GLENCOE.
Chas. Leydig spent his Easter
vacation with his parents here. He
was trafled by his sweetheart to the
Alleghenies on Sunday.
Hazel and Thelma Miller were
week-end guests of their aunt, Mrs.
Allen Yutzy of Pocahontas.
Mrs. H. D. Altfather came home on
Friday after a week's visit at Con-
nellsville and Ursina.
Allen Bittner , Wes. Shipley and
Harvey Hasselrode were fishing at
Ursina on Good Friday. Fisherman’s |
luck was theirs, the suckers being on
the thickest end of the poles.
Chas. Bittner and children of Mey-
ersdale, and H. E. Bittner and wife
of Rockogd spent Easter with the
W. H. Bittner family.
Henry Leydig of Somerset was
here on Easter to drive part of his
smoked swine home.
Chas. Love and wife of Hazelwood
finished an enjoyable visit with J. 1.
Snyder's on Monday. The young folks
are now keeping house in the Smoky
City.
Fred Delozier was given a real
surprise on Thursday night, it being
his 16th birthday. The best raw kiss-
es minus paper wrapers were served,
saying nothing about the other
prime eats; all the presents received
were very useful and practical. Yes!
Emma Miller, a teacher in Wind-
ber was home for the Easter holi-
days.
The District No. 6 Sunday School
Convention wil be held at Mt. Leba-
non on May 14. After reading this
tell everybdoy you see and urge them
to be present. There will be service
at 10 a. m. and at 1lp.m.
S. W. Poorbaugh, F. W. Webreck
Eli Martz called to see John Waga-
man on Sunday in Meyersdale.
Mrs. J. K. Kessler is spending the
week with her sister, Mrs. Gross of
Cumberland.
Carl Raupach is back to the village
after a few months’ stay in Hagers-
town.
Mr. Brown of Cumberland spent
Easter with our Dora Raupach.
CONFLUENCE.
C. E. Yeagley of Confluence, who
recently submitted to an operation
for appendicitis is recovering very
nicely.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Lutheran church has arranged with
a lyceum bureau for a five entertain- |
ment course for the coming winter
season.
Miss Gladys Show who is attending
school at Pittsburg spent Easter with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Show.
D. L. Miller has purchased a new
Mitéhell touring car.
Contractor J. W. Clouse has com-
pleted the improvements on the inte-
rior of the Holliday restaurant.
H. L. Sellers has rented the Holli-
day restaurant and wil open up a-
bout Ma 1st.
The entertainment given by the
W. C. T. U. in the Methodist church
was well attended and was a decid-
ed success.
Mrs. M. Kretchmian has returned
from a several weeks visit with her
children in Pittsburg, Rochester and
Midway.
william Ream, of this place is a
candidate for Congress on the Social-
ist ticket.
Mrs. Jenie Stauffer of Pennsville
and Mrs. Mattie Recknor of Mount
Pleasant are visiting their mother,
Mrs. A. B. Flanigan who is very ill av
her home at Johnson Chapel.
S. T. Downs and family will move
into the Anderson house on Water
street on May 1st.
The many friends of Mrs. T. W.
Black who is ill with asthma will be
sorry to learn her condition does not
improve.
—————
VICINITY OF MEYERSDALE
N. B. Christner and son visited
friends and relatives in Meyersdale
on Saturday.
Miss Stella Miller is engaged in
clerking in Chas. Damico’s store in
Meyersdale.
Jerome Countryman has sold his
fine farm adjoining town to Henry
giehl. Mr. Countryman expects to g0
ROCKWOOD
Mrs. M. C. Gibbons of New York
City spent several days as the guest of
(her father and mother-in-law, Mr. and
| Mrs. H. D. Moore of New Lexington,
before departing for Mexico, where
| her husband will have charge of a
| surveying crops for the establishing
| of an acid plant.
Miss Ethel Dennison left for Pitts-
burg Saturday, where she spent Sun-
day with her mother, also her aunt,
Mrs. J. G. Miller, a patient in the
, West Penn Hospital.
Mrs. N. S. Baker and family will re-
| move to Rockwood from Casselman
| where they will occupy the 1. D. Hech-
| ter property on Broadway, formerly
owned by Mrs. Baker.
F. W. Gross has moved his family
to Confluence where he had recently
accepted a logging contract.
Miss Louise Sterner has been ap-
pointed relief operator for the KEcon-
omy Telephone Company at Rockwood
Miss Catherine Heinbaugh of Chica-
go Junction, Ohio, is the guest of Miss
Ferne Zearfoss on Market street for
several days.
