Fees Ins289 2583 E388 3 B =~ gazines, ’ R, int st. you WG- as THE MEYERSDALE COMMER CIAL, MEYERSD ALE, PA. FIRST MEN T0 START SEPT, § Change Made In Date For tie Mobilization of New Army WAIT TILL AFTER LABOR DAY Religious Objectors to Be Given Jobs at Cantonments; All Will Be Sum- moned to Army. Drafted men for the new national army will start for their cantonments Sept. 6, instead of Sept. 1, Provost Marshal General Crowder announced. General .Crowder explained the de- lay was due to the necessity of avoid- ing congestion because of Labor day railroad excursions. Thirty per cent of the drafted men will move Sept. 5, 30 per cent on Sept. 15, 30 per cent on ‘Sept. 30 and the re- maining 10 per cent as soon afterward as conveniently possible. Work is being rushed on the sixteen national cantonments being erected in various sections of the country to have them ready Sept. 5 for the first 30 per cent of the 687,000 men called from those registered June 5 under the conscription law. Religious objectors are assigned a definite place in the national army for the first time in a ruling made public by Provost Marshal General Crowder. They will be sent to the mobilization camps for duties which the president may designate as noncombatant. The ruling says they “will be draft- ed, forwarded to a mobilization camp and will make up.a part of the quota from the state and district from whence they come and will be as- signed to duty in a capacity declared by the president to be nencombatant.” The regulation referring to them reads: “Any person who is found by local board to be a member of any well recognized religious sect or organiza- tion organized and existing May 18, 1917, and whose then existing creed or principles fcrbid its members to participate in. war in any form, and whose religious convictions are against war or participation therein in accordance with the creed or prin- ciples of the said religious organiza- tions.” The duties which may be allotted to these men have not been made known, There are numerous army organiza- tions, however, such as the hospital corps, quartermaster corps, known as noncombatant troops in army organi- zation. There will be, in addition, many labor battalions, messengers, motor drivers, clerks and the like who will have no active part in the fight- ing, although they will be as much exposed to shell fire in bringing sup- plies te the line and taking wounded back as are the active regiments. Pre- sumably objectors will be placed in these units where their work will be to save life, not to take it. Picks Wife From 103 Applicants. “It’s a pity the law allows only one wife to a man,” smilingly remarked Captain C. E. Olsen, a sea captain, in New York. Captain Olsen chose for his bride a blonde widow, whem he had never seen, out of 103 applicants. LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN Pittsburgh, Aug. 14. Butter—Prints, 43@44c; Ohio cream. ery, 371, @38c. Eggs—Fresh, 38c. Cattle — Prime, $12.50@13; good, $11.75@12.25; tidy butchers, $10.50@ 11.50; fair, $9.50@10.25; common, $7.560@8.60; heifers, $6@10.50; com- mon to good fat bulls, $6@10; com- mon to good fut cows, $5@9; fresh cows and springers, $40@90. Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers, $10@10.50; good mixed, $9@9.75; fair mixed, $7.50@8.50; culls and common, $4.60@6; spring lambs, $11@15.25; veal calves, $15@15.60; heavy and thin calves, $7@11. Hogs—Prime heavy, heavy mixed, mediums and heavy Yorkers, $17.50@ 17.60; light Yorkers, $16@16.25; pigs, $15.26 @15.50; roughs, $14.50@15; stags, $12.50@13.25. Cleveland, Aug. 14. Cattle—Prime shipping steers, $11 @11.50; choice fat steers, 1,160 pounas and upward, $10.50@11; choice fat steers, 1,100 pounds and upward, $9.50 @10; good to choice butcher steers, $9@9.60; fair to good, $8@8.50; com- mon to light steers, $6.50@7; choice fat butcher bulls, $7@8; bologna bulls, $5.75@6.50; good to choice fat cows, $7@S§; fair to good, $5.76@86.75; canners and cutters, $5@6.50; milch cows and springers, $60@90. Calves—Choice veal calves, $14.60 @15; mixed, $13.50@14; heavy and common, $8@11. Hogs — Yorkers, $17.15; choice heavies, $17.25; good mixed, $17.20; pigs, $14.75; roughs, $15; stags, $13. y Chicago, Aug. 14. Hogs — Bulk, §$16.65@17.25; light, $15.85@17.30; mixed, $15.95@17.40; heavy, $15.80@17.50; roughs, $15.80@ 16.05; pigs, $11.50@14.75. Cattle—Native beef cattle” $8@ 14.35; western steers, $7@12.35; stock: ers and feeders, $5.90@9.35; cows and heifers, $4.60@12.256; calves, $7.90@ 10.65. Sheep and Lambs—Wethers, @11.10; lambs, $9.90@15.30. $7.70 Chicago Grain Market Close. Wheat. Corn. Oats. . 