The Indiana Weekly Messenger from Indiana, Pennsylvania • 1

ESTABLISHED 1856 READ ONE DOLLAR AND A HAL PER YEAR INDIANA PA THURSDAY DECEMBER 20 1928 REAL ESTATE TRANSERS ROM OLD MESSENGER ILES REGENT MARRIAGES COURT NEWS this Warren ur ur MARRIAGE LICENSES When the editor was the A Grade Jersey Cow Aviation service of Grow Big Spuds in Texas as (Continued on Eighth Page) Special Pension Bills City Manager Plan has A Clean Up at Rossiter ines Not Heavy Enough to New Officials Said To Be Insane Students Home or the Holidays Pierce Seriously Injured Totals Show Heavy Vote to (Continued on ifth Page) Wilson and Monday last of the Presby the near was but life the was Dr and Mrs Sloan of Johns town were visitors last week in the home of the mother Mrs Sloan the ex who is of $30 com street decide as the exam all cases with the last named original pension Wilbur Mrs Cauisman Miss Helen unk who teaches in the Barnesbora high school spent the week end with friends in Indiana 44 Eb na Two well known Reid aged 75 and of Brenizer were suddenly appear found seven boys 15 an 18 playing Pitts graduating June county the Nichol illness In Greenwood who is a na also make more surroundings for Mr and Mrs Lerb and family who have been visiting friends and relatives in Nicktown have returned to their home in Indiana Dr and Mrs Dodson of 6th street expect to spend Christmas with their daughter Mrs man of Pittsburgh is now visiting her parents on Not th Sixth street the Old ile The Messenger published every week Mrs years highly writer in the Brookville Demo in writing about Texas says: i vestibule will be Many hundreds of Christmas trees are in evidence at general stores in town Many trees were hauled away and destroyed and there will be good many more this range from 75 cents to Clair Kerr of East will ibe given a hearing McLain on charge of burning with intent to de fraud as the result of a fire at his home on Sunday December 2 The charge was preferred by Deputy State ire Marshall Spirat of Westmoreland County Herbert Scott of Torrance accused of arson was declared insane after an investigation and an examination by three local physicns who were appointed by the court Wednesday Scott had recently been employed by A Sundry7 proprietor of the Summit Inn on the William Penn Highway or some time he had been acting in a peculiar manner and was discharged by Sundry after it is said he engaged in a quarrel with guests in the Inn December 2nd On the night of December 6th the Inn was partly destroyed by fire After an investigation of the origin of the fire the evidence proved it was a case of arson Judge Chase of Clearfield County has no respect for the driv an in this the public heartly con curs The other day the Judge sen tenced a man for driving a car while intoxicated the driver to pay a fiie of $200 and costs and to serve a term of three months in jail Armor Nuller of Brookville who was arrested at DuBois for the same offense was sentenced to pay a fine of $20 and serve three months in the county jail Bly stone McCormick Everett Blystone of Shelocta and Miss Kellie Eleanor Mc Cormick of El lerton were united in marriage at Elderton on Saturday by Rev McClelland The groom is a son of James Blystone and the bride is a daughter of Mr and Mrs A McCormick of Elder ton country mail to the post office where the Bank is now located Robert Cromwell Taylor was the nostmaster and he did not annear to This is in keep and jueaaing ine nrsi aenersun voumy Dairy Herd Improvement Association since November 1926 Daisy a grade Jersey owned by Calhoun of Snyder township has been establish ing an outstanding record for long time production i Daisy was purchased for $60 as a dry from one of Mr neighbors Since she entered Mr herd she has produced 22 549 pounds of milk containing 10903 pounds of butteerfat in exactly two years three months and twenty six days At an average price of 55 cents for butterfat her produce dur ing this time has been worth $59966 The record of her feed cost that Daisy ate during this time $292 I 72 worth of feed Subtracting the feed cost from the value of the pro duct find she paid her owner $306 94 for his labor equipment taxes and the interest on his investment Her I record for November last shows 12b pounds of milk and 656 pounds butterfat James Green James Blaine Green aged years who died at his home in ensburc on December 10 was a tive of Plumville this county where ne had a wide acquaintance He was born August 3 1S84 and was a son the late Elisha and Clarinda Green who died a number of years ago He spent his early life at Plumville and after graduating from the Allegheny college at Meadville he entered the School of Pharmacy or tne burgh University from this department he entered up on a banking career He was first employed in the Plumville National hank and later