“wise you may touch the ‘juice’, ADVICE FOR ELECTRICAL WORKERS | Electrical workers are being urged ' a by Commissioner John Price Jack- son of the Department of Labor and Industry to observe every precaution in their trade. “Shield your eyes from electrical arcs or flashes. Ths kind of light fre- quently causes temporary blindness and in some cases ruins eyesight.” declares Commissioner Jackson in a | H pamphlet issued on “pimely Hints for | Electricians.’. “Keep your eyes on your hand when reaching for electric switches. Other- 2 is a warning in the pamphlet. “Before working on electric ma- chines lock the service line switch open and place the key in your pock- at. No person can turn on the cur- rent with fatal results to yourself. This hias often occurred. Screw drivers, pliers and all other handy tools should have insulated handles. fmmediately stop any abuse or mis- use of electrical apparatus. Never work on live circuits unless it is ab- aolutely necessary. If you must work on such circuits, use all safety devices and methods possible. «Treat all wires as ‘live’ until you are absolutely sure they are ‘dead.’ fInsafe or improperly working electri- ~al apparatus should be immediately shut off and reported to the proper authorities. In working overhead be sareful to place tools so they cannot tall on persons underneath. «If working on ladders or scaf- folds see that they are substantially built, If they are not, you may be the sufferer. . “Use your safety belt whenever possible. It may be your life “pre- server. i “Never overload a circuit or use a fuse of too great capacity. Overheat- ing of conductors may occur and the possibility of a fire is thus increased. Study regulations for the proper installation of electrical apparatus. Never install firing or other electri- cal apparatus which is not strictly in accordance with such rules. They mave been formulated to prevent fires and accident.” UNION VALLEY All farmers are busy plowing. Simon Keefer and family were call- ors on Leroy Crissey on Sunday last. P. W. White made a business .trip to Meyersdale on Saturday last. Simon Keefer has opened a general repairshop. He is busily engaged in doing all kinds of repair work and general blacksmithing. Wm Shultz of Greenville was a business caller at P. W. White's one day last week. ‘ aC H, FP. Habel is busy enghger buying calves @nd pigs, to. sti faym. So far he bought 4 very fino calves. Mrs. J. Sturtz spent Friday in Mey- ersdale doing some shopping and made a visit to her old friend Mrs. Andrew Horchner. Six more days for the school bell to ring in our little valley. Say! Why not subscribe for Commercial and get the news? the THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY Romanus Baldwin, 80 years old, died at 6:30 o'clock Friday morning at his home near Shanksville, follow- ing an illness of about two months. His widow and seven children sur- vive. Mr. Baldwin was a veteran of the Civil War. Jacob Rose and Robert Kirkwood of Jenner ,were arrested recently on a charge of cruelty to animals. It is al- feged that they overdrove a horse be- fonging to Nicklo Ciserrelle, broke a shaft, lost a robe, and then turned the horse loose in a field. Musical compositions of the late W. “Wain, of Hooversville, have been :opyrighted and are being placed on the market. Mr. Wain composed a two-step entitled “King of the Plains” just before he died four years ago he finished another composition that has never been published. Mr. Wain was icader of the P. O. S. of A. Band in Hoversville. He played the trombone, «~ornet, and piano and was considered a good musician. APPLE MARKET GLUTTED Barrels to be Sold Be- fore June 1. So great is the supply of winter ap- ples in storage, produce dealers say that there remain 5,000,000 barrels of apples to be marketed before June 1, thus allowing an apple a day for every man, woman and child in the United States for the next 30 days Since there are thousands who will nat eat heir prorated allotment, many fruit men declare that the public in the Pittsburg territory will be counted upon to devour an average of two of more apples a day, per capita, during this period. Every effort is being made to force apples into consumption. Prices Five Million ihe hv the barrel or box are at a low level | Dy 2nd with prospects of one of the heav- | jest crops of strawberries ever pro- juced in the southern states, dealers are selling their best grades of apples | at the best prices they can get. | STATE WIDE GOOD ROADS DAY. Governor Brumbaugh has issued proclamation May 25, as “State-wide Good Roads Day.” The governor calls on all cit- izens to so pian their persomal du- | ties as to devote that day to the im- provement of the highways and calls on all those who cannot be present ! to contribute either money or materi- al to the proper authorities. 