Nama A TE avin sis a Se pes CASES SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY COURT, The following cases have been set for trial at the two weeks’ special term of civil court, which will con- vene on February 7th: FIRST WEEK, FEB. 7TH Monday—Chauncey Dickey vs. Henry Barron and others, assumpsit; F. B. Foedish & Co. vs. Superior Coal Mining “Co., ossumpsit; Farmers Nat jonal Bank vs. Henry F, Barron's ex- ecutors assumpsit; Kentucky Bank & Trust Co. vs. A. G. Smith, assumpsit; Henry F. Barron, cashier, vs. John N. Kaufman and others, petition to open judgment; Pittsburg Westmoreland & Somerset Railway Co, vs. James S.i Blair and others, assumpsit. Tuesday—Ryon-Correll Co. vs. Mich- ael Dellaciprete, appeal by defendant; De Warren H. Reynolds vs. L. Ww. Weakland, assumpsit, Wednesday—Bertha Keim vs. United Stores Co., interpleader; Earle Paden vs. United Stores Co., interpleader; Berlin Publishing Co. vs. T. W_ Gur- ley Manufacturing Co., appeal by dei- endant; D. Di Rienzo vs. Rowe Bros. Coal Co, trespass. Thursday—Borough of Benson Vs. White Oak Milling Co. assumpsit; Walter Powell & Sons Co. vs. T. W. Gurley, appeal by defendant; Harry E. Weighley vs, Benjamin Ream, 1n- terpleader; Sarah Dibert vs. Alvin Burnworth, constable trespass. SECOND WEEK, FEB. 14TH Monday—W. H. Coughenour’s ad- ministrator vs. Walter Mountain and others, trespass; Frederick Gonder’s Farmers Naticnal Bank, assumpsit; Thomas J. V/agner VS. John A. Knecht, trespass; Pittshurg Machinery & Equipment Co. vs. Som- erset fuel Co., attachment; Minnie J Alwine and others vs, Johnstown Wa- ter Co. appeal from award of view- ers: Di.vid Mishler and others vs John- stown Water Co., appeal from award of viewers; Mary Anstead and others vs. Johnstown Wiater Co, appeal from award of viewers. Tucsday—Newton Township of Somerset, trespass; Rus- sell Rosenberger and others vs. Sand executors vs, Mostoller VS. Spring Water Co, trespass; Clara Shaffer vs. Nelson G. Speicher, assum- psit. Wednesday—Belinda Lichty vs. : B. Colborn, committee, issue awarded ; Conemaugh Brewing Co, vs. Patrick J. McGrath, assumpsit; Neighbors | Motor Co. vs. Frank 8S. Lawrence assumpsit. Thursday—S. G, Braucher vs. Ber- lin borough school district, assumpsit Romesburg & Romesburg vs. William A. Merrill, assumpsit; Frank Romes- burg vs. Atlantic Fuel Co., trespass. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS The following real estate transfers were recorded by Recorder Custer since our repont lately. Amos J. Shaulis to Edward Smuck- er, in Somerset Township, for $5,833,323 Joel ¥_ Smith to Amos J. Shaulis, in Somerset Township, for $11,000. William Weaver to John Musko.in Paint Township, for $875. William I. Hoover to Atlantic Coal Company, in Summit, for $3451.25. Atlantic Coal Company to Quema- honing Branch Railroad Company, in Jenner, for $700. W. B. Kashmerick to Tillie Kash- merick in Jenner, $900. F. W. Biesecker to E. E. Morrison in Boswel for $1300. Somerset Trust Company to Ida M. Lindeman, in Meyersdale for $2,000. Josiah Woy to M. Ward Saylor in Summit for $500. Abbie Kimmel to D. B. Zimmerman in Quemahoning and Stonycreek for ‘$4600. H. J. Kurtz to H. L. Seller in Con- fluence for $45. Jaes B. Saylor to O. M. Williams in Somerset Borough for $800 Alex Ringler to Mary Laura Hauger | in Brothersvalley for $259. Sarah Shaulis Executor to Daniel P. Yinkey in Somerset township, for $1400. Mary A. Beal to Frank E. Sass in Larimer for $400. FRANCE FIRST WITH MOTORS Used Automobiles in the Field on the Day That the Great War’ Started. To the French belongs the credit for the first use of motor. transport in the present war, cecording to the Fremdenblatt, which says that at the very outbreak of hostilities the French general staff seized 500 Paris motor buses and sent them off, packed with goldiers, to the Belgian frontier, and 1,000 other motor transports similarly improvised followed next day. As “an approximate estimate” it is stated that “the belligerent powers in the first week of the war made use of some 250,000 motor transport wagons, apart from the great numbers of auto- mobiles de luxe and touring cars that were pressed into service.” Of this 250,000 motor wagons France had 90,- 000, Germany 70,000, England 55,000, ! Austria 25,000 and Russia 10,000. Their total value is estimated at $200,000, 000. Our job work | perience ILLITERATE FOLKS ARE BEING TAUGHT Work Being Carried on Into * Dark Corners of America. — KENTUCKY TREATED FIRST Moonlight Schools Established In That State In 1911 and Now Work is Be- ing Copied In Other States—Founder Tells What Work Means To Back- ward Thousands. i Lexington, Ky.