ge er oe . TT jos SUMMIT TOWNSHIP Farmers are busy cutting their oats whicn seems to be a light crop this year. Miss Mary L. Gnagey who had been visiting her brother and other relati- ves for the past eight weeks at Water- loo, Iowa, returnad home Wednesday well pleased with her western trip. Yost Summy is building a buggy shed at present. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Kretchman and Prof. and Mrs. W. H. Kretchman are visiting in York and Lancaster coun- ties at present. Adam Johnson is sawing shingles for Eli C. Yoder. Mr. and Mrs. Jonas D. Yoder and family amd Miss Ada Hersberger spent Sunday at the home of H. E. Hershberger and family. The hum of the threshing machines is heard in our township again sheil- ing out the golden grain. Irwin Miller sold a valuable cow to J. R. Ebaugh last Friday. W. 8S. Weller one of our popular auctioneers spent last Wednesday at the county seat on legal business. G. 0. Handwerk spent Saturday evening in Meyersdale. D. C. Handwerk who had been working this summer for the West Penn Publishing Co. returned home last week for a few days rest ere school begins. S. M. Gnagey bought a cow from R. J. Engle. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kinsinger of near Berlin spent Sunday at the home of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Brown. McKINLEY HOME SOLD IN SOMERSET. Memories of a famed past are re- vived by the announcement at Somer- set Friday .evening that Mrs. Mabel McKinley Baer, daughter of the late Abner McKinley and niece of the late President William McKinley, had sold the McKinley homestead in that place to Dr. R. D. Colvin, the prosper ous denist, for $10,000. Mrs. Baer, wife of Hermarus Baer. has not resided in Somerset for some years, making her home in Mt. Ver- non, N.Y. and for three years the homestead there has been closed. The new owner will occupy the premises as soon as possible and once more the historic residence will resound to human coming and going. In the heyday of Abmer McKinley's career, when his brother was presi- dent, the McKinley place was the scene of happy gatherings and much liveliness, especially in the summer, “The house has 14 rooms and is one of the best in Somerset, located on Bast Main street. .e THE FLY AND EPIDEM:.C% Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by Samuel G. Dixon. Reams have been printed about the danger from the house fly. Despite all that has been said it is a self evident fact that people do not understand how real is the danger from these pests, If they did a single season would be sufficient to wipe out the dangerous nuisances. Let people once under- stand the part that the fly plays in the transmission of disease and they will look upon anyone who maintains a condition which breeds them as a public enemy to be summarily dealt with. There is much wasted advice about swatting the} fly trapping the fly. what we must do is to exterminate it by doing away with all breeding places. : Stables with manure piles that are left for weeks, garbage dumps and unscreened and carelessly construc- ted outhouses are the’ sources of the fly pest. Unpleasant as this may be to consider it is true. Any community which will be able to free itself from flies will eliminate these offensive features. While it has not been definitely proven what the fly has to do with infantile paralysis, we have good rear son to believe that it takes a part in the spread of the disease. That they can and do carry the germs of ty- phoid fever and other diseases we know. It is a wise mother who screens the baby’s crib. ; Thousands of children under one year of age die annually who would be saved if the fly were eliminated. FOR SALE—Registered Percheron Stallion, did weigh about 2,000 Ibs. Imported in 1909. Won first prize at Cumberland fair. Will do service un- til soid. Apply to LUKE HAY, at 413 Main St., Meyersdale; Pa. 3t* WANTED—PROPOSALS To oil Front and Salisbury Streets, Meyers- dale 18 feet wide, a distance of 1800 feet; Gil used must be of a good quality of road oil and put on four parrels to 500 feet, subject to orders of street committee. Bids received up to 6 p. m, Aug. 22and., 1916. Couricil reserves the! ay or all bids. BOROUGH COUNCIL €. J. Dickey, Sec. right to reject phd bbb hth bh h bE rr rR Nb hbb dt dbl bth bred Tar SU ar Fokker bbl bled POINTED FARAGRAPHS FROM SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE OF CHARLES E. HUGHES. It is apparent that we are shookingly unprepared. When we con’emplate indus- trial and commercial conditions, we see that we are living in a focl’s paradi:ca. Not only have we a host of resources short of war by /which to enforce our Just demands, but we shall never promote our peace by being stronger in words than