£ 5 b & € i L MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT MEYERSDALE, PA. ,K. Cleaver, Editor When paid strictly in advance $1.25 When not paid in advance $1.50 PICNIC DRINKING WATER. Commissioner of Health Samuel G. Dixon’s Talks on Health and Hygiene. The picnic season has begun. Every alluring spot for miles around in the vicinity of the towns and cities will be the Mecca for pleasure seekers from now until the frost comes. Almost every body attends a picnic sometimes during the season. Now that the automobile has made even the remote districts readily access jble for city dwellers, the number of urban residents who seek an occa- sional day's relaxation in the coun- try, has tremendously increased. Nobody thinks of going on a picnic without taking a generous supply of food but few people are far sighted enough to carry their drinking water. Some spring, brook, or farmer's well, they feel, will be sure to supply this essential. As a result of this indis- criminate dependence upon unfamil- far sources of water supply, there are bundreds of pleasure seekers Who contract typhoid fever every season. That period of the year when ty- phoid fever is always most prevalent is that at the end and immediately following the vacation season. ‘While this is not alone the result of picnics they unquestionably play an impor- tant part in this annual toll of illness and death. It is not a difficult matter if one is taking an auto trip to carry a supply of drinking water from a source that is known to be uncontaminated. Mod- erate priced vacuum bottles of other forms of containers can be secured which will keep the water cool. If a local water supply with which one is unfamiliar must be used boi- ling the water for twenty minutes will make it safe. Unfortunately clear water is not always pure water. | The roadside spring is open to pollu- tion; no matter how attractive the lit- tle brooklet which babbles along un- der the overhanging trees may ap- pear, one must needs follow it to its source to be certain that it is free from contamination. So for safety’s sake carry your drinking water in the picnic basket. ST. PAUL. A number of our people motored to Dan’s rock, Md., on Sunday. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Engle died on*Friday and was buried in the St. Paul cemetery on Satur- day. The funeral services were con- ducted by Rev. IL S. Monn, of Sali- bury. - Mrs. Annie Harding, of West Salis- bury was visiting relatives in town on Sunday. It is reported that Miss Pearl Hay’s | Sunday School class consisting nf boys will hold a social on the evening of the 26th of June. . Lillith Martin, a Sccialist speaker of Anderson, Indiana was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Rhodes over Sunday. She gave a very interesting and instructive address on Saturday evening to a crowded house at Boyn- ton, on The Reason Why Women Should Vote. They and the men should vote the Socialist ticket. A recent writer said, “War that would punish only the innocent, while powerless to punish the guilty, ' would be only a colossal stupidity.” Many innocent Germans, many inno- cent Americans would undoubtedly lose their lives in a war to avenge the sinking of the Lusitania and the real perpetrators of the deed—the big men of Berlin would go unpunished, and the victims of the Lusitania would still remain dead. WITTENBERG. Fine growing weather at present! Roy Deal and Harvey Randall, Al- bert Fair, Miss Martha Smith, were callers on their friends, Levi and Jas. Mankamyer on Sunday last. Our ball game was called off on ac- count of rain. Look out, boys for a good ball game on July 3rd. Prayermeeting at the Sunday night. The Wittenberg band will hold a picnic on July 3rd. instead of July 4 in the Wittenberg grove. The boys are making big preparations for fine time. Let everybody come. Band practice on Friday night. The Owls,of Deal will hold a lan- tern festival on Saturday night. temple on HAY'S MILLS. The veteran, Samuel Brant, of this place, who was kicked by a vicious horse some weeks ago and who was critically ill from the shock, is recov- ering. His age was against him as he is in his 81st year. The accident happened while he was in a buggy with a friend and while he was seated