; Entered at the postoffice at Elk Lick, Pa., as
mail matter of the Second class,
LOCAL fiND GENERAL:
Business booming.
Grantsville is a lively burg.
Salisbury continues to improve.
Rock wood is expecting a cigar factory.
West Salisbury is no slouch of a town.
Salisbury is the best town in the coun-
ty.
Our literary society has done gone and
died.
The electric road boometh,
boom.
Operations at the oil well will soon be
resumed.
The blue birds ars putting in their ap-
pearance.
Business in Salisbury is goud and still
increasing.
Aunt Lizzie Simpkins lias been quite
ill for some time. 8
New Centerville is talking of erecting
a table and chair factory.
Isaiah Fuller orders THE STAR seni t)
his address at Avilton, Md.
: Supt. Buchanan, of the Extract Works,
is a very pleasan! gentleman.
And now Geo. K. Walker wears that
peculiar smile. “Its a boy.”
The groundhog period is past, but we
still have groundbog weather,
The best horse bills in the county are
all printed at Tar STAR office.
Let ’er
Tur Stan's sabscription list grows|’
‘aster than anything else in the county.
Harriet Weaver has had part of her
porch boarded up to be used as a kitch-
eu. »
‘J. W. Ringler orders THE STAR sent tu
Peter Wagner, at Moyer, Fayette county,
Pa. :
8. LL. Livengood can play sixteen difl-
ferent musical instruments and play them
well.
P. 8. Hay will have a special sale on
March 26thand 26th. Read his announce-
ment.
Our job department is certainly boom-
ing. We even receive job orders by tele-
raph.
Mellinger, the Cainberland tailor, was
in our town last week taking orders for
clothing.
It is reported that John Slicer, of Mey-
ersdale, will build a three-story addition
fo his hotel, 85x70 feet.
1 just beats the mischief how some of
mr school teachers are teaching the
young idea bow to shoot.
Meversdale doesn’t want to let a few
men take all the electric road stock.
How thoughtful Meyersdale is.
A distillery is to be built at Berkley’s
Mills. That town needs a postoffice a
good deal worse than a distillery.
Cyrus Fike has been granted a pen-
sion. He has received $144.80, and
will continue to receive $12 a month.
If anybody thinks Tae STAR'S circula-
tion isn’t getting there with both feet,
Jet 'em come in and examine the books.
Geo, Lowry's old coin will now have
to take a back seat. - H. A. Reitzshowed
us one the other . that was made | in
1780. mel
J.D. on, sod. M. y. Beachy and
J. L. Beachy all went to Pitishugh on
Monday to buy a large stock of hard-
ware.
; Salisbury is the hest and most substan-
tial town in Somerset county. Nature
backs her up, and that's mighty good
hacking.
Low Brown, our genial colored friend,
has commenced the erection of a dwell-
ing on the northeast corner of John and
Water Kireets.
Lewi Lichliter sells lots of maple sugar
in Tacoma, Wash., by telegraph. Levi
is one of the greatest hustlers for busi-
ness in this connty.
George Keim came hone sick, the oth-
er day, threatened with an attack of
pneumonia. but Tre STAR is glad. to note
: that he is recovering.
Thirteen carloads of coal were con:
aimed Iast month at the Standard Extract
Works. That will give yon some idea
of the size of the plant.
We have been doing lots of printing
‘this week for the sugar makers. THE
Sranoffice is the best place to get syrup
Iabels, shipping tags. etc.
. Bob Bhowalter informs us that the
. hrakemen on the Salisbury railrond have
received an inorease of 12 per cent in
their wages. They deserve it,’
In the last’'six months fifty-six cars of
merchandise were received at West Salis-
bury, twenty-seven of which were loaded
_ with corn, oats, flour and food for H. A.
Reitz.
Judge Longenecker has ordered that
jurors who are unable to. reach their
homes on the day they are discliarged.
ah 1 be allowed pay for an additional
3 That's right. :
\ Vannear proposes building two
10 his Park Hotel” property, this
%
J.isa first-class man and Tar Star
wishes him much success.
James Matheny, who was recently ar-
rested with the Fayette county moon-
shine gang, has been acquitted. The
other fellows were fined $1,000 each and
get six months in the *"pen.”
