HE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSD ALE, PA. rma ” FIREMEN’S POPULAR CONTEST | HAS BEGUN { The Firemen’s contest of Meyers- | dale for popularity has already shown a great deal of manifestation among the people of the county and up to ‘Wednesday evening when the first count was tabulated it was found. that a good many contestants had al- ready endorsed their intentions to win the valuable prizes to be given to the winners of the different contests. For the popular lady or girl it was found that fifteen contestants had al- ready signified their willingness to capture the prizes while the contests for popular boy, popular baby and homely or popular man were far be- yond all expectations for the first day. { ‘All contests will be decided on next Friday evening, September 21, at the carnival grounds and voting stations will be established in the prominent stores of Meyersdale which will give the friends of the various contestants a chance to show ‘Leir generosity by depositing~their votes in the different ballot boxes. ig A list of the standing of cach con- test will be posted each ‘evening at the different voting places carnival which will tend*to: snow each of the contestants how their friends are helping them out. The following is the standing of the contéstants up to wi tinesday ev en ‘ # POPULAR LADY Name ! Emma Finnegan .... tise. oe Marion Dickey Mary Darrow. ... .... .alalwvocs 17 “Marcella Reich .... —o sprrioe 25 “Rose McKenzie .... ....'%. 04 F1L Hilda Lichty ..i i. sie saiass 28, Pearl Wertz .... ... Ae 25 Bessie Hady 021 Mildred Donges ... -.- wor’ or 2 Pauline Groff .... ... 32a. 19 Grace Saylor: i. fs ei lipmet ve 33 Elizabeth Wagner .... stan 8 EdithsRae .... - Lavage Evelyn Seckemby EET 26 BOYS CONTEST Homer Miller . wc oe 18 Farl Bowman .... ©... eo... 25 William Jenkins .... ....e. hws 16 Ghar Dively .... ote ee gs Pal Dively... ne TY Joe Poley =. .... ir akanbke ar Bb Jerry: Reich .... coo cil sie com eens 19 John Foy ... . vases 10 Co rere CHICAGO MAYOR ACCUSED OF AIDING ENEMIES OF U. S. fat the | {by the two forces, virtually equal in 4-geribed arc where it-is impossible for HOMELY or - POPULAR wan George Keim Charles” Fennessey a .o - . J. 1. Smith... =... +. GL C. W. Baldwin .... &. 58a 4 Burgess Gress .... wc. eee wren oe 14 Tom "Weller .... -... wc saw ineee 16 Grant Tressler .... ... ... .... 5 Phil: Reich oF rou on en 27 P.B. Have .. 0 i viii io 15 J. B. Jenkins .... oc. woe due 200 Frank Bolden .... .... .... ..onn 78. George Logue .... -.o oo oe 36 Chas. Dia... «oi oe amie 9 PH Ramer .... .... .... --. .. 2 16 J. B. Schardt ... 18 At the aeeling. of the “committee of Firemen on Wednesday it was de- cided that the contest for the popu- | dar baby would be declared off#and that only the three above: pontests for popular lady, popular boy and homely or popular man would bec con- tested’ for. © ¥ PUBLIC THANKS The letter from the Somerset Board of’ Trade fully explains itself and we cheerfully give room for the letter without mutilation. Mr. C. W. Baldwin, Meyersdale, Pa., My dear Mr. Baldwin: — The Somerset Board of Trade does not wish to let the occasion go by without thanking you and the Meyersdale Band for their generous participation in the send- off of Com- pany “C” last Friday night. While we realized that the departure of Company “C” was not a Somerset affair, but a matter of interest to the whole county, yet we do feel that since the Somerset Board of Trade did try to arrange for the celebra- tion, that it was a matter of very great courtesy on your part and on the part of the Band to come over and assist us in making the boys of Company “C” feel that our hearts and our interests are with them. We feel this particularly since’ the weather was anything but favorable that night. We trust that the occasion may come when Somerset can show their good will in such active service as you rendered us and that by such exchange of favors we can draw our towns even more closely together. Again thanking you, I am, » Very: sincerely; x Hdgar' F. Hoffmeier, Sec. 0. P. Kuffer. 