the animal kicked him in the face. sealers of weights and measures four ROCKWOOD. | ARE NOW LAWS. The lodges of Rockwood have an-. Governor Brumbaugh has approve nounced that memorial services will | ed a number of bills but vetoed the be held on June 20 instead of June 27} great volumn of them thus making |2® had been announced heretofore, on good his ante-election declaration that account ofthe latter day conflicting the state needs fewer laws, but better | With other special occasions. ones. Mrs. C. C. Dennison, Miss Ferne Capt. W. H. Sanner of Somerset Zearfoss and Miss Marie Meyers have benefits by the veto of the bill in- as | tending to make the tenure office of delphia, New York and atlantic City. Merril & Romesburg have secured a diamond drill for prospective work | on their new coal field in the Black- field district. Rev. J. I. Duke will deliver the mem- BILLS WHICH years instead of “So long as they shall well behave themselves.”The Gover- nor said the bill would make the office one of the political spoils. Captain Sanner has besu an efficient officer. oria] address to the K ood lodze, One of the bills vetoed by him L O. O. F. next Sunday at the King would | have given school directors | .,q cemetery. . authority to build township high Henry Felton of Milford township, schools in boroughs. He says the need | o.q badly injured Thursday a short for high schools is better taken care distance from his home, when his of by the school code Somerset Town- i... phecame frightened and ran off, ship has a high school at Friedens, throwing him ta the ground and but pupils from the township are per- breaking four of his ribs. He was mitted to enter the Somerset Borough .,:46q to a near neighbor's house High School by paying tuition, and, ,.q pr. J. C. Hemminger was sum- therefore are given better school ad- 04 to dress his ‘injuries. The vantages than if the township under- ;.... was caught near the place of took to maintain a high school in the the accident. borough, © Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Conway re Hereaftsr, any dog that enters a fleld | ;,,. oq home Thursday evening, ac- in which there are sheep, unaccom |. mnanied by their daughter who has panied by the owner, may be Killed yen 5 patient in the Allegheny Gen: on sight by the owner of the sheep Or | ,;.] Hospital for several weeks hav- his seryants, |ing undergone an operation for ap- MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. Wanted—Girls to roll stogies. Write to Claud Phillips, Morgantown, W.va. | PUBLIC SALE—Property of the late Samuel Brown, 11-2 miles east of Sand Patch on Friday, June 18, 1915 12:30 p. m. o'clock on the Old Home place a great variety of carpenter tools honey bees dishes, washer, guns, violins beds, bedding, various implements, furniture etc. JOHN 8S. and SIMON BROWN, Executors. An Act approved by the Governor’ prohibiting unnaturalized foreigners | from owning dogs, or hunting With g,ckwood postoffice will be discon- pendicitis. - : After June 15 Route No. 3 from the PUBLIC SALE—at the residence of the late S. M. Housel at Pocahontas Tuesday, June 22 at 12:80 o'clock Household fruniture, stoves, tables, stands, chairs, bureaus sewing ma- chine, beds and bedding 125 yds of carpet dishes, chickens lot of pict ures etc. House and two lots with other buildings; one house and lot. A. Q. HOUSEL, Executor; W. 8. WEL- LER, Auctioneer. WANTED—To buy farms of 20 to 160 Acres in Summit Township, as we have prospective purchasers for same. Answer quick. Address or call on Meyersdale Real Estate Co, F. W. Plock, Mgr.. NOTICE—Is hereby given that my wife, Anna Weimer, has left my bed and board without just cause. | hereby warn all people not to allow her cred- it, as | will not pay any bills contrac- ALBERT S. GLESSNE Successor to Apple & Glessner. ‘Meyersdale, Pa. > ODODE IRL 77] ng I Le EE LD be A B 24 lel New Double Faced Bath Rugs Two popular sizes, absolutely tne most desirable bath rug on the market. Guaranteed uot to fade; will not slip or creep on a hardwood or fiinished floor. Beautiful designs and colors. Prices ..... ........- Sie $1.75 and $2.25. NEW WHITE SKIRTINGS Have two for the price Everybody will want a white skirt. of one. White Linene, per yd. ...... 