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Aug. 25.—Mrs. Gertrude Wasmuth
of Meyersdale, spent Tuesday of last
week with her sister, Mrs. P W.
White. ;
Henry Engle, while tightening a
break on a gondola at No. 1 tipple,
fell and hurt his right hip so badly
that he will be detained from work
for sometime.
Mrs. Ellen Krause and son Nelson
of Meyersdale, spent Sunday at Vim.
Masters Walter and Henry schaff-
ner and Harry Aurandt of Meyers-
dale, spent Sunday with Ezra Nich-
olson.
Rev. and Mrs. E. 8. Hassler of St.
Paul, spent Monday afternoon with
‘W. W. Nicholson’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meyer spent |
over Sunday with their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
‘Walker in Larimer township.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Griffith of Mey-
ersddle, spent Svuday with W. W.
Nicholson’s.
John White of Salisbury, spent lass
Friddy and Saturday with his son, P.
W. White and family.
Mrs. Jacob Hoil of West Salisbury,
visited her daughter. Mrs. Wilson
Ringler and\amily last week.
Mrs. OC. R. Martin gave an old fash-
joned quilting party to her neighbors
on Monday.
Misses Elizabeth Tressler and Ollie |
Poorbaugh attended the picnic at Mt.
Lebanon last Saturday.
Mrs. Cunningham and three chil-
dren fof Connellsville, are visiting
relatives at Vim at present.
Miss Susan and Mrs. Dallas Fike of
Meyersdale, spent last Sunday with
Howara Fike’s.
Henry Suder and family spent last
Sunday at Deal with Mr. Suder’s par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Suder.
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A RIDGE VIEW.
Aug. 24—Step in Brother Cleaver,
take a front seat; we wish you suc-
cess,
Harvest is over and the locust and
army worm have disappeared from
sight, much to the relief of the farmer.
Mrs. Fred Groves and Miss Frazee
of Selbysport, were visiting friends
hére on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Heavener and
Miss Pearl Shaffer and her mother
spent Thursday with Mrs. E. R.
Grimes.
Quite a crowd of visitors spent one
evening of last week at the home of
Mrs. BE. R. Grimes to see a night
blooming cereus bloom; it is a beauti-
ful white flower which opens at 10
o’clock and only lasts for a few hours.
The annual picnic given by Jasper
Augustine in his beautiful grove drew
a very large crowd; it was estimated
that at least 3,000 persons were pres-«
ent and everything passed off nicely
with only two accidents to mar the
pleasure of the day; one being an
auto wreck and the other an auto
striking. a son of John D. Augustine,
inflicting a scalp wound, although
not serious. The fool race was a
small affair, and Mrs, Mary Miller
. was the winner; Mrs, O. D. Niclo
won prize for haying the largest cake, |
and the Lutheran church choir of
Addison, wou prize for best singing;
Miss Etta Null won for having the
best decorated auto. Several other
prizes were given but up to this time
we could not learn their names.
Miss Dara Recnor of Beaver Creek,
is the guest at the homs of her sister,
Mrs. John Bisel.
Harry Jeffreys of Addison and Mel-
vin G. Reed of Washington, D. C.,
Sundayed at the home of their grand-
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ROCKWOOD.
The Reformed picnic of the Rock-
wood and New Centerville churches,
which was held in the Hay grove on
Thursday last was well attended.
Mrs. Mollie Himmell, of Confluence,
and sister, Mrs. Jennie Pulle, of Vir-
ginia, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. H
Snyder, this week.
Ray Miller, of the Somerset County
Leader, departed Friday for Osage,
Iowa, where he will spend a two
weeks’ vacation at the home of Mr.
and Mrs, William Libarger.
Miss Marie Kartz left on Thursday
for New York,where she will be at the
bedside of her brother, Chester Kurtz,
who is very ill.
Mrs. Cora Healy, and daughter
Mary and son George, left Friday for
Cumberland, where they will spend
several days with relatiyes.
E. A. Evans has moyed his family
and household goods to Edwards-
dale, where they expect to make
their future home
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i Three Kinds.
| There are three kinds of men who
don’t know anything about women.
hey are old men, young men and
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OHIO PYLE.
Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Bailey and
children, of Humbert, are the guests
of local friends.
Miss Bessie and Miss Edna Har-
baugh, of Victoria, were Sunday visi-
tors here.
Walter MacFarland, of Mt. Pleas-
ant, enjoyed last Sabbath under the
parental roof.
Chas. Robinson ‘enjoyed Saturday
and Sunday at his home in Ursina.
Miss Grace Wiltrout, of Humbert,
is spending a short time here with
friends.
Mrs. Geo. Hershberger, and daugh-
ter Miss Mildred were business visi-
tors to Connellsville on Saturday.
CONFLUENCE. .
