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with friends in Salisbury.
Feeding molasses in barrels at Ha-
bel & Phillips.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Hay,
Saturday February 17th, a son.
Mrs. Stella Cook, was a Salisbury
visitor Thursday of ast week.
Ceresota flour at $10.50 per barrel
at Habel & Phillips.
Miss Eizabeth Payne, spent the past
week in Baltimore.
B. J. Lynch, was a business visi-
tor in New York several qsys the past
week.
Mrs. Mary E. McKenzie and sister,
Miss Margaret Ueber, were Salisbury
visitors Sunday.
Lake Herring in hundred - pound
¥egs for $8.00 at Habel & Phillips,
Mr, and Mrs. A. F. Darrih and fami-
iy, spent Sunday with relatives at Key
stone Junction.
A messenger : boy is a “tiovelty in
moving pictures, ..- cr:
Miss Hester Shau and brother Pot-
ter, spent Saturday and Sunday with
friends in Salisbury.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Derry, and
Miss Jennie Livengood visited friends
in Salisbury Sunday.
Misg Kathryn Wolfersberger, visi-
ted relatives and friends in Pittsburg
duing the past week.
Fresh salted red Alaska salmon ase
fat Norway mackeral at Habel & Phil-
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Miss Gladys Stein, returned home
‘on Monday from a visit with relatives
and friends ‘in Braddock.
Mrs. Harry May of Johnstown, spent
a few days of last week here visi-
ting relatives and friends.
Misses Maud Schram, and Edyth
Reber of Salisbury, were guests at
the Blake home on Sundey.
Mr. and Mrs. John Darrah attend-
ed the funeral of a relative in West
Salisbury one day last week.
N. BE. Miller, of the Miller & Col-
lins department store, left Sunday
for a business trip to New York,
Mrs, John Herves of Huntingdon,
W. Va. is a guest at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Stein.
Miss Kate Reese gf Pittsburg, spent
the past week here with her sister,
Mrs, E.d Leonard of Saisbury street.
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Local and Personal &
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Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Stahl, formoarly
of this place, but who had been re
siding in Connellsville for the past
year, have returned to this place and
| are at home in their residence on Main
Mrs. D. H. Martin, spent Saturday | street.
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A. L. Scott, linotypg operator at the
the Commercial office spent Sunday |
and Mon at hig home in Way
boro.
Sawmili, wngine, & Broiler for sale.
Outfit e 0.
See H. t.,- Meyersdals,
Pa.
Mrs. Ida Dia, a teacher in the Som-
erset High school, spent Shturday and
Sunday here with her parents
Main street.
Mrs.
at her
week.
nor of this
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Daniel Getty, entertained the
tired farmer, is on the sick list.
We have received a consignment of |
garden seed for distribution to our
farmer friends.
they wont last long.
A number of ladies of this place, at-
tended a party given at the home of
Mrs. Charles Sehroyer at Rookwood,
Thursday of last week.
Miss Helen Baer delightfully en-
tertained a few of her friend at her
home on Beachley street, South Side,
Wednesday of last week.
Mrs. F. B. Thomas and daughter,
* Miss Thelma left on Sunday for Johns-
. town, where they visited
relatives
and friends for several weeks.
Pleaseall, a guaranteed Kansas pa-
tent flour $10.00 per bbl. at Habel &
‘Phillips.
Miss Regina Reich, one of the
Meoyersdale Public School teachers,
spent Saturday and Sunday with rel-
atives and frieds in Johnstown.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Critchfield
and daughters, Mary and Reta of
Rockwood, spent Saturday and Sun-
day with relatives and friends.
Oscar Tressler, who had been spend
ing the past three weeks here with
relatives and friends, left Thursday
for Detroit, Mich., where he is em-
ployed.
Mrs. Cher'es Richards, who had
been visiting here at the home of Mrs.
M. A. Rutter, on Meyers avenue, re-
turned to her home in J ohnstown Su. -
oo evening.
. Michael Karrigan of Connel-
= spent several days of last
week here with her sister, Mrs. M. J.
Livengood, who is ill at her home on
Broadway street.
A dance will be given in the Moose
hall on Saturday night, where all who
would enjoy a good time are invited.
