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BLIZZARD SWEEPS
THE COUNTRY.
Wind and Snow Cause Much
Damage and Suffering—
Traffic Interrupted.
NEW YORK.
Railroad traffic and shipping in the
entire eastern section of the country
and slong the North Atlantic sea-
board, were crippled by a severe
blizzard. A gale blew along the
coast, whipping eyery port and driv-
ng all vessels to shelter. In Penn-
gylvania, New. York, Connecticut,
PDélaware, Maryland, Vermont, Mas-
sachusetts, New Hampshire and
Maine trains were delayed by heavy
drifts,
Ten trans-Atlantic liners, earry-
ing 5,260 passengers and heavy con-
signments of mail and freight are
many hours overdue ab this port,
as the result of the storm. Thirty-
five freighters and coast steamers
are also behind schedule.
: PITTSBURGH.
Street car traffic in this city and
the suburban districts was seriously
hampered by the heavy fall of snow,
which according to local weather
forecaster, reached a depth, of eight
inches in ‘the suburban districts.
Much more snow than this was re-
ported. Drifts three and four feet
were reported. ;
Heavy snows, both east and west
of Pittsburgh, played havoe with
train schedules. Through trains, this
morning were from one to four hours
late. Fourteen inches of snow are
reported in the Allegheny mountains
near Pittsburgh.
BALTIMORE.
Accompanied by a strong north-
east wind, the worst snow of gthe
season caused untold suffering among
the poor. Street car traffic has been
entirely discontinued on several
+ lines.
CHICAGO.
Telephone and telegraph wires are
down in every direction; train ser-
vice is interrupted in some cases is
almost stopped as a result of one
of the worst storms of combination
of storms in the history of the United
States. Stalled for hours in huge
drifts along the shore of Lake Erie,
the 20th Century Limited, the Lake
Shore’s crack train, due in Chicago
at 9:45 a. m., arrived 12 hours late.
Virtvally all of the trouble exper-
enced was east of Buffalo until the
train arrived in eastern Indiana.
"Then the train ran into an entirely
mew storm—that which raged in Chi-
cago and more delay was occasioned.
Mail train 23 on the Lake Shore due
at six o'clock a. m., was run-
ning behind the limited and it arrived
15 hours late.
Another crack train, the Boston-
Chicago Special, was due here at 4
o’clock this afternoon. When the
train dispatcher was asked what time
it would arrive he threw his hands
in the air and did not reply. Trains
©on the Pennsylyania lines were more
fortunate.
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Wireless To Go Around World.
The world is now almost and soon
will be completely belted with wire-
fess. The United States is preparing
to cover the western hemisphere with
towers capable of communicating
across the Atlantic, and through the
use of relay stations, from one side of
Pacific to the other. At the last
international Wireless Congress, at
which were representatiyes from all
the civilized nations of the world, it
was planned that Great Britain should
erect a gigantic wireless tower on the
Suez Canal and another at Calcutta ;
that Japan should build one at Yoko-
hama, that Italy should construct one
smear Messina, and these with the one
already working from the top the
Eiffel Tower in Paris and with what
this government contributes to world
communication at Guam and Honolulu
as well as throughout America, will
be sufficient to girdle the world, and,
by preconterted arrangement, trans-
mitygnessages from any part of world
almost instantly.
RECENT MARRIAGES
IN THE COUNTY.
’ ‘Miss Sylvia M. Hall, and Howard
J. West, were married at Jenners,
by Justice of the Peace, B. W. Hull.
Miss Harriet S. Baker, and James
MM. Smith, both of Rockwood, were
anarried at Rockwood, by Justice of
the Peace, W. H. H. Baker.
Miss Edith May Fresh, of Rock-
wo0bd and Albert M. Ohler, of Ber-
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in, were married at Rockwood, by|
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Rey. D. 8S. Kurtz, pastor of the
Rockwood Lntheran church. |
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Wanted to contract for maple |
gugar and syrup, at |
d Habel & Phillips.
GOLDEN JUBILEE
OF THE K. OF P.
The ‘Golden Jubilee’’ of the
Knights of Pythias will be observed
this week in more than 7000 cities
towns and villages in the United
States and Canada, and will com-
memorate the semi-centennial of
the instituiion of the first lodge of
an organization whose career and
progress has been the marvel of the
world’s greatest ‘‘fraternal age.”
