The Meyersdale commercial. (Meyersdale, Pa.) 1878-19??, June 17, 1915, Image 5

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rug on Ww. Va. te F Beth 2 : Children playing with matches in a Admission, 15 and 35 cts. fo hor eXperietiee 5 Warsaw a other .
. Mrs: Joe F. Reich departed a few | barn at Holsopple, a few days ago, Admission, 15 and 35cts, | Sites tor ch the ‘Russians an x : 7h
ee a days ago for Pittsburg where she will | started a fire in I. W. Dunmyer’s barn | Monday, June 28. mn forces -have been strug- A Big Assoriment of Up-to-Date Summer Skirts
. visit Tor a Gime, | causing a lot of excitement and not | Morning—Junior Chautauqua. BE ih Wiirsv od Rov. 24, a $2.50: White Linen Skirts at ........ ......... $1.95
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Kyle and their A much damage. | Afternoon—Concert—Royal Black | said, when a Zeppelin flew over the 2.00 Khaki et Ld sl 1.50
niece Miss Nelle Cover were Pittsburg | Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Hemminger, of Hussar Band. | city and dropped bombs, one of which 1.50 Pique Skirts at .................. ...>. 1.00
| visitors over Sunday. | Somerset, left last week for Iowa and | Entertainment—Mrs. Bess Gear- killed her brother, who was a soldier. 150 Batire Skirts. L8 o 1.00
; An excellent program was rendered South Dakota, on a sight seeing tour hart Morrison. | After the death of her brother she de- ? 2 ST rear TErrocarnes nent :
e price i Sunday evening at the Children’s Day ; and to visit relatives, expecting to re- | Lecture—Helen B. Paulsen. . -
exercises in the Reformed church. turn home about June 23rd. | Admission 15 and 35cts.
is ... 26¢ Mrs. E. O. L. Statler is visiting’ J. R. Barron and family have re-; Night—Grand Concert—Royal Black For Monday J une 2 1 st
ords 25¢ | relatives in Frostburg and Cumber- . turned to Rockwood after spending, ! Hussar Band. : ; I
an. 40c¢ i land for a few days. | two years on their plantation near : Entertainment— Bess Gearhart 3
an 40¢ Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Buskird and Mobile, Ala. Mr. Barron was engaged Mortison. Ladies’ 50¢ Silk Hose .......... aii f%e
)e. two sons are visiting relatives at | in the automobile ‘business in the Admission 15 and 35cts. 4s 95e * Hose 0.0... ie 19¢
| Lonaconing, Maryland. South. . Tuesday, June 29. : ’ =
| Lewis V. Lepley of Perryopolis was Mrs. Thomas McClain, of Boswell, ! Salmhbe ‘Chautauqua. Misses’ and Infants’ 25¢ Hose ........... 19¢
. a guest over night with his parents | died at the home of her son in Johns. Afternoon— Prelude—, Lyric Glee Men’s 50c Silk Hose ..... .... ...... «hiv. 3%¢
$1.00 * Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lepley on Broad- | town, Monday from heart trouble. ' Club. “ 950 Silk Hose 19¢
1.00 way, recently. | She was 44 years of age. The body | Lecture—Miss Belle Kearney. Sibi asi el
1.00 Miss Ida Pfahler, who has been | was taken to Boswell for interment. | Admission 15 and 35cts.
1.00 employed as a milliner at Confluence | Her husband and three children | Night— :
1.00 for the past three months has re- | survive. i Concert and Entertainment, Lyr-
1.00 turned home. { It is likely that the Quemahoning i¢ Glee Club. . °
Miss Clara Wilmoth has returned Coal Company will have to work its Lecture—“The storm heroes. of
home after spending several weeks plants at Rockwood, Husband and at | our coast, Illus. Art. K. Peck. THE LOW PRICE STORE.
visiting at Norristown, Philadelphia Ralphton, day and night as the re- |! Admission 15 and 35cts. .
and York, Pa. * sult of the awarding of the United! Morning—Junior Chautauqua. Next to Po st (Office Meyersdale Pa.