15¢ White Linen, flat & round threads ... 25¢ White Indian Head ........... 20¢ White Piques, nar., med. & wide cords 26¢ ‘White Repp ........ Seoiaieaveaie 95¢ Oyster White Linen Crash .............. 40c White Gaberdine .............. 40c Fancy Gaberdine ... 40c White Washable Corduroy, Per Yard ........o..oo.cooocoeee NEW WASH SILK WAISTINGS Black and White stripe, 36 inches wide, per yard ............ $1.00 Pink and White Stripe, ** he 0, 1.00 es 6 $t $6 C80 Givesierieny 1.00 Gray and White Stripe, Green and White Stripe, ‘ $e 'e 0 L8 tly 1.00 Lavender and White Stripe, 36 in. wide, ** % ....in.on 1.00 Plain White Tub Silk, 36 inches wide, per yard ............... 1.00 ed by her. | them, under penalty of twenty-five tinued and the three routes from this dollars, will afford rich picking for the game wardens and informants. The approval of the bill requiring relatives, who are able to do so, to pay for the maintenance of their kin in institutions for the insane and beeble- minded, is meritorious and equitable. Otherbills approved are: ! Providing for sale of property for school taxes. Providing for the freeing of toll bridges of state highways. Permitting County Commissioners to provide, at expense of county, a telephone, typewriter and stenograph- er for use of the county superintend- ent. A bill intending to give the right of the initiative and referendum to cities of the second-class, was vetoed because it was “a vagary in legisla- tion that will not endure.” : , The bill empowering cities to reg- ulate the jitney busses, as to how they may be operated, was approved. Owners of cattle are to be paid “the fair market value of cattle without taking into consideration the condit- ion of the animal as to the disease,” for all cattle killed by the state au- | f thorities to prevent the spread of the foot and mouth disease. | The pure paint bill, providing for . labelling and inspection, has been ap- proved. I The school code was amended so , that students who attend a high school jin a district other than their own, shall be examined by the county super- intendent. Mine inspectors who have served for eight years are made exempt from further examinations under a bill approved. - The compensation of borough and township election assessrs at primary elections is fixed at$2.560 a day. ; Under the provision of an Act | office will be absorbed by two carriers serving routes of 29 miles each. Wil- liam Parks, the present © carrier on Route No. 1, will serve the new Route No. 1 while Ira Marker, the present carrier of Route No. 3, will serve the new Route No. 2, and the | service of carrier No. 2, Joseph H. | Hauger, will be discontinued, also | that of Substitute Miller Mosholder | on Route No. 3. A great deal of dis- ' satisfaction has already appeared | and a protest will likely be made. Mr. and Mrs. John Wilt entertained at their home on East Broadway Tues- day evening in honor of Hiram Wable and Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Atchison and daughter, Florence, who expects to leave Rockwood for the West Tues- day, June 15, for the benefit of Mr. | Atchison’s health. There were about 1 20 present. | The G. M. S. Club met at the home | of Miss Loraine Devore on Highland Addition Tuesday evening. Business|.) ., our subscribers may obtain al was transacted after which a deli- cious lunch was served. Those present were: Ida Bittner, Sara Farling, Ferne Wolfersberger, Loraine Devore, Mar- garet Bloom, Viola Speicher, and Miss Farling. A home talent play is being started | under the direction of Prof. Wolfers- . berger. - Miss Hazel Miller, daughter of B. & 0. Road foreman of engines and Mrs. B. H. Miller of the F. & M. building. is seriously ill suffering from a severe | attack of diphtheria. Ruth Critchfield and Ethel Denni- son are the new clerks in the postof- fice. i BERLIN . | Drayman Ed. Walker is using a fine inew motor truck for his business which can be used either for passen- gers or freight. Ellerslie, Ma. J. R. WEIMER. May 22, 1915. On May 13th Mr. D. P. Ford, one of this town’s reliable and sustantial citizens bought out the plumbing in- terests of Mr. A. C. Bolden, and will continue the business at the same place, North near Centre street. Mr. Ford is well