LIVENGOOD, Editor and Publisher
Mrs. P. L. LIVENGOOD, Associate Editor.
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The Salisbury Hack Line.
Tiws Carp: Hack leaves Salisbury every day,
except Sunday, at 8:00 A. M.
~~ Leaves Meyersdale every day, except Sunday,
© at1:00P. NM,
Passengers should always secure their passage
the evening before they intend to go away, 80
that the Conductor will provide ample accommo-
dations for all.
Extra trips made to all points when requested.
Baggage and parcel carrying a specialty. First-
class accommodations in every respect. The
hack line affords the only convenient means to
travel to and from Balisbury,
JORN COLEMAN,
Proprietor.
JOHN SCHRAMM,
Conductor,
LOCAL AND BENERAL:
“Wilt thou," said the summer
To the collar, stiff and stilted,
“Be mine, and mine forever?”
And the collar simply wilted. —Ex.
~The associate editor of this paper is
sick abed this week.
Cyrus W. Field, of Atlantic cable fame,
died last Wednesday.
Peter Opel orders THE STAR sent to his
address at Bittinger, Md.
Huckleberries are in market. The crop
is said to be very large this year.
Henry J. Miller orders THE STAR sent
to his address at Grantsville, Md.
Squire Gillian Lint, of Somerset,
last Thursday, aged nearly 87 years.
More about the Homestead affair and
the Baker ballot law on our inside pages.
The Meyersdale school hoard case will
be decided at the argument court, Aug.
28d.
: Captain Allen is no longer station agent
at Meyersdale. His son now holds that
position :
Mrs. Lou Brown is suffering this week
with a severe attack of inflammatory
rheumatism.
Station Agent Riley is being visited by
his mother, who will remain here for sev-
eral months.
The report that W. H. Dill, of Meyers-
dale, is soon to move to Boynton; is de-
nied by Mr. Dill.
Let us organize a Republican club and
whoop things up as they were never
whooped before.
died
Dr. Speicher attended a session of the
. Somerset County Medical * AsSocidtion.
Tuesday, at Somerset."
Mr. Spanlding; 0%" Silken’ City, 1,
was the guest of Squire Lowry and fami-
iy during the past week.
The gallant old 54th regiment, Pennsyl-
vania volunteers, will hold a reunion in
Johnstown on the 19th of October.
Lou Brown has a large snapping turtle
in a swill barrel, and one of these days
he is going to have turtle soup on tap.
Alf Ringer. of near Confluence, was in
town this week on business. He wasa
welcome caller at THE STAR office while
here. :
This part of the country is not much
noted for sensations, but there were some
shocking scenes in the grain fields, last
week.
The B. & O. depot, at Hyndman, was
consumed by fire, last Friday morning,
at 3 o'clock. The origin of the fire is not
known.
THE STAR is always thankful to those
who report news items to it. Always re-
port such news items as you happen to
know of.
Simon Lichty thinks of selling or rent-
ing his farm in the near future and mov-
ing to Virginia. So savs the Meyersdale
Register. :
D. M. Fike, late of this county, but
now of Carleton, Neb., intends soon to
£0 to Arizona to look up a location, says
the Tarleton Reporter.
Salisbury should hold a sample election
as soon as the farmers’ busy season is
“ver. Everybody should be well posted
on the new election system. ¢
Messrs. A. F. John and E. M. Beachly
arrived home yesterday from ‘a tour of
West Virginia. They will probably go
to North Carolina later.—Register.
R. F. Thomas, the enterprising Boyn-
‘ton merchant, has an *‘ad” in this issue.
Richard is keeping a pretty snug store at
Boynton and deserves a liberal patronage.
David Lichty went to Cumberland the
“other day and bought a very fine horse
for his son, the doctor. Mr. Lichty says
the horse can go a mile in three minutes.
~The campaign is now fairly opened and
a Republican club should at once be or-
ganized in Salisbury. Much good work
could be done by a live organization of
, that kind.
M. F. §mith received a telegram last
Saturday announcing the death of his
father-in-law, Mr. Thompson, who lived
in Lavansville. At this writing we have
- not learned the particulars of his death.
Tell your friends that Stewart's head-
ache powders are a positive cure, a harm:
less remedy. containing soda and char-
coal. unlike any other. Only 10 and 25
‘cents a box. Ask J. L. Barchus about
them, tf.
