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[Registered at the Postoflice at Meyersdale, Pa, as Second-Class Mail Maiter.]
THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL.
K. CLEAVER, Editor and Business Manager.
Pablished Every Tharsday ip the Year at $1.28 Per Year,
(When Paid Strictly
in Advance, $1.25.)
THURSDAY DECEMBER 10, 1914
INDIAN OREEK.
Hiram Connor spent Saturday night
among Connellsville friends.
F. D. Smearman of Point Marion,
spent Sunday here with friends.
L. L. Fish and Steve Reed spent
Saturday night in Connellsville.
Radney Woodmancy has completed
the new addition to his barn.
Rev. Sellers, pastor of the M. EB.
church at Ohio Pyle, who is holding
revival meetings at Normalville,
missed his connections with train No.
48 Sunday morning. He left for Ohio
Pyle over the W. M. but arrived there
too late to fill his appointment.
8. M. Hutcheson, our live real es-
tate man from Mill Run, was trans-
acting business in Connellsville, Sat-
urday.
Miss Olive Prinkey was calling on
friends in Connellsville on Saturday.
J. D. Slater of Mill Run, was a busi-
ness visitor to Connellsville, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Alguire spent
Sunday with Connellsville friends.
Mrs. W. P. Miller of Rodgers Mills,
spent a day here with her son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce
Miller.
Joseph Illig was a recent business
caller at Mt. Braddock.
Chas Newell cf Mill Run, has pur-
chased a new automobile.
Edward Fullem was transacting
business in Connellsville and Mt.
Braddock on Monday.
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style, No. 7, in No. I. condition,
Will make 1,000 copies from the
original. Reason for selling, ‘need
the money. Apply at this office. ad
For SALE—Scotch - Collie Pugs,
full blooded. Apply to
N. J. KINSINGER,
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NEARBY COUNTIES.
What is Going on in This Part
of The State
+ The Johnstown Ministerial Asso-
ciation has decided npon Sunday,
January 3rd, 1915, as a ‘‘Go to
Ohnrch Day?’ in that city.
John Lutz, 79, Editor of the Bed-
ford Inquirer and oldest member of
the Bedford county bar, died at
Bedford, Sunday. He was postmaster
at Bedford, serying one term.
That the Catholics of the Altoona
Diocese of the Catholic church may
be compelled to give up dancing, on
account of the objection of the Rt.
Rev. Engene A. Garvey, Bishop of
the Altoona Diocese, is strongly in-
timated in a communication sent out
by the Rev. Father M. J. Cangle, of
8t. Leo’s Catholic church, of Altoona.
Of the 1250 shopmen suspended by
the Pennsylvania Railroad last spring,
260 were given their old places in
the Altoona shops on Monday.
They were needed to help rush work
on locomotive repairs in preparation
of the winter season. The machine
shop forces have been ordered to
work fifty hours a week, an increase
“of five and ten hours.
Judge J. Q. Vanswearinger, in a
decision handed down at Uniontown
declared that the section or state
mining law requiring the mainte-
nance of bore holes for the protee-
tion of miners against explosion is
lawtul and must be observed.
P. J. Walsh, inspector of the Ninth
bituminous district, instituted suib
against a mine foreman of the W.
-J. Rainey company for not main-
taining bore holes. The defendant
claimed the holes were of no prac-
tical value in preventing explosion.
J. E. Cunningham, deputy attorney
general aided in the prosecution.
FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS
FOR BACKACHE KIDNEYS AND BLADDER
Throughout the County.
Prof. Robt. Gipe, a brother of Har-
ry Gipe of Garrett, died. of typhoid
fever at Connellsville, recently; aged
26 years. His wife and baby child
survive.
Rev. L. P Young has resigned as
pastor of the Lutheran congregations
of Salisbury, Greenville, Grantsville,
and Keim, where he seryed for almost
nine years. He has been appointed
District Superintendent of Missions
of the Svnod of Western Pennsylvania.
Miss Ethel Laney, youngest daugh-
ter of Mrs. Edgar Laney of Boswell,
has been removed to to Memorial
hospital, Johnstown, for treatment
for spinal trouble. She is about 13
years old and unable to walk. Shs
was accompanied to Johnstown by
Mrs. Charles Allsop, her sister, and
Mrs. Montieth.
No successor has yet been appointed
for OC. 8. Ickes, who has resigned as
postmasver at Boswell, after a service
of two and one-half years and with
one and one-half years yet to serve.
