THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL | _———————— PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT MEYERSDALE, PA. K. Cleaver, Editor. When paid strictly in advance $1.00 When not paid in advance $1.50 eee eee NOTICE—is hereby given to those Subscribers who are ignoring repeat- | ed bills sent to them from this office that we will be compelled to place their accounts in the hands of collec- tors.. AAA SS INAS NTIS a St SUMMIT TOWNSHIP. Some of our farmers are getting out their keelers. Lloyd Handwerk rented the late J. W. Briskey farm and moved upon the same last week. R. J. Engle and W. S. Weller, our two popular auctioneers conducted the large public sale of the S. A. Beachy estate of near Salisbury last Wednesday. Miss Ada Fike spent over Sunday with her friend, Miss Louise Comp- ton of Compton's Mills. The entertainment held at the Walker school last Saturday night and taught by Prof. H. B. Saylor, was well rendered and largely attended. Lloyd Shumac spent Sunday at the home of his uncle, Newton Say- lor and family. Chas. Redinger is working for D. W. Long at present. Frank Hay who had rented the A bram Kinsinger farm for the past four years moved on last Wednesday to near Rockwood on the S. A. Walk- er farm. L. A. Kretchman was a business visitor to the county-seat last week. Mr. Deatrick of Williamsport, a well known millwright is busy remod- eling the sawmill of the Muncy Lum- bering Company at Laurel Meadow. H. D. Gnagey traded his Ford road- ster on a new Ford touring car with O. L. Piot of Meyersdale. Mrs. J. A. Opel spent Monday with her friend, Mrs. H. E. Hershberger. Elmer Engle spent Sunday at the home of Washington Bockes. Miss Lelia Yoder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Yoder and Daniel Bren- neman son of Joel Brenenman, near Grantsville, Md. were married at the Amish church of Summit Mills on last Sunday by Bishop Moses Yoder. Samuel Firl who had been suffering "for the past week with a bruised leg, is out again. The Summit Mills school rendered a very interesting program to a large audience on Tuesday evening of this week. Read the Commercial and get the purest news. SOUTHAMPTON TOWN- SHIP INSTITUTE. There will a teachers’ institute held on Friday evening, March 3rd. to be- gin at 7:30 p. m. Song, Pansies. Select Reading, Thelma Miller. Topic for Discussion, Howard Kei- fer. Queries Habit of Attention, Ruth Bittner. Recitation. Topical Discussion, Nora Keifer. Song Select Reading, Mary Delozier. “Facing the Crises,” C. B. Bittner. Queries, Use and Abuse of Text Books, K. G. Miller. Song. Topic, Rubie Poorbaugh. Emulation as an Incentive, Broadwater. Recitation Alfred Select Reading, Alma Delozier. Periodical, Marion Leydig. All lovers of education are cordial ly invited to come. C. B. Bittner. There will be a spelling bee at the« Southampton School on February 25 to which all are invited to come an: participate. Ad VICINITY OF MEYERSDALE. Lincoln Fuaidley and daughter Flora, left Saturday for Pittsburg, tc spend a few days with relatives. Victor Handwerk is busy hauling lumber from Daniel Klink’s saw mil Miss Martha Maust was a Sunday guest at J. M. Kretchman’s. F. M. Lyons, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Shawley, Mr. and Mrs. James Beals were Saturday and Sunday visitors at Geo. W. Beals. Harvey Hershberger is hauling logs for the Muncy Lumber Co. Mrs. C. J. Rhodes, who has been ili for some time, is improving slowly. Miltn Elli nt over Sunday i ome again. 1as scalded his 1 tap. , who sp¢ Klink’ Saturday evening nd largely attend which was giver | | 1 | | 1 { | | | i MEYERSDALE H. S. BRIEFS Editor in Chief—Jerre Beachy. i i Assistant Editor—Lenore Collins | Elizabeth Bolden F. Groff '17 H. Gress '18 Miriam Glessner ’'19 Martha Glessner ’17 Earl Opel '16 ’16 ing was the star. it. awhile and then picked up a little ngqrve, he would give it a punch. After watching again for some time to see if it was going to make a pass at him, he would give it another punch. John escaped without serious injury. Byron Nichelson who has always hen industry came to school with an egg in his pocket. Joe, our small Senior, sent one of his friends a nice red Rose for a Val- entine. But Miss Lauver, beat her to it. Cruel