w re Wm. A. Kann, of Garrett, Mr. Kann THE SOMERSET COUNTY STAR In a recent letter from our old friend i says: “May good fortune ever attend P. L. Livexcoon, Editor and Publisher. your lot.” To prove that he meant Entered at the Postoflice at Elk Lick, Pa. as mail matter of the Second Class. Subscription Rates. THE STAR is published every Thursdav,at | Elk Lick, somerset County, Pa, at the foi- lowing rates: ine vear, if paid spot eash in advance.. 51.2% 1€ not paid strictly in advance... .... Six months, if paid spot cash in advance If not paid strictly in advance, Three months, cash in advance. Single copies. Jo avoid multiplicity of small accounts, all subscriptions for three months or less must be paid in advance. These rates and terms will be rigidly adhered to. Advertising Rates. Transient Reading Notices, 5 cents a linc | i advertisers, 5 | each insertion. To regula: cents a line for first insertion and 3 cents a line for each succeeding insertion. 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Thank | you, old friend, you are the kind of | man we like, and may God bless and | comfort you in your declining years. | Mrs. Dr. Speicher and three children, Florence, Robert and the baby, return- ed from California, Tuesday evening. say that the doctor and the other members of the family were delighted to welcome them home, for they had been in California ever since last September. They are all looking well and report a most enjoya- ble sojourn in the Golden state. Robert Gibson, who recently return- ed from Scottland, called at Tur Star otlice on Monday evening and favored us with several dollars on subscription. Mr. Gibson stated that their voyage | irom America to Scottland was made lin a very poor vessel, that the trip last- | ed two weeks and was very tiresome. { The return trip was made in seven davs and was a very pleasant voyage. { Harry Smith, aged 20, James Rice. aged 16, and John Williams, aged 19, { the last named colored, were lodged in | jail yesterday afternoon to await trial | on a charge of holding up Scott Liven- | good, of Elk Lick. The highway rob- | bery took place Monday afternoon,near | Casselman. Livengood claims that he | was relieved of $8.50. The prisoners | claim to hail from Pittsburg and Buf- falo.—Somerset Herald. | { ho . soy { known citizen of Meyersdale, died in Mr. Jacob J. Donges, a former well W. D. Thompson went to Bedford, | the Cumberland hospital, Tuesday of Monday evening, to attend the funeral [last week. He was aged about 59 of a friend. Foley’s Honey and Tar contains no opiates and can safely be given to chil- dren. Soid by E. H. Miller. Samuel Lowry recently perchased the Emily Welfley homestead, on Gay street, for $400 cash. You never heard of any one using IFoley’s Honey, and Tar and not being satisfied. Sold by E. lI. Miller. A Polish miner was instantly killed in the Continental mines, several days | ago, by a fall of rock. Foley’s Honey and Tar is pecurliarly adapted for asthma, bronchitis and hoarseness. Sold by E. H. Miller. Silas Tressler, of Elk Lick township who has been very ill for some time, is said to be gradually losing strength. His recovery is doubtful. Rev. (?) M. L. Young, of Meyersdale, has accepted a ministerial charge in Cumberland, Md. Congratulations are in order—for Meyersdale. Mort. Welfley and his son William went to Johnstown, Pa., a few days ago, in search of employment. If they do not find suitable work there, they will likely go to Akron, Ohio. Our inside pages will tell you all about the great volcanic eruption on the island of Martinique, by which a whole city, a fine harbor and 40,000 people were destroyed in about three minutes, one day last week. An Italian was placed in the borough “cooler,” Saturday last, for getting drunk and indecently exposing his per- son. When sober enough for a hear- ing, he was arraigned before Burgess Livengood, who fined him $20.00. Last fall our genial friend Ei. Hay purchased three lots in 1l.e Beachy ad- dition to the borough. We'll bet money that Ed. will raise a good crop of “Weimer” blossoms on the lots, if noth- ing else. There are no ties on kd. The reunion of the 142nd Regt. Pa. Vols., which was to be held at Berlin, July 4th, has been postponed to a later date, which will be announced in due time. So writes Jacob J. Zor., the Secretary of the Regimental Associa- tion. Ernest Livengood returned from New York, Tuesday morning, where he had been buying goods for the enterprising firm of Barchus & Livengood. He stopped one day in. Elizabeth, N. J. where he visited Dr. T. F. Livengood and family. He reports a pleasant time, Tem Lee, our Chinese laundryman, has moved to Berlin, where he is now in business. Tom says there are too many agents in Salisbury for outside laundries, hence his departure. Berlin would never harbor any “cullid gem’- men,” but just what they will do with a Chinaman over there, remains to be seen. We are informed that our old friend Senator Wm. R. Getty, of Grantsville, Md., 1s quite ill. His many friends all hope for his recover. Mr. Getty has long been prominent in the political and business affairs of Garrett