Mr. and Mrs’ Frank Shaw, Mrs.
James W. Rush, Addison; Miss Berana
Stark and Miss Mary McCullough,
Wilkinsburg, were visitors with Mrs.
Charles H. Stark,Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. O. Humbert, of
Connellsville: were visiting relatives
here recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Kirtung, and
child of Somerset, and Mrs. L. Crow,
of Springfield, Ohio, are visiting their
mother, Mrs. A. A. Ringer.
Mrs. B. P. Augustine, who is visit-
ling relatives in the coke region, re-
turned home Sunday morning.
Bdwin Beal, ana W., 3. Warner, of
{ Rockwood, were here witn triends
recently.
H. J. Black, station agent at Frieds-
ville, Md., was here visiting relatives
recently.
Harry Brown, who had been work-
ing at Shaw, W. Va., has returned
home.
Miss Marion Sanner, who had been
visiting at Connellsville has returned
home. Mr. and Mrs. H. Humbert,
returned home with her, for a visit.
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Bowmer, of
Cheat Haven, are visiting their
relatives, at I. S. Hall’s,
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Black, of New
York, were visiting relatives here for
a few days the past week.
Misses Pearle and Leona Smith,
who had been visiting at Dickerson
Run, returned home Sunday.
Prof. B. T. Frazee, who has taken
the principalship of the Confluence,
schoolg:will move into the house of J.
A. Thomas,
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HOOVERSVILLE.
The family of Nich Parry, of Shade
townrhip, is sorely afflicted with Ton-
sillar diphtheria, three children hav-
ing the above disease. The children
were treated with antitoxin and re-
sults are favorable.
Treatment for snake bits—Tie cord
tight above wound, suck wound and
cauterize with caustic or white hot
iron at once, or cut out adjoining
parts with a sharp knife.
To clean brass—1 Roche alum and
16 water.’ Mix. The articles to be
cleaned must be made warm, then
mbbed with the above mixture and
finished with fine tripoli.
A watch as a compass—Point the
hour hand to the sun, the north and
south line will pass through the cen-
tre of the watch and the middle
point between the hour hand and the
figure 12.
Paint spots from clothing—Saturate
with equal parts turpentine and spirits
of ammonia.
Grease from silks—Take a lump of
magnesia, rub it wet on the spot,
then let it dry and brush the pow-
der off.
Nose bleed—Ice to the back of the
neck, snuff alum water, inhale spirits
of camphor, plug nostrils with cotton
saturated with diluted cider vinegar.
Broken ribs—Cause intense pain
when patient breathes; bind roller
towel firmly round the chest, fasten-
ing with pins or sewing.
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BRUSH CREEK.
One of our well kuown citizens, P.
S., had an awful dream last week.
He dreamt that he was on the jury.
C. D. asked what suit was on, and
P. 8. said it was a case of supervisors
that when the Republicans were in
office they earned wages by walking
the roads and stumbling over the
stones and that the democrats earn
their wages now without walking
the roads and stumbling oyer the
stones.
The farmers have all their oats
harvested and are busy threshing.
Many of the Baumans from} this
locality attended the reunion at River
Side Park last Thursday.
The Northampton band furnished
the music at the Bauman-Bowman
reunion last Thursday.
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Must Experiment a Little First.
other. But not the same way. If we
find we can’t love a man and be where
We were all meant to love oné an-|.
GLADE CITY. °
There were visitors at the J. W.
Forrest home in theljpast few days
the following persons:—Charles For-
rest and family,. Mrs. Minnie Hen-
dricks of Scottdale, and Mrs. H. T.
Bittner of Meyersdale.
Mrs. Lizzie Wertz of Pinto, Md., is
visiting at the home of Mrs. Herbert
Harding and with friends in this
locality.
Our Sunday school is maintaining
its good standard in points of attend-
ance and interest.
The mining of coal at the Merch-
‘bacher mines has been resumed fol-
lowing a lapse of nearly a year. :
Talking about chickens, our butch-
er, J. W. Forrest was down about
Garrett and Rockwood one day recent-
ly and passed through Meyersdale
with as big a load of fowls as is not to
be seen in many a day.
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WELLERSBURG:
Aug. 25.—Eleanor, Susan and De-
Sales Shaffer and Harry Castin near
Deal, spent Sunday with friends and
relatives here last Sunday.
Mrs. Laura Reitz of Shanksville,
who had been spending a few weeks
with her mother, Mrs. Michael Long,
returned to her home Sunday last.
W. K. Kennell was a business caller
in Cumberland, Saturday.
Mrs. Katie Dom and daughter,
Grace, of Philipsburg, is spending a
few days here with relatives and
friends.
Wm. Long and John Kennell were
business visitors to Cumberland, re-
cently.
