i 1 * re Tenershote fommereiat Published every Thursday by the Commercial Ce-opera yerative Council. EBER LEY, Business er. IERMAN G. LEPLLY, Editor. Entered at the Meyersdale postoffice as second class mail m Subscription per year. price, $1.25 rat 111 matter, 10 cents inch for com- extra for small readers, 5 I Directory ) ess Directory, I 5 ¢cenis per ner cent I cents per so Ask for prices on job printing. month. The newspaper thinks ving is good enough vulear work- Commer- Mr. Worker, standing by yourself you are merely an in- sienificant “hand,” but when 4 great 1 with a become hore of The county convention of the Somerset County Sunday School Associ held al Boswell next Tuesday, Wed- nesday and Thursday, May 14 15 and 16 Indications are that the politi 2 i the Dry Fed ion 1 be en- dor vd ai 1h ia nN ntion. Speakers program as announced . H BB Speicher, President of the Association, are Clinton N. of Rochester, N. Y,, Howard Heinz. of Pittsburgh, Preston G. Philadel- phia. Rev. F. Rhoads, of Butler, C. B. McCurdy, of Mines, Ra., Miss Ida C. Shu- maker. of Meversdale, and P. G. Cober and C. C. McDowell, of Somerset. Countv TAware Howard, Orwig, of B 2 SUMMIT MILLS. Mrs. John Walker, of Coal Run, was shopping here, Mon- day. A man’s idea of harmony is to have everything his own way. Will Witt, of Jenners, spent Sunday afternoon with friends here. When a toper sees things double his glasses are a bit too strong. Mr. Silas Hostetler visited his mother, Mrs. Nellie Hostetler, Sunday. Miss Ruth Faidley visited her sister, Mrs. Mahlon Yoder, Monday. Samuel and William Miller went to Rockwood to work, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John Peck, of Meyersdale, were visitors at the home of James Davis, Sun- day. Charles Redinger, who was reported seriously ill in a hos- pital in Jersey City, N. J., is improving. Riches can never give as much satisfaction in their pos- session as they can give tor- ment in their loss. Don’t, if you are a man, de- liberately kiss a poor little help- less baby girl. Brace up and take something your own size. Mr. and Mrs. George Brown motored to Sand Patch Satur- day morning to attend the fun- eral of Alverda Grine. who was killed by a train Wednes- day afternoon. ® .“_e “=. COAL RUN. Mrs. John May and Mrs. Frank Holler attended church at Boynton, Sunday. Myr. and Mrs. James Corbett were dinner cuests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mull, Sunday. Dory Mervine and grandson, Dick Quinn, of Meyersdale. spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hersh. Mr. Lloyd Hinebaugh. his family, and Mrs. Ira Hine- baugh. of Salisbury, spent Sun- dav with the former’s brother, William Hinebaugh, of Berl- lin. and lady and her Ries, were Mr. and Mrs. ero “A Great Net of Mercy an drawn through Ocean of Unspéakable Pain” ® a » 35 3% To Save th Hmanity—To Fill 3 lie IS. mil Nee U FANGS 58:4 Vl £3 S Contributed by George Wright. A MOTHER’S PROMISE TO HER SON By KATHLEEN NORRIS My Dear One—I'm writing this very, very small and on the thinnest of pa- per, so that tightly folded it may slip into one of the olive drab pockets of your new uniform without encroaching for the tiniest part of an inch upon all the new things that you must have there—the passports and identifica- tion slips and photograph, the knife and pen and writing pad, the lists and numbers and names and ciphers, the address book and the thin manual you have been studying so hard and the slim little Bible, for this letter is a part of your equipment, too, or at least I like to think that it is. I'm going to tell you in it just one or two of the things we've been try- ing not to sayin these last days. You've said to yourself, haven't you, that there were possibilities that I, thank God, hadn’t seemed to think of. You've marvelled gratefully, haven't you, that I could say goodby with dry eyes and talk about what we should do when the war is over. My dear, there is nothing—nothing—that can happen to you that I haven't fore- seen in every détail since May, since the very beginning of it all. I know that some of our mren are not going to come back. I know—as I write this in the room you love—that your fin- gers may fumble for this little piece of paper in seme dreadful hour, a month or two months or six months | read time, just to feel from now, just to more for the last in your fingers out there in a shell lighted battlefield something that I have touched—for goodbye. And thinking ef all this for almost a