ERE \ 4 i i Tbe Somerset County Stor. P. L. LIVENGOOD, Editor and Publisher. Mrs. P. L. LIVENGOOD, Associate Editor. Entered at the postoffice at Elk Lick, Pa., as mail matter of the Second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ‘Tus STAR is published every Thursday, at Elk Lick, Pa., at the following rates: One copy one year ..... One copy six months ........ One copy threemonths.... .... ...... ...... .50. One copy one month ... i....coil. Leni Single copies ............. HOW TO REMIT. Remit by postoffice money order, REMIT letter, or bank draft. Otherwise remittances will be at sender’s risk. Never send your personal check, if your resi- dence is far away from here. Make all drafts, orders, etc., payable to P. L. Livengood. ADVERTISINQG.— Transient Locar No- TicKs, 10 cents a line for first insertion; 5 cents a line for each additional insertion. To regular advertisers, 5 ceuts a line straight, except when inserted among loeal news or editorial matter. 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No advertisement will be taken for less than 25 cents. JOB PRINTING.— Tur Star office has first-class job printing equipments, turns out all its work in the best style of the art and at very reasonable prices. Tur Star does all kinds of commercial work, poster and bill printing, and on fact nearly every kind of printing belonging io the art. All job orders, whether by mail or ttherwise, receive prompt attention. ‘LOCAL INDGENERAL, Sugar makers are beginning to scald their keelers. Somerset has a night school. good thing in any community. A very Chas. Wegman, of Grantsville, was a Sunday evening visitor in this city. J. N. Davis has purchased the Jacob McCloskey farm for $1800, it is reported. Scott Johns is the boss ‘fox hunter of this horough, having killed two Reynards "this season. .. The Prohibitionists.of Meyersdale have placed a ticket in the field for the bor- ough election. : Every self-respecting head of a family, says the Detroit Free Press, ought to take his home paper. _ M. C. Berkley has returned from Phil. adelphia, and his numerous friends here welcome his return. ’ The Farmers’ Institute favors compul- sory education. Here, too. Compulsory ‘education is a good thing. : Steam heating fixtures are this week being put into the Hay house... Mr. Hay has also added an additional Jot of furni- ture. ; " WANTED! To rent a small portable sawmill, or let the entting of about one million feet oak timber. Address STAR office. Salisbury is going to have the best spring normal school in the county. Phillips and Streng are the men that can give it to us, J. E. Gnagey, the popular landlord of fhe Farmers’ hotel, of Grantsville, isa frequent sojourner in Salisbury. Always glad to see him. ! A boiler explosion took place last Fri- day in Granger's plaining mill, in Somer- set. ‘Samuel Houpt, an employe in the mill, was instantly killed. Phineas Comptom read a paper at the Farmers’ Institute, entitled. ‘Farming a Study,” which is highly complimented by the Somerset newspapers. Representative Miller has been placed upon the committees of Appropriations, Federal Relations, Judiciary Local Legis- Intive Apportionment and Library. Benford. the forger, was arrested in Greensburg, Feb. 1st. This is the chap that recently had some bogus checks cashed in Somerset and Meyersdale. Tae STAR is holding tight to its share of the journalistic string, and has the praiseworthy merit of ‘speaking out in meetin’ ” on all subjects.—Somerset Her- ald. M: J. Beachy was on the sick list a few days this week, but is again able to be at the store. Mrs. Beachy is now ill, but it is hoped that she, too, will have a speedy recovery. It is reported that Chas. Ohley. of Pala- tine, W. Va.. is dead. Mr. Olley used to be a resident of Salisbury. His broth- er. Wm. Ohley, is Secretarv of State of West Virginia. There is no doubt about the intentions of the Brooklyn girl who took poison and fired four shots from a revolver into her left breast. The early spring flowers will bloom on her grave. Representative Weller has. been made chairman of the House Committee on Ag- riculture. and placed upon the Commit- tees of Statistics, Centennial/Affairs and Congressional Apportionment. The Populists of Elk Lick township say are here to stay. They will ticket on the ballot at the coming elec- tion. This is the only township in the have a county that will have a Populist ticket in | the field. The great Meyersdale pin factory, the largest and best paying institution in that | burg, has gotten itself into a hole, but Brother Smith, with the Sheriff, will help them out in course of time.