ety ani athe fuE MEVERSDALE COMMEROIAL, MEVERSDALE, PA. “WMEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL imeem PUBLISHED EVERY rRSOAY. AT MEYERSDALE. PA. R. M. SWISHER, Editor. Bodin Ng fifnen paid strictly in advance $1.39 Phen not paid in advance $1.50 BREAK WITH GERMANY Since our last issue, events have , fit the record breaking pace in his- tory making. Germany notified the . neutrals that she would not adhere to ' her promise to be good in the matter of submarines, but would defy tho | world to send any ships to certain : territory limits, which was an ima- ginary line around the allies ports, n:*- | tably which would include London, Liverpool and Paris. This notice simply meant khat any vessel going out upon the high seas was at the mercy of the submarines of Germany, no difference where they were. The order was effective February first. The adminstration at Washington accepted the challenge, after much | consultation and consideration, and | instead of awaiting the “overt act” on Saturday announced that the Germain ambassador would be handed his pass- port, our embassador at Berlin would be recalled, and we would cease to be neighbors. Interred ships beonging to Germany that were in our ports were seized on Monday and the sailors were taken in charge. in the Philippines were treated. On Tuesday morning tue dispatches announced that one Ameri- | can seaman working on a British ves- sel, the Evenstone, was killed by a’ shell from a German submarine. No doubt prompt action will be taken m the matter. Congress was in session and met in joirt session and iistenec to the Presi- dent’s statement of the matter and at. once voted almost autocratic power: | rs A ke. ie to line executive. Money wus irovided for any coa- tiugenicy, and,” in the ‘event of an Hut- break of hostilities an arsed force of m ilens of men is being arrang id ; Pouthampten _ scheel, for, as we.l as. equipment n unheard of" quantities.” The ‘muni are srranging to turn fen Henry Ford has tenaes the e oi his immense plant toge: her. with! nis ° personal, service, all to, be without 2 y [TOfit, Powder | plants ‘are tend’T T= Many manufacturing plants ; that’ are naw at work” on orders for the a ing - eir services and output, & | lies are now under guard or voiles | protection, while navy:yards and far- tifications are closely guarded. The National: Guards, many or who: have just returned from s@r- .vice on the: Mexican frontier are hour- ly expecting, a call to assist in the , gyarding of the property of the gv. ernment. The Operations ‘at the navy departs ment is just as active. War vessels are being supplied with munitions and provisions and are placed in strategic. positions. The movements of troops and war ..vessels are being censored and all ef- forts are being made to keep the mevemenis a secret. Recruiting stations for units now in the service are kept open day and night and the physical examinations somewhat reduced. The effect of the break in the mar- | ket has been to put the price of the industrial stocks and food stuff up several points, although the market on Monday showed some fear, and a rather feverish condition. DEAL Well the ZFOunI RoE saw his shed- | ow and we are having the weather , too. : The W. M. S. met at the home of Mrs. A. C. Baker, Thursday evening and in spite: of bad weather, the at- tendance was very good. | Mrs. Geo. Shuckey, spent a few days = | of last week in Cumberland, where she visited her niece, Miss Pearl Hert zog, who is iil in the Allegany hospi- tal, suffering with pneumonia. Mrs. Lewis Kneif, spent part of the | week at Meyersdale visiting relatives. {| Mrs. Peter Petenbrink, called on ' Mrs. Suder Tuesday of last week. On January 31, Miss Geiger was giv- en a pieasant surprise when about fifty of her friends called en her to remind her of her nineteenth birth- day. The evening was spent with wu- sic and games, after which a deli- | { i i { ‘Mr. H. S. Emerick and son, Sher- man, spent Thursday at Meyersdale. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Kelly, spent a few days of last week with the lat- ter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aug. Sa.s of Pocohontas. G. W.' Caler, is at present nursing a felon on his thumb. Harvey Kendall of Meyersdale, visi- Those in the Canal Zone and J similarly | ted over Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Kendall. Among those who spent Sunday at Mrs. Suders were Mr. Clarence Chrst- ner, Misses. Margaret, Susan’ and ‘Mary | Knepp. . | | “The young Yady across the way says ' the boys around.Deal are more popu- lar than city boys, because they wear “En~iish suits and’ pinch-ba » coats,” and’ go home at an ear : ne ‘morning. - i! {Frere will he church - at’ } formed _churen, y, SHndey at 2 D m. ¥ 3 An entert@mment will bes held at February, 24th “United States. undef. Republican ail- opm vod 3 | A dofie at bedtime will ma = minstrations. Quite naturally; Ameri: : Foyer) “0% 1 | vrigntef fu the? PE od can citizenn of Norwegian stock fini | WITTENBERG, tle ‘to-day at yotir Drggis | ¢ ii [-tha-Republiean’ party .. most in har 3 i a eS TAR Me, | Et of mee Hike Mary Gelger" oldest dahenter ful Mother. if ¥o 4 He blob. Be i 1SW BRAG ii rs re “a Sadly guttering from. WOrIA, , Those A os things. while perhaps - one 3 ing," January Bist, when for: -sevep {F228 itey drain Bis Vitality a ¥%P| ot us: Just live to. eat, dis & sure £ her friend 3h The a wore susceptibté“to ‘seri 1-1 thing we must all eat to live 59 er friends surprised her. es. Quickly and safely } and| ysh al so Ive. evening Was: spent eine fi dg tds worms tpg Your ild’8 | © = UEat éur Quality Groceries a miisic. Mise Gel rb sten_ with Afickapoo ler. and live Tonger, . o! fable and’ isgtul ety | were ser preset werd] Sitige 3 mf a 5 they Hersh,’ Syed Suder. ] Smith, Johm, James aa Harvey. Geig- | er. : : ft er, are Just a few of ithe many guests. Minor Mention. The thermometer registered 8 be- low this morning. Miss Eliza Smith, spent a few days at Frank Murrays last week: The fonr children of Frank Mur- ray are ill. Mr. Joseph Lowery, of Greenville, was visiting his sister and brother-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Geiger on Tuesday of ast week, Miss Lydia Smith called on her friend, Miss Mildred Murray on Sun- day afternoon, who is very ill. + cious lunch wes served. A good time LIABILITIES was reported by all. . Among those who spent Monday || Capital Stock ..........f 0.0 ool . $ 65,000.00 evening at the home of Mrs. A. C. Miller, were Mrs. T. D. Buttler, Mrs. Surplus ..... i. ieemiins ceili ian ton 100.000. 00 H. S. Emerick, Mr. and Mrs. Henry || (Jpdivided Profits..... «.eev.vunr wevnnne. ..... 36,415.34 Knepp, Mr. Clarence and Walter ; Christner, Lewis, Susan, Margaret || Circulation .. ......coeiopiniiiieinne iene... 65,000.00 end Mary Knebp, Ang Suger, Deposits ds vo ill ele BTT021.63 over- ; | this condition at once with Dr. King’s, “surplus hag accumulated. ;, That js tlie az Eb. 26¢,; ; : - iF SE ih or; wasH NGTON CORRESPONDENCE | Condensed Statement CITIZENS ‘NATIONAL BANK OF MEYERSDALE, PA. ; At Close of Business December 27, 1917 : 1 RESOURCES Loans and Investments... ...................... $771,422.91 U: 8 Bonds... .civrmmncernrassvseesnsosranrass 70,000.00 Banking House. ...cenatt onsen cc? vnvienesrae 29,500.00 Due from Banks and Reserve Agents..... ....... 220,205.37 Cash... Lio vicars eer tinea nines D2,208.69 Total.... $1,143,436.97 Total.... $1,145,436.97 Tne Citizens National Bank +The Ban< With The Clock With The Million"* » 5 nd kills the cold : — ES EE . BR on relieved. T H E Fe { } f= "QUALITY GROCERIES. Delay is dangerous—get Dr. King's New Discovery ‘at’ ‘once. For nearly fifty years it bas been the favorite : HS for grippe,. croup, couglis and | about the feet and up to the knees, colds. Get a bottle to-day at; your and will probably be confined to the ‘Druggist, 5e. © °F House for a month at least. c TON MAKES al irossed feel _AN.EXAMPLE FROM NORWAY. _ Norway. has materially surpassed its expenditures,. so that -a considerable 2h an in e Shoe a New Life "Pills; this gentle, ~non- sortof business .pelic sped by the ‘griping laxative “fs “quitkly . effective. a This. ae Loree in tab-] Just received a. lot of Fancy Mack- For several years the income of 8 Just Received, Our New Spring Styles of KNOX HATS, The Styles and Colors are Beau- tiful. Come in and HAVE A LOOK. Our Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil for your cough and colds. Price 50c and $1,00 per. bottle. Hartley & Baldwin Meyersdale, Pa. :F ebruary c + Columbia Records, for “LEADING THOMAS: = ' MEYERSDALE, VE on- sale. oO cabneg CH bn : mr AF SC a PENNA. | Jet form quickly relieves the trowble dnd - ri child: ‘brightens up.” | Get’ K'6kapoo Worm Killer at yout, Drug: | erel; try them you will want more. In spite of the prevailing. high prices Canned Goods, we are ‘in’ posi- ot n to offer you some good. val- "ues at a small cost. iy | Special price on ‘Mince meat this week Try a bottle of Heinz’s Pure Ci- _ der Vinegar: your money back if you are not satisfied. “For. Singleiltem: Veto. Seelaetn. Jan. 31.