acquainted with the peo- ple of Meyersdale, having worked at the. plumbing business for seven years some years ago. He purposes engaging in the plumbing, tin and metal work business. He has in his employ skilled workmen along these lines. Mr. Ford respectfully asks for a share of the pubiic patronage and he assures his customers that his ' work will be satisfactory. | Somerset Co. Phone. HORRORS AND ATROCITIES OF THE GREAT WAR. We have made arrangements by splendid cloth bound book on the great war now in progress, for a mere nominal sum. The subject is “Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, In- cluding The Tragic Destruction of the Lusitania.” This book measures 6 x 8 3-4 inches ‘containing 32 full page half-tone illus- ‘trations, colored frontispiece and ma- ny additional pictures, plang and maps. It is beautifully printed on fine paper and handsomely and strongly bound in cloth. It realistically por- trays frightful incidents of the new kind of warfare. Detailed diagrams show how bombs, torpedoes, etc. work.. 350 pages of awesome reading as told by eye-witnesses or victims of ; cruelty, passion, anger, death, devas- tation, crime and all the terrors prac- ticed by a ruthless and bloody foe. { Any new or old subscriber can ob- ua BES Na SoproYal of | A special election on a bond issue of | tain this splendid book for only 25 vernor Brumbaugh, every teacher, qs 000 will be held here on Tuesday, cents with subscription paid to date. | principal, porochial, Sunday or other must report alll cases of skin erup- tion that they notice in such schools. Amending the act for the preven- tion of fraud in the sale of milk, skimmed milk and cream. Providing that no person shall be promoted, appointed or transferred to any educational position in the , public school system in districts of the first classs whose name does not appear among the three highest namses upon the proper eligible list. | The two Graham House bills res- ulating convict labor have been appro- | ved. One provides that inmates of the Eastern, Western and Huntingdon prisons may be employed eight hours per day in the production of supplies for these or other institutions main- tained by the county or state. The convicts may also be employed in road building or blasting materials or in the preparation of building ma- terial for construction of state insti- tutions. { Increasing salaries of mine inspec- tors from $3,000 to $3,500. Extending dog license act to all municipal divisions and requiring as- sessors to collect license at time of | annual assessment and issue tags. Providing that any dog unaccompa- nied by its owner which enters a field where sheep are kept, may be declar- ' ed a nuisance and killed. Providing that boroughs may assess one-third cost of repaving a street a- gainst property owners abutting on the same when street was originally paved at entire expense of municipal- | ity. —————————————————— 1-2 ib. Hershey's Cocoa for 20 cts. at Bittner’s Grocery. Superintendent, or other | June 29. The money will be used for | l ern borough limits. | Miss Vida Glessner was tendered a | handkerchief shower on Junel2th, her birthday, receiving fifty-two besides a | number of other gifts all of which she greatly appreciated. Misses Anna and Marion Philson | were visitors to Gettysburg, going | down to attend the commencement ex- | ercises, their brother, Robert, being a | graduate. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Fluck and children and Dr. and Mrs. H. S. Kimmel, of Mc- donalton, were Somerset visitors Te- cently. Miss Marie Swartzendruber returned home Saturday evening from school at Beechwood, Philadelphia, to spend her summer vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Swartzendruber. At a meeting of the Sshool Directors the following teachers were elected: Prof. J. C. Speicher, Bert S. Walker, Margaret Glotfelty, Florence Walker, | Company for the repairing and taking | perches, adjoining the Salisbury Rail- Margaret Groff, Bertha Philson, Mar- garet Knepper and Elizabeth Zimmer- man. : , Henry Brant, of Hilliards, Pa. is a | Berlin visitor, being called here by {the death of his grandmother, Mrs. Henry Coleman. ! Mrs. A. C. Floto was a Meyersdale visitor for a few days. Sam. Philson