Ewe 77” C i 4 rackers ~ with a Flavor nS Flavor is not expected of ordinary soda crackers. But Uneeda Biscuit are extraordinary soda Sachets and have a distinctive appetizing avor. Buy Uneeda Biscuit because they are soda crackers with a flavor, but, above all, buy them for their crisp goodness. 5 cents everywhere NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY EL eh a CI, -~ Sia hm A SEE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL ; WELLERSBURG. : —— | Mr, and Mrs. Harry Deal of Clarks- PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY lui, are the guests of Mrs. Deal's AT MEYERSDALE, PA. SCHAFFNER, Owner, K. CLEAVER, Editor and Manager. parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Shacer. | The Sunday School convention was |a very good success; a large crowd | ettended both the af‘ernoon and ov- ening sessions, even then a lot of good eats was left. When paid strictly in advance $1.25, Mrs. G. A. Tressler of Meyersdale When not paid in advance $1.50 spending a week with friends in ——— eee ee ETT. tOWDL, CONSUMERS SHOULD INSIST Miss Susan Shaffer of Deal ig! the ON CORRECT WEIGHT ests of relatives and friends in Dealers who sell fruit by the basket iq place, the present week. or crate, instead of by weight, meas- Miss Ella Rizer of Mt. Savage spent A. M. ure or count, as the law directs, are g.¢yrday and Sunday with her grand- placing themselves in danger of ar- mother and grandfather, Mr. and Mra. rest, says James Sweeney, chief of the Bdward Shaffer. state Bureau of Standards. Mr. Sween- A party was given at the home of ey, who has general supervision over pre and Mrs. Wm. Long on Wednes- tthe enforcement of the weights and g,y evening in honor of Miss Helen measures law, advises householders giajey of Waynesboro, Pa. The eyen- to insist upon knowing the weight in ing was passed with many interesting each purchase. There are many games until eleven o’clock when re- ‘abuses arising, he says. {reshments were served. Those pres- The chief said a few days ago: This being the season when thers ggworth Beal, Cecil, Mildred and are large sales of peaches and pota- pattie Long, Johnnie Kennell, Elthea, toes, notwithstanding the require- yijjjjan and Susan Wilhelm, Harry ments of the law that all commodities pajprook, Albert Bittner, Helen Win- must be sold by weight, measure or gort Edna Witt, Joseph and Lewis count, many dealers persist in gelling pjand all of this place, Wm. Ellman, by the crate or basket. This is in dir- pr walse, Pearl Bridges and Doro- ect violation of the law. ¢ _lthy Shaffer of Cumberland, Gertie Wherever peaches, potatoes Or any prigges of Georgescreek, Susan Shaf- other commodity are offered for sale go. of Deal Pa. Anthony Fink of Phila- in crates or baskets the net quanity geiphia, and Nyna DeHaven of Cum- for the doctors about this season of ent were—Bertha, Loretta, Homer and | “count, must be plainly marked on the out- pide in terms of weight, measure or The standard weight :n a bushel of peaches as fixed by law in 48 pounds. -*The standart weight in a boshel of potatoes is 60 pounds. If sold in the sub-divisions of a bushel, the purchas- er is entitled to received the fraction-, al number of pounds fixed by law. The consumer should insist on knowing the amount in weight or measure of his purchase and refuse to buy commodities of any kind by the basket or crate, ! oo | 1% — i | As we understand it, the Democratic ! party denies responsibility for the! price of gasoline a. doubling of the few months ago, but takes credit for the recent two-cent reduction. *® * * * * Time was when Woodrow Wilson was vice-president of the National Ci-| vil Service Reform League and be- gan his raid on the civil service for the benefit of “deserving Democrats.” We doubt if Mr. Wilson be again elec- ted to office in the League after the fourth of nert March, though he will then have ample time for such things. Secretary McAdoo has lssued an order informing employes of the Treasury Department that they must no do certain things during the pol- itical campaign, among which is a rule against using their positions to influence an election. But did nor Mr. McAdoo deliver a partisan speech which was printed as a pubiic docu- ment and then circulated in snvelones addressed by government employes? ‘Were not those government employes forced to use their positions to influ- ence the election? Evidently the Me- Adoo rules apply only to the rel Re- publicans who remain in government employ. CIVIC LEAGUE PRIZES SOON TO BE AWARDED. Judges will make their last rounds the first week in September and will meet with the League on September 14 in the Municipal building at 2:30 fo announce prizes; all members of the League are urged to be present. The election of officers will be held at this meeting. Everybody will be welcome. Our Job Work Fleases berland. vi WITTENBERG - _.Mr. W. H. Knepp killed a black snake in his barn last Monday meas- uring about four feet. $n Miss Eliza Smitn is visiting friends in Meyerdale for a few days. Mr. James Geiger was a taller, in Meyersdale on Saturday evening. Mrs. Blmer Petenbrink of Mountain Valley who had been visiting friends in Meyersdale for the past week -re- turned to the home of her mother Mrs, Susan Smith on Thuisday and on Sun- day evening she returned to her home at Mountain Valley. | The Reformed Sunday School will ‘hold the annual Picnic next Saturday | the home band will furnish the music. Subscribe for the Commercial and-| this long period because the agents, | get the news. | ———————————— ————— Miss Eliza Miller, a Missionary from India will speak in the Summit Mills Church of the morning at 10;30 and at Meyersdale in the Church of the Brethren on Sun- day evening at 7:30 Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Naylor and Mrs. Alice Howard, of Washington County, who had been visiting at the Henry Naylor home in this place last Friday accompanied by Mrs. Henry Naylor, left by auto for Cleveland, Ohio. While visiting here they in company with Mr. Henry Naylor motored to Jerome. The man who drinks like a ash does not take kindly .o water. If it wasn’t for men, fewer women would dislike each other. You don’t need bank references in order te borrow trouble. CARLOAD OF APPLE BUTTER CROCKS AND STONE JARS AT HABEL & PHILLIPS Children Ory FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA NICE ASSORTMENT OF MARKET BASKETS AT HABEL & PHILLIPS Sur Jo: Work Ficased Brethren on So Dr. A STITCH IN TIME The combination of green apples | and small boys usually makes work the year. The temptation of unripe fruit is not the only danger which wise par- ents must guard their youngsters ag- ainst at this time of the year. Owing to the extreme heat and the variety of diet it is not at all unusual for children to develop serious digestive disturbances. These are among the first symptoms of infantile paralysis as well as num- erous other diseases of childhood The exact melation of this condition to the disease has not as yet been determin- | ed. The unnatural fermentation might ' help the germ. of infantile paralysis ! to multiply. For this reason it is -s- | pecially important that intélligent supervision should be exercised over the diet of children. All food should be cooked. They should not be permitted to eat white | bread in excessive amounts and sour | bread should never be fed to children. Too many sweets are apt to upset the | digestion at this season of th eyear. With bottle fed infants care should | be taken to keep the milk at a temper- ' ature of from forty to sixty degrees until it is prepared for feeding. The | nipples of the nursing bottle should | be sterilized before they are used and the water which babies, in common with all of os require in unusual a- r.ounts during the hot weataur, should be sterilized by boiling. 3y following these simple precau- tions it may be possible to spare child- ren from digestive disturbances which may lead to serious complications, even prepart the way for infantile paralysis if the germ comes along. SAID TO BE CURE FOR INFANTILE PARALYSI3 Serum manufactured from human { blood is preeminent in treatment of | persons afflicted with infantile paraly- | sis, in the opinion of Dr. Simon Fler- rer, directer of the Rockefeller In | stitute for Medical Research in New | York it became known Sunday. Dr. | Flexner has recommended the treat- | ment to the members of the American Medical association, the largest or- ganization bbdy of physicians in the world. : | Dr. Flexner’s views and the facis ! he has adduced are embodied in an ! article contributed to the Journal of | the American Medical association. | The experimental evidence in favor i of this treatment shows that of a | serum prepared from the blood of monkeys which have had the disease is injected into healthy monkeys, they either cannot acquire infantile paraly- sis when an effort is made to infect tract it, the severity of the ailment is modified to the extent that the onset ‘of the inevitable paralysis is delayed. Sometimes the treatment arrests the. paralysis in the midst of its progress. Dr. Flexner comments on the report or Dr. A. Netter, who put the treat: ment to the test in the course of his practice. hh Dr. Netter, in making the serum, using the blood of patients who had alysis. An interesting and significant olysis. An interesting and significant feature of his work, it is said, is the fact that one of the persons who do- nated blood for this purpose had had the disease 30 years prior to its use as a life-saving agent. This demon- strates, according to modern medical teaching, that the immunity conferred upon this ' person by the disease 39 years before had lasted throughout or “anti”—bodies, which originated