—Hyndman Balletin. It is reported that Pocahontas is soon [to have a Jr. O. U. A. M. lodge. This { noble order is gaining a strong foothold all over the country. It is an order that is & power for good in every American community. Senator Critchfield has been made chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture. He has also been given a place upon the following committees: Appropriations, Public Health and Sani- tation, Judicial Apportionment and Vice and Immorality. Somerset has what is termed the Chil- dren’s Aid Society, composed of many of the leading 1adies of the town. ‘I'he ob- ject of the society is to secure good hemes for children of roor parentage and to promote all charitable objects. Every town ought to have a society of that kind. The Mountain Electric make another forward step. The addition is an iron foundry of which our old friend Samuel Gipe, of Berlin, formerly of Salisbury, will be the chief de facto. Orders for electric bells and other supplies continue to come in and al! is satisfactory. —Com- mercial. Jeremiah Glotfelty, an old and re- spected citizen of Greenville township, died last Saturday night and was buried on Monday. Mr. Glotfelty was upwards of 80 years old, and his was a life well spent. He was a man of sterling good qualities and a zealous member of the Reformed church. A very disastrous freight wreck oc- curred a few miles east of Sand Patch tunnel, early on Monday morning. A freight train going down the mountain became unmanageable and crashed into the rear end of another freight. Some thirty cars and contents were distroyed and several men Killed. The Farmers’ Institute, held in Somer- set, last wee!:, opposed the bill extend- ing the pnblic school term to seven months. Some people seem to be very much afraid of getting too much educa- tion. We take notice that the states which have nine months school in the year are away ahead in education. Somerset's legal lights are posing as members of the Somerset County Agri- cultural Society. . Those lawyers may be farmers, in one sense of the word, but they are not agriculturists by a deuce of a sight. They are farmers whose occupation seems to be farming the farm- ers. Walter Hefflev, of Somerset township, has sold his fast horse, ‘‘Midnight,” to Messrs. McIlvaine and Overholt, of Scott- dale, the consideration being $410. *‘Mid- night” made quite a reputation last sea- son, winning a number of races and al- ways securing one of the purses offered for any race in which she was entered. — Democrat. The mails are very uncertain. and many papers which are started to subscribers never reach them. If vou miss a number, don’t censure the publisher, and don’t re- main silent, but report the loss to him and another will be mailed. Persons who do without the papers they have paid for, and complain of the publisher, do injustice to all concerned. It is reported that there is to be a joint debate between the Hon. H. W. Delozier and Marshallus Janus Cincinnatus Liven- good upon the political issues of the pres- ent borongh campaign; said debate to be held in the Opera house, a few davs be- fore the election. These two silver- tongued orators will doubtless be greeted by a large audience. Exact date will be announced later. An Act of Assembly requires township and borough auditors to file annually, in the office of the Prothonotary, a state- ment of the financial conditon of the dis- tricts. This law has been practically a dead letter so far as Somerset county is concerned, and we would suggest to au- ditors, in order to save themselves trouble, that they attend to this matter promptly in the future.—Herald. Jacob Wasmuth, of Meyersdale, the man who caused the excitement at Peter Heflley's sale, a couple of weeks ago, by his insane actions, was incarcerated in the insane department of the County Home, on Tuesday of last week. A com- mission will be appointed to examine his mental condition and in all probability he will be sent to Dixmont asylum for treatment.—Democrat. An exchange is responsible for the statement that bananas are to become a useful article to manufacturers. Ont of them can be made not only a bread-flour, but sausuge and beer, while the juice of the peel contains a really indelible ink and a superior article of vinegar. The fibre of the peel is to be utilized in mak- ing a cloth, which is said to have great strength and remarkable beauty. For the benefit of Democrats—no one else caring whether Mrs. Cleveland wears shoes or not—we will say that a manu- facturer in the town of New Canaan, N. Y., has received an order for a pair of fine shoes for Mrs. Grover Cleveland. The | material used is the best French Kid, the (size i8 No. 5} and the width B. The {shoes areto be worn, it is understood. dur- | ing the inaugural ceremonies in Washing- | ton on March 4. | Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Beachy and Mr. (and Mrs. Compton were among Salis- | bury’s delegation to the Farmers’ Insti- tute. Mr. Beachy is a member of the Executive committee and an active par- ticipant in these annual occasions. Through his influence, largely, the farm- ers of Elk Lick have become greatly in- terested, and many of them ave in attend- ance at the sessions of the institute con- vened at Somerset.