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VOL. XXXVI. ~ MEYERSDALE, PA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13. 1916.
i I WERE VICTIMS ™ a ouncienz PARALYZED AND NO ONE TO FANE a yeas LEARNING T0
I “OF ACCIDENT. cea cas ave se AID. PECULIAR CONDITIONS ~~ |.7ssinsesstias Shun IMPROVE SOIL
i init Se Sn GD
3 5
J i= . Se vl a series o feve femée | to Meyersdale and a caller at this of-
Three Members of Hoblitz ellllu B Lane Tee ’ ie : fice one day last week. In conversa-| Farmers Unanimously. Endorse
. : ime i ¥ [tion h ked casually that he} . .
. Family, at One Time Residents play five games but did agree to play e————— on he Iemare nally “The Idea of a Farm Bureau for
of This County, Lost in Steam- . > o aL atin was a blacksmith and that he soon ¥ :
ty, ; a series of tiree games. It was pub enry Daberko, an aged resident Bittner who in company with Dr. ould cross over the four score line,} Better Co-operation in the
boat Accident. lished some time ago in the Republi- | of the South Side, a few days ago was | Bruce Lichty made forcible entrance put he had not yet finished site's | County.
: . ~- can that the Firemen and Southside found paralyzed by Officer Bittner | into the house where they found Mr. jo fhdb y
Among the victims of the steamboat | would play a series of five games but | and Dr. Lichty. He had been living |Daebrko, paralyed and. :unable to BE Workbay.
disaster in the Ohio river at Parkes-
burg, W. Va. Wednesday night of
last week, are reported the Hoblitzells
former residents of Ursina and well
known in Meyersdale, being distant
relatives of the Hoblitzells here.
The list of missing passengers ‘give
the names of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hob-
litzell, sr.; Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hob-
litzell, jr., and infant, and J. D. 'Hob-
litzell, all of Washington, D. €.
Ursina people, however, believe
1 there is & mistake about W. L. Hoblit-
zell, sr. being a passenger on the boat.
When W. L. Hoblitzell, sr., left Ursina
he went . to Colorado, and ‘it was re-
i ported later that he had been shot and
i killed by one of his employees on &
big railroad construction job there.
H They understood that his widew ‘had
married a man named Upton, of Wash- | cision again. ; ti
ington, D. C. a Then on. New Year's night was to
i W. L. Hoblitzell, sr.; had three sons be the final clash but since the South-
§ Ww. L. Hoblitzell, Jr, §: D. Hobiitzelf,’ side beam won thé first and‘ ‘second
and another whose name canndt be re games, - Manager” Reich ‘scheduled
called . They lived.in Ursina in 1869, comes with Oakland and. Connells:
1870, and 1871 and put through the ville instead. The. manager ‘stated
> Brooks, Shoofly and Pinkerten ‘tunmels ‘het We scheduled these .two games
of the ‘Baltimore .& Ohio “extension, as the games between: ‘the “South
Pittsburg to Cumberland, They resid-. side and Firemen were becoming too’
i ed on ithe Brooks farm, which is now rough and. no doubt the .peaple would:
: ; Mr. Livengood has made some rec: | The Somerset County. Farmers’ In-
it was not put in that paper by any in one end of the house alone speak ; He was made as cemfortable 4.45 in horseshoeing thiat the man m stitute held at Somerset, January 7th
one on the Southside team. : ana ms wife mn another part ef the as possible and is now being taken 'the vigor of the 30's or 40's would and ‘8th, was carried out according to
- One sentence in the Challenge { house, she being his secon? wife. |carg of by Charles Hauger. - ave to go some to equal. On Decem- | the program as announced in our
reads “The first game resulted in a It is said that thy were both peculiar ome years ago, when “MT. Daberko ' per 5th last, he began shoeing horses | columns... The attendance was. much
tie, the score being 19 to 19.” At the and each looked after his or her own was living up in the mountains near at 11 clock and continued up to | better than at any time during the last
close of the first game Referee Paul | needs. They were as much isolated town, his fist wife was then alive, he 15 o'clock and when he laid down the | several years ‘and the jaterest shown
Clutton officialy awarded the South-| as strangers and though each lived ic ; was attacked by night.burglars and |pammer, he kiad put on 24 shoes; a on the part of the farmers in the dis-