John Leonard, 4 Oonlionce lunatic, be-
J have arrived
friends; also th
in town
of a bouneing baby boy.
John Fair, who had his leg broken
some time ago, is able to be about on
crutches and will doubtless be able ere
long to go to work again. John says the
people were very kind to him during his
misfortune, for which he feels duly thank-
ful.
Last Saturday morning Mrs. Mimma,
mother of Ed Mimma, broke her arm by
stepping on a slippery board and falling.
Mrs. Mimma is an old lady aged about 80
years, and being so old it will doubtless
take a good while for the broken limb to
heal.
Misses Annie and Lydia Beachly have
returned from Philadelphia and are again
nicely settled at home. Miss Annie
Beachly lias become the book-keeper
for the Friedline Hard Wood and Trim
Factory, having surrendered a similar
position in the city to accept this.—Com-
mercial,
And still the Grassy Run base ball team
continues to win victories. Last Satur-
day a very hotly contested game was
played between that club and West Salis-
bury. The score stood 20 to 14 in favor
of the boys over the hill. What's getting
to be wrong with Boynton and West Sal-
isbury, anyway?
Walter Purdy left Somerset about noon,
Monday, on his bicycle and wheeled to
Berlin, where he took dinner about 2
o'clock; from there he wheeled to Mey-
ersdale, where he boarded the train and
reached Somerset at 6 o'clock. * “:Skillets”
is making a record as a bicycle rider, and
talks of kicking his machine .t 0" the
World's Fair.—Standard. .
On Monday evening John Beachy rode
to D. I. Hay’s store and hitched his horse,
then went into ‘the hardware store and
remained there until he closed up and
went home. He walked home, however,
and forgot all about his horse. Next
morning he found the animal where he
had Jeft him. John must be as forgetful
as Joe Stutzman used to be. :
There is a good joke out on a Grassy |
Run man, who recently got on the out-
side of too much ‘bug juice.” The fel-
low got as full as a little red wagon, and
then, imagining he was going to bed,
climbed over a fence into a ten-acre field,
undressed and stretched’ himself out on
the sod,. with no other “€overing than
the.blne canopy: of Heaven. There are
strange beds and strange bedfellows on
this earth of ours,
Daniel Barchus showed us an old Web-
ster spelling book, the other day, which
he used to study when he was a school
boy. The book was printed in 1803 and
is a relic that is highly prized by its own-
er. Mr. Barchus says it’ 8. many. a lick-
ing he got for not having . the lessons in
that book well enough prepared to suit
the teacher. In those good old days the
people believed in the old | saving, no
lickin’ no learnin.”
A new candidate for public favor is
the Inter-Mountain, a weekly newspaper
just established at Elkins, W. Va. Itis
published by the Inter-Mountain Printing
Co. and edited by N. Geo. Keim, former-
iy of this town. The new paper will be
devoted to the interests of West Virginia
and the principles of the Republican par-
ty, all of which is proper and right. The
Inter-Mountain makes 8 very ereditable
appearance, and THE STAR wishesita
prosperous career.
A message was received here a few
days ago announcing the death of Bart-
ley Comer. At this writing the particu-
lars are not known, only that he was ac-
cidentally killed somewhere in West Vir-
ginia (Clarksburg, if we are not mistak-
en). The young man used to work in
the mines in this vicinity and was a
brother of Mrs. Peter Conley, Patrick,
Bryan and Michael Comer. The mem-
bers of the family living here went to
West Virginia to attend the funeral.
Certain men and boys are in the habit
of using the cellar way leading to the
well under C. T. Hay’s building for pur-
poses not calculated to. promote good
health. This has been carried on fora
long time, and one of these days some of
them will have to pay dearly for their of-
fensive conduct. Several families use the
water of that well and they do not want
any moressurface water in it. This is
fair warning to all to keep out of that
cellar way or take the consequences,
THE STAR regrets to learn of the burn:
ing of the barber outfit of David Shep-
pard, the popular Meversdale barber,
which occurred on the night of the 9th
inst. No one knows how the fire origi-
nated. The shop was in the basement of
the Hartley block, and had the fire been
discovered much later, the entire build-
ing would have burned. Mr. Sheppard
carried no insurance, but we are informed
that his numerous friends will make good
the damage, which is right, as David is a
first-class citizen.
