LETTER FROM ILLINOIS.
Joseph L. Fike, in renewing his sub-
scription to The Commercial encloses |
these interesting items: |
Milledgeville, Ill. |
Aug. 12, 1913.
A. M. Schaffner,
Editor The Commercial.
Dear Sir,
. In the year
1833 I was born and raised 3 miles west
of Meyersdale, on the William P. Mey-
ers farm. In 1870 I moved from the
Kinsinger farm adjoining the home
farm to Milledgeville, Ill., where 1
still live. In 1909 I paid my last visit
40. Meyersdale. My old stamping
ground, Meyersdale, made great
ghauges in improvements in the 38
years. So did Milledgeville, a lively
Httle business village, no saloons in it,
and on the main line of the B. & O.
railroad to St. Paul.
Our last winter was mild, not
much snow, not over four inches at
any time. Spring was late and cold,
which made seeding and planting late,
but since in the West I neversaw corn
grow faster than it did in the last two
months. The weather has been very
hot for the last three or four days,the
mercury several times being up to 102
in the shade. Pasture and hay crops
are good, a great deal of hay was bail-
ed and shipped to make room for the
new crop. The oats crop is fair and
light in“weight.. Wheat yield is good.
Potato crop will be short. Berries
of all kinds and cherries quite plenti-
ful. The weather was getting rather
dry until last Tuesday night when we
had a heavy rain, lightning struck a
large barn, burning it down and on
Saturday night we had another hard
rain, lightning striking three more
barns and killed 12 steers for a neigh-
bor. Our nearest neighbor has sixty
steers, as fine as you can find any- |
where Six months on teed average
1450 1bs.. He also has eighty fat hogs
and 320 spring pigs. I tnink his cattle
will bring 9 cents a pound. Prospects
are for a large corn crop.
JoseprH J. FIKE.
ACTIVITY ALONG THE
WESTERN MARYLAND.
That the industries in the territory
served by the lines of the Western
Maryland Railway company are in
a highly prosperous state is eviden- |
ced by the increased demand for
labor at this time. So wide is the
mark.t for the products turned out
by these plants, that many of them
wculd double their present capacity
provided they could procure the re-
quired number of additional work-
men. Lack of labor is preventing
them from taking full advantage of
present active market condition.
For instance, at Chambersburg,
Pa., an exceptionally prosperous
point on the Western Maryland,
about seyenty young men are needed
in the silk mills. The owner of the
mills stand ready to double or even
the tre .le the output of his plant
just as soon as he can feel reasona-
bly sure of getting sufficient help
to warrant him in making the out-
lay necessary. .
An effort is being made by the citi-
zens of the newspaper, to attract
young men, willing to work, work
to that town. The fact is made
known that positions are open to
them, and that is coming they will
not only be befitting themselves, but |
Chambersburg as well. The silk
manufacturers are eager to go ahead
and enlarge their plants, provided
they can get erough hands to ope-
rate additional looms.
‘What is said of Chambersburg can
be applied with equal emphasis to
other thriving places along the
Western Maryland lines. The de-
mand for labor continues good, and
pew plants are springing up, as if my
magic, thus creating a greater need
for help and more prosperity for the
eommunities in which they propose
to operate,in the future.
By reason of this healthy situa-
tion in the industrial line in Mary-
land, Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia, positions should be easy to
find.
IN BOSWELL LOCK-UP.
Boswell, Aug. 12.—Chief of Police
J. C. Bentley and Constable Ed. Aris-
man on Tuesday afternocn caught
one of two men who held up a Jerome
foreigner Monday afternoon about
4:30 o’clock and took $20 from him.
The prisoner is Frank Phillips, of Bos-
well, who has been identified as one
of the highwaymen. An information
charging highway robbery has been
made against him before Justice of
the Peace Combecker and a hearing
will probably be held this evening.
The Jerome foreigner had been to
Boswell and collected some back pay.
He was on his way home when two
men came up from the rear and cov-
ered him with two revolvers. Two
ten-dollar bills were taken from the
foreigner.
The highwayman not yet captured
is described as being five feet nine
inches tall, weighs about 150 to 160 |
pounds, is 20 or 21 years old, wears |
blue suit, light cap, and soft shirt,
and has a smooth face.
