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THE SOMERSET COUNTY STR
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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Foley’s Honey and Tar contains no
opiates and can safely be given to chil-
dren. Sold by E. H. Miller.
Dr. A. L. Haselbarth and his mother
returned from Washingtorf D. C., last
week, where they had been visiting
relatives and frinds for several days.
You never heard of any one using
Foley’s Honey and Tar and not being
satisfied. Sold by E. H. Miller.
John A. Lambert, John H. Uhl, J. A.
Berkey and E. F. Stahl have been
drawn to serve as jurors at the May
session of the United States District
Court, at Pittsburg.
Foley’s Honey and Tar is pecurliarly
adapted for asthma, bronchitis and
boarseness. Sold by E. H. Miller.
The W. C. T. U. will meet at the
home of Mrs. Mary E. Welfley, Mon-
day evening, May 6th. The same pro-
gram will be used that should have
been used April 21st. All members are
requested to be present at this meet-
ing. :
Daniel Keller, candidate for Record-
er of Deeds, was circulating among
Salisbury people, yesterday. Daniel is
a right clever fellow. He says he is a
Stalwart, but none of the kind of Stal-
warts that bolted the Republican tick-
et, last fall.
J.D. Miller returned home a few days
ago from a trip to Greene county, Pa.
where he visited his aged father, and
be also visited friends near Marietta,
Ohio, before returning. Mr. Miller has
our thanks for a subscription to THE
STAR for his father.
Mr. Overacker, the man who was in
Rockwood, recently, with a view to es-
tablishing a newspaper there, has quit
the field and arrived at the conclusion
that the town would not support a
newspaper. We think he sized up the
situation correctly.
Every time a farmer kills a hawk he
throws away a $50 bill into the fire, for
it destroys a thousand rats, mice and
gophers every year. Prof. Hodge, of
Clark University, estimates that toads
are wort $20 each as destroyers of cut
worms, says an exchange.
The wife of Robert Philson, of Berlin,
died on Monday of last week, at the
age of 37 years, 8 months and 10 days.
She died of consumption, with which
disease she suffered for the past eight
years. She is survived by a husband
and five children. Mrs. Philson was
- one of the most highly respected ladies
of the community in which she lived.
Albert, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs.
Eli Stanton, of Little Crossings, Garrett
. county, Md., died on Tuesday night of
lung fever and other complications. He
was aged about 34 years and leaves a
wife and two young children. The wife
is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Loechel, of the same county.
We have learned nothing of the funeral
arrangements.
This week we greet our readers with
an enlarged paper. The pages are
smaller than they were, but there are
twice ag many of them, and we gain 96
inches of column space by the change.
The enlarged form means considerable
more expense to us, but our business is
rapidly growing and demands a larger
paper. Those who are indebted to us
will confer a great favor by paying up
promptly.
Prof. W. A. Seibert, candidate for
County Superintendent of Schools, was
in town yesterday. Mr. Seibert feels
very hopeful of being elected at the
School Directors’ convention, which
convenes in Somerset, next Tuesday.
From what we can learn from other
sections of the eounty, we believe Prof,
Seibert is a sure winner, and if elected
he will undoubtedly prove to be a very
effigient officer.
On Tuesday evening Chas. R. Snyder
and “Billy” Harding brought to town
an 18-pound string of very nice suckers
ome mile east of Grantsville, Md. The
| catch was made in sbout two hours,
and it was the finest bunch of fish
brought to town this year. Fish in
general are reported to be very scarce
in our streams, this year.
Everett C. Welch, candidate for Re-
corder of Deeds, and Norman E. Berkey,
candidate for Prothonotary, were in
town on Tuesday handing out their
cards. Both of these men are highly
honorable, competent and gentlemanly
fellows, and they were much pleased
with our town and the courteous treat-
ment extended to them by the people
they came in contact with while here.
