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NEARBY COUNTIES
What is Going On in the Vicinity of;
Somerset County.
The headquarters of the Tenth Reg |
iment Band have been transferred |
from Connellsville to Greensburg,
with A. J. Mc Colly ag leader.
Walter Valentine, aged 26 years,
and a resident of Williams Station,
was killed at Hyndman, April 11, at
9::30 p. m.,, by a freight train of the
B. & O. His head was severed from
his body and both arms cut off.
Fred C. Keighley, aged 67, general
superintendent of the Oliver plants,
Nos. 1, 2, and 3 at Connellsville,
committed suicide Wednesday of last
week by shooting himself while in
his garage. Long continued despon
dency is believed to have caused the
act.
The Cambria county commissioners
have under consideration the
advisability of instituting a prison
farm , where wife .deserters can be |
made to earn support for the |
women and children they abandon.
Former United States District Attor-
ney John H. Jordan, has movedfrom
Pittgburg to Bedford, his former home,
where he will again engage in the
practice of law. His name is mention-
ed as a probable candidate for judge.
Charles Battenfield, 39 years of age,
a former trainmen, commitedsuicide
at Connellsville Thursday by shooting
himself with a revolver while standing
in front of a mirror in his home, 217
South street. Financial troubles and
ill health are given as the cause for
his act.
Johnstown’s proposed new passen-
ger station and adjacent grounds will |
cost $250,000 in round figures accord-
ing to E. G. Sawyer, the engineer in
charge of the Pennsylvania’s improve-
ments there. Of this amount 100,000
will be expended on the station buil-
ding proper and the remaining $150,-
000 will be used in other work in-
cluding beautification of grounds.
R. Peyton Turner, former manager
of the Everett Supply Co. left Satur-
day for Seattle, Wash.,, from where
he will be conveyed to Seward, Alas
ka, to take charge of the Govern
ment Supply Station in connection
with thc new railroad which is being
erected from Seward to Fairbanks,,
a distance of 40 miles, at a cost of
$26,000,000. Thousands of men are
flocking into that territory.
The annual meeting of the Central
Pennsylvania Funeral Directors’ As-
sociation will be held at the Colonade
Hotel, Altoona, on Thursday, May 6.
The sessions will bring together a
large number of undertakers from
this section of the state. The business
session will be held at 10 o’clock in
the morning, at which time officers
will be elected and the place for hold-
ing the next meeting selected.
Following araid on the Ligonier
Nest of Owls Wm. Sambrook, steward
of the club, has been held for court by
Justice Nicely to answer charges of
violating the liquor laws. Minors and
men who had been unable to buy
liquor at hotels because theywere af
known intemperate habits were
found in the place, it was claimed.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is in
the market for approximately $20,
000,000 worth of new equipment and
for new material for cars and loco-
motives which it will build in its own
shops. The eqgipment program in-
cludes 144 new locomotives; 146 all
steel passenger - coaches besides
10,000 freight cars. All the locomo-
tives, 56 of the passenger cars and
2,102 of the freight cars will be built
at the Altoona shops. The new equip- |
ment is to be used for replacements
and will not be additions to the pres-
ent equipment. |
Names of famous poets, novelists,
dramatists and other famous person-
ages are represented in the family of
ten children left by John Zeigler
Simpson, aged 51 who just died at
Blairsville. The children are: Flor-
ence Nightingale Simpson, Robert
Burns Simpson, John Milton Simp-
son, Charles Dickens Simpson, Wal-
ter Scott Simpson, Alice Carey Simp-
son, Byron King Simpson, Alfred
Tennyson Simpson, Anna May Es-
ther Simpson and William Shakes-
peare Simpson. The father was
reared near Mt. Pleasant and had a
remarkable memory for poetry.
NO POSTAL DUNS.
Following the issuing of the recent
order barring postcards from the
mails because they carried an-
nouncements indicating the address-
ees were in debt to certain firms and
telling them to call at the. offices to
setfle, it is learned that the govern-
ment may now extend the ruling to
include those sent as tax notices. It
appears that the ruling of the depart-
ment prohibits the sending of such
matter and now that merchants are
barred from employing it, the order
may become general and accordingly
extended to tax collectors.
The strike which was on recently
at Black’s mines for ten days as the
result of a reduction of wages, has
been settled and the men have re-
turned to work, they having accepted |
the lower wages,
Song and
Story......
The common problem—yours, mine,
every one’s—
Is not to fancy what were fair in life
Provided it could be; but, finding
first
What may be, then find how to make
it fair
Up to our means—a very different
thing!
My business is not to remake myself
But make the absolute best of what
God made. —Robert Browning.
How She Could Do It
Sunday evening while they sat doz- |
ing on the porch, the crickets set up
a loud chirping.
“I just love that chirpin’ noise,”
said the old man drowsily, and before
the crickets had stopped he was fast
asleep.
Soon afterward the church choir
broke into a beautiful chant. “Just lis-
ten to that!” exclaimed his wife,
“ain’t it beautiful?”
“Yes,” murmured the old farmer
sleepily, “they do it with their hind
legs.”
Why He Prayed Loud
Dick and Jimmmy were spending a
few days with their grandmother,
who spoils them as grandmothers
will.
“My wife,” said Mr. Clarke, sent
two dollars in answer to an advertise-
ment of a sure way to get rid of su-
perfluous fat.”
And what did she get for the mon- a half mile. He was telling Divine
ley? Was the information what she | Providence
wanted ?” asked Mr. Simmons.
