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MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, THURSDAY, JAN. 17, 1929
fhe Tenershate Fommercist
Published every Thursday by
H. G. LEPLEY, Editor
Subscription Price $1.50 per year
Advertising Rates made known
upon application
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929
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Social and Personal
Jack Brown, small son of T. Boone
Brown is quarantined at his home due
to an attack of scarlet fever.
Mrs. Harry Cook spent Tuesday in
Somerset on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Vought spent a
few days this week at Morgantown,
Pa.
Ed. L. Donges entertained a number
of his business friends at a “stag”
dinner last Thursday evening. A
turkey dinner was served to the men.
Mrs. Lizzie Rishel of Somerset went
40 Summit Mills on Tuesday to take
care of her father, who is ill.
John Herring of Toledo, Iowa, has
been visiting his sister, Mrs. Henry
W. Shultz and other close relatives
namely, George Hittie and W. H.
Klingaman.
Hon. Jacob B. Schrock of Berlin,
our popular member of the House of
Representatives, Harrisburg, was cir-
culating among his numerous friends
and constituents Wednesday, Jan. 16.
Wm. F. Payne, popular retired B.
& O. engineer, was notified of his ap-
pointment as Assistant Sergeant-at-
Arms in House of Representatives.
The appointment comes through Hon.
Jacob B. Schrock. “Becky” and his
numerous friends are greatly pleased.
Mr. Friedline of Jennerstown, Pa,
was visiting Clay Donges of Meyers-
dale on Sunday.
John Landis of 122 Olinger St.
spent a few days at home this week.
He is working at Kelso, Somerset Co.
Pa.
John W. Miller of Meyersdale, R.
D. 3, who is employed in West Va.,
doing R. R. bridge work was in Mey-
ersdale on Saturday on business.
‘While here he called at the Commer-
cial office and left his subscription.
Among other out of town callers at
the Commercial office lately may be
mentioned: Mrs. H. J. Engle of St.
Paul, Walter Hersh of Coal Run, Mr.
Irvin Bittner of Sand Patch, Conrad
Gnagey, Meyersdale, R. D. 2, 4H. 8S.
Baer located on the Hunsrick, near
the sumgnit, H. C. Werner, Meyers-
dale, P. O., F. .P. Raupach, Glencoe,
R. D., Mr. Howard Peck of Fort Hill,
R. D., Mr. R. S. Nicholson, Charles
Uphold of Meyersdale, R. D. 1, F. O.
Weller of Summit Mills. Those who
did not leave their subscriptions as
well as those who did wished the
{Commercial success, expressed them-
selves as being well pleased with the
aims of the new-old paper.
Misses Reich Entertain
Friends at Bridge
Reich entertained with a bridge party
on last Wednesday evening at their
home. The following girls and boys
were present: Misses Mary Lucente,
Veronica Dahl, Theresa Kendall,
Grace and Thelma Mallery, Rita
Bolden and Geraldine Reich; Messrs.
Joseph Walsh, Raymond Stotler, John
‘Wagaman, John Maust, James Black,
2oss Deal, Carl Deal, Robert Dull and
William Fisher. S
Chimney Fire
The fire department was called out
on Sunday night to the home of Ray
Smith on Grant Street to extinguish
a fire caused by an overheated flue.
ihe Meyersdale fire department
efficient way with which I
1 fires and the prompt response it
sives when called. In a few minutes
they were on the scene. No damage
was done.
Thank You!
Editor Meyersdale Commercial: :
Allow me to congratulate you In
your venture of ressurrecting the
Commercial which has served the
people of its circulation well for
nearly a quarter of 2 century.
I am sincerely you:s,
A. E. B.
nt
Sippleville
Mrs. Jacob Klingaman of town was
a Wednesday caller at Mrs. Wm.
Landis’. ;
Mr. Harry Murray and Master
Clyde Lee are on the sick list.
Mrs. Wm. Landis was a Thursday
caller on Mrs. Lucy Albright and
helped her to quilt.
