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TH 3 MERSH COUNTY STAR | cramp colic and suffered sevsrely,” | had been the Democratic stronghold of Very few could believe in looking at 8 - op
b | says 8S. B. Elzee, of Monett, Mo. “Itele- | Somerset county, is rapidly forsaking | A. T. Hoadley, a healthy, robust black- S : NATI ON A B er
P. L. Livexcoon, Editor and Publisher. | phoned for a doctor, then gave a dose | her democracy. At the last election | smith of Tilden, Ind., that for ten years a ; nt EY :
_ | of Chamberlain’s Colie, Cholera and | the town was carried by some of the | he suffered such tortures from Rheu- ; lo 30: URG oh) . ] A Is K Jeffer
Eatered at the Postoflice at Elk Lick, Pa. | Diarrhoea Remedy, and a few minutes Republican candidates, and the aver-| matism as few could endure and live. : b . tionery, T
as mail matter of the Second Class. later a second dose. Before the doctor | age majority by which some of the | But a wonderful change followed his able.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
If you are billious and seeking advisars,
Take DeWitt’s Little Early Risers,
Just before going to bed.
¥ou will find on the morrow,
You are rid of your sorrow—
That’s all; just enough said.
These famous pills do not gripe. but
move the bowels gently and easily,
cleansing the liver. Their tonic effect
Zives strength to the glands, prevent-
ing a return of the disorder. E. H.
Miller. 11-27
Mrs. George Fogle and daughters
went to Jobnstown, last Saturday, to
aisit relatives for several days.
¥oley’s Honey and Tar always stops
sthe cough and heals the lungs. Refuse
substitutes. 11-27
Mr. Henry A. Reitz, formerly of
"West Salisbury, Pa., but now of Johns-
town, was visiting friends in Salisbury
during the past week.
Foley’s Honey and Tar for coughs
and colds; reliable, tried and tested,
safe and sure. E. H. Miller. 11-27
Jacob Emerick has fully recovered
from his recent severe illness, and last
Saturday be returned to Courtney, Pa.,
where he has employment.
There is no cough medicine so popu-
lar as Foley’s Honey and Tar. It con-
tains no opiates or poisons and never
Jails to cure. E. H. Miller. 11-27
A new postoffice has been establish-
ed at Jennings, Md., with C. H. Jen-
mings as postmaster. Elk Lick postof-
fice is the distributing office for the
mew office across the line.
W. A. Herren, of Finch, Ark., writes,
“JT wish to report that Foley’s. Kidney
Cure has cured a terrible case of kid-
ney and bladder trouble that two doc-
tors had given up.” E. H.Miller. 27
The Republicans of Garrett county,
Md. carried every voting precinct in
that county at the last election. That
is the best kind of evidence that Gar-
rett county is feeling the benefits of
Republiean prosperity.
“Barney” Krausse has been appoint--
ed truant officer of this borough, and it
is now up to parents to see that their
children are regular attendants at
school. “Barney” will be on the look-
out for all youngsters that indulge in
playing “hook.”
It is not generally known that size
for size, a thread of spider silk ‘is de-
eidedly tougher than a bar of steel.
An ordinary thread will bear a weight
of about three grains. This is just
about 50 per cent stronger than a steel
shread of the same thickness. —Ex.
The figures prove that October was
the busiest month at the Babcock Lum-
ber Company’s Ashtola plant. During
the month the output, which smashed
records, was as follows: Lumber, 6, -
234,852 feet ; lath, 1,294,100 feet ; shingles,
478,500 feet ; slabwood, 749 25-100 cords.
The Jews who were arrested in Sal
isbury, last week, for peddling without
license, paid $67.45 in fines and costs
and took their departure. They saw
they were up against the real thing
and would get more trouble than they
were looking for if they didn’t “whack
up.”
If you have a bad cold you need a
good reliable medicine like Chamber-
lain’s Cough Remedy to loosen and re-
Jieve it, and to allay the irritation and
inflammation of the throat and lungs.
The soothing and healing properties of
this remedy and the quick cures which
it effects make ita favorite everywhere.
For sale by E. H. Miller. 11-27
A Mr. Shields, living near Heads-
ville, W. Va., while going over his
farm recently came across a turtle
which had the following inscription on {
its back: “J. W. Y., 1872” (Clerk of |
tke Court John W. Young when a
young man worked on a farm there
and remembers cutting his initials on
the turtle. Now he wants to get pos-
session of the ‘“gentleman.”—Cumber-
3and Courier.
was relieved.” For
11-27
At a joint-meeting of the County
Commissioners and Auditors held re-
cently at the Court House, the com-
pensation of the County Treasurer for
three years, beginning the first Mon-
day in January next, was fixed at 2 per
cent., the same as at present. The
County Treasurer’s office has gotten to
be one of the best paying offices in the
Court House.
