D ress TR 1 A x . Broadway street. _ed the music. Joseph Mosholder, ‘of this place, who started: on Sunday one week ago with friends in au auto for Waterloo, Iowa, has informed his friends in this place by mail that he covered the distance, 976 miles with out any mishap, having arrived there in about five days. Miss Mame Plath, who had been spending the summer with her broth- er-in-law and sister, Mr and Mrs. Harry May, ab Johnstown, arrived here the last of the week to take up her duties as a grade teacher in the Meyersdale Public School, which opened here on Monday. PERSONALZAND LOCAL HAPPENINGS Items Pertaining to the Town in General and : Prepared for the Readers By Our Busy Staff. ee —_— gy of Windber, i8 2a Miss Beatrice Truxal will leave Bowman Kyle, ! town visitor this week. next week to resume her studies at Hollins College, Va. Henry Wagner, of Johnstown, is : spending the week here with ¢riends. | The hoisting machine for the erec- -==== | 1:on of the stone bridge across Flaugh- Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Adams,_of ] . ndman, are visiting their son, J. O. erty creek, at Centre street is on the 3 : ground for action. a Adams. i Rev. Sewell Roswell Kresge, pastor September 99nd will be observed by the Dred people in many places as of the Reformed church ab Hyndman, Emancipation Day spent a day this week with his father, Mrs. George Hensel, of Friedens, Rev. A. 8. Kresge, ? this es . is spending a few days of this week Rev. A. G. Mead, pastor O e Evangelical church, 1s attending the here with relatives. ight.of J annual conference at Cumberland, Miss Elizabeth Cartright sof erome, | nr3 Bishop Long is the presiding is the guest of her friend, Miss Grace bishop. Pfeiffer, of Olinger street. : i left here Monda The Very Rey. J. N. Codori of Wiss 14s Prabler, 15 y Johnstown, and Rev. James Cocoran ning for Confluence, where she 0 will SE apioyed as a milliner. of Spangler, Pa., came over Jester Mrs. Daniel Getty, and little ugh! re i, a few days with Rev. z from a short ve ter] nas reterined Dome Miss Katie Ramer of Martinsburg, isi i i t Somerset. S visly with te]pliyes » turned home W. Va., arrived Monday and will be Miss Ethel Ritter, return the guest for several weeks of her Saturday -evening from vigk with brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and friends at Pittsburgh an onne Mrs. -P. A. Ramer, of the Colonial &. The seventy sixth annual conven- tion of the Allegheny conference of {ho United Brethren church, will be held from September 16th to 21st, in the United Brethren church at Ty- rone.=Delegates will be sent_to the conference by the several charges of that denomination in Some: set, county. fjLevi Beal, a prosperous and up-to- date farmer of Wellersburg, was a visitor to town on Wednesday. He has made quite a success in the direct raising of onions from the seed plant- od in the spring. He has about 75 bushels of onions some of jwhic are about one foot in circumference. ey Te Beal has not limited his energy to what is regarded as the small thing Sethe farm for he has about sixty head of cattle. Hl PE = Michael Zorn of Braddock, is the guest of his nephew, A. H. Johnson. i Mr. Zorn is a veteran drummer of the ville. z Hotel. mS Mr. and” Mrs. George Collins, and war, and to show That he had not for- We are making arrangements for our subscribers to obtain a fine farm weekly and woman’s paper in com- bination with The Commercial for just a trifle more than the price -of our paper. Mr. and Mrs. George Blake, return- gotten how, a drum was given him, but the sticks bad bardly dipped into the rhythmic beab before the pareh- m-nt broke. Perhaps the drummer boy of the long ago had been reinvi- gorated in the man neering the four- score mark, and the drum got more ed home Saturday evening from Cor- | of a beating than it had expected and nellsville, where they attended the |atf once capitulated. ¥ wedding of the latter’s niece, Miss| ' Adyices trom New York say that Clara Long, which took place there the Consolidation Coal Company has that morning. gecured immense orders for South After October first, the Pennsylvar American ~trade. {The Consolidation nia railroad company will charge two makes most of its contragts through and one-fourth cents a mile for pas-| the New York office and then allots sengers traveling on mileage book. | the points of! ‘export. as’ best serves This will be an increase of a quarter | the company’s interests. The out- of a cent a mile. - |iook for busy times'in the coal cen- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cavanaugh, and Miss Pearl parker of Reading, tres of Somerset county was never more promising than now; and mine Pa., are the guests of Miss Sue Maul, operators are reported to be prepar- The ladies are daughters of the late | ed to greatly increase their output James Parker, who with the family |on short notice. The first effect of resided here some years ago. the war was to greatly reduce the Miss Rebekah Truxal, who had demand for fuel for Trans-Atlantic been spending the summer here with | liners and for the export trade, but her parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. EB. now that the German fleet has been Truzal, of Centre street, left Sunday driven from the Atlantic the marked tor