a ven
rar
Aittle Talks on
> meer
WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR? |
Health and Hygiene
By Dr. Samuel Dixon.
Few people would willingly jeop-
ardize the life and health of a fellow
being. Yet many people who e-
phatically deny, intentionally doing
harm, endeavor to evade rational re-
strictions necessary for the protec-
tion of others.
In the enforcement of the laws for
the protection of the public health,
mumerous instances occur which show
bow the innocent are made to suffer
for the carelessness of others. Rath-
er than undergo a temporary restric-
tion of their usual activities, people
will often expose others to communi-
‘table disease, for instance scarlet
fever. .
Parents in particular will often as-
sume the rsponsibility in exposing
their own and other people’s chil-
dren that would make them shud-der
if they appreciated the true serious-
mess of it.
Measles, whoopingcough and 2
aumber of the common ailments of
childhood are looked upon as inevi-
table by people who are ignorant of
the dangers of these diseases and the
possibility of avoiding them.
it is a crime to willingly expose
children to disease because of the be-
lef that they will eventually fall a
victim to it. The old idea that the
diseases of children are doubly seri-
ous to an adult is untrue. An occa
slonal mild case of a disease in one
instance may be rsponsible for a seri-
ous and fatal illness from this same
disease if it is communicated to an-
other.
NATURE'S ENDOWMENTS.
Many people make the error of
looking upon health as a crude poss-
session that Nature bestows now and
again in defiance of her own laws,
True, from time to time we meet
splendid specimens of manhood and
Sgomanhood that apparently resist un-
usual hardships in an environment
which would not seem conducive to
good health but in Nature nothing
thrives in the long run which is not
given proper conditions.
Every violation of the laws of Nat-
ure makes its impression on the vital-
ity of man who loses his resistance at
every blow until the injury is so great
that it becomes manifest to our gross-
er senses.
HOUSE PASSES
DEFENSE BILL
First Measure of Program-Car-
ries After Short Debate
————
MARE ISLAND TO BUILD SHIP
California Navy Yard Will Be Equipped
to Build Dreadnought — Speaker
Clark Urges Speed in Shipbuilding.
The house of representatives has au-
thorized immediate use of $500,000 to
equip Mare Island navy yard to begin
building a dreadnought or battle
cruiser, the first to be constructed on
the Pacific coast in a government
yard, and authorized expenditure of
$100,000 to enlarge facilities at New
York navy yard. The senate has not
yet acted.
The bill increasing the number of
cadets at Annapolis also passed with-
out a vote registered against it.
During the debate on the bill Speak-
er Clark took the floor and made a
dramatic appeal for speed in ship
building.
Citing the unlimited resources of
the United States, he asked why it
takes twice as long to build a warship
on American ways as in England.
While he did not receive a satis-
factory answer the effect of hie
speech was electrical.
The debate was notable for many
reasons. In the first place Speaker
Clark proclaimed his belief in pre-
paredness, and announced that he
would discuss the subject at length
later in the session. Mr. Kitchin, true
to his promise to the president that
he would oppose the program only in
and all the “little navy” members re-
mained in their seats when the vote
was called for on the midshipmen
bill, and Speaker Clark said he hoped
no member of the house would vote
against it.
The resolution would transfer $600.-
000 of the money already appropriated
for dreadnoughts Nos, 43 and 44 for
the extension work at the yards, Its
passage was asked specially by Sec-
retary Daniels, who pointed out the
limited capacity of American ship-
building yards for constructing dread-
noughts, and said that if the naval in-
creases contemplated in the adminis-
tration’s preparedness program were
to be carried out it would be neces-
The mantenance of health is today
based upon both science and art. For-
tunately it is within the reach of the
vast majority of our people and the
man or woman who realizes the value
of self control has learned the first
principle.
Appreciation of the things most
worth while never comes from excess.
ive indulgence. A rational life is fair-
1y certain to be an important factor in
sary to increase the capacity of gov-
ernment yards.
