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SOUND FAMILIAR?
*‘I thought you paid that Jones’ bill”.
““ So did I, but hese’s another ‘dun’
from him".
“What'll you do?”
“Do? Pay it again,
I suppose. 1
haven't any receipt to show for it, so,--
say I'm going to open a check account
at the Citizens National Bank and from
now on 1'll pay-by-check. No more of
this paying twice, No siree! Not when
bank checks are legal receipts”.
You too, can Pay-Safe by having a
account with us. A small amount opens
it!
Citizens National Bank
“The Bank with the Clock”
Meyersdale, Pa.
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BERLIN.
WILLS PROBATED.
Oliver Emmert, late of Somerset| Edgar Heffley of Pittsburg recent-
township, deceased, by his will pro-|1v visitdd his mother, Mrs. Albert
bated a few days ago by Clerk C. I. |Heffley. \
Shaver, bequeathed a life interest in| “The Story of the Reformation”
his estate both real and personal, to | Will be given under the auspices of
his wife, and at her death it js to go |theW. H. and F. Missionarp Society
to their children, share and share a-|of the Lutheran church in the Ber-
like. lin Opera House, on the evenings of
George W. Weaver, late of Garrett | May 29th and 30th. About 75 persons
bequeathed his estate, real and per-|from the various local churches will
sonal to his wife as long as she sur-|take part in the play.
KETSTORE PARAGRAPHS
Pittsburgh police have been noti-
fied that the police of Rome, N. Y,,
have captured and are holding Nich-
olas Sandora, aged twenty-three, who
has been indicted in Pictsburgh for
a double murder on Mt. Washington.
The two murders in question were
committed Feb 7, 1915, when Paul
Schiava and Dominick Janni were
shot to death in a quarrel.
The state department of health has
taken charge of health affairs in six
western boroughs which have failed to
properly perform the work of looking
after the health of their people, as
follows: New Baltimore and Jenner-
town, Casselman, Somerset county;
Sutersville, Westmoreland county;
Sheakleyville and New Lebanon, Mer-
cer county.
Mrs. Catherine Barrack, aged thirty,
of Smock, is dying in the Uniontown
hospital; her two-yeai-old son, Joseph,
is dead of a broken neck, and two
others of her children, George, Jr.
seven, and Catherine, five, are in their
home with cuts and bruises about the
head and face as a result of being
thrown from a buggy.
Altoona’s city hospital has on its
list of patients three men with broken
backs, two of them paralyzed. Samuel
Crawford has three vertebrae broken
and Jacob Criznor, a miner, has two
broken. Charles Hunter, a lineman,
had the extreme vertebrae of the
spine fractured. He will get out of
the Rospital soon.
Beaause C. W. Allem, a negro po-
liceman of Pittsburgh, gave John
Kravalewski a “hot feot,” with his
mace, whicli broke his ankle, while
he was sleeping om a cellar door in
Forbes street, near Brady street, he
will have to pay Kavalewski $675, a
jury in the United States district court
decreed.
The bomes of seventeen skeletons,
believed to be those of persons
buried in the cemetery of a Pitts-
burgh Presbyterian church built by
the Covenanters more than 100 years
ago, were found by workmen excavat-
ing for the new Chamber of Com-
vives, and following her death it is to
be divided, share and share alike,
among his four sons. His sons,
W. H. Suter] recently was in Du-
Bois, where he represented the
Berlin Commandery Knights of
Joseph and Edward are’ appointed | Malta, at the meeting of the Grand
axecutors.
The will of Elder P. ,U. Miller;
late of Brothersvalley
Commandery.
Miss Edna Saylor of
Pittsburg,
townshiq, | passed a week at the home of her
was probated @a day or two ago by | brother, Dr. BE. C. Saylor.
Clerk Charles I. Shaver. He leaves
all of his qrogerty,real and person-
Mille-. |
al, to his wife, Elizabeth
not dispcsed of the
is to zo to the
Brethren Cemetery
property
mainder to the Church of
Brethren for a gospel messenger.
MAY HAVE TO GROW
PLANTS FOR DRUGS.
Jne of the problems which is now
confronting the pharmacists of the
country and which will engage the at-
tention of the members of the Penn-
sylvania Pharmaceutical Asosciation
at the meeting next month in Reading
is the shortage of vegetable drugs
which has developed in consequence
of the European war.
The shortage of dyestuffs and che-
mical products,
concerning which |.
Rev. D. S. Stephan was a recent
visitor in Westminister, Md.
years of age.
Our new postmaster, C. W. Kris-
singer is giving better mail service.
A locked mail pouch is now placed
on the accommodation train at Gar-
rett in the morning and is thrown off
at Rockwood reaching Somerset at
noon of the same day.