in deeds. de ope oe ole ob ole ole ob ofr ob ob le We are neither deceived ncr benumbed by abnormal condi- ditions. We know that we are in a critical period, perhaps more oritical than any period since the civil war. . i The administration utterly failed to perform its obvious duty to securs protection for the lives and property of our citi- zens. It is most unworthy to slur those who havo investments in Mexico in order to escape a condemnation for the nonper- formance of this duty. it is only through internation- al co-operation giving a reason- able assurance of peace that we may hope for the limitation of armaments. We have determined to cut out, root and branch, monopolis- tic practices, but we can do this without hobbling enterprise or narrowing the scope of le- gitimate achievement. We demand a simple, business. like budget. : | believe it is only through a responsible budget, proposed by the executives that we shall avoid financial waste. Sood ob dood vir oe be ede ob bole oe ofr oe ob oho ee poe ol dele ob ob ie + + We have had brave words in a series of notes, but, despite <i our protests, the lives of Ameri- cans have been destroyed. + + 3 Gob hbk bb hdd bokh Fh Fb bk bbb br d bbb bbb blob dob bob bbb WILSON FLEXIBILITY. We do not see why there should have been any stir in’ the senate over the discovery that President Wilson has completely reversed himsellin the mat- ter of the proposed child labor law. Senator Borah was able to show that Mr. Wilson described this legisla tion in his “Constitutional Govern. ment” as unconstitutional, ‘an !“oby¥ ously absurd extravagance,” carrying the congressional power to regulate commerce beyond the ‘utmost Boun- daries of reasonable and honest infer- ence” and making it possible, if sus- tained, for congress to legislate over “every particular of the industrial or- ganization and action of the country.” That, we must confess, has also Leen the. Evening Post's view. But the Evening Post and Senator Borah are old fogiles, dating buck to the time when it was the custom to have fixed beliefs and principles and stick to them. The senator has evidently not read ir. Wilson’s letter in explaining his change ot front on the tariff com- mission—that it is only a narrow man, whore miad is stupidly closed to new ideas, who does not alter his opinions. By this test Mr. Wilson is obviously one of the broadest minded men this country has ever produced, for he has changed his mind to date on the initia- tive, relerendum, recall, woman suf- frage, the tariff commission, tariff for wevenue only, a permanent diplomatic } service beyond politics, the merit sys- tem in the civil service, the proper place of Tammany Hall in the scheme of the universe, child labor legislation, preparedness, Bryan, a army—but why continue? It is a long encugh list to"prove that Mr. Wilson's political views are not fossilized by any fear of inconsistency.—New York Evening Post. fob oii oleh ch doch bbb bod | » ADEQUATE NATIONAL DEFENSE DEMANDED We demand adequate national defense; adequate protection on both out western and eastern coasts. We demand thorough- ness ‘and efficiency: in both arms of the’ service. It seems to be plain that our: regular army is too small. We are too great a country to require of our citizens who are engaged in peaceful vo- cations the sort of military serv- ice to which they are now called. As well insist that our citizens in this metropolis be summoned to put out fires and police the streets. We do not count it in- consistent ‘with our Hbertfes. or with our democratic ‘ideals, to have. an. adequate: police force, With a population of nearly 100.- 000.000 we need to be surer of ourselves than to become alarm- ed at the prospect of having a regular army which can reason- ably protect our border, and per- form such other military service as may be required, in the ab- sence of a grave emergency. I believe, further, that there should be not only a reasonable increase in the res1ar army. but that the Gti b hd h hha h bh hhh b kkk ddd bk first «dtizen reserve subject to call shonld be enlisted as a fed- eral army and trained under + federal authority.