Murders and sentences mark county court docket clash
Judge Telford sentences two for murder of old man Tozier to be hanged by the neck. An Italian beer case receives six months hard labor and a suspended sentence for future beer sales. A third defendant from Iselin faces a $500 fine and three months in the workhouse. Grand Jury week looms with a large list for consideration. Corbin Engine runs extensive test trips totaling about 1000 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Telford
Tozier
Mike Scorgia
Carol and
Josephine
Crescent Brewing Co
Ilegal
Mike
Iselin
Hoboken
Public sales set for December 1908 in multiple townships
Sheriff sale notices announce December 4 1908 at the Court House for properties in Brush Valley Wallopsburg and South Mahoning Townships and West Mahoning, Plumville and Washington two districts. Parcels include farms, houses and stores totaling numerous acres perches and tracts, under various suits by banks and trustees. Other items include lots, a water company stake, and a Ridge Academy trustees property, with further offerings December 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sates
Wettling
Court House
M. R.cooke
Brush Valley Township
Farmers’ Bank—Taylor
Frank, Amelia
Felix Marino
Lurge D. Mascolo
Blacklick
D. A
J. J. Palmer
T. C. McCrea— Cunningham & Fisher
Raffela Trunzo Barilaro
Antonia Barrilaro
Wallopsburg
James H. Maize
Cashler—Wingert
John P
Hollenbaugh
Conemaugh
Susan Hunter
Susan Hollenbaugh
Peeler
Home B. &. I
Asso
Cunningham & Fisher, Winslow & Calderwood
George Munro
West Wheatfield Township
John Morrison
Harhart
G. H. Magle
Harry Iseman
John Iseman
Washington
James W. Johnston
John H. Pierce
Pierce
H. W. McClincy
Clymer
J. P
Conner—Smith
R. M. Harbison
J. B. Elder
D. B. Townsend
Elder's Ridge Academy
Mary Jane Townsend
Banks
Maggie Grumbling McBeth
Uniontown
Sarah McBeth
Mack
R. L. Mahaffey
Plumvilla
Philip Pritsch
Moorhead—Pierce
Brokerage Office Reopens Under New Correspondent
W A Hamilton resumes control of the Marshall building Brokerage office with HW C Harvey of 2045 Firesimmon's Pittsburg as his correspondent. Harvey, a Pittsburg Exchange member, replaces the closed office caused by the Baxter & Co failure. Indiana Hide and Tallow Co offers top cash for hides and tallow at West Water Street Indiana Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Hamilton
Marshall Building
HW. C. Harvey
Firesimmon's Building
Pittsburg
Harvey
Pittsburg Exchange
A. B. Baxter & Co
Indiana Hide and Tallow Co
West Water Street
Indiana
Sayers College Accepts Tarentum's Challenge
The Kittanning Times reports Sayers College of Tarentum has accepted a $100 bankroll challenge from the Tarentum Tigers. Conditions call for a neutral ground game on Indiana State College grounds with last Saturday's players, gate receipts to the winner, and outside officials agreed by both teams. Indiana sportsmen are urged to attend, with a fair deal promised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sayers College
Tarentum
Kittanning Times
Tarentum Tigers
Indiana State College
Kittanning
Indiana
Indiana Sportsmen
Real estate transfers recorded since last issue
Deeds filed show numerous lots and acres changing hands across several towns including Blacklick Homer City Blairsville Blairsville Cherry Creekside and Young with prices ranging from 100 to 712900 involving buyers sellers executors and county banks listed through Recorder's Office records including titles from Pierce McMasters Graff Walker Kunkle and others in Indiana Countys district listings
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Recorder's Office
Alta
John H. Pierce
Indiana
L. &. Reed
Merrill McMasters
Cherrytree
Sumner Graff
Blacklick Township
Soard
Blacklick
Hannah Walker
D. W. Raraigh
