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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
AT MEYERSDALE, PA.
K. Cleaver, Editor
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GLENCOE.
Emma Tayman is home after a
two weeks’ visit in Akron Ohio.
Mrs. Harry Love and young son
GARRETT.
Many of our people attended the
picnic at Centre Church, last Satur-
day. |
| “Mothers’ Day” was observed in|
‘the Lutheran Church last Sunday af-|
ternoon ‘with appropriate exercises '
and the attendance was
4 unusually |
$1.50 large. Several children were baptized |
HAUSFRAUEN PICNIC.
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narration by him of by-gone events
put the laugh on to the faces of all
which, lasted a long time. He had ,
a message of cheer, of trying to be
happy and his presence was a bless-
ing to his auditors.
Prof. Menges was next introduced.
and each member of the Cradle Roll | His subject was “How to Make Far-
| was presented with a handsome bou-
quet by the Supt. of the Cradle Roll,
| Mrs. N. J. Judy.
{i Rev. and Mrs. W_-H. B. Carney
ming Pay”, To establish this propo-
sition he scored the present system
of the rotation of crops. He divided
all crops into two classes —those
arrived from Cleveland last week to jeft on Tuesday for a short visit vo!that enrich and those which exhaust
spend some time with W_ J. Meyers.
“Babe” Leydig spent a few days
of this week with Meyersdale friends '
and attended a birthday picnic at
Riverside Park in honor of Clara
Rowe. ’
Leah Leydig is visiting with Helen
Lichty of Meyersdale this week.
Miss Bracken of Manilla spent the
week-end with . Leah Webreck.
Vesta and Blanche Sharp and Gia-
dys Kimmel of Sand Patch were
guests at the hotel over Sunday.
Mrs. Bingham, of Cumberland, fis
spending the week at H. M. Poor
baugh’s.
Mrs. B. F. Wagaman and children
of Connellsville are the guests of Ma-
ry Stoner.
Chas. Leydig left for Johnstown
for employment on Sunday,
Mrs. B. F. Bittner is bedfast at
present. She is being treated by Dr.
Hemminger, of Meyersdale.
The Misses Marion, Leah and E-
lizabeth Leydig, Alice Webreck and
Eleanor Alston attended Chautau-
qua at Somerset last Thursday.
“Bill” Miller is again on the job
at Foley tower. :
Lawrence Stouffer ' who has been
an apprentice to Alfred Broadwater
for the summer left for Akron on!
Friday last.
Solomon Martz is having a regu-|
lar department feed-house erected on
the corner of Church and Railroad
street.
Dr. Beachy, of Cumberland has es-|
tablished himself in the cottage near |
town for the summer. His son, C.
Wood, and wif¢ were visitors at the
camp for the week-end.
VIM
Elmer Walker, of Larimer town-
ship, visited at the home of Henry
Meyer last Saturday.
‘While painting at Rev. D. K. Clap-
per’s last Friday, Fireman Fike fell
from a porch roof with the
time,cutting his upper
and bruising his middle finger.
escaped with no broken bones,
P. C. Miller aut to Frgstburg,
J to Eevors
Md., last Sunday}
Mr. and Mrs.
near Berkley Mills spent last Sunday
at the home of Bruce Fike.
Mrs. Martin Meyer and Mrs. Annie
Nicholson attended the funeral ol
C. J, Engle at St. Paul on Tuesday.
Mrs. J. R. Martens and child and
son, George, spent Saturday and Sun-
day in Larimer township.
Mrs. Cosgrove and son, of Frost-
burg, are visiting at the home of Wm.
Engle, this week. s
Milton Shuck and family, of Lari-
mer township,
Mr. Shuck’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Shuck,
Robert Witt and daughter, Hazel,
of Johnstown, were welcome visitors
at the home of W. W. Nicholson on
Wednesday.
ST. PAUL.
Miss Irene Engle who is working
for Emanuel Berkley, spent a few
days with her mother, Mrs. Amanda
Engle last week.
Miss Edna Nordstran is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Chas. Weise.
Rev. Wilson will preach in the St.