SOMERSET COUNCIL AND RECENT MARRIAGES
BURGESS AT LOGGER-|
HEADS.
Somerset playgrounds women are |
gess Frank M. Forney of an ordinance
opening North Columbia Avenue,
which would take almost half of the
now used by the playgrounds associ-
ation. The land is owned by the mu-
nicipality. It is claimed that under
a recent Supreme Court decision in a
case appealed from Lackawanna
county it is necessary for Council to
dispose of vetoes at the first regular
meeting following the filing of the veto
by the Burgess.
If the matter reaches the courts it is
asserted that charges of a grave nat-
ure will be embodied in the bill on
which an enjoining order from the
court will be asked. Burgess Forney,
in his veto, states that Council neglec-
ted to properly advertise the location
of the proposed street when the ordi-
nance was published. The ordinance
has already been published twice the
required number of times in newspa-
pers, but it is contended by the bur-
gess that the defect has not yet been
cured.
Declaring that the destruction of
the public playgrounds by council in
attempting to open the street over the
same is obviously for a selfish pur-
pose, Burgess Forney vetoed the or-
dinance, He says he. is opposed to
the destruction of any part of the
playgrounds unless those benefited by
the opening of the street compensate
the playgrounds’ association.
In a red-hot statement of his reasons
for disapproving council’s action the
burgess points out that council is fla-
| grantly inconsistent and sizes up their
| official acts as an invitation to the
| the taking into court by angry citi-
zens, hundreds of whom petitioned
council to spare the playgrounds.
The petitions were ignored by a unan-
imous votes of the borough dads,some
of whom in advance of their action de-
clared that the petitions would not be
considered.
Burgess Forney vetoed the North
Columbia avenue ordinance, stating
that those who benefit by the new
street proposed to take the land re-
quired for the same from their neigh-
| bors instead of furnishing even a por-
tion of the land themselves. One of
| the neighbors, it so happens, is the
municipality, which own the play-
grounds, from which land worth at
least $5,000 would be taken to ‘‘serve
| private interests at the expense of the
| community®’’ He further labels this
action ‘‘inequitable and unfair to the
neighboring property owners,” and
charges Council with several irregu-
larities which, he claims are fatal de-
fects as far as the legality of the ordi-
nance is concerned.
Burgess Forney’s veto is interpreted
by many to mean that the entire matt-
er will be promptly thrown into the
courts for an impartial examination of
the official acts of Council, in case his
veto is not sustained.
Big stock of middling, bran, grain,
chop feeds at lowest prices, at
Habel & Phillips. ad
PRES. FRITZGERALD RE-
CEIVES GOLD MEDAL
By direction of His Excellency, the
Governor, and our commission, I have
the honor to present to you the medal
of gold for the splendid services in-
dividually rendered by you and also
by your road in handling so ssuccess-
fully the great volume of trafficin and
out of Gettyburg during the Reunion
Celebration. The promptness with
which your train movements were
made, was, in view of the extraordi-
nary conditions prevailed, in itself,
most commendable, but above and be-
yond all was the splendid achievement
of no accident of the slightest charac-
ter occurring during the entire period.
The medal on its obverse side, con-
tains two veterans kneeling at the feet
of liberty, above which is the inscrip-
tion, ‘‘Fiftieth Anniversary of the
Battle of Gettysburg, 1863-1815. On
the converse side there is a design of
the clasped hands, emblematic of the
union of the two sections in lasting
friendship and brotherly-love.
No man labored harder at Gettys-
burg for the successful handling of
the surviving soldiers than did the
chief executive of the Western Mary-
land. Day in and day out, during the
period, he was on duty from early
morning until midnight, joining hands
with train master, train dispatcher,
and yard master in directing the oper-
ation of trains. It was this faithfulness
to duty on the part of the president
and every man under him which en-
abled the Western Maryland to estab-
lish a record which has never before
been equaled by a single-track rail-
soad. President Fitzgerald is proud
of this record and greatly appreciates
the words of praise that have come
from Governor Tenor and the mem-
bers of the Gettysburg Commission.
meee meee
Five Room honse for rent at $6.00
and seven room house at $7.00 on
Clay street, Habel & Phillips. d
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IN THE COUNTY"
Miss Edna Rush Meyers, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs, Hiram J. Meyers,and
Wallace N. Berkebile, son of Mr. and
i yabijauk oyer the failure of the Town | Mrs. Calvin T. Berkebile, both of
| Council at its regular meeting on Fri-
| day night to act on the veto of Bur-
Hooversville,were married at Hooyers-
ville, August 10, by the Rev. Perry J.
