HE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSD ALE, PA.
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FIREMEN’S POPULAR CONTEST |
HAS BEGUN
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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
<athusiasm.
LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN
Pittsburgh.
45% @463%c; Ohic
Eggs—Fresh, 42c.
Butter—Prints,
creamery, 42@43c.
land. It likewise has great docks.
A German submarine bombarded
French, commander of home defense
forces, announced.
Three persons were killed and five
injured. The material damage to the
town was slight. The submarine fired
thirty rounds in all, half of the shells
falling on land.
Scarborough, the “queen of the Brit
ish watering places,” is a summer re-
sort village on a headland extending
into the North sea, 337 miles north-
east of York. So far as known it is
an unfortified town.
Germany is preparing another
strategic retreat in Flanders, accord-
ing to reports.
The new retreat to positions, ‘as the
German military staff will probably
announce it, will clear western ‘Flan-
ders, east of Ypres and Dixmude as
far as the line between Courtrai and
Thourout. If it is carried out in its
entirety it will release almost 225
square miles of Belgium from the in-
vaders' grip.
DRAFTEES IN CAMP
Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia
and Ohio Men Under Arms:
At Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va., men
from western Pennsylvania and West
Virginia. are arriving by the thou-
sands.
consignment of 46,000 will be in camp.
The men as soon as they arrive ‘are
assigned to regiments in the One Hun.
dred and Sixtieth infantry brigade un-
der command of General Lloyd M.
Brett.
Draftees Reach Camp Sherman.
Unexpected orders detailed 200 com-
missioned officers now at Camp Sher-
man, the national army training camp
at Chillicothe, O., to the Ohio national
guard training camp at Montgomery,
Ala., were received. The men, mostly
Ohio graduates from the first officers’
training c am Pp at Fort Benjamin Hap.
3a, V 1m ately.
western Pennsylvania's
continue to arrive and by
edi
I
ght the frst Bb per cent will
be ur
bans
the British town of Scarborough, Lord |
Within a few weeks the full
Cattle—Prime,
$11.50@12.50;
$13@14.25; good,
tidy butchers, $10.50@
11.50; fair, $8.75@10; common, $7@
7.75; heifers, $6@10.25; common to
good fat bulls, $6@9.50; common to
good fat cows, $4.50@8.756; fresh cows
and springers, $40@90.
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$11.50@12; good mixed, $10@11; fair
mixed, $8.50@9.50; culls and common,
$4.50@7; heavy ewes, $7@10; spring
lambs, $12@17; veal calves, $15.50@
16; heavy and thin calves, $7@11.50.
Hogs—Prime heavy, heavy mixed
and mediums, $19@19.10; heavy York-
ers, $18.75@19.10; light Yorkers,
$17.75@18.25; pigs, $16.560@17.50;
roughs, $16.50@18; stags, $156@156.50.
Cleveland.
Hogs—Yorkers, $18; choice heavies,
$18.25; good mixed, $18@18.10; pigs,
$16.50; roughs, $16.25; stags, $14.50
Sheep and Lambs—Choice spring
lambs, $15.50@16; fair to good, $14@
$8.50@10; culls and common, $5@86.
Calves—Choice veal calves, $15.560@
16; mixed, $14.50@15; heavy and com-
mon, $3@12.
Cattle—Prime shipping steers, $11@
11.50; good to choice, $9.50@10.50;
fair to good, $7.50@8.25; common to
light steers, $6.50@7.25; good to
choice heifers, $7.50@8:50; choice fat
butcher bulls, $7.26@8.25; bologna
bulls, $6@7; choice fat cows, $7@8;
fair to good, $5.50@6.50; canners and
cutters, $56@5.50; milch cows and
springers, $60@ 90.
Chicago.
Hogs—Bulk, $16.90@18.05; light,
$16.45@18.15; mixed, $16.45@18.30;
heavy, $156.35@18.30; roughs, $16.36@
16.65; pigs, $11.26@15.75.
Cattle—Native beef cattle, $7.60@
17; western steers, $6.50 @13.25; stock-
ers and feeders, $6@9.25; cows and
heifers, $4.65@1285; calves, $11.75@
15.75.
Sheep and Lambs—Wethers, $7.86
. second wanted to ride on freight ‘eats
i =
14.50; common, $8@9; choice sheep,’
good to choice butcher, $8.50@9.50;,
Promo#%ions In Business.
In the American Magazine Thomas
B. Wilson, the Chicago packer, says:
“] often ask a man why he is doing
a thing a certain way. If be tells me
that he does it that way because it has
always been done just like that I am
inciined to be somewhat dubious about
his ability. Not infrequently the fact
that custom has been in force for thirty
years is sufficient proof that it is wrong.
We should be constantly on the lookout
for better ways of doing things. Any
business not showing constant advance-
ment usually deteriorates. Individual
positions are no exceptions.
“One of the great foes to a good or-
ganization is the practice of promoting
by seniority alone. John Smith is moved
into a vacancy because he has been in
the department longer than some other
fellow. This plan permits an inferior
man to block the way of a good man.
There should be no rules about promo-
tion which can in any way hamper the
selection of the best man for a place.
In fact, I do not like to have too many
rules about anything. Rules tend to
make people follow custom without
knowing why and without using much
initiative.”
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Origin of the Dahlia
‘By a curious irony the dahlia flowet,
popular at the flower shows, is of very
humble origin. It has been developed
from a Mexican tuber. Some centu.
ry and a half ago this plant was in.
troduced into Europe by the Swedish
botanist, Dr. Dahl, for, the purely com:
mercial purpose of supplanting or sup-
plementing the potato. But they did
not prove popular, and the dahlia dish
soon. disappeared from the dinner ta:
bles of Europe, but the gardeners saw
the latent possibilities of the. flower,
from which théy have evolved the dou:
ble dahlia and other popular floral fam
cles. It would ‘thus appear that the
dahlia had reversed the fate of the red
clover, which was originally introduced
as a garden flower, but was found to
be much more desirable as a fine for-
age. The tubers of the dahlia, though
bitter, are still eaten in some parts of
France. n !
