have returned home ¢ after vis-
iting at Camp Hancock, Ga.
Char Landis and Net-
tie ear. “of Somerset, were
married at Cumberland last
week.
Miss Ruth Knupp, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Knupp
left here recently for New
Britain, Connecticut, in order
to visit a sister. She was ac-
companied by Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Barkman, of Milford
township.
¥ ; ’
Passenger Conductor John P.
Kelley has resumed work on
the S. & C. branch, after en-
joying a ten days’ vacation
Camp Hancock.
Mrs. Eugene
daughter, Rebecca,
town, has returned
visiting at the
at
Cook
and
of S
hor
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Cook’s parents. aN
James Cover, of Patriot St.
Mrs. Charles Lepley is 'visit-
ing relatives and {friends in
Connells ville,
Miss Salome McKelvey isi
spending a few days in Wash-
ington and Baltimore.
Mrs. Margaret Fox, has re-
turned to her home in Carne-
gie, after visiting relatives and
friends in Somerset.
Miss Anna C. Scull is on a
two weeks’ visit in the East.
General Manager Frank R.
Lyon, of the Consolidation Coal
Company of Vermont, Va., ac-
companied by his wife and
children, were recently visitors
with Somerset relatives and
friends.
Miss Catherine L. Murdock,
of Johnstown, is visiting at the
home of her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Alexander Huston,
of the South Side.
Mr. and Mrs. George M.
Neff, Jr., of Akron, Ohio, are
visiting Somerset relatives and
friends.
D. B. Zimmerman has re-
turned from North Dakota,
where he was transacting busi-
ness.
Hon. Bruce F. Sterling, of
Uniontown, was a recent visit-
or to Somerset.
Miss Nellie Kooser, has
turned home after visiting in
Philadelphia.
Richard Baldwin of Com-
pany ‘C’ is spending a
days’ furlough with Somerset |
friends.
Prof. O. O. Saylor,
of the Salisbury Schools,
e-
spent
several days with Somerset rel- |
atives last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Ends-
ley and two children returned |
home after visiting at the home |
ten |
Principal |
been there—just pretty senti-
ment and patriotic thought,
from cover to cover.
Printed in the Colonial col-|
dom of choice enjoved by the
| city Waren it dd the free-
dom of ch 10ice of the would-be |
“1 /
ors, buff and blue, illustrated farmer, in a sense it ended the
by sketches made especially by freedom of the western world.
our artists at Mount Vernon. , | “And when the free land !
This is a book endorsed by | was gone, all Tog began to
the highest authorities. ‘have a mon oply price irrespec-
$1 a copy, postpaid. With! tive of its real v It ac-
a one year’s subscription to| quired a speculative value. No
ACHIEVEMENTS, Mr. Jones’; | longer vas land desirable only
individualist Washington mon-| because of its greater fertility
AD
thly, $1.50. Lor ss to the city.
Send today—because Christ-| | land now had a seggeity value,
mas is drawing near. U. 5.1 a value due to the Tact that alt
Press Association, Real Estate of the land was privately own- |
Trust Building, Washington, Then
D.C began to rise.
nearne 1
ed.
It rose
= tte | great rapidity. A million in-
WHAT THE NEW YORK {coming immigrants increased
NEWS PAPERS SAID OF | | the demand, not only for land,
| but for food as well, Ang this
| neve sing demand upon
limited supply affected all Is
| values. 1t has been especially
| ¢ ive during the past Taw
i | vears. Fifty years ago land
“5 | in iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Ne-
7 | braska and the Dakotas was
held at from $3 to $5 an acre.
Today it is held at “from $100 |
REICH’S AUDITORIUM
to pay for it. From 1900 to
Tuesday Evening, December 18
1910 farming land increased
15¢ ADMISSION 15¢ value 118 per cent.
Music by the Orchestra “Not only is the would-be
= farmer excluded from the land
NOTICE by prohibitive prices, but hun-
To the Sto pelholders of the! dreds of millions of actes are
Se Water Co. | he eld in great estates, while
“the Stockhold- over 400,000,000 acres of land
ers of t! nd 1 Spring Water enclosed in farms is not under
Co., of } rsdale, Pa., will be! cultivation at all. While food
held in ik directors room of has almost reached famine
the Citizens National Bank, oi prices to the poor, while mii-
Monday evening, January 4,| lions of people are herded in
1918, at 7 o’clock, for the a tenements and about the great
pose of electing directors for} industries, while hundreds of
the ensuing vear, and the t trans-| thousands of farmers have mi-
| action of any other business’ grated to Canada and nearly
brought before the'40 per cent of our 6,000,600
j farmers are tenants, there e:
Philson, Sec. ! ists in this country land enough,
j if converted into moderate siz-
i ed farms, to provide comfort-
able homes for at least 30,000,-
000 people.