2.04 vain BUYS 1.14% B71 INVESTIGATING I. W. W. SITUATIGN FOR WILSCN Photo by American Press Association. J. HARRY COVINGTON, Chief Justice Covington of the su- preme court of the District of Colum- | : bia is now in the west investigating the labor situation, especially in con- nection with the I. W. W., at the per- sonal request of President Wilson. As the department of justice is extreme- ly busy at this time, the president asked Justice Covington to be his per- sonal representative in the first hand inquiry he desires made. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR Twenty-three persons, including nine women and six children, were killed and fifty persons were injured at Southend, in Essex, forty miles east of London, by bombs dropped by German raiders, says an official state- ment. Considerable damage to property ! was caused at Southend by the nearly forty bombs dropped upon the town. About twenty German airplanes comprised the raiding squadron. Brit- ish aviators pursued the raiders out to sea. Two French aviators dropped bombs on Frankfort-on-the-Main, one of the most important cities of the German empire, having a population of more than 300,000. A French official state- ment says the raid was in retaliation for the German aerial bombardment of Nancy and the region north of Paris. Both French machines returned un- damaged. Sinking of the American steamer Campania, a Standard Oil tanker, with the probable capture of her captain and four members of the naval guard by the attacking German submurine, was announced by the navy depart- ment. The Canadian outposts around Lens have established a new line in a group of houses which is within a few yards of the enemy front line at that point. The Lens-Bethune road is now safely within the Canadian lines almost up to the city of Lens. The enemy does not intend to sub- mit to the loss of Lens without mak- | ing a fight for it. While the outposts were establishing their new posts the : Germans turned loose a heavy artil lery and machine gun barrage upon the crater recently captured and build: ings nearby. Vimy and Farbus, towns behind the British lines south of Lens, also have been shelled daily by enemy batteries. Field Marshal Sir Douglar Haig’s forces attacked and captured virtually all the German forward positions east of the Belgian town of Hooge on the battlefront between Frezenburg and the Ypres-Menin road. The assaulting forces gained virtu- ally all their objectives to the depth of several hundred yards in the first rush. The German defense stiffened after the initial onslaught and heavy fight ing developed at some places, but at the latest reports the British were holding their new line strongly. This section of the front was the scene of some of the hardest fighting on the first day of the battle of Flan- ders. South of Westhoek the terrain is marshy in places and in the wooded section the Germans had strengthened their positions by constructing deep dugouts. These obsi~- »s, however, did not deter the onw rush of the British troops. In last week’s air fighting one young Britisher accounted for his fortieth machine. ’ FIVE AMERICANS DIE City of Athens Sinks Off South Africa After Striking Mine. Five Americans lost their lives when the American vessel City of Athens was sunk by a mine off Cape | Town, Africa. Four of the crew and | ten additional passengers were lost. The vessel carried missionaries from Brooklyn and New York head quarters to Cape Town. Their destina. tion was almost in sight when the ves sel struck a mine. The dead Americans are: Mr. Sum mer and four missionaries—Mr. and Mrs. Nagard, Miss Rebinso nd Caro dne Thompson. a A i I . mediately in that direction if the situ- ‘will take over the control 6f all grain food control bill was ratified by the : ence agreement were: Frances, Gron. ‘our allied countries.” | ation makes it necessary to sanction | plies. | not ‘ the smallest particle must be FIRST STEP T0 CUT LIVING GOST Government Threatens to Seize Entire Wheat Supply HOOVER ISSUES WARNING Commission Headed by Harry A. Gar- field Will Name Price to Be Paid For 1917 Crop. A fight will be waged on specula- tors and profiteers in wheat by the food administration in a campaign to cut down the high cost of living. That much was made evident in an an- nouncement issued by Herbert C. Hoover, in whom the president hasg placed practically unlimited power in this phase of the war program. The price to be paid for the wheat crop of 1917, Mr. Hoover stated, would, with the full approval of Presi- dent Wilson, be