in | cen THE BRICK AND TILE INDUSTRY AT SPRINGS 1915 BEST SEASON. As winter is again here, the D. D. Otto Brick and Tile works at Springs have shut down and will remain quiet until the first warm days of spring will again warm the earth and will permit the clay workers to operate as usual. The past season was a very good, and in order to supply the great de- mand and to keep the yard well stocked, Mr. Otto with his assistants have been manufacturing brick un- til the end of the year. Never before has the demand for clay products been so great as the season of 1915, as the greater part of the material that was manufctured, the past season, is gone. A close estimate shows that the factory turned out during the last season approximately 100,000 brick; 22,000 silo blocks; several thousand hollow building blocks and 100,000 feet of drain tie, ranging in size from 21-2 to 8 inches in § inches. "To burn all of this material in the kilns it required about 4,500 bushels of coal, besides the vast awount that was consumed in the large furnace for generating steam for the boilers; nine kilns were required to'the work. One of the large orders that was filled this season was the brick for the Orphans’ Home near Grantsville which required 45,000 brick. The building was constructed by Petry Bros. and is one of the largest and finest buildings in this vicinity. The heating and plumbing was done by Baer and Company of this place. This summer was Mr. Otto’s first experience in the manufacture of silo blocks and it was not until after ex. ercising a great deal of patience and losing a lot of valuable time, that this proved a successs. A brick or tile die is a very complicated affair and must be adjusted to the fraction of an inch in order to have the die to work. The writer himself has been em- ployed at this place for the last four successive years and is prepared to gay it requires labor, patience and skill to do this work succcssfully. But when the die is once properly adjusted and understood, an the auto- matic cutting table was put to work, the silo blocks were turne out at a lively rate and Mr. Otto was soon a | ble to prove to the farmers that a tile silo is far superior to any wooden one. During the fall months four large silos were constructed wtih the almost indestructible blocks and sev- eral orders were placed recently for the next season. Burning brick in the kiln is a very interesting work. After the material heat is apparent, then fthe kiln must be fired continuously, day and night’ for a little over three days, depend- | ing largely on the number of times the night fireman falls asleep. But if y | economical wife helps, but they don't the night fireman pays close. atten- | tion ito the furnaces there is no time for sleep or any other pastime. With the new machinery installed the output, per day is considerably greater than formerly. In the spring | of 1914 the factory was equipped with | new machinery throughout. At pres- ent it. is possible to manufacture 15,00 standard size brick per day, or about 10,000 four-inch drain tile, and other sizes in proportion. Owing to the great demand for clay products, it is possible that this fac- tory will within a few years be equip- ped with artificial heat, thus enabling the clay workers to continue opera- tions during the cold winter months. The “Honorable.” The title of “honorable” {s 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 songress, governors, state senators, judges of the higher courts, and high tederal officials. In Great Britain the title of “Honorable” is borne by the house of commons as a body, by the members separately when referred to In debate, by judges of the high court 5 justice when not peers, and by all the childrer of dukes, marquises, earls {except the oldest son, who bears the pourtesy title of Lord), viscounts, and barons. Proof of Cow's Leanness. There was once an old Garrabost srofter who, when giving evidence be- fore the Crofters’ commission, ad- mitted that while he was the owner of three cows, “the beasts were as thin 28 Pharaoh’s lean kine.” The chairman, thinking to corner jie Kenneth, asked him to say how an Pharaoh’s kine were. Even a