SOMERSET, PA.
WHOLESLAE AND RETAIL!
OVO OVOIT OW
This large and pushing establishment sells at wholesale to |
90 town and country merchants in this and adjoining counties.
Its wholesale trade extends into Maryland and West
Vins
We are at all times prepared to compete in prices withA#e city |
markets.
At this season we are specially pushing Fishing Goods. Our |
stock of these goods is large, full and complete, and the prices
lowest wholesale.
Special attention is also being given to Base Ball Goods.
We are also doing a nice trade in Hammocks and Baby and Doll
Carriages.
Constantly in stock a full line of Staple and Fancy Station-
ery and Harmonicas. Merchants and others can buy of us to ad-
vantage, Tablets, Inks, Pens, Pencils, Envelopes, Bill Books and
Legal Cap Papers, Fountain Pens, Blank Books, Judgment Notes,
Receipt Books, School Books and Supplies, Miscellaneous Books
and such oter goods as are usually for sale in an up-to-date Book,
News and Stationery Store.
Chas. IH.
Dewey?
Arbuckle’s and Enterprise Coffee, per pound only 10 ccents.
4 1hs. Best Rice
jo.1bs. Navy Beans.........
1+1bs. White Hominy
7 Cakes Coke Soap
6 ‘akes Waterlily
Hisher.
Of c
cheaper
nirse we do,
than any other store in
town.
selves.
Lancaster Ginghams y cents per yard.
Good Cashmeres from ........ 12 1-2 cents up.
Very best Cotton Bats. ........... «00.0000
(rood Calico... 4 cents per yard.
Best Calico Scents per yard.
5 .bs. Good Raising... .... + 8 Good 7-cent
+= Just Received. ™
A fine line of Tadies’ Shirt Waists, prices from 50 cents to $1.00. Also a fine line of
Men's Dress Shirts, direet from the manufacturers, from 39 cents up. All the latest nov-
cities in Neckwear and Gents’ Furnishing Goods. Men’s Suits from $4 up. Children’s
Suits from 75 cents up. Boys? Knee Pants from25 cents up. Men’s Working Pants, Coats,
overalls, ete, at prices away down.
<4. (GREAT BARGAINS IN SHOES!
We carry an immense line of SHOES and buy direct from the celebrated manuface-
turers—Rice & Hutchins, Walker and Douglas—thoereby saving fully 25 per cent. of job-
bers? pric. We warrant these shoes in every part. We are also agents for the famous
Carlisle and Evitt Ladies’ Shoes. REMEMBER, THE ABOVE ARE CASIL PRICES.
Barchus & Livengood,
Salisburv, Penna.
(Feat 1t At Jefferys!
PEA :
When in need of anything in the line of Pure
Fresh Groceries, Fancy Confectionery, Marvin's
Fresh Bread, Books, Stationery, Notions, ete.
Soap
Muslin reduced
CALL AT Se
THE LEADING GROCERY.
Space is too limited to enumerate all my bargains here,
Call and be convinced that I sell the best of goods at the
lowest living prices.
Ay business has grown wonderfully in the past few years,
for which TI heartily thunk the good people of Salisbury
and vicinity and shall try harder than ever to merit your
fature patronage. Respectfully,
Jd. T. JEFFERY,
Opposite Postollice., - - - Grant Street.
(rain Hlour and Heed!
RS. A. Lichliter is doing businees at the old stand. With greatly increas-
ed stock and facilities for handling goods, we are prepared to meet the
wants of our customers in
ALL KINDS OF STAPLE GROCERIES,
Feed, Flour, Corn, Oats, Ite.
In short anything to feed man or beast. Furthermore, we are JOBBERS
OK CARBON OIL and cansave merchants money on this line, as we buy car-
load lots. We are also
Fleadquarters For Maple Sweets.
We pay cash for good Butter and nice. clean Fresh Eggs. Come and see
what advautages we offer.
S. A. LICHLITER, Salisbury, Pa.
IN THE KOONTZ BUILDING!
Having some time ago purchased the Koontz property, all those
interested in Monumental work will find me in what was once
known as ! :
THE KOONTZ MARBLE WORKS.
1 am prepared as never before toofferto.all those.in need of Monumental work.
from small Headstonas to Granite Monuments.
PRICES HERETOFORE UNHEARD OF.
None butithe best of Marble. and Granite, and workmanship the. finest. 1
make Granite: work a specialty. You will be surprised. at ‘my. prices. Call and
seem, ALBERT. J. HILLEGASS, Berlin. Pa.
SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA,
AN INTERVIEW.