Township supervisors who neglect to
put up “finger boards” at the intersec-
tion roads subject themselves to a fine of
$10. The law is being enforced in sever-
al counties. —Somerset Democrat.
What doth it profit a man if he drink-
eth all the hard cider in the Darrel, and
then, after swallowing the bung hole
also, is knocked galley west by the ground
flying up and smiting him in the face?
If yon have chapped hands, face. or
rough or red skin. from any cause, use
Stewart's Almond Cream. It will please
you and bring quick relief. Only 10 and
25 cents a bottle. Sold by J. L. Barchus.
Prof. Dickey brought County Supt.
Berkev around this week to have him
get acquainted with Tae STAR. That
was right; we want to get acqnainted
with all the good people in the county.
The Supreme Court has decided that a
property owner is responsible for an ac:
cident that may occur on his or her pave:
ment through negligence, such as a bad
or an jey pavement.—Somerset Demo:
crat.
8. 8. Miller sold his noted wild turkey
gobhle (tamed) to Samuel Cushman, of
the State Experimeptal Station, Kings-.
ton, R. L. for $10. Mr. Miller is going to
make the raising of pure blouded Bronze
turkeys a apeciality.
Never skip the advertisements when
reading &' newspaper. They show just
what live business men are about, and
evervone wha has trading to do will find
it. pays ta trade with those who adver:
tise.—Somerset Herald.
Will Fogle has moved to Berlin, he-
cause the citizens of that*burg wanted a
good stone mason to locate there. Will
is a first-class workman, and the citizens
of Berlin and vicinity are to be congrat-
ulated on securing him.
Misses Annie and Lydia Beachly, who
spent the winter in attendaice at a busi-
ness college in Philadelphia, returned
linme last week. They have fully mas:
tered book-keeping, type-writing ‘and
stenography.—Meyersdale C ommercial,
Last week Lije Livengood with. only
two hands, made 2,000 pounds of sugar,
put in one day at baunling hay and cut
and hauled to the sawmill enongh logs to
make sufficient lumber for: a. house.
Who can beat that for one week’s work?
Last week there was gnite a wreck on
the Grassy Run:branch of the 8. R. R.
Several loaded coal hoppers left the track
and ran into 8. B. Hare's new store
building. doing considerable: damage.
Fortunately, however, no one was burt.
J. A. Berkey. of Somerset, was in
town this week, looking after his politi-
cal fences. Mr. Berkey is a very pleas-
ant gentleman and withal a man of ex:
cellent gnalities. No better man could
he elected to the office of District Attor-
ney. hy
Now is the time to consult Prof. Sam:
uel 8. Little, the Graduated Optician of
Cumberland, Md., about your eyes. He
makes a specialty of testing and fitting
the eye with properly adjusted glasses.
At Dr. Lichty’s office, March 28rd and
24th.
Job work keeps rolling in so tively
these days as to make it almost impossi-
ble to publish THE STAR. It’s very little
time we have to devote to news: gather-
ing, and of course the paper will have to
suffer during this, the busiest job season
of the year, -
John Black was arrested several days
ago on a charge preferred by his wife,
and is now doing time in the county jail.
Black has had a varied career and itis
asserted that he carries upon his person
the scars of several bullet wonnds.—Mey-
ersdale Register.
This item has been handed ns with re:
quest to insert: ‘The books will be open
on next Monday morning for shares of
the electric road. Come quick, as half of
them have been taken.” Somewhat in-
dstinite, but we “follow copy.”"—Meyers-
dale Commercial. i
Solomon's Temple, as désaribal the
Scriptures, would not be regarded asa
very imposing structure in this day and
age of the world. Its length was 207
feet. breadth 86 feet, and it was 54 feet
in heigth, with a portico or veranda 86
feet long and 18 feet wide.—Ex.
The Standard Extract works, of this
place, is a great institution. The plant
is being increased rightalong. The com-
pany is now going to make tanic extract
of bark as well as of ‘wood. Persons
having bark to sell will ‘do well to read
the company’s new ‘‘ad” in this issue,
And still they come. J. 8. Beachy. of
Arthur, TI, ‘writes to THE STAR as fol-
lows: *‘I have seen several copies of
Your newsy paper and like it very much,
as it gives news from my former home,
at Grantsville, Md, I herewith enclose
yon a postal note of $1.50 for a year's
subscription.”