Pittsburgh, where she will teach | 8 strengthening every day. : in the Bellevue High School. _ Miss Regina Reich, left here Sun- day evening for-Johnstown, and Miss ‘Alta Siehl left Monday morning for two children: of Berlin, ‘are spending the week here with relatives and friends. Thomas Qarey, of Somerset, spent Thursday last-bere with his, parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Carey; of Meyers avenue. a Maas Oz Septembet 11th Mr. and Mrs. Jobn Lilly, of New Baltimore, wil celebrate their fiftieth wedding an- niversary. ; Mrs. Samuel Geese, of Heverly, Pa. | is a guest at the home of her parents, | Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Deeter, of Mrs. H. C. Weimer, of Carleton, Neb., has been visiting her davghter, Mrs. C. P. Large, of the South Side, for several weeks. John Liebau, and his mother, Mrs. Ed. Miller, and Miss Florence Fullem were Sunday visitors in Cumberland, Md., visiting friends. ; Wm. P. Couleban, of, Pittsourgh, arrived here on Monday to spend the week with his sisters; The Misses Oonleban, of North street. * Miss Florence Saylor, who is em- ployed ab Boswell, is spending the week here with her patents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Saylor, of Broadway. : Mrs. Samuel Hershberger, of Hoov- ———————————— Light brown sugar, 7c per 1b., ab Habel & Phillips. ad ee —————————————_— Qysters at Donges’ ad ersville, and Mrs. Charles Darr, of the same place #34 £018 Taate {ney ; ; Lincoln township, were two residents | Went to Indiana, Pa., where they | (11544 of yellow free stone peaches of the county, who died recently. will attend Indiana State BO i i i i D. E Folk, a motor car con uctor Send in all your interesting little | —* - ’ L 5 happenings to The Commercial. We 1? Pittsburg, who is making a nice expect in time to baye all of the salary and is provident of the future, county represented in our columns, | a17ived on the W.M, on Wednesday | Mr. and Mrs, Charles Lepley of to take in the fair and to spend sever- Someta De aot of the home of al weeks with’ relatives here and at} me. . s ab bl : ¥ Salisbury. i . and Mrs. James : thom selatives, I toect, Fred Just, and his danghter Miss arn ’ South Side. 0 . | Nellie Just, of Akron, Ohio, who | Miss Anna Stein, of Somerset, Vis- | | .q peen spending the past week ited here ab the home of her grand- here with their relatives Mr. and parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Stein, of lay oyrus Just, and The Misses Just, North street, daring the past Week: | of Main street, seturned to their home | Mrs. Florerce Turner, a daughter | on Sunday. : of Mr. B. F. Smith, is back home following a Visit of three months with friends in Brooklyn and New York. Miss Elizabeth Holtzhour, of Con- nellsyille, is spending the week here at the home of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. K. M. New- comer. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bush, and son Charles of Bloomington, W. Va., are guests at the home oftheir friend, Mrs. Lydia Countryman, of Olinger street. Rev. J. T. Burns of Connellsville, and Rev. J. J. Graney of Leisenring, spent Tuesday here with Rev. J. J. Brady, at the Catholic parsonage on High street. Mrs. William Gorman, and two children of Johnstown, are spending the week here with her brothers J. F., and Philip Reich and familes, of Broadway street. Mrs. Edward Grant, and children of Pittsburgh, are spending the week here with her sister, Miss Margaret Smith, of Main street, and with other relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Crowe, spent Sunday with relatives near Frost- burg, Md. The former’s father, Mr. George Crowe, accompanied them home and will spend the week here. Mrs. Harry Burkhardt, who had been spending several weeks here| at the home of her father, Mr. Wm. tween the European nations to the Hittie, of,Centre street, left Snnday | utmost. on No. 15, for her home in Akron, | Ohio. About 150 persons enjoyed the fifth annual corn roast of the Pike County Club, near Mt. Pleasant, Saturday evening. The Scottdale band furnish- Seventy-five chickens and 400 ears of corn were Some of the enjoyable viands. coming Wednesday of next week, at _Habel & Phillips. ( HORSE NOT STOLEN AFTER ALL. A large section of Somerset county buggy belonging: to Dorsey Barron, of near Friedens, which ‘was alleged to have been stolen. from a lot: in Somerset. The case baffled Mr. Barron and a posse of friends and officers of the law for 24 hours or . s : . _{more. The harder they attempted to Clothier Louis Cohen is back ab|irace the missing horse the more the his store in this place, he “having incident became a mystery. Finally spent the past few weeks at his other | gounty Detective Lester G. Wagner store at Doe Gulley, W. Va. Mr.