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VOL. XXIVE
CONSIDERING THE
COUNTY HIGH- |
~ WAY PROJECT "%
Met
ENTERTAINED Fo ron enocoss GD(RTGMEN \
Miss Helen Lichty of Meyers avt
‘enue, was hostess at a delightfully
‘appointed luncheon on Friday in hon-
or of Miss Leah R. Leydig, of Gléncoe
whose erigagement to Dr. Spicer of HT :
‘Cumberland was announced recently. State Game Commissioner O Ser;
Covers were laid for ten of the for Busy Bettering Conditions in
mer classmates of Miss Leydig, who | Somerset Co. Will Soon Receive
i& a graduate of the Meyersdale| Consignment of Turkeys. :
1 ‘High School, ‘and after the luncheon | . H. Osmer, the state game pré-
tion of Meyersdale | ‘was served the guest of honor “was. i
'Hiigh school building | “showered” With miscellameots ‘gifts ian 8 pene SOE ih J.
zht. The meeting was |to be used in her new home. - ETRE Sontinie: iu the protection
ler and the minutes of | Miss Leydig ' was also the recipi-| game.. He recently organi zed'a
gives. called to order by ént’ of. many other useful household! 5 toon okab at. Windber and he'ls
Mrs: Dr.” Ryland, and | gifts when a ‘numberof Meyersdale’s eager to establish several such .c lube
read by the secretary, fair young ladies met at the old Mey- tiroughont the confity for the Foaton
Cl fon’ after which the |ers homestead on the Avenue, Sat- that the state department will not
: urday afternéon, at the invitation of consign game to persons in plac on
d lin duet by Misses igs Catherine Meyers, where ‘no. such organizations .
Auramdt and Miriam Gless- |’ The occasion’ was in the form of a ; ns sxit,
young ladies aequitting Kitchen shower ahd:the dainty ~re.| MI. Osmer said, that he WnS Soom
freshments: were served in’ the spac-| {0 Teeeive a consignment of turkeys
fois Meyers kitthen, where the ‘show- to be let loose in the mest: favorable
er” formed the: centre piece ‘on ‘the Place for thele ‘Saf Sd Hopfiaam
} table around which the EucHiB gata received by the Ete Gao Fr
Eo at
go Completed. {+
The council of the. Borough.
Meyérsdale' met in” regidar- séssion
| Tuesday - evening, “Fe
et eee folowing bers
THE CONTEMPLATED HIGH WAY. fis plo wale
Somerset a improving all country roads that will ‘Shipley, Deeter; Emeigh:; ic
sed of J. G.| be of benefit to the general public. | a 1 pReport of Burgess Gress
James McKelvy, | County = €ommissioners: _ Glessner, ; (The report’ of the Burgess, |
Good, J. H. Beerits, W. Curtis Miller and Shockey stated that they |tine: Gress, wis that Aes and’
Truxal; ¢ Shaver, Capt. C. J. Har had heard some opposition from tax-| for: ‘the ‘month
. Then Advan-
rocured.
on and Robt. 8. Scull, all members| payers, many of thei living in’ remote | to “$119.25, which
; get ‘Board of Trade, met | sections, who would receive no im-|the treasurer. “he gidind
with Gounty Commissioners W. J.| mediate direct benefit from the baild- ported. that he had suspended
Shockey and J. B. ing of county roads. These objectors iceman, Faller. for. indefinite /p
| the constructiof: of | sgomplain that their present towmship |od because of the financial cond
| taxation 4 now eitogether too heavy |: 1.48
“but they have apparently 10st sight of
h ‘present gave his Views | worth of farm produce hale ny ha t RNs tia oir is tector and other kinds of fish: Inter.
strongly in favor of the | yet gver bad roads robs Ade ; ; }
te : YN - men of America club’ needs réviviilg
ents of the committed pe making if" Foods £0 © FIRE DESTROYS : as it has practically béeome dormant,
"when be stated that county road cOn- | {oun were ‘good ones. :
: ; ; , » A Hei ; f'n thee ‘following game: Quail, 5 “years;
here could be no better time oq to make-a statement of ig al : ng i deer, 2 years; turkeys; 2 years. With
thepresent ‘when all Beem tO tt in the mattér next ~ districts | The home of Mrs. William Daber-
| the fact that out of every, datler’s gs
In Meyersdale the , United
ex-Judge Kooser voiced |g. per cent of the profit : a would, n._Meye e the, U ‘Sports-
. : f : : . i bliin aor oR ] Th ill closed’
must be started some time | gy. county. commissionen: gromie | vs bat ras. nd ded. Tea 1 incthe Pub- 7 /'¢ RD ‘NCE ere will be closed’ periods. for
tand as one man for the buil these restrictions upon this choles
5 e
the
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ving
the
ting
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OWSER.
