P. L. LIVENGOOD, Editor and Publisher
Mrs. PL LIVENGOOD, Associate Editor.
LOCAL fIND 6 BENERAL.
Robins are chirping.
Bluebirds are warbling.
The saucy ‘‘pewee” is chattering.
Elk Lick township has ten sawmills.
The little snide sparrow is ever with us.
Too tuch water yet for trout fishing.
Martins and swallows will soon be
here. =
Berlin bad a severe hail storm last Sun-
day evening.
Sce inside pages for all the noted events
of the past week.
Somerset county is getting to be noted
for murder and bloodshed.
The anglers are talking of angle worms,
fish hooks and brook trout.
A heavy thunder storm on Monday
night, and lots of rain with it.
Onr band is getting there in fine style.
She's made of the right kind of stuff.
W. C. Wagner orders THR STAR sent
(0 his uncle Newt. at Falls City, Neb.
The prospects for a larger fruit crop
were never, better at this time of the year.
Col. 8am Lowry went to Somerset this
week to visit his son and daunghter-in law.
Call and see Mrs. Eva Williams’ new
stuck of spring millinery, just received.
tf.
We omitted part of Cal Hay’s “ad” last
week, but she appears all 0. K.” in this
issue,
Dr. D. O. McKinley will extract your
teeth without pain, by means of a new
tocal anaesthetic.
Anyone wishing to buy a fine cow
“should read Truman Maust’s announce:
ment on 4th page.
D J. Miller has a few words to say in
‘this issue of THE STAR to sugar-makers.
All of them snould read it.
Some of the farmers are putting away
their sugar vessels. The season was a
very poor one for maple sugar.
Half of the stuff you see in the daily
papers concerning the Hochstetler mur-
der is slush of the rottenest kind.
Miss Ida Beachy has gone to Runting-
don to attend College. Her father ac-
companied her, returning Tuesday.
Rev. John Johnson filled the German
Baptist pulpit last Bunday and, it is re-
ported. preached a very able sermon.
Henry Loechel talks of building a new
hotel That's right Henry; there is noth:
ing that pays better than improvements.
Jt is rumored that Cumberland ‘is to
have atin plate mill with a capacity of
from 1,000 to 1,200 boxes of tin perweek.
The frogs commenced giving open dir
concerts last Sunday evening. That is
a sure sign that the frosty days sre about
over. * gs
Miss Mary Keim has returned home
from Chambersburg, where she attended
music school. We nnderstand she will
soon gu back again.
Every stock-holder of the Elk Lick Oil
Co. should be sure to attetd the meeting
which is announced on 4th page of this
issue. It is important.
Mrs. 8. C. Keim orders THe STAR sent
to her son P, 8, at Cumberland, Md.
This makes five subscriptions to THE
STAR that Mrs. Keim is paying for.
“As will be seen by a notice on4th page,
Flog Hill is for sale. It is a desirable
piece of property to own, and whoever
hays it will make a very good purchase.
Emanuel Hershberger, of Grantsville,
told THe STAR the other .day that he is
going to make lois of sugar yet. Well,
we hardly think he will; not this season.
Al this date two of the Hochstetler
murderers are still at large, but Jacob
Garry and Abe Pletcher have been ar-
rested and jailed for complicity in the
marder. : :
‘Charles Spangler; who several months
ago burglarized two stores in Stovestown,
was captured Just week in West Moreland
connly.. He is now safe behind the bars
in the Somerset jail.
Mr. Wm. Smith is keeping *‘bach” this
week, his daughter having gone away on
a visit. Uncle Billy says if it wasn’t for
the cooking. dish-washing, etc.. that he
would like it well enough.
Last Sunday night while everything.
was serene and fair in Salisbury. Somer-
sel hud one of the severest thunder storms
ever-witneased in that section. [ail fell
ter the depth of two or three inches.
Xf you have chapped hands, face, or
rough or red skin, from any cause, use
Stewart's Almond Cream. It will please
yon and bring quick relief. : Only 10-and
23 cents a bottle. Bold by J. I. Barchus.
Beachy Bros. are almost ready to open
their Hardware business in full blast.
‘They are rigging up one of the finest
stores you ever saw, Lookoeyt for their
ad” in Fue Star, which will appear
about next week. 3
Grant Dean, who some timeiago bad a
dispute with Thomas Rees conicerning
some goods procured at the Company
store, was captured this week in Union:
town and is now in the Somerset. Jail
awaiting bis (rial.
