THE SOMERSET COUNTY STAR PL. LA ENGOOD, Editor and Publisher. ; Entered at the Postoflice at Elk Lick, Pa, as mail matter of the Second class. Subscription Rate=. HE STAR is published every Thursday, at Elk Lick, Somerset, Co, 'a., ut the foliow- ing rates: 2 one year, if paid within il days... .. 0. $1.25 If not paid within 30 day 1.50 Nix months, if paid within 30 days. If not paid within 30 days : Three months, cash in advance. Single copies... .. To avoid multiplicity of small accounts, all subscriptions for three mouths or less must be paid in advance. These rates and ‘terms will be rigidly adhered to. Adve tising Rates. TRANSIENT READING NOTICES, 10 cents a iine for first insertion; 5 cents a line for wach succeeding insertion. To regular ad- vertisers, 5 cents a line straight. No busi- ness locals will be mixed with local news items or editormml matter for tess than 10 cents a line for each insertion, except on yearly contracts. 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Shaw, the Geantsville merchant, visited Salisbury friends this week. Thomas Eckard and family are en- Joying a visit from a daughter of Mr. Fekard’s who resides in Altoona. Mrs. Sally Berkley, of near Meyers- dale, is the guest this week of Mrs. J. W. Beachy and other Salisbury friends. M. C. Berkley, of Burr Oak, , is bere to spend the summer with Ler parents, Me. and Mrs. J. D. good. Mrs. Kan. The Somerset horse jockey issu | | ,and | ss as a politics ian anda can didate | lice, W. A. Gaunt and seve German of a success as an editorial writer arid do for oi Rov. the Baptist church have gone to the big annual meeting, at Na- | perville, Til. Ravenseraft., of mother of Mrs. M. J. AM. J. and family the Did WF Ol Mrs. Sand Patch. past week. you notice the Scull ring bood- fers about town this week? They are circulating all over the county, putting | cut persuaders; but it will do them no | geod} 5! Monday morning. an get | Liven- | al others | Livengood, visited | several days during | Vote for Kooser, a home man, for Congress. The Blair county fakir has had three terms, with a whole lot: of post-office notoriety thrown in. Mrs. Theresa Nowag, mother of mer- chant Paul G. Nowag, of Berlin, had a fall, last week, which resulted in the breaking of an arm. Mrs. Nowag is 83 years old. Rev. Dr. Mackey left for the Mary- land conference of the Brethren chureh, He would like tobe here to help down the Scull ring, but other duties have called him away. We are all waiting for Sampson and Schley to knock out the Spanish fleet. The battle may be fought before this issue of Tur Star is mailed, as the con- flict is liable to take place at any hour. Some miscreant broke into Lichliter’s store on Sunday night, but Mr. Lichlit- er can not say positively whether any- thing was stolen or not. have been asmall quantity of merchan- noticeable. Our friend Jacob Busky was in town the other day, and as full of patriotism as usual. Ile was looking for Spanish sympathizers and said he could clean | up a regiment of such cattle before breakfast. Jake is a staunch adherent | to the stars and stripes, which is all | right and proper. J.D. Hicks spoke at Pocahontag, last Saturday night, to an audience of thir- ty-three persons, which included about a dozen from Salisbury. Sturdy old Greenville does not seem to take much he did promise them lots of seeds and books. A turkey gobbler weighing ninety- five pounds may be seen on the poultry farm of P. M. Wright, near Columbia, Mo. It is the intention of the owner to exhibit this monstrous Thanksgiving fowl and its mate, which weighs sev- | enty-four pounds, in Misscuri’s poultry | sition. Old I.uo Smith is a church member, {and for that reason it looks exceedingly | | bad for him to sneeringly call Wana- | maker “Iloly John,” because Mr. Wan- | amaker is the Superintendent of the | largest Sunday school in Philadelphia. | “Lucifer” evidently thinks { chiureh members are hypocrites himself, hut they like are not. | Lloyd Beachy says after the Primary [ election there will be a post-office at | West Salisbury, and Lloyd seems to know what he is talking about. Those who had 1Ficks in tow here, say that he told them positively that he would not « | injure Salisbury by having a post-ofiice | established at West Salisbury. It looks as thought Josiah is lying to somebody. The question is, to whom? A man remarked the other day that he was handed some Quay money and told to support the Scull candidates. ITe said he took the money, as he re- gards Quay money as stolen money, anyway. and is glad to see some of it getting back to the people again. “But won’t T fool ’em- when I vote,” he re- marked, as he winked the other eye. That man’s head is pretty near level. Through the efforts of our genial hustling friend, Mr. Irven the ! Salisbury Cornet Band has been re-or- ganized and will give a grand concert { in ITay’s opera house, Friday evening. Mr. Chas. Lantz, of Cumberland, and | Mr Walker, of McKeesport, who are both musicians of great ability, will assist in the. concert, as will also Mr. Beals. The program will consist of both voeal and instrumental music, i bushels of fun, ete. Don’t miss it. Beals, . Edwin 1. 