OW. Rev. D. W. Michael will deliver the States navy order to that firm. It is : . Wednesday, June 30. : :
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PERSONAL AND LOCAL.
Bass season opened on Tuesday. *
Rev. Fr. Brady is spending a few
days at Baltimore and Emmettsburs.
Mrs. David Snyder, of Somerset, is
a guest at the home of Mr. and Mis. |
C. C. Naugle. !
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Dixon spent Sun-
day with the latter's mother, at Con- i
nellsville. ° i
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gill are visit-
ing Mrs. Gill's parents at Henderson, ! the morals of the town.
address at the Somerset Odd Fellows’
Memorial service next Sunday after- be engaged. : : era Quartet.
noon. : Sim Lewah, 45 years old, with a | Adress—Maynard Lee Daggy. o .
Miss Myrna Rosenberry, a teacher | widow across the sea, was crushed tc | Grand Closing Number, The Opera Perfumes and Toilet Articles.
in the Allegheny county schools, is
a guest at the 'M. E. parsonage, she
being a sister of Mrs. J. C. Matteson.
Mrs. Chas. V. Hughes and sons
of Elkins, W. Va., and Miss Margaret
Hartle who has been visiting there
is here for a visit with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Hartle.
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. CHAUTAUQUA PROGRAM
Items of Interest -Culled from Our
Exchanges.
Harry Milliman, of Somerset, died |
Tuesday at his home, aged 33 years. |
The third annual Farmers’ Day will
be celebrated at Edgewood Park, near !
Somerset on July 26th.
The Civic Club of Somerset is en-
deavoring to have the borough employ
policewomen in an effort to correct
Continued from 1st Page.
Sunday, June 27.
Morning—Junior Chautauqua.
Afternoon—Entertainment— Ionian
: Serenaders.
Lecture—Mohammad Ali.
Admission 15 and 35 cts.
Night—Musical Prelude— Ionian
Serenaders.
“Dickens” Wm.
Lecture-Recital,
: Sterling Baittis.
also likely that additional help wi'l ! Afternoon—Concert—American Op-
"death under a fall of coal Thursday | “Bohemian Girl,”—In costume,
SOUGHT LOVER IN WAR ZONE.
EO rE ign al
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Young Girl Describes ‘Experiences on
Cracow Batilefield.
+. New York.— A slim, pink cheeked,
bright eye¢ soung woman wearing
medals she had picked up on battle-
fields of the Itussian war front arrived
here from Liverpool with a story of
her wanderings to find her sweetheart,
an officer in the Austrian army.
She is Isabel Szeliga Strusinsku, a
Pole, who comes here to rest aud re-
cover from the shock to her nerves due
in Hyosota Mine of the Penn Smoke- | American Opera Quartet.
less Coal Company below Jerome. |
| The remains were interred in the Bos- |
! well Catholic cemetery.
| Two sisters, Misses Ruth and Eliz-
~abeth Palmer, of Boswell, are in the
sist of selection from celebrated ora-
torios with vesper service and with
other features suitable to the day.
The Lincoln Junior Chautauqua
Admission 25 and 50 cts. :
On Sunday the program will con-!
Mercy Hospital, Johnstown, both hav- |
will be given mainly on the Chautau-
Photo by American Press Assoclation.
ETERS. 2 a. 8
Weinstein Specials!
For Saturday, June 19th
.
A large assortment of 87.50 and $9.00 coats
in all patterns, will be sold for ..........
$4.50
The time « f year is here when you will
take your vacation. Stop at this store
and get these necessities. -i-
F. B. THOMAS,
Mr. W. H. Habel in his new Frank; ,,3ergone operations a few days
-handise
ly high-grade
yecommenda-
noleum
conviction.
every inch is
factory.
lors put Arms
Patterns fol
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Sale!
