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THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.
B. R. Scott of Shanksville and Es-
have been elected to
Albert Pebley, son of George Peb-
ly born in this county 51 years ago
died at Moxham a few days ago, fol-
lowing an illness of two years.
Mrs. Katie Thomas, aged eighty
seven years died lately at her home
pear Davidsville. She was the wife
of John Thomas, deceased and the
mother of ten children.
Hunters’ license tags this © year
will be of salmon color. They have
been issued by the game state cem-
mission to the county treasurers a-
long with license blanks.
Sherif Hochard took to .the Re-
formatory at Huntingdon a few days
ago, John McFall, of Ralphton, who
admitted the theft of $147.50 and
Cloyd Lohr of Windber, who pilfered
a ring in Paint township.
A gang of workmen employed by
the B. &. O. railroad is making some
extensive improvements for the com-
pany at Garrett. A new station is
needed there but it is not likely that
anything will be done along this line
this year.
Th annual reunion of the descend-
ants of John Leslie will be held at
Fort Hill, August 24. Members of the
clan will be there from Somerset
Meyersdale and other towns ef Som-
erset county as well as neighboring
territory. There will be speeches and
a big dinner.
Thirty-two stores in Somerset con-
ducted a Bargain Day last Saturday
and it was so successful that on the
third Saturday of each month these
sales will be held. Each store offers
only one or two articles at a very
low price.
Probation Officer Elmer H. Pugh
took Roy E. Brant, of Brothersvalley
to the Morganza Reformatory last
week. The lad a son of Mrs. Maggie
Brant. Efforts to secure employment
for the boy were made repeatedly,
but his work did not suit and his
mother could not control him.
The will of John A. Clark, deceas-
ed, late of the Borough of Hoovers-
ville, has been probated. In lieu of a
dower, the decedent bequeathed to
his wife the house and lot which they
had resided in and the personal prop-
erty therein, in addition to $300 cash
and a one-third interest in the re-
mainder of his estate. The residue of
the estate shall be equally divided a-
mong the decedent's children or
heirs. Joshua and Irwin Clark were
appointed executors.
Anton Ringeli and John Bartoni of
Boswell a few days ago attempted to
open a can of powder with a pick
and several hours later they were in
the Memorial Hospital in Johnstown
taking treatment for the injuries in-
flicted by the explosion which follow-
ed. A spark caused by the contact of
the pick ignited the powder. The let-
go was terrific damaging the building
to a considerable extent and burning
both men about the face, hands and
= head.
David Fleming the first superintend
ent of the Berwind White mines at
Windber after 15 years absence has
returned to that place and in a way
promising signal success both to him-
self and the venture which has
brought him there. Mr. Fleming has
returned to become superintendent
of the Beacon shaft mine at Dunlo
the plant which Lochrie put in and
which faces a large and prosperous
development. It is understood that
Mr. Fleming has taken an interest in
the property.
KALBFUS EXPLAINS THE
BOUNTY RULES.
In a statement issued at Harris-
burg last week, Joseph Kalbfus, sec-
retary of the State Game Commission
says: ;
For the information of those who
desire to secure bounties as provided
for by the Act of April 15, 1915, we
beg to advise that this act distinctly
provides that in case the necessary
affidavit is made before a justice of
the peace, alderman or magistrate, on
forms secured from the game com-'
mission by such official, the unmu-
of such |
tilated skin or entire pelt
animal shall be forwarded to the
game commission, Harrisburg and
therefore it does not provide for the
sending of the entire carcass of the
animal. Furthermore we beg to
warn all claimants for bounties that |
they should in all casess skin the ani-
mal or cure or dry the skin before
forwarding the same to Harrisburg,
as otherwise the postal authorities
will very likely destroy the parcel
containing a raw hide or carcass be-
fore it reaches Harrisburg because
of the fact that such raw skin or car-
cass has become offensive during its
transit and under such conditions the
claim would be entirely lost. There-
fore in the future do not send any-
thing except the cured or dried skn
(not the carcass) to the game commis
sion, Bounty Division, Harrisburg,
Pa.. We are trying to help you and
hope that you will help us by comply-
ing with the above.
OUR JOB WORG MEETS THE RE |
QUREMENTS.
NEARBY COUNTIES
A branch of the Woman’s Lincoln
Highway Auxiliary has been organized
in Bedford county.
About 500 Italians have already left
Johnstown, some of the number being
from Windber and - other Somerset
county towns. Forty left last Thurs-
day to fight for their country
Frostburg council has passed an
ordinance requiring automobiles to
be run not over eight miles an hour
and has had three plain clothes offi-
cers appointed to enforce the ordi-
nance.
