Ww: hiv: 103 ci Many tell us they culation and an “ad” Mm : ors ; m n e Teh 8 1 are delighted with our e is read by thou- ol job printing. ~ =:- 1 pi of on £ 1 0 1 & Bring us your work yoL. XXXVII MEYERSDALE PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21,1916 r — SCHOOL NOTICE The schools of Meyersdale, Pa. will open on Monday, October second at eight-forty five A. M. state of repair that it should be taken .over by the State and Tepaired at an early period, State Highway Cimmiss- joner Black, by his attorneys Kooser KILLED AT R.R. |" Tere tcice » Whethes or noi school teachers ND OF CRIMI _ MEYERSDALE n : and Kooser, presented a petition to CROSS! NG will De paid for the period during | There will be a teachers’ meeting on F AIR IN SWING the Court aking for the appointment which are idle because of the Friday, September twenty-ninth at 3 . State's le paralysis quarantine | nine A. M. in room No. 5. — . an 8 1c 15 Yours it or es & Ylue on te | H. Dalton Cook of This Place | depends of two things: 1 rhe examination for high sehoot | Stock and Farm Exhibits. Those L Italian entenced eT hip | P. Hay elk H Moyers, R C. Wel. Meets Death in Auto Near| pirst—THhe language of the con-| students who were eonditioned in| Occupying Booths. The Races Pehitentiary. Shade 1ownship floy. and J. E. Johnson were appoint- Hyndman. Large Funeral On| tract k which the teacher ia em-| their studies will be held in the study Great Gala Time for All in ’ Divided for Election Purposes-| Sunday. ployed. | hall on Saturday, September thirtieth | Town. § : : | Second—+The way the school dir-| at nine A, M. ; y / Guise D’Orosio, of Harrison, was ’ ! ) One of the cases that came for trial} '7/ a at oe ectors feel about it. Pupils from other districts who wish | = The Meyersdae fair got into fullf at the Somerset County court Was| = =~ ¢ Linardo Gregorio, who it the (employment contract pro-| to attend the high school during this | SWIng on Tuesday afternoon whem ] that charging Christ Koontz, a Som- ’ vides a teacher is not to be paid when | tenm will bring their diplomas or cer- the first jockey race came off. There was shot and killed on May 30, 1916. . erset stonemason, With assault and May schools are closed because of epidem- ! tilcates from the County Superintend- | Were four horses on the track, comings battery, and he was sonvicted in w Prosscuter de A il jc, he (or she) has no legal claim. If | ent of schools to the Office of he Su-| under the wire in the order Hamed: | about the same degree of haste that he Ha . tie iosecator ghpng the contratt does not thus protect the | pervising Principal of Schools on Fri-| Sidney, Hileman, Kendrone, ridden: ) he had slapped J. a the oil inst Novi. Bowman; of the ‘same district, teacher is to be paid. day, September twenty-ninth at one- by Meyers and owned by Jenkins off } Shenton } | township, was assaulted and serious- Ther #4 nothing of course, to pre- | thirty P. M. . Hotel Somerset, this place; Memo gt : Ci of Christ on East |1y injured Wednesday on West Pat- | | vent a' board paying the idle teacher| parents or guardians of all pupils ries; and Louis de Orr. The distances a and the defendant failed riot street, near the opera house, by erg rintondoht: of Public. 15 who wish® to attend either the high hind Trecishi of a mile and- thes > to show up for work on the job one Mr, Bowman, who made his escape. stradtion N.C ‘Séhheftor ‘toda. ne school or the grades must make ar- © was 1 minute and 4 seconds. 2 .day. The following day, Wilbur, who Officers are searching for Bowman. rod caky Waiitles Tn. th y ans-| rangements with Mr. J. M. Gnagey,| A trip over the grounds has much” 4 was foreman of the Job, demanded | Mr. Bruner alleged that Bowman had uy efroulst Teli os - t ® aniver Secretary of the Meyersdale schools | to interest the spectator. For trotting r to know of Koontz why he had failed wronged his daughter. Same morning ! oligo ogy ii od er. = district, before the opening of the | races there is a fine line of horses. to show up for work. Christ said that in court a settlement was effected. bg | x of 9 ent | schools, : In the exhibits are to be found stock. t it was because there was mot enough Soon after leaving the courthouse, the e en De on A en W. H. Kretchman, Prin. of Schools. | and Jpoutiey in a great variety, pos-- ; prosecutor and defendant met. Brun- : : ; sessing many points of excellence) f Re Ee Sor was CRTYing 4 SUpound suk otd . I ee wy Bo MISS GNAGEY, HURT ‘ farm, garden and home have contrib- S that the epithet was a libel on his re. | flour. Bowman, he alleges, assaulted else; unless otherwise nd : IN AUTO COLLISION died 1. 