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WITHOUT FOOD SIX WEEKS.
Farm Hands Discover Emaciated Man
In Straw Stack In Michigan.
Escanaba. Mich.—That he had re-
mained more than six weeks in a
straw stack without anything to eat
was the story told by Charles Kow-
bowski, who is being nursed back to
health at the Delta county almshouse.
Emaciated. the mere shadow of §
man, Kowbowski was uncovered by
men who were working on a farm near
Gladstone. 4
Kowbowski, who is of German Pol-
ish birth. came to this country two
years ago. He has worked in various
cities of the upper pepinsula, but he
could not find steady employment.
When he reached Isabella® his shoes
were worn out and his feet were sore.
He was also weak from hunger when
he came upon the straw stack, which |
he decided to make his home. He does
not remember all the details of his
long stay in the stack. He says he re-
members going out three times to get
a drink of water, but that he had noth-
ing to eat.
He lost the power of swallowing, and
liquid food had to be given to him: by
artificial means. The power to swallow
has now returned and with it strength
to tell of his suffering.
GOOSERONE PROPHECIES.
Maine Prognosticator Issues Some In-
teresting Winter Weather Talk.
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HONOR FOR NEW
BRITISH OFFICIAL
H. L. Samuel First Professing
Jew to Ba Home Secretary.
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NOT A STRANGER IN OFFIGE
Successor of Sir John Simon Spent
Four Years In Home Department as
Parliamentary Undersecretary of
State—Is Jot Only Member of His
Creed In Cabinet. »
London.— Kor the first time in her his-
tory of nearly 2,000 years England has
a professing Jew in the role of prin-
cipal secretary of state to the crown.
True. Benjamin Disraeli attained the
dignity of premier and died as the Earl
of Beaconsfield. But he was a member
of the Church of England. like his
father before him, whereas Herbert
Lewis Samuel. who recently succeeded
Sir John Simon as secretary of state
for the home department, has remain-
ed a strict adherent to the faith of his
THOSE IN THE COUNTY
RECENTLY MARRIED
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Josiah D. Long, son of Mr, and Mrs.
Daniel E. Long of Stoyestown, and
Miss Agnes Irene Ringuer, of Salis-
bury were married at St. Paul's by
Rev. L. Nevin Wilson.
Orie Berkebile, son of Mr, and Mrs.
Joshua Berkebile of Stoyestown, and
Miss Pearle Comp of Mann's Choice,
Berford county, were married at
Hooversville by the Rev. M. Martin
Houser.
Ira J. Naugle, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John W. Naugle and Mrs, Edith Mae
Smith, daughiter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ephraim Bowman, both of Paint town-
ship, were married at St. Thomas by
Justice of tHe Peace Kore Kaufman.
Harry A. Shoemaker, son of Mr. and
Mrs, Jeremiah Shumaker, and Miss
Elizabeth S. Menhorn, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Menhorn, both of Elk-
Lick township, were married at the
parsonage of St. aul’'s Reformed
Church, Somerset, by the Rev. Edgar
F. Hoffmeier,
Charles A. Ashe son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lavan Ashe of Jenner township and
Miss Bessie G. Moore, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs, Cyrus Moore of Somerset by
the Rev. S. X. Buckner, pastor of the
Somerset Christian church.
Passadumkeag, Me.—I'rofessor C. M. |
Anderson, Passadumkeag's famous
goosebone meteorologist and prognosti- |
cator. has completed his investigations |
of thi: rears weather. He says!
“The winter will be cold and very
windy. There will be frequent storms
of wind and snow, frizhtful storms
along both sen fronts and over many
parts of the world. Snow will lie until
late in the spring, which will be very
late. The summer will be hot, with
great electrical storms. There will be
great earthquakes and volcanic erup-
tions.
“The disturbances now among’ the
inhabitants of the earth are, as a mat-
ter of fact. only a small depression at
present. The real music will be in full
swing in 1918, when it will reach its
climax.”
