MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1929
9 l carrots, beets, kohl rabi, leaf lettuce,
i !yutabagas, celery, cauliflower, brocco-
ili, Chinese cabbage, snap beans, en-
dive, head lettuce, turnips, winter ra-
LET i ER | dishes, spinach and kale.
Crops occupying the ground all sea-
son are planted from April to July.
These include onion seed or sets to
mature; parsnips, salsify, Swiss
: ot chard, New Zealand spinach, parsley,
nsion Association will conduct a | !
we demonstration at the farce of | and radishes; second early cabbage,
h. Saylor, Middlecreck Township {early celery, second plantings of beets,
sday, April 25th at 9:00 A. M. carrots, kohl rabi and leaf or head
- i lettuce; snap beans, sweet corn
H. H. Kauffman, Extension Poul- | : ? .
an, ‘will be ‘present to demon- | Pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, musk
hickens Culling Demonstration
he Somerset County Agricultural |
e and explain how non-producing
can be removed from the flock.
will be an open meeting.
Junior Garden Club
th Maust kas just informed the
sion office that a Junior Garden
will be organized in the Springs
unity.
ave Supply of Seed Corn for
Next Year
times of plenty, provide for the
years.
prmer’s in Pennsylvania can safe-
pend on ordinary crib storage for
corn only one year in five,” ac-
g to Nickolas Schmitz, farm
extension specialist at State
be. “This year it was more dif-
to find poor germination than it
feen to locate good vitality in the
Wo years, except where special
was given the seed.”
e the situation next year cannot
eseen, Schmitz urges preparing
It may be as good as it was
ear or as bad as in 1926. To
je for any emergency which may
the State College extension
r recommends saving all sur-
ood seed corn. Inefact, he de-
that it is always a good plan to
year’s supply of seed corn on
seed which was hung up to dry
2 shelled now and stored in
protected from rats and mice.
eed will keep well and germin-
tisfactorily next year. Seed
ust be picked from the crib can
led in May and, when properly
will - germinate well next
‘Seed corn stored in metal
ers or boxes will keep just as
when stored in sacks, provided
bre punched in the lids of the
ers for ventilation.
rges Prompt Action With
Nursery Stock
year numerous injuiries are
i by the Agricultural Exten-
sociation relative to the pro-
to follow in securing adjust-
or nursery stock that refused
or plantings that failed to
a 100 per cent stand. In
hses, if nursery stock is pur-
from reliable nursery men, re-
s. can be secured provider
ement is justified.
ently the fault is not trace-
inferior nursery stock or im-
packing but to the neglect of
ers, through improper hand-
pr the nursery stock is receiv-
bwers placing orders for nur-
ck, whether it be fruit trees
bery, should give the stock
reatment upon arrival.
Handle Stock Promptly
hme should be lost in unpack-
khipment. A thorough water-
visable, after which the stock
removed and heeled-in in a
t place where it is possible
t it from mice or rabbits.
are to be planted within a
ls the bundles need not be
but pains should be taken to
roots are well covered with
ould climatic or soil condi-
ent early planting, the bun-
ld be broken so that soil can
H firmly around the roots of
hrubs.
ther unfortunate that all in-
are not able to go direct to
bry, select their stock, and
planting as soon as they
hke Steps for Safety
uisites of a 100 per cent
following steps are urged:
re sound stock from a reli-
ry located as near your own
E possible. Stock from dis-
sries is seldom superior to
cal firms.
ack and heel-in immediate-
rival. =~ The cellar, wagon
rn floor is a poor place for
rsery stock that is crowded
t shipping box.
t as soon after arrival as
soil conditions permit.
t that soil be firmly packed
bts so that it is ditlicult to
> tree after the last shovel
s been placed.
Garden Crops to Get
Best Results
1c crops in the farm gar-
t space is used most effi-
conveniently.
hctices are the use of long
nination of beds, and the
f succession crops so that
garden may be utilized
the season. 2
this plan the perennial
as asparagus, horse-rad-
b, herbs, and winter on-
nted along one side of the
mong the early crops
ween April 1 and May 15,
° lcttuce, turnips, sress,
ly, second early, and late
ts, early cabbage,
s, and onion seed
onion.
ps planted from June
Ll include Witloof chic-
melons, summer pumpkins, shell
| beans, tomatoes, peppers, egg plants,
late white potatoes, and late cabbage.