Teaching lessons which ' inspire
manhood ut its highest and best, to
nobler efforts in making the world
brighter and better, the develop-
ment of the spirit of fraternity
among men, has been ore of the
most significant of the marvelous
achievements that have signaled
world-progress; and in the broad
field of fraternal endeayor, occupied
by more than 500 different organi-
zations, whose outreach of influence
is so wide as to include one man in
‘every three on the continent, no
society or organization has been
laurelled with grander achievements
than the Order of Knights of Pythias,
which in a period of half a cen-
tury, has grown from a single lodge
of thirteen government clerks, in-
stituted in Washington, February
19th, 1864, to a continent-wide fra-
ternity with nearly 800,000 men in
more than 7,800 lodges, makiug it the
third largest society of its kind in
the Western Hemisphere.
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100 1b., kegs of fresh salt lake her-
ring for $4.50 also smaller sizes, at
Habel & Phillips. ad
AJAX CONSOLIDATED
COAL COMPANY.
The article which appeared in The
Commercial a week ago called forth
a communication calling our attention
the fact that it was the Ajax Consoli-
dated Coal Company instead of the
Ajax Coal Company, and the follow-
ing history of the company is given:
The Ajax Consolidated Coal¢Com-
pany that is reopening a mine and is
shipping coal from one opening, will
erect six new dwelling houses at once.
A Baltimore firm has the contract for
the buildings and as soon as they are
completed coal will be shipped from
both mines at the rate of about 500
tons per day.
The officers of the company are as
follows: Richard M. Duvall, Presi-
dent; Jas. G. Pugh, Vicej President;
E. W. Adams, Treasurer, and Daniel
Cloud, Secretary, all of Baltimore,
Md., and D. J. Riordan, of Cone-
maugh, Pa., Superintendent.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
&The church-people and folks in
general were so well pleased with the
union services that were held during
the Week of Prayer that the ministers
of the town have planned to hold a
Union Service on Suandayjevening
once every two months for some time
to come.
The first Union Service of this
character will be held on Sunday
evening, March 1, in the Sunday-
school Building of the Reformed
Church. A full program will be
published next week. If the churches
and people of Meyersdale really be-
lieve in co-operation—and if they
don’t God pity them—it is time fcr
all to begin to work to make this
first meeting a conspicuous success.
Also, we wish to announce that the
officials of the P. and M. Railway
Company have kindly consented to
have the car, which formerly left
Meyersdale for Salisbury at 8:20 P. M.,
held each Sunday until 8:35 P. M.
This arrangement has been made
primarily for the accomodation of
the people who want to attend Sun-
day evening services and take the
car in the direction of Salisbury after-
ward. This will relieve them from
the necessity of waiting for the 10:20
car. The arrangement applies to
Sunday evenings only. Sinceré
thanks are hereby extended to the
officials of the Railway Company, and
the people concerned are urged to
take advantage of the priyilege
offered.
THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION.
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Osakis a good springjwheat flour
$5.25 Tper., bbl.,, and Golden Loaf,
our biggest trade winner, $5.50 per
bhbl., at Habel &;Phillfps. ad
er eee———
Making Jelly Set.
On taking jelly from the fire it is a
mistake to pour it into glasses which
have been rinsed in cold water under
the impression the cold will make it’
solidify sooner. The reverse is, in
fact, really the case, and if the liquid
jelly is poured straight from the pot
into jars or molds previouslygrinsed
out in very hot water, it will be found |
to set in a much shorter time.
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For Sales.
A four horse power, gasoline engine |
in good repair—for sale, cheap, for |
cash. Also a ten gallon gasolene tank
Apply, at The Commercial office
| plied Arnold; “but then, you see,
REVIVAL MEETING
AT SOMERSET.
The Somerset Evangelistic Associa-
tion was organized on Monday morn-
ing in preparation for the religious
campaign to be opened there March
22 for three weeks. The skating rink
has been leased by the Building
Committee and the Rev. L. M. Mun-
hall, who is now in Ebensburg, has
been secured to conduct the cam-
paign. ~
The following organization was
effected: Directors—The Rev. V. C.