Our old friend Wm. Kann, of Gar-
rett, is in town today, shaking bands
with his many friends. Mr. Kann says
Garrett is booming and going right
ahead by leaps and bounds. He and
his sons are kept busy right along,
building new housesy and we will vouch
for it that the houses they build are
built right. They are all good mechan-
ics and good fellows.
came the child
sale by E. H. Miller.
John Wagaman, of Quemahoning
township, one of our County Commis-
sioners, is carrying his right arm in a
sling as the result of being bitten in
that member at his home the other day
by a pet dog. Mr. Wagaman at first
paid little attention to the wound, but
the arm began to swell. Mr. Waga-
man thinks cold has caused the trouble
more than the poison of the dog’s bite.
George Tedrow, of Coal Run, was in
town a few days ago and reported
eighteen ’coons captured thus far by
the Coal Run ’coon hunters, this sea-
son. A gang of Salisbury ’coon hunters
went out some time ago and chased a
coon up a very large tree. Then they
all sat down and waited for daylight.
But before morning dawned the ani-
mal up the tree made good his escape.
Some coon hunters drink the wrong
kind of whisky and can’t keep awake.
The great number of pheasants be-
ing brought to town has created a sup-
ply far ahead of the demand, with
prices away down as the result. Last
year at this time the birds were bring-
ing ninety cents to one dollar each.
Since the enactment of the law pro-
hibiting shipment outside of the coun-
ty, conditions have changed, and as a
result twenty-five cents each for the
birds is the top notch price, and they
seem to be a drag on the market at
that.—Oakland Republican.
George W. Harrison, aged thirty,was
killed at Westernport, Md., recently in
a peculiar manner. He was in his
room, and in turning on the electric
light the glass broke, causing his hand
to come in contact with the wire,which
had crossed a live arc wire. He was
assistant to his father, Capt. George
Harrison, General Passenger Agent of
the West Virginia Central Railroad.
Mr. Harrison was a nephew of Capt.
C. J. Harrison, of Somerset.
About seventy friends of Mr. and
Mrs. H. A. Reitz, of Ferndale,surprised
that couple, Saturday evening, in hon-
or of the forty-third anniversary of Mr.
Reitz’s birth. A substantial token of
the esteem in which Mr. Reitz is held
by his friends was the handsome quar-
tered-oak leather cushion chair which
was presented to him by the company.
Music, parlor games, and refreshments
combined to make the evening pass
very pleasantly and swiftly, and it was
with genuine regret that the party
broke up at a late hour.—Johnstown
Tribune.
The latest move in local financial eir-
cles is the intended conversion of the
old established bank of S. Philson &
Co. into a National Bank. The appli-
cation has already gone in for a char-
ter, the stipulated amount of stock be-
ing promptly subscribed upon an-
nouncement of the intention to form
the new national. There is a very gen-
eral distribution of the stock within
Berlin and the surrounding !erritory
and it was necessary to restrict appli-
cations to keep the stock down to the
limit of $50,000 at which the concern is
to be capitalized. The name of the
new concern is to be the Philson Na-
tional Bank.—Berlin Record.
A 10,000-acre tract of coal land in
Preston county, W. Va., has been pur-
chased and will be operated by a com-
pany incorporated under the laws of
that state, known as the Livengood
Coal & Coke Company and capitalized
at $25,000. The company is officered
by the following well-known financiers:
Samuel D. Livengood, President ; Chas.
Lanz, Vice President, Pittsburg; W. J.
Weixel, Secretary, Pittsburg, and Hugo
O. Lorentz, Cashier of the Farmers’
National Bank of Meyersdale, Treasur-
er; Executive Committee, Charles Lanz,
Fred Rowe, and John L. Barchus.
A department store in New York an-
nounced in the newspapers of the city
one day last month that it would give
a stick-pin with the class number on it
to the children in every grade in the
public schools, if each child would mail
a postal card asking for it. A hundred
and sixty-five thousand postal cards
were received in response to the ad-
vertisement, which seems to indicate,
among other things, that when some-
thing is offered for nothing there is no
lack of people ready to accept it. In-
cidently, also, it suggests that adver-
tisements are read, and that in turn
suggests that advertising pays.
Democrats carried it was only about
nine. Berlin is becoming quite an in-
dustrial center,and in towns of that
kind Democratic supremacy cannot
continue very long. Hurrah for Ber-
lin!
