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NEWS IN GENERAL
James S. Hiatt, aged 37, private
secretary to Governor Brumbaugh,
died Saturday night at his home at
Bellevue Park, a suburb of Harris-
burg, after a protracted illness.
Dr. T. C. Graham Rogers, director
of the bureau of Industrial Hygiene
of the state of New York Labor De-
partment has begun an investigation
into the death of Miss Sophia Rosen,
a factory girl, who is believed to have
died from anthrax, contracted from
‘wearing a cat's fur neckpiece.
Great Britain, France and Russia
have united in an effort to add China
to the Entente Alliance in orde:. to
prevent possible friction in the future
between Japan and China and to pre-
serve the peace of the far East. If
China agrees to the plan, military par-
ticipation in the present war is not
expected.
For the part he played in the mar-
riage last week of Miss Eugenia Kelly,
the New York heiress, and Al Davis,
dancer, the Rev Henry Carr of Elk
Mills, Maryland’s Gretna Green, has
been peremptorily unfrocked as a
minister of the Reorganized Church of
Jesus Christ (Latter Day Saints).
pending an ecclesiastical trial.
The Allies have demanded that
Greece either join with them and ful-
fil her treaty obligation to Serbia, or
demoblize, and to impress King Con-
stantine that they mean what they
say, the allies have declared a com-
mercial blockade of the Hellenic em-
pire, according to dispatches from
Athens.
Many historical paintings and por-
traits in Philadelphia art galleries
some of which have been regarded as
priceless because of their authentic-
ity, are branded as fakes in a commu-
nication to the American Historical
Association by Charles Henry Hart,
an art connoisseur and an acknowl-
edged authority on historical por-
traiture.
Mrs Samuel K. Stahl, aged 24 of
Johnstown, was killed instantly in
her home on Sunday night when a re-
volver which her husband had loaded
and handed to Howard Edmiston, pre-
paratory to a hunting trip next day
was accidentally discharged. The
bullet pierced the heart. Edmiston
who had chummed with Stahl since
childhood, collapsed and is under the
care of a physician.
The safety of the Liberty Bell was
threatened at Paducah, Ky., late Sat:
urday when fire swept through two
large warehouses within less than
1,000 feet of the spot where the train
bearing the relic was sidetracked.
Forja time the blaze threatened to
reach 600,000-gallon oil tank directely
across the street. But a high wind
fanned the flames in the opposite di-
rection, prevented the explosion. An ver.
engine was hurriedly procured and the
train pull out of the switch to safety.
Germany has promised to pay in-
demnities for the loss of American
lives in the destruction of the Lus-
itania, but refuses to apoiogize to the
United Statés or to disavow the sink-
ing of the ship. This information was
obtained today from unimpeachable
authority.It has been learned too that
either with a view to keeping down
the amount of the indemnities or or
counteracting the great feeling of bit-
ter indignation in this country due to
the Lusitania murders, Germany, by
underhanded methods is seeking again
to place some blame for the loss cf
life upon the British government.
Edward Swank, a native of Somer
set, has purchased the Windsor Hotel
in Ashton, S. D,, asssuming manage-
ment of the hostelry the early part of
the week. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Swank, of the West Side, and
has been in tue West for seven or
eight years. Until récently Mr. Swank
had been with a Government survey,
with headquarters in Tacoma, Wash.
He and Mrs. Swank removed to Ash,
ton several months ago. Concerning
Mr. Swank’s vopularity in the Dakota
city, the Ashton “Chronicle” has the
following to say in noting the trans-
fer of the hotel property: “Ed has
made many friends in this vicinity,
and we expect to see him make g
success of his new venture.”
Practically all of Serbia is now in
the hands of the enemy, the Austro-
German forces having occupied Kur-
sumija, which is only six miles north
of the boundary of old Serbia. The
Austro-German front now rung from
Javor, near the Montenegrin frontier,
through Raska, across the Olbar
River to Kursumija, and Radan to
Oruglica, which is on the Orient Rail-
way south of Leskovatz. The Bulgar-
ians have thrust their forces &CTross
Macedonia until, according to the
latest dispatches, Prilep is in their
hands and Monastir reported occai-
pied. The efforts of the Austrian army
to crush little Montenegro, which has
been standing gallantly by its more
powerful allies, are making progress,
for the Montenegrins are being pushed
out of their mountain strongholds by
the weight of greatly superior num-
He Thinks Copper-Toed Shoes Must
Have Been Almost as Bad as
Lizzie Shoes of Today.
