4 SOE a RIAA EB ed SS SH THE SOMERSET GOUNTY STAR P. L. Livexcoon, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Postoflice at Elk Lick, Pa. as mail matter of the Second Class. Subscription Rates. THE STAR is published every Thursds v.at Elk Lick, Somerset County, Pa. at the fol- lowing rates: One year, if paid spot cash in advance... $1.25 Lf not paid strictly in advance........ . 1.50 Six months, if paid spot cash in advance 65 Lf not paid strictly in advance............ 8 Three months, cash in advance........... 35 single copies. J To 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 line each insertion. To regular advertisers, H cents a line for first insertion and 3 cents a line for each succeeding insertion. No busi- ness iacals will be mixed with local news items or editorial matter for less than 10 cents a line for each insertion, except on yearly contracts. . Rates for Display Advertisments will be made known on application. Paid Editorial Puffs, invariably 10 cents a line. Legal Advertisements at legal rates. Marriage, Birth and Death Notices not exceeding fifteen lines, inserted free. All additional lines, 5 cents each. Cards of Thanks will be published free for prtrons of the paper. Non-patrons will be charged 10 cents a line. L Resolutions of Respect will be published for 3 cents a line. All advertisements will be run and charg- ed for until ordered discontinued. No advertisement will be taken for less than 25 cents. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. Miss Margaret Leader is visiting friends in Salisbury. Frank Hay, of Akron, Ohio, is visit- ing friends in Salisbury and vicinity this week. Oakland, Md., has issued bonds to the amount of $8,000 to be expended for street paving. Sound kidneys are safeguards of life. Make the kidneys healthy with Foley's Kidney Cure. E. H. Miller. Several new advertisements appear in our columns, this week, and they are full of good bargains for buyers of mer- chandise. Foley’s Kidney Cure purifies the blood by straining out impurities and tones up the whole system. Cures kid- ney and bladder troubles. E. H. Miller. Ben Livengood says it isn’t true that he’s married, but says he’d like to be if he could only find a girl pretty enough to suit him. One night recently about $20 in mon ey and about $50 dollars’ worth of post- age stamps were stolen'from the post- office at Confluence. Stewart Smith started on his western ¢rip, Tuesday morning. He orders THE STAR sent to his address at Nampa, Idaho, until further notice. A. R. Bass, of Morgantown, Ind., had to get up ten or twelve times in the aight and had severe backache and paine in the kidneys. Was cured by ‘oley’s Kidney Cure. E. H. Miller. Mrs. Ritter, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Suhrie, is here enjoying a visit at the home of her parents. We believe Mrs. Ritter’s residence is in Ohio. Alf Wagner is the boss trunip farmer of this neck of the woods. On July 4th he could show you new turnips on his Riverside farm that would weigh about a half pound each. The Frostburg Forum has a new edi- tor, and the Journal says he has a hy- phenated name and parts his hair in the middle, adding that the part is about five inches wide. In Meyersdale, Pa., a hotel meal is described as “square” by one faction. It will take a pair of carpenter’s com- passes to outline a similar hash in Sal- isbury.—Frostburg Journal. A basket picmic by the W. C. T. U. will be held in the Beachy grove, south of town, Saturday afternoon, August 9. All members are expected to invite their friends to be present on this oc- casion. It 1s said that a man who squeezes a dollar never squeezes his wife, which has prompted an exchange to remark that in looking over his subscription books one would judge very few wom- en in the country ever had their ribs cracked. Quite a lot of berry stealing has been going on among some of the people go- ing to the mountains after huckleber- ries, Those who are too lazy to pick for themselves have been doing the stealing, and if all reports are true, some of the thieves will be arrested. Matters seem a little brighter in the affairs of our proposed street railway. The company have notified the borough fathers that they have accepted the ex- tension of their franchises as laid down by that body, and that they will file their indemnity bond in the pre- scribed time.