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VOL. XI.
SALISBURY. ELK LICI
PONTOFFICE, PA.,, THURSDAY, MARCH 30. 1905.
NO. 11.
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We have just received a very fine
cries. assortment of men’s and boys’ hats and
always & caps for spring and summer wear.
Rotter The latest shapes in Derbys at $1.-
ight. MS & 25 to 3.00. Also the newest shapes !
\ " colors in soft hates at $1 .00 to 2.00.
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: Capital paid in, $560,000. Surplus & undiyided profits, $9,000. =
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J. L. BarcHus, President. H. H. Maus, Vice President. :
: ALBERT REIrz, Cashier.
¥ LINE - DIRECTORS :—J. L. Barchus, H. H. Maust, Norman D. Hay, E
~~ : A. M. Lichty, F. A. Maust, A. E. Livengood, L. L. Beachy. x
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LOOK -:- HERE!
Pianos trom $125.00 up. Organs from $15.00 up.
Sewing Machines from $10.00 up.
The asking for a catalogue, getting prices and looking over our stock may
mean the saving of a good many dollars. Agents for the following makes:
PIANOS. ORGANS.
WM. KNABE & CO. VARRAND,
ESTEY.
BUSH & GERTS, KIMBALL.
SCHOMACHER, SEWING MACHINES.
VICTOR, DAVIS,
HOBERT M. CABLE, libinie
KIMBALL, NEW SORE,
SHUBERT, DAYTONIO,
OXFORD. GOLDEN STAR.
We have engaged the services of C. E. LIVENGOOD, Piano and Organ
Tuner and Repairer, and orders for work in that line left at the music store
will receive prompt attention.
Somerset County Agents for Estey ipe Organs.
. REICH & PLOCH, CENTRE STREET, MEYERSDALE, PENNA.
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You'll Be Sui prised &
2 at our low prices and our large and styl- :
ps ish line of goods in all departments. 5
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: Our line of Boys’ Clothing, (ages 3 to 19) is the finest in 2
2 town. We are selling it at great bargains. We are leaders 2
# in style, in variety and in low prices. A call convinces all. &
: The Elk Lick Variety Store,
: : C. T. HAY, Manager, Wilt Building, Grant St.
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Subscribe for THE |
| should be advertised for sale.
Important
Announcement!
To the people of Salisbury and
vicinity IT wish to announce that I
have purchased the undertaking
business of Rutter & Will. in Mey-
ersdale, and have moved to that
town.
However, I have not sold out in
that line in Salisbury. and IT have a
representive to look after my inter-
ests in Salisbury, where 1 shall
keep constantly on hand a fine
stock of
Undertaking Goods,
Coffins, Caskets, Kc.
L. C. Boper is my Salisbury sales-
man, and can =ell you anything you
may need in my line. I will con-
tinue to do embalming and funeral
directing. both in Salisbury and
Meyersdale.
Thanking the public for a gener-
ous patronage in the past, and so-
liciting a liberal future patronage,
I remain your servant,
H. MCCOLLOM, Meyersdale, Po.
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WHEN A MAN TELLS YOU it does |
| not pay to advertise, he is simply ad- |
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pest that is not worth advertising, a |
business conducted by » man unfit to |
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OFFICIAL RETURNS
Of the Republican Primary Elee-
tion, Held Saturday, March 25,
1905.
The Republican primary election
held on the above date was very hotly
contested in most of the precinets of
the county, while in some of them but
very little interest was manifested.
The ticket nominated is a good one,
and we trust that all the nominees will
be triumpantly elected in November.
The place for Republicans to make
their fight is at the primaries, and the
thing todo after the nominations are
made is support the candidates nomi-
nated. This is the only way to be a
straight, honorable Republican. Fol-
lowing is the vote received by the
| various candidates.
FOR SHERIFF.
m. OC. Begley... ............... ..2765
Wm. H.Deetfer.......:............ 2661
PROTHONOTARY.
Chas. C. Shafer
Clinton C. Wagner....... ........ 2193
RECORDER.
John B. Boose. .... ...........:! 3045
Edward H. Werner................ 2114
COMMISSIONER.
Josiah Spacht..................%.. 3468
Robert Augustine................. 2805
Edward A. Walker................ 2341
TREASURER. :
Peter Hoffman....... ..... rare, 2714
Calvin M. Ankeny
POOR DIRECTOR.
The following named candidates had
no opposition, and received votes as
follows:
Milton H. Fike, for Clerk of Courts,
8764; Charles F. Cook, for Register of
Wills, 3861; W. H. H. Baker and Jacob
S. Miller, for Auditors, 3668 and 3428
respectively; Albert E. Rayman, for
County Surveyor, 3839 ; Frank M. For-
ney, for County Chairman, 3665; Chas.
Rishebarger, for Vice Chairman, 3665;
for Delegates to State Convention,
Good, 3638 ; Bantley, 3637; Paul, 3604.
In Salisbury and Elk Lick all the
anti-Scull - candidates received heavy
majorities.
A DINNER INVITATION.
