The Meyersdale commercial. (Meyersdale, Pa.) 1878-19??, June 15, 1916, Image 6
Ne cpt ; ee eerste meee BACK YARDS AND CHARACTER Little Talks on Health and Hygiene By Dr Samuel G. Dixon. Bret Hart once wrote a story in which he ponted out that for an in- sight into the occupants true charac- ter one must look at the back and net at the front of a man’s house. Here | was knowledge of human nature. {id we want to estimate character accur- ately we must have an all around view and not accept face values. This brings us again to the question «of back yards. Is yours as clean and well kept as you can make it or is it littered with trash, cans, kindling and rubbish? Is the garbage and properly covered and free from Is the stable and out-house a seding center for the neighbor- pood? You have work ahead of you for your health’s sake and for the sake of decency if any of these con- ditions exist. It is a privilege to have a back yard even a small one. There are thousands of dwellers in cities where fand is sold by the square foot, who yearn for a little space to call their own. Those who are so fortunate as to have back yards should care for them and make use of them. if there are children in the family the back yard should be their play- ground. A doll house, turning pole, 2 swing or a tent will provide almost unlimited entertanment and help" to keep children off the streets. If there are no children in the fam- fly, a shovel, a rake, a hoe and a mod- erate sized back garden should afford a reasonable amount of healthful ex- ercise combined with pleasure and profit. a i. CONFLUENCE Dr. and M s. H, P, Meyer sand son Paul are in Philadelphia. The Confluence Concert Band re- cently organized “with 12 yung men and held a parcel post sale in the | park Saturday evening. Miss Pearl Oliver who several days . ago was operated on at Frantz Hos- | nital for throat trouble, has been ta- xen to her home. . H. L. Meese, formerly of this place put now of Baltimore, was greeting friends here recently. } Mrs. Charles Watson of Connells- is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Alvan Burnworth. : : Mrs. W, E: Dull has returned from , a severa. days’ visit with friends in Ohiopyle. Mrs. Orville Fike and daughter, Nina, who have been visiting friends in York, Harrisburg and Mechanices- burg for several days, are home. Miss Thereza Fike, a student at Irving College, Mechanicsburg, is here to spend the summer vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Or- ville fike. j Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Dixon of Con- nellsville have arrived here and will occupy the McClure residence dur- ing th summer. W. J Brumbaugh has returned to Jome in Harrisburg after a visit ' few days with M, and Mrs. Or- Fike. B. Coughenour of McKeesport way greeting friends in town recent- ly. 'v S. Bower is visiting friends in Pitsburg at present. Mrs. G. C. Baker and baby of Cum- | pberland, who have been visiting her mother, Mrs. J. C. Newcomer here, | have gone to Connellsville. a————————— MEYERSDALE AND VICINITY. ; Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Engle left re- | cently for a trip to Michigan and | some other of the western states Mrs, Jerry Yost of near Grants- ville spent over Sunday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. WM, Saylor of near Meyersdale. Joseph Yoder intends to build ! one of the largest silog in this com- mynity. : Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Briskey | spent Sunday at the home of Jerry -Stevanus. Mrs. H. M. Schrock, Sada Schrock, and Velma Beals have gone to Wina- | ona Lake to attend the annual meet- ‘ing. Some thieves stole E. M. Berkley's ;meat on Saturday night. S. M. Gnagey is having his house repainted, Freeman Fike doing the work. AN ADEQUATE REASON | The moon was casting flickering ghadows over a pair of lovers as they sat side by side in Battery Park. glancéd out across the water and the statue of Liberty in the gloom. o1 wonder why they have its Hght #0 small?” he broke in on the bliss- ful silence. sperhaps,” afiswered she in a scorn- fal tone, as she coquettishly tried to sip from his arm, “the smaller the fight the greater the liberty.” EVENING MATTERS | 36 m—+*Oh, Jacob, littte A Galley o’ Fun! THE DIFFERENCE, He loved his fellow-men with a deep, abiding,” self-sacrificing affection, and wore off his excess adiposity, ruined his eyesight, and at last caused him- self to be inserted into an untimely grave, by digging deeply into the whys and wherefores of life, seeking ways and means whereby he might make those around him better and happier; bis-name, laughed merrily at his quaint, absent-minded eccentricities, and rudely opined that his intellectual belfry was infected with bats almost as large as condors, the while they re- spectfully designated as !