year while you've been getting ready to go I've been getting ready to | it over once | stay. Just as you planned I planned, and I said to myself: “When the time comes for us to part I shall make him a promise.” Dear one, this is my promise, and I make it for the term of your own—*“for the duration of the present war.” I promise you that while you ars away, whether it is months or years, nothing except what I can give you and give all the others shall fill my life. vote myself, in here safety, and stronger and safer for you. I promise you that I shall give—and give and give—for the Cause! Not the money I can spare, not the time I have left when everything else is done, but all the money, all the time, all the energy I have! Your whole life has been has been set to end music. So shall mine be. know self denial, privetise 2: while the war lasts. So she them. Even if black news comes, even if the blackest comes, I shail remem- ber that against your brave heart this promise is resting, and I shall go on. And while there is one ng our million and among the miii of our allies who needs clothing and nursing and comforts and solace for your sake I shall not fail him. Perhaps in God's goodness this note will come safely back to me iz the olive drab pocket, and we will smile over it together. But, remember, uriii that bour comes I shall be always busy filling my own small place in the great machine of mercy and as truly under the colors over here as you are over there. God bless you! at ~ ELIE WHEN A CUP OF COFFEE TASTES LIKE A MILLION DOLLARS He Get His Cup and Then Went ea—to Death. Through the cerhiTiuREr oF = line of communication canteens in France the American Red Cross is set- ting records in service hes coa and sandwiches to the troops. One ooffoo 00- QE8, C I promise you that I shall de-! to the | work of making what you do easier | altered, | other new record recently, serving | more than 50,000 meals in one week. | At another a cup of coffee was served every ten seconds for a period of two consecutive hours. In a single week these lines of com- | munication canteens often serve 80,000 , American and French soldiers, Soldiers in Box Cars. Do our soldiers and their allies real- iy want this form of Red Cross serv. ice? A letter from a young American aviator, a 1917 graduate of Princeton University, is probably typical. It might be added that this man has since ween reported killed after bringing gown a German Taube. “A 50 mile train ride over here,” he said, “instead of taking a few hours may take days. When we stop at a Red Cross canteen you can bet that a eup of coffee tastes like a million dollars.” t is not always possible for a regi- ment tq provide sufficient food and hot coffee ez tkese long journeys, where | the men must often be packed stand- ing into unheated box cars ordinarily used for i So imagine the cheer, the ivping hot coffee and TIBE our boys aft- ® £2 jcurney! You can just bet that it stiffens a man’s { courage. Your Red Cross is handine out this renewed coura; yy the piping hot cupfui. armik, {OF your BIT ERT ENR ro of these refreshment units made an-: rr SALISBURY. ‘Lutheran Church the following { Thursday, conducted by his ‘pastor, Rev. Charles Lambert, | assisted by Rev. L. P. Young, D. D. All business places were closed during the time services were being conducted. Both as a neighbor and business man, Mr. Haselbarth was most ac- commodating, honest, industri- ‘ous, and he was respected by the whole community as one of its best citizens. His death is ‘regarded as a distinct loss to ‘the community. During the past week the re- mains of two of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Salisbury were laid to rest in the I. O. O. F. cemetery. Mrs. Mary Loechel Wagner, wife of the late Dennis Wag- ner, died on April 27th, at the family residence on Grant street, aged 76 -years, 10 ‘months and 18 days. She was ithe eldest daughter of Mv. and 1 ! Mrs, Casper Loechel. who emi-! = — : 3 ~ 1 ; erated © to this country rom | . . poate or Gormany te io Salisbury Normal School ; Bremen, Germany, in 1841, fy hen dacpacnd wa 11 1e d opened Monday, May 6th. when deceased was nine days ° Sind : : old. March 27. 