fixed by a commission headed by Harry A. Garfield, a son of former President James A. Garfield, and president of Williams college. Gambling on the wheat exchanges Mr. Hoover said, must end, even if the government has to go to the ex- treme of purchasing the entire supply of the nation. He added as a warning that the new food administration, un- der the power given to it by the food control bill, was prepared to act im- ation confronted seemed to warrant it in doing so. The announcement will be followed by others which will have a radical effect upon the whole food supply of the country, as Mr. Hoover is de- termined to either win a big victory for the people or go down fighting. As a preliminary step, Mr. Hoover elevators and mills with a daily ca- pacity of over 100 barrels of flour and place them under a system of licenses which will provide full information for the food administration and make’ hoarding impossible. The grain éx changes at the same time will be re- quested to suspend all dealings and quotations in futures. : The program announced by Mr. Hoover is the most revolutionary step ever taken by the government to pro- tect itself and the public against pri- vate interests that have sought to take advantage of conditions and place prices at a level which they have never reached before. The tone of Mr. Hoover's statement showed that he was in no mood to hesitate at any action which he felt was for the best interests of the country. A drive to reduce the price of bread by thus putting under one govern- ment control the direction of wheat and flour for the allies and for do- mestic purposes, is contemplated as one of the early steps in the campaign for lower prices. ; It has been believed entirely possi- ble in some quarters that a standard sixteen-ounch loaf could be sold with a reasonable profit at 5 cents gnce the food administration had the power to regulate the ‘cost of wheat and ficur. Whether that end is accomplished or | not, it will be used as a basis for action taken. The conference agreement on the senate by a vote of 66 to 7. Senators voting against the confer na, Hardwick, Hollis, La Follette, Pen- rose and Reed. Senator Gore was paired but announced he would have voted against the measure. LOCK ALIKE TO RED CROSS Friend or Enemy Will Receive Same Kind Treatment. Many questions have arisen as to the attitude of the American Red Cross toward Germans wounded, and also toward Americans of German origin affiliating themselves with Red Cross hospital units going abroad. Te make clear the attitude of the Red’ Cross Henry P. Davison, chairman of the war council, authorizes the follow- ing statement: “The Red Cross knows no such thing as the nationality of a wounded man. Any wounded enemy -turne.i over to the care of the American Red Cross will receive as kindly treatment as any friend. The Red Cross will not only extend every aid and comfort to the armies of America and its allies, but it will assist in every possible way the sick, wounded and afflicted among the civilian populations among STRICT ECONOMY URGED German Army Ordered to Save Small- est Particles of Food. Reuter’s correspondent at British headquarters reports that an order is- sued to the army of Crown Prince Rupprecht has been found, which Tread: “The facet that economy in bread cereals has been taken into consider- an increased ration only where it is really needful. Officers are requested to explain again to their subordinates the serious nature of the economic situation in Germany and give instruc tions that the strictest economy must be erercised with regard to all sup be exercised with regard to all sup- Nothing must be requested be ‘| Dever met them. “| feel comfortable about the matter. AN EPISODE ~ | OF LONDON SGCIAL LIFF I By WARREN MILLER 1 3. | Ea | Winslow Coker’s ancestors were Lon- | don swells. Coker himself was born | poor in America, but before he was thirty made an enormous fortune. Then he went to England to occupy the family's former position. He said nothing there about his wealth, but announced that he was a Coker, with a view to gaining, if the name would assist him, an entree to society. Some remembered the posi- tion held by his ancestors, but no one seemed to take him up on account of it. Then he mentioned his wealth, but even that—at least the mention of it—made no impression on society. Finally he fell in with Sir Thomas Spottiswoode, an impecunious baronet, who told him that to get into society he juust spend noney and spend it in ° a wuy to accom; lish the object he de- sire. Sir Thomas offered to direct his