A eS IR El PRR Tbe Somerset County Star. P. L. LIVENGOOD, Editor and Publisher. Mrs. P. L. LIVENGOOD, Associate Editor. Don’t Forget This. Watch the man that wants to sell yon goods or Marble at 40 per cent. below price. He must have something in view in the future to catch up to a living price; so watch him and his work, and then you will place vour orders with the old. re- liable firm of J. B. Williams, Frostburg, Md., for first-class work. S. F. WiLsoN, Salesman for J. B. Williams, New Advertisements. A. F. Speicher, display ad. on 1st page. Wm. Petry, display ad. on 1st page. Mayers Drug Co., three reading notices on 4th page. H. E. Bucklen & Co., two reading notices on &th page. 8. 8S Little. reading notice on 8th page. LOCAL fIND BENERAL, Senators, the people plead For the rest they need; Two weeks of talk’'s enough, Vote, vote; that's the stuff. The Lutheran reunion at Rockwood was a grand success. ) Don’t forget the St. Paul picnic, which takes place Sept. 2nd. The Lonaconing Star ought to take a club and kill some of its obituary poets. Walter S., the only child of Mr. A. Chamberlain, of Meyersdale, died last Sunday. Gray squirrels will be in season tomor- row, but they are said to be very scarce this year. ’ Misses Mabel Suhrie and Grace Rosen- berger, of Meyersdale, are the guests of Miss Jennie Livengood. 1f you want to vote this fall, you must be registered before Sept. 7th. See to it at once that you are registered. Mrs. S. C. Keim and family were vis- ited during the past week by N. George Keim and wife, of Elkins, W. Va. Saturday evening old “‘Soldier Billy” will have some of those big, fat oysters on haud. Don’t fail to call for a stew. Today is the last day that this govern- ment will conduct a job printing busi- ness. No more envelopes to be printed by “Uncle Sam.” : . No bad results from taking Hill's Chlo- ride of Gold Tablets, while the cure ios permanent. Drunkenness. Tobacco and Opium habit positively cured. S. O. Newman and Peter Vogel are both making preparations to build. Each wiil build a residence between Sam Mier's property and the old foundry. Mort and Chris Welfley will each wield the birch in Greenville township, the coming term. Mort will teach the Spruce- dale school; Chris, the Hostetler school. Banker Livengood's daughter Grace was married to Mr. Hugo Lorentz, the cashier of Mr. Livengood’s bank, the event taking place at the bride's home, last Thursday. The following new postmasters were appointed for Somerset county, last week: Confluence, J. J. Reynolds; Holsopple, D. D. Border: Hooversville, 8. P. Geisel} Fa Lavansville. P. G. Benford. President Cleveland, it is reported, had an operation performed the other day for a cancerous affection of the mouth, something similar to the malady which caused General Grant's death. There were more hoodlums at large on our streets, last Saturday night, than at any time for several months. The yell- ing any blackguarding they did was sim- ply outrageous. Our policeman should have run them all into the “cooler.” Cards are out announcing the marriage of Mr. Daniel Mevers. of near Berlin, to Miss Lizzie Maust, daughter of Samuel P. Maust, of Elk Lick township. The event will take place Sept. 5th. Tag STAR extends its congratulations in ad- vance. Squire S. J. McKenzie, of Garrett, was instantly killed by the local freight train, on Tuesday, while walking on the track near the depot. He was carrying an uni- brella at the time, which accounts for his not seeing the train in time to make his escape. Howard H. Keim, formerly of this place, but now of Lodoga, Ind., is now associate editor of the National Sheep- man, a live stock journal published at In- dianapolis. He also continues to be one of the most extensive sheep-breeders in the country, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Maust are monrn- ing the loss of their little babe, which died last Friday. Much sympathy is felt | Let us unite. “United we stand, divided | we fall.” Sam Gipe, Salisbury’s renowned mould- er and iron founder, moved to Berlin and worked in the Pulley factory until busi- | ness got too slack to justify him to re- main there. He then moved to Mevers- | dale and accepted a job in the Mountain | Electrical Works, but alas! that institu- | good work is yet only in its infancy. | | Next will follow electric light, a board of | trade, a new name for the town, water | works, admission of West Salisbury to | the borough and other great things too | numerous to mention. Keep the ball { rolling, and we will have one of the most | desirable