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* Supposed “Wild Man” Of CHRISTNER WINS LEWIS BEL WEDS MEYERS GARAGE COUNTY AGENTS Medical Report,
«Jefferson Township Dies At dy | oN igh Scho
. Somerset.County Hospital
Is he William A. Moore, Aged 38, Expires at County
; :
er For Help.
ud William Albert Moore, aged 38
Institution on Last Friday, One Week After
His Admission—"M ystery” of Tarzan Cleared
Up When Moore Appealed to Former Employ-
”
hollowed out the mine floor to obtain |
| Jack Sharkey the Lithuanian from
MORAL VICTORY
Twenty Thousand, Including
Dorey Christner of Garrett,
Witness ChYistner-Sharkey
Bout at New York City.
The great fight which took place
between Myers W. Christner, more
familiarly known as K. O. Christner
the Battering Ram from Akron, and
South Boston, on Friday evening,
the recent ma
Weisel to Mr.
of New Brita
place’ Monday
ERA WEISEL IS DESTROYED BY
iness Man,
and Dollars—Partly Covered
by Insurance—Dwelling House
ord Lewis Ball, Saved.
onn., which took
uary 14, 1929, in 7 rE
ed Bh | At about 6 o'clock on Wednesday
mony being per- | orning fire broke out in Meyers
™B. Kirschner. ‘[Serviee Station which is located on
"the cement highway about 11/4 miles
ov... FIRE WEDNESDAY
Loss Rdns Into Several Thous-|
“| Mary Alice Hay,
~ NEWS LETTER
SOMERSET WINNERS AT
STATE SHOW
Somerset County was represented
at the State Farm Products Show in
Harrisburg during the past week by
winning the following places:
Junior © Potato Club Exhibits:
Brothersvalley
Twp., 1st in class and 1st in sweep-
stakes; Paul Butler, Brothersvalley
Twp., 2nd in class and 3rd in sweep-
stakes; Pauline Wegley, Somerset
High School
SENIOR CLASS TESTS
HIGH IN HEALTH
The Christmas Seal health elin-
ics recently which included a study
of the graduating class of the: Mey~ |
ersdale ‘High School, report a high
standing of the pupils after compila-.
tion of the findings by the Pennsyl-
vania Tuberculosis Society. ' Sixty-
two pupils totalled only 101 abnor-
malities, in the summarized report
submitted by Mrs. H. H. Williams
I . years, of Jefferson Township, near
_.»'% Bakersville, who was admitted to
the Somerset County Hospital Fri-
"1 . +day, danuary 18th, suffering from
_ éxposure, after being missing from
* hig. home for more than six weeks,
died’ at the institution last Friday
. ight.
*- Funeral services were held Sun-
.
| a day in® the Bakersville Evangelical
drinking water.
One of the first questions asked by
Moore was “how things were turn-
ing out for Christmas.” He talked
very incoherently and there is.belief
that the man’s mind was unbalanced.
January 25, is now ‘history.
- The 20,000 who witnessed the
bout were so pleased with the sterl- )
ing performance shown by Christ-
ner, a native son of Garrett, that
they cheered him to a man. It was
a great moral victo#y for Christner.
That he capturedsthe hearts of the
fight fans would be, putting it mild-
In the first round of the fight,
Meyersdale’s pop- | >
a graduate of south of - Meyersdale. Before thef
994. After her grad- | Meyersdale fire department could
'get on the scene the fire was beyond
control. ~~ However, the dwelling:
house on the opposite side of the
road, of George Meyers the owner of
the service station was saved by the
prompt action of the country truck.
A daughter of Mr. Meyers was
Twp., 8rd. and Wayne Spangler, of the Meyersdale Tuberculosis Lea-
Quemahoning Twp., 4th. gue. ow,
Adult: Potatoes. Rural Whites—| = Dr. William Paul Brown, of Phil-
Edison Hay, Brothersvalley Twp., adelphia, of the staff of the Penm-
4th place; W. C. Leer, Upper Tur-|sylvania Tuberculosis Society, con-
keyfoot Twp., 7th place. i ducted the study, and also similar
' Russet, Rurals—William Coley, examinations at Salisbury, Berlin,
Somerset Twp., 5th. “"| Garrett and Confluence. « Dry
Pink -Skins—George Brown also addressed the Rotary
: spital University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia from
which institution she graduated last
spring and ak the time of her mar-
riage was a‘registered nurse doing
private nursing in the hospital.. She |
¥
Somerset County
Fair Association
Barkman,
" “ment was in the church cemetery.