South Mahoning
J. BH
Kunkle
George M. Bell
Homer City
Dixon Run Land Co
Mary A. Wolf
Clymer
B. B. Campbell
J. Frank Gibson
Joseph Lahr
Creekside
Jesse A. Cunningham
Berlin
Blairsville
Stewart Sides
William Caufield
Burrell
The Elk Memorial Service Planned At Library Hall
The annual Elk Memorial Service will be held at Library Hall on Sunday evening December 6 at 2 o'clock. A music program is prepared by Prof. Hamlin B. Cogswell. Three lodge members Frank Dobernack Charles A. Gessler and A L Gilbert have died in the past year. Eulogies will be given by Burgess James A. Crossman Attorney 1 Elder Peder and Hon M Co Watson. The orator will be Rev H G Teagarden Punxsutawney Western Pennsylvania. Following the address several home lodge members will speak. Public invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elk’s Memorial
B. P. O. Elks
Hamlin B. Cogswell
Lodge
Frank Doberneck
Charles A. Gessler
A. L. Gilbert
Thea
Peder
M. Co. Watson
H. G. Teagarden
Punxsutawney
Pennsylvania
Teagarden
Home Lodge
Indiana
Institute Record outlines rules programs and forecast
The Institute Record, a sixty four page volume, details institute rules, programs, forecast and entertainment commentary with directories and ads. About 359 teachers arrive Monday December 21 to report to wardling secretaries Joseph Weaver of Cherrytree and J F Russell of Rossiter. Rev I S Crawford opens the institute that afternoon as directors convene December 24 and 25.
No More Bounties Halted by Legislature Action
The Pennsylvania Legislature must appropriate funds for bounties before hunters trappers and citizens can apply to justices of the peace for remuneration in destroying wild cats foxes weasels or minks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Justices of the Peace
Personal notes of visiting and returning residents
A compilation of social notes lists Mrs. J. A. Croasman visiting Punxsutawney and many locals traveling to Pittsburg Philadelphia Saltsburg and Jeannette. Names include John R. Caldwell Miss Edna Sansom Miss Fannie Gessler Gen. Harry White and others visiting relatives and friends in Indiana Wilkinsburg Latrobe and Brooklyn with Thanksgiving and holiday visits noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Croasman
Punxsutawney
John R. Caldwell
Windber
Edna Sansom
Pittsburg
Fannie Gessler
John Pierce
Nellie Hetrick
E. W. Clark
Philadelphia
Guy Brilhart
Harry McQuown
G. T. Hamilton
Saltsburg
J. Len Harmon
Rural Valley
Indiana
I Sweeney
Glen Campbell
Mary
June Eldridge
Edward Laughlin
Wilma Gilbert
Wayne Avenue
Wilkinsburg
Belle O'Neal
Irma
Grace Cunningham
Thomas Clawson
McKeesport
Joseph A. Donnelly
Latrobe
C. A. Gessler
Mary Caldwell
Aspnes Lytle
Vernon Beatty
Blairsville Enterprise
Margaret Wilson
Washington, D. C
George Fulton
Griffith Bilis
Edgewood
Mary Vitale
Nellie Burns
Elizabeth Rush
Derry
Bertha. Graff
John iPerce
Brooklyn
N. Y
Ida Gailey
Braddock General Hospital
L Lawrence Jackard
Jordan Shoe Store
Peerless Shoe Company
George A. Sloan
Ida Sloan
Vandergrift
R. M. Wilson
Anna G. Wilson
Jane Wilson
Harry Wilson, Jr
California
Alfred Bary
Detroit
Mich
George R. Stewart
Aguba
Presbyterian Ladies to Host Chicken and Waffles Supper
The Ladies of the Presbyterian Ald Society announce a chicken and waffle supper on Thursday evening, December 13, and a Roast Turkey Dinner on Friday evening, December 13, in the basement of the Presbyterian church. Donations may be left with Mrs. D. B. Taylor on Tuesday, November 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Presbyterian Ald Society
Presbyterian Church
D. B. Taylor
Executor's Notice in Estate of Elijah J Penrose