Shriver, pastor of the Hooversville
Lutheran church.
Miss Ethel Evelyn Bearl, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bearl,and Wm.
Morris Mcllveen, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Mcllyeen, of Pittsburgh, were
married at Somerset, August 9th, by
the Rev. S. G. Buckner, pastor of the
Somerset Christian Church.
Miss Blanche Lambert, daughter’of
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin L.~ Lambert, and
Clarence H. Kimmel, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Oran A. Kimmel. both of Stony-
creek township, were married at Som-
erset, August 9, by the Rev. Hiram
King. '
Miss Josephine Wood, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Wood, and Carl
Chilma, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orgina
Chilma, both of Confluence, were mar-
ried at Confluence, August 8, by Jus-
tice of the Peace, George G. Groff.
Miss Anna Zorn, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jacob Zorn, of Berlin, and
George E. Walbert, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Milton Walbert, of Waynesboro,
Pa., were married at Berlin. August 7,
by the Rev. H. B. Burkholder, pastor
of the Berlin Lutheran church.
Miss Florence P. Winters, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Winters, and J.
Stanley Griffith, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Griffith, both of Jenner Town-
ship, were married at Stoyestown,
August 9, by the Rev. J. 8. English,
pastor of the Stoyestown Lutheran
church.
Miss Bessie Viola Peppley, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Peppley,
and Sylvester G. Carver, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John A. Carver, both of
Shade Township, were married at Som-
erset, August 9, by Marriage License
Clerk, James B. Landis.
Miss Emma Darl Wagner, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Wagner,
of Shade Township, and Earle Tre-
voux Lohr, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Lohr, were married at Hooversville,
August 8, by the Rev. G. K. Allen.
Miss Lillian Belle Pearson,daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Pearson,
of Rummel, and James Garfield Shaff-
er, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Shaff-
er, of Windber; were married at Paint
Borough, August 8, by Justice of the
Peace S. P. Sourbrine.
Sparks From the Electric Wire
Electric saws are being used by butch
ers in cutting up meats.
Electricity is now applied to nearly
all kinds of power driven maehinery.
All the largest Canadian steamships
must now be equipped with wireiess
outfits.
New electric fans will flash words
and sentences from a perforated roll
of paper.
A portable searchlight has been per-
fected for linemen to be used in night
repair work.
A new dam on the Columbia River
is expected to develop 300,000 electric
horse power. :
The coal handling machinery for the
Panama Canal coaling stations will be
operated by electricity.
California orange growers are exper-
imenting with electric heaters to pro-
tect their trees from frost.
More than twenty-three million dol-
lars’ worth of electrical machinery
was exported from this country last
year.
Florists use artificial electric heat to
force the blooming of Easter lilies this
year because Easter came so early.
The amount of capital invested in
the electrical business in the United
States is in the neighborhood of $6,-
000,000,000.
One of the largest incubators in use
for hatching chicks is to be found in
New Orleans. It is operated by elec-
tricity and the heat is automatically
controlled.
A new Asiatic cable will be laid
from Hong Kong via Columbo and
Singapore. It will be six million miles
long and cost five million dollars.
New York City will spend three hun-
dred million dollars for new subway
systems. Four, years from now the
city will be operating six hundred
miles of single track in service beneath
the city.
An inventor claims to have perfec-
ted a system of rapid telegraphy capa-
ble of 40,000 an hour. A beam of light
playing upon a strip of sensitized paper
records the messages.
A resident of Northboro, Mass,
lights his home with electricity se-
cured fromthe storage battery of his
gasolene automobile. During the day,
when the car is running, the battery
| is charged. Nights the battery is con-
nected to the house circuit. The house
is lighted with five 16 candlepower
lamps.
Somerset County’s
Large Crops.
