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FINDING THE FLAWS
It has required very brief scrutiny
to discover the manifold flaws in the
revenue bill which the Democrats of
the lower branch of Congress insisted
in passing in such a hurry.
The provisions regarding the pro-
posed federal inheritance tax contain
a clause which fixes the taxable per-
jod for four years after any decedent
has given away any material portion
of his property without consideration.
Under this provision no real es
tate transfer can stand valid unless,
the full money value was written into
the deed and paid over for no one
could tell whether the grantor would
live four years or not. Moreover, it is
doubtful if a Christmas gift of real es-
tate more other valuable property
could escape taxation if the giver
should chance to die within four years
after making the gift.
Doubtiess many other flaws will be
discovered before the bill has run the
gauntlet of the Senate’s examination.
i * % %¥ % %
Among the noted Bull Moose cof
the country that is, the few who are
reluctant to follow their leader into
the Republican party are, of course,
some who were once Democrats and
some who were once Republicans. The
motives of these latter for not wish-
ing to come back home may not be
readily analyzed in all cases. But no
" such difficulty exists out in Indiana,
where Edwin Lee, the Progressive
State Chairman, is making. the air
vocal with his bellowings of defiance.
‘Mr. Lee it is asserted in his home
State, was in receipt of $300 a month
salary from the party treasury, which
was replenished by generous friends
from outside the State. Naturally, he
is averse to losing such easy money.
A Democratic contemporary re-
marks that this prosperity holds on
pretty well for a “temporary pros-
perity.” True, and so does the war
hold on pretty well. We expect the
prosperity to continue as long as the
war and not much longer unless we
get some sound economic legisla-
tion on the Federal statute books be-
fore the war closes.
President Wilson thinks it unwise
for the American people to swap
‘horses while crossing a stream. But
we don’t know whether we are cros-
sing or not. You can’t cross any sort
of a stream on a horse that continu-
ally change his mind and geis in an
opposite direction without any warn-
ing whatever.
A prominent citizen of Maine was
a recent guest of one ofthe Republi-
can congressmen from that state. In
speaking of the outlook there he said
“If I can judge anything from the
way people are talking, the Demo-
crats are due for an awful jolting
down in Maine in September. Prac-
tically all of the Progressives are
back in the fold. There are not e-
nough left for a coroner's jury. With
a united party I look for a clean
sweep from one end of the state to an-
other. I feel confident that all four of
the congressional districts will be a-
gain Republican. The second district
now represented by Congresman Mc-
Gillicuddy will return a Republican.
We shall elect both United States
senators. That’s the way people talk
in Maine.”
8 DOZ. BEST JAR RINGS FOR 25
CENTS AT BITTNER’S GROCERY.
sais bliis pruitec
SAIN
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. |
items of Interest Culled from Our
Exchanges.
The Somerset-Berlin road was!’
full of autos and other vehicles last
week, showing how popular it will ve’
when the pike to pike connecting
link between Jennertown ad Grants-
ville is an accomplished fact.
Lightning struck the barn of R. C.
Heifley of Berlin a few evenings ago,
and knocked over Mrs, Heffley and a
cow she was milking. A daughter of
the family and Mrs. Jacob Yutzy, a
neighbor were stunned at the same
time.
The realty of the assigned estate of |
A. C. Floto was put up at public sale
Aug. 5. The residence was knocked
down to W. P. Floto of Johnstown fur
$5900, and a small lot in Stonycreek
township was bought by J. M. Cook of
Meyersdale for $21. The store proper-
ty and the creamery were withdrawa.
The Pine Hill Fuel Coal company of
Meyersdale was chartered at Harris-
burg recently, with a capitalization of
$15,000. The incorporators are Jacob
B. Schrock, of Berlin; Wilson J. Gumn-
bert, Pine Hill; Clarence Moore, W.
| H. Stotler and Robert Philson, of Mey-
| ersdale. The new concern will mine
the coal under the John M. Gumbert
estate which they have leased and will
work on a royalty. This is said to be a
valuable tract of coal land.
