NEARBY COUNTIES.
Wages of practically all coke draw-
ers, coal diggers and allied craftsmen
in the Connellsville region will be in-
creased approximately ten per cent,
in accordance with a notice posted at
all of the plants of the H. C. Frick
Coke Company recently announcing
a new scale effcetive at once. About
25,000 men are affected. The same
night three of the leading independ-
ent companies announced that their
employes would receive the same wu-
ges as are paid the Frick Co.
A Win-my-chum week is being held
by the Epworth League of one of the
Methodist churches in Johnstown.
A demonstration in Connellsville
of a new butter machine was made
at a store a few days ago. Tak-
ing a pint of milk and a pound of but
ter the demonstrator with machine
merged them into about two pounds
of butter. The spectators were a-
mazed at the process which would ma-
terially reduce the high cost of living.
Mrs. Alice Stitley, proprietor of the
Mountain Inn, which stands at Fos-
ter's Camp on the Lincoin Highway,
has applied to the Westmoreland
Court for a liquor license. The inn
has been 4a favorite stopping place for
motorists and the petition is largely
signed.
The benefits of the workmen's com-
pensation law are concretely illustra-
ted in the first case of death by acci-
dent reported in the Altoona district.
Michael Michalein, a miner employ-
ed by the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke
Co. in Carroll township, in Cambria
county, whas killed Jan. 8, leaving a
widow and eight children, the eldest
of whom is 156 years and the young-
est 8 mos. The widow will receive 60
per cent of her husband’s wages or
$7.19 a week for the first 300 weeks
and after that there will be a grad-
ually decreasing scale until June 28,
1926, from which date until April 16,
1931, she will receive $3 a week. The
total compensation the family will
receive will be $4136.77.
RAILROAD WORKING TO
PREVENT ACCIDENTS.
That the management and employ-
es of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
pursued the Safety First campaign
with unflagging interest during the
past year is indicated by the annual
review of the work by the chairman
of the General Safety Committee
showing the measures taken to re-
move the danger to the men and pro-
tect the lives and property of patrons.
During the year the employes while
holding 204 safety committee meet-
ings made 17,066 recommendations,
in the interest of safety with the res-
ult that 16,411, or 96 per cent, were
disposed of. This was an increase of
46 recommendations and an increase
,of 18 per cent in the corrections
made, as compared with last year.
To the general use of goggles by
mechanics, the company’s physician
attributes a prevention of fifteen in-
juries to employes’ eyes on one divis-
ion, while on another division there
were ten instances of the protection
provided by the railroad having saved
the sight.
The rigid inspection of equipment
terminal property and other facilities,
officials of the safety department be-
lieve to have been responsible for a
decrease in the number of accidents.
This decrease is regarded as remark-
able because the force was augment-
ed to handle increased business, and
in increasing the force inexperienc-
ed men are recruited.
The Ohio River Division employes
made the highest record for dispos-
ing of recommendations, there having
been 865 suggestions made with bat
three remaining to be disposed of
at the close of the year.
Of 4,559 suggestions made by em-
ployes of the Philadelphia division,
only sixty-three remained to be dis-
posed of. This record of 98 per cent
was equaled by the Baltimore, New
York and Chicago Terminal divisions.
UNION VALLEY
Jan. 2—
Quite a number of our farmers got
busy plowing last week.
You must either have the grip or
the measles to be up with the times
in this walley.
Edward Hostetler, our health of-
ficer passes through this little valley
almost very day; he says that he is
kept busy watching the measles.
Simon Brown has his sawmill run-
ning at full speed since he has the
new 16 H. P. century engine, He fis
now sawing the timber for the Lottie
Bros.
Mrs. J. Sturtz spent one day last
week in Meyersdale visiting her old
friend Mrs. A. Horchner.
Peter Felker is busy cutting logs and
hauling them to the mill he intends to
build a new house.
The teaches institute was well at.
tended, and every body took great in-
terest in the debate. All were very an-
xious to hear both sides but the dicis-
ion was in favor of the women so look
out for the next election.
INVENTS NEW SUBMARINE
TO CARRY FOOD SUPPLIET |
SIMON LAKE.
UNDERSEA CARGO BOAT
Simon Lake Gets Patent on New
Submarine.
A design for a submarifie having
two hulls, and which can carry grains,
foodstuffs or other materials, has been
granted Simon Lake.