; Mr. and Mrs.
prmer’s
mother, Mrs. Lucy Albright. |
account of the teacher being sick. |
Mr. Guy Hartman was a Sunday
caller on Mr. and Mrs. Fzra Sipple.
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The Misses Georgia and Maurine |
sh i ded on the | :
hould be highly ey tandle | telry up to the high standard main-
, was no school at Sand Spring [his brother, Elmer Baer
on Saturday night.
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your remedies
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and Cold Remedies.
at your service for anything
in the drug or medicine line.
Coughing
and Sneezing!
You can do this by getting
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Leading Druggists
MEYERSDALE, PA.
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Salisbury Notes
Birthday Surprise Party
The home of Mrs. Eliza Hause at
West Salisbury was the scene of a
delightful birthday surprise party on
Friday evening when about forty
neighbors and friends congregated. at
the Hause home in honor of Mrs.
Hause’s seventy-eighth birthday. The
surprise was arranged by her son
Samuel and was complete. She re-
ceived many useful presents and was
much pleased to be thus remembered
and honored by her many friends.
Mrs. Hause is hale and hearty for a
woman of her advanced age and bids
fair to be able to enjoy many more
birthdays. The evening was spent in
playing games and in singing and
music. Mr. Samuel Hause presiding
at the organ. Lunch was served
about midnight. The following
guests were in attendance: Mr. and
Mrs. Angus McKenzie, Mrs. Wm. H.
Deihl and daughter, Mrs. Cal. Rumis-
er and two daughters, Mrs. Reed Liv-
engood, Mrs. Robert Cochrane and
two grandchildren, Mrs. William
Weimer and children, Mrs. Henry
Deikl and children, Mrs. Len. Maust
and daughter, Mrs. Tillie Schramm,
Mrs. Wm. Haselbarth and daughter
Violet, Mrs. John Burkhart, Mrs. Ag-
nes Harris and children, Mrs. Lena
Sell, Mrs. George Schramm, Mrs.
Herbert Smalley, Mrs. John Kemp,
Mr. and Mrs. John Kinsinger and
Samuel Hause.
West Salisbury Post Mistress Taken
to Hospital
Miss Ellen Rodamer, post mistress
at the West Salisbury Post Office was
taken to the Western Maryland hos-
pital on Sunday on account of some
inward ailment and today she is re-
ported as being in a very precarious
condition.
Salisbury Hotel Under New Manage-
ment
Final arrangements were made last
week between Mrs. Fannie Wagner,
the former manager of Salisbury Ho-
tel and Mr. and Mrs. Ed. M. Loechel
and the latter have taken over that
establishment which Mrs. Wagner
conducted successfully for several
years. Mr. and Mrs. Wagner will lo-
cate in Ohio wherel they will go in
the restaurant business.
Mr. Loechel is an experienced hotel
man, having been associated with it
for many years in his father’s hotel
and so the public can feel assured the
| new management will keep the hos-
tained by the former proprietors.
The handsome cement-block build-
ing in which the hotel and restaurant
is housed is owned by C. M. May.
New Post Office Clerk
Miss Melda Schramm, for several
years an efficient clerk in the Elk
Lick Drug Store, has been appointed
clerk in our local post office to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Miss Evalyn Fate. Miss Schramm
has taken up her new duties.
Real Estate Deal
By a deal consummated lately,
Darius Broadwater, one of our local
butchers became owner of a parcel of
ground situated in Elk Lick township
and adjoining the west and south
sides of the latest Beachy addition to
Salisbury. The purchase was made
from Frank Romesburg, who owned it
for ten or twelve years. Your scribe
has not learned the purchase price.
Minor Mention
Edith Martz, teacher of the Tho-
Roy Albright of [mas school is housed up with an at-
idgeville spent Sunday with the tack of grippe.
of Uniontown visited
and family
Allen Baer
Mrs. Jerry Miller has been ill for
[the past week and her condition is not
nuch improved at this writing. |
her school in the near future.
coal operators
points on business.
