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THROUGHOUT COUNTY
P. E. Weimer, of Rockwood has]
been assigned agent for the B.& O. a |
Listie during the absence of the reg-
ular agent, F. U. Daughertv who is
spending several weeks visiting in
Massachusetts.
Work on the Johnstvwn aad Som-
erset trolley line is progressing more
rapidly than the promotors had hop
for. The workmen have cleared cot;
siderable right of way in the vicini-:
ty of Kelso. The work of erecting the
poles has begun and the road bed will
be started this month.
The rapid growth of Beisecker, the
new mining town of the Consolidation
Coal Company has made necessary &
school house in order to accommodate
the children of the company’s employ-
ment. The building will cost about
$3,000, the contract for its erection
being let to Roy D. Hostetler.
Irvin McFarland who had charge of |
the lath mill for the United Lumber
Company, died July 21st, at Humbert
fn his 29th year. Besides his wife and
mother he is survived by two broth-
ers, Carson McFarland and Cracle
McFarland of Humbert and by one:
sister, Mrs. Olive Phillippi, of Rose-
burg, W. Va.
While tunneling through a large
ash pile, a few days ago, James Ellen-
berger was buried when the sides
caved in at Boswell. Mr. Ellenber-
ger would have smothered to death
but for the assistance of several other
| tation is extended to all and every
| Brown family wherever they may be.
NEARBY COUNTIES
The fifth annual Brown reunion
will be held in Snyder’s Grove, Mar-
tinsburg, Saturday, August 7, 1915.
‘The committee is arranging for a
very large reunion and a special invi-
A neat little swindle is being work-
on the charitably disposed farmers
of in Bedford county. A man and a
Woman are abroad who make it a bus-
iness to go into a town, put up at the
best hotel or boarding house, and then
each secure a rig. They then start to
cover the surrounding country, ask-
ing the farmer folks for a chicken for
an orphans’ home,in Pittsburg. It is
said that after two days’ begging in
the northern section of the county,
the pair sold their chickens to an Al-
toona produce dealer for $30.00. Their
loot is said to have included a num-
ber of cash donations.
During the past few weeks repre-,
sentatives of the railroad companies
have been taking up the teases for the
rights-of-way for the railroad from
Mt. Dallas to Little Orleans, Md. For
many years this has been looked up-
on as an available proposition as it
would give the Huntingdon & Broad
Top a conecting link with the West
Virginia traffic, the major portion of
which has been cut off since the Penn-
sylvania constructed the Midland
spur of the Cumberland and Altoona
branch of their lines, hauling the
workmen employed at the dump.
The engagement of Lieut. Robert O.
Baush U. 8. N.,, and Miss Lucile Belt
of Dallas, Tex., has been announced
which will culminate in a September
wedding. The prospective bridegroom
is a son of Mrs. Laura K. Baush, of
Somerset, who will go to Dallas for
the ceremony.
The Dexcar Coal company, which
has been in pperation at Ashville, has
located another rich vein of coal
which extends through a large acre-|
age and which has existed elsewhere!
in more or fess uncertain quantity.
The mines have been put on a larger
working basis, 115 men being em-
ployed there at present.
The will of Franklin P. Ream, de-
ceased late of Berlin, was recently
probated. After directing that his
debts be paid as soon as convenient,
he set aside $100 to be placed on in-
terest for the up-keep of two cemete-
ry lots. The home property and house-
hold goods are for his wife for her
use. A bequest of $200 was also made
to her, in addition to the provision
that she shall draw the annual inter-
est from $8,000. The remainder of the
estate is to be divided betw/ 1 Ida
B. Pritts and Wm. N. Ream. ¥ Owever
should Ida B. Pritts die without issue
her share shall be given to the grand-
children of the testator.
Members of the Turkeyfoot Baptist
Church scatteredfrom Stoyestown to
the Maryland and West Virginia bor-
ders wil attend a home coming on
Sunday, August 22. The church was
founded 104 years ago and is now in
its third house of worship.Ex-Senator
N. B. Critchfield a member of the
church for more than half a centu-
ry will preach a harvest home ser-
mon at 11 o'clock.
GUARDSMEN IN CAMP.
Frank I. Rutledge Camp, N,
opened at Indiana Saturday
Col.
G. P,
morning, with almost 3,000 members
of the National Guard in the tented
city. The Tenth Infantry has 800 men
and officers. Eighteenth Infantry
has 677, Fourtenth Infantry has 620
and Sixteenth Infantry has 600.
There were seven special trains on
Sunday and the crowd was estima-
ted at about 40,000.
