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CONFLUENCE.
May 13—Miss Elizabeth Cameron
went to Connellsville on Monday,
where she will visit for a few days.
Mrs. Fannie Moore returned from
Rrockwood, where she had been vitit-
ing her daughter, Mrs. Irvin Wolfe.
Frank Oritchfield and daughter of
Pittsburg, visited his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. F. Critchfield, Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Watson were
guests of friends at Connellsville on
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Andersonspent
several days at iConnellsville, last
week.
Hogan Yeagley of Connellsville,
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Yeagley, recently.
Mrs. L. Roy Holliday spent several
days in Pittsburg last week.
Roy Greer of Rockwood spent Sun-
day here the guest of his mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Goughnour en-
tertained Mr. and Mrs. G. W. McPhall
of Connellsville. :
Leo Wagnor of ConnelisvilleZlspent
Sundey here with his family.
Miss Amber Clark wasfjthe guest of
Miss Leora Young at Rockwoodzlast
week.
Miss Ida Moan of Johnstown is vis-
iting her sister, Mrs. RusselljjClouse
and her parents, Mr. and j§jMrs. Har-
rison Monn.
Mrs. Maggie Burgess has returned
home after spending severalgweeks
with her soniCharles Burgess and her
daughter, Mrs. Ray Bell in Pittsburg.
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ROCKWOOD.
May 13—Howard Snyder, youngest
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Snyder,
of South Rockwood,zwas badly burt
on Sunday when hejifelllZdown the
back stairs of their house.@His left
arm was fractured andjin addition
was severely brnised abont the head
and body.
After spending] several daysfjlast
week in = Baltimore, Mrs. W. |R.
Wadsworth, and daughter Elnora,
have returned home from visiting
Mr. Wadsworth, who representsjthe
engineers and firemen of the Con-
nellsville division on [railroad mat-
ters.
Mrs. Sarah Walter, wife of §B. &
O. agent Walter of Holsopple, was
the guest of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. M. H. Snyder, over Sunday.
George Holtzhouer, and Frank
Fellers were Sunday visitors at
Somerset.
D. E. Miller spent Sunday in Mey-
ersdale renewing old acquaintances.
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“‘Generally debilitated Sfor years.
Had sick headache, lacked ambition,
was worn oub and all rnn down.
Burdock Blood Bitters made me a
well woman’’.—Mrs. Chas. Freltoy,
Moosup, Conn.
COUNTY FAIR
AT SOMERSET.
At the meeting of the Directors of
the Somerset County Agricultural
Society held at Somerset, Pa., on
Saturday, it was decided to hold the
Agricultural Fair at Somerset on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, November 10th, 11th, 12th
and 13th, 1913, in the Assembly Room
of the Court House for fruit, vegeta-
bles and the domestic arts andjat
Holderbaums ware-house for stock
exhibits.
The Fair has grown larger and
larger each year, and as the directors
said on Saturday, it is up to the
Agricultural Society, within the next
year or two, to purchase grounds or
erect a building of their own,f§but as
this is expensive, the Society has de-
cided to put off doing so for a little
longer. It is highly important for
all farmers in the County to use their
interest in a genuine farmers fair,
and we hope every good farmer in
the County will prepare to send some-
thing for exhibition.
All information can be secured from
the Superintendent of the Fair, A. B.
Hoffman, R. F. D. No. 6, Somerset, Pa.
emer reeeseesseeeene
Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner?
Bitter taste? Complexion sallow?
Liver perhaps needs waking up.
Doan’s Regulets for bilious attacks,
25 at all stores. ad
NEW TELEPHONE COM-
PANY.
A new telephone company has been
organized in Middlecreek and sur-
rounding townships in the vicinity of
Trent and Champion. The company
has been organized principally by the
farmers in that section and to be used
by them. They have purchased the
poles and are erecting them for the
line. Wire and ’phones have been
ordered and shipped and the company
will be ready for business within a
short time. The organizers are: W.
J. Hamilton, president; William
Reese, treasurer; W. G. Hostetler,
secretary. The company expects to |
connect with the Economy Telephone
company in the vicinity of Trent,
where the new line ends.