The Blair County Game, Fish and
! Forestry Association is circulating pe-
titions to have that county closed io
deer hunting for three years, quail for
five years and pheasants for 2 years
It is estimated that approximately
1,200,000 baskets of peaches or about
600,000 bushels, representing the prod-
uct of 1,600 acres, will be shipped out
of the Maryland section of the South
| Mountain region this year.
| Scott Kirk, a Pennsylvania railroad
conductor between Harrisburg and
Milflin, says that groundhogs are so
plentiful in the Millerstown Narrows
| that it becomes necessary to chase
them off the tracks to prevent them
being run over. They gather along the
‘tracks at feeding time in the early
morning.
| The ministers of the Brethren
Church and the Church of the Breth.
ren, of Johnstown and vicinity, are
planning to hold a conference next
September with a view of uniting the
two denominations, there being very
little difference in doctrine. The two
factions grew. from the German Bap-
tists, or Dunkards, in the early 80’s,
Chief-of-police Charles E. Cook, of
Salem, Ohjo, after waiting nearly a
year and a half, will at last get the
reward of $500 offered by the Blair
county commissioners for the capture
of Frank G. Hohl the notorious bank
bandit. A writ of mandamus was is-
sued on the commissioners for the
payment of the money last week.
While coming down the mountain
to Tyrone, a few days ago, Engineer
Brown discovered a small child play-
ing in the middle of the track, una-
ware of its danger. The engineer, un-
able to stop his train before reaching
the child, called to Harry E. Dewey,
who was riding in the cab of the en-
gine and the latter crawled over the
pilot of the engine and lifted the tot
from its perilous position uninjured.
FOR THE BUFFALO
CARPET BEETLE.
A Philadelphia housekeeper wrote
to State Zoologist H. A. Surface, say-
ing, “The little black Buffolo moth
has appeared abundantly in my
house, which is new, and I am in de-
spair. Will you kindly tei me what
brought them and how to get rid of
them?” The information which was
given, was as follows:
“The beetle which is the parent of
the larva known as the Buffalo moth
flies readily, and is small enough to
come in through the meshes of ordi-
nary mosquitto netting or wire scree-
ning. 2
“The best thing to do is to take
rugs and carpets out of doef and
beat them in the sun and air and
while they are out wash the floors
with three per cent solution of cre
olin in water. In other words one pint
of creolin or creosote in about 33
pints: or four gallons of water will
give you the strength that will be very
effective as an ins¢ *"('¢e ani ger
micide and can I+ used with perfect
safety as far as any damage to fah-
rics, woodwork, floors etc. ,are con-
cerned.
“After you replace the carpets and
rugs use a hand atomizer and spray
them around the edges, and especial-
a dilute solution of corrosive subli-
ly where furniture is to stand, with
mate or bichloride of mercury in eith-
er water or alcohol. The exact formu:
la for this is not important. It will
not do any damage to the occupants
of the room, but will kill the carpet
beetles should they any time in the
future commence their attacks.”
RURAL CARRIERS WILL
REPORT FOREST FIRES
Rural mail carriers will co-operate
with national, ‘state and local fire
wardens, by reporting forest fires
promptly in compliance with an order
from the postmaster general.
As many of the carriers traverse
: highways which are contiguous to
! mountains and wide areas of forest
. lands, the new order will prove of es-
| sential benefit to the fire wardens.
| The carriers are to communicate with
| the nearest fire warden by telephone
| after the discovery of the fire in any
section.
Thousands of dollars have been
| 10st annually by the failure to over-
{ come fires in the mountains and heav-
ily wooded sections, which result in
| a heavy loss of valuable timber.
| With idea of conserving these natur-
| al resources, the governmental postal
authorities have established the new
plan by which
| co-operative alarm
1 fires.
| commonplace,
ns may be enabled to a
COURT RULES ON SCISSORS,
Scissors, which the encyclopedia de-
fines as “cutting instrument, consist-
ing of two sharp blades with the inner
edge sharpened, pivoted at the cross-
ing, and terminating with two looped
handles for the insertion of the fingers
of the person using them,” are after
Their use |
all a scientific instrument.
for the furthering of education for do-
mestic science entitles them when im-
ported to be free of duty. This is the
official interpretation of four learned
judges of the United States court of
custom claims in a decision just pub-
lished in the Treasury decision bulle-
tin.
Judge De Vries, who wrote the
opinion of the court, says: th
“Within recent years there has been ' 1
and now is rapidly developing a |
branch of educational system wherein
the principles and rules of domestic |
accomplishments are investigated, sys-
temized and practised whereby great-
er expertness and exceptional skill are |
required, commonly known as ‘Domes-
tic Science.’ Common knowledge ad-’
vises us that many schools and col-
leges are partly or exclusively de-
voted to such instruction and educa-
tion. It has become an important and
conspicuous branch of our educational
system.”
A review of the decision makes It
clear that in fixing the dutiable or
non-dutiable status of articles im-
ported by institutions to further edu-
cational objects regard should be had
not so much to intrinsic character or
to uses in chief but rather to the ac-
tual use for which the particular
gzonds were in fact brought in.