—Meyersdale Republican. WANTED 5 YOUNG MEN from- Somerset County at once to prepare for Positions in the Government Ser- vice—Railway Mail Clerks, Letter Car- riers, Custdm House and Departmental Clerks, ete. Apply to Inter-state Corres. Inst. Cedar Rap- ids, Ia. 10-1 Our Republican friend, Milton Long, of Khedive, sent us yesterday a giant stalk of rhubarb which was grown in his garden. The stalk and leaf meas- ures four feet one inch in length, W. S. Easton, who now is in charge of some drilling machinery near Rose- ville, W. Va., for the Rand Drill Co, of New York, writes as follows: “I am in a very lonely place and guess I will stay here some time. Please send me Tue Star and the Scientific American, so that I can keep posted. I am a heathen now, but would not like to be- come a savage yet.” Huckleberry pickers are killing a great many rattlesnakes on Negro Mountain, this season. On Monday the Engle and Lowry boys killed three large rattlers, and last week James Easton killed a “whopper.” Other per- sons have been killing their share of them. The wet continued weather is “| doubtless responsible for the rattlers seeking higher ground. Slight injuries often disable a man and cause several days’ loss of time, and when blood poison develops, sometimes result in the loss of a hand or limb. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is an anti- septic liniment. When applied to cuts, bruises and burns it causes them to heal quickly and without maturation, and prevents any danger of blood pois- on. For sale by E. H. Miller. “Prosperity Is the Issue” is the title of the great speech of United States Senator Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, recently delivered in the Senate at Washington. The speech has been issued in document form by the American Protective Tariff League. Send postal card request for free copy. Ask for Document No. 75. Address W. F. Wakeman, General Secretary, 135 West 231 Street, New York. About eighteen months ago Mr. W S. Manning, of Albany, N. Y., widely known in trade circles as the repre- sentative of the Albany Chemical Co, was suffering from a protracted attack of diarrhoea. “I tried Chamberlain’s Colie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,” he says, “and obtained immediate re- lief. 1 cheerfully recommend this medicine to those similarly afflicted.” Sold by E. H. Miller. A new scheme to swindle the farmer is coming this way from Northern Ohio. A man comes along and offers to sell the right for a new-fangled wagon tongue. If the farmer does not bite readily the tongue is left with him. A confederate comes along and gets stuck on the pattern and otfers $400 for it. The farmer sends $250 to man No. 1 for the right, and the job is done. The farmer, of course,loses his money.—Ex. There is great activity in coal lands in all sections of Garrett county, es- pecially in that part bordering on the Potomac River. Test borings are be- ing made on the McCullough lands and on the mountain near William Aron- halt’s. The latter is under the direc- tion of Pennsylvania capitalists. At Henry a third shaft is being sunk and coal is being taken from the two shafts that have already been completed.— Oakland Republican. Local Union No. 606, United Mine Workers, will from now on hold their meetings in the Red Men’s hall, in this borough, instead of West Salisbury. Now thatthe Union has a good hall to meet in, every miner should join the fraternity and stick to it. Without thorough organization, the cause of labor would soon become very degrad- ed. Labor unions are very beneficial if properly officered, and the way to have them properly officered is for all laboring men to join and take an active part in the same. The local Roman Catholic congrega- tion, whose church edifice is in West Salisbury, now have a resident priestin the person of Rev. Father Farrell, who at present is boarding at Hay’s hotel; but we are informed that his congre- gation will build or buy a residence for him in the near future. The Catholic church has had a steady growth here ever since the erection of their snug little edifice on the hill, and now that a resident priest has been secured, it is likely that the congregation will grow more rapidly than ever. Father Far- rel is reputed to be an able man as well as a most affable gentleman. We are dismayed by the action of a jury who recently decided that a hug is worth only a cent. Besides the fact that it was a lie, it is an awful cheap- ening of a valuable asset. Just think of it! One hundred for a dollar! A man could go out this bright, beautiful weather and hug his collar loose for 50 cents. Everybody knows that a hug is worth more than a cent. Most of us would willingly pay as high as a dime. But, now comes a jury and awards a woman who has been hugged, one cent. If this is fixed by law as the ruling price, there won’t be any other work done this year.