— “Amusing indeed have been the various impressions that have prevailed throughout the country in regard to moonlight schools,” writes Cora Wilson Stewart, founder of the famous moonlight schools of Kentucky. “Some have imagined them to be schools *where children studied and nlaved and scampered on the green like fairies in the modnlight. Others | have believed them to be ideal court- | ing schools.” It was in the obscure position of , county superintendent of Rowan coun- ty that Mrs. Stewart began four years ! ago the work that has carried the al- | phabet and spelling book into the dark- est corners of her state. Today she is | president of the Kentucky illiteracy commission, author of “Country Life | Readers” and has the satisfaction of | seeing her work copied in many other | states. How that work began and ! what it has meant to the backward ! thousands of her state she herself tells: “When I was superintendent of Rowan county schools I served as sec retary to a number of illiterate folk— a4 mistaken kindness. "1 ought to have leon teaching them to read and write Among these folk was a woman whose children had grown up without educa tim. except one daughter whe had had limited schooling She had gone to Chicago and there had profited by hat one advantaze at least which the the rnral district. cit DOSSESSey over the night schoo!. [ler letters were the only source of joy that came into that aged mother's life. and the drafts which they contained were the only means of relievire her necessities. “Often she brought the daughter's letters over the hill. seven miles. to the | county seat for me to read and answel for her. After an absence of some Six | weeks she came in one morning fon- | dling a letter. I anticipated her mis. | sion and said: ‘A letter from your daughter? Shall I read and answer it for you? “With dignity and pride. she renlied ‘1 kin answer it fer myse!f I've larned to-read and write.’ “In amazement i questioned her, and this is the story she told: ‘Sometimes 1 couldn't get over here to see you, and the “ericks” would be up between me and the neizhbors or the neighbors would be away from home, and 1 would not get a letter read and an swered for three or foyr days. and anyway it jist seemed like thar wuz & and I wanted to read with my own eyes what she had writ with her own band. So I went to a store. and 1 bought a speller, and I sot up at night till. midnight and sometimes till day lizht, and I learned to read and write.’ “Incidents like this led directly to the establishment of the moonlight schools. The public school teachers ef the county were called together. The fact that there were 1,152 men and had deft behind was dwelt upon. The teachers were asked to volunteer for night school service, schools on moonlit evenings—to give these people a chance. This they cheer: fully agreed to do, and on Labor day. Sept. 4, 1911, these teachers celebrated by visiting every farmhouse and every hovel, inviting people of all classes to attend the moonlight schools.” RAT BIG AS A CAT. Sexten Thinks a Large Rodent Ate Up Two Smaller Ones. Hazard, Ky.—John Sexton tells a rat story. He says he baited his rat trap one night, and the next morning he found that two of the rodents had be- come ensnared, so he thought he would just let them remain in the trap over the next night. and perhaps they would attract others, On the second morning John again inspected his trap and found—only one rat, but he, as John described him, was as large as a tomcat! The two caught on the previous night were of ordinary size—‘“full grown,” John said. There was a mystery. “What became of the first two rats you caught?’ was asked, and John solemnly declared that “the big rat had eaten up the other two.” BOY SKATERS IN PERIL. Fall Through Ice, but After Much Diffi- culty Succeed In Getting Out. Crosby, Minn.—Clinging to the edges of the ice, the freezing waters of Ser- pent lake chilling them to the bone, Trig Burund and Oscar Anderson. Crosby boys, recently battled for their lives for some time, until, realizing that ‘no help was at hand, they used their pocketknives to gain a hold on the slip- pery ice and managed to pull them selves to safety. Although badly chilled, they suffered no severe consequences fron n skati bovs ha yut where the i wall ‘twixt Jane and me all the time. ' women whom the schools of the past ' to open their the ex- | SUICIDE CHANGED MIND. | Taste of Carbolic Acid Showed Smith He Didn't Want to Die. Indianapolis. — Edward G. Smith, aged twenty-five, of 652 North Jeffer- son avenue. decided to commit suicide, but quickly changed his mind after he had tasted a small quantity of car- bolic acid. The customary fateful note, in which he attributed his despondency to a quarrel with his wife, was found in his pocket. ¥ Smith staged his attempt at suicide in a drug store at Illinois and Wash: ington sireets. After the clerk had sold him te acid he turned around and held the upturned bottle to his lips. A moment later he gave out a shriek. threw the bottle and remaining bit of | acid at the clerk and then fell against the counter. An ambulance took him | to the city hospital. Physicians at the hospital said that Smith's tongue was slightly burned, but that he had not swallowed any of the acid. OME LOOK WAS ENOUGH. Farmer Flees When ‘He Sees Bride by | Mail Get Off Train. Kansas City.