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VOLUME XXXVL
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MEYERSDALE. PA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER . 6 19:3
NUMBER tv O
REPORT OF LUTHERAN
CONGREGATION.
The annual congregational meeting
of Zion Evangelical Lutheral church
was held Friday evening, October 10th.
S B. Philson and W. H. Deal were
elected as elders. Clarence Moore
and 0. E. Deal were elected as dea-
cons; Fulton Shipley and J. I. Smith
acted as tellers. In the obsence of
J. H. Bowman, Barron Shipley acted
as secretary. W. H. Baldwin and
George Renford were. appointed to
audit the freasurer’s account.
The Pastor, Rev. J. A. Yount, pre-
sented his third annual report. He
reported the largest Kaster com-
munion’ in the history of the church
and the largest summer communion
also. The total accessions fox ‘the
year were 86, 41 of whom are adults.
A special fund of $1,654.62 in cash
and $290 in pledges was raised with
which to pay off all the old indebted
ness of the congregation. The bene-
jlences of the congregation amount-
ed to $1,017 which is by far the largest
benevolence amount ever raised by
the congregation.
The Ladies Aid Society placed a
new carpet in the church ata cost
of over $600 The Brotherhood re-
duced its debt by $150. The church
roof was repaired at a cost of over
$710, which amount remains to be
raised in the new year. The total
amount raised during the year was
$5,400 which is a very exceptional
total. A salaried financial secretary-
ship has been established. Mrs. E. E.
Con:ad is the present incumbent.
D. A. Floto, treasurer of the church,
reported as receipts for the year, not
counting the special debt fund, as
$2,383.25 which covers all expenses
and leaves a balance of $18.98.
E. J. Dickey, treasurer of the Sun-
day school reported receipts as $284.16
and a balance of $47.78.
Mrs. James Darnley, treasurer of
the Ladies Aid Society, reported re-
ceipts $243.47 and a balance of $6.17..
Miss Daisy Ebbecka, president of
the Luther League, reported receipts
as $71.30 with a balance of $17.56.
Zion church begins its new church
year with its finances well in hand
MOTORED TO
“MARYLAND.
Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Habel, Mrs. Troutman, mother of
Mrs. Habel, and Mrs. Mary Jenkin,
of town and Mrs. Charles Emerick of
Hyndman, left here in the former’s
t ouring for Frostburg, where they
spent several hours with relatives,
and then preceded to; Cumberland,
and returned home in the evening.
TO PATRONS ONLY.
After each name of subscriber ap-
pears a date. That means that the
subscriber is credited with payment
on The Commercial to that date.
The rule of The Commercial is pay-
ment in advance. Please examine
your date. If 100 subscribers are in
arrears they have $150.00 that we
should have. If there are 1,000 sub-
scribers that are in arrears, then
those $1,500.00 ought to be in our
hands.
There are many demands made on
us and we would appreciate it very
much if the patrons of The Com-
mercial would make an effort to
catch up.
How many new advance payment
subscriptions can we have within the
next month? Look at your date, and
see if you can be one of them.
THE WORLD'S SERIES.
The series of games between the
Athletics, of Philadelphia and the
Giants of New York, for the cham-
ship of this country and the world
was terminated on Saturday when
the Athleties defeated the Giants.
The games resulted in the Athletics
Yiaid S SOCIALISTS AT THE
0 t :
defeating the Giants four games ou co UNTY SEAT. Pe ol ok
tessori schools, 60 are Americans.
of five.
DAILY PLAYERS DIVISION.
Wirst Day.......................... $40,637.97
Second Day.......................... 26,805.60
Third Day.....................0i. 40,912.29
Fourth Day.............. ........... 26,808.30
otal. ................. .. .. $135,164.16
Philadelphia........................ $81,098.49
New York........................... 54,065.66
Based on teams of 25 men each
sharing in the receipts:
Each Philadelphia player—$3243.94
‘Each New York player—$2162.63.