Mr. Moore was born in Somerset
: eg lumes so as to indicate that it was : :
County on October 6, 1890. He is|g : aE the ringside shouted to another of the Larson otype School of YO : | Maple Creams, 8rd; and Maple holiday stamp, the Christmas Seal. ,
ED oe , w|omexsst County Fair Besgcigfion Ben have just seen the blow, thet | Philadelphis. Megs promment in} Co fire. She gave an alarm fmme-|g doc arg P| Fifteen of the senior class, were
. + xoom Jan. by diately which brought the rest of the 3 found to be without disease or de
and Susannah M. Moore; two broth-
ers; Abraham A. Moore, of Jefferson
’ : ! is 14 ; Mr. Meyers partly dressed, without ;
Fownship, and Russell O. Moore, of ing wear: 140. t at the ringside to see [SIEVE and is now captain of the Fors pany 2 out] cual. Potatoes were there in large Proportion. = Many schools of 200
‘Johnstown, and four children, 1s Slected or the ily "8 Bean . Bs Bor in hey “While the fight South Congressiofial Church, basket Shoat on hie, fet ran to the Fuming numbers. The Grand Hr pupils. have ‘only ten such perfect.
rena, Walter, Fern and Audri. 3 ov s SB. THEUIDSy > : ball team, He 3s the son of Mr. building and entered it in the hopel| iit goes to & club boy in Erie specimens. Girls as well as boys
Mr. Moore was a member of the:
Men’s Bible Class of the Sunday
School of the Evangelical Lutheran
C
The stockholders meeting of the
28, 1929 at 7:30. P. M22."
The following Directors savere
W. J. Gumbert, Edison Hay, Li D.
Peck, S. L. Saylor, C.'R." Weaver,
C. C. Heckle, Harry Meyers, C. E.’
Bird, C. M. Bird, S. S. Rickard, D..
started Sharkey well on his way to
Boston. One critic who was sitting
killed “Hansen.”
.# Dorey Christner, the father of K.
was, in progress, Christner’s wife
and’ two children—a boy and a girl
— listened in on ‘the fight at their
padio in their home in Akron.
This “accident” from Akron known
New Britain Hi
athleties in Nes
played quarter bac
and. Mrs. Lewis % Bell and is em-
ployed by E.-‘Ri
, New Britain:
direction of the garage
Clifford Bell is
smoke issuing from the building in
SE ie ly. : fi disc he
* ** & Lutheran Church, conducted by the i’ IK. O. missed with a roaring right (1% the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. the first to discover the fie. As she} gq, kT 1s! Club, and gave health lectures in the
TERT 1 3 : ffi 2 g right . ox . ki A, : onycree wp., 1st. er 4 CLL
108 Rev. Hs M. Petrea, pastor. Inter- Eleets 0 1CeY'S | that if it had landed would have H. Weisel, Broadirqy. ro an pi: Maple Syrup Products — John | high schools. This service is one of
: i raduate of the
“& ool and also
32k
ritain, having
“in the foot ball | family out of their night's slumber.
of saving something from the flames
and in his efforts to do so sustained
a number of severe burns on one of
his hands. He succeeded in getting
the contents of the money drawer.
3 Hitchcock Co.,
They were attehdled by Miss Hel-
the progressive health efforts paid.
Peck, Elk Lick Twp., Syrup, 3rd; 4
for through the purchase of the
Sugar Crumb, 1st; Sugar Cake, 2nd;
The exhibits at the show: in gen-
eral were of a higher character than fect and is regarded as an excellent
were in the disease-free group, there
being nine boys and six girls with-
out defects..
