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William Hady spent the week-end
with Somerset friends.
James Slicer arrived in Meyersdale
Thursday aftr his visit to Florida.
Miss Harriet Staub is home again
L following a visit in Pittsburg.
Dr. and Mrs. R. M. Beachy left a’
few days ago for Washington for a
short visit.
Mrs. Frank Hoffman left on Sunday
morning for a visit of several weeks
in Bedford and Pittsburg.
Mrs. Harvey E. Bittner is visiting
for a week wifh relatives and friends
in Mount Pleasant.
Miss Jennie McMurdo, of Lonaco-
ning is a guest at the home of rela-
tives here.
Mrs. Austin Kennell and two chil-
dren of Wellershurg are vsiting the
former's mother, Mrs. Ida Staub.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Lewis of Cum-
berland were recent guests at the
home of Mr. H. H. Lint.
Lloyd Imler of Vandergrift is
spending a week with his family
on Olinger street.
Mr. and Mrs. Kady, of Cumberland,
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jno.
Cover.
Miss Evelyn Truxal returned
from her California trip the
part of the week.
Lee Austin, a student at Pittsburg
University, spent Sunday at his home
on North street.
Miss Florence ‘Wilmoth entertain-
ed a number of her young friends
Monday afternoon.
W. B. Groff has gone to Pittsburg
where he will spend several weeks
wih relatives and friends.
George Logue, proprietor of the
Slicer House, left a day or two ago
on a business trip to Reading.
Miss Margaret Branch of Boswell
is a guest at the home of the Misses
Commons. .
A family reunion was held at Jack-
son Meyers’, Glencoe, on Wednesday
This is an annual gathering.
The South Side mines have closed
down for a short time, reducing the
pumber of men from 75 to 8.
. Miss Marion Knieriem, who had
been visiting for the past month in
York, Pa., has returned home.
Miss Mary Thornley returned to her
home in Wilsen Creek Friday, after a
weel’s visit here with friends.
Humphry Lehman took his 13 year-
old son to the Western Maryland Hos-
pital, in Cumberland, for treatment
of an abcess.
Mr. and Mrs. McAbee and grandson,
have returned to Pittsburg following
a visit in this place at the home of
Mrs. McAbee’s father, Mr. Henry
home
latter
Miller.
Miss Jessica Reed.of Columbia Uni-
versity, is spending her vacation with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Reed.
D. H. Weisel and family are leav-
ing to-morrow for a visit of ten days’
at Hagerstown, Gettysburg and York:
Mrs. C. A. Dia and daughter, Miss
Olivia, have gone on a visit to Nor-
folk, Va. and on their way back will
stop at Baltimore and Washington.
Mrs, Wm. Shenkemeyer and two
children, of Johnstown, is visiting
Mrs, BE. J. Dannecker, of the South
Side.’
Mrs. Engle Malone, of Somerset,
and Mrs. M, M. Malone, of Fairmont,
W. Va., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. D.
B. Malone.
Miss Annie Cunningham, of Pitts-
burg is here for a few weeks’ visit
with her sister, Mrs. Laura McMul-
len. , >
Ralph Commons who is taking a
course in the Rowe Commercial school
in Johnstown is spending a two weeks
vacation with his relatives here.
* Mrs George Whittaker has returned
te her home in ‘Huntingdon after
spending a week here visiting at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bauman.
Miss Ada Lint of Johnstown spent
Sunday here visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Lint, of Lincoln
avenue.
The Misses Harriet and Bessie
Harrison of Cumberland are guests of
the Misses Nelle and Kathryn Leon-
ard.
The 10th District Sunday School
Association will hold its annual piec-
nic in Ringer’s, Grove near Conflu-
ence, August 26.
Mrs. J. D. Lawman and little daugh-
ter of Daleville, Va., are spending 2a
few weeks here visiting with relatives
and friends.
Miss Kathryn Knieriem of Cumber-
land, Md.. is visiting at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence F.'Rowe on
the South Side.
Missses Edna, Helen and Mr. Harry
Wagner and Thirkell and Arthur
Mack, of Johnstown, spent Sunday at
the home of Miss Emma Finnegan.