3 The text of the governor's procla- nation is as follows: WHEREAS, There is an enlight- ened and’ greatly universal interest in good roads for this commonwealth, and WHEREAS, The improvement and upkeep of our highways is now ac- knowledged to be an essential good to our people in transporting the pro- ducts of the farm to the best mar- kets, in affording increasingly con- venient means of access on the part of our people in one part of the State to those in another, and in laying the foundation for a mecessa- ry preparedness, and ’ WHEREAS, Many public spirited citizens, great commercial bodies, civic organizations, agricultural or- ganzations, automobile clubs and county organizations in the interest of good roads in Washington, Alle- ghey, Lawrence, Venango, Clarion, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Blair, Somerset ‘and other counties have requested that a day be set aside to be known as “State-wide God Roads Day” and WHEREAS, On Good Roads Day in 1915 above 78,000 citizens gave fixing Thursday, | 1915 COURT HOUSE BONDS REDEEMED During the year 1915 six court house bonds aggregating $6,000 were redeemed, acording to the annual re- port of County Auditors Charles W. Brenneisen, Joseph C. Miller, and Edwin L. Fox, who have completed their inspection of the county com- missioners accounts. In addition it cost $147,130.68 to run Somerset county last year. : The commissioners also paid $7,960 interest on court house bonds, nearly $2,000 more than the bonds re- deemed, besides $816 State tax on the bonds, leaving a balance in the court house building fund of $25,206.93. This balance on January 1, 1915, was $21,342.81 to which was added $13, 640.12 during the year. The county treasurer's office start- ed the year with a balance in the general fund which was augmented by $20,980.04 cash received from the county commissioners $2,726 dog li- | cense fees $95,515.06 county tax,$30,- 273.83 State tax, $3,860.85 dog tax, $3,218.22 unseated land tax, $1,485 li quor license tax, $15 non-resident ‘hunters’ licenses, $176.15 redemption money and $39 justice of the peace fines. The balance in the county treasury at the beginning of the pres- ent year was $28,609.36. The auditors itemiZe the expendi- tures by the county commissioners as follows: Assessors, $880.35; auditors public accounts, $160; advertising, $609.05; bonds redeemed $6,000; freely the day to work on the roads, above 11,000 teams were voluntaril- ly put to use on the roads, while Counity organizations were formed in more than half the Counties of the State to promote the movement for the right observance of Good Roads Day, and the Judges in 17 Counties joined the Executive in issuing proc- lamations calling upon the citizens of | their respective districts to partici pate in the hearty observance of the day, and many manufacturers with ratriotic zeal made substantial con- tributions of cash and material, de- claring in many instances a holiday for their employes ito permit their workmen to give the day to the high- ways, THEREFORE, I, Martin G. Brum- baugh, Governor of this Common- wealth, fully in sympathy with the purposes of this and every move- | ment that holds promise of better i road conditions for our people and | deeply concerned to stimulate in ev- ery proper way a State-wide interest in good roads, and resolved, even with inadequate appropriations, to make our state highways safe, _com- fortable and permanent avenues of travel, do make this proclamation: "That each and every supervisor of the townships of this Common- wealth is obligated by law and in good conscience to give this move- ment cordial support and to make proved public roads. ° That all our citizens, having patri- otic regard for this great Common- wealth shall so plan their personal duties as to give the entire day to the improvement of our highways or contribute to the proper local author- ities such sum in money or such ma- terial as will add to the substantial good the day should accomplish. That @ll our citizens, living in ci- ties or towns, and owning automo- biles go on this day to the country and volunteer their services in add- ing to the safety and comfort of themselves and others when travel- ing upon our highways, and That this day may be a State-wide memorable action upon the part of the will and great public service, to which State Department of Highways most cordially give its support co-operativeassistance, I hereby des- ignate and set aside, Thursday, May 25, 1916, as State Wide Good Roads Day in Pennsylvania. Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State, at the City of Harrisburg, this thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord, one and of the Commonwealth the one hundred and fortieth. By the Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth. EIGHT DIE IN MINE BLAST Gas Explosicn In Shaft Near Johns- town; Six Bodies Recovered. Eight men are dead as a result of an explosion of gas which wrecked the Robindale mine of the Conemaugh Smokeless Coal company at Seward, Pa. The dead are: John Waddell, su- perintendent; H. H. Yocum, mine elec- trician; Machinists Get Raise. | The Morgan Engineering company | of Alliance, O. posted a notice of 10 per nt increase granted to al hop iepartments. Over 1,000 | men are ed. With other io- creases wiuted recently the payroll of the ympany has been increased $300,000 a year. i ier — —em— this day memorable in greatly im- our people in the performance of a thousand nine hundred and sixteen | Thomas Hoover, cage man, | George Watson, motorman; and Joe; Polad, Sam Verbun, George Kolar- ditch and Mike Blowich, miners. bond interest, $7,960; bond tax, $816; boarding jurors, $127.05; new bridges $10,118.75; bridge repairs, $3,669.94; clerk of courts, $473.89. county audi- tors $517.56; commissioners’ expen- ses, $80.85; school directors, $89.71; sperfisors, $11.25; counky, teachers’ institute, $200; county superintendeat schools expense,$268.90; courthouse supplies, $317.50; courthouse expense $705.78; commonwealth costs, $6,484. 40; constables’ returns, $1,328.42; county home water works, $14,636.69; | courthouse water rent$375; court house repairs, $83.28; commissioners’ %raveling expenses, $7359; county ome treasurer, $7.000; county detec: tive's expenses, $73.59; county home "treasurer, $7,000; county detective’s | expenses, $574.72; sheep damages, $999.02; road damages, 618.65; dog notices, $10.75; dog tags, $115; elec | tion expenses, $6,416.44; = election house, $898.62; electric lights, $368, 91; fuel, 515.15; freight and express, ' $78.50; Somerset fair, $779; Meyers- dale fair, $784.50; insurance, $ inquests, $430.70; interpreters shB4s 46: jurors’ traveling expenses, M | the | known as the Star and Beacon. The | when the first paper uncer the new I KETSTONE PaRA3AAPHS The Pecansylvania Railroad company has boughi the: warehouse of F. T. Adams at Connellsville, paying $40, 000. The property covers 145x165 feet | in Grape alley, on which the company plans to erect a freigat house. Mr. Adams bought the property in 1898 Fayette county liquor license court ! convened at Uniontown, Judges J.: Q. Van Swearingen and E. H. Rep-| pert presiding. Or the ninety appl:- cants for license, eighteen are for dis- tilleries, nine®for breweries, one for a wholesale and sixty-two for retail li- censes. After her husband had been absent for three months without making his whereabouts known, Mrs. George Ratchford of New Castle received a letter from a Canadian paymaster containing one-half the wages of her husband, who had enlisted as a sol dier. Rebuilding is to be started soon by the Monongahela Railway company at Brownsville, where its former round- house, used as a machine shop, black: smith shop, tin shop and airbrake sup- ply house, were destroyed by fire with a loss of $100,000. Charles S. Dougherty of Rogers Mill, a former soldier, died at a Connells- ville hospital of injuries suffered when he fell asleep on the tracks of the Indian Creek Valley railroad and was crushed by a passenger train. The Canonsburg Rifle club has been organized with H. B. Rinehart, presi- dent; W. L. Wilson, vice president; C. A. Hall, secretary, and C. R. Wil- liams, treasurer. The club will be a branch of the National Rifle club. With her daughter, Maud, aged eight, in her aarms, Mrs. Murray English, thirty-nine, of Erie, committed suicide