left on Saturday for the Panama exposition, expecting to | be gone for six weeks. He first went 'to New York where he joined a party of frinds for a western trip. Chas. Krissinger returned home on | Tuesday from school at Gettysburg | to spend his summer vacation with] | his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kris- ' singer. If sent by mail 10 cents extra for ch i oh school reconstructing and improving Main postage. person in charge of a public, private, gi,.0¢ trom the East End to the west- | You will want this book to preserve i for the coming years. The regular { price is one dollar and it is well | worth it. | | MEYERSDALE AUTO CO HAVE VULCANIZING PLANT There is being installed by the Mey- ersdale Auto Co., Messrs. Gurley & Plock, owners, a fine and up-to-date { three cavity vulcanizing plant. The | expense of installing the same runs | way up into the hundreds of dollars. This will be one of the best plants of ‘kind to be found anywhere and will ‘be a great advantage to the autoists inth is part of the state, as a night j rags isto be put on, so that while you sleep, your tires and casings will be repaired. Besides, the expense | will be much reduced by getting it | done at home. There is no better e- quipped plant in western Pennsylva- nia than that of the Meyersdale Auto ! care of machines. In fact you'd have | to travel some distance to equal it. ! HOOVERSVILLE. Some important business was trans- | acted by town councill at its last meeting. The mines at this place are now | working nearly regular time and with | prospects of full resumption in the | near future. Mrs. Ira Naugle, aged 24 years, died , recently at her home near here. Fu- | neral services were held in St. Thom- ias’ church, Rev. LeCrone, Rev. Crone | of Davidsville officiated. Miss Leora Garman has returned | home from near Pittsburgh, where she | has been teaching. heating | Buy Your Floor Take My Advice Coverings Now. RT D0t A A § 4% “A STORE WITH CHARACT ER" E 2 rE GLESSNER'S | DEPARTMENT STORE ne ETE HA HAA IEA SDD |S TT A TG GRE 11 TA TI I i 5 E> £8 DF DEH TOT El N - WHERE QUALITY Sips co ' 1 | | SO good SO c mplete SO comprehensive is our stock of TIRES TUBES OlLS GREASES GASOLINE ACCESSORIES MINOR PARTS Hi SUPPLIES REAR A RARER | th that you are certain to |i find just what you want ‘4 in Auto Supplies. MAXWELL HUPMOBILE wy F RANKLIN FREER R AAA ARARAARS | Meyersdale Auto Co. IFLR I Ui i 6 UR IR A If; 15 IF i 16 TRUSTEE’S SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE By virtue of an alias order issued out of the Orphans’ Court of Somer- ser County, Pennsylvania, to the un- dersigned directed, trustee for the sale of the real estate of Adam Kreitzburg, late of Summit Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, de- ceased, notice is hereby given that 1 will expose to sale by public out cry on the premises on Thursday, July 15, 1915, at one o'clock P. M. the following described real estate, to wit: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land situate in Summit Township, Somerset County, Penn- | sylvania, containing 2 acres and 78 | road, H. J. Wilmoth’s Heirs, public {road and others, having thereon erect- ed a good stable about 38 x 40 feet and known as the late homestead of Adam Kreitzburg, deceased. { At the same time and place there { will be offered for sale by Mrs. Mary j Jones three lots of ground situate on | the east side of Second Street, Meyers- dale Brewing Compony, Mrs. Francis Shaulis, Frederick Hare and others. TERMS OF SALE. One-third the purchase money to |be paid when property is knocked down and balance on confirmation | of sale and delivery of deed. i James C. Kreitzburg, Trustee. John R. Scott, Attorney. 17 st High Grade Merchandise. The policy of stockin merchandise is back of tion of : Armstrong’s Linoleum Careful ‘investigation carried conviction. All materials are tested and every inch is inspected before it leaves the factory. The new patterns and colors put Arms strong’s in a class by itself. Patterns for every room in.the house. R. REICH & MON THE HOME FURNISHERS Complete From Cellar to Attic. 120 Centre St., Meyersdale me SN only high-grade our recommenda: ~~ Joseph L. Tressler Yuneral Directo av “mbalmer Meyersda , i’