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The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
The MOTOR Fire Truck
Is Here Qt LSl
Committee Of the Borough Council
to Decide for It's Purchase

The shrek of a siren too loud to
be that from an ordinary automo-
ole and more Subdued than the
Ire whistle, brought many people
TO their front doors Wednesday af-
,ernoon about 3 o clock to see just
hat was the matter. 1t was cas-
ily explained. 1t was a brand new
motor fire truck, which had been
brought across country irons
Pittsburgh to tempt the Indiana
Borough Council into buying it,
as was authorized by the Bond Is
sue at the recent election.
The new truck is a beauty and
was manufactured by the Lange
Motor Truck Company, of Pitts
burgh.
According to the circular of the
company, the price of the combi-
nation chemical and hose truck is
$4,750. Of course, it is not. def
nitely known whether the new ve-
hicle will be purchased or not, but
the concesus of opinion is that it
would be the proper step for the
committee to recommend the pur-
chase.
The new fire truck, which is at
present in the Fire House in the
Municipal Building carries a 40
gallon chemical tank and 200 feet
of chemical hose. There is also
room for four extension ladders,
] 200 feet of water hose and room
for number of fire fighters.
The motor is especially design
ed for commercial truck work,
having long stroke, extra large
bearings and developing so horse
power All parts are absolutely
interchangeable. The truck here
on inspection is geared to run 20
or % miles an hour, which is plen-
ty fast enough for this place.
On a trial run over the Indiana
streets the new truck took the
grades very good and seemed to
meet the approval of the firemen
who had positions on the truck.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
Municipal XNlQS
Tree Qt |DdnDQ
Is BeIng P|Qlned

A municipal Christmas tree will
feature the Christmas season in
Indiana if, the plans of the Indi-
ana Chamber Of Commerce and
the New Century Club are consum-
mated. Both organizations have
taken steps toward such celebra-
tion and a meeting Of committees
OF the two organizations will be
held on Friday. A large tree will
be placed at some central point
and will be illuminated a week be-
fore Christmas. 1t is planned to
hold appropriate exercises each
evening for a week for the bene-
fit of the various nationalities. The
holiday customs Of the various
countries will be given full sway.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
YOUTH KILLED IN AN
AUTOMOBILE MISHAP

Just as he gave his uncle, Her
man S. Scholtz, a drink of water
In an effort to revive him after an
automobile accident at Congruity
last Saturday afternoon, Lorenzo
James, aged eighteen, fell dead. A
party of FIVE Swissvale men were
enroute in an automobile to this
place to hunt at the time SchOltz
was struck. Scholtz was rendered
unconscious and James was trying
to resuscitate him when he eXpir-
ed. Scholtz is little the worse of
his injuries.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
MISTAKES CARBOLIC
ACID FOR MEDICINE

Mistaking carbolic acid for
medicine, Jean Elliott, seventeen
year old daughter Of Andrew Eli
oft, of Rossiter, is in serious con-
dition. Just as it was getting dark
Monday night the girl went to a
medicine chest to get a bottle con-
tanning pepsin and took a consid-
cradle quantity of carbolic acid In
stead. Her throat and lips were
badly burned.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
complete ORGANIZATION
OF INDIANA HOSPITAL
IsELINs LIFE DIRECTORS.

Drs. Fred ST. Clair, Of Indiana,
and James Ward, of Waterman,
have been chosen pathologists and
Drs. I'll. B. Neal and Fred st. Clair
have been named as anesthetists
at the New Indiana hospital. Miss
Price, of Johnstown, has been Sc
eeted as an additional nurse, as
has Miss Nora Hamilton, of Indi-
ana. Miss Sarah Morgart, a
Johnstown girl, is superintendent.
The hospital opened but three
weeks ago. There are now Is pa
tients.
At meeting of the board of di-
rectors Adrian Iselin, Jr., of New
York, and Miss Georgine Iselin, of
New Rochelle, n. Y, were named
life directors of the hospital which
was given to Indiana county by
the former and equipped by Miss
Iselin.
Plans are being carried out
which will make the surroundings
of the new institution among the
most attractive in this section. The
big plot of ground is being plant.
ed In shrubs and walks and flower
beds are being designed.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
Western Poland
BI00d-DrenChed
FRENU CLAIM TO HAVE INFLICTED HEAVY CASUALTIES

Although only meager reports
are at hand from any of the scenes
of hostilities it seems probable that
the most severe contest for supre-
macy is proceeding in that west
ern strip of Poland with it's north
ern and southern boundaries, re-
spectively the Vistula and Warta
rivers and it's western front the
border Of Posen.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
Rossiter Youth Wanted.