Minnie Swearman was seen with her arms tightly clasped about | farms which are now under cultiva- Perhaps she was | tion. The land is level and free from a telephone: post. dreaming. construct an acrobatic lens. and see it perform. Earl Stotler tells of a man who had his hand blown off while trying ®o shoot a wizard which was flying above. May be it was a Buzzard. Grace Weller would like to know how, Claudius knew that Hamlet knew; that knew that Hamlet knew that Claudius had killed his father. Someone who knows about these knews, please tell Grace. Chas. Fike attended the sale atthe farm of his late grandfather. Chas. said that he had a fine time and that he was the principal stockhold- er. In history class, Michael Hady re- ported that Marat had two thousand liver. Samuel Meyers made known his intention of swallowing the encyclo- pedia. We advise you not to do this Sam, as we only have one in our school. C. Rowe was absent from school 0a Friday afternoon and it was reported that she journeyed to Cumberland. This looks suspicious, Clara. Wilbur Stotler reported that Rous- sain died of heart-failure. The directors are thinking over the idea of placing a large seat in Miss Livengood’s room for the bene- fit of Fred Naugle. S. Gerhart is thinking of making a trip to Cumberland. Beware, Nor- man The Girl Hikers walked to the fair ground last Friday. That was not their destination, however, but as they insisted on getting back early on account of the basket ball game, they decided not to go any farther At a great risk of life and limb th: most daring and adventuresome “Hi ker” proceeded to get a table (de tails mercifully withheld) and the: proceeded to devour the delicious luncheon which they took along. Or the way back, the Hikers were frightened by a huge, bloodthirsty looking cow, which made repeatec offorts to charge upon them. One o he members thought that it was be .ause of the red coat she wore, b! pon second thought it was conclud .d that the real attraction was the rowing green things; the Freshme: vere along. Estelle Rowe does not know th ifference between a “grape arbor nd a “grape harbor.” In- Latin Class, John Meyers 11 sted that “sua” meaning “he: ieant “his own.” 1. S. Team Wins Seven Straight Last Friday the Meyersdale Hig! ;chool Basket Ball Team defeate: he Ex-High by the score of 32 2: "he vanquished team was compose: f four former Broadway players ut they could not stand the pac: et by the high school boys. Th: dds were against the high schoo eam, but tey convinced everybod: hat they could beat a team mucl irger than themselves. The gam: vas visited by a fair-sized crowd, ai hough the high students were few an number. Grof, who had been play ng sub all season, was given an op ortunity to play left forward. His hooting and floor work stood out as ne of the features of the game reich and C. Griffith played bes or Ex-High while besides Grof, the est of the High School player: hared honors with him. The lineup nd summary:— 4. H. 8.—32 Position Ex- H. 23 3 jer, Capt PF. C. Griffith Price | vicinity especially. Seven years ago { tle ranch, which contained 47,000 ac | res of land, The Classical Seniors made a record at typewriting last week. John Hock- | farms, broad road ways and the town He handled the|of Premont with spacious machine as though he were afraid of | This town is situated 170 miles south He would sit and watch it for {of San Antonia, 40 miles suddenly having Byron has told Mr. Arnold how to! black loam, some light sandy Come | The top soil is about 18 inches deep, i 'rops of "TEXAS AND ITS WONDER- FUL OPPORTUNITIES. Premont, Texas, Feb. 14, 1916 Just a few lines about our big] state— We have all kinds of climate and soil; also mountains, hills and plains. Will make mention of Premont and this was a part of the Galveston cat covered with mesquite brush, prickly cactus and Bermuda grass. Today this land is laid out in streets southwest of Corpus Christi and 100 miles north of Brownsville. Its population is about 1400, one half being Mexi cans who are allowed to build on on ly the east side of town, the San An tonio and Arausas Pass R. R. being the dividing line. The buildings here are better than are found in the ma jority of new towns. There are three