— When Timothy Riley. farmer, got one look at his bride to be the romance was “busted.” Riley drove his brand new farm wagon up in front of the Union station, hitched the team and then stood guard at the exit door. He wore a red carnation, by which sign the bride to be was to know him, all the love making having been done by mail. The bride, who was to have come from Nevada, was to wear a Palm Beach suit. A few moments later a Palm Beach suit, garnished with numerous boxes and bundles, hove in sight. Riley took one look, snatched the carnation from his buttonhole and fled. The bride to be appeared to be fully twenty years older than he, which probably was the excuse for his hasty flight. “TIPPERARY” SUNG IN LATIN I NEW YORK | | Night Pupils and Professor Collaborate on Sangs. New York.—You can’t keep a gocd song down. When it has been traus- lated into ail the living languages it takes up the dead. If whoever wrote “Tipperary” will visit the New York evening school in : De Witt Clinton high school, Tenth | avenue and Fifty-ninth street, he will | bear there almost any night this lyric lilt—and wonder what has happendd to the darling of his brain: | Longa via ad Tipperarium, Longa via ibo; Longa via ad Tipperarium, Ad puellam quam COgnosco Vale Picidilium 3 Vale Leicester Forum Longa via est ad Tipperarium 1bi est cor meum. Also, if he ligtous longer. he wii hear “I.Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” and the other songs of the mo ment done into the purest Latin of Manhattan, y The explanation, it he asks one, is, that Professor Horace C. Wait, teacher of Latin in both De Witt Clinton high: and the evening school, has discovered the way to interest his pupils is to bring Latin up to date. Of course. Caesar's legions may have sung the same song as they realized how far it was from London town to Ireland, but even so, thinks Professor Wait, to put “Pipperary’” into Horace's tongue brings the past more in line with the present. For several sessions lately the boys and the professor have collaborated on the translations of popular songs and then have sung them to detect imper- . fections in the rhythm. They will con- : tinue to gdapt Broadway's best singing | songs to the Appian Way as long as the songs and the Latin verbs hold out. As for “Tipperary,” even the German lads in the class join in on the “Ad puellam quam cognosco.” | ! GIVES ADVICE IN WILL. Among Many Items Testator Admon- ishes Children to Be Upright. Winchester. Ind.—The will of James Tobin, a Union City resident, who died recently, has been filed here for pro- bate in the circuit court. Among the many items the testator admonishes his children to walk uprightly and says: “In making this last will and testa- ment and in making this disposition of my property I beg to leave this advice and admonition to my children and to each of them: ‘“First.—Love, honor and obey your mother. “Second.—Be faithful to your religion. “Third.—Love one another. “Fourth.—Be honest. upright and truthful.” Eighty Chickens In Pie. Pomona, Cal.—In order to feed 350 members of the Loyal Men's Bible class. of the First Christian church at a banquet Rev. C. R. Hudson had a local restaurant bake eighty hens in a chicken pie four feet wide, one hen deep and eleven feet long. Paid A OF $2,000 In Bounties. —F 20,000 gopher and inty Clerk Gehlhar were brought into | WASHINGTON HAS Officials’ Wives Stand: Recep- MRS, WILSON NEVER EXCITED After Shaking Hands With 4,226 Per- stand it?” dreds of times by the guests at the ent administration, which recently took place. completed as she had at the start. It PUZLLE IN WOMEN tion Strain Better Than Men. ee. sons She Appears as Fresh When Her Duties Are Completed as at Start. Mrs. Lansing Only One to Leave Line Early Because of Painful Shoulder. Washington.— “How can the women This was the question asked hun- first really truly White House recep- tion tliat has been given by the pres- How they did no one knows, but they did, and the new mistress of the White House, after shaking hands with 4,226 persons, appeared just as fresh and happy when her duties were was nota question of being buoyed up by the excitement of the occasion ei- ther, for the next morning Mrs, Wood- © 1915 by Genthe. MRS. WOODROW WILSON. row Wilson was up bright and early and at 10 o'clock was paying a friendly visit to one of her older. but ciose pergpual frieids in this city When it came to tho men the matter was diferent. It is 8. e to: ay that the strain of ‘tle recepiicn was harder on the president than dys of the utmost worry over the various international questions that wouid cause the ordi- nary man to come close to the break ing point of nervous cunergy. The mem- bers of the calinet. though not com- pelled to zo through the