Steve Mecovish, a Rossiter
youth, is wanted at Rossiter, not
so much by the authorities as by
his father. Steve worked with his
father in the mines and on pay
day he drew both his own and his
fathers pay. He also contracted
a big bill at the company store on
that date and a few hours later
disappeared. The police of this
section have been notified to keep
a sharp lookout for him.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
Chief Harris on the Job.

Chief of Police Keller Harris ar
rested Richard Woomer, young
man of Mt. Pleasant, who was
wanted for appropriating a horse
and buggy and number of sacks
of buckwheat -four from a Mt
Pleasant party. Woomer drove
here in the rig and was disposing
Of the buckwheat -four when cap
tured by the officer last Saturday
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
Turkish Position Withers Undel
British Attack.

The British again have been sue
cessful in an attack on a Turkish
position. The force operating on
the Shat-el-Arab river and the
Persian gulf drove from their
trenches an Ottoman force and
captured a number of prisoners,
guns and quantity of ammuni-
ton. The British lost three Off
GERS and 35 men killed in the at
tack. The Turkish casualties were
not stated.
From British general headquar-
tcrs at the front comes further
account of the fighting along the
British lines covering the period
from November 13 to 16. In this
recital it is declared that the stu
alton, so far as it relates to the
British, has not altered in that
time.
The engagements consisted for
the most part of shelling at long
range and the violent German at
tacks, which had previously been
so persistent, had not been resum-
ed.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
Kaiser in Attempt to Take Town

Kaiser IN Attempt to lake Town
Particularly quiet" is the de-
scription Of the operations in the
sestern zone given by the French
war office, although the usual ar
lillery duels and attacks by infan-
try at various places were in prog
ress. Tracy-del-Val, a short dis
tance to the northeast of Paris and
at the crook of the elbow of the
western battle front, was the
scene Of the principal infantry a.
tacks. Here the French Te1o. ed
they held back erman .,.,ompt
to capture the town, i..hicting
heavy casualties.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
War Rendered
Possible by Noted Swiss

OSSAD1C NY NOOCA 0W1S0
Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 10
via Paris)-A preparation which
il is said, will stop almost instant
ly the flow of blood from a wound,
has been invented by Prof. Theo-
dore Kocher, of Berne, who was
awarded the Nobel prize for sur
gerry in 1912, and his assistant. DR..
A. Fonce. The new preparation
is called coagulen.
1t is in the form of powder and
is dissolved in water before being
applied to a wound. The discov-
erers Of coagulen have made a gift
Of their invention to the armies in
the field and have sent large guam
titles of the powder to the surgical
headquarters of both the German
and French armies.
The discovery is regarded by
medical men here as likely to
save the lives of thousands of sol
diers, since it can be applied by
unframed hands, so that the
wounded man himself or his com
rade might use the solution.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
Petrograd Admits Big Reverse in
Poland.

As for the east, Petrograd has
admitted a big reverse in Poland
"a reverse in which the Russian
armies have been pushed back at
least so miles from the German
border toward Warsaw-but Ber-
lin remains reticent concerning
the operation.
"In the eastern theater of the
war the newly commenced battles
are proceeding, is all the German
war office has had to say. a semi
official Berlin report says: Rea-
sons of strategy" prevent disclo-
tsures of the troop movements.
That these battles are pro
ceeding" however, is taken to
mean that the Germans are still
pressing against the Russians IL
an endeavor to drive them back
eastward to Warsaw over the same
territory in which only short
time ago the Russians held the
whip hand and herded the Ger
mans westward before them from
the Polish capital toward the Ger
man frontier.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
Another Arrest for Larceny.

