The Indiana Weekly Messenger from Indiana, Pennsylvania • 1

INDIANA WEEKLY MESSENGER THURSDAY MARCH 28 1935 ONE DOLLAR AND A HAL PER YEAR 1856 Sansom dlj OBITUARIES PER 1 MENTIS Lt I ElUULit in to Mrs rom our I three York ITY YEARS AGO Real Estate Transfers Al sta Gets His Certificate In Abra i in last year when Rayne township in of the acres to inter Helping The Railroads i township av io vcivaimy iiui iicipiiig uiviil do this time of most discouraging condi pia (Continued on Page 4) cn Growing Consul James Park Here Indiana business establishments Po our chief arteries of commerce be The number of unemployed has in Cratiapod cjto yv Ll of in Hileman Seventh to by our sister of the deceas away within the past nine in Smicks and Mrs reared to She was the by November Langham Railways in Rayne to in of up son home Getty acres Stephen 3 Wil Rayne township Robin Hartman Campbell which permits Stewart to teach life appeared befo: ham Monday imr debt billion when Miss Edna Tyger spent the week end with her parents in Marion Cen ter to in Mr and Mrs Silas Streams visit ed Airs Mollie Streams of Mariofl Center Saturday and de May 9 af investiga County Street Busch plot $10 frm they one story National work Ignatius house and John 155 acres services will be conducted Brethren church Rich Dr William Stidger of Boston will be the speaker at four evening services to be held in Indiana Tues order and the He was married of the United dollars greater President Roose of government of Airs riday Mr They will of be in Buffington The public States is 11 than it was velt took the reins effects of the passengers Mrs Elizabeth Candace 0 Bartlett y1 Mrs Elizabeth Candace (Orr) Bartlett widow of William Bart lett died Wednesday in the home of her daughter Mrs Robert Brown ilee 8000 Susquehanna street Wil 1 tne RAYNE TOWNSHIP TAX SIX MILLS The supervisors of Rayne Town ship have set the tax rate for 1935 at 6 mills the same as that levied last year The tax was based on a valuation of over $1300000000 and after the 5 per cent discount and exonerations are allowed for makes a money tax of somewhat over $700000 Last year out of the tax money col lected by the Supervisors they paid Indiana County $600000 as part payment on their debt for the con struction of the Ernest concrete road Besides this item a bridge was built by' thfe supervisors at Dixon ville which cost the supervisors over $13W: Mr Wilson St Clair and Mr liam St Clair sons of Mr and John St Clair of School streel are home from Lafayette College Mrs Clark returned to In diana Wednesday evening week after a three the West Indies New adelphia Mr Harry Bartley of Tenth street drove to Chambersburg Thursday vj bring Sara Smith and his daughter Kathryn Eartley and Betty IK: home from Wilson College for their spring vacation of his competitor Matthews Lewis East Mahon Wm Allison Mrs Ray Baldridge and daught Louise Langham Baldridge i burgh are visiting at the home of her father Judge La ghin and brother in law and sister and Mrs Roy Maloney of North Ninth street ton Miller Company and months in the county jail John Jevicky receiving Robert Skelton who is studying at Columbia University New York is home for his spring vacation It has been the policy in the past for the Government and the several states to help the railroads of this I country for as it has wisely been as goes tne ranroaa so goes Mary Lydick to Stephen A Wil helm 115 of last visit to and Phil teaching Stewart structor cate last Julia Alexander to Margaret Slo vensky 4 lots in Green township $1 Joseph Slovensky to Margaret Slo vensky lot in Green township $1 Samuel Robertson to Harry Earl Robertson 128 acres in White township $100 Harry Earl Robertson to Samuel Robertson lot in Homer City $1 Wagner to John Wagner 125 acres $4500 Indiana Co to township Andy Lassu to rank Lassu lot in Center township $1 Andras Lassu to rank Lassu lot in Center township $100 Mr and Mrs William Brrnetl of School street have returned Catalina and lorida where spent the winter months SIXTY YEARS AGO the Indiana Messenger iles March 21 1875 Smith A Smith Proprietors It cost $71920 to maintain county