REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS The following deeds have been en- tered by Recorder Jno. E. Custer re- cently. E. L. Garlitz to Thos. O. O'Brien, ‘Berlin borough, $1,250. Susan Bowman to Ira W. Lohr, Stoyestown, $2,300. William Deitz to Ira Lohr, Jenner | township, $5.500. : Adam A. Baker to R. D. Carnahan, Black township. Grace H. McCune to L. E. Boswell, $2,500. Ross R. King to Ross R. Scott, Mid- dlecreek township, $2,600. Shaulis, George G. Staley to Charles A | Scheller, Northampton township, $1, 400. Ross R. Sctt to Ross R. King, Mid- dlecreek township, $2,600. Ross R. King to Ross O. King, Mid- dlecreek township, $2,900. Israel Seese to Aaron Seese, Paint] township, $1,800. Henry S. Lininger to Joseph Arnold #Meyersdale, $900. 2. Agnes Walker to Martin Calodage, Meyersdale, $1000. Jerome Countryman to Henry C. Seihl, Summit township, $3,800. Jno. A. Groff’'s executor to Mary M. White, Berlin, $151. Same to Bertha J. Buckman, $124. Anne Snow to Bertha Walter, Ad- dison township, $1,170. James E. Henry to S. H. Shelley. U. Turkeyfoot, $4,000. Adolph Stresezka to County Trust Co., Berlin, $6,000. Conrad Hoffman to John C. $1,200. Henry C. Shaw to Ellen M. Ringler, Elk Lick township, $2,000. Marie Brunner to Jo Orkish, Con- emaugh township, $2,000 Wm. G. Miller to Israel G. Miller, Milford township, $1,500. Austin Bowlisky to Israel G. Miller, Milford township, $88. Charles A. Brubaker to Earl K. Brubaker, Berlin, $1,375. M. P. Stump’s heirs to Freeman H. | Maul, Meyersdale, $1. William G. Miller to Israel G. Miller Milford Township, $1,500. Austin Bowlby to Israel Milford Township, $88. Charles A Brubaker’s heirs to Earle K. Brubaker, Berlin, $1,375. Daniel B. Zimmerman to Wesley J. Stevanus, Berlin, $17,000. James Lambert to Leroy Lambert, Stonycreek Township, $1,600. John Kurtz to Thomas E. Conemaugh Township, $800. Koontz, Pearson Lohr’s heirs to David S. Lohr, Quemahoning Tewnship, $8,333. Elizabeth Meyers to James Lambert, Stonycreek Township, $350. DENTISTRY. Modern dentistry eliminates the dread of havng your teeth extracted, crowned or filled. I 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 JOHN R. & ROSS R. SCOTT, Attorneys-at-Law SOMERSET, PA kd UHL & EALY Attorneys-at-Law SOMERSET, Pa, UNDERTAKER. WILLIAM C. PRICE Successor to W A. CLARK MEYERSDALE, PA. PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL CALLS AT ALL TIMES. Both ’'Phones W. CURTIS TRUXAL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, SOMERSET, PA. Prompt attention given to all business. Who's Who? legal Those who grow excited in any dis- enssions of the hyphen and of who really is who in this country ought to shake hands in comfortable neutrality after reading this pleasantry by a de- scendent of an “old American family.” Tahan, a half;breed, whose father was one of Custer’s white scouts, is going about the country delivering a lecture called “From Savagery to Civ- flization.” He says: 4 recently addressed the Boston Art stub. The gentleman who introduced me boasted of his ancestors. Some of them had come over in the Mayflower. Then 1 bad the pleasure of telling him that though f could not boast of any of my ancestors @oming over in the Mayflower, some of : them probably were on the reception com- mittee. Tahan will give his lecture “From Savagery to Civilization” on the open- ing night of our Chautauqua this sum- mer. y Ye 5 Bsr NREF AN fae 4 G. Miller, | | KEYSTONE PARAGRAPHS | Forly thousand workers in the Con- | nellsville coke region are affected by a wage increase announced by tie H. C. Frick Coke company. The W. J. { Raingy Coke company and others im- | mediately announced they would meet {the Frick scale. The increase gives | common laborers 10 per ¢ent more, | while other workmen are given § per . cent increases. | As the re:cult of an increase on the cost of bread from 4. 7 and 10 cenis (o | 8 8 and 121; cents. nearly 300 Jewish SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION The union inter-denominational Sunday School convention of the Sev- enth District will be held on May 20 in the Reformed Church at White Oak. The following is the program: AFTERNOON SESSION. 