As an inbalation, turpentine has
praved of great service in bronehitis,
pneumonia, pleurisy and other throat
and lung affections. If you have a cough,
sprinkle a little on a handkerchief and
(hold it to your month and nose for a few
minutes, breathing the vapor, and note
| the relief. ~Ex.
slong in our town, Why don’t our cap
and will cngage in merchandising. J. |
‘be canceled and their Democratic” oppo-
The demand for houses {increases right’
italistd build them? The more houses
the more people and the more people the
more husiness. Rents are going up
bigher and higher ‘and money pnt into
new houses in Sali-bury will bea profit-
able investment.
Sam Mier says the Elk Lick Oil Co.’s
statement published in Tar Star. week
before last, was the dirert means of bring:
wg in considerable cash for the comple-
tion of the well. THE Brar is a great
medium through which to secure the at
tention of the public and make men open
their bockethooks.
We are informed that the shaiigion
cider drinker, of Boynton, has again
been getting on the outside of too much
of the fermented juice of, the apple.
Now, look here, old fellow, didn’t Taz
STAR tell you not to: monkey with hard
cider when it gets there Eli? Be careful
not to repeat the dose.
J. H, Bushman, a Baltimore commer-
cial man, was a guest at the Valley honse
a few days ago. Mr. Bushman used to
be a printer in Harrisburg, many vears
ago. He is quite a historian and likes to
talk of early days of our country. THE
Star is under obligations to him for
some valuable information,
During the past few weeks a great
many of our readers have expressed
themselves highly pleased with the stand
‘THE STAR takes against publishing reso-
lations of respect and other dry and nn-
interesting slush of the same sort. They
all ray: “Right you are; don’t bore us
with resolutions unless yon get well paid |-
for it.” Ne
He didn’t red the papers, for they
hadn't any newss at least they didn’t co-
incide with his especial, views: and when
he came to town one day, with criticism
ripe, he climbed to an electric lamp to
light his ancient pipe. He hadn't read
the papers. but he knew just what was
best; he simply touched the wires and the
fluid did the rest.—Ex.
An exchange fathers this story: A
traveler saw a Nebraska farmer standing
at the foot of a corn stalk, and lnoking
skyward, asked him how tall the stalk
wag. The farmer answered that he did
not know, that he had sent ‘one of his
hovd up'a short time before to measure
it, and that the stalk was growing faster
than he could climb down. : :
The, Hyndman Bulletin says: ‘One
hundred and fifty nine carloads of coal
were shipped east over the Connellsville.
road. the output of the Elk Lick coal re-
gion in twenty-four hours, Saturday of
last week.” And right here Thr Stir
takes pleasure in informing the Bulletin
that on the same day a great deal of conl
was also shipped wes!, ont of the Elk
Liek region.
Dr. A. Enfield has been announced to
go to Albany next week to testify asa
witness before a committee of the New
York legislature now engaged In investi-
gating the Keeley cure for alcoholism
He claims to have discovered the remedy
used by Dr. Keeley. and he will testify
that he believes it to be dangerous,
though he will admit that jt is an effect-
ive cure,—Bedford Gazette.
In the matter of the defeated Demo-
cratic candidates for school directors of
Meyersdale to have their Republican
brethren ousted and themselves declared
elected, the court granted a rule on the
Republican directors to show cause why
their certificates of election should not
nents declared elected. The rule is turn:
able at the Argument Court, April 12th:
Samuel Critchfield, formerly of this
county, now of Johnstown, is the inven-
tor of an ingenious arrangement to en:
ahle railroad engines to take coal with-
out stopping. The apparatus is con-
structed above the track in such a way L
that, when the engine passes under, a
trap is sprung, emptying the coal into
the tender. It is claimed that the device
will be of great value in saving time and
money. —Somerset Standard.
J. M. lav’s sale was the greatest event
of the season. A seething mass of peo-
ple attended. but the way the folks were
all accommodated about noon, when lots
of good eating was handed oul, was
something worthy of note. Immense as
the crowd war, everybody says that no
large crowd was ever better provided
for: Joe Hay is noted for doing every:
thing in proper shape. and the people
say be did not fail in that respect on Wed-
nesday.