towns to live in that can be | found on God’s footstool. | | | | | tion is also on a par with a dead duck,| We have been informed by a Demo- | founders, M. Knecht & Son. the family here again. Salisbury is the best town, anyway. The base ball games, last Saturday, be- tween Salisbury and Frostburg and Frost- burg and Coal Run, resulted as follows: Salisbury beat Frostburg by a score of 15 to 7. and Frostburg beat Coal Run by a score of 17 to 5. The Salisbury club has nothing to be proud of, however, as their victory was won by the aid of hired help. Let a club play witl®its own men exclusively or quit the business. Boys, don’t do like Meyersdale—hire good play- ers from other towns and then blow about victories which the home club of itself could not have won. On last Friday afternoon a base ball team from this place crossed bats with the Meyersdale team at that place, the re- sult of the game being 9 to 4 in favor of Meyersdale. We understand the umpire did not know a ‘‘strike” from a ‘‘ball” and consequently Mansfield, who was in the box for our team, did not get justice. Pollock was behind the bat and played a good game. The boys complain very much about the shabby treatment re- ceived at Meyersdale, but were much pleased with the reception accorded them at Salishury.—Lonaconing Review. THE STAR is glad to announce that the eastern mail service, which our citizens applied for some time ago, has been granted. We will now get two daily mails from Meversdale, which we have long needed, and the new schedule will likely go into effect next week. This is one of the improvements that THE STAR has advocated almost continnonsly since its establishment, and we are glad that the people took hold and fought it through. Meyersdale assisted usin the matter, for which we will gratefully re- member that hustling town. Coleman and Schramm will now run a double hack line, which will give us excellent hassenger service. The picnic held at the big spring on Negro mountain, last Saturday, was with- out a doubt the most successful picnic held in Somerset county, this year. No less than two thousand people were in attendance, and the way the managers of the big affair had provided for the occa- sion was truly wonderful. Nothing was lacking that would have added to the pleasure of the occasion, and all who at- tended are loud in their praise of the courteous treatment received at the hands of the people of that vicinity and those in charge of the affair. The big crowd was very orderly and well behaved, and everything passed off very nicely. If the people up there ever get up another pic- nic, Salisbury will again turn out in goodly numbers. The Somerset county Telephone Com- pany is pushing matters, and active oper- ations will speedily begin. Books will be opened for the sale of a limited amount of stock in afew days. W. W. Staub and W. S. Mock are the promoters of the enterprise at this end, and they are back- ed by a number of Somerset gentlemen. The line will extend from Meyersdale to Salisbury and include the various collier- ies between the two points, also from Meyersdale to Somerset by way of Garrett and Berlin, to be extended to Glade and Rockwood. A central station will be es- tablished in Meyersdale if the business warrants it. A charter has been applied for. nearly all the rights of way secured. and the work of construction will begin without delay.—Meyersdanle Register. No Democrat can blume a Republican for twitting him about the present state of affairs. Last fall when Democracy was celebrating its sweeping victory and telling of the prosperons times to come, we Republicans had to grin and bear it. for we were whipped. completely whip- ped and fairly whipped. But now when prospects ought to be brightening, ac cording to Democratic theory, and just the reverse is the actual condition, it is our time to talk and Democrats must grin and bear it. However, if the Democrat- ic party carries out its platform, and it brings about the golden results we have been told would be brought about, then the Republicans have got to acknowl- edge that they were in the wrong, and THE STAR will be one of the foremost to for the sorrowing parents. Funeral took place on Sunday, Rev. Dr. Rupp, of Mey- | ersdale. officiating. Cholera infantum, we believe, is what ailed the chi'd. We acknowledge receipt of two pic- | tures showing a group of Cheviot sheep, | on the Wild Rose sheep farm, owned bv Howard H. Keim, near Ladoga. Ind. The compliment is duly appreciated and | the pictures are very handsome. Our | friend Keim seems to be making a great | success in the sheep business, all of which | he deserves. “Why don’t Salisbury and West Salis- bury unite under one corporation?’ is a question Tne STAR was asked, last week, | by F J. Anspach, of Philadelphia. Mr. Anspach is a man of good basiness ideas, | and, of course. sees the advantages of such a union. As the gentlemen owns a great many lots in West Salisbury, per- haps he could help us to bring such a thing about. “‘In union thereisstrength.” make the acknowledgement. But so long as the Democratic party does not vindicate itself, and. the prospects for its vindication look as poor as they do now. just so long will we believe that party wrong and try to show it up in that light. One by one Salisbury’s needed improve- ments are coming. Not long ago we hadn’t a hardware store in town; now we have two good ones. Neither had we a drug trore. but now we have a good one. THE STAR kept hammering away for a clothing store, and in the near fu- ture we will have one of the best to he found; the building for it is almost ready for occupancy. We have the best hotel town in the county, excluding Somerset, whereas less than two years ago we had practically no hotel. We have a great deal of new pavement, many new build- ings going up, a good opera house, a greatly improved school building, addi- tional mail service, etc., etc., and the | sentiments and sometimes reprints Re- | publican editorials clipped from other pa- | pers. The clipped editorials are found | fault with the most, says our informant. | Now, what we have to say is this: We | are not responsible for the opinions of oth- ler papers, and when we publish articles taken from other papers, we do so that our readers may have political opinions from other sources as well as from the local paper. They can read them and take them for what they think they are worth. So far as our own writings are concerned, we shall continue to write just what we please and what we believe to be right. THE STAR abuses no man on account of his politics, but we claim the right to criticise anv party we please and to ex- press our views on any political issue that is before the people. We do not ex- pect everybody to agree with our opin- ions, neither do we abuse any who hold different views from our own. But some people think no man has a right to say anything against their pet party and that it is a crime to express opinions different from their own. Such thin-skinned, nar- row-minded people are entirely too sen- sitive and only expose the smallness of their mental calibre. This is a Republi- can paper and always has been from the start; it snid so in its first issue. We have no use for a paper that is afraid to speak its own sentiments. We recognize no neutral grounds, believing that every person should be either for or against a measure or question of any kind. In fact every person ¢s that way, only some people ‘‘carry water on two shoulders” so suceessfully that vou can never tell where they stand. In conclusion we will say that any man who thinks his party can not withstand what a little country paper says about it. or any man who is so intolerant and narrow-minded that he feels sore when an editor expresses opin- ions that do not coincide with his own, need not take Tae STAR. It is his privi- lege to stop it when he pleases. But there are enough brainy men, men of broad-gauge ideas, both Democrats and Republicans, who will see to it that Tug STAR will always have a good circulation. Pick up any Democratic paper you please, look it over and see whether it doesn’t criticise Republican doctrine just as much as THE Star opposes Democratic doec- trine. Yes, you will find it just as we tell you, and you will also find some donkeys of the Republican persuasion that will feel terribly insulted about it. Such is life, however, and there are too many people living in this enlightened age of free speech that ought to have lived in the dark ages. when might made right and when people were persecuted and put to death because they dared to express opinions different from those of others. The man who boycotts a home paper, a home merchant or a home indus- try of any kind, on account of political matters, is more baby than man and ought to be placed on an exclusive milk diet for the rest of his days. Electric Bitters. This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special men- tion. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise.—A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaran- teed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum and other affections caused by impure blood.