ttom! full value for en's Mundail s and Proyis: ality. bave the bs 1- you: for past Pa. Car mr SAA 18 state: su him in of: defeated Vr: all wrong n began his ner. He is ndidate fir nk of it, a cof dollars, on of land “high prices actual set- xpecting tor ska by the nd laborers! poor man’s itical trick: rant dupes. sech likened ublican par- oe Jeaders of : of the Re: . But alas, plican party en like the remont and eatand pure as Calamity 'yek, Sock- ther equally fice-seckers. 1e same us st ‘and Ju- he People’s ry, manned ‘now is, this t Rome, iN he polls ti lican ticket But if you ket, do thi Prohibition 8 a delusion 1852. VOLUME IL SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1892. NUMBER 38. 18092. shed 40 Years On the Corner of Grant and Ord Streets. And yet we are not content. While our trade has been growing year by year, we are today working as diligently to enlarge our business and serve you better in yours to come than our efforts were in the past. “Onward!” Is The Watchword. Diligence, Perseverance, Generous Dealing, Low Prices, . ‘a matured experience and unflagging enterprise are the keys to success. We thank you for your patronage, which has made this stcre what it is today. A continuance, we hope, will be as fruitful in the future development and enlargement as it has been in the past, and your happiness will be increased pro- | portionately. We keep in stock a full line of Dry Goods, Notions, Boots and Shoes, Men's and Boys’ Clothing, Hats and Caps, Hard- ware, Queensware, Groceries, Confectionery, School Books, ~ Stationery, Wall Paper, Coal Oil, Lard Oil, Linseed Oil, Cor- liss Engine Oil, Neatsfoot Oil, Lubricating Oil, Turpentine, - Varnishes, Dyes, Paints mixed, Paints in oil, Putty, Window Glass, all kinds of Miners’ Tools, Ropes of all sizes Wood and Willow -ware, Trunks and Valises. ~ Mining Powder and Salt by the Carload! Royal Flour, Minnehaha Flour, etc. Country Produce tak- en in exchange at market prices. ; iP. S. HAY, SALISBURY, PENNA. GREAT HIT. Beachy Bros, have made a great hit by establishing in Salisbury one of the larg: est and best hardware stores in Somerset county. Buyers of Hardware and Agri cultural Implements will make a great hit by patronizing this store, for they will find that Beachy Bros. > them in both goods and prices. will please They are in the business to stay. and will leave nothing undone to please their patrons and give the people what they want in the hardware line. Their stock is bright and new and made up of the latest styles No shoddy goods will be kept in stock, but improvements will constant- ly be added as fast as American brain and skill can invent them. DON'T FALL INTO THE GRAVE .¢rror of supposing that you can buy hardware cheaper in other towns than in Salis- “bury, for you can’t do it. Neither can vou buy better goods in the hardware line than those sold by Beachy Bros. Our goods are all new and the best that the mark- et affords or ready money can buy. We want to PAINT THE EARTH RED with the statement that we will not be undersold. We will sell you tne best goods ul the lowest living prices. and we invite you to test us and see if our word is not good right down to the dotlet on the I. ‘We have piles of goods on hand and many more on the road enroute for our store, Onur stock will at all times be complete and embrace everything usually found in a first-class hardware and ripiement store. PREPARE FOR THE INEVITABLE! Harvest time is approaching and you may need some new farm machinery. We can save you time and money on your purchases and supply your wants speedily and satisfactorily. But we ean not tell you in print of everything we carry in stock, for in order to do that we would have to charter this entire paper. But suffice it to ny hat our store will at all times be headquarters for Shelf Hardware of all kinds, Cutlery, Paints, Oils, Glass, Tinware, Woodenware, Guns, Revolvers, Buguies, Wagons, Stoves, Ranges, Agricultural Implements of all kinds and in fact every. thing in the hardware line that there is a demand for in this locality. We will do our Dest to please you, and we respectfully solicit your patronage. Yours respect- ale — THE VALLEY HOUSE,| RF. THOMAS, MH. LOECHEL, Proprietor. : |Gremeral Merchandise, Boynton. Pa., Le Keeps eoristantly on hand a nice line of such Board by the day, week or month, First-class goods a Ale hually found in a gelioral store, ACCOMM \ le. and sells them at prices as low as the lowest, : iodations, Rates reasonable He solicits a share of your patronage and will spare no pains to please his customers. of goods. Mas ONLY Licensep Hoes In SALISBURY. We take ‘pleasure in trying to please our pat- rons, and you will always find Tur VALLEY & Eo orderly bovee, ma J ohn J. Livengood, GENERAL BLACKSMITH, SALISBURY, PA, All