Letters testamentary for Elijah J Penrose of West Wheatfield township granted to J W Wakefield executor of New Florence K F D No 3. Those with claims to present them for settlement and those indebted to estate to make prompt payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. H
Elijah J. Penrose
West Wheatfield Township
Local items of interest and political results from Indiana
The paper reports cooking school progress at the Epis copal church led by Prof Detlets and notes locals Harry McKallo and Philly Reith Miller in Indiana. It covers a typhoid case, jail and asylum tours, a church musicale, Sabbath School rallies, a manslaughter verdict, fashion critiques, a football finale at Indiana Normal, and Pennsylvania election returns with Taft, Bryan and Debs tallies across counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Episcopal Church
Detlets
Harry McKallo
Philly Reithmiller
Indiana
Inarianna
Reithmiller
Greensburg Morning Press
Wvening Tribune
Tribune-Press
Tribune
Casselman
Board of County Commissioners
Marl
Havng
Vixmont Asylum
Western Penitentiary
Junior Missionary Society
First United Presbyterian Church
Indiana County Sabbath School Association
Penn Run
Glen Campbell
Richmond
Marion Center
Jacksonville
West Lebanon
Shreloda
Plumville
Coverde
Hagerstown
Mid
Charles N. Cline
William H. Reynolds
Pondsville
Cline
Larry Man
Indiana Normal
Pittsburg
Gayley
Extension of Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad Assured
The Pittsburg Sunday Fest reports the Buffalo and Susquehanna railroad will extend from Sagamore to the Allegheny river, with options taken on coal lands near Biderton Shady Plain South Bend and nearby areas. It is linked to Wabash finance and may connect with Brookville and Mahoning road at Clinton across Kelly's Station, potentially starting after year’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Buffalo & Susquehanna
Sagamore
Allegheny River
Kittanning Times
Biderton
Shady Plain
South Bend
Brookville & Mahoning Road
Clinton
Kelly’s Station
Wabash
Hessemer
Scaffold Collapse Injures Worker on Water Street
Joseph Mikesell and two fellow carpenters fell from a scaffold at a Water Street house built by B. B. Campbell last Wednesday. Mikesell suffered a fractured skull, scalp wound, three broken ribs, and contusions but is expected to recover. the others escaped injury. Dr. G. E. Simpson treated him at his office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Mikesell
Water Street
B. B. Campbell
Mikesell
G. E. Simpson
Indiana County Agricultural Society Keeps Officers After Prosperous Year
The Indiana County Agricultural Society met in the Court House Arbitration room to hear a Treasurer report showing a $2,661.27 balance, up from $900 last year, with 1908 deemed prosperous. Officers and managers were re-elected, including President M. F. Jamison and Secretary David Blair, along with several new vice presidents from multiple towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana County Agricultural Society
Court House
M. F. Jamison
David Blair
D. C G. Mack
James McGregor
A. W. Mabon
J. Elder Peeler
James W. Mack
Indiana
J. O. Clark
Glen Campbell
John McBrier
Marion Center
Hi. Green
Plumville
M. H. Henry
Blairsville
J. Sides
Blacklick
H. Truby
Brushgalley
James Flickinger
Homer City
Elder's Ridge Academy Schedules Sale in Impending Action
The Elder's Ridge Academy faces sale by execution at the suit of Mrs. Mary Jane Townsend after debts from a gymnasium addition. Trustees R H Harbison T B Wider and D B Townsend are named, with Mr. Elder deceased. The property includes a 7,920 square foot lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elder’s Ridge Academy
Elder's Ridge Academy
Mary Jane Townsend
R. H. Harbison
T. B. Wider
Four Pittsburg Hunters Arrested For Off Season Shooting