2:00—Song and Devotional, led by s H. G. Tressler :25 Address of Welcome, Rev. A. S. Kresge no | women of Fittsburgh deciared a boy- Response, Rev. E. E. Oney cott on Jewish baker.es. Pickets 2:45 Temperance in the Sunday | guarded many bakeries in the Hil dis- School, Lewis Mankamyer | trict and persuadasd other women not Rev. Clewell Miller [to buy the bread as long as the in- 3:90 Teacher's Training, |creased prices prevail. Rev. A. Wm. Von Kaske There will be no open season for!3:45 The Dead Sunday School, { deer, wild turkey, quail and ring- Reverend Yount aecked pheasants in Westmoreland Prof. Chas. Long county for two years, Dr. Joseph Kalb-| 4:05 Efficiency in Sunday School | fus, state game commissioner, has Work, Rev. BE. E. Oney | notified the Greensburg branch of the 4:30 Enrollment of Sunday Schools. | Wild Life league. He stated that tig Offering. season will be closed Oct. 10 and will i | remain closed until 1918 Adjournment, J EVENING SESSION. Diphtheria, which caused the closing | 7:15 Song and Devotional, of the public schools and motion pic- Reverend Yount ture houses at Mercer, has been |7.30 Organized Classes, checked, it is believed, and some Rev. E. K. Hochstetler schools will be opened within a few 7:50 Purpose of the Home Dept. days. No new cases have been re- Richard Mankamyer, ported since Saturday and precaution- : . > 5 ; : Lucinda Mazer ary measures are believed to have been effective. Quartette i tn SA . 18:10 The Ideal Sunday School, With ten Tevolver Shots in it, the | Prof. H. B. Speicher | body of Salvatore Diliberto, twenty- 3:45 Graded Lesson—Why?, What?, | 8iX, an Italian machinist, employed in Rev. A. 8. Kresge | | the Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad waialy | shops at Greenville, was found in a 9:10 Enrollmetn of Sunday Schools. field near the Chicago Bridge and Iron Offering works, Greenville, by Walter Craig. Adjournment, { John Dudio, age dt 1 v-twe, of Cans! Note—Ali delegates will: be énter- | ensburg, and Harry Grimouski, aged tained free. | twenty-eight, of the Southside, Pitts- | J. T. SHAFFER, | burgh, were killed by a Pennsylvania | H. G. TRESSLER, train while attempting to cross the! LUCINDA MAZER, .. . tracks at the Canonsburg Steel and | Committee. Iron company’s plant. | te Alexander Morrow, aged 101, "al WITTENBERG | farmer and a life-long resident of Arm- | | strong county, died at his home in Lemon hollow. He was born within | a mile of where he died. His widow survives. Mr. Morrow had never been | in a city larger than Kittanning. | ER I i [+ oq Talbot, alleged bank robber, | was indicted by the grand jury at; | Washington on four charges growing | j ont of the robbery of the National | bank of Houston, April 6. The charges | ‘are felonious entry, larceny ! robbery, | and receiving stolen A woman picked up on the street in Philadelphia suffering from extreme fatigue and exhaustion had $560 in | dimes and nickels on her person. Her exhaustion was apparently due fo pro- | longed carrying of this financial load, | the police said. = ar | Newton Keith, a farmer’ living near | Currysville, was probably injured { fatally when a gasoline engine he was working on his farm blew up, tearing off an arm, breaking a leg and caus- | ing serious internal injuries. i Judge P. A. O’Boyle in naturalization court in Wilkes-Barre announced that | members of the Industrial Workers of { the World cannot obtain citizenship | papers in Luzerne county. He said they are undesirable. Leaking gas exploded, setting fire to the home of Robert Colenburg- in | Pittsburgh and seriously burning | | | Colenburg about the hands, arms and | face and did property damage estimat ed at $1,500. Grade school t« | are asking an aver > increase of $5 i per month for next term. { { that day laborers and street cleaners | are receiving better wages than they. chers in New Castle They Joseph Tossi, aged twenty-four | Hungarian, of Greensburg, is look for $500 which he feared he migh lost and gave .to a friend to Keep. Both friend and money have departed. i | | Joseph Milgano of Williamsport cui | his wife’s and his own | died in a few minutes and the wo- man’s condition is critical. is said to have caused the act. Frederick Behl, Jr., aged seven, of Rankin, in running' to avoid a train near his heme, was struck by a street car. His right leg was amputated in the Braddock Gemeral hospital. The greatest gas gusher in the vi- cinity of Kane, Pa., since the famous Keeler well was struck at Wetmore was drilled in on the T. L. Kane lease, five miles north of Kane. Catherine Palmer, aged eight, was killed when she was run down in Pitts- burgh by an automobile truck owned and driven by Fred Luck. Luck was arrested. Application for the commutation of the death sentence of Andrew Beeze, Westmoreland county, has been filed with the state board of pardons. The Simon Silk company, Easton, announced a 10 per cent increase iu wages and a nine-hour day for its 1,2. employees. During a hail storm at Altoona James Bogun, aged twenty-four, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. g200ds. say ! throat. He] Jealousy | ' White | preaching May 1st.