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McKean Democrat (Newspaper) - July 10, 1919, Smethport, Pennsylvania Volume Xii will Oil West Bank streets As u. Result of an Appeal to the Smith pc Borough Council made by a committee consisting of several citizens to take action toward eliminating the dust nuisance which prevails on several streets in the Borough and More pronounced on West main and Bank streets the Council at its Reg ular july meeting held last monday evening adopted a Resolution to buy thirty barrels of Road Oil at the Low est Price obtainable and have these iwo streets thoroughly oiled. Owner of property adjacent to these Street or sections of streets will be asked contribute toward the Cost. Following is be minutes of the coun Oil meeting a regular meting inc Ebrouk was called to order by pres Dent pro Tern. B. T. Garlick unan selected at p. M. Monda july 7. The following members were pres ent b. T. Garlick 3. S. Hull Claude Hackett and John Lindholm. Burgess Warley Gifford and Solie Lii it i personal mention in i Lark Illi in i Roll i stun. Archie Mincer relatives in . Ohio last Wotli. Robert i Hope is i business visitor in n. Y., this week. Wonlu i twinn of porn Allegany was snit Liburt visitor monday evening. Or. And mrs. K. E. Boulon Weie lean business visitors wednesday of Lis week. Miss Toile Freeman left sunday for Ira Ford where slip is attending sum Mer school. Judge j. W. Bouton returned Mon a night from Wellsboro where he attended court. W. M. Farnham returned wednes Iny from Buffalo where he has Bee for the last week. Mrs. V. B. Bouton and sons of new Kensington pa., Are visiting Friend ind relatives in lotto. Mrs. John Samilp Atigh entertained few friends monday evening at he Home on Franklin Street. Or. And mrs. Russell Abbey of Bill Bank were guests at the. Home of go Abbey on Bank Street sunday. P. B. Brown left monday Foi Field after having spent two week with his family on water Street. Misses Freeman and Berni Terry and Dudley Day and Robe disc were Kane visitors last Frida Meki an o Cut Lieut a my describes trip to Roumania says the natives have Fath in Wilson Tor Thomas h. Morrison were pres ent. The minutes of the previous meet ing were real and approved As read. Or. Halpenny or. Mayo and Sev eral other citizens were present and asked Borough to Abate dust Nui Sance on main Street and Bank St. Moved by Hackett and seconded by Xun Holm that or. Garlick get the ii a Best Price possible and order thirty Sale at the barrels of Road Oil and have same put i store mrs. J. W. Boulon mrs. Mary it sey mrs. V. B. Bonton and mrs. E. Bouton were Bradford visitors Satu Day. V. B. Bouton left monday for n Kensington pa., after having Visi friends and relatives in town for a f Days. Kose Herzog and Lucile Llovio following account letter to ten by lieutenant William h. Of win. A. Farnum of the Buffalo met port. Appeared in press june 2c, 1919. An excellent description Hope to 1 0-s been forgotten. Of Swiss Rui Iliin scenery a graphic Story of Enes along Tho route from Paris to Char Cal and the amount of detail solved in preparing for the trip pm the Gist of an interesting letter Cei Ved by William Farnham from son lieutenant William h. Farn who is stationed near Paris with american Relief forces. Lieutenant Farnum is a graduate of i Fayette High school. He later took three year course at Cornell univer to and after America s entry into War enlisted a private in it He was promoted to he rank of sergeant and finally made army. Lieutenant that travelling in Europe half Clad by Lent children Are but Ihler elder s miniatures. To them at Levist is due happiness of ignorance but hard in Isle def already left its imprint to their sombre Little faces. The remainder of our journey peopled with these in even else generally As Al travelled East Ward through Vania and approached the Hou Manlan Border condition averaged bet the and Kouman Peasi Rrt although ragged and dirty the croatian has an upstart in vigor an a rustic dignity that Marks a spirit Only unbroken by adversity but fit of Cope wit i the harsh conditions of their lot. in the afternoon of this Day that 1 Nade use of the Little German tic Psi Vii Aii Sale of real estate Oak i is Lii a by Sivani h tin in administrator if ii. La a i n. I. F Riis. ill if it Binm. Dei an a. Cd ii