In speaking of thé sample election held
last week in Somerset, the Standard says:
‘“Various opinions were expressed as to
the new ballot law. Bome seem to be
bitterly opposed to it and state they will
never vote while such a nefarious law is
in existence. They say they are too old
to commence to study a new system of
voting. The great majority are greatly
pleased with the workings of the law and
believe that it will end much of the fraud
"| heretofore practiced atelections.” Adam
Fogle and Robert Cochrane helped to
conduct the sample election.
On Monday afternoon the three prison-
ers who were in jail at Somerset for com-
at Mr. and’
mitting robberies In Meyersdale, escaped
win 1 two bars and letting them-
Mrs. will Statler have become the parents
were the participants.
selves down from the second story by
means of a rope made of the sheets of
their beds. The bars were sawed by a
thin steel saw, which the Sheriff believes
was concealed somewhere about the jail
by the Nicely boys. One of the escaped
prisoners has since been captured, but
the other two are still at large. 8o far
our new jail has been a delusion, and if
the Sheriff persists in allowing prisoners
to be in the corridor, he ought to be held
responsible for them when they escape.
The following from Mrs. Edith Beachy
is duly appreciated and explains itself:
‘‘Please send our good, newsy STAR, for
six months, to my niece, Hattie Stutz-
man, St. Marys, Ontario, Canady,
She reports a pleasant. visit with her
cousin, Lucy (Gould) Kade, whose hus-
band ‘is a prosperous farmer near St.
Marys. Mr. Kade being a member of the
association, gives her frée access to a
good library. She says it appeared
strange to her, a patriotic citizen, not
even to hear a fire cracker on the Fourth
nor smell gun-powder, but had to be con-
tent with the echo that reached her
through the newspapers. We invite her
back home in November to hear the earth
quake when Harrison is re-elected.”
According to a report from the “‘moon-
shine” district all is not as peaceful in
that section of the county as might be ex-
pected after what has so recently tran-
spired. Last Sunday a fight took place
in which two of ‘General Beigle’s” sons
It is said that one
of the young men had his thumbichawed
off, ‘while the other had skin enough torn
from his face to cause him to be unrec-
J ognizdble by Lis most intimate friends.
The party who furnished: the’ above Jin-
formation is authority for the statement |
that “Bill” Pritts is still being harbored
by his friends living in that section. It
is claimed that parties have been seen
carrying food to him concealed in a bag,
and that the bag has always been re-
turned empty. So far as is known all
efforts to capture Pritts have been aban-
doned.—Herald.
The Confluence correspondent to the
Meyersdale Register seems to be much
elated over the fact that the Confluence
band, only 27 months old, won second
prize in a contest with the ‘‘old Salis-
bury band.” The said correspondent is
probably not aware of the fact that the
present Salisbury band is less than six
mouths old, but such 18 the case never-
theless. ’Tis true that some of the mem-
bers of our band have been band men
for a good many years, but then theres
are others in the band who have been in
the business a good deal less than 27
months. Besides that, the Salisbury band
dissolved year before last and did no
playing for over a year, until less than 6
months ago, when a reorganization was
effected. Neither did the Salisbury band
have an instructor to teach them and in
addition thereto go into the contest with
outside help, as was the case with Con-
fluence.
One day last week Dr. U. M. Beachly,
who dearly loves a joke, aided and abet-
ted by Chas. S. Walker and others. placed
a bronze representation of an owl in the
shrubbery of his grounds. So lifelike
was its appearance that passers by were
readily taken in, and various expedients
were puggested for his owlship’s capture.
Dr. Goad proposed to ensare him with a
tennis net. Somebody amended the mo-
tion by proposing to put salt on the
*bird’s” tail. But the plan suggested by
H. H. Stahl met with the greatest favor,
viz:—the shot gun. Mr. Cover offered to
supply the gun, and accompanied by Mr.
Stahl, went to his store for the purpose.
But the gun wonldn’t work and they com-
promised on a revolver. Retarning to
the doctor's premises they found the owl
still holding the fort. The doctor sug-
gested that as promisenous shooting in
the borough was contrary to a city ordi-
nance, the artilleryman should go inside
the enclosure. Not until then was the
hoax discovered, and the disgusted victims
slowly dispersed, vowing that if the op-
portunity ever offered they would get
even with the doctor and his fellow- -con-
spirators.—Meyersdale Register.