FIREMEN'S BANQUET.
‘The Firemen will banquet in their
ownership of the electric light, heat
and power plant, and a municipal
market.
icipal industrial plant, which would
provide steady work for the unem-
ployed, and a
$2 per day for all municipal
ployes of the municipality, in addi-
tion to an 8-hour day.
NARROW ESCAPE
FROM DEATH.
On Saturday while on Centre street,
opposite the Somerset Central tele-
phone office; a serious accident be-
fell John Austin, Sr., who was seat-
ed on a two horse wagon, when the
driver turned the team to a side, the
front wheel caught on the trolley line
rail and jolted the wagon throwing
Mr. Austin on the paved street. He
sustained a gash in his forehead and
cheek, and the hind wheel of the
wagon was pressed against his neck
when he was picked up unconscious
He was carried into the pool room of
his son and Dr. McMillan gave him
immediate attention.
He is getting along well and ap-
parently suffers no ill effects of his
fall, except the cuts as above noted.
The astonishment is that he es-
caped as he did. The fall itself might
have resulted fatally and had not the
driver stopped at once the wheel
would have passed over his neck.
GRAND CONCERT IN ST.
PAUL, OR WILHELM
REFORMED CHURCH.
The Ithaca Conservatory of Music
will render a concert and entertain-
ment in the above named well-
known church on the evening of Mon-
day, October 20th, next. The talent
consists of Miss June Robertson, So-
prano; Miss Hazel Pameroy, violin-
istand Mr. Frederick Pratt, Imper-
sonator. The program ‘will be of
the highest grade and first class in
every particular. Popular admission
prices, adults, 25 cents, children un-
der twelve, 15 cents.
KILLED AT ROCKWOOD.
On Friday morning N. 8. Baker, of
Rockwood, was killed by being elec-
trocuted by a live wire. Mr. Baker
was formerly acarpenter and bridge
inspector of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Co. He left that company
several years ago with the good will
of his employers and all men who
were under his charge. He practical-
ly built all the stations an dtelegraph
offices on the Western Maryland for
J. 8B. Grave, who had the contract.
Mr.- Baker was a model man and he
will be missed by every and most by
his family. The sympathy is extend-
ed to the bereayed ones.
ASKS $12,000 DAMAGE:
Jacob H. Francis, of Sand Patch,
acting for his 9-year-old son, Howard
Walter Francis, through Attorneys
John R. Scott, Valentine Hay, and
A. L. G. Hay, brought suit against
the B. & O. railroad to recover $12,000
damages for injuries the boy is al-
leged to have sustained in an aceci-
dent at a grade crossing in Sand
Patch on February 24th, 1913,
It is alleged. that the plaintiff’s
son was struck by a locomotive run-
ning backward and that his right leg
was so badly crnshed that it had to
be amputated. He was returning
from school with his 13-year-old sis
ter, who narrowly escaped, it is al-
leged. It is claimed that the rail-
road company maintains four tracks
through the village of Sand Patch,
and that there is only one crossing
which isa grade crossing.
WANTS DIVORGE.
Through Attorney John Calvin
Lowry, Zellas Walker, of Elk Lick
township, yesterday instituted di-
yvorce proceedings against her hus-
band, James T. Walker, whom she
charges with desertion. They were
married at Cumberland on July 26th,
1907. Mrs. Walker claims that her
husband has joined the U. S. regu-
lar army.
The Somerset branch or the’ So-
cialist party, by a referendum vote
of its members, has mapped out a
campaign program for the Novem-
ber election which includes public
The socialists also adyocate a mun-
minimum wage of
BE
rooms on Friday evening at 8:39.
| with relatives at Rockwood.
Miss Ethel Scott spent Wednesday
terest in penmanship.
open air school for anaemic and sickly
children.
family, are packing their household
goods preparatory to leaving Mey-
ersdale.
©m=| tive position at McRoberts, Kentueky.
for: several years and in that time
haye made many friends
GOLDEN GULCH.
