a —— THE NON-UNION MAN “T ought to have a large re- ward, For never owning a Unioncard; I’ve never grumbled, I’ve never struck, T’ve never mixed with union truck; But I must be going my way to win So open, St. Peter and let mein. St. Peter sat and stroked his staff, * Despite his high office he had to laugh. Said he, with a fiery gleam in his eye, “Who is tending this gate, you or 1? I’ve heard of you and your gift of gah, You are w hat they call on earth a scab.’ Thereupon he aros2 in his stature tall And pressed a button in the wall, And he said to the imp who answered the bell, “Escort this fellow around to “Tell Satan to give him a seat alone, On a red hot griddle up near the throne. But say, even the devil can’t stand the smell Of a roasting scab on a griddle in h--l. : “Tt would cause a revolt,—a strike—I know If I sent you down to the imps below. Go back to your master on earth and tell, That they don’t even want a scab in h--1.”—Contributed. Percentage of Sick at Army Camps Less Than 2 Per Cent Returning from inspection trips to 10 Army and aviation camps, Col. Weston P, Cham- berlain, of the Surgeon Gener- al’s Office, reports that the per cent of sick ranges from below 1 per cent to slightly below 2 per cent. Among the conditions lead- ing to treatment in hospitals are severe colds, tonsilitis, slight injuries, and other com- paratively slight ailments. A- bout the only serious disease found at any camp was pneu- monia. Each national Army camp has a thousand-bed hospital, equipped in accordance with most approved modern prac- tice. Driving It Home] Let us drive home to you the fact that no washwe- 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 motion during the entire process. It is simply a matter of having - proper facilities. Meyersdale Steam Laundry Joseph L. Tressler Funeral Director and Embalmer § Meyersdale, Penna. Office : 3 2293Center Mree Both Phones. § Residence: 309 North Street Econo my Phone. a mm PROFESSIONAL CARDS. FIRE, AUTOMOBILE, COMPENSATION AND PLATE GLASS INSURANCE W. > COOK & SON Meyersdale, Pa. W. CURTIS TRUXAL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, SOMERSET, PA. attention given to all lege! Prompt business. THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA. Y. M. C. A. DRIVE Somerset’s first drive for the Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation war fund was the most successful ever undertaken by our people. The big rally in the Court House Friday evening, over which County Chairman, Chas. F. Uhl, Jr., presided, was ad- dressed by the Rev. J. Lane Miller, and secretaries Lunk and Miss Myrtle Waugh, of Johnstown Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., respectively. Their addresses were highly instruc- tive, and they prepared the way for the real work that started with the blowing of steam whistles and ringing of bells at 7:15 o’clock Monday morning. During Sunday a dozen or A SUCCESS| SALISBURY Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sharp and family, of Sand Patch, were Sunday guests at the Mr. and Mrs. H. W. DelLezicr, on “Gravel Hill.” E. H. Miller ard C. M. May of the Cook and Sechler saw mill from C. T. Hay and will ship them to their coal opcr- ations at Casselman. J. C. Trevarrow spent niost of the past week with his fam- liy at this place. W. B. Stevanus, who has been nursing a very sore leg for the past week on account home of Mrs. Sharp’s parents, | CENTER CHURCH Farmers are busily engaged in butchering and getting the turkeys ready for Thanksgiv- ing day. Messrs. Alex. and Harvey Marker are employed by Ira have purchased the old timbers, Sanner, who is building a house i near Rockwood into which he intends to move in the near future. Mrs. Dennis Sanner is on the sick list. Dr. Rowe, of Meyersdale, is the attending physician. Harvey Hostetler is wearing a smile that “won’t come off” since the arrival of a son. Mr. of having cut himself with an ax is getting around again with-, out the use of a cane. Lick township, was visiting friends in Salisbury last Sun- more Somerset speakers broke’ for the rural regions surround-| ing Somerset and they ad- dressed in all twenty-seven! Sunday schools for the war, fund. It was planned for Som- erset to raise $6,000 and the! surrounding sections to contri- bute $1,000. work Monday morning, and be-' fore sun-set they had secured over $6,000, but the work did| not stop. The