A section of Somerset county is to
profit by the plan of Cambria and
Clearfield county coal operators of
establishing safety stations in this
part of the state, it being announced
that the Victor and Grazier plants,
both in the vicinity of Holsopple, will
be included in the territory to be “cov-
ered” by the emergency branch at
Portage. It is not known whether the
Somerset mines will be included.
The Somerset Board of Trade has
decided to celebrate “Farmers’ Day”
postponed thige weeks ago on account
of rain, on Tuesday, September .5th
at Edgewood Grove. All arrangements
for the event have been completed
with the exception of securing a speak- |
er and this will be attended to in am-
ple time. On the day selected for the
celebration, the farmers will have |
nearly finished gathering the season’s
harvest and will, it is believed, be |
ready to take a day off. There will be a
big parade, lots of music, dancing
and amusements of various! | kinds.
Every Somerset County farmer is in-
vited to be present along with his
wife and children.
One of the most successful sales
conducted in Somerset in a long time
was brought to a close a few days a-
go by James M. Cover, receiver of
the bankrupt firm of Baughman &
Ludwick. The stock of goods was ap-
praised at slightly over $5,100. The
best offer received for the stock as a
whole was $2,800. Mr. Cover decided
to retail the goods, and with the aid
of judicious advertising, realized |
$5,400 for the creditors. Mr. Cover |
flatters himself that he did not have |
a single dissatisfied customer during |
the sale which continued just one |
month, |
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Brethren Church: H. L. Goughnour,
pastor. Church services on July 20 af
Summit Mille in the morning, Salis- |
(bury in the afternoon and Meyersdale |
Lin the evening. Preaching by the pas- |
| tor. Sunday school at Salisbury at 1:
{20 P. M. and in the other churches at |
{ the usual hour. All are cordially in-
| vited.
| “
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Bible School in Christian Church,
| Lord’s day, Aug. 20 at 10 o'clock. |
Preaching services at 11 o'clock by |
Pastor, D. P. Morris.
|
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|1 FULL ™. JAR COCOA FOR 25
| CENTS AT BITTNER’S GROCERY.
! sides,
{| This will make two loaves of bread.
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Old Southern
Recipes
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Premium Bread—Sift three quarts
~ best white flour inte a pan; take oul
»ree tablespeonfuls of flour and scald
. with boiling water. Cool this paste
;:th three tablespoonfuls of new mi'k
:1d a little cold water; then add one
.. 2, one tablespoonful of sugar and
ie of salt.
Make an opening in the center of
‘> pan of flour, pour in the above
i ixture, with a cupful of wel risen
Lome made yeast, or its equivalent,
1.2 yeast cake dissolved in one cup
- a ey
oi lukewarm water. Add enough wale
tu form a moderately stiff dough and
icad it well. The water should be
1. :awarm in cold weather and cold 13
} ot weather. Put bread to rise in a
11 pail with close fitting top. Other:
wise a hard crust will form.
Thiee tests: a
It should rise to twice its size.
it should feel like a looscly filled
‘ton cughion. x ’
1t should shake throughout when
~ddenly touched on one side.
Mold the loaves or rolls; let them
se as before, with the three tests.
"et ‘them over with cold water ana
ke immediately if the loaves are to
ty sweet. Delay will spoil it. Bake
siowly and, to sce if it is done, strike
«ith the hand. It is done if the sound
hollew or clear; if dull or heavy,
“~turn at once to the oven. When done.
it should have a light brown crust.
Bran Bread—One pint bran, one pint
Irdian meal, one pint wheat flour
viddlings. Make as premium bread No.
2. Bake thoroughly. Add a thimbleful
ot soda to the dough. 3
Light Bread—Soak one yeast cake
11 one half pint of lukewarm water un-
il dissolved. :
Three quarts sifted flour, two table
spoons Sugar.
