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Edinun Spirit ESTABLISHED 1847 CHAMBERSBURG, PA. Wednesday Evening, Dec. 8, 1909 DIED SUDDENLY. Was Visited By Chambersburg Rela tives Just Before Death. John Strock, one of the most widely known business men of Carlisle, was found dead in bed at his home 011 Thursday morning when the servant went to summon him for the morning meal.

Mr. Strock was up and about Weanesday and appeared to be in the best of health for a person of his age. In the evening he was also in bright spirits and entertained some relatives from Chambersburg, and retired at eleven o'clock. It is thought he received a stroke of apoplexy sometime after the midnight hour, and 3 physician stated death was instantaneous. Mrs.

William E. Coble Mrs. Mary wife of William E. Coble, Cumberland Valley railroad station agent at Mont Alto, died at her home in Mont Alto Thursday at 1:30 o'clock a. aged 35 years, 11 months and 13 days.

She had been ill for several years. Mrs. Coble had resided in this place for several years, having removed here with her husband from St. Thomas township. About two years ago they removed to Mont Alto, where they since resided.

Mrs. Coble was a most excellent weman and a member of Trinity Lutheran church, this place. She is survived by her husband and three children, Miss Cora, Luther and Arabella, also her mother, Mrs. Mary C. Crider, and two brothers Irvin W.

Crider, West Market street, this place, and J. E. Crider, St. Thomas township. Funeral on Saturday at 1:30 o'clock D.

at Irvin C. Crider's home, West Market street, with interment in Coble's graveyard. Christian L. Stevens Christian L. Stevens, a veteran of the civil war, and a well known resident of Hamilton township, died: this home in Cashtown at noon Wednesday.

He was aged 68 years, and was a member of St. John's United Brethren church, that place. He is survived by his widow and eleven children and five brothers. The funeral was held on Saturday morning, friends and relatives meeting at the house at 9:30 o'clock. The services were held in the United Brethren church at Mercersburg and the interment was made in Fairview cemetery.

George Coldsmith George Coldsmith, a former resident of this county, died at the home 04 his daughter, Mrs. Anna Crouse, in Steelton Nov. 30. He was in the seventy-second years of his age and is survived by his wife, three daughters and two sons, as follows Mrs. Annie Crouse and Mrs.

Alda Andrews, of Steelton; Mrs. Edith Kreidler, of Fayetteville; John, of Fayetteville, and Samuel, of Harrisburg. Three brothers also survive him. The funeral was held Friday morning upon the arrival of the Waynesboro branch 10:10 train at Fayetteville. Interment was made in the old Union church burying ground.

George W. Crider George W. Crider, an aged and highly respected citizen of Nyesville, died at his home in that place on Thursday. He was aged 71 years, 3 months and 16 days. Mr.

Crider is survived by an only daughter, Mrs. Andrew R. Hoover, and two sisters, Miss Louisa and Mrs. Zachius Hafer, of Shippensburg. Mr.

Crider was a conscientious and upright citizen, 8. good and kind neighbor who was always ready to lend a helping hand to those in need. He was married three times. The funeral was held on Sunday morning, leaving the house at 9 o'clock. Interment and services at Crider's church.

Mrs. John J. Heck Mrs. Anna wife of John J. Heck, died at her home in Upper Strasburg, on Wednesday morning at 1:30 o'clock, having only taken ill about noon on Tuesday.

She is survived by her husband and three sons William, Brice and Ralph. Funeral on Friday at 10 o'clock interment in the Methodist graveyard at Upper Strasburg. Was Buried Thursday The funeral of Jeremiah Houser was held Thursday. The services were conducted by Rev. Dr.

Irvin W. Hendricks, pastor of Zion's Reformed church. The pallbearers were his near neighbors. Philip Mentley A telegram received by Mrs. Charles L.

Wilhide, of Elbrook, on Tuesday Nov. 30, brought to her the sad in-, telligence that her father, Philip Mentley, had died at his home in Definance, Ohio, at an early hour on Tuesday. COMMITTED SUICIDE. Saloon Keeper Became Despondent and Inhaled Gas. William M.

Hoover, a well known saloon keeper, committed suicide by inhaling gas in a room in the rear of his place of business, Hagerstown, some time Thursday morning, between 5:30 and 7 o'clock. Mr. Hoover has been in bad health for a. number of years and this and other troubles are given as the cause of his act. Mr.