The government yards bid $1,000,
000 under private proposals for dread-
noughts 43 and 44. The $500,000 will
equip Mare Island for the work by
adding a long-sought dreadnought
yard to the Pacific coast fleet.
i The equipment of Mare Island will
give the government two major con-
struction yards—the other is New
York—and the navy department plans
health and happiness. Many a man OF | soon to add the Puget Sound, Norfolk
woman whom Nature has endowed
and Philadelphia yards to the list,
with but a medium physique has cul-| making a total of five battleship yards.
tivated and maintained a degree of
bodily health sufficient to insure them
a rational and pleasurable life. On the
other hand many a physical giant has
so presumed upon Nature's endow-
ments to have wrecked that most
precious gift—a good constitution.
POCAHONTAS
Jan. 2—
Real spring weather in the vicinity
last week, bluebirds were seen.
The Public Roads are in worse con-
dition in this vicinity for mud than
they have been for some years past
mccording to statements made by one
mail carrier.
Mrs. Edward Richard is visiting
friends and relatives in Akron Ohio at
#his writing.
Wm Durr has gone to Georgia on
aecount of declining health.
Mrs. Samuel Clark and Mrs. Wm
Arklie are on the sick list at present.
There will be an institute at Poca-
‘Wontas School on Feb. 19. Will give
Programme next week.
Wm McKenzie of near Finzel Mr.
was seen to pass through this burg
last Sunday enroute to Whip-poor-
Will hill. He says the warm weather
mas started honey suckles to bloom.
C. C. Barmoy took a business thip
‘to Cumberland one day last week.
Millard Steinly and Wm Hostetler
School
Directors in Greenville In vacancies
ieft by Dr. F. E. Sass and Daniel Al
‘were appointed to serve as
#right.
The construction of battleship No.
44 at Mare Island will be the first
work done there on a big ship since
the old monitor Monadnock was built
there. It has been proposed that the
name California, now assigned to the
dreadnought under construction at the
New York navy yard, be transferred to
No. 44, because the ship will represent
the first modern capital ship to be
built by the government itself on the
Pacific coast.
Battleship No. 43 will be laid down
at the New York navy yard next Sep-
tember, as soon as the present Cali-
fornia is off the ways there, and No.
44 will be laid down at Mare Island
probably about the same time.
McKinley Dollars Authorized.
The house authorized the coinage of
100,000 “McKinley gold dollars” in
commemoration of the erection of a
monument to the martyred president
in Niles, O., his birthplace.
The coins will be turned over to the
National McKinley Birthplace Me-
morial association.
FREEDOM FOR FILIPINOS
Senate Passes Amended Bill to Give
Independence.
The senate has passed the bill
giving civil government to the Philip-
pine islands. The bill as passed con-
tained the Clarke amendment giving
absolute independence to the Filipinos
years.
The action of the senate in refusing
tute for the Clarke amendment con-
versed in its effect when the senate,
Wanted—Members for Order of | by a vote of 53 ‘to 26, rejected the
Gfwls Nest 1611 Deal Pa.
Miss Minnie Rembold spent Satur-
day and Sunday with John Baker of
Sippleville.
sii
DOG LICENSES
If you have not yet done so, you
had better pay the license on your dog
and see tht the tag is attached to the
dog's collar. The new law says that
«11 dogs without a license tag attach-
efi to collars shall be killed by the
eonstable of the district-and the Co.
Commissioners say that the law will
be strictly adhered to.
a
DEAD LETTER LIST.
Mose Brechbiel, Mrs. H. B. Near-
good, Mrs. Frank Showman. Cards— |
@ L. Harding, John C. Krouse.
Hitchcock amendment. The senate
then! passed the Philippine bill by a
vote of 52 to 24.
Six Republicans voted for the bil
carrying the Clarke amendment—
Borah, Clapp, Kenyon, La Follette,
Norris and Works, the rest of the Re-
publicans voting were recorded
against the bill.
STRIKEBREAKERS IN FIGHT
small Riot In Pittsburgh Street; Sev-
eral Hurt.
