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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.
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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Then somebody suggested a “wood
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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
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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.
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