i R "A, —_—_— t THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY Items of Interest Galled from Qur Exchanges, Levi C. Miller, a resident of Mid- dlecreek township and a brother of Poor Director John C. Miller. He is survived by his widow and several children. At a recent meeting of the promot- ers of the Johnstown-Somerset Street Railway company held at Somerset, it was announced that one thousand tons of rails have been orded from the Cambria. Steel company. It was also made known that arrangements had been made to get all ties and poles through the firm of Hochard & Statler of Somerset. : The will of Adaline Snyder, late of New Centerville, was probated re- cently. She left $200 to Sadie E, Spangler, and directed that the balan- ce of her estate be equally divided among her children. Ross A. Enyder and. A. J. Spangler are appointed Ex- ecutors. The will was dated Septemb- er 10, 1915, and witnessed by John S. Snyder and Sadie Spangler, The following, have been appoint- ‘ed members of the board of perman- ent viewers for Somerset county; L. C. Colborn, Somerset Rufus E. Meyers Somerset; John A. Hartman, Winrber; William M. Schrock, Somerset; Will- iam P. Hay, Jefferson township; Ros- coe C. Welfley, Salisbury; Stephen Me Clintock, Addison township; Frank H, Meyers, Brothersvalley township; J. E. Johnson, Shade township. GLENCOE L.. H. Broadwater of Wilmington, Deleware spent Saturday looking over his Formose stock Farm near here. Harvey Leydig and bride spent the week-end with J. T. Leydig and fam- inly following a ten days’ honey moon in Eastern cities They will locate in Somerset. - Leah Webreck took in a theatre party at Comberland on Thursday night. She just couldn't finish out her allotted vacation because “Johnnie” , Vas due on Saturday. Mrs. Ralph Cook and Mae Downey of Mt. Savage are spending the week with Mrs. W. H., Cook. Merchant I, D. Leydig attended the funeral of his fraternal brother Geo. Brenham of Hyndman at Somerset on Saturday. Alfred Broadwater mhde a busi- ness trip to Meyersdale on Friday last. % -Archie Tressler is home from Cum berland on a two weeks’ loaf. - F. W. Webreck, our road supervis- or attended the Good Roads Meet xt Somerset last week. He looks full of excellent ideas, so watch the ma- cadam roads grow on Northampton bushes. By the jingling hereabouts over the numerous knottings, you'd believe readily that Santa forgot to absent himself. Here's wishing the “under- takers” full and constant happiness, A delegation consisting of Mrs. W. H. Miller, Emma Tayman, Leah Webreck and Marion, Leah and Cla- ra. Leydig, called on Ida Bittner, south of town; she is suffering much but is surely a cheerful patient. Mrs. Francis Smith and son Chas, of Johnstown are visiting relatives here. TREE FAKIRS WILL BE BUSY. Losses of from fifty to one hund- red thousand/dollars to trees of Penn- sylvania have been caused by fakirs or persons using injurious,methods of tree treatment according to an es-, timate made by Zoologist Surface of the department of agriculture. The New York Agricultural Experi- menit Station wrote to the department of agriculture concerning the opera- tion in Pennsylvania of agents for a company who made a practice of us- ing a preparation for injection into trees and the losses fthat have occur- red in the State as the result of such treatment killing (trees. “There have been several compa- nies attempting to do business in the way of injecting inoculating or vac- cinating trees. The operators reason by analogy that if vaccination is a good thing for human beings, it must be for trees, but their®victims do not realize that the process, conditions, possibilitines and results are vastly different. I know where many trees have been killed but I have never seen any beneficial results. “I wish to warn Pennsylvania orch- ardists and farmers against allowing such treatment to their trees until they have secured the advice of some re- liable person on the subject.” LICENSE SIGNERS’ NAMES AGAIN TO BE PUBLISHED. The county W. C. T. U_is aking r- rangements to publish, as they have for the past two years, the names of all signers of liquor licenses in Som- erset county. The License Annual will be issued in the early part of