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Story ......
Listen! What a sudden rustle
Fills the air
All the birds are in a bustle
Everywhere.
Such a ceaseless croon and twitter |
Overhead!
Such a flash of wings that glitter
Wide outspread!
Far away I hear a drumming—
“Tap, tap, tap!”
# Can the woodpecker be coming
After sap? .
What does all this haste and hurry
Mean, I pray?
All this outdoor flush and flurry
Seen to-day?
This presaging stir and humming,
Thrill and call?
Mean? It means that spring is cam-
ing,
That is all!
His Secret Out.
“How would you explain the inscru-
table Mona Lisa smile?” asked a
man.
“Well,” was the reply, “some one
has told a funny story and the poor
woman’s smiling at the wrong place.”
“How dismal you look!” said a
bucket to his companion as they were
going to the well. “Ah,” replied the
other, “I was reflecting on the use-
lessness of our being filled, for, let
us go away ever so full we come
back empty.” “Dear me, how strange
to look at it that way!” said the first
bucket, “I think: ‘However empty we
come back we always go away full.”
A Talented Chap
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
says that a Scotsman was asserting
that all the great poets were of his
nation.
“Well, but.” said one, “how about
Shakespeare? You can’t say he was
a Scotsman.”
To this the other replied:
“His. talents would justify the sup-
position.”
His Proud Title
It was a very small student who
astonished his father, a practitioner
of medicine, by propoundng the fol-
lowing question:
“Papa, do you know what the great
Napoleon’s nickname was?”
Wishing that his son might have
the pleasure of bestowing this infor-
mation, his father evaded a reply by
asking another question:
“What was it, son?”
His state of mind can be conjectur-
ed when the little fellow proudly re-
sponded:
“He was known as the Little. Cor-
puscle.”
Johnny's Excuse
This note was sent to a teacher by a
mother to explain her sos absence
from school:
Dear Mum: Please excuse Johnny
today. He will -net-be at school . He is
acting as timekeeper. for his. father.
might you gave him this iximple, |°f the roped arena.
a tield is four miles square how |
tod will it take a man walking
threee miles an hour to walk two and;
a half times around it? Johnny ain't
no man, so we had to send his daddy.
They left early this morning and my
husband said they ought to be back
late to-night, though it would be hard
going. Dear Mum, please
ble to all men,
$1.50.
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FRAGMENTS OF
GENERAL NEWS.
Strong earthquake shocks were felt
Monday over the district from Aves
of Rome, according to dispatches re-
ceived from Italy. A large rock was
hurled from the mountains overlook
ing the village of Petrellari and it is,
feared the rock mass will destroy the
town. All the inhabitants have fled.
Jess Willard, a Kansas cowboy,
is the world’s heavyweight champion
In the 26th
"round of a tremendous fight at Hava-
'na Willard, who showed surprising
. skill all through the battle, knocked
‘out. Jack Johnson, the erstwhile
{ black champion, with a blow which
there was no denying.
On behalf of the owners of the Am-
‘erican ship, William P. Frye, sunk by
zano to Rietin and within fifty miles
cated to human beings through {
although milk from a
might transmit the dis
being. Pasturization,
ders milk safe, Human Solnde he do
get the disease commonly get itfrom
direct contact with the diseased an-
imal.
Count Zeppelin is not satisfied with
the manner in which his airships. are
being handled, He called together
one day. this week his engineers and
the captains of the dirigibles now
at the Zeppelin works at Friedrichhaf
Germany, and criticised them on sev-
eral scores. The count said that the
full power of the Zeppelins had not
been employed and that longer raids
than any made heretofore were pos-
sible. He believed ‘that an attack up-
on London and the lower Thames had
been delayed unnecessarily. The count
make the ‘the Prinz Eitel Friedrich, the United | 2180 is understood to have criticised
nixt problem about ladies as my hus- | States government, in ‘a note made his captains for retreating from hos-
band can’t afford to lose the day's
work. 1 don’t have no time to loaf
but I can spare a day off occasionally
better than my Husband can.
Resp'y yrs.
Mrs. Jones.
Sympathetic Bobbie.
