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making hanger disappear.
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¥ Gur own blended coffee at 21 cents can not be matched for
th2 meney.
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Gods we have some very good as tu offer to the trade. R
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5 1 g'ass of pure Jelly at 10 cents. th
5 1 can Salinoa Paste for 10 cents. w
1 Jar Caippad Beef for 10 cents. . 1
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® 3 10-cent packages Corn Starch for 25 cents. ]
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MEY ERSDA! JE, PA
We confess it.
justified in thus asking yous. patronage.
s+ offer our depositors every facility to be found
institution, together with courteous consideration and the
best of service, but we also assure you of Security for
your money, Strength and Stability in managemént and
2% methods.
We will appreciate your business, whether its volume
' be large or small.
On the other hand, we know we are
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Both Houses of of ingress Sei
Down Volunteer Pian
DIFFERENCES IN TWO BILLS
Measure Now Goes to Conference.
Matter of Age Limit One Provision
Houses Not Agreed Upon.
Both senate and house voted ,ap-
proval of the administration’s proposal
to raise a great war army on the prin-
ciple of selective conscription, voting
down by overwhelming majorities the
‘volunteer army amendments around
which opponents of the administration
plan had centered their fight.
In the senate the vote on the vol-
unteer amendment was 69 to 18, and
in the house it was 279 to 98, support-
ers of
istration leaders.
Whether congress finally would ace
cept the general staff’s recommenda-
tions regarding the "ages between
which conscription should apply ap-
peared uncertain. In the senate th»
bill's stipulation that men between
nineteen and twenty-five should b=
liable ‘to the draft was changed to
make the minimum twenty-one and
the. maximum twenty-seven. The
house voted down all proposed changes
in the military committee’s recom-
mendation that the limits be fixed at
twenty-one and “forty.
These and a number of lesser
amendments will be considered as
speedily as possible in conference in
the hope that the measure may b=
sent to the president for his signature
by the middle of the week.
Senaior Chamberlain said he
thought that all minor disagreements
! between the two houses could be set-
tled without much trouble, in view of
the fact that the main issue had been
disposed of and that the conferenc>
report would be ratified before the
end of the week.
Comparison of Bills. -
A comparison. of the two “bills
shows:
Both authorize the president to
raise, organize, equip and offi Lh
| regular army to maximum st 2
of 287,000 men and national guar: io
approximately 625,000. SHE
To raise by selective sonsegitition
i additional army of 500,000 ‘men, quota
its population.
Senate bill provides that all per-
sons voluntarily presenting" them-
selves at registration places shall be
held to have volunteered and ‘shall
be so entered on’rolls.
Senate bill authorizes president, in
his discretion, to enforce prohibition
rigidly throughout the army and
make it unlawful to sell liquor to any
officer or private when in uniform.
notice to register and failure to regis-
is a misdemeanor under both
bills.”
To raise in his discretion a second
WEIELL, WE
Our real service plumbing is bound tn
win the customer’s good will when he
realizes that long use develops no defects,
Lo poor arrangement of fixtures, no details
ove. Sooke J and never that continuous neces-
sity for repairs which a-companies so called
““chzap’ plumbing.
Our plumbing is not cheap. It is the
best of workmanship, material and ‘Standand”
fixtures installed at a reasonable price.
Ask for a demonstration.
BAER & COMPANY
Driving It Home!
Let us drive home to you
the fact that no washwo-
man can wash clothes in
as sanitary a manner as
that in which the work is
done at our laundry.
We use much more water,
change the water many
more times, use purer and
more costly soap, and keep
all the clothes in constant
$1.50 rounp Tap
The First Excursion
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PITTSBURGH
Stapping at McKeesport, Braddock
and Homestead
Sunday, May 13
SPECIAL TRAIN LEAVES
MEYERSDALE AT 8:30 A. M.
Returning leaves Pittsburg 7:00 p.
: : . m., arrives Meyersdale 10:24 p. m.
motion during the entire Tow round trip fares from inter-
process. | | mediate stations. See flyers.
Consult Ticket Agent.
It is simply a matter of having
proper facilities.
Meyer Sale Seam Laundry
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season.
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worth. Just think, if. your
B28 home were remodeled with
“Standard” plumbing fixtures, how
much nicer it would be, more
comfortable, more convenient and
in value increased above the cost of
the remodeling.
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in color of bathrooms?