For District Attorney, vote for J. A.
Berkey, a man competent to fill the office,
ho. is honorable and truthful and
‘thie Pence in the county te send
Alf thelr Yi petty cases to court.
A great many different reports are out
‘enncerning the murder which last week
occurred near Trent, this county. The.
report which appéars on 2nd page of this
paper, among the telegraphic news, is
about as near correct as any of them;
but the correspundent has the name
Hochstetter instead Hochstetler.
James Matheny, who was recently ar
rested with the Fayette county gang of
moonshiners, returned to his home in
this city last week, having proved that
he was in no way connected with the
business conducted by the aforesaid gang.
Jim'thinks it was pretty tough to lay in
jail for fifty days, when he was innocent,
but he says he was well fed. :
The Republicans of Rhode Island have
just won a very hard fought battle.
| There is no election for Governor. al-
though the Republican nominee has a
plurality; but the legislature is Republi-
can, and this insures the election of a
full set of Republican state officers and
the return ‘of Aldrich, the tariff cham-
pion, to the United States Senate,
Work at the oil well is progressing nice-
ly. Everything is in dandy shape since
the new cable has arrived. and the only
thing now needed to push the work to
completion is a little more money. This
is being contributed, however, and a few
weeks will tell whether there is oil to be
had ornot. Unless all signs fail, the
stock-holders are going to find themselves
in great luck. ‘‘So mote it:be.”
It is truly amusing to see how bard the
Meyersdale Commercial is trying to stir
up enmity between Salisbury and West
Salisbury. Nearly every week Bro. Smith
slobbers all over West Salisbury and
makes a big ado about the great things
that can be found in our sister village.
But the Commercials big gobs of “taffy”
and silly twaddle will never have their
desired effect, as the two towns work to-
gether in harmony and ever bear in mind
that the welfare of the one is the welfare
of the other. Salisbury is in no way
jealous of her enterprising subnrb across
the river aud the Commercial might just
as well govern itself ‘accordingly, for its
dizzy rot, prompted by jealousy, does not
take anywhere. Salisbury capital secured
the Extract Works for West Salisbury,
and wiil aleo do her part toward erecting
the proposed eleyator in that village, as
can be seen by referring to last week's
copy of THE 8TAR. The two towns are
both prospering nicely and intend to
unite in time to make Salisbury the me-
tropolis of the county by the time the
next census is taken. That's what Bro.
Smith sees ahead, and that is what makes
him feel sore. The Commercial does not
seem to bave any use for Salisbury, any-
way, since it has "a newspaper which its
citizens are supporting in. preference to
other papers that seemed to think S8alis-
bury was married to them. Many of onr
used to feed our town “taffy,” but now,
since the town is supporting its own
newspaper, West Salisbury is receiving
all the Commercial’s praise, which no
one objects to, unless the town across the
river does.
Concerning the Towns of Somerset County.
The papers of this county have of late
been saying a great deal about the lead-
ing towns of this county (Salisbury, Som-
erset and Meyersdale) and a great deal
has been said that is not true. Thething
having now gone about far enongh, THE
Star will now take it upon itself to tell
the truth concerning these three enter-
prising towns, as we have our little hatch-
et very sharp and just in proper trim to
hew to the line, let the chips fall where
they may.
Somerset and Meyersdale have been
saying the most mean things about each
other, and each claims to be the metrop-
olis of the county. But neither of them
confine themselves to facts. _ While the
former town can prove by facts and fig-
ures that it has more capital and does
more bnsiness than any other town in
the county, it does not tell the truth in
trying to make it appear that Meyerddale
is really an insignificant town. for during
the past ten years Meyersdale in propor-
tion to its capital) has been by far the
most enterprising and active town In the
county. While Meyersdale has much
less capital that Somerset and - Salisbury,
her capitalists have been making good
use of the capital they have, as they have
been investing it instead of putting it on
interest. In that respect Meyersdale has
set a good example for both Somerset and
Salisbury. : :
But Meyersdale claims more glory and
honor than is due her. She claims to
‘not only be the most populous town in
the county, but the prettiest and most
substantial as well. This is not all true.
While she is the metropolis so far as pop-
ulation is concerned, when it comes to
beauty and a substantially built town she
is not “in it” with Somerset. Meyersdale
is a good town. but it is far from being a
pretty town. In fact it is now only noted
for its crooked streets, but is also located
on low and muddy. ground. where the
froglet frogs and the cricket cricks and
the straddle bug straddles aronnd. It js
an unherlthy town and is enveloped in
mud and fog about half of the time.