March, thousands of copies being sent all ov- er the county. Children Ory GCASTNORIA. MEYERSDALE H. 5. BRIEFS Editor in. Chief—Jerre Beachy. Assistant Editor—Lenore Collins - Reporters— Mary Will, Class ’16 Fred Groff, Class of ’17 Grace Michael, Class of ’18 R. Bowmaster, Class of ’19. Some Oddities in Geography The following are some of the an- swers given in a geography test in the high school a few days ago. These, were the exceptional answers. The most of.the pupils did credit to’/the teaching in the grades. London is in Paris, Capital. Iceland an island on the Scandana- vian peninsula. Brooklyn bridge in London, Brooklyn bridge over the .Atlntic o- ocean. Rome, a ocean in the Mediterranean sea. Sahara desert in Asia. Sahara desert in Canada. Sheffield noted for its cemeteries. Canary Islands in Sahara Desert. Basket Ball Game. . The Meyersdale High School Basket ball team defeated Lonaccning Cen- tra! igh school on Friday, Jan. 1, at Reich’s Auditorium by the score of 75 to 9, The Lonaconing quintet came to. Meyersdale with a good. record having won 8 games and losing only one; but they could not stop the wonderful team work of the local bys. Eighty high school students turned out to cheer their team to victory, and at times it seemed as if they'd raise the roof of the rink with their yells and cheers. Although the game was one-sided , it was interest- ing throughouts The Lonaconing crew could not stop the wonderful shooting of Grier and Fike, and could not break through the stonewall defense put up by Siehl and Stottler. Griffith, our centre showed his supe- riority over the “Coney” center by outjumping ‘and outgeneraling him. Grof and Noel who were put in to- wards the close of the game, played well, The lineup and the summary: Meyersdale, 75 Position .. Lonaco’g,9 S. Grier R. F, A. Yast C. Fike LT. L. Durst C. Griffith C. M, Price C. Siehl R. G _D. Hohing W. Stotler L. G, J. Trennent Field Goals—Grier 21; Fike 9; Griffith 4; Siehl 1; Stotler 1; Grof 1; Durst 2; Hohing 1; Trennent 1. Foul goals—Grier 1 out of 4; Durst 1 out of 6; Referee, Philip Reich; Time-keeper Benford. Scorer, C, Grif- fith. 3 On March 3rd, our team will jour- ney to Lonaconing for a return game and will try to repeat their great vie- tory. Of More or Less Sense. ‘The Commercial Juniors are com- plaining that Mr. Arnold has too much sand. They say that the surplus grit is seriously interfering with their book-keeping which was going along fine until Mr. Arnold left a lib- eral amount of sand on the table. Mr, Arnold has been threatened with an awful punishment if he repeats the offense. We are glad to say that Prof. Kretchman whose pleasure in the German class has been marred for the past week by a severe cold, is rapidly improving. He is able once a- gain to join with us in a hearty laugh. The seniors are now enjoying them- selves watching the plane geometry being solved by the juniors, which the former overcame in 1915. WANTED—On the freshman side of | the room, A double seat for Irene Blume and Frank Hocking during the 3rd and 4th periods in the afternoon. Sore noses and mouths seem to be the fad in M. H, S. at the present. Perhlaps it would be better if Leo- ra Geiger and Chas. Fike were not in the same division in the experi- mental class. i Last Thursday, John Hocking, the ultratfantastic manipulator of com- plicated devices, produced on a one- stringed instrument to an amazing de- gree of perfection the =. beautiful strains of “My Country, ’tis of thee” John is also a professional mouth-org- an artist That the Meyersdale School board is adding a weather forecasting de- partment to the school is a false ru- mor. The preceding idea came about in- this way, some one saw a senior with his German text, “Immensee” by Storm and thoughit it was an immense Storm. Mary Will, the efficient reporter of the Senior Class, is again on the Staff after several days’ illness. William Leckemby has been pro- noted from ithe rear of the room to the front seat. The Seniors hiave completed Me- chanics, Heat and Sound and have taken up the subject of Light, FARMERS OWN AUTOMOBILES, Tillers ged all Others as Buyers of Machines. Pennsylvania farmers own over fourteen per cent of the automobiles