. Eight pupils were found with dis-
County. The champion acre of G96
bushels attracted a great deal of at-
tention. ; :
One whole floor of one of the
ch of Bakersville, and a mem-
Guy Floto, Lloyd Vought, Pauli M. |
en’ Tirtkbeind urse friend of buildings was occupied by adult and eased tonsils, a continual threat to
vag found, Friday, Janu-
janding in the road and
elp, he was in precarious:
nd. the mystery of the
‘m#n; whose peculiar
attracted attention ‘ll
op
cording to a news story appearing in
the Somerset County Leader, is be-
lieved by many in that vicinity to
be the solution to the mystery of the
“wild man,” reports of whom have
been rife in the last two weeks re-
garding his actions in the territory
embracing Ursina, Bakersville and
tent follows for the year: rg
enngylvehnia, President, W. H. Deeter; 1st Vice
eT © | Presidéat, L. D. Peck; 2nd Vice
‘Dr. Bruce Lichty was chairman of
the meeting, D. J. Fike, Secretary:
Immediately following the stocik-
holders meeting, a Directors foeet-
ing ‘was held and officers clected as
would appoint the different commit-
tees at a meeting held in the near
future.
The board voted to send one dele-
gate to the convention of the Penn-
sylvania Association of County
Fairs to be held in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
President, Su. 8. Rickard; Secretary apne Riske- sud Steen? Mies
and Treasurer, D. J. Fike. 3 W. Christner, the a forementioned X.
e i a he | O- “artist'is ‘a first “cousinof Mrs.
34, happened to 37 of his 44 oppo-
nents in the Past two years.
A New York critic who was at
the ringside claims that Sharkey
did more fighting in the last five
rounds. agairist.- Christner, than he
had done in the twenty ,rounds
Harry “E. Weighley of Meyersdale.
After the fight was over, Sharkey
visited Christner in his dressing
room and said that it was the hard-
est battle he was ever in, and he
said to Christner, “Big boy, you do
not need to be afraid of any of
them.” :
New Britain anc
making. their ho
wealth Ave., New. Br
Farewell: }
path re Ean
was
Emma Hostetler and the corps of
teachers who
course in American and European |
History in Meyersdale under Prof.
Houde of the University of Pitts-
wbetrof the church. Critchficld, A. O: Lomentz. After a 40 his’ family as Myers Wilson , EY oli .1| The buildi ith the rest of its
G5 Mp Moora hod lived for 48 rir 4 Halon he ih od Clitisthior, to his: fans as K. O., and vers: ols offhonor god David Lhe g ng hid ie Ee Sis on club corn*exhibits. Greene County life and health. Such severe cases
*in a+coml mine near Bakersville and of the Fair, the meeting adjoumed: | 10 his opponents as “Bad News,’ TE ¥ have. zone. to | entire loss. He had just received a again was outstanding in its sam-|should have correction without delay,
hi ¢ v ah has already at the ripe old age of young = title to his automobile which was a- ples of leaming variety. The corn although the age of eight is com
the present are
at 87 Common-
itain, Conn.
mong the things destroyed.
The loss will reach several thou-
sand dollars. It is estimated that
{J he had $1000 worth of tires stored
© lin the building besides many other
automobile accessories. The outside
y of the building was constructed of
i Teachers Pre of tile which still remain
. The host of f
rl
6]
Held F ar standing,
~The ~building and
A very pleasant farewell party
given at the home of Miss
ance.
TURNING OUT FIRST
QUALITY SHIRTS HERE
Making the Shirt World Sit Up
had been taking !
said to be partly covered by insur-
monly acknowledged as the better
age at which to attend to the plainly
recognizable dangerous tonsils.
Twenty pupils had severely de-
cayed teeth, and six were in need of
in general was very well mature with
varieties showing considerable type.
Apples: Some one said that they
had never seen so much color on ap-
ples as they saw at the show this
year. The growing season, of|dental attention to prevent pyor-
course, helped considerably in this |rhoea because of fungus-like depos-
respect. its on the teeth. . This number is re-
A large crowd saw the exhibits |latively less than many similar,
nd the twenty- ve State Agricul- : according to Dr. Bro
tural” ASSoSTAHIONS ectings + weic| “None of the pupils showee
very attended. About 50 farmers. dence of the presence EECA
from Somerset County attended the
show.