—I'rom M t Hughes' Speech of Acceptance. + ofa ofa ole o¥s ots ole ols ole ole ofc o%e ole ole oie %* % * "=" s . °F saps oil Gopedrfecgedeck chobk deck bebe cheb d bb continental 50 LOSE LIVES IN'W, VA. FLOOD Cloudburst Strikes Gabin Greek District--Relief Trains 60 MANY HOUSES WASHED AWAY Railroad Bridges Washed Out—Many | Thousands Homeless—Damage tc Property Placed “at One Million. ' The doath list in the floods which . swept down the valleys of four West : 4Vir,.uia streams last week will be be | tween 60 and 80, it was indicated | when reports were received from some of the rescuing part#:s digging their way through miles of debris to the: homeless thousands in the mountains. ! Twenty-five bodies have been recov: ered. Whole families were swept. away and in many cases have not | ye: been recovered. National Guardsmen of West Vir: ginia, hurrying into the f@icod zone, | are experiencing difficulties and at mays points have found it necessary to Luild roads. For miles along the: Canin creek valley thd country has | been devastated, and it will be at least. two mnths before railroad and teivgraph communications. witli! these districts can be re-established. Six bridges on the Chesapeake & Qhio railroad are reported: to have been washed out, and in a mumber of places the tracks are said td have been swept from the right of way. The Kanawha & Michigan and other roads in the valley also suffered heav- ily. Wire ‘communication with the Cabin creek valley district is almost paralyzed. Red Warrior is 8 mining settle ment, and the men of the community were at work in the mines when the storm broke, with its torrential down. pour of rain. Dozens of houses and county bridges were washed into the Great Kanawha river and many lives are supposed to have been lost in this way. Houses, bridges and buildings of all kinds filled the Great Kanawha river at Dam No. 2, according to reports sent out by the government lock: tenders. : The Cabin creek region has suffered two disastrous storms within three reported from Dry Branch, op Cab. creek, a short distance below the Can Fork vicinity, which was inug by a cloudbusst. The bodies bad b swept down the swollen stream fs the lowlsnds in which many / resided. Several bodies have been Te | covered, but none has been identified.’ Cabin creek ‘valley for, more than ‘twenty miles, is a scene of waste and destruction following the receding flood. a ar and gas properties is estimated. at $200,000, and. nearly all the coal operations, as well, as the , plant and’ lines of the Virginia Power cempany, operating from Cabin Creek ‘Junction,’ are idle. The extent of the damage to: these is not known. Scores of houses were ‘carried ‘away by the waters] telephone lines torn down and railroad tracks swept away, The Chesapeake. & Ohio Railroad com- pany is the heaviest loser among the railroads, although a big bridge near Cabin’ Créek Junction, on the line of the Charleston Interurban Railroad company, was carried off its piers. Thé coal companies suffering: the heaviest logs dare the Cabin. Creek Consolidated, they Wyatt; the: Dry: Branch and.some of the Dickinson interests. Railroad damage extended as far up the Kanawha river as Paint Creek Junction, the smaller stream having been foroed out of its banks by the cloudburst extending over the watershed between Paint and ‘Cabin creeks. The Coal River branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio, below Charles- ton, was damaged by the waters com- ing into Big Coal river from the va- rious small streams. MORE TROOPS GO TO BORDER Ohie, Kentucky and Vermont Guards men Ordered South. Twenty-five thousand more state troops have been ordered fo the bor- der by the war department. All Ken- tucky, Ohio and Vermont troops have | KEYSTANE 2ABAGANPHS. wegks, causing heavy property loss: and much loss of life. “ At least ten deaths from drowning are | a earn /1. Death was due to apoplexy. Damage to railroad, coal’'snd' oil been ordered to move and all depart mental commanders were instructed to send troops as soon as equipped. War department: officials said ithe . purpose of the movement was to re- | lieve the trying situation of regiments | held at state mobilization camps aur- | ing recruiting. The men have been | several weeks under canvas while a tew recruits. necessary to brimg each | regiment up to required minimum | strength are being sought. In many cases, notably in Oblo, where six regiments have been within a score of the number necessary to | permit them to go to the border, in | Kentucky and Vermont, where only a few additional recruits are necessary, and in the District of Columbia, where a very few additional men would re cruit the regiment for aetive service, there has been growing uneasiness and discontent among the guardsmsn ve- cause of the weary weeks of wait: ing. ! i { a barrel. The Pepnsylvania Railroad company has. filed notice’ with the public serv. ice commission of its intention to ap- peal to the superior court against ths degision of the commission im the s0- called “locked baggage car” case. The: commission held that even though a baggage car be locked at one end of a division and not opened until the other a baggageman must be em- ployed. Marion Hilbrook, six years old, of Oil City, Pa. is dying as a regult 5f poison from swallowing a piece of red ribbon several weeks ago. Her back and breast have turned the game color as the ribbon. She can- not raise her left arm, which is also cf: a red color. — @ H. L. Ryan, aged thirty-eight, of Juniata, a Fennsylvania railroad fire- man, was instantly killed near Hemp- field station. He was standing on the | step of his engine watching some- thing at the side of the engine when his head struck the fence separating the tracks. The Cambria Steel company has filed a complaint with the public serv- ice commission against the Johnstown Fuel Supply company, alleging unfair rates, c!