churchég—Methodist, German Luth- eran and Catholic with the Presbyte rians being just ready to build; =a good brick school house of fou rooms and spacious play ground. Ma- ny acres of this ranch are sold for stones and is rich soil—some black soil. | the sub-soil from two to three feet in depth. The latter retains the mois- ture and crops can be grown with much less rain than in many soils. The light soil is found to be the best for citrus fruit which grows here perfection and can be marketed about three weeks earlier than the California fruit. The orange and grape fruit groves here are from two to six years old. Falfurious, a town of 3,000 inhabitants ten miles south of Premont, has a packing plant and many oranges, lemons and grape fruit are shipped from this locality. Falfgrious district, however, has groves as old as eight or nine years. It is surprising to see how rapidly this big ranch has developed into beautiful farms with many up-to-date buildings erected on them- to We were out driving through the country a few days ago and stopped at a farm of over 100 acres, which eighteen months ago was in mesquite brush and cactus and now immense fields ploughed and being planted with corn, Kaffir corn, Milo maize Egyptian wheat, Sudan grass, water- melons, etc. A pretty bungalow, sur- rounded with a beautiful lawn, plant- ed in palms and roses; barn and poultry yard—a magnificent home in so short a time. The winter climate is equal to, or perhaps surpasses, any other in the United States. Mercury has stood be- tween 70 and 90 degrees nearly all the winter. Today, what the Texans call a Norther. is on and has brought mercury down to 60 degrees. At one time early in this month during a Norther, the thermometer dropped to 28 degrees;this however was the coldest weather of the winter. The winter vegetable gardens are fine Nothing was nipped by frost until in January. Our garden consisted of green beans, peas, potatoes, roasting onions, lettuce, beets etc., besides or anges and grape fruit in abundanc: The spring gardens are now bein: nlanted. The water supply is quite in item, Two creeks cross the rancl hut water must be gotten by well 530 feet deep in this locality. The w: er is soft and pure. This is a ver 1ealthful climate—fine for throa: nd lung diseases. I often meet pec le who had very poor health in the orth and are now hale and hearty uly and August are the two month: f the year that are too hot for vez tation. During these months oranges nd grape fruit groves must be irri 1ited to mature well. There are roves that produced well withou ‘rigation but they do not as a rule Kaffir corn, Milo maize lzgyptian wheat, Sudan grass etc. are arvested just before the hot months n September the roots begin to prout and a fine second crop is har ested without further cultivation: n November and December, cotton 3 a fine crop here, also. There ittle suffering from heat here as the eople plan to have less work during he two hot months and in the shade here is almost a constant breeze vhich modifies the heat. The Indians named this country ‘The Land or Hearts Delight”—so ay we all. is Sue Liston. TELLS GERMANY SHIPS MAY ARM FOR DEFENSE Photo by American Press Association. SECRETARY LANSING. | | | 3CHMUCKER’S CALF MEAL WILL \AKE BETTER CALVES AND IS | SHEAPER THAN MILK. AT HABEL & PHILLIPS | | is Irof 3: Siehl 1; Pri TRIES SECOND MURDER Man Acquitted of One Killing Slays Aged Farmer. After Emil Swenton of Farmingdale, N. J., was acquitted on a charge of murdering Jane Acker, an aged Te- cluse, he went to the farm of John Boston and demanded money from the farmer, who was seventy years old. When Boston refused Swen- ton picked up a club and beat the man’s skull in. He then rushed into the house and attacked the murdered man’s nephew, John Boston, beating him with the club. Men working nearby heard the screams of the nephew and Swenton ran into the woods. Four hours afters committing the crime Swenton was found on a farm five miles south of Farmingdale by a posse. Before he could be caught he managed to slash his throat with a pocket knife. John Boston, the nephew, is in the hospital in a serious condition. Swen- ton was also rushed to the hospital. He may die from the self-inflicted wound. BANK TO PAY DIVIDEND