became affiliated with the Cambria Title Savings Trust Company at Ebensburg remaining with the latter institution for ap proximately five years ollowing the death of his fa'her he conducted the Green drug store at Plumville until ill health compelled him to re tire Later he returned to Ebens burg where he resided in the Ed wards apartment He is survived by his wife Cassandra Reade Green a son Janies Blaine Jr and a sister Mrs Sarah Hutchison of Plumville The funeral services were conducted on Wednesday afternoon at the Green home in Ebensburg by Rev Howard Baumgartel pastor of the Ebens burg Presbyterian church and in terment followed in the Lloyd ceme tery in JI is Harry Truitt Mrs Maude Riston Truitt wife of Dr Harry Truitt well known In diana dentist died at her home on Wayne avenue on Sunday forenoon shortly after she suffered a cerebral hemorrghage The Truitt family formerly resided in Reynoldsville and New Bethlehem but located in Indi ana 23 years ago where Dr Truitt has since practiced his profession Mrs Truitt was a member of irst Presbyterian church and highly esteemed The commissioners appoint the Governor recently visited farm Official returns compiled by the state election bureau show there were 3150596 votes cast for President in Pennsylvania last month That num ber is approximately 80 per cent of the 3971876 registered men and wom en Presidential Electors Republican 2055382 Democratic 1067586 La bor 2687 Prohibition 3875 Indus QQH CLnUn'HcL 1QA47 "Work taken I ers Communist 2039 ollowing are the newly elected of fleers of Relief Corps No 70 of Indiana: President Mrs Bes sie Halwig Senior Vice Mrs Adah Kuhns Junior ident Mrs Ada McAdoo Mrs annie Robensteen Emeritus Mrs May ductor Mrs Cora Mrs Cora Douglas State Convention at Harrisburg Bessie Halwig Alternate Mrs Mar garet Brilhart Ralph Lewis has sold his home on West Philadelphia street to II enton for $8000 The transfer was made by Real Estate Agent Ira A Myers i Oldest Newspnp er published in Indiana County Prosecution Still Continues in Murder Case Ten witnesses testified Tuesday for the Commonwealth at the trial of Delmas Hartman one of the three Nanty Glo youths accused of murder of rank Carney Strongstown the night of May 5th Mrs rank Carney wife of the murdered man testified in regard to her husband leaving the house the night of the alleged crime to go to the bam after hearing a noise which he thought was caused by cattle in distress also as to finding the body of her husband in an unconscious con dition near the ibarn door a short time later Blair Empfield and Vin ton Garrett of near Strongstown testified as to the position and condi tion they found Carney after they had been called Iby Mrs Carney and before he was removed to the Mem orial Hospital Johnstown Dr Prideau of Big Bend and Dr Kellam of the Memorial hospital tes tified that death resulted from a fractured skull alleged Ebensburg Jfrs James Elkin Jennie Elkin aged about 83 one of the well known and esteemed residents of the northern section of the county died early Saturday morning with pneu monia at the home of her son Elmer Elkin who resides on the James Elkin homestead farm in West Ma honing township She was a daugh ter of Jack and Bell Elkin and born in County Tyrone Ireland came to this country early in with her parents who settled in vicinity in which she died She united in marriage to James Elkin in 18GS He died nine years ago Mrs Elkin was a devout Christian and a member of the Episcopal church She leaves five sons and twin daughters as follow: El kin of Wilkinsburg Renie wife of Harrv Anderson and Annie wife of William Edmundson of Smicksburg Beatty Elkin of North Point El mer Elkin who resides on the home stead farm near Smicksburg David Elkin of 'Wheeling Va and Herman Elkin who resides in Col orado uneral services were held at the old homestead on Monday afternoon by Rev Troutman and burial was made in the Smicksburg cemetery Mrs William A Nichol uneral services were conducted Wednesday in in the irst United Presbyterian church of town by the pastor Dr Pinkerton for Mrs Nichol wife of Rev William A Ni chol of Brooklyn whose death occurred on Sunday at home following a long terment followed in cemetery Rev Nichol tive of White township has served for many years as pastor of the Un ited Presbyterian church at Brook lyn His wife who had been an in valid for years was known here where she had visited the Nichol families Besides her husband she is survived by these children il liam Nichol Jr a student in the United Presbyterian Theological seminary in St Louis Archy Nichol a student in the Columbia Univer sity New York Ruth Nichol at home and Lucille Nichol a student of Muhkingum college New Concord Rainey Trimble Blair Rainey of Gipsy and Miss Marion Trimble of Hills dale were united in marriage at Hillsdale