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VOLUME XXXVI.
MEYERSDALE.PA.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 18.1913
GRAVE ROBBERS
IN MEYERSDALE
FLEEING GHOULS SHOT AT.
Great Consternation Caused---
Much Sympathy Expressed.
That grave robbers have struck
Meyersdale there seems no doubt,
ghouls have been at work and have
brought consternation to many.
Who knows if the remains of those;
who’ were laid to rest by loying
hands and tear dimned eyes, are still
in the grave? It is to be hoped that
they are, but from recent disclos-
ures there is no absolute certainty of
this. y
On Monday a week ago two men
came to Mr. Kocher, the Superin-
‘téndent of the Union cemetery, while
rengaged in work showed an interest
in cemetery work, in the beautiful
monuments and incidentally asked if
H. J. Wilmoth was not buried in the
cemetery and where, if he was.
On Wednesday evening of the same
week Mr. Stewart, colored, working
for E. E. Klingaman, at the livery
stable, while going to the moving
picture show at the Bijou, was accost~
ed by two strangers and asked if he
had any work for that night. One
man sail he would give him $5.00
and the second man said, ‘yes we’ll
give you $10.00. Stewart said he
would haye to go to the stable first.
These strangers told Stewart that
they had a friend who died of small
pox and wanted to exhume his body
bafore morning. In addition to the
ten dollars they offered Stewart, as-
‘sured him that they would furnish
all the whikey that he might want.
Stewart reported all this to 8. B.
Philson and W. T. Hoblitzell. These
men had Superintendent Xocher,
Harding and another man go to the
eemetery and investigate matters.
These three men went to the ceme-
tory at 10 p. m. by different routes,
all leading to the Wilmoth grave.
Superintendent Kocher, was the first
to reach the grave of H. J. Wil-
moth and noticed two men within a
few feet of the grave. Kocher shot
three times at the fleeing ghouls and
with the last shot one man fell,
whether he was hit by the bullet or
stambled by a mistep is not known.
The next morning Fred Wilmoth
and Kocher went to the grave and
made an examination, and found a
fuse one and one-half foot long with
a,cap on one end, a half pint of
whisky, rags, paper etc., and foot
prints on the grave. Five test holes
had been made with a rod 5-8 inches
in thickness down to the vault by the
graye robbers.
On Friday morning an electric
wire had been strung to the graye so
that a light is burning all night and
since then a concrete casing has been
made over the vault and with this
latter precaution it will require a
night’s work with dynamite before
the body can be reached.
What is the purpose of this act?
Is it in the interest of science or is it
for a ransom. It is admittod that
the case of Mr. Wilmoth baffled the
skill of the best medical efforts, and
one theory is that some medical
school is back of this. Another theory
is that body snatchers are around,
trying to get a large ransom for the
return of the body. =
A few days ago a stranger called
at the Purity ice cream office and
inquired for Fred Wilmoth. When
told that he was not around he urged
the clerk not to tell Mr. Wilmoth
that some one had been arouud in-
quiring for him.
A few days later an elderly man
called at the Wilmoth - home for
work—also a stranger. He was given
a meal and appeared very talkative.
He spoke of Mr. Wilmoth’s death,
and apparently knew the time of
his death aud many other matters of
which a stranger would be entirely
ignorant and in no way interested.
All these matters are causing much
uneasiness in the Wilmoth home
and are eliciting much sympathy for
Mrs. Wilmoth and family.
CALIFORNIA VISITORS.
Mrs. W. B. Scott and daughters
Misses Myrtle and Effie of Santa Bar-
bara, California, who had been vis-
iting at the home of the former’s
brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Emory George, of High street,
left last evening for Somerset and
the north of the county where they
STABBING AT
SALISBURY.
Bert Pile, aged 34, of Coal Run,
slashed Lawrence Fallen, aged 25, of
West Salisbury, with a knife, in a
row at Salisbury, Saturday night.
Fallen was attended by Dr. P. L.
Swank and is reported in a serious
condition from a deep wound in the
region of the heart.
Lawrence Fallen and Fred Deal
quarreled after the adjournment of a
tent show-given at Salisbury by Rob-
inson Bros., Saturday night, and Pile,
who had also attended the show, took
a hand in the affray. It is alleged
that he plunged a knife into Fallen’s
breast, about an inch above the heart,
and quickly disappeared. Fallen
walked about three hundred yards
from the show grounds when he
placed his hand on his breast and
discovered\that he was bleeding free-
ly. Before he had gone many more
yards he was so weak from loss of
blood that he laid down ina lot in
the rear of Meager’s store, where he
was found by John - Lichliter, who
heard him groaning. Lichliter sum-
‘moned assistance and carried the
wounded man to Dr. Swank’s office.
