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BRIEFLY TOLD
The public schools will reopen Tuesday morning.
A farmers' institute will be held at Hadley, January 10-11.
Irvine
Fell, of Orangeville, has been granted a divorce from Lizzie Fell.
Judge Gilmer, of the Trumbull county courts, granted the decree on the
ground of willful absence for more than three years.
About 40
citizens of Meadville and vicinity have petitioned Congress through
Congressman Gaston, for a cessation of war in the Philippines. That is
a petition to which Aguinaldo would be glad to subscribe. - Jamestown
Journal.
P.C. Hayes, the Burghill auctioneer, reports a public
sale which shows a gratifying condition of affairs. At this sale the
receipts, over $800, were all paid in cash, not a single man asking for
time on his purchase. - Warren Tribune.
Mr. J. S. Hoffman, the
chicken fancier of this place, won three prizes with his White Plymouth
Rocks, at the Meadville Fanciers’ Club exhibition last week. The
entries in this class numbered 149, and Mr. Hoffman secured first,
second and fourth prizes.
The entire debt on St. John’s
Episcopal church was liquidated at the Christmas services. The balance
amounted to about $5,000. It is expected that the church will be
consecrated as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made with
Bishop Cortlandt Whitehead.
We thought when a Crawford county
farmer sold a steer for over a hundred dollars that he was getting
quite a good price, but we see he wasn’t in it with the prices realized
at Chicago last week. Several car loads were sold at $8.25 per hundred
pounds live weight, bringing an average of S126.72 per head. The
Western Crawford steer at that price would have brought over $130.—
Conneautville Courier.
The directors of the Bell telephone
company will hold a meeting in February in Pittsburgh to vote on the
increase of the capital stock from $4,000,000, to $7,500,000. The
entire increase will be expended in extending and improving the
company’s telephone service, and more than $2,000,000 will be expended
in Pittsburgh. Almost $1,000,000 will be set aside for the purchase of
real estate and the erection of buildings alone.
Christmas day
was a happy one for the children of the Odd Fellows’ home, says the
Meadville Tribune, and of the 54 all but two were present to mingle in
the Christmas exercises. During the forenoon a large Christmas tree was
put in place in the playroom and trimmed. The gifts contributed by
friends of the home were placed on the tree, and it presented a fine
appearance. In the afternoon the children gave a musical and literary
entertainment, conducted by Superintendent C. C. West. Among the
donations was a check for $120 from Oil City lodge, No. 589.
A
bill has been introduced in Congress to empower the Lake Erie &
Ohio River Ship Canal Company to conduct a ship canal 15 feed deep from
Pittsburgh to some point in Lake Erie, following in general the Ohio,
Beaver and Mahoning rivers in Pennsylvania, and the Mahoning river in
Ohio to a point near Niles, and thence ortherly to the most accessible
harbor on Lake Erie between the Pennsylvania and Ohio lines and the
mouth of the Grand in Ohio, also to construct a branch canal from the
mouth of the Shenango river in Pennsylvania, and along the river to
Greenville. Also a branch along the Mahoning river from Niles to Warren.
Election of Officers
The
following officers for Sharon Circle No. 1, P.H.C. [Protected Home
Circle], were elected at a meeting held on Monday evening: President,
Miss Gertrude McKay; vice president, L. M. Tittaler; guardian, L. R.
Rankin; chaplain, Blanche Jones; secretary, W. Whitehead; treasurer, C.
M. Ohl, accountant, W. A. McKnight; guide, Chas. Hayes; companion, Kate
Hynd; porter, Uriah McKay; watchman, George Cartwright; medical
examiners, Drs. Mitchell and Tinker, trustee, J. W Mason.
Representatives to Grand Circle, John E. Harris, J. W. Mason, W. A.
McKnight, Irvine Hyde, Thos. A. Harris, Fred Patterson, F. B. Gilbert,
C. M. Ohl, J. M. Evans, Walter Whitehead, P. D. Stratton and W. S.
Palmer.