‘Professor” a low-browed, wedged shaped man who made a business of smiling indifferent- iy while a 50-pound rock was smashed on his constitution with a sledge-ham- mer. Thus runneth the average mind, my children. NOT AN EXTREMIST. “Dis hyah new minister ought ter be popular. He seems ter hab lib'ral views on the chicking queschun.” “He do, eh?” “Yes. He says he’s knowed some purty good men what done lubbed dere nejghbor’s’ chickings as dere own.” 3 » r—— eg FULLY OCCUPIED. You must wake and call me early, call me early, Lizzie dear; For tomorrow’ll be the busiest day of all this busy year. Of all my busy days, Lizzie—and, goodness knows circumstances have kept me going at a pretty larruping lively lick most ‘ of my life—the busiest up to date, For, I must: hustle, Lizzie, to keep my grin on straight. | Pve worked so blamed hard at it i other know I'll never wake Unless you call me loudly when the day begins to break. They are coming on the mOrrow— Niece Luella, who eloped, last weelt with a chap who has never done anything more meritorioys than to dance divinely—and a giddy, glade some bunch; I must greet them with the placid smile of Grimalkin @fter lunch. Luella writes real sweetly; to forgive she’s now inclined All my opposition—I didn’t know my mind! She’ll arrive here in the morning and the fellow she married actually puts dp his blond front hair in curl papers!—of tomorrows’ fateful day, And bring the bridegroom with her for a nice, long, joyous day. ’ 80 be sure to wake me early; wake . me early, Lizzie dear. ‘Break up my matin slumbers though you drag me by the ear. For our kinfolks and relations—in- cluding Cousin Ezra Differdaffer who scoffs at my views on the Ini- tiative and Referendum, and his wife who is interested in psychic mat- ters, and their children, all of whom have elocutionary talemt—have an- nounced that they will come To help me greet the happy pair and bid them welcome home. And the Glee Club’s coming over, with the poet of our town, To entértain the prodigals and do the thing up brown. Tomorrow I must wear a smile—in spite of all I have hereinbefore set forth, together with the fact that I have a note coming due and a touch of the rheumatism already here— the whole enduring day, And begm like a gosh-darned Perl, al like a Queen o’ the May} air AS TO THE ANCIENT MARINER. “Queer old salt, isn’t he?” “How 1” vy, he never says ‘shiver my i o that—gwedls and everybody called him Old What’s-| Put KEYSTONE PARAGRAPHS Believed to have been murdered, and with a jagged cut extending across his throat immediately be- neath his chin and the lower section of his body badly mutilated, the re- mains of Chong Wai, aged forty-two, a tea merchant of Pittsburgh, was found in a deep ditch surrounding the new Pittsburgh and Lake Erie rail road freight station in Carson street, Pittsburgh. Two, thousand employees of the Standard Tinplate company at Can- onsburg are on strike. The men em- ployed by the company a few weeks in operation imaugurated the strike. It is said the men have been getting paid every three weeks and the new men objected, demanding 2a pay every two weeks. ! When John Lasut of Manifold was initiated into the mysteries of the Or- by the degree tggm was to spank Lasut’ with barrel staves, between which a dynamite cap had been placed. Lasut was badly injured when the explosion occurred. He filed a suit for damages and the jury award- ed him $100. In their haste to answer an alarm when fire broke out at the residence of Jerdy Brady at Dunbar, Pa., mem- bers of the Furnace fire company for- got their fire-fighting apparatus and arrived without even a bucket. John Dorley, a stable bess, and his as- gistant, Kerr McManus, came to the rescue with a bucket and the fire was extinguished. 