David Kephart, of Kenwood,
was arrested as he was about to
board a train for a West Virginia
point on a charge of being con-
nected with the larceny Of 1856
from man named Dodds, at ely
mer. III. c.. Weir has been locked
up for more than a week on the
same charge.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
Boy Seriously Ill
in Indiana Hospital

Creswell Shoemaker, ten-year-
old son of Mrs. Margaret Blair
Shoemaker. and a grandson OF the
late Judge Blair, is seriously i'll at
the Indiana hospital, where he un-
derwent an operation for appendi-
citis. 1t is believed he will recov-
er. The boy is brother of Mid
shipman Samuel Shoemaker of
the United States Naval Academy
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
Record Deeds and Save Money.

Under the new War Tax" bill
every deed of conveyance requires
q fifty cent revenue stamp for each
$500 of the value of the land re
ceived. This act becomes effective
cn December first, and it is sug-
gested that persons holding deeds
not recorded, have them filed be-
fore that date on the principle
that "a dollar saved is a dollar
earned"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
DR.. Timblin in Service of State

DIR. Ward Timblin of South Sew
enth street, has been selected as
one of the veterinaries of the state
to assist In fighting the foot and
mouth disease prevalent among
cattle. He left Tuesday for West
Chester, where he will be engaged
in state work for some time.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
Thanksgiving at the Normal

Students of Indiana State Nor
NAL school will enjoy a fve-day
Thanksgiving vacation. A special
train will take them from Indiana
to their homes to prevent the pos
sibility of accidents or exposure
to contagious diseases.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
MARATHON BUN
CAUSES INTEREST
Five-MIe Hike on Thanksgiving
Day Will See Many Local
Runners Entered

Entries for the first annual five-
mile Marathon Run under the
auspices Of the Y. NJ. C. A, are be-
ing handed in at the local associa-
ton Office. All Of Iadiana's 5 SPORT
loving people seem 10 be Interests
Continued on Fourth fagel A
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21
Special Train.

The Kiski special train will
leave at u is today.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-11-21

Advertise in The Patriot.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-30
BRITISH WAR OFFICE SAYS THERE ARE
-. NO MARKED CHANGES IN POSITION

London, Sept 29-The recent fighting has not
changed any marked the position of the opposing
armies in northern France. From it is gath
cred the French right still Font-a-Mousson and
from there turns southwark across the Meuse
StnfieI, where the Germans have pushed contingent
forward The front then proceeds nOrthward to encrcle
Verdun then northwest the Aisne river Berry
Bac. It follows the Asne Soissons then northwest
wd crossing the Oise at Rbcourt to Roye Albert and
Cobes. The latter places north of the Sorne
river.
In the the wings in close touch the Germans
holding Lassigny and Chaulnes. 1t is here the allies
have been attempting wide turning movement to pre-
which the Germans apparently have out strong
opposing forces The battle here and apparently
without either side gaining advantage.
North of the Aisne well-entrenched armies are
still facing each other and neither is making much head
In the center the artillery duel continues in the dis
trict between Argonne and the Meuse.
Having invested Przneyl the Russians reported
be making their way through Carpathians to sweep
across the northern Hungarian plains and in great
strength toward Cracow which they reach before the
week end unless the Austrians check their advance.
Their arrival at Cracow would be the signal for d
battle along the Russan-German frontier.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-30
Shipping Pays a
Heavy Toll From
heEurobean War
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.


London, Sept. 29.--TweIve British
ships with an aggregate tonnage of
59,331, have been sunk on the high
seas oy German cruisers up to Septem-
Der 28, according to an admiralty re-
turn issued this afternoon. Eight other
British ships whose tonnage aggregates
1878 have been sunk by German mines
in the North Sea, and "a fishing craft
with a tonnage of 4.334 have been cap
tured or sunk by the Germans in the
same waters. British ships detained
at German ports number "A, with a to-
tai tonnage of 10 000.
On the credit side the admiralty gives
102 German ships with a total tonnage
of 100000 detained in British ports
since the outbreak OF the war. Eighty
eight German ships of an aggregate
tonnage OF 3SS,o0o have been 'cs.f,ttiI ed
since hostilities began.
The returns show also 168 German
ships with an aSgrcga,e tonnage of
2S3, 900 detained or captured by the
allies. Fifteen ships with d tonnage of
247,000 were detained in American
ports. while fourteen others with a
tonnage OF 10000 remain in the Suez
canal.
The German mines in the North sea
have also to their credit se,cn Scandin-
avian ships with 4 tonnage Of lt,09S.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-30
r. ssss,(JtsIA AIElJ fsRES'B.