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Fruit Growing as a Business
An ambitious man in one of our
leading fruit growing districts has
written to Prof. H. A. Surface, Harris
burg, for imformation about start-
ing in the business of fruit production.
The reply of Professor Surface is con-
servative, and contains suggestions
that may serve other persons from
worry and from loss. It was as follows:
*‘I am glad to give you such imfor-
mation as is possible in brief corre-
spondence, concerning your plan of
buying a smamll tract and planting an
apple orchard. In the first place, I
do not recommend it to the one who
does not know the subject of horti-
culture. It would pay far better for
a person to spend years with some
successful horticulturist, and then
start his own fruit growing enterprise
than to begin it by himself personally
and make the serious mistakes that
may prove harmiulin the end. In the
second place, the tract should not be
nine miles from the railroad. No per-
son is justified in going into the fruit
business very tar from the railroad
unless he has a ‘first class State road
over which to draw the fruit.
‘‘The direction and slope of the land
and amount of elvation are not very
important, if you have sufficent local
elevation for good air drainage and
good water drainage. The ridge belt
which you describe would be good
for fruit, while the part along the
‘stream is liable to be unfavorable and
result in the fruit being killed by
spring frosts. Sandy soil is alright
but it must be fed by growing the
legume crops and other inexpensive
and effective kinds. Chestnut timber
indicates good fruit soil, as does also
walnut. .
‘‘If you want an apple orchard, then
I advise planting apple trees rather
than peach trees. Even for fillers you
can plant young-bearing varieties that
will commence to bear as young as
peach. It wili pay you well to look
around and see what adjoining or-
chardists are doing. If the surround-
ing orchards have trees that have
been properly cared for, and still con-
tain trees that are dwarfed and small
it is an indication that the soil is not
good for an orchard, and it will not
be profitable to undertake it there.
‘‘The list of the insects and plant
diseases that you must meet is a sub-
ject for special study, and too exten-
sive to go into a letter. You can get
plenty of literature on this subject.
We have pnblished bulletins from the
Division of Zoology, Department of
Agriculture, covering this subject
completely. They are free of charge
on writting to us for them at Harris-
burg.
‘“We do not make examination of
land to give advise concerning their
adaptability to fruit growing. This is
not in the line of our work. Our office
takes up the subject of pest suppres-
sion, and tells what to do to produce
better fruits with special regard to
suppressing pests. On the whole, I
strongly advise you to learn horticul-
ture before commencing to be a hor-
ticulturist, just as I would advise any
person to learn any business before
investing any money in it. You can
no doubt find an engagement with
some successful grower and serve a
year’s apprenticeship with him, just as
a person in any other business, should
serve a year or more of apprenticeship
before going alone.
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+ PECIMENS.
TOMATO RAISING CONTEST.
Last year under the auspices of the
parent-teacher organizatfon, the boys
of the grades were encouraged to
plant potatoes and the girls under-
took to raise tomatoes. Twenty-nine
girls promised to make the attempt
in tomato culture and of the twenty-
nine, twenty-three placed their pro.
ducts on exhibition in the basement
of the High School Building. These
products together with an essay on
how each one raised tomatoes are
taken into consideration by judges,
R. H.' Philson and J. N. Lint, who
are authorized toward certain prizes.
.On Monday evening the schools
were given the opportunity to inspect
the products of those who entered
into the tomato raising contest. Each
contestant furnished six tomatoes as
specimens and taking it all together
they gave a good account of their
work during the vacation.
The following young ladies handed
in tomatoes for the judges’ inspec-
tion: 4 ,
Misses Cora Landis, Clara Brown,
Helen Pooley,Jennie Livengood, Mar-
cella Reich, Leora Beale, Lucy Nash-
winter, Kathryn Aurandt,Irene Resh,
Rose Newman, Hilda Shultz, Mae
Irwin, Emma Meyers, Elizabeth
Hocking, Margaret Emerick, Mary E.
Pritts, Louise Hocking, Allie Austin,
Madeline Smith, Angela Reich, Al-
meda Beal, Gladys Stein, Yvonne
O’Bryon. -
Later on the record of the work
the boys did in raising potatoes will]
be heard.
.
A GOOD LECTURE.
Warren E. Barnett, of Columbus,
Ohio, a Supreme Lecturer, of the
Loyal Order of Moose, was present
at the regnlar meeting of the local
lodge on last Monday night and de-
livered a very interesting and in-
structive lecture. He also took an
active part in the initiation of nine
new members, in which work he is
thoroughly versed. Mr. Barnett is an
orator of rare ability and knows the
secret work of the order from begin
ning to end The local lodge expects
to have him here in the near future
at an open meeting to exemplify the
grand principles of Moosedom at
which time everybody will be ir-
vited. > :
IMPORTANT FASH-
ION ANNOUNCEMENT.