Wtile escorting fifty strikebreakers
employed in the Mesta Machine com-
pany’s plant in Pittsburgh from the
Pennsylvania station to a hotel, six
private detectives were attacked by
. strikers, it is alleged.
| In the fight which followed several
| persons in both parties suffered cuts.
KEYSTONE PARAGRAPHS
GERMAN TENSION
A general strike, calling out struc-
tural iron workers, plumbers, steam
fitters, painters and electricians has
Sr Yen dalled 3
ed “at the new C
~County
WITH U, 8, EASIER
A FE
: tn ———
building in Pittsburgh by: the \Ritis-
DE ang Trases"cotnon:oe| President Considers Berlin Re-
cause, it is said, non-union labor was
employed on the building contrary to
an agreement union men had with
city and county officials before work
started on the structure.
Appointments of the following
justices of the peace have been an-
nounced at the state department in
Harrisburg: C. T. Kinsey, Georgetown
borough, Beaver county; W. C. Perry,
Chest Springs borough, Cambria coun-
ty; W. B. Goodman, Elk township,
Clarion county; Edward H. Williams,
CABINET IS TO READ TEXT
Note Comes Very Close to Require-
ply; May Be Acceptable
ments of Administration — Paris |
Papers Comment on the Situation.
Germany has agreed that reprisals
Wood township, Huntingdon county;
J. J. Moore, South Mahoning town-
ship, Indiana county.
Members of a blackhand society,
with headquarters near Carnegie, are
held responsible for the murder of
Rocco Musellino, who died in Mercy
hospital after he had been assaulted
by several persons and thrown into
creek. The victim died
without having regained conscious-
county detectives are
making an effort to apprehend those
Chartiers
ness and
guilty of his death.
Pennsylvania millers will be given
the opportunity to present their views
on rules and regulations to govern the
construction, maintenance and opera-
tion of flour and feed mills, malt
houses and grain elevators at public
hearings to be held before the in-
dustrial board of the department of
labor and industry, beginning Feb. 14
in the Hartje building, Pittsburgh.
Belief that medicine which she had
given a patient for whom it was not
unbal-
anced the mind of Miss Hazel IL
Shoenfelt, twenty years old, of Al
his personal capacity, remained silent) toona, and caused her to end her life
in the icy waters of the Allegheny
intended would prove fatal
river in Pittsburgh.
been
Allegheny General hospital.
A portion of the business district of
Philipsburg was wiped out by fire in
the worst fire in the history of the
town. The burned portion included ine
Bell Secretary Lansing flatly denied tha’
Moshannon block, postoffice,
Telephone exchange, the New York
3linger & Co. ciotn-
clothing store, M.
The girl had | States was without intent and that
a probationary nurse in (he | ine method of conducting warfare in
must not be directed against any
other than enemy subjects.
This expression is offered by Ger-
many to take the place of the phrase
containing the word “illegal,” which
was incorporated in the draft of the.
Lusitania agreement now under con- |
sideration.
It also became known that Ger-
many expresses the hope that it may
have the opportunity to co-operate
with the United States in some action
looking toward the freedom of the
seas before the end of the war. This
statement is taken in high diplomatic
circles to imply that the Berlin gov-
ernment sees no occasion to await the
cessation of hostilities before settling
that issue.
Furthermore, the German goveran-
ment refers to the British blockade of
Germany as being inhumane, calls at-
tention to the fact that neutral vessels
have been affected by the efforts of
the British government to starve Ger-
many and puts forth the contention
that the German retaliation in the war
zone around the British Isles is justi-
fied by the actions of Great Britain.
Calims that the reprisals that are
legal are not mentioned,
As has been previously stated Ger-
many says in the communication that
the killing of citizens of the United
| the North sea has been changed out
of regard for the long-standing friend-
ship between the United States and
Germany and because American lives
were lost.
new demands had been made in the
Lusitania case at a time when the
German government considered the
POA RR ROR ROR RRR BBB EC EG SA RAN
be " The Only Real
BUTTERINE
after two and not later than four; the Cambria Steel company at Johns-
to table Senator Hitchcock's substl-| for the miners follows a 10 per cent
taining the president's views Was Ié | tyrp rate men.
ing store and Chaprpan’s drug store,
entailing a loss of several hundred
thousand dollars.