necessary roads that will be op
\ travel every, month and day C
jyear, : fot
Spectal stress was laid on th
gested south county road,
»
WEDDINGS IN THIS
2 MEYERS—STAHL.
Mr. Albert A. Meyers and Miss Et-
ta Stahl by, their" quiet wedding un-
announged to the public, on Friday
“evening, gave their friends quite a
surprise. The -ceremony was perform-
ed by the bride's ‘pastor, Rev. D. W.
Michael at the Lutheran parsonage.
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harvye Stahl of Main street a-
bove the B. & O railroad ‘and is an
accomplished and charming young
woman. She took an active part in
church work and for one year was &
clerk in the Woman's Store of Hart
ley-Clutton. The groom formerly liv-
ed in Meyersdale and later at Addi-
son. The young couple will live at
Wilkinsburg where Mr. Meyers has
a good position.
LYNCH—MERVINE.
On Wednesday . evening, February
2, at the Catholic parsonage, by Rev.
Father Brady, Richard Lynch and
Miss Elizabeth Mervine, two -of Mey-
ersdale’s highly esteemed young peo-
ple were united in marriage. Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Quinn, the latter a sister
of the bride were the attendants. The
groom is the well-known telegraph op-
erator at the Western Maryland sta-
_ tion here, whose home is in Pittsburg.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. 2nd
Mrs. Theodore Mervine of Centre
street and is a bright and lovely
young woman, being an alumnus of |
the Meyersdale High School. They
expect to make their home for the
present with the bride’s parents.
A WEDDING ON ST.
VALENTINE'S DAY
Miss Rose Damico, daughter of the
, well Known wholesale fruit dealer,
| Augustus Damico, will be married on
§t Valentine's day to James Miciche,
of Baltimore.
The bride is very young being about
16 and a scholar in the ninth grade of
our public schools.
CARLOAD NATIONAL GLUTEN
FEED justt arrived. 82 to 84 per cent
protein. 12 to 18 per cent fat. $1.85
per large bag—or SPECIAL PRICE |
BY THE TON-—HABEL & PHILLIPS |
2 CANS L. & 8S. B. BAKED Saas
FOR 25¢c AT BITTNER'S GROCERY.
8—5¢c CANS SARDINES FOR 10c AT
BITTNER’S GROCERY
VICINITY.
lance and address,
The Woman's Christian Temper-
ance Union of Meyersdale, feels that
it has scured a real treat for those in-
terested in the betterment of social
conditions, by bringing Miss Louise
Hollister to the Methodist church on
next Sunday at 2 p. m.
The folowign press notices where
she has been heard should be suffi:
cient recommendation t& warrant a
splendid audiences
“Those who have failed to hear
Miss Hollister last night at Goff M.
E. Church on ‘The Outlook’ of the
great temperance reform, missed a
treat that does not come our way very
often. Her pleasing personal appear-
indeed bespoke a
lady of culture and refinement. She
is an orator among orators, and one
instinctively feels she is loyally and
honestly doing her life work. Daily
Telegram, Clarkesburg, Ww. Va.
«It is refreshing to listen to words
so bravely, wisely, womanly uttered.
Miss Hollister stepped aside from
the beaten path of the usual temper-
ance address. Park Rapids Enterprise,
Minn. |
. Special music will be furnished by
Miss Carrie Donnecker and the Mey-
ersdale Quartette all of whom need no
recommendation to a home audience.
Admission free with a Silver Offer-
ing at the close of the lecture. Come;
and bring your friends with you.
DEATH OF INFANT CHILD
OF MR. GEO. ICKES.
Clyde Watson, fcur months old lit-
tle son of Mr. and Mrs. George Ickes,
of North Street, died early on Sunday
morning from congestion of the lungs.
The little one had been ill but two
days. The funeral was held on Mon-
day afternoon at 3:30, services being
conducted by Rev. D. W. Michael, of
the Lutheran church, Mr. Tressler
being the undertaker in charge. The
parents of Mrs. Ickes, Mr. and Mrs.
Imler, of Bedford attended the funer-
al.
| DONATIONS FOR
NEEDY JEWS ABROAD.