A very delightful reception was giv-
en Wednesday afternoon, by the
Misses Meyers; in honor of their guest
Miss
Pa.
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Mrs. George Collins. Ti
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3 PERSONAL AND LOCAL. Mrs. C. H. Dia and daughter, Miss
Oliva, have gone to Norfolk, Va.
where they will visit for a few days.
On their return they will visit in
Washington and Baltimore.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Collins
and family are at. Stanton’s Dam,
near Grantsville where they will
camp for a few weeks.
Mrs. Robt. Critchfield, of Rock-
wood, has been visiting her parents;
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Schardt for the
| last few days.
Miss Alma Dannecker entertained
sixteeen little girls at Riverside Park,
Tuesday in honor of little Miss Shen-
kemeyer, daughter of Wm. Shenke-
meyer, of Johnstown.
Misses Nancy and Marion Deal, of
Grove City, who have been the
guests of relatives and friends here
for a couple of weeks, left Monday for
a visit to Ohio.
Mr and Mrs. John Lyons of Bos-
well; Mr. and Mrs. William Benford
of Ursina, and Mr. and Mrs. A. O.
Beal of Sand Patch, were here Thurs-
day to attend the funeral of Mrs. G.
L. Benford.
Mrs. Francis Stacer and son, Regis
and daughter, Margaret of Homestead
spent Sunday here visiting at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. John Stacer of
High street.
Mrs. Kennedy Price expects soon to
break up housekeeping to spend the
winter with her sister near Pittsburg.
Her home has been rented by Con-
tractor A. H. McClennan, who will
move there from Meyers avenue.
Merchant Paul D. Clutton left yes-
terday morning for Slippery Rock
Pa. to bring back Mrs. Clutton and
their children who have been spend-
ing the past three weeks at Mrs.
Clutton’s form home. They expect
to arrive here on Saturday night.
The 11-year-old son of Elijah Phil-
ippi, of Black township, met with a
very painful accident Saturday ev-
ening, while playing with an ax. The
child accidentally cut two fingers off
of his left hand. He was taken to Dr,
C. J. Hemminger’s office at Rock-
wood for surgical attention.
A very pretty luncheon was giv-
en at one p. m. to day by Mrs Grace
Price at her home on Front street in
honor of Mis. Harry . B. Angus, of
Washington and Mrs. Price’s house
guests, Mrs. Wm. McClelland and
daughter, Mrs. Joe Cramer, of Union-
town. The decorations were in pink
and white. About forty guests were
present.
The forty hours devotion opened
last Sunday. morning in'S. S. Phillip
and James Cotholic Church. Solemn
A. M. by Rev. Father Wheeler of
Washington, D. C., with Rev. Father
McGuigan of Washington D .C.., dea-
con, and the pastor, Rev. Father
Brady, sub-deacon.
Dr. and Mrs. T. F. Livengood, of
Elizabeth, N. J., are guests at the
William Dill home, Dr. Livengood be:
ing a brother of Mrs. Dill. Prof. and
Mrs. A. P. Kephart, and daughter, of
Philadelphia, who are on their way
home from a western sojourn in Kan-
sas City, are visiting at present at
the same home. Mrs. Kephart is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dill.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Phillips and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Phillips
and the Misses Farnie, Sallie Grace
and Nelle Thomas and their guest,
Mrg. Tillie Palmer, of Broadtop, and
Prof. Milton Phillips and two chil-
dren of Wilkinsburg, who are visit-
ing here made up an automobile par-
ty that left on Monday for Gettysburg
took in the sights of that world fa-
mous battlefield, returning home on
Wednesday.
Three autos from Reich's garage
took a number of Meyersdale and vi
cinity people to Idlewild Park, near
Pittsburg, to-day for a gathering of
Oldsmobile representatives. Some of
those in the party were: Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Baker, Mrs. Daniel Pugh, Miss
Matilda Pugh, Mrs. Edward Lehman,
all of town; A. L. Wedge, and family,
Mrs. Jack Bryan and daughter, of near
| Berkeley's Mills, and Mr. and Mrs.
Needham, of near Pine Hill.