In a letter received a few days ago
from Frank P. Beachy, of Carleton,
Neb., Mr. Beachy says: “Mother en-
joys very good health and appears to
be well satisfied with the west, but-
constantly keeps in mind the many
friends and relatives she left behind.”
THE STAR can assure Mr. Beachy that
the many friends left behind also keep
his aged and respected mother in
mind. She is one of the best women
we ever knew or expect to know. She
will be greatefully remembered long
after she is dead, but we hope to see
her spared a goodly number of years
yet, and we wish her continued good
health.
The record of prompt payment of
life insurance policies was broken at
Somerset this week. J. Willis Pisel,
who died on April 7th, carried insur-
ance in the Modern Woodmen and the
Royal Arcanum—$3,000 in each. The
beneficiary in the former was his moth-
er and in the latter, his wife. The
proofs of death and other necessary
papers were forwarded by the Wood-
men the following Saturday, and those
of the Royal Arcanum three days later.
Drafts for both amounts arrived at
Somerset on Monday morning. The
Woodmen delivered theirs that eve-
ning, and the Royal Arcanum the next
morning.—Somerset Standard.
The editor’s aunt, Mrs. Eliza Gnagey,
of Pasadena, Cal., arrived in Salisbury
on Thursday evening of last week. She
made the long journey from California
alone, which was quite an undertaking
for a woman 78 years old. Mrs. Gnagey
stood the trip as well as any young per-
son could have stood it, and she is one
of the best preserved persons of her
age that we have ever seen. She looks
younger and is younger in her ways
than many people of 55 years. She
will attend the German Baptist An-
aual Meeting at Harrisburg and spend
the summer among her eastern friends
in Pennsylvania and Maryland, return-
ing to her western home in the fall.
We Are told that there will be about
fifty candidates out hustling for office
during the present campaign. These
candidates will require from 8,000 to
10,000 cards each in making their can-
vasg,or a total of nearly or quite 500,000
cards. These figures will enable each
Republican printer in the county to tell
at a glance about how many of these
cards he should be called on to print.
All candidates who expect fair and
generous treatment from the Republi-
can editors of the county will divide
their printing among the Repubiican
print shops as evenly as possible. We
are in favor of fair treatment all
around. No one or two printers are
the whole push, and no one or two of
them should be given nearly all the
printing.
A colored preacher in Cumberland,
Md., recently got off the following
while preaching to his congregation:
“Bredren and sistahs, I has been asked
how hot hell am, an’ by way of illustra-
tion I will say dis: Ef yo’ done took
all de wood in Yo’k state, an’ all de coal
in Pennsyltucky and West Virginy an’
pile ’em all on a heap, an’ pour on dat
heap all de ile in de wo’ld, an’ set dat
heap on fiah,den take some ornery wite
man out ob hell an’ done put him in
dat burning mass, dat man would find
it fo much colder den de real thing dat
he'd freeze stone dead in less time den
hell could scorch a feather. Dat’s how
hot it am, bredren and sistahs, an’ all
de wite trash will be dere when we
poah cullid folks is playin’ rag time on
our ha’ps on de golden shore.”
The Berlin borough council has
granted to a private company a fran-
chise for a water plant, Work will be-
gin on the same at once. The franchise
provides that the borough shall have
the privilege of buying the plant at the
end of fifteen years or at the end of
every five years thereafter. Sewerage is
now being talked of in Berlin, and the
old town seems determined to get out
of all the old ruts. Now, let Salisbury
follow Berlin’s example. A franchise
for a water plant was granted by our
council a good while ago, to P. S. Hay
and Harvey Maust, but we are sorry to
say that the franchise was gotten up in
a very loose way. The holders of the
franchise have two years’ time in which
to put in the plant. Whether they will
which they caught in Stanton’s daw, |
put in the plant or unload to somebody
else at a profit remains to be seen. We
don’t care who puts in the plant, just
so we get it and get it quickly. The
| holders of the franchise should have
been required to begin work in a sub-
stantial way not later than Muy 1st of
this year. What the people of this
town want is water works in reality,
not water works in words and on paper
only.
