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PERSONAL AND LOCAL
CA
Miss Mary Allison of Somerset was
a recent visitor here. i
Miss Hattie Morrell, of Delaplane,
Va., is the guest of Meyersdale friends.
Agent W. H. Gill, of the Western
Maryland is in Baltimore a part of
the present week.
Ten below zero here Monday morn-
ing—but one good thing it does net
last long.
Miss Alpha Gill has returned to her
hone here following a visit at Lewis-
es and Beavertown.
4 Mr. and Mrs. Levi Deal and son,
James, from Grove City, are wisiting
relatives and friends in Meyersdale.
James B. Slicer, ol Pittsburg is
here for a few days visiting relatives
and friends.
Mrs. Chas. H. Walters of Conneils-
ville, is the guest of local relatives
and friends.
Miss Kathryn Kattan returned Mon-
day from Latrobe where she had
been visiting.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy West of Somerset
spent Sunday with the latter's par-
ens ,Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Meyers
Miss Sanna TEbbecka is acting as
bookkeeper for the Purity Ice Cream
Qo., in the place of E. N. Irwin whe
recently resigned.
Mrs. H. K. Aurandt, who was taken
to the Allegheny Hospital at Cumber-
‘land, Md., hes had a very successful
operation and ‘is getting along nicely.
Miss Mae Diehl left Sunday for
Bedford for a week’s visit after which
she expects to go to the east to ‘buy
millinery sodk.
The Luther Brotherhood held ‘an-
other of their successful banguets
last evening which was largely :at-
tended.
The Meyersdale Auto Co. last week
sold a Franklin touring car, 1916
model, to Earl Beggs of Confluence
and a Maxwell 1916 touring car to G.
N. Schrock of Somerset.
Mrs. Robert Jordan of Connellsville
Pa. spent Sunday with her parents Mr.
and Mrs. John F. Wiland . She ‘took
her niece, Mildred, home who will
spend a few weeks with her.
Officer Hare, one day last week,
arrested @a representative of a ‘large
city firm for peddling goods without
license and for makin
g sales under | ,pmarines as to render them useless. | iq eq
false pretense. He was fined $15.00.
0.S. MAY AGREE TO
SAYS HE WILL SINK
ARMED ENEMY LINERS
DISARMING LINERS
Naval Officers Oppose Gentrary
Stand by Governmest
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WOULD TIE US UP IN WAR
Objection Made to Search Rule, Which
Would Place American Submarines
at Mercy of Maratime Power in War
Considerations of vital importance
affecting the United States in timre of
war are declared by high officials of
the government to have been respon-
sible for the action of Secretary of |
State Lansing in urging the entente;
powers to agree to disarmament of
their merchant ships.
These same considerations, it is
said, are responsible for the fact that
whether or not the allies agree to the
proposals the American government
‘has practically made up its mind 10
«change its rules and acquiesce in the
«contention made by{Germany and Aus-
‘tria eof their right to attack all armed
enemy ships without warning. ;
This contention, based on the
ground that armed merchant ships
are to be regarded in the light of :sub-
marine warfare as auxiliary ships of
war, is declared to have the unani-
mous backing of the authorities of the
American navy.
It, is stated that officers -of the mavy
department have informed the state
department that it is of vital -conse-
quence ‘that the precedents growing
out of the present war should not be
of a character to embarrass the free
use of submarines by this country in
time of a foreign war. Owing to the
tremendous stretches of coastiline on
both the Atlantic and Pacific ‘oceans
and the limited number of coast de-
fense fortifications American naval
experts wld to the view that in the
time of war fhe United States would
be compelled to rely largely -on its
submarines for coast defense. It is
imperative, therefore, they are said to
have argued, ‘that the United ‘States
| should not im its dealings with the
belligerents in the present war go sO
far in restricting the operations of |
For the United States to hold to the
Photo by American Press Association.
KAISER WILHELM 11.
A GENERAL SURVEY CF
THE WAR
A Reuter dispatch from Athens says
that Bulgarian forces have occupied
the Albanian town ¢. c:ori, about Six
teen miles from Aviana.