Misses Lucile Lint and Edna Payne
j entertained at the former’s home on
Friday afternoon in honor of Miss
| Nelle Leonard and the young ladies
| present bestowed a shower of pretty
| gifts on Miss Leonard. Her engage-
| ment was recently announced to Prof.
| Rome Shirley, of McKeesport, who is
now in Meyersdale. Miss Leonard
left this morning for a visit to Long
Island, before going to her winter's
position as a teacher at Juniata, Pa
| Prof. Shrley also left this morning for
| Pittsburg.
Rev. A. S. Kresge left on Tuesday
| for Allentown to go from that place
| to Monroe County by auto where he
high mass was celebrated at 10.30,
iis to make an address at the unveil
ling of a $30,000-monument to the
memory of the first American ances
tor of the Kresge family who settled
te. Rev. Kresge |
lin that part of the st:
d | purposes returning ir ti to fill his
| pulpits on
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COURT RULES ON SCISSORS.
Scissors, which the encyclopedia de-
fines as “cutting instrument, consist-
ing of two sharp blades with the inner
edge sharpencd, pivoted at the cross-
ing, and terminating with two looped
handles for the insertion of the fingers
of the person using them,” are after
all a scientific instrument. Their use
for the furthering of education for de
mestic science entitles them when inm- |
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:
«within recent years there has been
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
tlear 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
on~ds 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 city. Nothing distinc
tive in their construction from those |
commonly bought and sold in trade
for household or irdustrial uses was
claimed, only that there was stenciled
on the blade the words “hoard of ed-
ucation.” The collector of customs
at the port of New York assessed
them for dutiahle 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 serves to aid in scientific
education, we cannnt restrict its appli-
cation to the higher classes of that
education and deny it to the more
commonplace, for each is equally
within the language of the statute.”
Judges Montgomery, Smith and
Martin concurred in the opinion
Judge Barber wrote a dissenting
oninion in which he said 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 jmported 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 and 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 ahout fresh
water pearls,” said. a Madison lane
jewelry dealer,
in this country just the same, and yon
may be surprised o know that their
annual produet runs up into the mii-
lions—not very fa, 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
~everal varieties. The great bulk of
‘them come from the Mississippi rive:
and its tributaries. The Mississippi
valley pearl fisheries are not at all of
the seme class as. their confreres of
the Orient, and no poet has yet found
~ny poetry in the prosaic day labor
‘hey perform dredging and wading
»nd seraping for mussels.
“pearls hove been found worth =.
‘nch as $2 000 each, possibly more
han that, Fnt when a fine large one
iy ford it is quietly slipped in the
he salt water, higher priced importa
igns, and just what price it will bring
hen nobedy krows but the man who
olls it as imported, and he is ‘not
slling.
«phese American pearl fishers, how
ayer, keep at their wo k, dreaming
vlways of making the great find, as
the gold diggers do who starve and
reeze, living on hope until they die in
despair. 'It is rare even to find ona
worth $50, but merous small ones
wre found, tho in the pel sum
ning up of re s the fishers ge!
yore for the humble shells from thr
Hutton factories than they do for the
earls they seek in the shells. They
wake a fair living out of the shells ¢
hey never would out of the
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POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Of Republican Candidates
PROTHONOTARY.
For Prothonotary—
JONAS M. COOK.
Of Somerset Borough
“On the Return” as Republican Can-
didate for Prothonotary of Somerset
County.
For Prothonotary—
AARON F. HEIPLE
Of Somerset Borough,
Your vote and influence solicited at
the Primaries on Sept. 21, 1915.
For Sheriff—
AMOS W. BAUMAN
Of Somerset Borough.
Solicits your vote and Influence at
the Primary, September 21, 1916.
For Sheriff—
JAMES T. BERKEY
Of Conemaugh Township.
Your Vote and influence solicited.
For Sheriff—
WILSON CHRISTNER
Of Meyersdale :
Subject to the decision of the Repuh-
lican voters at the primary election
September 21, 1915.
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For Sheriff—
VALENTINE GRESS
Of Meyersdale,
Your vote and influence solicited at
the Primaries on Sept. 21, 1915.
For Sheriff—
JAMES D. SPECHT
Of Quemahoning Township
Your vote and influence solicited at
the Primaries on Sept. 21, 1915.
