rem
AT THE “BLOODY ANGLE.”
Recalled by Civil War War Survivors as a
Very Hot Place.
One of the most desperate fights of | moved to the Hanna farm about three
the civil war was that which took | miles out of town, where they will
at the “Bloody Angle” on May | spend the summer.
place
12. i864 it is still remembered by the |
SUIVive
thoy eer Tove In
Grant. cow.
brigade, cescribed the tight at the!
“dead ine a= tollows:
“It was not euniy a desperate struggle,
but it was literally a hand to band
fight. Nothing but the piied up logs or
breastworks separated the combatants. |
Our men would reach over the logs and
fire into the faces of the enemy, wuo
would stab over with their bayonets.
Many were shot and ‘stabbed through
the crevices and holes between the
logs. Men mounted the works and
with muskets rapidly banded them
kept up a continuous fire until they
were shot down, when others would
take their places and continue the
deadly work.
“Several times during the day the
Confederates would show a white flag
| latter's mother, who had been visit-
'at Washington, D. C. and in Virginja
about the works and when our fire
slackened jump over and surrender,
and others were crowded down to fill
their places.
somewhat celebrated tree was cut off
by bullets—there that the brush and
logs were cut to pieces and whipped
into basket stuff.”
General McGowan, who was on the
other side of the trenches leading the
South Carolina brigade, stated in his
report:
“*Our on one side of the
breastworl:, the enemy on the other.
and in many instances men were
pulled over. The trenches on the right
had to be cleared of the dead more
than once. An oak tree twenty-two
inches in diameter in rear of the bri-
gade was cut down by musket balls,
and it fell about 12 o'clock Thursday
night, the 12th, injuring several men
in the First South Carolina regiment.’
men az
IN THE WAR AND AFTER.
Battle Incident Which Led Later to
Restoration of a Sword.
General Keifer. later in congress
from the Springfield (0O.) district, was
one of the last men wounded in the
civil war. He centered the volunteer
army in April. 1861, and served until
after Lee’s surrender in 1865. In all
that time he received three seratches,
but shortly after the surrender he was
scouting at the head of a small force
of cavalry aud came suddenly upon a
large force of Coufederate cavalry.
There was a skirmish, in which Keifer
was wounded and in which he would
have been killed had it pot been for
the. intervention of Le, Soper
com der, who\ uh
stances, simply Ww: ye
Keifer returned to camp, oN
wound dressed, reported to headquar:
ters and received special orders and
with re-enforcements started to find
the derelict Confederates. He found
them, and Colonel Tucker, the Confed-
erate commander, surrendered. Keifer
carried Tucker's sword home with him,
and it was kept in his library at Spring-
fleld as a trophy of the war.
In 1876 Keifer was elected to con-
gress and ii. 1881 was elected speaker.
Among his acquaintances in 1879 was
John Randolph Tucker of Virginia. In
conversation one day Keifer told Tuck-
er the story of the sword, and Tucker
sald the officer who surrendered the
day of the skirmish was undoubtedly
his brother. This fact being establish-
ed, Keifer took the sword to Washina-
ton and placed it in the hands of J
Randolph Tucker. who restored it to
its original owner. In after years Gen-
eral Keifer became again 1 member of
congress £nd found the son of J. Ran-
dolph Tucker in the father's seat.
At Arlington t! u lown,
The autumn sun sinks round and red
A3 though with to crown
The sacrificial blood they hed
1d steen
» their Tong Inst glee
Try our fine job work
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as probably the hottest place | | of the week in attendance at the 46th
General Ln A. annual meeting of the Agency Associ-
ander of the Vermont | , tion of the Mutual
It was there that the |
CONFLUENCE.
A. L. Schonebury, of Pittsburg, who
has a lumber mjll near here, is look-
ing after his interests in this locality.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. McDonald have
Earle R. Beggs is spending a part
Fire Insurance
Company of Reading, Pa. Mrs. Beggs
and their two children accompanied
him as far as Philadelphja where
they visited at the home of Mr. F. R.
Anspach.
Rev. J. A. Hopkins of the Christian
Church held: baptismal services at
Bidwell, of last Sunday and baptized
fifteen persons.