—--Will drive Malaria from the system and prevent as well as cure all Malarial fevers.—For cure of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Electric Bitters—Entire satisfaction auaranteed, or money refunded.—Price 50 cts. and $1.00 per bottle at A. F. Speicher’s drug store. It May Be Abandoned. The electric road to Salisbury may be abandoned. This ought to bring joy to a select few there, but it will bring sor- row to the many. The electric road is too expensive, and that settles its fate. But this does not mean that the road will not be built. On the contrary it may be put down very much earlier than any of its most ardent friends hoped for. ‘I'he new motor, now working so splendidly in Chicago, and which will soon be fully tested as to grades at its manufactory in Ohio, may solve the question for us. As to the expense, the road bed will cost the same; the cars and their equipment for the traffic much less, and the expenses of motive power may be truthfully com- pared as to the cost of electricity used in running twenty-five miles to a few buck- ets of water. This new power, if it will do all that is claimed for it, will revolu- tionize rapid transit the world over. The horse and the electric road must go.— Meyersdale Commercial. Tut! tut! old man, don’t talk of sorrow to anyone on account of your announce- ment. Your electric road talk has never | brought out anything but ridicule for your pet hobby, and that is all it will bring out in this instance. Part of your effusion, however, is sensible and to the | point. You say that ‘‘the electric road {is too expensive and that settles it.” Right you are; and that is just what | THE STAR told vou from the start and | kept telling you all along. You seem to "have caught onto some of the facts in and now Sam is working for our own | cratic friend that some of his Democratic | popular and hustling machinists and brethren are talking of discontinuing | Glad to | their subscriptions to THE STAR. and all | have you among us, Sam; better move | because the editor expresses his political | | rectly adjusted to suit your eves. One | day only. REMEMBE WE GUARANTEE A CURE and invite the most careful investigation 2s to our responsibil- ity and the merits of our Tablets. Fidmodi! Double Chloride of Gold Tablets Will completely destroy the desire for TOBACCO in from 3 tob days. . Perfectly harm - less; cause no sickness, and may be given in a cup of tea or eoffee without the Knowl- edge of the patient, who will voluntarily stop smoking or chewing in a few days. 7 can be cured at home, and with- outany effort on t e art oO. DRUNKENNESS and MORPHINE HADIT x ho prt of the patient, by the use of our SPECIAL FORMULA GCLD CURE TABLETS. 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Neither the many WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT: This large and heav. nor the few ever bothered their brains with the electric road project, which | ily stocked establishment is now fully stocked and ready for 1 r ; common sense alone showed at a glance the Fall and Winter trade. to be impracticable. In fact no such a Tre Wholesale J . sella 10.004 d t orchants in thizend ad : 3 Ara + : he Wholesale department sells to own and country m . thing as an electric road to Salisbury was oining counties and states. The attention of merchants and others in the Elk Lick and Meyers- ever contemplated or seriously thought | gale coal regions is called to our stock, and their orders and the orders of others solicited. of by anv capitalist or set of capitalists. Blank Books, Letter, Legal Cap, Foolscap and Box Paper, Envelopes. Inks, Pens, Pencils, Mucil- It existed in vour own mind only. Some | 28 Pen Holders, Slates, Tablets, Justice's Blanks, School Books, School Supplies and everything es y ots] - \ hed usually sold at a well organized and well stocked stationery store, at best wholesale prices. The people read your LAnsions und laughed | Loo) trade is solicited for such goods as your home merchants do not supply. Mail orders prompt- at them, and that is all there ever was to | 1y attended to. CHAS. H. FISHER. it. We would like to have some system of rapid transit here, and as soon as something in that line is invented that can connect the two towns and be oper- () ated on a paving basis, just that soon 0 Salisbury will do her full share to bring such a thing about. But none of our citizens will waste any time talking of an electric line, such as are in use today, | canse I have got the goods and make the prices that save people money. and which any sane man knows Meyers- | S€éen MY NEW SPRING STOCK dale and Salisbury haven’t got population enough to support. ¥ of Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Furnishing Goods, Notions, etc? . 