— (Special Gor: respondence)—There has long been a feeling in Congress, among Demo- crate and Republicans alike, that the President should be vested with pow- er, through an amendment to the con- stitution, to veto individual items of appropriation instead of being com- pelled to disapprove an entire bill 1n order ‘o get rid of one objectionanle paragraph in it. Congressman wal- ter W. Magee of New York is one of those who hold to that view. In Mr. Magee’s opinion it is one of the most effectual means of removing for all time ithe cry of “pork” when an 0Of- nibus appopriation bill has been pas- These prices are money savers for you:— Im good Cocoa for 30 cents. I large can Spinage for 15 cents. 2 cans Fancy Mackerel for 25 cents. 3 Polly Prim Cleanser for 25 cents. 1-21b Mixed Tea for 21 cents. 1-21b Runkle’s Cocoa for 19 cents Good coffee at 17 cents per Ib lcan Fancy Seeded Muscatels Rais- ins for 15 cents. Have you tried Hearts? Joth Phones. Mother's Wheat k 8 |: Free delivery system. : s J sed by Congress, and cites the law in It is to be hoped that no direct out Mr. Dewey Smith called on his,. o Sluts where the zovernor has F. A. BITTNEK, | reak will oceur but conditions at? : i RENE re Hap "1 142 Center St., Meyersdale, Pa. | break will occur, but conditions at the friend, John Knepp on Sunday. the power to reject one or more items 2 ? * [ present does not warrant the assump- Mr. Roy Deal of Connelisville, was | oo appropriation bill rad 4« - . 1 +31 . 3 c 3 3! ge a i = an A pe 1 yp =~ 1 -— tions that it will not become more ser. greeting his friends here over Sun- fim tor avrov or t fhel > RIBUTE TO BUFFALO BILL : nim for aprovald. I trus Lhe IT y if a7 *A 3 r { wie in bd shri Hime aw : | Hon, Frank W. Mondell of Wyom- ious in a short t day | time will come” exclaimed Repre-|. ook on 8 ondeil w n € erinal have sitively re- SON yO ) arted for | : 2 : g, took the opp 1 Ce f 1 ton 1d it in their | L " ; 43 pag ¥ $ fuse ; H 5 : ; 1 X — { s a leader of a great poitical il routes in the West + 11 the at =n : § parity will uwge an 4 Lo Lae | +3 f ¥ attemnting to cont the i AR Di ASES IMIGRATION | i. ~ranien ip ate the situation. | © Sydney Lenhart, * ie Ta kof H var in 1” tribute to i ) y X Ji 1 Vel a Te . 1 ,e lize 3 x ) Ir | charac’er, } ill be on the war | Kliza s. W. H. Knepp, Mr. ; on, ne our net gain in itdmigration | tho dahl which 17 : = in Europe is roblematic ar - | and Mrs. Elmer Peter nk an onn | 3 the debt wiich the West i a pe is : ) natic and sub- | a a Mrs, K r Petenbrink and Join | s more than 4000 per month. At | : foscer Tor the part’ he ject to circtimstances. Knepp. i t that pioneer ior th a h that rate, during 2 onths of the war | ers i Ts i Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Smith and Wm. z the : J > rig x fio | D2ved In the upbullding of that ser 5 up to the date when the last statistics | .. ee a ne S ' ANTI-ALCOHOL PLEDGES Smith; called at the home of Simon! ore wablished. we a eve had tion of the rountry. “No man ever Deals on Sunday. : eI , #% ]lived in the West,” asserted Repre- Bishop Carroll (Catholic) of Mon- tana wrote thus during the Montana dry campaign: “By taking the pledge the individual prohibits the use of :n- toxicating liquors by himself; by pass- ing a prohibition law the community has as much right to take the pledge ag the individual” And, let us add, so has the state and the nation.