A few minutes after he had been re.
leased from the Washington county
jail where he had servevd sixteen days
for carrying concealed weapons, Bur-
ly Ross of Monongahela was arrested
by Constable Kuhe of Axleton, Alle
gheny county, on an inforfatio]
sworn out before Jusiice Bogserd
charging highway robbery and point:
ing firearms.
Following an inspection by Francis
Feehan, supervising factory inspector
of Pittsburgh, the Central school build,
ing, Uniontown, accommodating apout
1,000 pupils, has been condemned. The
building contains about twenty-five
rooms. The factory inspector found
that the outside walls, constructed
fifty years ago, are apt to collapse.
Henry Bake of Harrisburg was ar
rested by State Policeman Davies on
charges of burglary. He confessed to
a string of thefts covering months in
a fashionable suburbgn district of the
state capital. In Bake's pocket was
found a much-used Bible. Circled with
red ink was the quotation: “Seek and
ye shall find.”
A. M. Nichols was overcome and
was rescued by firemen, half a busi:
ness block was wiped out and dam-
age estimated at $133,000 resulted
from the most disastrous fire in the
history of Waynesburg, which broke
out in the Minor building in the
main street of the town.
A strike of section men is on on the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad be
tween Reading and Philadelphia.
About 1,000 men are out. They now
receive $1.80 per day for ten hours’
work and demand $2.26 per day and
60 cents an hour for Sunday work.
While returning to the state institu.
tion for the feeble minded at Polk
with two other inmates after complet-
ing the evening work at the big barn,
George Noel, aged sixteen, fell through
the ice of an artificial lake he was
crossing and was drowned.
More than 2,000 miners employed by
town will be benefited by a 10 per
cent increase in wages. The raise
increase for all Cambria hour and
‘A half-million dollar blaze in the
business section of Scranton de
stroyed the handsome Lyceum thea
ter and damaged several other build:
ings. Twenty-five girls had thrilling
and narrow escapes.
The body of a white man, aged
about forty, believed to be V. M. Whit-
taker, was found in a barn on the out-
skirts of Jeannette. The man had
been frozen to death.
Harry L. Williams, aged forty-eight,
a member of the Oil City fire depart:
ment, was found in a dying condition
in a bunkroom of the hosehouse fol-
lowing a stroke of apoplexy.
Superintendent of Schools Davidson
of Pittsburgh said he would urge mili-
tary training in the schools before the
next meeting of the board of public
education
Dr. Zimmermann, German under sec-
mands made in the Lusitania case 73
~$ &nd July °1.
mann ever made the statements that
negotiations practically were at an
end. He was speaking of the Berlin
dispatches quoting the references by
retary of foreign affairs, to “new de-
mands.”
“This government,” said Secretary
Lansing, ‘as not increased the de
set fort hin the notes of May 13, June
I doubt if Dr. Zimme™
new dema ds had been injected, be-
cause he must know that it is utterlv
false.”
Chairman Stone of the senate for
eign relations committee said after
conferences with administration of
ficials that it was his impression that
the Lusitania case was “practically
gettled.”
{The principal consideration of the
United States now is that there shall
be an acknowledgment by Germanv
that the sinking of an unresisting mer-
chantman without warning is in con-
travention of international law and
that such naval warfare shall be pe:
manently discontinued. The German
contention is that such assurances al-
ready have been given in the Arabic
case and that all that remains in the
Lusitania case is reparation for the
lives of neutrals and an acknowledg
ment that it was wrong to destroy
them.
This latter is contained in the Ger
man proposal as at present framed
without the specific use of the word
“illegal.”
“BUCKET SHOPS” RAIDED
Twelve Establishments In Ohio Towns
Closed by State Authorities.
