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THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSZD ALE, PA.
EOEEOE0REORCRORCACACE BOROR ACCOR:
John Sherman, the shoe fixer, was
transacting business in Johnstown on
Monday.
Rev. R. R. Potter, of Coraopolis will
preach in Amity Reformed Church
next Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Bittner, of
Garrett were pleasant callers at this
office on Monday.
WANTED—A good all around
Printer. Can find steady work at
this office. Boosers and blacksmiths
not needed.
Hester and Potter Shaw of Meyers-
dale and Leora Dietz of town were
dinner guests of Dorothy Barchus on
Tuesday.—Star.
Marion Geidt of Meyersdale spent
Saturday afternoon and evening in
town as the guest of Alberta Statler.
—Star.
Archie Cochran, of Elk Lick, was a
very pleasant caller at this office on
Saturday evening, having come down
with many others to see a real live
town. The label on his paper now
reads 1918.
Mrs. Frances McGonigle of Larimer
township, re-married widow of John
Barmoy, late member of Co. F. 148th
P. V. 1, has received a pension of $20
per month, obtained through the
efforts of Meyersdale Pension agent,
H. C. McKinley.
FOR S ALE—Letterheads, en-
velopes, calling cards, business cards,
statements, invoices, invitations, an-
nouncements, full lines of stationery,
and all other kinds of job printing.
Get our prices on your printing. The
Commercial, Meyersdale, Pa.
Dr. H. C. McKinley and his boy are
whipping the streams out in the
neighborhood of Glencoe for trout
this week. A wireless message over
the gropevine telegraph, calls for a
few auto trucks, and also warns
others that there will be no more
fishing there this year.
The fine new plant to be occupied
by the new Rockwood creamery has
been completed and will be in opera-
tion within the next week or two.
The plant is being installed by a com-
pany composed of Rockwood business
men. It is modern in every detail
and one of the finest of the kind in
this part of the state.
"J. W. Baker, an engineer on the B.
& O., who resides on Main street, has
troubles almost “same like” a printer.
He has some fine chickens in which he
took much pride—and which furnish-
ed eggs for him and his, but some ill
begotten thief stole three of the finest
which showed that he was a judge of
fine chickens. So far the heartless
thief has not showed any disposition
to fess ’pent and give faction.
Information was made before Esq.
Hay by J. E. Geiger against one,
Elwood Kelly charging an attempt to
enter the store room of the plaintiff
at Wittensburg. The defendant was
arrested. It was found that he had
in his possession a bicycle that had
“been stolen at Ellerslie, Md. He was
unable to procure a Liberty bond and
was incarcerated in the Somerset jail
to await trial next September.
J. W. Mallery was the ownec of a
very valuable dog, the pride of the
family. Now he sings, “Vere, Oh
Vere is my leetle dog gone.” Some
one stole him else he strayed away.
Probably kidrapped. He could not
have been bought for three Liberty
bonds, and could not have been ex-
changed for bonds. The tax was paid
on him. Any information leading
to his recovery should be sent to
Mr. Mallery and any information as
to the thief should be forwarded to
same place and then the “man who
stole the dog” had better leave the
country.
MONEY NOT TIED UP.
There seems to be an idea held by
some that money invested in a Liberty
Loan Bond is going to be tied up for
fifteen or thirty years. This belief
is not warranted. Probably no prop-
erty in the world outside of actual
morey or currency will have a wider
and more ready and constant cash
market than the Liberty Bond.
There will be a constant demand
made for them from many sources.
They are good security for loans from
the Federal reserve banks; courts
have decided that they are legal and
proper investments for trust funds;
they are legal investments for in-
surance companies and other corpor-
ations whose investments are super-
vised and regulated by law; their
international character (being issued
for an international purpose and
guarantaeed in part by our European
allies) gives them an international
status and market. They will be
sought for in India, in Egypt, Japan
and Russia, England and France,
Italy and Australia, and in fact
wherever any Government bond has
a market.
They have been truly called the
premier security of the world.
POILUS ASKS FOR TEDDY.
Few nobler tributes to gallantry
have been paid than that contained
in Georges Clemenceau’s open letter
to President Wilson, appearing in
I’Homme Enchaine, asking Mr. Wil-
son to send Roosevelt and his com-
rades to France. “Allow me to say”
writes M. Clemenceau, “in all candor
that at the present moment there -is
in France one name which enchances
the beauty of American intervention.
It is the name of Roosevelt, your pre-
decessor, even your rival, but with
whom there can now be no other
rivalry than that of heartening suc-
cess”.
The writer of this letter declares
that he met Roosevelt only once in
his life. that the former President
is an idealist, “imbued with simple,
vital idealism. Hence his influence
on a crowd; his prestage, to use the
right expression. If the law has
charged you, the President, with all
the practical issues of the undertak-
ing, it is no less true that Roosevelt
represents a vast potential factor
which no statesman is able to over-
look. I only claim for Roosevelt
what he claims for himself—the right
to appear on the battlefield surround-
ed by his comrades.”