20%ke & 259 showing Reh , atation for truth, Koontz slapped him, breaking his jaw, kicking him in hod toh ! vii o Miss Leora = Gnagey, daughter of | & Son, in their own building with Ss ie Tor BiB Hapudente believing | the stomach, and otherwise doing him elr oon racts “9 employment, the | Mr, and Mrs. Solomon Gnagey, of|amples space are isplaying the > or 1 o Hight to a so. After | bodily harm. school | distiict shall be liable for the | near Summit Mills, on Sunday even- { Round Oak Range, having a ‘repre that be bd 2 tod. {hese fais Frank Ball and Peter 'Makinski ; splaries of ithe teachers of sald school | ing was thrown from an auto not far | sentative of the manufacturers on tng Ruppel directed the jury to re. | Dleaded guilty to assault and battery "H. DALTON COOK a terms for which they | from Somerset by coming into con-| hand; this firm is also discoursing. turn a verdict of guilty. No man has with intent to kill’ and settlements 2 BL tact with another car and was pretty | Edison’ phonographic music; J. C. Hy a legal right to assault another for were effected in the cases, Mrs. Fred The death of H. Dalton Cook, of Dr. Schaeffer thug views the differ- | badly stunned. Hostetler has the latest and the best anything he might say. Baker, Louis Ball, and Joe Pitek, this place, by being run down by a Tot phases of thematter: The accident occured at the Ed.! in the agricultural line; A. H. John- strict Attorney Saylor announced similarly accused. | passenger train on the Pennsylvania Where the contract of employment | Boyt’s farm Miss Gnagey was sfiting} Son, artistic marble and monumen- is a continuance of the following cases: Frank Procosky was found guilty | railroad one mile south of Bard at 10: mec fom de: teachers are mot to re-| on the front seat beside her brother, | tal Work turns one’s thoughts to they 4 Commonwealth ve. Connells ville & | and Adam Lehosky not guilty of as- | 30 a. m. on Friday made many hearts ceive pay 5 time lost on account of | Marlin Gnagey who was driving the last bitter end of human existence. |S bh State Line Railway Co. maintaining gault and battery with intent to kill. sad, and caused almost unbearable > epidemic the directors are not ob-| car, and there were in the rear seat a | When we need these things for wa nuisanse. George Saylor, Jr. a mem- Settlements were announced in the = anguish to his wife and five little | Aiged to pay the salaries of the teach-| prother and a sister. A large touring -10ved ones or they need them for us, | oy ¢ Company C. N. G: P aggravat- following cases: J. S. Picking; James children and to his parents Mr. and | €8 for the time lost on account of the | car wag approaching driven by Pierce he has the goods. Miller & Colilns¢ ad | DE and ‘battery, ’ Lawrence | H- Straub, disorderly conduct, Mrs. Mrs. J. M. Gook, the latter thus being | epidentie, i : Miller. When the contact occured ‘representing : their big Depr. Store. rerun ‘Bowman, pros. Gilbert Tressler, car- Ida Walker; James H. Straub, point- bereft - of their only son, their only- ‘Where e contract with the hoard | Migs Gnagey was thrown out. She was have what might-be denominated ai rying concealed weapons, George W. ing firearms, John Walker. child. specifies that the schools are to he) taken to the office of Dr. Louther in chaste exhibit. The exhibit by thew 1 d Burkholder, pros. Two cases against Harrison Leonard, charged with as-| Mr. Cook who is a member of the opened on & given date and where | gomerset and later taken to her home! State is one that suggests to thes