Little Bobbie listened with deep in-|
terest to the story of the Prodigal
Son. At the end of it he burst into;
tears.
“Why, what's the matter, Bobbie?”
exclaimed his mother.
I'm—I'm so sorry for
ca-alf,” he sobbed. “He
nuffin.” —Everybody’s
that 1i’l
didn’t do
All He Got
“When I was a boy,” says Cohn,
“there were seventeen of us at home.
And being so many we had to eat at’
the second table. And do you know I
was sixteen years old before I knew
a ‘chicken had anything .but a peck.”
The night watchman of a large Bo-
tel saw an apparition in white mov- |
ing along the hall at 2 a. m. He ha-
stened his steps and tapped on the
shoulder of whatproved to be a man.
“Here, what are you doing out
here?” asked the watchman.
The man opened his eyes and
seemed to come out of a trance. “I
beg your pardon,” he said, “I am a
somnambulist.”
“Well,” said the watchman, “you
can’t walk around these halls in the
middle of the night in your night-
shirt, no matter what your religion
is.”
' public.
to pay an
{ which represents the cost of the ves- |
sel, the freight charges for its cargo, |
| Consolidation Coal Co., is to spring
{and damages resulting from being de-
prived of the use of the ship.
“How long will the European war
|like magic at Helens Run,
Monday, has zsked Germany | tile airmen.
indemnity of $228,059.54 |
NEW COAL TOWN TO BE BUILT
A new coal town, to be built by the
between
' Worthington and Farmington, W. Va.
jest? said Edwin Emerson, war cor-,
respondent, in opening his lecture at
| carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburg re-
; cently.
i “but I think it is safe to say that as
, long as Pittsburg and other American
‘towns and cities turn out great quan-
“I don’t know,” he answered |
titié¢ of guns, powder and shells the
war will continue indefinitely. When |
{ American manufacturers shut down
; supplying munitions of war then only |
will the great conflict cease.”
Wm. E. Bower, of Snydertown, Pa.,
while bedding his stock came across
a mother cat in his barn which had
been deprived of her litter of Kkit-
| everything put in readiness for the ; : Va, to attend the funeral of Mr. Se-
It wil be the home of 1,500 miners,
who will work the two mines to be
opened by the coal company.
The new town will be the model
| community of the country. Every new
idea will be embodied in its construc-
tion. The company has bought
$125,000 worth of land for homes and
is acquiring more.
Engineers are surveying, plans are
ET
SECOND
CONDENSED REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE.
TERT
NATIONAL BANK
OF MEYERSDALE, PENN’A
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, MARCH 4, 191s.
LIABILITIES.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Investments ___-__. ____ $435,270.16 Capital stock paid in... 2... $ 65,000.00
U. S. Bonds and Premiums. .... . 72,231.87 Surplus Fubd'and Prolite 0.00 51.932.25
Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures__ 62,499.50 Crculition oa teas ibaa 63,700.00
"Cash and due from Banks _______ 54.866.82 Deposis coins otanis Loos 444,236.10
Total Resources... . .__ .$624,868.35 "Total Liabilifies;. co =. con $624,868.35
Growth as Shown in Fo
APRIL 4,19
MARCH 4,1914 - - - -
MARCH 4, 1915 - -
llowing Statements Made to Comptroller of Currency.
ALSO OUR BIG ADVANCE IN 1914 ‘
ASSETS
JULY, 15, 1908 . ie 4 $262,014.92
JUNE 23, 1909 wie, : $411,680.13
MARCH 7. 1911 - - . $512,574.48
13 - - - $605.870.62
$610,212.34
$624868.35
PETITION FOR DISCHARGE
OF ADMINISTRATOR.
IN RE ESTATE Of Samuel]
K. Weimer, Late of Greens|
ville Township, Somerset|
County, Pennsylvania, de-| |
ceased.
i NOTICE is hereby given that
jan application was presented to the
; Orphans’ Court of Somerset County
{by the undersigned administrator, c.
‘t. a. of the estate. of the said Samuel
!K. Weimer, deceased, for discharge
| as such administrator, and the Court
has fixd Monday, 17th day of May,
1915, at 10 o'clock: a. m. at the Court
House at Somerset, Pennsylvania, as
the time and the place for the hear-
dng of such application when and
pear if they see fit. .