Hooversville, Pa.
business
evening.
at Meyersdale
several days suffering with Flu.
able to work.
ness at Meyersdale Saturday.
time with Flu the past week.
tory at present.
tle last week.
last week.
last week.
Habel’s.
Francis Ohler.
| Meyersdale.
ment in the mines.
Coal Run Items
Grace Walker
on Tuesday.
George Fisher, Earl Fisher,
ginia, Owen Nolte.
Mrs.
day.
day.
evening.
of the teacher, Miss Hay.
Mr. and Mrs. George May and Mrs
of Salisbury on Saturday night.
Mary Fisher was visiting at Mrs
F. F. Nolte’s on Saturday.
William Robertson was visiting Mr
evening.
drink.
Bones—He did!
him.
Miss Maud Schramm, a primary
teacher in the Salisbury schools has
been ill with the flu for a week or
more, but she is improving rapidly
now and expects to be at the head of
Geo. G. Bowman, one of our local
is spending several
days at Baltimore, Md., and other
Roy Schramm and‘ children are
down with the “flu” but are improv-
ing.
Union Valley
Mrs. Chas. Keefer and daughter
Martha and Frank Baker were Sun-
day visitors with the former’s daugh-
ter and family, Mrs. Frank Kemp at
Mr. Wilson Saylor was transacting
Saturday
Mrs. H. F. Habel had been sick for
Mr. H. F. Keefer, who was confined
to bed for about a week with Flu is
able to be about again, but still not
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Keefer and Mrs.
Benj. Frantz were transacting busi-
The B. H. Beal family had quite a
All
seem to be improving very satisfac-
H. F. Habel bought some fine cat-
Mr. and Mrs. Zack Keefer, Mr. and
Mrs. S. W. Keefer, Mable and Henry
Keefer attended the funeral of their
relative, Mrs. Koeppe at Meyersdale
Mr. John Mazer of White Oak was
visiting his sister, Mrs. H. F. Habel
Mr. George Bevington of Cleveland,
0O., was a week end visitor at J. D.
The following were Sunday visitors
at J. D. Habel’s: Irvin Ohler and wife,
Myrtle Pugh, Raymond Ohler, Wm.
Stone, wife and two children and Mr
John H. Habel was keeping up the
home fires at Wilson Saylor’s Satur-
day evening while Mr. Saylor was at
Mr. Wm. Keefer left Monday morn-
ing for Hooversville seeking employ-
Mrs. George Walker, Pauline and
were callers on Mr
{and Mrs. Marshall Lowery on Sunday.
Mrs. James Opel of Mountain View
was a caller on Mrs. Harry Bluebaugh
Those who are on the sick list are
Mrs.
Harry Bluebaugh and daughter Vir-
Mys. George May was a caller on
Harry Bluebaugh on Wednes-
Miss Edna Nolte was a caller at
Mr. and Mrs. James Walker on Sun-
Mrs. George May was a caller on
Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Nolte on Monday
The primary school was closed on
Monday on the account of the illness
Francis Wechenheiser were visiting
Mrs. May’s sister, Mrs. Mary Ringler
Jones—His father died from hard
Jones—Yes, a cake of ice fell on
BOSWELL NEWS
A Ford coupe occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Oswalt was struck by an-
other car driven by a Mr. Davis, of
Wehrum, Sunday afternoon at Johns-
town. Mrs. Oswalt was thrown out
through a window in one of the doors
by the force of the collision, being
picked up in an unconscious condition
and taken to the Memorial hospital,
where it was found she was suffering
from a number of bad cuts and
Ibruises. She had recovered sufficient
to be removed to her home. Tuesday.
Mr. Oswalt received several bad
scratches about the head and limbs,
but was not seriously injured.
The following officers and directors
of the Peoples State Bank were
elected for 1929: president, Ferd
Sann; vice presidents, Andrew Dia-
mond and Richard F. Lohr; directors,
M. L. Shoff, Russell Shaffer, E. A.
Friedline, Joseph Fisher, Solomon
Glessner and F. E. Sass. Robert U.
