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Little talks on .rHealth and Hygiene |
by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon.
Do you . read morning mail at the
Sreakfast table? Have you ever used
@ knife or fork to open your letters?
It is not an uncommon practice and
yet an uncleanly and dangerous one.
The post-office is essentially a pube
Mo utility and it is universally used
by all classes of people. A common
point. of destination may put my la-
dy’s dainty note beside a dirty
scrawl from the vilest of slums.
Millions of pieces of mail are hand-
led. A certain number of these come
from people who are suffering from
all kinds of diseases, some of them
loathsome and infectious.
Stamps and envelopes, contrary to
hygienic rules are for convenience
sake frequently licked. Despite quar-
antine precautions mail sometimes
comes from houses where cases of
communicable diseases exists which
have not been reported.
Mail bags are not subjected to re-
gular disinfection, and are not so
oleansed as to make them safe from
the danger of becoming a factor in
the transmission of disease.
During the recent epidemic of in-
fantile paralysis many of those work-
ing on the disease formed the opinion
that it may be carried by a third Her-
som. Is it unreasonable to presume
that the disease may be carried
through the mail?
HOW PENNSYLVANIA
GUARDS CAN VOTE
Attorney General Brown today is-
sued his cpirion on the methods to
be followed in taking the vote.of the
Pennsylvania, soldiers now in Nation-
al Guard organization .on the. Meri-
can border. It is comprised in a para-
phlet of almost 40 pages with quota-
tions from the constitution, the state
laws and forms. Attention is called to
the fact that the ballots to be furnish-
ed to the soldiers will contain only
the state tickets and that the names
of candidates for comgressional and
legislative seats will have to be writ-
ten in. The commissioners who will
be named to take the vote, will sup-
ply this information. Soldier voters
will have to write their election dis-
trict on the back of the ballot.
Registration acts do not apply to
soldiers in the field, holds Brown, who
sets forth how soldiers’ taxes must be
paid. A power of attorney for such
payment is outlined. The governor is
advised that he is to appoint one com-
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Haiti did not behave as badly
to us as Mexico behaved; but Mr.
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and the blood of our troops, took
possession and now has our arm-
ed forces in control of Haiti and
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tion in Mexico is unqualifiedly
condemned; for such action was
far more needed in Mexico than
in Haiti. But there was a @differ-
ence in the two cases; and to Mr.
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FALL ARBOR DAY OCTOBER 27.
Superintendent of Public Instruc:-
ion Nathan C. Schaeger calls upon
teachers and pupils of the schools to
observe Arbor Day in the following
proclamaticn:
An old rule used to be that when-
ever a man cut down a tree he must
at any rate, plant a new one to make
up for it. They have forgotton that
good rule in England. In America we
never observed it, and thousands of
acres of glorious forest hitherto un-
touched by any hand but nature's
have been cut down at an alarming
rate. Men do not understand that all
human life depends upon the green
leaf, and that to cut down trees
is to hack at the rope which we are
hanging.—The Children’s Encyclo-
pedia. |
Trees grow while we sleep and add |
to our wealth by day and by night. |
They lend beauty to the landscape and
cover the mountains of Pennsylvania |
to the very summits with green ver- |
dure. For ages they have been catch- |
ing the sunshine and converting the
sunlight into fuel for man’s use. They |
are useful for shade, for fuel and for |
timber. The planting and the care of !
trees is one of the most useful lessons |
which the school can impart. |
In order to perpetuate the time hon- |
' ored custom of planting trees in the |
fall as well as in the spring of the |
year, an autumn day has been obser- |
ved by the schools in addition to ho
| Arbor Days observed in the month of
| April. In order that this laudable cus-
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tom may not fall into disuse, Friday,
October 27, 1916, is hereby designated
as autumn Arbor Day, and the teach- |
ers and pupils in our public schoois |
are earnestly urged to observe the day |
by the planting of trees and by other |
appropriate exercises.
NATHAN C. SCHAEFFER,
Supt. of Public Instruction.