Washington. Sept. 29.-The admfn-
istration has approved movement for
a three day recess of the House be
ginning next week; the adjournment
of congress is possible oy October 10th,
and the reassembing in special session
on November 11th. under the presi-
dents cell to consider a ship purchase
bill.
Tie president has told senators and
representative es repeatedly that a war
revenue tax bill and the Clayton trust
bill must ne enacted into law before
adjournment. The third measure the
president urged was the rivers and har-
Dor bin. which passed the house to-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-30

The next twelve months Will Wit
ness the greatest movement of coal
from the Alabama mines to Panama
and South America ever known and
it is expected that the greatest amount
of this coal will be handled through
this port, owing to it being the most
direct route from the mines and the
fact that il can be handled cheaper
here than at other gulf ports.
Representatives OF the big coal min
ing companies Of Birmingham are on
their y>Sy 10 Panama and South Amer
ica to secure the business that is wait
ing there. They expect to close up
contracts for immense amounts OF coal
not only covering Immediate shipment
but for the future as well. Once de
this business will continue for
the fuel can be supplied cheaper than
from any other section.
The movement Of coal through this
port is expected TO start within the
next four weeks and according to re-
ports from Birmingham the movement
will not he one or two ship loads but
OF great volume.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-30
CarranzaLs Willlngto
Quiz the Presidency
Cold Weather
Records Broken
For September
RY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, Sept. 29.-Cold weather
records for September were broken in
a number of localities last night and
this morning. Frost was reported from
the middle Atlantic and New England
states and the upper Ohio Valley. The
lowest temperatures Of record for Sep
tember We're recorded at Richmond,
Va, where it was 34 degrees, Hartford
Conn, g. degrees, and NorthfeId, Vt,
20 degrees.
Predictions for rising temperature
tonight and Wednesday are made for
those districts.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-30

mitted at Budapest that the Russians
have secured a good foothold on Hun
garian soil, having crossed the frontier
in the Unghvar district in considerable
strength. In the plains in front of
them the MusCovites will find their
main obstacle to the river Thesis,
which is fanked by marshes. It IS
believed there are no forts on the plain
but possibly fortitications recently have
been thrown up.
The German staff, Berlin adviCes say,
claim that the situation on French
soil has not changed and it IS en-
phatiCally denied that the battle at
any point of the line is going in favor
Of the allies.
GaIicia has been almost cleared cf
Austrians, according to an announce
ment at Petrograd and the Russians,
crossing the Carpathian mountains
have entered Hungary and are driving
back the Austrian reinforCements sent
against them.
The invaders swept across the noun
tains into the Ughvar district. which IS
about $50 miles northeast of Budapest,
the Hungarian capital.
WILL SIEGE ANTWERP.
Germans estimated to number 150.-
900 are reported from Rotterdam TO
be preparing for siege Of the Bel
gian fortress of Antwerp. austrian
siege guns have been brought up TO
take the places of the large German
guns which are now being used in the
fighting in the French district of Aisne.
A Belgian official communication states
that German heavy artillery nre il
rected at two forts, ten miles from
Antwerp ceased when the forts replied
to the bombardment.
The activity of the Zeppelin dirig-
ibles stretches over a wide area. Six
bombs were buried today at Belgian
towns, in one of which a convent was
damaged and another German airship
created a panic at Bialstok, sixty miles
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-30
BY AssOCITED PRESS.

London, Sept. 29.-English officials
express confidence that the United
States, at the proper time will exert
its good offices to bring the war to a
close under conditions insuring per-
manent peace. President Wilson's
statement that peace overtures are pre-
mature has proved reassuring here.
High officials today expressed the
opinion that the United States after
the combatants are exhausted will
make it possible to negotiate a treaty
requiring the European nations to sub
nit their further differences to the
United States for arbitration, making
a recurrence of the war impossible
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-30
GERMAN CRUISER
EMDEN SINKS FIVE
MORE STEAMSHIPS

y.
London, Sept. 29.-The official news
bureau announced today that the Ger
man cruiser Emden has sunk four
British steamships and a collier
The Emdcn has been operating in
the gulf of Bengal. She was reported
recently at Maderas, where she con-
Quoted a brief bombardment of that
port, and later at PondiCherry.
The previous official British state
ment dealing with the activities Of the
German cruiser Emden. issued Sep
tember 20. told Of the capture of six
British steamers IN the Bay of Bengal
and the sinking of five of them. The
names OF the steamers were given as
the Indus, LOVal. hillim, Diplomat.
Frabbock, and Katinga. After Great
ing havoc among the British shipping
at Calcutta, the Emden went to Ran
goOn.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-30
ALL INDICATIONS POINT TO
END OF HOMERIC STRUGGLE

