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Tred are THRVERSBALE
"HS. BRIEFS
AT MEYERSDALE, PA.
Base Ball.
&. Cleaver, Editor.
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When paid strictly in advance $1.00 | For the last two weeks the boys
When not paid in advance $1.50 of the M. H. S. have been devoting
their evenings after school in stren-
uous try-outs at the ball ground in
Slicer’'s eld. The pyrpose is to organ-
ize a good reliablé ball team with
NOTICE—is hereby given to those
Subscribers who are ignoring repeat- |
d bills sent to them from this office
e nt to which to combat and conquer all
that we will be compelled to place
their accounts in the hands of collec. | Challenging ball fteams of Meyers
{dale and vicinity. A good deal has
tors..
{been accomplished towards this end.
as has been proven in the few games
|played already. The team has
[plenty of aggressive spirit and with
little more batting practice, should
WHY STATLER WAS DEFEATED.
In the earlier part of the campaign
it was thought that Lohr and Statler
would easily make the Republican
prove hard to defeat. The pitching
NOTHING SO GOOJ
As to go to a place to have a light lunch,
glass of Soda Water, or Ice Cream than to
THOMAS CAFE. The place where your
patronage is appreciated. Our rest rccm is
opened to the public; youare welcome there.
I handle a full line of Pure Drugs, Medicines,
Perfumes, Toilet Articles. Imported and
Domestic Cigars. -:- -- -:-
F B. THOMAS, Leading Druggist,
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nomination for the Assembly.
Mr. Statler has been a Republican,
but one who really tried to act in his
legislative capacity in behalf of what
he believed to be right. Both Mr.
Statler and Mr. Lohr were for the
local option bill . This fact ordinari-
ly would merit them no support from
those who believe in the continu-
ance of the liquor trade. The “Wets”
wanted a man who if not pledged to
liquor was not bound for local option
and they thus secured M. ‘W. Speich-
er who was neither hot nor cold;
peither wet nor dry, a sort of go-as-
you please candidate. To increase
the latter’s chances of winning, he
was coupled up with Mr. Lohr who
would get thec hurch vote and Mr.
Speicher would get some of them too. \p-
Mr. Statler would not bare his neck | All teams between ages 16 and 19
to the ring and therefore they early ears, wishing games write or sce
iad tat nis political head must |W Lechomby, Mgr. of the M. HS
be lopped off. Another fact that mili- {Base Ball Team.
tated against Mi. Statler was that he |
voted against the Full Crew act, thus
causing him to lose the entire rail-
road vote and mauy of the lahor votes
in general.
| department is as good as can be ex-
pected and with proper support will
prove effectual. With a temporary
{ew errors but otherwise put a thril-
(taking over the Firemen in the near
future.
Manager Leckemby and Captain
Groff have reported the following
lineup:—
Ray Saylor c; Wm. Leckemby 2nd;
{M. Hady If; K. Brant 1st. and ss;
F. Grof 3rd; G. Blake rf;' S. Grier 1
&p;: N. Suder cf; F. Boucher 1st &
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Why did Grace Michael look sO
! sorrowful last week? Was she think-
'ing of the long walks she used to
| ‘have with. Edward Leonard. with
Bud's pet dog “Snookums,” trotting
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SAYS PEACE IS NEAR |
An early peace among the warring | B® wore such
powers of Europe is predicted hy | “Snookums” died. Needless to sav,
many persons who are in a position
to know the condition of affairs.
The son-in-law of the James J. Hill
has just arrived from Europe where
he went to learn the real condilions
'Graee was the chief mounrner.
: Last Tuesday a new teacher, Gregg
| Darrow, was added to the High
| School faculty. As her first duty she
ras C sd iv Ti y
there. | wa compelled to give Wilbur Stot
Hill made a record trip abroad. He
was only seven days ashore, but in
that time he traveled from Liverpool |
to London; across the Channel to |
Havre; to the headquarters of Knig
Albert of Belgium and back again.
He had a long talk with King Albert
and got a glimpse of the front, near
Dunkirk. i
“Germany cannot struggle against,
the overwhelming -financial strain | oth
and the econcmic conditions since |
the war,” he said, explaining why he his beautiful locks, but perhaps when
believed peace would soon come. | school is out and his mind is not so
“There will not be another winter | heavily taxed they will be replaced.
campaign and peace will come just
as suddenly as war broke out. The
French peoples have put their living
on a practical basis— this being suf that it was
ficient to sustain them in health. King | tion™ in Cuba. ,
Albert whom I have known for a
score of years, is in splendid health Carl Daugherty said, in locating
and confident of early restoration to |Cuba, that you see it from Mexico.
his people of the section of Belgium
that we were all good after that(?:.