A child of Mrs. Geo. T. Benson, when
getting his usual Saturday night bath,
stepped back against a hot stove which
burned him severely. The child was
in great agony and his mother could
do nothing to pacify him. Remember-
ing that she had a bottle of Chamber-
lain’s Pain Balm in the house, she
thought she would try it: In less than
half an hour after applying it the child
was quiet and asleep. and in less than
two weeks was well. Mrs. Benson is a
well known resident of Kellar, Va.
Pain Balm is an antiseptic liniment and
especially valuable for burns, cuts,
bruises and sprains. For sale by E. H.
Miller 11-27
Now is the time to dispense with the
useless things, says an exchange, which
fill the wardrobes, closets, chests and
discarded household goods at the top
of the house faded with age and white
with dust. A'great many women who
are clamoring for more space can easily
have their desire gratified by merely
getting rid of clothes and furniture for
which they have not the slightest prac-
tical use, yet these are permitted to
stand year after year in solemn useless
grandeur. It is well enough to retain
those articles which can be used, but
when their days of service are over,
give them away or send to the rum-
mage sales.
A Fayette woman suspected that her
husband was in the habit of kissing the
hired girl and resolved to detect him
in the act. Saturday night she saw
him pass quietly into the kitchen. The
hired girl was out and the kitchen
dark. The jealous wife took a few
matches in her hand, and, hastily plac-
ing a shawl over her head, as the hired
girl often did, entered the back door,
and immediately she was seized and]
kissed and embraced in an ardent man-
ner. With heart almost bursting the
wife prepared to administer a terrible
rebuke to the faithless spouse, and,
tearing herself away from his fond em-
brace, she struck a match and stood
face to face with—the hired man.—Sal-
isbury (Kan.) Press-Spectator.
An exchange remarks: The young
man ot today is just what he makes
himself Good and evil alike spread
out before him. He may choose the
good and be a great and useful man, or
he may choose the evil and be a pest
to creation. Ancestors, education and
wealth count for but little. There are
no heirs to the throne of America. It
is strange, but true. The great men of
today were the poor boys fifty years
ago. No president has a direct descend-
ant to be president. Few senators
have ever seen their sons hold positions
of honor and trust. The boy that will
be president forty years from now may
be plowing corn today. The boy that
is honest, energetic and determined,
gets there. The boy who is dishonest,
dissipated, slothful and without pur-
pose is worse than a failure. The pos-
sibilities for good or evil of an Ameri-
can boy are unlimited.
CI
N. Y. Board of Health on Wine.
Dr. Janes, of the New York Board of
Health, says: “I take pleasure in testi-
fying to the superior qualities of the
wine produced by Alfred Speer. I rec-
ommend it as a superior wine for the
sick and debilitated. I have been
through the acres of vineyards and the
winery during the wine making and
am satisfied as to the purity of Spee’rs
Wines.
More Mines to be Opened at Garrett.
Preparations are being made for the
opening up of 1600-acre tract of coal
land at Garrewt by the Hocking-Black
Coal Company. This company recent-
ly acquired this vast coal field at a re-
markably small outlay—said to be but
$25 per acre. The vein is a 4-foot one
and will be easily mined. Alfred E.
Jones, acting fire boss for the Pitts-
burg Ccal Company at West Newton,
has been made general superintendent
of the new company. Mr. Jones will
resign his position with the Pittsburg
Coal Company November 1, and take
active charge of the opening of the
mines.
A slope 1,700 feet long will have to be
excavated. The company intends to
install all the most modern electrical
machinery, including a 20-ton electric
motor for drawing the coal up the
slope. Several 5-ton motors will be
used in the mines for gathering the
cars together. The company expects
to mine 2,500 tons of coal a day when
in full operation, which will be in the
early spring, says the Somerset Herald.
Startling, But True.
“If every one knew what a grand
medicine Dr. King’s New Life Pills is,”
writes D. H. Turner, Dempseytown,Pa.,
“you’d sell all you have in a day. Two
weeks’ use has made a new man of me.”
Infallible for constipation, stomach and
liver troubles. 25 cents at E. H. Mill-
er’s drug store.
taking Electric Bitters. “Two bottles
wholly cured me,” he writes, “and I
have not felt a twinge in over a year.”
They regulate the Kidneys, purify the
blood and cure Rheumatism, Neural-
gia, Nervousness, improve indigestion
and give perfect health. Try them.
Only 50 cents at E. H. Miller's drug
store.
Three From the Rockwood Gazette.