“How can idle landholding
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2.
3: J
{ NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
All delinquent Tax payers of;
i | Elk Lick Tow nship take Notice
1 will sit for the collection of | be ended? How can we limit
taxes at St. Paul December 12; the amount of land a man may |
at Springs, December 13; ail ow to thas which he actually
| Bo nton December 14; Salisbury | Needs anc cultivates?
ID art 1017. = can we break up the 200,000,-
all tax payers to: 000 acres held in great estates
| We expect
settle in full at this ih tor, and throw open to use the|
the free land ended, the free-|
the price of land!
with |
aio
to $300 an acre. Tr e farming |
g land in America is held at a
4% higher price thin it is Fng-
Phold Drone, of Life land.
nite AiR Relentlesa Trulh “This speculative price of]
“REDEMPTION” is a sur- land is one explanation of the
prise, a revelation. decay of agriculture and the
—N. Y. World. failure of farming to keep
Big production w on worth! pace with our needs. The man |
seeing—Episodes i Evelyn: of average capital is unable to
Nesbit’s life arouse sympathy buy or to make a living on the
for women. NN Y. Eve. Tele | land at the price w hich he has |
in
How |
whether it was ten acres or a
hundred acres. They would
pay an annual tax to the State,
not unlike the rental now paid
{ the landlord. But they would
| then be free from all other
| taxes, and in addition the great
quantities of land brought on-
to the market would materially
cheapen the rental of all land.
For as taxes on land are in-
creased the price of the land
diminishes.
“And the taxation of all
land values up to the full a-
| mount of the rental value is
the aim of those who believe in
the single-tax philosophy. They
tax heavily as a means
not only of freeng the land but
of freeing man as well. This
would end tenancy; it would
| end all land speculation;
uld end land monopoly for-
For then
actually used,
it!
13 men would,
| 1 hold no more land than they
and as land]
| would exist in abundance for
all it would be impossible for
owners to hold men either as
| tenants or as agricultural work-
ers. Men would own their own
farms and work for themselves.
| “Moreover, the untaxing of
all kinds of farm improvements
would encourage men to build,
|
|
|
i
| tractive.
| to make their places more at!
“The taxation of land val-!
Lon would be to America like
| the discovery of a new conti-
j nent. It would open up hun-
dreds of millions of acres.
| would greatly increase pro-
| duction. It would solve the
| food problem and the high cost
of living. And what is true of
agricultural land is true of the
mineral resources, timber-land
and city land as well.”
Patronize our Advertisers.
A LION’S ROAR IS
GOLDWYN’S SALUTE
picture field with the roar of
a lion.
The first picture flashed on;
the screen in the initial pro-
duction, “Polly of the Circus,”
is that of the circular trade
mark of Goldwyn. Inscribed
on the edge of the circle are
the Latin words, “Ars Gratia
Artis,” which, freely translated
mean, art for art’s sake. In
the center of the circle reposes
a lion.
| lion turns his head, opens his
huge mouth and roars. This
i
Pictures. You want to see the
| opening production, “Polly of
| the Circus,” Thursday, Decem-|
{ ber 20th.
Red Kiduoy Beans 10c per
can, at—
HAREL & PHILLIPS
Patr our Advertisers.
onize
of Mr. Endsley’s par ents, Sen- | any taxes anpaid for the year, "400,000,000 acres enclosed in|
ator and Mrs. J. W. Endsley, 1917. farms but not cultivated by the
of Somerfield. H. G. L epley, owners? |
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hause Collector for Elk Lick Twp. oF ol he measures pro- |
- hildren have returned | Meye¢ rsdale, Pa., R F. D- No. 2 posed for i 1e solution of these |
and cin; ~ appending several - : — | problems the taxation of land |
home at he Lame ® of Mrs. THE very best oi eomargar- oh the Sinpless ond most |
Hause’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. | ine 368¢ per Ib, at— fs Sflesiive e. It will do w lore th id
John Engle, of St. Paul | HABEL & PHILLIPS ¢ neasu: mbined 0|
It!
Goldwyn enters the motion!
As the picture is flashed the!
is the introduction of Goldwyn:
A ETT WRB
pg ampere * ARE pT
sta gerd AB
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ditor 21 Lyisitor to Mc) co recenuiy. av 1 S
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Sh = gration ni ur aano
eorge ’ Por. of New : his 3 known gener-
rat on the § list, 18 i1m- 3 3 : : il) Laa, in LOl-
roving again. pai ¢iy easy to lmaugurale.
