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‘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
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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.
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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.
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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.
For Inspector,
R: A. Kidner.
For School Directors,
C. 8. Lichliter, for 8 years.
Joseph Wagner, for 3 years.
J. C. Balliet, for 1 year.
Call and Settle.
Having decided to close my hooks and
in the future sell only for cash, I hereby
notify all persons owing me to call and
settle. I need my money, so please pay
promptly and avoid trouble.
R. F. TromAs. Boynton, Pa.
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