Red Cross, it was understood, is to get all| the funds in excess of $7,000; and this assurance induced more and more subscriptions to come in. The rural districts have not yet been heard from but President Frank K. Sanner, is confident his rural workers; will produce amounts aggre- gating more than the $1,000] asked for. The clock in the window of Snyder’s drug store was to register the progress of the drive for subscriptions; but the! clock was figured for only, $6,000. It was obsolete by, Monday evening, and accross its dial was written “Clock too, small; see other window.” | Thursday evening the sub-' scriptions for Somerset alone, totaled $8,389.35, as follows:! Northwest Somerset, Rev. E.! ¥. Hoffmeier, captain, $1,558; Jortheast Somerset, Daniel W.| Weller captain, $1.950; South-| west Somerset, W. H. Kantner,! captain, $2,365; Southeast Somerset, Ross R. Scott, cap- tain, $2,516.35. It is easy to predict that by Saturday eve- ning, when the campaign closes the subscriptions will total over. $10,000. The result iz sa} spelndid commentary on the efficiency of President John H.! Beerits, his able captains and loyal heplers in the campaign. It also speaks volumes for the' patriotism of the people of Somerset. PLANT DSIEASE SURVEY | Every year the plant path- ologist of the Pennsylvania, State College collects informa-! tion regarding the occurance; of plant diseases. This year in| co-operation with the U. S. De-| partment of Agriculture the] effart is being made to secure ! more complete information; than ever before in order that everything possible may be! done in the way of devising: campaigns for control and pre-! vention of these diseases. In order to increase grops} in the face of our present emer-| gency, every effort must be! made to prevent the ravages of; diseases. The practice of, treating grains for smut and; potatoes for scab is gradually: becoming more widespread but still far from universal. There; are metheds for preventing various diseases which are not widely known but very worthy of attention. Anyone having had difficulty this season wili do well to report to the plant pathologist, State College, in; order to assist him making; complete records, and tc re-: ceive in return valuable sug-’ gestions. i CORN AND BUCKWHEAT The State Department of Agriculture has issued an in- teresting bulletin showing the figures for each county’s pro-: duction of corn and buckwheat’ in 1917 and comparing them: with the figures for 1516. In the production of corn, Som- erset county ranks thirty-fifth, with 620,340 bushels produced in 1917. In 1916 there were] 746,694 bushels produced, or 126,354 more than in 1917. In the production of buckwheat, we rank sixth among the ties of the State, having pro- duced 233,358 bushels in 1917, compared with 152,190 bush- els for 1916, or a gain of 168 bushels. coun- day. Mrs. W. D. Keller and son, of East Pittsburg, arrived last Wednesday to spend several days with the former’s parents,: Mr. and Mrs. Levi Lichliter. Mrs. Lichliter has been ser- iously ill for some time. Harry McClure has rented) town and will in the near fu- ture move with family into the, Jere Livengood property which is on the same premises. Frank Newman and family | moved from the Forner prop-i erty to the Kyle property, ! owned by C. T. Hay. | L. P. Young, D. D. and. fam- ily moved last Thursday from the Lutheran, parsonage to the Savilla Boyer property on Grant street. Arthur Emerick, of Akron,! Ohio, spent several days of, last week with his mother, Mrs. Annie Emerick, who has been’ very sick for several days. ! P. L. Livengood, of Hunt- ingdon, spent part of the past, week with his family at this! place. ! Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wei- mer spent Wednesday in Cum-! berland on a shopping expedi-! tion. { It appears that a certain per-| son got very much offended at: a remark that I made in my correspondence a short time, 1 | ago concerning ‘scabs,’ even going so far as to threaten pro- secution. Suffice it to say that since no names were mention- ed, the shoe must have fit and fit a little too tight or why such a squeal about it. The regular meeting of the | Salisbury Board of Trade was] held in the Municipal building on Monday evening, November 26th. Miss Grace Brown spent sev- eral days of the past week in| Cumberland, Md. Harvey Fogle, for a number, of years an employee in