Zener, Chairman; the Rev. S. G, Buck-
ner, Vice Chairman; M. J. Pritts,
President; B. W. Lambing, Secretary;
0. F. Bollinger, the Rev. H. A. Buffing-
ton, (0. M. Williams, Daniel Keller,
Charles Ealy, Dr. 8. J. McMillan, W-
W. Gustin, A. D. Shaffer, J. E. Ferner-
W. L. Morrison and George W. Ealy.
Executive Committee—The Rev. V.
C. Zener, B W, Lambing,’W. W. Gus-
tin, J. E. Ferner, Dr. 8. J. McMillen.
Prayer Meetings—C. F. Bollinger, V.
C. Zener, H. A. Buffington, 8. G.
Buckner, and C, M. Williams.
Personal Work—H. A. Buffiington
and Frank K. Sanner.
Music—A. D. Shaffer and Emma
Shaffer.
Building Committee—F. B. Granger,
George Brant, Daniel Keller, gMiles
Varner, and B. W. Lambing.
Finance —W. L. Morrison, C. M.
Williams, Frank K. Sanner, and A. D.
Shaffer. \
Entertainment—H. A. Buffington,
Chairman, and seven aides.
Ushers—George W. Feik, Chairman,
and aides.
Publicity—C. M. Williamsfand B.
W. Lambing. /
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A Fifty cent Musical for 35¢ Feb-
ruary 25th in the new Reformed
building under the auspices of the
Epworth League. ad
SOMERSET FAVORS IN-
CREASE IN RATES.
An increase of freight rates on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad met with
the approval of the Somerset Board
of Trade at a meeting last Friday
evening, when a vote was taken, re-
sulting 37 to 8 in favor.
ees
Buy your ticket early tor the Chat~
ham Ooncert: Co., jon February 25th
and ‘ ayoid the §rush. ad
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Adv ri singFacts
AN Merchan!
i serenants
EL NnIowW
By HOLLAND,
HE merchant who spends -
' bis wouey for advertis-
ing space has but one object
—to increase his business.
He wants to attract new cus-
towars and to let old customn-
ers knows what particular
bargains are available © or
what desirable new goods
have arrived. He does not
‘advertise from iwotives of
vanity, merely to see his
name in print. Neither does |
he do it from motives of
charity. The paper is not so-
liciting gifts.
No; the merchant is after
business, and he goes after
it in a business way. He
knows that it will not pay to
advertise bargains that are
not genuine, that it will not
be profitable to make false
claims or statements. He is
building not only for today
and tomorrow. but for next
week, next month. next year.
Looking to the future makes
him conservative and truth:
ful in his statements
Every advertisement in this
paper is proof of the confi-
dence of the advertiser in the
goods he offers. He has con-
fidence in himself, in the pub-
lication and in the intelli-
can profit by sharing his con-
fidence.
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gence of the readers You !
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DUTY'S CALL.
Let us do our duty here, now,
today, not in dreamy sweetness,
but in active energy; not in the
green oasis of the future, but in
the dusty desert of the present; not
in the imaginations of otherwhere,
but in the realities of now.
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Arnold a Lenlent Examiner.
When Matthew Arnold was a school
mark.
“But,” said the other insgoe-
| tor, “surely they are not all as good
as they can be; some must be better
than others.” = “Perhaps that is so,” re-
they
are all such very nice girls.”
BREEDING DAIRY
COWS IRREGULARLY
There exist two dangers of allowing
a milk cow to remain open for an in-
definite period, writes a correspondent
of the Rural New Yorker. In the first
place she is less apt to conceive when
mated, and in the second place she is
apt to go dry for a long period after
the mating is finally made In case she
does settle. It is customary in large
dairies. where the calves are not an
important item of value, to permit the
cows to freshen once in fifteen or six-
teen months, .
Ordinarily, however, for dairy farm
practices it is much more desirable to
mate them so that they will freshen
Lindenwood Hope, the Holstein-
Friesian cow herewith shown, is
an animal of surpassing merit. She
produced when four and one-half
years old in seven days 30.61 pounds
of butter, in thirty days 12.7 pounds. ,
of butter and in 365 days 1,164.31
pounds. Her milk yield for the
year was 20,404.6 pounds, testing 4.56
per cent of fat. Her butter record
is the world’s greatest for her class.