—Ex. Purchases of mining rights to the value of over $30,000 have recently been recorded by Norman E.Knepper, Isaiah Good and Daniel B. Zimmerman. Most of these lie in Somerset and Stony- creek—$10,000 to Chas. W. Duppstadt and $6,000 to William M. Lambert, and in Somerset $6,500 to S. U. Shober. The Messrs. Knepper and Good have also purchased the coal under some 2,000 acres in Lincoln township, the Sipes- ville district. Knepper, Good and Zim- merman hold options on 3,000 acres in the Shanksville field, Stonycreek, and are now drilling and testing on a pur- Greene county is not behind the rest of | chase of 10,000 acres recently made in the world in growing things, sure— |the Middlecreek district, Upper Tur- Waunesburg Republican. keyfoot township.—Berlin Record. An officer of a city police detail said recently: “When I was a mounted policeman I learned of a most humane and kind way of curing a balky horse, It not only never fails, but it does not give the slighest pain to the animal, When the horse refuses to go. take the front foot at the fetlock and bend the leg at the knee joint. Hold it thus for three minutes and let it down, and the horse will go. The only way in which I can account for the effective mastery of the horse is that he can think of only one thing at a time, and having made up his mind not to go, my theory is that bending the leg takes his mind from the original thought.” A Cleveland, Ohio, grocer named Soeder, claims to have discovered a process whereby illuminating gas may be manufactured directly from the at- mosphere without the aid of machinery or fuel. The gas is made by dissolving certain chemicals in a tank filled with compressed air, and Soeder claims that the chemicals are as common as grass, and that an ocean steamship can car- ry enough in a barrel to make fuel gas for a trip across the ocean. With gas generated directly from the atmos- phere, and electricity drawn directly from the ether, it would seem that the lighting and heating problems have been solved. Mr. Henry Yost, of Garrett county, Md., was with Salisbury friends over Sunday, and on Monday afternoon he started for North Dakota, where he ex- pects to visit Mahlon P. Lichty and other old-time friends. Before return- ing home he will also visit friends in Jowa and other states. Mr. Yost has been a hard worker all his life, and by industry and economy has accumaulat- ed quite a competency. He has wise- ly decided to spend a reasonable por- tion of it in looking up old friends and seeing some of the country in the di- rection of the setting sun. We wish him a most pleasant trip, and we feel that his many friends in the west will be delighted to entertain him. Not long since a Missouri editor an- nounced that just for one issue he would tell the truth, naked and un- varnished. Here is one item from the issue: “Married—Miss Sylvia Rhodes to James Carnaham, last Saturday eve- ning, at the Baptist parsonage. The bride is an ordinary town girl, who doesn’t know any more than a rabbit about cooking, and never helped her poor mother three days of her life. She is not a beauty by any means, and has a gait like a fat duck. The groom is well known here as an up-to-date loaf- er, has leen living off his old folks all of his life, and don’t amount to shucks, nohow. They will have hard life while they live together, and the News hast- ens to extend no congratulations, for we don’t believe any good can come from such a union.” T.J. Altman, of Masontown, has a trot line out below lock No. 5, and when he went to inspect it recently in com- pany with “Sam” Brown they found safely fastened a catfish of enormous size. It weighed 87 pounds, and, ac- cording to the Brownsville Monitor, is the largest fish ever caught in this lo- cality. Mr. Altman experienced con- siderable difficulty in landing the fish, but with the help of Brown he finally succeeded. The fish was taken to Ma- sontown and served to the guests of the Sterling hotel, of which Mr. Alt- man is proprietor. It lasted three days. Our local Izaak Waltons will no doubt have their latent enthusiasm aroused by this latest angling achieve- ment, and equipped with rod and.line and the inseparable bait can, they will hie away to No. 5 and try to lure an- other fine specimen of the finny tribe from its accustomed haunts in the cool, deep channel of the old Monongahela. John Dailey, of Illinois, is here visit- ing his brother, Roland Dailey, and other friends, says the Franklin News. Mr. Dailey was born and reared in Canal township and will be remember- ed by the older inhabitants as “one of the boys,” when he was young. One time his father told him to take the oxen and go plow. John demurred and the old man gave him a brashing: John took the oxen and went to the field, but had not plowed long before he concluded he was a much-abused boy, and so he tied the team to a sap- pling and left the country. is folks heard nothing from him for about two years, when Mr. Dailey received the following note: ‘Dear Pap: You had better unyoke the oxen and feed them.” Young John took Horace Greeley’s advice and went West and settled in Central Illinois, where he became a prosperous farmer, making a specialty of raising melons and sweet potatoes. Mr. Dailey states that his crops are good this year and they will begin harvesting the melons in about a week. Vacation Days. Vacation time is here and the chil- dren are fairly living out of doors. There could be no healthier place for them. You need only to guard against the accidents incidental to most open air sports. No remedy equals De Witt’s Witeh Hazel Salve for quickly stop- ping pain or removing danger of serious consequences. For cuts, scalds and wounds. “I used DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve for sores cuts and bruises,” says I.. B. Johnson, Swift, Tex. “It is the best remedy on the market.” Sure cure for piles and skin diseases. ! Beware of counterfeits. E. H. Miller. Last Saturday night “Bob” Murray was indulging freely in spirituous, vin- ous and malt liquors, and according to his custom on such occasions, he ap- peared to be looking for trouble and found it. When Officer John Walker attempted to arrest him. “Bob” was foolish enough to resist. For this and other charges he was arraigned before Burgess Livengood, who fined him $10 and costs. He paid $2.00 of the fine and gave security for the balance, but a little later he found himself in anoth- er peck of trouble. “Reddy” Alexan- der had him arrested on another charge, alleging that Murray had taken money from his pockets while the plaintiff was taking an after-beer-drink snooze. Alexander had a one-dollar bill of which he happened to know the num- ber, and this same bill was one that Murray used in paying his fine. De- fendant, of course, claims that he did not steal the bill, but things look rather bad on his part. The case was brought before Esquire Samuel Lowry, who ad- vised Murray to settle the matter and avoid being brought before our county National Bank OF FROSTBURG, MD. ..UNITED STATES..." DEPOSITORY, Savings Department. on Deposits, Capital Stock and Sur- plus Fund............. Deposits (over)......... Assets (Over)........vee Drafts on all parts of the world. Accounts of individuals and firms invited. Deposits sent by mail and all cor- respondence given prompt and care- ful attention. This bank is the only United States depository in the Georges Creek Valley. Bank open Saturday nights from 7 b to 10 o'clock. MARX WINELAND, - - - President. ROBERDEAU ANNAN, - - - Cashier. RS RR A A RR RR AR RR court. It may or it may not be settled, as Mr. Alexander has not yet decided whether he will agree to a settlement outside of court. Verily, a drunken man’s joy is a sober man’s sorrow, and the way of the transgressor continues to be hard. Don’t Fail to Try This. Whenever an honest trial is given to Electric Bitters for any trouble it is rec- ommended for, a permanent cure will surely be affected. It never fails to tone the stomach, regulate the kidneys and bowels, stimulate the liver, invig- orate the nerves and purify the blood. It’s a wonderful tonic for run-down systems. Electric Bitters positively cures Kidney and Liver Troubles, Stomach Dirorders, Nervousness, Neu- ralgia, Sleeplessness, Rheumatism, and expels Malaria. Satisfaction guaran- teed by E. H. Miller. Only 50 cents. W. C. T. U. Meeting. The W. C.T. U. met at the home of Mrs. S. M. Baumgardner Monday eve- ning, July 28th, and elected the follow- ing officers for the ensuing year: Pres- ident, Mrs. E. C. Speicher; Recording Secretary, Miss Lulu Baumgardner; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Lydia Shaw ; Treasurer, Miss Lottie Meager. The vice presidents of the various churches appointed are as follows: Re- formed, Mrs. Ella Fogle; Lutheran, Miss Clara Wahl; Methodist, Mrs. An- nie Emerick; Progressive Brethren, Mrs. Jennie Williams; United Evan- gelical, Mrs. V. E. Baumgardner. The next regular meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Theopholis Wagner, Tuesday evening, August 12, at 7.45. If a Man Lie to You, and say some other salve, ointment, lotion, oil or alleged healer is as good as Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, tell him thirty years of marvelous cures of Piles, Burns, Boils, Corns, Felons, Ulcers,Cuts, Scalds, Bruises and Skin Eruptions, prove it’s the best and cheapest. 