jail last year Indiana county has eight indigent insane in the Western Pennsylvania hospital A girl in one of our nothern town ships recently sawed a cord of wood in one hour and forty five minutes each stick being cut twice She is described as pretty and not yet eighteen and performed the task in a fit of anger because her mother told her that she was fit for nothing else but to sit in the parlor and read novels all day United States Vice Consul to Ad dis Ababa Ethiopia James is a guest of his mother Mrs Park of Locust street Mr Park has been transferred from Addis Ababa and has been pro moted to Consul His new pt will be Colon Panama where he will assume his duties after a short va cation in America Mrs Park accompanied her hus band to America and will visit members of her family in New York City Mr and Mrs Park sailed from Ethiopia ebruary 8 and arrived in New York Qty on March 13th Mr and Mrs Hammers and Mr and Mrs William Hammers have returned from Palm Beach la where they spent the winter Mr and Mrs Joseph Dodge of tla Kiskiminetas Springs School Salts burg visited at home of Dr and Mrs Paul Reed of North Seventh street last week kinsburg She was a daughter of I daughters Miss Natalie and Andrew and Martha Orr wwc hnrn HurrV in White township and spent her 1 1 ri 1 Vn MXU 111 11C 1 native W11X114 Lklkl VJ' KJllC was united in marriage to Mr Bart lett at Brookville the death occurring October 25 1899 in Pitts burgh where Mrs Bartlett lived his death She was a life long member of the Lutheran church She is the first to break the chain of seven 'sisters and three brothers! Edwin Orr Dayton Or Indiana Alice Orr Zener Agnes Orr Lotz Beatrice Orr Qual 1 i trough Margaret Orr Lockard Car rie Orr Hecker and Grace Orr Has inger all of Pittsburgh and Paui On of Summerville uneral services were conducted in Eunhauer Son's uneral home 'West Liberty avenue Pittsburgh riday evening at 8 riient was made in Oakland ceme wtei Indiana at 11 a Saturday thc Rev Arthur Pfohl pastor Zion Lutheran church officiating would be subjected to the scrutiny of the Savannah Custom House offi cers The officers it is said make a very rigid examination and allow nothing but the most strictly per sonal pass last year were frozen ive hundred and twenty one hogs were shipped from the Indiana tion last week Married Swartz Nee Un March 19 West Indiana Mr Swartz 4 4 1 4 A 1 1 rx vviui uiv ua rm ui tne uniicu orates Hartman There is a great reduction of duties oreigners Now Passengers for Savannah by the steamship lines were notified that their baggage! Paul Reed North svent! The girls attending the Birming ham School are at home for spimg vacation Those attending Birim ham are Katheryn Bennett and ginia Bennett Elizabeth Spruke and Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Gallo 14 and Norman Kuty both of Indiana were sentenced state correctional institutions Tiirln NT orurLoin uoctornir Gallo was committed to the Toner 111 Harrisburg the ull Crew Bill Institute in Pittsburgh and Kuty to an Train Limit Bill the Morganza reformatory We hope our legislators in Harris They were charged with larceny in burg will look into the devastating connection with thefts from several effect these two bills will have on an afternoon College were in celebrate March 25 1885 and Smith Editors It is estimated that one half The Department of Public Instruc tion Thursday issued a permanent certificate to James Plumville public school who was refused a certih April and accused of being a Superintendent of Public Instruc tion James Rule said the certifi cate was issued on the re commendation of the assistant coun ty superintendent stolen goods restoration of $25 to the Sut ton Miller Company and months in the county jail Arrested by County Detective Harry Koozer and Chief of Po lice William Kelley the youths waived hearings Saturday before Justice of the Peace Walter Jack son Judge Langham was informed that automotive equipment worth about $400 had been stolen from the gar ages but that the greater part hud been recovered with the arrest of the youths I George Johnston of Conemaugh township pleaded guilty to