On January 27, the Jewish Relief
Committee secured $232 in Boswell,
$200 in Somerset, $5 in Salisbury and |
Meyersdale.
$1 in
moved must be evened up.
New lights were installed on 73
corner of Fourth and Thomas streets
and one on Large street. SE
The Finance Committee’s Report.
Active Account — — — —3 257.41
Sinking Fund — — — —— ' 1068.27
Bal. from Coll. Baer — 2184.92
The Bills Ordered Paid.
Street Labor — — $ 14.71
Police: — — — — ——'~— 76.50
E. J. Dickey, Sec. Salary — 10.64
George Blake for Bread — — 7.68
Paid on Voucher of Frank
Ziegler
F. B. Thomas — — — —
Summit Township — — — 10.00
J. O. Adams, blacksmith —. . 7.45
"A large number of bills were held"
over. 3 3
Financial ‘Summary by Secretary
Bills Payable — — — — $3209.01
Outstanding orders — — 200.00
100.00
38.30
Total
Bills Receivable — — — — -1666.47
Balance 1763.64
Due from Colleletor ' 2184.92
Council adjourned to meet on Tues-
day evening February 16.
ELMER SHULTZ BADLY
BURNED AT MINES
Elmer Shultz who was operating
the electric motrs at Shaw mine No. 1
was badly burned on Friday by the
explosion of gas. Mr. Shultz was look-
ing for seme tools in what is known
as a sand hole, putting his Mght at the
hole to see better, when a violent ex-
plosion followed resulting in his being
very badly burned about the head,
face and chest. He was brought to
Dr Rowe’s office in this place and lat-
er:in the day sent to a hospital in
Cumberland. Mr. Shuliz is aged 28
and his father was the late Conrad
Shultz.
DUTCH SUPPER.
The Young People’s Guild of: Amity
Reformed Church, will hold a, Dutch
Supper and Parcels Post sale in the
Banquet = room of . Amity Hall, on
Thursday evening, Feb. 17, 1916.
Supper will be served from § to 8
p. m. Two menus will be served—you
may have your choice. The price will
be 3b6c.
| PRATT’'S POULTRY REGULAR
IS THE BEST ON THE MARKET.
DIRECED AND WE
iT WILL INCREASE
A CTION AT
HABEL & PHILLI
etwifen
the rails where bricks had beet, re
i
| us by an appreciation of good music|
and passive receptivity does not have
active participa
very little
teaching mu- |
a
that they lid
tempts to @
meetings we
Meyersdale &
i ae hear splendid
chorus work because none of the
churches had chormes. The very best
any of them eould afford was a double
quartette.
There is no singing
Meyersdale and young men are
never iheard in the evenings on the
street, doing really good singing as in
other towns and the young ladies are
not much ahead of the young men ip
music.
Rev. Goughnour said he didn't want
to be a “knocker” but that he was
simply stating facts as they really
were and that he believed these
conditions were due to the fact, that
the town was in the grasp of a bad
economic situation. There was no out:
put of manufactured product and that
nearly all the business men of the
town were not producers but distri-
pbutors. About the only public industry
was mining and this was controlled by
men who had their homes and their
interests elsewhere and put there
dollars there.
He thought what the town needs is,
that the business men get together
and ‘erect factories etc. that will fur-
pish employment to the young men of
the town and keep them here. Statis-
tics prove that every youmg man is
worth $3000 to a community, and cer-
tainly we ought to keep them if pos-
sible and work provided for them
would bring dollars into the town in
which case all those necessary im-
provements could be made.
Music is a benefit to a town in
three ways, First physically, Most peo-
ple breathe improperly using the up-
per part of the lungs. Proper breath-
ing is taught in the first lessons in
singing. Then most pupils do not e-
nunciate clearly. This is also over
come largely where singing is sys-
tematically taught.
The greater chorus singers in the
world are the Germans; next eome
the British and the Russians are prob-
ably third. We can draw our own ref-
erences from this.