Paul Reformed church on Sunday
morning, August 8th at 10 o’clock.
Everybody is invited to atted,
C. J. Engle, for many years a prom-
inent citizen of St. Paul passed out
Under capitalism it is almost a
crime for a working man to live after
he has become too old to work. A
just Social system will make old age
the most pleasant period of his ex-
istance.
To-day men produce a profit for the
use of their employer or he would
refuse them a chance to work This
profit is what men seek when they
invest their money in productive
property which they do not use them-
selves.
BERLIN.
A Prohibition nominating caucus
will be held on the evening of Aug. b,
in the borough building.
The splendid music of the Berlin
band delighted all at the Somerset
Chautauqua last week. Our band has
an enviable reputation and we are
certainly proud of it.
A number of Berlin people and
those in this vicinity g to
attend the Reforr at Riv-
erside Park, Trursd
DRESSED AND LIVE
CHICKENS AT DONGES
MARKET.
ladder
knocking him unconcious for a short
> lip through
He
Jacob Klingamen
and Mr. and Mrs. James Boyer, of
spent Sunday with
| Gettysburg and vicinity.
| Donald Craig, of Ralphton, spent
over Sunday with his family here.
i Joseph Walter had his foot pain-
fully bruised last Thursday while as-
sisting in unloading switch ties from
a car. One of the ties was being tak-
en from the car, and was raised at
one end wher in some manner it
slipped and fell, pinning Mr. Walter's
foot beneath it. He was carried to
his home by his fellow-workmen and
Dr. R. T. Pollard was summoned and
rendered the necessary surgical aid,
Mr. Walter is able to be about again.
Henry Long spent several hours
in Meyersdale last Sunday.
Norman Romesburg purchased a
new b5-passenger Maxwell automobile
from the Fogel Auto Co., last week.
Richard Pollard, of Geneva, Ohio,
is visiting friends and relatives here.
~ Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Judy and son,
Elwood, expect to learn on Thursday
for a several weeks visit with rela-
tives in_ Ohic.
The Woman's Liberty Bell and
‘speakers arrived here on Monday
afternoon and were greeted by a liber
al crowd. After an excellent address
an offering was taken, and the party
left for Meyersdale, The suffrage
question has been the talk of the
"town ever since.
The Lutheran picnic ofr Mt. Tabo
{ Church will be held on Saturday,
| August 21st, and a cordial invitation
is extended to the other churches of
the town and the public in general
to participate.
J. P. Cover and mon, Russel, of Rox-
bury passed through town last Fri-
day.
Herman Hoffman has removed his
household goods and family to Pitts-
burg where he secured employment
with the Westinghouse Electric Co.
WE ARE PREPARED TO DO CUSs-
TOM CHOPPING AT ALL TIMES;
ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF
GRAIN, FEED, SALT ETC, AT
HABEL & PHILLIPS.
DRESSED AND LIVE
CHICKENS AT DONGES’
MARKET.
SPRING
MEAT
HOOVERSVILLE
Mrs. Ferdinand Dennis, of Norman-
dy, France, and her nephew, Charles
Walk, of New York, are on an extend-
ed visit to Mrs. O. J. Brown, of
Hooversville, Mrs. W. W. Albert of
Pittsburg, is also a visitor at the
Brown home
Mrs. John Wood has returned
home after an extended visit of three
weeks at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Bernice Maruca, of Mcintyre,
Indiana County, and at the home of
her brother, George Owens, of Yates-
boro
Miss Ceda Livngston is much im-
proved after a severe attack of typh-
oid fever.
Miss Verda Horner, who has been
staying with her uncle, Adam Berke-
bile, of thisplace, returned Monday
to her home in the West,
James Hamer has returned home
from the Navy for a few weeks’ fur-
lough.
Mrs. T. H, Williams is spending a
few weeks with friends and relatives
in Somerset.
Mr. Lape and son Paul and daugh-
ter Verna, of Hooversville and Miss
Pearl Horner, of Johnstown, made an
automobile trip to Loysburg Saturday.
Misses Lape and Horner will spend
a week there.