RED |
into office they told me I was elected
for three years. I said I knew that.
| Commissioner Kimmel Tells Why | Well! they said, ‘you must stand by
He Left the Scull Ring.—Some | °YF bills, George, or Shober will cut
[them all up.” 1 said I would see they
Startling Disclosures. — Facts | got justice. Prior to this time I had
and Figures for Tax-payers. never seen a Scull bill and thought
The tyrants of the Scull ring have | their bills were all right. I had no
| been pursuing George ¥. Kimmel ever idea they were such a set of skinners,
since his re-election to the office of | but I soon found out we could buy of-
County Commissioner in 1896. The | fice supplies and printing for less than
| reason for their bitter hatred of Com- one-third of the Scull prices, as tue fig-
| missioner Kimmel is not far to seek. |
ures following will show.
Mr. Kimmel is a straight, squre man. |
Nobody knows this fact better than the
! Sculls. But Mr. Kimmel’s back-bone
is too much for them. Ile is the man
When I entered the Commissioners’
| office I found that the Sculls had ‘been
| furnishing about all the county’s print-
| ed matter; but when 1 learned of
We sell goods |
Our prices speal for them- |
l above all men in Somerset county who |
{ is more than a match for “Tim,” “Bob,”
“Lucifer,” and the rest of the Scull
menagerie.
ment and good name, and his rugged
lle is
the man they would sacrifice their last
‘ bottle of “Barker’s liniment” to kill off,
| politically or otherwise. Every issue
of the Somerset Ilerald and its Meyers-
| dale “organette” since the holidays has
| referred to Commissioner Kimmel in
| opprobrious terms. The public records
| have been searched, the Court-house
i has been ransacked from celler to at- |
tic, in the vain hope of finding one sin-
| gle dishonest act of (reorge I. Kimmel.
{ attempted to spring on Commissioner
| Kimmel is as thin as water.
to see fair play is common to most men.
The editor of Tie Star went to Somer-
set, last Friday, to see Mr. Kimmel in
person. The “fake” turned out just as
{we expected. The $500.60 loan from
from Winters to Kimmel.
{ was found at his home on Main street.
in true Somerset county fashion.
“Is this the house you bought with
County money?” 1 asked.
| Mr. Kimmel, laughing heartily.
year.
ed Mr. William Winters for
| of that much for a few days.
pecting to get in some money in a short
| time. Ile said he would loan me the
| money and wrote a due bill for me to
| sign.
$500.00.
| say it was County money.
After I got my money, I told him I
fins ready to lift that due bill. He
I said I shouldn’t mind about that yet;
he said he had all the money he wanted
a loan
lle did not tell me it was
not lift the due bill till some time last
month.
any person about that due bill, and 1
{don’t believe he did. I don’t care if
| he did.
They envy his good judg- |
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the prices they had been receiving,
it staggered me, and I did not won-
der that they were so anxious to have
me stand by their bills. When I re-
fused to stand by their bills and help
them skin the county, they became
enraged and have been persecuting
me ever since. For assessment blanks
and blotters the Sculls had been
getting, per set, $150, (present price
$65); tax duplicates, per set, $70, (pres-
ent price $15); registration books, per
set, $120, (present price $20); election
blanks. per set, $98. (present price $30) ;
military rolls, per set, $53, (present
| price $13); advertising annual state-
| ment, $170, (present price $75).
The last sensation the Scullions have |
A desire !
| used to
I asked them to bid on the work, but
they refused to bid, and oretty soon
they used their spurs on me. I wasn’t
spurs. I kicked; but they
wouldn’t let up on me. You have no
idea how these Sculls can devil
man.
| they couldn’t have their own prices and
Treasurer Winters was a personal loan |
Mr. Kimm=1 |
their own way in everything. Oneday
1 threatened to lick ‘Bob’ Scull, and
| then I had peace.
lle welcomed the editor of Tie Star |
‘Tim’ Scull, I'red. Biesecker and John
| Scott brought in some old District At-
| torney bills.
The bills amounted to
THURSDAY. MAY 19, 18
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They thought it couldn’t be voher | wanted a new Court house built.
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| about a thousand dollars. I asked them |
“Oh yes; how do you like it?” said
“You know, I bought this house last !
I traded some timber land on it. |
I was short $500.00 on the deal and ask- |
I was ex- |
| them, but we refused.
and said: ‘Why, your attorney has ap- |
I signed it and he gave me the |
County money, and Mr. Winters will not
| left.
and did not need my money; so I did |
Mr Winters says he never told |
| dozer.