12, 191%, Children ory FOR: FLETCHER’S CASTORIA September on ‘a pro-Arver.can:and pro-war with Germany pia tform,’ “has apparently completely fargoiten those planks. His Photo by American Press Asaociation. | WILLIAM H. THOM. Bo... Mayor Thompson; who wag elected anti-ally utterances’ and action§, and his espousal of the pacifist cause cul- minated in one of his lieutenants being mobbed in mistake for him, He also has been hanged in effigy. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR / io The fight against That the heights north- east of Gorizia continues night and day.» The continuous contest seems to the observer to be animated by super- human force, the Italians and the Aus- trians almost constantly engaging in hand-to-hand encounters. A strange situation is brought about numbers, strength and determination, struggling for supremacy in a circum- either side to employ more men, or angillery. : $3 Russian Aroops took’ the offeisive against the German forces in the re- gion of Segevold; - thirty-two miles northeast of Riga. In certain sectors, the Petrograd official statement: says, the Russian “death battalion,” defeat- ed the Teutons and forced. them “back. German airplanes raided the Chath- am-Sheerness area of" ‘England (Chath- mess is a naval and military depot), inflicting what were officially de- scribed as “naval casualties” totaling 107 dead and 86 wounded.; " On the Isle of Thanet the raiders ‘killed one and wounded six other per: sons. Chatham contains immense military and naval establishments, docks, bar- racks, engineer schools and immense fortincations ‘Sheerness is also a strongly forti- fied seaport, the naval arsenal of’ 'Eng- taxation measure in American history —was passed by the senate. vides for a levy somewhat under ‘$2, 400,000,000, as compared with $1,867. 870,000 proposed in the bill as i passed the house May 28. am is a British naval base and Sheer-, SENATE PASSES WAR TAX BILL Upper Housa Adds Half Billion + Doliars to Measure MANY AMENDMENTS LOST La Follette’s Substitute Bill Proposing to Raise Three Billions and a Half Is Defeated. The war tax bill—the largest single It pro- The vote was 89 to 4, Senators Borah, Gronna, La Follette and Norris being recorded in opposition, Senator Hardwick’s amendment to provide a zone system increasing sec- ond class postage rates on advertising portions’ ‘of publications was rejected, 48 to 20. 'His plan, it was estimated, ‘would raise: $16,500,000 next year. The senate adopted, 40 to 34, ‘Sena- tor Smoot’s' motion te strike out’ the ‘McKellar amendment providing 6 a zone increage-in second class postage rates beyond 300 miles and designed ito secure $12,600,000. The house zone provision and the senate ‘finance ¢om. mittee’s specidl publishers’ profits pro- visions alréady had been eliminated. Senator La Folette’s substitute war tax . bill, proposing to raise about : $3,500,000,000 solely from income, War profits, liquor . and tobacco, was .re- jected, 65 to 15, The Jones amendment, revised by the committee to levy a 10 per cent tax upon corporations’ undistributed surplus, was adopted on a viva voce vote: © A substitute by Senafor Jodes to eliminate an exemption in the com- mittee’s clause of income actually in- vested and employed was, defeated, 45 to 35. : Senator Owens’ amendment, provid- ing for a tax ranging from 1 per cent on inheritances of $100,000 to 1007 per cent on those over $95,000,000 was re- jected by a vote of 51 to 30. Ek The senate voted, 52 to 28, to strike out all consumption taxes in the bill, including those on sugar, tea and cocoa, all designed to raise $86,000,000. WESTERN PENNA AT HEAD 8,300 Men Have Been Sent to Will. tary Camps. ~~. President T. J. Keenan ‘of thedap- peals draft board of Allegheny c announced that up to Saturda 8,300' men had been sent to camps from western Pennsylvania’ “This, the greatest number of troops ever sent from this end of the state, is nevertheless just a starter in this war,” said Colonel Keenan. Americans In Brazil's Liberty Parade,’ American sailors from the Atlantic patrol were among 22,000 troops which paraded on Brazil’s indepen- dence day in Rio Janeiro. The Ameri. jcans were greeted with the wildest