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“The workingmen of this country |
are not going to be fooled by the pre-
sent fictitious prosperity,” said Con- |
gressman T. S. Williams of Illinois. i
“They know that labor conditions in-
this country are abnormal at the pre-
sent time and that everywhere that
mills and factories are running, it is
almost invariably directly traceable
to the European war. The working-
men of this country, like all other
patriotic Americans, are looking te
the future. They know that the Re
rublican party is their only hope.”
| his barn with straw-wrapped
| cial stones early in the spring. Then
| he deflected
1,200,000 calories
ROCKWOOD |
Mrs. A. W. Young of near Rock-
wood, is the guest of her mother, Mrs.
«Hetzell and other relatives and
friends of Connellsville this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Miller of Rock-
wood, attended the Uniter Evangeli-
cal conference which was held at
Hyndman last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Moses Phillippi and
daughter of Kansas City, Mo., are the
guest of the former’s uncle and aunt,
Merchant and Mrs. S. Snyder of Main
street,
The Ninth District of the Somerset
County Sunday School Association
will hold a rally in the Middlecreek
Chunch- of the Brethren on Sunday
October 1. A full program will be an-
nounced later.
Israel Gross of near New Lexington
Pa., died Friday after a lingering ill-
ness of several months following an
operation at the McKeesport Hospi-
tal for internal trouble. The funeral
services were held at the home Sat-!
urday with interment in the New Cen-
terville cemetery,
John Straser, Jr. after spending
several days with his parents of Rock-
wood, ‘has returned to Cumberland,
where he is employed.
John Hay has returned to Cumber-
| land to resume his position in the tin
plate mill after a pleasant visit of sev-
eral days with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Abe Hay.
STORE HEAT OF
SUMMER FOR WINTER
Albert Barnes’ “caloric contri-
vance” was the envy of all his neigh-
bors, the worry of gas and coal com-
panies and the eight wonder of Ohio
today.
Barnes, a Fostoria mechanic, filled
artifi-
the sun’s rays from a
bright tin roof to an absorbing plate
on the barn. Now, he declares, he aas
of heat stored in
| hig barn—more than enough to heat
{| his home all winter via an under-
ground connecting pipe line.
He got his ileafrom the “fireless
heater” when he successfully fried a
beefisteak on the tin roof in 40 minut-
es, It took him ten days to charge his
hot storage plant, he says.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
i and heavy rains
creation or a day off. Taking time by
the forelock is an important part if
CASTOR'A
Pay your subscription to the Com. |
mercial during Fair week.
mm ee Si
UNDERTAKING MORE THAN
WE CAN HANDLE
“It is the acme of bad management
to try to do a lot more than we can do
right” says L. W. Lighty, farm ad-
viser of the Pennsplvania Department
of Agriculture. “I have letters about
plowing up sod to seed wheat, when
it is already wheet sccdin time. It is
impossible to make a good seed bed
for wheat on newly plowed sod com-
pact in the bottom and only tillage
will bring this aad
for that reason we plow sod a few
months befere seeding so nature wi'l
do the work that is impractical with
implements alone. A poor seedbed for
wheat is also not a good seedbed for
the grass to follow the wheat.
“It is of the utmost importance that
we plan our work of cropping and gen-
eral management of the soil as far
ahead as may possibly be done, and
then keep up to date with the work,
and if we find it impossible to keep
up, cut out the least profitable or
least important and make it possible
to keep up. Lagging behind, late seed-
ing, late haying, late harvesting; late
always with the work means loss
and discouragement, with no time for
recreation or rest, and renders farm-
ing a drudgery and a miserable busi- |
ness. The weally successful farmer
does all his work in good time and
always has a little time for visits, re-
sucsessful farm management.
MAN AND WIFE HAVE
268 DESCENDANTS
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Jones of
Buchanan county, Missouri, who have
been married 71 years, are visifing
their 70-year-old son, Caleb Jones, in
St. Louis. Mr. Jones is 91 years old
and his wife is four years younger.
They were married July 22, 1845, and
have had 14 children, seven boys and
seven girls. Four are living, all over
60 years old, Fifty-eight grandchildren
all living; 200 great grandchildren and
8 or 10 great-great-grandchildren. He
was the first white child born in Rush
township, Rush couty, Indiant. Mrs.
Jones was one of 11 children.
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¥ Pay your subscription to the Com-
mercial during Fair week.
