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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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