in the blood when the invading germs attacked him had remained on duty to repel a possible second invasion. Flexner gives the necessary condition of the serum and says dos- es of from five to 20 cubic centimet- res probably will be found wo be about right. The injections should be repeated several times at 24 hours in tervals, according to the clinical con- jitions and indications. On Sunday last a little daughter eight days old of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. R. Logue; died. ST. PAUL Mrs. Mary Tennefoss and Margaret Leplex were visiting friends in the vicinity of Springs on Sunday. The electric storm. on Saturday evening interfered somewhat with them with it, or else, if they do con: | it into meats and many other things. ‘to the retailer who distributes it to » much more than that. the lawn fete at the Reformed church. posing of the ice cream. The Sunday school and churches of St. Paul are closed to” persons under sixteen years old to conform with the order of Dr. Samuel Dixon of the State Health Department till Sept. 18. What do you think! It is too terrible for words! there are some fellows in St. Paul who want to do away with property; If they would succeed wouldn’t it put many people out of their present jobs? 3-10 CENT PACKAGES CORN STARCH FOR 25 CENTS AT BITT- NER’S GROCERY. The ladies, however succeeded in dis- i i { ever seen any of them. WHERE COSTS ARE. x While the expense of marketing livestock is high enough it is handled at about as low a percentage cost as anything the farmer sells. Counting freight, commission, yardage, feed, etc, the cost of selling runs below 5 per cent when prices are good and the road to market is not too long. | z The higher the price and the less the | 3 freight the lower the percentage cost §&- of selling, the other charges being fixed. When the stock gets to market the slaughterer buys it and converts For buying, slaughtering and selling to retailers this middleman gets an average profit of less than three per cent. These are not our estimates Lut those of official investigators in more than one inquiry. No other | manufacturer runs his business on so | small a margin, but the slaughterer can turn his money oftener than most men and usually prospers. Up to this point no excessive costs stand be- tween the producer and the consumer. There is loss by shrinkage in shipping and dressing but that is unavoidable ander any system of marketing. The meat now goes from the slaughterer consumers. Here a high cost per pound intervenes, far exceeding the cum of other costs up to this point. The average retailer does not handle a large amount of meat. He must pay rent, ice, telephone, delivery, la- bor and other bills and must charge sufficient to cover waste in cutting, spoilage and bad debts. All this in- volves a high charge against every pound of the small quantity he han- dles, and in this respect he is akin to the average retailer of all foods. Per- Lops the average retail charge against meats is not less than five cents a pound, though one investigation in a limited territory showed that it was We have heard for years protests | from producers and consumers about the excessive costs that stand be- | tween them, and vet no way toward a general reduction of these costs has been found. The trouble is not lack of competition among slaughterers, for there are about a thousand whole- sale slaughterers who do an interstate business in meats. It is not in the Ligh percentage of cost in marketing the livestock. But it is in the distri- bution by retailers, of whom the law demands service as well as meats. It there were fewer retailers and each one handled more meats the margin necessary on each pound of it would be less. Any retailer can handle 10,- (00 pounds of meat at less cost per pcund than 1,000 pounds. But how can-this concentration be. effected? Or i’ the people demanded ‘less service they could enjoy cheaper meats. But they seem-to want more and better corvice rather than less. Cooperative slaughtering plants have failed to bridge the gap, in fact everything has | failed thus far. And no amount of | ¢M8uting and tumult will ever narrow | {his margin between: producer and ' consumer. The slow process of educa- | tion, particularly education of the con- | sumer, seems to be the only hope of | teiting the two classes much closer tcgether. Let those who can offer a ! cuicker solution come forward with il,—National Stockman and Farmer. : BRIEF DECISIONS. I Most of us can appreciate the stra- tegic value of a retreat without any explanations from the military ex- | perts. : i @ « Some people don’t get things com- ’ ing their way until it is too late for them to get out of the way. i Clothes do not make the man, but | they often fool the fellow who is wear- | ‘ing them. A luxury is sometimes the other fel- low thinks we don’t know he