Lovers of the luscious ‘‘roastin’
ear’’ may well be in transports of rap-
ture, for, if nothing unforeseen turns
up, there is going to be a large crop
of corn. The alternate rains and hot
sunshine early in the summer caused
considerable damage to some crops
and just about killed all chance of a
large apple and pear yield in this
vicinity, but corn is to be had in
abundance.
In the fat lands of Somerset county
acres and acres are given over to the
raising of this commodity. There is
always a big demand for corn in the
city markets. Farmers in this region
are selling little corn just now, as it
will be at least a month before the
crop is ripe. But when it is there
will be corn in abundance.
Notwithstanding the dire peedic-
tions of the farmers at the beginning
of the summer, when the weather
was so bad for farming, the crop of
hay is fair, at least throughout Som-
erset. county. Hay has almost all
been cut and taken from the fields,
although there are still some fields to
be cut and burned. The commodity
is selliug at $11 to $12 per ton from
meadow, while in the city market it
commands $16 to $17 per ton.
Oats are ripe and the work of get-
ting the crop from the fields is begin-
ning. The crop is excellent through-
out Somerset county, which is known
as a country of corn, hay, oats and
potatoes. The latter crop is large, as
is also the crop of buckwheat, which
is now in blossom.
There will be a dearth ot apples in
the markets in the fall, as this crop
has been practically ruined by the
heavy frosts early in the summer. In
fact, all fruits in this vicinity will be
scarce. Pears, plums, peaches and all
fruits were badly frost-bitten early in
the seasou. .
A “stiri ge freak of mature is to be
observeu un fruit trees throughout
Somerset county, especially apples
and pea:s. One or two limbs on some
of the trees are fairly groaning under
the weight of their fruit, while the.re-
mainder of the tree will be almost
bare. f
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Marvel and Golden loaf flour are
our big trade winners. Are you using
them. Habel & Phillips. ad
INISH
SION
iITHAT YoU DON’T HAVE To
GET UPON STILTS TO MAKE
AN IMPRESSION.
SMART, WELL-FUR- _
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RESOLVED,
A NICE,
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ON ANYONE.
THINGS YoU NEED To
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ENTRUSTED To UJ.
130 Centre Street.
MARKET REPORT.
Corrected weekly by McKenzie &!
Smith.
PAYING PRICE.
Butter, per pound............screerse 22-25¢
Hogs, per doz..........ciieeienss een. 21-23C
Chickens, per pound......c.......:c.» +120
Country Side, per pound
Apple butter, per gal...........c.ccceenaee
Shoulder, per pound........cccecunraneens
Corrected weekly by. Becker &
Streng.
SELLING PRICE.
Corn, per bus
Oats,
Wheat, per bus
Wheat chop, per cwt........ceeuuenent 190
Corn and oats, per cwt. home
STOUNA over sestioseunnsneines 1 65
Flour, ‘*Best on Record’’ per bbl. 5 45
‘King of Minnesota’’ 60 per cent
patent, per barrel............. Ranps
errr reese eee.
As long as the present stock of
goods last, we will make photo-
graphs at one half the regular price.
All portrait frames will also go at
the same rate. We guarantee all
goods to be strictly first class and
up-to-date: E. E. Conrad. ad
No. 5833. i
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The Citizens National Bank,
OF MEYERSDALE, PA.,
at the close of business August 9, 1913.
TO GET NEW FURNITURE, RUGS oR HOME
FURNISHINGS FOR YOUR HOUSE YoU MUST
GO TO A HOUSE THAT HAS NEW THINGS.
OUR STORE YOU'LL FIND ALL oF THQJSE
AND MAKE IT HAPPY.
CROSS WHEN WE SHOW OUR GooDJs.
TURE THEY WILL BE PLEASED.
PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN To ALL WORK
R. REICH & SON, ~
Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
IN
FURNISH YOUR HOME
WE NEVER LooK
WE
00K.S AT OUR FURNI-
All Telephones.
Report of the Condition of the
Citizens National Bank
MEYERS 'ALE. PA,
At the Close of Business, August 9, 1913.
i RESOURCES.