One half tablespoon of salt, twe
large tablespoons of lard.
IIix the dissolved yeast into the
flour, then work in the other ingre-
dients into a dough with warm water.
Nake dough soft enough to handle,
lard the .top let rise over night, or
from seven to eight hours. Work again
one half hour. mold into loaf or into
rolls or bread sticks. grease top and
let rise about one half hour
Cottage Bread—One quart sifted
flour, one tablespoon butter, one egg.
One tablespoon sugar, one cup well-
~isen home-made yeast, or its equiva-
lent, one yeast cake dissolved in one
cup of lukewarm water, a little salt.
Make the flour into a rather stiff
dough with the above ingredients.
Make the dough into three cakes, roil
them, ahd set to rise. When light, bake
in a quick oven.
Hominy Bread—Hominy, 2 cupfuls, 1
teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoonful but-
ter, 4 eggs, 1 pint corn meal, 1 pint
milk.
Béat eggs, add milk, stir corn meal
:n gently, then melted butter and salt.
tdd the boiled hominy and beat hard.
Dake one half hour in hot oven.
ce Bread—1 cupful boiled rice, 2
| cupfuls milk, 2 eggs.
2 1-2 cupfuls of flour, 1 tablespoon-
ful lard.
1 ‘teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons (level)
veast or baking powder.
Deat eggs, add milk and flour alter-
nately and melted lard afid salt. Beat
rice thoroughly and then yeast or ba-
| ing powder. Bake in quick oven.
Brown Bread—One quart tepid water
two quarts graham flour, 1-4 yeast
cake, one half cupful dark molasses,
one teaspoonful soda.
Mix all together with a spoon; let
rise over night. Stir down in the morn-
ing, put into a greased pan and let
rise again. Bake in a slow oven one
hour. Do not knead.
MOY GWONG COMING
A converted and spirit filled China-
man, Moy Gwong, will speak at the
Church of the Brethren on ¥riday
evening at 7:45. gA are cordially
urged to to come to hear him.
AHA! NEW BREED OF HENS
TO LAY TWO EGGS A DAY
Ahead and Propagate the Species
Leesville, Ohio—Can it be consider-
possibilities that we are to have a
breed of hens that can be depended
upon to lay two eggs a day? That
there are hens with a two apartment
egg factory within their abnormal in-
tariors would appear to be an indisput-
able fact from discoveries already
made, and which will here be described
for the benefit of the progressive scien-
tific breeder and all others interested.
Two months ago when Mr. and Mrs.
John T. Timmons, the former being
known as the blind author and natural-
jst, decided to move from Cadiz, Ohiu,
to Leesville, they decided to sell sll
their poultry except four hens whjch
they decided to keep to supply the ta-
ble immediately previous to their mov-
ing, and all the hens were disposed of
but four. The next morning one of
these was killed, and the following day
when there were but three hens left
in a coop which was closed on account
of cold weather, four eggs were found
in the nest. i
This was looked upon 8 strange,
and close watch was kept by Mr. and
Mrs. Timmons, and on three more oc
casions prior to their moving away
from Cadiz one of the remaining hens
laid two eggs in one day, and once
she had laid two eggs within a few
minutes of each other. On the follow-
ing day she laid one egg.
The hen was taken to the new home
fr. Leesville, where she has on two oc-
casions repeated the performance of
depositing two normally sized eggs,
. very much alike in shape and weight,
in the nest within a few minutes. This
ben is a cross between Rhode Island
Red mother and Barred Rock rooster.
Other chickens were hatched at the
same time this hen was brought inio
‘he world, and Mrs. Timmons in dress-
ing one of the other hens discovered
that the fowl had two distinct, well
formed lay pokes, with eggs in each,
and this caused them to think that
had the fact been known and the hen
watched she, too, might have laid two
eggs in a day.
It is thought by a number of per-
sons interested in the matter that a
breed of fowls might be created that
would lay two eggs a day regularly.