at the home of her father’ at Hadley, near Greenville, by jumping into a small lake. Both were drowned. Alexander Martinsky was arrested at Pottsville by Trooper Davis of the state police and is charged with the murder of “Tony” Koya at Forestville. The murder was the result of a drink- ing bout at a boarding house. Carpenters of Sharon have demand- ed an increase in wages of 40 cents a | day. The present scale will expire | this month. The new scale calls for | $440 a day. There are about 300 carpenters in Sharon. One daily newspaper again occupies field in Ashtabula and will be combining of the papers took place jurors, $7,836.85; jury commis $258.42; jafl expense, $1,808.1 supplies, 38 Hifi plonas 4 $198 urs. | interest on loans, $281.59; la ‘ry, $1,094.30; livery hire, $ | western penitentiary, $6,687.33; mont hospital, $182.50; Boys’ In% trial Home, $129; industrial reforma- tory, $818.20; training school, $981.60; juvenile court, $1,406.84; Memorial | day and soldiers’ burials, $878.50; no- | tifying taxables, $460.71; newspapers, $12.80; overpaid taxes, $932.72; office | supplies, $1,919; probation officer's expenses $300.52; postage, etc., $268. \ 36; prothonotary, $392.89; recorder, | $57.20; salaries, $16,915.99; sheriff, 1 $6,034.09; scalp bounties, $5,324.50; Seater of weights and measures: ex- pense, $319.97; bridge superinten- dent’s expenses, $200; state road aid, $9,901.13; telephones, 387.27; tran- sscribing, $2,547.10; vital statistics, $931.75; viewers, $1.596.07. Total— $147.130.68. Salaries paid during the year are classified as follows: Commissioner Jacob Koontz, $1,200; Commissioner C. C. Heckel, $1,200; Cmomissioaer Millard W. Walker, $1,200; Laurence M. Phillips, chief clerk, $1,080; Thom- jas E. Kootz, asistant clerk, $960; Bessie L. Crise, stenographer, $600; Attorney Charles W. Walker, county solicitor, $625; George M. Baker, ex- tra clerk, $260; Ralph Dickey, extra clerk, $85; Virgil R. Saylor, district attorney, $1,500; J. J. Walker, court stenographer, $210; Eleanor Keel, county superintendent’s stenograph- er, $163.38; William H. Sanner, sal- ary and expenses, $1,319.97; Lester G. Wagner, county detective, $900; | Elmer E. Pugh, probation officer, $240; Albert E. Rayman, bridge sup- erintendent, $600; Dr. J. R. Hemmin- ger, jail physician, $150; Edward P. Keefer, engineer, $840; Charles (E. Pile, fireman, $350.83; James A. | Ringler, janitor, $600; Ernest Scott, | janitor, $600. Court officers—Rob- ert BE. Craver, $361.63; Abram Waesl- i ler, $138.75; Lewis C. Lambert, { $190.50; George M. Neff, $175.75; Cy- | 28 F. Knepper, $178.75. ! ip | ANNIVERSARY OF LEE’S SURRENDER. The 51st anniversary of the sur- , render of Robert E. Lee will occur on | Sunday, April 9. The daz has become | known as “Appomattox Day” and is . observed from year to year in the i larger cities and towns. i Monroe county farmers are turn- i ing their attention to high bred cat- tle and hogs and are raising blooded iand registered cattle with Ayrshires {and Holsteins predominating. . name was issued. “Mp 4 meen ; - ause ghey are first cousins, Nor f Hammondsville, and his oainner C ife, Ada Sanner, have filed suit for ivorce!/ The couple were married July 14, 1914. Their fathers are brothers. Miss Cora Savage, aged sixteen, of | Uniontown, was awarded a verdict of $4,500 against the Fayette Laundry company as a result of an accident. The girl’s hands were crippled in a neat n N. Bennett, a full-blooded In- dian, was killed in the Venango yards of the Pennsylvania railroad at Oil City, when he stepped in front of an express. He was a freight brakeman. ore than 425 new members en rolled in Washington churches Sun day as a result of revivals. The Sec ond Presbyterian church received 115 The First Christian church had 103. William Love, a brakeman em- ployed by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad, fell under his train in the McKees Rocks yards. His left foot was cut off above the ankle. James Sherbondy, aged fifty-five, of Uniontown, fired a bullet into his head. He was dead when a physician arrived. His widow and two children Earl and Helen Mey, survive. Sheriff Wickerham has withdrawn the squad of deputies which had been on duty at the plant of the American Zinc and Chemicaggompany at Lange- loth, near Burgettstown. Blair county license court granted fifty-three retail and three brewery licenses, holding over