—Meyersdale Regis- ter. One of our exchanges can not under- stand how the saucy little English spar- row lived through the cold weather of this winter. Where did he get his food and water? is the question that perplexes our ‘journalistic brother. So far as the water is concerned, the guestion is easi- ly answered. He ate snow instead of drinking water. By observing the habits of birds, one can often see them eating snow, even when water can be easily ob- tained. It is amusing to note the great ado the Somerset papers are making over the great (?) amount of coal being mined by the Listie Co. The most insignificant mine in the Elk Lick region puts out more coal every week than the Listie company can put out in a month; and there are some mines in this region that put out more coal in one day than the Listie company can put out in 40 days. But Somerset is a great mining town—in her mind. : Mr. 8. D. Yoder, one of the largest dealers in blooded stock in this whole vicinity, and breeder of Short Horn cat- tle. Thoroughbred sheep, etc.. of Garrett county, Maryland, called at the Vedette office on Tuesday. Mr. Yoder is a won- derful specimen of manhood, over six feet high, and weighing over two hun- dred pounds. He is an anthority for all the neighborhood in everything that per- tains to farming and stock raising.—Som- erset Vedette. Somerset and Berlin have a few ground- hog holes, which they erronesusly call collieries, coal mines, etc. But, all the same, Salisbury is the only mining town in the county. The Elk Lick coal region employs hundreds of men and ships thou- sands of tons of coal every month. Thousands of dollars are paid out in Sal- ishury, every month, to miners and mine laborers. © There is more work and more money here than in any other part of the countv. This can not be concealed. It does not pay to paint the nose. Though the scenic effect is dazzling, and We ‘see by the papers that some of kihe color once established, abides forever, the end does not justify the means. Nose paint is the most expensive adornment in the world. It costs high in money, health and morals, and while it brightens the countenance with a perennial blush, it gives the immortal germ in the bhack- ground a dark fringe around ::the border and puts a skeleton in the closet at home. where bony fingers encircle the neck of domestic happiness and ‘choke it till it is black in the face. It may be of interest to her many friends to know that Miss Grace Beach- ly, now a student at the New York school of applied design for women, New York City. is progressing rapidly, and is much pleased with both the school and the eastern metropolis. In a letter to her father, Dr. U. M. Beachly, the President of the school states that he may well feel proud of his daughter, she having re- ceived one promotion already and anoth- er will likely occur soon. Miss Beachly will return here in the spring on a vaeca- tion.—Meyersdale Register. A draft has been presented to the School Board, showing that our school building can be remodeled so that it will have six rooms and easily seat 300 pupils. This can be done at such a small cost that the Board would in all probability do well to adopt the plan. All the addition that will need to be added to the build- ing will be a stairway on the outside. The cost will be very small. The draft can be seen by anvone who asks the Board to show it. If the plan is adopted, our school house will fill the bill a long time yet. Go and examine the draft; you will find it a good one, There is one thing that our “borough dads” ought to remedy by ordinance, and that thing is this: Farmers should be prohibited from carrying on a regular hugster business in this town without license. For example, take Val Bender. Now we have nothing against Bender whatever, but is it right to allow him to carry on a regular butcher and hugster business without paying a license to the borough? We say no. Of course, we want to see every farmer have the right to sell his own produce wherever he pleases, without a license; but if he wants to buy cattle, poultry, etc., to make a regular business of butchering and hug- stering, as