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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. !
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{ 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.
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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.
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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.
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Columbus (O.) mills have advanced
the price of all grades of flour 68 cents
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GREATR. R. STRIKE
15 THREATENED
Transportation Tie-up Would
Paralyze Businsss.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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