Dr. R. J. Heffley has started the
Main St. on the lot he purchased
some time ago from C. A. Floto.
ROCKWOOD
U. S. Werner, has been appointed
there has ben so much said during |District Deputy for the Modern Wood
the past few months, bids fair to be
overcome by the growing manufac-
ture of these chemicals in this coun-
try, although the higher cost of labor
and materials hes will not permit a
return to the forsser prices.
With the vegetable drugs, however
the shortage cannot so easily be made
up. About one half of our crude drugs
come from foreign countries. Even
such common drugs as dandelion,
jimson weed and burdock are impor-
ed because of the lower cost of coll-!
ection abroad due to lower wages.
A FLY-SWATTING CAMPAIGN
To be Started by the Suffragettes of |
Pennsylvania.
The suffragettes of Pennsylvania
have decided to start a fly-swatting
campaign. In preparation for it the
state headquarters have ordered 10,-
000 swatters which will be sold at
cost to the members of the local
organizations.
“Each swatter will swag at least
1,000 flies,” said Mrs. E. E. Kiernan,
of Somerset, vice president of the
state association. “That means 10,
£00,000 flies killed and the lives of
many babies saved.” :
The annual( encampment of the
Second Brigade, N G P, of which
Company GC, of Somerset forms
a part, will be held this year at
North Girard in Erie County, from
August 5 to 12th. The camp will front
on Lake Erie and the place is said to
be admirably adapted to the purpose.
Four hundred students at the
men of America in the district com-
prised of Juniata, Mifflin, Hunting-
don, Blair, Cambria, Bedford, Fulton
and Somerset counties. He has been
influential in establishing several
{lodges in neighboring towns. At Rock-
{wood it was thru his efforts that a
Jodge of but a few members was built
up until now almost 150 members are
enrolled with the local lodge. At the
present time Mr. Werner is conduct-
poe a membership campaign at Som-
erset. The aim is to increase the Som-
erset eamp 100 members within the
membership of about 200 the largest
camp in the county.
John W. Huff, one of the two As-
sociate Judges ‘of Bedford County,
died Friday eweming at his home in
Saxton, aged §9 years, following an
illness with cancer of the liver.
Dr. C. J. Hemminger accompanied
Mrs. James Nicholson: of Markelton,
recently to the Mercy Hospita 1 at
Pittsburg where she will be operated
upon within a few days.
J. P. Sechler will go to Pittsburg
upon adyice of his family physician
{where he will receive special treat-
ments by radium.
Elmer Miller of Mascott. Va. and
Miss Ida Meyers of Buffalo Mills are
guests of their brothers and sisters-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Miller and
Mrs. F. L. Miller of Rockwood last
jweek.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bittner spent
the first part of last week visitng
their respective parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Bittner of Glencoe and Mr. and Mrs.
Werner of Berlin.
Frank Hay has gone to Cleveland,
Pennsylvania State College have
earned over 4500 to help pay for
O., where he together with three oth-
er agents for Dodge cars ,will deliver
overland four Dodge cars to the Stahl
agency at Somerset.
their = education during the present
college year.
A RA ALP SATIN TF"
Get our prices on job work.
Get our prices on job work. |
John M. Hartman a native of Ber-
If at the time of her death she has lin, and for a number of years a well
$200 | known merchant of Uniontown, Pa.,
Church of the died at his home in that place on death in the electrie chair at the state
Association | Friday morning, May 5, as the re-
$/00 to Juniata College and the re-|sult.of a stroke of apoplexy sus-
3 the {tained October 14, 1915. He was 72
erection of his fine new home on,
next 60 days. This camp now has a.
: trip for Mrs. Bowen.
merce building. SN
A few hours before Nicholas Erme-
let, aged twenty-two, of Philadelphia,
was schedubed to face trial on a
charge of attacking Anna Pollie, he
killed himself after he had shot and
killed the girl’s brother-in-law, her
sister, and attempted to kill the girl.
Maintaining his innocence, Charles
Douglass, Westmoreland county negro,
who was convicted of the brutal mur-
der of Joseph Smith of Webster, West-
moreland county, was sent to his
penitentiary at Rockview. Lhd
While wetld-be rescuers hammered
on a boltéd door in a futile effort to
awaken them, two men, Felix Premix,
thirty-three, and Frank Woevel, thirty-
six, Austrians, were burned to death
in their shanty at the Kiskiminetas
bridge, near Freeport.
From present indications Center
county this year will have the great:
est fruit crop ever grown in that part
of the state. Cherry and apple trees
especially will be heavily laden and
peaches, pears and plums are showing
up well.
