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FINDING POSITIONS FOR
UNEMPLOYED MEN.
Commissioner Jno. Price Jackson 2n-
nounces that the recently created
Bureau of Employment of the Depart-
~ ment of Labor and Industry distri-
buter 620 jobs in Pennsylvania indus-
trios as Christmas present among un
employed workers during the month
proceding Christmas.
The central office of the Bureau at
Harrisburg placed 228 workers in em-
ployment. The Philadelphia branch
office is in the Hannan Builing in that |
city.
Approximately 1834 applications for
ployment were received at the
&ree offices of the Employment
Bureau during the last six weeks. At
ROCKWOOD.
J. R. Barron has returned home
from Mobile Alabama where he had
spent several weeks looking after his
southern investment.
Mrs. Harry W. Keil of Casselman
dropped dead on Friday afternoon at
her home . She had been suffering
‘from neuralgia for several days past
and the family physician, C. J. Hem-
minger, claims that it went to the
heart causing instant death. She is
survived by her husband and two
children
Mrs. Dennis Mankamyer who has
been visiting friends and relatives in
Rockwood for some time past has re
turned with her children to the home
of her father in Iowa.
John Vought one of the teachers of
Iron City College, Pittsburg, is spend-
ing his Christmas vacation with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vought
of Rockwod.
Mr. and Mr. Charles Shoyer who
were recently married have moved in-
to she E. E. Dull property on Main
street.
Mrs. John Hanna has gone to Pitts-
burg to spend a part of the holidays
with her father, L. H.Ward.
Miss Emma Merrill of Garrett, was
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Mill-
er, of Highland and while in town re-
newed cld acquaintanceships.
| block has returned home after spend-
! :
| ing several days visiting relatives and
Miss Carrie Snyder of the Millen
36 IMPETUS FOR
ESTABROOK BOOM
“Dark Horse” For Republican
Presidantial Nomination,
NATIONAL DEFENSE PIONEER
Known as Fearless Advocate of Tra-
ditional Republicar Principles—Also
Recognized as One of Ablest Cam-
paigners In United States.
Far and away the most interesting
phase of the national political situa-
tion is the movement that has brought
Henry D. Estabrook, of New York and
Nebraska, so prominently to the front
as a candidate for the Republican pres-
idential nomination. First spoken of
as a possibility in connection with the
presidency less than six months ago.
Mr. Estabrook is today one of the lead-
ing candidates, with evidences of
strength that are a source of concern
to the friends of the other aspirants.
He has made speeches in every im-
portant city in the East, Middle West,
and Far West, an arduous campaign
experiencé that has put him in good
condition to meet the rigorous demands
the Harrisburg office 258 applications | friends in Johnstown. [hace - fhe head or » i hatioval
for work were received; at Puiladel | Ernet Schackelton, a former resi- fio Trionds Ne aa me
phia, 1372; at Johnstown,204. There | jo; of this place but now of Phila- aantzations 2nd ave going atten ntiohal
remain 1214 applications for work in| j.1hnia, died at his home the first of | delegates in the most vigorous fashion.
the three offices of the Bureau, includ- | 1444 week and was brought to Rock- Impartial observers agree that this
ing 30 at Harrisburg 1034 at Philadel | 504 for burial on Friday, interment development of the Estabrook boom
phia; and 150 at Johnstown. | veing made in the Odd Fellows’ cem- has no parallel in the political history |
The Bureau has at present 386 pos- | etery.
itions in various lines of work to offer Philip Schaff of Kiski College at |
unemployed persons. There are 170 of | Saltshurg is spending his vacation
such vacancies in the Harrisburg | with his mother, Mrs. H. D. Schaff
office, 114 in the Philadelphia office,
and 102 in the Johnstown office. A |
great number of applicants on
able of performing only very light
work and for whom it is difficult to
obtain positions.
Director Jacob Lightner of the Em-
ployment Bureau asserts that every
effort is being made to find places
suitable for every applicant but he de:
clares that in many instances the pro-
blem presented is difficult to solve.
“A pleasing feature of the work is
" the ‘genuine gratitude shown by many
of the persons whom we have aided in
finding employment” said Director
Lightner Tuesday. “It frequently hap
pens that applicants offer a dollar as
advance fee to the clerk who receives
the application. Considerable surprise
follows when the money is refused and
the fact is impressed upon the appli-
cant that the state is aiding them
without eost to employment.