Golden Gulch was rendered in the
Donges Theatre on Tuesday evening
under the auspices of the ‘Civic
League. The audience was fair sized
and an evening’s amusement gnd en-
tertainment was furnished to the sat-
isfaction of all present. The Meyers-
dale hand furnished the music. The
choruses by the young ladies were
much enjoyed by the audience, which
was attested to by the prolonged ap-
plause. Altogether the audience en-
joyed the evening’s entertainment.
PARENT-TEACHERS
MEETING.
On Friday evening October 17th,
at 8:00 olclock the Parent-Teachers
Association will hold its first regular
meeting of the present school term in
the Assembly room of the Hieh School
building. The following program
will be given:
Music—by the Quartette—Messrs.
Baldwin, Cook, Thorley and Clutton.
Collection of yearly dues of 25 cents.
Address—‘‘The Advantages of the
Library in the Public Schools.—Rev.
G. A. Neeld.
Music—by the Quartette.
Awarding of prizes of $25 for the
tomato and potato contests.
Let every one come.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
More than 90 per cent of the high
schools now reporting to the U.S.
Bureau of Education have full four-
year course.
Parent-teacher circles and the civic
club of Lock Haven, Pa., are co-oper-
ating to control cigarette smoking
and to censor moving picture shows.
A parent-teachers’ association,
where one-half the members are men,
is the fact at Gettysburg, Pa.,accord-
ing to information received at the U.
S. Bureau ot Education.
At Lebanon, Pa., one hundred and
eighty-nine boys and girls aided in a
plan to transform vyacant lots into
flourishing gardens. ¢
Little Rock, Ark., spent $20.0060 on
public play grounds last year. The
money was raised by popular sub-
scription. A
A number of the leading business
and professional men of Shelbyville,
Ind.. have been giving talks to the
high school studerts on . vocational
subjects. i
Parents who keep their children at
home to help in the house work have
been warned by the Milwaukee au-
thorieties that this will not be con-
sidered a valid excuse for absence
and the truant officers haye been or-
dered to be on the lookont for all
such cases. 3
The school directors of Dubois, Pa.,
are considering a salary schedule,
based on preparation, experience, and
efficiency, instead of length of ser-
vice, alone.
The board of education of Bristol,
Conn., has passed a rule permitting
high school pupils to substitute music,
instrumental, «vocal, or theoretical,
for a high school study. In order to
do this, the pupils must do a specified
amount of work under a teacher ap-
proved by the board of education and
reports must be made by the teacher
and the parents on the progress of
the works The superintendent re-
ports good results from the plan.
Cincinnati is trying compulsory
vocational training with satisfactory
results.
Rutland, Vt., has had for 10 years,
a summer school for pupils who fail
of promotion in the regular clagses.
Eighty percent of the pupils have
promoted and nearly all of these have
continued to make good after promo-
tion.
to the schools of Paola, Kan. Money
from the farm is used to buy books
and clothing for boys and girls who
wish a high school education but can-
not afford it.
Of the 85 foreigners who are in
Wisconsin reports a revival of in-
Louisville, Ky., has established an
MOVING TO KENTUCKY.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Dailey, and
Mr. and Mrs. Dailey have lived here
day. Rev. W. W. Wagner officiated
The family had come originally from
was made in the Union cemetery.
Rev. Mr. Wagner of Salisbury offi-
ciated.
pleaded guilty before Judge Rup-
pel to a charge of defrauding a board-
ing housekeeper
Ward, of Jerome and was sentenced
to pay the costs amounting to about
$40 and serve 60 days in jail.
entered a plea of guilty to a charge
of larceny preferred against him by
Ferd Sann, of Holsopple. and was
sen to jail for three months.
house stole $20 worth of clothing.
MEDICAL INSPECTORS
examiner,
sicians who will act as medical in-
spectors in various school districts.
The Somerset appointments follow:
baugh, Addison;
boroughs and Ogle township; Dr. H.