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CHURCH ESTATE
BILL PASSES
Flynn Measure Provides For
Title According te Canens
RELIGION ENTERS BEBATE
Charge That Law Would Be First
Step to Bring State and Church To-
gether—Will Affect Biilion Dol-
: lars in Property.
(Special Harrisburg Correspondence.)
Harrisburg.—The Flynn bill, pro-
viding that title to ehurch property
shall be vested according to the
canons of the respective denomina-
tiens, which was defeated in the Sen-
ate by a vote of 24 #0 12, and them
reconsidered, was put through by a
vote of 27 to 12. The three additional
votes were furnished by Alexander,
of Clearfield, and Huffman, of Mon-
roe, who did not vete originally, and
Buckman, of Bucks, who originally
voted against the bill. Endsley, of
Somerset. and Giger, of Chester, who
voted against the bill did not vote at
first. Sones, of Lycoming, and Miller,
of Lehigh, who failed to be recorded
on the bill ‘at first, voted against it.
Senator Hoke, of Franklin, made a
bitter attack on the bill, charging that
it would be the first step to bring the
State and . Church together. He de-
clared that it was not true that the
Roman Catholic Church was arrayed
solidly in support of the bill, and pre-
sented a petition from a number of
members of that church opposing the
measure. He sald that a billion dol-
lars worth of chureh property would
be affected by the passage of this bill
and that legal chaos would result. “I
hope it will not pass,” said Senator
Hoke. “I am told that an agreement
was made to effect its passage in con-
sideration of the enactment of the
measure requiring the reading of the
Bible. Any Senator who votes for it
under such an agreement would be
recreant to his duty as a citizen and
as a legislator.” The bill was sup-
ported by Senator MoNichol, of Phila-
delphia. He denied the statement
made by Senator Hoke that other
denominations than the Catholic
Church would be affected by the bill.
John (. Johnson and George Whar-
ton Pepper, he said, had given an’
opinion that only the Roman Catholic
Church would come under its pro-
visions. He declared that he was sur-
prised at the attitude of Mr. Hoke,
who had been so greviously pleading
for justice in the submission of wo-
men’s suffrage.
“This bill has as much justice in it
as the other, and it affects two million
inhabitants of ‘this ‘Commonwealth. |
Our church has relations with the
government abroad, and has no desire
to affect the same arrangement here.
If that were true, I would be the last
man to ask for its passage. It aims
to be a comstructor of morals, so to
teach the young to be good citizens.”
The vote in full follows: —For the bill
—Alexander, Beidleman, Buckman,
Catlin, Crow, Daix, Earley, Gerberich,
Graff, Hall, Homsher, Huffman, Hun-
ter, Jarrett, Kline, Kurtz, Magee, Mc-
Nichol, Moore, Morgan, Nulty, Saltus,
Sheatz, Thompson, Vare, Washbers.
Against—Cooper, Dewitt, Fisher, Hea-
cock, Hilton, Hoke, Judson, Napp,
Miller, Senseich, Snyder, Sones, Ab-
sent or not voting—Clark, Endsley,
Gyger, Herbst, Jones, Martin, Mec-
Ilhenny, Mills, Sproul.
The Humes bill, giving the initia-
tive and referendum to ‘second and
third class cities, was sent back to
the Senate Municipal Affairs Com-
mittee from the second reading cal-
endar, after one of the hottest parlia-
mentary battles of the session. Demo-
crats and Republicans gave vent to
some very tart criticism of the man-
ner in which bills are handled by
Lieutenant Governor Reynolds, and
Mr. Reynolds apologized. When the
motion to recommit was made by Sen-
ator Salus, and seconded by Senator
Vare, objection was made by Senator
Jarrett, of Mercer, who demanded a
roll call. Senator Huffman, Democrat,
of Monroe, started to urge defeat of
the metion, but was stopped by a
point ef order raised by Senator Crow,
who said the Chair had already de-
clared the motion carried and that the
bill was no longer before the Senate.
“As the motion te recommit was made
and seconded and I declared it car
ried,” said the Lieaterant Governor,
“I must sustain the point of order of
Senator Crow.” This surprised friends
of the bill, as none heard motion put.