“Many employers have similarly
voiced their appreciation of the ser-
vice performed by the State employ,
ment bureau. With the development
of this free system to bring together
the unemployed worker and the em-
ployer in need of employees, the
aim of the bureau will be to perform
a beneficial and economic service to
1 of Pennsylvania.”
128 SERIOUS HUNTING
ACCIDENTS.
Figures compiled on the most re-
cent season in the three branches of
outdoor sport, show hunting the most
dangerous pastime.
There were as many deaths in base
ball as in hunting, but the baseball
season covers nine months of the year
while hunting lasts only a few months
and there are many, many more per-
sons engaged in baseball than in hun-
ting. The football season lasts about
as lo g a: the hunting season but the
death rec -d is much smaller.
Bes ies ‘he 62 persons killed In
huntii.z, ¢ were badly injured. The
figure- ar gathered from 18 states.
Last ysar e dead numbered 111, and
the in rec 162.
"The ‘ect 1se is probably due to the
fact tt t f° wer persons hunted this
year. Mai ’ states having passed
a law } 'ohi ting the shooting of does
and lin ting each hunter to one buck.
Many o I-ti1 > hunters stayed at home.
Michi ‘an, 8 has been the case for
severai real led in deths with 14.
Two + om were killed; Mrs. J. E.
Ford, of Dar ille, Ill, as accidentally
shot by ter 1sband while on a duck
hunt in Jolc do. Mrs. Reuben Bare-
lett, of «an ‘ard, Me. was shot by
a hunter vho hought he was shooting
at a der.
Accidel al ischare of guns were
responsib : fo most deaths and inju-
ries. In 1 any case, hunters shot at
what ther be ved to be game, and
found tha’ the had killed fellow hunt-
ters.
{ LA —KEEFER.
Jacob PI tt, « Stonycreek township
and Miss sic Keéfer, of Brothers.
valley tow: ship were united in mar-
riage by E er .. G. Schrock, at the
residence o BE. . Knepper, of Broth-
ersvalley t« ¥ns p, on Dec. 23.
Red Cros Se
good health ‘Th
the great ct npa
leading business
are messengers of |
save lives. Help in |
n. Sold at all the
places.
and with other friends in Rockwood.
Miss Edna Snyder of California
the { Normal is at home druing the holi-
waiting list are persons who are cap- |
days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
D. W. Snyder.
- Mrs. Fannie Moon of Confluence, is
enjoying the holidays with her sou-
in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ir-
vin Wolf of Rockwood.
Mrs. Elwood Zearfoss of Rockwood
{enjoyed a visit -of several days with
| Pittsburg friends.
| SOUTH SIDE BOYS WIN
| LOCAL CHAMPIONSHIP.
| By defeating the Firemen Five on!
{ Christmas evening by the score of |
26 to 16 the South Side Basket Ball
team won the second game of the se-
ries and with it the championship
of Meyersdale. For the past two years
there has ben a strong spirit of rival-
ry between these two teams and at
| the beginning of the present season,
| Manager Reich arranged for a series
| of three games with the understand-
jine that the city championship should
be conceded to the winners of two
games. The first game was played a-
bout two weeks ago and the South
team defeated their opponents in a fast
game 19—18 score. On Christmas ev-
ening the Firemen were out for re-
venge and were determined to win.
The result was a fine lively game with
each team playing its hardest. The
game was very interesting until with-
in a few minutes of theend of the last
half when the SouthSide boys took a
spurt which so bewildered the Fire-
men that the game was easily won
by the South Side team. .
The lineup—
South Side 26
Pos. Firemen 16
S. Grier PF Darrow
Fike-Matthews F Reich
G. Griffith C. Darrah
C. Siehl G. Lindeman
W. Stotler G Spence
Field Goals—Grier 5; Matthews 3;
Griffith 3; Darrow 1; Reich 2; Dar-
row 1; Spence 1.
Foul Goals—Grier 3 out of 9; Matthew
1 otu of 3; Darrah 6 out of 22. Referee
Clutton; Timer, Boucher; Scorer, L.
Siehl.
The Meyersdale High School Bas-
ket Bal Team will open their season
at Reich’s auditorium on Friday, an.
7 with the strong Beall High School
qquintet of Frostburg.
CONFLUENCE
Miss Felicia Flanigan, a student at
Indiana State Normal, is spending her
vacation with relatives here.