About 6:20 on Saturday evening
a large delivery truck was making
the regular week-end delivery of li-
quors from the wholesale liquor
house of the W. C. Moore Liquor Co.
of Windber, The chaffeur, C. W.
Woods saw B. & O. passenger train,
No. 22 from the south approaching
the Rodgers’ crossing , one-fourth
mile south of the station. Thinking
that he could cross the tracks in
front of the rapidly approaching
train he took a chance and risked
; his own life and that of two compan-
iions, but only by jumping were their
ilives saved. The truck was smashed
| up and the whiskey was scattered
{here and there. The foreign element
j tried to collect some of the booze,
{but could not get very much, but
many missing their Sunday supply
had to be sober in spite of them-
selves.
THE BEST SAUSAGE AND PUD-
DING AT DONGES’ MARKET
resh Sausage and Pudding at
Poorbau Market.
gh & Bowser's Meat
EVERYTHING GOOD IN THE
MEAT LINE AT DONGES' MARKET
the soil. The present rotation crops
are all exhaustive; those that build
up are the clovers, the beans, and
winter vetch. A farmer who. can’t
make his farm better should
give it up. The schools should teach
practical agriculture by having fields
to cultivate near the school build-
ings. The kind of home, the way the
crops are grown, and the manner of
raising stock , all have a factor in
making the farm to pay. A dairy farm
should be treated in a different way
than is used in general farming. His
address abounded in ideas that
scintillated with their freshness and
originality.
There . were on exhibition some of
the old time quilts and coverlets, one
of which is 110 years old.
Our Yearning for the Hills.
How much of the influence of early
environment, of those habituated re-
actions which comprise for each one
of us the iron ring of his destiny,
there is in even our deeper attitude to-
ward the externnl world—toward
what we call Nature!
I spent many weeks in the prairie
coygntry of the we-t, a sense of oppres-
sion constantly increasing in weight
dapon my snirit. Those endless, level
plains! Those roads that stretched
without a break to infinity! A house,
a group of barns, a fruit-orechard, now
and then a clump of hardwoods, alone
broke the endless, flat monotony of
snow-covered fields—no, not fields,
but infinitudes where a single furrow
could put a girdle about an entire
township in my home land! My soul
hungered for a hill; my heart craved,
with a dull longing, the sight of a nak-
ed birch-tree flung aloft against the
winter sky. Back through the endless
plains of Illinois the train crawled,
away from the setting sun. But the
next daylight disclosed the gentle roll-
Ing slopes of the Mohawk valley, and
before many hours had passed the
Berkshire hills were all about, like
familiar things recovered. The camel-
hump of Greylock to the morth was
sapphire-blue and beckoning. The
nearer mountains wore theify®
mantles, pricked with gree
the snbwy intervals, and laid f! 3
reared’ outlines stark -igainst the sky.
Shadowy ravines let into their flanks,
suggestive of roaring brooks and the
mystery of the wilderness. The clouds
trailed purple shadow-anchors; the
sun flashed from the ice on their sa-
cred ledges. And a weight seemed
suddenly lifted from my spirit. The
words of the ancient Psalmist came to
my lips unconsciously: “I will lift up
mine eyes unto the hills. From
whence cometh my help? My help
cometh from God.”’-—Walter Prichard
Eaten in Harper's Magazine.
* Is Vocational Training Enough?
If man could live by bread alone we
might rest with vocational education.
But by that very intellectual unrest
that makes for evolution he cannot.
Having eaten, he must learn to use the
life he has preserved. But while suste-
nance is theoretically a very simple
problem being only a question of how
much you can earn and what you can
buy with it, the use one makes of the
vital energy into which life transforms
is the most complex and difficult of
all questions. Religion, ethics, educa-
tion all bear upon it, intersect and
blend so that it is almost as difficult
to say what teaches one to live as to
answer the question of how to live it.
self. It is enough to observe that edu-
cation has a part here which is not
vocational, and which is enormously
important.