Bd. M. Yoder of Elk Lick, was-a
pleasant caller at this office on Tues-
day.
Pratts egg producer in 25, 50 and
$1.26 packages Is guaranteed to make
your hens lay at Hapel & Phillips.
§—10c packages rolled oats for 280
at Habel & Phillips.
Call when in town as’
New Orleans.
California table peaches 16¢ per can
at Habel & Phillips.
Clarencé Harrison Fresh of Berlin,
and Miss Grace Elizabeth Thomas of
Meyersdale received the consent of
the Commonwealth of Maryland, at
Cumberland, to be united in the bonds
of matrimony,
R. H. Philson, cashier of the Citi-
zens National Bank, ig spending to-
day in Pittslearg, attending the an-
nual meeting of the Bankerg of the
Western part of the State. A pleas-
ure he has enjoyed annually for sev-
eral years past.
N. E. Miller of the enterprising firm
of Miller & Collins, accompanied by
Annie Gray, who is the head e
ladies department in the store, is in
New York this week purchasing a:
large stock of spring goods.
W. C. Price, attended g meeting of
the undertakers of Western Pennsyl-
vania: in Pittsburg on Tuesday. Prof.
H. F. Eckles, of Eckles School of Em-
‘balming of Philadephia ‘was present
‘and gave’ a very interesting address,
D. A. McKinley, left on Train No. 10
Wednesday morning for his home in
He was called here by
the illness of hig mother, Mrs. Dr.
McKinley, but her improved condi-
tion of health appeared to warrant his
return at this time. i
‘Jacob Wasmeth, fish and oyster
dealer, who has been confined to his
house for the past three months, by an
attack of influenza with complications
followed by diabetes, is slowly recov-
ering his wonted degree of health and
steength. The attacks have depleted
the amount of adipose tissue which
he possessed, but he still has as much |
as the majority of men,
At, the last meeting of the Boosters
club, which wag well attended, after |
some important business had been |
transacted, issued an invitation to
the members present to be hig guests
at the Summer Garden and witness a
new movie play which he had on that
night from Manager Joe Reich |
It is mneédless to say that the
invitation was accepted and that the |
guests speak very highly of the ens |
tertainment as well as the courtesy of |
Mr. Reich,
Here and
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SM. Gnagy is oreninz a six foot
vein of coal and is soon ready
nly everybody with coal in the neigh-
borhood.
W. M. Shultz had a valuable cow
killed by anéther one that got loose
killed by one that got locoste |
There. |
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another
the stable
gv Al hor:=e
trade with
Handwerk made a big
“Jim” Klink.
Theives broke in the door of Jno.
B. Schrock’s house one day last week.
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All were away.
Mr. Conrad Werner, and old and re-
The severe storm of last week tore
down W. P. Meyers wind pump.
Lloyd Handwerk bought a horse
from Harrison Bittner.
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Peter Dumbolt bought a valuable
three year old horse from Walter
Boose.
Farmers talking of opening their
sugar camp.
Mrs. Samuel Briskey is still on ths
«ick list.
Teachers’ Institute.
The following is the program for a
meeting of Parents Directors and
Teachers of Larimer township to be
held at the Wittenberg school March
3rd, at 1:30 p. m. and evening ses
sion at 7:30 p. m.
Opening song—America.
Topical talk—Miss Lenhart follow-
ed by J. H. Ravenscroft and others.
Busy Work-—Miss Shumaker.
Supplementary Reading, and How
tc get it—W. A. Hay.
The Most Important Branches—C.
M. Christner.
Essay—Miss Margaret Lindeman.
Distribution and Care of Supplies-—
Wm. Knepp.
Discussions*
Supt. Schrock.
Intermission until 7:30.
Opening—singing.
Reading— Miss Shumaker.
History—J. H. Ravenscroft.
School Government—W. A. Hay.
Current Events—Sidney Lenhart.
Geography—Margaret Lindman.
Song.
Debate resolved that the Pen
mighter than the sword.
Affirmative—C. M. Christner, Thom-
as Walker, J. H. Ravenscroft, Owen
Murray.