MASTER FARMERS HONORED
The magazine, Pennsylvania Far-
mer, conferred the degree of Master
sis. Although a physical eXandina~
tion is not complete when tuberen-
losis is being searched-for, except
with the use of an x-ray of the
lungs, the temperature, pulse, his: ©
burgh. A very delicious lunch was
served later in the evening at which
time a Phillips-Jones shirt which
tory of exposure to the germs of
tuberculosis, all were investigated
and no indication of tuberculosis
Jan. 30 and 31, 1929.
The president appointed D. J.
Fike, as delegate.
. sections of Fayette county. Daily
for the last fortnight tales reached
and Take Notice.
Farmer upon twelve farmers chosen
from the states of Delaware, West
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Somerset and Uniontown of the
travels of the “wild man,” but since
the finding of William Moore Friday
.evening, no reports have been re-
ceived of persons seeing a man dash-
ing through wooded sections, cross-
ing the river or dashing to a hiding
place in supposed caves.
William Moore left his home 43
days ago, telling his mother that he
was going to Bakersville for a few
days. He never returned and for a
time search was made for the man.
No clues could be unearthed and the
hunt was abandoned in the belief
that Moore left Somerset county.
Friday evening William Putman,
well-known farmer near Bakersville,
heard cries of help and also heard
someone calling him by name. Upon
investigation he was startled to find
a heavily-bearded man whose cloth-
ing was dirty and badly worn stand-
ing on the road and shouting for
help. The man brandished a club
and Mr. Putman, fearing a holdup,
returned to his house and enlisted
the aid of neighbors before return-
ing to the place where he had seen
the 1aan.
Mr. Putman and the men with him
engaged the bearded man in conver-
sation and, upon asking him his iden-
tity, were surprised when he cried
out: “Don’t you know me? I'm Will
Moore.” Although William Moore
had worked the greater part of last
summer on the Putman farm, Mr.
Putman was unable to recognize him
at first sight. Moore was in a “run
down” condition and had suffered
greatly from exposure and lack of
food. He collapsed and was taken
to Somerset where Sheriff Lester
Wagner ‘ordered him sent to the
County home. *
Before taking the man to Somer- often amend by their own efforts
he was taken to the Putman|the relative illiteracy imposed upon
and revived and given food.| them by inadequate schooling.
Upon questioning, Moore talked at| fact, he insists that farmers even-
but his questioners. were | tually win through to a wider com-
able to piece together a story of how | petence and a deeper wisdom than
the man had existed for three days city folks.
The | basic flaws exist,
near Bakersville was| tional methods have advanced until |
Moore to have been his| country schools must be radically
set,
home
random,
longer than the “forty days.”
Shaulis mine
declared by
home during his period in the “wil-
derness.” Investigation in the mine
revealed places where the man had from local control.
Adjourned to meet at a call of the
president.
D. J. FIKE, Sec.-Treas.
Down With Little
- Red School House
Country Children, Entitled To
Same School Advantages As
City Cousins.
A mass attack on the little red
school house and the whole rural
school system that it represents is
being organized. among American
farmers by Charles A. Lory, presi-
dent of the Colorado Agricultural
College. Writing in Farm and Fire-
‘side, national farm magazine, Pro-
fessor Lory says:
“Our rural school system is ab-
surd and antiquated. It has set up
a condition and produced a rural
state of mind which slows down our
every effort toward progress.
“Year after year these little red
school houses, so jealousy fostered
by the district school system, have
been turning back into our’ rural
districts young men and women
hardly half equipped in the know-
ledge essential to an effective life.
“Poor and haphazard schooling |
has been adding to the inferiority |
complex of American farming He
le. Few candid country people
will deny that this feeling of infer-
jority exists,—a feeling that we are
not so smart as city folk.”
It is a good thing, says Professor
Lory, for farmers to face squarely
‘the question “Are farmers dumb?”
*He admits that farming is itself an
| education, and that country people
In
But he maintains that
and that educa-
improved. He believes that the
country school should be removed
Meyersdale Wins
Over Salisbury
Salisbury was defeated by Mey-
ersdale at Reich’s Auditorium on
Tuesday evening by the score of
36-16. Meyersdale led at the first
quarter by a score of 6-3, and at the
half by 17-8, third quarter 24-12
and the final score 86-16 in favor of
the home boys. Meyersdale High
School played a very good brand of
basket ball, both on the offense and
the defense. Dull, Maust and
D’Este with four field goals each to
their credit featured for Meyersdale
as did Reich who played a wonder-
ful floor game as well as making
three baskets. J. Petry with three
field goals was high man for Salis-
bury.