On the 20th day of June u charter was
issued from the state department author-
izing the incorporation of “The Listie
Mining and Manufacturing Company, of
Somerset.” Last week the stockholders
met in this place and perfected an organ-
ization. Simon Kribbs, of Danville, Pa.,
was elected President and General Man-
ager. . Joseph Tate, of Bedford, Secretary
and Treasurer pro fem., and Dr. A. 8.
Smith, of Philadelphia, General Agent.
The following gentlemen compose the
board of directors: Simon Kribbs, John
K. Geringer, E. Carman, F. C. Angle. all
of Danville, Pa.;: Ex-Tudge W. J. Baer,
John G. Ogle, Esq., of Somerset, and H.
D. Tate, Esq., of Bedford, The Listie
Company are the owners of 1700 acres
of mineral rights in Somerset town-
ship, all of which are located in the vi-
cinity of Griffin station on the S. & C. R.
R. Judge Baer who was the prime mov-
er in the organization of the Listie Com-
pany has had an eye on these tracts for
a number of years and would have had
them developed years ngo, had the South
Pen R. R. been completed. The South
Pen right-of-way passes through a num-
ber of the tracts, but with the abandon-
ment of the work of construction on that
road the work of developing the tracts
was permitted to slumber.
An exchange says an old law makes
the wearing of low neck dresses in this
state a misdemeanor punishable by a fine
of not less than one nor more than two
hundred dollars for each and every of-
fense. : 2
Berlin on the Warpath,
The people of Berlin are very indignant
over the treatinent they have been re-
ceiving at the hands of the B. & O. offi-
cials, and are taking steps to give public
expression to their indignation. They
are anxious to throw the railroad business
of the town to any other company that
will reach out for it, and will hold a pub-
lic meeting one day mext week for the
purpose of taking some action.
They will make a propesition to the
people of Salisbury, Shanksville, and
other towns with the view of getting them
interested in the movement, after which
a committee will. be appointed to confer
with the officials of the Pennsvlvania
Railroad Co,, with a view of having that
company reach out for the business of-
fered.—Somerset Standard.
If Berlin means business she can rest
assured that Salisbury will be with her,
for no town has ever received more
shameful treatment at the hands of the
B. & O. than Salisbury. The Elk Lick
a better paying road than the Somerset
& Cambria and the Berlin branches com-
bined. yet our entreaties for a regular
passenger train have alwavs been ignored.
Salisbury and Berlin both need a new
road, and if both towns pull together
we may be able to get it. Berlin, what
is your proposition? Let us hear it at
once.
The Fresh-air Children.
Last week Rev. Jj. M. Evans went to
New York City. and returned with 24 of
the thousands of children that are annual-
ly sent to the country for a few weeks to
breathe the fresh air of the country and
to otherwise benefit the children. The
expenses of this arrangement are paid
out of the New York Tribune's fresh-air
fund, which is supplied by the patrons
of that great paper. These children are
taken from the poorest families of New
York by the mission schools of that city.
which are doing a grand. good work, and
by the aid of the Tribune's fresh-air fund,
those in charge of the mission schools
are enabled to send the children to the
country, once a year, where they are
greatly benefitted by the pure air and the
much useful knowledge they obtain.
Our people are doing a noble work in
making things pleasant for the little
urchins, and the little ones seem to thor-
oughly enjoy their sojourn among us and
the kindness shown them. The children
here at present are being cared for as
follows:
Mrs. Henry Newman is taking care of
two girls; Mrs. Wm, Newman, .two girls;
Mrs. Levi Lichliter, two boys; Mrs. M.
F. Riley, two girls; Mrs. Llovd Beachy,
two boys; Mrs. J. J. Folk, two boys:
Mrs. Casper Wall, two girls; Miss Jennie
Wall, one boy: Mrs. John Burkhard, one
girl; Mrs, Mock, Meyersdale, Pa., two
girls: Mrs. Paul Wonn, Meyersdale, Pa.,
two girls; Mrs. Smith, Meyersdale, Pa.,
two girls; Mrs. Wagner, Meyerudale, Pa.
two bovs.