One very noticeable feature in con-
nection with the foregoing is the fact
ihe two-a-day hen does not lay as long
&s other hens before she wants to set,
but she deposits about the average
number of eggs ina layer hefore the
brooding notion strikes her.
CRIMINALS CLASSIFIED
"Every Thief Has Certain Earmarks in
Way of Working, Says Califor.
$d nia Chief
Berkley, Cal.—Studies of criminal
icethods made by the detectives of the
J..cal police department have resulted
fi7a 1, stematizing of findings that will
permit an innovation in police work.
Curds that are exchaged with other
davpartments containing data regard-
ing arrested men will not only give
{heir Boitillon measurements and fin-
ver prints but will contain an accurate
(cceription of their methods of opera-
tion. .
Every criminal has his own way of
working, Chief Vollmer has found. In
tnis mode he makes but little variation
fiom crime to crime. If he is accus-
tomed to procuring entrance to a
house by jimmying windows he will
hardly ever be found to break into
places in any other manner. The sec-
ond story worker is a second story
tiiief seldom is anything more accom-
plished than a sneak thief.
Information of the modus operandi
is almost of as much value as data re-
garding a man’s height or weight or
copies of his finger tip lines, declares
Chief Vollmer. For some time he has
been suggesting the advisability of po-
lice departments exchangipg informa-
tion of the sort and has now decided
+o promulgate the system by setting an
example himself.
Major L. W. Atcherly, an English
criminologist of attainment has stud-
siderable length. He has been able to
formulate regular classifications of
criminals merely on the line of their
known crimes. He finds some. varia-
tions, but these are almost always of
minor importance.
Berkley - has had one criminal who
showed distinctly the trait of commit-
ting his erimes always in the same
way. This was the barefoot burglar,
who has been captured, but who has
returned to Berkley time after time
in successive years. He has always
taken off his shoes before entering a
dwelling and has never been known
to commit a burglary except in that
fashion.
At various times when a number of
crimes wer~ committed in succession
ir. this city the detectives were able
to find one or more special features
that characterized each of the series,
«hus demonstrating that all were cow
mitted by one man.
“Maj. Atcherly’s observations,” said
Chief Vollmer, “indicate that crimin-
als generally work at one specific kind
of crime and commit their burglaries
or other misdemeanors in the same
manner always. The knowledge of the
way a criminal works is invaluable to
a police department. Departments
throughout the country already ex-
change finger prints and measure-
ments, and if these records were ex-
panded to show the method of any
particular habitual crime, it would
simplify the capture of such men
whenever they appear in a city. We
shall send out from w on details of
this som al crimes.”
regarding
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worker for good and all. The sneak- |
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MEYERSDALE, PENNA.
FRED FLOYD
NOTICE IN DIVORCE.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON
PLEAS OF SOMERSET COUN-
TY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Subpoena and Alias Subpoena in Di-
vorce.
NO. 13, FEB. TERM, 1916.
MARY C. WHITE
VS.
CHARLES W. WHITE
To CHARLES W. WHITE,
Respondent above named:—
? You are hereby noti-
fied to be and appear at a Court of
Common Pleas to be held at Somer- |
set, Pa. on Monday September 11,
1916 to answer the libel Subpoena and
alias Subpoena in Divorce in the
above statedcase, and to show cause
if any you have, why a decree of di-
vorce should not be made against you.
Sheriff's Office L. G. WAGNER,
July 17, 1916 Sheriff.
NOTICE IN DIVORCE.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON
PLEAS OF SOMERSET COUN-
TY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Subpoena and Alias Subpoena in Di
vorce.
ZELLA WALKER
V8.
fied to be and appear at a Court of
Common Pleas to be held at Somer-
set, Pa., on Monday September 11,
1916 to answer the libe! Subpoena and
alias Subpoena In Divorce in the
above statedcase, and to show cause
if any you have, why 'a decree of di-
vorce should not be made against you.