on December 21 by Rev Ralph Simpson The groom is a son of Charles Rainey and the bride is a daughter of James Trimble Lawrence Neal Lawrence Neal aged about 3 years a well known resident of Ros siter died suddenly on Monday morn ing with pneumonia following an illness of a few days He was a son of Mrs James Neal of Rossiter and was employed as a miner by the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corpora tion at that place Mr Neal was a member of the Me thodist Episcopal church In addi tion to his work as a miner he fol lowed the pursuit of farming He leaves his mother his widow and five small children at home: Eugene Bovd Theodore Velma and Law rence Jr Three brothers Lemon Homer and Clay Neal of near Ros siter and two sisters Mrs Harvey Seger of lora and Mrs Ernest Mc arland of Indiana are Living un eral services were held Wed after noon in Steffey Chapel by Rev Stev enson and burial made in cemetery He was an uncle of Miss Neal stenographer at the office ror It will be an annual af fair The fine dinner put every one in a happy frame of mind which ac counts for Senator Bowers and Com missioner Perry Wingert Dr Pringle and Ed Murray all of Jefferson county delivering speeches in a happy frame of mind The following is a list of Penn State students from Indiana County i home for the Holidays: James Ake Carl Barone Melvin loyd Hariw ritchman Ernest Good John Guthrie Witmer Hevner Royden Hutchison Law rence Keller Arthur A Leone rank Loughry Max Loy Jean Miller Earle Mitchell Ernest Nichol Ephe Olliver Max Priester Charles A Sloughfy Mer rill Switzer Harry Tinkcom Murray Tuck A pool room owned iby John Benice of Rossiter proved to be the me cca for certain men and youths of that thriving village so much so that it i drew the attention of the proper offi cers Saturday night when every thing appeared to be in full blast County Detective Harry Koozer and Constable Moorhead ed on the scene and between the ages of poker In another room eight men were playing poker and 15 spectators were watching the gamblers Many of them were gathered into the net Several gallons of seized The owner I Benice will have court for breaking the was Besides her hus band she leaves these children: Har ry Truitt Jr of Brooklyn Mrs Sellers of Wilkinsburg Donald and Miss Dorothy Truitt at home uneral services were con ducted at her late home Wednes day and the remains were to Reynoldsville for burial President Vice Pres Chaplain Chaplain Geesey Con Reeves Guard Delegate to Mrs Jeannette has gone over to the city management plan of conducting its business during 1929 Such a ought to work well in Indiana ville under the city management an is saving money and is proving satis factory to the borough officials Rossiter Kcssuei pusmijisver anu nt? um mul appeal uo Rossiter have ny help A small two wheeled1 vOSSltei itTne near 4 flicx no I I jJUOH Utt! CIO UOVU luAV lliull from ihe post office to the train and was also used to transport the mailfmm train tn tlid nnef nffinp Dui the recent visit of a Gov ernnteifc Construction Engineer at the request of Postmaster Harry A Borland the post office building is to have three coats of paint both ex terior and interior mg with the sprit of Indiana will add greatly to the appearance of the 'bulling pleasant working the employees The mailing doubled in size giving an additiona entrance This will enable the in coming mail to be unloaded at one door and the outgoing at another door The concrete driveways will be ex tended by the addition of 1000 square feet of surface This will relieve the congestion due to increased frequency oi mans receiveci ana uispaucneu Pnstmastpr General Harrv New has directed all postmasters to sus pend work all day on Christmas De cemlUr 25th All first class mail will be dispatched as usual that day but no deliveries will 'be made The lobby of the local postoffice will be open but none of the windows will be open at all during the day Per sons having parcels to send through the mail should start them in time to reach their destination before Christmas if they wish their friends to receive them Do it now! Eight machines were in evidence at the curb market Saturday eas ed meat of all kinds were plenciful besides dressed chickens butter eggs vegetables and apples The but tiers are paying twelve cents a pound lor dressed hogs It is announced that over $12000 600 will be spent by a certain tobacco firm in advertising its produts It is a real pity that such a vast urn should go up in smoke The egar ette is also blamed for many cuuiit less millions in destruction of pro perty and many acres of timbenand Almost one hundred people sat down to dinner at the Lull eran church Tuesday last and the way tne viands disappeared spoke well for the (he Waitermire to Waltor mire 12S) acres in Pine $2000 Otto Goss to Goss int in lot