seventeenth-century divine would have wanted a day or two to think this over. But Kenneth an- rwered at once: n that i hey Our job work will certainly please i ! | { US I Firth > ® Ethel’s Handicap iit be Eid “] wouldn’t say it to any one but you,” the stout woman confided, as she settled herself with her embioid- ery, “but the way Mrs. Dankle is bringing up her daughter makes my hair stand on end! I pity Gladys Dan- kle—her mother says she is only 18, but she certainly looks 25, and I don’t wonder, the freedom with which she is allowed to go all the time! My Ethel keeps her complexion and her sweet girlish’ ways because I don’t: push her forward constantly! It ig perfectly scandalous the way Mrs. Dankle openly angles to get Gladys married! I tell Ethel that I certainly hope she will marry some time, when she reaches a suitable age—and if she falls in love with the right man—but I am not throwing her at their heads at her age! Gladys Dankle rode by the other afternoon in Howard Diggs’ car and you should have seen the su- percilious smile she cast at us—-just as much as to taunt Ethel with the fact that Ethel was out of it! ‘Never mind, Ethel!’ I said. ‘Properly brought up girls do not go automobiling un chaperoned, even in daytime, and Howard will get tired of her forward ness!* Ethel didn’t seem to cheer tp any. She said Howard tags around after Gladys every minute and can’t see any one else. “But that is because her mother in- vites him there all the time,” contin- ued the stout woman. “Before I'd chase anybody that way! Of course, whenever I see Howard I am cordial as any lady would be, and ask him to drop in. At the time I got him to prom- | ise to come to dinner and he didn’t , come, he explained perfectly by the fact that he had a sudden toothache | that drove everything out of his mind. “Whenever there is a party or any- thing Gladys Dankle deliberately erabs all the young men. It'is awful! ‘I3thel,’ I have often said to my daugh- ter, ‘remember when you are out to be kind and generous to the other girls and share your friends with {»~m’—that’s the way I bring her up. “] think it looks lots more modest ard girlish at a par.y to see a young girl quietly seated at her mother’s side instead of standing in the midst of a circle of men all fighting over her dance card the way Gladys Dankle ¢:d the lost party I attended! ‘Ethel; 1 said, ‘I hope I shall never see you | acting so disgracefully!” Ethel agreed with me, too, ,for she said: ‘No, mother, there’s not the least danger ! of my being in Gladys Dankle’s situa- | tion!’ “Ethel rebels sometimes and says , that Gladys is having all the fun, but | 1 point out to Ethel that she can’t tell | v ho is watching and admiring her re- serve and quietness. She said yes, that was just the trouble—if she knew it might help. Sometimes I really don’t understand Ethel. I am very i ofice dried it is placed in the Kiln | careftil about Ethel’s associates, and and is fired up slowly untila certain’ when I have little parties for her I mingle with them and try to draw them out in conversation, but i* strikes me the young men nowadays aren’t very talkative. I try to lead them onto serious and elevating top- ics like the cost of living and how an seem interested. It is perfectly won derful how cheaply Ethel can run a house, figuring it out on paper. I have "her plan meals that way. I expect (Madys Dankle wouldn't know how to get a meal if she died for it—all she can do is giggle and make eyes. ““Fthel says if she had eyes lize Gladys’ she could manipulate them, too, but I'm sure I'd never want mz daughter to flirt deliberately as Gladys does! ‘Be arch and fascinating,’ I tell Ethel, ‘but be clever about it—don’t throw it on as Gladys does!” Ethel says there’s no danger of any one thinking she was doing anything but making a face if she tried with her pug nose and large mouth to be arch — the dear child does like to have her ; Many of our greatest actresses joke! have had irregular features, as I re- mind her. “I'm sure any one with any discrimi- nation would feel Ethel’'s charm. 