8. son, Slay St., : Se ’ . at . ; ay pl B Wien 37 Clay Ee Sharpshirr, Give me a call and see my line of Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Fine Shoes, Ox- King's New Discovery for Consumption, | ford Ties and Slippers, also a nice line of Men's, Bovs’ and Children’s Straw Hats. Coughs and Colds, that it cured his wife| Many thanks for past favors. I remain your friend, who was threatened with Pneumonia af- GEO. K. WALKER. ter an attack of “La Grippe,” when vari- C. T. Hay’s Block, Salisbury, Pa. THE LAST CALL TO BARGAINS. HARD TIMES, HIGH PRICES and BIG PROFITS can’t exist in this town, be- Have you It Should Be in Every House. ous other remedies and several physicians had done her no good. Robert Barber, of Cooksport, Pa., claims Dr. King’s New Discovery has done him more good than anything he ever used for Lung Trouble. Nothing like it. Try it. Free Trial Bottles at A. F. Speicher’s drug store. Large bottles, 50c. and $1.00 RS A FREE PASS Why should not Pittsburg and Alle- ghenv be united under the name of Pitts- burg? It is a constant annovance to the people of both places, as well as their friends elsewhere, to have to distinguish between the two cities. The mere acci- dent of a river lowing between the blocks of houses, all built through the same in- terest, should not make two cities of it. —Somerset Vedette. And why should not Salisbury and West Salisbury be united under one and the same name? There are many good reasons why the two towns should be united under one corporation, but there is not one good reason why they should remain separate, simply because there is a small stream running between them. If the two towns would unite, they would then constitute a borough that would take second place in population among the county towns, and that, too, before the next census is taken. That alone would give the town a prestige tuat would be very valuable to it. Besides that, “‘in unity there is strength,” and by the two towns uniting they would work together in a way that would be highly advanta- geous to the people on both sides of the river. The talk of such a union greatly increasing the taxes on West Salisbury property is all bosh—the rottenest kind of bosh. The rate of taxation of proper- ty in West Salisbury would depend on the amount of street improvement, etc., the people of that town would want, and they could have as much or as little of that as would please them. The way matters are now in West Salishury, prop- erty is taxed about as high as it is in the borough, yet the people of that town get no more street improvement than if their houses were scattered all over Negro Mountain. By coming into the borough they would get the benefit of the tax they pay. which they are not getting now. To the Worlds Fair! The only consideration is that you buy your goods at L. Morrell’'s Mammoth Furniture rooms, where you will find a well selected stock of all kinds of Furniture, Carpet Sweepers, Window Shades, Wall Paper and border of all descriptions, Queensware, Glassware and everything per taining to a first-class Furniture and House Furnishing Store. All Furniture Home made and guaranteed No. 1. You will also find one of the grandest, best and most complete stock of Organs, Pianos and Sewing Machines to be found in the state. The Chicago Cottage Organ 1s FINE, taking the lead wherever known. Get no other. The Gabler and Schubert Pianos are just RAND—what everybody wants to make a happy home. : The New Home and the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machines stand at the head of the list—the best in the world. Get no other. All goods sold CHEAP FOR CASH Or on easy payments. Now, remember, on all the above goods you get Rock BoTTOM cash prices, and every dollar's worth bought and paid for, before Sept. 1st, 1898, entitles you to one red ticket, and 256 red tick- ets entitle the holder to one first-class round-trip ticket to the World's Fair, free of charge. Tick- ets are all transferable, and the lucky holder draws the prize. Do not miss the opportunity of a lifetime, but come and go with us. Get your tickets of MORRELL & SHAFENBERG. Main Office, Meyersdale, Pa. Large branch stores at 63 Balto. St., umberland, Md., and Masonic Temple, Altocna, Pa. 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