Negative—W. A. Hay, Simon Mur-
ray, Alfred Knepp, John Kendall
Announcements.
Song.
All friends of Education invited.
Committee.
and Explenations—
is
.and Mrs. Sam’. Wetmiller. !
er had preceded her in the spirit land.
THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, .
W. H. Gray.
William H. Gray of Coal Run, died
at his home on Wednesday, Feb. 24.
Mr. Gray was born Jan. 3rd. 1884.
He ig survived by his widow and two
small boys. His father, two brothers.
Thomas of Coal Run, and Samuel of
Akron, Ohio, and one sister, Mrs.
James Murray of Salisbury also sur-
vive him, Burial took place on Sun-
day, Feb. 18th, services were held in
the M. E. church by hig pastor, Rev.
Fishel, and interment in St. Pauls
cemetery, by W. C. Price undertaker.
The U. M. W. turned out in a body. .
Lillian May Baker, infant daught-
er of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Baker, |
died at their home in Jerome on Tues- |
day, Feb. 20. The body was shipped
to Sand Patch on Wednesday, and
| was taken to the home of Mrs. Bak: |
| er’s parents; Mr. and Mrs. B, F. Joneg
where services were conducted, and
interment made in the Union Ceme- |
try at Meyersdale on Friday, in shuts
. of W. C. Price, undertaker.
Clara Wetmilier,
Clara A. Wetmiller, died at Grove-
land, N. Y. last Friday and the body
was shipped here and taken to her:
former home at Salisbury by under- .
taker Reich.
She was a daughter of Mr,
.He~z
Sam’
Services were conducted by Rev Fr's.
McCarty and Quinn on Monday, fol
Towed by interment in St. Michael
cemetery in Salisbury.
Great are the conveniences of the |
modern store. A young lac y
ered that her string ‘of pearls
broken. She hurried into the nearest
big department store with a frizad,
hustled- into a dressing room and .al-
vaged from her person nearly all =
the precious pearls.
We have it on the highest authorily
i that neutral tones will prevail in
' spring frocks though all the world be
-at war.
As President Lincoln put the qu:s-
tion: “Must I shoot a simple-minded
soldier boy who deserts while I must
not touch a hair of the wily agitator
who induce him to desert.
WORMS EASILY REMOVED
Mother, if you: child wines, is fret-
i ful and cries out in sleep, he is pro-
bably suffering from worms. Thase
parasites drain his vitality and make
him more susceptible to serious li-
seases. Quickly and safely kill and
| remove the worms from your child's
| system with
Kickapoo Worm Killer
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p:easailt
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m0 of Hn was to be seen
vyer 2 is {: of North America. For
tunatels day was u remarkably
tine one, scarcely a cloud being visible
ir any part of the heavens. The sun's”
entire surface was covered at twenty-
seven winttes and thirty seconds past
11 o'clock,
James Fenimore Cooper, the novel
ist, thouzh but a youth at the time of
the eclipse, was so enthusiastic an ob:
server of the spectacle that twenty-five
years after the event he wrote a mi-
nute account of what he saw and how
he {elt during the wonderful occur
rence,
Mr, Cooper states that as he and
other spectators in his company first
discerned through their glasses the
oval form of the moon darkening the
sun’s light an exclamation of delight.
almost triumphant, burst involuntarily
from the lips of all. The j:eople began
gathering into the street. Their usual
labors were abandoned, and all faces
were turned upward,
The noonday heat began to lessen.
and there was something of the cool-
ness of early morning. Mr. Cooper
further strates that “all living crea-
tures seemed thrown into a state of
azitation. The birds were fluttering
to and fro in great excitement. They
seemed to mistrust that this was not
the gradual approach of evening and
were uni.ecided in their movements.
Even the dogs became uneasy and
drew nearer to their masters.
“Every house now gave up its ten-
ants. As the light failed more and
moire with every passing second the
children came flocking about their
mothers in teiror. The sun appeared
like a young moon of three or four
days old. One after the other the
stars came into view, which filled the
spirit with singular sensations.”
