Wall matter of the Second slase: SUBSCRIPTION RATES. STAR Is peblished every Thursday, at Elk a., at the following rates: one aves ws ; six eS l rene three months y one month sey 30] Ee — TRA! Loc No- a Toten Sn BAe Tor first i exe Lox "5 cents Zul except when torial matter. busi news or editorial matter for less than 10 cents a “line Jor sash and évery insertion. ; L Pures, when requested. invariably 10 cent px po Cline, £, Brera AnD DEATH Notices will be chased oa Tor a at 5 cents a line. but all such mention he editor sees fit to make concerning such ‘events, without anyone's request, will be gratis. CARDS oF THaNKs will be published free for of this paper, but non-patrons will be arged 10 cents a line. om or Respect will be published for _ 5 centua line. ‘Rates FoR DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENTS will be made know on application. No free advertising will be given toanything of a money-making character. Nothing will be Adygnised gratis in this paper, except free lec- © tures, free sermons and all such things as are free to the public, All advertisements will be run and charged for . until ordered discontinued. _ No advertisement will be taken for less than 25 cents, .~Tue Star office bas +308 PRI NT NG, Squipments, turns out ail its work in the best style of the art aud at very arable. rices. THE Star does all kinds of somperelal ork, poster and Sill printing. and : act nearly everv kind of printin, on : ren art, it job orders, whether A Jonging titherwise, receive prompt attention. HOW TO hemlt by postofice fa ney order, BEWIT no ank draft, HOW, remittances Sly be Reh Sor’ risk. Never oad your jersonal Sheak, . x Sour resi- ‘dence is far away here, 1 drafts, orders, etc., payable to P. L. ie Af LOCAL AND BENERfL: Archie: Hamilton has moved to West Salisbury. Miss Maggie Lowey has returned home from Illinois. Girls, this is leap year, but mind well where you leap. The Methodists report very fair success with their festival, H. C. Shaw has changed his price on corn. See his “ad.” Geo. K. Walker greets oyr readers with a new ‘‘ad” this week. Handle with care that new leaf you turned, lest you soil it. Wm. Truby. our old jeweler, is lying “ill at the Rockwood house. Mrs. Jobn Hocking, of Meyersdale, . died on Wednesday morning, "Fifty-three Sundays this year; buteyery day will he Sunday by and by. . Rev. 8. M. Baumgardner orders Tae STAR sént for six months to his nephew, Clarion county, Pa. It gives us pleasure to note that THE STAR is clipped from more by papers all over the country than any other paper published in this county. Marshall Livengood says itis plain to see why it don’t snow much this winter. He says the snow all fell last winter and there is no more up to come down. Harrison Keim and wife, of Carleton, Neb., arrived in this county on Monday. Mr. Keim isa son of the late Joseph Keim, who used to reside near this town. Mrs. Alice Simmons, of Rockwood, orders TRE STAR sent to her address for one year. There are lots of other péople down there who should and will subscribe for it. Several typographical errors were not noticed in our last week's issue until too late to correct them. Mistakes will some- times happen in the best of printing offices. : Master Robert Beachy plaped a violin solo at the farmers’ institute, and the Somerset Herald says it was well ap- plauded. Robert is getting to be quite a violinist. : We see by the last issue of the Carleton (Neb,) Reporter that W. 8. Lichty has been suffering with 1a grippe and that 8. 8. Flickinger has lately been afflicted with boils. A TeE STAR'S subscription list has been climbing up at the rate of from ten to twenty subscribers a day ever since it sturted. If you don’t believe it come in and examine our books. Samuel Gipe orders THE STAR sent to his address at Berlin for one vear. H. H. Reitz. who had been nt Berlin this week. has our thanks for bringing us the money to pay for the paper. Among our new exchanges is THE Som- ERSET COURTY STAR. published at Salis- bury, Pa.. by P. L. Livengood. It isa first-class newspaper and worthy of sue- cess. —Frostburg (Md.) Ledger. A good many of the representative farmers of this locality: attended the farmers’ institute at Somerset this week. They all report a very good time and an excellent meeting of that body, As will be seen elsewhere in this issue, 8. J. Lichty is offering the brick hotel | 8 building at the North end of Grant street for sale. Now here-is a chance for some- hady to get a great bargain in real estate, If yon have chapped hands, face. or rough or red skin, from Any cause, use Stewart's Almond Cream. . It will please vou and bring quick relief. Only 10 and 2 cents a bottle. 8dld hy. 3. L. Barchus. | Pennayivania has twelve towns or post 4 offices with very peculiar names, viz.: How many of your New Year" “esol Stumptown, Bullskin, Shintown. Jug- _ tions have you already “busted?” ° That New Year day parade was made up of a fine-looking lot of people. "There will be a grand colored hall in Slicer’s ball, next Tuesday evening. ; . M. F. Smith orders THE STAR sent to his brother Harvey, at Maquon, Il At last we have good sledding snow, and good use is being made of it, toe, Chas. H. Beal orders THE STAR gent to Herman Sturtz, at Stone. Lee county, IL Kind words for THE STAR, as well as Jois of subscriptions, keep coming in from all directions. A mare belonging to M. J. Beachy, an. animal valued at $175, died’ last week. Bad luck, that. The detached bit lost in the oil well has been recovered and drilling again goes merrily on. . Mr ‘and Mrs. McDowell were the guests 0 of Dr. McKinley, in Mey ersdale, on the 1st and 2nd inst. W. O. King is another Garrett county, -Md., man who has added his name to our subscription list. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lowry, who visited in this city last week, returned to their home on Monday. Squire Cook, of Meyersdule orders TEE © BTAR sent to his address, as does also H. “J. Miller, of Carleton, Neb. ‘On Jan. 1st Jer. J. Livengood took his son 8. L., into partnership with him. See their “*ad” in this issue. 3 Dr. Americus Enfield has opened a sanitarinm in Bedford for the cure of drinkenness and opium habit. Wm. Williams, of Meyersdale, was in our city last Saturday. Of course he handed us $1.50 for THE Star. . This thing of writing '1802” Is some: i thing new. We frequently forget our- - selves and don’t write it that way. Miss Minnie Griffith, of Meyersdale, “was visiting in Salisbury last week, the guest of David Lichty and family. We are under obligations to Superin- tendent Berkey fora copy of his: annual port of the Somerset county schools. Chiarles Boucher and Harry Hartline sturned to Pittsburg on Monday, where ey are in the employ of the P. R. R. ‘Tag BTAR is a very spicy paper,” writes the postmaster at New Germany, Md., d he knows a good thing when he sees Harvey Babst, of Bruning, Neb., says got to have Tue Star, too, so he -50 like a little man, and gets Squire Lichliter went to ast week to visit Mr, and town, Puckerty, Sin, Sis, Scrubgrass, Hers, Man’s Choice, Maiden’s Choice and Bird in Hand. We had the pleasure the other day of making the acquaintance of Mr. Barron, the genial representative of the Berlin marble works. Mr... Barron is one of those fellows that will make friends wherever he goes. Mr. Orin A. Kimmel, of Downey, this county, assails THE STAR in this wise: “Received a copy of your excellent paper and am greatly pleased with it as a county paper. Enclosed find $1.50 for one year’s subscription.” When it comes to shooting, jolly: old Alf Wagner will drive the tack about” as often as any of them, and Alf says he don’t need a Winchester rifle. either, al- though he does not dispute the fact that the Winchesters are great guns. The report that the Meyersdnle Regis.’ ter man and the editor of this paper have decided to fight a duel, on ‘‘Husrick,” half way between here and Meyersdale, and to use column rules for weapons, is a falsehood of the deepest dye, Read the excellent letter.in this issue from Dan Coleman. It contains many truths that are well worth pondering over. Whatever else may be said of Dan, no one ever disputed the fact that his crani-. um containg some excellent idens. To top off Archie Hamilton's excellent treatment, an account of which appears elsewhere in this issue, Mr. Sheppard gave him a thorough barbering and Sauire Lowry sent him to the Valley house and bought him an excellent sup-, per. Miss Lizzie Livengood, who went to Scottdale during the Holiday season to see her brother, returned last Friday and her brother came with her; Chris is look- ing well and says he.is well pleased with his lay-out at Scottdale. He returned to that city again yesterday. And now the small boy slideth, either on a sled or a barrel stave, to his heart's content. Often he slideth on the mere seat of his pants until they are worn through; but it makes no difference to the small boy whether his flag of distress sticks out or not, just so he has his fun. We would like to have a few copies of the first issue of THE STAR, and persons having copies of that issue will do us # great favor by handing them to us, as we are badly in need of them. Will pay 10 cents a copy for all that are returned to this office until notice is given'to the contrary. 0, the snow, the beautiful—bang! There now, somebody has just shot our poet down like a dog, and all because he wanted 10 repeat the poem, “Beautiful W. K. Baumgardner, at West Millville, | desl. the very heart of this vast wealthy region, ‘has everything at its command to make Wings or “Annie Rooney, » then there would have been sufficient cause for the dastardly deed. Some of the papers have it that N. George Keim, of this place, who for sev- | eral years has been employed by Sec- retary of War Elkins, as private tutor for his boys, has been appointed private secretary for Mr. Elkins. ¥f the rumor is true, THE STAR extends its most hearty congratulations. Just as we go to press we're called on to record gix more Grantsville subscribers, the following named gentlemen each having given orders for $1.50 worth of “starlight.” 8. 8. Harshbarger, B. John- son, 8. 8. Miller, D. L. Stanton, C. 8. Beacy, V. W. Bender. Thank yon, gen- tlemen, thank von. As will be seen by the dissolution no- tice published elsewhere in this issue, H. A. and J. J. Reitz have dissolved partner- ship. The Reitz milling firm is one of the firms this community has always felt proud of, and THE STAR wishes the new management as much success as the old management enjoyed, ; The report that electric cars sare now running into Salisbury from Meyersdale, is j.robably untrue; but the report that large ocean steamers are now daily com- ing up the Casselman, to this city, isa most solemn fact. In fact they go clean to Grantsville and beyond, . regardless of bridges, dams or anytning else. Elk Lick council Jr. O.U. A. M. re cently elected the following ‘officers: Councilor, Nicholas Brandler; Vice Coun- cilor, John Fair; Assistant Recording Secretary, Fred Harris; Conductor. P. 8. Keim; Warden, Will Sipple; Inside Sen- tinel. Charles Snyder; Outside Sentinel, Charles Pile; Trustee, P. L. Livengood. We heartily welcome our Grantsville correspondence to our columns, and hope that we will continue to get a weekly budget of news from that enterprising little city: Grantsville is a good town, is made up of good people. and we bhe- lieve it will pay our southern neighhors to keep the world posted on their doings. G. A. Lininger, of Grantsville, Md. writes: ““The people out here think THE STAR a great paper. I heard one person say today that it is the best paper in Somerset county.” Well, he that as it may all the editor has to say is that THE STAR will improve with age, and that it just takes a Grantsville boy to get out a good paper. If grand old Elk Lick township, with all its mineral and timber wealth, should be earved ont of this county, old Somer- set county wouldn't amount to a great Salisbury being situated right in a booming city. and that's just what she's going to do. Mrs. F. O. Livengood writes from Somerset and scoids usin this wise: ‘We like your paper so much; it is chuck full of news and reading it seems like seeing dear friends from old Salisbury. We are always glad to hear from our old home. I feel that I can't get along without your paper. We join in wishing you and Mrs. L. a happy New Year.” The Meyersdale Commercial has just discovered that THE Star differs from most of the people in Salisbury, inasmuch as it opposes the electric railway between Meyersdale and this town. Not at all, Bro. Smith," if you will take the trouble to come up here and interview our peo- ple, you will find them almost to a man opposed to the much-talked-of road. Scott Johns in ‘this issne suggests ‘Siar City” as an appropriate name for this town. We don’t know whether he wants to name it that in honor of THE STAR or not. but there is no postoffice in the state by that name. and really, it would be a very good name. However, we are not after any glory or fame in this matter, and most any handy name will suit us. Let us hear from some more of vou. The report of the Salishury applebatter factory, which appears in this issue, makes a very good showing to begin with.© Mr. Reitz. the proprietor of the factory, isthe kind of a man it takes to make an institution of that kind just what it ought to be. His new enterprise is still in its infancy, butit is a very healthy infant, that factory of his, and promises to be a good acquisition to this town. ! John Schramm, the mail carrier, Jeft | business in charge of John Coleman on the 1st of the year and went to Cumber- land for the purpose, it was said, of tak- ing unto himself a wife. John was just foolish enough to take the joke as well as several fine presents offered to him for the occasion. He says, however, that old Pennsylvania will be good enough for him when be once intends cominitting matrimony. Alf Wagner says some of the fellows who ow Winchester rifles do a great deal of blowing about their fine shooting, but says they forget to mention that he beat everv one of them with his famous old Rebel gun that he captured at the battle of Rich Hill. Now, boys, that looks rather bad to let an old fellow like Alf beat all of you young bloods, especially with one of those old guns that you make so much fun of, Says the Meyersdale Register to THE STAR: “Are you satisfled?” Hurts to monkey with a buzz saw, don't it?” In reply to the former question we wiil say that we are satisfied; that is, we are satis- fled that the Register man hasn't got sense enough to walk in out of the rain. It may hurt to monkey with the kind of self 1s 100 small and too dull to hurt very much. John Colémiai now talks of selling his ambulence and buying a fine twelve pas- senger buss. John says lie runs his busi- ness on the same principle on which THE BTAR is run, which is that the people of Salisbury can have all the accommoda- tion that they are willing to pay for, even if he has got to buy the Meyersdale ‘elec- tric. railroad to accommodate them. Nothing is too good for the people of Sal- isbury, if they want it and are willing to pay for it. On New Year eve quite a number of the young bloods of the town were out for ‘‘a time.” Some of them went to Grantsville at a late hour, but they report a dry trip, as the hotels were all closed. Coming back they all got lost and conld scarcely find the way home. We don’t know just what was wrong with ‘the boys, but it is said that one of them was so far gone thut he threw his lantern away in mistake for a cigar stub: Boys, you should rememiber. the fate of the Boynton cider ¢rinker. Samuel Rubright, the trusty old man who worked so long in the Salisbury foun- dry, but who is now living with his son- in-law, near Fairhope. is renewing old acquaintances in Salisbury this week. Mr. Rubright says he worked in the Salis: bury and Berlin foundries forty-one years. Helis now 68 years old and has well earned | arest. He will visit here a short time and then go to Berlin to visit his mother, who isstill living and in her 88th year. | 8am was a remarkably strong man in his time, and it is said that in his younger days he could wheel more pig iron in one load than any other man in the state. In regard to our little controvesy with the Meversdale Register, it is very plain to see just what sort of a denial Post: master Zufall really made, judging fram the Register’s sickly attempt to make the | thing show up big in Mr. Suhrie’s favor. It is plain to see that about all Zufall did was to go to the Register office and give THE STAR 8 general damning in order to smooth things over a little with the Register. The Register itself says: that Mr. Zufall’s exact words would be un- mailable, which is verv complimentary indeed to the Meyersdale P. M.., and must be a great source of satisfaction to Mr. Suhrie. Geo. H. SBuhrie isin the same hoat Te accuses us of being in. He says he can’t reproduce Mr. Zufall’'s exact words, but, anyway, he said something, and some- thing that would be nnmailable, accord: ing to the Register. * That's right. Georgie, be careful to get pothing into your paper that is unmailable, or Mr, Znfall may throw another whale grist from vour smut mill out of the mails. just as he did before. It must be a pretty sheet that you are publishing, that a whole issue of it had to be refused admittance to the mails. | Yon should now seek some sweet secluded spot and soak your feet. for vour cranium is evidently soft enough. The Winchesters Still in the Lesa. On Friday last, the first day of the new year; 8. R. McKinley and Frank Wagner finished up the shooting matchés for this season. They had twelve turk- eys and the Winchester rifles came out on top again, winning ten turkeve out of twelve. Hurrah for the Winchesters! The muzzle loaders snap too often and don’t bite close enough to the tack. . Bud Wagner and I came out hest, winning three apiece. The Winchesters are ahead 80 far. They even beat John Brown's crowbar. R. 8. Jonns. The Salisbury Applebutter Factory. By request of my friends, I will give the following report of cider, applebutter and jelly manufactured by me last season; Total amount of cider "pressed, 51.8238 gallons; total amonnt of cider converted into applebutter and jelly, 36.180 gallons; total amount of applebutter made, 7,115 ‘gallons; total amount of jelly. 211 gallons. I will say farther to the public that intend, as experience teaches ine, to make such improvement necessary to make the above named goods of highest standard. I will also add an evaporator to evapor- ate, with a current of hot air, all kinds of fruit. Thanking my friends for their patron- age, [ am respectfully, H. H, RErrz, The Christmas Services at the Reformed ! Church. Contributed. Santa Claus, who according to THR STAR had been having his headquarters at P. 8. Hay’s store. took a visit and dis- tributed himself, so to speak, around to the several churchies and Sunday schools. On the evening of the 24th the doors of the St. John's Reformed church were thrown open fo.receive him. Quite ex- tensive preparation had been made in an- ticipation of his visit. The church was tastefully decorated with evergreens, with appropriate lettering for the occasion. The services opened with a procession- al, entitled, “O! Blessed Day of Days,” executed by the Female portion of the school, followed by prayer, singing, read- ing. of the Scriptures, also responsive reading by the pastor, Mr. J. M. Evans, and the school. The apostles creed was repeated in concert and an act, entitled, ‘The Christian Graces,” was performed by ten little girls dressed in white, with sash, on which was the name of the grace she was to represent, as Patience, Hope, Virtue, Faith, Charity, etc. This was re- markably well executed, considering the circumstances. There were seven long verses committed to memory and sung ‘per the rare judgment in selecting and their patience in training these children by those who had them in ‘charge. This was followed by ‘a recitation by Sadie Smith and Grace Billmeyer, and an ad- dress hy three young ladies. This was all interspersed by appropriate singing. But now comes the good time for which the children have been waiting with pa- tience—the distribution of the gifts, This was quickly dene, ‘without much confusion, by a committe assisted by the teachers of the different classes, great care being taken so that none should be missed. Dr. A. F. Speicher now an- nounced that he had a gift to make to Mrs. John J. Engle, the leader of the choir. that was too large to be shown. As a mark of esteem and appreciation of ber labor, the school had authorized him to tell her to-call at the Racket store and receive a fine set of dishes, The Rev. Mr. Evans now announced that he had a gift for the organist, Mrs. Engle’s worthy husband, which he would present right there. It was announeed that there would be a union service held in the same house at 8 o'clock on the following morning, where all were invited to attend. By re- quest it was annonuced that the act, ‘The Christian Graces,” would be permitted after this service. Next followed a chant, ‘““The Lords Praver,” after which the benediction was pronounced. ? ; Joncerning Garrett County, Md. Few people have even the remotest idea of the vast store of wealth that lies hidden and undeveloped in our neighbor- | s ing county just across the famous Mason | & Dixon line. Garrett county has indeed a bright future before her, and she is des- tined to become one of the best counties in that historic little state. All Garrett connty needs to make her prominent is the development of her min: eral and timber resources, and as THE STAR is published so near the state line, it is not only the mission of the paper to aid in booming the great county of Som- erset. made great hy having Elk Lick township within her borders, but it is al- go part of THE STAR'S mission to aid all it can in the development of the equally great county of Garrett. The interests of the two counties are so closely linked together that one cannot afford to ignore the other. : QGarrett county is not only rich in coal and timber, but she also has silver, gold and lead, which are now being mined suc- cessfully near Frankville. To the Editor of the Carleton (Neb.) : Reporter. I notice in your issue of Dec. 25th, 1801. a cowardly attack made upon me by one of my enemies, one too cowardly to attack me until I moved many hundred miles away from your town. The tirade against me was not only false through- ont, but the dirty coward who wrote it took good care not to have his name pub- lished. He eaid in his article, however, that 1 conld obtain his name by applying to you. Well, 1 applied to you more than a week ago, and sent you a stamped en- velope for a reply, but up to date I have received no answer from you and itis not likely that I will; as you seem io he as unjust as the cur who assailed me through your columns. I never in any way injured you. but te the contrary have furnished you informa- tion that you applied to me for, and that, too, when vou did not have business courtesy enoughf to enclose even a stamp for a reply. But having received the fa- vors you asked of me, vou then allow your columns to be used hy an enemy of mine to abuse’ one who has befriended you. By such action you have shown yourself to be not only extremely green and ignorant of the first principles of good journalism, but you have shown yourself so small that you ought to be able to crawl into a rifle barrel with ease. Tlie reason vou have not yet furnished me with the name of my abuser, is prob- ably because that 2-cent fool has discov- ered that he “got his foot into it” by writing what he did and has since *‘su- gared” you sufficiently to not give him away. As tlie matter now stands you are, as it were, between the devil and the deep sea, for whichever way you act you will show that you.are a blundering, ver- dant fool. To allow your columns to be used by other folks to quarrel through, will show that you are too green to enjoy good health. But yet, since you have allowed my enemy to assail me through your columns, asa matter of fairness yon are bound to not only give me the name | of my assailer, but also give me the use of your columns to reply to him. Of course the public isn’t much interested in personal quarrels, but since you have granted one person the use of your col- umns for that purpose, why, of course, you can not refuse others the same priv- ilege. You have got to grant it in order to make at least a just ending out of a blundering beginning, and unless you do grant me the privilege, you will brand yourself as a coward and a sort of jour- nalistic nondescript. P. L. LrvESE00D. Correspondents Wanted. . We want news gatherers and itemizers in all parts of the county, but want noth- ing but actual news reported—no non- sensical rot, such 48 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 on amuse: ments, births, burglary, change of bus}: various tl inventions; lectures, marri terprises, persons leaving the sales of real estate, shows, and fairs, schools, secret societies, st phenomena, suggestions of impro: needed. sickness, surgical 0] etc., ete. Write to THE STAR for statio postage, etc. mr ————— A PATRIOTIC WORK, Every person who is opposed to Free Trade Slavery and favors American Industrial pendence secured . through the policy of by the American Protective Tariff League. : a patriotic citizen itis your duty $o-place these documents in the hands of your friends. 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