MEYERSDALE COM MERCIAL [AY THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA. Ea STR REE SE New Z¢ alapd wool crop. The Japan- §{ eer——— . | ese bans are £1 result of Ler war ¢¢ er prosperity, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY and this money is to pe used to devel § #3 When pp sifigtly in ggvance $1.28 harvest of collars she will reap from When not paid In advance $1.50 sm— —— cn—— a ————————————— i | NO MONOPOLY OF 8. 1 Railroads and Busines eooRECSIVIEM | A | A number of railroad have unite AT MEYERSDALE. PA. R. M. SWISHER, Editor. lief from be expected u ———— \ i —e presidents | i I hat re- 3 mn cannot York was first elected to Congress as reigh ongest! 1 have caused the railroads to be called | upon to perform jnstances 40 per ce at. preceding yaar, and t have the reserve for Here are two implications. that the present commerce Of country is founded to such a great ex- tent on war business, Or temporarily when peace is made, ally will have a di domestic industry. a service he roads did hob] i enormous in many in excess of the { | such a condition.” One is ithe | business | Set Ae ios thy Tes | of George W. Perkins before hic eyes. |{ tates on accou , there will be an that slump and that natur- sasirons efiech 74 Foderal Advisory Council says,“In the The other is that : the railroads are not equipped to han- | dle expedition norm United States. we may p the a] average business ‘of the | In the former case | e rotect oursélves to an sly anything more than | | | tent by keeping actively after the for- eign market given us entry. the railroads must hav i 3 relief from the ; ment in the fosm of i from Wan adclions. onerous reculation of multiplicity of mational, | that hamper development of transpor- | tation systems. It logks as if the activities set in dent Wilscn's efforts d’fference the state and s to which the war has In the latter instance e first aid tseat- local agencies enn Traveling in a Circle. ard the brotherh oods owes 'wotld be to carry us back : : ; i employes would b Y 49% | of police. The adontion of this meth- | bul the n mot on by Presi- et we iin wet result of ail ‘0 accommodate the r ilrcads | of train service to the besinning of the whole contro- versy. 1f that Le su we shall have but e¢ncther demonsiration that all the boas.ed Wilsonian force is of no effect cattling 3 | a Progressive, the only ti e the war. | 2 : t ntil the end of ar 2 sor. From His Site We S rtovold «Conditions precipitated by the war | re-elections have come to ope Japarese indu.iries. If Japan can bave the Wilson-Un- | derwcod law to shoe-horn herself | | | to our doniestic market, what a rich Renresentative Chander of New one ever so if (J. =. him as a |§ Banking Homse............... Republican. He told the New York | County Commitee the other night |: that “no gioup Or coterie can claim a { monopoly on progressivism in the Re- : puilbanc party. The party as a whoie | is progressive,” he declared, “and '} : believe it will remain united for fo] ture victories.” Mr. Chandler evi- : Capital Stock dently spoke without having the fear | § Cash... Barplug 0. 0 oo —_— An article appearing in the { york Journal of Commerce on the | Creenpinilon i | . BJ oaivided Profiis New } Resinarstfin 3 . NE... ¥ xX twenty-six months’ of its existance |: even its own members have not been $ cléar as to what its+ real functions ! are.” Apparently they are in a plight similar to that of the President. The Treasury deficit on January 1f i was $140,871,290, compared with $60 - 869,672, same date, 1915. This is ex- clusive of Panama Canal and debt "ap on the taxes! sepa re mr formation. His final capture ‘was de- layed several months, but: happening of this kind will be largely prevented in the future by the new system.” Ww THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD SYSTEM Ss, pins ——————————— ’ The fingerprint method of iden‘i- ication is to be adopted by the police derartment of the Baltimore and Ohio LIVE STOCY “ND GRA! Pittsburgh, Jan. 30. CLELZENS NAT OF MEYERSDALEL, PA. At Close of Business Decewnber 27, 1917 mare cme es — rR AS ST Ar Ccndensed Statement $ RESOURCES ig Due fr Banks and Reserve Agents. . ie LiliZzens National ark The fan With The Clock With Th | | | Always bears | | — Pri 3 . dda’ { Railroad System for apprehending fu Butter — Prius, dd@adtee; tubs, | eh . 