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THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY
The 22nd annual reunion of the
survivors of the 133rd regiment, Pa.
Vols., will be held in Johnstown, Pa.,
on September 2nd.
Steve Micho, a Boswell miner, was
taken to the Memorial Hospital in
Johnstown, recently suffering from
a compound fracture of the right leg
and a dislocation of the shoulder, re-
ceived when he was caught in a fall
of coal.
The fourteenth annual Burket fam-
reunion will be held in Barnhart’s
grove, Claysburg, Saturday, Sept, 4.
All Burkets with their families and
friends, far or near, are invited to at-
tend and share in the many pleasures
of the day.
The mines of Somerset County are
figuring in immense exportations of
coal. The “Coal Trade Journal” of
August 11th reports that the Berwind-
White Coal Mining Company has
booked an order for 300,000 tons of
coal for export to Italy, and the Con-
solidation and Quemahoning com-
panies are exporting many tons of
coal.
Miss Maud O’Connor, daughter of
John R. O’Connor, of Forwardstown
has gone to Dwyer, N. M. where she
has accepted a position as school
teacher. At El Paso she will be joined
by her sister, Emily. O'Connor, who
has taught in New Mexico for some
time. Miss Maud O'Connor has taught
in the Somerset county schools for
the past four years and has been
quite a favorite in her calling.
The Church of the Brethren of
Scalp Level lately remodeled at a
cost of $3,100 was formally dedica®-
ed on August 15 with appropriate
ceremonies. More funds were raised
than was necessary, the total amount
pledged being $3525 of which $2100
was cash. The Rev. J. H. Cassidy, pas-
tory of the Church of the Brethren
at Huntingdon, preached the dedica-
tory sermon on “There was neither
hammer nor any tool of iron heard
in the house while it was building.”
A temporary injunction was issued
recently by Judge Ruppel at the re-
quest of Penrose Wolf and Jacob B.
Critchfield restraining Thomas B.
Palmer and W. E. Crowe,
for the United Lumber Company from
constructing a spur of railroad on
the "plaintiff's timber tract in Jeffer-
son township. Motion to make the in-
junction permanent has been made
but the matter will not be determin-
ed until the Court hears the testimo-
ny.
The will of David Keim, a Menon-
ite Bishop who died in Elk Lick
Township, was probated last week.
The testator directed that his remains
be burried in conformity with the cus-
toms of his church. He gave $2,000
cash and the use of the homestead to
his wife. She is also given her choice
of taking three hundred dollars wortn
of personal property or that amount
in cash. Ivar R., a son by the second |
marriage, is to share equally with the
children of decedent’s first marriage.
D. W. Maust and Jacob Keim were ap-
pointed executors.
In following out the policy of tha
state highway department looking to-
ward the elimination of all toll roads
in Pennsylvania
for the purchase of the Davidsville &
Benscreek turnpike, located south of
Johnstown. This turnpike begins at
Island Park and runs well into Somer-
set county. It has paid for itself scores
of times in the last half century, it
is declared, and its elimination as a |
toll road would be one of the most
welcome pieces of news that Johns-
town and Somerset county people
could have at this time.
forts to secure the road by condemna-
tion and other proceedings
failed, owing to the exorbitant
ces demanded by those in control.
have
pri-
SETTLE UP AND KEEP UP.
Don’t let your subscription get be-
hind. If it is back settle up and get
the splendid discount we give for ad-
vance payment on the Commercial;
then in reading the paper you can al-
ways feel like a square, honest man.
The editor needs his money and it
is only right that he should have it.
The cost of publishing a newspaper is
larger than the readers thereof have
any idea. Times are improving and
we have a number of subscribers who
should settle up their account with-
out any further notice or annoyance.
MOTORCYCLES PROHIBITED.
Use of bicycles or motorcycles in
the rural delivery service is prohib-
ited by Postmaster General Burleson,
effective January 1, 1916. In announc-
ing his order Mr. Burleson holds that
vehicles of these types do not have |
the carrying capacity needed for the |
parcel post service and do not afford |
necessary protection for the mails
in bad weather. The order will affect
8,000
or motorcycle to cover
carriers who now use the
about
bicycle
ROCKWOQOD
Miss Daisy Cover, a teacher in the
public schools of Ligonier, is visiting
Dr. and Mrs. C. J. Hemminger of
Main street.