ANGIENT SEED BRINGS
UP A LARGE SQUASH
Had Been Sealed Up in Room
"by Cliff Dwellers, |
Los Angeles.—Rivaling the discov-
ery of the Aztec bean nearly fifteen
years ago, seed has been found in the !
prehistoric cliff dwellings of Arizona, ,
along the Verde river, that has been }
planted and has grown into a huge
green, extremely warty squash, which
has been named the “Aztec.” The
squash was grown from a seed hun-
dreds—perhaps a thousand—years old
and in the Verde country is considered
a wonder of the age.
The discovery was made by John G.
Allen of Cherry, Ariz, and in a most
novel manner. Allen was fishing along
one of the tributary creeks of the
Verde, and his skill with the rod seem-
ingly failing him, he decided to see if
he could not make his trip a profitable
one by hunting the ruins for pottery
left by some prehistoric tribe.
Making his way into one of the lar
ger rooms of the cliff dwellings he no
ticed a portion of the wall that ap-
peared as if some time or other it had
been closed up. Further investigation
proved that he was right, for he easily
broke through the wall at this place
and discovered a small room or recess
which contained pottery, corncobs and
about a dozen seeds that resembled
ordinary squash seed. The room had
been sealed so tightly that not even 2
mouse could make its way into it.
It was too late to plant the seeds at
the time of their discovery last year.
so they were not planted until early
last spring. Of the twelve seeds but
one came up, and the plant from it
carried one large squash which weighs
twenty-five founds.
FLIES KNOW DINNER BELL,
Drummer Told They Stop In Stahl
Until Summoned.
Kansas City. Mo.—A salesman who
had been working in a small midwest
ern town wished to catch a train which
passed through it about half an hour
before noon and asked the village land
lord to: serve him before the regular
dinner hour.
Soon he was admitted to the dining
room. where a fairly good meal was
spread before him. But flies were so
numerous that the landlord had to |
stand behind his chair and shoo them |
with a napkin.
“Great Scott,” exclaimed the sales
man, “I never saw so many flies!”
“Flies!” retorted the landlord scorn
fully. “Shucks! This ain't nothin’. If
you want to see flies just wait tH I
ring thé bell for dinner. They're ali
out in the stable now.”
Catches Fox
Attica. Ind.-
township trapper. cg
red fox with his b:
With Bare Hands.
Wood, a Richlan
iptured a full grow:
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a few days
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ago The fox we feel
dros ‘here We
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of hogs,
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forefathers.
Nor is he the only member of his
creed in the cabinet. for in the shuffle !
following the retirement of Sir John
Simon owing to his objections to the
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{and Miss Edna Nedrow, daughter of
| Mr. and Mrs. James H. Nedrow of Gar-
' rett, were married at Garrett by Jus-
| tice of the Peace W. H. Clements.
HERBERT L. SAMUEL.
compulsory military service law for
single men Herbert Samuel's first
cousin, Edwin Montagu, has been ad-
vanced from the secretaryship of the
treasury to the chancellorship of the
duchy of Lancaster.
Edwin Montagu, it may be remem-
bered, contracted a matrimonial alli-
ance last summer with Lord Sheffield’s
youngest daughter, the Hon. Beatrice
Venetia Stanley, who abjured Chris-
tianity for the sake of Judaism in or-
der to wed her husband, who would by
the terms of his father’s will have been
divested of his large fortune had he
married a Christian.
Herbert Samuel will be recalled by
many in the United States as having
paid a prolonged visit a little over two
years ago while holding the office of
postmaster general.
His family was founded by his
grandfather, Louis Samuel, who kept
a small watchmaker’s shop in Liver-
pool. He had two sons, Moses and Ed
win. Moses, marrying Ellen Cohen,
whose father was on the London Stock
Exchange. eventually established a
banking house in Broad street, Lon-
don. associating his brother Edwin in
the business. In 1834, on being cre-
ated a baronet, Moses Samuel obtained
a license from the crown to change his
name to Samuel Montagu and in 1907
was raised to the house of lords as
Lord Swaythling.
The Right Hon. Edwin Montagu, the
new chancellor of the duchy of Lan-
caster, is his second son. The late
Lord Swaythling’s brother Edwin de-
clined to change his patronymic. He
left two sons, the elder of whom is Sir
Stuart Samuel, member of parliament
for the Tower Hamlets division of
London and who received a baronetcy
in 1912. Sir Stewart's younger brother
is Herbert Louis Samuel, the new sec-
retary of state for the home depart:
m He is married to his cousin, a
daughter of the late Ellis Abraham
Franklin.