A detail of the regular army is in
charge of a school in trenching. The
troops are being trained in the dig-
ging of “sap” and zigzag trenches.
The aeroplane, in charge of the
Aero Club, of America, gives exhibit-
fons of scouting, signal work, and
bomb dropping every day from 3 to
5:30 o'clock. The machine gun dem-
onstration will take place every
morning.
Visitors to the camp have been at-
tracted by men of Co. M, Latrobe.
There are 12 members of the
company that are at least 6 feet tall.
When the camp was formally op-
ened Saturday morning four bands
played “The Star Spangled Banner.”
The bands are from the Tenth, Four-
teenth, Sixteenth and Eighteenth
regiments.
When the brigade organizations
arrived there on Friday, Major J.
Clyde Miller, of Homestead, Quarter-
mster of the brigade, had the sites
selected for the regiments, water
lines laid, electric lights constructed
and equipments of the regiments on
the ground. This year only the infan-
try organizations of the brigade and
the signal corps will participate in
the encampment as the field hospital
corps, No. 1, the cavalry organiza-
tions, Troop H of Coraopolis, and
Troop of F of Newcastle and the field |
were assigned to |
instruc- |
artillery, Battery B
ALLeTy
join Governr t camps
tion at 1 3retna and Tobyhar
Governor umbaugh and staff
were at the ca on Tuesday.
greater part of the freight over the
line via Hollidaysburg to the main
line at Altoona thereby cutting out
the Broad Top railroad.
C. H. SHOCKEY’S GOOD RECORD.
Mr. Christian H. Shockey, of
Stoyestown, was a visitor to this end
of the county a part of last week. He
is a candidate for County Commis-
sioner .and he is cutting a wide
swath in the race making friends in |
every place he goes. If good sterling
patriotic heredity counts for anything '
in the making of a man, Mr. Shock- |
ey has much to his advantage. Mr.
Shockey is the great grandson and
namesake of a Revolutionary soldier,
| Christian Shockey, who crossed the
Delaware with Washington when the
were captured at Trenton
never laid down his arms
until independence was won for the
American colonies and who was one
of thepioneer settlers of Somerset
county after that war was over. His
father, the late Eli Shockey, volun- '
teered in the war with Mexico in
1845 and marched with Gen. Scott's
victorious army from Vera Cruz to
the City. of Mexico, participating in
every battle that was fought before
the Mexican capital was captured.
Likewise in 1865 when Abraham Lin-
coln made his call for volunteers,
Eli Shockey again hestitated not but
went at once to the defense and hon-
or of his country and served to Lee’s
surrender. Backed by such a lineage
the subject of this sketch has a right
to aspire to service for his country
in a different though no less valuable
way than that done by his patriotic
ancestors. He was born in Greenville
township taught school for eight
years, worked at farming and lum-
bering and was engaged at the mer-
! cantile business at Stoyestown for
25 years during a good portion of
which time he was postmaster at
that place. He has never held mor
previous to, this time sought a coun-
ty office. He has retired from busi-
ness and if elected to the office of
county commissioner he will devote
all of his time to looking after the in-
terests of the county. If you have
not met him, you will want to do so
before the primaries. He is of the
right material. Adv.
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RURAL FREE DELIVERY
AUTOMOBILES NOW
The Postoffice Department has
been authorized to employ automo-
biles on rural free dezlivery routes
and on the second of August about a
hundred of such vehicles will be put
into comission. TU. 8S. Postmaster
General Burleson has just made the
allotment of this service—and the
geographical distribution of these
national buzz-wagons is interesting,
to say the least. Forty-four of them
will whiz over the roads of the im-
perial State of Oklahoma; twenty-
eight of them will toil through the
sandy lanes of Georgia; as a reward
for electing a Democratic senator,
California will get nineteen of these
‘Government benzine buggies; Mr. |
Burleson’s own state of. Texas will
have eight; Louisiana will have one.
The great State of Pennsylvania
gets two—located, at a guess, in A.
Mitchell Palmer’s district. New York |
will have one because Mr. Burle-'
son and the administration in gener- |
al does not like New York just now. |
The engagement is announced of
Miss Ada Keller, of Indiana to Jas.
DeWitt Patton, of Windber. The wed- !
ding will take place on August 19.
| Miss Keller formerly taught 100
lat Windber wh Mr. Patton is con- |
nected with the
i Berwind-White Coal |
Mining Company.
USEFULNESS OF THE CROWS SNAKES WERE ALL DROWNED
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Single Bird Destroys More Cut-Worms
in Day Than Ten Men Could Dig
Up and Kill in Week.