The editor of the New York Jour-
nal of Commerce suggests that we
defer tariff revision until the post-
bellum readjustment has taken place.
KEYSTONE PARAGRAPHS
Throngs" greeted more, than 8,000
marchers in"the parade of secret and
fraternal orders, held in connection
with the silver jubilee celebration of
Duquesne. Led by bands the march-
ers traversed the principal streets of
the borough. They included men-not
only from Duquesne lodges and so-
cieties, but from organizations
throughout the seounty, :
John Hulick, fourteen, of Rankin, was
driving a horse hitched to a wagon
across the Braddock junction bridge.
Tied to the endgate of the wagon was
a cow, which became frightened at a
passing car and pulled the wagon
from the tracks. The horse pulled
ahead, and the boy was thrown to the
bridge.
eral hospital.
Of the 1,650 babies who received
free pasteurized milk each day last
month at public milk stations, not one
has contracted infanfle paralysis, ac
cording to the statistics of the bureau
of child welfare of the Pennaylvania
department of ‘public health. These
figures, it is said, demonstrated the
benefit of pure milk as a shield against
the disease.
Dr. T..A.
J. B. Mahn, both of Altoona, were
killed instantly on tne Hougetown
crossing, on the outskirts of Cresson,
Monday evening, while returning to
Altoona, when their automobile was
struck by a passenger train on the
Cresson division of the Pennsylvania
railroad. The machine was wrecked.
With his body standing erect, sup
ported by a tree, William Morrow,
aged fifty, a constable and special in-
fantile paralysis quarantine officer,
was found dead in front of the home
‘of his brother, Charles Morrow, in
West Liberty borough, near Butler.
Heart disease is believed to have
caused death.
Five Farrell confectioners entered
pleas of guilty of selling strawberry
pop that Pure Food Agent: Guant in-
sisted never came within two miles
of a strawberry patch. Squire Thomas
fined each $25 and costs. Two Sharon
dealers charged with the same offense
waived hearings and gave bail for
court.
Traffic" between Connellsville, Pa.,
and Cumberland, Md., on the Balti-
more and Chio railroad was tied up
for many hours when ten cars of a
train of sixiy coal cars were derailed
in Sand Patch tunnel on the crest of
the Allegheny mountains. The acci-
dent was cue to a broken rail.
Edward Hughes, a structural steel
worker of Burgettstown, who disap-
peared last August and for whom a
search has been made since by his
wife, has been fcund in Braddock.
Hughes said he did not know what
he had been doing all the time.
The Carnegie Steel company has
appropriated upward of $1,000,000 for
big ore bins and the latest devices
for handling ore at the Farrell plant.
Within the last year the Carnegie com-
pany has appropriated about $2,000,-
000 for extension there.
Anthony Carroll of Shenandoah and
William Wertman of Sunbury, line-
men, were electrocuted while on top
of a pole on the outskirts of Mahanoy
City. Both were hurled to the ground
and death was instantaneous.
The hotel at Roaring Branch, near
Williamsport, famous among sports-
men and hay fever sufferers, who vis-
ited the place because of its altitude,
has been destroyed by fire. The loss
ie $20,600.
Dr. Floyd L. VanWert, thirty-three,
of New Castle, was killed when the
automobile in which he was riding was
struck by a Pittsburgh and Lake Erie
train at Covert crossing, near New
Castle.
Leo McGrath, aged twenty-three, is
under arrest at Warren, charged with
robbing the Irie railroad ticket office
of $48. He was caught as he attemp:-
ed to escape by boarding a freight
train,
Old Pennsylvania Canal Boatmen’s
association will hold its annual re-
union in Johnstown Oct. 12, when the
new Pennsylvania station will be dedi-
cated and Columbus day celebrated.
Charged with shooting a boy who
crawled over a park fence to attend a
picnic, Constable Julius Geyer of
Lower Yoder township, Cambria coun-
ty, was placed on trial for murder.
Walter Wendt of Altoona, who,
with his brother, Alfred Wendt, was
indicted in Blair county for the mur-
der of Constable McGinley last Octo-
ber, has been arrested in Chicago.