—Farmers are busy with their spring plowing at present. Chas. Geiger and three children left on Friday for Canton Ohio, where they purpose living. Mrs. William H. Knepp, Mrs. Lydia Beal, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Murray called at the home of Calvin Heim- er’s Sunday afternoon to see his mother Mrs. Margaret Heimer who is seriously ill. Perry Smith met with a severe ac- cident one day last week. While work- | ine on the railroad for T. W. Bracken lin the act of cutting a rail, a piece of steel flew from it and hit him in the eye. He was taken to the Allega- ny hospital in Cumberland for trigat-. ment remaining until Sunday when he came home. Misses Anna Geiger, Grace Murray, Martha Smith, Blanche Mankamyer, Mary and Sarah Geiger and Messrs. James Geiger, Irvin Murray, Carl and Lewis Mankamyer were callers at C. S. Mankamyer’s on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Mankamyer and | two children Viola and Mildred spent Sunday at the home of Chas Murray’s | Frank Murray is all smiles it’s a girl. This is the fourth child {and all are girls, and the little one | {has a warm welcome into the world. | Dewey Smith and Harvey Geiger ‘called on John Knepp known in this berg as Taft. Sunday P. M. | Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Housel and son | Karl spent Sunday at the fermersy home at Deal. | and girls get cowbells | | and tin horns ready we think thera] jare some weddings near at hand. { | Mrs. Charles Martz left Sunday for her home at Kennell’s Mills. The farmers of this place took | half a day off on Friday to move the | new Minister Rev. Schaffer who mov ed in the Charles Geiger house on Main Stree. A district convention will be held at St. Grace Reformed Church# at White Oak May 20th at 2:30 and Sat- | urday evening at 7:30. Everybody 1s invited to attend. : Communion services will be held at the Mt. Carmel Lutheran church at! Oak May, 28. There will be services every evening from 25-28. At that time. Rev. Schaffer | and Rev. L. P. Young will be present | every body is invited to these services. | Subscribe for the Commercial and | get all the news. | | 30VS your 1 Ants That Sew. A writer in the Visitor tells of a par- | ty of German naturalists recently re- | turned from Ceylon. who have reported , the existence of a species of ant that | has been observed in the act of sewing | two leaves together for the purpose of | forming a nest. This report confirms | the observations of the English nat- | uralist, Ridley, made in 1890. They | saw a row of the insects pulling the | edges of leaves together, then others trimming and fitting the edges and | finally the completion of the work bv still other ants, which fastened the | edges with a silky thread yielded bj larvae of the same species, which the workers carried in their mandibles. It | is said that the sewing ants pass | The convention of the Pannsylvania . ROM EFEYS mield © Federation of Labor is in sessiom in! Beaver Falis this week. the thread-giving larvae like shuttles | through holes in the edges of the leav: | -g | | package in GERMANS REGAIN LOST TRENCHES Bitter Fighting Continues on Slopes of Dead Man Hill FRENCH GENERAL ADVANGED Petain, Who Has Successfully Con- ducted Defense of Verdun, Is Given Command of Large Sector of Front. The German attaek on Hill 304, on the west bank of the Meuse, which was begun by the Germans last Thurs- day and resulted Friday im the capture of French pogitions on the north slopes of the hill, continues, the at- | tacking forces making another gain to | the east of the hill. The assault which gained this latest {success for the crown prince’s troops lon this side of the Meuse was made | after an extremely heavy bombard- | ment which had continued unceasing- ly for two days. The front attack ex- | tended from Hill 304 te Le Mort { Homme, with the valley of the Bethin- | | court brook in the middle of the line. At first all the German attacks were repulsed but after these had been re-| peated time after time the attacking | {forces won a foothold in the French | positions on the eastern slepes of the | hill as they slope down toward the Bethincourt brook. It already been remarked by that this brook obviously is one of the {| weak points, tactically, in the French | defensive line. This obvious weaknes in the topographical situation, it presumed, has been balanced in the defense plans by the use of the bai- teries on Le Mort Homme and Hill 304 and by whatever mobile force was regarded as necessary for the holding of the valley itself. This line of Hill 304 was first aft- tacked in the recent remewal of the German offensive on its eastern flank, at Le Mort Homme. Here the French by a counter offensive gained the mastery and, as has been announced, have pushed the Germans from Hill 