3 42@42%c. Dggs—i'T 45c. : ~itives from justice and for protect Cattle — Pie 0011; good : ; . atts iaalCy Wal, . ni~ the company and its patrons i $9.75@10.5C; tidy bu 3, $5605.50; agninst criminals. according to Ed- | ta; rn. oriIION, Tin hol munad leigh, general superintendent cre “3 geod iat to lzqel Tot dows and Epring ont fresh { bulls, od which is generally recognized i | police circles throfighont the world} ef as infallible will be the first under- | 1d Liambs—Primeowethers, | taken by a private concern for self- | igre : mixed, $10@10.50; in cory us ahead by setllmgiaamil on : iid o 1H 5.60; culis a Jn- roble: Trig railroad case is lke protection, ard He gpordtion Oh “i'm ; i es 2600; p in ab | larefe railroad svstem will’ be studied | _. io ani} termination of W. F. Shepler, assistant to Chief Hogs—Prime * heavy, hea AR Suprgme Court. for de or inn Leioh, who is in charge of the office Land medmms,, $12.65@12:10; "€=avs = tit itionality 1 ecis x ry : at RAO uk - i its ~onstitutionality, be t ye ng work of the railroad’s po'ice depart vorkers, $12@12.05; light Yorkers, 2 n re 1 in TES 3 nns . FOL 1 ma. og 0 D1 Print is of no particular AL ore. : | ment at Baltimore, has been attached | $1LE0@ 115] D325 30 Bita%: directly concerned hecause neither roughs, $10.60@11; slags, +. (3.50. {do We i At that no- a side wants it i 3 > 2 Now | temporaaily in order to make a gen- | adv heii i wr 3 held. NO i . pody believes it will’ be uphe eral study of the fingerprint system. | vo i, i to the New York police de artment , y > or ' Qleveland, Jan. 30. Hogs—Medium, heavies, mixed and 3, ($1160; pigs, $10.50; roughs, the supplemental legislation proposed | ony it i ik , i or- | } : D > | ipstall it in the railroad’s police or-| s19.35! stags, $9.25. hy the presiaent, being brought do | gonization and instruct the to possible workable form, 1s found bers of the department tn recording | to be of little or no Strikes will not be enjoined even tem- porarily and strikers feved with in the exerc'se of any righty hi . have heret joyed. | at! which they have heretofore enjoyed. | og 4, the office of Commissioner Wool ~ if ~ohibiti O s as 7) 4 Specific prohibition of trespassing of the New York Police Department, railroad property with a view of pre- venting by violence, rractical value. will not be inter- intimidation or mem- | Cattle-—Choige fat steers, $3.25@ 9.75; good to choice Yutcher steers, and indexing impressions. $8.76@9.25; fair fo gcod butcher Copies of all fingerprint impressions | steers, $8.25@8.50; commen and light | of persons arrested on serious charge | steers, $6@7; choice heifers, $8@ | hy the railroad police will be forward, J 5.207 light heifers, $T@7. good to choice butcher bulls, $7.50 @?%; bologna bulls, $6.75@ 7.50; good tc choice cows, | $6.50@7.25; fair to good cows, $5@ 5.50; common COWS, $4@4.75. | | i | for classification. Impressions will be | furnished to other police departments ore r— § i ih IUNAL BA pe wenn ny” HATER LETRA 1 THRE TT $771,422.91 700 Ou ER } Bis (4 220: 245.37 a CASTORIA For Infants and Children InUse For Over 30 Years ® the ZT Le Signature of “Fie y, J Lik a Taken to the Hospital, Abcut a year ago Mrs. William Iritz, who resides near Frittz church, suffered from a disease in her eye, and in order to save the one the dis- eased one was removed. Since that time a cataract has formed upon the cther eye and this week she was tak- en ito the hospital in Cumberland | where an operation will be performed Calves—Gogd te choice, $14@14.75; ! ‘are furnishing the cars as usual, but ” bricg showed an increase from $50, Lo China having given way to’ cotton “plantations, Japan is talking of estab- ‘ take care of the crop. This will have womans pom Ee Chinese: market in threats the operation of trains meve- vsing the system, thus facilitating the ly confirms exigting police powe-. Making more specific the exemptions of organized labor from the operations of the antitrust statutes is a work | 400 arrests made by the Baltimore and of supererogation. Giving the Presi- Ohio officers last “year, many old of --mt authority to take over and ODI feongine fugitives from justice eluded ate “such part of” a railroad or its equipment asimay be necessary 9 | not establibed. This opinion is born move troops or munitions in time © | gu py a confession made by one of war, threatened war or insurrection, | America’s notorious yeggmen, now makes statutory power that would he | gopving a penitentiary sentence, that exercised anyway as a public neces-| jn making his escape after the sev. sity. But nothing seems to be accom- | enteen rcbberies he had always used plished against disruption of the | paitimore and Ohio freight trains. transportation system of the country “Hereafter, the suspicious charae- 1n a wage war between employers und | acter when arrested on our trains or employes. elsewhere on the property will have to submit to finger