Clemenceau write§ that the arrival
of the first American unit on the
French front was hailed with delight,
but that many of the poilus asked:
“But where is Roosevelt? I don’t see
him.” Roosevelt, Monsieur, is mark-
ing time waiting his country’s call.
Apparently he is the victim of the
pettiest piece of political jealousy
ever betrayed to the American peo-
ple. His offer to lead troops having
been turned down, he has been urging
the country to purchase Liberty bonds
About the time that widow's weeds
are to be seen on every street it may
occur to the Administration that the
services of every American, regard-
less of his politics, should be utilized,
and then perhaps T. R. will get his
opportunity.
Fourth of July Celebration by Fire-
men and Band.
At the 17th anniversary of the
Meyersdale Volunteer Department
held at Firemens’ Hall on Tuesday,
June 12th. The firemen assembled for
the occasion in a body with over
thirty members present.
Lunch was served and many inter-
esting remarks for the good of the
department were made by the mem-
bers present. In regards to its past
record and future prospects. The
idea of having an idle holiday on the
Fourth of July was thoroughly dis-
cussed and on final action by the
members present it was decided to
make the Fourth of July a patriotic
day as it should be.
Therefore the Volunteer Firemen
and the Citizn’s Band, both credit-
able organizations of Meyersdale,
have joined in mutual co-operation to
try and make the Fourth of July a
pleasant and creditable Independence
Day, which we hope will be a pleasure
and credit to the citizens of Meyers-
dale and Somerset county and all
surrounding territory. Further an-
nouncements will be made later.
We now have a complete line of
bran. middling, chop, grain, cracked
corn, salt, etc., and it will pay you to
get our prices before buying.
' Habel & Phillips.
Graves—Housel.
On Thursday evening a very pretty
wedding took place at the Reformed
parsonage, when Rev. Dr. Truxal said
the words which united for life, for
better, for worse, in sickness and
health, William K. Housel and Miss
Anna B. Graves.
The bride is the daughter of W. A.
Graves of North street, and has been
a very popular clerk in the ladies
furnishing department at the store
of Miller & Collins.
Mr. Housel is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
U. M. Housel, of Keystone street, and
has been employed in the grocery of
Habel & Phrillips, which position he
resigned to accept a position as
Manager of a store of the A. & P.
Tea company at Lanaconing, Md.
leaving for that place on Monday.
They are a very excellent and
popular couple and have the best
wishes of many friends in the town,
including the Commercial.
Relics of 1862-63.
John Domer of Grant street has in
his possession. two valuable relics of
the civil war. They are a canteen in
a very good state of preservation
and a bayonet for a Springfield or
Enfield musket. The latter is rusted
and shows signs of age. These were
the property of his grandfather,
John Domer, who was a member of
Co. D, 183 Pa., Reg’t. Vol. Inft. He
was mustered into U. S. service on
August 14, 1862, was wounded at
Fredericksburg and was' mustered
out with the company, May 26, 1863.
He brought these two articles home
with him and carefully preserved
them.
GLENCOE GOSSIP.
Emma Tayman is spending two
weeks with her sisters in Connells-
ville.
Elizabeth Leydig left for Meyersdale
on Sunday last to get a few pointers
on the action of Seniors. She hopes
to be such next year.
Ruth Ebaugh of Meyersdale was a
week end guest of Ha.el Miller.
Mary Deiozier is back from the
Allegany Hospital at Cumberlaad
since Saturday, and Js convalescing
nicely.
Mary Poorbaugh, Marion and
Elizabeth Saylor, of Meyersdale, and
Bill Addis, of Connellsville, spent the
week end as guests of Clara Leydig.
Ruth Bittner and Clara Leydig were
delegates of Glencoe Reformed Sun-
day School to Lavansville last week.
Dora Raupach was a Cumberland
shopper on Saturday.
Alfred Broadwater surveyed a tract
of land for Tony Lassy, of Philson,
this week.
A sefnade was given our returned
honeymooners, William Deist and wife
at H. M. Poorbaugh’s on Tuesday
night. All happiness to the “newly-
weds.”
Special services are being held in
the Evangelical Church here this
{ week.
BOOSTERS MEET
On Tuesday evening the members
of the Boosters Club assembled in
their room in regular session and
were called to order by the President.