John Hughes, who came to Greens-
burg from Ireland three years ago
working as a store clerk, has receive
word that he has inherited the estate
of an uncle wcrth $10,000.
John Prendergast and Fred M. Mat-
son, bothih of Titusville, were Killed
when a passenger train on the New
York Central backed over them as they
were sit'ing on the track.
Jacob Neff, fifty-three, of Manor-
ville, a glassworker, returning from
th» Punxsutawney fair was killed by a
P unsylvania railroad train at Moss-
grove.
Ralton Cook, a salesman of }Meyers-
dale, Pa.. was killed when an aut¥mo-
bile he was driving was struck by a
Pennsylvania passenger traln at Bed-
ford.
He is in the Braddock Gen-|’
C. Kephart and Dr.
1:3 PZRSUADE
RELCE ALLIES WILL WIN
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M. DENYS, CCCHIN,
French Minister of State.
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR.
Bouton. «wood, "High | wood and
‘the..towns of Martinpuich and Cour-
celette have been taken by the Brit-
t'ish, who also ‘have captured all the
high ground between ‘Combles and the
Pozieres-Bapume rodd, according to
the official communication. More than
2,300 prisoners" were captured in the
drive.
The British made a powerful gen-
eral attack, supported by the heaviest
volume of shell fire since that of July
1 when the grand offensive began.
The attacking front extends over sjx .
miles, from the region of Thiepval to
the junction with. the French army
‘on the right, or practically the entire
line of the British advance of the past
ten weeks.
Having gained the whole ridge from
the east of Thiepval through Ginchy
and all the old German second line
fortifications, the British made their
next step, a broad stride down the
hill against the newly-constructed Ger-
man third line. As the ceaseless Brit-
ish artillery fire had not permitted
them to dig elaborate dugouts and
other defenses, the Germans became
on their artillery for
are known to have: in
defense. ‘hoy
front of the British from Grandcourt
to Ginchy 1,000 guns or 150 to the
mile.
The French also are attacking. The
thunder of artillery and the struggle °©
of infantry ranges from Thiepval to
the Somme.
Heavy strokes are being delivered
by General Sarrail’s forces against the
Bulgarians on the lIacedonian front,
with marked .success, according: to
Paris. Victories have been won by
the Servians, French and British.
The official statement indicates that
the most serious defeat was admin-
istered by the Servians. who drove the
Bulgarians back nine miles after scv-
eral days’ fighting west of Lake Os-
trovo, capturing many prisoners and
twenty-five cannon.
Food disorders have broken out in
Vienna, said a Geneva dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph.
Beef is selling at $4 a pound and
rice at $2 a pound. There is terrible
distress among families of working-
men, the dispatch added.
Constantinople reports the British
again on the offensive in Mesopotamia,
following long inactivity of the forces
along the Euphrates and em the Tigris
below Kut-el-Amara.
According to advices from Swiss
source, the Austrians have suffered
another sanguinary defeat west of
Kapul mountain in the Carpathians.
Capture by Italians of Austrian
positions on the Isonzo frent amd in
the Trentino near Monte Cauriol wag
announced in Rome.
TRAIN HITS BUGGY--THREE DIE
Woman and Two Babes Lose Lives at
McArthur, O.
A woman and two children were
killed at McArthur, O., as a result of a
Hocking Valley train hitting their
buggy on a crossing.
The dead are Mrs. Harriett Ireland,
aged twenty-four, of near Dundas, O.;
Emmitt Ireland, aged eighteen months,
and George Ireland, aged six months,
sons of Mrs. Ireland.
They were on their way home from
market when the accident occurred.
The victims: were hurled nearly
twenty-five feet. Mrs. Ireland and her
oldest son were killed instantly. The
youngest child was unconscious when
picked up and was taken to a nearby
residence, where he died.
JAIL DELIVERY PREVENTED
Warren (O.) Sheriff Finds Bars of
Cell Sawed.
A general jail delivery was frustrat-
ed at Warren, O., by Sheriff Thomas
when he discovered four bars in one
of the windows of the county jail
sawed nearly through.
Fresh marks showed that the en-
trance of the sheriff to the cell block
Bad caused work to be stopped. There
were thirty prisoners in the jail.
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