is. And Malto Public suit to us ii Diler on monday july a 1tu9, at one o clock 1. A. At the of dirt House in the Borough of Smethport i m., All of Tho right tulle claim or interest of estate of the said n. F. Ferris deceased in and to Tho following described tracts or parcels of land in the town ship of Keating county of Mckean and state of j Kennhy Waniuk 1. Bks inn inc. It a Point in the North line of lot no. 1g4 of the allot ment of Keating lands in said town ship in the Center of the Highway no. 23. Leading from Smethport to Farmers Valley thence West along by Iii North line to the Southeast Corner of lot no. 1153 org Lully conveyed by keat ing and company to George Otto thence still went along said North line of Bald lot no. 164 and North line of l no. 218, 187 rods to a Post one Why to beat the dry a Fame prohibition order which went into effect july 1 la Appal Cut from a local incident which at first thought would seem unimportant hut in weaving to Gether particulars reveals what booze a doctors will resort to in order to get their Little n a Wash room communicate lab with of Smethport s barroom per haps soft drink parlor would be More appropriate was found an empty sixteen ounce Botlic labelled Boot Iron and on the Label wan plainly slated that the contents of Tho bottle had contained eighteen cent alcohol. The directions for use. Were the dose is Ono tablespoonful for a in these Are acting As clerks during the july Fry company Days is no matter of Light import or lorry jest is fully established by or. Virnum s account of Lila trip from Paris to Bucharest. Setting aside As if secondary consequence though not its Hazard to life limb and property the wild ride in a Paris with Paris forgetful of truffle regulations beside which or. Farnum vows u. Ford on cobbles is a Model of com fort Antl the weird scramble for bag Gage along a 300-Yard front the Tri d so. On Bank Street and West end of main Street and that or. Morrison Beth oust appointed a committee of one to see property owners on West end of main Street and. Or. K. R. Gallup a tip on the committee of one to see property owners on Bank Street to see what they will towards Road Pil. Carried. The following Bills were read Thos. H. Morrison solicitor appearance of your is Given in cd Bias. Masser s advertisement in this Issue of the Democrat. The Cannada Camp fire girls were delightfully entertained tuesday evening by Carrie Natello at her Home Ohwa Leir miss Florence Shultz of Belmont n. Y., is spending the week in the Home of be brother might As Well begin with the boarding of Tho Simpson Orient express As any the journey from Trieste also said or. Farnum was but a merr Jaunt in a Side compartment 3uro Pean car the Only incident being the freeing of the conductor who eve Dently Felt that his tip was ind Tju ate. _ f our first cold Bren a fast was eaten while passing has. A. Shultz on Herzog rental of Flam to aug 1 Mechanic Street. 10, 1919, or and mrs. B. E. Bouton and or. Tween that remained to me after coating the study of that language four years ago. Invite re two Well dressed civilians on e Trai i to come in and share the which lieutenant Kea d 1 ourselves. They accept but it was not until a a been meticulously invited sit Down that they in the division line be hands formerly of keat and of Tho thence North along Tho by announced themselves As Erst Hill hungarians now Loyal Jugo lavs. They seem d touchingly cer of resident v Ilson s interest in Weir n Ninfi s an a state even to firm that Ameri intr company Bingham Enquito said division Lino 53 rods to the Road leading up the South Side of Creek at the South line of no. Thence East along said Road 172 rods and 3 feet to us intersection with the Center line of the Bald Smethport and Furm Urs Valley Highway at the Northwest Corner of lands conveyed by n. V. Fer Ris and wife to Anton Lehl by deed dated november 20, and recorded in deed Book vol. 27, Page bit Etc. Thence South along Center of said Highway 120 feet to the Southwest Corner of said Anton Lehl lot thence adults. Proportionately less for child Ren. To be taken three times a Day is required Tho dose May be increase cd or decreased according to the effect produced or just what effect was desired in Tola Case la evident from the fact that Tho bottle was empty. Is would be sent to establish lost of feet to the Southeast Jur slav boundaries. 