After a hearty meal a dose of Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure will prevent an attack
of Indigestion. Kodol is a thorough
digestant and a guaranteed cure for
Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Gas on the
Stomach, Sour Risings, Bad Breath and
all stomach troubles. N. Watkins,
Lesbus, Ky., says: “I can testify to
the efficacy of Kodol in the cure of
Stomach Trouble. I was afflicted with
Stomach Trouble for fifteen years and
have taken six bottles of your Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure, which entirely cured
me. The six bottles were worth $1,000
to me.” Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will di-
gest any quantity of all the wholesome
food you want to eat while your
stomach takes a rest—recuperates and
grows strong. This wonderful prepar-
ation is justly entitled to all of its
many remarkable cures. Sold by E.
H. Miller. 4-1
A NuMBER of Somerset landlords have
been refused their license because the
court thought their papers were defec-
tive, and for that reason it was not
within his power to grant their appli-
cations. Judge Kooser is much too
modest a man. License courts are like
school boards. They can do anything
but hang a man. There is such a thing
as being unjustly technical. —Connells-
ville Courier.
ANOTHER gigantic outrage and dam-
nable plot against the liberties of the
people has been renered by the State
Medical Council. By legislative enact-
ment it is proposed to make Osteopathy
and Christian Science a crime, punish-
able by heavy fines and imprisonment.
The medical doctors, or 1aL.er the nar-
row and tyrannical grafters in the pro-
feesion, want people to be compelled
by law to swallow their prescriptions,
nine-tenths of which are based on
guess work and do at least as much
harm as good in most cases. Often the
drugs are impure and harmful, and in
most cases, we believe, at least worth-
less. People are charged outrageous
prices, whether the doctors’ preserip-
tions help or not, and yet the greedy
profession is after more fees and more
graft. We have no use whatever for
Osteopathy and Christian Science, but
neither of them are crimes, and the
State has no moral right to compel
peodle to swallow drugs if they have | knows that Henry Loechel conducts
more faith in other healing professions
“But these fool Christian Scientists |
and believers in Osteopathy allow their |
children to die for want of medical at-
tention,” say the compounders and
and the little ones
ment.” But if you will take notice,
just as many medicine-doped children
die as any other kind, and they have no
voice in the choice of treatment, either.
And the medical despots want to goa
step further and allow noone to choose
the manner of treating the sick that
looks the most reasonable to them, un-
less their choice is a resort to medical
doctors and drugs. A profession that
is continually seeking to be bolstered
up and protected by all manner of un-
fair and oppressive legislation, has an
enormous amount of fraud and graft in
it that ought to be legislated out. Let
the people choose their own form of
religion, their own politics and their
own manner of healing the sick. In
none of these should compulsion be
used. The medical doctors are to a
great extent afraid of the inroads
Christian Science and Osteopathy are
making among their patrons, and their
fear is no credit to their profession.
When they get so badly rattled as to
try to compel people by law to swallow
drugs, they are only exposing tke weak
spots in their profession and the gener-
al bhumbugery there is in medicine.
There is more in good nursing than in
medicine, and if you want to live long,
keep your conscience clear, take lots of
healthful exercise, observe the laws of
nature and swallow as few drugs as
possible. Christian Science and Oste-
opathy are likely to do neither good
nor harm, while medicine is about as
liable to do one as the other, and in
either case the expense is liable to be
heavy. This is only THE STAr’S opin-
ion, of course, but we believe it is a
correct opinion, and we are not afraid
to express an honest opinion at any
time or in any place. However, when
we make mistakes we can’t do as the
doctors do—go and bury them in the
graveyards and draw a good fee, just
the same. That's an advantage that
only doctors have.