Mr. Ickes is a Republican. Three ap-
plicants have appeared for the posi-
tion. They are Charles Wetzel, Jef-
ferson McClelland,and Simon Ebaugh,
all of whom have petitions in circu-
lation.
Claude Boyer of Boswell, aged about
20, had one of his arms practically
severed recently, when a gun he was
carrying was accidentally discharged,
Boyer and several companions had
been hunting some distance from
Boswell. Boyer carried his gun un-
der his arm and while stepping over
a fallen tree he slipped and fell. The
muzzle of the gun pointed upward
and Boyer received the load in his
arm.
Alex. Launtz, who owns a farm and
orchard a short distance north of
Somerset, has demonstrated that
spraying and other modern methods
have improved the quality of his ap-
ple crops. Encouraged by his success
at local fairs, he sent nine varieties to
State College recently for exhibition
at the apple exhibit conducted by the
Crabapple Club, where he was award-
ed first prize on the ‘‘Wealthy’’ varie-
ty, and prize on the **Wolf River”
apples. Exhibits were sent from a
number of counties. .
The last, and incidentally, the final
issue of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road Employes Magazine contains an
interesting article on Norman B.
Ream, the financier, who was born in
Ureina, Somerset county. Mr. Ream
is a big man in every every way.
Born a farmer, he worked in the fields
of Somerset county, and gradually
worked his way up until he went to
Chicago and became one of the foun-
ders of the National Biscuit Co. When
the cyclone almost wiped Ursina frem
the map last fall, Mr. Ream seut a
check for $1,000 to the fund raised for
the relief of the sufferers.
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Notico of Annual Meeting.
Tha Annual Meeting of the stockholcers of
the Citizens National Bank will be held at its
office in Meyersdale, Pa., on the 12th day of
January 1915, between the hours of 1 p. m. and
2p. m., for the election of nine directors for
the ensuing year, and for the transaction of
such other business as may properly come
before the meeting.
R. H, Philson,
Secretary.
Notice to Stockholders.
The Stockholders of the Sand Spring Water
Company of Meyersdale, Pa., willimeet in the
Directors room of the Citizens National
Bank on Mondsy evening, Janfaty, 11th, 1915,
at 7 o'clock for the purpose of electing (9)
Directors for the ensuing year and the trans-
action of any other business that may be
properly brought before the meeting.
PHILSON, W. T. HOBLITZELL,
Secretary. / = President.
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Simymny’ 5 Christmas
By EEN™"TH RARD
OOLS!” said Mr, Simpson.
“Idiots!” he added. “Even
if they are my own rela
tives!” he supplemented
with a dogged shake of his
partially bald head.
The souvenir postal card
which called forth his op-
probrious language had just
arrived.
“Look at this, will you?”
He turned the card over
in his fingers,.
“‘Peace on earth, good
will to mea!’” Mr. Simp-
son ‘read the ‘inscription.
Then he turned it over;
“We want you with us
reunion around the festal
Christmas board!’ ” her 3
#1 in three lines of handw:
ing on the other side of the
card.
3 “There you are!” he ¢
§ claimed wrathfully. “There
you are, doggone it!”
He waved the card vio-
lently around in the air at arm’s length
as he continued muttering. R
“They send you one of these paper
doilies from a madhouse dining room,”
went on Mr. Simpson to the listening
walls of the room of which he was the
only occupant—“with ‘Peace on earth,
good-will to men’ on one side, and on
the other an invitation to take a six-
hour trip out into the slushy country
for a rotten meal with a gang of
people who drive me crazy at the
thought of being related to, every
time I see ’em.”
“Here I am,” he said, regretfully
shaking his head over his hard lot in
life, “here 1 am, planning that I'll be
comfortable for at least one Christ-
mas, anyway: Family away in Florida
for the winter; me here all alone, to
do just as I like—and now along comes
this—this summons to spend a day be-
ing miserable!”
Suddenly Mr. Simpson sat up
straight in his chair,
“By jerry!” he ejaculated suddenly.
“By jerry—what’s to hinder me from
being the martyr in the cause? What's
to prevent me from putting an end to
this dad-dinged practice—huh?
“Suppose I don't go to this Christ-
mas reunion? Suppose I stay home
here and enjoy my day of peace.on
earth in the way I want to? What
will happen?
“Why, next year there won't be a
single, solitary soul of my relations
that will get together in an affair of
this kind. I'll have pointed the way—
I'll be the example they’ve been wait-
ing to follow away from custom—and,
by jerry, I'll bet you the thing will
spread, too!
