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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
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