Mevyersdale ©ommereial. a Ly — {Registered at the Fostoffice at Meyersdale. Pa , as Second-Class Mail Matter. ] ICKED UP IN ENNSYLVANIA THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, A. M. SCHAFFNER, Editor and Proprietor. Pablisbed Every Tharsday in the Year at $1.50 Pep Year Qash “hone No. 55. 110-112 Center Street. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1913 The Directors’ Opportunity. The teachers of Somerset county have returned to their school rooms and have so far as possible put into practice the truths that they have learned at institute. The directors have gone back to work inspired to continue in the good work an dcause of education. Directors, teachers and patrons are doubtless minded to do the best that can be done for the youth of the county. The directors who are now in office have a heavy responsibility restifig on them in electing a superintendent of the public schools. Several things ought to be forgotten when the choice is made. One thing is that religion, the particular bias in religon should be no consideration. Another thing is that the matter of politics should be out of the question. 5 ; By leaving out the question of religion and politics, the county school directors are in a position to see with a clear vision the man who sizes up to the situation. - While religious tenets are not to be the test, the school directors must necessarily have in mind for so important an office, a fine Christian gentleman. But the directors must look for the biggest man available for the position,a man with liberal education, good training, broad sympathies. of high charac- cter, who is free to putinto service the best that he possesses with out fear or favor. ; Congress. There was more of an imaginary than a noticeable change when Congress opened. The old special congress passes into history and is noted especially for what it accomplished and what it attempted to accomplish. That measure which stands out as a result of the special session of Congress is the Tariff measure which was passed and which is being tested now. The full merits or demerits have not yet been fully ascertained. It has beer: praised and condemned, but so far as elections in congressional disiricts where vacancies existed. the results have indicated that the people have not lost faith in the administration, nor has the business panic occurred which had been predic ed. To radically change the nation’s sys- tem which had been operative for a long generation, was a job whichMmplied courage and faith of an unusual order. The next work to which the Congress addressed itself was to change the currency system, banking methods. This is one of the problems hat hus been strongly opposed by the great financial centres. While the majority in congress has not accomplished its end in this respect, the new congress consisting of the same body of men, after wrestling for some time longer will eventually produce a bill which it is believed will be in line with a better system, where one man or a clijue of moneyed men wiil be unable to-bring about a panic by their own pleasure, or to punish a president when he re- fuses to take orders from Wall Street, as was alieged in the Roose- velt administration. But aside from the currency bill. appropriations must be made for more than a billion dollars to carry on the work of the nation. Pensions, war ships, rivers and harbors, government buildings, postoffices and many other departments must be taken care of. This is counted as the long session, and for the present term con- gressmen the work seems to be continuons. = CROSS MADE LIGHT | through the flames, but only that they y shall not kindle upon us. When we | are told to cast our burden upon the | Lord, it is not satd that he will take the burden away, but only that he | will sustain us." We may go our way bearing the burden, but we shall not | fall under it while we count it his bur den given to us. Nothing Ever Unbearable. There is then no unbearable trouble which cannot be avoided. There are troubles that strain us to the utmost, and that we would say beforehand could not be borne. They do not fall jon us unawares, however. If we have not expected them, we have a right to realize that God knew they were com- ing. God is never taken unawares. /If he was the only one who could fore- jsee them, then we