robbery of a gasoline stat on in the Salts burg district Judge Langham or dered him to make restitutioon of the stolen goods and sentenced him to CO days in the county jail Judge Langham was told that Johnston was intoxicated at the time Pleading guilty to stealing lumber from a building on the pioperty of Ciair Pounds in Banks township 'Thomas Crumley 21 of Banks town ship was fined and costs and or dered to make reparation of the stol en lumber I of and the Kline property will Ipe commenc ed at once Announcements Candidates to be voted for at the Republican primaryelection to be held May 11 1895 I Register and Recorder Georcp rating was high irvan James Stewart of Indi lUgllLCX VI: (Lowman) Valerie Sansom and a sister Mrs was born I Harry Bartley of Indiana i uneral services will be held at his home this afternoon at 2 with burial in Uniondale cemetery one to two vears I felon'ous entry i "the victim of Hart receiving stolen i mans attorney said his client of $25 to the not as guilty as the Attorney General Charles Mar I giotti sad the slaying of Carney months was atrocious and well and that there were ex entry tenuating circumstances stolen r9 uro in vat uvj vuj unu in uu goods restoration of $25 to the Sut scious condition beside his barn on three the night of May 1928 He died the next night in the Memorial Hos It is with sincere regret we publish the death of a beyhool frcid and former employe of the Leinocrat James Sansom 58 former news newspaperman and active in Alle gheny county and state politics fur many years who died Sunday in his home 344G Perrysville avenue Pitts burgh after a brief illness The son of ranklin and Catherine Sansom he was born April 5 1677 in Indiana Pa where he had his first newspaper experience on which was owned his grandfather and his father Mr Sansom was graduated from Indiana Normal school and Kiski minetas Preparatory school at Saltsburg Pa He attended Prince ton University a member of tne class of 1900 but left his studies for military service at the out break of the Spanish American war After the war Mr Sansom went to Pittsburgh and entered newspaper work He was a writer of exception al ability and rapidly rose in his profession being city editor of the and served as political writer on the the and other newspapers After var ious political posts which included management of several election cam paigns he was appointed secretary of the Allegheny' County Planning Commission and served until 1932 Mr Sansom was a member of the Elks the Masonic Methodist church to Helen Bender Sansom who pre ceded him in death He leaves two Miss Mr and Mrs Couser of 280 Locust spent riday in Buier attending the funeral of Mrs Cou uncle A Roberts who wmie visiting here died suddenly of a heart attack in the home of Mi Gorman of South Third street Mrs Evelyn ee president of th Veterans of oreign Wars Auxil iary together with Mrs Wilbur Campbell Mrs aye Trimble ant Mrs Serulah Campbell mot red to Butler Monday evening and were guests of the Auxilary at that place Miss Ruth McCoy was hostess Sat urday afternoon at bridge party at the our tables of bridge The occasion was to birthday and to announce the gageinent of Miss Mary McCoy to Edward DeLoss Martin of Indiana ton Miller Company and months in the county jail Duane Wingard receiving stolen pital in Johnstown from a fractured gooas rest oraton to tne Sat three Ethel May Wagner to Lloyd corn 20 acres West Wheatfield township Mary ueorge to Robert George kt in Blairsville $100 Stepnen Lewis to Bert Sinews lots in Indiana $47uO0 Tanners Bank Trust Co of dana to Homer City ire Depart ment four lots in Homer City 500 00 Ralph Cummings to John A Gaul tract in North Mahoning town Inter ship $C00 Helen Adomsick to Indiana Coun ty Commissioners house and lot Glen Campbell $7000 Indiana County Commissioners Ignatius Svebuck house and lot Glen Campbell $15 Svebuck to Aaron Stiver lot in Glen Campbell $1 Snyder to John Snyder in Brushvalley township Mr James Sutton May Sutton arrived I night from Lehigh University Sutton had a guest with him returned to college Sunday creased by about a million and the number of