25ec. at E. H. Miller’s drug store. Hanging Would be too Good for a Man Like This. : The Somerset Standard says: “Dr. W. C. Browning, the noted physician of Philadelphia who attended Senator Ma- gee during his last illness and put in a claim against the estate for $340,900 for his services, was awarded $29,239.25 by a decision of Judge Over in the Or- phans’ Court of Allegheny county. Most people will agree that even $29,- 000 is a handsome fee for a doctor who failed to save the life of his patient,but Doctor Browning is not satisfied and declares he will carry the case to the Supreme Court.” Hanging would be too good for doc- tors who demand such fees as Dr. Browning wants. Such a doctor should have the seat of his pants soundly kick- | ed. Mother Always Keeps It Handy. “My mother suffered a long time from distressing pains and general ill health due primarily to indigestion,” says L. W. Spalding, Verona, Mo., “Two years ago I got her to try Kodol. She grew better at once and now, at the age of seventy-six, eats anything she wants, remarking that she fears no bad effects as she has her bottle of Kodol handy.” Don’t waste time doctoring symptoms. Go after tke cause. If your stomach is sound your health will be good. Kodol rests the stomach and strengthens the body by digesting your food. It is nature’s own tonic. BE. H. Miller. ee Value of an Edueation. “How priceless is a liberal education! In itself, what a rich endowment! It is not impaired by age, but its value increases by use. No one can employ it but its rightful owner; he alone can illustrate its worth, and enjoy its re- wards. It cannot be inherited or pur- chased. It must be acquired by indi- vidual effort. It can be secured only by perseverance and self-denial, but it is as free as the air we breathe.” Acts Immediately. Colds are sometimes more trouble- some in summer than in winter, it’s so hard to keep from adding to them while cooling off after exercise. One Minute Cough Cure cures at once. Absolutely safe. Acts immediately. Sure cure for coughs, colds, croup, throat and lung troubles. E. H. Miller. Summer". Clothes! Men's two-piece Flannel Suits with turn- up trousers and belt straps are the correct thing for hot weather. plete line of these goods in dark and light stripes. We have a com- Negligee Shirts and Neckwear in new de- signs are here. See Our Large Stock of cool Summer Underwear, Belts, Fancy Hose, Low Shoes and other summer attire. Barchus & Livengood. The Best In The World! a That's what is claimed for Washburn & Crosby’s Gold Medal Flour. It is made of choice Minnesota and Dakota Hard Spring Wheat, by the latest and most improved machinery. All the Life Sustaining And Desirable Qualities of the wheat are retained. No expense is spared to make this the most desirable family flour now in use. this flour is used. Daily capacity of mills, 25,000 barrels. For sale by sack of it. There is no excuse for inferior bread when Try a W. D. Thompson & Co. Lichliter's. Lichliter’s. ‘We have the largest and best assortment of Groceries, Grain, Flour and Feed that we have ever had. ~—]] WILL BE 10 YOR INTEREST ~~ to call, examine our stock and get prices be- fore making your purchases. g& SPOT CASH PAID for Country Produce. your produce in nice, get the highest price. S. A. Lichliter, : Put clean, neat shape and : + Salisbury, Pa. Foley’s Honey snd Tar BANNER SA ’ {or childgen,safe,sure. No opigtes. the most healing salve in et E a8 ’ CLE Daring this : DRES 3-4 Good Mus All best Calic Dress Ginghn and 8 cents, n Big Reduce ~10c. goods Noy 10c. 25¢. g 25¢. de. g LADIES Straw Men’s and B Coats red! Children’s W Men’s Blue cent. red: Men’s Unlin .00, NOW | Men’s Unlin 6.50, now Men’s Unlin $7.50, now Men’s Unlin $0.00, now Men’s Cotto All the now cast to fect a speec po} ‘Whe Green Gi it at Jeff isn’t a st Cas We Bakery— addition daily tri to delive patronag N preparat; LESS, 1 25 cents 1 FRIZZIN
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