Thuse who were in Cumberland on
Savarday were: —W. H. Kennell, Mrs
Edith Miller, Mrs. Edward Wilhelm
and Lillian Wilheln:.
There will be a picnic held at the
Wellersburg grove, Saturday, August
29th. All are invited to come and
have a good time.
Wm. Long attended to business
matters in Mt Savage, Friday last.
Miss Bertha Cook who spent a few
weeks with her uncle, Joseph Reitz,
at Shanksyille, returned home Satur-
day last
eerste en ———
SUMMIT TOWNSHIP.
Aug. 24.—Success to the new editor
of the Commercial!
The Center picnic was largely at-
tended last Saturday.
D. OC. Handwerk, who had been
working for F. A. Handwerk through
harvest, near Pine Hill, returned
home last Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bittner of
Black township, but formerly of this
township, were visitors at the home
of the latter’s sister, Mrs. Eliza
Christner over last Sunday.
Quite a jolly crowd of people from
IMeyersdale and this township had a
Sunday outing dinner on the Matlick
grove.
Danijel! Klink, who was sawing on
the 8. C. Beachy farm moved his saw
mill to the Kinsinger ridge where he
and his crew are busy sawing at pres-
ent.
H. M. Gnagey and part of his family
who had been visiting relatives and
friends in this county this summer re-
turned to his home in Wilsey, Kan.,
last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Horner Zufall and son
Edgar of Rockwood, and Mrs. Olive
Groff and children of Oonfluence,
spent Sunday with H. E. Hershberger
and family.
R. J. Engle spent Monday in Som-
erset on business.
Mr. and Mrs. George Beals spent a
few days of last week in Cumberland,
Md., visiting relatives and friends
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POOLTRY
HOPPER FEEDING THE SAFEST
Saves Time and Avoids Upsetting Di-
gestion of Fowls—Mash Mixtures
Used by Breeders,
(By E. K. PARKINSON, Farm Manage-
ment Expert. Copyright, 1914.)
The two principal objects of hopper
feeding are to save time and avoid up-
setting the digestion of fowls from
careless feeding.
On large commercial plants—in fact,
on any farm where pouliry are kept in
considerable numbers—time is money
and must be saved, so by degrees the
hopper has come (to be used univer
sally. The usual materials are fed in
it, but mixed in bulk and put into
hoppers dry. in sufficient quantities to
last several days. There are some who
object to hoppers, fearing they attract
rats, mice, sparrows, ete., and that
fowls eat less freely of dry mash and
consequently do not lay as well. The
first of these objections is overcome by
using metal hoppers with lids. These
may be purchased from any poultry
supply house. The second objection is
true, but the slight loss of eggs is off-
set by saving in the time spent in feed-
ing.
There are, of course, those who have
made a great success with poultry
feeding cooked mashes, and in such
cases it is inadvisable to change. But
where feeding is done by a hired man,
who is apt to be careless in keeping
feed troughs clean and well scalded or
allowing the mash to stand until sour,
upsetting the digestion of entire
flocks and causing loss in the egg
yield, the change to the hopper meth-
od will prove beneficial.
For those who think of changing
from the old to the new method per-
haps a few of the dry mash mixtures
used by successful poultry breeders
may prove helpful. A well tried one
consists of coarse wheat bran, 200
pounds; cornmeal, 100 pounds; ground
oats, 100 pounds; gluten meal, 100
pounds; middlings, 75 pounds; feeding
flour, 25 pounds; fine beef scraps, 30
pounds, and fish scraps, 30 pounds. For
Leghorns the following has been found
good: Cornmeal, 60 pounds; wheat
middlings, 60 pounds; wheat bran, 30
pounds; alfalfa meal, 10 pounds; oil
meal, 10 pounds; beef scrap, 50 pounds,
and table salt 10 pounds. The Maine
experiment station recommends wheat
bran, 200 pounds; cornmeal, 100
pounds; middlings, 100 pounds; gluten
pounds; beef scrap, 100 pounds. A
breeder of Plymouth Rocks has had
good results from the following:
Wheat bran, 200 pounds; wheat mid-
dlings, 100 pounds; cornmeal, 100
100 pounds; gluten meal, 100 pounds,
and beef scrap, 100 pounds. Every oth-
er month 50 pounds of linseed meal
are added.
FEED-TROUGH GH FOR CHICKENS
Efficient Receptacle May Be Con-
structed Out of Piece of Tin—
Keeps Food Wholesome.
A simple and efficient feeding
trough may be. made by tacking a
piece of tin about 3% inches wide
along the edge of a half-inch board
so that the tin projects about an inch
and a half on either side of the board,
bending the tin so as to form a shal-
low trough, and fastening the board
to blocks which raise it from the
floor. The trough may be from one
to three feet long. It is within easy
reach of the chickens and so narrow
Feeding Trough.
that they can not stand upon the
edges. Food placed in such feeding
troughs can be kept clean until whol-
ly consumed.
