CLAYSBURG This has been the coldest winter in this section for many years, the thermometer registering from 10 to 18 degrees below zero. The ice crop is great. We presume next summer will be cool, as all the ice houses in this section are filled to the brim. The sleighing is very good and well made use of, the roads being full nearly all the time. The people of our town were much excited on Tuesday over the four horse team, which came to our town with a sled load of guests from Frankstown. They put up at the residence of A. C. Smith, where they had a sumptuous dinner. Afterwards they furnished some good vocal and instrumental music. The party consisted of W. Bouslough, Mrs. Bouslough, Sylvester Caldwell, Mrs. Carrie Caldwell, Thos. Caldwell, Oscar Cruise, Ray Weight, Wm. Cartwright, jr., Misses Mollie, Ida and Lillie Cartwright, Mollie Myers, Maggie Johnson, Lib Cruise, May Cartwright, Mrs. Sarah Cartwright and Rollie Cruise. They had a good time and everybody appeared to be well pleased, as everything was sociable and friendly. Such persons are welcome at the residence at any time. The next time let us know sooner and we will have a little more heat for your cold feet. Our fox-hunting club is still in the field but does not meet with much success. Last week they made a good haul, one grey fox was captured, but not until they got it up a tree. They had some trouble to get it, as they did not wish to spoil the hide, filling it with shot. Finally they got it down and scalped the monster and since that they have been looking for the remainder, but have not yet found them. We have as good hunting ground as you find any place, the game being somewhere else. If our sportsmen would only capture the groundhog, so that he would not cause such cold weather, we would be much pleased, but let him go and subscribe for a good family paper, which you can do be subscribing for the Mirror, only 25 cents per month. A double paper every day, with all the latest news from all over the country. --------------------- A POLICE COURT CASE Mrs. Mary Long Sent to a Cell While Her Husband Walks Off With her Prosecutors. Mrs. Mary Long and a Mrs. Collins had a hearing before Mayor Hoyer yesterday afternoon on a charge of disorderly conduct preferred by John Brantner of 1221/2 Ninth avenue. Mr. Brantner testified that Mrs. Long and Mrs. Collins came to his house on Friday afternoon and asked for Mrs. Long's husband. Brantner, who was called home by his wife, said Long wasn't there and to prove it took a young man named Stains into the house to see if he was. On coming out Stains also said Long wasn't there. Mrs. Long called Brantner a liar, with some rough adjectives attached and said her husband was there. A controversy followed to which both Mrs. Long and Mrs. Collins are said by Brantner to have called him more rough names and intimated that his wife kept an assignation house. When the other side of the case was heard, Mrs. Jacob Akers, Mrs. Long's mother, testified that she went to Brantner's with Mrs. Long on Friday morning. Mr. Brantner was not at home, Mrs. Brantner was washing dishes with her pan on the kitchen stove. On the other side of the stove sat Mr. Long, the defendant's husband, with his feet in the oven. Mrs. Akers and his wife asked him to go along home and provide food and coal for the latter, who had been obliged to beg them. Mr. Long refused to go and Mrs. Brantner ordered Mrs. Long and her mother out of the house. They went out, but Mrs. Long went back, took her husband by the collar and led him out. He promised to follow her home but subsequently went back to Brantner's. This led Mrs. Long and her friend, Mrs. Collins, to go after him in the afternoon. The defendant's denied the most profane of the epithets which Mr. Brantner alleged they had uttered, but Mrs. Long admitted that she was angry, had said some rough things and had hit Brantner's door with her fist. Her husband, she alleged, loafed at Brantner's daily, would not work, and failed to give her food or shelter during the cold weather of last week. She alleged she had good reason to believe the money and food she had a right to went to Brantner's. At any rate her husband neglected his work to loaf at Brantner's house, both when Mr. Brantner was there and when he was not. Mrs. Collins when sworn told of the visit of herself and Mrs. Long on Friday afternoon. She said Mrs. Long had talked angrily as a woman was likely to do under the circumstances, but that Mr. Brantner had talked just as loud and angrily. J. Banks Kurtz, attorney for the defendant, submitted that there had been no disturbance to the neighbors by reason of the angry talk of Mrs. Long, and his clients should be discharged as the ordinance expressly says the disturbance which constitutes disorderly must be to the annoyance of the public. The mayor called the two women before him. Mrs. Long was told that she had no right to go to Brantner's and raise a disturbance because her husband made friendly calls there and he would have to treat her like any one else who acted in a disorderly manner. He then imposed a fine of $5 or forty-eight hours imprisonment. Mrs. Collins was discharged with a reprimand. Mrs. Long offered to leave a gold watch as security for her fine, which her mother would promise to furnish her in a few hours. The mayor said he couldn't take the security for a woman. While the trial was yet in progress, warden Downing took Mrs. Long by the arm and against her earnest protest that she would go without being pushed, hustled her down to a cell in the lockup to the infinite enjoyment of the crowd of spectators outside of the railing. The next case, that of Tommy Madden and his chums was then called while Brantner and wife and Mr. Long, with several friends, sauntered down Twelfth street together. -------------------- Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair