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INTING.—THE BTAR office has
finste ass Job 1
printing equipments, turns out all
the best style of the art and at very
rides. Tae Star does all kinds of
work, pester and bill printing, and
every kind of printing belon ug
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LOCAL ND GENERAL,
Colds are numerous.
Subscribe for THE STAR.
Patronize home industries.
cal Fuller has a very sick child.
* Not snch a wee ‘‘bantling,”
Christmas is coming. This is official.
How would a dollar And « a half strike
you?
Arthur Robertson smiles out loud. Its
a boy.
“<The weather we are having i is all that
could be desired.
Thisis a ‘Thursday paper, but we area
little Inte this week.
Lee Beachy, the noted horse dentist,
was in our city this week.
Somerset wants water works and Balis-
bury is also in need of them.
A few cases of la grippe are said to
‘exist in this part of the country.
The new M. E. church, when com:
pleted, will be a neat little structure.
Haselbarth & Son have had a large
trade in stoves and stovepipe, this fall
‘Keagy’s wool wagon ‘was making its
roungy in this locality this week and last.
are we?
Clias. Bender, who some time ago bad
a leg amputated. is getting along nicely.
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star” But
we're nat such a little star, after all. are
we?!
Whoa! Hold on! Let us gently whis-
per in your ear that now .is the time to
suhscribe.
We have heen doing a great deal of
job work, all of which has given the best
of satisfaction.
~The wire men of the east will follow
+ THE STAR. just as they did away back in
‘ve olden times.
Ww John Hartline says its boy No. 8, his
time. and he feels proud, of course.
Why shouldn't he?
Mr. Fred Anspach, of Philadelphia, is
in town this week looking after his busi:
ness interests here.
The Berlin Record lias heen sold to a
glock company and Editor Corpening has
emigrated to Colorado.
Ta the many friands who favored us
during our recent sickness, we tender
Shar most sincere thanks.
g ¥: D. Livengood butchered an 8-months-
old pig that weighed 278 1bs., dressed.
Now who can beat that?
The president's message has the proper
ring to it, It is a sensible and bnsiness-
like docnment throughout.
If you want to read of some of the
ings Salisbury has, and of some that it
needs, turn to Second page.
Call at our sanctum sanctornm and get
80 worth of starlight. It beats electric
ht and gas light all hollow.
M Jonas Hershberger and Miss Mary
Li vengood. of Grantsville, were visiting
friends in Salishury this week.
We have an interesting Idaho letter on
file. for ‘publieation next week, written
George Gould. ‘Wait for it.
“Mire. Sipe. who for the past few years
& had her home in ‘the west, is visiting
eliitives in this viginity at present.
‘Gertende Yoder, a itt daughter’ of
and Mrs. Binanuel Yoder, is suffer-
th inflammatory rhenmatism.
Fre glad to note that Perry Butler,
Bi] town.
{but not 80 with ‘the people.
| prize hogs.
oye ny
‘inthe land, thes
weight to TrE STAR of some of your)
We'll het four dollars that. the attend.
ance at the Sunday schools is on the in-
crease. "Twas ever thus about this time
of the year.
~ Now is the time to advertise your holi-
day goods. THE STAR is at your service,
and an “ad” in its columns will do you
lots of gnod. :
Peter 8. Hay is in Baltimore this week
beving a large stock of new goods.
Lookout for his advertisement when the
goods arrive. !
Miss Lizzie Brandl ecently had the
misfortune of getting part of one of her
fingers taken off by /a\sausage grinder.
Bad luck sure.
Harvey Engle. who had been sick for
a long time, died fast week. He leaves
a wife and two smgilchildren. THE STAR
extends ils sympathy.
Now who will be the first to step into
our office and hand us $1.50 for a year’s
subscription to Tae STAR? Please don’t
all rsh in at once, now.
Owing to our recent illness not all of
the advertisements appear in this issne
for which we have copy. We will work
them in as fast as we can. .
If you have failed to get a sample copy
of THE STAR, please let us know. We
aimed to slight no one, but mistakes will
sometimes happen to anyone.
It is a shame that there are so many
dreary old apologies for pavements in
such a pretty town as this is. We onght
to have more real pavement.
_ Minneapolis gets the next republican
national convention, and Omaha don’t
like it a bit. But what is the city on the
“Big Muddy” going to do about it?
The churches of this place are making
very extensive preparations to appropri-
ately observe Christmas. They are get-
ting up very interesting programs.
‘And she winked the other eye,” seems
to be a favorite expression among the
Salisbury *'kide.” Wel, what if she did
wink it? Maybe she couldn’t help it.
Peter Vogel is putting a very neat fence
around the piece of ground he bought
fust north of the foundry. He says he
intends to build on that ground, next
summer.
Don’t wait for another sample copy. if
you want this paper, but subscribe for it
at once and pay in advance. That's the
way to encourage a new enterprise of
this kind.
Geo, 8. Young,
Boynton, has sold
north of the Jones h
ley. Mr. Young a
to Dubois.
“The walls of the Germ
building, in Satishury,
80 badly that large ironivods put through
the building are to keep it in
proper shape.
THE 8tar will add many new features
and improvements as it grows older. It
takes time for everything, and this issue
isn’t as complete as the paper will be in
the near future.
f Meyersdale, late of
his fine residence
to J. T. Bhip-
family will move
an Baptist church
began to spread
Dick Beachy, who had been visiting
friends here for several months, took his
departure last week for Garleton, Neb..
where he has been making his home for
the past few years.
Conrt will convene in Somerset next
Monday. M. F. Smith will go as a juror,
and if any of the Somerset people want
any oil stock, they can'see. Mr. Smith at
the Somerset house.
BOY WANTED at Tar Star office to
learn the printing trade. Must be intelli-
gent, willing to obey instructions at all
times and have good habits. No-boy un-
der 12 years of age need apply.
Several: new houses ure going up on
both sides of the river. The Lord knows
we need more new hunses, for every nook
and corner are filled and people are al-
most daily in search of liouses,
Mrs. Fernser,
Welfley, recenfy
old acquaintanc
formerly Miss Sadie
rrived here to renew
and vigit her old
home. Mr. Fer is here also. Mr.
and Mrs. Fernser reside in Beatrice, Neb.
George Hay is said to be slanghtering
a great many pheasants, this fall. Well,
they ought to know better than to let
George get near enough to draw a bead
on them, George is Ahad man with a
gun.
The Mrs. editor has presented 1s a
brand new digg ter; weight, 12 ibs
That's a prize ball for sure. If anybody
else has a girl byhiv\to bent that weight,
at the age of ufe days we'd like to have
it reported to us.
Miss Mary Livengood, our blind aunt,
has the thanks of our new daughter for
some handsome footwear. Aunt Mary
is blind, but she can nevertheless do all
kinds of knitting and other fancy work
to a queen's taste.
The Meyersdale Register spenks of an
electric railway between Meyersdale and
Salisbury as one o the possibilities of
the future. Well, gts nger things have
happened, and the electtic railway can't
come any too soon, °
bury, and yet the demand for more
houses is great. It isalways a good’ sign
when there are no emrty buildings ina
The houges should always be fall,
Xou may rravel this way, vou may
: ‘you may travel from
but Jou n
its columns is A. L.
‘of his numerous hobbies.
There isn’t a vacant building in Salis. |
Weare informed - that the ministers of
: Meyersdale recently bad # hard time in
play atthe operafhouse, and thatina
few instances sol ery wrathy language
was need by both parson and layman,
The first cash subscriber of this paper
is I. F. Spangler, of Carlton, Neb.; the
first man to give us an glvertisement for
agey, of Grants-
ville, Md.; the first Joh order was for
Mrs. 8. A. Lichliter, of Salisbury, Pa.
Judging trom: what we hear, more tame
turkeys than wild ones have been killed
this fall by hunters. If all reports ‘are
true, some of the farmers ought to go
gunning for turkey hunters. Better look
a little ont, ye handy men with the gun.
All those business men whom we have
not yet called on for advertisement need
to complete our calls, but we'll be after
every mother’s son of vou, gentlemen.
So just go ahead and prepare.your copy.
Samuel Spriggs, the genial young bar-
ber who is in the employ of R. B. Shep-
pard, informs us that his brother, Edward
Spriggs. of Meyersdale, was married this
week to Miss Nancy Spriggs. - of McCon-
nelisburg. Bamuel says his turn will
come next. ‘ ;
O. the clothes press is a swell affair for
clothing nice and neat, and the hay press
is a fine machine and does its work com:
plete, and the cider press is noted for its
juices rich and sweet, but the printing
press—it rules the world and gets there
with both feet.
Crisp, the Georgian, is the winner in
the speakership of the house contest.
Mills, the man go bitterly opposed to the
American mills, thought sure he would
be chosen speaker, but he got fooled and
is now the maddest Texan in existence.
Poor old Mills!
John L. Beachy says he still feels some
what stoved up. gwing to being thrown
from the back wnt™ fractions” horse
of his, a few wedks ago. We feel sorry
for you, John, t. then you shouldn't
risk riding a horse without a bridle. A
halter is n. g., only for hitching horses.
In a late issue of the Meyersdale Com-
mercial, Brother Smith speaks of some
Among them
he mentions Sand Spring, é¢lectric light,
ete., but concerning his two principal
hobbies (the Greenville school house
burners and the Poeahontas railway) be
said not a word. .
The Eureka literary society of this
place isin a flourishing condition. Ev-
erybody is of the opinion that Prof.
Samuel L. Livengood, Prof. Same!
Spriggs and others who furnish music
for the society deserve a great deal of
credit. They handle their instruments
in a professional manner.
Remember that THE STAR fs established
on its own capital and did not ask 8 bo-
nus to locate here, as papers often do,
All it has to ask is a liberal support in
the way of advertising and job work,
and it will do the rest itself. Help us
along, pay your subscription in advanes,
keep on paying in advance, and we will
give you an excellent paper. Set
Clarence Livengood is achieving a great
reputation as a Nim and if old John
J. don’t look welk tb his laurels this
promising young spdnitsman is going to
distance him in spilliffg the-blood of wild
animals. Clarence dan’t hunt coon, hat
he’s an awful bad man on ’possums, and
up to date can show about as many ’pos-
sum hides as John J. can coon hides.
Mr. and Mrs. B own,
only colored babe ever born in Salisbury.
had to part with their Jittle one last week,
as it took sick and died. This was the
sixth child born to Mrs. Brown, and all
died in infanev, which makes this be-
reavement doubly sad. The stricken
parents have the sympathy of the entire
commuhity. : :
~ When you say, ‘nit py name on your
list,” hand ns $1.50 right there and then.
Remember that we have been at great
expense in moving our entire outfit here
from Nebraska, and beipg sick and de-
layed in our business for a month or
more adds still more to onr expense ac
count. We need money now and need it
badly; therefore, please pay for your pa-
per in advance.
Visitors are always welcome at Tur
Brag office, but we kindly request all
visitors not to handle our type and fix:
tures, nor read cony, proof slips or copies
of THE STAR before thev are mailed.
All manuscript. proof slips, ete., are pri-
vate property. and even the contents of
the printed papers are private until the
papers pass Hiro ough the mails.
bear this in mind.
from Balemville, Bedford county. where
for several weeks he conducted a spirited
series of meetings ending with sixteen ad-
ditions by trine immersion. The chnreh
is a new one and was built as a rift to
the congregation by sister Leah Broyer.
It easily seats 500 people, is well fur
nigshed throughout and cost the devout
lady $2,200.—Commercial.
M. J. and J. L. Beachy have broken
ground for the mantmoth hardware build-
ing they are goir to erect just north of
Tag STAR buil bi The structure will
be 80x26, two sYories high. The second |
story will be for a town hall and
opera house, what this town ineeds
since C. T. hate fitted up his lai
building Tn hotel. The new buildin
| will be pushed
completion
the weather will permit
not feel slighted. We didn’t have time |
owl”
Please
Eid. Silas Hoover, Saturday. retnrned:
Ju
Jocal newspapers. It the business me
ofa town sallow their local paper to
outinto the world minusa liberal amount
of advertising patronage, the paper will | 1
Jook a great deal like the advance agent
of a graveyard, and the people reading
that paper will get it into their heads that
the town in which it is published is about
the next thing to a graveyard, and they
will give that town the grand ‘‘go-by.”