Bittner was retained as cashier, and
Jacob George and Anna Greenshields
as assistants.
Rev. E. D. Lantz has removed his
family and effects from Payne, Ohio,
to the Reformed parsonage, Jenners-
town, where he has assumed his new
duties as pastor of the Beam charge
of the Reformed church.
John Glessner is substituting as
rural carrier on route number two in
place of Clark Boyer, who is on the
sick list this week.
Officers and directors of the First
National Bank for the year are as
follows: president, R. W. Lohr; vice
president, C. I. Shaffer; directors, IL
E. Biesecker, J. L. Brant, J. P. Crist,
A. E. Fritz, John 8. Rhoads, J. G.
Shaffer and John J. Walter. Park M.
Weimer was retained as cashier, and
L. L. Sprowls and Thelma Murray as
assistants.
Boswell sportsmen secured forty-
eight young rabbits from Missouri,
which have been released in the
mountain section near town.
1 Lester Hay is reported on the sick
ist.
Officers and directors of the Peo-
ples State Bank, Jennerstown for
1929 are: president, Royal Rhoades;
vice president, Wilson Friedline; di-
rectors, B. H. Long, E. A. Friedline,
M. L. Shoff, Steward Friedline and
Peter Lape. L. G. Lichliter was. re-
tained as cashier and Mabel Cook as
assistant.
Stewart Heffley received a fracture
of the left arm while at work in the
Orenda mine here Wednesday of last
week.
Warren E. Friedline is on the sick
list this week.
C. R. Sprowls was a business call-
er in Somerset, Monday.
The public schools of Jennerstown
and Jerome have been closed account
large number of the pupils caught in
the flu epidemic. Attendance at the
Boswell schools is reported the lowest
in percentage for years.
Comfrey Ickes was a business call-
er in Johnstown, Tuesday.
Harvey Landis was a week end
caller at his parental home in Mey-
ersdale.
Constable Harry C. Jacobs of Jen-
nerstown, was a business caller here,
Tuesday.
Lawrence Ginter, of Stoyestown,
was a business caller in town, Tues-
day.
F. L. Ferrel was a recent business
caller in Johnstown.
H. F. Krause was in Johnstown on
business, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Baughman
and children are all reported confined
to their home in Jennerstown with
the flu.
Burgess A. E. Bittner was a busi-
ness caller in Somerset recently.
Daniel Blough, of Geiger, was call-
ing on Boswell friends, Tuesday.
Wilson Friedline, of Jennerstown,
was a caller in Boswell, Monday.
NORTHAMPTON NEWS
JAN. 14.—Albert Meyers had the
misfortune of upsetting his new Ford
one day last week on the slippery
road. He escaped unhurt.
Lewis Engleka is reported very
sick at this writing.
Robert Ravenscraft and family
moved from Mance to Hyndman one
day last week.
Rev. Gindlesperger visited among
.1some of his members one day last
week.
Kate Bauman who was suffering
from grippe last week is slowly im-
proving.
Ruth Kraushauer visited at Berlin
on Monday.
Thomas Poorbaugh was busy haul-
ing coal last Saturday.
Chas. Wiles and wife left for W.
Va., to visit the former’s mother who
is very ill
The Wagaman teacher, Mr. Hay, is
reported sick and unable to teach at
this time.
Theodore Bauman’s dog, Ikey, is
getting real smooth in the hair since
he ate several pounds of cheese his
master purchased a week ago to make
a square meal for himself.
Our weather prophet says their is
.|one thing he can’t understand—that
is that men get the flu harder than
women and men wear many more
clothe than the women do. He says
. | there is one man in this neighborhood
that wore 6 pair trousers, 3 shirts, 2
. | sweaters, 1 blouse, 1 overcoat, 2 pairs
and Mrs. Harry Bluebaugh on Friday : LE
socks, 1 pair felt shoes, 1 pair zip-
pers, and still he is cold and got the
grippe the hardest. Can any one ex-
plain? :
MOLLIE ANN.