# ming that. th= rate of gas for industrial purposes has been increased from 15 to 18 cents. H. W. Fisher, aged twenty-nine, of New York, and Joseph Davis, twenty- four, of Boston, Mass., escaped with bruises when: an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a wrecking train on the Baltimore & Ohio in Braddock. Coroner Eckinger, of Harrisburg, is endeavoring to identify a decapitated adult male body found on the moun- tains near Rockville. The body is that of a young man, smooth shaven, five feet eight inches tall, and having light auburn hair. Andrew Tillman, thirty-five, Bellever- non, was drowned in the Monongahela river near his home when a motorboat in which he and Andrew Vannalock, of Bellevernen were giding was struck by the towboat Rover. The motorboat upset. f Walter Hohe, aged twenty, of Pitts- burgh, was drcwned in the Allegheny river near Sandy Creek. The youth could mot swim and stepped into deep water. The body was recovered. Attemping to shoot a dog, John Keil, a farmer reriding on the outskirts of Marianna, shot (Cisime Bava, twenty- six years old; in' the right leg, and Vincenzo Malio in both arms. Caty BE. Piper, aged 65, druggist and one of the best-known business men of Charleroi, was found dead on the | ‘front porch of his home by his wife. /\ Joseph Lenkiwecz, aged seven, of Pittsburgh, was drowned in the Alle- - ghteny river in Pittsburgh when he fell from a barge on which he and several} other boys were playing. Two fires at Bentleyville at the same time caused $40,006 danas» and threat: ened the destruction of the entire vii- lage. They arggbelieved to have been of imcendiary origin. Fire originating on the second floor of the stables of the William J, O’Neil Transfer and Storage company, in Pittsburgh, destroyed the building and 63 horses. 3 John Barclay, aged sixty-two, 01 Bellevue, a teamster, was killed when run down by a Pennsylvania passen- ger train at the Riverview crossing, near Glenfield. 7 ‘ Mrs. Margaret Bell of Butler, aged .thirty-three, mother of 13 children, is vdead from burns received when she attempted to light a fire with the aid of an oil can. MANY DIE WHEN CARS CRASH Twenty-five Killed in Telescoping Ac cident Near Johnstown. Twenty-six were killed and 62 in. jured in a head-on collision between two crowded trolley cars on the South: ern Cambria Traction company’s line between Echo and Broekville, seven miles from Johnstown, Saturday. Fourteen of the victims were killed outright: The others died in or on the way to hospitals in Johnstown. The cause of the accident may never be established. Angus Varner, mo- torman of one of the cars, ran through the station at Brookdale waving his arms. Power was shut off at the power house, but too late to avoid the crash. Employes of the company say the car passed through the station at a speed in excess of thirty miles an hour. Both cars were telescoped. It was in the outbound car, the one into which Varner’s car crashed, that most of the victims were riding. They were on the way tora family reunion. Bodies were strewn around minus hands, head and feet. In one case, that of a boy named Lente, the head was missing. Some of the injured were pinned in the wreckage, while others were thrown into a rock-filled gully near the tracks. It was half an hour before aid could reach the scene, the accident nappening in an isolated spot in the mountains. — 1 Flour Prices Increased. Columbus (O.) mills have advanced the price of all grades of flour 68 cents : The Great American Smoke Fall in line with hundreds of thousands of red- blooded smokers of the good old U.S. A. Smoke the cigarette tobacco that's been an American insti- tution for three generations—“Bull” Durham. The rich, relishy, star-spangled taste of “Bull” Durham puts the national spirit of get-up-and-hustle into hand-rolled cigarette. our “Bull” Durham is the nb snappiest, liveliest of smokes. GENUINE “Bur Duna “Roll your own” with “Bull” Durham and you'll find a far greater satisfaction in smoking your ciga- rette than you ever did before. Made of the richest, mild- with Ask for FREE packageof papers’ each Sc sack est leaf grown, “Bull” Durham has a delightful mellow-sweet flavorfound