eli elfen
Tue editor of this paper is neither a
lawyer nor the son of a lawyer, and we
are not here to say that Judge Kooser
did not act conscientiously when he
turned down a number of applications
for liquor license on account of a slight
omission in their applications. Accord-
ing to the opinion handed down by
Judge Kooser, some of the applicants
for license were refused for no other
reason than that the names of the
sureties were not set forth in the pe-
titions. The omission, which was but a
mere over=ight, was one that some of
the rejected applicants claim had oc-
curred at other times when they did
get license from the same Judge. It is
also asserted that licenses were granted
by Judge Kooser, to at least sene hotel
keepers, this year, whose petitions had
the same defect that others were turn-
ed down for. Whether these rumors
and reports are absolutely correct, we
do not know, and until we do know to
a certainty, we shall not charge any
such manifest unfairness to the court,
in which we have always had implicit
confidence. In the decision handed
down by Judge Kooser, he gives it as
his opinion that the omissions in the
rejected petitions constituted a defect
which was not amendable, while the
attorney for the rejected applicants
holds that it was sufficient that the
names of the sureties appeared in the
bonds, which were attached to the pe-
titions. The attorneys view of it
seems to most people as the correct
view to take, and like the Connellsville
Courier, THE STAR believes that the
court has been unjustly technical in
the matter. And if, as reported, the
court has at other times granted
licenses in cases where the same
omissions occurred as those referred to
in this instance, it would appear that
there has been a miscarriage of justice
somewhere. As matters now stand,some
communities in Somerset county have
a most ridiculous and obnoxious state
of affairs confronting them. We be-
hold some of the lowest liquor dives
and dens of vice in the county running
wide open and enjoying a monopoly of
the rum traffic—places that give only
bum accommodations to the traveling
public, and places where fights, pro-
fanity, obscenity and the most shock-
ing debauchery are of almost daily oc-
currence. On the other hand, we see
some of the most careful and conscien-
tious hotel men of the county turned
down—men who have been conducting
decent, orderly, well-kept houses, where
the table and other accommodations
have ever been of the very best. We
do not know whether all of the rejected
applicants have been conducting good
houses, but we do know that most of
them have, and nearly everybody
one of the most orderly and best kept |
hotels in Somerset county. Fights and |
and if a place like his must |
be without license, we know that we |
are voicing the sentiments of a large |
majority of our people when we say | delicate
that “the stuff” should be completely
off in the town. If a house like the
Valley House must be dry, all othess
should be the same way. We have
always contended that any town would
be far better off withour saloons them
with them, and we still hold the same-
opinion. But if booze must be sold ina
community, one lone saloon will alwaye-
breed more crime and deviltry than a
dozen will, for the reason that it will
draw all the rough element to ome
place, and the bigger a crowd of row--
dies and drunks, the greater the:
chances for quarrels, fights and other:
crimes. In the refusal of about fifteen
or seventeen licenses, and among them
some of the county’s best and most or-
derly hotels. the temperance people
have gained nothing for their cause,
Lawyers Ruppel and Lowry have made
fools of themselves by acting on ap-
parent jealous and revengeful motives,
and the court has not raised itself one
particle in the estimation of the people,
although the decision may have beem
unavoidable under existing laws. We
are not charging the court with unfair-
ness. Later developments and a full
investigation of some of the allegations:
aflont will determine that point. If
the court treated all applications alike:
that contained the same defects, wheth-
er the defects were objected to or not,
then the court cannot be charged with
discrimination and unfairness. But if
the court didn’t treat all petitions con-
taining the same omissions or defects
alike, then unfairness and discrimins-
tion can be justly charged, and in that
event the court will lose the respect of
all fair-minded people who believe in
President Roosevelt’s motto—*a square-
deal for every man.”
THE GRAVITY OF THE COAL
SITUATION.
In the Annual Coal Number of the
Mining Magazine, of New York, ap-
pears an editorial on the condition of
the coal industry, evidently prepared
by an expert in possession of reliable
data. The following figures are of
univerasl interest and permanent
value:
Estimates of the production of coal
during the past year indicate an output
nearly as great as in 1903, when the
production of bituminous coal was 285.
000,000 tons and of anthracite 59,000,000
tons, a total of 344,000,000. In 1904, the
output of anthracite was 57,492,522 tons
and the estimated production of bite-
minous coal 281,000,000 tons. During
the year our imports of anthracite were
75,526 tons, as against 151,023 tons in
1903; and of bituminous coal 1,556,149
us compared with 3,295,379 tons in 1908.
Our exports of anthracite in the past
year were 2,228,392 tons, as compared
with 2,008,857 tons in 1903. Bituminous
coal exports in 1904 were 6,345,126 tons,
as against 6,303,241 tons in 1903 and
5,218,969 tons in 1902.
For 1805, the prospect of an active de-
mand for a large tonnage seems good
and it is expected that prices will rum
somewhat higher than last year, though
not so high as in 1903.
Referring to the gravity of the pres-
ent situation. and its bearing on the
question of probable strikescthe figures
given by the writer are of deep signifi-
cance. He says that the miners’ organ-
ization reported for its year ending
November 30th a balance on hand De-
cember 1st, 1903, of $1,106,198.68. Re-
ceipts from members’ tax were $303-
697.30, from assessments $474,649.76, and
other sources $74,425.80, a total of $852-
772.86; expenditures for officers’ sal-
aries and expenses were $199,725.80, for
the relief of strikers $1,087,300.47, other
expenses $87,992.95, leaving a balance
on hand of $603,952.32. This showed
the year’s expenditures to be $502.246-
36 in excess of the receipts. The treas-
urer’s report states that the per capita
tax of 10 cents a month has been whoi-
ly insufficient to meet the expenditures,
the letter having averaged 37 cents per
member per moath. It states further
that the weekly expenditures at the
close of the year have increased, and
recommends a per capita tax of 50 cents
per month during the year ending No-
vember 30th, 1905.
The usual arrangements for a wage
adjustment from April 1st will take
place during this month. The opera-
tors in several of the districts will be
forced to offer a lower schedule tham
that now in force, and the miners must
either recognize the relation betweem
good wages and the commercial value
of the product, or begin a strike whick
the treasury of their organization is
not able to support without calling =
heavy assessment on the members
Whatever scale is finally settled upoe
| will remain in force until April, 1906, a¢
| trouble have not been emanating from | Which time the wage agreement at the
| his place,
anthracite mines also expires; s¢ =
ze both the miners and opera-
1ave to solve an intricate and
problem.