handshaking which was inflicted cn the chief execu- tive, also showed the strain, and when the end of the long line was reached were each and all ready to take a long rest. Only one cf tue ladies of the cabinet showed any effects from her exertions. Mrs. Lansing left the line early in the evening as the result of a shoulder which she recently strained while play- ing golf. This brought Mrs. McAdoo to the position of second in the reception line, and she showed herself to be com- pletely at home in the gracious manne: in which she greeted her father's guests. The petite Mrs. Burleson was one of the most attractive of the wo- men who received. Sparkling and viva- cious. she appeared at the end of tle evening as though ready to go through a similar experience at a moment's no- tice. \ There was just one disappointing feature—at least to some of the guests. They did not get anything to eat. A simple supper had been prepared, but when it came to midnight none re- mained. The waiters had done their best. but the appetites of those in the first ranks of the crowded rooms had been too hearty. and even the attempt to divide sandwiches in halves failed to bring the needed relief. Washington society. however, was bappy again. It was the first of the old time White House funetions held for years. It will be by no means the last and will be followed by a revival of second time. by check. Preparedness-Protection. ; Every one believes in protecting their own interests. A bank check is a protection against paying a bill a You can be prepared by merely opening a check account with this bank and; pay your bills daring 1916 We do the work, you get the benefit. Citizens National Bank “The Bank with the Clock” Meyersdale, Pa. d UNDER i | COVERNMENT} A SUPERVISION MEMBER BANK UNDER FEDERAL RESERVE ACT Jan. 1916. Stoo In an ‘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. | d See Us. v BAER & CO. Every Farmer with twe or wore cows needs a A DeLAVAL, dinners, receptions and other enter- tainments which promise great joy to many. especially to the caterers and florists. who see a return of good times after a long term of lean months in their lines of business. SAW AND CHOP FOR CHURCH. Wood Enough to Heat the Place For the Winter In One Day. Columbus, Ind.—How to get wood to last the Garden City Christian church through the winter bothered some of the members of the church. which is | situated twa miles southwest of this city. 1 | 1 | { | | and Iron company plant, where 125 Then somebody suggested a “wood 3 chopping and sawing. The members ! of the church turzed out. cut down trees, sawed the logs into the proper | lengths and then split the blocks into | stove wood. of the members of the church, served dinner at noon. The Rev. W. H. Book, bhernacl fatto + pastor of the | S MV n nty received | church of this cif; i 1 a crosseat saw a part of the day. AEA. . | meni 5 An SEY Mrs. Mack Neptune. one, | Natsch Furnald, and his wife's name THE BEST SEPARATOR MADE. J. T. YODER. Office 223 Levergood St, Johnstown, - Penna PREACHER, 41, AUJPTED. Rev. Henry Natsch to Toke Name of His Legal Mother. New York.— The new law permitting the adoption of aduits made it possible for Mrs. Sarah Ella Furnald, seventy- one years old and widow of Francis P. Furnald, to fulfill a hope of years when Surrogate Fowler permitted her to adopt the Rev. Henry Natsch, forty- one years old. With his wife the cler- gyman resides at the home of Mrs. Furnald, 34 West Seventy-second street. Mrs. Furnald was the mother of four children. ail of whom are dead, the last dying in 1899. Her husband died in 1907. Her only living relative is an aunt: eighty years old. who has no rela- tives. She had hoped to be able to per- petuate the family name through an adoption. She met Mr. Natsch when he was & student in the Union Theological sem- inary in 1902 and shortly after he went west’ to live with Mr. and Mrs. Furnald. He married Miss Ethel Hele- na Budimgton on Dec. 2, 1914, and the two made their home with Mrs: Fur nald. Mr. Natsch new becomes Henry changes accordingly. Mrs, Furnald has a substantial estate, which, she says, she will leave to her adopted son. Mrs. Frances Bezold, twenty years old, of Hannastown, about six miles from Greensburg, died in the West- moreland hospital of burns received in an explosion of an oil lamp in her home Dec. 30. The strike at the Canonsburg Steel men have been asking for an increase in pay, is ended. Concessions were made by both sides. Baltimore & Chio RAILROAD 3 RAIL - and - WATER TOURS TO FLORIDA ROUND $38.95 TRIP «FROM — MEYERSD ALF, PENNA, viABALTIMOREyD 'M. & M. T.CO.STEAMERS FEBRUARY 1 FEBRUARY 15 FEBRUARY 29 56210 FULL INFORMATION AT TICKET OFF. ~~ POR CPR CPR RR RR RR A RR EH A RRC BUY CENTRAL CITY If you want Sure Profit— Strayer is back on the job. Write him; address JOHN E. STRAYER, R. F. D., Cairnbrook, Pa. 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