Connty Star. ion tight. the only mily Can 1ates. tion. nt 2aASOS~ t Lifes efunded, by mail, co., du docket ! had. | give years venient attractive rreat relief] he idea of) w in price x be folded h no more ocketbook. IFG. CO, l. ¥ ——— SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA. THURSDAY, JULY 12. 1906. NO. 26. CORSETS We are the agents for the famous JACKNON .", CORMEL. Half a woman's beauty depends on the corset—the Jackson Corset upon ® which many fastidous women have set & s the seal of their approval. 6 giving shapeliness to the figure, it & $ allows great freedom of movement. } We have all : 50cC. CORSETS! sizes at ‘While and $1.00. Blk Lick ply 0, $ Capital paid in, $50,000. ) Assets over $300,000. J. L. BaArcHUS, President. DIRECTORS: —J. L. Barchus, d PER GENT. INTEREST H. H. Mavusrt, Vice President, TOM. OF SALISBURY. On Time Deposits. ALBERT REITZ, Cashier. Surplus & undiyided profits, $15,000. H. H. Maust, Norman D. Hay, A. M. Liebiys F. A Maust, A. E. Livengood, L. L. Beachy. S>—Salisbury, Pa—~§ + DRY orelen and Domestie “Coons I EW . Finest of Groceries, Hardware, Miners’ Supplies, Shoes, Clothing, Ete. The best Powder and Squibs a Specialty. ; il For Butler Hes And Eggs. au mn HPI SI STORY IYY $409 BH A GHOIGE: LINE OF NTAPLE GROUER ALWAYS ON HAND. We sell Axa and Minnehaha Flour, buy if you want good bread. S. A. LICHLITER. AAAI SIO BALA ALEVE IRL JIA LR GRR EI BABA LA RA the brands to TTA IPSS SIAR IOP INT IO MA OOS OVAL SUNN BERKEY & SHAVER, Attorneys-at-Law, Coffroth & Ruppel Building. ERNEST 0. KOOSER, Attorney-At-Liaw, SOMERSET, PA. R. E. MEYERS, Attorney-at-Law, BOMYRSET, PA. Office in Court House. W. H. KOONTZ. KOONTZ & OGLE Attorneys-At-Law, SOMERSET, PENN’A J. G. OGLE Office opposite Court House. VIRGIL R. SAYLOR, Attorney-at-Law, SOMERSET, PA. Office in Mammoth Block. E. H. PERRY, Physician and Surgeon, SALISBURY, PENN’A, Office corner Grant and Union Streets E.C.SAYLOR, D.D. 8, SALISBURY, PA. Office in Henry DeHaven Residence, Union Street. Special attention given to the preserva- tion of the natural teeth. Artificial sets in- serted in the best possible manner. Murphy Bros. RESTAURANT! ZAIN Headquarters for best Oysters, Ice Cream, Lunches, Soft Drinks, etc. Try our Short-Order Meals—Beef- steak, Ham and Eggs, Sausage, Hot Coffee, ete. Meals to Order at All We also handle a line of Groceries, Confectionery, Tobacco, Cigars, ete. We try to please our patrons, and we would thank you for a share of your buying. MURPHY BROTHERS, McKINLEY BLOCK, SALISBURY, PA. There is a reason all horse and cattle owners buy Dr. R. M. BEACHY’S Horse and Cattle Powder in preference to any other. It's The Best! That tells the whole story, and a trial isall that is_necessary to convince you. Buy it at Dr. Beachy’s.headquarters, City DRUG STORE, Paul H. Gross, Deutsche Apothke, MEYERSDALE, PA. e a — Hair Brushes, Tooth Brushes, Cloth Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Nail Brushes. A large lot just received, See our window display and get prices. THE ELK LICK DRUG STORE SOMERSET, PA. DISTRICT ATTORNEY, “Our investigation of Mr. Emery’s record will not permit us to put him on our ticket,” says Dr. Swallow, the great state prohibition leader. Mayor McKinNEy, of Titusville, who is a Democrat, is one of many mem- bers of that party who have become outspoken against Lewis Emery, the Democratic nominee for Governor. Mayor McKinney says Emery is not now, and never has been a Democrat, and that his policy has always been one of rule or ruin. THoMAs JEFFERSON once said: “I would rather live in a country with newspapers and without a government than in a country with a government, but without newspapers. Napoleon, contemporaneous with Jefferson, said: “A journalist! That means a grum- bler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of na- tions! Four hostile newspapers are more to be dreaded than a hundred thousand bayonets.” Berry posed as a reformer who would lift the lid from an official rot- tenness that smelled through the steel vault doors of the State treasury. He found no corruption there, nor did he expect to find any. He fooled the peo- ple. Louis Emery, Jr., is trying the same old game, says the Connellsville Courier. The Courier might also have added that Berry was quite willing to run as the Democratic-Lincoln candi- ‘date for Governor, on the Reform issue, and when the “Prohibs” nominated him for that office on their ticket, he felt pretty sure of endorsement by the Democrats and Lincolnites. Fake re- form is a great graft, but the Demo- crats and Lincolnites knew that they couldn’t fool the people twice with the same fake reformer. Trae Somersét Herald is at its old- time trade, trying to deceive voters, so that the complete disruption of the Re- publican party may be accomplished. Last fall the Herald and Meyersdale Commercial led an open revolt against the Republican ticket, and they urged Republicans to do all the bolting they pleased, assuring them that no matter whether they voted against the Re- publican ticket or not, that no power on earth could keep them from voting at the Republican primary the year following. They gave further assurance that if bolters were not permitted to vote at the Republican primary, that they would promptly cause the arrest and imprisonment of all committee- men who refused the ballot to bolters Of course, the Herald and Commercial knew that they were deceiving voters in order to satisfy their own selfish de- signs, and they