‘side team the game bya score of 19 separate homes. The neighbors who , was hit on the head with an ax and | few days ago he started in at aie cussion of Lime and its Form and Use,
to 18. } : had been accustomed to seeing Mr. it ‘was thought for a-time that he in, the morning and contiued to three the interest they: are taking -in the
The Firemen say tthe first game re- Daberko about, were fearing that was fatally injured, but he recovered | in the afternoon, fitting and placing clovers, vetch, soy beans and other
sulted in a 19 to 19 score, but they something was not right and ‘as they | completely. Robbery was tthe mo-|31 ghoes in that time. He has been |légumes makes it very apparent that
have no Referee’s decision to go by, could get no satisfaction from Mrs. tive of the assault but the burglars at -his trade for over a half century; |they will not pay the high prices for
merely their own which is of rare Daberko, they appealed to Officer obtained nothing, BT " | he was married 58 years ago and rH nitrogen and other high priced com-
value in such a case. that time he has not been sick a day. mercial fertilizers in the future. From
The second game was played on GARRETT. i ev -. scot |Mr. Livengood is genial in disposi- | the best evidence produced it is
We are having real spring weather b ING : = >> |tion and life for him has yet much quite evident. that the farmers will try
Christmas night. and - resulted in a
Southside | 5t this time and many farmers are of interest. The passing of the yeasr [to improve their soil with the useof
MN NN MN NN ye.
Sha,
25 to 16 victory, for the : :
jpoys. If the score had been a little | ygy taking advantage of it to ‘do HAR phe VEL ED x has exacted but small toll from him, | lime, manure, plowing -down clover
closer, no doubt the Firemen would | {peir hauling. =i “H 2 Dd = : crops and the use of phosphoric acid.
have disputed the Referees de-| J. B. Walters spent Sunday in Cum- L\What Your Friends and Neigh MARRIAGE LICENSES. The Good Roads session on Friday
berland, returning Sunday evening bors Are ‘Déing land” Whee Harvey Allen Leydig of” Somerset | afternoon was largely attended and
accompanied by his wife Ee The; A ars and Carrie Ethel Seibert of Friedens ’ their various Subjects were ably dis-
Prof. H. B. Speicher spent Satur- ey are Visiting. 4 so|=Josiah D. Long of Stoyestown and = cussed by local members and- those
day in Salisbury on business and dia Bar . Sgr nd . czi:p Agnes I Ringler, of Elk Lick— 4 present irom without the county. The
not return home until Sunday even- Council has- bought 500. feet: of fire'| frank Wilhelm and Annie Swindell Good Roads Day movement was heart-
ing. r zr A 1B 3 3 both of Meyersdale—Robert Wesley ! ily endorsed and a resolution adopted
C. H. Osmer, of Meyersdale spent ‘Cover of Johnstown and Edna B&B. endbréing “the movement: and -expreéss-
several hours in town on Sunday; 4 5 : ts Swank of - Somerset township—Dew- 3 willingness “to join and help in hav-
Many of our people attended the hg So, Shafer of Berlip Sass ey Ott and’ Verna Naugle,’ both of [ing a larger and -better Good Roads
sale of Theodore Romesberg, Ties- Joe gun of Mig. Grace PHice @ | Paint township; Harry BE.’Rhodes 2nd | Day next summer, . gine, nin
i ! day a wot vith] has gone to Akron, Ou. gta L. Winters, both of Jenner tovn- |:.~The Farm and Educational session
occupied by the John Garlets family. lose interest in. the Winter. Sprt. Fur-| pu p. Hay of Brothersvalley town- ere he expects to. remain .for some gyi,. James Price and Amanda Mil- held Saturday afternoon was the best
They left Ursina in about "1878 going: thermore: We; ‘the.:Bouthside . team | ghip spent several hours in town:on HR, ani dE EeiuaR #0 cl ot(ler, bob, of Scalp Levél; Chas. A. attended Farmers’ institute ever held
to Colorado. Several years. ago. they ; could not play the Firemen. any more | myesday. «* Johnsdrwin of Connellsville, deputy | sghe of Jenner township and Bessie, there. Mr. Weaver, assistant farm
came back and occupied the Brooks this season because most of the| gp Eg Carver made a business trip revere SSalleelLa Wek SHravEaciivg dG. Moore -- of Somerset township— pureau advisor, in ¢n impressive talk,
farm again. They probably left Ursina players are in the high school team |, Macdonaldéon on Tuesday evening. business in“ Meyersdale refontiy "~~" Curtis C. Keim and Emma L. Spory described the benefits’ of a Faith Bu-
8 os
hose. . ne
Miss Maud Beal has returned fron
everal weeks'visit in* Pittshargs*’
1 fig
Hat.