Less Liquor Licenses.
Completed figures show that there
are 57 less liquor licenses in Luzerne
county than there were last year, one
brewery and one distillery having sus-
pended business. The gross liquor l-
cense income to the county was $413.-
525, of which the State got $125,896.37,
including the brewery, wholesale and
bettling fees, which run about $67,000.
'Phene Hearing Opens.
The State Railroad Commission met
here to hold a hearing on the tele-
phone rate question in compliance
with the Coniff resolution, recently
passed by the House. The Commis-
sion has failed so far to appoint an
auditor to examine the beocoks of the
Pennsylvania and the Reading lines
on coal rates. The commission will
ghortly act, but did not care to move
pending the agreement of the railroad
companies and the complainants re
garding the person to be®selected as
| examiner.
STEEL COMBINE
WAS DEFENDED
Farrell Says Corporation Noi
Organizedto Stifle Competition
WM. E. COREY CONTRADICTED
‘Says Corporation Has Extended Coun.
try’s Commerce to All Parts of the
World—No Agreement With
~oreign Manufacturers.
New York.—The United States
Steel Corporation was pictured by
James a Farrell, its president, as a
combination organized not to suppress
competitors, but to develop the sale
of steel in foreign lands, a develops
ment which could not have been ac
complished, he said, if the corpora-
tion had not taken the various com
panies competing for foreign business
under its wing. He was testifying as
the first witness for the defense in the
government suit to dissolve the cor-
poration as a combination in restraint
of trade. ; :
The witness traced the growth of
the steel corporation’s export busi
ness from 292,000 tons the first year
it was organized to 2,246,000 tons in
1912, and from $31,000,000 in value ifi
1904 to $92,000,000 in 1912, and said
that the efforts of the corporation to
push its foreign trade had been ‘“‘con-
tinuous and indefatigable.” The re-
sult had been that 90 per cent of the
country’s foreign trade in steel was
done by the corporation, he said.
“We have made the strongest effort
possible to increase our foreign trade
#s compared with out domestic
trade,” Mr. Farrell declared. “Our
competitors have only been concerned
with foreign business when domestic
trade has been insufficient to keep
their capacity employed. @We have
Eept alter the foreign trade continu.
ously. If we had not, it would have
been impossible to develop it.”
Contradicting the testimony of Wil
liam B. Corey, his predecessor as pres-
ident of the corporation, that there
had been “understandings” between
the corporation and foreign manufac-
turers as to prices and a division of
territory, Mr. Farrell said:
“We have never operated under any
pools or agreements with foreign man.
ufacturers either as to prices or loca-
tion. We have never entered into
any contracts or agreements with for-
eign manufacturers to stay out of
their market provided they would
stay out of ours.” He denied also
that the corporation ‘“made a prac.
tice” of selling its products lower
abroad than in this country. ‘In fact,
some of our commodities
higher,” he said.
.Before the corporation was organ-
ized, the witness recited, seven steel
companies were competing for for-
eign business. On being taken over,
their foreign offices were combined
under one office and their operations
systematized.
In 1904 the United States Steel
Products Company was organized to
take charge of the foreign trade and
push it. Exhaustive studies were
made of foreign markets in order that
business could be done according to
the usages and requirements of each
particular market, and “at an enorm-
ous expense” the processes of manu
facture at the mills of the corpora-
tion were adapted to meet these re-
quirements.
The corporation established agen-
cies from ‘Iceland to the Fiji Islands,”
268 in all, Mr. Farrell said, and as a
‘result the export business of the sub-
sidiaries had greatly increased, in the
case of the Carnegie Steel Company
to 24 per cent, of its whole produc-
are sold!
pieyed DY The 69THOratlion In manuiso
caring steel for export and 15,000 more
in making the steel sold to manufac.
turers of goods sent abroad for sals,
the latter amounting to $30,000,000.
“Wo do correspondence from our
office in every language,” said the wit-
ness, “in English, French} German,
Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Hin-
dustanese. We have to get the busi-
ness. Our office is an encyclopedia
for American manufacturers on trade
conditions in foreign countries and
we often lend them our salesmen te
do their business for them.”