A Reuter dispatcn irom Milan says
six persons were killed ana several
injured by bombs dropped from aero-
planes which appeared over the city.
The British cruiser Arethusa struck
a mine off the east coast of England.
It is feared the vessel will be a total
wreck. About ten men were lost in
the sinking of the cruiser.
The official Norddeutsche Allge-
meine Zeitung of Berlin prints the full
text of the Cerman memorandum on
the position of the German govern
ment rega-ding the arming of mer
chant ships.
There are twelwe :annexes to the
memoranduin. Twenty case of mer-
cantile ships firing on German sub-
are cited, in thirteen of 1
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
FIRE, AUTOMOBILE,
., COMPENSATION AND
PLATE GLASS INSURANCE
W. B. COOK & SON
Meyersdale, Pa.
| 1-27-6t
which the merchant ship involved was
There ought to be more of community | view that merchant vessels have the | not identified.
interest in Meyersdale.
For hunting last fall without a
license, Dr. C. R. Fichtner, of Con-
fluence, was fined $20 and costs last
week by a Confluence Justice of the
Peace. The information against the
Doctor was made by Game Protector
C. H. Osmer of Meyersdale.
Hardware Dealers Siehl and B. E.
Shipley attended the convention of
Pennsylvania and Alantic Seaboard
Hardware Association which met in
Pittsburg part of last week. Mr.
Siehl was accompanied by his daugh-
ter, Miss Mora. 7
Miss Evelyn Truxal, who is teach-
ing at Bellevue, enjoyed from Friday
to Sunday evening with a friend in
Washington, D. C. While there she
attended a reception at which Mrs.
Longworth (Alice Roosevelt) was
present and at which Hon. Chas. W.
Fairchild made an address.
Oscar Wright, of Boswell, was in"
Satisbury a part of last week settl-
ing up ‘the estate of his mother, Mrs.
Margaret Wright and also of his wife’s
mother, Mrs. Susan Nedrow. Mr.
Wright alse attended to business af-
fairs in Meyersdale. While here he
was accompanied by Mr. Jno. M.
Wright, and the latter's son, James
“Wright, of Elk Lick township.
The residence of W. W. Moore of
‘Lavansville was destroyed by fire on
‘Monday about noon. The fire origi-
mated, it is believed, in the kitchen,
and in a short time it gained such
headway that the -citizens who went
to the aid of the distressed family de-
voted their efforts to saving the per-
sonal property, and ‘the four children
who were confined to bed with
measles.
Mr. C. A. Warfield, who has, for
over twelve years, been in the em-
ploy of the Dull Mercantile Co. and
is @t present invoicing stores of that
company at Jenners, Ralphton and
Acosta, was a visitor here Saturday
and ‘Sunday at.the McKinley home.
He expects soon to open a new store
at Bell. Mr. Warfield is well and fa-
vorably known here having had
charge of the Company's store at
Shaw Mines for a number of years.
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LARIMER
The Lottig Brothers loaded a car
of props at Mance one day last week.
1. M. Mankamyer made a business
trip to Frostburg last week.
Myrtland May met with a painful
accident while loading a car load of
props at Deal last week by a prop fall-
ing on his foot and badly bruising it.
There will be a teachers’ institute
at the Sand Patch school house next
Friday night, Feb. 18.
Mrs. Margaret Weimer was in Frost
burg Friday to consult Dr. Murray in
regard to a very sore thumb.
Miss Sadie Brown, who has been Hv
ing in the home of Charles Lichty in
Summit township, is visiting her par-
ents here.
right to arm for defense and that sub-
Translations are given of confiden- |
marines may not attack them withont tial documents sail in the memoran- !
warning but must exercise the duties | 5, {; have been issued to British |
of visit and search where such ves-| orchant ships
sels are concerned, Mr. Lansing hes structing them in the method of using
been told, would he to place the Amer | quick firing guns, rifies and machine |
{can submarines practically at thel guns against ~gbmarines,
mercy of any attacking power posses:
sing a large merchant marine.