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Foley’s Honey ana Tar
heals lungs aad stops the cough.
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY,
Chas. D. Waleot, Director.
The Bituminous Coal Field of Mary-
land.
The coal mesures of Maryland are a
southward continuation of those in the
basins of Somerset county, Pennsylva-
nia. They occupy a strip along the
western border of Allegany county
about 20 miles long and averaging five
miles in width, and they cover some-
what over half, or about 400 square
miles, of Garrett county. They are
discussed in Part III of the XXII An-
nual Report of the Geological Survey,
now in press, by Mr. David White, who
notes the excellent work of the geolo-
gists of the Maryland Geological Sur-
vey, upon which, for the most part, his
own statements are based.
The coal measures lie in three broad
northeast-southwest basins. The
eastermost is the Potomac basin, called
locally the Frostburg, the Georges
Creek, the Elk Garden, and the Upper
Potomac basins. North of the Potomac
this basin lies in Allegany and Garrett
counties ; south of Peidmont nearly all
of the western half of the basin is in
Garrett county. By reason of the
depth and accessibility of its coal, and
of its geographical advantage with ref-
erence to tide water and the eastern
markets, the Potomac basin is by far
the most important of the three main
basins, as its Big or Pittsburg bed is
the chief source of coal in Maryland.
Savage and Meadow mountians sepa-
rate the Potomac basin from the second:
or Casselman basin in northern Garrett
county, which is drained by the Cas-
selman river. The third or Youghio-
gheny basin includes a Lower Yough-
iogheny basin, in the northwestern, and
an Upper Youghiogheny basin in the
western part of Garrett county. Both
of these two main basins are but little
developed commercially, from lack of
railway facilities.
The coal beds sufficiently thick to de-
serve mention are the Bloomington or
Railroad coal, in Garrett county, from
1 to nearly three feet thick ; the Moant
Savage coal, Allegany county, averag-
ing about 2 feet thick, extracted and
used at the clay mines for firing the
brick; the Westernport or Two-foot
coal, Allegany county, averaging from
2 to 3 feet thick; the Bluebaugh coal
in northeastern Georges Creek district,
Allegany, over 5 feet thick in places,
but variable ; the Parker coal, Allegany,
ranging from a few inches to nearly b
feet in thickness near Warrior Run;
the Davis or BSix-foot seam in the
Georges Creek district, which thickens
as it goes south past Peidmont into
Garrett, up to nearly 9 feet near the
corner of the state; the Thomas or
Three-foot coal, running from about 3
feet thick in the Georges Creek dis-
trict to 54 feet at Bayard and -exceed-
ing 6 feet at Fairfax Knob; the Barton
coal, from 24 to 3! feet thick in the
Georges Creek district—a valuable
source of fuel for eventual exploita-
tion; the Dirty Nine-foot bed, varying
from over 2 feet to 10 feet in thickness,
though generally of no importance;
the Elk Garden or Fourteen-foot bed,
Allegany county, varying from 5 feet
north of Frostburg to about 9 or 10 feet
south of Lonaconing, to over 14 feet of
workable coal dear Franklin, and to
20 feet at Elk Garden. This is the fuel
know to the trade as Cumberland coal,
one of the highest known grades of
semi-bituminous steam coal. It is
largely exhausted except in the region
of Frostburg. This bed has an area of
about 35 square miles. The Tyson or
Gas bed is reported as ranging from 4
feet thick near Lonaconing to about 7
feet at Franklin, Allegany; the Koontz
bed in the Georges Creek district varies
from 5 feet to over 7 feet in thickness,
but is much broken up.
The Cumberland coal cokes satis-
factorily, though on account of the
greater profit in the raw fuel no coke
is now made.
The Big or Elk Garden bed in the
Georges Creek and Frostburg districts
was one of the earliest of the northern
bituminous seams to be worked. Coal
has been extracted near Frostburg
since about 1804, though not until 1830
was it shipped east in barges on the
Potomac river. The commercial ex-
ploitation of the.ceal developed rapid-
ly after the construction of the Balti-
more and Chio Railroad in 1842, and
was further promoted by the comple-
tion of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
in 1850.
