The Meyersdale commercial. (Meyersdale, Pa.) 1878-19??, August 03, 1916, Image 1

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.TEN YEAR OLD BOY DROWNES.
“We have a big cir-
“culation and an “ad”
‘here is read by- thou-
sands of peas.
MEYERSDALE FAIR
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Tobe Held September 19-22. Management Making Preparations 1, '
To Surpass Other Years in Many Respects. Good
“Races. State Agricultural and Road
F Exhibits. Arab Acrobats.
te Fair the Race. Association for
distribution in a day or two.
the promise of a great fair
ember 23, piel The ee
ant is sparing no effort and ex
latest methods . on road construction
wilt be shown.
: The. Races
Owing to the fact that the Meyers
‘dale . Fair and Race Association be-
longs to two big tireuitd, entitles it
an abundance of the best of horses to
he had anywhere. Bach of the
nt at the fair in which the:
titrness- races daily with four of them
his ‘home in. Ak
‘on July 28, le
on Thursday. will have. the ‘full com-
’ pleibent of high clase steppers.
“There ‘will be a running. race’ goon,
aay also.
: Price of Admission. :
too feeb
= The rh little sister ob. Suara Bother dled about two month
ihe Fox family became in, Prom July! and the definite dagnosts of her
. 22 to July 28 thé child’s case was pus- case was given by Dr. Large, whe
oq Zig, but on the latter date, which visited the Groff honte for the pur.
“Friday, County Medical Inspect- joe All indications thus far are that
- C. P) Large of Moyersdale happen- 'the girl, too has a well-defined case
to be in Confluence and was sum- of paralysis. The Groff home has ‘been
| moned in consultation by Dr. Carl’ ! placed under a modified quarantine |
ntz. the Groff family physician. A and other steps taken to insure the
rery short time before Dr. Large af. confinement of the visitation to the
| rived unmistakable symptoms ‘of par, “place of origin. He
Lia ate wi 7 Past sen de
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HORSE RUNS AWAY
Blair Odham, the 10-year-old son! Sidney Risler and Miss Dawson,
of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Oldham, of {while out driving with horse and
lago. Mrs. Blough is survived by her
. husband and one brother, Charles W.
Rogers of Johnstown. Three half-sis.
ters; Mrs. J. A. Heiner, Mrs. Charles
Slick and Mrs. Thomas Clements, re-
side in Johnstown, as does a half-
brother, Frank Megrew. Mrs. Blough
was a life-long adherent of the Chris
tian faith, being a member of the
Christian church.
: ALEXANDER FACENBAKER
Alexander Facenbaker.died. at his
' home in’ Boynton, Tuesday | afternoon
jof last week after an illness of about
six months. About two weeks previous
Mr. Facenbaker returned home from
CT I TD ry
Many tell us “they
are deizhied ith our
job printing. =
Bring us your work
TEACHERS
Something new in the way of the
annual Somerset County teachers’ iu-
stitute will be the holding of it at
| Edgewood Grove, near Somerset tbe
week beginning Aug. 28, instead of
later in the year.
0 Superintendent D. W, Seibert is
a prompted to make the experiment of
outdoor session of Teachers’ Institute
by several influences, first of which is
that he has ‘concluded that the sess-
3 fons. of institute should be held just
: preceding "the beginning of the ' re-
| gular school term, in order that teach-
ers and pupils may not be interferred
Jith by 8 break of a week In the re-
the ‘attendance on the part of
public at the annual sess-
year to yeat that there is not an audi-
torium of sufficient capacity in the
county to accommodate the crowds.
~The program has not yet been com-
: pleted. It had been expected that Ex-
rso-| President William H. Taft would
8 lecture but that has had to be canceil
INSTITUTE,
leone of" Tnstitute bas so increased]!
STREET COM-
MITTEE BUSY
Council Orders Salisbury Street
Oiled. Wish ‘Pennsylvania St-
Vacated. Refund Chautauqua
Fine.
Meyersdale Borough Couneil met
in regular session on Tuesday even
ing, August 1st. with following memni~
bers present—Messrs. Dia, Staub,
Saylor, Darnley, Shipley, Bmeigh any
Deeter.
Dr. H. C, McKinley, appeared be
fore council’ ‘ and asked that
property . owners be given relief
from the dust of Salisbury street:
Mr. Cavenaugh nade request that .
council place tile. at the extension
meet the. Tolowiad dev at 5130's
vestigate the matter. Ha
Burgess Gress ropdfed 45 collect:
ed im. fines for the month of 3 :
days’ work had been Bate
state road, and also. re
| sewer at the Norman oftad sist
was too small to carry the water
reported that some work hi
done on the Sand Patch road:
The street committee was ingtracs i
ted to consult the county commission.
ers relative to the old bridge on the
trolley gline. over Flaugherty creek.