classes of work turned out in a neat and Liss oh adil substantial manner and at reasonable prices, ' If tugton, New J you are not aware of this, we can soon convince you iu you give ue your work 2 DO YOU KNO That= GILL'S BEST FLOUR MAKES 18 Is. MORE BREAD per barrel, and a richer and finer grade of bread, than the best of the following brands of flour: bury and Minnehaha? ' Vienna, Ceresota, Pills- For proof of the truthfulness of this statement, call on M. J. Glotfelty, baker, who is ready at any time ‘to vouch for same and will show you the bread made of Gill's best. Gill's best flour is sold by - P. S. Hay, S. A. Lichliter, J. L. Barchus and G. K. Walker, Salisbury; H. A. Reitz, West Salisbury; Kretchman & New- man, Keim, Pa.; U. M. Miller, Summit Mills; A. G. Yutzy, Po- cahontas; R. E. Garlitz, Avilton, Md. Use it and save money. J.C. LOWRY, ATTORINNE TX -AT-TAN, Somerset, Pa. | { A. M. LICHTY, {Physician And Surgeon. Office first door south of the M. Hay corner, SALISBURY, PA. “A. F. SPEICHER, Physician And Surgeon, tenders his professional services to rg citizens of Salisbury and vicinity. Office, corner Grant and Union 8ts., Salisbury, Penna. BRUCE EICHTY, Physician and Surgeon, GRANTSVILLE, MD. Successor to Dr. 0. GQ. Getty. Dr. D. O. McKINLEY, tenders his professional services to those requir- ing dental treatment. Office on Union St., west of Brethren Church. WAGNER'S GROCERY! The best place in Salisbury to get pure, fresh proceries, Candies, Nuts; (‘rackers, choice Cigars and Tobacco, Refreshing Drinks, Fresh Oysters and other things in the grocery line, is at M. H. Wagner's grocery. Yours for bargains, M. H. WAGNER. WwW. F.CGarlitz, Expressman and Drayman, does all kinds of hauling at very low prices. All kinds of freight and express goods delivered to and from the depot, every day. Satisfaction guaranteed, CHEAP VARIETIES! Wash Boards, Bird Seed, Sealing Wax, Oarters Ink, Blates, Brushes, Stove and Shoe Polish (ry or liquid), Wire Armlots, Jewelry, Easels, Vases, Standard Books, Shelf Paper, Ohildren's Round Combs, Oampaign Buttons and Badges, Steel Vio- lin and Banjo Strings, Sewing Machine Needles, Boys’ Dress Pants, Boys' and Men's Overalls, Boys’ and Men's Shirts, Boys' and Men's Tones. Silk and Lin- en Handkerchiefs, The finest Stationary in town, eto. Have on hand almost every useful arti- ole needed by everybody, at prices defying competition. Wm. Petry, Salisbury, Pa. ¥. Beatty, Washington, New Jersey. 0s —1In nse Everywhere. For i catalogue address Daniel R.M. BEACHY, VETERINARY SURGEON, treats all curable diseases horse flesh is heir to. Has the latest and most improved veterinary sur-: gical instruments and appliances, also a com- plete veterinary library. Veterinary Obstetrics a Speciality. A complete stock of veterinary medicines al- ways on hand, thereby saving trouble and an- noyance. Horses taken for treatment for $2.50 per week and upwards, according to treatment required. Consult me before killing your broken-legged and tetanized horses. I have treated tetantus or locked-jaw successfully. Place of residence, 3 miles west of Salisbury, Pa. Postoffice address, Grantsville, Md. Early History of Elk Lick Township. Elk Lick township was so named from the fact that within its limits was a lick | which the elk and deer used to frequent. The township was organized as a divis- ion of Bedford county, about the year 11785, the present county of Somerset at that time being a part of Bedford. Set- tlements were made very early in Elk Lick by immigrants of German and Irish birth. Elk Lick probably containg more min- eral wealth, such as coal, iron ore and limestone than all the rest of Somerset county combined. Since the building of the Salisbury railroad, the development of coal mining and lumbering has become an important industry. The first settled farm is believed to be that now owned by Milton J. Beachy, adjoining Salisbury borough on the north. The settler was Joseph Markley, who became the owner of a tract of land extending from the mouth of Pine run along the Casselman river to the mouth of Meadow run, thence along Meadow ran for a distance of about 13 miles; thence north to Pine run to the place of beginning. The date of settlement is said to be between the years 1755 to 1760. Markley also claimed a portion of the land on the opposite side of the river, be- ing a part of what is known as the David Livengood farm. A mau named Judy al- s0 laid claim to the same land. One day the two claimants met on the hill on the opposite side of the river, and proceeded to settle the dispute by a fistic encounter. Judy was vanquished in the fight and Markley continued in possession of the land. From this affair arose the name Flog hill, by which name a portion of this land is known to this day. Captain