Herbert Samuel, who was born at
Liverpool in 1870 and who as a Balliol
man graduated with first class honors
from Oxford, does not come to the
home department as a stranger. He
spent four years there as parliamen-
tary undersecretary of state, from the
defeat of t1{® Unionist administration
in 1905 until 1909, under Lord Glad-
stone and thus is intimately acquaint- ;
ed with the workings of the office. It *
that period that he made
his mark by the skill with which he
piloted the called children’s act
through the house of commons. After-
ward, although he had come to be re-
garded as a specialist in the problem
of child legislation, he showed by the
clever manner in which he handled the
liquor licensing measure in 1908 that
he knew qu bout beer as
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He
with
cellor
Dewey Ott, son of Mr. and Mrs.
{ Daniel Ott, and Miss Xernola Naugle,
daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Samuel Nau-
gle, both of Paint township, were mar-
: ried at the home of the bride’sparents
by the Rev. D. W. Lechone.
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William Porter, Jr. son of Mr. and
Wiliam Porter of Meyersdale,
Thomas Hadley Gray, son of Mr, and
| Mrs. Matthew Gray, and Miss Minnie
Bailey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
| James Roberts Bailey, both of Somer-
set township, were married at Som-
| erset by Justice of the Peace Walter
‘W. Knable.
Lewis Henry Weimer, son of Mr.
and Mrs, Dennis Weimer of Rckwood
Miss Violet Emma King, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery King of
Middlecreek township, were married
at New Centreville by Rev. P. E. Fas-
old .
Louis Weiman, of Johnstown, ani
Miss Magdalene Brem, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Brehm, of
Hooversville, were married at the par-
sonage of the Lutheran church, Johns-
town, by th Rev. A. E. Tappart.
Mrs, Flora Tipton, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Tipton, of Allegheny
township, and Frank O. Armstrong, of
Akron, Ohio, were marriedirecently at
Pittsburg. Mrs. Armstrong, who was
formerly employed as a school teach-
er, went to Pittsburg last fall to study
music.
Miss Estella Hockman, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Melchoir Hockman, of
Boynton, and Nicholas Porter, son of
Mr, and Mrs. William Porter, of Sum-"
mit township, were married at the
parsonage of the Lutheran church,
by the Rev. D. W. Michael.
Miss Linnie Coughnour and Emmet
Sullivan, both of Garrett, were mar-
ried at Garrett, by Justice of the
Peace William H. Clements.
Miss Mary Kirkpatrick, daughter
of Mrs. Annie Kirkpatrick, and Nich-
olas Poszakofskic, son of Mrs. Mary
Poszakofskic, both of Holsopple, were
married at Holsopple, by Justice of
the Peace D, W. Border. .
Miss Effie Holliday, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Holliday, and Lester
Nicklow, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Nicklow, both of Strawn, were mar-
ried at Listonburg, by Justice of the
Miss Jennie Bittner, daughter of Mr
and Mrs. William Bittner, of Boynton,
and John W_ Tressler, of Meyersdale,
were married at Salisbury, by the
Rev. O. G. Fye.
Miss Sadie Miller, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Miller, of Randolph,
and Edward Snowberger, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Irvin Snowberger, of Bos-
well, were married at the Somerset
court house, by Marriage License
Clerk Charles I Shaver.
Miss Rosa O’Neill, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Michael O’Neill, and Emil
Behnke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ludwick
Behnke, both of Boswell, were mar-
ried at the court house by Marriage
License Clerk Charles I. Shaver.
LET US SMILE
The thing that goes the furthest to-
ward making life worth while,
That costs the least and does
most is just a pleasant smile,
The smile that bubbles from a heart
that loves its fellowmen
Will drive away the clouds of gloom
and coax the sun again.
It’s full of worth and goodness, too,
with manly kindness blent—
the
It’s worth a million dollars and it
doesn’t cost a cent.
PLANT TROUT.
Three thousand rainbow trout were |
county |
planted in Laurel Run this
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tc keep the carpets
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home that
house.
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