To those who know how difficult it is
to kill the wary crow, this will sound
laughable, but it is a fact that thou
sands of crows are killed every year by
farmers, either by traps or shooting or
poison. But experts, who have made a
thorough investigatien into this, de
clare that while the farmer is justified
in scaring the crows away from his
grain and corn fields, he should not
kill the bird, because a single crow can
and generally does destroy more cut
worms in a day than ten men could dig
up and ‘destroy in a week.
Man cannot locate the wiry, soil-col
ored little cut-worm; he can only find
it by chance, while the crow ean locate
them with ease and locate their tiny
holes 4n the soil, and with one bang
of their strong beaks drag Mr. Cut
worm forth from the ground to add
ifm to the dally repast.
A ‘crow ‘weighing two and a half
1 poundls was experimented upon, and it
was found ‘this bird actually ate his
weight in cut-worms in cone day, and
apparently could have eaten more. The
crow, therefore, can save more Crops
from the ravages of cut-worms in a
day than he can destroy in a week.
Crows are heavy eaters. It iz true
they will pull up tender shoots of corn
if they have the opportunity, but they
will also eat the worms, and apparent
ly prefer the worms.
A very young robin was also expert
mented with. He ate 68 earth worms
in a .day, these making a bulk larger
than the bird. Robins will strip a
cherry tree of its fruit in a few days,
but, with netting over the trees these
robins will also denude a garden of in
sects that would have otherwise pre
vented at least half, if not all, of the
planted things from growing to matur
ity.
FALL-RAISED CALF IS BEST
Young Animals Will Have Attained
Sufficient Growth by Midsummer
"to Withstand Flies.
There may be several reasons for
raising calves. First, the dairy prod-
ucts are a better price during the
winter months. Then the farmer has
more time for the care of his cows,
‘besides the average cow will give milk
longer for the reason ‘of the spring
grass. Another thing, the calves com-
ing in the fall makes them old
enough to wean in the spring and
turn out on the pasture. They will be
old enough and growing sufficient that
by midsummer the flies will not
bother and injure their growths so
. much. Spring calves will not do so
well, as the heat and flies are not in
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A Erordising Y oungates:
their favor and they have not grown
~nough to make them strong and
hardy for the summer months.
The fall of the year is the time!
when the farmer may use his spare |
time to a good advantage taking care
of calves. It is unwise to haye them
come too late in the fall, as the winter
will be against them. Too much care
cannot be given that they have a clean
place and a dry bed to sleep on. With.
a little care and work it is possible
that the farmer may -add several dol-
lars to his purse at this time. It is
like all otirer farm werk; it demands
careful attention and at the right time.
CALF FEEDING FOR PROFIT
‘'0 More Important Factor in Growing
Beef for Market Than to Keep
Youngsters Growing.
There i8 not a more important mat.
ter in growing beef cattle for market
than that of keeping the calf growing
from the start. If weaned too soon
nd put on a feed as a substitute ior
railk, which stunts the growth and
auses it to lose the calf fat, no kind
>f management in the future will com-
rensate for the lors, nor make the
coming beef near ecual to what, as a
calf, it promised before weaning. Milk
is rich in protein for rapid growth
and hence the calf flourishes on it.
When weaned some other feeds
rich in protein must be given. Blue
grass is one of these, and with this a
little linseed meal, corn meal and
wheat bran may be given to good ad-
vantage. The feeding needs to be
done with care and prudence, not giv-
ing too much at first.
Breeders and good feeders are
agreed that the most profitable beef
is made by the rapid growth of the
calf after weaning, and that is ac-
complished by feeding foods rich in
_ brotein in order to keep up growth.
Use a Bone Cutter.
Get a bone cutter. Get a good one
The relation between the bone cutter
and poultry success is very close, es-
: in the winter, when hens are
up a large part of
> time, and when the family is con-
suming much meat. The green
from the table and from the en
thus > made into poultry
flesh nt be a source of profit.
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ets to Nashville.
But Animals, Liberat¢d From Their
Cages Just in Time, Swim Ashore
From Wrecked Scow.
Tied to tall trees on the banks of the
Skagit river is one of the strangest col-
lection of animals ever harbored in
this neck of the woods, as the result
of the wreck of a scow towed by the
gasoline launch Tango, carrying the
50 members and full properties, exhibi-
‘tion tents, and cages {ull of the Sound
Amusement company of Seattle, bound
for this city.
The launch dragged itself across a
‘snag on the North Fork, but fm pull-
ing the scow over, a plank was ripped
‘from the bottom and it sank.