Beyond Human Control.
Children were discussing “what we'll
do when we get big.” One wanted to
be a milkman and ride’ around’ The
and “make the round things go.” The
third could not decide whether to be
a minister or a grocer. The fourth
child. a girl of eleven, did not care to
tell.”
“Aw,” cried he ‘for whom ‘the minis
try and confectionery had “equal "at
tractions, ‘“yurwant to’ get married.”
“When ‘the toys'had fun off, the girl's
ambition Yas confided to her favorite
aunt. “I wouldn't tell them.” she said
geornfully. “They couldn't tmderstand.
Bit, aunty, I want’ ‘to’ be ‘a justice*of
the supreme court and”—her voice be-
came solemn—“beyond buman control.”
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a # said the timid hightind 109-
“1 wad kiss ‘ye; but I'm fedrt ye
wadna let me.”
‘She blushed as’ Ted ag. the stnset, but
| did not answer. ~~
'Effie,” ‘he’ “repeated “timidly, a Title
| 1ater, “1 said 1 ‘wad’ kiss ye, but I'm
‘fedrt ye wadna let me.” ©
‘At the third repetition She asked:
“Dae ye ‘min’,
the cairt an” ye lifted them for me?”
“Oh, aye!” he replied.
“Weel, that shows, David,” she mur-
mured, “that ye're far stronger thas
me!” London Globe. 2
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Principles of Action.
tion to be adopted—to benefit others
without being lavish, to encourage la-
ber without being harsh, to add to
your resources without being covetous,
to be dignified without being super-
cillous and to inspire awe without be-
ing austere.—Confucius.
As a Bad Job.
“What made young Howler give up
the practice of the law?"
“He didn’t give it up exactly. So far
as I am able to understand the situa-
tion, the practice of the law gave young
Howler up.” — Richmond Times-Dis-
patch, wh
A Gentle Hint.
He—Then you are not interested in
my welfare. She—No; but if the two
syllables were transposed I'd not only
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PRACT! CAL HEALTH HI NT.
8d Wher Baby Cries.
‘Well babies do.net cry. When
a:baby cries and cries it is inva-
riably an indication that it is ili
When ‘a baby cries himself to
gleep ‘find’ out why he does sou:
Aninfant may beso uncomfort-
able’ from frequent handling that’
he is made nervous: feverish
even and ill. . The nervous sys-
tem of the young child is exqui-
sitely sensitive, and profound sys-
temie disturbances frequently re- .
sult from irritation of a child's
nerves. It is the mother’s duty
to insist upon having her baby
treated with courtesy.. When he
is lying down to rest or content-
edly playing with his toes no one
should be allowed to touch him.
Letting him . alone saves his
nervous system from being irri;
tated. ‘Naughty, fidgety” ba-
bies are made 80 by their well
meaning caretakers and visitors.
Infants are good when they are
well, and they cannot be well if
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There are five good principles of ac-
be interested, but enthusiastic, —Boston b
+ RE i men l
David, “yesterday | 1 io
couldna lift a bag of potatoes intae |”
{ down by the men who won Marathon
© | more first class intellects than have
0 | since been produced by all: the world
o | put together
Prompt Plumbing Service
The time ‘that goad plumbing equip-
ment is most appreciated i is‘usually when ——y ya
- the equipment is temporarily out of order. :
Then we see how Aecessary good ie
plumbire is. A
& Then you want & « plumber nd want
rn him quickly.
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“Sudden palin. fC Ti
over=sirain”®,_ ||
Every Housewife or
Mother is ever under .
that Nervous Strain<_._—}
which so often results [L__ a
in Headaches, Dizzy
Sensations, Faintness, |
Nervous Disorders.
Dr. Miles’
'NERVINE
is Highly Recommended
in Such Cases.
:iF FIRST BOTTLE FAILS TO
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BADLY RUN DOWN.
“IT had become greatly run down,
and my nerves were in terrible
condition. I had frequent head-
aches and Became very weak and:
unable do anything. = X |
Bought a Dottie of Dr. Miles’ Nervs {|
ine. soon began to feel bettas.
my arn were quieted. IX
covered my strength, and have singe
. Miles’ Nervitie f
I mehi Dr,
many -of friends w ety
used it th 2iisfactory realm
Tas FRANCES Os i
9 Beeadway, Schenectady, N. Y.
Short For Which? ~
Mrs. Blueblood—We dined al fresce
Jast evening.
Mrs. Newrich—I think I've niet ‘him
somewhere? Is his first nama’ Albert
or Alfred?—Boston Transcript."
Athens the Seat of Learning.
It may be said unhesitatingly that
the country which has produced the
greatest men in literature and philoso- |’
phy, art and. architecture is Greece.
In the little state of Attica—not much
larger than Greater New York—true |
civilization and all that ‘goes along
with it , were born, All that has been
done since the “age of Pericles” has
been simply | the ¢éarrying out of the
ideas, princl sles and methods” laid
Marks of a Great Man.
A really great mdn is known iby
three signs—genecrosity in the design.
humanity in the execution and modera
tion in success.—Bismarck.
and Salamis, Plataea and Mycale. Gal-
ton, a high authority, does not hesitate
to say that Athens and the little state
of which it was the capital produced
Greatest Inland Sea. +
The greatest inland sea is the Cas-
pian gea, which is 700 miles long and
270 miles wide.
| An tidiscreet man is an unsealed let-
| ter. Every one can read it—Chamfort a
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