Miss Josephine McKee, a student at
Peabody Institute at Baltimore was
home to spend the Christmas vacation
with her parents.
J. L. Burnworth of Johnsons Chapel
and W. E. Hollinger of this place each
lost valuable cows last week.
J. C. Kendall of Baltimore,
greeting friends here recently.
E. C. Show of Johnson’s Chapel, has
returned from a business trip to Ohio-
pyle.
Bert King was here on his way to
his home in Braddock after attending
the funeral of his father at Ursina.
Misses Reba Pore and Paulene Mur-
phy, students at Indiana State Normal
are spending the Christmas vacation
with their respective parents, Mr. and
Mrs. D. H. Pore and Mr. and Mrs. W.
J. Murphy.
R. J. Frantz and Harry Porterfield
returned home after spending several
days at Farmington on business.
was
HENRY D. ESTABROOK.
of the last 25 years, and they are be
ginning to inquire whether the popu-
lar demand for new leadership is ac-
tually so strong as to give this new
man the greatest political prize over
which mer struggle.
An All Around Big Man.
Estabrook is a big man physically,
mentally and politically. Quite six
feet in height, erect, rugged, he would
be a man of commanding presence in
any gathering. His mental attainments
are attested by his signal success in
the practice of law and by the wide-
spread interest in his every public ut-
terance on governmental, economic
and social problems. He has always
been a student and when he discusses
a subject he speaks with the author-
ity of one who has mastered it. His
conclusions are invariably sound, and,
once he has arrived at them, they are
proclaimed frankly and fearlessly, for
he is essentially a man with the cour-
age of his convictions.
Fox instance, he has been one of the
most drastic critics of President Wil-
son and the present Democratic admin-
istration, arraigning them for their
tariff law which bankrupted the fed-
eral treasury and which places the
American farmer, the American manu-
facturer, and the American laborer at
the mercy of foreign competition, and
for a foreign policy which has destroy-
ed the respect that the American flag
and American citizens once command-
ed in every quarter of the globe.
A Preparedneczs Pioneer.
Likewise Mr. Estabrook was the first
man prominently before the public to
outline a concrete program of national
defense, which he presented in an ad-
dress before the American Bankers’
Association September 8th last at Seat-
tle. characterized by the Seattle Times
as “one of the most remarkable ad-
dresses ever delivered in the North-
west,” and he was the first Republican
Jeader to point the way to the reunion
pnd harmonizing of all elements of the
party, his “Get-Together” plea before
the McKinley Club of Omaha, Nebras-
ka, last October, having attracted wide-
spread attention.
From the time Mr. Estabrook open-
ed the Republican Nation#® campaign
in Chicago in 1896 he has been recog-
nized as one of the ablest campaigners
in the United States, and there have
been few speakers in greater demand.
The issues in the great contest of
1916. which is to restore the Republic-
an party to the administration of na-
tional affairs, will be Protection, Pros-
perity, and Preparedness, in Mr, Esta-
brook’s judgment, with “Get-Together”
as the slogan for Republicans of every
shade of opinion. He has Leen preach-
ing this gospel in all soctions of the
ry, and has met with enthusiastic
tions evervwhere he has gone.
CO
OLD ACE
DR. DIXON .... ... ..c cov seecesn
| Number 100 of the weekly “little
talks on health and hygiene,” by Dr.
Samuel G. Dixon, the state commis-
sioner of health, has been issued,
| somewhat appropriately, entitled “Old
| Age.”
| When Doctor Dixon began to writ?
these timely essays on preventive med-
icine and allied subjects 100 weexa
ago, probably no one was less san-
guine than he of the popularity which
they would speedily achieve. Their
success, however, was instantaneous.
The start was made by furnishing
the “little talk” each week to each
newspajer, daily and weekly, in the
state, free of charge. Literally hun-
dreds of papers began to use them at
‘once. Some handle them as news,
in the regular news columns. Others
use them as an editorial page feature.
Some run them regularly as editorial
leaders, with and without credit.
gan before out-of-state papers, at-
tracted by the sound advice given in
the “little talks,” asked to be placed
on the mailing list. Boston, Chicago
and Buffalo papers did this; then Can-
ada was heard from. Then came pa-
pers as far west as the Pacific coast.
When a “little talk” turned up in a
Calcutta, India, paper, however, Dr.