1864. she Sons John Mort is having his [united in marriage to Mr. Den-| house on Gay street trosted to I a fresh coat of paint. {nis Wagner. to which union, nls 3 ~ > ’ 4: Miss Emma Inks was taken 1 i i born three danghters and | iwere {four sons. One of the 1 vs. | to the Memorial Hospital, | Morris Wagener. was killed in| Johnstown, for treatment, last a railroad wreck several Tears! Wednesday. l ago, i | i | and the following children! The Salisbury-Elk Lick- still survive: Mrs. M. F. Rilay, | Greenville district over sub- West Salishnry rs. Fla Pe-! scribed their quota in the Third + trv, M. A. Wacner and Harvey Liberty Loan by over a thou- i Waener, of Salis : C.|=and dollars, | A, Wilt and Frank V 3%, 0t! Mrs BRB. H. Johnston. Mra, A, Akron. Fimeral services in|M. Lichty and Miss Edith Lich- | Lnth 1 { ving liter left Thursday afternoon tM by Rev.| for Pittsburgh to attend the | fr f i by: al of the former’s brother, Tee 1.P. Yomme B.D. | Edward H. Smith. Haselbarth died at Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Zobel, of D. C., Carl Zobel, ™ Ord street, Washinoton. family home on gan 4 and 15 dawys.! Haselbarth, of. Mercersburg, was born in Auma. Ger- were in town last week to at- manv. December 14, 1830, em-! tend the funeral of C. R. Has- igratine to the U. S. when in| elbarth. this 25%] coming to our; Rev. and Mrs. B. F. Waltz town five vears after landing. and children moved from Gar- i Here he started in the tinning| rett Co., Md., Tuesday, to the | business a num-: Harvey = Wagner = property, ber of vears has been the head | which was recently purchased of the hardware firm of C. R.{by the Church of the Brethren Haselbarth and Sons. March|to be used as a parsonage. BO he was a Arthur Wellington, of Ohio, Lydia Dively, to which union) was visiting relatives in Salis- bial born oi oe Jpupers ond | bury and Berlin during the past our sons, all of whom, with the : ; os dre curries Wilkin BR | week. This was his first visit Award E EG C 3 to Salisbury since he left eight pA ward -» eorge UU. AMl|years ago. Last summer he en- Miss Anna, of Salisbury; Mrs. |Jisted in the U. S. Army, serv- Jennie Zobel, of Washington, | iyo 8 months, and being honor- D- SD Ale ofan hn, ably discharged in March on . i ’ *? Sa account of disabilities. ’ Harriet Kretchman, of Pitts- } of disabilities burgh. Funeral services in the —_—at nm nd {ar anitc n nd 1or quite a % A A ANAS Sd J. T. Yoder JOHNSTOWN Sells the Champion Cream Saver —=NEW DE LAVAL- LMOST any separator will do fairly good work when it is brand new, perfectly adjusted and skimming warm milk from freshened cows. . 3 But a separator ean’t always be new, cows can’t always be fresh, nor can you always separate your milk while it is at 85 or 90 degrees. In other words, your separating is done under practical conditions, and the sensible thing to do is to get a prac- tical separator. The NEW De Laval is the most practical separator you can buy because it is the only separator that you can depend upon to skim clean under any and all conditions of milk and temperature, and to deliver cream of uniform ‘hislrnres, 1f you want to own a separator that will de its work better than any other, and do it without censtint tinkering and adjustment, then the NEW De Laval is the machine to uy. ‘While this statement has always been true of De Laval machines, it is true today to an even greater degree than ever before because of ihe many improvements in the NEW De aval. The new self-centering bowl which gives the machine greater capacity and skimming efil- ciency, the De Laval bell speed-indicater, which alone would be worth many dollars a ear to a cow owner, the improved auto- matic oiling system and the many other im- provements found in no other make of machine, make the NEW De Laval by far the most satisfactory separator to operate and the most profitable to own. You can buy a NEW De Laval from us on liberal terms. Come in and examine the machine and talk it over, i NN A NOTICE TO ALL CONCERNED Local No. 2774, U. M. W. A., wishes to inform members and others that the Consol mines did not resume work in this region as union mines, no agreement having been made official- ly or otherwise. Strikers who resume or who have resumed work are taking upon themselves all responsibility, the Local Union having accepted the Government decision and agreed to contract for same price and condition as an evidence of the de- sire of members to show their fairness, but the company still refrains from entering into collective bargaining agreement with the elected representatives of its employees. THE LOCAL LIBERTY UNION PURCHASED A $500 DITI ORTHY OF YOUR N JEN J IN 4 - TRUSTEES, ROND AS AN BUND AS AN Capi Surp Circ Depc« we Ine of Res 309 N o Hoi ORR MU UOMO MOM HOMO MONOEOMOUOHCHONR