This bridge had been eondefimed and
needs some atténtion.
On motion of Shipley, seconded: by
{Bmeigh, - council decided with the
ident and street committee to
f ‘up plans for putting shale amd
on Salisbury street; also it was
led upon scraping the. dust from :
same street and to oil street, pre-
ably another part of the ‘street.
{| Bids are tobe published fox hg con
remarkably well, This good lady
smiles continually behind her mo! their auto near the Peter
tains of flesh, appears to have no: Hay farm Wednesday. Mrs. Heinbaugh
more cares than the trees that ‘wave | was thrown out and suffered a com-
besides the rippling brook. She trav- cussion of the brain. She was brought
eels in a special baggage car from ‘to the home of Dr, E. F. Hemminger
‘town to town with the C. Mm Nigro | of Meyersdale and later taken horace
‘Carnival Co, now exhibiting here. ‘in the train. The auto was not much
for the benefit of the Fire. Depart. (damaged. It was taken charge by the
ment of this place. Meyersdale Auto Co.
Jolly Dolly is taken for her daily Er a
, exercise in a close motor truck and [BILLIE BURKE COMING
' seems to enjoy ‘hearing the grumbling : TO MEYERSDALE.
engine straining at her 897 bs, of | On Thursday, August 10th, George
avoirdupois . It: is hardly . possiblee Kleine will present to the motion pic-
that those who pass the tented arena |ture industry and patrons, ‘the re
wherein Dolly resides, to realize the |Downed star, Miss Billie Burke, in
imposing picture of ‘beautiful anq|her first motion picture novel—
‘met with an accident while
Johnstown, who have a number of buggy on Sunday evening about 7 , Markelton where he had gone in an | healthy womanhood beneath it. One |GLORIA’S ROMANCE. The produc
relatives in Somerset county, where | o'clock had a runaway. In going down effort to recover his health. From tne thing is certain—nobody would ever |tion will be presented in twenty fea-
they formerly lived, was drowned in| Meyers Avenue from the B. & O. sta. time of his’ return he gradually he. regret or miss the 5c. piece that is |ture chapters. A new, two-reel chap-
the Stonycreek river at
Monday while in swimming. then shoved against the horse caus-
About forty boys were sporting in [ing it to kick as it ran, The young
Johnstown on tion the breach band broke. The buggy | came weaker until the end come. De- asked over: the pay box.
ceased was married twice his second
wife being a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
ter will be released each week. The
Adv. \ story, corresponding to the pictures,
| will be presented through the leading
the water at the time and not one |lady at once jumped out, escaping un- | Christian Bowers, who with several ed mother and other members of the |newspapers of the country simulta-
noticed the boy’s disappearance and |injured, and Mr. Eisler stuck to bis! ‘children survive him. The funeral was | family. She is survived by theres |neously with the appeamance of the
his absence was only discovered |post until the carriage came against |
while the lads were dressing.
Whether he was seized with cramp
and went to the bottom heipiess, of
whether he suffered a stroke or at-
tack of heart trouble, are questions
which will never be known.
Blair Oldham ig survived by his
parents, a sister, and two brothers.
THE BOWMAN REUNION.
The Bauman—Bowman family re.
union will be held at Riverside Park
near Meyersdale on August 10. This
is the fourth family reunion and pin-
nic. A fine program has been arrang-
ed. Music and: sports with addresses
and business will enliven the day.
Rev. W A. Bauman of Windber is
the president.
BERLIN BAND TO BE HERE
On Friday evening about sixty autos
are expected here from Berlin tio
“boost” the Chautauqua to be held
there. The Berlin band which has won
a very deserved reputation wiil be
with them and will give a concert at
the band stamd Friday evening.
a telephone pole, when he too struek
solid landing. The smashup released
the horse frim the vehicle; breaking
off the shafts. The horse was caught
by Mr. Mankamyer at Flaughtery |
bridge.
ATTRACTIVE HOME ON
MEYERS AVE. FOR SALE.
House No. 109 Meyers Avenue, for-
merly the H. S. Glessner property,
for sale. A splendid bargain. inquire
at this office.
For Sele—=Two good second hong
indlan Motor Cycles. Also all kinds
of bicycle and auto supplies.