The United States admittedly has
as a result of its memorandum to the
entente allies and the memorandum
from the central powers. Should this
| government approve of the position
of the Teutonic allies, it is believed
diplomatic controversies immediately
would result and it might even be
charged that the United States waa
committed an unneutral act of bene-
fit to the enemies of the entente.
On the other hand the central
powers, it is believed, might be offend-
ed should the state department criti-
cise adversely their memoranda which
was generally regarded to be a de-
velopment of the American memo-
randum suggesting the disarming of
merchantmen. This contained an in-
timation that the United States itself
because of the changed condition of
warfare on the seas might decide tha<
armed merchantmen entering Ameri-
can waters were auxiliary cruisers,
and therefore subject to internment.
By allowing future developments to
determine the stand of the United
States, it was peinted out, all diffi-
culty could be avoided at this time.
Of course, it is realized that should
an armed ship with an American ©n
‘board be sunk and the government
(owning the submarine should an-
‘nounce it considered the commander
«was justified because the vessel was
dn reality a naval auxiliary, the posi
tion of this govermment would have;
to be defined. j j
From one quarter came an indica- |
tion that officials may call the atten-
tion of Americans to the orders of the
central powers when they secure pass-
ports for travel abroad. Just how the
attention of , Americans in Europe
could be brought to the order has not.
been determined.
It 4s pointed out that +4he danger of
Americans traveling from the United
States in British and French ships
would in any event be slight; ships
of those nationalities entering Amer-
jcan waters not being armed. They
therefore are immune from the new
program of the central powers and
their safety is guaranteed by assur
ances previously given.
Austria’s formal notification of her
intention to sink without warning
armed merchant ships after March 1
was received by the state department.
*t is substantially the same as that
received from Germany.
BLAST AT MUNITION PLANT
Building Wrecked at New Castle
(Del.) Plant of Bethlehem Co.
Six hundred pounds of powder ex-
ploded in a dry house at the projectile
plant of the Bethleherr Steel com
| quantities of coal by Germans in
and transports |
The French government has never |
permitted the arming of merchant
vessels, and will not do so now. The |
found itself to be in a delicate position stand is an outgrowth of the old 1aw | Tice in’ Bommel
that a cannon is the property of the
king, and that when one is placed
aboard a vessel that ‘vessel becomes
ipse facto a man-of-war.
The French war office announces
that a notable part of the krench
trenches south of Frise, in the region
south of the Somme, which were cap-
tured recently by the Germans, were
retaken by the French.
The Germans made a violent coun-
ter attack in an effort to retake the
positions, but after suffering im-
portant losses were stopped by the
French artillery and rifle fire.
In the official statement issued from
Berlin anrouncement is made thot
four attacks made by the French in
efforts to recaptmre trenches lot
northwest of Vimy, in the sector
north of Arras, preceded by hours of
artillery preparatios, failed. J
Mine fighting plays the leading part
in the British communiques. Five
British mines were exploded, three
north of Carnog, one south of Foss®
8 and one northeast of Givency. A
(German mite exploded southwest ot
the Hohenzollern redoubt .caused 20
casualties to the British farces.
Two int ned German gteamships
escaped from South American ports
and are now at sea supplied, accord-
ing to current reports, with ample
‘South America. While there is yet no
evidence of the purpose behind the
escapes, it is presumed that the
wessels will attempt to join ether Ger-
man ships and after being equipped,
will ibe used for commerce raidirg.
The-~two vessels were the Bakrenfeld,
which was interned at Buenos Ayres
and the Turpin, interned in Punta
Arenas, in the straits of Magellan.
GOLD HUNTING IN MARYLAND
Diamond Drill |
i
Small Nuggets Found;
at ‘W rk For Pay Streak.
Sixteen miles from the national
capital, within sight of the Washing-
ton monument, operations have been
undertaker on a large scale for gold.