That was a personal transac- |
| tion between us, as far as I am con- |
cerned.
may chew at that due bill till their eyes
water. Treasurer Winters would be
liable to imprisonment if he misapplied
the county funds. I know the point
You can’t make a point out of nothing.
The Scull gang are mighty hard up for
ammunition just now.
the Spaniards; they can’t shoot any
more. They are grabbing at straws. I
don’t like politics as well as I used to,
and I don’t like fighting so well any
more, but 1 am fighting this year and I
Scull ring sticks up its head.
Scull business must be wiped out for
good. The whole Scull ring is rotten to
the core.
them out. If the people would know
how grasping they are, the ring would
have been completely buried long ago.”
“Is it true, Mr. Kimmel, that you was
er the first time?” I inquired.
“Yes sir; I was one of the biggest
Scull fools in the county, if I must say
up the Republican party.
just like me.
would never vote for an anti-Scull man.
say what they could do for me. About
two weeks before the primary election
they found out I would be elected, and
then they came to me and said things
were looking pretty good for me.
a Scull man when elected Commission- |
‘When I wanted to run for County Com- |
missioner, they told me they could not | county for Monday.
“Pim? Scull ard ‘Lucifer’ Smith |
they are trying to make on me, but the |
Sculls ean’t fool the peonle any more. |
why they brought in such old bills.
They said they had forgot to present
them when they were district attor-
neys. Isaid that was strange.
then got the Commissioners’ attorney
them back
proved these bills and you must pay
them.
attorney has done, we won’t pay them.
Then they grabbed up their bills and
1 wish I had kept those bills.
could do some big itemizing on them.
tion in 1893. In the spring of 1895, 1
and demanded us to pay |
They got hot prepared for.
They |
| vaults.
@ounty Star.
98.
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Scull newspapers set up a big wail
Then we saw-Kretchman’s game, and
we dropped the valuations, because
the people did not understand the
fuss and the Sculls tried to get
political advantage out of their. trick. |
After it was dropped the Somerset |
Herald said it made the Commission-
ers lower the taxes. (What an old
fakir the Herald is anyhow.) Then
the Herald and the other Scull sheets
said Kretchman was not to blame for
raising the assessments. It just amounts
to this, if we lower the valuations we
must levy more mills tax. All T-want-
ed was to get the valuations equal. It
would be easier to get them equal if
all property was assessed at fuil value;
and then we could levy less mills and
the tax would not be higher thau it is
now.”
“Have you levied the county tax for
1898?”
“Yes; we levied four and a half mills
for 18938.”
“Will the county tax be higher than
last year?”
“No; the county tax will be lower
than last year to the tax-payers.”
“How do you make that out, Mr.
Kimmel?” =
“Well, the county tax ought to come
down, because we are getting more tax- |
It ought to !
We have a new |
jail and the new steel vaults will make |
payers and more property.
come down lower yet.
the Court house last twenty-five years
longer, unless it burns down, like the |
The Sculls
That
is what made them hick so on the new
Capitol at Harrisburg.
ten years. Just take the assessment
books and see for yourself.
1898. The Scull machine was running
the Commissioners’ uflice in 1888, don’t
forget that,” said Mr. Kimmel.
The comparison
STAR man.
fairly
of ten years was more than we were
what “Lucifer” calls “Shoberism” and
I said ‘it don’t matter what the { “Kimmelism” we have compiled a list of
| some of the largest farmer tax-payers |
| in Somerset county, for the purpose of
Li
| neighbor
2 | creased county taxation, and rub his |
You know I was defeated for re-elec- |
was nominated for school director in |
Milford township. These
came down to our township, and tried
to defeat me at the general spring elec-
ringsters |
tion, Jobn C.Weller acting as chief bull- |
I had no notion at that time to |
run for Commissioner again, but that |
school director fight made me spunky.
I ran for Commissioner again just to
i Hanpa,John........ 2741
give the Scull ring another dose of |
George Kimmel. They don’t like their
medicine, but what are they going to |
do about it?”
“Was all the time put in last year
necessarily spent by the Commission-
| ers?”
They are like |
| more time
{ years.
“Yes ; but they stole a march on us
there,” said Mr. Kimmel.
than the common
I’11 tell you how that
| You see the Sculls had planned their
| fight against the Commissioners away
will fight every year, as long as the old |
This |
| sioner Kretchman
. Le LO did more work
The people are just finding |
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last year. They wanted us to get
in a big number of days, so they
could kick on our time.
is their man.
holding back than
doing business, last year. I worked
done, but we were always behind.
was holding back all the time. Tcould
not understand Kretchman.
| He was straining at gnats all the time,
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it myself. I used to believe they kept low a Scull camel.