£9 (0 (0 (v (9 Lo (FY 9 (9 (¢ i» (v (9 R@
16 years ago. Wm. L. Hoblitzell, Jr. and thus arg not allowed to play or | Chas. Pritts of Blackfield was = Me TL of Stottdale |, of Jenner township; Newlin E- ;reu and told of what is being. dome
known as Lawrence Hoblitzell, Was In practice with any other team. If it | visitor to this place Gn Tuesday ;ev- hry hE ts, Mr: and ‘Mrs, Mi:| oot Beabes and Ada Idella Meyers along this line in other. counties of
3 RR A g nities of
1, Shannon, Thursday. .. 3 poth of Hooversville—Harvey A. ithe state” In one county alone a sav-
Myrtle Saylor has..returped | ghumaker and Blizabeth S. Menhorn, ing of $50,000 ' resulted from taking
Pittsburg, where she.had been, i EE
ro nd th of El i ¢
for ithe AT BE. hes oth of Elk Lick township—Frank S. precautions against smut in the oats
rsa a er Bo svere not for this condition wé would wie . of'h LT ea
se ounty to ¢ mer sell- - 5 : ost © e miners who struck
: : yo ~ he- challengesand show them IaNTT ET
bck big Iuiit Tarm Mary: 2°cPt the oRalengeRgn © = = ork. af.
ing stock in a big fruit ; ry that ‘wo euuld, defeat th 1 have again gone to ‘work at: the
land. a y 4 re es an He South Side mines.
; Ba AT Raa ye ... Albright of McDonaldton and Nettie last season. In another county. potato
Later, on Monday the bodies were| Signed. , Frits Bros. who afe grospeciing | © whi A E. Brant of Brothersvalley township- | growing end marketing was. devel- 5
Tater, on Monday the Moller O\ ie maakt pn oun. Lion cou on cits tu in. SomatblCHN CLL Gornlng, NY. | ume wean miei ras rane."
~* Hoblitzell, Sr, Wi eda 3... City Champions | 03 nship are meeting with Zood mueE a teat eral wi ols aT MRS. WEZIA MILLIGAN: ~ | car Toads to hundreds of car loads
“rand W. L. Hoblitzell, IE. aged - © mt PRS ee cess. MAIO Ce ; ey has “Mrs. Kezia Milligan, nee Ebert, was shipped direct to the New Yorgmar- SA
months, all of Washington, DIG sul ThE hl 1 Dr. H. Garey of Wilkinsburg Ww, iy emby has lyon at Mt. Lebanon, Somerset | ket where they comma: ded the _high-
ie ; "DI . .. |a caller in Garrett for several hofirs refurned.home.... :., vo sce itogr: Cfeounty, in the year 1848 and died Jan. | est cash price. In another county ani-
on Wednesday. Mr, and Mrs, Isaag Weinstein are |s: 1916, near Hyndman, Pa, at the | mal industry has been: revived: and
Blaine Leonard has sold his. team entertaining Mr. - and: Mrs. Henry age of 68 years. She was a daughter | more than doubled in the past ‘three
LECTURE J AN. 18 of horses, the sale taking place at gman ke DuBose: Pa. fares | Mr Td Mrs. Joseph Ebert years and in still another organized
VAL iNe the public sale of Theodore Romes- r. and Mrs. Oscar Imler of Akron, Her husband. and two childrem [dairying has increased. the volume of
i -
O., arrived here Saturday for B feW | .ccded her in death. One brother | business 50 per cent. Co-operation of
"RECENTLY RE PH
dal Lou J. Beauchamp, one of America's| Mr. D. F. Kimmell has removed weeks visit with Tplatives sng. friends. Samuel Ebert, and three sisters— | farmers has been increasing on & tre-
—y . | pest known lecturers and honorary his household goods and family into Someset County's annua! License |yrs william Koch, Mrs. Edward
YOUNKIN—CHRISTNER.