GURLEY'S Sporting Goode Store.
held Thursray afternoon from the fam-
ily home. Interment was made in
the 1. 0. O. F. cemetery.
MRS. NOAH LOHR.
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Lohr, of near Boswell, died Thursday
morning, Funeral services were held
at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at the
Mt. Zion Lutheran church. Mrs. Lohr
is survived by two children: R. W.
Lohr and Mrs. John Speicher, both of
Jenner township. There are fifteen
grandchildren and six great-grand-
children. She is also survived by oune
brother, Jesse Walter, of Stoyestown,
nnd one sister , Mrs. Belle w. Arthur
of Jenner township.
MRS. MARY BEGLEY"
Miss Mary Begley, aged 40 years,
died at an early hour Saturday morn-
ing at the home of her brotherin-
law and sister, Mr. and Mrs Charles
Stern, of near Husband, following a
ing came 28 a heavy blow to her ag-
| brothers: ex-Sheriff Wm. C. Begley, | Dictures.
Jas. C. Begley, the well-known school | Never before has a motion picture
nd Mrs. Milton Heinbaugh of |
i was 3
asked for an increase’ of salry to $65 °
por month. The same was not grant- :
ed. —R. L. Donges made request to
build new slaughter: house within
borough Nmits. The burgess said
there was objection to this building
going up within the borough as no
slaughter~house shall be built within
500 feet from any residence.
On motion of Darniev and second-
ed by Saylor it was decided te#rsfund
the $5 fine imposed upon the Chau-
tauqua for putting up signs on poles.
Motion was passed asking Capt.
Truxal who is away with his comp-
any in the South to send in his resig-
nation as borough solicitor.
The following bills were ordered
to be paid: Wm. Carter $21; J. O.
Weller, $23.35; George Ickes $10; Con
rad Saylor $3.50; Daniel Brown §$1.7%
Fred Hare $37.50; John Smith $27.50.
teacher and newspaper writer and
1 Robert C. Begley. For 20 years she
was a consistent member of the U-
ducted the funeral services held in
the. church on Sunday afternoon at
12 o'clock and ierment wsa made at
that place.
MISS ANNA MARGARET SMITH,
A well known milliner, died at the
home of her brother-in-law, John Au-
Mrs. Noah Lohr, aged 78 years, who nited Evangelical church of Husband. | continued novel. The story concerns
lived with her son, the Hon. R. W. Her pastor, Rev. D. E. Brickley con- 2 Wealthy society girl, Gloria Stad-' planning big things for their picnic ta
_Stin on North street and where her’
mother also lived, yesterday after-
noon from a prolonged iliness with
‘cancer. The deceased was a highly re-
spected and esteemed lady. She was
a consistent member of the Reform-
ed church. There survive besides the
mother, the following brothers: Bar-
ney, George, and Julius of Meyers-
dale; Urias of Morgan City; William
of Texas and Milton of Oklahoma.
pastor, Dr. A. B. Truxal,
sickness of several years. While her ; The funeral will be conducted to-mor-, and
death was not unexpected her pass- | row afternoon at two o'clock by her, ' close with Saturday night.
BIG P.0.5. OF A.
~ PICNIC AUG. 15
The P. O. 8.
manufacturer attempted such a co-
lossal effort. Never before has such a
celebrated star been presented im a|’
of A, of this place is
ord, It portrays her life from the age pe held on August 15} at Riverside
of sixteen. It is a play of society life. park. This is a patriotic organization
The serial is the highest priced seri- ang one that especially does honor to
al ever produced; you cannot really the American soldier.lt is quite fitting
say it is a serial but twenty big high therefore that they should ask to be
class features in forty reels with (their guests cn that oceasion the
Billie Burke Don’t fail to see the op-' members of the Grand Army of tue
ening episode at the Summer Garden Republic and all other veterans of
next Thursday night. ithe war. But the occasion is to be a
: ! general one and all are invited to be
CARNIVAL VERY SUCCESSFUL | present. :
The C. M. Nigro Carnival which Is :
showing this week in the interest of |
Meyersdale Fire Department is quite| 11 = LUTHERAN. REUNION
a success and the unanimous verdict! The Lutheran reonion will be held
is that everything is being conducted at Riverside Park on Ahgnst 17. Dr.
in a most ordefly manner and there Singmaster of Gettysburg Theologi-
is nothing objectionable which might ! cal Seminary will be present and will
offend anyone. Patronize the carnival. be the principal speaker. A number
help the firemen along. It will {of other prominent speakers are ex.
pected to be present. Refreshments
‘turned to Meyersdale he bought out will be served on the grounds.