1 didn’t counting up my days I was scared. TI]
know they worked the party and the | knocked off a lot of days; I still had too |
County treasury to keep themselves up... many and took off some more, but still
There were lots of other Republicans [it was the biggest bill I ever had. !
I used to boast that I The Scull papers pitched into me and
Good, but they snid Kretchman was not |
: : ! mm : - | Lepley,
I supported that infernalring for twen- | to blame. They excused Kretchman |
ty years at every primary election. It | every time. Kretchman has a good snap. |
makes me sick when I think about it. | He usually comes here Monday evening |
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When 1 got to
on the last train and charges the
| Hillegas,
! Mowry. John
|. Suhre, Franeis......
“We got in!
run of | :
was. | Berkley, Mrs. Sarah
| Hay, Sylvester
{ Kimnmel,
Commis- |
He |
| Gabe and 1 pushed, but Kretchman |
1le want- |
| ed to be so particular about everything. Griftith, Stephen
| | Enos, Emanuel
| with all my might to get the business |
comparison. Take this list to your
who is growling about in-
nose on it. Look at it, farmers of Som-
erset county, and give the Scull fac-
tion the everlasting go-by:
ADDISON. :
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‘SOX [N98
Jacobs, Asa......... $31.82 $15.10
14.94
25.57
21.75
18.00
*{c¢Colloh, Henry C.
Miller, Wm
Sterner, Jacob
ALLEGHENY.
Wm. 1,
home farm..... 24.22
11.65
7.78
Sarver, Wm
Tipton, Jacob
BROTHERSVALLEY.
25.13
24.57
21.34
22.70
30.08
33.30
Miller, Jonathan...
Meyers, David L....
Ed., now
Stoner, J. O 30.81 32.61
BLACK.
9.99
9.36
7.28
16.38
8.91
(..
Baker, John D
Critchfield, Oliver.. 186.73
14.67
Snder, Peter 34.03
Younkin, Wm. 8.... 16.66
CONEMAUGH.
Blough, Benjamin.. 48.34
Eash,Kmanuel,home
farm... ii. 002040
29.19
=n
~1C5 ty CO =
SIN O ~I
30.29 18.05
15.21
17.90
14.26
11.69
Johns, Sem K., bome
but every now and then he would swal- |
He frequently !
leaves for home on the first train, Sat- |
urday morning, and charges the coun-
ty for Saturday. The Sculls are not
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kicking on Kretchman’s time, but I am |
That determined the truth shall come out.
me. They told me to watch Sam Sho- | property at full value. It was the ldw,
ber, that he was a dangerous character. and we coukd not well refuse... Kretch=-
to assooidte with. That made me feel { man wanted to know if we could prose-
fanny. They seemed to be afraid 13 cute the assessors for perjury, for not
Ankney,
tickled me. I saw the trick. Afterthe | It was the same with the assessmends. |
oid i ray 3 IK insi 881i il
election they said they had nominated | Kretchman insisted on assessing all, Fricdline, Mam...
| Hoffman, Alex
would get weoved.. After.I was sworn., making, tha valuations high enough. | Felker, Couzad......1117,
farm... oc. 2518 13.23 12.85
Kaufman, Jacob,
home farm 44 25.70. 10.21
Keim, Henry, now
Keim, David. ...
Maust, Samuel P...
Jeachy, Milton J...
Keim,J. B
54.01
48.44
61.82
33.62
30.15
43.97
28.35
20.39.
18.20
13.18
home farm 23.62
JEFFERSON.
Brougher, Jeremiah. 34.72.
Fleck, Silas A...... 3161
Hay, Wm. P,, 3
farm 2.
Miller, Jonathan L. 39%
Shaulis, . Frederick, .
homefarm
20.47
19.35
14.25
19:63
21.74
12.96
17567
53: 21.19
JENNER,
Jénas- J.,
home farm
Critchtield, Samuel.
13.33
87. 18.85
28:60 13.22
3224 1895
39.3¢ 2281
Ash, Lavam ......... 31.56 20.64
LARIMER.
10.85
16.02.
13228 |
13.194
16.53
10:92.
5.84
5.79.
Bittner, Wm. F 5.01
5.38
| Casebeer, Henry...
Now go with me to the Court |
house and let me show you how the |
county tax has been reduced in the last |
Take the |
| assessments of 1888, just ten years ago, |
and compare it with the assessment of |
up-set Tue |
Such a startling reduction |
to approve the bills and they brought | in county taxation in the short space
To convince our farmer !
| subscribers that they have profited by
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17.85 |
14.214)
12.26 i
ner in the affidavit business.