C. C. McDOWELL, County Agent.
LODGE AT SOMERSET
INSTALLS OFFICERS
District Deputy Herman Heflley,
accompanied by H. F. Ball, H. B.
Krissinger, A. C. Miller and G. H.
Smith, Berlin, recently visited Somer-
set Lodge No. 438, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows and the following of-
ficers were installed: Noble Grand,
R. A. Frease; Vice Noble Grand, H.
G. Sellers; Secretary, D. W. Seibert;
Treasurer, C. W. Weimer; Warden,
H. D. Heiple; Conductor, S. M. Ken-
nell; Chaplain, C. G. Barnhart; Inside
Guardian, James J. Friedline; Outside
Guardian, Fred Eicher; Supporters of
the Noble and Vice Grand, Charles
Harrison, A. W. Knepper, Sheldon
Barkman, Irvin Frease, Earl Schrock
and J. C. Schrock.
Representatives from Kingwood,
Berlin, Moxham, Addison and Port
Matilda Lodges were present; Mr.
Shank, newly installed Noble Grand
of the Kingwood Lodge; all spoke for
the good of the order. Plans have
been formulated for the 110th Anni-
versary of the Odd Fellowship, which
will be celebrated in the Somerset
lodge on Monday night, April 29th.
Winnodansis Lodge, No. 217, of the
Rebekah Assembly of Pennsylvania,
will hold its semi-annual installation
of officers in the Odd Fellows hall in
Somerset, Tuesday night, April 16th.
The newly elected Noble Grand, Gail
Kennell, is one of the youngest Noble
Grands ever installed in Winnodansis
Lodge.
Preparations have been made to at-
tend a special initiation of candidates
in the Moxham lodge, at Johnstown
on Friday, 19th. One bus has been
chartered and if there are additional
members who wish to attend, should
get in touch with the committee, Fred
Eicher and R. A. Frease.
Refinishing Old Floors
“Look up, not il may be sound
philosophy, but it cannot be followed
too literally by the home maker. The
lowly floor must be rejuvenated oc-
casionally. There is no floor tha
looks so bad that it cannot be chang-
ed from an eyesore into a decorative
asset by a few coats of paint. Along
with warbling spring robins there has
appeared bulletins from official and
industrial sources telling how to fix
up the floors. It seems to be agreed
among the best authorities that a new
finish should never be applied over a
surface that is not immaculately
clean. Refinishing with varnish or
stain requires considerable prelimin-
ary work and if the floor is badly
marred and discolored it should be
bleached with a solution of oxalic acid
crystals dissolved in hot water, using
as large a quantity of the erystals as
the water will dissolve. Apply the
bleach with a scrubbing brush and al-
low it to remain on the floor twenty-
four hours before it is washed off
with clear, hot water. As oxalic acid
is poisonous a pair of rubber gloves
should always be worn during the
bleaching process.
Then again where new floors of the
open-grain type are being finished a
paste-wood filler should be used to
make the surface even, which can be
wiped clean within a half hour with
excelsior, after which the surface
could be allowed to dry for at least
eight hours. Old floors usually con-
tain breaks and nail holes, and the
old-time plan of filling them with
putty and rubbing down the rough
spots with sand paper is as good a
plan as it was half a hundred years
ago. A newly painted floor requires
three coats and a top coat of varnish
will finish the job off nicely and in-
crease the resistance. The best au-
| thorities caution against applying a
coat of paint until the previous coat
has had time to thoroughly dry.
LOG CHAPEL TO BE
BUILT THIS SUMMER
NEAR JENNERSTOWN
At the meeting of the Blairsville
Presbytery at Parnassus the Rev. Dr.
Calvin C. Hays reported for the Pres-
byterial Committee that has charge of
the erection of a log church on the for-
mer W. A. Coffin farm near Jenners-
town, Somerset County. He said a
modest little chapel will be built this
summer at a cost of about $5,000. This
will be the first formative move to car-
ry out the Presbytery’s proposal of long
standing to convert the beautiful hillside
into a summer campmeeting and chau-
tauqua ground.
Until such a costly plan
nanced and started on its way, the me-
morial chapel will be used for special
meetings and summer conferences of
young people. Tents probably will
spring up here and there while the re-
can be fi-
uts, late cabbage,
ligious gatherings are being held.