Miss Mary Fetters is home after
spending her vacation with her broth-
er in Connemaugh, Johnstown, and
! friends in Portage.
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Hurley have
as their guests Mrs. Amanda- Speel-
man, Mr and Mrs. Brown of Cumber-
land, Md.
Calvin Rush, who has the agency
for the Ford cars, has recently sold
Simon Enos of Milford a touring car.
Misses Emeline Snyder and her cou-
sin, Ruby Scaggs of Pittsburg, are the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gregory at
their summer hame at Chesapeake
Beach, and later will visit in Baltim-
ore and Washington. They expect to
be absent several weeks.
Miss Mabel Spangle, an operator
for the Economy Telephone Company,
is off duty as a result of an attack of
tonsilitis.
Charles Miller of Akron, O., is vis-
iting his relatives, Z. Ed Miller and
family of Main street.
Mrs. Mary Fike of Racine, Cal, is
visiting her brother, Silas Walker of
West Broadway.
Miss Sidney Pritts of Somerset was
visiting her brother-in-law and sister,
‘Mr and Mrs. Schrock of Broadway.
Miss Pritts just returned from a ten
days’ visit at Atlantic City and Bal-
timore.
C. H. Omser of Johnsown, the new-
ly appointed game warden for this
county, was a caller in Rockwood
several days the past week. He has
been looking for asuitable location
for his family.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Snyder and daugh-
ter Myrtle, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Snyder
and daughter Anna May, Mr. and Mrs.
receivers |
announcement 18 |
made that negotiations are under way | Sunday
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Numerous ef- |
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‘Horner Bowman and daughter Sara,
{all of Rockwood, are the guests of
Messrs. Snyder and Mrs. Bowman's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Coleman of
Gaurd, Md.
H. S. Kruman has resumed work
(after a 15 day vacation at Atlantic
City.
Miss Fern Wilt of Youngstown, O..
is visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. John Wilt of Broadway.
Wilson Creek, were callers here Wed-
nesday.
The remains of Mr. Meyers who
was electrocuted in the B. & O
shops at Connellsville, were brought
here for bural. Funeral services were
(held in the United Brethren Church,
{in charge of Rev. Duke. Mr. Meyers
had a large funeral, as he had a wide
circle of friends and formerly lived
in this place.
| Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wright and
two children ha evreturned to their
home at Irwin after two weeks spent
with Mrs. Wright's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Reiber of the West Side.
Mrs. Carl Brown of the West Side,
who has been quite ill for some time
is improving.
VIM.
Mrs. Simon Nicholson of Pleasant
Hill spent several days of last week
at Vim.
Mrs. Henry Suder is suffering with
{ typhoid fever.
| Miss Elizabeth Tressler spent over
in Berlin
| Mr. and Mrs. Sam. Hoover, Mr.
(and Mrs. George Becker and Vance
| Hartle of Meyersdale, spent Sunday
at the home of C. W. Tressler.
| Quite a number of our people at-
| tended the Reformed Sunday school
picnic at Mt. Lebanon last Saturday.
Mrs. Israel Schrock, of Meyersdale,
| spent Sunday at the home of Wilson
Ringler.
Misses Edna Tressler and Grace,
Mary, Margaret and Helen Fike spent
| Sunday at the home of Wilson Vought
| near Salisbury.
Mrs. Wm. Ray, of Meyersdale, spent
over Sunday with her daughter, Mrs.
Lawrence Gisbert.
George /Bangard was a visitor Sat-
urday and Sunday in Cumberland.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Engle and Hen-
ry Engle and family attended the
funeral of the infant child of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Thomas, in Salisbury
on Sunday last.
CROUP AND WHOOPINGCOUGH.
Mrs. T. Neureuer, Eau Claire, Wis.,
says, “Foley’s Honey ad Tar Com-
pound cured my boy of a very severe
attack o croup after other remedies
had failed. Our milkman cured his
children ropingcough.” Foley's
has a forty years record of similar
cases. Contains no opiates. Always in-
gist on Foley’s. Sold everywhere.