government employes has seedlings and increased by many Thousands The I Pink Rag Topeka Kan SVENTY rOvR YEARS AGO rom the Indiana Messenger iks of March 27 1861 Clark Wilsan and A Smith Editors I The southern tariff goes into ef Thcy were William Campbell and fect on the lst of as compared i JJchnas ILi'Lnan both of whom have hi ion nt nrirrtn i 1 M1VU ill D1I1LC A iKUVlliatl I was convicted by an Indiana County I Criminal Court jury Campbell and the other youth Milliard Mardis pleaded guilty Attorney Miller of Indiana the district attorney who prosecuted Carney's slayers had opposed pre vious applications of Hartman Campbell whose father was chief of police of Nanty Gio at the time of the arrest has never before applied for clemency Campbell's attorney said he was Seven defendant: Judge luii nig and pleaded judge Laughaiii sentenced two to the Allegheny county workhouse and four to the county jail ive of the defendants pleaded guilty to accusations in connection with robbery of the Sutton Mider Company buildings in South Sixth street Three were charged with fel onious entry and larceny and receiv ing stolen goods and the others with receiving stolen goods The defendants the accusations and the sentences handed down by Judge Langham: Lyle Rumbaugh three counts of felonious entry and larceny restor ation of $50 to the Sutton Ml'cr Company and undergo imprisonment in the Allegheny county woikhouse I for a term of from Clyde Risinger and larceny and sroods: restoration Sutton Miller Company and undergo imprisonment tne Aiiegneny cour ty workhouse for from six to a year William Brown felonious and larceny and receiving Miss Josephine Mack daugh of Mr and Mrs James Au i North Sixth street returned ho ie Saturday for her spring vui ui Miss Mack is studying at the ryn Gibbs School in New York United States land Panama Canal had been by Chapman as After Dr Rule refused vene in the case because of lack of legal jurisdiction Chapman turned the case over to Winger for another rating enough for a permanent certificate 1 1 ldnr Vnnnfl 1 ORTY YEARS AGO i rom the Indium Messenger iks of March 25 1895 A Smith Editors I Plans for a handsome I building for the irst in and both of Indiana Died lickinger March 20 Mr ham lickinger of Homer City aged 81 years Rankin Matthew Rankin of Cen 1 ter townshp died at his residence March 15 aged 5G years refused a certificate County Superinten dent James Chapman rated him too low on the basis of his work as a temporary teacher Stewart who was accused of telling his pupils the for the Bank are being prepared and classified on the new building on the site of Bolshevik lice said the boys admitted the thefts jore ey vote after they had been picked up by I Patrolman Barry of the bor Mfi nnn ough police department I transplants from the State orest COMMISSIONER IS IN HOSPITAL Nurseries will be planted in Indiana County Commissioner Albert County by 26 tree planters this Rairigh of Gipsy was taken Monday spring evening to the Clearfield Hospital or some wee armers Bank Trust Co Guar churches durin? Holv Week oeen connnea to ms Den at nome ana his condition had been slowly im day 4X1(1 WednesdaY evening April proving Saturday night he was ln East Wheatfield township $220 16th and 17th he will speak in the stricken 'with an attack of neuritis Hida Dick to Steele indley irst Methodist Episcopal church and of the stomach which caused his re 38 acres in East Wheatfield town on Thursday and riday evenings in moval to the hospital ship $16252 the irst Presbyterian ehureh Harry Gibson Moorhead uneral services for Harry GibsonMom head 61 whose death occurred in West Palm Beach la will be conducted at 2:30 today in itRobmsjii uneral Home this ci tv His pastor the Rev Holt Hughes of the irst Methodist church ficiate and interment will Greenwood cemetery' A son of the late Samuel Mary (viiason) MourheaU 1 ceased was born Jan 18i4 Li ier rymn townoiup He grew to ymung manlioud there and with the excep turn of a short time spout in WestVirginia had lived in fndana fur many years He was engaged in the fara implement business was a member or Indiana Camp No 598 United