Mrs. George Michey and Mrs. E. N.
Debolt were attended the reunion of
the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Brother-
hood of Locomotive Trainmen at
Connellsville last week.
Paul Liston, of Philadelphia was
visiting relatives here recently.
Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Hopkins and the
returned home on Friday.
J. C. Newcomer who is in the em-
ploy of a Homestead jewelry firm, is
spending a few days with his family.
G. G. Lyons who has been on the
sick list during the last week, is a-
ble to be out again.
Mrs. J. W. Clouse, wife of the pro-
prietor of the Confluence lumber yard,
who has been on the sick list for a
long time is able to be out again. |
The confluence tannery, which has
been almost shut down for
months has now started up with al-
most a full force.
Mrs. L. W. Black and her sister,
Miss Jane Flanigan will soon leave for
the West to visit her brother, Rev.
Albert Flanigan, of Qujncy, Illinois.
Aaron Shannon who resides at Ur-'
sina, has been sick for the past month
and at present is in a serious condi-'
tion.
Rev. George Orbin, of Dawson was
here Sunday and preached and sang
to the pleasure and profit of the con-
gregation of the Methodist church.
Aaron Shannon, an aged citizen of
Ursina, died at his home there a few
days ago, after several months illness.
The Good Roads movement proved
very successful here on Wednesday.
WINDBER SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION.
1
several
| off. Running to Pat he cried:
| Pat, Oi've had me ar-rm shot off.”
| Pat turned to him in disgust.
Song and
Story ......
Just where you stand in the confiict,
There is your place!
Just where you think you are useless,
Hide not your face.
God placed you there for a purpose,
Whate’er it may be;
Think He has chosen you for it,
Then walk loyally.
There 1s an idea abroad among mor-
al people that they should try to make
their neighbors good. One person I
$1.25 and $1.50 Wash Skirts
For Ladies.
Black Shades
25¢ Hose
Black White and Tan.
10c¢c|| Silk
Hose
Ladies’ 25-cent ¢
Silk Hose
have to make good—myself. But my
duty to my neighbor is much more
nearly expressed by saying that I,
have to make him happy—if I may.
R. L. Stevenson.
A Matter of Relationship
Two chance acquaintances from Ire-
land were talking together.
“An’ so yer name is Riley?” said
one. “Are yez anny relation to Tim Ri
ley?”
“Very dishtantly,” said the other.
Oi wus me mother’s first child, an’
Tim was the twelfth.”
Her Argument Good
The judge had assumed his severe-
est look and was determined to speak
in his harshest voice. The conver-
sation follows: -
Magistrate—It appears to be your
record, Mary Moselle, that you have
been thirty-five times previously con-
victed of drunkeness.
The prisoner (sarcastically) No
woman is perfect.
The Worst Yet,
Johnny handed the following note
from his mother to the teacher one
morning:
| Dere teecher:You keep tellin’ my
boy to brethe with his diafram.
| Maybe rich children has got diaframs
; but how aboout when there father on-
ly makes $1.50 a day and has got five
children to keep? First it’s one thing
then it’s another, and now it's dia-
| frams. That's the worst yet.
Here was Bravery
Pat, Mike and Terry went to war.
During a battle Mike's arm was shot
“Oh,
“Quit yer howlin. Look at Terry
B. W. Lambing, of Somerset, the | °Ver there. He’s had his head £2 off
president of the
WI obagl, #89 o& Yon, 38 hard
mie. ein the
ragdhi) Schoo’ of the’county,
Somerset County an’ he ain’t sayin’ a word.”
As Far as She Could Go. ¥
She was a new cook and anxious
MILLINERY
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MW $1.50, $1.98 & $2.98
$2.98 Values in OSTRICH PLUMES
black, white and colors, 100 at
that sold
200 Women's Untrimmed Hats that sold
for $1.98 to $7.98, your choice for
Another lot of Women's Untrimmed Hats
100 in number, that sold from $2.98 to $10
Choice
19¢
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alc
$1.90
Summer Waists
Regular $14.98 values slight-
ly soiled, white ih 39
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50 Linen Skirts
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300 New Spring House Dresses
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Light or dark colors, specially attractive prices for this week
Lawn Waists
Odds and ends in $1.50
$1.98 and $2.98 3c
Sitk Waists
100 Silk Waists that sold for
$3.98 to $9.98 $1.39
all colors & sizes
Corsets
Discontinued numbers in B. & G.