Second, music has an aesthetic and
moral value. A sense of the beautiful
and an appreciation for the finer
things of life seem to be created in
society in
the good results that
tion does
astly music
hag ¥
nas
8 teacher
| discovered at about 2:30 o'clock by
t| the fire signals are made, from the
o. Saylor“Bok Factory. But by the time
| Henry Miller,
-| the Daberko home,
ko at the southern end of Beachly
street was burned to the ground on
Wednesday morning, the fire being
Mrs. Peter Rowe, who sent in the a-
| larm to the electric light plant where
the general alarm had been given,
who lives
mother, Mrs.. Rachel Miller near to
rushed for the
fire. hose truck, ‘which is. stained
in a small Louse by the South Side
of schoolhouse, ang was proceeding with |
that in none of the’
from the’ Jvdrant for the Treason
that nothing: could be done ‘until ‘the
firemen arrived when another hydrant
was used and the burning house was
checked from spreading the flames
to other houses. It is said that this de-
fect at the hydrant was reported two
years ago but nothing was done a-
bout the matter.
Mrs. Daberko who since the death
of her husband who died about two
weeks ago lived alone in the house,
was awakened, so she says, by the
crackling of the fire and she had bare-
ly time to escape with a few clothes
and her trunk. She became frantic
as she beheld the burg of her
home.
The house was worth, perhaps,
$750 and was insured for $500. The
household effects were destroyed
which were appraised by men select-
ed by the executor, August Daberko,
‘a brother - of the ‘deceased, at less
than $30.
Mrs. Daberko, is ahout 70 years of
age. Her mother is living with a son
on Keystone street.
The origin of the fire is not known;
the greatest volume of flames at the
time fire was. first discovered was on
the second story.
DON'T FORGET TO USE HAM-|
MOND DAIRY. AND HORSE AND,
MULE FEED. TRY ONE SACK AND,
YOU WILL BUY AGAIN at
HABEL & PHILLIPS
YOU GET THE BEST PEAS ON!
THE MARKET FOR THE MONEY at
BITTNER’S GROCERY.
cured to give instruction in the
schools and also to do some communi-
nity ‘work among the young people it
would be a blessing to ithe town. Most
of the amusements of the social gath-
erings are what we would charac-
terize as questionable and music
would be both profitable and pleas-
anit.
with his |
the orifice was stopped with stones so
At the close of Rev. Goughnour’s
address, Mr. Gnagey stated that the
directors had already well considered
the subject and by next year they are
| reasonably certain that a course in |
music would be established in
| Meyersdale public schools.
| : -
| tion, “Abide. with 7 me,” was
| by. Miss Maggie Damico and Mr. H
| M. Cook, who could not be persuad
respond to repeated
ds,
clapping of
| the people.
game, quail, deer and turkeys ought:
to become quite abundant.
The Charles: Damico fruit and gto
cery store was broken into on Tues-
day might and a general sampling
of the articles of the store was made
by the burglars, resulting in a
‘of about ten dollars, an estimate;
x Damice.
‘weeks ago that of the H. M. gd
jewelry store, is being carried on: by
a band of youthful criminals. Anoth-
er bit of evidence to substantiate
this view is that ‘that some articles
taken off ‘of the higher shelves, 8
small box was used for stepping om.
An ordinary sized man could easily
have removed the articles by phn
ing on the floor.
Some of the articles taken were
candy, chewing gum (lots of it), tobae-
co, cigarettes, a watch, a razor, $1.28
in money taken from the open regis.
ter.
It is to be hoped ‘that other mer-
chants may be spared a similar visit,
loss and annoyance, and also on the
assumption and doctrine that even
these are our brothers, that they may
be apprehended and made to right
about face in such a course of cons
duct.
MANY HEARD
GOOD LECTURE
According to he announcement
made last week in the columns of
the Commercial, D. A. Souder, D. D.,
a superintendent of missions among
the Hungarians of this county for the
Reformed church, gave an illustrated
lecture in the Sunday School hall of
Amity Church. The hall was crowded
both on ‘the lower floor and on the
galery. ‘The lecture proved to be im-
teresting and instructive. The speak-
er first gave a sketch of Hungary
called attention to the thousands that
emigrate anually to our country.
There are said to be no less than
100,000 Hungarians in the United
States. A large number belonged to
the Reformed church in their native,
land.
The Reformed church in this coun-
ty was accordingly challenged by the
Providence of God to do mission
work among these people and is now
maintaining about fifteen missions in
different parts of the country. A good-
{ ly number of them have proved val-
the | uable property in the way of church-
es and parsonages, which the lectur-
fl quot. viol d NH : | er threw upon the screen. Much more
ne 5
| ine duet, violin. and cello selee- |. .: ¢ +5 be done
given |
The greatest
present is the education of
Hungarian
need at
young men in our coun-
try for the gospel ministry
dmong