THOMAS MOODY, SR., |
COMMITS SUICIDE |
Using a piece of electric light cord,
Thomas Moody, Sr., aged 59 years, a
well-known resident of Nant-y Glo,
committed suicide at his home Friday.
| His lifeless body was found dangling
lin the attic stairway by his little
granddaughter, Ethel Moody, aged
eight years, when she returned home
from school. The Moody child sum-
|moned help and the body was cul
down, but life was extinct.
It is the supposition that Mr.
Moody had become despondent be-
|cause of not having steady employ-
ment.
Mr. Moody was born in Scotland
and had lived at Nant-y Glo for the
last 12 years. His wife preceded him
'to the grave about a year ago.
"MERGER OF BOSWELL
BANKS CONSUMMATED
An important transaction was consum-
mated whereby the First National Bank
and the People’s State Bank were con-
solidated and will be known hereafter
as the First National Bank.
As a result of the consolidation the
First National Bank of Boswell enters
the. select class of Somerset County
banks with assets of more than a million
1
dollars and making it one of the
strongest banking institutions in the
county. The First National Bank of
Boswell, is he oldest banking institutions
in the county, north of the Lincoln high-
way. It was founded in the year 1902
and now in its 27th year of service to
the people of the community.
R. W. Lohr, is President of the First
National Bank and Park M. Weimer,
Cashier.
| ———
Two Acosta Dwellings
Destroyed by Fire
Fire presumably caused by a short
jeircuit in the electric wiring broke
lout about 6 o’clock one evening last
week, and before Somerset and Bos-
|well volunteer fire fighters could get
{the blaze under control, two dwellings
| Were destroyed and a third badly
damaged. The loss is estimated at
| about $5,000, partly covered by insur-
| ance.
| The home of John Backack and ad-
| joining buildings, also household
| goods were destroyed. The residence
{of Adam Sigmund was damaged, but
|the prompt arrival of neighboring fire
companies prevented a greater loss.
The name of the occupants of the
house in which the fire started, was
not learned by the firemen.
CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA
We have had a great deal of propa-
ganda from some of our own pinkeyed
liberals during the past year or two
concerning the beatific state of affairs
now existent in the Soviet Republic of
Russia. Certain of our uplifters with
{radical tendencies have gone to Moscow
the soviet government,
(have been permitted to see scenes speci-
fically staged for them and have re-
turned with glowing descriptions of
what the reds have done for the “com-
mon people” in Russia.
But it is now no longer possible to
{conceal the real situation in Russia.
| Reports continually seep out showing
[the desperate condition of affairs. In
[writing recently from Geneva, Albin E.
| Johnson, said in the New York World:
| “The Bolshevist Government of Rus-
Isia is figuratively ‘sitting on the bay-
las guests of
|onets of its army.’ This army is fac-
|ing two fronts—the mass of a hundred
[ million peasants, which constitute Rus-
{sia, and the spectre of Famine in the
[rear and the politically hostile
list countries of Europe before them.
“With serious dissension in its own
ranks, and the worst economic crisis in
recent years on its doorstep, due to
| famine conditions which are likely to
| get worse before they get better, the
| Communist Party is undergoing a bad
| case of political shivers according to
{reliable information reaching diplomatic
[observers here.”
| Now the peasants are dissatisfied,
and ripe for anything. Only their age
capital
long obedience to autocratic authority
has kept them quiet so Far. And as
ninety percent of the population is peas-
ant it is difficult to see in light of the
facts, just how the “common people”
of Russia have been uplifted. Of course
the reverse is true, and since about
three fourths of the red army is made
up of peasants it is easy to see that
there may be an explosion some of these
days which will make the Trotzky up-
heaval seem like a fizzling firecracker in
comparison. When this explosion comes
it is going to force done some of our
own exponents of “liberal thought” to
rebuild their thinking apparatus.
HOW TO DO IT
“An international campaign has
been started to protect whales and
seals from extinction.” That should
be easy enough. All that is needful
is to advise the seal to quit wearing
such stylish and costly furs, and to
induce the whale to go in for reduc-
tion and eliminate the desirable bLlub-
ber that tempts the oil men.—New
Orleans Times-Picayune.
A circus giant weighing 650 pounds
| OLD BORDER POST
drank 20 pints of liquor in twenty |
hours the other day. Feeling a little |
warm he took off his clothes and |
strolled around the house to cool off, |
contracting pneumonia from which he
died. It would seem that a man who
could drink five gallons of bootleg |
hootch and survive oughtn’t mind a |
little thing like pneumonia.
NOW TOURIST CAMP
Fort Wilkins Never
Hostile Shot.