Sign in
| GOODBYE KISS,
WITH
t of a threatre: “THE |
SOUND.” |
INDUSTRY NOW GIVES
WOMEN EQUAL CHANCE
Survey Shows Owners Do
Not Discriminate.
New York.—Women have practical-
ly equal opportunity of employment
with men in manufacturing industries
where they are capable of doing the
same work as men and doing it as
well, in the light of a study of the
subject made by the national indus-
trial conference board. This conclu-
sion- is based on an analysis of re-
ports of 129 manufacturing companies,
65 of which stated a preference for
men, 47, however, preferring women,
while 17 expressed no preference. In
all the plants reporting the work was
of such a nature as could be done
equally satisfactorily by either men or
women.
Comparatively little objection was
found to exist among manufacturers
to the employment of married women.
Out of a total of 22 companies employ-
ing women, only seven will not keep
a woman worker after marriage, and
one company, requires any woman em-
ployee who marries to resign in
six months. = Six establishments, while
not following a rigid rule of discharg-
ing married women employees, follow
a policy of discouraging them from
remaining.
Some Want 'Em Married.
On the other hand, 15 companies en-
courage woman workers to remain
after they marry, while four compa-
nies out of the total number adapt
their policy to the circumstances in
each individual case. One company
favors widowed woman employees.
The majority of industrial managers,
however, evidently do not consider a
woman worker's marital status as a
pertinent or important factor in de-
termining her desirability as an em-
ployee.
But while the opportunity for em-
ployment in the manufacturing indus-
tries where the work is of such nature
as can be done equally well by either
men or women is practically the same
for women as for men, less equality
exists in the matter of wage earnings.
Women’s hourly earnings in the man-
ufacturing industries range approxi-
mately 35 per cent lower than those
of, men. 'This, however, the confer-
ence board’s wage studies disclose, is
due to the generally smaller output
of women rather than to any unwill-
ingness on part. of industrial manage-
ment to pay them the same as men.
The fact that earnings per hour of
women working on a piece-work basis
where the basic wage is the same as
for men, which is the case in many
instances, average less than the earn-
ings of the men is cited in evidence.
This is also the reason given by many
employers for the lower wage rates
allowed women where wages are paid
on a flat-rate basis.
Women’s Pay Boosts Greater.
Women, however, have made a rel-
atively greater economic gain in the
general rise ofthe wage level during
and since the war than have men, the
average hourly wage earnings of wom-
en in the manufacturing industries
now being approximately 160 per cent
higher than in 1914, while those of
men have advanced by only about 140
per cent. It must be taken into con-
sideration, however, that women’s
nourly earnings in 1914 averaged only
60 per cent of men’s earnings.
Women’s total earnings over a pe-
riod of time average less also because
women in industry put in less time
than men. The average number of
hours a week worked by women wage
earners during 1927 in 25 manufac-
turing industries was 43.3 as against
48.2 hours worked by men, with the
result that the average weekly earn-
ings of women workers were approxi-
mately 40 per cent less than those of
the male workers. More frequent ab-
sences among ‘women further contrib-
ute toward their relatively lower earn-
ing capacity in industrial pursuits.
Boy Accused of Firing
Home to See Sweetheart
Cumberland, Md.—Arrested after he
is said to have made a confession to
police, David P. Lewis, eighteen years
old, is in jail here on a charge of at-
tempted arson.
Lewis, authorities declared, con-
fessed that he attempted to set fire
to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Screen on October 28 in order to scare
Bernetta Wilson, his sweetheart, who
was in the house, outside, so he could ||
talk to her.
Lewis was arrested on information
furnished by Mrs. Eva Wilson, who
lives with the Screen family and who
reported hearing a noise late on the
night of the fire. She went to a win-
dow and saw a familiar form hurrying
away. The fire had been kindled in
the basement and was extinguished
before it caused any damage.