After the reading and adoption of
the minutes, Secretary P. D. Clutton,
in’ a very neat, well turned speech,
on behalf of the members of the club,
presented the President, H. M. Cook,
with a very handsome gavel, to be
used in governing’ the deliberations
of the Club, in knocking against
| wrongs but not in knocking against
the town or its interests. “a
Dr. Milne, chairman of the com-
mittee on recovery of the boy, who
strayed away from Keystone Mines,
reported by reading a letter from the
commander of the State Police, stat-
ing that no information was available
and he asked that the committee be
discharged. = >
The Committee on Transportation
reported that a change of schedule
Some one referred to the getting
back service, but when one gets to
Somerset he never cares to leave
there. i
Finance Committee reported that
almost all of those who had sub-
scribed for July 4th demonstration
were willing that the amount, or at
least a part ,be paid into the Patri-
i otic fund. :
A committee was appointed to ap-
pear before next meeting of Council
regarding the better protection in a
couple of dangerous places in the
borough. : >
Committee on Decoration of room
reported decoration completed and
rendered bill for same. Some one
as not being permissable under state
law, but no action was taken excepé
that Dr. Milne agreed to sterilize cup
once each week if brought to his
office.
The matter of the Chautauqua was
taken up and the contract with the
management of the Lincoln Chau-
ordered sold as last year, each busi-
ness house taking a faumber, and be-
coming responsible for the sale of
and Moore were appointed a com-
mittee to see to the distribution.
The Management offered to fur-
nish ExGov. Hanley of Indiana, if he
could have the use of the tent on
Thursday morning.
A Committee was appointed to ar-
range for a Booster’s parade.
Why He Did Not Know.
He was one of the tallest, broadest
darkey porters I had ever seen. One
hesitated to ask so impressive a per-
sonage a question so simple as when
the train reached Cincinnati. But,
when I did, he paused before my chair
and an unbelievable shyness suddenly
overwhelmed him.
“I really doan’ know, miss,”, he said
in a husky whisper. “You see, this
heah’s mah maiden trip.—New York
Evening Post.
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Never Neglect A Cold.
A chill after bathing, cooling
off suddenly after exercise and
drafts, give the cold germs a
foot-hold that may lead to
something worse. Safety re-
quires early treatment. Keep
Dr. King’s New Discovery on
hand. This pleasant balsam
remedy allays inflammation,
soothes the cough and repairs
the tissues. Better be safe
than sorry. Break up the cold
with Dr. King’s New Discovery
At your
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before it is too late.
druggist, 50c, $1.00.
took exception to the drinking cup
had taken place on the B. & O., which |
gave better service to Somerset. | : Band Concert.
tauqua was read. The tickets were |
that many. Messrs. Griffith, Clutton |
Watch Your Waste.
When will the American people who
have lived in the land of plenty awak-
en to the fact that we are engaged in
the most serious war this world has
ever known?
We are just beginning the fight to
keep our enemies away from our
heretofore peaceful homes.
The Allies, with whom we are fight-
ing shoulder to shoulder, will depend
upon us for food, and our army of
producers must necessarily be lessen-
ed by those who go to the front to
guard us from our enemy with their
muskets as our forefathers did during
the pioneer days of America.
To feed our men at the front and
their allied friends we must not talk
about cutting down our sinful waste,
but we must get down to “brass
tacks” and use all the food we buy
with the money we earn in our var-
ous occupations, and many of us by
the sweat of our brow. *
It is high time we lay aside the
frills'and get down t> real practical
work. In times of distress wrought
by the tremendous acts of nature,
such as earthquakes, cyclones, ete,
and also by the devastations and hor-
rors of war, all social lies are broken
down, and we are fourd in our shirt
sleeves working side by side.
The State Department of Health of
Pennsylvania has from its birth been
talking health and economy to the
people at our firesides through the
newspapers, in the cities, on the farms
at the coal mines, in the forest, and
to those who turn the wheels of all
kinds of industries.
Today we have gone so far as to
peep into the garbage buckets of the
poor and the rich only to meet a
surprise by finding good pieces of
bread, potato, ginger snaps, mutton
chops with large portions of good
meat undisturbed, and potato skins
thick enough to have furnished seed
to the farmers, and these good food-
stuffs represent only a very few of
others equally valuable for food.
_ The saving of this waste will be an
important factor in winning a victory
that will mean the restoration of
peace and happiness, while a con-
tinuance of waste will mean hunger
to men who are fighting for the pro-
tection of our homes and the integrity
of our peaceful land, and homes where
we are gradually learning to bear and
forbear with each other so that all
differences of opinion will be settled
by arbitration.
By Samuel G. Dixon, M. D.
_A band concert will be held on
Sunday evening after church services,
June 17th. The following program
will be rendered on the Band stand in
the City Park.
Program
March, De Molay Cammandery, Hall
March, Old Comrades, Tieke
Home Circle Overture, Schlepegrell
Serenade, Twilight Echoes, Miller
The Blue and Grey Patrol Dalbey
March, Banner of Democracy, Hays
The King Pin, Medley Overture
Taylor
March, America I love You, Gottler
Auto Burned.