have especial right [to expect him to bgace us to bear them. We could not be ready, there fore he must help us, unready. Most of us remember in driving through the country that a hill always looks steep- ler from across the valley than it proves when we come to its base and begin the ascent. Most of our troubles look far more serious to us ahead then they prove to be when we come to them. Sometimes we dO not come to them at all; our road turns asides before we come to the steep hill ‘what for the shock. The cross is not | [Sometimes we come to them just as laid upon our shoulders full weight at (we expected, but we always take them nce. Rather, it comes down so slow- | inch by inch, and we go our way y that those who must carry it can | through them in a strength which jpeccommodate themselves to the load. proves sufficient. : God tempers the wind to the shorn || As our days our strength proves. lamb, so that it can stand the next||We do not have strength for a decade iwind. A shorn lamb never stays | today, but by the end of the decade a shorn. The vital forces begin at once | decade’s strength has been doled out No Trouble That Is Unbearable Can Come to His Children Who Trust Him. S THERE any such thing as unbear | able trouble? Carl Hilty says there | is: “One can bear all troubles but | Awo—worry and sin.” Now, it is well to realize that those two unbear sable troubles are unnecessary. Neither worry nor: sin has to be continued. Both can be ended by the large draft jon the sovereign goodness of God, avhich he is always ready to honor. As jfor other troubles, no one of them is funbearable. We are always surprised ito see how much we can bear. Most of us who geek to be wise twould not look ahead ten years if we jcould. It would be impossible to bear fthe revelation of what will come to us #n a decade. That would be putting ithe load of ten years on us in one iday. In-God’s plan our experiences come to us gradually. Very {few firoubles come like lightning out of a clear sky. There are always clouds, and before the bolt falls there are {flashes enough to prepare us some- o prepare it for the cold of the next |'to us. There is nothing to fear in the winter. It is in part this gradualness | (future. There is not water there of God’s dealing with us that makes deep enough to drown us, and no fire {trouble bearable. ihot enough to burn us, and no burden ! There is much help also in settling | heavy enough to crush us, because as ijdown quietly to the assurance that | we go into the future, Christ will be iwe are never to be broken by our by us and bring us safely through. troubles. There is no way of escap- | We could not bear the troubles, but jing them. It is not meant that we he and we can bear them all. hould be untroubled in this sense of | re the word. But it is assured that the twise hand that lets trouble come to jus is also a strengthening hand that sustaing us in trouble. It will bear saying over and over, that there is no Pcomise to keep us from passing through the waters. The only promise And He Had to Stand for It “Some men never know how to let well enough alone.” “How so?” Blun- dern, the new department head, decid- ed to require a competitive’ exami- nation for every single job under him, and bless me! if his wife didn’t win Western Newspaper Union News Service. Enola.—While out hunting James M. Jones shot a white weasel, the first of the kind to be killed in this vicinity. It will be sent to Carlisle, where bounties are offered for wea- sels. Scranton.—Fire starting in the. Cot- tage hotel at Old Forge, - near here, swept. nearly an entire block ahd caused $60,000 damage. Lo Pittsburg.—His skull fractured by a fall from a car, Leslie Miller, South Fork, Pa., retained consciousness and ‘refused doctors at the Braddock Gen- eral hospital’ permission to operate. Scranton.—Justio Cassetti, aged 20, accepted a bet of ten dollars that he could drink in succession six tumbler -he money he dropped dead: Philadelphia. — Free transportation between points in this” state to mem- bers of the families of officials and road Co. will be discontinued after Jan. 1, according to announcement ‘by the company. 2 al a vorced wife talk together before Feb- ruary, they will be given terms in prison, Judge BK. A, Walling has de- creed. The unique order was made after Smith, his former wife and her present: husband visited the court and denied making threats. Erie.