7] The pithy paper, Truth, sizes up the United States as follows: We make our own Cuban cigars. We manufacture better news from foreign lands than is to be found there. We raise our own European wines and mineral waters. The finest French sardines from Maine. The choicest and expensive of Dresden china is grown in New Jersey. We can declare war in more places in a minute than some countries can declare in three hours and a half. We don’t want the earth. We are it. come | most Our daring aeronaut, Mr. 8. Z. Beam, is considering the project of enlisting iin the U. 8S. volunteer signal service for duty in the airship department, which | is to constitute part of the service. Upon learning that “Unele Sam?” in- tended utilizing the balloon for army | purposes, Mr. Beam wrote inquiring i for a position and received an immedi- ate response from J. KE. Maxfield, 1st | Lieut. Signal Corps, U, S. A. request- { ing him to forward his application, to- gether with testimonials as to charac- | ter. ete., giving height, physical condition and general qualifi- Mr. undoubtedly age, weight, cations. Beam will [ill the bill to satisfaction if he cop-! for the war.—DBerlin- cludes to engage Record. | ! } Congressman Ilicks is flooding the | mails with type-written letters, in { which he asks for votes, on the ground | | that he has done much for the dier, the farmer and the coal Just what he has done for the classes named, in this county, he fails to state. | In the race for the post-oflice at Mey- | ersdale, Berlin, ‘ence, who got the plums? The fellows you all were turned down, and you all know that. There is a miner applicant for the post-office here. Will he get it? You all know that he won't. Every laboring man, every farmer and every old soldier owes Ticks a good licking, and you all know that he is going to get it. Some of the Scull henchmen and boodlers in this town have been neg- lecting their work for more than a week, and are putting in all their time telling people how to vote. Some of their noses are blooming as roses, and some of their arguments are enough to dra‘v tears from a grindstone. them wouldo’t pay a dollar or even a nickle on an honest debt; and some of Yet they have the pelled to. supreme dise carried away, but not enough to be | stock in the Blair county fakir, even if | | gall to tell honest men to vote for the | Scull ring candidates. { man suppose for a moment that There may | Does any Some of | sane | this | gang of boodled hirelings are neglect- | ing their work to electioneer for noth- | ing? who honestly believe that ring is in the right, we will admit; they are none of the red-nosed, mouthed trash that is so much in dence just now. prays, and who is always as nice as pie to the editor’s face, has taken himself to do Tug Star and always and away from here. We have treated this man as a gentleman, took him for one | our mistake. For the we have had him shadowed and now have some affidavits in our hands that will prove him a sneak, a cur, a hypo- crite, a besotted rascal and a few other things that we will not mention at this time. of the first water, and if we can’t prove it all and more, too, then you can call Tie Star a liar. We have had enough | i | | display at the Trans-Mississippi Expo- | | that all in the world | old sol- | miner. | Rockwood and Confla- | ] yet “Lucifer” with the most wealth in every case, and | know that some miners and pld | of this dirt and expect to show him up | for the benefit of the community. We owe it to him and we owe it to the com- munity, and when we owe a thing we are in the habit of paying. — = That there are- some good men | the Scull | but | loud | evi- | | make such a pledge? A man who holds a position of trust | in this town, who goes to church and | it upon | its editor | all the dirt he can whenever he goes | { men? until we found out