—- A.W. Lowry, of Seonoy, has ic can be put lilo eliect by wie
SOMERSET turned home and 5 Spending legislature 01 any oSuale or by "
x : several days wiih i is family. a couunyy where nome ruie in
Mrs. George Baer and son, |" °" Co h 3 : taiaiion exists, by an act which (
Glenn, of Mey ersdale, are Mrs. S. SB. Schl: ig, Wao nas local taxation ail Sls 0 7%
oats al the 1 rome of M and been ill for several weeks, left al taxa i 9 77
ZUCRS al Ll) 1 Cc il. ARN ; oF 4 Al i +1 x Nous Improve Ti 1
Tt Parry Baer recently ie Allegheny, rTOW : I 5
a EC told. of General Eo al at Pittsburgh, Wage , packil TDan- oo mg Th maciners S 9.6
Rut Hiigad Sever: ’5| where she will receive treat- ic S, ar nd speculators, with Be 31s i property of
§ ai escript:
Mr. and | ment. : : control | ture ond ae scrip! on ge .
Cc AVL el Cul aN iy Ca ipu Lr KinGs OL
, £ Wost rs. Thurman B. Cross and nals and Pilih * .
man, of West Mx Thurm ! hiv Tar iw. Properiy irom taxauion ai
dau ghter, of Llkins, West Vir- pid 2 ih <n iri v {To} 1
Es POY ro. taxes will aulomadtically fall %
: TIA + | ginit, are vis ul ing at the home DP . anh an 3 I teva : 5 1.11
(RGF §) 1 A Mililot, 1 : z PON thie alll. INO 0X taxes
ee fey of Mrs. Cro=s’ p rents, Mr. and Ha : 2 6 :
Vi 1 ON DYO-| ais E on Kasti wiil be levied. As a re hic J
fes k Pate: fot street. Shige taxes on land wiil be auloran ‘i
tor ds : y: : = ically increased. And ii 19.6
LOL ¢ 7 1 arlin, was .
Ww Nn t V sera, ari tax is heavy enough Iv will Gis-
Vi H ray in Somer- Te Lialidivce ot iand
Ty EY ( the neiqing ol and
Oi sof . ‘
Xa Set { other pur; n |
n : - Dit tion.
= is Vv FINE GIFT BOOK i But \oout our cides, even in
oil on Attor The finest Gift Book printed’ jiher evil astern States, millions of '
ney d Mrs. C. ¥ ker | is “Mount V ex on, the Home of vitality of A:
E 1., of Pitts .| Washington,’ E. Jones. tyre, according to Dr
3 SY Just the thing for mother, fath- is cur s em of 14 1
JULES faome| ne 8 Cur = cI OC i ohll ,
x er Suter husband, .
© bron. O.) wife, soldier friend—or any a in bn an iand
£4 imi, U i \ y ay ; 1 4 4 . §
: Ne ra 't body, who believes that hook would bring on onto the 4
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: wi United States and Washing | portal nierket, while a very ‘small ta
in ! ie 3 pai Aan lwho helped establish our i the great ranges of the !
_ Eugene Rhoads, oi ine AVia-| pendence, represent true would lead to their be-
tion Ser rvice 18 Vi aang M18 | otism. a ¢ broken up for settlers.
mother, Mrs Pnuip nhgaos This volume is just a 1b “And if the tax upon the
Mrs. Joseph Kantner has re-| of impressions of one wi t grea American (land were nu wade sufliciently :
wood home lar uv iv tat - ~ ANA Sav ¢ 2 > .
turned home after iting her| visited Mount Vernon one day tory. It bors ans ihe et of heavy men would takeonlysuch |,
husband at Pe eter 2, Va, the thi he thouoht: U : y .
c Y —the ings he hought; the an era in the history of the land as they actually needed or |
Mr. a1 nd Mrs. S samuel Sharah | things you thought, if you have world. For the enclosures of as they actually worked, |g
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What to Give a Man or Boy
For Christmas
A War Christmas means a practical Christmas
and evervthing in this store is practical —carry-
ing men’s and boys wear exclusively. The
styles are right, the prices are moderate.
GIFT SUGGESTIONS FOR HIM |
Overcoats, Top Coats, Kaincoats,
Gloves. Dress Shirts, $1.00 to $5 so.
tiful line of Neckwear at 25c¢ to $2. 00.
wear, Handkerchiefs, Mufflers,
Hosiery, House Coats, Bath
Dress suits, Dress Vest, Hats
of new Caps, 25C to $2.00.
Links, Collar Boxes,
las, iraveling Bags,
Suits,
Beau-
Under-
spenders,
Full
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Belts, Sleeve
Sweater Coats, Umbrel.
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