A. Zimmerman, Holsopple Berlin bor-
tonal ough and Brothersvalley township,
made up the deficiencies, and been Dr. William B, Shaw, Berlin; Cas.
selman, New Centreville and Rock-
wood boroughs and Black township,
Dr.
A farm of 160 acres has been deeded well borough, Dr. O. F. Livengood,
Boswell; Wellersburg borough and
Fair Hope, Greenville, Larimer and
Southampton townships, Dr. F. A.
Sass, Sand Patch; Garrett and Mey-
ersdale boroughs and Summit town-
ship, Dr. C. P. Large Meyersdale;
Jefferson and Lincoln townships, Dr.
Fred Shaffer, Somerset; Jennertown
borough and Jenner township, Dr.
Henry Hertzler,
creek and Milford townships; Dr, G.
F. Speicher, Rockwood; Stoyestown
borough and Quemahoning township,
Dr. W. H. H. Schrock, Stoyestown;
Somerfield borough and Upper Tur-
keyfoot township, Dr. H. P. Meyers,
Confiuence;
Somerset township. Dr. H. I. Mars- |
s den, Somerset, Stonycreek township, |
Mr. Dailey, accepts a lucra- Dr. 7 B. Heffley, Berlin:
borough, Dr. A. M. Lichty, Elk Lick.
=I=2 REAPER
THE GRIM =o |
COURT NEWS.
CHARLES STURTR.
Charles Sturtz, died at his home in
Sterling, I11., Saturday October 11,
1913, and was buried in the Odd Fel-
lows cemetery in that city, Monday,
October 13th, the funeral services at
the grave being under the auspices of
Will Robinson Post G. A. R.; of
ich he was a member.
Charles Sturtz was born on the old
Sturtz homestead, near Wellersburg,
Somerset county, Pa., July 6, 1837.
He was one of a large family of
children, and his boyhood days was
spent on the farm. He married Cath-
erine Kennell, June 26, 1859, and to
them 13 children were born, 11 of
whom with the widow survive his
death. In the fall of 1862, he enlisted
in Co. D. 171st Pa. Inf., serving out
his enlistment. In February 1865 he
re-enlisted in Co. D. 3rd Md., Voi.
Inf., and served until the close of the
war.
In 1869 he came to Whiteside coun-
ty, Ill., and settled on a farm where
he lived until 1903 when he removed
to the city of Sterling, where he has
since resided. He was a member of
St. John’s Lutheran church, and his
funeral was largely attended showing
what high esteem his friends sand
neighbors had for him.
ers and one sister survive him, his |
eldest brother Herman, who resides
in Sterling, being in his 86th year.
[The above obituary was furnished
The Commercial through the kindness
of G. E. Bishop, formerly Editor oi |
the Bepublican. |
-
MRS
Mrs. Matilda Thom:s. wife of Gri:
fith Thomas, ot West Salisbury, died
Outober 7.h, of a Lomplication o1
diseases, terminatine in dropsy. She
was buried in the Qad Fellows ceme-
tery on Friday October 10th. She
was aged 59 years, 2 months and 29
THOMAS
ab the funeral.
MRS. LOWRY.
Mary OC. Lowry, wife of Jacob
Lowry, of Keystone Mines, died Octo-
ber 8th, aged about fifty-nine years.
near Cumberland, Md. Interment
PLEADED GUILTY.
Lloyd Stewart of Johnstown,
by Mrs. Harry
George Burkhouse,
of Holsopple,
Burk-
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, state health
has named the phy-
Addison borough, Dr. F. B. Lauder-
Benson and Paint
C. T. Saylor, Rockwood; Bos-
Jenners; Middle-
Somerset borough and
Salisbury
Three broth- | ¢1,o
| and
township, and Louis Hoyman of Sum-
mit township, were married at Gar-
Pater, both of Jerome, were married
at the court house by Marriage Li-
cense Clerk, Bert F. Landis.
ship, and George W. Fritz of Broth-
Meyersdale, by Rev. W. H. B. Car-
ney, pastor of the Garrett Lutheran
church.
the court of Common Pleas, which
affirmed the judgment of a Justice
of the Peace in entering judgment
against him in favor of Simon H.