;sident of the IL L. A. losi his | the h £ ‘Court is scheduled for March 1,- when mendous scale In | le past fev ye
: president of e I. L. A. losing the house of J. B. Walker on, Jack- ’ TER Eada 1 Bollinger and Mrs John Wolfe, survive | and the time has arrived whi ' Som-
Younkin, of the firm, Youn- G he ; : : ’ en Som
NY Yop Of the South Side, Iother when A Babe Ae gon street which was vacated lately Cromgtmel Co will iso be held. Pop Funeral services were conducted by | erset county agriculturalists should
handed out @ little surprise to his yours. 0 Hite ng , ha | py Edward Yolinson- who Bas moved | 1008 for license may o filed up until | Rov A S. Kresge on Thursday, Jan- | see that a Farm Bureau is established
host of friends last week when he Choctaw aug Cherokee Indians, and 1€ | 4, yeyersdale. Feb. 26. Remonstrances will be 8¢-|y.1v 6 at one p. m. in the Evangel- | here ‘patro un
hied away , but not alone, to Cum-{uses maly of the customs of the tribes an ry» pb. e uy - | here under the patronage of the Coun-
! "| cepted up until the'time of hearin
perland, accompanied by Miss Emma 88 illustrations in his lectures. Denied| Harry Nedrow shipped his house- oe pe ARS &
Christner, of Stoyestown, who left | school and college privileges, he was hold goods to Ohio’ on Wednesday | sr. ang Mrs Alfred Weimer of
her last name in that Mecca of | taught his letters by a young girl, at| where the family will maketheir fu- - Bld. p- 8 ;
those who wed and don’t want to! ence became an omnivorous reader and| tyre home. Salisbury and Miss Martha Weimer
make much fuss about it. This event | at the age of fourteen was contributing {and brother, Bernard, of Greenville
jcal church at Glencoe. Interment ty Commissioners. The proposition re-
‘was made at Mt. Lebanon. ceived the unanimous endorsement of
the institute before adjournment.
MRS. SILAS LYONS.
| The h , A ; Mrs. Silas Lyons, of Middlecreek,
occurred on Friday last. e happy | prese and poetry to New York papers were here a few hours on Sunday on |gieq very suddenly on Monday morn S
pair continued their journey to] and at twenty was one of the editors MT. LEBANON. their way to Taneytown, ' where on |; The funeral servi 781 i
‘Washington where they visited at| ,¢ a Cincinnati daily newspaper. ‘ The Christie: Endea Societ: ng. e lun 8 ces were held
the home of the groom’s sister, Mrs. h -eled 1.000.000 miles in th 2 n Endeavor Society Tuesday they attended the wedding,¢ the Barron Church on Wednesday
Fernsner. They have allotted them- He ay HF Sed Oe ) Elias iB the|of Ths Mt, Lebanon Reformed of Mrs. Weimer's sisters. afternoon with interment in the Bar- HOLD ib
selves one week for the honeymoon old world and is now investigating) ...h held its first monthly social| Two of the . oldest residents of Le
the lives of people in the slums of the ron cemetery. .
