Out of the Long Ago Forty-Five Years Ago March 23, 1889 April 30th will mark the last of all the great American Centennials, and the day will be celebrated in most of the cities and towns in the country as the one hundredth anniversary of the first Presidential inauguration. Wild geese noticed going north. Country roads are reported drying up. We hear nothing more about incorporation. An Eastend man killed nineteen dogs in one morning without apparently decreasing the number in his neighborhood. Only perishable freight is allowed to pass over the Panhandle on Sunday. Nearly one hundred McDonald people accompanied by a military band went to Pittsburgh last Sunday to take part in the St. Patrick's day parade. Monday evening a party of young ladies and gentlemen rode to and fro for sometime on Harry KEENAN's local coal engine between REND's and Jumbo, after which they explored the Nickel Plate mine, going nearly a mile underground. Patrick HARRIGAN of Bulger, foreman of a group of men who were engaged in loosening the ice above the mouth of the Bulger tunnel, was killed when a mass of the ice fell and struck the long pipe he was loosening it with, driving the pipe through his body. Postmaster HOEY has been informed that on and after March 22 four mails will arrive at McDonald each day instead of two. Joseph BROWN puts up a 16x25 story and a half frame addition to the SAUTER' s store, made necessary by an increase in business. Tuesday morning five freight trains were following the McDonald accommodation east. At Oakdale two of the freights had passed. The third was red-blocked, the fourth was just stopping behind it when the fifth suddenly dashed around a curve and into the rear of the fourth. Two cars of the fourth train were wrecked and the engine and nine cars of the fifth were derailed and much damaged. Conductor John MCNARY of McDonald was that morning acting as middle brakeman on the fourth train and James DOUGHERTY of McDonald was a brakeman on the hindmost train. All escaped injury. Thursday evening sixteen of the Ingleside students attended the reading circle at the house of James LITTLE in Cecil. They went in a wagon to which was attached two horses and two mules. Some clowns declared the mules were not all in front of the wagon. The next meeting will be held at the home of Squire MOORHEAD, April 4. McDonald's public school closed on Friday of this week. It will not open until next fall, there being no more public money. Fashion Notes Ermine is again seen on tea gowns. Veils of jetted net should be worn with jetted jewelry. Nearly all full-dress toilets, except for debutantes, are demi-trained. Stringless bonnets should always be accompanied by a flimsy mask veil. *Compiler's note: HUH? Specifically the full-dress toilet thing. The language sure has changed! Forty Years Ago March 17, 1894 The treasurer reports the cost of the garbage furnace as $216. This was the first furnace built outside the City of Pittsburgh, and destroys anything from a whole horse to a shovel full of garbage. The MONREAN well at Venice continues to make over 200 barrels a day. A 50-barrel well has been brought in on the STERLING farm at Venice. Oil is $.84. Scores of carpenters everywhere about McDonald busy with new buildings. At the Otto KRAEER sale near Midway, cows went at $1 to $13, and horses $20 to $50. Farm implements went very low. The McDonald Relief Committee appeals to the citizens for aid, as the need of relief is very great, many families being destitute because of the strikes at the mines. At the meeting of council Tuesday evening, the ordinance extending the borough limits passed first and second readings. Mr. COOK was re-elected secretary, William MADGWICK was re-elected treasurer. After July 1, the postal note will be abolished and the money order system installed. The HOSTETTER family has bought a large farm at the mouth of Raccoon creek, and they will build there a $75,000 log house, and make parks and racetracks and fish ponds. Thirty Years Ago March 19, 1904 Now that the mining rate ($.85 per ton for two years) has been settled, we will soon see the Brier Hill, Nickel Plate, and the Laurel Hill mines resume. At the council meeting March 17, Joseph CHAMBON was elected president; W. J. HUNTER was elected secretary, H. ROBERTSON street commissioner, and G. S. CAMPBELL treasurer. The Scio oil field has followed in the wake of its predecessors. In 1899 Scio was the most important oil development sine the great McDonald excitement. Oil is $1.71. Twenty-Five Years Ago March 19, 1909 An organization of medical men of this section was effected last Friday evening. Dr. W. R. DICKSON is president and Dr. George L. MCKEE of Burgettstown is secretary. The urgent necessity of an improved road from McDonald to Canonsburg is daily becoming more apparent. The roads in Cecil township are away below the average in our land. Cecil township is one of the largest and heaviest tax-paying sections of Washington county, but has been neglected by State and county, and has not a foot of improved road. George STEIN's store was entered Sunday morning and about $600 in merchandise was taken. Twenty Years Ago March 20, 1914 A fire in the S. D. JONES home in Lincoln avenue on Monday was quickly extinguished by the Hose Co. The damage was slight. Fifteen Years Ago March 21, 1919 McDonald is to have a baseball club in the Panhandle league. Ten Years Ago March 21, 1924 John Banks HOLLAND, familiarly known as "Uncle Banks," Civil war veteran and former member of the State Legislature, died March 19, 1924 in his home in Cecil township. Five Years Ago March 22, 1929 Joseph MCDONALD was struck by a truck Wednesday afternoon in front of his home in West Lincoln avenue while roller skating. Thieves entered the J. N. T. WALKER home in Fourth street last Saturday morning and got about $10 in cash. D. A. CALDWELL, Jr., of Third street lost the index finger of his right hand Monday afternoon when his hand was caught in an electric wringer. The Gustave DHANS house near Primrose was destroyed by fire shortly after midnight Wednesday.