Monessen Daily Independent, The (Newspaper) - September 17, 1928, Monessen, Pennsylvania l v J V j f I V r h H r i i n i MONESSEN Fair tonight and Tuesday Cooler tonight VOLUME NO 81 PA MONDAY SEPTEMBER v i 1 f i i ki 10 P r fr i ft t h J P j I i M n i J f f ll TWO CENTS PER WO j f j i i p j j h i i -j L x H 4 4 H I Ft Early Morning Blaze Routs From f Threatened Structure County Officers i i i Conduct Raid Prompt Work Of Firemen Saves Three Story Build- ing From Destruction FIRE AT MILL The fire department answered two alarms early Sunday morning within an hour of each other within the same The first alarm was sounded at when a fire was dis- covered in a three story frame build- ing at 1240 Schoonmaker avenue f Lieut Kichinko and Motorcycle Officer were making their rounds when they discovered smoke issuing from the rear of the build- was sent to give the alarm while in order to awaken the occupants of the house fired his revolver several times in the air and they entered the smoke filled building to aid the victims to The fire originated in the furnace room in the rear of a small store on the first floor by Walter and had gained considerable headway before it was discovered The firemen responded promptly and by efficient work were able to con- fine the most damage to the first The stock of the store was and the fire ate its way up Eugenic Baby Makin survey the wea ther boarding to the second ville shown with the baby born to her in a Chicago hospital She said the father -had been chosen for his physical and mental fitness Engineering crews of the burgh West Virginia Railroad com- pany were reported running surveys in the vicinity of Hazel Kirk and Van Voorhis today under general orders for advancement of this work before cold weather breaks The VanVoorhis activities were be- ing conducted quietly and it was re- ported that very little could be ed about the survey through that tion According to plans and the tive route schedules the railroad extension from Cochran's Mills through Charleroi to would not touch VanVoorhis but run through Hazel Kirk Frye Station One corps of engineers is working Eleven Men And Four j j ii Women Are Taken Into Custody Saturday Night WOMEN HELD Large Delegation To Ft 1 Attend Sunday -7 1 V 1 v V H r j t Convention This Week Site For Statue County Detective Carl Gressler aided by several other con- ducted a raid on the notorious Budd's Hill at Webster last Saturday night and as a result four women and en men were taken into custody Budd's Hill has been the scene of much revelry in past years and ty and township authorities have conducted numerous raids on various places there days in the mills about this section is an for the at Budd's Hill and realizing that the visistors would be out in force over the week end the raid Was planned and the taken by f Alderman Fred Upton was cut of Donora and other corps are j canea to Webster and accepted bonds tive in the vicinity of from the male visitors for a hearing Wi I I I i t v I t n J J and third but the firemen ed the household goods The age was estimated at At three o'clock the department was again called out when fire was discovered in No 2 rod mill of Steel The firemen responded but their services were not needed as the mill department had extinguished the but t i slight Mrs James Griffith died early Sunday morning while a patient in the Citizens General New Kensington Griffith was taken suddenly ill last Wednesday night and a consultation of physicians resulted in the patient being removed to the and Union Finleyville on the following Stork Active The stork was busy over the weak an operation was performed It was found that an infected organ had become abscesser and that initis had set in From the ning there seemed to be a chance for life but slight hope was entertained and the patient suffered until the above time when death The Griffith family formerly ed in this where Griffith held the position of superintendent cf the the following births having been Tri-Cities Water later be- All committees from Westmoreland county Odd Fellows ments and cantons interested in the last L F county memorial vice are urgently requested to meet in L O F Hallf Greensburg at o'clock Wednesday tember 19 At this time reports will be and such other business trans- acted as the representatives may deem expedient and proper At the first called meeting some having prominent parts were prevented from but it is hoped that all will be out at this time so that all matters may be closed up and ports made to lodges interested while the four women were taken in- to tow by the county officers and lodged in at Hazel alleged proprietress of place will be held for court on a charge of conducting a disorderly house The visitors gave fictitious names and probably will not appear for a hearing A site has been secured on private property of the Country club for the Pennsylvania statue of Madonna of the which was awarded to Washington last ter by the national committee of the Daughters of the American tion and the National Old Trails Road Association There will be only 12 of in the entire United one being awarded to each state through which the National Old Trails route passes from coast to coast The National pike through Washington county is a link in this transcontinental which lows only historic routes After the Pennsylvania statue was voted to Washington to be erected on a site at the corner of the court house lawn in Washington at the Cherry the Pennsylvania State Arts Commission refused to approve the statue on this location Death removed one of Webster's United