past few months | ; I shows it. Ie is an impostor and a villain {to pledge himself to vote for a fixed sal- | | ary for doctors; to regulate the price of | One Minute is not lob, yet relief is ob- tained in half that time dy the use of One Minute Cough Cure. It prevents consump- tion and quickly cures colds,croup,bronchi- tix, pneumonia, In grippe and all throat and lung troubles, PP. 8. Hay, Elk Lick. C. A. Bender & Bro, Grantsville. — Kicked to Death by a Horse. On Monday evening a young man named Ilarry Guesbert was kicked to death by a horse, on one of the compa- ny farms at the north end of the Elk Lick coal region. lis body was sent to Hagerstown, Md. the day following, where the relatives of the deceased re- side. 8S. M. Geary, Pierson, Mich, writes: “De- Witt’s. Witch Hazel Salve is curing more them never did. unless they were com- | piles here to-day than all other remedies B 3 ’ 88 | combined. It cures eczema and all other skin diseases.” P. 8S. Hay, Elk Lick. C. A. Bender & Bro., Rt — He Has Pledged Himself. According to “Lucifer’s” Meyersdale Scull organette, Dr. McKinley has pledged himself, if elected to the sembly, to vote for a salary bill, regu- lating the salaries of county officials. To whom has he made “Lucifer” Dr. McKinley are like “two minds with but a single thought, beat as one.” Did they not, all through this cam- paign up to last week, give their pledges | that they were both middle-of-the-road | And did not. “Lucifer” place Dr. ! McKinley in the Scull column, last week, and say that is where he belongs? | That is what he did. and his own paper pledges of such fakirs, such carpet-baggers, such ven- ders of their own photographs, are not worthy of the least consideration. The doctor ought to go a little further with his pledges. IForinstance, he ought Ireland and the price of to fix an maximumand a potatoes in wheat in India; | minimum price for Scull votes; to set | for the passage of a law | termine his relationship with the Pres- | to pledge | Tate to bed and early to rise, prepares a | man for his home in the skies: Early to bed and a Little Early Riser, the pill that makes He longer und better and wiser... P. S. Hay, Elk Lick. CC. A.Bender & Bro, Grants- ville. — Bold Attem»nt to Rob Peter S. Hay. A bold attempt was made on Tuesday evening, about 9 o'clock, to rob Peter 8S. Hay, the well-known chant. At any rate robbery is supposed to have been the object of two men who held Mr. from his store but a few steps away. to his house, ed by two rascals who thought he had money, his daughter, Mrs. A. MM. Liichty, saw two men enter stealthily as then pass around the lower side to the rear part of the house. She heard them talking in a low tone. and at once aroused. ‘her She told suspic- ions were call her husband, Dr. A. MM. whose oflice adjoins the store : west end of the yard. The doctor was evidently not at Lichty, Lt the ing, and in the meantime Mr. ay, proceeded to his residence. When he reached the house, quickly forward and one of them seized their victim by the arm. They some demand in an altered tone of voice, which Mr. Ilay did not under- stand ; but he readily caught on that robbery was the object of the Ile at once cried out: “Police! police 1”? This was heard the street and a number of people hastened toward the | place from which the call seemed to come. The would-be robbers hearing rapid footfalls on the pavement, evi- on their heels. They got out intothe back then turned and went up to Gay street, then tarned again and followed that street to M. J. Beachy’s fields, where they soon disappeared from view, They had a good start on their pur- which they could hardly have done, we had electric light here, as we should | have. Mr. Ilay says before the to their heels one of them his arm, as if to throw strike a dagger into him. It pretty well known who scoundrels are, and it is believed that they are the same persons that broke something or is also into Haselbarth’s hardware store, | some time ago. they have not yet been caught in { trap, but their time will come yet think. a — = “One Minute Cough Care is the best prep- aration I have ever can’t say too much in Kennon, Merchant, Odell, Gao. Lick. C. A. Bender & Bro sold or its praise? 