oeen are able such real the \NK out fifty xt out took eters- nday were . Ger- gchter d re- oride- | that prem- No. 2 + to go, the only time we miss it, VOL XXXVIIL < 8th ANNIVERSARY OF AUDITORIUM Event to be celebrated With Pictures and Roller Skating. Starting Monday, December 10th, the Auditorium Summer Garden celebrates its eighth anniversary week: December 14th eight years ago, the Audi- torium threw its doors open to the public as a skating rink with pictures in connection, showing three reels of pictures changing three times a week, eight years ago, the motion picture was in its infancy, if the producer spent one hun dred ¢ lars to make a p' ture, ‘he was taking a big chance; one machine was all that was used to project the picture stopping between each reel, but this is a thing of the past, the picture industry is the fifth largest in the couniry today. The photo-plays have come to stay, most of the legitimate show houses have gone over to pictures, it is nothing for a director to spend $50,000 on a five and six reel feature. Then we wonder why the theatres charge the price of admission, you are getting all the big, stage successes at popular prices. The last four years, the Au-| ditorium has been turned into; one of the most novel picture re-| sorts in Western Pennsylvania | Now under the name of Audi-! torium Summer Garden, it is known from coast to coast for! its novel decorations, good music and excellent pictures. . Pick up a program and you will find a weekly program that is hard to' beat, take the big feature productions that are appearing once a week, with music by the Auditorium not be equaled in the smaller town, the projection is of the very best, two machines being used, the music by Prof. Lew Bittner cannot be equaled in! any town the size of Meyers- dale and a great number of the! larger cities, the management of the Auditorium, policy has always been music to suit the photoplays. : “Make yourself young again just for tonight,” this coming Friday, December 14th, you will have a chance to get on the little roller as you did eight years ago, a night that a number of us will never for- get. Answer this question: What would we do without the| Auditorium. We hive had al- most two weeks of it, no place when it is gone. The Manage-| ment was talking of changing | the Auditorium into a Garage! in the spring, but states that if the attendance is as good in the future as it has been in the past two months, they will continue on with pictures. Do you want Meyersdale with- out a theatre? Evelyn Nesbit and Her Son, Russell Thaw, in “REDEMPTION?” It is not often that one hears hisses and cries of ‘“shame’ at a motion picture entertainment but that is just what happens at every performance of ‘Re- demption” with Evelyn Nesbit and her son, Russell Thaw. “Redemption’” will be the at- traction at the Auditorium soon. The story of “Redemption” is a wonderful moral lesson fearlessly drawn from the heart of a great tragedy. SURPRISE PARTY A surprise party was given Genevieve Jenkins, of the Som- erset Hotel, by her many friends recently. A delightful lupch was served in the dining room at the close of the eve- ning’s entertainment, which was much enjoyed by all. a, at pricess that ‘can-| M was given over to the Somer- ANS ANSI NAS CLOTHING FOR FRENCH RELIEF On Friday of last week four large boxes of clothing were shipped from Somerset to the French Relief of the Emergen- ‘cy Aid of Pennsylvania. Some time ago the. Fort- ‘nightly Club, a literary club composed of 35 Somerset wo- men, received an appeal for clothing for Rumanian child- ren. This appeal was read at the Y. M. C. A. Mass Meeting and Somerset responded gen- erously. Before the date set for the shipment of clothing, a communication was received from the Chairman of the Ru-| manian Committee stating that boxes nad to be shipped be- fore the Somerset donation] could ' received, but urgin] to send the donation to either, the Beleian or French Relief, ! 2s the reed there was great. As a result of Somerset’s ef-| forts, four large store boxes filled with clothing were sent. | A large part of the success of) this venture was due to the energy of the Sewing Guild of the Methodist Episcopal church! and the Sunday School Class] of Miss Clara Shoemaker of, the Lutheran Church. These ladies met every evening for ai week, making up dresses and| collecting entire outfits of! clothing for the#boys and girls. ! Money to the amount of $30.50 was contributed. This was expended for new clothing and expressage. SUMMIT TOWNSHIP TEACHERS’ MEETING The following is a program for a teachers’ meeting to be held at the Peck School house, December 8;:1917. +. Assigning of Lessons—DMae re ELA 5 Preparation of the Lesson— Ruth Commons. Treatment of the Unprepar ed—Leora Gnagey. Need of Teaching Pupils How to Study—W. L. Tucker-| Good