in Cherry Tree $3000 DaKidBlair to John A Stavropo sos lot in Indiana $1100 Geo McCutcheon to Mack 113 acres in Brushvalley $13250 Lucretia Mikesell to Howard Rairign lot in Indiana $271'0 Elmer Borland to John ish er 73''acres in Grant $750 William Sullinger to Anna Cham bers 14 acres in Burrell $35u Virginia Roberts to man 63 acres in Pine Warren urman to man 63 acres in Pine Bash to Norman Smith lot in Green $400 Busy At Post Office Prof McConnell of St Paul Minn State Commissioner of Edu cation is visiting in the home of his brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs John McConnell of 103 South ifth street Hal Donahey son of Gere Donahey and a member of Company of Indiana departed Thursday for Langley ield Virginia where he will serve a three year enlistment in the Thomas Barbor son of Mrs A Barbor of 318 South 10th sueet arrived home riday from Theil Col lege Greenville Pa where he a sophomore and a member of the Del ta Sigma Phi fraternity The Phi Tau Alpha raternity of the Genereal Motors Institute of Technology lint Michigan an nounces the initiation of Thomas Swab of 659 South Sixth street In diana and Harry North of 344 Ninth street Indiana Mr Swab and Mr North are associated with the Buick Motor Company of lint Mich Word was received here last wek that Miss Mary Sciotti who was op erated in the Manhattan Hospital New York City and Miss Lucy Sci otti who was operated in the Jeffer son Hospital Philadelphia are get ting along nicely The Misses Sci otti are sisters of Bruce Sciotti Esq and they recently resided in Indiana The House of Representatives passed fifteen special pension bills in troduced by Congressman Strong for the relief of widows re siding in the 27th Congressional dis trict as follows: Mrs rances Harris Indiana Mrs Sarah Lytle Indiana Mrs Lyd ia Martin Blairsville Mrs Mary McKendree Corsica Mrs Elizabeth McLeister Marion Center Mrs Mar garetta McLaughlin Indiana Mrs Adaline Neff Cloe Mrs Catherine Pollock reeport Mrs Isabella Speedy Indiana Mrs Jennie Truitt Indiana Mrs Elizabeth Varner Clarion Mrs Nancy Wolford Indi ana Mrs Mary Pierce Rossiter Mrs Mary Smith Cloe Mrs An na Depp Punxsutawney An increase to $50 per month is provided in ception of granted an per month cooks The annual meeting Indiana Co Agricultural Extension Association held last week was the cause of many of the members gregating in the Lutheran chuicn the feast Arthur Schalk DuBois Lvdla cltz DuBuiS Everett BlystoneShelocta No 2 in the early he had to take the Nellie McCormick Elderton Raymond Ewing Dora Pa Ida Doak Dora Pa i Mario DeBeiti Ida Bev erina Mario Tollini Mary DeBeiti moonshine were of the outfit John to answer several laws miners George Bert Enrico 62 run down an auto driven by William Nicholson of Derry and were instantly killed Wed nesday morning Both men wer employed by the mining company of Brenizer and were on their way to work at the time The driver of th auto Wun Nicholson resides in Der ry and was on his way to work in th Conemaugh Iron Works at Blaisrvilla Charles Horrell employed with rank McCrea the proprietor of th Cement Block Making Company of Blairsville is a patient in the Alle gheny General Hospital suffering from a broken arm received while working 1 crat I was born and reared near Richards ville and have been very much inter ested in the news items and want to congratulate you on the splendid reports from that part of the state I have also been much interested in what the boys are doing with grow ing potatoes as I am interested in potato growing myself I have raised two good crops of Irish potatoes this year on the same I patch and am sending you under i seperate cover a sweet potato that when dug weighed over ten pounds and this was only one 6f many simi lar SIXTY YEARS AGO rom the Indiana Messenger iles of Dee 16 1868 and A Smith Editors IV Marshall A Alex air were on elected ruling elders terian congregation in this place If somebody will volunteer to elope sell his dog or get up a concert with the band of his hat it may relieve the present dearth of local news Experimental arms Some two years ago the Legislature passed an act authorizing the purchase of two farms one in the eastern and one in the western part of the state to be used as experimental farms The eastern farm was located in Chester County ed by this county and selected the owned by William McWay adjoin ing this borough containing ninety six acres for which they paid $10000 They also purchased some evsenteen acres from Harry White adjoining the above the contest promises to be a long one The prominent candidates ap i pear to be James Gompers of this place Houston of Greenville and a Mr of Grant Prof Meyers one of the best sing ing teachers in this section proposes i to organize a singing class in this 1 place A meeting will be held in the A Hall