1 confess Corner the. Was in 111-, nature of a sur hem it seemed an feasible proposal. Hauling fire in and mrs. Chafi. H. Stiltz motored and miss to Oleari of the More mileage tire co., in this Isu of the Democrat. Mrs. N. E. Simmons left sunday for in Oswayo after having week with her sister Lelia her Home Smethport Garag Gine 6.50. W. F. Specht insurance Premium Smethport water co., water j mrs. J. W. H. E. Bunce Concrete pipe c. B. Dickinson. Police duty j7-j.oo l. D Gifford labor John j. Hallstrom. St. Com. Of the new advertisement moved of Hackett and seconded by Lundholm that Bill of Smethport Ler co., he Laid on table and Secre tary take up Bills for allowance for water from Mill dam. With water co. on Mechanic Street and balance of Bills As read be paid. Carried. Burgess reported received from licenses. received from fines. Communication from the Smith til ass co. Requesting Bridge on Long Avenue be repaired read. Commissioner was instructed to close Road at Bridge Over Blacksmith Brook. I moved by la acct and seconded by Hull that Council adjourn. Carried. Meeting adjourned at p. M of through Croatia which Flat and Muddy country whose prevailing tone of Brown is broken Only by the Sodden Green of wet and in tilled Fields. There Are no Woods and no Hills at each Dingy Brown station gaunt Barefoot peasants Brown with i Sun and wind and dirt gazed stupidly Florence Shultz monday evening. Or. And mrs. V. B. Bouton or. Tram Bouton and daughter Hei cruel things. In and e. E. Bouton motored to Wells to loot into their a. Sunday. _ for you see cruel things cutting tire expense in half is hit i to me. But to entirely u ural rim his fail in America s disinterested omnipotence was touching coming As it did a whose past experience of armies and governments would natural inspire distrust. Lid d years on the Kussian front. His hate Tor Prussia was Vei a real. He said thai in the trenches the hungarians were always sent first into line ill armed half clothed while the Ger mans took the Best of everything. We have always had to fist on the aide of our enemies and against our Broth . There if line Between lots and 1c3 thence South along said line to the Highway thence Long Tho Center of said Highway South 3v 4g East to the place of beginning. Containing 60 acres be the same More or less and being part of. Said lot no. 23, and nil of said lot no. 103. Keating lands with the exception county open for grouse Hunting in the fall there have been a number of changes in the game Law this season through new statutes enacted by the legislature. A Brief summary of Tho same Law follows there will be a Joule shooting Thia fall. The season will open oct. 20, and close nov. 30. Tho bag limit on grouse will be four u. Day and 24 for the season. Rabbits can be shot from nov. 1 to dec. 10. While Thero was no change made in the. One Day limit on rabbits Tho legislature did make a change on the season s bag. The Day a bag will be ten rabbits us in the past but the season s limit has been from go to 40. Cut ?5 i Ion oct. I instead of oct. 20 tis Here part of warrant no.-2091, excepting i nay 30, Tho Ralph Herzog. Mrs. Lena Herzog and mrs. Rose Herzog and daughter. Harriett and Harriett Jones were Bradford visitors last thursday. Mrs n. Ii. entertained the members of miss Carrie a. Day s Sun Day school class last night at her Home on Ireen Street with a six o clock Din Kami Specht left wednesday Sharp hunger stares Back at you their own hunger and the dammed up hunger of their forebears from whose very Mouth the bread of life wag torn that Kings might sup from Golden a thousand suffered wrongs a thousand acts of tyranny Are mirrored there the theft of sweat earned goods by Legal trick the native youth haled away to fight those with whom he had quarrel the Virgin victim of the ers he said. It was fratricide these facts were brought out Only by dint of much slow and painstaking la in. About noon the next Day we entered Roumania proper. The country is much like that of Northern Pennsyl Vania a fair share of the Fields Are being tilled. To was impossible to get i room at the grand hotel de louvre but after a couple of nights cramped into a Continental railway Compart ment with an overcoat for a Pillow we were Only too glad to occupy a dials lounge apiece by Way of sleeping Stich rights a the american thu infer company their heirs or assigns May have under certain pipe Lino and Telegraph line rights of Way conveyed by the said n. F. Ferris november 14th, 1879, and dully recorded in deed Book vol. 5, Page 613. 