Enraged when a negro porter en-
tered his room in a hal hotel,
Ellwood City, A. S. Lyons ‘of Poco-
hontas county, West” Virginia, shot up
the place, and two men are in the
Shenango hospital, expected to die.
Thomas Ausillo, aged forty-two of
Wilkes-Barre, perhaps fatally wound-
ed his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Freas,
sixteen, and then killed himself be-
cause the daughter had married with-
out his censent.
The American Manganese company
of Dunbar, the Semet Golvay company
and other allied companies of Dun-
bar anneunced a 20 per cent wage in-
crease te its employees. About 600
men are affected.
Charles M. Schwab has announced a
gift to Bethl in the form of a
$100,600 concert hall, which will seat
2,600 persons, and fh "which future fes
tivals, concerts, eto,, will be held.
Michael Mopresto of West Newton
was found dead near the county road
leading to Madison. He had been
shot several times. Police are search-
ing for his assailant.
John T. Heover, aged forty-six, pro-
prietor of a moving picture house in
ing himself in the mouth.
FIRED HOME TO GET MONEY
John E. Bowen Pleads Guilty te Agson
Charge at Leganspert.
John C. Rowen of Logansport, Ind.,
years
years.
the samegcharge.
It was d that Mrs. Bowen's health
had been failing and physicians ad-
vised that she go south in search of a
kindlier climate. Bowen attempted to
the expenses
TO DOCTOR AILING. WIFE] AT'ON'S PAYROLL
and disfranchised for three |was issued recently by the
His wife was acquitted on {National bank of Philadelphia.
view, bas expranded $65,000,000 in
the last two weeks,
burn his home in order to colleet the |CODtinUES,
insurance money with which to meet |by the country’s unprecedented pros-
of the health-seeking |perity are acting conservatively, us- CABBAGE PLANTS
Actual teachine experience is a pas
Pennsy ww lvania
Life at Indiana is heaithful and happy. The air
ear and crisp; the home lite is exceptional in cor
and fellow-students.
Others pay $260.
2 connection with the Normal School are—
Rexford !
schools of
). Colburn, Director, —
their kind in this country.
DR. JAMES E. AMENT, Indiana, Pa.
Prepared for Real Lif¢
The course at Indiana Normal equips one to earn a good
living by teaching. This practical school inspires true Am-=r-
ican ambition; it builds character, self. nce, chisncth.
A School of Ambition ih Success.
fort and cheer; the days are filled with incest: g work
and brightened by the corapany of congenial t ache is
$200 cov: rs all expenses {orona
yvear—excepting books—for those preparing to teach.
. Indiana School of Business, John E. Smith, Prin-
Cipt el and The Indiana Conservatory of Music—
two of the best equipped
42nd Yeor Opens September 12th, 1916, For the new catalog—
a beautifully illustrated book of 128 pages—address the Principal
st EG cours
nos {i Indic. iy Pa,
o-
10:00—Address:
¢ Oben Conference.
11:00—Address: “Value of Monthly Meetings of the S. S. Workers,” —
Rev. Clyde V. Sparling.
Open Conference -
Adjournment.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
IN THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
1:30—Devotional Services -— — —— lio Rev. H. L. Goughnour
2:00 Roll Call of the District Schools with brief greetings and ver-
bal reports from each school by a representative of the school:
Meyersdale— Salisbury— i
Lutheran Lutheran
Reformed Methodist
Methodist Reformed
Brethren United Evangelical
Church of the Brethren Church of the Brethren
Christian Reformed *
Evangeligal Brethren
M. E. Colored Union Schools—
Garrett— Berkley Mills
Lutheran Keystone Mines
Reformed Glade City
Church of the Brethren Savage
Evangelical Church of “the Brethren
St. Paul Springs—
Lutheran Mennonite
Reformed Oakdale.
: : Amish
Summit Milis— Boynton—
Brethren Methodist
€hurch of the Brethren Coal Run—
Methodist
Centre— Maple Glen
Lutheran Church of the Brethren
Solo— — Miss Florence Just.
Address, “The Value of the Graded Lesson,” -Reyv.
J. C. Matteson.
Open Conference.
Solo — — Miss Irene Collins
Report of District Officers '
Address—“How Secure Men Por and Maintain Interest in Bible
Clogs?” — — —— o_.. 2. ol Rev. W. M. Howe
Adjournment.
T EVENING SESSION ~~
IN THE REFORMED CHURCH.
7:30—Devotiondl Services Conducted by — — — Rev. D. W. Michael.
-8:00—Address, “The County Convention by the County President — —
Prof. H. B. Speicher.
Music—
— Male Quartette.