Sweitzer, for $50 and cost as a penal-
ty for the taking of illegal fees.
Judge Morrison holds that the ac-
tion before the Justice was civil one
and inno sense of a criminal nature,
as the record did not show a lack of
jurisdiction either of the parties or
the subject matter, under the Act
of March 20th, 1110, the judgment
of the Common Pleas Court affirmed
of the Justice of Peace was final and
the appeal would not lie.
‘It was contended that the con-
stable’s return of the summons did
not show a legal seryice, but the de-
fendant appearnd before the Justice
and the case was tried on its merit.
This gave the Justice jurisdiction of
the person of the defendant beyond
any controyersey.
Justice Morrison also filed an
{opinion affirming the judgment of
| the Somerset County Court in the
suit of Daniel Wagner, against James
siah Naugle. The plaintiff sc ught
damages for the cutting of trees by
defendants on a tract of land
containing 31 1-2acres in Shade twp.
The jury in the lower court found in |
favor of the defendants.
The case mvolved questions of titie
possession of the land in this
As the question was submitted
to jury in a fair and elaborate charge,
the Superior Court dismisses the as-
signmevrts of error.
Other decisions handed down by
the Superior court were the follow-
ing: :
Augustine vs. B. & O. Railroad
Companys Judgment reversed with
jury trial awarded.
Evans vs. American National Gas
Company, appeal from Indiana Coun-
ty, Degree modified and affirmed.
Livengood for use vs. Hay, appeal
from Somerset county. Judgment
reversed, record remitted with direc-
tion to enter judgment on the ver-
dict.
case.
RECENT MARRIAGES
IN THE COUNTY:
Miss Darlia M. Yorty, and Charles
E. Bisbin, both of Somerset, were
married at Somerset, by Justice of
the Peace A. Kent Miller.
Miss Olga Lanning, and Philemon
Holsopple, both of Windber, were
married at Windber, by Rev. G. W.
Rothemel. !
Miss Eva R. Hartline of Somerset,
township, and Leonard M. Carter, of
Baltimore, Md., were married at the
parsonage of the Somerset United
Evangelical church, by Rev. Virgil
Cameron Zener.
Miss Mary A. Fluck of Somerset,
and Hiram E. Trent of Somerset
township, were married at the home
of the bride’s parents, by Rev. I Hess
Wagner, pastor of Trinity Lutheran
church, Somerset.
Miss Leah A. Nicola of Addison,
and Frederick D. McMahon of Oak-
dale, Pa., were married at the home
of the bride’s parents, by Rev. John
H. Lancaster.
Miss Edna M. Fisher of Summit
rett, by Justice of the Peace William
Clements.
Miss Elizabeth Kiss and Elmer
Miss Maude Shultz of Summit town-
ersvalley township, were married at
Miss Amelia L. Yoder and Monroe |
D. Yoder, both of Elk Lick township, |
were married at Flag Run church, by
| Rev. Moses D. Yoder,
eee eee
Mr. and Mr. Harry B. Streams, of
Indiana, Pa., who had been the guests
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who re- |
i Hagerstown, Md.
| A. Clarke, of Main street, left here
| H. J. Ebbecka, leaves today for | Monday for Rittsburgh, where they
joice in Mr. Dailey’s promotion, yet | 4d visit with relatives and friends at
regret to see them leave. | their home. A
of their relatives, Mr. and Mrs. W.
spent a few days before returning to
The Superior Court in an opinion
by Judge Morrison quashed the ap-
peal of John G. Emert, Recorder
of Deeds, of Somerset county, from
PRESIDENT TOUCHES
BUTTON AND LINKS _
OCEANS AT PANAMA
PANAMA, Oct. 10.—The long task of
building the great canal which is to
unite the Atlantic and the Pacific
Pacific oceans was practically com-
pleted at 2 o’clock this afternoon
when Colonel Goethals received the
signal from President Wilson to dis-
charge 1,227 charges of dynamite
which will destroy Gamboe dike sep--
arating Gatun Lake and Culebra Cut.