In locating the sense of touch, Ed-
| hair of a cat. Ed. must have bee
{hinking of the time the wild cat was
after him.
Harvey Meyers informed us the
Norman Suder, in giving the cause
for the Spanish American war, said
caused by a ‘‘Resurrec-
field has purchased the
lineup the H. S. defeated the Meyers- | tract of Coal land located next the )
i. ie a oui a, Empire mines at Barnes The for the 24th inst at 7:30 p. m.. All|
‘he Rex Club. In a game with the purchase of this property means that
firemen, the H. S. lost out through a the Empire mines will be good for
another 25 to 30 years and will give
ling game. The team is confident of employment to about 22§ to 250 men.
FANCY
10c APIECE BITTNER’S GROCERY
fine job man.
mS ll IAIN NS NSS Nd Nd Nt SN NI NS NN
(after them. But, alas! there will be |
walking as wl
ler a shaking up. You may be sure |
ward Crowe said it was found on the |
er day that he was becomng bald-
headed. We all hate to see him lese |
The Empire Coal Company of Clear- ee
Garman FIREMEN! TAKE NOTICE.
Opposite Citizens Bank MEYERSDALEF, PA |
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An important special meeting is
are requested to be in full uniform. |
Pres., W. H. Deeter,
Fire Marshal, Fred Hare,
Chief, Clay Beynon.
TRY A BAG OF LARRABEE’S best
FLOUR and if it doesn’t make tne
best bread you ever had, bring it
back and w will refund your money.
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NORWAY MACKEREL
Have secured the services of a
WHY PEOPLE SQUINT
Have you ever seen a person draw his or her
Eyes together? °
This is due to an imperfect Refraction of the
Eyes.
This condition causes the Eye-muscles to .tire
and causes all sorts of troubles. This Squinting is
« sure symptom of MYOPIA—ASTIGMATISM or
MUSCULAR trouble... ..
see sey «an
DON'T SQUINT Keep your Eyes wide
open If you have acquired the habit, check .it
by PROPERLY FITTED LENSES.
j OK THE OPTOMETRIST
CO 0 Eye Sight Specialist -
Both ! hones Meyersdele, Pa.
AT HABEL & PHILLIPS.
ooking to the
They're looking to us, Sonny,
For the goodness of our grain.
It's not so much our-money,
As th’ feeding-time again.
These wars are hard on toilers
As were planting of th’ seed,
And so, it’s bread and broilers
That th’ hungry nations need.
They're looking lo us, Sonny,
For the golden rows of wheat;
For tasseled corn and hoaey,
And a lot of things to eal.
While guns keep up their dinning,
And men kezp up their fight, «
God sees that Peace is winning
And our farms are safe to-night.
No, No. It isn’t funny
You must feed the
hungry NOW!
THA
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PASSAT ANAS rd SNAILS TALL tN A
They are looking to us, Sonny,
And those other shores are bare.
It’s not so tarnal funny
With the children over there.
We seem to iar them calling,
In a plaintive sort of way,
And ev'ry sheaf that's falling
Makes a loaf of bread to-day.
They're looking to us, Sonny,
For the planting of the soil.
Trading cannon for their Toil.
But, let God's will be ruling,
And bend above your plow,
For if man needs your bounty
by,
2% Losin
Larned C
Driving It Home
Let us drive home to you
the faci that no washwoman
can wash clothes in as sani-
tary a manner as that in
which the work is done at
our laundry.
We use much more water,
change the water many more
times, use purer and more
costly soap. and keep 2'l the
clothes in constant motion
during the entire process.
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It's simply a matter of
having proper facilities.
Meyersdale Steam Laundry
ROOFING
111 gO to the office and complain.”
he declared, mentally, and then re-
flected that he had complained so
many times at the office and each
time had met with a smile of patient
Sede Seis i= bof t= mie indulgence. His courage failed him
snd he connected himself with men-
tioning the matter to his doctor.
“Oh, put it out of your conscious-
His Nerves
Stayfield’s nerves were bad and his
particular horror was noises. He had
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ee FIRST CL ASS SL ATE
or
special noises that eat\ one of them i
was sensitive to for fifteen minutes GALVANIZED ROOF
wy the clock. 5 write to
“I hope my hammock didn’t annoy
you,” she said in parting.