“Well, she got a reply telling her
to sell it to the soap man.”
in Confidence to the Oysters
Mark Twain was in a restaurant |
One night they were saying their
prayers and little Jimmy vociferated
his petitions to the Heavenly throne
in a voice that might have been heard
CONDENSED REPORT OF THE CONDITION ‘OF THE
SECOND NATIONAL BANK
OF MEYERSDALE, PENN’A
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, MARCH 4, 1915.
RESOURCES.
U. S. Bonds and Premiums____ _
Total Resources. .
Loans and Investments. ____ ____
Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures. _
Cash and due from Banks. _____
; LIABILITIES.
$435,270.16 Capital stock paid in____________ $ 65,000.00
_ 72,231.87 Surplus Fund and Profits ._______ 51,932.25
62,499.50 Circdalion oul 63,700.00
-. 54,866.82 Deposilr 0 correo 444,236.10
.$624,868.35 Total Liabilities. ____________ $624,868.35
what he wanted for
Christmas and his enthusiasm got on
his brother’s nerves.
“What are you praying for Christ-
mas presents so loud for?” interrupt-
joa Dick. “Th’ Lord ain’t deaf.”
“No,” whispered Jimmy, “but
one day and found himself next to | Grandma is.”
two young men who were putting on
a great many airs and ordering the
waiters about in a most impressive
fashion. One of them gave an order
and told the waiter to inform the
cook whom it was for. “Yes,” said the
other, “better tell him my name,
too, so as to make certain of its being
all right.”
Mark, who hated swagger, called
the waiter and said in a loud voice:
“Bring me a dozen oysters and whis-!
per my name to each of them.”
Might we not all resolve that every
day we will do at least one act of
kindness? Let us write a letter in
such terms that the post will bring
pleasure next day to some house;
make a call just to let a friend know
that he has been in our heart; send
a gift on some one’s birthday, mar-
riage day on any day we can invent.
Let us make children glad with
things which they long for and can. |
not obtain. And a thousand other!
things which we could do within a
year, if we had eyes to see and a
heart to feel and had the wil! tc take
some trouble. —Ian Maclaren.
An old farmer and his wife lived
{ing in the beanery now, you know.
near the village church. One warm
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His Undoing
Henry P. Davison, of the Morgan
banking firm, was talking about inter-
national marriages. .s
“Well,” he said, “I know of one in-
ternational marriage that failed,
thank goodness, to come off. the girl
was the daughter of a Paint Rock
millionaire. The man was a count, 2
Spanish count.
“The count was absent minded.
That was his undoing. The girl’s fath-
er gave a dinner-for him in the Paint |
Rock castle and at the dinner’s end:
the count got up to light a cigarette,
and then, by Jove, he started to re-:
move the plates.
The guests watchedhim in an |
open-mouthed silence. His napkin
slung over his arm he had got nearly,
all the plates removed when his mil-
lionaire host said to him gently:
“Wake up, George. You're not wait-
Have you forgotten you are play-
ing you're a count in Paint Rock.
Wake up, man, for gracious sake!”
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{into several months since under the
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APRIL4 1912 . . .
MARCH 4,1914 - - - .
MARCH 4, 1915 - -
ASSETS
JULY, 15, 1908 : . : -4
JUNE 23, 1909 . : .
MARCH 7. 1911 - - -
Growth as Shown in Following Statements Made to Comptroller of Currency.
ALSO OUR BIG ADVANCE IN 1914
$262,014.92
$411,680.13
$512.574.48
$605.870.62
$610,212.34
$624.868.35
SOMERSET COUNTY SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION
The Eleventh Annual County con-
vention of the Somerset County Sun-
day School Association will be held
in Windber, June 9, 10 and 11. We
{want to make this the best conven-
tion ever, and have secured some ex-
cellent talent for the program.
Mr. I. W. Mack, of Hall- Mack Co, |
music publishers of Philadelphia, will |
have charge of the singing. Mr. Jobn |
C. Silsley, president of the Westmore- |
land county S. S. Association, has had | |
him to conduct their music for the
two past years and he says he is one |
of the best song leaders he knows
anything about. Among others we will
have Mr. Reel and Mrs. Baldwin, of
Philada; Mr. Silsley, of Greensburg; | |
and Mr. Dunlap, of Pittshurg, the |
latter one of the best teachers of
Men's classes in the state and other
talent which will be announced later. i
At our recent meeting in Windber |
the following convention commitiees
were elected: Edward Mills, chair-
committee;
Shanno Mickle, vice chairman of the
committee, Prof. W. W. Lantz, secre-
following chairmen of committees:
tainment, Miss Mabel Hindman; Dec-
orations, Jonas J. Weaver; Music, H.
A. MHaclerode; Registration, H. BE.
Ferrier; Finances, John A. Hartman;
Street Demonstration and Parade, J.
Yoder; Ushers, W. H. Gramling; Pub-
licity, Rev. G. R. Albans.
B. W. Lambing
SURVEYING FOR
NEW TROLLEY LINE.
Actual work tending to the construe
tion of a trolley line between Rock-
wodo and Johnstown was begun last
week, when a corps of civil engineers
started to survey the line from Kel-
so towards Somerset.
The survey between Somerset and
Rockwood was completed several
years ago. The present work was be-
gun folowing a visit to Somerset by
J. A. Vandergrift, head of a trolley
to confer with stockholders of the
Somerset Street Railway Company.
At this conference it was decided to
change the name to the Johnstown
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