Rev. Evans deserves a great deal of
credit fol his interest in the good work
and says he will bring another lot of chil-
dren here after these are taken home, if
there are enough of our people who will
volunteer to take care of them. See him
about the matter.
Push Your Town.
The following from the Manufacturers’
Record is going the rounds of the press,
It contains much wholesome advice.
The lesson it teaches cannot be too often
impressed,
Talk up your town. Never run it
down. Speak kindly and encouragingly
of its location, resources. advantages and
prospects. Capital flies high over a place
that. is unappreciated, criticised, and eried
down by. its. own people. Bees won't
live in a live with quarrelsome, lazy
drones.
Work for your town! Whether rich
or poor, work. When the world knows
that the people of a town are working, it
will come to the rescue and give a mighty
life for the upbuilding and development
of that section. In concentrated home
effort alone is success assured.
Hold up your town! However little.
help. A town cannot be prosperous if
the people are content to fold their hands
and wait for outside eapital to come their
way, tage hold of and build up their en-
terprises. Both God and man help those
who help themselves.
Invest in your town. Whether much
or little, invest. Identify your interests
with those of your neighbor by placing
your dollars along side of his, thus mutu-
ally assisting in the material growth of
your town.
Don’t expect strangers to put their mon-
ey and brains and energy in the enter-
prises that the citizens of thé town refuse
to aid. The world ig not so philanthropic
as that. Home is the best place to exer:
cise abundant charity and prosperity.
He sat in his door at noonday, lonely,
glum and sad; the flies were buzzing
about him, led by a blue-winged gad.
Not a customer darkened his portal, not
a sign of business was there: but the
flies still kept on buzzing about the old
man’s hair. Atlastin misery he shouted:
“Great” Scott! I'm covered with flies!”
And the zephyr that toyed with his whisk-
ers said: ‘Why don't you advertise?”
An exchange pertinently remarks: A
country editor is one who reads news-
papers, writes on any subject, sticks type,
folds papers, makes up mails, runs er-
rands, saws wood, works in the garden,
is blamed for a thousand things he never
thought of, works hard all day, is sub-
ject to spring fever, helps people into of-
fice who forget about it afterwards, and
frequently gets cheated out of his earn-
i died :
coal region has made the Salisbury branch
Iti is unequalled for Barbed wire outs, sot
scratches and open sores of any kind on ani
more genuine friends and endorsers than any
salve, because it NEVER FAILS and is very
For cuts, burns, chafing on infants or sores o:
pleases all. Sold everywhere. Price, 10c 25¢ :
F. G. STEWART & COMPANY, CHI
— Dealer In—
Grantsville, Md.,
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takes this method of returning his thanks to the many pat
who have enabled him to makea complete success of hi
ly cash system venture. :
We find that we can, under the above system, give ot
rons any goods they may need, without the additional
necessary to make up for bad accounts. 1 pay Cash an
goods at Cash Prices, for Cash, and give you a co
invitation to visit us and inspect our stock; we will risk
buying
A So fock
of the season.
~ Just received a nice lot of the old reliable Latrobe Boots and Shoes, which give fun v :
your money. (Also have Ladies’ Common Sense Shoes, Ladies’ Opers-toe and Children’s
If you are looking for a safe nd reliable place to trade, I wish to inform you that I ha
gains. Have added to my stock a fine lot of Toilet Soap and Perfumery. Thanking you
patronage, 1 remain your friend,
GEO. K. WALKER, Slur, P
WE GOT AWA
I WANT TO BUY 5000 bushels of goad milling wheat,
for cash, at market price.
| WANT TO SELL 50 barrels Gill's Best Flour;
barrels Old Gold (leading flour of the day); so barrels Be
ner Flour; 200 barrels Royal Flour; so barrels Purity Flour;
20 tons Rye and Wheat Chop; 1q tons Flour Middlings; 15
tons Red Middlings; 10 tons choice Wheat Bran; 1000 bush-
els white Oats; 500 bushels Yellow Shelled Corn; Corn Meal,
Oil Meal, etc.
1 will sell the above at
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Call or write at once and learn quality and prices, before i it
is all sold. It means business. ‘A word to the wise, etc.
“My terms are as liberal as any safe, square, legitimate bus
iness can offer. Discount always allowed for spot cash.
H. A. REITZ