Twelve so-called “bucket shops” in
eleven Ohio cities were raided by
inspectors’ of the state banking de-
partment and the managers taken int»
custedy on charges of violating the
blue sky lew and operating frauduler
securities jubbing agencies, accordir
to announc’ ment made by Harry '
Hall, state superintendent of banks.
The raids were made on two estab
lishments in Youngstown and one
each in Dryton, Akron, Canton, Te
ledo, Marion, Steubenville, East Liver-
pool, Fremont, Norwalk and Piqua.
FIVE DEAD IN HOTEL FIRE
Hotel Overbrook, Atlantic City, N. J.,
Completely D3stroyed.
Five persons are known to have
perished and at least a score were iL
jured in a spectacular fire which coui-
pletely ‘destroyed the Hotel! Over-
brook, Atlantic City. Property dam-
age ‘will not exceed $200,000.
. The dead are: Mrs. Marina John:
son, unidentified man whose body has
not yet been recovered, Paul Hen
dricks, aged twenty-four, Chambers:
burg, Pa.; Thomas Mott, aged sixty
and his wife.
SPAIN SHORT OF PAPER
Newspapers Will Be Forced to Sus-
pend Uni. 3s Supply Is Obtained.
Spain is short of paper pulp and
the foreign office is endeavoring to ob
Sold Only at “The Place You Get the
Best Meat, Ete.”
2333S EEE Ecce
The Donges Meat Market
Every Farmer with two or more
cows needs a
A DelLLAVAL,
THE BEST SEPARATOR MADE.
J. T. YODER.
Office 223 Levergood St,
Penn’a
Johnstown, -
Oil.
ae
tiated. ale.
WAVERLY GASOLINE
are the products of more than 80
years’ experience.
76°—Special—Motor—Auto
Carbon
Waverly gasolines are all distilled
and refined from Pennsylvania Crude
per gallon.
pressed natural gas product.
Waverly Oil Works Co., Fittsburgh, Pa.
INluminants—Lubricants—Parafline Wax
Waverly Products Sold by
BITTNER MACHINE WORKS -:- D. H. WEISEL -:- P, J. COVER & SON Meyarsdale
Four brands—
Power Without
Clean, Uniform. More miles
Contain no crude gom=
independent Refiners
SUMMIT TOWNSHIP
Jan. 2—
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Matthias spent
over Sunday in Meyersdale at the
home of the latter's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Siehl and family.
John Mimna has taken the contract
to haul logs for the Meyersdale Fuel
Co. on the “Yock” hill, to be sawed
by John Folk, who is also busy saw-
ing lumber for Joseph Yoder, who in-
tends to build a barn this coming sum-
mer.
Calvin BE. Tressler spent Sunday at
the home of Elmer Engle and family.
There will be an Education meeting
held at the Peck school house on Sat-
urday afternoon at one P.M. Feb. b.
Frank Hay who had been farming
for Abrahm Kinsinger for the past
four years has rented the S. A. Wal-
ker farm in Milford Township and will
soon take possession.
Ground Hog day on Wednesday of
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Quinter Gnagy were
Greenville visitors on Yast Sunday.
Irwin Orendorf of Bittinger, Md. is
working for J. C. Kretchman at pre-
sent.
stable for Calvin Maust.
Mr. David Maust spent Sunday at
Springs with friends and relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bockes of near
St. Paul spent Sunday in West Sum. !
mit. |
Mrs. William Kemp is seriously ill
with pneumonia at this writing.
Noah Gnagy is building a house for
Joseph Shumac.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Maust spent
Sunday near Hays Church at the
home of Mrs. Levi Joder.
William Ringer is busy building a |,
RAILROAD
3
RAIL - and - WATER
TOURS
TO FLORIDA
ROUND $38.95 TRIP
FROM — MEYERSDALE, PENN’A.
viaBALTIMOREAaxp
Baltimore & Ohio
M.&M.T.CO.STEAMERS
FEBRUARY 1
FEBRUARY 15
FEBRUARY 29
51210
FULL INFORMATION AT TICKET OFF.
