NEWS: Items from the Mount Union Times, Friday, January 11, 1895, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by S. Palmer Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ________________________________________________ MOUNT UNION'S BUDGET Send along your subscription. Send in your orders for job printing. Mrs. M. Hiney has been very ill for some days past. Dr. George W. Thompson made us a pleasant call on Wednesday last. Mrs. J T. Roop, of Newton Hamilton, spent Monday last in Mount Union. T. O. Milliken, one of our assemblymen, made us a call on Saturday morning last. Another New York baby is struggling for existence on a bed of cotton in an incubator. Harry Kyper, who is employed by the Clearfield Lumber Company, is home on a visit. The Week of Prayer is being observed by the Methodist and Presbyterian congregations. The United Brethren congregation held revival services in their church several evenings this week. John Ewing, the miller, lost a valuable horse on Tuesday. The cause of its death was lung fever. George Stewart who has been very ill for a couple of weeks past, is, we are glad to say, improving. Miss Tillie Jones, of Lewistown, is making her home with the family of E. Ray Stratford, in this place. Already taken from the front rank in price, quality and styles - The Opera House Shoe Store, Huntingdon, Pa. Miss Lizzie Johnston, of Coatesville, Pa., was the guest of Dr. Geo. C. Borst's family for several days last week. James Herr and wife, of Altoona, were the guests of John J. Rosensteel's family on Friday and Saturday of last week. Crawford Everett, of Fannettsburg, Franklin county, was the guest of his sister, Mary A. Swope during the holidays. We have been in formed that J. L. Kauffman, of Yellow Springs, Blair county, has leased W. H. Rex's store room in Mapleton. Four soldiers of this county were buried last week: Ex-sheriff Ziegler, Daniel W. Diven, P. H. Bence, and Thomas Richardson. The force of P.R.R. track h ands at this place has been reduced from nine to seven men, the reduction dating from the 1st inst. One of the prettiest Christmas trees that we saw during the holiday season was at the home of W. T. Bell, Esq., on Water street. Levi Piper, of Shade Gap, was a caller at this office on Monday morning last. Mr. Piper was enroute to Huntingdon on a business errand. E. M. Rhodes has an advertisement in this issue that every one should read. If you want to save money, look up the advertisement. The legislator convened Wednesday morning. Much interest centres in the inauguration of Goveron Hastings which takes place next Thursday. Abram Lutz, one of Shirley township's progressive farmers, called on Monday last and renewed his subscription to the "---elest and best." Rev. John H. Barney, of the Christian church, immersed two men at Bedford on Saturday. A hole was broke in the ice on the creek, and the temperature was fifteen degrees below zero. It must have been a chilly dip. F. P. Yocum of Tyrone, was a caller at this office on Saturday last. Mr. Yocum has been spending several days with his parents at Nossville, this county, and was on his return to Tyrone when he stopped in to renew his subscription to The Times. J. Blanchard Montgomery, of Mapleton, spent part of Monday afternoon with us. From here he went to Pittsburg where he will work at his trade, printing. Blanch is a good printer, and will no doubt find remunerative employment in the Smoky City. James Palmer, an aged and respected citizen of this place, has been very sick at the home of his son, Newton, on Milford street, for some days past. We hope our old friend will be restored to his usual health again and be able to make us his usual friendly calls. Berton Wharton, who is employed by the Adams Express Company at Tyrone, spent the week past with his parents in this place. Berton was accompanied by his friend, W. G. Walker, who is employed in the freight office of the P.R.R. at Tyrone. The gentlemen made his office a call on Thursday. C. L. McClure and his wife, of Braddock, Pa., were the guests of E. M. Rhodes and wife a few days ago. Mr. McClure is a brother of Mrs. Rhodes. They were called away from here rather suddenly, the result of the last strike in the vicinity of Braddock, where Mr. McClure occupies some important position. The Huntingdon Local News of Monday last says: J. D. Grove, of Baltimore, Md., writes us: "On October 21, 1994, two police officers went into a Baltimore restaurant to eat oysters. The one man ate 240 oysters. The other man ate 214 oysters. That beats the Williamsport record (102) all hollow." We should say it did. Alexandria Stewart, Esq., only son of Hon. John Stewart, president judge of the courts of Franklin county, died early Tuesday morning last, in the 29th year. Mr. Stewart, although a young man, was one of the bright lights of the Franklin county bar, and his death occasions general mourning in the vicinity of his home. The largest monument in Mifflin county now stands in the Episcopal cemetery at Lewistown. It marks the last resting-place of Colonel John B. Selheimer, one of the first brace men who reached Washington at the outbreak of the Civil Rebellion. The monument is over thirty-five feet high, and was put up by Chas Stratford. James G. Fair, ex Senator from Nevada, who died in San Francisco on Friday night a week ago, leaves a fortune of about $40,000,000 won by early and judicious investments in silver mines. Of this $125,000 is left to charity. Less than a million is divided among his brothers and sisters. The income of the rest goes to his three children. David McClure, appointed by the surrogate of New York as appraiser to ascertain for taxation the value of the personal estate of Jay Gould, who died in December 1892, has made a ____ in which he finds that . . . .