The calling of scissors a scientific
instrument was caused by the import-
ing of some scissors here by the-board
of education for use in the sewing
schools of the citv. Nothing distinc-
tive in their construction from those
commonly bought and sold in trade
for household or industrial uses was
claimed, only that there was stenciléd
on the blade the words “board of ed-
ucation.” The collector of customs
at the port of New York assessed
them for dutinhle purposes under
paragraph 152 of the tariff act of 1909
as scissors. The claim raised that
scientific apparatus in the furtherance
of education was entitled to free entry
under paragraph 650 was approved by
the court in its decision, which reads
in part: “If we accept this as a test
of the construction of this paragraph
that which seryes to aid in scientific
education, we cannnt restrict its appli-
cation to the higher classes of that
education and deny it to the more
for each is equally
within the language of the statute.”
Judges Montgomery, Smith and
| th
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No
No more red hands from scrubbing
floors. * Run a mop over linoleum.
Armstrong’s Linoleum
isn’t expensive—it lasts longer--and always
fooks “new”.
It is made of tested materials and every
inch is inspected before it leaves the factory.
The new patterns are distinctly “different” ==
suitable for any room in the house.
Martin concurred in the opinion.
Judge Barber wrote a dissenting
opinion in which he sald in part:
“While it may be true that the power
drill is intended for use in educational
work and instruction, it is of the same
status as a plough or other farm im-
plements when imported hy a textile
school, or typewriters, calculating ma-
chines, &c., when imported by a busi-
ness college. While such articles may
be useful and necessary for the pur-
pose of instruction in such schools, so
are desks, chairs »nd similar articles,
which while used for educational pur-
poses are not necessary or especially
appropriate for scientific or philo-
sophical investigation, research, dem-
onstration or instruction.—New York
Sun.’
Fresh Water Pearls.
“You don’t hear much about fresh
water pearls,” said a Madison lane
jewelry dealer, “rut we raise them
in this country just the same, and you
may be surprised » know that their
annual product runs up into the mil-
lions—not very far, of course, as «do
imported salt water pearls, but far
enough to reach with the pearl but-
tons made from the shells to a value
of about $7,000,000.
“These pearls come from the bivalve
known as the mussel and there are
several varieties. The great bulk of
them come from the Mississippi river
and its tributaries. The Mississippi
valley pearl fisheries are not at all of
the same class as their confreres of
the Orient, and no poet has yet found
any poetry in the prosaic day labor
they perform dredging and wading
and scraping for mussels.
“Pearls have been found worth ag
much as $2.000 each, possibly more
than that, but when a fine large one
is found it is quietly slipped in the
the salt water, higher priced importa-
tions, and just what price it will bring
then nobody knows but the man who
sells it as imported, and he is not
telling.
“These American pearl fishers, how:
ever, keep at their work, dreaming
always of making the great find, as
the gold diggers do who starve and
freeze, living on hope until they die in
despair. It is rare even to find one
worth $50, but numerous small ones
are found, though in the final sum-
ming up of receipts the fishers get
more for the humble shells from the
button factories than they do for the
pearls they seek im the shells. They
1 e a fair living out of the shells as
they never would out of the pearl,
which contains a moral, if you want
to look at it.”—New York Sun.
Something Missing.
“A
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‘See the samples soon. Lighten the labo#
of housework. ;
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Overaelicate.
It was in a small southwestern town
(hat the town council, which we infer
ts becoming unduly delicate, caused
chis notice to appear in the local news-
paper when a tax on dogs was im-
posed: “Tax on each dog—male, one
dollar; vice versa, three dollars.”—
Harper's Magazine.
——
Chicken Thief Wrote Verse.
After cleaning out a chicken coop in
Birmingham, Ala. the' chicken thief
left the following note: “Lord, have
mercy on my soul, how many chickens
have I stole, last night and the night
night.”
Had Been There Before.
Dasher had evidently had experi:
ence. Lasher—“We're going to have
some amateur theatricals at my house
next week and a big supper after
ward. Can you be there?’ Dasher—
“Oh, I'll be there, old man, but—er—
[ may be late.”
Despise the Little Fears.
Don’t be afraid of shadows. They
are really not dangerous of them-
selves, and have often been known
to be quite friendly—especially in
sweethearting times. © You were not
afraid of them then.
Blessing in Happiness.
Happiness, like mercy, is twice
blessed; it blesses those who are most
intimately associated with it, and it
blesses all those who see it, hear it,
feel it, touch it, or breathe the same
atmosphere.—Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Dry Atmosphere.
“I like this guaint little mountain
village of yours, waiter. I suppose I
can get plenty of oxygen here.” “No,
sir; we've got local option.”—Sacred
teart Review.
Wasted Lives.
He that spends his time in sports
i is like him whose garment is all made
of fringes and his meat nothing hut
1
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{ sauces; they are healthless, change-
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