connty, and to know him is to be his friend. He ie a man of great generosity and perseverance. Today A. M. Johanson takes charge of the Reed house in Meyersdale, which was recently sold by Mr. Reed to Wm. P. Meyers, who in turn sold it to Mr. Johnson. John Slicer is again in charge of the hotel up at the raiiroad, which for a year or more was conducted by Mr. Johnson. Mr. Reed has moved in- to his fine residence on Meyers avenue For years he conducted one of the best hotels in Bomerset county, and his suc- eessor, Mr, Johnson, also has an envia- | about 20 years dld. | years, 8 months and 22 days. Mr. { Donges was born and reared in Ger- many, coming to this eountry when | of the Civil war, a good citizen,and had many friends. He is survived by wife, two sons and two daughters. A Missouri widower who got married again two weeks after his wife died, went out and tried to hush the chariv- ari crowd by telling them they ought to be ashamed to make such an uproar around a house where a funeral had been so recently held. This is pretty near equal to the fellow who killed his father and mother and then pleaded for mercy on the ground that he was an orphan.—Ex. A good joke is told on a Gurrett county farmer. He went to town and decided to surprise his wife by return- ing in a new suit of clothes. When he reached the Casselman river bridge he halted, pulled off his clothes and tossed them into the creek. When he reach- ed for the new suit,be found to his sur- prise that the bundle had jolted out of his buggy. Luckily it was night. He drove home, and the surprise of his wife was a success. It is generally supposed that kero- sene is a sovereign cure for all sorts of microbes. But here comes the New York poard of health and declares that a kerosene lamp half turned down is the worst breeder of diphtheria in the world, and the board particularly warns all mothers against leaving such a light in the sleeping rooms of children. The fumes of the lamp not only poison the air, but fit it for the propagation of diphtheria germs. —Ex. The postal authorities at Washing- ten, recognizing the liability of post- masters to make mistakes in getting letters in wrong boxes, have fixed a penalty of $200 on persons taking mail out of the offices other than their own and not returning it. The law is to have people look at their mail before taking it out of the office, and if they should have mail other than their own, they must return it at once. 1t also includes newspapers. There is no longer any doubt that Berlin is on the boom. Just recently the people over there added three acres more ground to their cemetery, and as goon as the few remaining old fogies are planted good and deep therein, Berlin will show its heels to some of the other towns in the county that have old fogies of their own to bury. We hope Brother Marshall, of the Ber- lin Record, will live long enough to write all the obituaries that should have been written years ago. We were delighted on Monday af- ternoon when our genial and handsome friend, Mr. P. A. Beachy, of Chicago, came walking into our editorial den. Mr. Beachy landed in Meyersdale with his wife, last Friday evening, and from thence made a hurried trip to the homes of 8. P. Maust and L.. L. Beachy, where they sojourned until Monday af- ternoon, when they took their depart- ure. Mr. Beachy informed us that he came east on business and had only a limited time tostay. His many friends here are all sorry that he could not re- main longer. Coal has been reached at the Alt- father slope at a distance of about 230 feet from the mouth of the workings. Measuring perpendicularly, the coal lies about 40 feet below the surface. The vein has a thickness of between 4 and 5 feet. A tipple abcut 600 feet in length will be constructed and coal shipping will begin as soon the railroad is completed to that point. . The con- tract for building the railway is‘or'will ble reputation as a hotel man, soon be let. Company officials say that He was a veteran | a | from 800 to 1,000 miners will be en | ployed at the slope and shaft, and that a town of 3,000 or 4,000 population will be a thing of the not distant future. In ths meantime Main street Berlin lot owners are standing in their own light by refusing to sell to would-be builders at all, or are loading their properties with a building-bindering price.—Berlin Record. An unknown writer offers the follow- ing good advice: “If your neighbor is prosperous, let him prosper. Don’t grunt, growl or grumble. Say a good word for him and let it go at that. Don’t be a knocker. Your turn will come. No man is the whole show. If you see the town is moving along nice- ly, feel good about it. Help things along; shove a little. Push. Try to get some of the benefit yourself. Don’t stand around like a chilly old cadaver. | Don’t waste your time feeling sore be- | cause some fellow has a little more sense than you have. Do a little more hustling yourself. Don’t be a knocker. We have near this place a curiosity in the shape of human flesh, who is 60 years old, was in the Civil war and has every dollar of his war money, has the suit of clothes he wore on the day Lee surrendered, has slept in a bed but four nights in six years. and has had a coat on but once since 1890, and that was five years ago the 11th day of Oe- tober, when William Jennings Bryan spoke in Elizabethtown; has never been married and has never been known to wait upon but one girl, and | that was forty years ago; he was never | known to ride a saddle or go to church. [He is a man in good circumstances, I neighborly and honest.