1! tell - her that personality counts so much more in the end than mere pret- tiness, but Ethel says the end seems I think I'll have to take | so far off. Ethel away on a trip. You never can tell what will happen on a trip! pen, because Ethel is far foo young 10 be thinking of anything serious! It certainly would be a blow to Gladys Dankle queening it around in Howard Diggs’ last season car to have Ethe! come home wearing a three carat emn- gagement ring! of losing my Ethel!” A Strong Recommendation. A colored servant had been dis charged by her mistress because of va- rious failings, ward called with a request for a rec ommendation. Her former employer, with the best heart in the world, decided to assist her in obtaining a mew situation, and wrote a letter which dilated upon all the colored girl’s good qualities and nade no mention of her shortcomings. Yinah read the letter through with glowing eyes, her. black face shining ord. When she had ved to the lady and but yo’ certly did ga iat Now. missus. with er strong ike dat ter back ire me me, ft vo’ tl nk yo’ could b n 2% MINE WORKERS TRISTATE CONVENTION. At the biennial convention of thc United Mine, : Workeps of “America held in Indianapolis. the past ween the question which interested the. bi tuminous coal digegrs the most was whether soft coal operations of Illin- ois, Indiana, Ohio and western Penn- sylviania will meet the representa tives of the union workers in confer, ence after the convention te negotiate a new wage scale. Mine workers’ officers hope to be able to bring abou a wage conference in three states and re-establish an in- terstate agreement. The Ohio miners | hav already agreed upon the wage scal they expect to presenit to the op- | erators subject to the approval of the , internationai convention. The Ohio men will ask for a ten per cent in- crease on a mine run basis. GRANTSVILLE. Not ' that I expect or want anything to hap- I can’t bear to think ' and a few days after- | The Rex Club of Meyersdale play- ed a game with the Mt. Nebo boys on the Gnantsville floor last Thursday night and were defeated, score 48 to 19. The game was fast all of the way | throrgh with quite a bit of roughing on both sides. Bedford of Meyersdale received a badly skinned arm and Stanton of Grantsville had a tooth broken off. Blocher acted as referee, | walter Gress as umpire. G. Broad- , wiater was timekeeper. A dance was “held after the game. The lineup was was as follows: The Mt. Nebo team went to Sal- isbury on Friday night for a game | with the Salisbury team and were | | defeated, 26—7. Rev. Monn was ref- eree, Blocher, umpire. The Grantsville high school girls played the Salisbury Stars on the lat- ter’s floor on Saturday night and were defeal.ed 3—7. The Boys’ National rules were used with the result that, it proved more of a football than bas- ket ball game and a musculr scram- ble instead of a scientific game of basket ball and especially the girls’ game, was originaly intended to be. Rev. Monn refereed the glame the first half and U. O. Blocher, the sec- cnd half. The lineup was— Grantsville Position Salisbury | Edna Durst PF. Mary Reich Dorothy Younkin F. Florein Lichliter Esther Engle C. Effie Lichliter Hazel Younkin G. Marg. Newman Marie Conner G. Nell Statler The game was played in the new hall and a dance was held after the game. The families of Bert Swanger, Jo- 'el Miller and Clarence Loechel have been conlned to their grip for the past week. Rev Joab Kombar an Armenian, lectured at the Reformed church on Sunday in behalf of the foreign mis- sionaries. Services were held in the Lutheran church Sunday a. m. by Rev. Oney. Services were held at the by Rev. Father Aloysius. his brother, Charles Zellers. Rev. Oney took dinner with Mr, and Mrs. Henry Schaeffer on Sunday. | Mrs. E. B. Durst has been suffering from pleurisy the past few months. i Miss Winifred Boring has been sick the past week. Mrs. Fred Livengood is recovering from an atitack of grip. Will Gnagey is visiting friends in Grantsville and neighborhood. HAMMOND DAIRY FEED WILL IN- , CREASE YOUR MILK SUPPLY, $1.50 PER HUNDRED; TRY IT AND | { YOU WILL WANT MORE. AT HABEL & PHILLIPS, After attending his dying mother, Dr. J. Spangler, fifty-five years old, No. 30, on the main line oi the Penns sylvania railroad