Commercial Travelers and had a host of friends in all walks of life He leaves his widow Mrs Peari (Cameron) Moorhead and these chil dren by a previous marriage: Miss Creola Moorhead of New )ok Cty Miss Terza Moorhead and Glenn Moorhead both of airmount Va He also leaves a brother andBister Moorhead and Miss Ka therine Moorhead and a foster sis ter Miss Margaret Moorhead all of Indiana 1934 after his conviction for burn I the 111 thp country put mg the store Mike Miss Elizabeth Sheesley Miss Elizabeth Sheesley 81 suf fenng from complications incident to 1 advanced years died at 4 a Mor in the home of her sister Mrs Clara Snyder 540 Philadelphia street Miss Sheesley had been in $100 tailing health lor tne past two years but her condition became critical on 'B Crsli z4 ts Is i Ito: XVU1 UCIJO dgu kJ lie wao UV1I1 111 I QQ Jefferson county and spent the great 5er part of her life there and in I 'Me lssa 'Clearfield county She had lived in helf 115 Richmond for the past 25 years and $5000 was greatly beloved by all who knew her Surviving are the sister men tioned above and a brother William Sheesley ed passed months uneral in United "inond at 2 today with inter ment in Pine Grove cemetery Lloyd Lowman Clyde Risinger Lyle Rumbaugh and William Brown all of Ind ana appeared before Judge Langham Tuesday morn ing and pleaded guilty to larceny of eight tires from the service station in North street Lowman 20 an emplove station was sentenced to the Mor ganza reformatory I Risinger and Rombaugh were sen fenced to six month terms in the Al legheny county workhouse the terms to begin at the expirations of others handed down Monday morning on their pleas of guilty to robbing the Sttton Miller Company buildings in South Sixth street Brown was sentenced to three months in the county jail the term to begm at the expiration of a three month term handed down Monday morning on his plea of guilty to im plication in the Sutton Miller Com nanv thpffR i The thefts from the Hileman sta said tion occurred from ebruary 1 to the country' March 1 5 Youthful Pleaders Sentenced Pleading guilty to larceny Sam tjons t0 jmpOse an addtional burden of $70000000 a year on the rail roads of Pennsylvania by enacting the proposed legislation now pending and Mrs Henrietta Elkin Mrs Henrietta Elkin widow David Elkin died at her home 'Loop at 7 a Thursday after a illness of pneumonia She was in her 78th year ilt UtiC tldovU Wao JJU1 XI burg a daughter of Mr Cornelius Love and was young womanhood there united marriage to David Elkm when a young woman and shortly af ter the wedding they moved to Loop where she had resided for over 50 years She was a member of the Smicks burg church and one of the most highly esteemed woman in the county She leaves three sons: Spencer of Porter' Duff at home on the farm and Lester in Horatio uneral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 in the late home of the deceased with further Bervjpes ip the Methodist Episcopal! ehurch in Smicksburg Interment was piade in the Lmicksburg ceme VOLUME 76 31 Paul Reed son of Dr and Mrs C4 sJrppr is home from Washington and Le3 University for his spring vacation ship Hugh ing township Blairsville District Attorney: John Getty John Taylor Indiana Convention Delegates: son Saltsburg Steele Indiana Smith Glen Married Stuchell Miller On March 25 in Indiana Mr Samuel Stuchell and It is certainly not helping them at "lss Alary Miller both of Rayne lownsiup skull County Detective Harry Koozer 1 arrested the three youths ter making a widespread tion of the killing They were sentenced 25 1929 by Judge Rich Asks Pardon Another anneal heard ridav was that of Ray Rich Coral merchant rom the Indiana Messenger iles of' sentenced to two to 10 years in 1934 for arson A previous application had been refused Rich was sentenced March 14 Two of the three Mantv youths lio rubied ad fatiiiy beat raim Carney crippled Strongstown farm er in 1923 went before the Pardon Beard at Harrisburg riday thru counsel with an appeal for comma i tation of their life sentences I I i a I ii Ttei A I' if Oldest in 1 a 1 4 Irium iridic PM Lh UUliH itLHU tj UL HLLj re wl 1.