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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
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Ethel’s Handicap
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“] 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
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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 ¢
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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
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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.
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