Fired
Fort Wilkins, Mich.—The unprotect-
ed borders of the United States and
Canada, an oft-cited example that two
peoples can live in peace, revives the
story of Fort Wilkins, the lust army
post on the northern boundary line.
Not since its garrison marched
away shortly after the Civil war have
its confines echoed to martial tread.
It now is a state park, and tourists
camp beneath its trees, where sen-
tries alert for the war cry of Indian
braves once walked their posts.
Just a cannon shot away, across the
water of Lake Superior, is the imag-
inary line separating Canada from the
United States.
Never once in the life of the old
fort was a gun fired from its con-
fines in hostility. Fort Wilkins was
established in 1844, temporarily aban-
doned in 1846, reoccupied in 1869 and
finally deserted in 1870.
The post was built at the end of
Michigan's thumb, the Keweenaw
peninsula, as a protection’ to early
copper miners and settlers against In-
dian aggression. There, too, lurked in
the minds of officials that the United
States some day might need to defend
its northern frontier.
The first garrisoned troops, who
built the post, hewed the logs from
virgin timber. ' Later the buildings
were clapboarded and when the state
took over the post the fort was well
preserved. ;
Protecting the inclosure on the north
and east was a stockade of posts, fas-
tened with hand-made wooden pegs.
Lake Fanny Hooe provided protec-
tion on the south’ side, and there
was a rapidly flowing stream on the
west.
The post, although somewhat mod-
ernized by the summer’s flow of mo- |
torists, remains a page out of the past
in the industrialized present of Michi-
gan's copper country.
Russia Draws Many
Workers From U. S.
Riga, Latvia.—Consular officials in
Riga estimate that 30,000 former resi-
dents of the United States are living
in Soviet Russia.
Every month more enter and others
come out, while many of those who
remain bombard the Ame~ican consu-
‘Jate, across the frontier in Riga, with
letters pleading for papers that would
permit them to return to America.
Most of the thousands who have
gone into Russia since the revolution,
looking for a worker's earthly para-
dise, are living in small towns, com-
munes and villages.
They are brought to Riga by steam-
ship ‘companies in ikurge parties and
sent into Russia from here. Each im-
migrant is obliged on entering a red
commune to have a minimum capital
of $500 and to surrender his American
passport before entering the new
world that Lenin created.
Chew of Tobacco Solves
Mystery of Burglaries
York, Neb.—A chew from a plug of
tobacco was the undoing here of Leon
Hudson and led officers to the discov-
ery of the perpetrator of more than
forty burglaries in and near York
county during January and February.
Hudson had been arrested as a sus-
pect.
The burglar apparently had worked
with gloves, as no finger prints were
found, and the only clews left were
footprints and a plug of tobacco from
which a bite had been taken, leaving
a perfect imprint of teeth.
The sheriff at Aurora played cards
with a number of prisoners and in-
vited all to “have a chew.” Hudson
was the only one to accept and his
teeth prints were found to be like
those in the state's exhibit. He later
made a confession to all burglaries
of which he had been suspected.
Some Are That Dumb
Bordeaux, France.—A man hailed
Jules Durand, taxi driver, and en-
gaged him to go to Bergerac, 50 miles
distant. Thinking _the “fare” was
aboard, Durand drove to Bergerac,
where he found that the man had
never got into his cab. He's trying
to collect, but it's difficult.
3,000-Horse Power Engine Built
Vienna.—A 3,000 horse-power rail-
way locomotive, said to be the largest
and most powerful in Europe, has been
built here for use on steep Alpine
grades. Auxiliary engines as pushers
on mountain routes are entirely dis-
pensed with by the new locomotive.
o A ANS
Girl, 14, Becomes Chief <
of Menominee Indians
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Green Bay, Wis.—A fourteen- &§
year-old girl now rules the Me- >
nominee Indians—the first of ¢
-. <x to head the tribe. sS
Princess Kenoke, daughter of
Chief Ernest Oshkosh, who died
a short time ago, assumed lead-
ership under a deathbed com-
mand of her grandfather, Chief
Neopit Oshkosh. She is known
outside the tribe as Alice C.
Oshkosh. S
Previously it was announced
that the chieftaincy would be
taken over by Chief Ernest Osh-
A
kosh’s brother, Reginald. The
Menominees reside on a reser-
vation near here. &
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FOOPVPIESR
WHO WILL PILOT
Frank Cramer’s Car at
ALTOONA
Who will fill the seat made vacant
last February when fate flashed the
checkered flag on Earl DeVore?