ger, rape; Annie Miller, prosecutor. John M. Fresh, charged with lar- mile or more is parallel to the rail-| schools, the directors can, no doubt, The National Hotel, of Berlin for | round in one day at lest. A number of cases charging offenaes a and assault and battery, by B® road and very close to it. At fhe rail- | postpone the date for the openirg ofthe past two years conducted by Bd-| Other attractive booths are those against moraity were also continued, | + ersh, is a fugitive, : road crc there is a bank about & the selioole Ww tho being obliged tc | ward Burns, is to change hands | o¢ © W. Gurley, the sporting goods: k “| the detendsnts being fugitives in. sev-| Criminal Court gloeed. ge hich prevents one. pt the teachers {or the near future. An application for 2} gesjer; ®, Sliernon eon OO on the docket since February, 1915, | his plea of not guilty to one of guilty to Hyndman on Friday afternoon .ad y BE Bt n> abuss Selirock, one of Berlin's oi. | 758 he 2:30 tron, Purse gay, ugust 31 ended with a plea of guilty to the | of murder in the second degre. He ' on Saturday morning on the early Bishop S. C. Bryfogle, of Reading, .o¢ regigents, suffered a paralytic 10M Ogy Talbhzt 111 charge of selling liquor without a It-| Was charged with killing Linardo Gre- ' train started to bring Lome the life Pa, presided. Rev. C. Hauser, Pub-| gir5y6 3 few days ago and has been Happy Hooligan 2—3—3 ck-breas- conse, This was one of a number of | 80rio, of Harrisn. The defendant and legs form. Owing to a wrecked train lisher, and Rev Geo Johnson, Mission-{ i, 5 precamious condition since. He is Pansy Zolock 3—2—3 k Snipe oriminal cases instituted by the Som-| all of the witnesses of the homicide | jn the Sand Patch tunnel, the re ary, Secretary, of Cleveland O., Were | ynapo +4 speak and can be given but | Margaret Wilkes 4— 4— 4. ~ Nation- erset County Liquor Association ag-| Were Italians. The witnesses refused | mains were hauled by wagon around | Present and addressed .the confe™| very little nourishment. Mr. Schrock Time 2:29 1-4 each heat : ainst breweries from outside of the | to sive evidence on which the JUTY | the tunnel to a train waiting on this | ®#¢® is 83 years of age and was born and Second Event 2:30 pace, $300. nlimited, county who maintained agents in| Would be justified in rendering a first | side and on arrival in Meyersdele| The appointments in this section | passed almost his entire life in this Merry Maid 233°111 25 r 16th. this county to solicit orders for beer. | degree verdict and the Commou- | were taken to the home of his parents | are as follows: Meyersdale, C. E. Mil-| vicinity. For a dozen or more years | ROY Belleaaire 1 22222 3 lack, Six Sentence has not been pronounced. wealth deemed it wise to permit the , on Broadway. ‘ ler; Paradise, M. B. McLaughlin; | he has made his home at the Central | Sunlight 3 4 1 343 1 > day, 20 A plea of guilty was entered by prisoner to change his plea. H. Dalton Cook was aged 38 years Pleasantville, A. F. Richards; L. B.| Hotel, where he Is being carefully | Mary E. Brown 33 24400 iH) e sedson, John Donohue to a charge of larceny Nevin Bowman has been arrested 10 months and 13 days. He was a Rittenhouse, Conference Evangelist. | looked after by Lauds 1 and Mrs. A. | Dan C455 3 0th, both by ballee, and Judge Ruppel senten-| and held for court in the sum of $500 man of more than ordinary attain- C. F. Hartung, Superannuated list.| B. Falknor. ; Time 2:19 1-4 Purse $300. f ced him to undergo imprisinment in | bail on a charge of assaulting J. W. | ments, and of a cheery disposition. Fossilville and Preston, To be sup- eter Third Event,, Jockey Race i fowl, un- the Western Penitentiary for a period | Bruner. Mr. Bruner had prosecuted ' He was held in the highest esteem by plied. Bruce, the “13 year old son of W., King Stalworth 1st i 8 of Na of from eighteen months to three | Mr. Bowman for an alleged offense 31] who knew him. Just lately Le. M. Shultz, living about three miles Toison De Ort, Sec kill wild years, dependent upon his behavior | committed against his daughter. The | writer had business