OZFIAS WEIMER,
+ Administrator c. t. a. of
SAMUEL K: WEIMER, Dec'd.
RQCKWQOD
* Mrs: A. H. Bittner, of Main street,
‘is seriously ‘ill; suffering from grip.
Mr. and. Mrs. James D. Critchfield,
‘of: Johnstowa, have moved to Rock-
wood, where: they will occupy the
Coleman: property on. Broadway.
Miss Pearle Sandles; a teacherina
sv le schol, is the. guest of
: & Henry Werner.
Mrs. Wilson Coughenour, of Rock-
wood, has. returned home after spend-
ing several days very pleasantly with
her, mothep, Mra, Charles Baldwin of
Hoqversville. :
Mrs, George Filcer, of Somerset, ac-
companied by Mrs. Howard . Strong,
of Rockwood, spent, several days vis-
iting friends, and relatives in Pitts-
burgh recently,
The home of Mr, and Mrs. Lewis M.
Farling was recently the scene of a
big social event in honor of Mrs. Far-
ling’s neice, Miss Mae Bittner, who
leftfor the Indiana State Normal
School April 5th. The evening was
spent in playing games and music,
both vocal and instrumental, after
which a delicious lunch was served
by the hostess.
The Board of Education of the
Rockwood high school, at a recent
meeting decided in favor of holding
the regular commencement exercises
at the ‘close of the high school term.
‘The board wag requested to choose
between a trip for the graduates to
the. national capital or the regular ex-
ercises. The exact date of the com-
mencement has not yet been set, but
by a decision of the board, the Rev.
John Erler, Ph. D., has been request-
ed to deliver the baccalaureate ser-
| mon, on May 2. The graduates have
been instructed to wear gowns and
caps for the occasion.
where all parties interested may ap-
being made for the sinking of the! Mr. and Mrs. Robert Secrist, of
shafts for the two mines to be open-' Highland Addision, departed Wednes-
ed, the grounds are being cleared and 42¥ on No. 12 for Harper’s Ferry, W.
real work to be carried on this sum- | CFiSt’s brother, ‘who was “killed in a
mer. j railroad accident. Mrs. Emanuel Zinn
Two and a half million dollars will of Meyersdale, a sister of Mr. Secrist
{ and would come back. The
| watches them as closely as
tined for
{need have no fear of eating meat to-
i bulletin just issued by the Depart:
. mouth disease is not easily communi- |
nat Sat he Jloyned. Catia Ro 2 |e spent on the development of the
a ozen: wi 2 8 usEy tl ew field, which comprises 1,000
! been missin for several days, accor- |
g V8, acres. The mines will have an annual
ding to Bower, ad he thought it had |
ut f 750,000 t h. Th
| been mourning the loss of its offspring jo but o ong cach, ‘They Will
rabbit | be shaft mines at a depth of 400 feet.
abbli8 | rhe company expects to have the
are apparently a week old and are of | _. .
mines in operation by Jan. 1, 1916.
{ the native wild variety. He says that | . Pp y Jon 16
the cat is careful over them and |
though | The superintendent of the Somer-
i set county hospital for the insane in-
| forms the sheriffs of adjoining, coun-
| ties that the institution is~.all and
| he will hereafter accept ‘no Patients
{rom other counties.
AAAS AS NN NN
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
they were her own kittens.
Consumers even in states quaran-
foot-and-mouth diseases, |
day providing it is thoroughly cooked.
This reassuring word is given in a
ment f Agriculture. The. foot-and-
also left for Harper's Ferry Wednes-
{ day.
{ David Ansell is seriously ill with ty-
phoid fever.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Furtney an-
nounce the birth of a son.
Henry Mosholder, who was taken
to the Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh
by Dr. C. J. Hemminger, has been
operated on for appendicitis.
Ray Martlett, who was operated on
for appendicitis several days ago, is
reported to be improving.
On March 27, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis
Wagner, of Elk Lick, celebrated
their 51st wedding anniversary with
a happy gathering of relatives and
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