Officers for Sharon Court, No. 13, Tribe of Ben Hur,
have been elected as follows: Chief, Amos Lowndes; judge, George
Powell; teacher, Jennie Powell; scribe, M. H. Davis; keeper of tribute,
Mary Nikirk; guide, Thos. Donahoo; captain, Jos. Powell; keeper of
inner gate, John Burke; keeper of outer gate, Celia Davis.
Hospital Report
The
annual report of the Christian H. Buhl hospital has been forwarded to
the State Board of Charities. There were 215 patients admitted during
1899, an increase of 70 over the admissions during 1898. Of this
number, 70 medical cases recovered, 14 improved, 2 unimproved, 5 died
and 2 remain in the hospital; 94 surgical cases recovered, 11 improved,
1 unimproved, 8 died and 8 remain in the hospital. Prescriptions given
to patients during the year amounted to 317 and the aggregate number of
days patients were supported in the institution was 4,411. The average
cost per week for each patient was $10.
A fine tile floor has
been laid in the operating room, which was also otherwise repaired, and
hand grendates [grenades] procured to guard against fire. Other repairs
were also made.
Sharon Iron Works Store Sold
The
Sharon Iron Works Store, one of the oldest mercantile establishments in
this place, was sold on Saturday to M. Fitzpatrick, the dry goods
merchant. The purchase also includes the building. The consideration is
private. Mr. Fitzpatrick will take possession of the store on Monday
and about April 1 will remove the stock in his present store to the new
quarters. The entire stock of the Iron Works Store will be closed
out and when the new store opens it will be one of the largest
department stores in Western Pennsylvania.
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL
Mr. P.S. Smith, of Brookfield, visited friends in Meadville this week.
Miss Kim Curry, of this place, visited friends in Meadville last week.
Miss Millie Boyer, of Meadville, is spending the holidays with friends in Sharon.
Miss Lou Stambaugh, a teacher in the public schools of Youngstown, visited friends in Sharon last week.
Miss Mary Riddell, Oakland avenue, is visiting her uncle, Mr. Daniel Eagan, and family, of Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. McKeefrey, of Leetonia, visited the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Spearman, East Hill, this week.
Mr.
Russell Williamson, of Buffalo, spent Christmas with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. Williamson, south Main street, returning home on Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. D.A. Smith and son, Harold, of Pittsburgh, are
spending the holidays with Mrs. Smith’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
McDowell, River street.
C.C. Marshall, of the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Glenn Carley, of Yale college, are
spending the holiday vacation with their parents in this place.
Dr.
B. B. Snodgrass, son of Rev. M. J. Snodgrass, of West Middlesex, will
locate in Jamestown, Mercer county, January 1. He has been practicing
in Eau Claire, Butler county, for the past year.
Miss Mary
Schilling, of this place, and Mr. George Sturgis, of Sharpsville, were
married on Monday. The ceremony was performed at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. George Schilling, south Main street.
Mrs. George Duer, a
widely known resident of Hubbard, died suddenly Monday night, of heart
disease. She was 55 years of age and is survived by her husband, two
brothers and one sister.
Miss Mary Knapp, of Sharpsville, and Mr.
James Steese, of Lisbon, Ohio, were married at the residence of Father
J.P. Mc Closkey, in the former place, on Christmas. They will reside in
Lisbon, where the groom is engaged in the hotel business with his
father, William Steese.
Mr. Fred Stephens, of Muncie, Indiana, a
former resident of Sharon, was married to a prominent young lady of the
former place, Thursday, at high noon. Mr. Stephens is a son of
Manager John Stephens, of the Midland Steel Co., at Muncie, who at one
time held a like position at the Sharon Iron Works.
Prof. and Mrs.
M.H. Matthews and son, of Salem, Ohio, who had been visiting relatives
near Sharon, returned home on Thursday. Prof. Matthews, who is
principal of the Salem Business College, has been appointed a
bookkeeper in the naval service and will leave soon for Manila, The
salary attached to the position is $1,200 a year.
