t » MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL r= PUBLISHED EVERY Tunstav] AT MEYERSDALE, PA. rar A. M. SCHAFFNER, Owner, ar on When paid strictly in advance $1.25 When not paid in advance $1.50 REPUBLICAN PARTY TICKET | For President : CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, of New | York. | For Vice President | LHARLES W. FAIRBANKS,of Indi- ana. For State Treasurer HARMON M. KEPHART, of Fayette County. For Auditor General CHARLES A. SNYDER, of Schuykill County. For United States Senator PHILANDER C. KNOX, of Allegheny flavor. County. For Congressmnien- at-Large THOMAS 'S. CRAGO, of Greene County. MAHLON M. GARLAND, of Alle- gheny County, ah JOSEPH McLAUGHLIN, of Allegheny County. - JOHN R, K, SCOTT, of Philadelphia 5 . £ County, ~ For Congress AAA AAAS A SAAS INI NII SINS SSN ROBERT F. HOPWOOD, of Fayette Rev. Dosch of Hyndman preached | County. in the Evangelical church Sunday | Sm——— eee morning and evening. i SALISBURY Mrs. Bud Newman and Mrs. N. B.' | | Hanna spent Tuesday in Meyersdale. ' Death of Former Salisbury Boy | Mrs. D.W. Livengood and Miss On Sunday Oct. 22 Howard Williams Margaret Fike spent Monday evening. second son of Mrs. Alice Williams died in Meversdale . z ; at his home in Akron Ohio after a lin- 2 gering illness which began in Feb, He was aged 20 years 8 months and 12 days. He is survived by his mother hig brothes Ward and two sisters, | day to his work Mi L d Al Many in Pittsburg after! isses orena an myTra. any | spending several days at the home cf! beautifhl floral tributes express the his parents, Mr and Mis. Samuel Li | So3nid in which he was held by his vengood on Gay street. iends. ! A short service was held at his home then held on Wednesday moro- “ing, 10:00 at the home of Mrs. Wiil- jams’ sister Mrs. Lorena Reitz. Inter. ment was made in the cemetery be- gide the resting place of his father. Those here from a distance to at- tend the funeral wert Mr. and Mrs. | Mrs. Geo. Fechtig, O. Smith of Meyersdale, Mr. and Mrs. | iel, Everline, Edward and Lillian Wil- Morgan Williams and Mr. and Mrs. William Williams and son Allen of Johnstown, Dr. Victor Miller and ine | had mother, brother and sisters of tha da | Ohio, ceased. . | this part of this country being one of Coal Operators nearing a Cricis | Mt. Savage’s former merchants. it The miners of the Meager niines, C. : and M. Merchant, Baker and Bowman | meet friends from near his home town mines have been on a strike since | and he treated them with great hospi- a i s | tality. Monday for higher wages per day, ! check weighman and more money per Mr. and Mrs, Harvey Shaffer of i -2 | Pisstburg sp 's last wee ton, The men of the Yoder mines have | Pissthurg spent a Bw Oy civen their employer until Thursday + With Mr. Shaffers parelits . acon to decide if he will grant their | Mrs. J. E. Shaffer, . | Vmniebe | \ Miss Cornelia Baker is spending) | several weeks visiting her brothers who live on the Eastern Shore gf Md. ——— WELLERSBURG | Mr. G. W. Witt spent several days | Among those from town who went just arrived from Youngstown _emands or not and the miners of the Mr. Eo Liisi 2 j ifs i _ weeks visit with relatives in Roanoke, “faust mines have notified their em- 4 -er that until Saturday they wiil { +hen if catisfaction is not giv: | Mrs. James Reddig and gaushists hey also will be counted a: Lorena Belle and Helen of Newville ~t of strikers. | are spending several days in town. Mr. W. K. Kennell has recently coz Celebration, | pleted a concrete walk in front ing Mrs. Martha | of his property. aut fifteen lad- sinth birth- | eos EE , f many | SOLILOQUY AT SHACCW LAWS ‘nch- pa <1 | Where are they gone, faces? T had a friend— McCombs, but he left ma “t me slowiv but surely, whes I €& nef eed him. are gone. the old familiar fecis! “ryan: he was my frisné © struggling in that gress: Left me with “God the old familiar | * no man frient with a Flavor Flavor is not ted of eo we fs not expec Uneeda Biscuit are extraordinary soda crackers and have a distinctive appetizing Buy Uneeda Biscuit because they are soda crackers with a flavor, but, above all, buy them for their crisp goodness. 