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Phone No. 55. 110-112 Center Street.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1914
New Administration.
The city government has changed hands, quietly and harmon-
jously, reflecting credit upon those retiring, and upon those who
assumed charge of the city’s duties and responsibilities.
The indications are that there will be a strong municipal ad-
ministration and that the ordinances will be carried out fully. All
who know Mr. Gress feel asured that he intends to take care of
the city’s interests, and in his effort the good citizenship of Mey-
ersdale should give him good support and doubtless. will do so.
- The new council starts work under fine auspices, some of the
veterans of council remaining, with new blood coming in and all
having the interests of the city at heart great things may be ex-
pected.
Union Services.
The spirit of religion seems to be mightily at work in the
world. Billy Sunday made Johnstown better, now he is hammer-
ing away at the sins of Pittsburg. Meyersdale is having union
services, discussing the various phases of the Kingdom of God, its
relation to the municipality, temperance, the ballot and the mis-
sionary aspect. ;
These are all up to date topics, and if the teachings of the Mas-
ter are more fully actualized in the various activities of life, the
prayer of Christendom will find its early fulfilment. A spirit of
unity and harmony is evident, the pastors of the various denomina-
tions working heartily together in these services, and as a conse-
quence there must continue to be a broad spirit and confidence and
good will existing among the membership of the various religious
bodies.
. The Liquor Question.
The license or no-license question is again beginning to disturb
the minds of those who are in favor of the saloon and those who
are against the saloon. The court knows the sentiment of the
county in that respect, and nothing that the remonstrants can do
will likely have any effect, unless the court reverses itself.
Those who are against the liquor traffic in whatever form
should now get busy and send their prayer to Washington, to our
Congressman and our United States Senators. There the battle
will be fought and the outcome of which will *have significance for
the whole of this country. Taking the matter out of our courts,
which should have been done, years ago. ;
Washingt :. is the stragetic point at this time, and any con-
gressman will consider well, any petition of that kind, and his vote
will invariably be recorded against the liquor business, for it will
mean defeat to any congressman to vote otherwise,
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Political ‘endencies.
The political game is a great game. Organization, persistence
and execution eount, The particular class which is the object of
the politician changes about every decade. A generation ago the
one concern of the politician was the old soldier. Congressmen
almost tumbled over each other in offering bills to pension the old
soldier. It mattered very little what might be the nature of the
bill whether wise or foolish, sane or otherwise, helpful to the old
soldier or injurious to his best interests. Men favored those bills
with much bluster, and those who at heart were opposed to such
measures vere either silent or joined the crowd. The fact is those
about the welfare of the soldier. That pension racket had been |
worked to the limit, and the soldier vote had been a valuable and
safe asset to the party in power. Statesmanship rises above such
methods, gives the worthy soldier a pension, not for his vote, but
becausé of a nation’s graticude to the boys in blue for rendering
aid in the. time of their country’s need. The waving of the bloody
shirt and the scramble for the old soldier vote, through reckless
pensions is over. All are of one mind today that the soldiers are
deserving of gratitude and of pensions commensurate with their
need. The next raid that was made for votes was in behalf of
labor, and the slogan was ‘‘protection’ and a ‘full dinner bucket,
but labor continued to live from hand to mouth their condition but
slightly changed. The rich became richer and the poor remained
poor. Mark Hanna, who was almost an absolute monarch, in our
nation, became immensely wealthy through the life blood of labor.
Labor had been fooled and cajoled, but benefited very little. Pro-
tection and a full dinner bucket, were catchy and held the labor
forces together, but, even that has been proven to be a farce and a
humbug. Corporation stores, corporation supplies, corporation
weight, corporation methods are still in vogue. Labor is getting
too intelligent to be hoodwinked any longer. We all know what
Lincoln said about fooling the people. Labor no longer wants loud
professions by men who want their votes but labor wants tangible
benefits, real results for its own betterment. The labor vote has
been thoroughly exploited by the politician.