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will be exposed to
ie general store of
Wellersburg, Som-
26, 1915,
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otions, hats, caps,
ods, shelf hard ware
ws and plows and
ally found in a gen-
> right to sell the
d also to reject any
1, D. LEYDIG,
Trustee
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lin tour car accompanied by his wife,
their son, Harry and his wife and Mr.
Clarence Rowe enjoyed a trip to York
from Sunday to Tuesday.
Rev. H. L. Goughnour, on Wednes-
day, attended the funeral of his sister,
Mrs. F. M. Dellett, of Homestead,
who died on Sunday in a Pittsburg
hospital after an operation. Her hus-
band and nine children survive.
Miss Emily Kantner, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Kantner, of
Somerset and Donald G. Fullman of
Pittsburg were married by S. G.
Buckner at the Kantner residence in
Somerset.
Barron Shipley has been housed
for the past ten days with a complica-
tion of neuralgia and grip, but is now
convalescing. :
Superindendent John M. Oates, of
the Sands Springs Water Co., has been
suffering with acute indigestion, and
has been quite il.
The 35th annual convention of the
Women’s Home and Foreign Mission-
ary Society of the Allegheny Synod of
the Lutheran Church, will be held in
.the Friedens church, June 156—17. The
pastor of the local congregation is
Rev. J. C. McCarney.
Howard Will, son of the late H. G.
will, who is a wireless telegrapher
in the U. S. Navy, returned to his du-
tis a few days ago after a week’s va-
cation® gpent with his mother and
brothers and sisters, in this place.
Meyersdale has a musical aggrega-
fion that is hard to beat. Prof. C. W.
Baldwin is the leader. You have to
go some distance to hear its equal.
Show your appreciation by rounds of |
applause when next you hear them
play.
Our venerable and esteemed citizen
Dr. H. C. McKinley, though he mana-
ged to get over to town from the
South side on Wednesday mozxning,
hardly looked as if he had reserve
strength enough to get back home a-
gain. The doctor has not been well |
since his return from Louisiana.
Emanuel Johnson, of Cumberland,
negro politician and saloon keeper,
who while driving his automobile ran
down and killed Cordelia Doremer
a young white girl, and then made
his escape, was captured here Friday
morning. He was placed under arrest
and taken to Cumberland without re-
quisition papers. Johnson said he in-
tended to give himself up as soon as :
the feeling against him had subsided.
Miss Carrie Donecker and Miss
Mame Platt represented the Meyers-
dale Methodist church and Miss Grace
Hoover and Henry Younkin, the Breth
ren Church of this place at the Wind-
ber Sunday Schol last week. The first
two young ladies tarried in Johnstown
over Sunday. None of the other Mey-
ersdale Sabbath Schools had delegates
at the convention.
During the earlier part of the
church services on Sunday evening
the fire alarm whistle - gounded its
scale of terror. Some straw in the
Meyers stable on Large street had
been set on fire supposedly from the
careless throwing of a lighted cigar-
ette stump on the straw.The fire boys
were quickly on the job and had it ex-
tinguished with the use of a few buek-
qua playgrounds each day. A grad-
uate playground expert will have
charge and the real, fun, joy and ben-
efit of play will be illustrated as well
as advocated. In the afternoons, fol-
lowing certain parts of the senior
program, story telling, folk games,
songs and camp fire circles will be di-
rected. The Junior Chautauqua is a
movement in keeping with a new era
of education for the chidlren of Amer-
ica. ;
ago. Miss Ruth Palmer has been
troubled with an abscess on the spine,
while her sister has had blood poison
| in ode of her arms. |
Miss Mary Elizabeth Meyers, of Ha-
gerstown, Md., and Rev. B. F. Waltz. |
! pastor of the Church of the Brethren,
Salisbury, were married in Brooklyn,
June 3rd and spent part of their hon-
eymoon at the annual convention at
‘Hershey. From there they went to at-
i ashy 8 Sopmeneomen 2 rangi Buy season tickets and save more
| Waltz received ne master’s rr han poll: Your ol Le
' Thoy arrived Tn ’®: gram only by atiemding regularly.