in, Both of the eoptronting fox 2 : heop ” meeting at Mr. W. S. Staley’s on |Rockwood, died last week within a =
it a dale and her family| | — ==] | Wednesday, January 5th; on account [few hours of each other, Miss Tillie : THE ‘BlJOU Prof. R. W. Heim of the department
were not so long ago residents of St. of bad weather condition there was | linefel6r, who for several years| The Bijou moving picture house is | of Public Instruction on Wednesday
Paul before moving to their present not a full turnout. Following the bus- past has been making her home with | growing in favor, crowds attending made an official visit to the House-
home in Stoyestwn. iness a bounteous lunch was served. relatives, died on Friday morning a- each evening, many have to stand, sold Arts Department which course
GATES—WILSON. Amusements of various kinds were bout 11 o'clock, after an illness of |Toom is to be enlarged. is an innovation for the Meyersdale
After many difficulties, Jere Gates, then on the program; the hour was several weeks. Miss Mary Buckman, rule Thus) ay babii Soena schools this year. The work is in
Landstreet, aged 17 years and Miss late when an adjournment was made. | proprietor of the Buckman hotel, died | comedies. : charge of Miss Estelle : Brodhead,
Marion Wilson, Hooversville, 18 Mr. Hosetler, the health officer about 9 o'clock Saturday morning af-| Friday evening, The Reward in 3 There are 20 young ladies taking
years of age were married at Cum- has been visiting our ‘dommunity | ter @ short illness from pneumonia, parts and the Animated Weekly. All this course and the work has become
berland on January 7, the girl meet-
the late events and prominent per- ; i i :
quite frequently. J. 8. Large has returned from a visit | sons on the screen. P Pp very popular with pupils, parents and
ing her lover near Hooversville and
trom there both were driven to Cum-
ithe officers of the schools. The in-
Mr. W. S. Lane of Berlin was seen |t his old home near Philadelphia and d ing. bi f >
0 Db Saturday evening. Two big features spector expressed to Prof. Kretch~
in this locality a few days ago; he|is now back in Meyersdale \.“th his in fact the entire program is one con-
perland. Just before Christmas 2 purchased a fine beef from Mr. Bau-|son, Dr. C. P. Large and family. Mr. tinnous feature; two comedies. man, the principai of the schools his
marriage license had been secured man. Large reports that la grippe and a Dest ook SE ro. grafification of this new department.
put they were apprehended at Rock- Was, sorry Mrs. Frank Brant did pneumonia are very prevalent and in | self. :
wood. The young couple are now at not get to serve her apple lunch as many cases fatal in and about Phila- ee n—— CHURCH NOTICES.
the home of the groom's parents at arranged for the C. E. social, as sick | delphia; he himself had an attack of SHAULIS—PYLE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN—
ey , Rev. W. M. Howe, Pastor. In the ab
ness has entered her home. this malady. He stated that the un- Miss Christianna M. Pyle of Milford gence of the pastor, Eider J. W .
Wm. Diest has again returned dertaker nearest to his home had | and Milton H. Shaulis of Lincoln town- Wegley will preach at both the morn-
home and is on the sick list. | eight bodies in his charge at one ship, were married at the parsonage ing and evening services. Sunday
§ : : ; t Cc yrville Lutheran School at 9:30 a. 'm. Christian Work-
The schools of this community | time, and four funerals in one day. of he New Centervi e Sc. at 8:18 p.m. D Sinots
Landstreet.
