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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.
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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. Re-
; belief, none can chtain any informa-
tion concerning Cherries and Real
Estate.
year. On the first of the year there’
in Pennsylvania and the !
seven counties the reports show that.
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