During the test she carried a calf
for seven months of the year, and
hers is the best record ever made
under like conditions. Lindenwood
Hope is owned by G. W. Rising,
Fayette. O.
ance each year. This practice stimu-
lates the iui.x flow, and unless a cow
is particu. :iy a persistent milker
she is less it to give as much milk
if irreguls. © bred and not permitted
to freshen -* (requent intervals. The
animal wi! eep in good condition
physically it not bred. In fact, she is
very apt to put on an excessive
amount of fiesh. and this is one of the
reasons wi, ~he is less apt to cdh-
ceive when :ioted.
Instances ave frequent where cows
have been used for family purposes
and not Lred for intervals of two years
or more, Lut it is the exception rather
than the rule, to have such animals
give milk enough to pay adequately
for the cure involved in their main-
tenance. If desired to carry a cow
over from ing freshening to fall
freshening if ne:essary to avoid
calving during fly time the practice is
justified. E
SILAGE FOR HORSES.
Handled With Care It Makes an Ex-
celicinit Winter Feed.
The value of silage for horses is
greatest as means to carry them
through the winter season. cheaply or
to supplemcn{ pasture during drought.
To cheapen the ration of brood mares
in winter no feed has more value than
good corn siluze. If grain goes into
the silo with: the stover no additional
grain is necded for brood mares, hay
being the only supplemental feed nec-
essary. If (iere is little grain on the
corn the silive shouid be supplement-
ed with one pound of old process lin-
seed oil mei! or cottonseed meal daily
per thousanl pounds live weight, sprin-
kled over 1: silage.
Horses t: be wintered on a silage
and hay r:tion should be started on
about five jounds of silage daily per
thousand jc:nds live weight, the grain
and hay :ution being gradually de-
the ration is twenty pounds silage and
ten pounds of hay daily per thousand
pounds live weight. It will require
about a month to reach the full feed
of silage. but the period may be de-
creased somewhat, depending on the
judgment and skill of the feeder.
Mares fed in this manner will be ®
splendid condition for foaling, and, so
far as the writer's experience goes, the
foals will be fully as vigorous, with
just as much size and bone, as: if the
mares were fed the conventional grain
and hay ration.—U, S. Department of
Agriculture Bulletin.
Weed Seeds In Silage Killed.
That the seeds of the common field
weeds when siloed with corn, peas or
any other forage used as silage will
nof, retain sufficient vitality to germi-
nate in the spring when returned to
the land mixed with manure is the be-
lief of experiment station men. While
there are not experiments on record
with regard to the combined chemical
action of silage and manure on the ger-
mination of seeds, it is quite likely that
there is little danger of seeding valu-
able fields with noxious weeds in this
manner.—Kansas Farmer.
Watch Straw Fed Horses.
Horses’ mouths should be examined
regularly once a week when feeding
on wheat straw. The beards from the
grain ball up in the horse’s mouth and
penetrate the gums, sometimes caus-
ing the animal to have a very sore
mouth, and It refuses to eat. The hard
clots are easily removed. A change of
examiner a fellow inspector of a class |
of girl pupil-teachers asked Arnold to |
{ examine for him. Arnold gave each |
| of the young women tL: “excellent” |
feed occasionally for a day helps to
keep the horses’ mouths free from
cankers.
Rich Strippings.
When the farmer understands that
the last st i of a dairy cow are
over 500 |
the finkt:few pull
y. he ‘may be a little
in his work during the
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“HIT THE TRAIL”
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TEN DAYS MORE
Of the Big Clean-Up Sale of Winter Goods !
During the next TEN
ZYERSDALE, PENN’A.
The cold snap is right upon us and has stim
ulated
thz demand for cold weather wearing apparel.
That makes no difference. We advertised that this
sale of winter goods would last the whole month. and
last the whole month it must. ; : as
DAYS you will be able to
purchase goods that. you will need and purchase th
at prices that are but a fraction of rr $e then
Overcoats, Suits,Ladies’ Coats,
Everything of a nature that we do not wish to carry
over, for little more than 50c on the dollar.
pee
Bittner's
boxes Matches.
stituted.
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142 Centre Street,
| ough investigation.
creased as the silage is increased until
What One Dollar Will Buy at
. One can Peas, 1 can Tomatoes, 1 1b. Navy Beans. 1 Ib -
meal, 1 lb. Rice, 1 lb. Hominy, 3 cdkes Le ig 1 Ib. da
fee, 1 can Lord Calvert Tea, 1 Ib. Evaporated Peaches and 3
Any other article of equal value may be sub-
F. A. BITTNER,
Grocery :
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MEYERSDALE, PA.