registered in the State during the past Soll were 22,608 automobiles in the hands of the farmers of the state, according | to the estimates of the Bureau of Statistics -of the Department of Agri- culture. The reports show that 95 per cent. of the farmers are car owners and this means that there is an auto- mobile on one out of every ten farms. A year ago it was estimated that there were 15,000 automobiles in the hands of the farmers of the State. In 1915 there were 759,984 automobiles registered farmers are shown to own 14.1 per cent of that total. The residents an- doubtedly led by a fair margin all other classes of purchasers of cars during the year, In ten out of sixty- the farmers own cars and in thirty- one counties ten per cent. or more of the farmers are shown as car owners. Lancaster county leads with over eighteen percent of the farmers own- ing an estimated total of 1842 cars. Chester county farmers own 1019 cars and Bucks county farmers 963. = Circus Thrills tf Selrl fell an leln] =i inj § “How did theie ever come to be such a thing as a kangaroo?”. DM.,as. Smith asked her husband. “The kangaroo,’ explained Vubbs, “illustrates a very interesting fact and arouses some novel refiections. The kangaroo’s method of locomotion is his own invention. He uses his tail in- stead of his legs. You see, there is always more than one way of doing things. Men and beasts find various ways and means. They can evolute in one direction as well as another.” “And the giral’e——" began Mrs. Vubbs, suggestive.y. “Hal!” said Vubbs, suddenly. “I see the drift of your remarks. I perceive that they lead in the direction of the circus. But I warn you that I will not take you and the child#en to the cir- cus. If I go to the circus with the children “every idiot I meet will say: ‘Have your excuse with you, haven’t you? So many of my friends rushed up to make the remark the last time that I thought the cages had broken open.” . “It always seems to me,” mused Mrs. Vubbs, “that the hippopotamus is more of a bug or reptile than an animal. And the funny thing about the elephants seems to be their ridic- bad: fit. Their trousers bag at the knees and their coats look like that $9.99 suit you bought last summer. “I think the leopards and tigers are beautiful. Their coats are so gor- geous. The camels are like nice old ladies, rather tired and bored. They look as if they ought to be working on crochet or knitting or some such placid employment.” ‘“We’re not going to the circus,” said Vubbs again. “I suppose not, but the children will be so disappointed. Anyway, I don’t believe it will be much good. I saw a dozen wagons going to the depot even before the afternoon performance. 1 hate to see anything leaving before I get a chance to see it—that is, if I do see it.” 3 “Darn it!” ejaculated Vubbs, disap- pointedly. “That’s the way with the circus. The circus people have only two ideas in the world. One is to get into*a town and the other is to get out. “You have noticed, perhaps, that a whistle blows at intervals during the performance. Well, that’s a sign for the performers to get off the trapezes, because they want to .pack them up. You bet your life, those actors had better let go when tne whistle blows and the packers are ready to pack. If the trapeze man iets go too late ne may find to his sorrow that the net has been carried away and packed up. “Another objection to taking the children is that they invariably want to stay to sce the Wild West after show. 1 certainly hate to pay ten cents extra to have the tent pulled down on top of me and my seat jerk- ed out from under me.” OLEY :.IDNEY PILLS JR RHEUMAT!SM KIDNEYS AN? BLADDER Poetry—Perhaps? Our German's getting harder still, We barely make it out. But Latin—it is a harder pill Than all the saur-kraut. Frank Hocking has asked that a substitute be found to take Mary Will's place when she is absent. He says that it is lonely without her. Monday afternoon—1 p. m. Irene Cellins is wearing pink carnations; 3 p. m. Earl Stotler also wearing them. During a discussion of Real Prop- erty in Commercial Liaw, ‘Elizabeth Bolden boldly asserted that cherries belong to the class of Real Estate. 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