John L. Allen,
of Butler, a former Sharon boy, has been appointed as undertaker and
assistant to Solon F. Massey, superintendent of the burial corps for
Cuba and Porto [Puerto] Rico for the purpose of interring and preparing
shipment to the United States the remains of soldiers buried
there. The salary will be $125 month, with expenses not to exceed
$3 a day. The expedition will leave New York about January
3. Mr. Allen is a son of John Allen, West Hill, and has many
friends who are pleased to learn of his good fortune.
Victor M.
Delamater, of Sharon returned home Sunday after a brief visit with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Delamater, on Walnut street. Mr.
Delamater is secretary of the Sharon Steel Company, a concern
capitalized at $3,000,000 and which is building an immense plant about
one mile from Sharon. The company has 700 acres of land and is
putting in a plant which will employ in the neighborhood of 2,500
workmen. A force of 400 men are now at work on the foundations and the
plant is expected to be in operation by next September. -
Meadville Tribune.
Ed T. Stevenson left today for a short
visit to his mother, Mrs. T. J. Gillespie, in Sharon, and will return
the latter part of the week, when he will depart for Lewisburg, Pa., to
enter Bucknell University The News force send their heart felt wishes
along with Ed, and we can truthfully say no one has ever occupied a
place on the paper who was more entitled to the esteem of the force
than he. We look for a bright future for him. As the Dominie in “Beside
the Bonnie Brier Bush” would say, he is “a lad o’ pairts” - - one
of the sort who will make a name for himself if it is in the
timber. - Franklin News.
Extending the Rose Brick Works
James
Rose, proprietor of the Rose brick works, on the Sharon road, has
recently purchased of Geo. Baker, 40 acres of land lying south of the
brick works, for which, it is said, he paid $85 per acre.
Mr.
Rose is now at work erecting two mammoth kilns which will add to the
capacity about 400.000 daily. His output now is in the neighborhood of
200.000 daily and is not sufficient to supply the demand. It is said
that on one order alone he delivers daily about 30,000.
Mr. Rose
is known throughout a large territory as a manufacturer of fine brick,
he having the faculty of knowing just how to make them right, and his
additional capacity will enable him to more promptly meet the demands.
Sharon
is growing out this way and his purchase of land there is considered a
good move. The new street car line which is to be built from Youngstown
to Sharon next spring will very likely go past his property, it being
the most direct route to Sharon, as well as being near the new steel
plant now in course of construction, and it is thought by some that a
number of dwelling houses will be built in that section. - Hubbard
Enterprise.
B. and L Associations
The Sharon Building and Loan Association will meet at the office of Secretary Williams next Tuesday evening.
The
advantages of these associations to the wage earner are thus noted by
an exchange: Every year the building associations of the State of
Pennsylvania pay to their members over twenty millions of dollars In
withdrawals and matured share money This money and its profits are not
the result of speculation in any form. There is, of course, always some
risk, but the money received from time to time not invested in
merchandise; ii is not deposited anywhere on margins, it goes into what
the managers of these institutions believe to be good real estate. Some
times these investments bring about losses, resulting from genuine
depreciation of real estate values and from accidents, or objectionable
structures being erected in residence neighborhoods. As to speculation,
however these societies do not even approve of its shadow. They do not
reap great gains for their members, but they help their associates to
save something out of the wages of every week, and when the withdrawal
day comes, or the period of maturity arrives, the member honestly
proclaims the fact that all the money he receives is equal to a profit,
for without the building association he would not have been the owner
of anything.
When business is prosperous and the people are
actively employed earning wages, the promoter is on hand with his
schemes, good and bad. The wage earner is quite as likely to be induced
to be come a partner in a bad scheme as in a good one. The good from
the bad can only be determined on the day of reckoning, and it is a
question whether the wage earner, who had dependents to support, has a
right to take any venturesome risks. We think it good advice to urge
wage earners to save a little out of each week’s wages. They any never
become millionaires, but they have the opportunity of becoming rich in
the sense that they are not spending as much as they earn. The man who
has $100 and has no place for it may be justified in risking one-half
of that sum, but the person who has $50 and can see $100 of necessary
expenditures in the near future, should never be guilty of joining
doubtful adventures. Beware of speculating with wage savings.