—Wedding bells did not ring fro Miss Esther Ellison, despite the fact that relatives came from distant points to witness her marriage. Miss illisom was to have married Charles Smith. Smith was arrested a few days hefore charged with conspiracy to defraud one of the big factories here. ;'# Waynesburg.—Waiter Thomas, 17 yeaa-old farm hand, will be placed on trial next week in the Greene county court on a charge of murder growing out of the death of Mrs. Oliver Price of near Rices Landing. The crime 724 committed September 2. Indiana.—Louls Pellagi was hanged in the jail yard here for the murder of Justice of the Peace George H. Curfman, whom he shot and killed in Arcadia in July, 1912. © For the last to speak to anyone, sitting motionless in his cell. When his wife recently went back to their native Hungary he refused to bid her goodbye. Pellagi is said to have been the only Hun- garian to be hanged in this county. Harrisburg. —Pennsylvania’s histor of 1913 to study and recommend sites for monuments and memorials so that there shall be systematic expenditure of state moneys for such purposes, has heen appointed by Governor Tener as follows: Senator William S. Sproul, Chester; George P. Donehoo, Couders- port; W. H. Stevenson, Pittsburg; Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia, and William U. Hensel, Lancaster. Kittanning —To determine plans for Allegheny river from Ford City to a noint four miles below here, a large number of rivermen, United States engineers and business men of Kord City met in the local court house. The construction of the bridge was ordered by the war department. The meeting was presided over by Capt. Henry C. Fiske of the United States engineer corps. Somerset. — Miss Bessie McClem- mons, P. P. Lambert and Miss Alma Barnhart, teachers in the school at Kimmelton, were called out of teach- ers’ institute here on orders «from County Health Officer Large and or- dered to take an antiseptic bath and a long walk before resuming their places in the session. The cause of the order was the discovery (that the teachers had been exposed to diph- theria contagion. Hollidaysburg.—As a sequel to con flicting legal opinions, the Blair coun- ty ‘treasury may be deadlocked this week and the fees of all public officers from the sheriff down to the court house Janitor, as well as the mainte nance expenses of the public institu: ‘ions: of the county, may go unpaid: The county commissioners have been advised by their attorney, that the ecent appointment made by Gov Tener, of William Tobias as. county controller, is invalid, because it’ is based upon an unconstitutional law. Punxsutawney.—His leg shattered from the knee to the ankle by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of a strange pegro whom he met in the woods while hunting with his father and a brother, Elmert Bar nett, aged 16, son of Robert Barnett of Brookville, is in the Punxsutawney hospital in a serious condition. Philadelphia.—An investigdtion by the coroner into the death of Maida Dupree, also known as Maida Lane and Betty Daley, of New York, a vaudeville actress, who committed suicide in a hotel here by taking poi- son, brought to light the fact that she had followed George LeMaire, an actor, to this country from England, and that when she had failed to suc: ceed as an actress she ended her life. Ridgway.—A. Petrucelli is a patient in the hospital suffering fom a dislo- cation of the right shoulder. A frac tious horse which he was leading to a watering trough raised on its hind legs suddenly and before Petruccelli could get out of harm’s way, one of the front hoofs struck his shoulder. Ridgway.— Lands in certain sec- tions of Elk county are being held at high prices, because of recent oil and gas developments. Many barren strips of land are being leased to the drill- ers for oil and gas, with the result asses full of whisky. As he reached employes of the Pennsylvania Rail-| Erie—If Elwood Smith and his di-|' eight days of his life Pellagi refused | ical commission, designed by the act 3 the construction of a bridge over the} iis that they shall not overflow us. We the position of private secret t ier= not told that we shall not nass P wo ichit he bim.”