Hasel-! barth’s hardware store has; resigned that position and isi working. for the Grassy Run! Coal Company. Mrs. Wm. Mechurdo spent last Wednesday and Thursday at Westernport, Md., with Mr. McMurdo. ’ THE MUSICAL GUARDSMEN. The Kusical Guwsdsmen, six young men with excellent voices and skilled on numerous musical instruments, are scheduled for a long Lyceum tour this season. This erganization has been rightly styled “A Singing Orchestra.” They THE MUSICAL GUARDSMEN. appear in evening dress for their pop- ular medleys and song hits and then in military uniform for their marches, overtures and other instrumental se- lections. In their vocal numbers there is all the rollicking action of a college glee club. Mrs. Elias Griffith, wife of the well-known blacksmith, of near Kingwood, died Friday morning, aged 68 years. Mrs. Griffith had been in! feeble health for several months and the tragic death of her son Jacob the week before hastened her death. . ~ Mrs. Griffith was a daugh-! ter of the late Peter Broucher.’ She is survived by her husband and four follows: John Charle William and Milton; \1 Parthe Cini tt) « vil bertha Grililth at IONS, as Guerney Swanger, of Elk|says boys may i and Mrs. Edward Doniker, last | Sunday. Hostetler is a man who be- | lieves in preparedness and he become very scarce until after the war. Mrs. Urias Burkholder spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Schafer. Mrs. Lloyd Vought spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Growall. ST. PAUL | The small boy is smiling a Fifty-two solicitors started the John Knecht garage in, proaq smile because he can try his sled on the white, glitter- ing snow. A Missionary Pagent given by the Missionary Society of the Reformed Church was well attended on Sunday evening. A feature of considerable in- terest was the reading in Pennsylvania German bv Mr. Demetrius Compton, Das Schul- hause aun Der Krick, by Henry Harbaugh. A translation of the same poem in English was read by Mrs. Nan Engle. Mr. and Mrs. John Poor-' baugh and daughter, Mrs. Pearle Thompson of Nebraska, who were visiting Mrs. Poor- baugh’s old homestead, left for Akron, Ohio, this week. Her father, Mr. A. C. Lepley, bet- ter known as Squire Lepley, now deceased, was for many vears a prominent farmer in this community. Mrs. Poor-! baugh contemplated spending a few weeks longer but fearing a smallpox quarantine. thought it best to leave for her own home. | Mr. Oberlin Engle shot a! gray fox last Tuesday. The campaign for helping the Y. M, C. A, at the army! camps met with a generous re-: | sponse in this community. | BOYNTON We are having some severe winter weather at present. A large crowd attended the Oyster Supper which was held in Engle’s Hall last Saturday evening for the benefit of the M. E. Church. The Boynton Orchestra furnished music for the occasion, which made the event a very lively one. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lowery and their children spent Sun- day with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lowery, at Coal Run. Mrs. James Robertson and daughter, Edith, were shopping in Meyersdale Monday. Miss Eva Thomas spent Sat- urday and Sunday at her home here, returning Sunday evening to Pocahontas, where she is teaching school. Miss Ruth Beals, who was ill with la grippe at her home in Coal Run the past week, is now back at Lester Engle’s, where she expects to spend the winter. Mr. and Mrs. William Rob- ertson, Jr., and their children; were visiting at the home of Mrs. Robertson’s parents, Mr. Several Berlin boys called on their ladies here Saturday and Sunday evenings, making the trip in a Ford touring car. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Rus- sell Walker, Sunday, Novem- ber 18th, a son. Francis Fogle and Hazel Meager were visiting their friend, Edith Robertson, Sun- day. Howard Bowman was call- ing at Engle’s Mill recently. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pyle, of this place, have received a communication from their son, Leroy, who is with Battery ‘A’ 20th Field Artillery, now at Leon Springs, Texas, describ- ing his experiences in the army and informing them that he is enjoying good health. He ex- pects to start with the boys for one of the firing lines in Eur- ope before spring, and ex-| presses a hope of coming home | to see his relatives and friends! here before going across. | THANKSGIVING Truly America has much to be thankful for this present year; as a nation we have been blessed in abundance, and are truly thankful that we are able to help our needy Allies at such a crucial time. That this may be a real Thanksgiving for you is the sincere wish of SECOND NATIONAL BANK MEYERSDALE, PA. rr, ad ; That brisk, lively tang of a “Bull” Durham ciga- # rette is bracing as ozone—as snappy and vigorous as ¥ the swing of the stroke-oa r on the winning crew. You 4 get gimp and go and satisfaction out of your smoke ¢ when you “roll your own” with “Bull” Durham. e GEN Gog 4 “rolling their cwm™ I's very little trouble to { 3 a fewtimesand you'll get the mostwonderfultobaccointhe rr a COAL RUN Coal Run is still on the map as a fighting town, as “Old Bach” on Tuesday night came home from Meyersdale where he had indulged too freely in| “red eye,” and was going to clean up on everybody in this place. Earl, the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Blu- baugh, while at play Wednes- day last, had the misfortune to injure one of his fingers, and | the little fellow is now nursing a very sore hand. Lloyd Sipple, with his fam- ily and Mr. Christopher Folk, motored to the home of Mrs. Sipple’s sister, at Muncy Mill last Sunday. Miss Alvertia Logue left last Tuesday for Berlin, where she intends to work for her sister. Horse traders are invited to call on Ferd Nolte, of this place. Mr. Jacob Hartline, who was employed at Meyersdale, is home again, working at his old job driving at the Meager mine. Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinind Nolte and daughter, Edna, were shopping in town Wed- nesday. . The mines of Coal Run have! resumed work, not because the strike was called off, but be- cause the workmen decided to shovel slate for what glory there is in it. Mrs. James Walker and daughter, of Pleasant Hill, spent Thursday with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mull. Master Truman Nolte, who was employed by Bird Bros., is home again. With interest we note a young man of this place en- deavoring to get on the good side of his intended mother-in- law by carrying water on Sun- day night for washday--Mon- | day. ULL DURHAM : SMOKING TOBACCO ° ; Thousands of men say that the first time they ever smoked a really satisfying cigarette was when they starieg with “Bull * Darhsoe, “Bull” Durham. Just keep trying for Then you can enjoy to the full that ol mellow-sweetflavor and unique aro- € ma which make “Bull” Durham the t UINE 1 ¥ oh ® BN Nn = oe = (4°) @ lp BE Sr Th learn how to reall a cigarette of knack. ; world. A A PT TN NS Sf tm Mrs. Edna Fisher and child, of West Virginia, are visiting her mother, Mrs. Jonas Ste- vanus. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lowery, of Boynton, passed Sunday : with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lowery. FENTRESS, VA. The weather is fine, the sun is shining nearly all the time. We haven't had any snow, al- though the nights are a little frosty, the coldest weather we had was Monday morning, 22 above zero. The people are busy digging potatoes, the crop is just an ordinary one on account of wet weather and late planting. Corn and cotton was below average. _ Mr. Nathan Keim was help- ing B. L. Camp to thrash last Saturday, they were threshing a combination of corn and peas. Frank Keim moved back to Chambersburg, Pa., the home of his wife. Nathan Keim bought his farm, but he took all of his furniture and stock i along to his new home. i The farmers are about fin- i ishing up on sowing oats and wheat. Mrs. about five hundred and fifty cabbage plants and will set out about two hundred more. Five of our young men took a trip to Camp Lee at Peters- burg, Va., in an auto Monday to visit the men who drafted. Mr. Ray Camp and Miss Ger- trude Eby, adopted daughter of J. M. Eby, were married re- cently at the home of the bride. Work is plentiful here. NO TRESPASSING Persons are hereby notified that hunting or trespassing on my prem- ises will not be permitted. John Heining, 6 Garrett, R. D. No. 2 Lydia Keim set out were . Event Pict Star 10th, 1 Garde: annive 14th e: torium the pu with showin changi eight picture the pi picture largest The pl stay, show 1 picture directc five ar we Ww charge you a stage prices. The ditoriu one of sorts i Now u torium known its nc music . 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