If you want Sure Profit— :
Strayer is back on the job. §
Write him; address
JOHN E. STRAYER, '§
R. F.D., Cairnbrook, Pa. .
>
4
X
x
x
x
x
%
x
x
%
x
x
%
x
x
%
x
%
x
;
MRS. CAROLINE F. FLICK |
Mrs. Caroline Friedline Flick, widow
of Gillian Flick, died recently at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Stoy,
at Waterloo, Ia., aged 87 yrs. She was
born in Somerset county and was a
half-sister of Alexander Shaulis, ot
Somerset. Miss Friedline and Gillian
Flick were married in Somerset county
| many years ago and lived at Lavans-
ville for a long time. Mr. Flick died 13
years ago, and his widow had since
made her home in the state of Iowa.
Mrs. Flick is survived by, these chil-
dren: Mrs. C. A. Stoy, Mrs. William
Mason, also of Waterloo: George W.
of Oakland, Cal.; Frederick, Chicago;
Russell G., Somerset; and William C.
of Johnstown. She is also survived by
20 grandchildren and several great-
grandchildren. The body was brought
tain the export of the commodit;
from Sweden. Unless some Sucs ar-
rangement can be effected the news-
papers will be compelled eventually to
suspend publication.
to Lavansville for burial. Mrs. Flick
was a lifelong member of the Luth-
eran church.
| TRY CUR FINE JOB WORK
| Electric Oil for such emergencies.
| Two sizes 36 and §0 ¢ at al! stores.
BORER RRR RB RR,
WILL’S PROBATED
Levi J. Joder, late of Brothersvalley
township, directs His executor to pay
the sum of $1.00 to his daughter, Mrs.
F. W. Morrison, provision having been
made for her before the demise of the
testator. One-third of the remainder
of hig estate is bequeathed to His'Son,
Ellwood, and two-thirds to the testa-
tor's’ wife, Clara ‘Joder. At the death
of the widow her portion is to 'bé dt
vided in equal shares between her
three sons, Winfield, Charles and Wal-
ter, R. H. Philson of ‘Meyérsdale, Is
named executor. \
Harsh physics react, weaken the
bowels, will lead to chronic ‘consti-
pation. Doan’s Regulets ' operate
easily. 26c a box at all stores.
Accidents will happen but the best
regulated families keep Dr. Thomas
®
——
THR(
Congr
\ , ing a bil
: Somerse
the Hous
Paul
been ap]
agent fo
Compan}
and C. I
sylvania
ferred tc
Andre
died Jan
raiso, In
member
the G. /
of the MN
by his
Rose Hu
Arrang
the dedi
the Stoy
to be hel
16. Follo
ies a ba
and mus
which h:
A con
the cons
road dir
City to I
B. Mang
tion is tc
of Sunsl
Trains w
that poir
spring it
" A pat
Cairnbro
converte
displacin
ected the
box ‘car
freight s
ess of tl
probably
tion.
Misses
Holsopp]
estine,
some tir
Mr. an
Misses §
"burg, St
ton, to
They ii
months.
stress ar
master 8
Attorn
ted suit
ker of §
Johnstov
ing $333
eges is ¢
fendant.
in’ conne
AY show
plaintiff
"27, 1913,
the clain
above.
That §
have ma
crops an
for 1916
scores
barns er
week R.
tor and
the builc
of'L P.)
in Broth
Walker,
townshi]
other wi
‘be ‘kept
addition:
summer,
Miss
of Mr. ¢
Pearson
married
G. Mooc
Episcop:
Miss
Mr. and
and Jan
Mrs. Jet
ship wer
by Rev.
Miss .
and Mrs
Turkeyf
‘Clintock
McClint
were mi
Marriag
Miss 1
of Mr. al
of Glen
of Mr. :
Cumber]
coe, by
M
tate A
force
Vigor
State Li
forcing
by the 1
pective
steaks ¢
datory
products
test cas
. The c
a fine o
er who
when ti
in the c
this as
prosecu
$0 obey