at Mapleton, Pa. A large quantity of unfinished powder and chemicals wa with much valuable machinery, when Solvent Recovery building No. 3 at the Aetna explosives piunt, near Mt. Union, was burned. The loss of prop- : erty is about $60,000. Miss - Miriam Nutt, daughter of County Commissinoer Charles H. Nutt of Uniontown, has been appointed a deputy coroner by Coroner S. H. Baum. This is the first time a woman has been appointed a deputy coroner in Fayette county. James Sivits, fifty-four, a stonemason | i employed by the Baltimore and Olio | railroad, was killed instantly at Con- nellsville, Pa., when he was caught between a turntable and the wall at! the roundhouse. His body was crushed. | Harrison Wilkinson, aged forty-five, | of Sandyville, W. Va. was instantly | killed in the Townsend nail mill at] Fallston, near Beaver, Pa., when lifted from | d das ad first by an elevator. against ¢ nla oi1Q Catho- | olic church on Sunday and Monday one of the niost prominent physicianiih of Huntingdon county, was struck and! not get the 10 cents per ton raise for | instantly killed by eastbound express! 5s destroyed, SALISBURY. Mrs. Lydia Shaw entertained on ‘Wednesday afternoon between the hours of 4:30 and 7 o’clock,about twen ty little folks in honor of her son, Pot- ter’'s 10th birthday. Several hours were spent in playing glames and in general merrymaking, after which the guests were served with ice-cream, cake, salted nuts and candy. Master | Potter wss the recipient of many nice | presents. Those attending the party were: Donald Young, Frank Geibel, | James Dietz, Darrel Kenneth Dietz, Leora Dietz, EdgarMiller, Rees Lich: liter; David Lichliter, Jay Reitz, Ran- _dolph’ Reitz, Bernard Krause, Ralph Livengood, Mary Maust, William Fo- gle Robert Johnston, John McMurdo, Chester Corbett and James Swank. Basket Ball. | On Thursday evening the local Boy Scout team played with Frost- burg Sophomore’s in May’s Hall here, the score resulting was 11—14 in fa- ‘vor of the Sophomores.—On Friday evening the Grantsville team came over and were trimmed by our local team to the wide difference of 26 to7. —The drawing card of the season was the game on Saturday evening {between the Girls’ Basket Ball Team of Grantsville and the Salisbury Girls’ Team on the home floor. The attendance was good, the score resul- ting 7—3 in favor of our own girls. C. M. May has fitted out a spacious room in the Wilt building where all |of the games will be payed for the balance of the season. Miss Mae Dickey taught in the sec- ond intermediate room several days | during’ the past week owing to the [illness of the teacher, Miss Pearl Hay. a Miss Nellie Bevan who had been nursing her sister, Mrs. Wm. Knecht during her recent illness, has return- ed to her home in Connellsville. Merl Baldwin, drug clerk in the Blk Lick pharmacy spent the fore part of last week in Pittsburg on bus- } inkess. The W. C. T. U. will meet at the home of Mrs. Archie Cochrane on Un- |ion street on Tuesday evening, Jan- uary 18. . Mr. and Mrs. John Cochrane went to housekeeping last week in several rooms they rented from Mrs. Thos. Eckerd. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Weimer and children are spending several weeks at Taneytown, Md., where they are | vigiting Mrs. Weimer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Althoff. Henry Loechel who has been suff- ering severely with muscular rheum- atism for a number of weeks is some- homes with! Wiker' improved, but is still confined to his bed. Miss Nellie Brown a train- ed nurse of Meyersdale, is attending ‘Mr. Loechel. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Yaist spent {from Saturday until Sunday in Mey- orsdale the guests of the former's ! brother, Chas. Yaist and family. George Boucher of Domascus Va. spent a day of last week with his mother Mrs. W. H. Boucher. Bert Zellers spent last week with The Boynton M. E. Church held an oyster supper in Thomas Hall at i Boynton Saturday evening. Clyde Newman has purchased the property on Grant Street belonging to "Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Hoover of While- ford Md. The property is now occu- 1 ipied by Wiison Kendall and family. Mr. Newman gets possession this spring when he intends #o tear down the old house and replace it with a new residence. Norman Engle went to Greensburg last week and has procured employ- ! ment there. Dr. Bowman of Somerset and Miss at the home of the latter’s sister, Mrs. E. Hoselborth recently. The Grassy Run Coal Co. has grant- ed their miners request for check weighmen at the mines but they aid | iwhich they asked. There are so many cases of the J*“grippe” in town that it would require too much space to mention near all the names of those thus afflicted. The attendance at school has fallen off considerable since the grippe epidemic has started and there also quite a number of cases of chicken pox which are keeping child- ren out of school. SULPHUR AS A PREVENTION. Many old residents of different sections of the country recall when fe: Bessie Miller of Friedens were guests | children of whoopingcough.” Folevs | , has a forty years record of similar | an epidemic of grip swept the coun - that a celebrated physician recom. {mended that everybody should wear sulphur in their shoes as a preventa- tive as miners employed in sulphur mines were immune from the disease. A teaspoonful "of sulphur should be sprinkled in the sole of each shoe and { worn during the epidemic. will be held house on Sat- 22. The Victor song books are invited. institute chool | A teacher's lin the. Jerc urday, -Jan. {will be used. All conics SAAN dimple RT 3 PERVISION MEMBER BANK UNDER FEDERAL RESERVE ACT Jan. 1916. Preparedness-Protection. EEvery one believes in protecting their own interests. A bank check is a protection against paying a bill a ” y second time. § E a ; You can be prepared by merely opening a check account with this bank and} pay your bills during 1916 3 by eheck. | 8 We do the work, you get the benefit. Citizens National Bank “The Bank with the Clock” Meyersdale, Pa. We have on hand an excellent line of Portables $2.50 up. We also have a good collection of Bathroom Fixtures, Mirrors, Medicine Cases, etc. Stop In and See Us. BAER & CO. Every Farmer with twe o: ‘more cows needs a - A DelLAVAL, THE BEST SEPARATOR MADE. J. T. YODER. Office 223 Levergood St, J ohnstown, - Penna: Public Opinion Indorses this family remedy by making its: sale larger than that of any other medicine in the world. The experience of generations has proved its great value in the treatment of indigestion, biliousness, headache and constipation. BEECHAM'S PILLS relieve these troubles and prevent them from becoming serious ills by promptly clearing wastes and poisons out of, the digestive system. They strengthen the stomach, stimulate the liver and regulate ‘the ' bowels. Mild and harmless. A proven family remedy, un For Digestive Trouble: Largest Sale of Any Medicine in the World. Sold everywhere. In boxes, 10c., 25¢. CROUP AND WHOOPINGCOUGH. Mrs. T. Neureuer, Eau Claire, Wis. | says, “Foley’s Honey ad Tar Com: | B al fi m 0 re & 0 hio pound cured my boy of a very severe RAILROAD attack o croup after other remedies 3 had failed. Our milkman cured bis | RAIL . and : WATER ‘TOURS TO FLORIDA ROUND $38 . 95h TRIP FROM — MEYERSDALE, PENN’A, viaBALTIMORE Axo M.&M.T.CO.STEAMERS cases. Contains no opiates. Always i» sist on Foley's. Sold everywhere. Hundrecs of health articles appear in newspapers and magasines, and in practically every one of them the im- portance of keeping the bowels reg ular is emphasized. A constipatsd condition invites disease. A depends ble physic that acts without inconve nience or griping in Foley Cathartic Pills. FEBRUARY 1 FEBR TADWV ~ £55 8% Somme Fares SRUARY 15 Cf &5 a os lt - J { FEBRUARY 29 $C CAS - OE <1 H 1 ULL INFORMATION AT TICKET OFF. oR SC SSD I SRE i Ed dew, FS Clara ship- Smit} Hay Marg ton k foot son of Je ola Peter of Si ly R« Paul san | nar d ber— tha F towns E. Se Clare la Pf is He Viole towns Minn! ship— coln da P ike ti Our loaded at Ro H. ( ghip, sawmi camp ing fr and w Gower the sa Mr. daughi evenin Frank Hi The M. Les ley’s 1 of Bru Mrs. ter Ch gav at Geor ‘with Miss teache last w la grip termed Thursd It is and Mi Mr. ersdale mer’s E D. Seve made | sent U8 we 4 ping.
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