Dixon made up his mind he had got
about as distant a circulation as pos-
sible. It is promised that the series
will run indefinitely.
“Old Age” this week, runs along
the thought that the age of the indi-
{ vidual is merely a matter of spirit and |
| that one can remain young as long as
| one will. Doctor Dixon says:
“The gray-beard sighs, shaking his
hoary head,
Compares times that are now, with
times past heretofore,
Praises the fortunes of his father long
since dead:
And cracks of ancient men, whose
honesty was more.
“Thus did a Roman poet describe
the characteristic of old age 1900-odd
years ago.
“Those who wish to remain young
guard against such an attitude of mind
The fountain of perrenial youth is in
the spirit. If you would arm your-
self against the stealthily advancing
years, cultivate the habit of looking
continually forward. For
who keeps his eyes fixed ahead and
the years speed by unnoticed.
holds no promise, and the stimulus of
the shoulder-to-shoulder touch
the on-pressing younger generation
is lost.
“The { ture is built upon the ruins
of the past. Advancing years shouid
bring ab-lity to concentrate and an ex-
perience which will compensate in no
gmall degree for lack of physical
power.
knows it at 40, and reforms his plan:
at 50 chides his infamous delay, push-
es his prudent purpose to resolves’—
and if he be wise makes use of such
experiences as he may have piled up
along the road of life and pushes his
purpose home.
* “Moaeration of habit and attention
to the rules of hygiene will help ma-
but this aione is of little value if we
are without ambition and live from
day to day.
“When the idols of youth are broken
A NNN NS St
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THE ONLOOKER.
I am a fan for honest toil; my work:
worn hands have bunions. I like to
till the fertile soil and hoe the frag-
rant onions. I lfke to push the gleam-
fng plow athwart the tufted hum-
mock; I like to milk the lop-eared
cow, which kicks me in the stomach.
Sueh work appeals to every sense;
with pleasure I pursue it, till some
one sits upon the fence and tells me
how to do it. I like to have my couch
at dawn, all filled with vim and ardor,
: and mow my large and portly lawn, to
labor hard and harder; and just when
I enjoy it most, there comes a fat
head neighbor, who leans against the
hitchingpost, to criticise my labor.
“Your mower shouldn’t touch the
ground,” exclaims that gifted liar;
“just turn that doodad screw around
and raise the rinktum higher. Unless
those bearings you adjust and make
the blades go slower, you'll spoil your
lawn and likely bust your dadburned
ten cent mower. Just let me take
your mower home, if you'd avoid dis-
asters; I studied mowing grass in
Rome, beneath the grand old mas-
ters.”
»Pis thus with every man tries; he
cannot shear a gander, but what he
gets some counsel wise from innocent
bystander.
I like to weave into a song some
chestnuts old and older, until the
Aleck comes along and gazes o'er my
shoulder.
“Your every Stanza has a fault,” I
hear the Aleck sighing; “your
rhythm’s lame and blind and halt,
your rhymes are law defying. You
try to follow after Pope, by futile fol-
ly blinded; a kid could turn out bet-
ter dope, though he were feeble-mind-
ed.”
1 throw that. .Aleck down the stairs
It wasn’t long after the series be- |
You would not go to a cabbage
for its beauty or to a lilly for its
taste, Getting what you want is
only a question of knowing where
to go for it. and incontestably, the
one place for a bigger return upon
your clothes investment is the store
thay sells HART, SCHAFFNER
& MAFPX CLOTHES.
THE PLACE IS
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We have on hand an excellent
line of Portables $2.50 up.
We also have a good collection of
Medicine
Bathroom Fixtures, Mirrors,
Cases, etc.
the man |
with |
“At 30, man suspects himse i a fool ?
terially to make the years sit lightly,
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Stop In and See Us.
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would do well to con these lines and | we must set up new and better ones. Lots of ways to help along,
“Ambition we must have and work |
Lots of things to do;
|
as well if we would laugh at Father Nothing the matter with the town,
| Time.”
SCL
civic LEAGUE MEETING
+ he Civie I.zague
olutions to attend the Civic
lic Spirit and Better Education.
| poem to be published:
IT'S YOU—NOT THE TOWN
| What's the matter with this town?
Nothing, sir, it’s you!
Are you helping it along?
Lots of things to do!
Finding fault with this and that
Doesn’t cure the ill;
Taking off your coat and hat
Is the way to fill the bill!