John J. Livengood, the veteran ‘coon
hunter, s informed us the other day that
he had already this season killed forty-
nine ’coons, and thay be hasnt fairly
commenced yet. Saturday night he
raked in six of ’em¥and one that weighed
20 Ibs. We don) “how a fellow can]
catch that man ns before midnight,
and we fear very much that Uncle John
had to borrow a few hours from the Lord
that night, as Charles Boucher used to
say. :
Always let us know all news emia that
you may happen onto, as it will aid ug
-wonderfully. in getting: up a good. spicy
local paper. There are lots of things
happening every day in every communi-
ty that an editor has no'way of finding
out, unless he is told by some one. If
you are being visited by friends. or if
there is sickness in your family or among
your neighbors, or if you know of any
accidents, marriages, deaths, births, or
anything that will make readable news
in your local paper, report to ‘THE BTAR.
Our jolly nejghbor, Mr. CO. T. Hay,
bas thoroughly overbauled part of his
large business block: and has fitted it up
for a hotel.
fine large porch
ond story out acros
exfending from the sec:
‘the pavement. The.
building is a very @wod one for a hotel,
and Cal is just the , accommodating
fellow it requires for a good landlord.
We wish Mr. Hay abundant success in
the hotel business, #8 he deserves it, hav-
ing spent a great deal of money in im-
proving this town daring the pust nine
or ten years,
The clergymen of this town are cordial-
ly invited to make all such announce:
concerning all free services, that they
may think will benefit the cause of Chriss.
‘We like to see preachers announce in
their local papers what they are going to
preach about. In that way some people
would not attend For all free sermons,
free lectures and free gospel, the columns’
of this paper ure free, and it affords us
pleasure to offer our brethren of the pul-
pit a reasonable smount of space “to an-
nounce such services whenever they so
desire, free of charge.
A good many cases of plain aroskn in
town, last Pay day night. Boys, we can
well remember wlien fwe used to take on
100 puch coffin varnigh, too, and go out
and Lelp you paint the town a beautiful:
ly tinted red, but we/Bave learned a good
while ago that it \ y
too freely with wet goods of a spirituous
nature. Who hath redness of eyes?
Who hath breath more rank than the
juice of a skunk? Who hath headache?
Who bath all these and sundry and diverse
other things too humerous to mention?
He that tar rveth long at the wine cup
and maketh himself as drunk as a “biled
ly with the juice of the bug. His name
will surely be Dennis who repenteth not
while the latch string is yet out.
Every professional man, business man,
drayman and mechanic in and about
Salisbury should use printed stationery
and have an advertisement in Tug STAR.
who a few Your home paper is the niirror into
months ago became the parents of the ™ J
enterprise of your town.
which the wor'd looks and judges the
‘Do you want
it:16 acquire the reputation of alive, en-
| terprising, energetic town, or do you
dreary,
want it to be adjndged as a dull,
slovenly place—a place fit only for dead
men’s bones to be buried in a nice little
bole in the ground—a place where the
bumble bee bums, the cricket ericks and
the straddle bug straddles around? We
think it is the former opinion of Salis-
bury that you want people to have, but
the patronage you give your home paper
will tell. We wunt to do this town some
good, and as the late Charles McFadden
used to say, will vou come over into
‘*Mackedonia” and help us?
The Ol Wail.
Evervthing is lovely and serene at the
rate. Two experts are superintending
the thing, and they/are making things
ham. They aré\now down to a depth of
over 1,800 fect, and{prospects for oil are
good. x
“M. P. Smith, thie soNcitor of funds for
the ofl well, saysmore mney can be used
to completion. Anybody. that wants
more stock will be cheerfully accomnmo-
dated by Mr. Smith; and this paper is of
the opinion that those who take more
stock will not regret it. :
Correspondents Wanted.