Hundreds of health articles appear
in newspapers and magazines, and in
practically every one of them the im-
| portance of keeping the bowels reg-
of whe
{ular is emph ved. A constipated
| condition invites disease. A depends-
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le physic that acts without inconve-
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nience or gris
Pills
in Foley Cathartic
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A few letter heads and Envelopes
ANCIENT WISDOM AND
MODERN FOOLISHNESS.
Timely Talks by Commissioner Dix-
on on Health and Hygiene.
In every age in every nation there
has been a class of individuals who |
objected to all innovations solely
the ground that they were new.
erybody numbers one or more
these objectors among his acquaintan-
ces. >
Preventive medicine is referred ©
these days as a new science and so |
it is but many of the measures uscd
to day are hoary with age and have |
been sanctioned by sanitarians of the
dim centuries. The Scriptures hold |!
evidence of this and now and again
the historian may mark a passage,
which adds confirmation.
The care of water supplies
one of the things which the oppo-
nents of modern sanitation most fre-
quently belittle and which the pub-
lic health officials continually recom-
mend. To those bold objectors who
blatantly proclaim their superiority
to precautionary measures it is in-
teresting to quote from Heroditus
“the Father of history”, who wrote
some twenty-three odd centuries ago
of Cyrus the Persian king.
“Cyrus made war against the son
of this queen, who bore the name of
his father, Labynetus, and had the
Empire of Assyria, Now when the
great King leads his army in person,
he carries with him from home prov-
islons well prepared and cattle; and
he takes with him water from the
River = Choaspes, which flows past
Susa, of which alone, and no other,
the King drinks, A great number of
four wheel carriages, drawn by mules
carry the water of this river, after
it has been boiled in silver vessels
and follow him from place to place
wherever he marches.”
Fortunately the majority of people
heed the warnings given when it be-
comes necessary to boil water from
private or public supplies or take
other steps to insure its safety. So
long however as the dissenters con-
tinue their senseless opposition we
shall continue to have an unnecessa-
on
Ev- |
of
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Robert Thornby and his sister of |
ry amount of typhoid. Not alone a-
mong the individuals who set them-
selves above the acquired "knowledge
of scientific investigators but also a-
mong the unfortunate people who
permit their better judgment to be
. swayed by the positive assertion of
the ignorant.
Skim Cream on Bottles.
A novel method of skimming all
the cream from milk contained in a
bottle or like vessel is to use a large
round disk of rubber which takes a
slightly concave shape, it being hung
apon three light aluminum rods or
wires. Slipping the disk in edgewise
and below the surface, it then takes
the flat position and can be drawn out
with all the cream.
To Overrule Timidity.
Don't believe that you are unable to
overcome timidity. You think you are
not because you have always been able
to control conditions and people in
a way to humor it. Start the fight
oow: for you may some day find your-
self alone, and without the money to
buy yourself an audience for your pe
culiarities.
Who Baked Them?
A little girl was sent to a neigh-
bor's with a plate of fresh cookies
that her mother had just baked. In a
little while she came running back to
her mother and said: “Oh, mother,
Mrs. Weeks thought the cookies wers
just fine and she wants the ‘address’
for them.”
When Was ne In the Legislature?
“The legislature, pa—?’ “The aver
age legislature, my son,” replied J.
Fuller Gloom, “is a debtaing society
wherein nobody knows what he is
talking about, and does not care any-
thing about what anybody else is
wlking about.” ;
Cleverness of Ponies.
Will some naturalist explain why
ponies, as a rule, are more intelligent
that big horses? There is no doubt
they are, and the fact receives new
proof in a story that comes from
Maine. A farmer who owns a horse
and a pony was told that if he put
good-sized stones in ‘their feed boxes
they would be obliged to eat slower,
and would therefore digest their food
better. He tried the plan, and it work-
ed well with the horse, but the pony
picked the stones out one by one, and
dropped them on the floor, and he did
this just as often as they were put in
che feed-box.
Bees Have No. Common Sense.