1, P. 5. Hay, Grantsville. i “LecirER” says “it will not do to put And Hicks, a tors on guard in these war times.” supports J. D. Penna. R. R. “Lucifer” has as many sides as a yel- | soldiers were in the race, but all of them ! low dog has fleas. Nalisbury mer- | | sutters from piles, | relief, Hay up as he was going which is | Mr. Hay had evidently been shadow- | through the front gate at the residence, | i elect her young son to go to the window and | | that I will be personally the | of your influ- | office, or else did not hear the boy eall- | who | suspected nothing unusual, came out of | the back door at the store building and | two men stepped | Chairman will get all tangled up again made | I stated upon oath that he got the books | assault, | dently became frightened and took to | alley and ran across to Union street, { merly suers and soon made good their escape, | if | | palling, but reports no lives FGazetle rascals took | drew back | the | to work will a lawful price for post-ofiices; that de- ident ; and he ought also himself to support a bill that will com- pel the county to pay Loa A. Smith the $951 he wants for printing a single elec- tion proclamation. But why speculate further? with “Lucifer” after this agony is over. —- a = The Cuban question and political issues sink into insignificance with the What he most desires, DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve P.. 8. Hay, Elk Lick. CA. Bender Grantsville. is cures piles. & Bro, t a He Has Been Informed. The arrogant Boss Quay letters to voters in Somerset county, which are worded as follows: My Dean Sie:—1I am informed that my name has been registered with your | candidate for | County Chairman as ion to the United States Senate to be voted your approaching primary and IT write to and greatly a at election, upon say obliged for the benefit ence and active support Yours very truly, NE: =. You will observe that the “has been informed.” Iterald some time ago that Quay “had asked” to The first thing people know the County Quay tor says he said be in making an explanation, just he did on the witness stand, last year, dur- ing the primary election ease. when he as and papers in his hads after his elec- tion, also that he didn’t get any books at all. —— a S.C PL Jones, Mileshuryg, Pa., writes: have used DeWitt’s Little EF: since they were introduced say I have never used any pills here in cathartic? P.M. Hay, Bender & Bro, Grantsville. Inxative or Lick. C. A. Tornado at Lanark, Ill. Lanark, I11. from county was visited last week by a howling and destructive tornodo. The 1 zette says the damage to buildings is ap- The Somerset reside, lost. reports the following loss Mr. CC. Rowland, who is a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Lichty, of this place: “The tornado demolished both HICKS VISITS A GIPSY CAMP. Pays $1.00 or More to Jiave His For- tune Told.—Pays an American Boy Three Cents to Distribute Campaign Documents. Cassenyman, Pa, May 23, 1808. Errror Star: —Our representative, Congressman Ticks, must shoot a very “small ball,” because he stopped with a Gipsy camp near here while soliciting votes, last week, and paid them one dollar or more to have his fortune told ; and to a boy who was there he paid three (3) cents to bring his pictures to this borough and deliver them tothe Republican voters of the place. When the boy handed one of them to his fa- As- | this pledge? | And what does it amount to if he did | and | two hearts that | 1t is therefore plain that the | middle-of-the-road | The doe- | { tor’s handsome photographs will elect | him sure—to stay at home and condole | man who | is sending | wily 8 na= | The | Nir. announced. | wi | rly Risers ever | and must | my fam- | ily during the forty years of my housekeep- | | ing that gave such satisfactory results as n | Elk | | , where many people for- | anark Ga- | for i of C.| Yowland’s large barns; corn eribs, hen | | ther he said: “Would you vote in fa- {vor of such a man as that?” 1 guess [ not, when we have such men as Kooser | and Koontz at home to represent Som- i erset county in Congress and the Leg- i y {islature: and we miss our guess if their majority is not something at the polls. Respectfully yours, CrAPLES BARNES, st ~~ The human machine starts but once and stops but once. You can keep it coing longest and most regularly by using De ( Witt’s Little Early Risers, the famous little pills for constipation and all xtomach and Hyver troubles. P..S, Hav, Elk Lick, C. A. { Bender & Bro, Grantsville, a The Soldior, Oh, the Soldier! The plea of the Scullpaper and its or- ganette, the Commercial, is in behalf ¢ the soldiers of 61-65. And a a | But let Is it not a fact all soldier candidates. why this soldier cry. and applauded, and the people asked, advised and urged to vote