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NUMBER 17.
Knepp, William.... 9.00
Poorbrugh, Adam... 13.41
Beal, Plerman B.... 11.4L
LINCOLN.
Ankney, Willis....... 32.14
31.75
21.49
16.80. . 9.41 7.39
1495 935 5.60
Now then, fellow citizens, it ought to
be very plain te you that the royal fam-
ily of Sculls and Scull henchmen are
impostors and scheming pretenders.
That they have been skinning the Re-
publican party for many years, and
persecuting those who refuse to bow to
their selfish dictation, is a self-evident
fact. Their effort to show increased
taxation has fallen flat. We have
searched the records and found things
just as we expected. We could give
you many more figures, but space will
not permit. The best thing to do is to-
go to the Commissioners’ office and ex-
amine the records yourselves, as Com--
missioner Kimmel has seweral times,.
through the newspapers, invited you to
do. You will find that while the as-
sessment in some cases is higher in
1898 than it was in 1888, yet the tax in
nearly all cases is lower, because the
millage or tax levy is lower.
The Sculls had hoped to frighten you
by quoting high assessments, but they
took good care not to tell you of the
decreased millage. Remember the rot-
ten Scull gang and help to turn it
down at the primary, as is your duty as
a good citizen. Also remember that one:
of their henchmen, Mr. David Wagner,
| the same man who now a candi-
| date for delegate to the State con-
vention, was one of the Commission-
ers in 1888, and therefore is one of the
men to blame for the high taxes
of that year. The Seulls and their
henchmen are all tarred with the same
stick and from the least to the greatest
are unworthy of your votes.
We do not ask you to take Tie Star's
word for this, but go and examine the
' records for yourselves, as the editor of
Tug Star has done; and if you don’t
| find things exactly as we tell you, we
will pay the expenses of your trip and
make a retraction in our
| Can anything be fairer? Can
able, fair-minded voters demand more?”
The records don’t lie, but the truth
! hurts the Sculls, and that’s why they
| raise the cry—“you are wrecking the
party!” Down with them! Their cor-
| rupt reign must be broken and will be
| broken.
| Commissioner Kretchman’s policy in
| catering to the Sculls is easily account-
| ed for. His brother-in-law, Mort Welf-
ley, is an applicant tor the Elk Lick
| post-ofiice, and Mr. Kretchmau thicks
| by doing as the Sculls dictate it wili
his brother-in-law’s chances
Now, Mort
4.16
7.65
7.50
5.81
3.91
16.16
19.31
13.35
13.98
12.44
8.14
Knepper, William..
Shaffer, James... ....
Arisman, Adam
is
| :
next issue
reasol-
| increase
| for the postmastership.
| Weltley is a good citizen and Tie Sran
likes him. We would mueh rather sew
| him get the post-office than any of th:
other Scull applicants. But the Sculls
and Hicks will turn him down, as will
| be seen later on, and then Mr. Kreteh-
"man will see how he was roped in. th
will then see that it didn’t pay, alter
[ all, to be an obstruetionist in the Com
missioners’ otlice to please the Sculls.
SAMPLE COPIES.
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| from THE Star office are plain
lv marked as such, and for sam--
‘ple copies we make neo charge.
If vou find THE STAR coming
| to your address, and you have
i not subscribed, you can rest as-
‘sured that a friend has paid for:
the paper for you, or else you
will find the words, “Saniple
Copy,” plainly written or stamp--
led on the margin of the paper.
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| Jupaina from clippings which we re--
| - . .
| print from the Berkin Record, in this is-
| sue, Teditor-Marshall takes no stock ‘in
| bogus friends of the old! seldier. Mr.
| Marshall is anvold soldier “himself, and
| judging from his editorials, he: thinks.
| stab feitows as WW. H. Sanner and J. D
licks ought to recognize the old vet--
| erang-inithe matter of banding out of-.
fices as well: as: soliciting their: votes -
whemthey wang office themselves. The
Reeord is right. AH the use Sanner:
and Tlidks have forthe old soldiers is.
to get theirvotes.
Tiare Svar now has-Hen. W. H.: San--
By read- -
ing. his articlé and affidavits-carefully, .
and then reading carefully the article
pubtished in Tie Star, to which Mr.
Sunner: attempted! to reply, it will be:
seen that dhe Afidavit Sannerdoees not
squarely meet the issue on.a single:
charge; and furthermore, some of ‘the
most serious charges he sees fit not to
reply to at all. We will give Mr. San--
ner a chance to make some more afli--
davits before the. fuan.is. all over..