As one of the difficult problems for
the amateur poultryman is to devise
some means for feeding little chickens
so that they can consume all of the
food without soiling it, this trough
will prove a great help.
First Feed for Ducklings.
The best first feed for newly
hatched ducklings is made of one part
sifted cornmeal, one part wheat bran,
two parts stale (not moldy) bread and
§ a little fine grit and finely granulated
charcoal sprinkled in, the whole mixed
damp, but not wet, with milk. Water
will do for mixing if milk is not avail-
able.
Reduce Feeding Cost.
Early crops for the fowls will re-
duce the cost of feeding and give the
birds succulent food which is essen-
tial to egg production. As soon as
the winter crops are eaten off have
early spring crops ready. Oats,
wheat, rye, barley, rape, alfalfa, clo-
ver and many other crops are suit-
able.
Getting Best Results.
Neither an incubator nor hens will
bring off the best hatches if set in
cold, wet or dark places. A certain
amount of light, reasonable warmth
and comparative dryness are needed
for best results.
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ARABIAN BLOOD IN HORSES
Claimed Greatest Perfection In Ani-
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By some authorities it is claimed
that the hardiness of Arabian horses
may be attributed to the fact that they
were bred and reared for thousands of
years under the most adverse oob-
ditions. Other writers claim, and
justly too, that only the best environ-
‘ment can bring out the best qualities
in man and beast—that the greatest
‘perfection in animals cannot be at
tained unless conditions are favorable.
' How then can we accredit the
desert, the sun-parched plains of
Arabia, to be the home of the beauti-
indications
ful Arablan horse? All.
Typical Arablan Horse.
point toward the grassy slopes and
the foothills of the Caucasus moun-
tains, where physical conditions are
so similar to those we have along the
foothills of the Rockies, where a dry
climate and moderate rainfall make
good pasture but without the tendency
to make a soft spongy hoot.
Commenting upon the statement
that the Arab blood used so long ago,
can leave no trace in our present
breeds in this country, an authority
says: “And though it can scarce be
doubted that, in the very commence-
ment of turf-breeding there raust have
been some mixture of the best old
English blood, probably in great part
of Spanish by descent, with the true
Arab or Barb race, the impure ad-
mixture is_so exceedingly remote, not
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within fourteen or fifteen genéraiions,
that the present race horse of Englatd
and North America cannot possess
| one-sixteen-thousandth part of any
other blood than that of the desert.”
It is a long time since the horses
Messenger, Diomed, Mambrino, Jus-
tin Morgan, Bashew, Spark, Selina,
Blaze, Fearnaught, Traveler and Ethan
Allen lived, yet our best ‘stock traces
back to them. Without justin Morgan
there would be no Morgan ‘horse. Jus-
tin Morgan was rich in Arab blood.
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‘Messengor and Diomed were of like
parentage. The beautiful coach horses
known as the Hackney trace their
lineage to the Arabian breed. At Fort
Collins, Colo., where the department
of agriculture is now trying to perfect
a new type of carriage horse there is
at the head of that stud Carmon, who
carries in his veins the blood of the
Arab. The grace and beauty of the
powerful and massive Percheron are
due to the Arab lineage which has re-
moved that coarseness which prevails
with many breeds of draft horses.
CULLING UNPROFITABLE SOWS
Cost of Pigs Determinea by Size of
Litter—Very Prolific Animal
May Raise Ten.
If a sow raises but three pigs, says
Professor Smith of Purdue university,
it means that they are costing five
dollars each. If instead of three she
raises five, the initial cost is reduced
to three dollars per head. If she ie a
very prolific sow she may raise ten,
in which case the debt represented by
each pig is only $1.50.
When the breeder heartlessly culls
out his sows that produce stock that
never attain good size; when he
promptly sends to the block the sow
with small litters; when he gets out
of his herd the peevish hogs and the
hogs of low vitality, then he will
‘hear less about the relative advantage
of the cross-bred hog.
| RATION FOR THE BROOD SOW
Cooked Potatoes, Middlings and Skim,
Milk Are Excellent Just Before
Farrowing Time.
A subscriber asks if cooked uta-
toes, middlings and skim milk make
a good ration for brood sows before
farrowing, and states that a neighbor
advised him not to feed skim milk to
sows before they farrow. A
This is a good ration for a brood
sow. The protein in the skim milk
will balance up the starch in the po-'
tatoes and the middlings being a well '
balanced feed no trouble need be an-!
ticipated from feeding this combina-
tion so long as the sow has plenty of |
exercise and feed just sufficient to,
keep her in a thrifty condition. Po- |
tatoes are a rather bulky feed and
bulk is an important factor in a i
factory ration for brood sows,
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