Salisbury on Saturday | This is your Chautauqua, put on at
evening. :
5 ' the instance of your people. Help to
Miss Georginana Roach, who for the make it a great and happy commu-
. past year had been doing missionary nity occasion. The program is sub-
| work in an Italian settlement under ject to change.
. the auspices of the Blairsville Presby-
tery of the Presbyterian church, will, | The following are the teachers for
Jin all probability be employed in a Windber for the coming year: Prof.
! like capacity in Windber, according J. H. Fike, Prin.—Asst. Prin. H. H.
to a movement recently started by the : DeLong, $120—Commercial Dept.,Cla-
Home Missionary department of the ry TI. Shoemaker $75—English and
presbytery. Miss Roach already sings History, Sue Berkey $80—Latin and
and speaks the Italian language flu- ' German $77.60—Mary Hay Grades 6
ently. and one half and 7 $65— Blanche J.
The annual reunion of the Baum- Glessner grades 5 and 6 $60— Mild-
gardner family will be at the old red Bills grades 5 and 51-2 $65— Car-
homestead near Elton, on August 5th. rie Rhoads, grades 4 and 4 1-2 $60—
John Baumgardner who died in 1856 Magdalene Woy grades 4 and 412
is regarded as the father of the Baum | $50—Bertha - Cromwell grade 31-2
gardner families in this vicinity. His | Minnie Williams grade 3 $52.50—
body lies in the Snavely cemetery | Jennie Boose grades 2 and 21-2 $55
near Elton. The marker on the grave | —Ruth Smith graeds 11-2 and 2 $55
is a small and inconspicuous one. |-—Blanche Smith grade 1 $60—Ella
This John Baumgardner was a son of | K. Huston kindergarten $40—Eleanor
John Baumgardner who came to this | J. Colborn assistant $20.
country from Germany in 1770 and lo-
cated in Maryland. The family mov- |
ed to Somerset county many years
ago.
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A GOOD RECORD.
Somerset county, it is estimated,
was saved $11,000 by the work of 4,703
men on Good Roads Day, 93 miles
Bible class of the |of road was worked. Two hundred
M. E. church, had a very pleasant so- | automobiles were used. It is estimated
cial at the home of Mrs. W. H. Leighty | that lunches furnished the men were
on Tuesday evening. There were | worth between 1,600 and 1,600.
! twenty- four present. Other guests at remm——
the same home were: Mrs. Wm. GARRETT.
Twigg and daughter, of Seibert, Md., The Ladies’ Aid, of the Lutheran,
! Mrs. Harmon Walker, of Washington, church, will have a Parcels Post
The Woman's
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sale on June 26. Get your dime ready
en and buy a fortune in a sealed pack:
Harry E. Clark, of Glen Campbell, pee trees
John W. McCullough, of Friendsville, HENRY J. MENSER,
Md., and J. A. Bowers of Punxsutaw- Aged fifty years, died at his home in
ney, all associated with the Virginia | Somerset Monday night. Death came
Lumber Company at Boyer, W. Va. | without a moment’s warning and is
were here several days this week on believed to have been caused by heart
a business trip. failure due 1° txtreme heat. Mr. Men-
—_— | sr was a harness maker and had been
The Knights of Pythias and Odd e1gage! in | siness there for about
Fellows on Sunday next are to meet 15 years. He ‘s survived by his widow
to march to the cemetery to decorate i who is » dau; ‘er of Mr. and Mrs. Al-
the graves of their deceased members. exander Shauiis.