When yon want a mechanic, ora la
boring man, says an exchange, peta
worthy citizen, a neighbor who will nse
his wage money in pufchasing goods,
When you want an article of merchans’
dise, purchase iit of a reputable home|
the community. All these people help
educate your children, share vour tax
burdens and make your city the place it
is. Send your money abroad only for!
what you cannot purchase at home.
This helps the town.
« Every community has a few pessimists:
that rush te the home paper when they
want sone unimportant thing put in
print, hut ask them to subscribe for the
home paper and you will be told that they
haven’t got time to read it, as they al-
ready have more papers than they can’
rend. That kind of would-be important
individuals are never known to possess |
much of anything but self-conceit and a
(people's business. It is always well to
give such intellectual dwarfs a wide berth.
The ‘Wechtenbeiser brothers, whose’
trial for burglary here somé ten years
Little Johnny in San Francisco Examiner.
‘To the buttegotes sister,
dealer, that profit may remain to enrich |
ago created so much interest, will ina
few months. ve released from the peni-, :
tentiary to which they were sentenced,
we believe, for eleven years and six
months. Good behavior has shortened
their term to a considerable extent.
Musser, who was considered the worst
mat of the three, has not taken advan-
tage of the reduction of time made for
good behavior, and will not secure his
freedom, we have been informed, until
the expiration of his full term.—Demo-
erat.
Col. Edward C. Tillson, Jacob Garlitz
and Solomon Sibert, all well known men
of Garrett county, Md., recently passed
away. Col. Tilson was Mayor of Deer
Park and was one of the most prominent
men of the county. . Jacob Garlitz was a
brother of the late Basil T. Garlitz, who
recently died in Cumberland, Md. Mr.
Garlitz was noted for his great strength
and general good qualities. Mr. Sibert
was the son of a Revolutionary soldier |
and was noted for his ready wit and the
off-hand stump speeches he used to make.
Sibert was in all probability the last sur-
viving son of a Revolutionary soldier in
Garrett county. ' He died poor and alone
in a little house on Meadow mountain,
near Bittinger,:
Two Judges of Pennsylvania have an-
noiinced that they will hereafter decline
to naturalize foreigners who can tell noth:
ing about the Constitution of the United
States or that of the Commonwealth.
They are Judge Endlich, of Berks coun-
ty, and Judge Faust, of Center county.
While it may be claimed, says the Potts-
ville Journal, that this ir rather a severe |
requirement of foreigners, especially in.
view of the fact that very few native:
‘born know little abont either instrament
when they arrive at man’s estate. and |
are granted the right of a ballot, the in-
junction may nevertheless prove effective
in putting a stop to. or at least lessening,
the custom in manv states of rushing
foreingners into court and securing their
naturalization just on the eve of election.
—Huntingdon Local News.
To Whip the Editor.
“What are you crying abont?” asked a
kind-hearted stranger of a lad standing
in front of a newspaper office weeping as
if bis heart would break,
Oh, pa’s gone in to whip the editor.”
“Well, has he come out yet?” pursued
the gentle Samaritan,
“Pieces of him have,” ‘said ‘the wav.)
with a fresh burst of tears, and I'm ex-
pecting the rest every minute.”—Ex.
When to Stop Advertising.
An English trade journal once re.
quested a number of its largest advertis-
ers to give their opinions concerning the
best time to stop advertising, and the fol-
wing replies were received:
“When the population ceases to mul:
tiply. and the generations that crowd on
after, and never heard of you. stop com-
ing on.”
“When yon have convinced everybody
whose life will touch yours that vou have
better goods and lower prices’ than they
can get anywhere else.”
**When yon perceive it to be the rule
that men who never advertise are out-
stripping their neighbors in the same
line of business.”
“When men stop m- king fortunes
right in your very sight solely by the
discreet use of this mighty agent.”
_ “When von ean forget the words of
the shrewdest and most successful busi:
ness men concerning the main cause of
their prosperity.”
The Young Gote and the Ole Ram.
One time there was a young gote which
felt butty, and there was a'ole ram which
Iny in the road. half a sleep, a chune his
cud. The gte he had been shet np in
a paster ol hig life, an had never saw a
ram, an he said to his sister, the gote did.