On the old Ford farm in Mont- |
gomery county, Maryland, two or |
three miles from the Potomac river,
| sion at which time the matter will k=
DENTISTRY.
Modern dentistry eliminates the"
dread of havng your teeth extracted,
crowned or filled.
1 specialize on Crown and Bridge
work. I also treat and guarantee to
cure Pyorrhea, Riggs Disease or
loose; springy, bleeding gums when
not too far advanced.
H E. GETTY
MEYERSDALE, PA.
ATTORNEYS—AT—LAW
ROSS R. SCOTT,
Attarney-at-Law
SOMERSET, PA
UHL & EALY
Attorneys-at-Law
SOMERSET, Pa,
WILLIAM C. PRICE
4 Successor to
W A. CLARK
MEYERSDALE, PA.
PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO
ALL CALLS AT ALL TIMES.
Both Phones
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE,
Estate of Lloyd Ravenscraft, late of
Larimer Township, Somerset Coun-
ty, State of Pennsylvania, Deceased
Letters of administration in the a-
bove estate having been granted to
the undersigned, notice is hereby
given to all persons indebted to said
estate to make immediate payment,
and those having claims against the
same to present them, properly aun-
thenticated for settlement, on the 10th
day of March, 1916, at the office of
the administrator,
ROSS R. SCOTT, Administrator
Somerset, Pa.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
In re estate of
Adam Kreitzberg, Deceased.
The undersigned having been duly |
appointed by the proper authority to
make a distribution of the funds in |
the hands of James Kreitzberg, ad-
ministrator and trustee of the estate
of Adam Kreitsberg, deceased, hereby 3
gives notice that he will sit at his of-
Pennsylvania, om
o'clock A. M. for the purpose of at
tending to the duties of said appoiat-
ment, when and where all persons in-
terested can attend if they see proper.
C. W. Walker.
2-3-3t Auditor
WESTERN
MARYLAND
RAILWAY
“The Mason and Dixon Line”
TWO WINTER TOURS
at exceedingly low fares to
FLORIDA
“The Land of Sunshine
and Flowers”
February 22 and March 10
For full information, fares,
and booklet, apply to Ticket
Agent or C. F. Stewart, G. P.
A., Baltimore, Md.
NOfICE—Is hereby given that my
wife, Annie Walker, has left my bed
and board without just cause. All
persons are warned mot to give her
credit on my account as I shall not
DEY oy bills contracted by her.
Coal Run Geo. B. Walker
APPLICATIONS FOR STREET
COMMISSIONER WANTED.
On account of the late hour the e
lection of Street Commissioner was
not taken up at the regular meeting
of council, February 1st, the Secre-
tary will receive applications until
February 15th, at the adjourned ses
diamond drills are: at work probing
for quartz veins carrying the precious
metals. Nuggets have already been |
found that whether ore exists in pay-
ing quantities is not yet determined.
Prospecting ‘operations have been
undertaken by A. A. Hassan, a native
of Turkey, a geologist and mining en-
gineer, who has worked in many min-
ing camps ‘n all parts of the world. |
He calls his prospect “The Great Falls
of Maryland Mine.” As yet he is un-
pany, near New Castle, lel, injuring
two workmen and comp.etely wreck
ing the building.
There was no one in the dry houss }
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at the time of the explosion, !
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willing to say whether he has a mire
or not. He admits that he has found
free gold and 100 men are
ooking for the veins whence they
came.
more than
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disposed of.
B. J. Dicky, Secretary.
A Good Reason
For Advertising
All Prosperous
Stores
Wednesday, February 23, 1916, at tem |
Steady
Work
Good Wages
Coke Drawers
Connellsville, F!
Westmoreland
Miners, Mine Laborers and
mines near Uniontown and
Pa., and at Mount Pleasant,
are needed at
ayette County,
County, Pa.
now earning ........
Pick Miners now earning .
Drivers, Tracklayers and Tinbermen
Coke Drawers now earning ..........$3.00 per day
Machine coal loaders now earning
Machine runners now earning..... ..$6.00 per day
Other labor paid in proportion.