The editor wrote an item last week
to the effect that the turnip crop is
ripening, and the compositor, who had
just finished putting in type the an-
nouncement of six births, made it read,
“The baby crop is ripening.” To com-
plete our distress at the blunder,three-
fifths of the women in town have given
us the stony stare, with a nervous
twitch heavenward of a scornful nose,
as we pass by. Who can measure the
depths of our despair? or lift from our
soul the burden of our chagrin?
Judson Newman met with a painful
accident about 8 o’clock, Thursday
morning, while working in his father’s
coal mine, a fall of slate lacerating and
crushing the flesh from the bone of his
right leg just below the knee to an ex-
tent of four inches. He was brought
to Dr. Masters’ office where the injur-
ed limb was promptly dressed, four
stitches being required to close up the
wound. He is a son of A. G. Newman,
an enterprising farmer who resides
about two miles north of Rockwood.
W. G. Younkin has leased his coal
and fire clay lands on the royalty plan
to a company of Baltimore capitalists,
who are now at work driving a heading
for coal. They will also put in a large
brick plant,we are informed,and operate
both on an immense scale. The prop-
erty is about a half mile west of Rcek-
wood, across the river. These new in-
dustries will surely give a mighty im-
petus to Rockwood’s prosperity, and a
thriving addition to our town will un-
doubtedly be built across the river in
Black towship, next year. Already
several fine residences have been erect-
ed over there and several are in con-
templation or already building, and it
is said a business street will be open-
ed up there in the spring. We believe
the opening of this new section will
solve the problem of Rockwood’s future
growth and prosperity, for it will place
business and residence property on the
market for what it is worth, and prohi-
bitive prices will not be demanded for
property, such as is now the case in the
present business center, and which has
seriously retarded the growth of our
town.
Cured of piles After 40 Years,
Mr. C. Haney, of Geneva, Ohio, had
the piles for forty years. Doctors and
dollars could do him no lasting good.
De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve cured him
permanently. Invaluable for cuts,
burns, bruises, sprains, lacerations, ec-
zema, tetter, salt rheum, and all other
skin diseases. Look for the name of
DeWitt on the package—all others are
cheap, worthles counterfeits. E. H.
Miller.
A Sample of Cumberland Rot.
1f Pattison should be elected gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania, which is today
probable, it would be such a triumph
of honesty over rascality in politics as
this country has rarely witnessed. —
Cumberland Courier, Nov. 4th.
Highly probable indeed! Ye gods,
ye gods! If a Pennsylvanian had made
such a statement as the above. his san-
ity would have been questioned, and
justly so. What the Courier man
doesn’t know about Pennsylvania, her
honest men and her politics, would fill
a volume as large as the little state of
Maryland. Why is it, anyway, that
Prohibitionists of the Courier man’s
stripe always show such strong Demo-
cratic leanings and insist on spouting
about topics and men they know noth-
ing about?
— a
A Policeman's Testimony.
J. N. Patterson, night policeman of
Nashua, Ia., writes, “Last winter I had
a bad cold on my lungs anu tried at
least half dozen advertised cough medi-
cines and had treatment from two
physicians without getting any benefit.
A friend recommended Foley’s Honey
and Tar and two-thirds of a bottle cured
me. I consider it the greatest cough
and lung medicine in the world.” E.
H. Miller.
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November Crop Report.
Following is the November crop re-
port sent out by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. It shows the
average yield of four products for the
year 1902 as compared with the yield
of same products for the year 1901,
1902 1901
Per ct. Per ct.
Corn, av. yield per acre, bushels..26.8 16.7
Buckwheat, av. yield per acre....181 186
Potatoes, average yield per acre. 95.4 65.5
Hay, average yield per acre, tons. .1.51 1.28
WANTED !—A good, practical print-
er. One who has only good habits and
is not afraid of work. We have steady
work ‘and good pay for the right man.
No bums or drunkards need apply.
Good treatment, good wages and
prompt pay is the policy we do busi-
ness on. For full particulars call on or
address at once Tur Star, Elk Lick, Pa.
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Capital Stock and Surplus Fand............c....i.ceiaavace. hn, $100,000.00
DepOSIS (OVO... i iiaes ioe tena tied ens cviieniiion sens 760,000.00
Assets (ovor)................:. Semin ivitsnnnnnt arias sai eiea. 910,000.00
...Savings Department....
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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.
MARX WINELAND, PPESIDENT. ROBERDEAU ANNAN, CASHIER.
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diseases, it will be of vital interest to you to communicate with us at once.
Bright's Disease and other Kidney Diseases, Rheumatism, Corsumption, Weak-
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