5) Mrs. Marian E. Wilson of Latrobe celebrated her ninety-eighth birthday at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. W. S. Wilson. Mrs. Wilson was i born in Ligonier valley, and was a | daughter of the late J. H. Andrews. Shortly after her marriage she moved : to Pittsburgh, living in the East End ‘ more than seventy-five years. i i Radicals among Monongahela valley miners oppose returning te work ac- ‘ cording to instructions of intermation- j al officers so much that they have under contemplation the formation of gn entirely mew organization. They propose in the extreme. to break away from the present head, the United Mine Workers of America. James F. Dillon, who with Thomas H. Talbot is alleged to have robbed the First National bank of Houston, Washington county, Pa., April 6, and carried away nearly $17,000, has been arrested at Montreal, Canada, by the | ' ! operatives of the Pinkerton National Detective agency. ental a logs of $6,000, and fifty wellings were threatened by fire in Arden,.g small mining town near Washingt The blaze was caused by an. gyverheated coal stove. To check the blaze one dwelling was dynamited. i Sam Lisovich, aged twenty-six, a track laborer employed by the Penn- sylvania Railroad company, was 4n- stantly killed when he grasped an electric light wire in the Radebaugh tunnel near Greensburg. His body was tiyrled into a ditch at the side of the tracks. The fund that is being collected in Pittsburgh under the auspices of the German-American Natipnal Alliance for the benefit of the war sufferers in Germany and Austria-Hungary now amounts to $103,472.37. Washington has selected an official flower. The campaign was started a year ago. The aster has been chosen, and it will predominate in all decora tions. Datlias were second choice and peonies third. Twenty first aid teams from Indiana and surrounding counties will take part in the first aid demonstration to be held in comnection with the town’s centennial celebration Friday, June 23. Friends of Nelson Peters of Green- tree, who is missing, are searching for him. His wife is very ill from a nervous breakdown, due to his disap pearance. Mr. Pefers is a miner. Porch climbers forced an entrance to a second story window from the rear poreh of the home of J. W. Stew- art, Braddock, and stole $50 from a handbag of Mrs. Stewart. Mrs. Ameda Burton, twenty-one, of East Bridgeville, was struck and in stantly killed by a passenger train on the Washington branch of the Pan: handle railroad, near Bridgeville. Michael Banko of Braddock fel] sixty feet from the top of a furnace and was killed at the Edgar Thomson Steel works, Braddock. He was twenty-eight years old. Protestant organizations of western Pennsylvania arg planning a gigantic parade in Pittsburgh for Saturday aft ernoon of this week. Struck and carried fifty feet on the fender of a street car, Vargo Bavio, aged five, of Braddock, was found un- injured. The First Presbyterian church of Washington is celebrating its one- hundredth anniversary this week. high scho bas been cor new ago when twelve new hot mills were . der of Owls one of the stunts put on Ten frame houses were destroys, | HUGHES AND FAIRBANKS NAMED (Continued from 1st. Page) yielded to Massachusetts a.'d . = ator Lodge took the platform to pxesenl John W. Weeks. In two mirutes the Wo-"3' 2 “aon stration subsided, the gave! { ‘ll, the roll call was resumed and Delaware being reached, Representative T. W. Miller took the platform to nominate T. Coleman Dupont. Colonel W. J. Calhcun of Illinois placed Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman in nomination. After twenty-four minutes of shout ing for Sherman order waa restored and Congressman Wood of Indiana presented the same of C. W. Fair banks. The Fairbanks’ demonstration lasted thirty-two minutes. ‘While the floor still was in con- fusion Chairman Harding ordered” the roll call to go on and Former Repre- sentative M. E. Kendall téok the plat- form to nominate Senator A. B. Cum- mins. Senator Fall Nominates Roosevelt. When Senator A. B. Fall of New Mexico arose to present the name of Theodore Roosevelt excitement was on tap. When the senator declared that along the border “they were looking for one American ahd one only,” a storm of hisses and groans swept over the convention. ‘“That’s pretty strong, Senator,” one delegate yelled. Finally Chairman Harding sternly reminded the conven: tion that it was a shameful thing for a