Address—*“What Shall we Teach?” Rev. Paul B. Rupp, McKeesport
Offering—A Silver Ring to it.
Music— — — Male Quartet i
Election of Officers. |
Hymn. :
Adjournment.
DISTRICT OFFICERS: —
President we — — on i. L. Rev. Ira S. Monn, Elk Lick
Henry Naylor, Garrett
Secretary, — — — — — _ __ __ Miss Edith Ebbecka, Meyersdale,
Treasurer — — — — — _ _ __ M. S. Maust, Meyersdale
Elementary Superintendent — — — Miss Eva May Moore, Meyersdaie.
Supt. of The Home Department — Mrs. Kimber Cleaver, Meyersdale
Supt. Teachers’ Training — — — — Prof. H. B. Speicher, Garrett
‘Supt, of 0. A. B.C. — — mu — J. E. McCartney, Meyersdale
Supt. of Secondary Division — — — R. D. Pfahler, Meyersdale
Supt. of Temperance — — — — — Miss Mary Hay, Elk Lick.
TAKE NOTICE—Beth the President and the Secretary of the County
reside in District No. 8, therefore we must do our best to make the
County Convention the best ever as it too is to be held in Elk Lick within
No. 8, June 26—28. TAR
It is urgently requested that all of the.achoois of the district, send del:
egates te be present at all three of the seesisns; and further that as far
Altoona, committed suicide by shoot: | possible that pastors, superintendents, officers and teachers be pres-
ent also. Let us make this a promise of what the County Convention
ought to be.
credit rather
$65,000,000 MORE \dividends.”
Seven hundred thousand workmen,| This means, the bank says,
than to pay excessive
that
a large proportion of whom live in or } When, war orders cease to expand
near
aged forty-two, pleaded guilty to a|wages advanced during this month,
charge of arson, was sentenced to according to a review of the flnanci-
prison for from two to twenty-one |al
Philadelphia, have had their | trade business will still be in a flour-
ishing condition.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER’S
CASTORIA
UHL & EALY
Attorneys-at-Law
SOMERSET, Pa,
and mercantile situation which
First
The nation’s payroll, says the re-
“Ag a general thing.” the statement
“those who are profiting
ing their profits to strengthen their
AT HABEL & PHILLIPS.
———tn. sa
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
To be Held in Meyersdale, Pa. Frid ay May 26, 1916. Three Sessions.
MORNING SESSION.
IN THE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN.
9:30—Devotional Service — — — — — — — .-— — Rev. C. Fo. Miller !
“The Superintendent of the Modern S. S., Rev. E. E. Oneyv |
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C. H. SHOCKEY
INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS.
Spccial Agent for the Equitable Life
Assurance Society of the
‘United States.
MEYERSDALE, PA.
We all carry Fire Insurance. (Good)
Your life is worth more to your
family than a building is to you.
Our life policies are liberal. In case
of total disability, caused either by
sickness or accident. Premium then
come for life. On the other hand if
you live 20 years we will pay you
back more than you ever paid for
your insurance.
Life insurance protects the home.
GREAT MASS OF PROOF
Reports of 40,000 Cases of Kidney
Trouble, Some of Them Meyers-
dale Cases.
Each of some 6,000 newspapers of
the United States is publishing from
week to week, names of people in its
particular neighborhood, who have
used and recommended Doan’s Kid-
ney Pills for kidney bachache, weak
kidneys, bladder troubles and unfms-
ary disorders. This mass of proof im-
cludes over 40,000 reco: hdations.
Meyersdale is no exception. Here is
one of the Meyersdale cases.
H. L. Heffley, 306 North St., Mey-
ersdale, says: “I was troubled by se-
vere pains in the small of my back,
brought on by my work, which kept
me in damp places. The pains wers
so bad that I became alarmed. I was
very lame in the morning and could
hardly stoop over or lift anything. I
got Doan’s Kidney Pills at Thomas’
Drug Store, and three boxes cured
me.
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t sim-
ply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’c Kidney Pills—the saunic that
cured Mr Heflley. FosterrMilburn
Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
UNDERTAKER.
WILLIAM C. PRICE
Successor, te .
W. A. CLARK.
MEYERSDALE, PA.
PROMPT. ATTENTION. GIVEN. TO
ALL CALLS AT ALL TIMES.
WwW. CURTIS TRUXAL; |
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
SOMERSET, PA.
Prompt attention given to all
business;
legal
NOTICE
All persons knowing themselves to
the Meyersdale Auto Company prior
to March 1, 1916 are requested to'make
settlement before June 1, 1916. All
accounts remaining unsettled by this
latter date will be placed in lega
hands for collection.
Gurley, Plock and Berkley.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
ceases and we will pay you an fn-
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