Bender did all last summer, thereby competing with our shops in town, he should be compelled to pay a license. This matter can not be attended to any too soon. A railroad employe, going from this country to work on an English railway, would have to acquire a new vocabulary of his occupation. He would find, for in- stance, that what he knew as the engin- eer here, is called the driver over there; | that the fireman is a stoker; the conduct- or, the guard; that what to us is a car or coach, is a carriage over there; that the carriages are divided into compartments, in which the passengers are locked, and outside. is called a train here, is a "arffhere: trains are not shifted 6r switched but | shunted; that when a traveller board- a | carriage he gets no check for his baggage, | which is there called luggage, but has to | trust to luck to get /t at the end of the route. —Somerset Vedette { any other offered to agents. the guard, instead of passitig throug the | carriage walks along a fool-br & » | 2 ? be x broad, On the | more money than will any other business. He would discover t¥at what | | easily and surely at work for us. 1 that | 8 fright trains are called goods trains: that | For some time past a rumor has been afloat that Meyersdale was to have anoth- er enterprise—this time in the shape of a creamery. With a view to becoming well informed as to the establishing of a creamery here, Messrs. J. M. Hay and Wm. P. Meyers last week departed for Chicago, Ill.,, where they visited and in- spected quite a number of creameries in Kane county, that state, which contains 43 creameries and 3 condensing factories. These establishments are all Tun co-oper- atively with the farmers and it is antici- pated that the same arrangements will be adopted here. The company will be a stock concern, and will undoubtedly be a boom to the town. Messrs. Hay and Meyers are ready to report to the com- mittee and a meeting will likely be held this week, when the cost of a plant, ex- pense of running. and other important things will-be submitted to the people in- terested.—Register. W. 8. Lichty returned from Wray, Col., Tuesday night, having made ar- rangements to move his family there. He reports the country as fast filling up with settlers from nearly every state in the Union, He says the weather out there reminds him of Florida. the mer- cury ranging among the 70's. The day he left a party were starting out te hunt alligators, A native of Wray has in- vented a way of tanning the hides by utilizing the bark of the coyotes. Or- anges, bananas, figs and sweet potatoes are as plenty there as here. The wheat crop was immense, the straw stacks re- sembling mountains of molten gold, and the grains so large that manv of them made a bushel. The cornstalks are used for bridge timbers and corn cobs for wagon tongues, while many of the grains make a good feed for a horse. Just hear W. 8. describe the beauties of the Wray country and you will go out and locate at once.—Carleton (Neb.) Reporter. Dr. L. Webster Fox, a noted authority, says: “Tobacco and alcohol are the two most prominent agents which not only perveri, but also destroy, special senses, and, of which men of this age too freely indulge, especially in social life. Itisa well authenticated fact that boys who have indulged in the use of tobacco are not mentally and physically as strong as those who abstain; not oulv have medical men recognized the tendency to a depres- sion of the vital force in boys and young men who are constant users of tobacco, but athletic trainers will never select their boats’ crpw from such ranks. These men know that tobacco weakens the heart. It issthe same with foot ball tearms or tug-of-war men: they mav be giants of strength, but when the final test comes, that subtle flnid flying through their nerves with lightninglike rapidity is sud- denlv snapped: collapse and defeat fol- low. The excessive use of tobacco not only weakens the muscles of the eye, hut also produces a lowering of the acuity of vision and a form of color blindness. How to Get “The Star” Without Money. We will send THE STAR free of charge, for one year, to all who secure us three new subscribers. at $1.50 each per year, cash in advance, : Democratic Primary. - The Democrats of Salisbury borough held a very harmonious caucus, last Fri- day evening. and nominated the follow- ‘ing ticket: For Burgess, C. T. Hay. For High Constable, B. F. Boyd. For Town Council, Ferdinand Breig. For Street Commissioner, Alfred Wagner. For Auditor, P. M. Wahl. For Constable, W. C. Wagner. For Tax Collector, A. J. Smith. For Judge of Election, E. H. Lambert. 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