“And I'll be responsible for itl”
added Mr. Simpson joyously—“if 11
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stay away, just thig once, from this
Christmas party I've been invited to!
“And think eof the good I'm doing
to other people, too!” he added. “How
grateful the public will be to me for
pointing out the way to their own re-
lease from this idiotic custom of sac-
rificing themselves!
“Why, 1 shouldn’t wonder it there
would be a statue erected to me as
the first man who stayed away from a
family reunion at this holiday! I can
see it now, labeled: ‘The People's
Santa Claus—He Gave Us What We
Wanted Most for Christmas!’”
And so, in pleasant reflection upon
the perfection of his plan as he had
carried it out, Mr. Simpson’s thoughts
ran until Christmas morning.
It was Mr. Simpson’s idea to eat his
Christmas dinner, ordered in from a
nearby restaurant, in the solitude of
his own home, bare as it was of his
family.
At one o'clock the waiter brought
in the heavy tray. Mr. Simpson super-
intended the arrangement of its con-
tents on the table in the dining room,
And it was just one-fiftech, as he
stood rubbing his hands at the pros-
pect of eating alone on Christmas for
the ‘first time in his life—when the
doorbell rang.
‘Doggone it!” burst. out Mr. Simp-
son. “What's that?”
For a moment he decided not $0
open the door. Then he changed his
mind and went downstairs, two at a
time. It might be some bad news
from his absent family.
He threw open the portal—and stag-
gered back into the hall.
And after him trooped a gayly
shouting and laughing party of sixteen
—Mr. Simpson's relatives!
, “We came to eat our Christmas din-
fer here!” cried one of his aunts.
* “Yau poor man—we knew you'd be
all alone!” gushed. a firet cousin.
“We didn't want you to eat your
Christmas dinner all by yourself,”
chortled another female relation, “seo
Wwe brought ours here in baskets to
eat with you!”
{ Mr. Simpson looked over the crowd
still streaming into his front hall. His
lips pursed tightly as he led the wag
to the dining room.
But all he said, unintelligibly to his
unexpected guests, was:
“Well, I guess they won't put up
| that statue of me as Santa Claus this
| year!”
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day after tomorrow. for a’
good, old-fashioned family
This Store has added
to its big, good line
of home furnishings
The Round Oak
line of Stoves and
The Test
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REMEMBER THIS IS THE STORE THAT GIVES YoU ONE HUNDRED.
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IF YOU ARE IN:NEED oF ANY FURNITURE, CARPETS, RUGS,
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HOME FURNISHING LINE. COME IN AND Look THROUGH OUR
FOUR FLOORS CHUCKED FULL oF USEFUL GooD.Js.
R. REICH & SON,
Funeral Directors and Embalmers, Meyersdale, Ios,
The Store of a 1,000 Gifts.
You will find an abundance of pretty, practical presests for your friends
at this store and the prices have
No Holiday Profits Attached.
All shoppers express a joyful surprise at the reasonableness of my gift
goods. This accounts for the fact that I hdve already sold more than half of
my dolls as well as a large portion of the toys and other holiday goods.
But there still remains enough and to spare,
Handkerchiefs for Men, Women and Children, Newest Neckwear for Ladies and Men, Fine Line of in-
expensivefUmbrellas, Popular priced Jewelry, Glassware and China, Hair Ribbons in abundance at low prices
KnitjToques and Hoods, Gloves and Hosiery, Wool Sweaters, Table Linens, Pretty Goods for Dress and Coat,
dozens of Beautiful Small Rugs, Ladies’ and Children’s Coats, Boys’ Suits and Overcoats, Shirts; Collars and
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Let Us Help Make your X-mas Shopping Easy.
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ALBERT S. GLESSNER
(Successor to Appel & Glessner.)
'MEYERSDAE,
PENN’A.
Xmas Presents!
You Can Get Them Here.
TOILET ARTICLES, CIGARS,
FINE BOX CANDIES.
F. B. THOMAS, Leading Druggist,
Both Phones MEYERSDALE, PA.
DEFECTIVE EYESIGHT
IS AN APPALLING HANDICAP
IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE,
M. D, GOLDSTEIN,
At Collins’ Drug Store,
TUESDAY, DEC, 15, 1914.
EYES EXAMINED FREE
If troubled with Headaches, Dizzi-
ness etc., or in wearing glasses that do
not correctly, do not delay or neglect
your eyes.. Call and see me at Collins’
Drug Store Tuesday, Dec. 15th. All
glasses guaranteed for 2 years.
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