Rev. Goughnour is to make an ad- |
dress, All are to wear white gloves and | TOILET PAPER, SIX ROLLS FOR
white ties. | 25c. TALCUM POWDER ABSOLUTE:
_—_— | LY PURE, THREE CANS FOR .25¢
George Johnson Black, only son of | __AT HOLZSHU & WEIMER'S.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Black, of Front |
street, returned to his home last week |
after attending Franklin and Marshall
College at Lancaster.
BERLIN.
Gorge McIntyre dropped dead Sun-
| day evening at ‘the home of Calvin
{ Altfather for whom he worked, as the
Miss Florence Boyer has gome to result of heart dropsy. He was G8
Johnstown to visit relatives and | years of age and a widower. He had
friends for a few weeks.
Miss Mary Reindollar, of Tanney- | FRESH SLICED BREAKFAST BA-
| She made her way «from Cracow to
MISS ISABEL SZELIGA STRUSINSKA.
cided to make an effort to find her
sweetheart. who she says is the son of
@ “celebrated Austrian general”
She walked from Warsaw to Lem-
berg, passing over places where’ there
had been hard fighting and gathering
mementos. From Leraberg she went
to the outskirts of Cracow. She says
she became obsessed with the idea that
her sweetheart had been killed on the
battlefield there, and she wandered for
several days over it, hoping to find
some trace of him. .
She called her experience a “night-
‘mare’ and did not wish to talk of it.
Kieff, to Petrograd, to Sweden, to New-
eastle and thence to London. She now
believes she will soon hear from the
young Austrian officer, having learned
that his command escaped.
MODERN ENOCH ARDEN
RETURNS, BUT ALAS!
Out of Town at Once.
Binghamton, N. Y.—Because Adam
Rundel of Lestershire took twenty-one
years to return with a list of groceries
for which his wifé sent him in 1894 he
has lost his wife and has bcca exiled
from Lestershire. :
Rundel walked into his home the
other night with the groceries. His
daughter, grown ‘to womanhood.
thought he was a burglar and scream-
ed with fright. He reassured her, dis-
closed his identity and asked for her
mother. - Her mother was dining with
friends at a downtown restaurant. the
girl told him.
easily identified his wife and her party.
“Hello, Anna!” said he cheerily.
“I’ve brought * the groceries home.
Let's go up and have supper.”
The wife fainted. but a man at her
side ordered Rundel out.
“Why 7" asked Rundel.
“Because she's my wife,” said Hen-
ry Pickering. who married Mrs. Run-
del ten years after she had given up
hope of Rundel’s return.
Then they mixed. When the police
arrived Rundel was on the floor.
Later he was arraigned in police court.
“I just went away.” he told Judge
Ingals. *I went to Warren Center.
Pa.. where Pve heen ever since. [1
thought I'd like to ee mT family azn
and came hone”
“30 back to Warren Center. ond nov-
er come herve aon Yay are div have
ed.” said the ja
ROCKS 'N "7EAMER | ANT
One Found OF Alaska Coast “n Su~-
merged Washington Monument”
dangerous pinnacle rocks have been dis
covered hy the coast survey in forty-
two miles of the inside passage usetl
by all steamers going up and down the
Alaska coast.
comes: within seventeen feet of the
surface and was described by the en-
Stern Judge Tells Him fo Gat
Rundel found the restaurant and’
Washington. Twenty-one uncharted
One is 600 feet high. |
B-ith Phones
Leading Druggist,
MEYERSDALE, PA.
IF YOU: WOULD GET
Chicago Woman Has Reduced
five Pounds.
Chicago. — “There is no reason for
sny healthy woman to weigh more
than 180/pounds. if she has any moral
courage,” said Mrs. May Belle McAr-
thar, “Look at me. :
“This is my twenty-third day of fast-
ing. I'm cheerful; Ym happy. I weigh
twenty‘five pounds less than when I
started. 1 baver’t any intention of
giving up until Pm down to 125
pounds. :
“] aspire to 125 pounds because stout
women can't think so well as medium
weight ones. They can't look 80 beau-
tiful or feel so well.”