—The Educator. ‘While we do not dispute the efE- ciency of the individual plan, in the above, we do take issue with the lo- gic. The cases are not similar. Our prohibition friends make a mistake in using false logic. The jndivdual case and that of the communty do not compare at all. The individual 1s but a minority, a single unit of the community. The writer of the above would not agree with us if we were to say that if one man in_a cemmunity gtole horses that the entire communi ty had the same right, yet the logie is the same. Mrs. W. H. Knepp and daughter, Mary and Eliza Smith, called on Mrs. | H. B. Beal on Thursday afternoon. } w ! STIFF, SORE MUSCLES RELIEVED ; Cramped muscles or soreness foll rw- ing a cold or case of grippe are eased and relieved by an application of ; Sloan’s Liniment, Does not stain tne | skin or clog the pores like mussy ointment or plasters and penetrates quickly without rubbing. Limber up your muscles after exercise, ‘drive out the pains and aches of rheumatism, neuralgia, lumbago, strains, sepralas and bruises with Sloan's Liniment. Get a bottle to-day. At all Druggists, 25c. Lingering Coughs are Dangerous. Get rid of that tickling cough that ! keeps you awake at night and drains vour vitality and energy. Dr. King's New Discovery is a pleasant balsam remedy, antiseptic, laxative and promptly effective. It soothes the ! a gain of 1,859,000. As a matter of fact, our gain in population through immigration was only 280,000. The setative Mondell, “who combined, as he did, the sterling qualities which make men useful in stirring and soul ! ‘ cured our population today would be | than a million and a half of working | electrician for the Consolidated Coal war, therefore, caused a relative de crease of 1,579,000 in our population t That is to say, if the war had not oc- 1,579,000 greater than it is and this increase would have been chiefly cf people of the laboring class. More people added to our population would make a vast difference in the rate of wages the laboring people are re ceiving. Severely Scalded. Clay Benyon of Sherman street, company met with a painful accident recently by which his lower [limbs were seriously scalded. He was mak- | ing some repairs to & pump and acel- | dentally fell into a hole filled with | hot water. He was bdadly scalded testing days. He was an ideal repre-| sentative of a time and condition curi- : ously bleding the extremes of hard- ship and romance.” SOME DEMOCRATICS FOR FAIR ELECTIONS Through correspondence it is de- veloped that there are a few Demo- crats in Congress who approve of the principle involved in the Gallinger amendmet to the corrupt practices bill. ' Two of them, Messrs. Bruckner and Farley, hail from New York, where blighting effect of the swollen . taxation which ingenuity can device Democratic strength from the South has been most withering. In spite of their utmost efforts, New York Deme- crats have seen their party in Con- gress, led by the South, proceed to penalize New York by every form of J.1.-yonew, "THE BEST SEPARATOR MADE, 223 Livergood St. JOHNSTOWN, PA. CHOKE I want to see LOCK & a EYE 2 2 feel better Bad 5 h 5 nd studying 5 ) : mos } recic Q & rt Y Ho~ 2 : — TROUBLES. I can hel; you to see better and to OK OPTOMETRIST : 9 Eye Sight 8 a you about your know | vision 18 ver Specialist Meyersd: le, Fa within the limits of the Constitution, They do not like it, their constituents do not like it and they realize that the Gallinger amendment points the way to relief. The only way in which a Democra- tic deficit can be eliminated under a Free-Trade, or “Tariff reform” system or policy, is by the levying of a war tax.—Ainta (Ia.) Record. CASTORIA For Infants and Children in Use For Over 30 Years | Always bears the Signature of | GLENCOE The Deist Bros, of Pittsburg were home over Sunday—that is they were at “homes” in eur neighborhood. See? That mountain Valley church go ing will get the best of ‘em, Geo. Bitt- ner returned Sunday with his best ear frozen, and we can give evidence that Harry Cook and James Campbell had their hearts exposed to zero temper tures. The infant son of Chine Slaytom, died on Tuesday morning. Funeral services held in Evangelical chureh Rev. Howsare officiating. A surprise was given Mre. J. K. Kessler of Riverview on Thurday by 8 host of friends. The ladies enjoyed their meeting thoroughly, .The Northampton Telephone Ca. held its annuel election of officers ais directors on January 81st im the Fsh Mrs. in Joh Thre 26c at QOsca place, spendi relativ Carls $10.40 Mis. Md., is mothe: way st Plea per bb L. J compa . office | to Wil a few BExtr per la Mr. tained thier day e\ enjoye +. Mr. little ¢ pe en NO & they © ; Geriou in Cu Try Bittne Mis Meye spent tives Mr ting 1 Mis ma B ter’'s Blake N. a tow Job of th visiti Mr Rocl home Mrs, Hous Mr Wed: a Du hoe pres Hab¢ Robe R.G BT Ww. | after in dc