can’t af- ford. ,. He is indeed a clever mathemati- cian who can square a domestic tri- angle. Even the man who is always kick- ing at nothing occasionally hits i. The man who thinks that all women are alike is hopelessly married. A woman must be carming indeed to win praise from her sex. Before following the advice of a man who tells you how to run your business, it might be well to have a look at the way he is running his own When love has occasion to make its exit through a window, it usually se- lects the dining-room window. If men received all they pray for, they would soon be too lazy te get out of one another’s way. We have heard of the blessings of poverty, but we can’t recall having One way to improve the memory is to assume for a moment that you have everything you want. Unless a man has scored.at least cne faiture, he is unable to appreciate success. The millenium, like most good things, is in no hurry about showing up. Vulca y nizing vy The Cemented CANIZING. Our Vulcanizing Method re- pairs the puncture forever--it it does not melt off, slip or de- velop slow leaks etc. i very unreliable makeshift - have the puncture repaired permanently by our VUL- Our Service is Prompt and the cost is really nominal. TRY US. Y Patch is but a eT Thm oy F'n 8 Rm m ALS Bia RN E EIN a NIN NN usu ncn Nine MInlNINIn NINIAcR IRIN RB Hon HoH IN, AY YY Y vy Y a y YY 3 x x x x x x X % x x x x x x x x a x x x x x x x x x x x 3 x x x 2 x x x x = 5 Meyersdale Auto Company. ; MEYERSDALE, PENNA. EARL KELLEY Both Phones FRED FLOYD ORO RRR RR RR RR ROBB The Rockwood Board of Trade is going for some much needed improve- ments for that borough. At a meeting on Monday night, J. D. Snyder, Dr. C. J. Hemminger and E. H. Miller were named a committee to meet with coun- cil and arrange in some way to have the road leading from Rockwood to New Centreville repaired as far as the borough line. A resolution was adopt- ed asking the Baltimore & Ohio to provide better, passenger and freight facilities for Rockwood. The matter of attracting yisitore to the town was considered and a committee will be named to look into the matter. President Conway resigned and H. W. Musser was chosen president and J. C. Enos, first vice president. Com- mittees were named as follows: Membership—J. D. Snyder, I. D. Hechler, J. R. Shanks and H. F. Ber- kebile. Contest and By-Laws—H. H. Shu- maker, N. F. Meyers and I. J. Duks. Railnoad—C. J. Hemminger, H. H. Shumaker, C. A. Miller, J. E. Schmit tle and H. W. Musses. ) Avertising—H. A. Miller, U. S. Wer- ner, W. M. G. Day, John Erler, G. H. Moore and C. T. Saylor. ~~ : Berkebile, J. R. Shanks, E. J. Wei- mer, E. E. Miller, B. F. Phillippi, N. F, Meyers and E. D. Miller. BExecutive—H. W. Musser, Irvin Wolf, J. D. Snyder, I. D. Hechler, II. E. Miller, E, A. Malsberry, J. C. Ence and W, B. Conway. THE VERY BEST LOOSE COCOA 25¢ tb. AT HABEL & PHILLIPS MANY COMPLAINTS OF HEATED EGGS: Due to the intense hot weather of this summer an unusual large number ot ringed and heated eggs have been. reported to the Meyersdale Depart- ment of Agriculture as arriving at our large cities. Most of these eggs have to go into the sewers or garbage dis- posals, meaning a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Everyone keeping laying hens: should remember that incubation be- gin at 95 degrees Fahrenheit. That eggs with two or three hours of this | temperature develop a living germ, which later dies and smells and tastes most unpleasantly. | Eggs should be collected at least twice daily in hot weather and at roosters should be shu: up or killed off so there may be no fertility to start hot days. : A WORD FROM REV. HCW The frll¢ wing message ir»m: pe of Meyersdal递s very highly esta:ned ‘ministers’ was received ‘at the Com- mercial yesterday. $n ? : “Dallas Center, Towa, Aug. 28. 1916. Greetings 1c all from Iowa. Fine coun- try hene. Hogs and cattle and corn on every hand. Home next week. Bro. W. M. Howe.” HAMMOND DAIRY FEED WILL ‘MAKE YOUR COW GIVE MORE MILK * $1.50 PER HUNDRED AT HABEL & PHILLIPS. | 1SN'T HE THE HANDSOME MAN! Whom the gods would destroy they first induce to marry foolishly. Under dogs de th® most whining. ma a DO "uY TEESE ~—Lanning in Providence Bulletin. once stored in a cool, clean place. All » Morris relatives Mrs. ( week wi Mrs. spending tives. Mr. al Frostbuz the wee tives. Mrs. 1 ‘Miss Je! tives in John at the + and fan — James Somers: here on Eugel ‘Washin a week Roy | the for ing rele ‘Mr. a ghter, 1 eles C main fi Miss from a and - | other I Mr, tertaini wife, N Ara. Mars n TWO WE the tin in Virg Miss Young: past tives a Miss a gues Murre Miss Weber the ho Mrs, I home Miss lowing friend, Pa, Miss mond, Mrs. | John Mrs sister ing th . friend latter Em last ft and a good, _ Ashla Bal Mr, a a mo retur town, Mr €0n-i1 Clare trip t day. 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