The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-06-20

kINGwooD ITEMs.-Although we dill
not see anything spoken of in your valu-
bic paper about kingwood and vicinity for
some time, We do not wan your readers
10 think we are among the least important.
We too are building and improving our
town and ou farmers are also wide awake
To their interests and are making general
improvements.
We used to have a correspondent here
a year or two ago who wrote a few items
become OF him ..noJ one: knows. Since
he has LEFT us | think some n else must
take his place and write items now and
then, or else old Turkeyfcot might be en-
tirely forgotten and go 10 nothing some
day.
There will be an abundance of fruit in
some parts of Upper Turkeyfoot this year
while in other parts the prospects are ra.h-
er slim.
The grain looks very well. especially
wheat, cats and corn.
The hay crop will be somewhat better
than it has been for some years.
The temperance cause does not seem TO
take very well here. We could be tenn
perate before and We think we can be TEN
perate a little longer without signing q
pledge. One thing. however, We must
admit. that some OF the very best men that
We have in our community have signed
the Murphy pledge. We only had two
meetings. One III Mt Union, the other al
Kingwood. Some thirty signed the pledge
at the former and eight or ten at the latter
place.
Miss Anna VI. Baker, OF Mt. Pleasant
Pa, lectured in the Mt Union church On
Tuesday evening last. Subjec,-"Both
Sides Of Life" The audience was rather
small. owing partly 10 the inciemency Of
the weather and partly TO the apparently
unconqnerable aversion OF some of our
people &c listen TO lectures. The lecture
Is highly spoken of by all who were in
attendance.
The good people of Mt. Union were con
81 .rably annoyed during the lecture by
some parties who had stationed themselves
outside the church. The facts as | have
learned them are about as fnllows:
Two or three young men went 10 the
church early in the evening, trying 10
gain admittance without paying. TIE door
keeper, however, gave them to under
stand that unless they paid fifteen cents
apiece they could not 90 inside the church
that night This they refused. claiming
they had as good = right &c go INTO the
church, whether they paid or not. as any
other person living. and that they would
not pay fifteen cents 10 hear a lecture
AFTER they found out that they could not
get in without paying. they went to the
upper side of the church and looked in at
the windows. Some one inside lowered
the blind. They then went TO the lower
side OF the church. but finding The win
doxs too high to see in they went to work
at once TO ba:ld a scaiold by taking rails,
boards, planks, &c. They took q seat on
top OF il, made \ noise aud looked in a.
the widow during the lecture, much 10
the annoyance Of every person inside the
church Ii is 10 lie regretted very much
that young men. especially men who make
loud professions Of the christian religion
and have their names enrolled IN some
branch or other Of the christian church,
lack 50 much good common sens Men
who are guilty Of such acss are - low and
degraded that | am unable 20 ind 3 word
10 the English language TO describe them.
for fear the word would be forever here
after unfit TO use again. Verify, verify.
| say unto you. he that enfereth not by
the door, but c,imbeth up some other way
the same is a thief and 4 ro5ber." II 5
said that these same men were guilty OF
almost the same act q year or two ago at
an exhibition held al the Mt. Union school,
house. We do earnestly hope that q stop
will be put io ~nuisances OF this kind.
Young men. | would just say to you, put
in practice what you prufessei six months
sg snd you shall be Apply.
Yours respectfully.