Republican speaker to be hissed by Republicans in a Republican con: vention and threatened to clear the galleries if they couldn't show more politeness. Quiet came and Senator Fall was able to finish. The instant Roosevelt's name was flung out the fun started. Mrs. S. K. Davis, the good looking young woman who touched off the forty-nine minute demonstration four years ago, suddenly appeared in the topmost west gallery with a red pen- nant pinned to her right shoulder. She wore a suit of black and white checks and a broad brimmed sailor hat. She appealed to the delegates to rise for Roosevelt. She begged and pleaded, flashed her most alluring smiles. No use, the delegates sat cold and as damp as the roof. Their hides were too tough to pierce. Delegates, it is true, were on their feet and wildly cheering, but they seemed to be a small company. It was the galleries| that made the noise. 1 The Roosevelt demonstration ended. H. B. Olbrick was recognized to nom- inate La Follette. There was no| demonstration. ‘The roll call went on and for Penn sylvahia. Emerson Collins presented tHe name of Governor Brumbaugh, the; 1 last: presented. "DREAM LOCATES WEALTH John Beliman's Fortune Found In Hay- mow at Lancaster. When John Bellman, a farmer of near Brickerville, Pa., died six months ago, only a very little money was found, though the widow knew he had considerable. In April Wil liam Heil took possession of the farm and he, too, made many fruitless searches for Bellmau’s money. Tues. day night he dreamed that Bellman came to his bedside and told him the money was buried in the haymow. He and his wife searched in that place and found a box deeply hidden in the+hay, and upon opening it found thousands of dollars in five, ten and twenty-dollar gold pieces. Mrs. Bellman was notified and took ession of the wealth. Those in- terested will not tell the amount, but reports have it from five to fifteen thousand dollars. MERCHANT SUICIDES Charleston Man Despondent Over Fail- ure to Collect Bills. James A. Rush, aged fifty, merchant of Charleston, W. Va., committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. His body was found near his home. For several days he had acted strangely, due to worry over his failure to collect large grocery bills, it is said. 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Noah Keefer, aged 77 years, died at his home in Somerset. at an early hour Thursday morning after being afflicted for several months with pa- ralysis. Mr. Keefer was a veteran of the Civil War, having served in Com- pany H, 171st Regiment, Pennsylva- nia Volunteers. He was born in Sto- nycreek Township and was a son of the late Peter Keefer. He removed lo Somerset in 1900, residing since that time. : Mr. Keefer was marred twice, He is survived by his second. wife, who wag Jennie Moser, and by the follow- ing children to his first wife, who was Mary Kann: Ida, wife of J. S. Mos- holder; Jennie, wife of J, J, Swauger, and Walter Keefer of Johnstown, and George H. Keefer, of Shanksville. Funeral services were conducted at the Keefer residence at 10 o'clock Saturday morning by the Rev. G. A, Collins, pastor of the United Evan- gelical Church. Interment at Shanks- ville at 1 o,clock in the afternoon in charge of the R.. .P. Cumming’ Post, No. 210, G. A, R, and James S: Hinch- man Camp, No. 122, of Veterans. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S NEARBY COUNTIES. The Fort Bedford Inn was opened for the season on June 8, under the seventy-five five rooms, cost $100,000 and is located on the site of the old Corle House, opposite the Catholic church in Bedford. J. R. Fulton of Everett has four teen young pheasants which were hatched under a chicken hen. He re- ceived fifteen eggs from the State Game Commission, all but one of which hatched. The young pheasants will be released in thea woods whea about half grown. One of the latest achievements of the Johnstown branch of the State Employment Bureau was to find a job for a one-legged man, who is a first. class boiler fireman. This man is the only cripple that has so far beea placed by the Johnstown employment bureau. 3 : Nearly all of the coal and coke cor porations in Fayette County, have joined in a petition to the Court te direct dismissal of all booze agents in that county. 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