Postmaster R. R. Souser w&s in
Pittsburg on business last week and
also visited his sister, Mrs. J. G.
Miller who is a patient in the West
Pen Hospital.
Mrs. Mattie Enos who some time
ago purchased the J. E. Douglass
property on Market street, has moved
into the same.
Mrs. John Hanna is spending sev-
eral weeks with her father, L. H. Ward
of Pittsburg.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Lutheran Church will hold a’ festival
Friday and Saturday evenings, April
28 and 29, in the Snyder property
near the Cox’s Creek bridge.
AMUSEMENTS.
AT THE SUMMER GARDEN
There will be much to attract an:
hold the attention when the publi
has its first showing of “The Silen:
Voice, the Quality Pictures Corpora
tion production just released on the
Metro program. Saturday evening,
April 29th,
“Cameo Kirby”—This starts the
second week of Paramount pictures
at this popular resort with Dustin
Farnum produced by Basky in five
interesting ' reels. Tuesday evening,
May 2nd.
“Unto Those Who Sin”— our Big
Four V. L. S. E. for Wednesday, Selig
{introduces Fritiz Brunette. A power-
lw picture play. by James Oliver Cur-
wood.
Thursday Triangle Plays—The dra
lua for Thursday May 4th is from the
| Triangle K—B Studio with that popu
lar screen star, William S. Hart, and
an ‘all star cast in the five act dram:
“The Disciple.”
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE OF VAL-
UABLE REAL ESTATE.
By virtue of an order of sale is-
sued by the Orphans’ Court of Som-
erset, County, Pennsylvania, the Un-
dersigned Administrator of Aaron
Wilhelm, late of Greenville Township
Somerset County, Pennsylvania will
expose to public outcry on the prem-
ises on SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1916
at one p. m. all of the following
real estate to wit:—A CERTAIN
TRACT OF LAND situate in South-
ampton Township, Somerset County
Pennsylvania, adjoining lands of Hen-
ry Knepp, John Lepley, Henry D.
Wilmoth Estate and others, contain-
ing 160 Acres more or less. Having
thereon erected a two-story Frame
DWELLING HOUSE 20 by 30 feet,
BANK BARN 36 by 42 feet and other
outbuildings. About 60 acres cleared
and under fair cultivation and the
balance mostly in timber land. The
property is handy to church and
school.
TERMS: —Ten per cent of the pur-
chase price to be paid when the prop-
erty is knocked down; forty per cent
on confirmation of sale and delivery
of deed; and the remaining fifty per-
cent in one year, with interest at 6
per cent to be secured by judgment
bond entered of record as a lien upon
the premises.
NORMAN WILHELM,
v Administrator
with his son-in-law, Conrad Bonheim
er to Akron, Ohio. |
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lepley spent |
Paster at the home of Mr. and Mrs. |
Hiram Saylor.
Morris Speicher, a candidate for
the general assembly, spent the lat
ter part of last week in Summit.
Mr. D. S. Gnagey sold and deliver-
ed a four horse load of potatoes to
B. B. Dickey in Brothersvalley town-{
ship.
rs
Johnstown Moose have rejected ail
bids for the contract to build their
projected new home. The lowest of
the nine bids was $61,000 and the |
building committee will revise the]
bids.
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IN THE COURT OF COMMON
PLEAS OF SOMERSET COUNTY,
PENNA.
Notice is hereby given that an ap-
plication will be made to the above
Court on Friday May 5, 1916 at 10
~nrm— ————
SUMMIT TOWNSHIP.
(Held over from last week.)
Farmers are busy preparing the
soil for ‘their summer crops.
Miss Almeda Opel spent Sunday
with her friend, Miss Margaret Sip-
ple.
Newton Saylor spent last Sunda
‘'umberland visiting his daughter,
‘elem. who is in the Western Mary-
land Hospital.
Marling Gnagey was making use
of his Ford touring car Sunday last.
U. M. Kretchman of near Stoyes-
town was a Summit township visitor
over last Sunday.
Walter Fike, who as operated on
for appendicitis, in the Western
Mar; ‘and Hospital on April 7, ar-
rived home on Tuesday.
R. J. Weimer is working at Laurel
Meadow.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lindeman
were welcome visitors at the home
of L. A. Kretchman last Sunday.
Daniel Klink, one of our lumber-
men has received an order of one
hundred and ten thousand feet of
chestnut frame lumber from a N. Y.
firm.
Irwin Klink is working for Homer
Fritz at present.