Outbreak of Glanders Checked.
Something over a year ago a carload
of twenty-six horses was shipped from
‘a Western State into Columbia County
for public sale.
These horses at that time were alli
an apparently healthy condition and
thus were sold to various farmers and
horsemen througheut that community.
In a short time, however, several of
these animals began to show sympt
oms of glanders, a dangerous infect-
ious disease, therby jeapordizing the
health of hundreds of horses in neigh-
boring counties, as each horse in the
car was undoubtedly a source of infec-
tion. Glanders is communicable to
man and, as in horses, the diseases is
fatal.
Following the developntent of these
cass, agents of the State Livestock
Sanitary Board began to make a thor-
By the tracing of
all animals in this shipment, by the
testing of these and in addition all ex-
posed animals with mallein, an effici-
ent diagnostic agent, and by an exam-
ination of blood samples collected
from the horses and submitted to the
Board’s laboratory, nearly all of the
twenty-six, besides other horses, in all
thirty-three were found to be infected
with glanders. S
All diseased animals were destroyed
and thorough disinfection was carried
out in all stables and on all premises
where these animals were found and
thus the horse owners of that commu-
nity were relieved from any further
loss.
Salesman Wanted.
To look - after our interest in
Somerset and adjacent counties. Sal-
ary or Commission. Address, The
Victor Oil Company, Oleveland, O.
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Famous Paragraph by a Cynlo.
Zapata, having received no re
sponse, began preaching simply of
God. He taught people of the father
of mankind, the rewarder, the punish
er and pardoner. He separated truth
from falsehood and religion from fa-
naticism. He taught any practiced
virtue. He was gentle, kind hearted
and «modest, and was burned at the
stake at Valladolid in the year of our
Lord, 16561.—Voltaire.
PRIVATE SALE
Valuable Real Estate!
Consisting of a 56 acre farm, in Summit
township, Somerset coun'y, Pa., known as the
Daniel Joonson farm, having thereon erected @
good sized bank barn, dwelling house, machine
shed, wash house with furnace, blacksmith
and repair shop, and ali other necessary out
buildings, .
The farm iz level and under good cultivation.
A large orchard of selected varieties of fruits,
t richer in eream than |
.| dec 25 1.
and very productive.
A spring of never failing water is on the
farm This farm will be sold at private sale,
and persons desiring to view the farm and
| know terms will call on the owner
ADAM D. JOBNSON, °
R D. No. 2, Garrett, Pa.
DON'T ABUSE YOUR EYES.
Are you suffering with headache,
nervousness, ‘indistinct vision, water-
ing of the eyes, inflamed eyes, pains
in the temples, pains on top and back
of head, pains in or around the eyes?
R | If having any of the above symptoms
or any eye troubles or wearing glasses
that do not. fit properly, therefore do
sight, call and consult
M. D. GOLDSTEIN,
Eyesight Specialist,
Tuesday, February, 24,
Fron8 A M,to 5P.M
1 devote my entire time, thought
and practice to the scientific examin-
ation of the eyes and the fitting of
glasses. All examinations made with-
out drugs—the modern instruments I
use making the use of drugs unneces-
sary. Children’s eyes examined and
glasses fitted when necessary. :
examined free of charge. All glasses
guaranteed for two years. Our re-
sponsibility never ceases.
We Are Getting a Carload of
No. 1 Galvanized Roofing.
All those in need of Roofing or
Spouting next summer will save
money by buying now. We also
handle-No. 1 :
BANGOR AND SEA GREEN sefTE
Rubber Roofing, Valleys, Nails
and Ridging.
Right for Prices.
J. 8. WENGERD,
Meyersdale, Pa.
Harsh physics react, weaken the
bowels, will lead to chronic consti-
pation. . Doan’s Regulets ' operate
easily.
25¢ a box at all stores ad
Children Cry
FOR FLETGHER'S |,
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not delay or neglect. your eyestund. =<
At Collins’ Drug Store, Meyersdale, Pa.,
Glasses feom $2.00 to $8.00. Eyes
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