This is the query being passed
along in gasoline alley. Who might
drive Frank Cramer’s Chromilite spe-
cial, last year piloted by Earl 2—Who
lis the best prospect ?— Will he be an-
other “dark horse” just as Lou Mey-
er, Frank Lockhart and George Sou-
ders proved to be ?—are some of the
questions being hurled right and left.
But Frank Cramer, of Altoona, Pa.,
owner of the machine and Earl’s boss,
turns a deaf ear to all inquiries, He
“hasn’t anything to say right now.”
And Cramer's statement brings
more to the front the question—will
the new pilot be another “dark
horse?” And, too, if he is a “dark
horse” will he replace Lou Meyer as
champion ?—Will he top the great-
ness of Lockhart ?—Will he rival the
overnight popularity gained by
George Souders?
Lou Meyer, last year’s leading driv-
er, was a “hark horse.” Meyer went
into the 500-mile international race
at Indianapolis last May as “just an-
other one of those dirt track drivers
from California with big hopes.”
But Meyer's hopes were founded on
more than just visions—he came
through with first place and $28,000
in prizes.
eorge Souders, a student at Pur-
due University, went into the Indian-
apolis grind in May 1927 an unknown
and came out a winner. He crashed
the front page on most every paper
in America overnight. .
And the year before that—May
1926—Frank Lockhart, deemed by
many experts as the greatest driver
to ever sit in the seat of a “gas
buggy,” jumped into prominence when
he rode into first place. He, like
Meyer, was a product of the Califor-
nia dirt tracks. But Lockhart’s ea-
reer was not long. = With only two
years of spectacular performances to
his credit he lost his life during the
speed trials at Daytona Beach just
before the opening of the regular
board season last year.
With the last three years finding a
“dark horse” coming out on top at the
opening of the regular season, there
is little wonder that many are watch-
ing with anxious eyes the announce-
ment of the man to fill DeVore’s seat.
It may be at Indianapolis May 30
or it may not be until the Altoona
classic June 15.
But until the new man takes the
wheel of the Chromilite special, gas-
oline alley will hold true to the repu-
tation established by DeVore, the man
who lost his life when the Vestris
sank while he was enroute to South
America to arrange an event forihis
brothers in the game of speed.
Who ever the new pilot will be he
will have a tough job ahead of him.
Perhaps he can fill the seat, who
knows, and yet—
Sentenced In Court ,
for Violations of Law
Pleading guilty to a charge of driving
an automobile while intoxicated, Char-
les Fleegle, of Somerset, was sentenced
by Judge John A. Berkey in court
Wednesday to pay the costs, a fine of,
$100 and to serve 60 days in the county
jail.
George Schrock, of Shanksville,
charged with larceny, was sentenced to
pay the costs and undergo one months
imprisonment in the county jail.
Victor Dadura, of Conemaugh Town-
ship, pleaded guilty to violation of the
liquor laws and was ordered to pay the
costs, a fine of $100 and placed on pro-
bation for 18 months.
Julia Gelsa, of Heooversville, who
pleaded guilty to a charge of violating
the liquor laws, was remanded to the
County Home.
Tolmstown Ministers
and Wives Will Hold
Outing at Shanksville
At a meeting of the Johnstown Dis-
trict Ministerium of the United
Brethren Church the ministers decid-
ed to hold their annual outing at
Shanksville, as guests of the United
Brethren Church there. «
The outing probably will be held
‘June 10 and the following committee
was appointed to complete arrange-
‘ments: Rev. J. C. Rupp, the Rev. W.
G. Fulton, D.D., and the Rev. A. J.
Orlidge.
The ministers and their families will
be served a chicken dinner by the
Woman’s Aid Society of the Shanks-
ville church in the church social hall.
The district takes in the pastors of
Cambria and Somerset counties and
some from Westmoreland and Bed-
ford counties. A delightful time is
looked forward to and a large atten-
dance urged. .
In comment on the big day last
week when over 8,000,000 shares of
stock were sold in one day on the
New York Exchange, the New York
Times recalls the fact that on March
16, 1830, just thirty-one shares were
disposed of during the day, thus once
more proving that we are a growing
nation.
One of the first warnings that our
. children are growing up is when they
{don’t want an Easter basket.
1 withdrawal would entail.”