Hoover was 52 years of age and was a native of Leitersburg. He went to Hagerstown 29 years ago and for 16 years was employed by the Norfolk and Western railroad. He was a member of the Red Men, Order of Owls and the Junior fire company. Surviving are his wife, who was Miss Agnes Finnigan; children: Irvine and Mrs. Nora Palsgrove, Hagerstown; sisters Mrs.

Mary Ziegler, this county; Mrs. Sarah Hartman, Mrs. Harriett Trovinger, and a brother, Joseph Hoover, Hagerstown. Funeral Saturday at 2:30 p. services at house; interment in Rose Hill cemetery; pallbearers from the organizations to which he belonged.

$600,000 CONFLAGRATION. Baltimore Was Visited By Large Fire In longe ted District. Baltimore was visited on Thursday evening with the most serious fire which has occurred in the city since the great fire there about six years ago. A coincidence was that the fire started less than 8. block from the beginning 0 fthe fire.

The loss from yesterday's blaze will be about $600,000. It was about 5 o'clock last evening when the first alarm was sounded. The fire originated in the Spear cap factory at 104 South Sharp street. An adjoining china store was next burned and the large building of the Maryland national bank was also badly damaged. The sixth and seventh floors were gutted and the remaining floors were damaged by water.

The upper floors were ccupied by commission brokers. The first also destroyed several other buildings in Sharp street. Last even ing was the first that the whole fire department of Baltimore had been called out since the memorable fire of 1904. In fact the alarm calling out the entire department was inaugurated after that firme and was first used last night. It was one of the most stubborn blazes the firemen, have encountered for some time and for a while it looked as if a much larger area was doomed.

SHERIFF'S SALES. Six Properties and Farms Sold By Sheriff Charles Gillan. These properties were sold at sheriff's sale in front of the court house Friday afternoon: A lot of George Wallace, Norman and George H. Smith and Mary C. Shafer, South Main street, to A.

Strite, for also another property owned by the same people to J. A. Strite, for $815.00. A property owned by John L. Miller, Hamilton township, to Richard W.

Evans, for $925.00. A property owned by Harvey and Jennie A. Ford, to D. H. Trovinger for $800.00.

A property of Nimrod Mallott, Quincy township, to Elizabeth Bluebaugh, for $712.00. A farm and home of Mrs. Nancy M. Happel and G. H.

Happel, to J. A. Strite, for $4,001.00. FOUND ARROW HEAD While digging in his garden at his home in East Queen street, Charles Spielman, a Cumberland Valley engineman, unearthed an Indian spear head. It is almost perfect with the exception of a small piece broken off the point of the head.

THE SECRET OUT. "What made my lovely complexion? I do not like to tell, for it was medicine, but the nicest a woman ever took It was Lane's Family Medicine that did it This is a easant herb tea which acts favorably on the stomach and bowels, purifying the blood and cleansing the skin like magic It cures headache and backache, Druggists and ers sell 1t, 25 cents. I RAILROAD MEN PASSED THROUGH President McCrea, of the Pennsylvania, and Others on Inspection Trip to Cumbo Yards. A special train, consisting of President McCrea's private car, No. 60, and two of the private cars of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company, together with Cumberland Valley railroad officers' car, No.

40, passed through Chambersburg Friday morning at 9:25 o'clock, enroute for Martinsburg. The party consisted of James McCrea, president of the Pennsylvania railroad company; J. B. Thayer and W. W.

Atterbury, vice presidents of the Pennsylvania railroad company; George F. Baer, president Philadelphia Reading railroad company; Oscar G. Murray, president Baltimore Ohio railroad company; George F. Randolph and G. L.

Potter, vicepresident Baltimore Ohio railroad; A. M. Kinsman, chief engineer Baltimore and Ohio railroad, panied by M. C. Kennedy, vice president and general superintendent of the Cumberland Valley railroad, and other officers.

The trip, we understand, is one of inspection and to consider the advisability of increasing the yard facilities at Cumbo, near Martinsburg. On the trip to Harrisburg to meet the party the special train struck a hand car near Newville. The hand car was thrown from the track. No one was injured. IMPROVING HOUSE.