We take great pleasure in announc-
ing to our readers that beginning
with an early issue we will publish
the first of a series of weekly articles
on women’s and children’s fashion.
These articles will be illustrated
with artistic drawings of the very
newest styles and will be especially
wtitten for this paper by a fashion
authority of New York city.
These exclusive and interesting
letters will provide the ladies of Mey-
ersdale and vicinity with authentic
fashion information of exceptional
value. Watch for the first article.
SOMERSET UNDISTURB-
ED BY FINANCIAL RE:
VERSES.
The recent failures of prominent
Somerset business men, which in
some cases resulted in criminal pros-
ecutions, has not disturbed the coun-
ty seat town’s financial stability was
indicated today when stock of two of
town’s banking institutions sold at 70
per cent. above par, at public sale.
Ten shares of the capital stock of
the Farmer’s National Bank were
sold to Miles A. Varner at $165, and
30 shares of the capital stock of the
County Trust were bid in by Jacob
B. Gerhard at $170. The stock was
sold by the First National Bank,
with which it had been placed some
time ago as collateral security by
John H. Seibert, who recently took
advantage of the bankruptcy .laws.
Seibert was associated with the Berk-
ebile Lumber company, which was
recently placed in the banks of a re-
ceiver.
ANOTHER KILLING.
Two foreigners engaged in a fight
on the outskirts of Hooversville late
Monday night and one of them shot
the other, causing almoS§t instant
death.
will spend ten days, after which they
will return to Meyersdale and later |
they will yisit relatives and friends at |
Bedford, before they return home. |
Miss Annie S. Helsel and Earle
Landers both of Holsopple, were mar- |
ried at Holsopple by Rev A. A. Da-|
vidson.
Both men are said to have been
SCHOOL GIRLS SHOW!
|| organizations :—Knights of the Golden
THE GRIM ==
=== REAPER
MRS. MARY GRAY.
Mary Gray, wife of Thomas Gray,
deceased, formerly, for many years
of Coal Run, died on Monday evening,
September 8, 1913, at Bard, Bedford
county. She was buried on Thursday
September 11th, at Madley, Bedford
county, Rev. Mr. Powell of Hynd-
man, officiated. ‘
She was born March 12, 1827, and
was aged 86 years, 5 months®and 27
days. . She was the mother of ten
children and is survived by four sons
and two daughters as follows: —Geo.
W. Beals of Elk Lick township, J. H.
Beals of Coal Run, J. L Bennett, of
Chicago, Ill., Samuel T. Gray, and
Mrs. Wm. James of Coal Run, and
Mrs. Henry Sides of Bard. She is
also survived by 55 grand children
and 56 great grand children.
W. L. HOOVER.
On Saturday evening one of the
most widely known and prominent
citizens of Garrett passed away. W.
L. Hoover, the subject of this notice
was aged 61 years, 4 months and 16
days. He had been in feeble health
for the last 10 months. Recently he
spent four weeks at the Allegany
hospital in Cumberland, taking treat-
ment for heart trouble. Dr. Johnson
of Cumberland, Dr. Miller of Hynd-
man, and Dr. Pollard of Garrett, gave
him their best attendance.
He is survived by his wife, one
daughter, Mrs. W. L. Brant of Gar-
rett, eight grandchildren, and also by
two brothers and three sisters namely
James of Garrett, Henry of Chad-
wick, Ill,, Mrs. s. T. Burkholder of
Garrett, Mrs. Frank Rugg of Mar-
kleton and Mrs. Lucinda Booher of
Scottdale, Pa.
The funeral services was conducted
on Tuesday by his pastor, Rev. W.
H. B. Carney, assisted by Rey. H. H.
Wiant. . . ,
For a period of twenty seven years
he had been track foreman on .the B.
& O. railroad and received three
medals of distinction for efficiency in
his work. In 1903 he retired from the
railroad service and since then en-
gaged in farmine and other enter-
prises.
‘Mr. Hoover had been a member of
the Lutheran church at Garrett, and
belonged to the folowing fraternal
Eagle, of Garrett, and Knights of
Pythias of Meyersdale. Mr. Hoover
was a large property holder at Gar-
rett, and took an active interest in
business enterprises. He was a direc-
tor of the Paint Bank Lumber com-
pany, operating a mill in Virginia; a
director of the First National Bank of
Garrett, since the organization of the
ank; one of the largest stockholders
of the Garrett Water company, direc-
tor and superintendent at the time of
his death. :
In his death Garrett loses an in-
fluential citizen, the church loses a
warm and loyal supporter, the busi-
ness element in the community will
be deprived of his wise counsel, and
the town loses one who had a strong
faith in the future of Garrett.