Here is a letter written by a boy, on
his shoes, which is interesting and
amusing:
“I wore out nine pairs of sneakers
this summer. Dad said that if I
wanted any more shoes I would have
to earn them. So I am writing a
story of the kinds of shoes a boy
wants.
“A boy wants a pair of real baseball
shoes in summer and a pair of hockey
boots in winter. Of course, he has to
have school shoes. Ma puts ‘Lizzie’
shoes on to me and sends me to danec-
ing school. I have to endure them.
“Dad says that I ought to be glad
to have any shoes at all. When he
was a boy, down on the farm, he went
barefooted in summertime and sat
Christmas Santa Claus gave him a
pair of pegged boots with shiny cop-
per toes and bright red tops.
“Well, if dad will go back to a farm
Ill go barefooted in the summertime.
But I won't walk barefooted on a hot
sidewalk. Dad must be thinking of
training me for one of those magi-
cians who walked on red hot stones
when he tells about me going bare-
footed.
“We would be better off back on
the farm, anyway! Dad makes shoes.
As near as I can make out from what
he says he hasn't earned a cent the
last three years, and we're likely to
land in the poorhouse most any day.
“And as for those red top boots
with the shiny copper toes—well, I
looked at them the other day and I'm
not surprised that dad ran away from
the farm when he was big enough.
“As I have to go to school I must
have school shoes. The kind of school
shoes that I want are as tough as iron.
[ want shoes that won't get soaking
wet when you get caught in the rain
coming home from school. Ma tries
er. But the fellows won’t let me play
ball with shiny shoes on my feet. So
[ don’t want any dressed up shoes.
One shine a week, Saturdays, is
enough for me.
“I don’t want any strap on the back
of my shoes. It’s no good. I like to
grab my shoes by the top and push
my foot right into them. There ought
to be room enough inside for my feet.
Dad says that I go at my shoes when
[ put them on like a man sawing
wood. Then I ask him why he does
not make shoes strong enough for me
lo wear. There's plenty of leather
around.
“Dad says that I'm an expensive
boy." One year he kept tabs on me.
He found that I wore out a pair of
shoes in seven weeks. I had eight
pairs of shoes in a year. They cost
almost $20. Dad said that was too
much. He didn’t ask my advice about
it. But I told him he could sell the
big car and buy a fiilvver, and then
his auto shoes would cost him $10
each instead of $35 each. Ma could
save enough money to pay my shoe
bills. Besides, I could drive the fliv-
But dad couldn't see it. In some
things he’s a poor economist.”—Salem
News.
The “Honorable.”
The title of “honorable” is used
loosely in the United States, being
given by courtesy to almost anyone
who holds or who has held an im-
portant public office. The title is es-
pecially bestowed upon members of
longress, governors, state senators,
ludges of the higher courts, and high
lederal officials. In Great Britain the
title of “Honorable” is borne by the
douse of commons as a body, by the
members separately when referred to
:n debate, by judges of the high court
of justice when not peers, and by all
the children of dukes, marquises, earis
(except the oldest son, who bears the
sourtesy title of Lord), viscounts, and
barons.
Proof of Cow’s Leanness.
There was once an old Garrabost
srofter who, when giving evidence he-
tore the Crofters’ commission, ad-
mitted that while he was the owner of
three cows, “the beasts were as thin
18 Pharaoh’s lean kine.”
The chairman, thinking to corner
?ld Kenneth, asked him to say how
lean Pharaoh's kine were.
Even a seventeenth-century divine
would have wanted a day or two to
think this over. But Kenneth an-
iwered at once:
“They were, sir, 80 lean that they
sould only be seen in a dream.”—Lon-
lon Tit-Bits.
Hundreds of thousands of mothers
throughout the Uniatd States will be
asked to meet in their respective
cities, towns and viliages at noon next
Friday to hold an hour of prayer that
the European war may be speedily
ended. Mrs. Henry Ford, of Detroit in-
fluenced by the earnest appeals of
Mme Rosika Schwummer, peace de-
legate from the Hague conference, has
promised to aid the women’s peace
movement, and give it such financial
support as will make it national in
scope, and assure its success. The at-
tention of the Nation has been turned
to the movement by 6,000 telegrams
which went out from New York to
every woman'’s organization of
every kind in the United States. The
telegrams will bear the signature of
Jane Addams, and will ask the observy-
ance of the hour of prayer, Friday.
bers.
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IN BELGIUM TODAY
People Confident Day of Deliver-
ance Will Come.
Young and Old Are Learning to Speak
English—No Personal Relations
Between Belgians and Ger-
mans—Boys Are Deficient.