And Meyersdale not only lays claim to
being a very preity town, bat it also
wants to pose as u great mining and man-
ufacturing center. But what peaple in
this part of the connty would like to know
is what mines Meyersdale lays claim to.
Where are the Meyersdale mines? And
what manufacturing establishment has
‘Meyersdale that is worth spedking about?
These are questions that we would like
' to have answered. But Meveradals | isa
citizens remember how the Commercial.
good town,
ing: claim to things she hasn't got nor
can’t get. There is luis of credit due
Meyersdale for its hustling qualities, but
it is mot creditable to her to speak of
“our coal region,” etc, etc. when she
has no coal region. :
“The only coal region in Somerset conn-
ty is the Elk Lick coal region, and Salis-
bury is the only mining town in the
county, as jt is situated in the heart of
the Elk Lick coal region. Salisbury has
greater resources than any other town in
the county, and in capital it ranks next
10 Somerset. But 166 much of her eapi-
tal is on interest instead of being invested
in the way that it should be. ‘There is
no reason why Salisbury should not be
the metropolis of the county. The only
thing against it is that the town is net
on a main line of railway; but the great
resources it has and the other advan-
tages it has over competing towns more
than make up for this’ deficiency. Salis
bury does more business in proportion to
population than any other town in the
county, and if our citizens so will it, it
will soon be the largest town in the coun-
ty. Balisbary’s best days are just dawn-
ing, while Meyersdale has reached the
acme of ‘her glory and is now about as
much of a town as it will ever become.
Our town is the best in the county in
which to profitably invest capital, says
Dun’s Mercantile Agency, and it is more
than likely that by the time the next cen-
sus rolls aroannd Salisbury will be the me-
tropolis of the county and thus settle the
feud between Somerset and Mevyersdale.
And all this is true. even asit is re
corded in the SOMERSET COUNTY STAR.
the First volume and the Eighteenth num-
ber. Selah!
Indicted for Murder.
Samuel Swauger, of near Swauger's
Mills, was indicted by the grandjury at
the present term of the Circuit colirt for
murdering his wife, wk ich ocenrred
sometime last summer.
Immediately following the indictment
a bench warrant was issued for his arrest
and placed in the hands of Sheriff Jami:
son, who sent his deputy for Swauger.
He was arrested and is now in Jail await-
ing his trial, which will come up at the |
next term of the court. —Oakland Repuh-
lican.
The case of 0. L Woolsey against the
school directors of Perry township, Fay-
elte county. was tried last Wednesday in
court, and decided in favor of the plain-
tiff Woolsey taught in Perry township
in the winter of 1890-91, and while at
home for 10 days hired Miss Moss, who
held a valid certificate, to teach for him.
The directors refused to acknowledge
Woolsey’s right to hire a substitnte, and
refused to pay him for the time Miss Moss
taught.—Ex.
Rev. W. W. Kribbs, pastor of the Lu-
theran church at Salisbury, in company
with Rev. Weaver, favored The Register
with an agreeable call yesterday. Mr.
Kribbs acted on Horace Greeley’s advice
several vears ago, and located at Ells-
worth, Kan , but recently thought better
of it and turned his face toward the rising
sun. The West he thinks 8 fine country
to acquire experience. He is a pleasant
gentleman and the Salisbury Lutherans
are to be congratulated on securing his
services.—Meversdale Register.
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The Pittsburg papers of last week con-
tained a list of over one hundred pieces
of jewelry, amounting to over $4,000, on
which suit had been brought for pay-
ment by a jewelry firm of that city
against a lady who was born and reared
in Somerset, and whose father was once a
very prominent and presumably wealthy
lawver here. The list included four or
five gold watches; diamond ear drops at
several hundred dollars per pair, ete.—
Somerset Democrat.
During the ceremonies attending the
closing of the Beulah school in Lincoln
township on Friday evening last, Jacob
Friedline and William Dunmeyer, two
young rowdies of the neighborhood, un-
dertook to take charge of the exercises.