The general phenomena at all the
places where the eclipse was com-
plete or nearly so were the vacillation
of the wina, the deep, strange shadow.
the yellowish pink of the atmosphere
in the west, the flickering and wavy
appearance of the sun’s rays when the
eclipse was at its height, the chilly
feeling, the disturbance among the
birds apd fowls and the sight of cer:
tain planets with the naked eye.
had |
These are the Colum-
} bia. Records with all the
late songs and dances.
Columdia Grafonolas
from $15 to $300. Call
and listen to the ma-
chine that has the tone
tive in tabn-
s the trouble '
Leing the next in !
~aSDALE, PA,
. WRARRRWRRIRIRIRIRY A heRththihiththihdiihthth
§ ANNOUNCEMENT
~ROFESSIONAL CARDS.
FIRE, AUTOMOBILE,
COMPENSATION AND
PLATE GLASS INCURANCS
W. . “00K & SON
Meyersdale, Pa.
W. CURTIS TRUXAL,
d
for the coming season.
UR buyers are in the Eastern Markets this week
buying merchandtse. for the coming season.
Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York markets are be-
ing scoured for the new things for Spring and Summer
by personal visits to manufacturers, assuring our patrons
of an abundance of offerings in the things that are new
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
SOMERSET. PA.
Prompt attention given to an regad
business.
wm Te,
Wanted—Eight or ten turkeys
weighing eighteen or twenty pounds
dressed.
M. J. Robin,
3 A South 8th St.
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Shoe Repairing.
I have purchased the tools and stock
of P. Pilla on Center street and wish
to give notice to the public that I ane
now prepared to make repairs in &
neat substantial manner. Shoe fur
nishings always on hand. Give me &
call. tf.
woth | {age
JOHN SHERMAN
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Fugen! bivcetor and Kmbalwer ©
Meyersdalc, Penna.
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Vesidenee:
309 North Street
Economy Phone.
Office :
229 Center Mee
Both I'hones.
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For sale—An Overland Roadster.
Price Reasonable. Address. or call
| Commercial Office. 2-4
Farm For Rent—One and one half
miles north of Rockwood, in Milford
township. Possession to be given om
or before the 15th of February, 1917.
Apply H. G. and R BE. Walker, Rock-
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Cherry, Quince,
ental Trees, Ete.
. 24 years.
found in Dansville.
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LEADING DRUGGIST
the strongest ever offered by any concern.
wood, 2-4.
4 fk
MA street,
apply to
16pd.
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For sale—516 Salisbury
Bine will be sold cheap,
. H. Stein,
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For Sale—A Fine Jersey Cow, sev-
; Ase hn en years old, will be fresh next moni{lh
EHEC RCOECKOREOBORCRACHORCECHCr CBOAZOBCEORAON, Cabbie Apply to Mrs. John Spence, 231 Salis-
aa a a bury street. Meyersdale, Pa, 3.
NURSERY STOCK AT ONE-THIRD AGENTS PRICES. {i — :
Even though you entend plantingbhut two tree this Sprinb, try dealing i Tian RE 2 iia f
| direct with one of the largest Nurser ies in the Country and get your stock 3 3 LEE
300,000 Peach Treeg 100 lots. 5-6 ft. 11lc; 4-5 ft. 8c; RAILROAD |
3-4 ft. 5l%c; 300,000 Apple l4c; 11%e; Slec; 6%¢. Thousands of Pear, Pluin, ¢ INTER
Grapes, = Raspberryplants Shrubs, Roses, Flower, Ornam V INT 3
The best stock weecver grew and we have been at it for | IX CURSION FARES
No San Jose Scale or oth-er injurious disease has ever been | i
Every order accompanied by our binding Guarantze | 3 : TO :
All Stock Fresh’ Dug. No or- Fi ORI D A i
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It tells you all about fruit VIA
it Free. Write today.
log and planters’ guide for 1917 now ready.
{ growing, planting, pruning, best var-iefies.
THOMAS E. SHEERIN, NURSERY MAN, 10 River Street, Dansville, N. Y.
Your name on a postal brings |
- WASHINGTON
WITH STOP-OVER PRIVILEGE
Es a
In Northern France.