Loans and Investments .............. $713,230 75
U.S. Bonds: .. :....... Ba 74,000 00
Banking House .... . ....... Peiease. 29,300 00
Due from Banks and Reserve Agents... 123,006 05
Cash .......... SENG a ne 60,039 83 2
$999,576 65
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stoek . 0... 0... Loa 0, $ 65,0060 00
Surplus... oa 100,000 00
Undivided Profits ........... ........ 15,548 58
Cireulation ................. 5 %.%.. 65,000 00
Deposits .... ...... aia . 744,028 07
U. S. Government Deposit........ 10,000 00
$999,576 65
Before You Buy a
FIRST SEE
SEE
A DeLLAVAL,
THE BEST SEPARATOR MADE.
J. T. YODER,
Cream Separator
AND TRY
Office 223 Levergood St,
Johnstown, - Penn’a.
WANTED.
At the Royal Cafe, and Restau
rant, at Boswell, a cook and girl in
the kitchen. Employment given.at
once, good wages for the right party.
ad A. E. BITTNER.
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For SALE—One Heavy brood mare,
RESOURCES.
Loans and discountsS...... «oeoisvesean $621 203 43
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured... + 2,433 08
U. S. Bonds to secure circulation..... 65,000 00
U. S. Bondsto secure. U. S. Deposits. 8 000 00
Other bonds to secure J S. Deposits... 2000 00
Other bonds to secure Postal Sayings 3 000 00
Premiums on U. S. Bonds...... ...... 1,000 00
Bonds, securities, tC. .........ccuuun, 78,391 34
Banking house. furniture and fixtures 26,300 00
uther Real Estate owned. ............ 6,200 00
Due from National Banks (notre-
Serve agents). ......eieieaniiiainia. ,307
Due from approved reserve agents... 113,448 94
Checks and other cash items...... ... 580
Notes of other National Banks....... 2,710 00
Fractional paper currency, nickels
and Conta: cic useinnrare sates 316 33
Legal-tender Notes. ..... ..c.......... ,433 00
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasur-
er (5 per cent. of circulation) ....... 3,250 00
POLAT. os sit ehesne sannraimressnasts 8 999,576 65
LIABILITIES. n
Capital stock paid in.........coeeneeee $ 65,000 00
Surplus fund......o eeeecsaseiiincens 00,000 00
Undivided profits, less expenses and
taxes pal .. 15,548 58
National Bank notes outstanding.... 65,000 00
Dividends unpaid. ... c.cc.eoviioenne 30
Individual deposits subject to check. 469,121 12
Demand certificates of deposit ....... 298 60
Time Certificates cf Deposit... 270,754 55
Cashier's checks cutstanding.. 715 07
United States deposit8....... = 10000 %
Postal Savings Deposits..... Sena vee. 7
Reserved for taxes and interest...... 1,000 00
POLO. ..c arco nennossssinnersatan 8 999,575 65
State of Pennsylvania, fas
County of Somerset, .
I, R. H. Philson, Cashier of the above-name
bank, do solemnly swear that the above state-
ment is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief. PHILSON, Cashier
Correct—Attest: S. B PHILSON,
W. T. HOBLITZELL,
CLARENCE MOORE
Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th
day of August, 1913. My commission expires
March 26, 1915. ROBERT COOK,
Notary Public.
gle line leader and perfectly safe
a | from steam and such like.
6 years old, and one horse, 6 years
old, both sound. Will work single
or double. The mare is an extra sin-
GEo. W. BEALS,
R. F. D. No. 2, Meyersdale, Pa.
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GIRL WANTED—For general house
work. Apply, to Mrs. R. G# Miller, |
augld 239 Meyersavenue,Meyersdale. |
LUMBER FOR SALE. 4,
If you are in need of lumber see H.
Phillips, at 331 Beachley street, or
call by phone. Both phones. We can
Save you money on building material
by delivering direct from the saw mill.
CUNNINGHAM LUMBER CoO.
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OIL! OIL!
The Oklahoma City Oil Company
has paid the first quarter of an eight
per cent dividend. It is only a half
a year-old. Three oil and two gas
wells flowing. Two wells going down.
Wouldn't you like to take some
stock? Call, on or write,
H. C. McKINLEY,
Meyersdale, Pa.
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