“Qh, not at all,” he answered quick-
ly. “Of course I noticed it, but I put
it out of my consciousness as far as
it related to myself, and only feared
that it might spoil your rest and re-
J. S. _WENGERD
MEYERSDALE, te
tc any ralthcad station
PENN'A
Wholesale prices on carloads shipped
held by the Germans.”
The daily prayer of millions of
thearts throughout the world is for
peace and each hour adds to the
dreadful list of fathers, husbands and
sons slain—and all for what purpose
no living creature can truly tell.
CAUSES OF D!SCURD
A St. Louis minister in a recent
le~ture on “Optimism” defined that
term as “making lemons out of lem-
ons that are thrown at you,” and de
nied that this phrase had been coin-
ed hy Woodrow Wilson. The Rever-
end gentlemn, Rev. Chas 1.. Kloss,
give four great caunces of discord in
a family: —
The bossy husband. made power
ful because of his pocketbook. which
he never permitted anvone to take
from him the unspanked spoiled child
that had its way so much it did not
like it: the gad-about woman who
wanted to go anywhere but home |
wnd who tired herself so spending
more than her husband's income
that she could not have strength e-
ncugh to enjoy herself and the inva-
lia that wore out half a dozen stout
persons and whose sole existence
seemed to he devoted to making oth
ers miserable.
The newspapers are full of the sto-
ries of unhappy homes sand lives
because both hus-; . = 1k |
| The Scphomores should not talkl. pocanie shriek of rusty, abrading
so loud when the Fresmen are a-|jron that Stayfield declared to him-
round. because they might be SOrTY | self was little short of diabolical.
mzde miserable
pand and wife de not do the right |
thing. The old saying that to have a
happy hcme there mus® be two bears
therein —Iear and Forbear-— is cer
tainly a true one.
YOU CAN SAVE US
MANY TWO-CENT STAMPS
We can keep on sending you bills pictures o
money ‘Summer Garden, Joe and Mary ap-
and spending considerable
for postage that ought to be applied
to something else, put won't you
dear friends of the Commercial, pay
up on your subscriptions or pay some
. stone, but whichever company she
small part on the same as our busi
ness is made up of many little ac-
connts. A lot more might he said. Pa
per and other printing supplies have
increased greatly. Paper that cost us
Clarence Siehl showed his happi-
ness as well as his vocal ability
when on entering English History
class one morning he asked Miss
Livengood if he might sing. ‘We have
a “Caruso” to add to our collection
of interesting characters in school.
eee
(laude Deal will doubtless be a
jeweler some day as he is seen car-
rying a silver vanity case wi'h him,
and was detected engraving his ini-
tials upon it. Some one is having her
engraving done gratis.
| Miss Constance Gordon of Keyser,
IW: Va. wis a visitor in’ high school
Monday afternon.
| The Senior (Class Play. “Professor
Pepp” bids fair to be a big successSs.
Everyone who wishes to laugh and
grow fat should prepare to witness
the performance the nigh‘ of June
jon
l2n.d .
Dave Noel's philosophy has reach-
ed the point when we are forced to
seek Webster for a proper under
| standing. We praise the lad for his
industriousness.
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Yes, a Freshman was wearing
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{“Sophies” are wearing the Freshman
Class Flower.
| sometime. Take advice “Sophies”
Please don’t heg vour “Tulins.”
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Mary Emeigh and Joe Shultz are
very prominent individuals. In the
f Meyersdale shown at the
pear in life size upon the #creen.
Their debut was a marked success
and Mary doesn’t know which compa-
ny to enter. Most probably tue Key-
’
joins, Joe will be the leading man.
$90 1.
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i Senior class pin, but alas! wel
sometime ago $50 per ton now costs
fled from the city to escape its eter
nal din, but even the sanitarium he
selected was not a soundless paradise.
Into”the first room that was assign
ed him the noise of dishwashing pen
etrated and into his second room the
snores of his next door neighbor pen:
etrated. :
“rll take a room in a cottage he
announced at the oifice, and he was
immediately shown Lo a large ground
floor apartment that overlooked a
pcoutiful lawn,
"his is the first quiet spot I have
stiuck for seven years,” he announced
to the boy ‘ho showed him the room.
“And here’s a garter for bringing me
to such a pcaccful den” But the
peace was soon disturbed by the
sound of a lawn 1 ower, one of the
noises tial entailed a special torture
for poor Stayiicid.
However the lawn mower twas a
mere tricle compared with the sound
that awaited him that evcning when
he returncd from the mala building,
where he had just dined, to the wel
come restfulness of his c¢wn cottage
retreats
«Of :!l the sounds in t’ ¢ world that
“] n-ost abominate,” he said to himaelf,
“the chief is the sound of a squ aky
h~mmock, and here, almost at my
window, is the vilest sounding one
that it was ever my misfortune to lis-
ten to.”
