Blairsville Elects Brown Burgess in Big Win
Indiana voters approve a disposal plant bond by about four to one. Prohibitionists aided by some Democrats secured an inspector in the Third ward. The Republican Burgess candidate secured a large majority with two Democrats on the ticket. M. E. Brown is re elected Burgess. Jacob Geib defeats Charles Kerler for Justice of the Peace by over two hundred votes.
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Eitizens
Indiana
Burgess
M. E. Brown
Hon. M. Brown
Blairsville
Jacob Geib
Charles Kerler
Justice of the Peace
Acapulco
Mexico City
Fie
Damain Flores
Fire Department
Mite
Associated Press
Guerrero
Parific
Mexico
Maxie
Magee Elected Mayor of Pittsburg Triumphs Over Opponents
William Adiison Magee, Republican, was elected mayor of Pittsburg over Stephenson, a Citizens candidate, and Hearst, Democrat, by a majority of at least 30 000.
Ministers Fail to Name Candidate for County Judge
Armstrong county ministers and Prohibitionists gathered in Kittanning to choose a judge candidate for the forthcoming campaign. Clergy debated W. D. Patton Rush Fullerton and FR LILORY, Republicans and D. W. King Democrat, but adjourned without selecting. Prohibitionists then met with their executive committee led by Rev. P C Brooks of Apollo and left the issue unresolved, risking a rift with the Anti-Saloon League as they tabled resolutions urging massing the Fair local option bill.
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Armstrong County
Kittanning
W. D. Patton
Rush Fullerton
FR. Ll
Yory
W. King
McBride
W. L. Roulston
Vandergrift
P. C Brooks
Apollo
AntiSaloon League
Personal notices span Creek to Punxsutawney and back
Local brief records list W L Johnsson at Creek site and many names. John H Rochester visits Marion Center, Hon M G Watson returns from Harrisburg, Ti S Spicher from Hillsdale visits the county seat, and others travel to Philadelphia Indiana and Jeannette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Johnsson
Creeksite
John H. Rochester
Marion Center
M. G. Watson
Harrisburg
Ti. S. Spicher
Hillsdale
Werk
Clyde Gessler
Vist
Philadelphia
Harry’ Garman
Jeannette
Indiana
Campbell
Charles G. Burhenn
Peter Garman
Fred W. Myers
Youngstown
Eugens Martin
the Normal
Punxautawnhey
Frank Stoke
Derry
Mary Fiscus
Ghureh Street
W. D. Jones
Latrobe
E. K. Wood
T. A. McKinstry
Jordan Shoe
Punxsutawney
Er. K. Fiat
Carolyn
Lamberton
Fayette County
M. F. Jamison
Fiat
Carolyn Fiat
Ligonier
D. H. Bes
W. C. Lowry
Local railroad official buys Buick Model 16 pickup
Davis the superintendent of the Blacklick and Yellow Creek Railroad Company and Dr. Cummers of Rexis Rain County retire from Rexis. They purchase a Buick Model 16 pickup from WLS Neff, Buick salesman. Delivery expected about April 1.
Local items note high school basketball win and rail accident
Blairsile's High School beat the Indiana Scholastics 28 to 20 in Library Hall on Friday. Other notes include Mrs. Fred Snyder of Olivet paralyzed February 6 with poor recovery prospects, Barney Coyle wintering 14 head at Clarion, and Armstrog County Bar Association officers for 1909. Public building site chosen in Kittanning, lumber purchase in Cherrytree, death of Arthur Gould Yates, Palm Beach marriage of Oliver Gilpin and Emily Reynolds, and a Pennsylvania Special derailed near Newton Hamilton with serious injuries.
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Blairsile
Indiana
Library Hall
Fred Snyder
Olivet
Barney Coyle
Clarion
Charlie Wilton
Rue Hal
Lou Patchen
Louise McKerron
Armstrog County Bar Association
H. A. Heilman
John 3. Shaffer
FB. E. Lawson
Harry P. Boarts
W. MM. Piper
Point Street
Salisburg
Oliver Katz
Secretary of the
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad Company
Waldorf, Astoria Hotel
New York
Society of Genessee
Yates
Oliver Gilpin
Wigy
Armstrong County
Pennsylvania Railroad
Newton Flatmilton
Fer Uchory
Senator Stephenson's long political spendthrift arc
A Madison World correspondent details Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin, nearing eighty, with claims of spending about 1.5 million dollars since 1858 to gain political prestige. It notes costs tied to Lafollette, his foe, and outlines his career from lumbering New Brunswick roots to Wisconsin politics and two decades in Congress before a 1907 Senate appointment.
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Isaac Stephenson
Wisconsin
Senate
Madison
New York World
LaFoallette
Lafollette
Stephenson
New Brunswick
Oscanaha
Mich
Milwaukee
Marinette
Congress
Spooner
Social Dowgs Hosts and Teas Highlight Local Gatherings
Notes on gatherings in Midladelphia and Oak streets show Mr and Mrs J Victor Peeler hosting euchre with friends, Miss Neto Duthrie giving tea, Miss Anna Wing entertaining, Mrs William Wrigley hosting a musical tea, and the New Century club planning a banquet for husbands and male friends at the Presbyterian church.
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J. Victor Peeler
Midladelphia Street
Euchre
Neto Duthrie
Sixth &Tied
Anna Wing
Oak Street
Wiliam Wrigley
South Glevenih Street
Clud
Presbyterian Church
Lent Begins February 24 Ash Wednesday Observed
The Lenton season starts February 24 with Ash Wednesday and ends six weeks later after Easter. The Pittsburgh diocese issues fasting rules for Catholics over 21, allowing one full meatless day and limited evening meals on meat days, with exemptions for age health and labor.