Maryland, ranking eJeventh among
the coal-producing states, had an out-
put in 1900 of 4,024,688 short tons, valu-
ed at $3,937,381. Much the greater part
of this coal came from the Flk Garden
bed, most of the remainder being ob-
tained from the Davis and Thomas
beds along the Upper Potomac in Gar-
rett county. !
With the exhaustion of the Big bed,
the indications are that the thin beds
will be more and more rapidly devel-
oped, as is already the case along the
lines of the West Virginia Central
Railroad towards the head of the Up-
per Potomac basin, wherz the Davis
and Thomas beds are in fine condition.
Most of the Maryland mines are
operated by the “room and pillar”
method. There is relatively little ma-
chine mining. The wage scale of min-
ing in operation in 1901 was 55 cents
per ton, run of mine, for hand work, or
40 cents for machine work. The cost
per ton of coal f. 0. b, cars at the mines
ranges from 6714 cents to $1,the aver-
age being about 81 cents. The greater
part of the steam coal mined in West-
ern Maryland goes to the factories and
shops of the eastern states north of
North Carolina, the chief points of des-
tination being Washington, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, and Staten Island or
South Amboy. A large percentage is
used for marine consumption. The
Potomac basin is traversed by the
West Virginia Central & Pittsburg, the
Baltimore & Ohio, the Georges Creek
& Cumberland, and the Cumberland
and Pennsylvania railroads. All the
railways converge at Cumberland,
whence the coal is transported by the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the Penn-
gylvania system, and the Chesapeake
& Ohio Canal. The cost of transporta-
tion by the all-rail route frem the
Georges Creek district is $1.45 per ton
for track delivery to Washington, Bal-
timore, and Philadelphia, and for water
shipment $1.18 to Baltimore, $1.25 to
fhiladelphin, and $1.55 to South Am-
ov,
In Changeable Weather.
It is wonderful how many people are
benefitted by the use of Epeer’s Port
Grape Wine, especially ladies. It makes
their blood pure and skin very white,
smooth and soft.
The Real Mary Who Had the Lamb.
The author of “Mary had a Little
Lamb” was John Roulston, a young
man who was a visitor at the school
near Worcester, Massachusetts, when
the incident occurred. The heroine of
the poem was Mary E. Sawyer, who af-
terward became Mrs. Columbus Tyler.
She died in December, 1889.—May La-
dies’ Home Journal.
Dangerous If Neglected,
Burns, cuts and other wounds often
fail to heal properly if neglected, and
become troublesome sores. DeWitt’s
Witch Hazel Salve prevents such con-
sequences. Even where delay has ag-
gravated the injury, DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve effects a cure. “I had a
running sore on my leg, thirty years,”
says H. C. Hartly, Yankeetown, Ind.
“After using many remedies, I tried
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. A few
boxes healed the sore.” Cures all skin
diseases. Piles yield to it at once. Be-
ware of counterfeits. E. H. Miller.
The Wise Men of New York.
The wisest person in America is the
New Pork man who has never traveled
a hundred miles beyond the borders of
his own city. To him travel is unneces-
sary, for whither would he travel? His
city is at once the Alpha and Omega of
human ken. The sun, for him, rises
each morning just beyond the Brook-
lyn Bridge and sets each evening in
North River. In short, New York is
America. To live outside of its domain
is simply to camp out. And the few—
the seventy and odd millions—who do
live “beyond the pale” simply live to
watch what New Yorkers do, how New
Yorkers dress, what books New York-
ers read, what New Yorkers say.—Ed-
ward Bok, in May Ladies’ Home Journal.
Don’t Start Wrong.
Don’t start the summer with a lin.
gering cough or cold. We all know
what a “summer cold” is. It’s the
hardest kind to cure. Often it “hangs
on” through the entire season. Take it
in hand right now. A few doses of One
Minute Cough Cure will set you right.