$3.05 per day
eo ss ss eves
....$3.50 to $4.00 per day
$5.00 per day
g
for employes,
them lighted
and churches.
Good houses are provided
Plants located along street car
lines and close to town, schools
and many of
by electricity.
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INDIAN CREEK.
Lester Barry of Hazelwood lately
spent a few days among Mill Run
friends.
Chas. Newell was a business caller
in Connellsville on Saturday.
Frank Kooser, George Arzbacher
and Frank Steidle of Mill Run were |
Connellsvillil marketers on Saturday.
Andrew Hawk of Stewartown was
transacting business here recently.
N. J. Miller who has been doing
jury service at Greensburg has re-
turned to his home at Jones Mill
The Yough river is almost at the
flood stage.
H. I. Fisher, general manager of
the McFarland Lumber Company
spent over Sunday with his family
at Wilkinsburg.
Miss Jean Illing has returned home
after spending a few weeks among
Connellsville friends.
Nicholas Rock has joined the Boat
Builders union.
The stork in making his rounds
the other day left a fine baby. boy at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. G,
Sweitzer,
S. M. Hutchison, our hustling real
estate dealer from Mill Run on Sat-
urday was transacting business in
Connellsvlile and Uniontown.
Wm. Bear of Jones Mill is exfra
passenger brakeman . on the. I.. Co.
railway.
The sale of the late Lena Bigaia
was well attended on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Dull will soon
be comfortably located in their new
home here.
Here is to sweet Ireland,
The land of my birth,
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES
For Sale—One 20 Inch Monarch
French Burr, Capacity 20 to 40 bush-
els. Flour and feed mill and corn ob
crusher. .Complete. Good as new;
ready to run. List price $250. Will sell
to quick buyer for $80.00. Apply
DALE LUMBER COMPANY
D2 Sand Patch, Pa.
R. F.
For Sale—A Champion Rock Crush-
er 16“X 20” Troat Adjustable. Chain
convey eliminator, Steel frame om
ested, call on or write J. W. Nestor,
Burgess, Hooversville, Pa. 1-18 1m .
wheels. In good condition, ready for
work; weighs about 2800 Ibs. If Inter
FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, apply
at 413 Main street.
LUKE HAY.
FOR SALE—A Dockash Coal Range.
Good as new. Price reasonable. Call
at residence of H. E. Bauman. 2-3-3t
FOR RENT—Near the Centre of the
town, 2 4-room houses. Cheap. Apply
at this office. 10—21 tf.
Wanted—a second hand bureau
chest of drawers. This office.
OF
BARGAINS ON ROBES AND BLAN-
KETS at WEISEL'S HARNESS
SHOP, CENTRE ST.
House for sale or for rent, centrally
located—North street. 8 rooms. Apply
at this office.
The land of the Shamrock,
The best land on earth.
The Irish were Irish
When England wasn’t much
And they still will be Irish
When England turns Dutch.
The downfall of England
As all men can see i
Is coming so swiftly,
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FOR SALE—One Pool Table, 2 Heat
ing Stoves,, Lot of Scoemaker’s tools.
Apply to Chas. Plitt. 12-8tf
For Sale-—Victor Typewriter in first
class condition. Will sell cheap.
J. O. Adams, Blacksmith,
1-13-3t * Meyersdale.
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We all soon will be free
For England next summer
Will walk with a crutch |
Surrounded by Germans |
And all speaking Dutch.
On Monday morning the Thermo: |
oter registered 24 below at Jones’ |
Mill. {
Advertise |
Children Ory
FOR FLETOHER'S
CASTORIA
FOR SALE—One-horse delivery or
spring wagon in first class condition.
Cheap to quick buyer. Apply to J. O.
Adams, Blacksmith., 2-3-3¢
FOR SALE—116 ACRE FARM under
Cultivation, fairly good buildings, 8
miles from Meyersdale on easy terms.
Apply to HABEL & PHILLIPS.
Three Cans of Early June Pcas for 288
AT HABEL & PHILLIPS.