| ooo notified and he promptly found a ‘Oohen purposes spending the most of solution of the alleged theft. his time at business here during the : fall months. Barron went to town Monday after- noon and hitched his ‘horse on the Simpson lot, which is used for this purpose daily by ‘scores of people. Late that night he was about to start A. H. Siehl, who liyes on Lincoln avenue, while employed at the Elk Lick mine, No. 1, on Saturday af- ternoon in placing some timber slip-| home when he discovered that his ped and dislocated his loft collar bone. | horse and buggy were missing. He Dr. Lichty gave him the necessary jsoon arrived at the conclusion that sargical attention. it was stolen and notified a number of ¥ : friends and officers of the law. A Miss Fannie Thomas, who had been | hosse was quickly organized and the spending the summer here with her|garious roads from Somerset were sisters, The Misses Thomas’ of the | searched in all directions by automo- South Side, left on Monday for Chi-ipjje parties. Every farmer who has cago, 111, where she will take up her } 5 telephone within a radius of twenty duties as school teacher, where she | hiles of the county seat was notified has taught for a number of years. and a large section of the county was on the look-out. The searching parties were mystified, being unable to secure any trace of the rig. Baffled in every way he turned for assistance, Barron finally sought the services of County Detective Wagner, who has made quite a reputation as a sleuth. Detective Wagner worked systematically, however, and in a few hours located the. ‘‘stolen’’ horse in the Landis livery stable, where he was taken the preceding night by 1 On Sunday about 7:30 p. m., while alighting from the trolley, Mrs. Toma- sine E. McDowell of Salisbury, fell and injured her neck and left shoulder quite badly besides being dazed from the shock. Dr. McKinley was called from church to render medical as- sistance. Somerset relatives of Captain C. M. Knepper, U. 8. N., retired, who was in Paris when war was declared, have received word from him that he is in Switzerland and is enjoying the ex- . citement of the titanic struggle be- untied along the street when he Was going home.. Ab the Landis stables nobody knew-to whom the horse be- longed and it was held awaiting the H. B. Kooser, of 8. Louis, General | owner to claim it. Detective War Manager of the Tnans-Continental | lost no time in apprising Barron of Refrigerator company, on his return | the fact that no theft had been com- from a business trip to New York, | mitted, and the searching parties stopped over last Friday with his | were called off. brother-in-law and sister, Dr. and — ee Mrs. A. E. Truxal. From here he| Bay mare for sale. Eight years old, went to Somerset and left there on | weight about 1,400, sound and gentle, | Monday for his home. | at Habel & Phillips. ad was searched Monday for a horse and’ ‘out in indignation: John Bundy, who found the animal : i ee BUSINESS LACK JIM li" s NNOUNCEMENT. THE CONVICT By M. QUAD The new management of the Com- ! Copyrisht 1514, by Associated Lit- mercial desires to inform the public t " erory Press: hat all outstanding subscriptions, job work and adyertising accounts have been purchased from Mr. A. M. Schaff- ner and settlement is to be made with _ the presentfowner. 8 sua - Yoni Va dd The wan known as «Black Jim” had been sent out to the penal colony 01 Australia for forgery. They sent him up to Woona Wally after his first two years of imprison- ment, and he fell into the hands of George Stebbins. In those days ar Australian convict was bid off—that is, a se®ler in want of help would bid a price for so many men, and they were turned over to him for a certain length of time. He was responsible for their feed and care. and his word was law. He could work them as hard and as long as he wished. He could starve and beat them and there was no one to come between. In case of insubordina- tion be could shoot them down, and the government simply accepted his” statement of the affair. All convicts were glad enough to get away from prison and out upon the ranches, and in most cases they found good masters and were decently treated. AAs a mem ber of the mounted police 1 knew that Stebbins was a hard man to get along with. He had been a tavern keeper and a bully in England, and his wife pad committed suicide, and his two sons had been taken away from him by the law on account of his cruelty. Black Jim came up to Woona Wally with six other men, and the gang were up at police headquarters for the night. It fell to us to take their pedigrees and post them as to their new master and what would be expected of them. Im our district we always gave a convict a fair start. He was told what would be required of him, advised to do his best to please his master and given to understand that if he went straight we would see that he had fair usage. 1 was interested in Black Jim ‘at once The law had made a convict of him. but it hadn't degraded him. 1 had an idea that Stebbins “would be down on him from the first because of his superior 100ks, aud I’'went pret” ty thoroughly {ato details. When 1 bad finished the prisonersaid: = “1 thank you, sir, and” shall 'do=my best to please.” i : . Things. came ‘about ‘asl feared: AS‘| Stebbins inspected his“gang he picked Black Jim out for special attention. He had little to say to the others be- yond making bloodcurdling threats of what would happen if they didn’t toe the mark, but to Jim he said: «So they have sent me 2 gentle: many have they? They thought I need- ed somebody to teach me manners per haps Mebbe the idea was for you to sit on the veranda and give me daily lessons. | Well; you've cole to the ‘wrong shop. Look, pow. I'm goin’ to keep. an. eye on you! You think yourself head and