The prompt granting of the patent,
and the fact that every claim askeu
by Mr. Lake in his original request
has been allowed without change, has
given rise to the belief in submarine
circles that the government may he
planning to build such undersea boats.
The submarine is designed pri-
marily to carry food supplies to a
blockaded port. One of the most im-
portant inventions connected with the
boat is the mothod of obtaining a
quick trim by a series of tanks and
ballast compartments. The water may
be admitted to the very interior of
the vessel's compartments and
around the cargo itself without injury
to the contents or danger to the crew.
Quick stability may thus be ob-
tained and the cargo submerged even
while the cargo is being loaded. The
boat will have no armament.
SILK WORKERS STRIKE
Object to Elevation of Bookkeeper
After Resignation of Superintendent.
Seven -hundred men and girls em-
ployed in the York (Pa.) silk mill
operated by the Pennsylvania Textile
company struck because of the resig-
nation of their superintendent, F. W.
vation of Samuel Ruby, the bookkeep-,
er, to the position. Schaub’s resig-.
nation followed a disagreement with
Ruby.
SEA SAFER THAN LAND
German Officer Rides In Taxi; Has
Accident; Misses Boat.
Lieutenant Berg, captor of the Brit
ish liner Appam, wants to get back to
sea, where he knows it’s safe, he says.
He was inveigled into a taxi trip to
the pier from the hotel. The taxi
broke down in a mud hole, shook up
the young terror of the waves and
caused him to miss the tug that was
to take him aboard the Appam.
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Pittsburgh, Feb. 8.
Butter — Prints, 841% @36c; tubs,
331, @34c. BEggs—Fresh, 32c.
Cattle—Choice, $8560@8.75;
$8.25@8.60; good, $7.85@8.20; tidy
butchers, $7.60@8; fair, $6.60@7.25;
common, $56.50@6.50; choice heifers,
pmme,
$6.50@7; common to fair heifers,
$4.50@6; common to good fat bulls,
$4.60@7; common to good fat cows,
$8@6.60; fresh cowe and springers,
$40@86.
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$8.25@8.50; good mixed, $7.560@8.10;
fair mixed, $6.50@7.25; culls and com
mon, $4@5; lambs, $7.60@11.60; veal
calves, $11.50@12; heavy and thin
calves, $6@8.50.
Hogs — Prime heavy and heavy
mixed, $8.55@8.60; mediums and
heavy Yorkers, $8.60@8.66; light
Yorkers, $8.26@8.50; pigs, $7.60@
7.76; roughs, $7@7.50; stags, $5.50@¢.
Cleveland, Feb. 8.
Cattle—Choice fat steers, $7.500"
$8; good to choice butcher steers, $7
@7.560; fair to good butcher steers, { .
@7; good to cuoice heifers, $6@7;
good to choice butcher bulls, $6@86.75;
good to choice cows, $56.26@6; fair te
good cows, $4@56; common cows, $3@
3.76.
Sheep and Lambs—Good to choic~
lambs, $10.75@11; rair to good,
@10.25; good to choice wethers, $7
7.60; good to choice ewes, $6.50@"
mixed ewes and wethers, $6.76 @7.25,
bucks, $6@6.50; culls and common,
$4.50@6.
Hogs — Yorkers, mediums, mixed,
$8.15; pigs, $7; roughs, $7.25; stags,
$6.75.
Calves—Good to choice calves,
$11.50@12; fair to good, $9@11.25;
heavy and common, $6@9.
Chicago, Feb. 8.
Hogs—Bulk, $7.90@8.10; light, $7.65
@8.10; mixed, $7.80@8.20; heavy,
$7.75@8.25; roughs, $7.75@8.25; pigs.
$6.25@7.30.
Cattle—Native beef steers, $6.35
9.60; cows and heifers, $3.15@8.20
calves, $8@11.
WARNING TO BAKERS
Bakers are warned against the
‘ dangers peculiar to their occupation in
a pamphlet entitled “Timely Hints
for Bakers” issued by Commissioner
John Price Jackson of the Depart-
ment of Labor and Industry.
“Co-operate with your employer in
keeping the bake shop ‘clean,” advises
| Commissioner Jackson to Pennsylvan-
i ia bakers.
“Daily clean-ups and fre-
quent scrubbings of the shops are ab-
solutely necessary.
“Do not go into the open air direct
from the bake room or while overheat-
ed unless: properly protected from the
cold. Sudden exposure of this kind
frequently leads to pneumonia or
rheumatism.