Though this is regarded as the final
step in the canal construction, it does
not actually unite the two seas, as
the great Cucaracha slide in Culebra
Cut still blocks the way. It will take
about two weeks to remove this. The
oceans, however, have been in a
senses, connected for some weeks by
24-inch pipes which were set in place
because of expected water pressure
in the cut.
When the waters of the Atlantic
and those of the Pacific were wedded
today and the breaking in two of the
backbone of two continents finally
completed, the United States had
achieved what for two centuries had
been dreamed of attempted and aban-
doned as too gigantic a feat for human
effort. America’s trinmph in the
F. Hamer, Elmer Berkebile and Jo- | building of the canal will be written
down in history as one of the greatest
achievements of mankind. It will
stand up as a Sphinx and the Pyra-
mids of the modern era, and just as
the ancient Egyptians overcame what
would seem to have been well-night
insurmountable obstacles ia their task,
the United States has uodertaken and
accomplished in less than seven years
what four other nations of the world
tried and despaired of frem the early
part of the sixteenth century.
~ It has thrown across the isthmus an :
army of men, and these men have
clawed the dreamed of passageway
through mountains of rock. It has
opened its purse and peured into the
undertaking a flood of nearly $400,-
000,000 dollars. "
It will be pussible to go through
the Canal, from ocean to ocean in
eleven hours. It took the battleship
Oregon six weeks to pass around the
Horn during the Spanish-American
War. From deep-water in the Carri-
bbean Sea on the east to deepwater
in the Pacific Ocean on the west, the
Canal measures a length of 50 miles.
Vessels will reach. its summit eleva-
tion by a flight cf three locks located
at Gatun, on the Atlantic side, and
by one lock at Pedra Miguel and a
flight of two at Miraflores, on the
Pacific side. These stops in the great
waterway vary in height from 47 to
82 feet, and those at Gatun, the
largest ever desig red, can be mount-
ed by the greatest vessels in less than
half an hour each.
Locks at every point have been
built in duplicate the better to ac-
commodate traffic. The Canal has
been designed to take care of 80,000,-
000 tons of traffic a year, or four
times the amount of commerce now
passing through Suez Canal and twice
the amount now passing through the
American ‘‘Soo’’ Canal.
Uncle Sam began the construction
of the canal nearly seven years ago.
Back of that time runs a period of
four centuries, during which time
men were talking of a Panama canal,
a period of bright dreams, and dark-
ened by the lost fortunes: of those
who sought to make these dreams
materialize. ’
WINDBER'S NEW BAND.
Windber’s musical organization,
the Windber Hungarian band, under
the leadership of Prof. Joseph Allidy,
on Saturday made its first appear-
ance in public, on the occasion of the
dedication of the new church flag of
the Hungarian parish, when they
headed the parade, that preceded the
event.
ed out in the parade, and the day
was a holiday event for the Hungar-
ian populace. Work is progressing
on the
avenue, and they expect to have the
edifice completed early next year.
The band made a creditable showing
and gave a number of selections after
the parade.—Windber Era.
‘MARRIED AT EVANGEL.
Five Hungariansocieties turn-
new church on Somersef;
ICAL PARSONAGE.
Married at the United Evangelical
| parsonage at Husband, Pa., Clarence
| R. Young,
| Harvey Young, and Miss Myrtle N.
son of Prof. and Mrs.
Sheeler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Sheeler, both of Zimmerman,
were united in the bond
mony on Wednesday evening,” Octo-
of matri-
ber 8th, at 8 o’clock, by Rev. P. L.
Berkey, pastor of the United Evan
gelical church.