= Foy i Choice
ol that sold as high 19¢c
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CHILDREN’S DRESSES
75¢ U'resses
44c
er sw cr
$1.00 Dresses
. T9c¢
0 an@ke the‘eleventh annual conven-| © please. So was the mistress that
tion of these allied organizations the She should especially on a certain ev-
best ever held. The association will | ening when there was special compa-
meet at Windber on Wednesday, DY at dinner. To the consternation of
the hostess appeared Bridget| holding
before her a plate of tomatoes, but ar-
rayed minus her waist and skirt.
“Well, ma’am,” she said, “I djd it—
did what ye told me: bring the toma-
toes in undressed. But I'll lose me
place furst before I take off another
stitch.”
Thursday and Friday, June 9th, 10th
and 11th.
Every Sunday School in Somerset
County is entitled to send two dele-
gates in addition to the pastor and su-
‘perintendent and every adult Bible
Class and secondary division is enti-
tled to one delegate. The main ses-
sions will be held in the United Breth-
ren Church.
A men’s parade will be held on
Thursday night of the convention.
‘The committee says there should be
iwo thousand men and half a dozen
bands in the parade.
Among the speakers engaged from |
a distance are the following: {
Attorney John C. Silsley, of Greens- |
burg, president of the Westmoreland
County Sunday School Association; |
|
Harry W. Dunlap, teacher of one of |
the largest Men's Bible Classes in the
State; W. D. Reel, of Philadelphia, |
State Superintendent of Home De-
tendent of Rural Schools;
partment Work; Miss Martha E. Rob-
inson, of Bloomsburg, State Superin |
|
The Rev.
lc. A. Hartung, of Homer City, an ora-
|
tor with a message.
H. I. Mack, of
et SANSA Nd fl
| disgust.
Proved His Teacher Wrong.
Little Willie’s father found his youth-
ful son holding up one of his rabbits
by the ears ond saying to him: “How
much is seven times seven, now?”
“Bah,” the father heard the boy say,
“I knew you couldn't. Here's another
| one: Six times six is how much?”
“Why, Willie, what in the world are
| you doing with your rabbit?” asked
the father.
Willie threw the rabbit down with
“lI knew our teacher was ly-
ing to us, ” was all he said.
“Why. how?” asked his father.
“Why, she told us this
that rabbits were the greatest multi- |
pliers in the world.”
Philadelphia, will have charge of the |
music,
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ited by no
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an people Ho i is in grea lemand W
everywhere, !
The night of the second day of the
chautauqua.
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in i Rens BR BER sii a MRSS
morning |
TOM CORWINE.
Tom Corwine, a Kentuckian, who
calls himself a “polyphonic imitator.”
Mr. Corwine says his mission in life
| is to make noises. He imitates ma-
chinery and farmyard animals prin-
| cipally. He opens a hive of bees at
one time and at another drives some
hogs out of the corn. At still anoth-
| er time he represents a ‘gathering
| of the clans” of chickens, but you
must be there to appreciate Tom Cor-
wine.
chautauqua.
HOOVERSVILLE.
A very interesting W. C. T. TU. in-
stitute was held in the Lutheran
church, June 1.Mrs. Unruh, the Wo-
cipal speaker. County Supt. Mrs. A-
zubah Jones was also here.
The Good Roads movement in this
| place and nearby townships was a
great success under the leadership of
{ ChairmanJ. E. Custer, who had the-
j assistance of many citizens.Mr. Cus-
i had eight teams and fifty men at
work on the roads from the s8chool-
| house toward Windber, on the Island
| Park hill and on one of the worst
t ‘ streets of the borough. All were put in
first class condtion. Roads were wid-
{ ened, cindered and crowned, ditches
were opened and the brush trimmed
1t along the sides The work was con-
tinued the hex} day wi ith the aid
cof age, is dying at the 0
| Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Meyers in this |
Afternoon of the second day of the !
ARTHUR STEINWEG, Pres.