Tissue owned the Sullivan and A. P. Beachy farms. He lived in the hol- low above Beachy’s present sugar-camp and was in good circumstances for those days. He kept a sort of public house, which was a stopping place for travelers and packhorse-men. Tradition has ijt that on one occasion a train of thirty “packhorses, in charge of a man and his four sons, stopped at Tissues, and the landlord also having four sons, a wrest- ling match was proposed, and resulted in the vanquishing of the Tissnes. The sons were again beaten. Tissue took part in the Revolutionary war, and dur- ing his absence his wife was murdered. Peter Livengood. a native of Switzer- land and the great-great-grandfather of the editor of this paper, came to Ameri- ca, married in Berks county, Pa., and removed to Elk Lick, settled on the farm now owned by.J. B. Keim. This was in 1760. It is said that there was then a small clearing on the farm, which had been made by the Indians. Abraham Beachy, another old settler of Elk Lick, wus also a native of Switzer- land. Hecame with his parents to Mary- land when young, and in 1780 settled on a farm three-fourths of a mile west of Salisbury. Solomon Glotfelty, a native of Ger- many, settled one mile east of Salisbury, in 1775, and followed farming and black- smithing until his death. He was the fath- erof Adam, Henry, Jacob, Casper. Eliza- beth, Mary and Catharine. Jacob was born in thiskownship in 1790. He fol- lowed blacksmithing and died in 1878. He married Elizabeth Showman, and was the father of eight children: Samuel, David, Jeremiah, John, Michael, Harriet, Adaline and Elizabeth. Samuel Glotfel- ty, the oldest living descendent of this family, was born in 1809. He followed blacksmithing in Salisbury for more than half a century and is now living a retired life. Jost J. Stutzman, whose long and faith- ful service in the common schools of this county cause him to be remembered, was born in Brothersvalley township. His father was an early German settler, who removed to Ohio with his family. Ii 1820 Jost J. returned to Somerset county and located in Summit ‘township. removing thence to Elk Lick, where he died in 1867. He first taught school near Meyersdale and afterwards in Salisbury. He followed teaching for 45 years, and was among the first and best of the teachers of this section. He was & man of fine intellect and great natural abilities, and served two terms in the state legislature. Mr. ‘Stutzman erected the brick building in which THE STAR is published in: 1852. He was twice married; first to Elizabeth Gerber and second to Elizabeth DeHaven. He was the father of that grand and no- ble man, the late Dr. C. G. Stutzman. He was also the father of Joseph J., Alexander and Franklin Stutzman, Ellen 8. Keim, Mrs. Dr. T. F. Livengood and Mrs. M. J. Beachy. Joseph J. was the first superintendent of schools in Somer- clerk, for many years, at Washington. Alexander was twice elected to the State Senate. Franklin took to journalism and once edited a newspaper at Rich: mond, Mo., but later returned to his na- tive state and is still a resident of this county. George Folk came from one of the eastern counties and settled in Elk Lick, He married Catharine Saylor, followed farming and died young. He was the father of Capt. Samuel Folk. Nicholas Keim came from eastern Pennsylvania to this county soon af- ter the Revolutionary war, and settled near Davidsville. He moved to Elk Lick in 1810. John, his eldest child, father of our esteemed fellow townsman, John J. Keim, was born in Conemaugh township in 1792, and came to this township with his father. He died a few wears ago at the great age of 96 years. His wife was Barbara Livengood, who died a few years ago at the age of 94 years. Jonas Keim was born in Conemaugh township in 1808 and came to Eik Lick in 1810. ‘He was one of the first to agi- tate the subject of free schools and was twice elected to the legislature, the sec- ond time on an independent ticket. He also served as Associate Judge of the county. Judge Keim was an extensive stock dealer and one of the foremost bus- iness men of the township. He died in 1865. James Kelso came from Cumberland valley to this township in 1824. He was a farmer and a minister of the German Baptist church. He was the father of Rev. Jonathan Kelso, who for many years was the Bishop of Elk Lick congregation of the German Baptist church, but who now lives a retired life, near Meyersdale. The following named settlers were among the earliest in the township: Jo- seph Markley, Wm. Tissue, Ebenezer Griffith, John Hochstetler, Jacob Maust, Peter Livengood, Peter Beachy, John Christner, John Fike, Patrick Sullivan (grandfather of Judge J. 8. Black), John Fadely, Peter Bhirer, Martin Weimer, Wm. Lietseel, Solomon Giotfelty, Lemuel Engle and