The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-10
WHOLE NO. $3.50.

had, among Others, the following turn
pike stocks: Bedford and Stoyestown,
SSi, ,99i 81; Stoyestown & Greensburgh
$50, $3.50: OF all kinds of turnpike
stock the State then held to the
amount Of SG53, ,97206.
"On the third Of May, 1919, three
persons were unfortunately drowned
in attempting to cross the mill dam Of
Peter Berkey, Esq, Of Conemaugh
township. Their names we under
stand are: Rachel Shaffer, a daughter
Of Peter BerkeY, aged lG years, who
left a husband and infant daughter to
lament her untimely end, George Var
ner, aged q years, and Daniel Criss-
man, who LEFT wife and two small
children to deplOre their untimely loss.
The canoe, in which they were, came
too near the breast Of the dam and the
current carried il over. Their bodies
have since been all found and con
signed to the earth whence they came.
| One Of the bodies is said 10 have been
swept nearly nine miles down the
Stonycreek river"
On the l6.h Of May, 1919, there was
a fall OF snow that at places was four
inches deep.
VIM. MGirr announces that several
numbers Of a publication called the
''Friend Of Peace were left i'm the
hands of Adm. Morrison, where sub
scribers could obtain them.
4 fair is announced to commence on
Monday, 9Th Of June. Every spe-
cies of gambling and immortality
strictly prohibited" There is no clue
i'm this brief announcement a. to what
a fair was in those days or how it was
managed.
From another Of these old newspa-
pers we learn tina; the spring elections
in Somerset borough were held on the
first Monday Of May, and that in 1919
the officers elected were: BIrgess,s,
Alexander Ogie, Jr., Henry F. Snyder
and John Patton; the two last named
being probably Assistant Burgesses;
Town Council, Isaac Ankeny, John
Snyder, Isaac Niswander, James
Boyle, Elijah Sergeant, William Phil
son, Jacob Ankeny; Street Commits
sioners, William Gore Elder and John
Kurtz; Constable, John G.. Fisher;
Clerk, \. b. Fleming; Treasurer, JnO.
L. Snyder; Oysrseers Of the Poor,
Chauncey Forward, John COffroth;
Au iitor, Jacob Glessner.
Scio1y&-In January 1919, John
Wells, Abm. Morrison and John
Kurtz, Trustees, in an advertisement
say that Joseph Parks. teaehes Of the
English school, being about tn remove
from Somerset, they desire to secure
the services Of competent teacher TO
take his place. Mrs. +. Sterett, as
would appear from her advertisement
that appears from time to time in these
papers taugi a select school of some
kind for young ladies' Among other
things taught were: tambOuring, en-
broidery, plain sewing, drawing, paint
ing, reading, writing, sc. IL would
appear to have been something IN the
way Of an industrial school. Samuel
G.. Bailey also taught an English
school in Somerset in 1919, while Rev.
Jno. G.. Rebeneck, the Lutheran min
isser, taught German school about
the same time.
On the 2d Of July, ISIS, Geo. Pile,
Sheriff Of Somerset county, offers a re-
ward Of 100 dollars for the arrest AMI
return To Jail of Lee Blackburn and
Charles MeAnulty, who broke Jail on
the night of the 3)th of June Black
burn was confined in jail on a charge
of kidnapping a colOred man and his
wife in Elklick township. A certain
Asa Mitchell, who was concerned with
him in this crime, had been arrested,
but was out on bail, AMI it was believ-
e1 that he had planned this jail-break-
ing, as he was known % have been in
the vicinity the preceding day. Black
burn was also believed to be one of
gang OF villains who had resort in
the vicinity Of Virginia furnace, near
the Pennsylvania line. MeAnulty
was in Jail on a charge Of forgery.
On the night of July I, the apothe-
cary shop of Mr.. Isaac Niswander, OF
Somerset, vas broken open by blrg-
lar and fifty dollars stolen from a desk
therein; and week later the inn of
Herman Updegraff was also burglar
lied and the money-desk robbed Of its
contents.
Continued next week.