2. Beor nning at a Post in the South Lino of Keating lot no. 23. 21.5 bag limit has been reduced from ten Barde a Day to six. The season limit is the same As heretofore Twenty. The legislature made a change in the Blackbird Law. Blackbirds can be shot after aug. 1. Instead of sept 1, a heretofore. Red or Puney squirrels can be shot at any time during the ods East of the Center of the Highway adding from Smethport to Farmers Alley said Post being the Southeast Orner of the purport conveyed by n. Ferris to Caroline Hafner and oth of widow and heirs at Law of Joel o. Otto by yet Ion deed dated sep Ember 21, recorded in deed Book vol. 124, Page 190 Etc. Thence East to prefect s lust. Despair replaced letter from overseas the following extracts from a let Ter written by private James Ennier stationed overseas with machine gun As we reached the opposite Side the germans opened tire with Machen guns and artillery As we marched through a Field of Rye. It was first Baptist Church Rev. Guy l. Margeson pastor prayer meeting. Thursday evening at 8 p. M. The sunday school will hold their picnic this year at Calco Park. Remember the time Friday july ii. Sunday services As follows sunday 0 a. M. Morning service subject. Cod s the building How Subject attitude of Lasi week for new York City to up work at the National training school of the y. W. C. A. Nat Kay me. Was the guest of her son. Elmer of clean last Friday returning saturday accompanied by her Martha and Nathaniel. Or. And mrs. Fred Keeman and daughter Garnet of knapps Creek motored to so monday and were will be of interest co. Olst infantry to Inua instances Are stationed on the Borders of France. Luxemburg and Belgium when we tire of one country fun with the pouring Bull and shrapnel into our ranks the scenery there reminds me of so Bunker Hill near Smethport. It was just a few Days prior to this that i school a the foundation he by Wildeth. Evening service. P. Bolshevism not die of or. And mrs. Shultz on Mechanic some people toward morn i principles along line the present great in h. Other in ten or fifteen my there Are As Many As ten one time commencing at 4 was wounded by the summer session of the .1 opened june dances one Lime co i o clock sunday afternoon and Contin j a i ref. Enrolment. The la f no it a f i 11 0 d cd mrs. Valentine and laughter with mrs. My of christianity. Preliminary to the evening Sermon the missionary society will Render a Short programme. The evening ser vices during july and August will last hut forty five minutes. In a cordial invitation to or All of these services. You Are give of Philadelphia arrived in town Mon Day night to spend the summer the former s parents. Or. And Chas. Milroy on Mechanic Street. Methodist episcopal Church a Hearty Welcome awaits you at this Home like Church. The auditorium is Cool and the seating comfortable. To give one hour out of Twenty four to Tho consideration of truths which make for your highest Good is not sex until monday at five. Weeks ago we were fully to entrain for of pm . But the orders were cancel led just before entrapment. It was hard Luck for we would have been Home by this time. It is doubtful if attend any surely. The in inject of the Sermon sunday morning will be the Triumph of no evening ser seven Days of bargains Are prices coming Down they Are for seven Days anyway it Masser , the dependable store. Their annual july clearance Sale opens saturday july 12. And Contin vice. Look out for the sunday school picnic on july the 11th. Lies until july Sec their full Page advertisement on the Buck Page of this newspaper for bargains. We will leave Here now before August. I have been Here nearly a year now and have sights that 1 do not ire to see again. In the Hig drive on october 12 in the Argonne Forest the Ead covered Tho ground and in walk no Over the Battle Field we were forced o step upon the bodies at times. It As nothing unusual for German Nvia ors to bomb the wounded As they were cing carried behind the lines. The fifth division with which i was at ached in action lost