5 cents everywhere x NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Robert Livengood returned on Fri- = this week in W. Va. on Business. | | to Pittsburg on Sunday on the West- | | ern Maryland excursion were Mr.and ; George, Paul, Dan- | was a pleasure for Mr. Brannon to | I a | witt left Sunday for a the old familiar Py Te ofl) But a crackers. w EP MEYERSDALE AND VICINITY Miss Erma Bockes who is working for James Beals spent Sunday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Wash Bock- es. Mahlon Yoder who was living in one : of Norman Hay’s houses near St. Paul has moved back to Lincoln Faidleys and John Beal” has moved in the other place, yey Mr. and Mrs. Milton Mishlers spent Sunday at Ray Engles. 1 Mrs. John Zimmerman and daugh- ter Erma spent Sunday ht Elmer Zn- A gles. Miss Nellie Beals who was working ! for her sister Mrs. R. A. Staub is now ! home again. : Mr. Alv.n and Ellis Kretchman s, ent Sunday with Harry Burkholder. | Mr.- Oscar Steckman, Mr. Calvin Rhoads and children, Mr. and Mrs. John Beals, Mr. Charles Wise, Mr. Lee Swisher, Theo. Nolen, John Schrader, | helm and Mrs. G. W. Witt. While in , Clarence Colflesh and Louis Wallace the city they met Eckie Brannon who | were Sunday callers at Geo. Beals. Mrs. Wm. Miller spent a few days Mr. Brannon is well known in | last week with her parents Mr. aad had been picked | two other ships. | Mrs. Wilson Saylor. | Mr. Norman Bender is driving team for the Muncy Lumber Co. and board- ing at Louis Mausts. | Calvin Rhoads is making use of his ; new Ford Car. Cee COAL RUN | Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Gray have re- | cently returned from the hospital. | Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Steckman and | two children, Roy and Ruth of Fitz | Henry, Pa. Mrs. J. H. Beals and Miss Hattie Beals were Visitors at W. A. | James, Saturday. | Mr. and Mrs Geo. May, Mr. and | Mrs. Barry May and daughter, Mics | Madge May and Clareace May, were | weekend vicitoes at Confiuemce and | Listonburg. \ Miss Elizabeth Beals, entertained | the members of the @. P. Club, ia bee home, Friday evening. Mrs. Russell Martin of W. Va. is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hesh. : Bruce Fuller still tarries in Akron | Ohio. Cheer up Mary, brighter days are coming by and by. Three well dressed full fiadged | hunters namely. Lloyd Fuller, Archie Cochrane, Jr. and Gilbert Thomas, of Salisbury, especially ag hard cider being their favoritt game, called - | at the home of J. H. Beals and as hé ad none of the apple juice im stock, nlied with their resuest by serv- =m with a sandwich apiece. We - will have better luck the ~ of the Grassy Run No. 3 Hardings’ as of the Bocw- f the No. 3 ‘mpany, “ding a com—— RISCO” | ORIA .ts and Children . or Over 30 Years ‘Four Vesss's Wrecked; One ' steamer Marquette and Bessemer No. Midland, Ont., was lost in Friday ‘ night's. gale. The admission came after seven bodies of the crew The loss of Merida makes four lake, | steamers which went to the bottom of | Lake Erie in Friday's storm. ' Mathews in mid-lake and taken to To- TR : SUMMER GARDEN Boy Scouts. 