John Minna and Elmer Engle are
busy hauling logs for the Meyersdale
Fuel Co.
Mr. David Klink and Miss Alma
Bockes were married in Cumberland,
Md., last Saturday by the Rev. E. P.
Skyles of the Reformed church. The
couple are industrious young people
and success is extended to them
through the Commecial.
R. J. Engle sold his cattle to D. J.
Meyers on last Tuesday.
VIM.
(Held over from last week.)
Mr. C. R. Martens and two sons,
Charles and Lewis, spent several
days of last week in Frostburg, Md.
James Hoar and his brother of
Uniontown spent the latter part of
last week with friends and relatives
in our town.
Robert Witt of Johnstown, Pa., was
a welcome Vim caller last Wednes-
day.
P. W. White of Larimer township
was a business caller at Vim last
Saturday.
Mrs. Margaret Baer and daughter
spent Saturday in Salisbury at the
home of Wm. Engle. She reports
Mr. John White in a serious condi-
tion, who is staying at the home of
Mr. Engle. 4
Mr. Irvin Engle was called to
Cumberland to attend the funeral of
his grandmother last Sunday.
Wm. Horning and George Kneirefin
of Meyersdale spent Sunday after-
noon at the home of C. W. Tressler.
ST. PAUL.
(Held ov
Mrs. Laura Sipple was visiting her
sister, Mrs. William Tipton, of Coal
Run, on Sunday.
On Saturday while Jacob Sechler
was moving a log it took an unex-
pected direction, going over his leg
and ankle, inflicting a painful wound,
but not breaking any bones. Mr.
Sechler is around on crutches.
H. G. Lepley accompanied his sis-
ter Etta to Cumberland last week,
where she undewent an operation at
'the Western Mayland Hospital on
Saturday. She is reported to be
getting along as well as could be ex-
pected at this time.
Herman G. Lepley received notice
from the Secretary of the Common-
wealth that the nomination petition
naming him as a candidate of the
Socialist party for the office of Rep-
resentative in the General Assembly
at weel
was filed April 11, 1916. The Social-
ist party selects its own candidates
for nomination by referendum.
NOVELTIES GALORE WITH
HOWE’S BIG LONDON CIRCUS
The Great London Shows consoli-
dated will appear in Meyersdale on
May 2.
While the Glasgow World Famous
$25,000 Prize winning horses are the
great feature, the regular line of cir-
cus acts is fully up to the standard
set by the Howe circus in the past.
The Bartik Parisian Troupe are
seen for the first time in Amrica;the
original Zanfretta Family are among
the big acts; Marie Meers, of the
Meers Sisters, the Riding Lowandes;
the Brono troupe of acrobats have no
o'clock a. m. under the corporation
Act of 1874 of the Commonwealth of |
Pennsylvania and the supplements
there to for the Charter of an intend- |
ed corporation to be called “St.|
Church in the United States,” the]
character and object of which is to |
support the public worship of Al-
mighty God according to the faith,
octrine, discipline and usages of the
med Church in the United States
or these purposes to have and
enio at
and oy all the rights, bene-
peers. The Kentucky high school
horses are seen only with the show,
clever, the elephants humorous and
the menagerie is large.
A free street parade will be given
| Mark’s Congregation of the Reformed jor great length and beauty.
MINERS STILL OUT.
The striking miners in the vicin-
ty of Hooversville are still out. The
Miss Kresge, Miss Winnie May,
KEYSTOAE PARAGRAPHS |
Following a search which started
soon after Mrs. Morgan Hughes, fifty-
five years old, had disappeared fro.
her home, near Carnot, Alleghec. y
county, the woman's body was 10ui-
in a well on the Hughes’ farm, a $10.
distance from the house. Death was
due to drowning.
Losing his hold on a telegraph pole
whence he was watching a * Pirate
Cardinal baseball game at Forb
Field, Timothy O'Shea, fourteen years
old, fell to the ground twenty feet be
low and suffered fractures of botl
arms and bruises of the face and bod,
Rioting broke out at the Butler col-
liery, near Pittsburgh, when a mob at
tacked miners on their way to work.
The mob was charged by mounted
state constabulary, who knocked sev-
eral of the agitators down and made
three arrests.
Military scholarships for the army
training camp at Plattsburg, N. Y..
have been given twenty-one students
of Pennsylvania State college. Finan-
cial aid will be given by the Military
Training association committee of
Philadelphia.
Toll collections on the New Ken-
sington bridge, over the Allegheny
river at Boquet will cease May 1, ac-
cording to plans adopted at a joint
meeting of the commissioners of Alle-
gheny and Westmoreland counties.