—Judge. that a mild stage of excitement ex- { iets. Pom Wednesday and Thursday, Dee. 10 and Ii, 913. —TWO DAYS! ~~ Consistent with the progressive spirit of THE WOMEN’S STORE we are setting aside two days of the busy holiday season as BABY DAYS. Our aim is to have every baby in Meyersdale and vicinity visit our store during these two days, and to this end © we are offering the three prizes named: below, in addition to a dainty souvenir to each baby that attends. ® | ; z ¥ Each baby will be accurately and hygienically weighed by a competent saleslad “in charge of the ‘baby booth y yg y g v 5 ; + "REMEMBER THE DAYS! ¥ k Prizes Will be Announced in Our Window Saturday, December 3 Prize No. 2--Baby’s Toilet Seb A dainty, hand painted, white comb and brush set, in a beautifully decorated basket, will be awarded to The Heaviest Baby Under 12 Months of Age. Prize No. 1--Baby's History. A “beautifully bound, hand painted book, in Which a complete record of the baby may be kept, will be awarded to The Heaviest Raby Under 6 Months of Age Prize No. 3--Nursery Waste Basket. ' 2 Each baby that attends will have an opportu- nity to compete for this prize regardless of size or age. The baby that draws the lucky number receives the prize. ‘DAINTY GIFTS FOR WEE TOTS! Better Kind ! Hartley, Clutton Co., THE WOMENS STORE. : MEYERSDALE, PA. Jit cilia Headquarters For Dolls of the Hartley Block. “SFR 4 0 The Place To Buy Toys and Christmas Goods! Is at Glessner's Department Store. The newest and best, the original idea and the modern thought in Christmas Gifts is seen everywhere in our bright, fresh stock of beautiful and desirable holiday attractions. Our New Froliday Stock i ca Po— ERE re ; offers in great variety really desirable and useful presents for people of all ages and is a most popular stock in every respect because of its choice selections, trustworthy values and fair prices. \ Ghristmas = Frandkerchiefs. A better line than has been shown in this store for several years. The prices: run from sc, .1oc, 15¢, 25¢, soc upward. Many are in burnt wood boxes and in folders reddy to mail, : Splendid Reductions in Ladies’ and Children’s Coats. Men's and Boys’ Clothing Re duced in Price. alt { Ghristmas Neckwear Neckwear of almost irresistable charm. Leauing the question of price out entirely here are holiday goods that are causing more favorable comment than anything we ever ‘had. We'd like you to see them, too. They are the last minute styes—just received ‘them to-day. . o? Christmas Table Linen. This display of new table linen damask is bound to arouse your enthusiasm The patterns must be seen to fully appreciate their elegance and richness. Two or three yards of table linen in a holly box will make the most acceptable gresent to any house- ‘wife. All prices—even to $1.75 per. yard if you want it. Beautiful patterns at 7sc, 8sc and $1.00 per yard. : The Largest and Best Line of Dolls and Toys. The store with the Christmas spirit. We are all happy here and we don’t care who knows it. & oe Men’sand Women’s Rubbers and Arc- tics cheaper than Four roc packages of Raisins at z25¢ while they last. Loose Coffee, pound. Albert N. Glessner, Successor to Appel & Glessner. anywhere else in 16¢ town, 23, [eR Items ws J. M. Gn in Somerse Miss Mz last with fr Rev. Fatl giving Day yille. Mrs. Job day last Miss Gra was a Sal atives. Mrs. J. H is visiting Canada, Charles 1 itor in Ba last week. Miss Ev and Saturd erick, Md. Misses I Payne sper Hyndman. Mrs, Ed hontas, WwW with frien ~~John W Park has for anothe Mrs. Bru week wit] Coemberlar Miss Ad days of las « friends at Miss Fl ber, wast a few days John G a guest a Yeager, tl On Sat Shuck, of wanced ‘hi Miss Ma Ohio, is v Lynch, of Misses Hoftmeye with frie: Mrs. Pe: Thanksgiy mother, 1 Messrs. Winter, h visit with Mr. .al visited rel Surgh, se Miss Ec No. 15. fo tives and Miss ‘Cl in Cumbe returned | Miss Ev eral days relatives . Miss A was the Kathryn week. Mr. Wi Miss Min visiting re Hope. Mrs. [F York, arr some tim Smith. Miss K: for Grove a few friends. Misses Boger, r¢ a visit wi Somerset; Miss | home Fri visit with Somerset Miss © spent Tha friend, | Broadwa; " Mrs. S Md., spe week he James W Mrs. W Conrad le gore wit Frostburg Mr. an Ralphton atives, M of Keystc John § Wednesd: his son-ii Joseph G Misses Lint, Flor Messrs. | Thornley, Smith, af of Miss { Saturday
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