50 LOSE LIVES IN LAKE ERIE STORM One of the most interesting featu-- | es of its kind ever offered in a screen production will be shown in Reel life at the Summer Garden This Saturday evening Oct. 28th. along with seven other reeds, including “Beatrice Fair- fax,” At the present time there are ap- proximately 200,000 youths and boys affiliated with the Boy Scout move- ment and the work this non-military organization is doing has received tlt highest endorsement firom many quarters. The boys are shown on their march to the camp, and their engage- ment in the various sgout activities which are designed to make better men of thegn. Boy Scouts don't miss this novel picture of life in camp; it tells of a boy, a scoffer, who finally was prevailed upon to join the move- ment. See how this is done; there are quite a few in our little Meyersdale | who do not belong to the Boy Scouts | who = ought to be initiated imto tte. mysteries of scout life, See how this | is done. i : “The Soul Market” The next Metro wonderplay with a Man Drifis 34 Aours 20 WIRELESS TO GEAR NEWS fteamers James B. Colgate, Filter, Marshal F. Butters and Merida Sunk on “Black Friday”--Wreckage Found. Loss of the Cleveland-owned whale- back steamer James B. Colgate witn the death of twenty-one members of the crew-—all but Captain Walter Grashaw, who was picked up after floating on a life raft for 34% hours— is reported from Cleveland. Captain Grashaw, the lone survivor, brought the story ashore. Half dead from two nights and a day spent on a raft, tortured and torn by the seas, he was carried off a rescue ship at Conneaut, O. The Colgate went down at 10 o'clock Friday night off Long Point, Canada, opposite Erie. Every one of the crew of twenty- one perished, nineteen of them sucked down to death the instant the big steel boat foundered in the storm and two added to the roll when exhaustion, exposure and the relentless waves sweeping over the raft that carried their captain washed them off when their strength gave way. The ferry Beware of 2 picked up the captain off Rondeau, void These A ilments. Canada, opposite Cleveland. The Colgate went down the night of what has cone to be known as “Black Friday” in marine circles. Six men ; were lost when the steamer Filer sank LEADING MEYERSDALE, in Lake Erie Friday, only Captain Mattison being saved. Earlier that night the steamer Marshal F. Butters foundered, but its crew of thirteen men were saved. Less than an hour after the Filer sank the Colgate, by far the largest of | NOVEMBER 3rd; oughs and Coughs and Colds, YRUP WHITE PINE with TAR you can F. B. THOMAS Columbia Records for October now on Sale. —_— — Tuesday evening Oct. 31st; don’t miss this Metro production; a big story done in a big Metro way. Roller Skating The roller skating and Basket Ball season will open at this popular a- musement resort on Friday evening the policy for the coming season will be pictures everv night’ with a Saturday afternoon Mat- inee with roller-skating but one night a week, Fridays with a Saturday at- | teynoon mitinee. Send the little folks on Saturday afternoon; they will be taken care of. Pictures will be run on Friday evening as usual; also Satur- day afternoons with a complete change of program in the evening. The adm:- ssion on Saturday will be five cent to all any part of the house; skates children, ten cents; Adults 15 cents. ‘Remember the opening date, Friday Nov. 3rd. : : Bn i NOTICE HALLOWEENERS Burgess - Gress issues orders that there will not be allowed the throwing | of confetti or the cutting up of pranks big favorite among the photoplay fans | Where property will be damaged on Mms. Petrova in “The Soul Market” | Halloween, oe #7 olds. By taking our" DRUGGIST PENNA. the three victim vessels, went down Sd he miles away. The twenty-one of her crew who died raised “Black Friday’s” sea casualty list on Lake Erie to i 7 twenty-seven. There was no wireless | J 3 to give warning and the lake held . A - its secret until Captain Grashaw was { rescued. The steamer Merida, owned by the Valley Camp Shipping company of up in mid-lake by So far as known not a man of the crew of twenty-three survived the tragedy. The total loss of life is fifty. Every man on the Merida is believed lost. Three bodies from the Merida were picked up by the steamer W. B. ' ledo. Four bodies were found bear- ing Merida life belts by the steamer Charlotte Breitung and landed at