London.—The following account of
conditions in Belgium is from the pen
of an American who has arrived in
London after a year’s stay in the Bel
gian capital:
“Belgium today is learning to speak
English. Everywhere you ‘80, you can
See the old and young usually carry-
ing notebooks, studying in the streets
and trams, in the cafes, restaurants
and in the homes, all talking English,
using English expressions and words
on all possible occasions.
“Belgium is confident. You have
only to Took at their faces to see it,
and if you talk with them, they say,
‘Just wait. The day of deliverance is
coming, it may be this summer or next
summer, but never? Vous etes fou!’
“From the German military -stand-
point, Belgium is organized into three
districts, the first, the Operationsge-
biet or the zone of operations, which
extends some fifteen to twenty miles
behind the actual line of fighting; the
second, the Etappen, which is an in-
termediary zone where all the sup-
plies for the front are collected and
distributed; and the third, the Occupa-
tionsgebiet or the occupied territory
organized with both military and civil
governments. No person can go from
one to the other except on special per-
mission, and then only by train, which
includes as one of its comforts a
thorough searching.
“No person can ..ave the town in
which he lives, except by train or on
foot. Those who wish to ride in auto-
mobiles must pay twenty marks a
week or more. In the fortified cities
of Liege, Namur and Antwerp, you
must be in your houses at nine o'clock
in the evening.
“Naturally no Belgian can go to Hol
land except by stealth, and I have good
reason to believe that some sixty thou-
sand have passed the frontier since
the first of the year. Sometimes this
necessitates the killing of one or two
sentinels.
“Above all it is strictly forbidden to
sing or :’ay the Brabanoon, the Mar-
seillaige, and Tipperary, as a result of
which nearly every Belgian can sing
Tipperary and does so very often. On
the Boulevard Anspach in Brussels
one day four little boys were march-
ing towards the bourse singing at the
top of their lungs the Br-banoon. It
. Wm. C, Price
Successor to W. A. Clarke
i Funeral Director
| Business conducted at the same place
Prompt attention given to all calls
at all times. Both Phones.
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CROUP AND WHOOPINGCOUGH.
Mrs. T. Neurcuer, 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 fafled. Our milkman cured his
children of whoopingcough.” Woley’s
has a forty years record of similar
cases. Contains no opiates. Always in
sist on Foley's, Sold everywhere.
Hundreds of health articles appear
in newspapers and magasines, and fn
practically every one of them the im-
portance of keeping the bowels reg
ular is emphasized. A constipated
condition invites disease, A depends
ble physic that acts without inconve
nience or griping in Foley Cathartte |
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Anyone in need of a first-class Slate
Roof, write to J. S. WENGERD
as we have
No. 1 Bangor or Sea Green Slate
in stock at Meyersdale and can give
The Second National Bank
Mar. 4, ’14
March 4, ’'15
Sept. 2,1915 $638,580.12
NOVEMBER 10,’15 $652,875.57
OF MEYERSDALE, PA.
At the Close of Business Nov. 10,1915
RESOURCES. LIABILITIES.
Loans and Investments__ $468,505.09 | Capital stock paid in__._$ 65,000.00
U. S. Bonds and Premiums 72,231.87 | Surplus Fund and Profits. . . 52,350.84
Real Estate, Furniture, Fix. 62,574.50 | Circulation. __. —____. 64.000.00
Cash and due from Banks___49,564.11 | Deposits ___________. . 471,524.73
“Total Resources. $652,875.57
Growth as shown in following statements made to Comptralter of Currency.
Total Liabilities__. $652,875.57
ASSETS
July 15, '08 $262,014,92
June 23, 09 $411,680.13
March 7, ’11 $512,574.48
April 4, 1913 $605,870.62
$610,212.34
$624,868.35
you a good price on slate
"GALVANIZED ROOFING
'| at the lowest prices
We have a good stock on hand and .
prices will be higher when this is sold,
| also Spouting.
Write for Delivered Prices
| to any Railroad Station
J. S. WENGERD
PENNA.
MEYERSDALE, te
Every Farmer with two or more
COWS needs a
A DelLAVAL,
THE BEST SEPARATOR MADE, :
ot Office 223 Levergood St ,
J. T. YODER.
Johnstown, - Penn’a
Don't you back up or stop
until you've tried FIVE
BROTHERS.
fect tobacco for the big, two-
fisted, out-of-doors man who
was not long before some German #ol- |
diers chased them, catching one, ‘Wi
as he marched © vay to the komman-
datur, cried out to his friends: ‘Run
and tell mamma that I am a prisoner
of war.’ The young Belgians all wear
caps modeled on the soldiers’ rest
caps and are very indenendent.