Sheriff's Office L. G. WAGNE..
July 17, 1916 Sheriff.
NOTICE IN DIVORCE.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON
PLEAS OF SOMERSET COUN-
TY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Subpoena and Alias Subpoena In Di-
vorce.
NO. 14, FEB. TERM, 1916
EMMA STUTZMAN KANN
V8.
CHARLES KANN
To Charlies Kann, respondent above
named.
You are hereby notl-
fled to be and appear at a Court of
Common Pleas to be held at Somer
set, Pa., on Monday September 11,
1916 to answer the libel Subpoena and
alias Subpoena In Divorce in the
above statedcase, and to show cause
if any you have, why a decree of di-
vorce should not be made against you.
Sheriff's Office L. G. WAGNER,
July 17, 1916 Sheriff.
NOTICE IN DIVORCE.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON
PLEAS OF SOMERSET COUN-
TY, PENNSYLVANIA,
Subpoena and Alias Subpoena In DI-
vorce.
NO. 372, SEPT. TERM, 1916
LAVINA MEYERS
VS.
LESTER H. MEYERS
To LESTER H. MEYERS, respondent
above named. ?
You are hereby noti-
fied to be and appear at a Court of |
Common Pleas to be held at Somer
set, Pa., on Monday September 11,
NO. 123. Dec. TERM, 1916 !
JAMES T. WALKER |
To JAMES T. WALKER, respondent:
above named. :
You are hereby noti- |
1916 to answer the libel Subpoena and’
alias Subpoena in Divorce in the:
above statedcase, and to show cause
if any you have, why a decree of di-
vorge should not be made against you.
Sheriff’s Office L.. G. WAGNER,
July 17, 1916 Sheriff.
NOTICE IN DIVORCE.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON
PLEAS OF SOMERSET COUN-
TY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Subpoena and Alias Subpoena in Di-
vorce.
|NO. 50, FEB. TERM, 1916.
LIZZIE ALBRIGHT MOSHOLDER
VS.
Wm. H. MOSHOLDER
To Wm. H. Mosholder, respondent a-
bove named.
: You are hereby noti-
fied to be and appear at a Court of
Common Pleas to be held at Somer-
set, Pa., on Monday September 11,
1916 to answer the libel Subpoena and
alias Subpoena In Divorce in the
above statedcase, and to show cause
if any you have, why a decree of d'-
vorce should not be made against you.
Sheriff’s Office L. G. WAGNER.
July 17,1916 " ~.. Sherift..
\ Brief Sentences Featuring the
Speech of Acceptence of
Charles E. Hughes.
{America First and America Efficlent.
We are too great a country to re-
quire of our citizens who are engaged
in peaceful vocations the sort of miii-
tary servige to which they are now
called.
i
We cherigh no iHusions. We know
that the recurrence of war is not to be
prevented by pious wishes.
We denounce all plots and conspira-
cies in the interest of any foreign na-
tion.
eet
Adequate preparedness is not mili-
tarism.
During this critical period the only
danger of war has lain in. the weak
course of the administration.
The nation has no policy of agoree-
sion toward Mexico. We have no ce-
sire for any part of her territory.
We propose that in the competilive
struggie that is about to coise the
American workingman sl:alt not sufier.
This representative gathering is a
happy augury. [It means the strength
of reunion. It means that the party of
Lincoln ls restored, alert, effective.
The dealings of the administration
with Mexico constitute a confueed
chapter of blunders. HK is a record
which cannot be examined without a:
profound sense of humiliation,
We must take Vera Cruz to get Huer-
ta out of office and trust to other na-
tions to get our own citizens out of
peril. What a travesty of international
policyl
Destroying the government of Huerta,
we left Mexico to the ravages of revo-
lution.
| stand for adequate federal work-
men’s compensation lawe.
The administration was to seize and
punish Villa for his outrage on our ecil.
It has not punished any one; we went
in only to retire.
} favor the vote for women.
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