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Diocese of
Pittsburg
Bank Robbery At Barnesville Ends In Haste
A mid aged stranger robbed the National Bank at Barnesville Ohio at noon Monday, extorting 41 dollars from cashier Frank Harrison with a revolver. Harrison, unarmed and with no assistance nearby, complied as the robber fled. A Panama Canal dispatch notes the Newport’s first Pacific entrance run toward the canal, Taft absent from the ceremony. Indiana mourns Mrs Cordilla Rice Kimmell, longtime community figure, who died after chronic illness and internal hemorrhage. She leaves son Harry, daughter Mary, and a large family. husband Lt Commander Kimell formerly in the Navy and now Coast Survey worker in Washington.
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Orly
National Bank
Barnesville
Ohio
Frank Harrison
Harrison
Panama
Pacific Mail
Newport
Pacific Entrance
Canal
Naos Island
Naos
Commierce
Taft
Indiana
Keith
Cordilla Rice Kimmell
Wimmell
Conrad Rice
Carlar
Kimnell
South Seventh Street
M. H. Wilson
Kimmell
Harry Kimell
United States Naval Academy
Coast Survey
Washington
Mary K
M. Henderson Wilson
Wilson & Wood
Kimmel
Frank
Edward K. Wood
Regent Deaths in Kittanning Area Prompt Local Obits
A list of obituaries from February 1909 notes Duncan Karns of Kittanning and James Johnston of Saltsburg among prominent locals. Entries mention Kerr of Smicksburg, Catherine Hadden, Anne Rohrer, James Hawthorne, Carrie Cochran Black, infant deaths at Blairsville and West Lebanon, Elrick, Mrs J L Carter, and Leonidas Townsend, highlighting long lives, families, and communities across Armstrong County towns.
Victims of Pneumonia Die In Separate Rooms
A couple, Michael and Catherine Yeager, long married, died within hours of each other in their Edmund Street home after pneumonia. The feeble husband passed at 1 30 pm on Monday, shortly after learning of his wife’s death, ending a 56 year marriage in a quiet end near their bed in a small upper room.
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Edmund _ street
Catherine Yeager
Mick
Pneumo
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Burgess Wilson
Tee
Wleming
Taylor
Sloan
D. Eee
Rene
Wiggins
P Collector
Boucher
High Constable
Barr, R
Etette
Dixon
Wheeler
Manners
Lenatiislery Peterman
Stewart
S. M. Griffith
Prohibition
B. Manners
Ross
Hill
Frank H. Daugherty
Samuel Cunningham
Ren & Dem
Frank H. Learn
Prohibtion
Council
Ira A. Myers
Fred Herlinger
M, Glassford
Lcense
Indian Brewing Co
Grant Snyder
John P. Witspatrick
Glen Campbell Borough
New Capitol
W. J. Daugherty
Ikossiter
Canoe Township
Rossiter
Alexander Dunbar
Glen Campbell
C. H. Moore
Fourth Ward
Moore
M.S. Murray
Ross‘iter
Dance Township
Brandon
Charlies
Tf. Noldenberger
Heilwood
Pine Township
Heilwood Inn
M. Wortman
First Wari
Clawson
Watt Kinter
Chambersville
Rayne Township
Christ G. Brixner
Wehrum
Buffington Township
Black Lick Inn
Thomas F. Callan
Creekside
Keystone
J. H L. Ake
Arcadia
Montgomery Township
W. F. Neeley
Clymer
Neely
Milton Hallman
Cherrytree
Hallman
R. F. Getty
Getty House
James W. Mahaffey
The
New National Hotel
Harry E. Shrader
Secord Ward
National Fotel
W. Zimmerman
Joseph Moore
Lovejoy
First Township
Pleasant Valley
Jacob Ober
Gipsy
Ober
E. Empfield
Second Ward
New Indiana House
J. A. White
Clymer Hotel
Borough of
W. H. Farnsworth
Resdence
Kerr Avenue
Judge
J. Dry Brownlee
First Presbyterian Church
F. Ernest Work
James I. Chapman
James J. Atuent
Normal
A. B. Teltrick
Buble
J. L. Allison
Wilkinsburg
D. J. Waller
Seamsburg Normal
John P. Irkin
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
J.T. Bell
John §. Fisher
William. C. McKee
America
HH. F. King
Messrs. Thayer Bros
New Castle
Hyde-Murphy Co
Ridgway
Indiana Electric Co
Wagan & Co
Jack" London
Hyde Murphy & Co
J. T. Ball
Oliver Fry
Secrary
H. P. Griffith
John §. Efstings
W. Fred Wettine
Lewis Hay
J. M. Loellard
Elmer W Allison
G. Meade Marshall
W.S. Daugherty
Jesse McKean
Fawnae
James J. Peterman
Pennsylvania Station
Truby Elkin
BW. & BP
Kaene
Duncan Karns
Karns
Kittannin
Dune. Karns! Rifles
Freeport
Johnston
James
Saltsburg
Mr. Johnston
New Alexandria
Gurylya
George M. Hine
Avonmore
Mary
Stella Johnston
New York City
Frances Johnston
North Side
W. Z. Johnston
Seattle
Wash
Robert
John B
Frances
Hadden
Catherine Hadden
Penn Run
Eliza
Margaret Hadden
W. Sproul
Harmony Cemetery
Hawthorne
James F. Hawthorne
Brookville
106Th
Rofsin
George Rofsin
John Rofsin
Adrian
Dillinger
Bert Dillinger
West Lebanon
South Bend
Elrick
Jacob Wilson Elrick
Livermore
Elvick Junction
Iowa
J. L. Carter
Saltsburg Bathe Works
Townsend
Leonidas ‘Townsend
Edmon
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