dealings with him NOTICE S. D. LIVENGOOD’S from town on the Pocahontas moun-: Carquette, Third veen Jan- in that institution. Donahue hired a |case was settled. Messrs. Bruner and and was impressed with the geniality CREDITORS. | tain road on Sept. 10 was hurried to Kedron 4th 30th next horse from George Hoke of Boswell | Bowman met a short time later in | of his character. All of his mature the Frostburg hospital and quickly | Time 1:02 1-2 ,Purse $60, $25, $15... to drive to Somerset, but instead cf | Somerset and Mr. Bruner was attack- | life he has been a consistent member The Auditor's report distributing a operated upon for appendicitis. The Some maliciously inclined persom day, one coming here he went to West Virgin- | ed. Bowman escaped, but was captur- ' of ghe Lutheran Church. final dividend of ten per cent in the | doctcr performing the operation said or persons on Tuesday night about © Beason. ia. He denied that he had any inten- | ed later. For a number of years he was en-|S. D. Livengood assigned estate has that the malady would have proved ten o'clock sent in a false alarm of 30, both tion of stealing the horse, but his ad-| §. G. Slater was sentenced to pay , gaged in the lumber business, but of | been filed and confirmed. All creditors | fatal to the lad, had there been but a! fire mission to the Court that he has ser-| the costs and $10 fine and serve six | late he was associated with his will please take notice that the under- | little longer delay. Bruce is doing On Wednesday afternoon, the home y, twenty ved time in a penal institution, added | months in jail on a charge of abduct- = father in the wholesale candy busi- | signed assignee will be in Myersdale | well and will be brought home in a | and store building of Grocer Bisel One see to the suspicion that he had no inten-| jon, ness. on Thursday the 28th, day of Septem- few days. was found to be on fire from a de-- mber 30th tion of returning the animal to it8! (prist Koontz was sentenced to pay He was married to Miss Stella Peck | ber, 1916, at the office of W. B. Cook, = = | fective flue. The alarm was sent in wher. $10 and costs on a charge of assault | a daughter of Lewis Peck of near | Esq, to pay the dividends allowed by CARD OF THANKS. and the fire department rallied quick Failing his effort to secure a con-| and battery. | this place. On the 10th anniversary the Auditor, at which time and place | Mrs. Ida V. Brant and family wish |ly and put out the flames without tinnance of the case charging him Judge Ruppel on Friday made an . of their return from the wedding trip | creditors are .requested to call. Any | to thank their many friends for their | having to deluge the building with with maintaining a nuisance, Wilson | ,.40;. gjviding Shade township into | Was the fateful day that death rob-| creditor may receive his dividend at kind assistance and sympathy in the | water. 5 9 Trent of Somerset entered a plea of two districts for election purposes. ! ped the wife of her husband. To them j an earlier time by coming to Somerset | recent loss of the husband and the X guilty. The case against Trent Was | phe division thaat will be known as | five children were born, the elder of | and receipting the record. .. .... ... | father respectively. THE LIFELESS FORM OF n. brought by Policeman Seibert fol | m.st Shade comprises the Cairnbrook whom is past nine, and the youngest Chas. H. Ealy, Assignee. DALTON COOK ROBBED A lowing complaints of the neighbors of : : : : ! and Central City developments, while | between two and three years. They ~~ Mr, Trent, who have reached the M-| woot Shade includes the Hoovers- | are from eldest to youngest. Dalton, | ing the transitory state of life com- BEATRICE FAIRFAX - While the body of Dalton Cook was uatin the mit of endurance because of the filthy | Jy ining region. The court appoint- | Edward Peck Cook, Mary Bell, Cath-| pared with eternity and gave many peing conveyed on the train from le through and unsanitary conditions about bhis| 4 {}e following election officers for | erine Louise, James Lewis, and How- thoughts that were an