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army of 500,000 men by selective con-
scription.
Jixemiptions under both bills, mem-
bers of executive, legislative and
judicial branches of the government,
all ministers and all persons belong
ing to religious sects cpposed to war
President also in his discretion can
exclude thqse “who have persons do:
pendent on them for support.” The
senate bill exempted farmers.
House bill provides organization ot
new army by territorial designations
as far as possible. Senate bill does
not.
Within ten days after the bill is
signed every township in the countrs
will be registering its young men for
duty, and work will have begun on
the sixteen training cantonments, or
camps, where preparation of, tho
forces for war will start in August or
September. Sites for the cantonments
have been selected tentatively and all
arrangements made for the concentra-
tion of the troops assigned to each.
Decentralization of administrative
work will be sought by the depart
ment in every move it makes. Regis-
tration will be carried on through
sheriffs and other county officials, aid-
ed by postmasters or other federal
agencies where that seems desirable.
Instructions and forms have been pre-
pared and will be forwarded to the
state adjutant general for distribution
among county officials. Wide publicity
is planned, so that no man liable for
registration will have a good excuse
for failing.to respond. On a date to
be set every citizen affected by the
act will be required on pain of heavy
penalty to present himself at the near-
est registration place, where machin:
ery will be provided for classifying
the recruits and eliminating those
exempt. Doubtful. cases will be re
ferred to higher authority.
With the rolls of those liable foi
service complete, the task of select:
ing the men to go in the first incre
ment of 500,000 will begin. It has
i been suggested that this be done by
{ means of the county jury wheel. The
first man whose name is drawn would
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WASHINGTON Worcs
GERMAN REPUBLIC MOVE.
Official Anncuncement Is Made of
Start of Propaganda Work In
’ 5 Switzerland.
Reports reaching Washington that
a movement in Germany for the estab-
lishment of a republic there has taken
definite shape were given serious con-
sideration by high officials of the gov-
ernment. While it was admitted that
German officials might have started
the reports in an attempt to put the
United States off its guard, state de-
partment officials considered the re-
ports highly significant. The depart-
ment’s information of the general po-
litical unrest in Germany was added
to by an official dispatch from Min-
ister Stovall ‘at ‘Berne, Switzerland,
stating that a committee had been or-
ganized there for propaganda in
favor of a republican form of govern-
ment in Germany.
Information concerning the move
for a republican government comes on
the heels of reports of further efforts
tosforce: the
to’ “make another attempt to obta
pedce. The state department has been
advised the strike of 250,000 laborers -
in Berlin, which is now in progress,
was caused by the spreading desire
for peace.
AWAIT SINKING DETAILS
Twenty-five Members of Boat and Gun
Crew of American Ship Missing.
Details of the sinking of the Amer-
ican oil “tank steamer Vacuum are
still not available. - It is known that -
the captain and part of the crew and
the naval lieutenant and nine Ameri-
can naval gunners are missing.
The Vacuum was sunk by a German
submarine while she was on the way
to the United States. The chief mate
and seventeen men, including three of
the American navy gunners, have been
landed.
A boat containing the master of the
ship and the remainder of the crew,.
together with the lieutenant and nine
naval gunners, is inissing.
BLACKLIST WITHDRAWN
Only Real Issue Between England and
United States Cleared Up.
The London foreign office an-
nounced that the “blacklist” against
American firms had been withdrawn.
Raising ‘of the blacklist will remove =
the only real issue that ever threat-
ened ill-feeling between England and
the United States. The original black:
list covered eighty-five business firms.
Great Britain announced her block-
ade in July, 1916. It was a formal
listing of certain firms ail over the
world with whom British citizens were
forbidden to trade. Nearly a hundred
American firms were included in this
prescribed catalogue.
PAPER SUPPLY RELIEF
Lord Northcliffe Will Turn Over Out.
‘put of Newfoundiand Mills.
An adequate supply of paper for
American publishers was predicted by
the federal state commission in an-
nouncing that Lord Northcliffe, the
noted English publisher, probably
would turn over to the American
Newspaper Publishers’ association for
distribution the entire output of his
big Newfoundiand paper mills. .
The addition. of the 66,000 tons ot
paper produced annually by - the
Northcliffe mills, it was said, will
break the print paper market and as-
sure small publishers an adequate
supply at lower prices.
197 MAY 1917
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