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HOOVERSVILLE.
Mrs. Louis Statler, of Windber, is
visiting at the home of Mrs. Hannah
Seese.
Mrs. James Cassler,, of Holsopple is
visiting her father Adam Custer, at
Hooversvile.
Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Hoover were in
Johnstown, attending the funeral of
Mrs. J. W. Hamer.
The Hooversville Parent-Teacher
Association held a meeting Tuesday
evening, February 16, in the Hoovers-
ville public school. The principal
speakers were Dr. A. M. Uphouse, who
talked on “Schoolroom Headaches;”
Prof. F. G. Fryburg, on “Hidden
Forces in the Education and Disci-
pline of the Home,” and Prof. Welch,
on “A Complex Institution.” In addi-
tion to the addresses, the program
included the following: Piano duet,
Misses Saylor and Berkey; recitation,
Mary Nichols; vocal solo, Mrs. Earl
Berkey; piano duet, Verna Shaffer and
A party of young people~sledded
to Stoyestown Wednesday evening
and enjoyed a chicken-and-waffle sup
per at the Hite House. Those in- the
paity were Mr, and Mrs. W. E. Lohr,
#+Jr., Iva Spingler, Pearl Geisel, Lottie
Meyers, Verna Shaffer, Mary Nichol,
Nancy Boyts, Cotta Wain, H. H. Dull,
Silas Lehman, Charles Koontz, L. W.
Dull, Frank Miller, Irvin Crissey, Irvin
Lambert, Lester Meyers, Dewey Mey-
ers, and Grant Blough.
Hooversville and Somerset County
authorities believe they have an im-
portant clue to the whereabouts of
Tony Rabbas or Tony Rabbaccio, who
is wanted for the murder of his board-
ing boss here several weeks ago. The
“alleged murderer formerly worked
for the Knickerbocker Smokeless Coal
Company, which has received from an
Italian banking firm in Philadelphia,
a letter requesting that the firm re-
mit some wages, $25 or $30, due Rab-
baccio,
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Somerset county dairymen to the
number of 25 met in the court house
of Somerset one evening recently to
take steps looking toward the filing of
a protest with the Johnstown City
Council
the ordinance relative to the inspec-
tion of all herds from which milk sup-
plied to Johnstown dealers is obtain-
against the enforcement of
S most Americans of the present time visualize George Washington anc
as nearly all future Americans will know his features they are set
forth in the Gilbert Stuart portrait. The best known of the origi-
nal Stuart portraits of Washington is unfinished. It hangs in the Mu-
seum of Fine Arts, in Boston. In the life of Gilbert Stuart, by George C. Ma-
son, is to be found a reason for the unfinished state of the Washington portrait.
The book says that “this portrait gave Stuart more satisfaction than any other
portrait of Washington that he had painted, and as he was not to deliver it
until it was completed he took care never to put in the background. In this
way he managed to retain it.” It is said, however, that the real reason for the
incomplete state of the portrait differs from that given in the book. On the
authority of Willlam Lanier Washington, hereditary representative of George
Washington in the Society of the Cincinnati, it may be said that George
Washington did not like Gilbert Stuart and would not sit until the portrait
was finished. He had agreed to pose for the painter only after the latter had
promised to present the finished portrait to his sitter. But when Washington
would no longer grant him any sittings Stuart kept his word to deliver the
finished painting only by neglecting to complete it. He made many finished
copies, which he sold. Other artists copied it also, and it was engraved fre-
quently. Stuart offered it to the state of Massachusetts for $1.000, but it was
declined. After his death his widow sold it, with the companion portrait of
Mrs. Washington. for $1,500.
Washington's Good Work.