“Flour dust irritates the lungs and
increases your chances for developing
tuberculosis. Handle flour and empty
bags carefully. Do not shake out em-
pty bags in the workroom.
“If you have a sore hand or arm,
quit work until it is well. Handling
dough, bread, and tools lengthens the
time for it to heal and may endanger
patrons. :
“Bakers often have pains in their
feet and legs. If you have this troubie
consult a doctor. It is likely flat foot
and not rheumatism, and the advice
of a doctor should be carefully foll-
owed.
“Do not clean any machine while it
is in motion. Many serious injuries
have resulted from disobeying this
rule.
“The Safety Standards for Bake
shops published by the Industrial
Board of the Pensylvania Department
of Labor and Industry refers to bakers
as follows:
“No person suffering from a com-
municable disease shall be employed,
persons working in bakeshops shail
be subject to medical inspection under
the supervision of the Department of
Labor and Industry. Outer clothing
used by bakeshops workers when on
duty shall be of washable material
(preferably white) and shall be kept
clean at all times. The smoking, snuff-
ing or chewing of tobacco or snuff,
the scraping of hands and arms with
a knife to remove dough, the open
blowing of the nose, expectoration,
wetting the fingers in the mouth and
all other insanitary practices are for-
bidden.
WITTENBERG.
Jan. 2—
Farmers are busy plowing for the
spring crops.
Charles and James Geiger have re-
Schwab, and to protest against the ele- turned home after a few weeks of
visiting with friends and relatives at
Canton, Ohio; they also visited at
Scottdale and at Tarentum.
On Tuesday evening of last week
Misses Annie Geiger, Grace Pfeiffer,
Grace Murray and James and Irvin
Geiger called at the home ofW. H.
Knepp.
Mrs. Susan Smith and Mrs. C. C.
Housel, son Carl and Misses Eliza
and Lydia Smith were called at F. F.
Smith's at Deal on Tuesday last.
Charles Geiger is recovering from
a spell of sickness.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles May have
moved their household goods te Con-
nellslle. Mr. May left on Monday ev-
ening to resume his duties at the
Westinghouse and Mrs. May left on
Thursday evening.
Miss Orpha Mankamyer is staying
at Cyrus Hostetler’'s of Meyersdale
at the present time.
Misses Grace Murray and Grace
Sunday was visiting relatives here.
P. H. Smith is busily engaged in
cutting props for Elmer Walker,
Mrs. Herman Beal was visiting at
the home of Susan Smith recently.
Messrs. Cyrus Housel and Dewey
and Wm. Smith called on Irvin Mur- |
ray Sunday afternoon.
Misses Mary and Sarah Geiger were
recent guets of Miss Grace Murray.
Mrs. W. H. Knepp and daughter,
Mary, were at the home of Susan
Smith, Sunday.
John Slagle
Simon Murray.
W. H. Knepp i8 working for Simon
Brown at present.
Simon Brown is now running hig !
is cutting props for
sawmill at full blast. {
Calvin Weimer of Deal is slowly |
recovering from a severe attack of |
quinsy.
WILL RAISE PRIZE HOGS.
Organized with a capital stock of
$25,000 a number of Altona business |
and professional men have formed a
company which will be incorporated
as the Pennsylvania Hog Company,
and will raise high grade porkers.
The farm belonging to the Wm. H.
Herr estate, near Reynoldsvillle, has
been leased , and the whole tract of
471 acres will be used in connection °
with the business. Chas, C. Wehn of
Johnstown, who has been highly con-
nected wtih the National Hog Com-
Wheat—DnMay, $1.277% Corn—May
Subscribe for the Commercial and
got all the news.
?67%c. Oats—May, 473%c.
a ~ BTIANS
enterprise
pany, for some years will manage the
Pfeiffer called on their friend, Miss *
Annie Geiger on Wednesday evening. :
Henry Geiger of Corrigansville pm !
SAYS OUR NAVY IS
MOST EFFICIENT
LEMUEL P. PADGETT,
Chairman House Committee on Naval |:
Affairs.
‘A GENERAL SURVEY OF
. behind the German lines.
; it was forced to descend with a
| ritory.
{ fn 1900.
THE WAR
Artillery engagements of terrific in-
tensity ‘have been in progress in tha |
sector between La Bassee canal and
Arras in northern France and south
of the river Somme, German army
headquarters announced. The official
statement adds:
“The city of Lens has again been
vigorously bombarded by the enemy
during the last few days.