impressions—MTr. 1eigh explained in connection with the new department,” and when circuin- stances warrant the man will be de- tained pending an investigation. Be- fore long the criminal class by means of their underground method or com- munication, which extends from Sing Sing, Stillwater, San Quentin, Canyon City and other penitentiaries, will 000,000 in 1915, to $71,000,000 in 1916; learn that we mean to be uncompro exports of matches increased about mising with them and will give the $2,500,000; - CODDeT, $8,000,000, = and | Baltimore and Ohio lines and its cities considerable increases were recorded and towns a wide berth. in exports of porcelain. «The fingerprint method is so un- The most important imports con- failing in establishing identity,” con- sisted of cotton, wool, iron ore, rods, | tinued Mr. Leigh, “that English juries plates and machinery, in all of which | frequently convict on no other evi- “large increases were recorded. Japan dence. While connected with the {s onthe job. All these imports are New York Police Department I fre: to be used in the manufacture of | quently saw finger imperssions come goods at a labor cost of from 10 to 25 | in from Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen and cents a day, and much of them will | Petrograd and later it would be found come to us paying less than revenue that a suspicious-looking foreigner ar- rates. The Shensi opium fields. of | rested in. the Bronx, or perhaps In : South St. Louis, was a criminal of io- ternational ' reputation. «wrhis class - invariably uses ‘the railroads unlawfully when setting out ‘upon a crime or’ making an escape and with the railroad offices ‘equipped o-secure finger linpressiv us, it is-rea . out the country. Mr. Leigh belives that of the 12; runishment because their identity was JAPAN’S COMMERCIAL PROGRESS Japan exported about $500,000,000 worth of products, and imported about $350,000,000 worth during the first 11 months of the current year, leaving a favorable balance of about $150,000- 000. Exports of cotton yarns and fa- lishing a large mill ip that vicinity -to 4 further tendency to oust Americans cotton cloths~ She ig now driving the Pacif- % yo.Caast millers of this couttry out of |monable to expect that better work will be done in bringing them to Jjus- Recently a. murderer escaping the Chimese flour market, and she was | looking forward to a lucrative orien- tice. ta] business in woolen textiles’ before the British Government e'ected to the entire Australian and was released on account of lack of in- Po of criminal detection through-| mon, $9@1il. | | | fair to geod 13@13.50; heavy to com- Sheep and Lambs—Good to choice spring lambs, $14@14.25; fair to good, $13@13.50; culls and common, $3@ 10.50; good to choice wethors, $8.50@ 9.50; good to choice ewes, $8.50@ 9.29; mixed ewes and wethers, $8.50@9.50: culls, $6@7. CliicAgo, Jan. 30. Hogs—Bulk, $11.40@11.65; light, 311.15@11.65; mixeq, $11.20@11.75; heavy, $11.25@11.75; roughs, $11.25@ 11.40; pigs, $9.35@ 10.60. Cattle—Niitive beef cattle, $7.715@ 11.90; western steers, $7.75@10; stock- ers and feeders, $6@9; cows and heif- ers, $5@10.75; calves, $11 @15. Sheep — Wethers, $9.75@11.25: lambs, $11.75@14.40. Wheat—May, $1.711%. - 9914c. Oate—May, 55%¢c. | Corn—May, AN OVERWORKED WORD. This Writer Suggests That “Very” Be Given a Long Rest. . There is a word that once possessed a vigor and a power that is altogether lost, **Verily, verily”—*in truth, in truth.” Now it is “very.” and, though it still means ‘in truth,” it has become ! so weakened by usage that it conveys | no force whatever. You meet men on the street and say, “It is a very fine day.” What do you mean? Prebaby you mean, “How do you do?’ What yon have said is gim- ply a salutation. - But if you should say to me, “It is a fine day,” you prob- ably mean it is a fine day. That little word “very” has been so weakened, 80 frayed at the edges, that it harms rather than helps its companions. So, gentle reader, 1 would say to you if 1 had arbitrary power over your speech, “This week I will allow you only. two ‘veries,’” and, though for a time such restraint may make you self conscious, yet it will force you'to grope about for musty treasures in the store. house of your memory and furbish up eld adjectives and adverbs, even drive you now and again to a careful ap- praisal of your best slang, and when this temporary self consciousness shall from New York was arnested as a train |, 04 "iif hd worth aif the sacrifice rider in one of our large yards And | gyurges Johnsen tn Century, pass not only your vigor of speeck, but your exactitude and clarity of thought