What’s the matter with this town,
Anyway? you ask;
If there’s anything that’s wrong,
Righting it’s your task!
Knocking, maybe, has its place,
But it’s up to you—
With @ bright and smiling face—
To do some boosting, too!
1 What’s the matter with this
Matter is that men
Find it easier knocking down
Thon helping up again;
town?
who would with Kick§ afsail me, ana
pelt him with the rugs and chairs, but
naught does it avail me. Another
Aleck comes along, the former's fate
forgotten; he reads the verses of my
song and says the same are rotten.
We all are prone to overlook the work
another’s ‘doin’ and whisper in his
ear, “Gadzooz! Your mind must be
a ruin! If I should do such work as
that, forever I should rue it. Just
stand aside, poor, worthless flat—I'll
show you how to do it!”
Now when we see the toiler sweat,
why not come up a smiling and say,
“you are the one best bet! Your style
{zs sure beguiling!”—By Walt Mason,
from Judge.
Who Feots the Bills for Sin?
Does any good citizen who fights for
temperance and morality stop to think
that he pays the enormous bills these
involve, that he pays for the care of
the vicious, the insane, the idle, the
pauper and the outcast; that he foots
the bill for every penitentiary, jail and
prison and every inebriate asylum?
Taxpayers are not among the vicious
and the pauper class as a rule. The
thrifty must pay for the unthrifty, the
good for the bad. Is it not, therefore,
all the greater reason why the good
citizen should have his part, and a
prominent one, in the selection of pub-
lic officials and the supervision of the
expenditure of publie funds? Is it not
better that the money of the taxpayers
should be spent for educational pur
poses, for good roads, for abundant
and satisfactory water supplies, for
health and sanitation and all the oth-
er purposes which make for the wel-
fare of the common people? If the
good citizen steps away from the
primaries and polls and leaves politics
to ward workers, who marshal their
forces in the taprooms and evil re-
wit. hold its re-
| gular monthly meeting in the Munici-
struggles onward to some worthy goal i
For |
him who turns and walks backward, |
looking ever in the past, the future |
pal Building, Thursday, Jan. 6, 1918, |
at 2:30 p. m. Was it one of your res-
League
Meetings and encourage a Higher Pub- |
The matter is with you.
|
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| SCHOOL DIRECTORS
MUST INSURE TEACHERS
The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Com-
pensation act, which goes into effect
on Jan. 1, 1916, applies to all employ-
ers whether individual or corpora-
tions.
Boards of School directors as mun
The League gives us the following | j.iya1 agents, come within this provis-
| ions according to a bulletin sent to
{ Co. Supt. of Schools, D. W. Seibert
ja few days ago.
The school boards may insure their
liability in the state insurance fund
as recommended by the bulletin, or
they may insure with a stock compa-
(ny. The rate under any stock compa-
ny will be ten per cent higher than
the state insurance fund which will
be five cents per hundred dollars on
total payroll for teachers’ insurance
and 67 cents per hundred dollars for
janitors and other employes.
Boards of school directors are ad-
vised to secure. blanks and further
information for the State Workmen's
Insurance Fund, Harrisburg, Pa.
THE GLOBE ELECTRIC AND NOV-
ELTY COMPANY IS HEADQUAR-
TERS FOR CHRISTMAS TOYS.
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; sorts, whose fault 1s IY Who 13"
blame but the good citizen? What
, have the churches to say in this ma
| fer? Is there any higher form of re
Hglon the clergy can preach than the
first duty of the good citizen to the
gity, state and nation of which he is
an integral part? —From Leslies.
Unless a man who claims to have
Jplision uses it is his business he has
e wrong brand.
It isn’t always safe to judge news»
papers, cigars and women by thelr
Wrappers.
The more children a woman has the¢
fewer theories she has about raising
them.
No wonder a woman seldom knows
her own mind; she changes it so ef
on. :
| But let the sluggard attend a piosie
and the ant will surely come to him.
4 man seldom knows what he does
2't want until after he acquires it.
The average man’s conscience f8
more elastic than his suspenders.
Many a good reputation has beem
slabbed by a pointed tongue.
When a good man goes in for PO
form work he begins at home.
The Lord made woman and she
made herself over into a lady.
And man is also the architest af
most of his own misfortunes.
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| A declaration of independence @&f
| eoats in summer is in order.
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