And sure enough on tho porch of a
neighboring cottage that was close Lo
his own, a hammcck gently swayed,
and the swaying was accorranied by
“And there’s a woman in it.” he said
| “and no doubt she is one of those ner: ;
| vous peonle who are perfectly uncon
i scions of the noise they make them-
selves, but who want everybody else
to be as sou "dicss as the grave. Well,
there’s no rest for me in my room
until this thing stons. It’s just a ques-
of how long a woman chooses to
swing.”
He returned to the main build
i ing, cot along in the reading room,
| end then went back to his cottage,
tcd by the steady, in-
rap
| only to Le 3I¢
iC Poi) or hi
ness,” was the physician’s advice and
¢'ayfield determined to act upon his
p-escription.
The next evening he seated himself
by his bedroom window with an excit-
ing novel in his hand and in his mind
the firm resolve not to allow any evil
sound to come between him and the
lovely heroine of the story.
«This is too much,” he muttered to
himself at the end of the third chap-
ter. Down went the book on the ta-
ble and out of the door went Stay-
field. He wandered for over an hour
about the grounds and when he re
turned to his room the hammock was
stilled and the neighboring porch de-
serted.
“Pefore another day has passed,”
declorcd Stavfield to himself as he
@ay in his bed that night, “7T’ll stop the
squeak of that infernal hammock, if
I have to cut it down and throw it in
the lake.” Fortune favored him when
he returned the next morning after
dinner the hammock was quiet and
apprrently unoccupied.
“Nov’'s my chance,” said Stayficld
to him:c'f, and hurrying to his room,
he scized a bottle of oil that he had
found on the shelf in his closet and
made his way to the neishhorir~ |
porch. It was dark but he had a small
flashlight in his pocket. Turning
this on the rope that held the objec
tionable hammock, he procecded to
spou‘ cil in a wholesale monner.
«Who’s that?” a voice from the ham
mock suddenly demanded, and zcnoth-
er flashlizht encountered Stayfield’s |
and was turned directly irio his face
By the lirht of his own tiny electric
he saw a pretty pale face, surmount
¢1 by disheveled locks, turned toward
him, But there was a smile on the
face and no particular hostility in the
glance.
“I beg your pardon,” dcclared Stay
| field, returning the smile. “Put I no-
ticed that your hammqck cqneaked
horribly, and I thought you mit like
to have it oiled.”
“How: very kind!” she murmured.
tard your cure.”
Perhaps you have noticed that the
man with a long tongue rarely ever
has a long head.
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PERSONAL AND LOCAL
Mrs George H. Hocking is enjoy-
ing a few days with her daughter,
Mrs. Sturgiss, Oakland Md.
W. H. Dill for years business mana
ger of the Miller Mfg. Co. has resign-
ed to accept the position of office man
for the Wilmoth Co. He will be suc-
ceeded by J. N. Lint in the position
made vacant.
busy of late with the following im-
provements:Put in a bathroom, hot
water heat sustem for Ross Welfley
| of Salisbury; Will Martz, hot water
And right then and there Stayfield
standing with his bottle of oil in one
hand and the flashlight in the other,
{ and the young woman sitting upright
| in the hammock, they discussed the
| guestion of distnrhing sonnds and af
| heat at Shady Lawn; bath room for
| Samuel Saylor Berkley Flats; Elias
| Marteeny, bath room and "Hot water
(plant; Henry Siehl, bath rocm and
‘electric lighting, Trans-Meyersdcle;
|Ira Fike, bath room and hot water |
| plant.
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$1.5
SPICIAL EXCURSION
TO
PITTSBURGH
Stopping at McKeesport and
Braddock
SUNDAY, May 14th,
Spe vial Train in both directions
Leaves Meyersdale 8:20 A.M.
Returning, Leaves Pittshurgh 7:30 P. M.
Low round trip fares from intermedi-
ate stations.
See flyers—Consult Ticket Agent
Western Maryland Railway
Spend a Day in Big Pittsburgh.
TEN-DAY
LOW RATE EXCURSION
TO
‘Washington and
Baltimore
THURSDAY, MAY 25,
1:04 a. m., and 12:19 p. m.
FINAL LIMIT, JUNE 3.
|Western Maryland Ry.
Low Fares from Other Points. Com-
sult Ticket Agent.
$6 45 Meyersdale
Regular trains leave Meyersdale
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