“In the Argonne the French blew
up and occupied a crater on Hill No,
285, La Fille Morte, northeast of La
Chalade. They ware driven out im-
mediately by a counter attack.”
A Reuter dispatch from Berlin says:
“It is officially stated here that
Prince Oscar of Prussia, the kaiser’s
fifth son, has been slightly wounded
in the head and upper part of one
thigh by shell splinters in the fighting
in the eastern theater of war.”
Nearly £90 incapacitated soldiers,
many of them captured in the retreat
from Mons, and repatriated civiliars
arrived here from Germany via Hol-
land.
British ship Appam, given up as
lost, enterc 1 Hampton Roads in com-
mand of (erman prize crew after
being captured by mysterious German
raider off "he African coast. The
raider is re~orted to have sunk eight
British shi; 5, valued at $10,000,000.
Premier Toremykin of Russia re-
signed; succeeded by M. Stuermer.
Allies have swept last of enemy
from Kamerun coast line.
Turkish Crown Prince Yussuf Izze-
din either committed suicide or was
assassinate” in royal palace at Con-
stantinople.
A Zeppelin fleet of six or seven
units raided English midland coun-
tries, killing fifty-nine and injuring
101. Germ 1s report reaching Liver-
pool, Birkenhead and Manchester, bu:
British deny this.
Allies seized Krum ale, fort guard-
ing entrance of Salonika harbor on
the north.
German <-ive in west checked br
French, Germans holding their gains.
On Saturday there were twenty
eight combats in the air. In five cases
the German machine was driven down
In a sixth
stopped engine and broken propeller.
One of the British machines Wis
| was on reconnaisance duty has not
returned to its base.
The Germans have closed the fron-
tier between Belgium and Holland, ac-
cording to ~ dispatch from Amster-
dam, whic adds that great move-
ments of t.oops are in progress. Tha
transfer of troops is supposed to be
| connected with.the reported plan of
the Germans for an attempted drive
to Calais.
The official communiques issued bv
: the French war office deal with artil-
lery actions French heavy artillery
bombarded an infantry column and
convoys eniering Roye and other bom-
bardments were directed against the
German positions in the Tahure sec-
tor, in Champagne; the sector of La
Harazee in the Argonne, and on the
' Normeny-Morville front in Lorraine.
An official report from General Do-
bell, commanding the British troops
in the Kamerun, tells of the crowding
. of the remaining German forces tc
! Spanish Guinea, where 15,000 of them
. have been interned by the Spanish au-
thorities.
An Italian observation aeroplane of
a new type flew over Lugano, and the
Swiss positions on Monte Cenere. A
violent fire was directed by Swiss
guns at-the aeroplane, which was hit
repeatedly.
The aviator, who was not injured,
was forced to land within Swiss ter-
He was made prisoner. The
aviator said he had flown over Swiss
, territory by mistake.
160 LOST IN SEA ACCIDENT
Japanese Liner Goes Down After Col.
lision with British Vessel.
The Japanese liner Daijin Maru was
sunk in a collision with the steamship
Linan in the China sea, and 160 lives
were lost.
The Daijir Maru of 1,676 tons gross
and 243 fee. long was built at Kobe
She was owned in Osaka. :
Do you pay your bills with cash, and per-
haps pay them twice? Do you argue and dis-
pute over amounts? Do ycu try to keep all
such records in your mind? »te
A checking account with this bank will
eliminate all such troubles -:-
Deposit your money in this bank—pay
your bills by check—that is the safe way, the
modern way of doing business. -.-
Come in and let us start you. It's easy.
The Second National Bank,
of MEYERSDALE, PA.
“The Bank on the Corner”
CR RRR RR RR RR RR RR RR RR RR CR RB RR RR EE HH HE RL REIS RRA AA AR AAA
«® Maple Sugar Supplies *®
We have a large supply of Galvanized
Sheet Iron for building Boiling Pans and
Storage Tanks and can supply your needs
on short notice. -1-
A full supply of Sap Buckets, Dippers,
Funnels and Scoops on hand.