inno othertobacco. Men who never smoked cigarettes before are now “roll- ing their own” with “Bull Durham. An [lustrated Book- let, showing correct I RE way to “Roll Your Own" Cigarettes, and a package of cigarette papers, will both be mailed, €, to any address in U.S. on r Juin Bull"’ Durham, Durham, N.C. Every Farmer with two or more cows GREATR. R. STRIKE 15 THREATENED Transportation Tie-up Would Paralyze Businsss. tem—— FARMERS TO FAGE DANGER Could Not Market Crops Would Run into Hundreds of Mil- lions — With Factories Unable te Operate Wage-earners Would Suffer.. From the viewpoint of the pub- situation of country ® © © ghgll under go great loss of Nfe, unspeah- able suffering and loss of p=spD- erty beyond the power of @Gescrip- tion, through the stoppage of a necessary publc service. This, however. is the situation which confronts us as a nation.—From the Report of the Eastern Engi- neers’ Arbitration Board (1912) signed by Charles R. Van Hise. Oscar Straus, Frederick’ Ni’ Jud: son. Albert Shaw, Otto W. Eid- litz and Daniel WAllard. * <> A As a result of the demands for more | ¢ wages which the train service employes : of the rafiroadshave been pressing upon the transportation lines ghe country is face to face with the gossibility of the greatest strike and the most serious | industrial catastrophe ta fts “history. The engineers, conductors, firemen’ and brakemen en practically all ‘the rail road lines have voted to place their entire interests im charge of a few leaders within thelr organizations, and to give these leaders authority to call a strike if they wish to do so. What such a strike would mean to the American people cannot be set forth in mera facts and figures. It can be dimly imagined by those who real ize what aa intimate and vital transportation plays in every industria! activity of the country. part Lesson needs a | DeL VAL 2323 LevergoodSt. JOHNSTOWN, PA. Cities Would Face Starvation. There is scarcely a person in any part of the land whe would not be tm- mediately affected if the millions of busily turning wheels en our nearly three hundred thousand miles of rail- way were to step for a single day. If the tie-up continued for a week, the blow to the industry of the country would be greater than that caused by any panic of recent history. To the big cities of the country, and particu- . lanly .to the cities of the eastern sea- board, ‘it ‘would 'mean a cutting off of food supplies that would place the in- ‘habitants virtually in'a state of siege. - 71a the case of anany. food: products these cities do. not carry on hand. a stock sufficient te feed their people for ‘more than a week, and in the case of omie, ‘such as milk and fresh vege- tables, ‘supplies’ are ‘replenished dally. "Phe stoppage ‘of transportation there- | foie, ‘'would niean suffering and want torthese city dwellers, and if continued for. long would threaten many of them 4th actaal st : 3 Fy £he SATE) OF (ip SW @ gon. ‘sald qd. sirike 1} a catas- the er could not move Trey , nd the price of grain and other staples Wolds quickly cut in ously cut down er suspended entire- Ly, ‘merchants would ‘transact MHttle bustness, ‘becanse’ there would bé few purchasers. © In short, the industrial activities of the whole country would be virtually palsied from: the moment the railroads ceased to operate. The injury to the railway companies and to the striking employes would be enor- mous, but it would be infinitesimal compared with the staggering loss that wanld fall upon the general publile. Jur Job Work Plas et EEE— OVER SCOF From 20 t and no less less injured Johnstown & urday in a jured were f The accide line which « Ebensburg, foot of a sti turned a sh: escoped by hill. The n and the car had continu ing into t which also reach the doctors an the scene oO The killec residing in t had just bo Park, wher tend a mreu Dishong fa In the I were brou; could not 8 Mrs. P. | several day vim. Mrs. Joh Mrs. P. W. ion of Mey noon at th Mrs. Ann visiting he: Wednesday S. W. "Par Vim, on. M and Martin and Frostk days with CC. R. M hold goods W. Md. R. town, O., ployed, the a week’ ‘if burg, "Md." home. ‘Vim and family in their ne ‘Mrs. Cl Pinto. Md. home of W Mr. and “lawn spen ter. Mrs, Mr.R. L and Miss visiting | of east M Miss F] visiting . chen has hopes to The L at the h 10th. The delightful was prep served. A Miss H 18 spendi Myra Du Mrs. W ter Laure Elizabeth their hor The a be held «¢ An inter: pared. R rett will invited t Mr. al Somerse ents ove Pickin the orde Those Peter M: Beals ¢ * Mrs. Jol Shawley Miss | cation w Norm: a visitor Joel 1 The ing last Vy i.lia ing for his par some tr BARN ' Four inery, grain v struck of Wn few da; $6,000. bolt wr C C
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