For Sheriff—
LESTER G. WAGNER
Of Somerset Borough
Your vote and influence solicited at
| the primaries to be held Sept. 21, '15
For District Attorney—
VIRGIL R. SAYLOR
Of Somerset Borough.
Respectfully solicits your influence
.and support at the Republican Iri-
mary Election to be held on Tuesday
September 21 1915.
-
For County Commissioner— °
JOHN R. BOOSE
Of Somerset Borough,
Your Vote and Influence is solicited
For County Commissioner—
W. H. HANNA
Of Addison Township.
the Primaries on Sept. 21, 1916.
For County Commissioner—
JAMES McKELVEY
Of Somerset Borough,
Your Vote and influence
For County Commissioner—
CHRISTIAN H. SHOCKEY
Of Stoyestown.
Your vote and influence solicited at
the Primaries on Sept. 21, 1916.
For Tréasurer—
A. E. CASSLER
Of Holsopple
Your Vote and Influence Solicited at
the Primaries on Sept. 21, 1915.
{ For Treasurer—
EDWARD HOOVER
Of Somerset Township.
Your Vote and influence solicited.
For Treasurer—
W. W. LANDIS
. Of Jerome.
Your Vote and Influence Solicited at
the Primaries on Sept. 21, 1915.
| For Treasurer—
A. J. WEIMER
| Your Vote and Influence Solicited at
Your Vote and Influence Solicited at |!
solicited. |’
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( The man who works outdoors or who
plays outdoors requires special garments and
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fittings. By mak-
ing our acquaint-
ance he will be en-
abled to fill these
needs at low cost.
Flannel shirts;
strong suspenders
and belts; durable,
yet attractive.
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tentions that add to the pleasures
of autoists.
business.
can give your car at
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low cost will greatly
increase its utility for business or pleasure.
A full line of the motorist’s necessaries on
hand.
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For Recorder of Deeds—
ED. B. BARNETT
Of Somerset Borough
Your vote and influence solicited at
the primaries to be held Sept. 21, ’16
For Recorder of Deeds—
JOHN E. CUSTER
Of Hooversville Borough, Formerly of
Quemahoning Township.
Your Vote and influence golicited.
For Register of Wills and Clerk of
Orphans’ Court—
B. J. BOWMAN
Of Berlin Borough
Subject to the decision of Republi-
can voters at the Primary Election
to be held Tuesday, Sept 21, 1915.
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Meyersdale Auto Company
Enti~cly Unnecessary.
1t ie prob=aly true that Satan neve?
takes a vacation, put there's no gooa |
reascn why he should be always work |
ing overtime.— Washington Post.
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To Keep Stoppers From Sticking.
A very little glycerin smeared |
around the glass stoppers of bottles |
will keep them from sticking for a
long time.
The Way of Prices.
The news of an advance in prices
travels much than a reduction
aster
which may follow.—Atchison Globe.
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the Primaries on Sept. 21, 1915.
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ROPE AS STRONG AS STEEL
Manila Strands Together Equal a
Solld Bar Weight for Weight—
Efficiency of Leather.
Of the flexible ropes suitable for
power transmission a manila rope is
just as strong as a solid steel bar,
weight for weight, though only about
11% per cent as strong per equal cross
section, according to a writer in Pow-
er. Leather, on.the other hand, is only
about 5 per cent as strong as a‘'steel
bar of equal cross section and less
than 40 per cent as strong per equal
weight of material.
The relative. efficiency of manila
rope and leather belting for the trans-
mission of power is not directly pro-
portional to their respective strengths,
however, as the internal construction
of a hemp rope and a strip of leather
differ greatly and vary differently by
wear. Manila fibers, from which the
rope is manufactured, are usually from
eight to ten feet long, are composed
of elongated cells that possess great
strength longitudinally, but are com-
paratively weak transversely. Leath-
er, on the other hand, is about equally
strong in any direction, so that the
wear on such a belt is mostly external.
In a manila rope the wear is largely in
ternal, the elongated fiber cells being
crushed together when passing around
a sheave and breaking up into short
pieces. A worn-out manila rope, as far
as its strength is concerned, may have
of an excel
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