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
- Written for This Paper By
FRANK P. LITSCHERT
Students of political affairs in
Washington are beginning to specu-
late as to whether the country is to
be treated to another League of Na-
tions and World Court fight, and just
what effects such a contest, if it takes
place, will have on pending legislation
in the United States Senate. The
United States has had twd or three
spectacular legislative combats of the
kind. The first of these, and of
course the most spectacular, was
when the Senate refused membership
in the League of Nations for the Uni-
ted States. This was back in the ad-
ministration of President Wilson, and
it brought out some of the greatest
debate which had been heard in the
‘upper legislative body since the days
of Webster, Clay and Calhoun.
The most recent of these interna-
tional political struggles was the one
which occurrec in the administration
of President Coolidge when. the Sen-
ate, by an overwa2ming vote, agreed
to place the United States in the
World Court, with certain reserva-
tions. In the League of Nations fight
the Senate in rejecting membership in
the league, undoubtedly took the pop-
ular side, as was evidencs in the elec-
tion of 1920 when the league was
prominent issue. The action of the
Senate in adhering to the World
Court with reservations was not pass-
ed on by the voters in the clection
of 1928 for the reason that, when the
European nations refused to agree to
some of the Senate reservations, it
was generally presumed that the
World Court issue was dead so far as
the United States was concerned, and
international affairs aroused little or
no interest in the campaign, the plat-
forms of both the Republican and De-
mocratic parties declared against en-
tangling foreign committments.
International issues have come to
the forefront again, however, due to
the trip of Elihu Root, former Secre-
tary of State to Europe in an effort
to bring about an understanding with
Europe regarding the entrance of Un-
cle Sam into the World Court. Just
how this understanding will appeal
to the United States Senate and the
administration at Washington re-
mains to be seen. It is generally
claimed by those who oppose going
into the court with reservations less
drastic than those previously propos-
ed by the Senate, that the Root for-
mula weakens the famous Reserva-
tion No. 5 of our World Court res-
olution. This reservation attempted
to prevent the court from giving ad-
visory opinion on any subject in
which” the United States claimed an
interest, without the consent of the
United States government. Under
the Root formula, according to those
opposed to this document, “By the
terms of that formula the United
States as a member of the court
would have to accept an advisory
opinion or get out of the court, with
all the hard feeling which such a
The words
quoted are from the New York Sun,
which does not favor the adherence
of the United States to to the court
under the Root formula.
That there will be a real fight over
the question is evidenced by the fact
that some of the outstanding senator-
ial leaders in the anti-league fight are
showing evidences of their desire to
take a stand against the Root formu-
la. On the other hand those states-
men who formerly favored our jcin-
ing the League of Nations without re-
servations, or with mild reservations,
are generally lining up for the Root
formula. Tt is not regarded as likely
that the question will get before the
Senate until the winter session, and
by that time both sides will have time
to marshall their forces, and it is
likely then that other legislation will
have to stand aside while the World
Court and League of Nations occupy
the center of the stage. Those who
oppose the Root formula will aszert
that it weakens the Senate reserva-
tion, and that it will put the United
States in the league through the back
door. We shall doubtless hear a
great deal also about Great Britain's
six votes in the World Court to our
one. Those favoring the Root for-
mula will declare of course that it
does not entangle us and that st any
rate we can withdraw if it doesn’t
suit us. To this last argument the
antis will reply that if we once get
in it will be difficult to get out and
that any tendency on our part to
withdraw will be hailed by Europe
and our pro-Europeans as poor
sportsmanship and failure to “do our
part toward saving the world.” Tak-
en all in all it promises to be a pretty
busy winter in Washington.
HE SHOWED HER
It must have been a heap of satis-
faction to Herbert Hoover to have had
his old school teacher on the platform
near him when he was inaugurated
President of these United States.
That was showing her. He probably,
if he was a normal boy, remembered
that she predicted what would be-
come of him. And it wasn’t that he
would be inaugurated President—
Houston Post-Dispatch.
Tenant—The roof is so bad that it
rains on my head. How long is that
going to go on?
Landlord—What do you think I am
—a weather prophet?
—The Pathfinder.
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ployment questiéns.
District Attorney
ASKS COURT
To Close “Duke’s Place”
ONE YEAR
District Attorney James B. Landis
Monday afternoon presented a bill in
equity to the Court asking that “Duke’s
Place,” a restaurant in the basement of
the Hotel Vannear building on the Pub-
lic Square, Somerset, be padlocked for
a period of one year for alleged viola-
tion of the liquor laws and also alleg-
ing that the place is a nuisance.