Philippines to Carry
on Drive Against Rats
Manila.—The Philippines are to be
made healthy for humans by becoming
unhealthy for rats.
Representatives of the United States
army, the public works department,
the bureau of health and other organ-
izations have joined in a comprehen-
sive plan framed by Dr. R. W. Hart,
chief quarantine officer.
This plan provides for rat proofing
port areas and storehouses, a concen-
trated campaign of trapping and poi-
soning, laboratory examination of rat
carcasses to discover the earliest evi-
dences of bubonic plague, and deter-
mination of “the flea index for various |
ports of the islands.”
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new up-to-date styles.
liable “Bostonians” for
good quality.
Our stock is all new, no old goods, and brand
We have some $5.00, $6.00 and $7.00
styles we are offering at reduced
prices—$3.50, $4.00, $4.50 and $5.00.
We also carry regularly at all times the Selby
Arch Preserver Shoes for ladies and the E.T.
Wright Arch Preserver for men; also the old re-
A full line of Galoshes ‘and Heavy Rubber §
Goods for men, women and children.
POOP P PO POW
men—snappy styles and
Slicer Hotel Building e
TOM WELLER & CO.
MEYERSDALE, PA.
Economy phone 67
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(Classified Advertisements
WANTED—Hay in carload lots.
KRETCHMAN BROS.
FOR SALH—1 wardrobe, morris,
chair, some rockers and a variety of
different articles. MRS. .W. H.
EISLER, 316 High St., Meyersdale,
Pa.
FOR SALE—Valve Trombone Nic-
kel Plate all in fine condition at a
sacrifice for $12.00; also Telephone
Desk Set, Western Electric, complete
set for $6.00. Apply to A. E. BAER,
R. D., Meyersdale, Pa.
WANTED—Circular Saw, about 50
inch, inserted tooth, state amount of
teeth and gauge. Must be in good
condition. JOHN L. YUTZY, Sand
Patch, Pa.
Car Dairy Feed Rolling. Get our
prices. KRETCHMAN BROS.
FOR SALE—1-horse wagon, corn
planter with fertilizer, set harness,
shovel plow, cultivator, harrow, 4
gallon sprayer, plow, double tree.
Apply to JOHN W. MILLER, R. D.
3, Meyersdale, Pa. Economy phone.
3-2t
FOR SALE
My property is for sale located
near St. Paul.
a 7 room house with basement and
cellar. All necessary out buildings.
Well lighted up with electric lights,
both house and barn. The finest wat-
er, right on public roads. Will sell
cheap if sold soon.
GEO. W. BEALS.
FOR SALE—1925 Ford Touring
with Ruxtelle axle, in good mechan-
ical condition. Will sell cheap to
quick buyer. Call or write H. J.
ENGLE, Meyersdale, Pa.
Automobile Glass Replaced. Prices
reasonable. At WEST SALISBURY
GARAGE, West Salisbury, Pa.
Prize idiots: The father who gave
his boy an unbreakable drum for
Christmas.
Unconscious humorists: The drug-
gist who mistakenly listed liquor
among his “dyestuffs.”
2 acres of land, with
WHY GIVEN
Roscoe—Is kissing proper?
Gwen—Lets put our heads togeth-
er and consider it.
Napoleon had accidentlly seated
himself upon a hot stove.
“What wonderful courage!” re-
marked one of the ministers, “the
general is burning his breeches behind.
him,”
‘Mash
FOR SALE BY
KRETCHMAN BROTHERS:
FOR SALE
Owing to the installing of the
newest and latest up-to-date booths
we will sell at a sacrifice
125 Nickel Plated
Mahogany Chairs and
25 White Opal Glass
Top Tables
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RENDEVOUX
Formerly the Crystal Confectionery
130 Center Street
Meyersdale, Pa.
great.
Phone 27 and
A KNOWN FACT!
We put out the cleanest and
best pressed clothes in town.
Our work speaks for itself.
No job too small; no job too
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Dye Works
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