Questioning — John] Meyers. How Time is wasted—Mar- garet Opel. Chass Management — Mar-. garet Shockey. A general discussion of! methods of teaching the fourth month’s work. . + Bring your course of study with you. COAL FOR FAMILIES THAT ARE IN NEED The collection which was taken up at the Union Thanks- giving service, which was held in the Lutheran Church, Som- erset, on Thanksgiving amount- ed to $40.00. This offering set Children’s Aid Society as was the custom for many years. The Children’s Aid Society will spend. this money for coal for any family that is in need of help. : PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO OPEN MONDAY With the subsidation of the smallpox scare that besieged Meyersdale recently and a re- turn’ t«. the formerly normal state of the public mind, the public schools of this town will be open again Monday morn- ing, December 10th. As announced in an article appearing elsewhere in The Commercial, the School Board has decided to rigidly enforce Article N of the School Code, which requires that not anly all’ pupils, but teachers and janitors as well, must have a satisfactory certificate of vac- cination to enter the schools Monday, when they are again opened. Hammond Dairy Feed is a wonderful milk producer, $2.75 per hundred, at— HABEL & PHILLIPS SNS rr See our fine line of Holiday Jewelry before making a se- lection for Xmas. | T. W. GURLEY| MEYERSDALE, PA. DECEMBER 6 1917 NEWS FROM THE COUNTY SEAT Miss Nellie M. Brown daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brown, of Confluence, and Charles O. Minder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Minder, of Rockwood, were married at S-merset, by the Rev J. E. T+s- keer. ilies Rose Berkey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Ber- key, and Samuel Donges, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Donges both of Acosta, were married at Meyersdale, by the Rev. J. Luther Frantz. Miss Carrie E. Leichty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bar- ' ney Leichty, of Black township, and Paul Leroy Romesbury, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Romesbury, of Summit town- ship, were married at Rock- wood, by J. R. Haines, Justice of the Peace. Miss Bessie Fern Warnick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al- bert Warnick, and Frank Sher- man Durst, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Durst, both of Grants- ville, Md., were married at Salisbury, by the Rev. Ira S. Moon. Miss Lilliam G. Lint, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Lint, and Palmer D. Wills, son of O : Nel | Mr. and Mrs. George Wills, both of Somerset township, were married at Somerset by the Rev. S. G. Buckner. Miss Emma S. Meyers daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. William shipg S. Meyers, of Summit town-| son # ship, and John Fogle, son of! Moc Mr. and Mrs.gHenry Fogle, of Nort Brothersvalley, township, were Grace Miss Sadie Ray Brant daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Brant, and James Franklin ‘Shultz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shultz, both of Rock- wood, were married at Elk Lick, by the Rev. G. R. Hetrick. Miss Annie Isgan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Isgan, and Frank Laskie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Severn Laskie, both of Boswell, were married at Windber, by the Rev. J. P. Saas, Catholic Priest. Charles 1. Shaver, Clerk of the @rphans’ Court has issued marriage licenses to the fol- lowinlg parties during the past week: 1 George M. Miller and Alma Schumaker, both of Friedens; John Koose and Gertrude C. Bell, both of Jefferson town- ship Paul Leroy Romesburg, of Summit township, and Carrie E. Legichty, of Black township; Samytel Donges and Rose Ber- key, both of Acosta: Charles . Minder, of Rockwood and lie M. Bell, of Confluence; Geonge Fredericks and Nettie Thinebolt, both of Somerset; eph Zankey and Katharine ry Manotti, both of Wind- samuel Dipre and Joseph- gukelli, both of Lincoln ship; Jordan Young, of d¢ township, and May Ber-, kebife, of Quemahoning town- $2 Earl Walker, of Jeffer- ownship, and Florence | , of Stonycreek township; pan L. Shaulis and Carrie Dunmeyer, both of Lin- married at Meyersdale, by the colt township; Joseph Paul Rev. E. D. Burnsworth. ter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman ‘Miller, pa Bint aan of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Em- ert, both of Lincoln township, were married at Somerset by! the Rev. S. A. Buckner. Miss Hilda E. Guyan, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Guy- an, and John A. Pritts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton J. Pritts, both of Somerset, were married at Somerset by the Rev. S. G. Buckner. Miss Carrie Rog, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rog, and