expenditu.es for a consideration. A bargain was struck by which Sir Thomas was to receive $5,000 for him- self and an unlimited amount for so- ciety. The beginning was a dinner given by Coker, the invitations to which were given by the'barouet. He knew those in society who needed money and paid liberally for acceptances from the right peojle. Among those invited were Mrs. Mulholland and ber two daugh- ters. Lillian and Grace, aged respec- tively twenty-four aud twenty. Coker Was by no means an unattractive man, and Grace Mulholland took a fancy to him. But in sending checks Sir Thom- as made a mistake. He sent a sep- arate check to the mother and each of the daughters. Grace Mulholland had been unaware up to that time how her mother maintained her social position in the face of poverty and was indig- nant. She sent her check right back! and to Mr. Coker himself. Coker said nothing about the matter to his social manager. He felt sure . that in the main the baronet was man- | aging well, and this turned out to be the case. Coker after a few months got beyond the people he had invited | to his first dinner, though in rare in- stances he met the Mulhollands. After a time he broke through the coolness with which Miss Grace treated him, having excused himself for his action toward her on the ground that he had desired to enter London society and had placed the management of his en- tree into the hands of another. In time her prejudice was worn away, but scarcely before the American rose to a socizl position so high that he was quite beyond the Mulhollands, and he Coker speiit several years in London, reaching the topmost round of the so- cial ladder; then, at thirty-four, he had exhz usted whatever pleasure there had ever been in it for him. He resolved to return to lis native land and lay ont for himself a career. What that caret Was Lis no this to do with this ' stor; Short. bofvie Ioaving he was | w hare wihece the Mul | ard caw oa aed tag fly- ing. Uron in i Lo learned that Mrs. Mull s'lerni's rs newmt of her av. fairs Lad not been ua tinancial sucee s and the home given the family for services to the state by the first Mul- hoile nd must go hy the board. A few days later Coker sent out in- vitations to a farewell dinner. It was a souvenir occasion—that is, a souvenir was to be given to each guest. He sent an-.invitation to the Mulhollands, writing one himself for Miss Grace, begging her to accept. If she declined he would consider the declination to mean that she had not forgiven him for that which he never would have permitted had he been previously hon- ored by her acquaintance. She wrote an acceptance, saying that she had never blamed him and, to make him driviug by t' holliinds liver! would keep the souvenir intended for her as a memento. of a very pleasant acquaintance, When the dinner came off every one was surprised to see the Mulhollands. for they had not been able financially to keep up their social status, especial- ly with the set in which Coker now moved. not even by the mother’s ques- tionable methods. Several young wo- men present who had endeavored to snare the wealthy American wondered when they saw him singularly defer- ential to Grace Mulholland. The din- ner was a splendid affair, and the souvenirs were very costly. They were brought in for a last course, and when the covers were removed many mag- nificent jewels glistened in the lights. All + were; handsome except that of Grace Mulholland, which was a glove box containing a dozen pairs-of gloves. She smiled sincere thanks, considering her comparatively valueless gift a reparation for the check that had been gent her. When she got home she took out the gloves, and with the last pair came a false bottom to the box, it having been glued to the gloves. Beneath was a folded paper of legal appearance, It was a deed to the Mulholland home made out in her name. Many a painter would have beer pleased to catch the expression or the girl's face at this mark of devo- tion of the man for whom she had hac a fancy from the moment of their first meeting. It required two days for he: to come to a decision to return the deed to the donor with a note ex- sive of her deep gratitude and say- 1at she could not accept such a not of ker own Kin. wasted.” ‘epted it from her | and cover the wo Loans and Investments .... U. S. Bonds and Premium Cash and due from Banks . Capital Stock Paid in ........ Surplus Fund and Profits ... Deposits Growth as Shown in JULY 15, 1908 - JUNE 20, 1917 - NET GAIN BETWEEN CONDENSED REPORT OF CONDITION The Second National Bank sMEYERSDALE, PA, JUNE TWENTIETH, NINETEEN SEVENTEEN RESOURCES Real Estate, Furniture & Fixtures ... Total Resources LIABILITIES Seen Ee 65,621.83 Cireplation ..., Total Lianilities Made to Comptroller of Currency. ONE QUARTER MILLION OVER THREE QUARTER MILLION $590,483.75 —OVER ONE-HALF MILLION— LT ..... $592,905.60 70,179.37 64,075.20 125,338.50 $ 852,498.67 Tian 657,476.84 $ 852,498.67 Following Statements $262,014.92 - - $852,498.67 ABOVE STATEMENTS J. T. Yoder JOHNSTOWN Sells the Champion Cream Saver The old-fashioned method of holes with a irt- often enoug] The NEW hi oil at all nS dusk We vig and adds years to its life. by the addition in th aud He consequent at former] I ly carried oil to this most De Laval, ments that have ever been mad separator construction. >i Come in and see the NEW De Laval. A Legend of Agincourt. For many centuries we English have plumed ourselves upon the victory of Agincourt. But the French have an account of the affair not so much to our credit. It was arranged, according to this fable. by the two leaders that only the nobles on each side were to fight. King Henry V. then artfully en nobled his whole army and hence got the best of the enemy. Shakespeare unwittingly gives a little countenance to the legend when he makes the king declare in his address to the soldiers. “Be ye ne'er so vile, this day shall gen- tle your condition.” —London Standard Wrong Either Way. “1 understand your automobile has got you info trouble.” “It’s always getting me into trouble one way or another,” replied MryCLug- gins. “When it runs I get arrested for speeding; when it refuses to run I get arrested for profanity.”—Washington Star. Meat Pies. Meat pies are made most satisfac- torily by first cooking the meat and vegetables as for a stew. Line a pan. earthenware dish or casserole with bis- cuit dough rolled fairly thin, put in the meat. vegetables and gravy, cover with dough and bake in a hot oven. Unprepared. Edith—Were you taken by surprise when he proposed, dear? Elgie—Good- ness, yes! Why, I hadn’t even looked up his financial standing. — Boston Transcript. Falsehood. No falsehood, did it rise heaven high 1 but bankruptcy will sweep it down and make of it.—Carlyle. a d THE NEW DE LAVAL HERE is no machine made in which r lubri io T vitally important than it is in a er rioation yn that is not properly oiled will turn hard rt-can was unsatisfactory fi agers would of t00 much and too ge nN Jo the reason tha automatically oiled SRST ET TE Sula + Shoat of Frock, slean saree SSCS Cline, tyson, Sees tmp 1nd was De Laval oiling system has bean Steal Laval of an automatically oiled neck bearing ation of the tube There has never been a cream s. arator th embodied so many improvements as io Naw The new self-centering bow! - proved milk-Qistributing on Win Ri eit Bpeed-indicator which insures operation at the proper speed, are two of the greatest improve- ream A separator and soon wear out. oiling through a number of little t some others would not oil De Laval is import- C Bhowing automati fling of NEW De Lavas, STEAMSHIP SINKS U-BOAT Third Shot Turns Submarine Over and Crew Surrenders. Officers on board a steamship which { reached a Canadian port tell of an en- | counter with a German submarine on | the trip across the Atlantic in which | the undersea boat was sunk near the { Irish coast. The lookout man notified the cap- | tain that a small sailing vessel was | acting suspiciously. It was watched, and soon a submarine was seen to emerge from behind it. The gunner yon the steamship had his weapon {ready and directly the submarine showed itself he fired. He hit the un dersea boat with his first shell. A second struck the conning tower, and | a third turned the submarine over snd it began a nose dive. Its crew clam bered on deck and waved handker- chiefs. The steamship left the saving of the Germans to a patrol boat that came up. DEPORTATION ADVISED Colonel Roosevelt Severely Arraigns “50-50 Americans.” Denouncing some senators, con- gressmen and newspaper editors as “standing where the copperheads stood in the Civil war,” Colonel Theo. dors Roosevelt demanded suppres sion of the German ianguage press, deportation of “50-50 Americans” ang called upon every man, woman and child in the country to exert every ounce of energy to win the war. When asked concerning statements attributed to him by Dr. Kunko Meyer Berlin professor, in Amsterdam dis patches, Roosevelt said Meyer was guilty of propriety” in quot: ing him cc ng compensation and | indemnities a victorious Germeny | might collect. ;
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