Meyersdale was off form in shoot-
ing fouls, making only 4-11, and
Salisbury made only 4-9. In spite
of the cold and inclement weather
there was a fair sized crowd present
at the game. Referee Ike Law of
Cumberland handled the game in a
very cfficiert manner.
Meyersdale defeated Stoyestown at
Meyersdale last Friday evening 42-
33 in a very well played game. |
Meyersdale through its able
coaching is beginning to forge to the
front and play the brand of basket
ball it is capable of playing.
Pine Tree grass seed is higher in
germination and purity, at C. A.
Phillips.
Blue Ridge buttermilk egg mash,
$3.35 hundred at C. ‘A. Phillins.
Off a good 15 per cent protein
dairy feed, $2.00 hundred or $38.00
ton at C. A. Phillips.
“For years,” he says, “the little |
red school house has been permit- |
ting to grow up among American |
farm folks a pestilence of ignorance |
and mental impotence. To go on|
with this system is without need and |
without reason. We do not hesti-|
tate to buy good machinery for our |
farms. Why, then, deny our boys |
and girls the modern edgestional]
machinery to remove our greatest |
present shortcoming and difficulty?” |
was made in Meyersdale was pre-
sented to Professor Houde.
would wear the $1.00 Phillips-Jones
shirt at the University at Pittsburgh,
and after examining it very carefully
replied that he would be very glad
tp have the opportunity of wearing
a shirt of so fine a quality.
Mr. Stevanus of Springs, Pa., Miss
Smalley and Miss Livengood of Sal-
Emma Hostetler, Miss Edith Wil-
helm,
beth Boyer, Miss Clara Saylor and
ANOTHER ARGUMENT ue, 4 io .
FOR IMPROVED ROAD! Tic st2ndmg of the league ®
———— Belcher 27-12-692
Dr. Glass in making a visit to ajHart ....... . 21-15-5683
patient of his in St. Paul, one day Dahl ..... ... 21-18-538
last week me* with a puncture in the | Ray ......... + 19-17-528
oil pan of his car, lubricating the | Weyer 18-18-500
road rather than the bearings in his | Thomas 17-22-436
car. He had “o be hauled in, in or-|Hare ........ 14-22-389
der to save the bearings in his en- | Enoch 13-26-333
' Paul.
Mr. E. M. Yeagley, manager of
our local shirt factory certainly is
making them sit up and take notice,
when the different traveling shirt
salesmen are purchasing our shirts
and sending them to their managers
for inspection, and they are won-
dering how we are able to turn out
such a fine grade of shirt in this
short amount of time. This is all
due to Mr. Yeagley’s fine manage-
ment, and the hearty cooperation of
the entire force.
Standing of the
Bowling League
R. Hartley is now first with an av-
erage of 157-. C. Rayamond is sec-
ond with 149, and C. Hare third with
Prof. Houde was asked if he
The
Miss
following were present:
Bender, Mr. Maust and
isbury, and Miss Ellen Lint, Miss
Miss Mary TForquer, Miss
Esther Bre'g, Miss Esther Austin,
Miss Eleanor Lepley, Miss Eliza-
Prof. and Mrs. D. H. Bauman.
gine. This is another argument why
a sard surfaced road is needed to St.
The road is almost impassible
2t this time to automobiles.
Wenzel Hospital Notes
Mr. Milt Bowman who had sustain-
ed severe injuries, some time ago in
the limestone quarry of C. K. Bow-
man is getting along very well and
on a fair road to recovery.
Mrs. Joseph Rembold, who suffered
a fracture of the pelvis, several
weeks ago, is rportéd as. slowly re-
covering from her injury.
WINNERS IN LOCAL
POOL TOURNAMENT
The sccond game of the Pool
Tournament was played on January
23, at Cy Cook’s, between Clyde Hare
and John Layton, Hare winning 100-
¢5. Layton was high with 40 points
and Hare was hizh man on his team
with 27.
The 3rd game was played on Mon-
day evening, January 28, between W.