In the twenty-three days of her fast
Mrs. McArthur ate two stalks of celery
day. One glass of water a day is
only liquid taken. «
month,” she sald. “I don’t mind the
fasting much.” - .
“what do you eat for breakfast, Mrs.
McArthur?’ was asked.
“Nothing,” she replied.
“For luncheon?”
“Nothing. Sometimes a glass of wa-
ter.”
“For dinner?’
“Ah!” breathed Mrs.- McArthur.
“Pwo stalks of celery.
#1 don’t exercise except to walk. I
walk several miles every day.”
“Do you think all women, if in good
bealth, could reduce as you have
done?”
«Absolutely. The, trouble with wom-
en is cowardice. They lke the sensa-
tion of eating too much. They would
‘ rather taste a chocolate drop than be
“able to think rapidly or move about
gracefully.”
“Do you consider dieting infallible?”
“Indeed. I do. Look at me. My fig
ure has improved every day since 1
started, and there is little room left
for further improvement. Most wom-
en are lazy—downright lazy. They
start to exercise, keep it up for two
days or a week and then stop. They
start to diet. keep it up for two meals
or two days and then slip.
«Stout women are handicapped a
great deal in life. If they are indif-
ferent about their weight and happy in
spite of it. well and good. But those
who long and dream of getting thin
are more to be scolded than pitied. All
they have to do is to eat celery and
maybe watermelon, drink water and
walk. They're bound to reduce.”
WOUNDED, STICKS TO POST.
Directs British Ship From Chair In
Turkish Attack on Suez.
London.—The Cairo correspondent of
the Daily Chronicle telegraphs as fol-
lows:
“A stirring little story of quiet hero-
gineers as a ‘‘submerged Washington
monument.”
The rocks vere discovered by the
ase of a wite drag suspended from
town, Md., is visiting at the home of | CON—, boiled ham, and dried: beef at
Mrs. B. B. Collins. | HABEL & PHILLIPS.
buoys.
fsm displayed during a battle against
Turkish invaders the other day has
| been told me here. The hero of the inci-
: dent 1s a pilot named Carew, who was
\
on board the Hardinge,
THIN, EAT CELERY
“Celery is all I've eaten for almost a |. 5%
one of the
ships on the canal helping te repel the |
een
|
It’s the lightest Roll Film
Caiera made and the
Cu.cxest to use
and load.
A Senco, the newest
Seneca, will accommodate
any standard make of film
and you can begin taking
f pictures with it right away.
The Lens and Shutter equip-
ment involves new principles
and works with unusual
effectiveness and precision.
Four sizes. >
Sold by
Collin’ Drug Store,
720 Rexall store
Meyersdale, Penn’a
ARMOUR'S FERTILIZER IN ONE
HUNDRED POUND SACKS, AT
ALL TIMES AT P. J. COVER &
SON'S.
Ottoman attack.
“Carew’s ship came under the heav-
dest fire, and he was severely wounded
in an arm and a leg. He would not,
however, leave his post, although suf-
fering terribly.
‘Bring me a- chair and prop me up.’
he said to one of the crew. ‘I will see
you through.’
ls “Phe galling pilot is now in a hos-
pital. where it was found necessary to
amputate oue of his legs. Happily be
is making ood progress. and his re-
covery is assured.”
SHIP SHOWS IDENTITY.
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| Holland-Arerica Liner Equipped With
Huge Electric Sign.
| New York.—In accordance with the
order from the government of The
| Netherlands the Holland-American lin-
| er Nieuw Amsterdam, from Rotterdam,
| had her name painted on each side in
huge capital letters before she started
for the other side.
Of the same size as the painted let-
| tering will be arranged huge electric
| Hght signs spelling the name of the
ship. These will be located amidships
and can be read at a @istamce ef sev-
czal miles.
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