Closed Uniontown Institution Make 10 Per Cent Liquidation. Announcement has been made that Comptroller of the Currency John Skelton Williams has authorized the payment of a 10 per cent dividend from the assets of the First National Bank of Uniontown, Pa., which closea on Jan. 18, 1915, with approximate liabilities of $2,000,000, of which less than, $1,500,000 was represented by | will | deposits. The dividend amounts to approximately $150,000. During the last year John H. Strawn, permanent receiver in charge, has collected notes amounting to more than $500,000 and retired the emerg- ency curren y of the bank, which was approximately $471,000. He has also redeemed valuable collateral pledged with Pittsburgh and other banks as security for borrowed money. In ad- dition to this, he now has on hands funds sufficient to warrant the au- thorization of a 10 per cent dividend. No date has been set for its payment NEW-BORN BABY BURNED Mother Rescued by Husband; Another Child Also Lost. Crawling along the floor with her baby, only five hours old, clutched under one arm, Mrs. Alexander Buch- | ins of Nanticoke, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa. made a heroic attempt to save her child from flames that enveloped her bedroom. Weak and unable to continue, she collapsed and was only rescued by a brave effort on the part of her hus- band, who dragged her unconscious form to safety. Another child, a daughter, aged two, was caught in the fire and perished with the baby. Both the mother and father suffered serious burns. COLLIER BRINGS BIG PRICE Navy Paid $145,000 18 Years Ago: Sold For $301,107. The collier Justin, at San Francisco, was sold to N. H. Busey, Jr., of New York for $301,107. The navy purchased it for $145,000 just prior to the Span- {sh-American war. It was offered for sale recently and John Rothschild, San Francisco, was the highest bid- der, offering $226,500. The department’s solicitor, how- ever, afterward declared the offer legally irregular, and the ship was or- dered resold. It had been appraised by the navy board of survey a: $75,000. WOMAN DIES FROM KICK Tries to Pull Boarder Out of Bed; Man Arrested. : Mrs. Annie Dumba, aged fifty, died at her home in Johnstown, Pa. ac cording to the police, from injuries re- ceived when she was attacked By John Chupka, a boarder. It was reported that the woman went to the boarder’s room to awaken him. When she was unable to arouse him the woman started to drag him out of bed by his feet and he is al leged to have kicked her in the ab domen. Chupka has been arrested. Oldest Allison ay d Plymou | proceed further. NP COVERNMENT : RA SUPERVISION MEMBER BANK UNDER FEDERAL RESERVE ACT Prosperity Day Tuesday, February 29, 1916. % 1916 is to coin an extra day for us in this month. It is a day of extra work,—of extra pay. It will mean millions of dollars earned during those twentv-four extra hours that the World grants us. Make It Your Day—a Prosperous Day. Let your earnings for the 20th of February be set” aside in a Bank Account to your credit. If you baven’t a Bark Account—OPEN ONE IN YOUR NAME on Prosperity Day. Citizens National Bank “The Bank with the Clock” Meyersdale, Pa. NOTICE TO OWNERS OF DOGS— WHEREAS, An act of Assembly re- requires Assessors when making their annual assessments to collect the dog license for the ensuing year and make a return of the same and the names of the owners of dogs for which the license was not paid and WHEREAS, the Assessors have made THE MEXICAN SITUATION An Interesting Lecture at Salis- bury, Thursday, Mar. 2, WILFRED A. JOUBERT. At the Boston Art Club there is a precedent that no lecture can continue beyond the hour of 9 p. m. Wilfred A. Joubert on the occasion of his lecture |their returns, the County Commls- there on “Mexico” was introduced at |sioners hereby notify the owners of 8:20 and at 9 was in the midst of his (all dogs for which license has not address. Ie prepared to close, but a been paid that if same remains unpaid April 1st, 1916 the Constables of the respective districts will be given the lists of dogs on which license re- mains unpaid and ordered to proceed forthwith and kill all such dogs and all others wherever found not wearing the proper tag and collar. License may be paid at the County Commis- sioners office where tags and recelpts roar went up {ie hall, and he linished at 9:40 with encouragement to The audience was composed largely of men of big affairs, and at the close of the lecture Mr. Jou- over will be issued. MALES, $1.00 FEMALES $4.00 Commissioners’ Office, Somerset Co. February 14, 1916 Wm J. GLESSNER, C. H. SHOCKEY, Jos. B. Miller. Attest: L. M. PHILLIPS, Chief Clerk. 