Kimberly-Byers Suit
An
affidavit of defense has been filed in the case of Peter L. Kimberly,
of Sharon, against Alexander M. Byers, of Pittsburgh, an action to
recover nearly $100,000, growing out of a mining stock transaction. The
plaintiff alleged in his statement of claim that on August 8, 1897, he
owned 2876 shares of Chapin mining stock, worth $25 a share. The stock
was hypothecated to and held by M A Hanna & Co., to secure certain
advances made to the plaintiff.
Kimberly claims he made an
arrangement to get a loan from Byers with the understanding that he
would redeem the stock and make it over to Byers as security for his
indebtedness to the defendant. He got $25,000 and certificates for the
stock were forwarded to Byers. He now claims that Byers received
$31,638.75 in dividends on the stock and that he subsequently sold the
stock for $343,554.69. Mr. Kimberly admits owing Byers $277,683.33, but
claims that the defendant having received $375,193.44 for the stock and
dividends still owes him $97,510.11.
In the affidavit of defense
Mr. Byers admits the transaction up to a certain point. He denies that
the $25,000 given Kimberly on August 8,1897, was a loan, but says that
he purchased the stock outright for that sum; that he paid Kimberly the
money and got the certificates, He denies his liability to the
plaintiff, but says that Kimberly is indebted to him in the sum of
$280,108.33, arising out of four notes.
A replication has also been filed by the plaintiff in which he denies that he sold the stock to Byers for $25,000.
MERCER
Dec. 27— The work of court was quickly concluded on Wednesday last, the two cases to be heard then resulting as follows:
The
case of Alex. McDowell vs. John and M.V. Cole was brought to determine
if possible, whether a bond given by defendants to their father, the
late l. D. Cole, had been forgiven by him or was still in force. The
evidence tended to show that decedent had placed defendants in
possession of 50 acres of land each, for which they were to pay him an
annual rental of $50 per year during his life, and that his bond was
only for the faithful performance of this, and that they were to become
sole owners at his death. Counsel decided not to argue the case, but
let it go to the jury on the charge, of the court. The verdict was in
favor of defendants.
The case of R. R. Wright vs. C. J. Humason was continued pending a settlement.
James Campbell, Esq., presented his report as auditor in the estate of Susan Garbett, (dec’d), which was confirmed nisi.
J. G. White, Esq., presented his report as auditor in the estate of Margaret Gunnip, (dec’d), which was confirmed nisi.
James
E. Brandon, administrator of the estate of Mary Brandon, (dec’d),
presented his return of real estate of decedent, located in West
Middlesex, to Ella Brandon, for $776, which was confirmed nisi.
Jno.
W. Vosler, Esq., presented a petition of Peter Reichard, guardian of
Mary C. Diefenderfer, asking for leave to join in the sale of real
estate, situated in West Salem Township, to the Nypano railroad
company. The court approved the agreement set forth in the petition,
and authorized the guardian to execute the same, and the private sale
to the railroad company was approved and confirmed nisi.
James
D. Emery, Esq., presented a petition consisting of an agreement and
distribution of the Kremis milling company cases, realized on the
attachment execution against A. B. Egbert. The court confirmed the
distribution absolutely, and authorized James D. Emery, as trustee, to
pay out the money according to the distribution.
M.A.
McCormick, Esq., presented a petition, asking the court to strike off
the exceptions to the widow’s appraisement in the estate of Abraham
Jackson, deceased, late Sheakleyville, Pa. The widow’s
appraisement had not been confirmed nisi by an error. The court
confirmed it nisi at this time and set the second Monday of January,
1900, for the time of hearing on the exceptions filed.