Havoc Wrought by Storm.
Tulsa, Okla.—At least five men
were killed by lightning, many oil
tanks and wells set on fire, power
plants damaged and other havoo
wrought by a terrific electrical and
wind storm that swept the Tulsa oil
district.
British Steamer Hits ice Berg.
Montreal—The fate of the Titanic
was narrowly escaped by the steamer
Chiltern Range in a collison with an
iceberg on her voyage from Hull to
this port, where she arrived Sunday.
The bow-plates of the steamer, a Brit-
ish freighter, were badly dented, and
only the fact that she luckily slid off
the ice mass and escaped contact with
any shap section of the underlying
portion of it saved her from disaster,
in Captain Rea’s opinion. The berg
was struck in the track of the ocean
liners.
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Farmers, mechanics, railroaders, la
borers, rely on Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic
Oil. Fine for cuts, burns, bruises.
Should be kept in every home. 25c
and 50c. ad
BOSWEL FIRE CAUS-
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The interior of the supply house of
the Merchants’ Coal Company, in Bos- |
well, was damaged by fire about &
o’clock on Friday morning. Consid=
erable of the contents, consisting of
cement, pipe, electrict fittings, and
other mine supplies, were ruined, and
the loss will be about $2,000,
The fact that the sides of the build=
ing and the roof are covered with tin,
probably prevented a bad fire for Bose
well. The blaze was confined to this
one building and proyented from com« |
municating to the powerhouse, ma=
chine shop, and a large supply house
of the company.
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The fire, it is believed, started fromx
a cigarette or cigar thrown into a box
of sawdust during a meeting last night
in the first-aid room of the supply
house, where baseball fans met and
organized a club. The saw dust box,
partly burned, was found on the
ground beneath a hole that had been
burned through the floor of the build-
ing.
PORTABLE ACETYLENE
LAMP POSTS.
By means of a new portable acety-
lene lamp-post, described in the May
Popular Mechanics Magazine, parks,
squares or other open placs may be
vividly illuminated for special occas-
ions, such as band concerts, and the
like, the time taken for the erection
or removal of the posts being negli-
gible. All that is necessary is to force |
the pointed base of the pole into the
ground, place a pail of water beside
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tion. © A diversity of products en- it, drop the acetylene box in the
abled the corporation to meet all de- C AS I OR I A water. and make the required hose
mands from bed-springs to steel For Infants and Children, connection between the box and the
bridges. No single subsidiary with
one or two products, he said, could
have maintained thesg agemcies on
such an extensive scale.
Forty thousand men are now em-
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authentic, but it is the inside hand work which you can’t
see that gives to Oppenheimer Superior Clothing its
more distinguished character and its great value.
To get the full import of this statement you must
know something of the Oppenheimer organization which
for 58 years has stood for honest wormanship and high-
est standards of quality.
q No skimping or slighting or glossing over of defects
is permitted in this organization.
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the finest clothing you must pay the highest price..
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guarantee of quality or of service.
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pearances. Style and good looks are necessary
but in determining the real service value of cloth-
ing you must get beneath the surface.
q Oppenheimer Superior Clothing is not the
highest priced clothing in the world.
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construction and then, when finished, they undergo an-
other rigid inspection before being sent to the shipping
department.
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_ disappoints—
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any other ready-for-service clothing sold at the same or
anything like the same price—
q And that is why we can attach an iron-clad guaran-
tee to every Oppenheimer garment. (Read insurance clause.)
quibbling or delay.
INSURANCE CLAUSE
q Every OPPENHEIMER garment is in-
spected rigidly and then offered for sale
with ABSOLUTE INSURANCE against
defect of any kind whatsoever.
the slighest irregularity be discovered, the
makers will correct it without argument,
€ Our Spring Style Book will be sent
free upon request. Write for it or, better
still, look up the dealer in your community
who handles Oppenheimer Superior
Clothing and note how fully it makes good
our ‘every claim.
M. Oppenheimer & Co.
Wholesale Exclusively
115-123 SEVENTH STREET
PITTSBURGH, PA.
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