George Washington's surveying done
in 1751. when as a lad of nineteen he
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receatiy by goverument surveyors
who found the work perfect. Washing -
Second Boy Suprewe in war. ton. running bis lines with primitive
in council and. iu peace. instruments and boufires on hilltops
Third Boy - Valiant without left nionuments and bounduries to
ambition. discreet without fear 7 | whieh technically educated surveyors,
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Fifth Boy- The patriot. the
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Christian. the father of nations.
the use of Instruments and can be fol
the friend of wankind. who. lowed ‘by boundary fences dutliig froo
when be bad won all, renounced the earliest days and by blocks of tim
all and sought in the bosom of ber
his family and of nature retire
ment. and in the hope of religion
immortality. y
Washington =urvey blazes. cu!
into the trunks of trees and ions grown
over. have been rediscovered, and al
are several feet higher from the ground
than those woodsmen of today make
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Washington as a Young Soldier
HI8 interesting portrait of Washington depicts him as a young soldier
and wae painted about the time of his serving in the British army under
Braddock. Although the British general was defeated and killed In the
battle of July 9, 1755, when Washington served him as an ald, the fame
which the young Virginian gained then helped materially in gulding the Amer-
jeans to & choice for commander in chief of the army in the Revolution,
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AVE you seen, by Potomac, that
shaft in the skies,
Soaring proud from the meadows
to mate with the sun,
Now misty and gray as the clouds it defies,
Now bright in the splendor its daring
has won?
The winds are its comrades, the lightning,
the storm,
The first flush of dawn on its summit
shines fair,
And the last ray of sunshine illaminesits
Towering grana and alone mn the limjt
less air
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By Nile rise the oyramids wrapped wu
the shades
Ot ages that passed as the waves on
the shore.
And Karnak majestic. whose vast colon
nades
A god might have fashioned tor man te
adore.
And Baalbek uphifts, like a vision divine
lts wonder of beauty Ly Lebanon's wall
Bur captive and slave reared in sorrow
the shrine,
I'he palace. the temple. the pyramid tal)
fo freedom Potomac's proud obelisk
towers,
And Karnak and Baazlbes in Beaun
vies!
for Washington's glory its grandeur em
powers,
And freemen with joy piled ita stores
10 skies.
O symbol of diberty. match! ss. sublime,
Still soar the meadows tc mate
with the sun,
And see thy republic, to uppermost time,
The noble, the peerless, the many in one!
WASHINGTON FOR EXPANSION
Urged Acquisition of Western Territory
‘to Keep Foreigners From Getting It.
Very interesting to all students of
American history i8 a letter from
George Washington to Jacob Read of
Scuth Carolina. who served as a major
of volunteers during the Revolution.
was taken prisoner and was confined
for four years at St. Augustine, Fla
He was afterward a member of the
Continental congress and United States
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senator.
The letter 1s dated Mount Vernon.
Nov. 3. 1784, and deals with various
matters intimately connected with the
future prosperity of this country
Washington complains that specula
tors are recklessly seizing lands on
the northwest side of the Ohio and
thereby making war with the Indians
He then proposes a remedy:
Purchase, if possible, as much land of
them immediately back of us as would
make one or two states, according to the
extent congress would design or woula
wish to have them of and which may be
fully adequate to all our present purposes.
Fix such a price upon the lands so pur-
chased as would not be too exorbitant ana
burthensome for real occupiers, but high
enough to discourage monopolizers. De-
clare al! steps heretofore taken to pro-
cure lands on the N. W side of the Ohio
contrary to the prohibition of congress
to be null and void, and that any person
thereafter who shall presume to mark,
survey or settle lands beyond the limits
of the new states and purchased lands
shall not only be considered an outlaw
but fit subject for Indian vengeance.
He then discusses with vigor the
vital importance of opening up the
western territories to American enter
prise and colonization by means of wa
terways and roads. He adds:
it is to prevent the trade of the west-
ern territory from settling in the hands
either of the Spaniards or British—if
either of these happen there is a line of
separation at once drawn between the
eastern and western country, the conse-
quences of which may be fatal To tell
any man of information how fast the lat-
ter is settling, how much more rapidly it
will settle by means of foreign emigrants,
who can have no particular predilection
for us, of the vast fertility of the soil and
the population the country is ‘competent
to, would be futile and equally nugatory
to observe that it is by the cement o.
interest only we can be held together. If,
then, the trade of that country should
flow through the Mississippi or St. Law-
rence, if the inhabitants thereof should
form commercial connections which lead,
we know, tc intercourse of other kinds,
they wovid in a few years be as uncon-
nected with us, indeed more so, than w.
are with South America and would soon
be alienated from us
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Clreulatlon .. .....)......0500 0000000 aueenns- 63,100.00
DepOBIEB ...... cis Si if crea sie ee an THOS. 51
Total. ... $992,089.73
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