John Hendricks. . The first grist mill in the township was built by John Fike, on the Casselman river, a mile north of Balisbury. Joseph Markley operated the first distillery, about 1790. Christian Fahrney built the first wool- en mill in 1818. It remained in operation nntil 1867. Thomas McCloskey built a woolen mill in 1841, which is now owned him until a few years ago. Tesult w was a free 9 BRU, in which Tissue’ 8 erected ‘by the Reformed and Luther: set county and afterward a government. by his son Jacob, and was operated by: The first church in. the township was congregations, in 1818. The first minis- ter was Rev. Henry Giesy. The foregoing history is in the main taken from the history of Somerset coun- tv. We will give a more extended write- up of some of the pioneer families of Elk Lick township in later issues of THE STAR. : EDITORIAL REMARKS. - Ir a consiberable number of the Ten- nessee militia men vote as they shot, they will not vote at all. Bex BUTTLER says he’s done with poli- tics for good and all. Politics finished with Ben some years ago. PrAvING soldier has not been quite as much of a picnic to the boys this year as it has been in other years. THE people are, much to the politicians’ disgust, taking their own time about get ting enthusiastic over National politics. A LOOK at the portrait of Colonel Streat- or is all that it requires to convince most people that the colonel is a most brutal despot. BULLETS, may when used as a medi- cine, give temporary relief in attacks of strike, but it is doubtful whether they ever made a permanent cure. RETALIATION is a long word, and it was a long time coming, but it is now on deck, us Canadian vesels using the Sault Ste Marie Canal have discovered. : Home RuLE fos Ireland is in the hands of the Irish members of the British Par- liament. Now let us wait patiently to see whether history will repeat itself. . MuewuMPERY has got a foothold in Great Britian, and loud is the wail of the ‘*practical politicians” who got left inthe ‘grand old man’s” distribution of official plums. THE Pennsylvania man’s method of using a revolver as a persuader, when he popped tue question to his girl, will hard- lv become popular; certainly not with the girls. THE burglars who carried $20,000 worth of silverware, belonging to one of the Vanderbilts, away from Bar Harbor in a yacht, were combining business with pleasure. JAY GouLb has, according to the New York papers. which are always truthful, returned home with a beautifully browned face. Those with whom Jay has been doing business are all blue. IF the price of silver keeps tumbling it, will soon be cheaper than tin. The steady fall in the price has caused the Saxon government to abandon work in the Frieburg silver mines, which have been profitably worked for nearly seven hundred years. THE usual program which follows the visit of robbers to the Cashier, un pay day, was somewhat changed in Alabama the other day, when onc of the robbers was killed and the others were glad to es- cape without insisting upon carrying any of the cashier's money with them. Ir is plain to every fellow who isnot a millionaire that one of the most danger- ous tendencies of the time is the rapid in- crease of that breed. Still it would be difficult, if not impossible, to ind a man who would decline becoming a million- aire, if given the opportunity to do so. = ONE of the best proofs that the McKin- ley tariff is a success was the refusal of the Democratic House to attempt to re- peal it. That body scolded and abused every one connected in any way with the tariff, but fear of the workingmen deter- red the House from laying violent hands upon this Republican legislature master. piece.—Ex. Tne Kaiser's head was working “0. k.” when he sat down on the project for holding a German World's Fair, because Germany could derive more benefit from the Columbian exposition than from one of her own. Of course he did not for- get that a world’s fair would be a very un- handy thing to have around in case he decided to have it out with France at short notice. IN no event can the growth of large fortunes be laid to the charge of the Pro- tective policy. Protection has proved a distributor of great sums of money; not an agency for amassing it in the hands of the few. The records of our savings banks and building associations can be appealed to in support of this statement. The benefit of Protection goes first’ and last to the men who earn their bread in. the sweat of their faces. The auspicious and momentuous result is that never be- fore in the history of the world has com- fort been enjoyed, education acquired, and independence secured by so large a proportion of the total population as | the United States of America. am 8G.
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