London. Sept 29.-The eighteenth
day of the battle of the Aisne thus
far has brought no decisive result but
all indications continue to point to an
approaching end of the Homeric strug-
gle. Hand-to-hand fighting now rag
ing with such fury is bound, 1t is gem
orally held, to decide the issue.
Meanwhile the fog which the French
Official report yesterday announced had
prevented operations IN the Woevre
district, covers metaphorlcally the rest
of the long battle line.
All that the public is, permitted TO
know from the allied side is that 50
far the British and French armies
have held their grip on the positions
and have consistently thrown back the
masses OF Germans who have been
bravely and tncessantly hurled upon
them in an effort to break through
the human barrier.
In Berlin It is asserted there has
been no change In the situation and
the claim OF the allies that the scales
have turned slightly in their favor IS
stoutiy denied.
The losses Of the opposing armies in
the last few days of the fierce combat
have been colossal. Even the official
reports contain a gruesome picture of
thousands OF dead and wounded lying
in the fire-swept zone between the two
armies and every fresh assault is ad-
ding to the CHASTITY litter.
Gibes no longer are heard at the in
activity of the Zeppelin balloons which
now seem omnlpreSeGt. One of these
unwelcome visitors created concerna-
ton yesterday at Bialystok, to the
southwest of Grodno, some sixty miles
inside the Russian frontier. This di-
rigihle apparently was more fortunate
in getting away than was her sister
ship which was shot while in the
neighborhood of Warsaw the day be-
fore.
II seems now TO be officially ad-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-30
GREAT BRITAIN is WILLING
TO TALK, AT PROPER TIME.

Washington, Sept. 29-That British
officials desire to be relieved Of the
responsibility of declining to entertain
proposals for peace is believed by the
state department as an explanation Of
the London dispatches indicating that
Great Britain will 5e glad at the proper
moment to accept the good Offices Of
the United States.
The British officials have taken no
tice OF the appeals for peace proposals
directed 10 Wilson from various sources
in the United States. As it IS under
stood here the British officials are re-
luctaHt to be placed in the position Of
rejecting any overtures
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-30
BRITISH CRUISERS ON
WAY TO PACIFIC POINTS

Punta Arenas. Chile. Sept. 29.-The
British cruisers Good Hope, Monmouth
and Glasgow, under the command Of
Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cra-
dock, arrived here today.
Punta Arenas is on the straits Of
Magellan, and all vessels going through
the strait from the Atlantic to the Pa
Cifc stop there. 1t is evident that tle
British admiralty has decided to send
these cruisers into the Pacific, for
these three cruisers sailed from Mon
tevideo between the Sth and 11th of
SeDtember.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-30
GERMANS EVAcUATE
TOWN BEFORE ENEMY

Peking, China, Sept. 29.-The Ger
mans in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
mans in Kiao Chow have evacuated
the Waldersee line Of defense before
an overwhelming force of the enemy,
Using Tau is now completely invested.
The German losses were small.
This information is contained in n
despatch received here from It Ger
man source at TsI Nan, Shan Tung
which evidently is a wireless eom-
munication from Using Tau.
Japanese reports CorrOborate the
foregoing.
Three German warships inside Tslng
Tau harbor participated N the fight
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-30
THE JAPS CONTINUE TO
HARASS RETREATING ARMY

Toxic. Sept. 29.-An official an
nOuncement today concerning the pro-
gress Of events in Kiao Chow says:
Japanese forces, during the DAY and
night OF September q, drove the en-
emy in the direction OF Using Tau.
The japanese casualties were 80.
The German losses are not known but
fifty men and four machine guns were
captured. This action, which was
speedier than anticipated, has sccei-
Grated the general attack.
The fleet has attacked the Iltis fort,
effectively aided by the army