[clipping ends here] On Thursday, the 3rd inst., Henry Rhodes, of Dakota, brother of our townsman, E. M. Rhodes, and Miss Mary Hanawalt were united in marriage. The ceremony took place at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Nancy Hanawalt, near McVeytown. Rev. A. L. Myers, of the Huntingdon Normal School, performed the nuptials. The bride received many valuable presents. E. M. Rhodes and wife, of his place, attended the wedding. The many friends of the newly married couple all join in wishing them many years of happiness and prosperity. A Cincinnati man describes for a reported of the Enquirer of that city a novel sight he saw recently at a mill devoted to making paper of pine-tree pulp. "I was invited to select a tree, which I did, and it was cut down for me in the morning. I watched it during the day undergoing the various process of paper making, and at six o'clock that day the tree was paper. At midnight a portion of it was sufficiently dry to be taken to the printing office, and a few of the copies of the next mornings paper were printed on this product. From a tree to a printed newspaper in twenty-four hours is probably the best time on record." At the session of argument court a few days ago Judge Furst refused a new trial in the case of Hudson & Kimmel vs. Hudson & McNeil. In the case of Dr. Z. T. Jones vs. Robert McNeal, a new trial was granted on the ground that Lemuel Carl, an important witness, was intoxicated when his testimony was offered, and therefore not a responsible witness; and for the further reason that counsel for the plaintiff made the statement to the jury that when this particular case was heard before a justice of the peace his client procured a judgment against Mr. McNeal. When the case was tried in court this jury found for the plaintiff. The Merchants' National Bank, of Defiance, Ohio, was broken into by burglars on Monday evening and about $20,000 secured. The burglars entered the bank, opened the combination of the vault and then, with either powder or dynamite, blew the small safe inside the vault to pieces. After securing everything of value the burglars closed the door of the vault and battered the lock so that the bank officials could not get it opened the next day. The bank people did not suspect anything wrong, but thought that the lock was out of order and sent to Cincinnati for an expert, who arrived and opened the safe, when the true condition of affairs become known. The Primaries The time for the primaries for the Spring election will soon be here. Let everyone aim to have the very best men fill the respective borough and township offices. More attention should be given our local elections. Our borough, township, or county officers are in closer touch with the people of this section than the office of governor, or even the president. Every voter should be personally interested in his local election. Every true citizen is. The carping and miserable pessimist who will not attend the primaries but who never fails to do what he can "to cut" some one at the election to follow is to be despised, as is he who manifests no interest whatever in elections but who universally and always complains of the in. . . . [clipping ends here] Silver Wedding In answer to the visitations previously sent out, more than two hundred persons assembled at the pleasant home of Richard J. Faust, on Pennsylvania avenue, on Monday evening last, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Faust. The guests has scarcely all arrived ere the cornet band began to discourse fine serenades in front of the residence. After several pieces had been rendered, Mr. and Mrs. Faust, accompanied by their daughter, Miss Tillie, and sons, Richard Jr., and John, appeared on the front porch, where they were congratulated by a representative of the band. After the band retired, some time was spent in conversation, after which messengers went through the rooms requesting the occupants to be seated. Soon the first course of a most excellent supper was served. The first course consisted of a sandwich, bun and butter, fried oysters, chicken salad, tame raspberry tart, and coffee. The second: Ice cream, with six or seven kinds of cakes. The third: Oranges and bananas. The fourth: Confections - consisting of chocolate creams, chocolate almonds, and other fine candies. By the time the various courses had been served, every one present felt that Mr. Faust was to be congratulated upon getting George W. Fisher, Huntingdon's popular caterer, to prepare and serve the supper. We believe no better selection could have been made. Just here we would like to say a word in praise of the commendable manner in which the young ladies and gentlemen who acted in the capacity of waiters performed their work. Their movements were attended with as much gravity and grace as characterized the "royal attendants of the House of Bourbon." The interior of the house was beautifully decorated for the occasion. Holly - with its profusion of fiery red berries, - mistletoe, spruce, and fern contrasted strongly with the white mantle of snow in which everything outside was wrapped. Mr. Faust was attired in his wedding suit - the garb of a quarter century ago. It did not differ greatly from the fashionable dress of to-day. The room in which the presents had been displayed seemed to be a centre of attraction, and well it might have been. On entering this room, one was almost led to believe that by some magic power he had been transported to a fairy's palace. The scintillations, produced by the glittering brightness of the silver souvenirs, cast on the walls and ceilings of the room more beautiful designs and symmetrical forms than could be reproduced by an kaleidoscope. The presents were many, varied, beautiful and grand. Among them was a one-hundred and fifteen dollar tea set and a twenty-eight dollar lamp. (The lamp was a present from the employees of the tannery). A large swinging water pitcher also attracted considerable attention. It was a beautiful piece of ware. We never saw a finer display of presents on a similar occasion. During the evening, a letter from Rev. M. Sheeleigh, D. D., editor of the S. S. Herald, of Ft. Washington, Pa., who preformed the marriage ceremony of Mr. and Mrs. Faust, was read by Rev. D. H. Campbell, who afterwards made a short speech. This was followed by prayer by Rev. William Brill. Everything during the progress of. . . . [clipping ends here] Mount Union Times, Friday, January 11, 1895 clipping