officials of the Illinois mine workers will a salary reduction cf a it was voted at a meeting Special Busses To Convey Delegates To New h sing ton Thursday And Friday GOOD PROGRAM A best known highly f fch gt t Board tho ed when Sara Slicker A ten pound son was born to Mr and Mrs Andrew Fordanich of 308 Schoonmaker avenue Saturday ing at 10 o'clock The child has been named Andrew A weighing nine was born to Mr and Mrs Charles of 218 Seneca night at 11 o'clock and James Adams f No 3 announce the birth of a ten pound at day Arthur Fuori of Chestnut are the proud ents of a born yesterday ing transferred to the New ton district where he has held a similar position for the past ten years The funeral take place Tuesday afternoon Services will be held at the 431 Keystone Mt the pastor of the United Presbyterian church of officiating Interment will be made in the cemetery at that place The deceased is survived by the husband and one Anna aged DANCE Every Saturday and Tuesday at the New Italian Hall Admission Saturdays ladies 50 Admission ladies 25 gents 75 cents aged 50 died Saturday ing at the though in poor health for some Mrs Slicker been better and was m htr school class the to Its r death She was sn active member of tho Webster M E church all her life and her passing has saddened the entire community She is survived by one of one Lavina Mann at homo antl two Funeral services will be held from the late home day afternoon at Rev of the E church Interment will fallow at Fells te ry union The reduction is equal to that taken by coal diggers under a now wage agreed upon in a ence between Officials arid i i J representatives of in cage The new scale went into effect Referring to the new scale for L president of the Illinois coal operators said he believed it would bring about an increase cf fifty per cent in coal production in the state and the regaining of many of the markets were lost during the period of shutdown of Illinois mines LOUETTA t The mode started in The annual county convention of the Westmoreland Sabbath School Association will be held in New sington on September 20 and It is just ten years since the convention was entertained by New Kensington Sunday School trick It was a great contention IB 1918 There was a large registrar tion and a splendid program was on The New Kensington district en- the visiting Sunday school v-v Preparations about completed for the entertainment of the tion this year will be the First The ML EM First Baptist and formed will be The ing will be entertained in the homes of New Pan- and Arnold for lodging on Thursday night and day morning The Teacher Training Banquet on Thursday evening and the Counterfeit and 450 bank notes declared by Government exports to have been made by skilled are in circulation in Pittsburgh Two The Waugman Electric local a jewelry store and several agents for the Maytag have moved their offices from 415 Donner other merchants have been At the Olympic theatre on avenue to 456 Dormer the j day a spurious was changed room formerly occupied by the at the front entrance and an attempt gomery Transfer Co The new made to pass another at the Dia- cation gives the company a more i mond street ticket window The man tral location but has necessitated tendered the counteract securing of a fireproof wareroom for the stock of washers got because he retrieved the and ran away 1 Announce Program For Dedication Exercises Formal dedicational exercises an elaborate dinner will be the new Pittsburgh and Lake j vcd Jefferson township school Erie railroad Y C building at Newell held tember 19 building has been completed and with the of a few 1 or is ready for the formal an event which will go down in the history of little as one of the greatest ever to there The exercises Wednesday will be attended by high officials of railroads from all sections of the Eastern states The Honorable James Davis is billed on the program and announced his intention of arriving at the scene of activities via airplane A well laid out by the dedicational will begin promptly at and continue until late in the general inspection of the build- ing will be made by the officials and visitors immediately following the a series of recreations have provided to follow the in- tour Included in the is a baseball tennis trap horseshoe matches and quoits Starting at 5 and continuing until Joseph anl his Joseph Tray of filed a claim yesterday in the office against George F Peoples Banquet on Friday evenin always notable better than usual this year will be bright as well as of the great Sunday school mee The Family must not be The consists of 168 don of Charleroi to secure the ment of for injuries in an auto wreck June 1928 on the road between Arena ami New It is alleged by Tray that his car was wrecked and his year-old son was injured gymnasium Arrangements have been completed for a special train to leave Pittsburgh at p m to transport officials and visitors to The program for the day Flag Raising at p public school children assisted by L E Police department band Dedicational p m P L E Police orchestra invocation Presentation of the building by Mr J B vice president of the board of Newell Y M C A Selection by the P L E tet Br J P chairman transportation National council Y M C New York j Vocal duet Miss Edna Wilson and Mr Arthur Eynon Mr G K senior National Council of Y M C New York City Vocal Mr Arthur Eynon Address by Honorable James J secretary of D Lang by the audience United Sept great hurricane from out of the In- dies dealt destruction and possibly death to the Florida peninsula today South of on the