Four Pittsburg hunters were arrested by Game Warden H. H. Almes and brought before Alderman, placed under $500 bond for appearance before Squire Crossman on Tuesday December 8 to answer the charge of hunting out of season after killing eleven rabbits on October 14, one day before the season opened. The accused are George W. Murray H. L. Dewitt John F. Peterson and R. C. Ferguson, arrested Monday by Constable Alex Coyle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
H. H. Almes
Squire Crossman
George W. Murray
H. L. Dewitt
John F. Peterson
R. C. Ferguson
Alex Coyle
Changes To P R R Schedule Make Early Departures
The railroad board approved last week’s requested timetable updates. The 12:20 departure becomes 12:05 with direct connection at Intersection to an express train arriving Pittsburg around 2:00, plus usual eastern connections. The 4:00 departure moves to 3:50 to connect with a Philadelphia express arriving at midnight. Rumors of new branch trains lack reliable sourcing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Scarlet Fever Epidemic Alarm in Sharpsburg and Aspinwall
Sharpsburg residents fear a scarlet fever outbreak with 17 cases reported to authorities. Aspinwall faces a similar spread and warns that public schools may close if the epidemic does not abate. Impure water blamed for the illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharpsburg
Aspinwall
Regent Deaths in Blairs ville Intersection and Plumville
Ruth E Hitwood aged 10 dies at home from heart trouble at Blairs ville Intersection funeral held at intersection M H church Rev CO A Hartung interment Blairsvile cemetery public schools closed. Douds Roy Douds three year old dies at Cly mer avenue funeral held in Plumville interment made. Ruby Hilda Snicher dies at 21 of tuberculosis near Glen Campbell funeral by Rev Carll Hast Mahoning cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spicher
Ruby Hilda Snicher
Glen
Campbell
Rev
Carll
Hast Mahoning
Two Local Obituaries Report Deaths in Blairsville and Centerville
Patrick O'Donnell aged 32 died after an operation at Blairsville Infirmary and was buried at Ss Simon and Jude's cemetery after funeral services. Johns W B Johns aged 65 a Civil War veteran died at his Centerville home. funeral from the residence and interment at U P cemetery in Bethel.
Married records from Johnstown and nearby towns
A digest of wedding notices: Albert T. Church and Anna Belle Watson wed at United Presbyterian Church in Johnstown with attendants Leroy Walf and May McMasters. Other ceremonies include Winslow and Rinn marriage at the bride’s parents, plus several couples tying the knot in Dilltown, Johnstown, and Buffalo area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Johnstown High School
A. P. Watson
South Seventh Street
Indiana Normal
Johnstown
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Mens OF
OURS
Corbin
City Hall
Butler
Beaver
Mercer
Zollenople
Harmony
Portersville
Wheeling
Saxonburg Springs
Bakerstown
Youngstown
the Institute Record
J. W. Wakefield
New Florence
K. F
Harrisburg
Taft
Roosevelt
Bryan
Parker
Prohibition
Allegheny
Venango
McCalmont
Debs
Schuylkill
Luzerne
Lackawanna
Northumberland
Berks
Lehigh
Northampton
Luzerne County
York
Mc.Kinley
Winslow—Rinn
Eugene Hale Witslow
Misa Margaret Salome Rinn
Brelde
G. A. Rinn
Winslow
Yale University
Rinn
Steen—Mardis
Flora Mardis
C. Clark Steen
Dilltown
Baar Hotel
William Pfeffer
Evangelical Church
Shomo—Gill
Nellie V. Gill
Daniel Gill
Willam J. Shomo
William, Shomo
Lockport
E. J. Overdorf
Franklin Evangelical Church
Irvin—Gardner
Benjamin Irvin
James Irvin
Verna’ Gardner
Mra
M. Gardner
Buffalo
Altoona
Mucci—Leezvatl
Lenora Leezvatl
Italy
Dominico
Ernest
James. A. Crossman
Kanouff
Shielda
Moryis L. Kanouff
Mary. J. Shields
Juneau
Squire James. A. Crogeman
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