Now the onslaught is made on the farmer for his vote. The
men who know anything about the stability, patriotism, thrift and
the home in our nation, recognize that the farmer has been in the
past, is now and is bound to be in the future, a source of strength,
of power, fair-minded and loyal. No class of the nation has made
more progress and enjoyed more solid comfort and gained more of
this world’s goods, honestly and legitimately, than the sturdy
farmer. |
The farmer of to-day is an intelligent class, acquainted with
the throbbing, beating world, as well as his city brother. At his
own fireside, ten miles away from the railroad, he has every day in
his home the picture of the whole civilized world in the form of the
city newspapers,and while there is eveything done by the politicians
to control the farmer vote, they run up against an intelligent class
of the nation’s strength which is ahle to weigh propositions and a
class which can not be fooled nor driven. Class legislation is bad.
Laws should be for the benefit of the whole people, for all classes |
and all masses. |
ICKED UP IN |
ENNSYLVANIA |
Western Newspaper Union News Service. i
Sunbury.—A horse of John Engle, a
dairyman, ran away, dashed into an-
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other dairyman’s team and caused it |
to run away and then scaled a fence |
and badly injured itself.
gon was demolished and one hundred
dollars’ worth of eream was destroyed.
The other wagon was wrecked but the
horses were captured before they in-
jured themselves.
Lykens.—Mark, 6, son of Ray Bow-
man, is in a serious condition from
blood poisoning, developing from a
vaccination wound. The vaccination,
which was made several days ago,
seemed to be having no effect on the
boy until he was taken suddenly with
intense pain. Since, he has been se-
rious. .
Emlenton.—Tripping over a heavy
iron bit at an oil well, John Hall, 26,
fell against a can containing 25 quarts
of nitroglycerin and was blown to
atoms in the resulting explosion.
Washington. — The father and
friends of Charles Gratz have just
learned that he was married in 1912
and has a daughter.
Washington. — John Malicka, ar
raigned for wife desertion, declared
he supposed himself married for but
three years to Pauline Malicka, the
prosecuting witness, and had left her
and their four children with the in-
tention of marrying another woman,
the three years having expired. Jus-
tice Carmichael held him for court.
Washington.—Doctors H. J. Repman
and Edardw McKay of Charleroi have
filed a,$1,000 bond with the othono-
tary to “secure the commonwealth in
the use by the defendants of dead
bodies for the promotion of medical
science.
Mauch Chunk.—Radium proaucing
deposits, the first in the eastern part
cf the country, have been discovered
within .a mile of this city. Cropping
out of a cut made by the Tamaqua
trolley line along the eastern base of
Mt. Pisgah, directly below the Switch-
bach, streaks and blotches of a yellow
substance are to be seen. This is
carnoite, from which radium is ex-
tracted. The discovery is of a great
scientific value. The government geol-
ogists had made tests of the sub-
sti_ices. It has been definitely estab-
lished that radium is contained in the
deposit. Whether the quantity is of
commercial value cannot be deter-
mined until further examination is
made. While the deposits have been
known to geologists of the bureau of
mines and to the faculty of Lehigh uni- |
versity at Bethlehem for some time, no
information of the find became public
until recently, when Dr. Howard A.
Kelly of Johns Hopkins university and
Dr. Edgar T. Wherry of the United
States National museum of Washing-
ton made a geological survey of the
ground.
Sunbury.—Dared to answer a matri-
monial advertisement in a newspaper,
Miss Pearl Dwineford, 18, of Shamo-
kin, took the banter and became ac-
quainted with Harry Morgans of New
York city. Photos were exchanged
and a marriage proposed by Morgans
through the mail. She declined with-
out first seeing her intended husband.
Morgans visited her a#id a few days
later she wired from New York she
was married.
Sunbury.—A fast Pennsylvania pas-
senger train when it reached this place
carried on its pilot a g£2ad pigeon.
The pigeon had attached to one of iis
5 a note bearing “Merry Christmas
n Frank.” The train kad killed
he pigeon while the ; oR Woz fxing
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Meadvilie.—Yeggmen who blew the
«fe in the postaffice at Cochranton
1 vay with $300 and stamps.
eggs then escaped on a handcar.