BAER & LO. |
PLUMBERS & HEATERS f
wp BOTH PHONES MEYERSDALE, PA @P
ITCH! ITCH! ITCHI : ES RE0B00S00B0R0RE RRS :
, SCRATCH! SCRATCH! SCRATCH , TE 4 ’
of ou scratch, the worse d DAUGHT 8
e more y 13
the itch. Try Doan’s Ointment. For |g CAN USE IT og
eczema, any skin ftehing. 50c a box. | 2 ; JB
NSN NNSA IN IS NN NNN :
x
Ligoleum Logic |3
No. 2 ;
|B
No ;
N More |8
Red |g
Hands |g
FR om IB As well as
© more r s from scrubbing x
floors. Run a ‘mop over linoleum. N Mother
| &
Armstrong’ s Linoleum : Its smooth running, rol-"
ot sxPasive it lasts longer—and always ' ler bearing and rubber
looks “new” : : tired wheels make it one
I is made of toned mater and every gk of the easiest running
The new patterns are LL Jdetentn = = cleaners on the market.
a for oy Toom in rein use. B And vet it will take out
Set he samples goon. |; Lighten the labor § as much dirt from the
|% carpet as . when father
R REICH & SON 8 puts his strong muscles
behind it,
Strength isn’t necess-
ary to operate one of these ¥
. fr i
Jerringle:”
and get good results.
That's why hundreds of
women who never could
stand the hard work of
sweeping with the old
fashioned broom, have
been able. with the use
of a Torrington Superior
to keep the carpets and
rugs in apple pie condition
the year round
THE HOME FURNISHERS
Complete From Cellar to Attic
120 Center St., Meyersdale
ORORCRRCRCROBCRC
0
0
Our Job Work
HAVE YOU TRIED THE
JOB WORK OF
THE COMMERCIAL!
OUR WORK 18 OF THE BEST ANE
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT.
GIVE US A TRIAL
Ea te Pe OOO
me meme
Wm. C, - Price
Successor to W. A. Clarke
Funeral Director
Business conducted at the same place
PARR RR RR RRR RR RR RR A RR ORR RR RE RR RR RR RR A RR AR RRC RORCRCRCRCE
Prompt attention given to all calls 3
ab all times. Both Phones.
Arp rest >
!
Need a Laxative?
FREE TRIAL :
Don’t take a violent purgative. Right Made by s
the sluggish condition with the safe, TH 5
vegetable remedy which has held pub- E NATIONAL SWELrRR co §
lic confidence for over sixty years. FOR'S : 2 :
® ALE BY 3
LUKE HAY, :
1 413 Main Street. :
PILLS
40 W xy TY
Largest Sale of Any Medicine in the World, _ 1 LEY KIDNE NE Y r “il
Sold everywhere. In boxes, 10c,, 265¢. FoR BACK “IBNEYS AND BLaoDEs
SY
Sledge, a typics
fatuated with Mc
a street car comp
her red rose
CH.
Molly Invites
56 HERI
Moll
as |
cept
pretentious big
“I don’t know
concerned. *‘Di
“No, but I th
sent to you,” I
good to keep, EF
‘Fern’ just slip
pardon me for
She never calle
“Who is it?”
eager to hear t!
see. | "The inf
portant, if tru
' kept in suspen:
“Hold on to
warned her. *(
*Sledge!” sl
That great big’
of words, and |
scarlet with ir
“Sledge,” he
, to the |
ber the bi
ped just abres
Mr. Glider,
an expert in
flies, went stre
ter, seizing ir
opportunity
when Mr; Msg
jacket and pu
parlor.
“Great new:
beaming with
laughter of Fe
a new honor
do you suppo
her belt?”
“It might |
turned Marley
erless daunght
somehow on
particular vic
and he laugh
“Sledge!” e
way, Marley,
too. Didn't |
was there for
party tomorr
like that?"
“Well, not «
out some pI
knowledged...
tering into tk
hasion. “He
Bh Molly. I
“How unu
- served Molly
press the risi
the blushes |
them almost
‘The Marley
thin legged
fully intellec
past the hal
to a below
from the froz
“Mr. Sledg:
“Show him
face to fac
after the cri
they had the
‘The instru
ever.
“Good eve
voice of Sled
ed directly ir
in the portie
topcoat, the
closed a ma
shirt front,
studs, the gl
ever, by co
solitaire wh
gold watch
the Young
Ward G.
smoothly tc
Italian: bar
various angi
how micros
ed. The erc
16t, howeve!
d’ ‘he bo
' n; int
clutched th
sented by t]
a thirty dol
across, wra
layers of |
with an abs
partitions.
a speckles:
French sha
a conical p
have stage
from the v
truded a sg
roses.
“Good ev
ed, becomir
these for y
hia cordial
g——