The men on the Tango sprang on
the scow and tore open the cuges to
free the animals, which leaped into the
‘water and swam ashore. There they
scattered in the woods and kept the
showmen busy all day rounding them |
up.
The scow sank before the .smakes
could he liberated, and locked in the
cages, the wriggling, writhing reptiles
went to their death. One big snake
cost its owner $500.
Bert Mansfield, who owns the dog |
and pony part of the show, remained
on the scow with his pet dog Chester,
despite the entreaties of his, compan:
ions, until he barely escaped with his
owa life.
Another valuable animal still at
large is the trick mule, High School
Jack. There were six horses and 20
trained dogs. Several trained rac-
coons were lost—Mount Vernon
(Wash.) Dispatch to Seattle Times.
BECAUSE HIS DOG LIKED HIM
Why the Southern Mountaineer Was
Willing to Pay to Check a
Mongrel.
The pedigree of a dog makes no |
difference if you love him. This was
the opinion expressed by a citizen of
Pioneerville, at Boise, Idaho, when he
found that he would have to pay $7.50
to check a mongrel as far as St. Louis,
about two-thirds of the journey.
He and hig brother, two southern
mountaineers, who still dress in the
Tennessee mountaineer style, ap-
peared at the Boise station with tick-
He remarked that
he wanted to check his dog through
aad asked whether or not he could
get off at certain stations to feed and
pet the animal.
“That dog is powerful’ ‘ond of me,”
he remarked in explanation.
His face fell somewhat when he was
told that it would cost him something
like $10 to check the dog.
ny can’t he go on our tickets?”
fee from then on, he said:
“Well, that cur thinks so powerful
‘much of me I reckon I'll have to pay
it. It makes no difference about the
kind of dog, if you love him, you
knows” and he slowly counted eut the
money from an old miner’s wallet and
put the dog in the baggage car, with
a final love pat on his head.
Find a Death-Proof Boy.
Six thousand volts of electricity and
a plunge of twenty feet headforemost
upon an iron rail could not kill four 1
teen-year-old Edward Krout of Spring
Grove, though either would have been
thought to do it, according to a York
(Pa.) dispatch to the Philadelphia
Record. The boy's companions
thought so, and in fact had already
‘bundled what they regarded as the
lifeless body of their chum upon a
small express wagon to haul it to his
home, when the “corpse” came to life.
The boy was seated on the over-
head Western Maryland railroad
‘bridge, mear the boruvagh, when one
of his legs, dangling over the edge, |
came im contact with the highly
charged trolley wire beneath. Imme-
diately he was hurled to the trolley
track, twenty feet below, striking vio-
tently on his head.
Moratorium Abuses.
Apropos of bank hoardings and the
consequent exorbitance of interest
rates, Representative Reilly said:
“Thank goodness we haven't got a
moratorium, like the French and Eng-
ish omnes, over here.
“A great many people, you know,
1buse the moratorium. Two English
maid servants were talking one day
when a man sauntered past them.
“ ‘Look at Mr. Brown,’ said the first
maid, ‘swingin’ '{s stick and smokin’
is cigar. Nobody’d believe 'e was
ard up.’
“ ‘Lumme, no!’ said the second maid.
Why, since this ’ere meritorious come
1n, 'e walks down parst all the bakers
ind butchers and pubs as if ’e didn’t
we ’em a penny.’ ”
Enalish Lads Shout “Marseillaise.”
Never say that the English are not
1 musical people. You shall meet seven
dttle muddy boys, keeping loyally to
the gutter, clad in not many inches of
old clott es, and none of them so much
as ten years old. Yet they will all be
shouting the whole of the “Marseil-
laise,” which is not an eight-bar tunes,
but a very complex melody, without a
mistake.
Whether the London urchin has been
hed with a translation of the
h | the music is well
ds are indistinguish-
ible—London )
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Condensed Statement
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
OF MEYERSDALE, PA.
At Close of Business June 23rd, 1915.
RESOURCES
Loans and Investments......................... $681,064.41
U. 5. Bonds... ...................«0.. 0c... a 75,000.00
Banking House.............. tres anrnenh Ceres 29,300.00
Due from Banks and Reserve Agents..... ....... 126,594.25
OBS, ........... iit ic vrs i rn rs 74,738.76
Potal.... $986,697.42
LIABILITIES
CADILAI DIORK. o.oo bins iis id Ss ... $ 65,000.00
Ddivided Profits. .... ........;.. oui iio inne. 1 95,32800
Clrenlation... ..............onccee ins svidnss us 2 05:300.00
DAposites....o............ 00. 00. an dl BZis
Total.... $986,697.42
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