especial com-| The big sister of all true lovers, a Bard where he was killed last Friday n and con- premises because of the presence Of | 4, nog gistricts: ard. His mother whose health uas| fort to the directly bereft as well as} series of wild feature dramas, based | to Hyndman, some inhuman being des- n the bene- from twenty-five to fifty dogs, chick- East Shade—Judge of Election been impaired is hardly able to sus-| profitable instruction to all present, on the experiences of Beatrice Fair- poiled his body of about $100 which ens, sheep, horses, ete, which are}. oo o. majorit faspestor. tain the awful blow, and the wife is| His discourse was a very able one. | fax, Harry For as Jimmy Barton and | tt Was known he had with him before same price permitted to run at large, destroying Tot Io or y a almost prostrated with grief. Dr. Truxal based his few remarks | Grace Darling as Beatrice Fair fax | the accident. That there are persons most every the pretty lawns and fine gardens in Cyrus S. Berkebile: i oe The funeral was held on Sunday af-| On “Not sorrowing as those who have | you are missing something if you|so base as not to regard as almost e need has that neighborhood. Offal from slaugh. sessor, Hen Yohnsen ternoon, leaving the house at 2:30, in-| DO hope.” His short address was Very | don’t follow this series. Opening id sacred the remains of the departed Uncle Sam ter houses, which the defendant fed ot Ee Ne Biction. B torah being made in the Talon forceful. sode at the SummerGarden Sat. Sept. | seems hardly to be believed. There nore things to his dogs, has often been carried by F. Lambert; majority Siopeoter, A. | cemetery after which services were| Two selections were sung by Mess | 23. Each episode a complete story of | ought to be responsibility in the mat- the a ity the pmperties in fhe | glenn Ling: minority inspector, Wil- | held in the Lutheran church, con-| rs. H. M. Cook, Paul D. Clutton, R. H. | love and adventure, clean wholesome | ter and some one made to account neighbornood. of the very ountry. See he Suspect” OM. oii. Emanuel Statler, charging misde- meanor and resisting an officer; Pe- ter Siler and George W. Lybarger, ‘prosecutors. John Peck assault and ‘battery; Moss Hawk, prosecutor. M. L. Markle, assault and battery; Joe Vereb, prosecutor. Bdward Snowher- To Condemn Turnpike. Asserting that the condition of the old Benscreek turnpike, from Davids- ville to Benscreek, is in such a bad | | Milton Critchfield was found guilty of pointing firearms and surety, as charged by David W. Snyder. Mr. Critchfield was recently released from the Somerset hospital for the insane. lis Menges; registering Ellsworth Ling. ’ —————————— Get onr prices on job work. assessor, sault and battery and threats, by Jane Leonard, is a fugitive. | well-known candy manufacturing coin- pany, J. M. Cook and Son Company, was out in his auto soliciting orders and had left Bard a few minutes ahead of the time the passenger train was due going South. He had come io |; that part of the highway which for a ducted by Dr. L. P. Young, of Elk Lick He was assisted by Dr. A. BE. Truxal. Dr. Young chose as his theme: “Qur Life is but a tale that is told,” deduc- the contract “does not mention time Jost Smog an epidemic, the direct- ors will be required to pay the teach- ers for the _ time lost on account of the epidemic. : “Where the contract does not speci- ty any time for the opening of the None of the rest of either party was injured. The cars were badly damae- ed. BERLIN HOTEL TO CHANGE HANDS Philson, and W. H. Baldwin. The pall bearers were the above named gentle men, and in addition Charles Phillips and Mr. Stark. thinking observer many queries and here the farmer can be instructed by eyperts. By way of diversion, the midway consists of many things that will a- muse you and make the time go so fast that you cannot get al the way romance and hazardous thriling add- venture. That is the keynote of the | Beatrice Fairfax series. What is true | Tove?. See Beatrice and find out.i for this base act. Pay your subscription to the Com- | mercial during Fair week.