We want news gatherers and itemizers
in all parts of the. county, but want noth:
ing but actual news Teparted—no. non-
sensical rot, such as we sometimes see in
some of the communications to a few of
our esteemed contemporaries. We want
nothing but sensible news items, plainly
written on one side of paper only, con-
cerning such things as accidents, Amuse:
ments, births, burglary, “change of busi-
ness firms, crops, ¢rime, church news,
deaths, discoveries, nrrivals at hotels or
e
:Lloyd Beachy. M. Knecht, L. CG. Boyer|"
His latgst improvement isa |
ments through the columns of this paper, |
are brought to chureh that otherwise
Yen, he that monkeyeth too free-
oil well; and boring is going on at a rapid
| across the hallway, where. during tiie day: oe
time everything can be plainly heard that | tne
to goad advantage in pushing the work
sickness, surgical operations,
Write to THE Bran for stationery,
postage, etc. 2a
Card of Thanks. *
We hereby tender our thanks to all
those who so willingly assisted us in mov
ing our printing press and other heavy]
material to the seeond ficor of the-build-
ing which it now occupies. It was a hard
task, indeed, but the abundance of will-|
ing and competent help we had made the |
work as light as possible, ‘and we hardly
know how to thank the boys enough. |
Their kindness, will gladly be returned at
{any time, and will be returned, even ifin
| no uther way, thap by writing them nice
obituaries when they die and seeing that
their graves are kept green and bedecked
with flowers. But of course if we die
first, then the only thing we can do isto]
give them all gilt-edged recommends on
the other shore, providing we don’t find
it too awful hot oh the shore we land
upon.
i: We also tender our thanks to Messrs.
and Jer. J, Livengood for the ‘nse of|
crowbars and iron rollers, to 8. 8. Koontz |
and Maust & Newman for the ‘use of |
some of their lumber, and to Bupt.
‘White, of the extraet works, for
of ropes and pulleys. A
Thanking you, gentlemen, all of you -
who helped us in any way, we stand
ready to do you a favor in return at any v
time we can be of service to you. :
Repors.e of the Salisbury Public schools
for Second Month, Ending Nov. 6th.
HIGH SCHOOL. .
ed “M. 7 T.
| Average attendance 8. 25. 28
Percent. of~,, . 86. 87. 87.
- CHas. F. L1vENGOOD, Teacher.
GRAMMAR. :
M. F. T.
25. 14. 39.
Sos 83. 94. - 89.
C. E. STATLER, Teacher
Average attendance
Per cent. of
PRIMARY NO. 1,
i MP. T
Average attendance 83. 20. 53.
Per cent. of 92. 95. 98.
Miss Lizze 1ayERqo0D, Teacher.
PRIMARY NO. 2.
Average attendance 28. 28. 46.
Per cent. of ,, “ob. 91. 98.
Miss ANNIE HasELBARTH,
Teacher,
SUMMARY IN
M,
04.
84,
Sd
S188.
FP.
Enrollment 94.
Average attendance 92. 176.
Per cent. of ,, a
Parents will you see that your children | of
attend regularly? Are you aware that]
your children are sometimes late? Can
you remedy this annoyance? ; ;
Parents, come to see us. We will wel |
come you at any and all times. ;
c E. Dicky, “Principal.
Bold, Bad Burglars. -
On Thanksgiving night the postoffice
at this place was burglarized, also the
depot at West Balisbury. The postoffice
robbery, however, did not prove to be a
very rich haul for the thieves. They
failed to find any money, su they stole
all the postal notes about the office and
"the postmaster’s punch and office stamp.
These things, of course, were taken so}
that the scoundrels eould go a good dis-
tance from this place and then issue pos-
tal notes to themselves and have them
cashed. i ’ :
Postmaster Welfley promptly” ‘notified
the department, and every precaution
has been taken to prevent the robbers
from being ‘successful in getting their
notes cashed anywhere in the country.
It was a bold robbery, for the post:
office is inithe same building in which
the editor of Tae Srarjand family reside, |
and the night the robbery teok place]
Mrs, Livengood was up nearly all night,
attending to the wants of the editor, who
was sick abed. But she heard no noise
about the place; and little did she dream
of burglars being in the building, just]
‘18 going on,
‘The same night thie postofiice was rob-
bed, thie depot at West Salisbury was al-
80 broken open and burglirized, but here
too, the burglars secured but little plun:
der.. All they got was a watch worth
about $20, and the contents of a trunk
belonging {o.a Mr. Fernser, of Beatrice,
Neb. We are informed. that the watch
‘was the property of A. P. Beachy, and|
that Mr. Fernser ¥alued the contents of |
: robbery, but their gui
his trunk at $45. 3
It is supposed that the postofice and]
depot were both robbed hy the same]
gang, and up to date the guilty patties]
are still at large and there is no clue to
their identity. Agent Riley had two sus-
picious looking fellows arrested on cir
cumstantial' ‘evidence and tried the
fore Squire Lichliter, thie day afte
ven. The Squire, hawev
Jail for