failed to arrest a single committeeman for refusing the ballot to bolters who attempted to vote at the late Republican primary. The Herald and Commercial well knew that the committeemen held the late primary strictly according to law and the party rules, and they knew better than to take any of them into court. Now the old bolting Herald is playing in another deceptive role. That sheet is now tell- ing voters that it will be safe for them to bolt the Republican ticket next No- vember, assuring them that the new primary election law will allow them to vote at the next Republican primary, just the same. The fact is, the new primary election law will permit no such thing, and the Herald well knows it. The new law provides that the voter must have voted for at least a majority of the candidates, at the last general election, on the ticket of the party of which the voter professes to be a member. In case of a doubt ora challenge, the voter must make oath that he supported such majority of candidates as aforesaid, and if he re- fuses to do so, he shall not be given the primary ballot for which he has made application. Thus it will be seen that bolters cannot maintain a party stand- ing, or be permitted to vote at the primaries of parties whose candidates they have been voting against. Chal- lenge lists will be prepared of all voters suspected of bolting regular nominees, and all such will be required to be sworn under the new law, same as under the old. The bolter will be “up against it” just as hard in the future as in the past, and under the new law, same as under the old, he can only walk away without voting, if challenged, or run the risk of going to penitentiary by falsely swearing in his vote. TWENTY YEAR BATTLE. “I was a loser in a twenty year battle with chronic piles and malignant sores, until I tried Buckler’s Arnica Salve; which turned the tide, by curing both, till not a trace remains,” writes A. M. Bruce, of Farmville, Va. Best for old Uleers, Cuts, Burns and Wounds. 25c. at E. H, Miller’s, druggist. 8-1 by the Connellsville Courier. Democracy was never very strong in Somerset county, and it has suffered with the general decline of the faith since Buster Bryan became its ex- pounder. The Somerset Democrats are so few in number that their County Committee, which met on Saturday, decided that it wasn’t worth while to nominate a Democratic ticket; so, fol- lowing the fashion of the times, they named a hybrid ticket with fusion pro- clivities, headed by Ernest Ogle Kooser for Congress, and General William H. Koontz for State Senate,both members of the now famous office-holding Ogle family, and Republicans of the Insur- gent type, better known in the Somer- set vernacular as Orphans. ' If the lat- ter appellation is correctly applied, the nominations were most generous and humane. With noc party parents, orphans in the cold and unfeeling po- litical world, Mother Democracy takes them to her withered breast and gives them comfort in caresses, if she cannot give them official pap. The Somerset Herald declares that the nomination” of Kooser will likely result in “clearing the clouds now hanging over the Fayette-Green-Som- erset district.” This statement needs a diagram. It is hardly comprehensi- ble over here amid the smoke-crowned hills of Fayette. The clouds always “hang over us, but our political skies are usually placid. There may be some Lincoln Republicans and Wan- amaker Democrats in Somerset county, but there are mighty few of them in Fayette and Greene. The Republicans of Somerset county take politics too seriously. They have yet to learn the lesson that family quarrels should not be aired in public; that the proper place to settle factional fights is at the primaries.—Connells- ville Courier. The Courier is somewhat mistaken when it proclaims that W. H. Koontz and E. O. Kooser are both Republicans of the Insurgent type. Mr. Kooser, although a son of Republican Judge Kooser. has been a staunch Democrat ever since he is a voter. That may seem strange to some people, but it is not as strange and inconsistent as the present political attitude of the Som- erset Herald and Meyersdale Commer- cial. Those two journals, which for years posed as Republican organs of the Stalwart type, opposed Judge Kooser in every campaign that he was a candidate, and one of their chief reasons for so doing was because Judge Kooser’s only son was a Democrat and a free-trader. That being the case, they argued that Judge Kooser was only a fake Republican himself, and that he claimed to be a Republican for the mere sake of getting into publie office. Now, however, the Herald and Commercial are both for the younger Kooser, who acknowledges that he is a Democrat, and feels proud of it. That the Herald and Commercial have sold out to the Domocrats and Fusionists, is an open secret, but whether the Stal- wart Republican hosts which they have unworthily led for years, will tamely submit to being turned over to the Democratic party also, remains to be seen. It was easy enough for the Herald and Commercial to sell out,but when it comes to surrendering their faction bodily to the common enemy, that will not be such an easy matter. Plenty of Money Left. Notwithstanding the fact that a heavy drain bas been made upon the State treasury, on account of the pay- ment of school appropriations by Treas- urer Berry. which were due June 1st, the monthly treasury statement issued Friday shows that there is a balance of $14,425,137 in the strong box. Under a law passed by the last Legislature, pro- viding for a state treasury commission, deposits will hereafter be kept in the institutions named by the commission. Banking Commissioner Berkey is a member of the commission. The treas- urer’s reports show that $15,000 is on deposit in the Citizen’s National Bank at Meyersdale, and $12,000 in the Farmers’ National Bank at Somerset. The First National Bank at Somerset, which held state deposits for many years, has been dropped from the list of depositories.