“The German government of Bel-
gium has expressed its desire that all
Belgians should return to their work,
but if it be work that can profit the
Germans, they find something else to
do. Then, besides, every piece of ma-
chinery that can be used in Germany
has been stolen long since.
“It is easy to say, ‘Go to work, but
it is another thing to have work to do
which is not of direct benefit to the
German military authorities. In Char-
leroi there were about fifty locomo-
tives which had been damaged more
or less. The Germans offered the
work of repair with fair pay to the
Belgian workmen, but they absolutely
refused, as the locomotives could be
used in sending supplies and troops |
to the front. It was nearly a month
later when after failing to persuade
the Belgians to work the Germans
were compelled to bring workmen
from their shops in Germany.
“I have given you some idea of the
general relations between the Ger-
mans and the Belgians. As for per-
sonal relations, there is none.
“During the week before I left Brus.
sels, I was a spectator of an incident
which perhaps shows the distance be-
tween the two better than I can ex-
plain. I was standing on the platform
of a tram coming up from town. It
was crowded with both Germans and
Belgians. A German subofficer took a
cigarette from his case, and, having no
match, asked the man standing beside
him for a light. The Belgian had
nothing to de but offer the German
his lighted cigarette. When the Ger-
man went to return the cigarette, the
Belgian very politely informed the
German that he did not care to smokd
any more. The German could do
nothing, although he felt the insinua-
tion. He left the tram immediately.
“For our real news we have had to
depend upon the Dutch papers and
above all the London and Paris jour-
nals which were smuggled in from
time to time. The German authorities
have:done all they could to stop these
papers coming in, even making it ex-
tremely punishable, but as fast as
they would stop up one channel of the
supply another would be found. We
were never without an English paper
for more than two weeks since the
first'of September of last year.
“The commission for relief of Bel-
gium has, no doubt, saved a nation
from starvation, and under the diffi-
cult circumstances, have done a won-
derful work. The Belgians know and
adpreciate the help. even if the
Germons have tried to claim the credit
by publishing pictures of the commis-
sion’s work and labeling them as some
of the fine work Germany hag done in
Releinm.”
53° wants a rich, mellow tobacco
for both chewing and smoking.
You get hold of FIVE
BROTHERS. Not: the honest
sweetness of this purc Southern
Kentucky leaf, acd for three
to five years, to bring out all
its mellow fragrance and flavor.
FIVE BROTHERS has the genu-
ine snap and taste that you
want in tobacco.
several hours one evening last week
family physician was at once
moned and succeeded in removing the
bean.
H. Vansinkle. During her sicenoss
Miss Mae Bittner is teaching her |
Ds. H. B. Wiley and son,
‘Get Up” and Get
It's the one per-
FIVE BR
Pipe Smoking Tobacco
Tee TOBACCO COMPANY
|have returned home from Pittsburg,
and | Where they spent several days this
ROCKWOOD
Victor, the young son of Mr.
Mrs. H. H. Shumaker, suffered for | week on busine.
J. D. Snyder of Rockwood, is spend-
on account of a bean in his nose. The | ing several days this week in Pitts
sum- | burg on business. .
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Bittner,
| Meyersdale, are
Mrs. Lillian Vansickle is ill at the days this week as the guest of thier | home in Johnstown.
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and as.
P, P. Hauger.
The stork
classes In the Rockwood high school. | homes recently: A baby boy was left | land the first of the week. They will
Robert, }at the home of Mr. and Mrs. EH, D.'reside in Garrett,
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sturdy man who is hungry
for a real man’s tobacco, F or
many years all sorts of brands
have tried to beat out FIVE
BROTHERS, but the old he-
boy is still the king-brand of
em all.
Nothing fancy about the
FIVE BROTHERS package—
we put all the cost into the
tobacco. As you say of a
horse, “he’s a horse™—so
we say of FIVE BROTHERS
—*“it’s all tobacco.”
FIVE BROTHERS is sold
everywhere — get a package
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THE AMERICAN
Romesburg; a baby girl was left at
| the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Cram-
|er of Black township.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hay of Johns-
town are guests of relatives here.
| Mr. and Mrs. C. F. DeHaven who
of [have been visiting relatives here for
spending several [some time, have returned to their
8S. B. Smith of Garrett and Miss Al-
ice Hutchison, of Milford township,
following | were united in marriage at Cumber
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