MRS. CHAMBERS.
Mrs. Matilda Chambers, wife of
Charles Chambers of Salisbury street,
died on Friday of heart trouble and
dropsy at the Markleton sanitarinm.
Sunday a week ago she was taken to
the sanitarium with. the hope that
she would get the needed help and
recover her health speedily. Her re-
mains were brought to Meyersdale,
and the funeral services were con-
ducted at her home on Saturday
evening by her pastor, Rev. G. A.
Neeld. Her remains were taken to
Houtzdale, Clearfield county, where
interment took place on Monday
afternoon at 2:00 o’clock, when Rev.
Mr. Mitchell of the Presbyterian
church officiated.
She was aged 42 years, 11 months
and 19 days. She is survived by her
husband and four children as follows:
Jame of Pittsburg, Marion Love,
Charles and Chester, at home. The
three youngest children are enrolled
in the Meyersdale schools. Marion
Love is a member of the present
senior class of the high school.
Charles is at present a typhoid fever
patient. Three children died in in-
fancy and are buried in Clearfield
county.
Mrs. Chambers was a member of a
large family of children. Mrs. Harry
Calhoun of Berlin is her sister. She
has a brother and sister at Windber,
a sister in Pittsburg, a brother and
sister at Houtzdale, and a brother and
drinking throughout the evening.
The man who did the shooting es- |
caped at the time. {
sister in Phillipsburg, this state.
Mr. Chambers hom is unusually
afflicted. and discouraged. Much
ory Work—Lulu Livengood.
§JReform in Primary Teaching—Mar-
garet Robertson.
ard Rodamer.
the teacher—J. Lowry. Second by the
Pupil—Savannah Miller.
with queries.
LEVI DEAL PETITIONS
THE COURT.
‘Levi Deal of Grove City, Pa., on
Tuesday petitioned the Somerset
court for a mandamus compell-
ing Fred Rowe, president of
the Erie Coal & Coke Company, to
transfer to the plaintiff 130 shares of
the capital stock of the company,
which he purchased at public sale.
The stock consists of $50 par shares
and was sold at $66.
The sale was made by the Somer-
set Trust company and the First
National Bank of Somerset, where it
had been put up as collateral securi-
ty by Attorney Harvey M. Berkley,
who has disappeared from the coun-
ty. Itis claimed that Berkley’s tan-
gled financial affairs are responsible
for his absence and that he issued
fraudulent stock in the Somerset
Telephone company, of which he had
been treasurer.
Rowe refused to transfer the stock,
contending that Berkley before flee-
ing the county had given an option to
purchase the stock. Deal alleges
that it was given as collateral prior
to the option and for this reason the
option is void. A
The 130 shares,
present holdings of stock, would give
him a controlling interest in the com-
pany.
CHURCH OF
THE BRETHREN.
For several days this week the
Church of the Brethren have had in
their midst some of the most promi-
nent men of their church, Bishop L.
W. Leeter of Indiana, Bishop P. S.
Miller, and Rev. Mr. Kege of Virgi-
nia. Meyersdale is an important
field for work in that denomination
and this conierence is held in order
that this charge may be placed in a
position to do the most effective work
in the future, making changes and
adjusting matters ror the highest
good of the large membership.
SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC
AT MARKLETON.
The annual picnic of the U. S. Sun-
day school was held in a new grove
near the Black township school house
and was a decided success, quite a
neat sum being realized.
The grounds were loaned free by
the Sanatorium, and thé brush was
removed and stands erected, and the
place makes a nice picnic ground.
There were about 400 people present
from all the surrounding country,
and all had a good.
The Casselman band furnished
music for the occasion.
Right here we would like to say
a word for the Cassselman band, and
for a small town like Casselman, it
is is hard to beat.
GOOD ROADS MEETING.
J. H. Weeks, of Philadelphia, chair-
man of the good roads committee of
the Pennsylvania Motor Federation,
has posted notices that two public
meetings will be held in Somerset
county in the interest of the proposed
$50,000,000 bond issue which will be
voted upon in November. On Sep-
tember 23rd a meeting will be held in
the court house at Somerset, and on
the 24th at Meyersdale.
INSTITUTE AT ST. PAUL.
Following is the program for an in-
stitute to be held at St. Paul, Octo-
ber 11th at 1 p. m.
Organization.