Contractor Began Work On West Market Street Residence Today, The SPIRIT recently told of the purchase of the three-story brick dwelling of the late John Sharpe, in West Market street by Enos H. Horst, the well known implement dealer. This afternoon Contractor George A. Minnich started work to remodel the building. The east wall will be torn down and an addition addition of over six feet will be added to the front.

A large plate-glass front store room will be made on the first floor. The residence entrance will be made on the west side of the dwelling. An imposing bay window will extend from the second floor to the top of the building which will be on the east corner. On the lot in the rear Mr. Horst will erect an implement shed, 126 feet long and two stories high.

When the implement shed is completed Mr. Horst will move his place of business there and also make his residence in the dwelling. The contemplated improvements will make a desirable business place and a comfortable home. HELD RECEPTION. Normal Class Met at Home of Mr.

and Mrs. Alf. M. Shields, Thursday evening the men's normal Bible class of the Church of God, held a business meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Alf. M. Shields, in North Fourth street. Following the business session a reception was tendered Fred. S.

Shields, the secretary of the class, and his bride. Those present were Luther Hefflefinger, Reuben Seilhamer, Mr. and Mrs. Sheets, Mr. and Mrs.

George S. Freet, Rev. M. T. Lovejoy and son, John P.

Feldman, J. B. Shaffer, Rev. W. W.

Noonan, Mrs. David Porter and daughter, Ruth; Mrs. Robert Clapsaddle and children, Jacob Jones, Mrs. H. B.

Blade, Mr. and Mrs. Fred. i S. Shields, Mr.

and Mrs. Alf. M. Shields, Mrs. Mary Reilly, Master Clarence Cashman, Vera Shields and Mrs.

John Doonan, Batavia, N. Y. IN FENNELL ESTATE. Hearing as Held Friday- -Jury Took Evidence. A hearing before a jury was held in the offices of Loren A.

Culp, the commissioner, in the lunacy proceedings of Mrs. Margaret Fennell, who has been an inmate in the state hospital for 15 years. The jurors were: George W. Britsch, A. L.

Solenberger, Daniel Gilbert, George Zullinger, A. L. Shafer, and George E. Reisner. Two witnesses were heard.

The jury met that night and reviewed the evidence preparatory to giving a verdict. George Fennell died at the hospital a few weeks ago as the resuit of an accident at the Cumberland Valley shops. He left no will but some insurance policies to benefit of his wife and children. His widow, Mrs. Margaret Fennell, is of unsound mind.

Advertise in the SPIRIT. MORGAN BUYS THE EQUITABLE He and His Associates Interested In Other Vast Concerns---Has Great Financial Power. The Equitable life assurance SOciety became the property of J. P. Morgan on Thursday, with its 000,000 of assets, its 350,000 outstanding policies, representing 000 of insurance.

Official announcement was made that Mr. Morgan had purchased the society's stock formerly owned by Thomas F. Ryan, now deposited with Morgan J. O'Brien and George Westinghouse, as trustees. This single transaction, although involving an enormous amount of capital, is ony a part of great 1 financial combination centering around the banking house of J.

P. Morgan and company. Control of the Equitable and Mercantile trust company passes along with the purchase. Only a few days ago control of the Guaranty trust company was taken over by a Morgan syndicate. The National Bank of Commerce, second largest in the United States, is now lodged in the same hands.

A money trust of the most gigantic proportions the country has ever known is being created with J. P. Morgan at the head. DOWNWARD COURSE. Fast Realized By (Onambers burg People.

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But you know the old saying about' the ounce of prevention Therefore use ream Balm; when the cold in the head shows itself. All druggists, or mailed by Ely 56 Warren street, New York. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA STARTED AS LUMBERJACK Edward F. Terry, Builder of Great Bridges, Began Career in the Wisconsin Woods. New York.

Edward F. Terry, "outside man" of the bridge building firm of Terry Trench, which did all the steel work on the wonderful Manhattan bridge, New York, using 40,000 tons of metal, and most of the work on the $20,000,000 Williamsburg bridge, which has the second longest span in the world, was once a lumberjack in Michigan and Wisconsin lumber woods. Left fatherless at 12, Terry, a native of New Hampshire, with only a boy's strength and a boy's education, Edward F. Terry. was compelled to become the main support of a family of six children.

He went into the woods, which he knew. In Wisconsin he happened to become a laborer on one of the first iron bridges built in that state. From that time his rise was rapid. At 25 he was superintendent of bridge work for the Alden Bridge Company, Rochester, N. and at 30 in business for himself.