265, the height which they hold, to the north of Hill 295, the summit of Le Mort Homme proper. The continued attacks on Hill 304 form the attempt against the left or western front of this sector and resulted in a gain ou the slopes of the hill with a check for the attacking forces before the summit was reached. The attack re- ported on the eastern slopes of this | hill is virtually an attack against the | center of the line. | Another German gain is announeed | on the ease bank of the river, between ! i the Bois d’Haudremont and Fort Dou (aumont. This gain was made on a | front of some 560 yards in the region | of the Bois d’Haudromont, forming ' the western part of the front attacked. | The offensive on the eastern bank , of the river was preceded by a violent ‘artillery preparation and was repeated ; | several times over the whole front of | of attack without success before the gain was made on the western flank. Further te the east the German guns were very active at the base of of Plum Bottom. i the heights of the Meuse, but no'in since { fantry attacks were made in this re gion. General Robert George Nievelle has has | military writers | (IR) RRR ON EEE 3) R IRIE HR x SEE bd [5232132] office buildings, making cars and taxi fort and taste; light and airy. RB Cuisine Unsurpassed Complete Cafe Service from 25c Club Break- x fast to the most elaborate dinner. Dpnets at 50c, 60c, 75c and SRE] ® Every Farmer with J. T. YODER, The oil that gives the NY RN Never flickers. No steady, bright, white N N N smoke, no soot, light, Triple refined \ BN WV ] . RI \ 8 N | from Pennsylvania NE ! NES Crude Oil. Costs little J S more than inferior tank-wagon oils: Little higher in cost, but much higher in quality, \§ | PRECAUTIONS AGAINST VACATION TYPHOID Now that the vacation season is ap- preaching, when the town folks will seek rest from their daily toils, in the realms of Nature, a word of warning | against indiscreet drinking of the! waters of the State. | While thousands of pollutions have | ‘been removed from our streams, it will take years to correct the evils | | that have been growing ever since our ! | civilization began in this country. If you desire to avoid typhoid fever this coming season, co-operate with those working to improve health conditions. | In your travels never depend upon the | celebrated town pump, the clearness of a stream or the sparkling waters offered by the wayside dweller to quench your thirst, unless you know the purity of the water. Depend upon what you carry with you, or if | camping, boil the water before using |it for domestic purposes. It is better ;not te indulge in water cooled with natural ice from an unknown source. Do not clean your teeth, rinse your | of all the leading railroads, department stores, amusement places and i 1 d unnecessary. 250 i Under personal management of Mr. J. B. Kelley, one of the most popular and best known hotel managers in the East. Single room without bath, $1.00 and $1.50 per ay. $3.00 per day. Each per day in any room, with or wi needs a Del AVAL THE BEST SEPARATOR MADE, ietsteietaiaiotVetutetdieteiafeiutatatelntatasetotezniniutace:nsn ala) 2 / 0) 0 Waverly Products Sold by “ BITTNER MACHINE WORKS -:- D. H WEISEL «z= P, J. CO.ti & SUN PERCHERON STALLION, mouth or wash vegetables or fruit to been appoinied to direct the local op- | be eaten raw, in unknown waters | erations at Verdun He will succeeq | without first boiling it for ten or | General Henri Philippe Petain, pro | fifteen minutes. | moted to commandant in chief of the group of central armies in the sector between Soissons and Verdun. RETURNS STOLEN NECKLACE Jewels Stolen Thirty-five Years Ago Are Returned to Owner. Thirty-five years ago a pearl neck- lace belonging to the little daughter of Mrs. George M. Lamb of Baltimore disappeared. Servants were suspect ed, but the necklace was never found, and in the Mrs. Lamb last week reeeived a the mail and discovered upon opening it the long missing neck- lace. Accompanying it was an anony- Meus letter »Xplaining that the writer had stolen she meeklace, and for years had kept it and enjoyed its use, but that now c¢onpgeience had getten to {work and she gould no longer retain the stolen property. asked forgivenegs. The little child of thirty-five years ago from whom the necklace was taken is now Mrs. Howard Cooper Johnson of Philadelphia. Mrs. Lamb will ferward the necklace to her. PRIEST HAS BUSY SUNDAY Twenty-four Weddings; 19 Christen- ings Follews Lenten Season. The priests of a Russian Greek Cathelic church in New York had a busy Sunday performing marriage ceremonies and christening babies. The record fer the day was twenty- four weddings and nineteen christen- ings.” The rush