Song.
Opening Address—M. J. Blough.
Word Study, its value and how to
direct it—Edith Deal.
Methods and Devices of Spelling in
the primary Grades—Elizabeth Engle.
School room Hygiene—Lester Engle
Recitation—Grace Wright.
Song.
Address—Rev. E. S. Hassler.
Devices for Reading Based on Mem-
Child Study—Ada Glotfelty.
Personality of the Teacher—Stew-
Recitation—Grace Blough.
Song.
Preparation of the Lesson. First by
Paper—Florence Kretchman.
added to Deal’s|
NUMBER 150 G
ODD FELLOWS AND RE-
BEKA’S AND THEIR
FRIENDS BANQUET.
Odd Fellowship and the daughters
of Rebeka had the first place in Mey-
ersdale’ on Tuesday evening. Mem-
bers and guests to the number of
nearly one hundred and fifty assem-
bled in the Odd Fellows Hall, to do
honor to the 62nd anniversary of the
founding of the Rebeka organization.
Rev A. 8. Kresge, as toast master,
acquitted himself yery creditably and
kept the large audience in excellent
humor. The music was a pleasing
feature of the evening’s gathering,
while the recitations and addresses
were of a high order and acclaimed
the glory ot Odd Fellowship and the
beauty of the Rebekah insfitution.
Ice cream and cake was served
after the literary and musical features
had been disposed of. It was an en-
thusiastic meeting, long to be remem-
bered by the Odd Fellows of Meyers-
dale and vicinity and the Rebeka or-
gafiization.
The following program was ren-
dered:
Singing—America.
Invocation.
Quartet—C. C. T. B.
Address—Editor Commercial.
Quartet,
Oration—Miss Emma Grass.
Duett—Alma and Carrie Donecker,
Address—Editor Republican. .
Instrumental Solo—Mrs. Della B.
Livengood.
Quartet.
Address—R. A. Winter.
Reading—Miss Alma Donecker.
Closing Remarks.
Singing—‘‘Blest be the Tie That
Binds.”’
A.M. E. ZION.
we
Brown’s A. M. E. Zion church is
being favored wilh distinguished vis-
itors of late.
On August§3ist Rev. John M. Da-
vis, A. M. B..D., of Portland, Ore., a
class mate of Rev. T. Alphonzo,
Fenderson, pastor of the church,
while paying a visit to our town,
preached two able sermons. On Sun-
day September 7th, W. H. Walker,
recently of Oakland, Md., very ac-
ceptably filled the pulpit in the
absence of the pastor, who was
in Uniontown, Pa., assisting Rev.
Martin, B. M. Butler, by the corner
stone of the. new A. M. E. Zion, of
that place.
On Sunday September® 14th, at
745 p. m. Rev. Mary J. Small (widow
of the late Bishop John B. Small)
and General President of the Woman’s
Home andZForeign Missionary Soci-
ety will preach.
On Tuesday night September 16th,
Mrs. Small delivered an address
at the A. M. E. Zion church. S8il-
ver offering at the door.
All are welcome, especially Miss~
ionary workers of both races.
VERDICT OF MURDER IN
THE FIRST DEGREE
AT SOMERSET.
A jury on Tuesday evening render-
ed a first degree verdict in the mur-
der case in which Michael Meader,
of Boswell, was charged with killing:
Stephen Dudla. The murder was
committed after a darce where the
parties had been drinking.
BE
GONE TO CONFERENCE.
Rey. L. B. Rittenhouse left on
Duquese on Tuesday morning to at-
tend the annual meeting of the Pitts- .
burg Conference of the Evangelical
Association. Owing to the condition
of Mr. Rittenhouse’s health, he does
not expect to engage in the work of
the active ministry during the coming
year. There will be no preaching
seryice in his church on Sunday. In
two weeks However the regular ser-
vice will be held.
TELEPHONE STOCK
BELOW PAR,
The First National Bank of Salisw
bury, at public sale on Monday, sold
107 shares of the preferred stock of
the Somerset Telephone company, $25
par, to Attorney Ernest O. Kooser,
at $6.25. Attorney Harvey M. Berka
ley had given the stock to the Salis
bury institution as collateral security
on a loan.
The low price at which the stock
was sold was due to a notice read at
Teacher’s Opportunity and Respon-
sibility —Roy Folk and Oscar Bren-|
neman.
The program will be interspersed |
sympathy is felt for the family.
COMMITTEE. |
the sale by Attorney Charles F. Uhl,
Jr., counsel for telephone company,
in which it was stated that in 1905
the company redeemed all outstand-
ing stock, and that if there is yet any
out it is fraudulent.
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