A new Maxwell Car belonging to
the Keystone Garage was rented to
Robert Hoffmeyer last Tuesday
morning for a trip to Oakland, Md.,
and which took fire enroute, caused
by a leakage to the tank, a short
distance on the way, and was entirely
destroyed. The occupants of the car
escaped without injury.
Sunday School Teacher—*“Bobbie,
can you tell me what caused the
flood ?”’
Bobbie—“Yes, ma’am; it rained.”
TRY THEM
The next time you suffer with
headache, indigestion, bilious-
ness or loss of appetite, try—
BEECHAMS
PILLS
Largest Sale of Any Medicine in the Wc+ld
Sold everywhere. In boxes. 10c., 25¢.
10 DAY
LOW FARE EXCURSION To
WASHINGTON
‘BALTIMORE
Tuesday, June 19
$6.45 Veen”
Regular train Jeaves Meyerudale 12:21 p.m.
Western Maryland Ry.
Low rates from other points. Con-
sult ticket agents.
Delightful Time for a Vacation.
22-23
The ome of Quality
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sell; Secondly, because
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then there 1s another reason—
THE QUALITY
Ne» is the time to buy Coffee, and save money.
own blends are repeaters.
i Jar Codfish for 10 cents.
eas at 12 1-2 cents per can.
Pork and Beans at 20 cents per can
3 bottles catsup for 2 cents. Only a few left,
Kidney Beans at 1; and :5 cents per can.
Fancy head Rice for :0 cents per pound.
3 rolls toilet paper for 2: cents
1 can Roast Beef for 30 cents
1 Bottle Salad Dressing for 10 cents.
: These prices will save moner f r * 0: and please you:
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we sell the goods we have;
Our
Just received a lot of Beechnut Peanut Butter.
Give Us Your Orders for Canned Goods and Save Money
142 Center Street,
Both phones
F. A. BITTNER,
Meyersdale, Pa.
WILLIAM
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SATURDAY, JUNE 23
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Borough Electors to Vote on
—_——
Notice is hereby given to the quali-
fied electors of the Borough of Mey-
ersdale, in the County of Somerset
and State of Pennsylvania, that a
Special Election will be held at the
respective Election Houses in said
Borough, on
Tuesday, July 10, 1917.
between the hours of 7 o’clock A. M.,
and 7 o’clock P. M., for the purpose
of obtaining the assent of the qualifi-
ed electors of said Borough to an in-
crease of the indebtedness of said
Borough in the sum of Fourteen
thousand ($14,000.00) Dollars for the
purpose of street grading, curbing
and paving, and in the sum of Six
thousand ($6,000.00) Dollars, for the
purpose of extending the sewerage
system, or in the aggregate amount
of twenty thousand ($20,000.00) Dol-
lars.
For the information of said electors
and in compliance with the provisions
of the Act of Assembly, approved
April 20th, 1874, and its supplements,
the following statement is submitted:
Amount of the last preceding as-
sessed valuation of taxable property
in said Borough, .... .... ... $822,365.00
Amount of existing debt, computed
according to the provisions of the 5th
section of the abovestated Act, viz:
by deducting from the gross amount
thereof, the money in the treasury,
outstanding solvent debts and re-
sources applicable within one year to
the payment of the same is $23,700.00
The amount of the proposed indebt-
mt a TS nl FTA RAY
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
Opp
edness, as fixed by Ordinance of the
Town Council of the Borough of!
Bond Issue to Ccnstruct and
Repair Streets and Sewers.
Meyersdale, approved the 6th day of
June, 1917, 1s .... ... srs nee =e $20,000.00
The per centage of the proposed in-
crease, is 2 5-10 per cent.
Said election is to be held under
the same regulations provided by law
for the holding of municipal elections.
The qualified electors desiring to
vote in favor of said increase of the
indebtedress shall mark a cross (X)
in the squares opposite the words
“YES”, which words on the bailct
shall follow the question “Shall the
dei:t be mcreased in the sum of
Twenty Thousand Dollars for the
following purposes.” (a) In the sum
of Six thousand ($6,000.00) Dollars
for the purpose of extending the
sewerage system. The qualified elee-
tors desiring to vote against said in-
crease of the indebtedness shall
mark a cross (X) in the squares op-
posite the words “NO”, which words
on the ballot shall follow the question
“Shall the debt be increased in the
sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars for
the following purposes”. (a) In the
sum of Fourteen Thousand ($id,6u0.-
00) Dollars for the purpose of street
grading, curbing and paving. (b)
In the sum of Six thousand ($6,000.
00) Dollars for the purpose of extend-
ing the sewerage system.
By order of the Town
Council of the Borough of
Meyersdale.
Valentine Gress,
Burgess.
Attest:
E. J. Dickey,
Secretary.
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