The recount of ballots in the con-
test over the Erie councilmanic elec:
tion, filed by Theodore Eichhorn
against J. Emil Gross, resulted in
further gains for Gross. One box wag
found to be empty. ,
A double wedding was held at Wash-
ington when Amy and Virginia
Krause, sisters, were married to
George E. Smith and Stewart C. Cour
son, respectively, both of Washington.
A motor car owned and driven by
Dr. E. P. Gray of Pittsburgh was dam-
aged in Grant boulevard when a
boulder rolled from a hill above strik-
ing the car. Dr. Gray was uninjured.
Clyde H. Sorber, aged twenty-eight,
of Westmont, was killed at South
Fork. He had just finished coupling
his train and stepped in the path of a
fast Pennsylvania railroad train.
Philadelphia was “captured” ant
Chester, in a sham movement.
Elsie Griffiths, aged thirty-three, ol
Kecksburg, was killed when in gettin:
out of bed her feet were tangled in the
bed clothing and she was thrown t:
the floor, breaking her neck.
Mrs. Catherine Reddington of Pitts-
ton, 106 years old, who was a smok~~
of strong tobacco since girlhood, i:
dead. She frequently said that smok-:
ing had prolonged her: life.
Boilermakers and foundry helper~
at the plant of the Pennsylvania E—-
gineering company, New Castle, wen:
on strike. They demanded an iu:-
crease of 6 cents an hour.
Work was begun dismantling plar:
No. 2 of the Pittsburgh Plate Gla
company at Tarentum to remove par:
of the equipment to Kokomo, Ind., and
part to Ford City, Pa.
Run down by a Montour railros:l
train of which he was conductor, at
San Diego, Allegheny county, C. A. 21-
lison, aged thirty-eight, of Coraopol:;,
died instantly.
As a result of scalds suffered when
she fell into a tub of scalding water,
Katherine Yedinsk, aged three, of St.
Clair borough, near Pittsburgh, died
at her home.
John Davis, a brakeman employed
on the Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal
railway, was killed by a freight train
in the Pittsburgh yards of that com-
pany.
The Hussey-Binns Shov=:l company
at Charleroi has given an advance in
wages effective May 1. The increase
ranges from 5 to 10 per cent.
Fire damaged the interior of the
Oakland Avenue Methodist Episcopal
church, Sharon, to the extent of about
$2,500.
The Alice mine of the Pittsburgh
Coal company at Roscoe has been soid
to the H. C. Frick Coke company.
FIRE WARDENS BURNED
Hundreds Aid In Battle With Forest
Fire Near Uniontown.
In a forest fire which swept through
North and South Union and Georges
townships, Fayette county, Pa. caus-
ing thousands of dollars’ loss to young
timber, two fire wardens were serious-
ly burned in fighting the flames. Hun-
dreds of persons aided in the battle.
Those burned were J. C. Beatty, fire
warden of North Union township. and
his son, William P. Beatty, fire war-
den of South Union township. Bot.
were burned about the hands and feet.
The fire started from an unknow:
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set Pa the 2nd day of March, 1916,
the undersigned was duly appcinted
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funds in the hands of Bruce Lichty,
administrator of William McGairy, de-
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| Fine registered stock, will make the
present season as follows: —April 17
and 18 at the home of C. H. Smith,
better known as the Muhlenberg
|Farm in Northampton Township,
| Monday and Tuesday to be there ev-
weeks—On Wednesday, A-
ery two
pril 19th at the farm of Chas. Mishler
| in Northampton Townshp and every
|two weeks from that date. April
| 20th, 21st and 22nd, Thursday, Friday
| and Saturday at the barn of L. M.
| Mankamyer in Larimer Township at
| the end of each week.——On May 1st
land 2nd, Monday and Tuesday will
be at the stable of Peter Knieriem In
the borough of Wellersburg in South-
ampton Township and will be at this
place every two weeks from the a-
bove dates.
Those interested can easily deter
mine when the horse will be at any
of the above paces mentioned in the
circuit by adding just two weeks to
the stand last made at that place, ex-
cept that stated concerning at L. M.
Mankamyer’s; here the horse will be
at the close of each week. The season
will continue to July 1, 1916.
L. M. MANKAMYER, Keeper.
An average farm with six cows and
| four horses will produce in the barn-
yard probably fifty tons of manure
{In a year, which in comparison with
| commercial fertilizer has a cash val-
| ue of about $250.
Fine sale bills printed here.
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