruelty to a pu- i pil. It is alleged Clark threw him j into a seat violently. The boy's!} nose struck the desk and was bad ly lacerated. Inspection of Schools ' -< of Indiana Completed j Drs. M. M. Davis and W. A. . Simpson have completed the med ical inspection of the public school 1 ol Indiana county and report con-ri ditions favorable. Fewer physical j defects are found, and suggestions made by the inspectors last year j have been carried out. 1 1 Indiana, Pa. Saturday, Dicembkr 18, 1915 Coal Men Were Given Sentences. E. S. Saxman, vice president of the Ebensburg Coal Company, and general manager of the operations at Colver, with J. E. Wilkinson, another employe of the company, } pleaded guilty yesterday after noon to charges of assault and battery, preferred by organizers of the United Mine Workers of America. These charges grew out of an alleged assault that occurred in the C olver hotel some months ago. The judge sentenced the two men to pay the costs for the esent and deferred sentence 1111 til disposition has been made of the action in which it will be de cided whether or not the license of the company's Colver hotel shall be revoked. ( i Emilie D. Stoneback Is Blacklick's Postmistress Washington, Dee. 17—The fol lowing new postoffice appoint-; ments were sent Friday to the sen-1 ate by Prseident Wilson for con firmation : | Pennsylvania—T. L. Medland. I Waymart; William A. McMahanJ . West Pittsburg; William I). Wer | weriser, Wind Gap; Peter Cram jer, Coplay; Emilie I). Stoneback.' BlackJick. j Think Woman Cremated An investigation is being made i into the fire which destroyed a email frame house in Conemaugli township, Indiana county, and it is believed Mrs. William Kelly was (ffciTnated. Bone* were found in tht debris. No one knows wl*?n the fire occurred. j Eleven Prisoners in County Jail j There are fewer prisoners in the county jail here r*>w than at any time in the year I*lls, aeord- j j ing to Sheriff George IT. Jeffries. " Dnly eleven prisoners are in the i institution. The high mark of the jail was being reached about this ( time last year. r r j Best stores advertise in Th. j Patriot. Coal Co. Pay Last Before Xmas. Thursday was pay day for the employes of the 8., R. & P. rail way in this section, the last before U hi istmas. The work was exceptionally good for the period covered by this pay and the checks were con sequently uniformly high It w as one of the largest pays in several years. Both the 8., R. & P. and Pennsylvania railroads are exceptionally busy at the present time. THE COMMUNITY TREE. Indiana is to have a community Christmas tree and a toy mission this year. The members of the i New Century Club are back of I the movement and have appoint e committees, laid plans and are ready to begin actual work in the next few days. The celebration is being extensively discussed. The churches, lodges and busi | ness establishments are expected to co-operate with the New Cen- 1 tury Club in making arrangements and helping to make thq porgram a successful one. The toy mission will be in charge of the women and a can-! i vass of the county will be made j for toys, clothing and other thing's | Ito be distributed among the poor l ■ of the town. r : Blairsville Concern Is to Apply for a Charter Blairsville. Dec. 17—Application will be made January 3, 1916 for a st*.te charter for the Blairsville | Manufacturing (. 0.. which propos I es to establish a foundry here, j George W. Phillips arc the in- ! Frank M. Graff, E. S. Gilmorc and ! corporators. Prominert Couple to Wed Soon, j The engagement of Miss Nola Edna Steele, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Hiram Taylor Steele, of 110- j mcr City, and John R. Mclntire. 1 son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mclntire i of Kent, has been announced. The! wedding will take place in th# near future. Advertise in the Partriot. ' AUSTRIA EXPECTS DIPLOMATIC BREAK Vienna Befieves U. S. will Ask For Recall of Envoy Italy Puts 12),90.) Tronps in Albania LONDON, De/. D*. A to the Kxrl ange Te legraph Conip.my in in AitiM* mam qu t s a telegram recei ved from Vienna as saying the feeling there is that the Uni ted States will ask for the recall ol the Austrian embassy, as the Austrian note on the Ancona case is couched in such terms that such a step considered unavoidable. A PUNXSUTAWNEY MAN DYING, MANY HURT IN A SUNDAY EXPLOSION Punxsutawney, Pa., Dec. 14. ! Claud Sickeles is dying at the hos pital here and the damage done in Sunday night's explosion at the Punxsutawney Iron Coo. is esti mated Monday at $lO,OOO. The explosion occurred when molten i iron touched a pool of water in the cinder pit at the plant, form i ing carbon monoxide gas, which ignited Hundreds were thrown from their feet and windows throughout the town were shatter ed by the force of the blast. V in dows were reported to have been broken in Adrian and Rossiter — towns eight miles distant. i CANADIAN MONSIGNORS ARE MADE ARCHBISHOPS Rome, Dec. 17 —The Rt. Rev. Oliver Elzear Matthieu, bishop of the diocese of Regina, Canada, was Thursday appointed an archbish op by Pope Benedict. Te Rt. Rev. Arthur Beliveau, auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada, was also ap pointed an achbishop. School Officers Elected. At the closing session of the con vention of the Indiana County School Directors' Association c . Thursday these officers were ridect ed: President, J. T. Be^. secre _ tary, E. M. treasurer, W. S. Dau^ e rty, all of Indiana. I j | HARRIS A EWING WASH 1 I EDWARD W. SAUNDERS. Chairman of the Democratic aucans of the House who recent- 1 ?y announced that h* was opposed 1 o inerease appropriations for \a • onal defense. r i CIRCULATION BOOKS OPEN TO ALL ADVERTISERS 21 | "It is said that the note was submitted to the German ambas sador before its presentation to Ambassador Penfield," says the news agency dispatch, "and that I)r. Dumba, the recalled ambassa dor in the United States, took a hand in drafting the document." The message adds that in to day's editoriols in Vienna newspa pers on the note extensive exci sions appear. Vienna Indignant. Vienna, Dee. 16. —The Austro- Ilungarian government's reply to the American note on the Ancona was transmitted at noon yesterday' tO the American ambassador, Freer ick C. Penfield. The American note, as publish ed in the Vienna morning pape* jiesulted in a high state of pu' *** atif* indignation, and while the te* st of the Austrian reply has not . bee a made public, it is understo< , . . sd that common ground is mdic xte