consider Auto truck for Sale Ono and a half ton stud Chake Max Fer truck Hakh tension of Ignacto St Fin body. All tires practically new run loss than boo Miles. Rare gain to nov. 6-in of. Sackus Novelty co dormitory in completely filled overflow from the girls dormitory a being accommodated in first floor of til Lions dormitory. Sup. H. O. Dietrick. Of Kane is Piv ing work in principles of Educ Atio and school management. Or. Dielrich will also give two evening lecture Ono on americanism and immig Ralio and the other on the league of nations. Corner on the Bank of potato Creek o Northeast Corner of lands of will ram h. Swort thence Down said Creek North West about 1c rods to a Post Corner of the Pelton East along the South line of the Pelton farm to Ilia Northeast Corner of the above mentioned purport thence South if minutes cast 1s.g rods to the place of beginning. Containing it 14.5 acres be the same More or a. And being part of Keating lot no.1 in said township. Excepting id reserving the Railroad right of ivc Yed by n. K. Ferris to the Pitts urn re. Shawmut and Northern Oad company. 3. A Cermin right of Way 10 feet n Width Iloni and South of the above purport from the above described 14.s acre tract to the Highway. of , one fourth h at the time of the Sale and the of the Purchase Money on con year. The season on Grey squirrels however is not open until oct. 20. Quail May be shot in counties not closed to that game Bird. Raccoons can to hunted from sept. To dec. 21 Bear from oct. 15 to dec. 15. Deer from dec. 1, to a wild Turkey from nov. 15, to nov. 30. Shooting game from an automobile or any vehicle la still forbidden so u the Uso of traps and snares for Rab bits wild Turkey Etc. Men in crossing the mouse River. This division comprised Tho first a mar icons to Cross. Some swam Over before Tho Bridge was built. The. In Chin guns ammunition and her sri Wero to Ken across on a democratic meeting Saturn chairman Charles f. Schwab has called a meeting of the democratic county committee for saturday july 12. At 2 p. M. To be held in the hotel Holly at Bradford. A now county chairman will he elected and other in business matters taken up. Olds Rod and gun club the old Rod and Oun club Havi posted lands Havo men i Trolini nil will rigidly enforce in Hod Ano Oun Clu Irma Ion of i c and delivery of deed. This sate in made in pursuance of an of the orphans coun of my county Mode the first Day of Luly 1919, in proceedings of record in Tho office of said clerk of court. Ham1.1n Bank and Trust com Pany by k. K burd1ck. Administrator of the estate of n. F. Of crib. Deceased. Gallup Potter attorneys fire department Given for Good work at the july meeting of the port Volunteer fire department held july 3. A Check for was tendered by H. Pc Llcy in appreciation for Hie Good work of department members in saving his livery barn from Dea Trust Lon in Tho recent old Pierce hotel fire. Citizens of will recall he heroic and successful efforts the Hose boys just before Dawn on Sun Day morning. Curt ing who. pronounced the inevitable by saving the wooden Structure that stood but sixteen feet from a mass of devouring flames. Shijo the fire department is deserving of its Reward it is such thoughtfulness and support As shown by or. Kellcy that aids greatly in giving Smethport adequate fire Protection. Smethport a. July 8, 1019. Notice beginning jl11 rough dry family Wash will be seven a cols Pound and the minimum Chare for one. Wash. Wet washes up to 1 Bradford to Smethport by air plane whirr or or. At the sound of a whirling air plane propeller about o clock monday Vining All eyes turned skyward. Is Cut one pair at least which was Gaz is Down at the old Homo town from Stanco of i chaps feet in in. Lieutenants Parker Cramer and Larry Emery of Bradford Are raking n the Shickles by supplying a new nov Fulty of spending half hour in Tho air for among six who took flight monday was j. C. Backus of Smethport. He Antic pounds 60 cents Tho minimum erected upon a of Small Law. 01 or 1-10k charge and Eizoh additional Pound cents. Emf the Post steam Laundr nov. De so much pleasure in the new sport that he want satisfied with just Worth so had Tho aviators bring him from Bradford to Smethport Circle the town and return to the stalling Point

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