was due to the fact that it was the first Sunday after Lent on which marriages could be per- formed. So many couples were waiting at one time to get married that the rector and his assistant joined in matrimony fourteen pairs at once. Christenings teok place between weddings. course of years the inci- | . dent was forgotten, The writer of | | the letter empressed deep sorrow and | employed in Meyersdale. On Sunday There are hundreds of deaths and | | thousands of cases of typhoid fever | | in the United States each summer and {fall because of failure to observe | | these precautions. | If you send your family to a sum- | wer resort without assuring yourself . | of the purity and safety of the water fsupply may be sisking | { | you their lives. MARRIED MURRAY—DAVIDSON. i Alexander D. Murray and Miss Is- | abella Davidson, both of Shaw Mines, | were marreid Thursday evening at | the home of the groom’s step-father, | {at Shaw mines, by Rev. Michael of | Meyersdale. Quite a number of | | guests were present and wedding | | supper was served. The couple are ex- | | cellent young people. The bride is al native of Scotland and for a time was | | | evening they started for St. Cloud, | | Minnesota, where they expect to! make their future home. | Miss Florence Hoffman, daughter of Mr. Cyrus Hoffman, and Robert A. Mull, both of Coal Run were united in | marriage April 29. The ceremony wet | MULL—HOFFMAN. | | performed at the bride’s home by the Rev. Clyde V. Sparling, in the presen- ce of about fifty relatives and friends, | The bridal couple have gone to house | keeping in the house opposite the | Coal Run Methodist church, which | they had already fitted up for occu: pancy. STERN—DURST. in F. Stern, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ja- cob Stern, both of Lincoln township, were married recently at Husband by the Rev. Daniel E. Brickley. J. B. Kelley, Manager Smithfield St., Water St. and A First Avenue « PITTSBURGH i European Plan Located at the very gateway to the city, just out of the con- gested zone, yet within reach rooms, in com- Note These Reasonable Rates Single room, with bath, $2.00, $2.50 and es onal person $1.00 ithout bath. two or more cows 223 Levergood St. JOHNSTOWN, PA. Second only to sunlight. dealer has _. _ Pamily Favorite _ Oil in barrels shipped direct from our refineries Get it from him, WAVERLY OIL WORKS CO. Pittsburgh, Ps. Gasolines, Taminents Lub. ricants. Parafine Wax FREE 820 rage Book— tells all about of} Begersdale Bs PENLO— Owned by the Pocahontas Horse Co. 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- ery two weeks—On Wednesday, A- | 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 and 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 twq 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. TX not give your lad uW 4M the same training? “When I was a growing lad, and came upon many words in my reading that I did not understand, my mother, in- stead of giving me the definition when I applied to her, uniformly sent me to the di ary to learn it, and in this er oer ow re be in the mse of the dictionary. Afterwards, when I went to the village school, my chief diversion, after les sons were learned and before they were recited, was in turning over the pages of the ‘Unabridged’ of those days. Now the most modern Una- bridged—the NEW INTERNATIONAL— gives me a pleasure of the same sort. So far as my knowledge extends, it is at present the best of the cne-volume dictionaries, and quite sufficient for all ordinary uses. Even those who possess the splendid dictionaries in several volumes will yet find it a great convenience to have this, which is so compact, so full, and so trustworthy as to leave, in most cases, little to be desired.” — Albert S. Cook, Ph.D,,LL.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature, Yale Univ. April 28, 1911. ‘WRITE for Specimen Pages, Illustrations, Ete. of WEBSTER'S NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY G. & C. MERRIAM COMPANY, For Over 68 Years Publishers of The Genzine Webster’s Dictionaries, SPRINGFIELD, MASS., U.S. A. An average farm with six cows and four horses will produce in the barn- Miss Elizabeth Durst, daughter of |yard probably fifty tons of mamare Mr. and Mrs. Henry Durst, and Nev-|in a year, which in comparison with commercial fertilizer has a cash val jue of about $250. TH The ‘meet wood Gea years patiel * Johns A ted 1 Bank of th will | Cer passe rie, | have a mu rathe Th ville upon of th movi rious trout in, di Mi orga ries held will Indi son, Mrs, TI the bria, rail will sent Con ord frox low filec hau rou S . by Toy tes, Pal ber 60. tey tim par pal the . hu
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