Zigmont Pietrzekowski, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Pietrzekow- ski both of Windber, were mar- ried at Windber by James P. Saas, Catholic Priest. Miss Tillie Ogline, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. David Og- line, and James E, Sipe, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Sipe, both of Jenner township, were mar- ried at Jennertown, by the Rev. C. E. McCauley. Mrs. Jane Pele, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Vasnoc, of Paint Borough, and John East, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stiney troit, Mich, is spending sever- East, of Scalp Level, were mar-' al days at the home of his ried at Windber, by James P. brother, John W. Rephorn, of Saas, Catholic Priest. a TO the Business and Professional Man:, In line with the steady increase shown in The Commercial’s circulation under new management, and in order to ac- commodate such prospective advertisers as do not feel justi- fied in running large display advertisements at regular in- tervals and to attract them to become steady customers, the following’ announcement is now made. Effective December 6th, The Meyersdale Commercial will institute a distinctly new department in advertising, to be knows as “THE COMMERCIAL’S UP-TO-DATE BUSINESS GUIDE AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY,” in which will be listed the business name, location, telephone number and a brief general description of goods carried in stock, or of professional services available to the public; for which the charge of fifty (50) cents per month will be made, but no single ad listed will contain more than seven lines in type similar to that used in setting up this announcement. Out of town advertisements will be classified so that all from any single town or community will come under one main heading which will be similar in style to the type used in the heading to this announcement. May I not expect a liberal and reasonably generous re- sponse from communities where The Commercial now enjoys a fairly large circulation, as in Garrett, Hollsopple, Hoovers- ville, Berlin, Somerset, Rockwood, Sand Patch, Salisbury, Boynton, and in the country surrcunding Meyersdale? Eber K. Cockley, | OC 0; Miss Florence Milier, daugh-' Reis | | anor and Maude Myrtle nger, both of aswel Hegdore Nolan and Mae Kel- oho RA. Richard | M. Walker and Maggie B. Mil-| ler,“ both of Stonycreek town-| ship; Pasquala Antonaceci and] Antonio Gentelli, both of Gray. | Letters of arministration| have recently been issued as| follows: S. Durst, late of Rockwood. | The will of Mary M. Huston late of Somerset Borough, was! probated November 27,1917. She bequeathed $900 to John Mong, the remainder of her es- tate is to be divided among her four sisters, viz, Lavina Sorber, Elmira Brubaker, Emma Bru- baker and Susan Louther, Ord M. Sarber, was appointed ex- ecutor. The will was dated March 12, 1918, and witness- ed by Fred W. Biesecker and | | ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY John G. Ogle. H. Webster Rephorn, of De- East Catharine street. rN Editor and Proprietor. | NO. 48 ADDITIONAL APPOINT- MENTS ANNOUNCED The Department of Interior at Washington, which recently appointed Clerk of Courts Dan W. Weller as Commisioner of Explosives for Somersot county, has announced the ap- pointment of additional Com- missioners to assist Mr. Weller in the administration of the law regulating the sale of pow- i and dynamite in this coun- Ly. Mr. William H. Clements, Justice of the Peace in Garret, has been selected for the region in and around Garrett. | Mr. F. G. Fryburg, Justice] of the peace in Hooversville,! was appointed to take care of the Hooversville section. | Squire Patton, of Windber, and Squire Miller, of Berlin, | are other appointees whose! names were given to The Com-!| mercial. | We shall be glad to publish! a complete list of these ap- pointees if any that were not available for publication in| this issue are furnished. | Every dealer in explosives is! required to take out a license, | and no person is permitted to have in his possession any ex-| plosive coming under the char-! acter covered by the law, with- out also having a license. These licenses may be secured from any of the above mentioned. Conimissioners. LARIMER TOWNSHIP | INSTITUTE—PROGRAM ike - | The following is the pro- gramme for the Larimer town-' ship Teachers’ Institute to be held at Wittenburg School Friday evening, December 14, 1917. : + Opening Address—Eleanor Hannon. Tardiness—W. A. Hay. Treatment of the Unprepar-' ’ ed—Grace Suder- | ed Recitation—Sidney Lenhart.! Song—Sand Patch School. | of History—Ruth Mognet. i Seat Work—J. Raveuscra it; Impertance of Regulac At —Sidney Lenhart. Music—W ittenburg Band. Songs and Recitations—Wit-| tenburg School. : Debate—Resolved that more can be learned by study than! by travel. Affirmative—W ." A. Hay, Simon Murray, W. H. Knepp. Negative—C. W.