This is the province of liberal educa-
tion. Its services are indirect, because
its effects must be transmitted into
the art of living; they are uncertain
in the same proportion as all life is
illusory and never to be confined in
measures made by man. Neverthe-
less, although these services are defli-
nite in their breadth, at least we can
specify some of them. We know, for
example, that the mind must be able
to grasp abstractions; and so we ap-
ply mathematics. We know that it
must have perspective and back-
ground if it is to understand the pass-
ing show of brief reality allowed it;
and so we instill history. We know
that it must be able to interpret char
acter, to feel the loftiest emotion, to
perceive beauty and enjoy it; and so
we give it literature and the arts. Man
is to be liberalized. He is to be taught
to comprehend life—Henry S. Canby
in Harper’s Magazine.
NEW SUPERINTENDENT NAMED
| M. H. Cahill has been appointed
| superintendent of the Cumberland di-
| vision of the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
| road, a position held by the late C. L.
{ French. S. T,Z Campbell, acting super-
| intendent, haps been transferred to
| the Philadelphia division.
re ——————————
{ PURE CIDER OR PICKLING VINE-
GAR, 20 cents PER GAL. AT HA-
BEL & PHILLIPS.
Not long ago .
THE THREE POLICIES,
Once upon a time there was a beau-
tiful princess who was passionately
admired and loved by everyone who
saw her picture in the leading fashion
papers week after week, as she sat on
a fence looking at a football game, or
was walking with her chow dog in a
high wird.
One day the princess ordered 4f
proclamation to the following effect
sent out:
“Here are three insurance policies.
The young man in all my kingdom
who can interpret any one of them
correctly can have my hand in matri-
mony.”
The news rapidly spread, and the
next morning three young men pre-
sented themselves for the test.
Said the first:
“This means that in case your pal
ace burns down you get 80 per cent of
the difference between what it is ap-
praised at, less what the company
thinks you ought to have, minus what
the last legislative body thought ought |
to be conceded on account of a bad
fire that took place in Constantinople
year before last.”
Everybody cheered at this, and the
first suitor began to make calculations
on the back of an envelope as to the
cost of a wedding breakfast.
Then said the second suitor:
“Hem! This is an accident insur-
ance, covering loss of limb or death or
other injury—provided that the de-
ceased was in good health at the time,
and did not suspect anything. Also,
if the moon was in the third quarter,
or he was lying under a motor car
with the west wind, then everything is
null ard void, in which case the week-
ly indemnity, if any, is subject to a
fine and pessible imprisonment, afl
common carriers excepted.”
The seeond suitor was also highly
applauded, and it really looked as if
he might get all the gate money, when
the third suitor stepped forward. Hz
was, as is customary, much handsom-
er than the other two, and very pcor
and honest, and really needed looking
after; but when the princes handed
him the third insurance policy he
shook his head and refused it.
“Your majesty,” he said, “you will
have to pardon me, but 1 didn’t know
what the test was. I am young and in-
nocent, but I know too much, I hope,
to attempt to interpret any insurance
policy in these days. Sorry to lose
you, but I beg to withdraw.”
Then the princess threw herself in
his arms, while the grand vizier order-
ed a couple of underwriters buried
alive.
“ 1 knew by the blank look on your
face, darling, that you were a sure
winner,” cried the princess.—From
Life.
Burials Differ.
The modes of burial differ widely
among various peoples, from the rud-
est ceremonies ard methods of the
wandering tribes to the ornate, im-
pressive, reverent services of “the
heir of all ages, in the foremost files
of time.” .
Among some the dead are buried
lying, others sitting, as is the case
with several of the Indian tribes; and
instances are related where warriors
or leaders in the nations have been
buried seated upon their favorite war
horse, as was done with the famous
Blackbird, the chief of the once pow-
erful Omahas.
But there is a remarkable agree-
ment of custom for the practice of
placing the body e~st and west. Some-
times the body is placed with the head
to the east and sometimes to the west.
It is held by certain writers that this
custom is due to solar symbolism, and
the head is place” to the east or 10
the west according as the dead are
thought of in connection with the sun-
rise, the reputed home of the deity,
or the sunset, the reputed home of the
dead.