— Elizabeth (Ky.) News. Yes, said the western man, there are several patches of country still left out our way that will support a few mil- | lion people eachs There is a little sec- tion up in Wyoming, for instance known as the Big Horn Basin, which has just | been opened up by a new line of the | Burlington railroad. It covers about 50,000 square miles. It’s larger than New York state. Three times as large as Denmark. Twice as large as Bava- ria.It is covered with beautiful streams, a never-failing water supply, and the soil is as rich as any in the world. The possibilities for. irrigaticn there are enormous, and three big irrigation ditches are built already. Oh yes, there are a few scraps of real good country left. We won’t be crowded off the earth yet awhile. The County Commissioners were in this vicinity on Monday, accompanied by Capt. Wm. M. Schrock, of Somerset. While here they sold the big wagon bridge at Boynton and also the one at West Salisbury, both of which have been condemned and will be replaced this summer by handsome new iron structures. The Boynton bridge was sold to S. P. Maust for $42.50, while the abutments were purchased by Ziegler Bros., of Somerset, for $6.70 per cubic yard. The West Salisbury bridge was purchased by M. Knecht for $11.00. and the abutments of the same went to a Mr. Poorbaugh for $4 70 per cubic yard. The new bridge to be erected at Boyn- ton will be the finest in the county. The old wooden covered bridges are fast disappearing in Somerset county. A meeting of the Meyersdale Fair Association was held at the office of the secretary, one evening this past week, and H. G. Stahl was appointed ground keeper for thie season. The association will at once fix the track in first-class shape and complete the work that was begun last year. They will also arrange for an early meeting, this year, and will hold a three days’ fair in the fall. Farmers should bear this in mind and begin to prepare to be ready to exhibit stock and farm pro- ducts this fall. In order to enable the farmer and others who desire to-do so, to exhibit in a proper manner, the society will build and equip buildings for that purpose before that time and make a regular county fair of it. They should receive the hearty co-operation of our business men in this.—Meyers- dale Republican. Shot Tormenter Dead. Lonaconing, Md., May 12.—As the re- sult of tormenting a weak-minded per- son, Thomas Gardner lies dead and a man named Myers dangerously wound- ed at Barton, a mining village three miles west of here. Gardner and My- ers had been teasing Moore, and the latter, becoming angry, went home and securing a Winchester, returned and opened fire on the men. Myers fell at the first shot, and Gardner, running to his side, received a bullet in his heart, killing him instantly. A fellow work- man named Casey went over to the victims, when the murderer fired again, tearing up the earth at Casey’s feet. All became alarmed and ran to shelter, while Moore escaped to the mountains. Sheriff Barnard arrived on the scene of the crime and organized a posse of 12 men and started in pursuit of Moore, but at a late hour to-night had not sue- ceeded in locating him. Moore is well armed and deperate, and more trouble is expected before his arrest is accom- plished. el Will Cure Consumption. A. A. Herren, Sinch,. Ark., writes, “Foley’s Honey and Tar is the best pre- paration for coughs, colds and lung trouble. 1 know that it Hag cured Sold ! consumption in the first stages.” by E; H. Miller. Popularity of County Superintend- ent Pritts. Last week’s Somerset Standard con- tains the following facts concerning a very worthy man, who goes out of the office of County Superintendent of Schools next month. “The retiring superintendent, Mr. E. E. Pritts, of Somerset, has been one of the most popular officials who has yet been honored with that position in Somerset county. His voluntary re- tirement after-having successfully dis- charged the duties of the office for two terms is characteristic of the man. In 1891 he was elected principal of the Somerset borough schools and served in that capacity for five consecutive years, when he declined a re-election to accept the county superintendency. | In the school room he was a strict dis- ciplinarian, but always held the admira- tion of his pupils. In 1893, when Mr. Pritts was first a candidate for county superintendent; he was unknown in many sections of the county. Yet he came within one vote of defeating his opponent, J. M. Berkey, who was widely and favorably known. The convention of Kkirectors at which Mr. Berkey was elected was an exciting one, a great many persons contending that the