for the sol- dier, their henchmen, fought and bled for our (lag, but will while others who oar country and not wear lar, are vilified and slandered,or are | | not mentioned at all? Only five years ago, when D. J. ner, the one-legged soldier didate, clique. Hor- , Wasa can- The Soldier didn’t count then ; word was passed along their guard line, “Horner gets a big pension, and don’t ! deserve the oflice.” But he gol there all | the same. To-day he is held through the Scull paper judge, censured and abused for taking his legal fees, while nothing is said the high fees, charges, mileage and ex- tra days of Ex-Judge Biesecker, (“fami- ly matters.”) Among the Candidates now announec- ed we find the name of Aaron I ey, for Associate Judge. dier. lle is one of seven | volunteers who donned the blue uni- | forward to do battle And his record as a sol- dier is not questioned. {ter than Quay’s, and fully | that of Josiah D. { dispenser. form, and went | for our flag. as good But the name of Dickey not mentioned as having been a soldier. the deserves nouncement, why then Dickey mentioned? Because he man principle and honor and will not do the bidding ol the bosses, nor wear a collar to their style of political Again, he is not mentioned be- if soldier special is not is a agreeable cause his opponent for Associate Judge, | J. C. Weller, of Smulls Handbook fame, who never was a soldier, but years, (six as County | young man, is the slated Seull or Ring man and will do their bidding as he has done in the past, although he now says: you don’t like Sculls—at Somerset.” those be elected, then there’ll be more bench pap for the family. What consistency to the old soldier! Remember Aaron I. Dickey i soldier, and Ri your vote, was tr Onc Minute Cough Cure, cures. That is what it was made for. — — last week kind of “Lrerrer” undertook | tell the people “what “Lucifer” has found out to his that Pete is a big John Thomas Henry leat, with claws and eyes altogether too | sharp for such a puny, scrawny, sighted, sore-eyed cat he | jumped onto old Pete and now somebody to help him let go. near- as is. wants He is and his feeble whines are indeed pitia- ble. - One Minute Cough Cure, cures. That is what it was made for. i house, large haymow, and windmill, al- | into Lichliter’s store, Sunday night,and | It is a great pity that | i have tried De , we | | Hazel Salve i market. - I [ & Bro, used and I! MM. 1 Elk { mails, | corporation lawyers and railroad direc- | so uprooting several large trees the barn.” ~- SOE Parker, Sharon, W. Va Witt’s Witch Hazel itching piles and it alwa¥s stops them in minutes. | r Dewitt’s the greatest pile cure Ps. Hay, BIE Tick. GC. A. Grantsvillc Salve for two conside Bender —— Coxaressyax Hicks has been flood- the distriet of late. through the with copies of the “Year Book of S. Department of ! ing the 1 Agriculture.” The book is somewhat antiquated, being | | the 1865 edition, but if it had been dis- | tributed earlier it might not have serv- attorney, for Congress..| ed so well as a present reminder that Mr. Hicks is a candidate for re-election. | —DBerlin Record, about | , Writes: —“[ | Quay and Stone. Berlin Record. Quay gave | that probably it it out would be some Witeh | on the | | Stone retorted that in that event, U. 8. Senator. his lieutenants had a meeting lon, N. J.. on Sunday lost, and decided to force upon the Republican | party W. A. Stone as the nominee for This must be done in order i his fiends, uid not be | for Quay for Governor. to hold things together for Quay’s per- | sonal advantage—six years more in the | United States Senate. the ‘consequences to the party, so it | helps Quay back into the Senate. plea would it be, were it in behalf of | us see | that only the names of those soldiers {who wear a Ring collar and do the bid- ! ‘ding of the Scull bosses are published | a Seull ecol- | he was opposed by the Scull | of i Dick- | Ie was a sol- | brothers, all | It is even bet- | ~ licks, the post-oflice | is | an- § who al- ready sucked the public broth for ten | Superintendent | and four as Assemblyman) and isyet a | “Don’t vote against me, because | fellows—the | Yes, should he | a | to! a cat | | Pete is;” but he made a poor job of it. sorrow | He | getting badly disfigured in the serap, | weeks ago! better for | the machine to endeavor to nominate a | faithful, other than Stone, for Governor. | he would see that | Quay and | | at Ava- | it was | No matter what | -— PIANOS! 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