Altoona.—James P. Gillen, 84, a vet-
eran of the Mexican and civil wars,
died while visiting in this city. He
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icled by Telegraph and Cable. |
Washington Loome Les ce o Chutes
of Interest—Legislatures Busy in
Many States—The Lights and
Shadows ef five Rews.
had made 13 trips around the world.
He was one of the last men to die
who made the expedition with Com- |
modore Perry to Japan in the seven-
Washington
It was rumored that Chief Justice
ties, in a successful effort to force the | White and Justice Holmes might re-
Japanese to open their ports to the
commercial world. Gillen
first of the crew to go ashore.
tire before the end of President Wil-
was the gon’s term.
Women students of Trinity College
Kane —George Cook, 20, is ir a se | at Washington will war against im-
rious condition as the result of being
shot while trying to prevent . his
father from abusing his mother.
father, H. J. Cook, is being sought by
police. The younger Cook returned
home late one evening 2rd found his |
mother being abused, it is alleged. He
interfered and was shot.
Pittsburgh. —Exposure iz 2 aol
Titled Cksssman, 37. Annie
Smith, 50, was found almost frozen-te |
leath om tse orem of 2 home belong-
ing to people who could net identify
rer. She is pet expeeted to live,
Washington —Esss=ss tbe National
Telephone company has been recently
tha anl
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Pont
fined for working phone girls longer «
that 54 hours allewsE Eby Iiaw, the |
company has ésebfesd to ciose ita toll
:xchanges on Supfa==
York.—Edward Schefs vo =e
and Wilson Jorfes s=4 ites ==
men were injured when an auTCEEOSI®
in which they were riding turned over,
Jinning them beneath.
Meadville—Mrs. Elizabeth Coburn
lied here at the age of 100 years, 3
nonths and 21 days.
Pittsburgh.—Three unidentified for-
signers were run down and Killed
while walking on the tracks of the
’ennsylvania railroad near here.
Sunbury.-—aiVedded but six weeks,
Mrs. Barbara Rauck, 62, has left her
iusband, who is 72, and claims she
vill never return to him. Rauck has
tarted suit in the courts for &ivorce,
hargi rtion. They are the old-
st couple who have ever taken part
n a legal senaration eacs2 = Nartham-
modest plays and playhouses.
The Currency Organization Commit-
The | tee decided to have a special steel car
| as an “office on whesls” for its West-
ern Journey.
It was said that President Wilson
{ hoped to settle the controversy with |
| Colombia over the seizure of Panama
before the canal is ‘opened to naviga-
tion.
Personal
| Kermit Roosevelt is engaged to be
mayried to Miss Belle Willard, daugh-
ter of Ambassador Willard.
Dr. Katherine Bement Davis, new
| commissioner of correction, assumed
‘her duties as the first woman ever ap-
pointed to the head of a New York
ay &aNSn. !
Lord Northcliffe, the English pub
lisher, acting upon medical advice re-
garding his eyesight, is relinquishing]
some of his responsibilities and going
abroad until Easter..
A dinner will be given at New York
under the auspices of labor organiza-
tions to Samuel Gompers, the labon
leader, January 27, his 6th birthday.
E General
Ice harvesting began in many sec- |
tions of New York State.
Thieves broke into a store in Shamo- |
kin, Pa., and escaped with $4,000 worth
of silks and plumes. }
GLANCEC AT FOREIGN AFFAIRS |
| mrs. Lillie Deveraux Blake, a pio- | s Shas ‘Irarion, an octogenarian,” per-
| neer suffragette, died at Englewood, | ished in a fire which destroyed his
| house at Georgetown Center, Me.
IN. J., aged 80 years. | "E. Grat
| Professor Seth OC. Chandler, astron- | + Graham Wilson, a wealthy farmer
omer, is dead at his home in Wellesley,
| Mass.
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| Cyrus Brown, 17 years old, was
| assaulting Miss Kate Turner, was sen-
| tenced to 14 years in the penitentiary.
0 ] Edvrard Norton of Newark, N. J., was
drowned while skating on Lake Bran- arrested charged with having obtained
| degee, near New London. $1,400 by subscription to purchase a
Dr. John H. Finley was inaugurated $100 wooden leg.