on Thursday (to I morrow) evening to perfect arrange I ments The professor comes very highly recommended and we wish him abundant success ITY YEARS AGO rom the Indiana Messenger iles of Dec 18 1888 and A Smith Editors Judge new dwelling will 1 make a fine appearance I North Mahoning should start a I colony in some western territory and people it with their surplus midnight thieves Thus far the Board of County Com missioners have failed to elect a Mer chantile Appraiser Each commis sioner wants a different person and no one of them is inclined to Word has been received here that Mrs Esterbrook (nee Miss El len McMullen) of Seattle Wash one time superintendent of the Indiana Mission Sunday School and who has written several articles for the Mes senger was seriously injured when she fell down a flight of steps recent ly Her many friends here are hop ing for a speedy recoverey Mrs Jacob Bond of Rochester Millswas admitted as a patient in the Punxsutawney hospital Sunday MENTION Downey of Indiana spent the with Mr and Mrs Lisla Elder of Rochester Mills a year Prices $175 Locust street before Squire Saturday on a in in Delmas Hartman of Nanty Glo claiued with tne latai injury in Carney a crippie uunu? hold up at tne Darn on me umiej farm near Strongstown on me eve nr Si miirar mnz oi iwav uu uicii wi muiuv before Judge in iangnam weeK Sheriff Elmer Borland was pelled to subpoena trom me 1 i several ci tne jurors who ui the fate of the accused youtn PYitrp nanel Oi 48 jurors was ined and exhausted witnoui buluhbr the required number ine memuurs of the jury are: Harvey mum utu 1 1 1 Tr 1 ZS1V 4 ID VU 1 orer uocnesier buhb nuucu It 3 a nl wan agent ivicuiuu vcuici Russell farmer sneiocta nariy Barnett bricklayer Indiana rjubun owler truck farmer Indiana ntti CiAi nvl IJnr ry irinaie carpeuvei oeaiu ncu 1 1 1 rx 111 hovevi ry Mner lauurex vuoihuciiukv Charles tanner Kocuestei Mills: Paul Cleary laborer rnuiauu James Smith insurance agent mu Tniiuno ana: niair ruyan unn and Mabon Shank salesman viymei District Attorney Miller and Attornev Jas Mack are iepie a 1 i 1 1 aa UK Izx Vi a gen ting me uumuxouweaHu defendant is represented oy rrniy Allen Rose Esq ana josepn Hoiiuau Esq of Johnstown ana James Jack Esq ot the inaiana oar ollowing the death of Carney as the result ot an aliegea auaca matte TXTillinm ui on mm uy nanmau vuhuiu Campbell and Millara Marais auring 1 a aU A ii nra ci a noici uu UHU luictf yuuiua rested on a charge oi muraer auu lodged in the county jau campuen and Mardis entered pieas ol guuty i ana are now awaiuug sculcucc The Commonwealth opened its side of the case Tuesaay morning and it will require tne greater pan of today to complete it A verdict of guilty on all counts i 1 1 it i rl was returned oy tut? juxy uu cuhco day in the case of Sam Puglese Nick Pezzino Mongio Dinio Peter Bouch and Jot Bettezal charged with fel onious entry pointing and discharg ing firearms aggravated assault and battery and battery and assault and battery The case was the outcome of an alleged attempt of six youths to rob the home of Blair Davis of near Cramer last October during the absence of Mr Davis who sur prised the alleged intruders by re turning unexpectedly An exchange of shots followed and one of the six youths was fatally wounded and an other was shot in the leg Davis was wounded in the side A motion for a new trial his been tiled by the i attorneys of the convicted youths Tony Rattay charged with viola tion of the liquor laws entered a plea of guality on Wednesday Chester ry of Blacklick charged with larceny and receiving goods known to have been stolen was found guilty of both charges ry was alleged to have bought copper wire stolen from the Smith Coal Co near Josephine from Ira Dunnegan also of Blacklick who entered a plea of guilty before the court Nick Lessick charged with assault and battery and failing to stop after an accident rank McGee charged with issuing worthless checks and George Barbaresh and Walter Bale charged with assault and battery failed to appear and forfeited their bonds Mr and Mrs William Grim of Heilwood charged with violation of the prohibition laws were found guil ty In the case of John Monosky and his son Joe charged with larceny and receiving stolen goods Joe was found gulity and his father was ac quitted The case of Konstantly Groutak charged with aggravated assault and battery was continued Pleas of guilty were entered on riday afternoon in the cases of Sil va Modero violating the liquor laws John Recupero and Roy Shingler crimes against morality Mr and Mrs Joe Kosmack violation of pro hibition laws A verdict of guilty was returned in the case of Tony Anderson charg ed with violation of the prohibition laws Judge Langham has ordered those convicted and those who entered pleas of guilty to appear for sen tence on riday I 1.