Marriage grants:
James M. Campbell, Mercer, and Sarah Greenfield, Jackson Center,
Richard Thomas and Lavina Shrively, Sharon; Harris Frost, Sandy Lake,
and Lulu Lyons, Henderson; John Long, Mahoningtown, and Alice Dunkerly,
Stoneboro; James C. Steese, Sharon, and Mary A. Knapp, Sharpsville;
C.A. Rood, Leon, Ohio, and B.A. Morrison, Hadley; J.P. Hosack, New
Castle, and Bonnie Jewell, New Lebanon; Clarence J. Young, and Libbie
M. Tuttle, Delaware; W.T. Young and Carrie E. Sloss, Mercer; W.D.
Jackworth and Maude Gildersleeve, Centertown; John B. Hawthorne, and
Leecie M. Carter, East Lackawannock; Lawrence Geiwitz, and Anna Locke,
Sharon; Isaac E. Wilson, Sugar Grove, and Vanie M. Reed, Jefferson; D.L
Conner, and Maggie E. Quilman, Shenango; J. Robert Gruber, Greenville,
and Nora E. Derr, New Hamburg.
Sheep claims filed:
E. Slaughenhoupt, Delaware, one killed and three injured, $14; Edward
Knauff, Hempfield, five killed and seven injured, $27; E.S. Reichard,
Delaware, three killed and two injured, $20; H. R. Stainbrook, Sandy
Lake township, one killed and three injured, $15.16; Job Buckley, Sandy
Lake township, five injured $15.
Wills probated:
Albert Poole, late of Stoneboro, William and Herman Poole executors;
James C. Montgomery, late of Wolf creek, M. I. Montgomery executor;
Jeremiah Simmons, late of Fredonia; William Martin executor; Isaac H.
Canfleld, late of French Creek, Clarissa Canfield and S.W. Cooper
executors.
Robinson for Congress
Mercer
Dispatch. Henry Robinson will be a candidate for Congress at the
Republican primaries of this county next year, and there is every
reason to believe that the nomination will be given him with little if
any opposition. He is a native of this county has lived here all his
life and has been so prominently identified with the politics and
business of the country that he needs no introduction to any of our
people. He is a comparatively young man, yet he has been for many years
identified with the banking interests of the county and now holds the
responsible office of President of the Mercer County National Bank, of
Mercer, Pa. He has always been a Republican and active in party work.
He served several years as chairman of the county committee and in the
last Congressional campaign was the unanimous choice of the Mercer
county delegation in the district convention. Since Mercer, Butler,
Lawrence and Beaver have been a Congressional district, six Republicans
have been elected to Congress: Townsend and Davidson, of Beaver, each
once; Phillips, of Lawrence, twice, and Showalter, of Butler, twice.
Mercer has had no nominee. It can hardly be questioned that the action
of the district conventions has established the precedent of rotation
among the counties and has settled it that each county shall in turn be
given a representative in Congress for two terms. If any thing can be
settled by precedent, and Mercer county can claim as a right the
nominee. We are glad to say that we believe the other counties are in
accord with these views and will make no contest against us with any
expectation of success. It may, therefore, be assumed that the
nomination by Mercer county of as prominent and capable a man as Henry
Robinson will be ratified by the Congressional convention of the
district. This being the case it is fair to, infer that the man who
carried the Mercer delegates two consecutive terms and bore the labor
and expense of these campaign when the action of the District
convention was in doubt, will now be endorsed by this county when the
action of the District convention may be considered a practical
certainty.
In addition to the generally recognized ability of
Mr. Robinson to properly represent this district, we may add that the
time he has spent in Washington as major McDowell’s disbursing officer
of the House of Representatives has served to thoroughly familiarize
him with the workings of the business of the Capitol. He has likewise
made an extensive acquaintance with the departments and the public men
connected there with and is as well qualified to effectively perform
the duties of a Congressman as most men are after two terms of service
in Congress. Few persons not familiar with the workings of Congress
realize the importance of a familiarity with the detail matters above
alluded to, but which are practically the key to a member’s usefulness
to his constituents. This gives Mr. Robinson a decided advantage over
most other good Republicans of the county who may have a laud able
ambition to at some time rep resent their district in the House of
Congress.
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