{at Albany as president of the New Senator Borah, in a report on the
York State University and State Com- coal-mine sirike in West Virginia, se-
| missioner of Education. verely arraigned the military rule that
Governor Glynn intends to cut the then prevailed there.
| State sinking fund to the amount ac-| From Washington comes the rumor -
tually needed and §8,000,000 will be that Huerta, within a week, will as-
®t aside this year for that fund. sume active command of the Federal
Kukea College of Penn Yan, N. Y., 8rmy.
will receive $25,000 of the $6,000,000 The steamer Sonoma arrived at San
educational and missionary fund being Francisco with a record cargo of 1,800
raised by the Discinles of Christ. bales of Australian wool, valued at
William Kennedy and Thomas Alli- juad.ao0, tow i ;
son, workmen, were killed by the ex- Quail are Starving In the hills near
plosion of dynamite used in road con- Harrispurg, Pa. owing to a sleet storm
struction near Downington, Pa. Py wo six inches of SIOW, COV :
: ood.
Secretary of Connecticut State a + 4 3 :
Phillips warned automobile owners Sa, aaa Se
that they will be arrested if they fail Now York, in 1912, accuzes the _
to display their 1914 markers, | of soliciting a $5,000 bribe to “throw”
Archdeacon McElroy is dead at | the case.
Farmingdale, L. I. He was 64 years | David Powers, a Chicago policeman,
old ‘and had been in the Episcopal | threatened to shoot John Bradon, who
ministry for 40 years. |had jumped into the river to commit
The United Railroads Company of | suicide, if he did not swim ashore. He:
San Francisco presented its 1,587 em- | swam.
ployes with insurance policies totaling Bart Dunn, political leader at Nyack
$1,250,000. ;
| of Charlestown, W. Va., convicted of
N. Y., was sentenced to ten months”
Col. Goethals, Panama Canal Engi- Imprisonment and fined $500 for con-
spiracy to defraud in highway econ-
struction in New York State.
The trunk of a man’s body was
found on the beach at Edgemere, IL. I.
It was a part of the body of Albert
neer, said everything but dread-
| noughts can pass through the canal in
| its present state.
| Three boys found in woods in Flush-
ing, N. Y., the body of John Monahan,
who murdered his wife in their home
bad killed himself.
Mayor Mitchel was inducted into
office in New York with the briefest
ceremony on record. He enjoined on
his staff, silence, team-work and sim-
plicity.
R. A. Long, a wealthy lumberman of
ansas City, announced he would give
1,000,000 to the Christian Church and
its colleges if the institutions succeed
in raising $5,000,000.
Conduct League.”
been reinstated. His conviction wa
reversed. v
their moray Tha honk is zglvent
C. H. Hyde, ex-New York City Cham-
berlain, disbarred from law practice
after his conviction for bribery, has
When Alfonso Cubicclotti, owner of
| & bank in Philadelphia, attempted sui-
| cide, more than 200 depositors gath.
ered around the bank and demanded
{J. Jewel, aviator, who vanis
lin Brooklyn four days before. He | a
flight Oct. 13.
The body of Jessie Evelyn McCann,
the Flatbush school teacher and social
welfare worker, was washed up on the
Coney Island shore just one month
to a day from the time she so mys-
teriously disappeared from her home
in Brooklyn. .
J. P. Morgan & Co. annougced that
Ayburn, N. Y., prisoners presented a | hag ® retire
unique New Year's card to Superin- | some of
tendent of Prisons, John B. Riley, |
thanking him for nermitting the “Good
the partners in the firm—Mr, Morgan,
| Charles Steele, Thomas W. Lamont,
{H. P. Davidson and Ww. H. Porter—
d from the directorate of
the greatest railroad and
{other corporations in the eountry, ow-
Ing to an “apparent change in public
sentiment in regard to directorships.”
Two big buildings at Seabright, N.
|J., and Arvesne, L. I, and scores of
smaller buildings along the New Jer-
sey and Long Island coasts were
beaten down by the surf and carried
out into the ocean during the great
storm along the coast The loss caus-
ed by the two days’ storm is estimated
at more than $1,000,000,
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