It is straage and terrible to
Paris—and no one can be happy--h it
to one who has loved I'rance it is (ar
worse to visit the lovely northern
country. There is bere a sense of
emptiness, as if terror still hushed tie
normal cheerful noises of .mani:ud
The people of these regions have losi
everything. Their houses are burned;
their animals. even the rabbits. are
gone; their farm implements are shape-
less pieces of grotesquely melted iron.
They live in temporary. patched sbel-
ters and in the bouses built by the So-
ciety of Friends or mass themselves
in some nearby village that escajca
destruction, After a time in this silen
country one gets the sense that u.-
struction is normal, and tears staf t
one’s eyes at the sight of an unde
stroyed [French village smiling in (i -
sun. No changed are ali vaiues that {
cold feel nothing strange in the
words of the woman who told wm
“Fortunately my busband is a bunch
back. Ile can’t go to the war. —Mary
Heaton Vuersein eniury. :
Abused Super.atives:
It is vard to ua. e people anderstag:
hat the adjective aimost iavaiinbia
weakens the noun. aid that he we
svery.” for instan e, does not strenasti
{ en.a statement. but qualtdes it. But
the use of the superlative 1s even moi
{ abused. We talk of tie “unimpeach
| able” houesty of somebody or ovihier.
| knowing perfectly well that anybody's
! honesty may be impea:-hed. What
seems to be required is a readjustment
of our habits of thought and better
teaching of the value of words and
even of the usefulness of grammar. A
superlative necessarily involves an ax-
iom. It commits you, like saying that
the sum of the angles of any triangle
is equal to two right angles. Your di-
lemma arises when you try to prove it.
“Impregnability’" and ‘invulnerability
and all other superlatives in general
use are posing as axioms when they
are mostly fallacies.— Wall! Street Jour-
nal.
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REE EEL CLARA LCR ET RRR Ebb bbb berets
: TICKETS ON SALE DAILY
UNTIL APRIL: sc
Lobsters’ Shells.
When a lobster is about to shed its
shell the latter splits down the back t
and drops off in two equal parts. Then : |
the tail slips: out of the shell like a GOOD TO RETURN UNTIL |
finger out of a glove. {
Th MAY 31,1917
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PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. %| SECURE FULL INFORMATION
= + || FROM TICKET AGENT i
Winning Long Life. ¥| >
A recent investigation made to ¥
find out what class of men live ¥
the longest revealed the fact ¥|, / ®"7 =
that clergymen live longer than ¥ I's ® 20 TRIP i
other men. Monell Sayre. who ¥ || {
made the investigation. attrib ¥ || INAUGURATION |
utes the longevity of clergymen | |
to their simple life and says that + |! | Monday, March 5th, 1917.
the extra years which the clergy ¥ {
accumulate are the results of ¥ ~ WASHINGTON |
clean personal lives lives of sac ¥ VIA
rifice and abstemiousuess. ¥ |
Moderation is now considered Y BALTIMORE t
the salvation of this life. A ¥]/| : ;
splendid rule for attaining lon- ¥ WITH STOP-OVER PRIVILEGE
gevity is summed up by the ¥ Good Going on Ref on Regular Trains of
United States public health serv-
,ice in the following curt state-
ments:
“QOther things being equal. it
is the man who leads the well
balanced life who lasts the long-
est. whose work to the end is
Mare 1.23. 4adb
Good retiring on on regular trains
until ard ind luding train leaving
Baltimore 9:» P. M., Saturday,
uniformly the best: he who nei- March 10. $7.40 Round Trip from
ther overworks nor overplays, Meyersdale. Low fares from other
neither overeats, overdrinks nor | stations. See flyers. Constlt ticket
oversleeps: he who maintains a | agents.
standard of simple. healthy diet
in moderation; who offsets men-
tal work with physical recrea-
tion; who is as honest with his
own body as he is with his own
business. When success comes
to such a one his physical and
mental condition is such that he
can enjoy in peace of mind and
contentment of body the fruits
of his labors.”
~ Western Maryland Ry.
Notice to Tradesmen.
Thereas my son, James Mull, has
left his home Without my consent this
is to warn all persons not to extend
him credit on my account, as I will
not pay no debts of his contracting.
W. L. Mull,
Adv;
LLL SELL ELLE eb
Meyersdale, Pa.