—Somerset Standard. ONLY 82 YEARS OLD. “I am only 82 years old and don’t ex- pect even when I get to be real old to feel that way as long as I can get Electric Bitters,” says Mrs. E, H, Brunson, of Dublin, Ga. Surely there’s nothing else keeps the old as young and makes the weak as strong as this grand tonic medicine. Dyspepsia, tor- pid liver, inflamed kidneys or chronic constipation are unknown after taking Electric Bitters a reasonable time. Guaranteed by E. H. Miller, druggist. Price 50c. 8-1 Somerset County Politics as Viewed’ IN MOONSHINE LAND. Jaeob D. Miller and the Star Mam Visit the Laurel Hill Region in Quest of Trout. Royally Entertained by Jacob Tinkey and Old Bill Pritts, the Famous Moonshiner. Last Thursday morning Jacob D. Miller, Salisbury’s famous carpet weaver, in jcompany with the editor started for the Laurel Hill region im quest of trout. The trip was made with one of the splendid rigs turned out by Liveryman J. W. Williams, and leaving here at 6:10 a. m., we reached our destination easily by 1:20 p. m., going via Rockwood, New Centerville and Trent. It was a most pleasant drive, the birds sang sweetly, the air smelled good, and the country traversed was one grand panorama of ferest trees, wild flowers, fields of waving grain, orchards with trees almost breaking down under their loads of fine fruit, ete. We put up at the hospitable moun- tain home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Tink- ey. who are as clever a set of people as one could wish to meet. Their home is located in a wild, but picturesque portion of the Laurel Hill region, and like all the other mountaineers, they are contented and happy. On the afternoon of our arrival, Mr. Tinkey piloted us to the cabin of old Bill Pritts, the famous moonshiner, who for several years was hunted like a wild beast by revenue officers, who once shot him in the arm and made many attempts to capture him either dead or alive. The old man was finally captured, » few years ago, but it is doubtful whether they ever could have taken him if he had decided to keep out of the clutches of the law. The old man became tired of being hunted, and one day meekly submitted to arrest, knowing full well that scores of good and influential friends would come to his rescue, and that no one could prove any great crimes against him. When all is summed up, old Bill Pritts was guilty of making pure whisky without license, and when that is said the whole story is told. The old man is not a desperado, nor he never was. He is an open-handed., kind-hearted old mountaineer, and no man has more staunch and true friends among his acquaintances than old Bill Pritts, the moonshiner. His trial never amounted to “shucks,” and all the punishment that ever came to him was a few days in the Fayette county jail. The old man is infinitely better than the men who hunted him down or the law that puts the liquor traffic into the hands of a favored few and makes the govern- ment a partner in the business. We were well treated at the Pritts homestead, which is situated in a very wild and secluded nook in the moun- tains, and near the crude old log cabin is a spring that is worth going miles to see. The famous Bill Pritts spring is the head of Neal’s run, and it flows enough clear, cold sparkling water to supply a town as large as Somerset or Meyersdale. The water tastes good even when a fellow isn’t dry, and the same could be said of old Bill’'s famous mountain due. But the old man has ceased to make moonshine, and is now in the employ of a distilling company that owns and operates a licensed dis- tillery only a few yards from the old mountaineer’s famous cabin and spring. Old Bill is sales agent at the distillery, which does a thriving business, and it was indeed a jolly crowd of mountain- eers we found there on the day of our visit. The editor was at first taken for a big fellow from Connellsville by the name of “Jake” Slonaker, and old Bill and others declared that there was enough resemblance between us for each to be taken for the same man. We don’t know Slonaker, but as Bill Pritts and all his friends declare that “Jake” is one of the best fellows that ever came down the pike, and that we reminded them of him in every way, we have no kick coming at the compar- ison. The next day we tried our luck at fishing in Neal’s run and Back creek, and while we saw nice trout by the hundreds, we succeeded in catching none. The weather was very unfavor- able, and as it was no better the next day, we started for home, arriving im Salisbury at 4 p. m. Fish or no fish, we consider that the trip was worth all it cost us, and we shall long remember the courtesies and kindness shown us by Mr. and Mrs. Tinkey, as well as old Bill Pritts and all the other mountain eers we came in contact with. HAVE YOU A WANT?—If so, try & small “ad” in THE STAR. Many wants can and are promptly supplied if ad- vertised in this paper. tf
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