Wiland and C. Hare, the former win-
ning by a score of 100-86. The spec-
tacular shooting of Johnny Albright,
the Southside boy. was the high
event of *he evening. When points
were needed very badly he came
through.
Flour is advancing, but on account
of a favorable purchase I can offer
youu Larabee or Sweet Cream flour
Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. Edison M. Hay of
Brothersvalley Township, Somerset
County, received this degree. This
is quite an honor because of the
large territory from which the selec-
tion is made. About three hundred
people attended the banquet at which
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas
spoke.
found. In coming years, some of
the group may develop the disease
that one-twentieth of the
deaths is from this disease, yet: the
community is to be congratulated on
the health of the group. . * Ga
21 pupils were ten percent under
standard weight, and the correction
of the condition urged in the. re-
port. Extreme cases are a. dis-
tinct menace to health declared Dr.
Brown. This condition is a result of
over-fatigue, lack of proper or ad-
equate rest, over-play, over-work, as
well as improper foods and food
habits. Four pupils had goiter, and
three slight evidence of it. A total
of 15 were advised to take prolong-
ed preventive medication to prevent
the further development of the en-
largement of the gland. Communi-
ties such as Clearfield and Warren
are now administering the goiter
| preventive to the entire school pop=
ulation, at little cost.
The health inventory made by Dr.
Brown is a distinct contribution to
MEETINGS
The Somerset County Agricultural
Extension Association Executive
Committee, the Somerset County
Holstein-Friesian Association and
the Somerset Cow Testing Associa-
tion will hold meetings in the Agri-
cultural Extension office, Court
House, Saturday; February 2nd, at
1:30, 3:00 and 8:00 P. M. respec
tively.
C. C. McDOWELL, County Agent
FIRE BREAKS OUT
IN REICH BUILDING
Prompt Action of Mrs. Reich
Prevents Disastrous Fire—
Origin of Fire Unknown.
fare of the community as a whole.
The Tuberculosis League is to be
lauded for arranging this health
effort. :
But for the prompt action of Mrs.
Philip Reich on Friday morning,
Jan. 25, there would have been a
destructive fire which would prob-
ably have done much harm to the
Reich home besides menacing other
nearby - dwellings due to the high
wind. Just in the nick of time Mrs.
Reich dashed a bucket of water on
the fire but not before it had already
done probably $100 worth of dam-
ages, by ruining a Remington type-
writer, tapestry, wall paper and
scorching some of the wood work of
the room.
A czll sent into the fire depart-
Reception to New Members
Wednesday ‘evening of last week
the senior members ‘of the Sodality
of SS. Philip and James Catholic
church entertained the members that -
were recently enrolled in the sodal-
ity. The social was held in the
church hall and a very delightful
| evening was spent. A musical pro-
gram in which Miss Helen Imler
rendered two very beautiful piano
| solos, which was followed by a read-
ing by Miss Reta Logue, which was
greatly enjoyed by all present.
at $8.25 barrel. C. A. Phillips.
Stickels tock feed. $2.40 hundred,
at C. A. Phillins.
FOR SATURDAY
AT LUCENTE GROCERY
Grapefruit, 3 for 25¢
Head and leaf letiuce, 20c
Celery, 2 bunches for 25¢
Del Monte Peaches, 5 large cans,
$1.00
Phoneyour order
seed bought. Place your order now
b. and save money at C. A. Phillips.
Carl lelrana Pi r
arload- Dickenson ree : .
Carload Dick Pine T 8rass| fire was extinguished.
Carload Blue stone and Bellefonte | Reich was playing in the
spray lime bought. Place your order |the time the fire occurred and fortu-j 4...
{ now and save money. C. A. Phillips. 3
Miss Palma Lucente then gave two
piano solos which was loudly ap-
| plauded. After this some time was
spent in playing games and later
lunch was served by the committee in
charge.
ment brought an immediate response
from the fire fighters. They were
saved any further exertion as the
The origin of the fire is unknown.
| The 2 year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
room at| ¥
—_—_—
‘resh dried beef scraps for
7, $4.20 per hundred at C. A
j lips. :
poul-
: : Phil-
| nately escaped from being burnt. Phil
as can be inferred from the fact
total “ov:
the individual health and to the wel- . °