We Give “S. & H.” Stamps
2 C vhberland, Md
Pa a
as $5,00
CHILDREN’S DRESSES
$1.75 Dresses
$1.19
$2.00 Dresses
$1.27
KNOW THY COUNTRY
I—Introductory
“Know America” is a slogan that
should ring out from every school
room, office, farm and shop in this na-
tion. No man can aspire to a higher
honor than to become, a capable citi-
zen, and no one can merit so dis-
tinguished a title until he is well in-
formed of the resources, possibilities
and achievements of our country.
This is a commercial age and civ-
{lization is bearing its most golden
fruit in America. We are noted for
our industrial achievements as Egypt
was noted for her pyramids; Jerusa-
lem for her religion; Greece for her
art; Phoenicia for her fleets; Chaldea
for her astronomy and Rome for her
laws. Likewise we have men who will
go down in the world’s history as pow-
erful products of their age. For, stand-
ing at the source of every gigantic
movement that sways civilization is a
great man. The greatest minds travel
in the greatest direction and the com-
mercial geniuses of this age would
have been the sculptors, poets, phil-
osophers, architects, and artists of
earlier civilizations.
As Michael Angelo took a rock and
with a chisel hewed it into the image
of an angel that ever beckons man-
kind upward and onward, Hill took
the desert of the Northwest and with
| bands of steel made it blossom like a
man’s suffrage lecturer, was the prin- |
i
rose, dotted the valleys with happy
homes and built cities in waste places.
As Guttenberg took blocks of wood
and whittled them into an alphabet
and made a printing press that
flashed education across the ‘con-
tinent lke a ray of light upon
a new born world, McCormick took
1
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a bar of iron and bent it into
a reaper and with one sweep of
his magic mind broke the shackles
that enslaved labor of generations yet
unborn, and gave mankind freedom
from drudgery, and lifted the human
race into a higher zone of life.
As Nelson organized the English navy
and made England mistress of the sea,
enabling the British Isles to plant her
flag upon every continent washed by
the ocean’s waves, and to make foot-
stools of the Islands of every water,
Morgan organized a banking system
that has made America master of the
world’s finances, brought Kings to our
cashier's windows, the nations of the
earth to our discount desks and placed
under the industries of this nation a
hinancial system as solid as the Rock
of Gibraltar,
There is no study quite so interest-
ing as progress; no sound so magio
as the roar of industry and no sight
so inspiring as civilization in action.
A full realization of America’s part in
the great events of the world past,
present and future will thrill every
human heart with pride, patriotism
and faith in Republican institutions.
Through the courtesy of the Agri-
cultural and Commercial Press Ser
vice, the readers of this paper will be
permitted to study America; her ag-
ricultural, manufacturing and min-
eral development, mercantile, bank-
ing and transportation systems which
are the wonder of 'the world. The
first article of the series will deal
with transportation and will appear
at an early date.
place. She has been unconscious since | tery and arriving at the cemetery the
Wednesday evening and her relatives |
have been sumoned to her bedside.
Part of Memorial services were held
Saturday bginning at 10 a. m. The pa-
rade consisted of the following—Vet-
erans in automobiles band, Sons of
Veterans, P. O. 8S. of A, K. G. E
Jun. O. U. A. M,, K. of P., Boy Scouts
Sunday Schools, citizens and general |
public. The parade marched to the]
Weigle cemetery where an appropri- |
ate program was rendered. Washing- |
P.O. S. of A ot]
onductec Memorial
s in its cem Sunday
beginning at 2 o'clock in the after-
The members met at their hall |
amp No. 752,
Hi ille
etery on
noon.
j ceremonies and decorating of
| following program was rendered:—
Music by the P. O. S. of A. Band; A
Song by the Camp being “America;”
the
graves by the Camp; music by the
| band; address by Rev. John K. Huey;
song by male quartette; music by the
band; benediction by Rev. Huey.
Every Moment Counted
Elihu
Root was cross-examining
a young woman in court one day.
“How old are you?” he asked.
The young woman hesitated.
“Don’t hesitate,” said Mr. Root. “The
at 1:30 and proceeding to the ceme-|longer you hesitate the older you are.”
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