Henri Fabre, the “Insects’ Homer,”
18 Maeterlinck calls him, asserts that
bees have no reason, only instinct,
and gives many proofs of his assem
tion. For example, he opened the bot-
tom of a cell In course of construction,
‘win is sending out the following ex- |
l cellent suggestions:
is now |
FIRE PREVENTION DON'TS
State Fire Marshal Joseph L. Bald- |
Don’t use coal oil to start a slow |
fire.
Don’t try to
It is dangerous.
Don’t polish a stove while it is hot.
Don’t fill an oil or gasoline stove af- |
ter dark. If you must fill them, never |
| do so while lighted, as the flames
might set fire to the vapor in the air |
and ignite the oil, causing an explo- |
sion.
Don’t leave a lamp burning when
away from home.
Don’t leave a lamp turned down
low, as it is liable to cause an explo-
sion.
Don’t use swinging lamps
window.
Don’t use any but safety matches.
Don’t eprmit gasolene, benzine or
naphtha to be kept in the house.
Don’t wash clothing or other arti-
cles in gasolene, benzine or naphtha
in the house.
Don’t throw gasolene, benzine or
naphtha in the sink or cess pools.
Don’t throw water on afl ,.:;,.:;
Don’t light a match when looking
for a gas leak.
Don’t throw hot
fences or buildings.
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start any fire with coal |
oil.
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near a
ashes against
after it and be sure that the fire is
out before you leave it.
Don’t permit rubbish,
greasy rags to accumulate.
paper or
SUIT AGAINST HOTEL MAN.
Attorney Berkey & Shaver, repre-
senting the Thomas E. Pollard whole
sale liquor house of Pittsburg, have in-
stituted suit against P. J. McGrath,
proprietor af the Central Hotel Mey-
ersdale, for $468.17, alleged to be due
the plaintiffs for wines and liquors
Don’t fail to burn all rubbish. Look I;
purchaed by the defendant.
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for your Church Envel-
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them for the same price,
and you can save ex-
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rates.
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RE BACAR ERRCAONCE FEE:
Meyersdale, Penn’a.
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satisfying. Made of pure
Southern Kentuckyleaf,aged
for three to five years, so
as to bring out all its fra-
grant flavor and sweetness.
This is what makes FIVE
BROTHERS alwaysthesame.
It doesn’t depend upon one
season's crop, like many to-
baccos. We have several
seasons crops always stored
away.
Take FIVE BROTHERS
on the job for a week's tryout
— after that you'll always
carry FIVE BROTHERS in
your jeans. Get a package
today.
THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY
Np ami arr op
Arkansas w:iamonds.
Since the discov r of diamonds in
Arkansas, in 1908, 1.375 stones, aggre
gating 550 carats, have been found
there.
Protects Feet.
but the bee that was building it kept
right on with its work, building up the
cell and storing honey in it, quite un-
5s of the fac
the future
CONS CIol
generation was oozing out,
and fl ally laid its egg
the to e cell, never paying any
attontion te the hole tn the bottom.
Read “THE TORTOIS
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and sealed up | :
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Castor Oil
il will
prevent feet from
jb long walk. It
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of Well-Known Soclety.
first society 1 {he Prevention
1 in 1824 by Mr. Martin, M. P.
Five Brot!
7 i) Lay in a Lot of it
You could smoke or chew
3 « FIVE BROTHERS by the fod-
vi ..'. ful and you'd never get
enough—it’s so mellow and
rich and pleasing.
lay in a supply of it
today. Keep some at home
and some on the jcb, and
it will hold you steady as
a spirit-level trues a wall.
FIVE
. Pipe Smoking Tobacco
is the one perfect tobacco for the sturdy man who likes his tobacco rich, full-bodied and
a
Too Much Wit. and Lester
An East Cleveland man who likes to
tinker about his home pulled awuy the |
steps to his side door last Saturday |
Clayton Shaffer, twin
sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Shaffer of
near Boswell who recently celebrat-
and took them into the garage, where |ed their 12th birthday anniversary,
he added sundry nails to their makeup. (lay claim to being the heaviest twins
He was lugging them back when his go. their age in this section of the
next door neighbor looked over the
fence and saiq
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