-Mr. Pitt, the teacher, very properly ob-
jected to this, and remvnstrated with
them. This aroused the ire of the young
men and they made an assault on the
teacher, who afterwards had them ar-
rested on the charge of assault and carry -
ing concealed weapons. They were
bound over for court. Dunmeyer has
since furnished bail for his ‘nppearance
at court. Friedline was in fail one year
ago on the charge of stealing $10 from a
laborer named Miller, but escaped pun-
ishment at that time. His father is%
wealthy farmer, but refuses to go his
bail. —Somerset. Standard.
eerie ————
Hon. James L. Pugh spent several days
last week in the ancient village of Wellers-
burg, and while there learned that capital-
ists from ome ot the eastern counties of
the state have recently visited the aban-
doned iron furnace at that place with a
view to re-establishing it. Forty years
ago Wellersburg was one of the busiest
towns in the connty, and in case the fires
in the iron furnace are again lighted, it
will recover its richly deserved days of
prosperity.—Herald.
William Bartholomew, of Lewisburg,
Pa., addressed a public meeting in Hynd-
man last Thursday in the interest of
Lewisburg. capitalists who want to estab-
lish a furniture manufactory at Hyndman.
His proposition was that the people of
Hyndman should snbscribe $15.000 to the
capital stock of the €C y. He prom:
ised that the works would give employ:
ment to 125 bands. —Ex.
Persons having et, S
oak, Hemlock and Black. Oak
Bark tor sale, to address the
undersigned, stating quantity
and price, delivered at works
of Standard Extract Co.
W. T. Buchanan, fe
Blk Lick, Pa.
of Gents’ and Boys’ Hats and Caps,
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Catalogues on on application, From.
Gisago Cottage Qrgan Go.
228 WABASH AVE.,
‘GHIOAQO, fLi.
The stockholders of the Markleton Ho
tel Company. under which name the san-
itarium now building will be conducted,
met at Markleton last week “and elected
the following directors: W, J. Hitch-
man, W. B. Neel, Dr. F, L. Marsh. O. P.
Shupe and Dr. J. A. Loar, all of Mt.
Pleasant; Dr. M. B. Gault and George
Kriger, of Markleton; Dr. J. C. McClen-
ahan, Connellsville; Dr. W. A. Shoe
maker, Dawson, and Rev. J. M. Barnett,
Washington, Pa. O., P. Bhupe was
elected president, W. B. Neel, vice pres:
ident and Rev. J. M. Barnett, secretary.
The directors have seleted J. J. Neel, of
Mt. Pleasant, for superintendent and
treasurer. It is expected that the Hotel
will be ready to receive patients and
guests on June 1. Fifty patients have
already applied for admission and are
now awaiting accommodation. —Somer-
set Standard.
The thirteen trees which Alexander
Hamilton planted in front of his house
in New York to represent the thirteen
original states are in the line of the march
of improvement-in Harlem Heights, ‘and
it has been decreed that they must go.
There is nothing in New York which
more intimately connects the first years
of the republic with the present time than
these stately elms. Tt is said that Gener:
al Hamilton named each of these trees,
and that eacly of them has grown as the
states have grown. New York and Penpn-
sylvania are the largest of all, while
Rhode Island is the smallest. There isa
pretty legend that during the war bolts
of lightning struck the trees named South
Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. South |
‘Carolina suffered most severely, but all
were shattered. But the trees were not
killed. New branches have grown out
and the trees have grown as strong as
ever.—Ex, >
James G. Blaine, Jr., in addition to his
many positions and professions, was at
one time vice president of a Somerset
county rajlroad. Rand, McNally & Co.'s
Railroad Guide for 1889 puts him down
as vice president of a Somerset county
raflroad. a ten-mile line running from
Draketown to Schweibenzville.—Herald.
A curious statistician has computed
that if all the locomotives in the .United
States were coupled together they would
make a train of solid iron and steel
over three hundred miles long. Add the
passenger cars and we would have three
hundred miles more of wood and iron;
this would give us a gigantic passenger
train six hundred miles in length, count-
ing both engines and cars. Shonld we
want a huge “mixed”
add the ‘“‘box,” ‘‘flat” and every other
kind of freight cars, and our train would
then have a total length of over seven
thousand miles. The passenger cars in
this gigantic train would be capable of
seating 1,500,000 people, and upon the
freight cars could be loaded the weight of
all the pyramids of Egypt, and all the
state capitol huildings in the United States
train, we might(
grades yf flour, viz:
and quality.
as Reitz’s best.
by the carload.
patronage tn custom and exchange work.
West Salisbury, Pa.
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