There are, however, some tribes that
lay their dead north and south, and
others bury men with the face to the
north and women with the face to the
south; while among some of the Afri-
can tribes, if one happens to die away
from his home, he is buried facing
his native village.
Disregard of Truth.
If Orientals have one fault more
than another it is a disregard for
truth. In the ear'y days of the Eng-
lish occupation of India, the English
judges were astounded at the conflict:
ing stories told by witnesses, and they
soon learned to set them all down as
unworthy of credence. in American
courts it is also well known that Chi-
nese are very penurious of the truth,
and that no oath will prevent them
from giving witness. In Egypt it is
also very easy to get native witnesses
to swear to anything, true or untrue.
For instance: Ahmed, a native of
Cairo, had a slave who peeped over
a wall into Suleiman’s harem, and the |
ladies considered themselves insulted.
Suleiman wanted revenge but he could
not bring his wives into court to tes-
tify, so it was agreed that Suleiman
should accuse Ahmed’s camel of walk-
ing on Suleiman’s land. A crowd of
witnesses came forward and for two
days testified about the camel and the
land, until the English judge decided
in favor of Suleiman. It was not until
a week afterward that he discovered
to his great surprise that Suleiman
had no ground and Ahmed no camel.
m 1 2 and in fact
warm fo v kind should never
be put 3 covered tin or dish.
The st makes molding certain.
Vegetables become soggy and unfit for
food when treated in this manner.
A PP TS TEE
you do not relish
you no good.
ICKLES, ketchup, sauces, horseradish,
caviar and all other spicy things that
go to add to the pleasantness of your
meals—we have them all. Build up your
Rppetite; and you will build up your heal
I
your food it will do
McKenzie & Smith
Meyersdale, Penn’a
FUITY in drugs is
vastly more impor-
PURE
Tasty Delicacies For Your Table :
Th
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RUGS |
adulteration here. In
filling prescriptions we
tant than
even purity
in foods be-
cause when
sickness
comes the
full effect of
the medi-
cine must be
had. We
warrant ab-
solutely that
ourdrugsare thorough-
ly up to standard. No
use the ut-
most care to
follow the
doctor's di-
rections. No
guesswork.
No substitu-
tion of other
medicines
in place of
those he or-
ders for his
patients. Toilet articles,
soda water and candies.
OUR REPUTATION IS YOUR PROTECTION
F. B. THOMAS, Leading Druggist,
MEYERSDALE, PA. :
MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
WANTED—Girl for general house-
work. Apply to Mrs. William Hocking,
Main Street opposite the Methodist
Church.
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..
Wanted— Girls to roll stogies.
Write to Claude Phillips, Morgan-
town, W. Va.,
ESTRAY—Notice is hereby given
that a white sheep came to the prem-
Ises of the undersigned on June 25.
Owner will prove property, pay char
ges, or same will disposed of accord-
ing to law.
C. F. SMITH, Meyersdale.
PLANTS FOR SALE— Cabbage, Cel-
ery, Tomato, Beets, Head Lettucs,
Hot Peppers, Sweet Pepper, Cauli-
flower, Hanover, Red Pickling Cab-
bage, Savory Cabbage.
Cosmos, Zinniag, Asters, Electric
Light Plant, Sweet Alyssum, Sum-
mer Chrysanthemum. Plants are ex
tra nice. Let me have your orders. In
lots of 500 or more 25 cents per hun-
dred. By the dozen, 6 cents.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of Elmer BE, Conrad, late of
| Meyersdale Borough, Somerset Coun-
| ty, Pennsylvania, deceased.
Letters of Administration in
the
| above estate having been issued to!
| the undersigned, notice is hereby giv- |
i en to all persons indebted to said es-|
tate to make immediate payment, and
those having claims against the es-|
; tate may present them for settlement | |
to the undersigned at the late resi-
dence of the decedent on Saturday |
the 21st day of October, 1915, at one | &
o'clock, P. M.
Ida E. Conrad, Administratrix.
Hay & Hay, Attorneys { 8
July 8—6t'§
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Meyersdale, Penn’a.
Residence : Office:
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