THOMAS—BLYTHE
The marriage of Miss Eleanor Blythe
Marshall and Captian Spencer Thomas
of the U. S. N. took place at the home which have been closed on account of On Sunday morning at about 10:45 | church by ithe pator, Rev. F. B. Fas. Meeting, Tuesday, February Tet at
of the bride in Connellsville. The measles have resumed this week. the W. A. Miller home on Broadway i old. 7:30 p. m. :
pride is a popular member of Conn- The men are busy in prop making | was found to be on fire and the alarm SLEASMAN— KIMMELL
elisville’s social set and her father, and hauling. was sounded frightening particularly | Miss Mattie Ruth Kimmell, daugh- CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Meyersdale—
fdward Marshall was a former Som- — the people who were in church. The ter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kim- gorvices for Sunday, January 16, both
LOU J. BEAUCHAMP. > y IL and Join William 81
erget druggest. The bridegroom is 2 i = MISS JUST NEARING fire company quickly responded and |mell, an John William Sleasman, SOD pn ,rning and evening. H. E. Kay of
son of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Farring world’s greatest cities and writing his THE BOUNDS OF LIFE. | soon had the flames under control. | of Mr. and Mrs. John Sleasman, both pitishurg will preach at 11 a. m. and
ton Thomas, of Brownville, Texas hg for the press, [Dern uee of Miss Edith Just, who for some | The flue had been on fire early that |of Milford township, were married at
| these unique experiences he rings t0 | years has been the efficient bDOOK-! morning end robably comunicated | the parsonage of the Somerset Christ-
is inspector or instructor of the engi the platform gifts that have been given | keeper in the Second National Bank | Do to pee wii] One side of |ian church bv the pastor, the Rev. S.
neer militia of the states of New York | {o few others, and his love and sympa- {and who is so universally respected : 3
at 7:30 p. m. You are cordially invit-
ed to come and worship with us.
Pennsylvania and Ohio, stationed in| thy for humanity enable him to use|and admired for her womanly eal. | the roof was entirely burned and | G. Buckner. : Brethren Church: H. L. Goughnour,
Tew York. They have gone to Panama | these experiences in his lectures mm a |ities and Whose life is nearing tne end | some articles stored in the attic. The pastor. On Sunday, Jan 16. there will
a ’ way to benefit and bless his hearers. of its earthly career because of the|joss js covered by insurance. WE BELIEVE THAT FLOUR WILL : : BR
for a two months’ stay. y aa ravages of that dread disease cancer | A SPLENDID SERIAL. BE MUCH HIGHER OUR GOLD be Church services both morning and
WEIMER—KING Chas. Bowman, a young miner em- |continues to live in spite of the fact | DE ee | MEDAL TO-DAY AT $6 0 PER BBL evening at Meyersdale. Sunday-School
Miss Violet Emma King, daugh-| ployed at No. 2 Gy lication, while | that physicians stated at the Dbegin-| A TALE OF RED ROSES, BY | : . at 9:30 a. m. and Christian’ Endeavor
iss et ’ ot i : | ningof th k that she hadonly a |’ : | WILL SAVE YOU MONEY, BESIDES
¢ Mr. and Mrs. M.J. King of Mid- | TidIng tt Friday on a trip of cars|ningof the week that she had 07% || GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER, | NEY at 6:45 P. M. All are cordially invited.
joo nd = g of YI" | was knocked off by a passing train | few hours to live. To-dayshe has ral-| Se Se —~ |GIVING YOU ONE OF THE BEST gyno Men's Federati +11 hold i
dlecreek township, and Lowis Henry |gracturing a bone of a wrist. Dr. Ww. | lied in strength but none dare hope WILL BE OUR NEW TO! oN THE MARKET e Men's Federsiion WH Bold 118
Weimer, son of Mrs. Eliza Weimer of | T. Rowe, reduced the fracture. | that she can last much longer. START SOON. DON'T M THE ' ~ AT HABEL 8 PHILLIPS arnual luncheon on Thursday evening,
Rockwood, were married at the par- | — eee | OPENING CHAPTERS. ” Jan. 20. ©
sonage of the New Centerville Luth- { The agency for the Indian Motor- | YOU WILL SAVE MONEY BY DEAL PURE HOME GROUND FEEDS — Ann Dinars
eran church by the pastor. Rev. F. B |cycle has been secured by T. W. | ING WITH } (POTATOES WANTED
| Much good news already set u has
| z | GROUND FRESH DAILY g y set up
Fasold. GURLEY. See his line before buying.’ HABEL & PHILLIPS. | AT MABEL & PHILLIPS. AT HABEL & PHILLIPS, been crowded out of this Issue.