will be the better for it. “That is a gain for the removal of the growth. A report is prevalent that cars will | not be furnished for loading coal from wagons. This is an error as the roads | owing to the demand for gondolos and flats they cannot always be furnished and box cars are being furnished in- stead. The latter are just as coven: jent and can be loaded cheaper, as they dispense with the scafiod,l and | are loaded direct from the wagon. Suppression of Forest Fires. The various telephone exchanges Fayette Westmoreland Somerset five | warden district have received lists of | the forest fire wardens in their re- spective counties and are posting the | same that they may readily tatoem | | committees who their nearest wardens are, in case of forest fires. V. M. Bearer, State Forester, Ligon- er, Pa., will mail similar lists to sports- men, farmers, of wood lands and oth- | ers who make request for such. Murray-Pfeiffer. A very pleasant*wedding occured at | the parsonage of the Amity Reform- ed church on Monday evening at which time and pace Rev. A. BE. Trux- al said the words which united for life for better, or for worse, until death do us part, Mr. Maurice Murray of Akron, Ohio, and Miss Grace M. Pfeiffer, of High street, Meyersdale. Mr. Murray was formerly of Lari- mer township. The happy couple will make their home iAkron where he is employed in the rubber works, taking with them the congratulations of their many friends here. a Veirsat.ie. Do you know,” she simpered. “you are the first reai actor I ever met. It must be extremely interesting to act the parts created by the master dram- atists like Shakespeare and”— “Now you're talkin’, kid,” he broke in. “I just eat that Shakespeare stuff alive. Why. I played in Shakespeare's ‘East Lynne for two whole seasons. and part of the time I played a horn in the orchestra.”—New York World. Firth of Forth Bridge. - - The bridge across the Firth: of Forth in Scotland is a cantilever bridge erect- ed 1883-90. The two main spans are each 1,710 feet long. - The total length of the bridge is 8,285 feet; the towers are 343 feet high; the bridge: contains 51,000 tons of steel and cost about $13,000,000. : Delicately Eliminated. * “Wow did you get Mrs. Bounce out of your bridge club? Did you ask her to resign?” “No, we didn’t like te do that, butiwe' all resigned except Mrs. Beunce, amd then we all got together and fermed a pow club.”—New York Times.” ~ S : OHO TORT { ’, i IER isn abn Ha rtley & Raldwin’s Boys, this isthe last week of our sele. If ycu want to get in on this sale you must get what a camel has on his back. e Closes Sat., Feb. 3 Re AG HA % mi * NV - = TRE TI ATI TR | HOH CHC CCR CCE OTE wt 4 OIC Remedies hore. 230 a CODTOOD 0 TROGIR _ LEADING MEYERSDALE. rifev & Baldwin Meyersdale, Pa. CREO COOH KERRIER 4 © Take care of your stock. You can improve their condition by buying your Stock Powder and A lin TE | STOCK ror sar sven Columbia Records for February on sale. FF. B. THOMAS DRUGGIST PENNA. 3 Every Farmer with 3 J. T. YODER. two or more cows needs a EL AVAL THE BEST SEPARATOR MADE, 223 Livergood St. JOHNSTOWN, PA. I want to see you about your @ can help you to feel better. and studying most EYES. precious € COOK, Both Phones Inactivity Causes Constipation Lack of exercise in the winter is a frequent’ chuse of constipation. You feel heavy, dull and Hstiéss, your com- plexion is sallow and pimply, and ‘ea- ‘ergy at low’ébb. ‘ Clean up this con- dition at oncé with Dr. King’s New out griping.’ ‘A’ dose before retiring Will assute yon!a full easy movemeRt gist, EYE TROUBLES. Don’t neglect your Life Pills, a mild laxative that vel ay lisves the congested intestines With-1. My: Orabucin, Bae a Way of Je ; neuneing: ‘tutor; .as,if the person re in thejmorning: 26e. at’ your Drug- I know 1 see better and to Bad vision is very |, ° common in these days of reading organs— YOUR THE OPTOMETRIST Eye Sight Specialist Meyersdale, Pa Careless Speech. “] hear the Grabcoins have hired & -tutor for young Reginald Grabcoin.” “Yes; but. whenever Mr. Grabcoin mentions the new member of the house- hold Mrs. Grabeoin is greatly humil- ated” pr “Why sof =F 10 ferred to-gdid exercises om the trom bone, cornet ‘or some other kind of born.”—8t. Louis Post-Dispatch. ——e i SRT - « mr—— J Loc Bor OEE Three 25c at H Carloa $10.40 p S. W. tor oue Please per bbl Miss day in | Extra per lar; Miss week wi berland Mr. @ Patch, Saturdsa Miss and Sul in Cun Wor purest at Hal Miss was a nie Wi Full also bi etc. at Mrs. daugh and fr Try a gre: dred Mis spent here Mrs burg noun tive. Mr land, of M Side. 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