2-17-3t. POCAHONTAS. We are having spring-like weather in this vicinity. The institute at Pocahontas Satur- day night was well attended. C. C. Barmoy and son, Donald, were the guests.of Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Sass of Boswell over Saturday and Sunday. Miss Hattie Steinly who is working at Johnsburg, spent Saturday and Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Steinly. Clarence Sipple was seen on our streets a few days ago. The Sunshine Club will hold an oyster supper in the basement of St. Marks Reformed church here on Sat- urday evening, Feb. 26th. Everybody cordially invited. Joseph Rembold will go to Detroit in the near future. John Rembold and son are visiting relatives in West Virginia. This vicinity was represented at the institute at Sand Patch Friday ev- ening. There is an epidemic of chicken-pox in the vicinity of Whip-poor-will hill. Sunday School will be organized at St. Marks next Sunday. Everybody re- quested to attend. WILFRED A. JOUBERT. bert was congratulated by a dozen or more men who had lived in Mexico. The lecture of Wilfred A. Joubert on “The Mexican Crisis—From the View- point of a Resident Eyewitness” in- 2ludes many ti ling experiences and throws real light on the Mexican situa- tion. Joubert’s information is first hand. It is a personal story of real events, delivered offhand with rapid fire vir- ile power and convincing force. When you hear Joubert you really have a personal interview with the chief actor in a big story. It grips! TO OUR PATRONS | On account of prices having ad-| vanced on all supplies used in our ST. PAUL. Mr. Bert Engle of town and Miss business, and the extra expense to op- | Marie Yaist of Salisbury were united erate our plant under the Compensa- in marriage on Sunday by Rev. Wil tion Law, we are compelled to ad- son at the parsonage in St. Paul. vance rates on our work on and af-| ter March 1st.— night hideous by the inhirmonious Collars .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 1-2¢ | sounds of their instruments on Mon- Shirts, Plain .. .. .. ... 10c day evening. Mr. and Mrs. Engle, the Shirts, cuffs attached .. .. 18c | newly-weds, were the ones serenaded 15c | by the sweet music. LAUNDRY.| Mrs. Ida Wilhelm of Listonburg | who had in the service of Mrs. Harry | Engle for several weeks, left for her Shirts, Plaited fronts, cuffs, MEYERSDALE STEAM Brethren Church, H. L. Goughnour, pastor: On Feb. 27, the Women’s home. Monday. League will meet in connection with | Mr. Jerry Engle of Berlin was call- the Sunday School at 9:30 a. m. | ing on friends in Berlin several days There will be preaching services | this week. both morning and evening in the| Miss Blanche Engle was visiting Meyersdale church. All are cordially | her uncle, Jeremiah, of Berlin, re- invited. cently. Mrs. Lloyd Engle spent Saturday The installed and Sunday in Meyersdale. | a new linotype makin three ie nr int tl yther two be- BARGAINS IN CAN mercial, AT HABEL & PHI A party of serenaders made the. P ra PEI Beautif Mrs. Ju acute ind Miss Ic Cumberla . Rev. D. for Chics weeks. E Mrs. R spent las friends. Miss Lc is visitir and Mrs. Miss S lyfrom I visit the Miss A been vis er Brad; Miss | days ag Chililcot Miss is the g Price. Miss . is a gu and aun The 1 this pla ship of ing had Miss turned a week Mr. anc The the pas nine n previou The ¢ ment o ter of tt ed that A li Myrtle North She is Geor turned been s ing. Mrs. John Piedma neral « A m sued Berkle der, of Mr. this pl bury Sunda; A x cently Shaffe of Wi Chai agent, day ni see h Wm had b return on No emplo The home tion f pital. ed. Rev few Vv vange Collg« comix Mis Scho will g day « churc Xr ersda retur fact gree Ste bout rabbi tions is ng Cri nolds cond ness a da, Mi been Cum tion the B. vass lines mine
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