“You jest stand still and see me whipe
that freek off the face of the erth.”
So the gote he went up before the ram
an stompt his feet an shuke his hed real
friteflle, but the ram he didn’t get up,
but only jest kep a chane his cond an
watched ont between his i lashes. Bime
by the gote he backed of an tuke a run
an then arose up in the air an.came down
with his hed on the ram's hed. whack!
The gotes hed wns busted, but the old
ram he never wank his ey. Then the ole
rain he smiled with his month, and sed
‘Pears to me,
miss, that kKangar)o of yourn is mity care-
less where he liter, he come gum dasted
near making me swallow my cnd.”
"The old rams is the petrarchs of the
flockx, and the she ones is a you, but
the labm it gambles innocent, an is hily
respeckted. ! ’ :
Wanted!
Chestnut Wood.
$2.50 per cord, deliv-
ered at the works of the
|Standard Extract Co.,
strong inclination to meddle into other} io
West Salisbury, Pa.
{W. T. Buchanan, Sut.
{cannot make a fortune in a day, but you
| Wm. Petry, Statier Block, Salisbury.
Give mea call and he conviticod that I am pulling cheap. nt you are looking
reliable place to trade, I wish to inform you that
I Have the Fire
Have just received a nice lot of Cashmeres, Delain, Ginghams, cum, ote. Als a using
of Gents’ and Boys’ Hats and Caps, a :
1 have the old reliable Latrobe Boots and Shoes, also Ladies Cutie smoss whiten Hive
value for your money. I also carry the purest and best of Groceries,
My motto is: “FAIR DEALING, ALWAYS] SRUARS, ANXIOUS TO FLEASE," Thasking you
patronage, I remain your friend, i 2
We need more Shops, Factories, ete. ee., tn our company, and we
Jorth our best efforts to get them here, but stop: We should patrenies !
I 4 Reitz Hoga Rally Houring
Fancy High Grades and | Family is F
1 now offer to the trade and A pubic five dij
grades yf flour, viz: | a We
Gill's Best, best flour on arth. Minnesota :
oud Gold, hard red winter wh tI
These flours will suit any
and quality.
of the lio iced flours offered you nd represen
as Reitz’s best. x
mill and it will be delivered to you. free. fas
Buckwheat Flour, Cornmeal, Red- dog Median Re
I bina solivit
patronage in custom and exchange work. Will ohne on v either grade. Sour
pounds Purity flour for bushel good red wheat; ry it. Raped
Jar i
at tho Standard Extract Works, at West
Salisbury, Pa., Chestnui-Oak, Hemlock
and Black Oak Bark.
Persons having bark for sale will please
state what kind of bark they have, in
what quantities they can furnish it and
at what prices they can deliver it at the
Presc ription Druggis t ;
. MALIN STRERT MEYERSDALE, PA.
WOUrKS.
Call at the works or write to
Blk tiok, Pa.
“Pu Digestion! gd
JAoKsoN—Is de old woman werry Wick.
Bass?
Bass—Yes; terrible gnawin i inde stim: :
juek.
JACKSON—Whnt's de enusationY..
Bass—B8he jist swallud her false teeth, |
Also will it pain you after being tricked by clev-
er misrepresentations. No matter what article |
you buy 1 guarantee you full weight, measure
and the best quality for the lowest prices of any,
one in town. i
LEADERS FOR MARCH. 4.
Toweling, Cotton, Linen & Flax, par yd. 58 6 & 100
-dnpanese Silk Handkerchiefs............ + 10¢c
White Dreus Shirts. ...
Table Salt. 5-1b. sack. ......
Excellent Blueing, pint bottle.
First-class Coal Oil, per gallon, 20
Pure Linen Paper and Banvelopes one of each i¢ 5
Genuine Bread Pipes....... .. 250
Common Marbles, . .
“Why stand ye idle all day » ;
ans
Aressey
a8 terte]
You.
sans msesn,
can start laying a foundation. for one if
you buy where you cnn buy cheapest.
_ Solontifio American
Le for.
Spas) rors Re
ge Toei 3
Srientific Serica
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.T. BUCHANA", Manager.