east towns and cities including West Palm beach were cut off Gravest fears were felt for inhabitants of the stricken area The tempest was believed roaring inland in all fury of winds that cut off house laid low cation systems and caused suffering and perhaps death For hours there had been no not even by of what had occurred in a 50 mile belt near West Palm which before the winter influx of visitors is a city cf The United Press Correspondent at early today telephoned that a screeching wind of perhaps 100 miles an hour velocity was rocking houses there Then the line went Titusville is 150 miles north of Palm beach Inland at Orlando rocked in the tempest The storm appeared to be smashing its way across the Peninsular Like a gigantic sword it cut down everything in its path Communication lines were ly out Public utilities crippled Scores of towns and cities on the edge of the storm's path were in darkness as a last night Before wires to West Palm beach reports came of house tops sailing the trees pulled up like grass and seas 35 to 40 feet high pounding on the shore What was happening to human lives endangered in the unprecedented storm remained temporarily a northward through Jacksonville ter of conjecture day as residents of cautious nature Red Cross and American Legion moved out of the state to escape the units mobilized for relief work at Jacksonville and Tampa hurricane hazards At Daytona during the the Senator Joseph T main highway was clogged with the cratic candidate for bound for Georgia was reported on a special train that j or further north left Miami last midnight as a relief It was a matter of speculation here expedition Doctors and nurses were las to whether the worst part of on beard and railroad officials hoped j storm struck the Palm Fort to reach the vicinity of West Palm Fort Pierce or the Inland -i 9 beach sometime today with of 000 was under a today district near Lake which suffered so severely in the 1926 blow Clifford amateur radio op- V V FT w VJ The hurricane caused the baro- here was unable to meter to drop with as it innate today with any m the fact all over the Peninsula At i affected area Other amateurs re- 5 o'clock it was a reading the same silence to calls At on Lake Okeechobee the flood danger was added to that On Page Beard of Trade announced as lowest on record A motley of cars passed i Oscar former weight is death's door at the home of his Eddie also a well-known former boxer at Minneapolis Word was received hero Saturday by friends saying the former boxer was rapidly failing and could not live s Oscar has resided in for some time and prior to that was employed at the Pittsburgh Steel plant leaders arid annually they get er at this for ship and It is not hard tb the leaders to this fnn V A1 real c nourishing and sustaining three periods of divisional i at day At each period meets the the 1 and applies the specific remedy Monessen will be local executive officers busy planning tickets were placed in ill the schools of the city yeste the United Brethren church secured the ty from that having planned to attend Friday Busses leave the Baptist church hoth day and Friday at 7 o'clock in thg morning Anyone to atten will please notify T Monessen f t J i f pi in the criminal court today for violating the liquor A Immigrant I Chuckle ic V J Thirty-nine cents was i the body of a steer butchered h gome time last night an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Ted row Jewelry 511 maker avenue When Mr Tedrow arrived at establishment this morning he found that someone had attempted to jimmy the lock on the door but was evidently frightened away before gaining entrance Police were notified and are ing an -s r Joseph Safier is spending a fow days on a buying trip and upon his return will have an exclusive line of new fall apparel to offer to the public for the menL i NOTICE EAGLES There will be a special of F 0 Eagles Tuesday night at 8 o'clock AH members are urged to Zendarsky of this on trial today Judge PJt Whitten in the Westmoreland county criminal courts charged with an automobile while was arrested last July 4 wreck United al of William H- Taylor of as Democratic nominee for Congress in Westmoreland was announced today by state election be present L X Pfl The Social the dies Auxi of the meet Tuesday evening with the social committee of the men at the new city hialL i Unusual Happenings A an i A poor alien Doubtless held up nationally laws at the feline equivalent of after a sweetheart in one of America s most exclusive alley had for her 1 Patsy a barber with a v t shop at Schoonmaker avenue arrested Saturday night on a charge of being drunk arid A customer got in Patsy's chair at 4 o'clock for a hair cut and an hour and a half later was still the Patsy having stopped times to make a trip to the lar The customer happened to glance the mirror and discovered that in- stead of a hair cut he was almost be- ing scalped He then attempted to leave the chair but the barber tempted io detain him and tore his shirt The affair was reported to the police and Patsy taken into custody He was assessed a fine of and costs and in addition must buy a new shirt for the dissatisfied John Seemore of 1609 Schoonmaker avenue went to last to witness a midnight show Returning about he was unable to gain entrance to his own home Once in the house he another man in room His Wife stated that man must have crawled in a without her stated that he came through the John to task with such force called the charged the husband the this V ji ri f r i 1 v V 1 i T If i I i P i 1 HV V v i i V1 i- 1 vY il W 4