vote resulted in a tie. However, Mr. Berkey got the commission. There were 189 directors present and the tellers announced that 95 of them had voted for Berkey. Al- though many of Mr. Pritts’ friends arged him to contest Mr. Berkey’s right to a commission, he refused to do so and accepted the result gracefully. The results of that convention practic- ally assured his election three years Jater. However, two candidates were placed in nomination against him, but | their combined votes made a meagre showing when compared with the mag- nificent vote given Mr. Pritts. One of the opponents was Mr. O. O. Saylor, of Somerset township, who received 36 votes. The other was J. C. Speicher, of Meyersdale, who received 34 votes. One hundred and fifty-four votes were cast for Mr. Pritts. So well and faithfully did Mr. Pritts discharge the duties of the office dur- ing the first term that he was given a re-election three years ago without a single vote being cast against him. Superintendent Pritts beld the re- spect and confidence of the teachers throughout the county to a high de- gree, and at the last session of the teachers’ institute they expressed their admiration for him, in a measure, by presenting him with. a handsome gold watch. Mr. Pritts was recently elected as- sistant cashier of the Farmers’ National Bank of Somerset, ana will enter upon his duties formally at the close of his term as county superintendent, which will be on Monday, June 2. About six months ago he consulted State Super- intendent Schaeffer with a view of re- signing at that time, but was informed the resignation would not be accepted.” Don’t Start Wrong. Don’t start the summer with a lin- gering cough or <2old. \e 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. UH. Bowles, Groveton, N. H, *I never found anything else that acted so safely and quickly.” E. H. Miller. Ccnvention. The Ministerial, Sunday School and Christian Endeavor Convention of the Pittsburg conference of the United Evangelical Church, will convene in this borough on Wednesday evening at 7.30, May 20th, 1902, and will continue in session for three days. Sessions will be held in the forenoon, afternoon and evening of each day. About twenty ministers are expected to be present with papers on various subjects on ministerial, Sunday school and Chris- tian work. Ministers and people of sister churches are respectfully invited to attend the convention. Rev. J. J. Caryvoxny, Pres. Rev. W. A. REININGER, Pres. in Charge. Card of Thanks. Through the columns of our home paper, which is always ready to do its friends a favor, especially those in dis- tress, we wish to thank the many kind friends and neighbors who assisted our stricken family during the late illness and death of our beloved mother. May ‘God bless you, one and all, for your kindness, which by us shall never be forgotten. Tue FayiLy or Mrs. J. M. Brows. ee Like a Drowning Man. “Five years ago a disease the doctors called dyspepsia took such hold of me that I could scarcely go,” writes Geo. S. Marsh, well known attorney of No- cona, Tex. *I took quantities of pep- sin and other medicines, but nothing helped me. As a drowning man grabs at a straw, I grabbed at Kodol. felt an improvement at once, and after a few bottles am sound and well.” Ko- dol is the only preparation which ex- actly reproduces the natural digestive juices and consequently is the only ope which digests any good food and cures any form of stomach trouble. E. H Miller. First National Bank “w__ (OF FROSTBURG, MD. S="Sns DEPOSITORY] mr STATES Capital Stock and Surplus Fund.........-... ............. $ 95,000.00 Deposits (o¥ar)...... ctu a iii hn radi 608,000.00 United States Deposits. ..........iv ion iv icrvs sis natins inks 78,000.00 ASSOLE (Over) ocvren. oi fa hl en se nis 847,000.00 SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. 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. PSI SHE SINS INES 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 & Liveneood. SABO ARLARR LOAM ADDR AMAIA Ab MAL SAT NE SAT STII I OPO AOPOAI LS LUMI D BLOATED AMIN wSLICET).. “Star” Dried Beef PACKED IN Dur Oraimal AI Glass Meat Package, JUST OLIT.. Moist and fresh transparent slices, cut from stock carefully selected and specially cured for fancy trade. | Housewives will appreciate the patented All Glass Cover of these jars. This gives permanent value for preserving fruits, ete. For Sale By Lichliter’s. Liechliter's. We have the largest and best assortment of Groceries, Grain, Flour and Feed that we have ever had. ~~—11 WILL BE T0 YOUR INTEREST — to call, examine our stock and get priees be- fore making your purchases. E®= SPOT CASH PAID for Country Produce. Put your produce in nice, clean, neat shape and get the highest price. S. A. Lichliter, Foley’s Honey «ud Tar BANNER SALVE, Sor chitdgen,sate,sure, No opigies. themosthealing salve In the wera 5 Salishury, Pa) eg o ve R - Loe a= me ———— hi W. D. THOMPNON & (0, 3 Greer it at isn’t : 3 C 3 Bake: ’ addit; daily * to del patro: M WwW. H. ] / _oOfficeo FRANC] 3a BI 1 Office o R. E. M! Office oy ‘A. 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