De- troit. Reports from another ship sent out from a Canadian port to hunt for | the Merida were that wreckage had : : 1 ' heen sighted but no survivors and no - which takes them other bodies were found. ¢ {i The Merida was due at Buffalo Sat- tony of the ! urday with a cargo of pyrites ore. She was esmmanded by Captain H. L. [$52 of Buffalo. The ship was of 5.100 tons capacity and 28€ oR Hes. : She was built im 1224 APPEAL FOR ARM ENIANS | Pa. Govermer Zul CSIpe ® Help Starving People. Governor Brumbaugh has issued a proclamation to the people of Pennsyl- vania urging them to help the 4,000, 000 Armenians and Syrians who are : facing famine as the result of the war. The proclamation follows: “Whereas, It has been brought to | my attention anew that more than | 4,000,000 people, noncombatants war- | pressed, living in Armenia and Syria, are today in dire distress, facing famine, disease and death as the winter settles over their stricken countries, the call of these people for relief should touch every philan- thropic and patriotic neart, and I earn- and Winter testify to his designs. These clothes will make you price they challenge the field GHA There is that about ‘High Art Clothes’” ‘just clothes’ class and give them a personality of their own. ® Their designer follows no precedents other than good ‘taste and the “High Art” models for Fall See them=feel the comfort of them and you will wear M..DE BY STROUSE & BROTHERS, abl BALTIMORE, MD, MLLER & COLLINS. FE out of the dull mono- his ability to put life into- a better dressed man—and at their. estly ask the people of Pennsylvania to make such contributions as the providence of God and their own in- dustry has made possible, to succor RRR RR RR RR RB ROH ER these most deserving people.” TRAIN HITS AUTO--FOUR DIE Another May Die as Result of Grads Crossing Smash In Altoona. Eyes Examined grade crossing accident occurred ‘toona, Pa., when a Pennsyl a railroad passenger train south- smd om the Hollidaysburg branch gk sa zeiomobile. Twe wen was four kiiled and one probably fatally hurt. Mrs. A. Z. Pote and her daughter, Grace, aged ten, and Ruth and Laura Meyers, all of Sa=wse Summit, were . instantly killed. Julius Pote, a son, who was driving the car, was injured. feel better. and studying. ot : : X X > I want to see you about your : x EYE TROUBLES. , 2 can help you to see better and to : Bad vision is very | Don’t neglect your common in these days of reading 1 know It organs— YOUR To most precious ! Deseri.cn Bureau Planned. To save New York city $700,000 a EYES, | year, which it expends for the support | of children deserted by their parents, os | the board of aldermen has taken the first step tcward the establishment of i a “deserti 1, he® duties of | Both Phone RRR ARR ORO ECR RAC A0R0B0B0ACA0S0B0B0B0BCBWI BIA 8 C OK, Eye Sight Specialist THE OPTOMETRIST Meyersdale, Pa. v WL PERSON. Dr. B. R. 8¢ acting busine Mr, and M Sunday visitil Joseph Dur er, Mrs, Mar; weeks has where he i M. A. Rutt the week. on burg. Mrs. W. H Somerset las John Kelly day here wil Ray ‘Comn here for a fi tives and fri Mrs. Harr ves in Ha week. Mr. and M wood wer Monday. Mrs. Simo: Sand Patch on Wednesd Mrs. W. 1] been spendi visiting frie: Mrs. «Ct Pittsburg fc tives and fr Habel & Roadster p minger on | Mr. an Sunday vis relatives M John and burg spent parents, M Fred W returned h here with and family Miss C: cepted a I a Pittsburg on Sunday Mrs. Jan Tuesday main fo Judge wh The age of Romani the Allegs aged 83 ye Rev. Mz church, the Sunda in the Bul : Lloyd E cepted a I cook and $80 per employed ray yast . Rev. E. preach in place on begin at service in at the us: Mr. 'W. who has al Cumbe havng un for hemo by its re and is ex John where he The tended Smith, Ww were t Anthony and Mrs. of Young Cronley garet Cr Ellen Ta riet of A Miss Ed len of W “THE asm——
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