two applica- tions. Fifty-four retail licenses were granted last year. Mrs. Sarah Shrontz, agod gixty- three, a widow, of Marianna, was seri- ously injured by the automobile of Dr. C. M. Hazlett of Washington, near that place. The Evans Mold and Foundry com- pany of Uniontown will erect a plant on the site of the old Snyder brick- yard there. Joseph Stump, aged seventy-eight, was struck and killed by a Pennsyl- vania passenger train near his home at Arnold. The Pittsburgh conference of the Methodist IEpiscopal church probably will meet in Washington next October. i — Solves Gasoline Problem. Floyd Brammer, an automobilist of Huntington, W. Va., says he has solved the gasoline problem for motor- ists. He mixes five gallons of gaso- line, three gallons of kerosene and a little camphor gum at a cost of 17 cents a gallon, while gasoline costs 27 cents. for $6,800. | 2 tist ¢ WAAL 1 Every Farmer need J.T. YODER, with two or more COWS Del AVAL THE BEST SEPARATOR MADE, Sa 223 Levergood St. JOHNSTOWN, PA. .. . MOTTLED Good layers of large, white eggs. =e Cost less to keep than ordi- nary fowls, and lay more eggs, Mature Early and Do Not Set. Improve your flocks, make more money. Have Birds of Which You EGGS $2.50 per 15 im J. . will be Proud by Buying a Netti T. W. GAIN. ANCONAS... Sp . ase AT « ng of Bggs DIANA. W. VA. SCHOOL INDEBTEDNESS CAN- NOT BE OVER 7 PER CENT In reply to a letter of Dr. Nathan C. Shaffer, superintendent of public instruction, relative to a letter from the solicitor of the.school district of the borough of Skyesville, Jefferson county requesting an opinion as to whether the school district has au- thority to increase its indebtedness to an amount not exceeding 10 per cent, of the assessed value of taxa- ble property, therein, provided three- fifths of the votes cast at a public election are in favor of such increase in indebtedness. First Alttorney General W. H. Kel- ler holds that: “Until appropriate legislation is enacted for the purpose of carrying into effect the constitutional amend- ment of section 15, article IX, you gg) are advised that the school district: of the borough of Skyesville cannot | increase its indebtedness to an amount in excess of 7 per cent of the assessed vulaation of the taxable property therein. WILLS PROBATED. The will of Elizabeth Blough, late of Jenner township, was probated recently by Clerk Chiarles I. Shaver. She bequeathed $300 to the World Wide Mission of the German Bap-| of Ella Lape. The residue of the es-| tate is to be equally divided between decedentt’s brothers and sisters. The will of Isaiah Heinbaugh, de- i ceased, late of Upper Turkeyfoot, has been probated by Register of wills, Shaver. The testator he- queathed his farm known as the “Chas May” farm, together with all the property thereon, household goods, stock, etc., to Susan May and Catherine May, who are also named as excutrixes of his estate, that the disputed matters be referred to his neighbors, William Bittner and John Clevenger, for arbitration. The two neighbors named are authorized to pick a third arbitrator. THE TEST THAT TELLS. Is the Test of Time. Many Meyers- dale People Have Made This Test. Years ago this Meyersdale citizen told in. a public statement, the ben- efit derived from Doan’s Kidney Pills. The statement is now con- firmed—the testimony complete. In- stances like this are numerous. They doubly prove the merits of Doan’s Kidney Pills. Can any Meyersdale reader demand more convincing proof? It’s Meyersdale testimony —it may be investigated. Mrs. Ellen Wilhelm, 208 Large street, Meyersdale, says: “I had been suffering from severe pains in my back and left side for some time. These pains were often so bad that I could hardly do my housework. My head ached a great deal and I had a constant, tired feeling. TI fin- ally began using Doan’s Kidney Pills. The first few doses gave me re- lief and I grew better rapidly as I continued taking them.” (Statement given October 11, 1907.) Over six years later, Mrs. Wilhelm said: “Doan’s Kidney Pills did me so much good that I haven't had to use them for some time.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Wilhelm has twice publicly rec- ommended. Foster-Milburn Props, Buffalo, N. Y. McKean county farmers are inter- ested in raising high grade Perche- rons and some have recently par- chased pure bred bulls. 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