Sure cure for coughs, colds, croup, grip,
bronchitis, all throat and lung troubles.
Absolutely safe. Acts at once. Chil-
dren like it. “One Minute Cough Cure
is the best cough medicine I ever used,”
says J. H. Bowles, Groveton, N. H. “I
never found anything else that acted
so safely and quickly.” E. H. Miller.
Nimble at Eighty-eight.
Among those who visited the Russian
battleship Retvizan, yesterday, as the
guests of Captain Stsehnovitch and the
officers, was John O. Kimmel, father-in-
law of George F. Bear, President of the
Reading Company. Although in his
88th year, Mr. Kimmel astonished ev-
eryone by climbing the rope ladder to
the fighting top of the big ship.
“I wanted to see for myself,” said
Mr. Kimmel afterwards, “just where
the man must stand and what he must
do who directs a modern battleship in
action. No, I had no fear climbing the
rigging, except that my shoes were a
little slippery.”
Mr. Kimmel, who'lives at Somerset,
where he is still an active member of
the bar, is stopping for a day or two at
the Stratford with Mr. and Mrs. Baer.
— Philadelphia North American.
Death of Richard Stephens.
- Richard Stephens, a native of Lan-
caster county, Pa., died at the county
hospital at 3.20 o’clock, Thursday morn-
ing, aged 30 years. The deceased was
well known in Lancaster, Berlin and
Meyersdale, Pa., and Salem and Poland,
Ohio. :
He is survived by five daughters,
namely, Mrs. Mary A. Granger, of
Manistee, Michigan, Mrs. Susan Thomp-
kins, of Syracuse, New York, Mrs. Vina
Stephens, of Salem, Ohio, Mrs. Marga-
ret Schang, of St. Louis, Mo., and Mrs.
Annie Simons, of Syracuse, New York.
Also by four sons, John, of Meyersdale,
Pa., William, of Struthers, Ohio, Rich-
ard, Jr., of Manistee, Michigan, James,
of Mineral City, Ohio, and also by one
sister, Mrs. Mary Koontz, of St. Louis,
Mo.
The deceased was a faithful and con-
sistent member of the Lutheran church,
partaking of the Lord’s Supper the last
time it was administered by Rev. C. F.
Gephart, of the Lavansville Lutheran
church, a former chaplain.
The funeral took place at nine o’clock,
Saturday morning, Rev. J. H. Picking,
D. D., officiating.
Curious Spanish Advertisement.
The following curious advertisement
is taken from a Spanish journal: “This
morning our Saviour summoned away
the jeweler, Siebald Illimaga, from his
shop to another and a better world.
The undersigned, his widow, will weep
upon his tomb, as will also his two
daughters, Hilda and Emma, the form-
er of whom is married, and the latter
is open to an offer. The funeral will
take place to-morrow. His disconso-
late widow, Veronique Illimaga. P.S.
—This bereavement will not interrupt
our employment, which will be carried
on as usual ; only our place of business
will be removed from 3 Lessi de Leni-
turiers to 4 Rue de Missionaire, as our
grasping landlord has raised the rent.”
First National Bank
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Three Per Cent. Interest Paid on Deposits.
Drafts on all parts of the world.
Accounts of individuals and firms invited.
Deposits sent by mail and all correspondence given prompt and careful at-
tention.
This bank is the only United States depository in the George’s Creek Valley.
Bank open Saturday nights from 7 to 10 o'clock.
MARK WINELAND, PRESIDENT. ROBERDEAU ANNAN, CASHIER,
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Summer
Necessities!
You will soon need Light
Weight Underwear to feel
comfortable. We have a
complete line from 50 cents
to $1.50 per suit.
Another New Assortment
of Soft Shirts just opened.
A large variety of Men's,
Ladies’ and Children’s Ox-
fords and Fancy Hosiery
for the warm weather.
Barchus & Livengood.
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