James Turnbull, proprietor of the
restaurant, and Achilles Alexas, of
Johnstown, owner of the hotel build-
ing, are named as defendants in the
District Attorney’s bill of complaint.
Turnbull is under bail for his appear-
ance at the next term of Criminal
Court to answer the liquor charge.
Judge John A. Berkey has fixed the
hearing for next Saturday morning at
9:30 o’clock.
The_action of District Attorney: Lan-
dis followed the raid made at “Duke’s
Place” on March 30 at the direction of
Judge Berkey following receipt of com-
plaints. The Court issued an injunction
restraining the defendants from manu-
facturing or selling intoxicating liquor
as defined in the Act of March 27, 1923,
and from removing or in any way inter-
fering with intoxicating liquor or other
things upon said premises used in con-
nection with the violation of said act
constituting nuisance until further order
of the Court.
Affidavits in support of the District
Attorney’s bill of complaint include
those of Frank Maser, a Johnstown de-
tective; Russell Mobley, a former mem-
ber of the Johnstown Police Depart-
ment; Austin D. Shaffer, Probation
Officer for Somerset County, and Con-
stable D. R. Cramer, of Meyersdale,
all of whom participated in the raid at
“Duke’s Place.”
Issue Permits To Wed
Don M. Kimmel, Clerk of the Or-
phans’ Court, has issued the following
marriage licenses during the past
week: John Wesley Hoover, of Hoov-
ersville, and Florence Lorene Shaffer,
of Johnstown; Edward L. Bowman, of
Boynton, and Maggie Fuller, of Sal-
isbury; Mike Cimer, of Cairnbrook,
and Catherine Cihanska, of Arrow;
Walter J. Celmer and Anna Marie
Rubol, both of Cairnbrook; Welty
Brown Eisaman, of Youngwood, and
Cora A. Hays, of Hunkers, Westmore-
land County.
Recent Weddings x
Miss Cora A. Hays, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ira N. Hays, of Hunkers,
Westmoreland Countyy..and Welty
Brown Eisaman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John P. Eisaman, of Youngwood, Pa.;
were married at Somerset by the Rev.
I. Hess Wagner.
Miss . Maggie Fuller, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Fuller, of Sal-
isbury, and Edward L. Bowman, son
of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Bowman, of
Boynton, were married at Salisbury
by the Rev. S. D. Sigler.
"Miss Florence Lorene Shaffer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob C.
Shaffer, of Johnstown, and John Wes-
ley Hoover, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam P. Hoover, of Hooversville, were
married at Johnstown by the Rev. A.
B. Bauman,
Miss Catherine Shontoska, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Shontoska,
and Maurice M. Rodger, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Nathaniel J. Rodger, both
of Hooversville, were married at
Hooversville by the Rev. K.. Karl
Voiles.
‘Miss Mary Rita Short, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Short, and Am-
brose Simon Breig, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Paul Breig, both of Mey-
ersdale, were married at Meyersdale
by the Rev. J. J. Brady.
Miss Virginia M. Butler, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Butler, of
Geistown, and James E. Pountney, son
of Mr. and Mrs. James Pountney, of
Johnstown, were married at Johns-
town by the Rev. W. L. Crawford.
Miss Bertha Warren, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Caldwell War-
ren, and Dean R. Buterbaugh, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clyde Buter-
baugh, both of Latrobe, were married
at Somerset by the Rev. A. W. Hayes.
Miss Salona D. Wengerd, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Wengetrd,
of Meyersdale, and Elmer Noah Lee,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah J. Lee, of
Dover, Del., were married at Summit
Mills, Pa., by the Rev. L. M. Beachy.
Miss Anna Kososki, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Stefan Kososki, and
Mike Golden, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Golden, both of Seanor, were
married at Holsopple by the Rev.
Michael Mochowiak.
Union Labor to Advertise
The American Federation of Labor
has approved of a plan to advertise
in the newspapers in presenting the
case of organized lahor regarding em-
The power of
the press seems about to have a
chance to improve the ancient strug-
gle between labor and capital. There
iz not a person in the land familiar
with the power of the press but who
believes that the forces of labor have
taken a very progressive step that is
certain to lead to good results for
them.
The principal reason why a woman
can’t be President is that few of them
nowadays get to the point where they
can admit being old enough.
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