| Christner, Alfred Knepp, John! Ravenscroft. ? PROSPECTS OF FED. ERAL AMENDMENT The sudden and unexpected release from jail of all the wo- men who were imprisoned in Washington for the “crime” of having picketed the White House, has caused all the friends of suffrage to feel that the prospects for the passage of the federal amendment have grown considerably brighter. It appears as if the opposition of the government is broken, and tyrannical methods of re- pression are to be abandoned. With Congress re-convened, the issue of nation-wide wo- man sugrage looms large upon the congressional horizon. Not only will the released pickets and their fellow workers of, the National Woman's party| be on hand to present their, case to the senators and con-!| gressmen, but the conservative suffragists. represented by the National Woman Suffrage as- sociation will also add their plea to Cnogress. On December 10th a week after the re-openning of Con- gress, that organization will open its forty-ninth annual convention in Washington, and much of the time at this con- vention will be devoted to the federal améndment. The New York suffragists especially with the case for suffrage closed in their own state, will be eager to win for other women what| they, themselves, have obtain-| ed, and will feel that to con-| centrate on the federal amend-| ment is the greatest task be-| fore them at the present time. | Pratts Poultry Foods will make your hens lay; at— "HABEL & PHILLIPS | U. S. CIVIL SERVICE EAANMUINATIONS eeeee——. — Stenographer and Typewriter December 15, 1917 _ The United States Civil Ser- vice Commission announces an open competitive examination for stenographer and type- writer, for both men and wo- men, on December, 15, 1917; at the places mentioned below: Florida—Eustis, DeFuniak Springs, Milton, Panama City. Illinois—Elgin, Flora, Mt. Carmel, Savanna, Spring Val- ey. Indiana—Elkhart. Montana—Dillon., North Carolina — Thomas- ville. Pennsylvania— Dubois, Hon- esdale, Meyersdale. Texas—Coleman. Wisconsin—Hartford. Vacancies in the Depart- mental Service, Washington, D. C., will be filled from this examination. The usual entrance salary for this position is from $1,000 to $1,200 a year. The War Department states that during the continuance of the war tne entrance salary in that depart- ment will be $1,100 a year and that it will be the policy of the department to promote to $1,200 a year ali clerks, in- cluding typewriters an dsten- graphers and typewriters, who after three months of service are reported by bureau chiefs as being well qualified and in * {every way worthy of promo- tion. Full information in regard to the scope and character of the examination is contained in Form 1424, “Information for Applicants -for- Stenographer and Typewriter Examinations,” edition of July, 1917. Applicants must have reach- their eighteenth birthday on the date of the examination. Applicants must be examin-’ ed in the State in which they reside, and have been actually domiciled in such State for at Effie Durst, estate of Georg o tendance in the Primary grades least one year previous to the examination, ‘and must have the county officer’s certificate in the application form =xe- cuted. Applicants must submit to the examiner on the day of the examination their photographs, taken within two years, secure- ly pasted in the space provided on the admission cards sent them after their applications are filled. Tintypes, group photographs, or proofs will not be accepted. This examination is open. to all citizens of the United States who meet the requirements. In view of the needs of the ser- vice, subjects of countries al- lied with the United States will be admitted to this examina- tion, provided they are other- wise qualified. Such persons may not be certified for ap- pointment, however, so long as there are United States eciti- zens on the eligible lists. Applicants should at once apply for Forms 304 and 1424, stating the title of the exam- ination desired, to the Civil Service Commission, Washing- ton, D. C.; the Secretary of the United States Civil Service Board at any place at which this examination is to be held, or at Atlanta, Ga., Cincinnati, Ohio, Chicago, Iii., St. Louis, Mo., Seattle, Wash., Philadel- phia, Pa., or New Orleans, La. Applications should be proper- ly executed, excluding the med- ical certificate, and filed with the Commission at Washing- ton in time to arrange for the examination at the place se- lected by the applicant. ~~ ~~ ~~ M. R.MILNE, D, D S. respectfully announces that com- mencing with December 1st he wil adhere STRICTLY to the CASH SYSTEM. Hocking Block, Nov. 20. 1917
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