Since that time he has left bridges from the Missouri to the Hudson to mark his upward trend. He is at present engaged in constructing the New York terminal of the New York Central, the biggest job he has ever tackled. NEW ASSISTANT TO KNOX Chandler Hale of the State Department Comes of a Distinguished Family. -Chandler Hale, newly appointed third assistant secretary of state, if there is anything in the hereditary proposition, ought in time to become one of the nation's greatest. Both father and grandfather have been senators and men of force.

The new secretary's father, Eugene Hale, senator from Maine 1881 to 1911, on December 20, 1871, married Mary Douglas Chandler, daughter of the late Senator Zacharias Chandler of Michigan, the Warwick of President Hayes' administration. The father was appointed postmaster general by President Grant in 1874, but declined, and was tendered the naval portfolio by President Hayes, but declined this also. So far the youngest of this national group of three at the age of 36 has served his country as secretary of the A nerican embassy at Vienna and as Chandler Hale. secretary of the American delegation to the 1907 Hague peace conference. Like his father, he is a lawyer, but unlike his father, he has confined himself to the subject of international law, which leads toward a position as secretary of state, or as diplomatio representative of his country, rather than as a career as a vote seeker.

A Gentle Rebuke. It was late in the year for strawberries, but Mrs. Beacon was determined to have some for Sunday dinner. Over the telephone came the news that they were "very fine, ma'am, very fine indeed." Being, however, a cautious housekeeper, she decided to look over the fruit herself, as the grocer was not always to be trusted. "They don't appear very good," she said, somewhat later, examining carefully a basketful.

"They look--here she extracted one and tasted look a little green. I don't know. Just let me try one." She took another. "I guess I'll take one box, please. You don't put very many in a box, do you?" she inquired.

"There was," said the grocer, respectfully, "but there's been so many ladies looking 'em over that there ain't-" "You may give me two boxes," said Mrs. Companion. SAYS WRONG IMPRESSION Secretary Reichard Writes of Item Published Some Days Ago. "Referring to an item in the SPIRIT of Dec. 1, headed "Troublesome matter may be reporte to Manager Crossman," the Altenwald Rural Telephone company is reported in this item in a way as to leave two wrong impressions, which our company asks the SPIRIT to correct First: We are unaware of any misrepresentations of the American Union company coming from our company or any member of it and stand ready to meet the person making the statement to the SPIRIT reporter.

Second: You report the number of subscribers on the Altenwald company's lines as against the number of subscribers on the New Franklin company's lines. We ask you to state facts that will leave correct impressions. JOHN E. REICHARD, Sec. FUNERAL DIRECTORS MEET Paul Kraiss Was Elected an Officer of the District Association.

The Central Pennsylvania under- taker's association, composed of ninety delegates from twenty counties, was formed in Harrisburg on Thursday. Addresses were delivered by State Registrar W. R. Batt, on the registration of deaths, and by other state officials. The officers elected are President, J.

J. Ogelsby, Harrisburg; vice president, Paul Kraiss, Chambersburg; secretary, R. C. Spicer, Harrisburg, and treasurer, G. W.

Sauter, Menges Mills, York county. What Man Is and What He Isn't. Man comes into this world without his consent and leaves without his will. During his stay on earth his time is spent in one continuous change of spe cies. In his infancy he is an angel, in his boyhood he is a devil, in his manhoed he is everything from a lizard up, in his dotage he is a fool, if he raises a family he is a chump, if he raises a small check he is a thief and the law raises the devil with him; if he is poor man he is a poor manager; if he is rich he is dishonest; if he is in politics he is a grafter, if he is out of politics you can't place him and he is an undesirable citizen; if he is a church member he is a bypocrite, if out of church he is a sinner and is damned, if he donates to foreign missions he does it for show, and if he does not he is stingy.

When he first comes into the world everpbody wants to kiss him, but before he goes out of it everybody wants to kick him; if he dies young there was a great future before him; if he lives to a ripe old age he is simply liv ing to save funeral expenses. Life is a funny road, but we all like to travel it just the same. -Amistad Tribune, Amistad, N. M. PLUCKED A JACK ROSE John Forbes, who resides in East Washington street, plucked from a stalk in his front yard a fully developed jack rose Friday afternoon.

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