I always. ed. yu that =Y werifice: 40c. the fa- ar that: ome to ee — A A AE oe County Star. VOL. XII. SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1906. NO. 50. EA Mor 3 A Merry Christmas! The time to buy your Christmas.” Presents is early in the season, thereby getting the first choice and best selections. - “4 < BERKEY & SHAVER, Attorneys-at-ILaw, SOMERSET, PA. Coffroth & Ruppel Building. ERNEST 0. KOOSER, Attorney-At-Law, SOMERSET, PA. R.E. MEYERS, Attorney-at-Law, DISTRICT ATTORNEY SOM¥RSET, PA. Office in Court House. W. H. KOONTZ. KOONTZ & OGLE Attorneys-At-Liaw, ‘SOMERSET, PENN’A J. G. OGLE Office opposite Court House. VIRGIL R. SAYLOR, Attorney-at-Liaw, SOMERSET, PA. Office in Mammoth Block. Before making your purchases you should see our line of Gold and Silver Novelties in Toilet Articles, Watches, Chains and Rings, also our grand dis- play of hand decorated Japanese Chi- naware. It surpasses anything else of the kind shown. Elk Lick Supply Co. MMAR 4 r= —————. SSS OF SALISBURY. Capital paid in, $50,000. Surplus & undiyided profits, $15,000. Assets over $300,000. On Time § PER GENT. INTEREST eos J. L. BArcHUS, President. H. H. MavusT, Vice President ALBerT REITZ, Cashier. DIRECTORS :—J. L. Barchus, H. H. Maust, Norman D. Hay, A. M. Ligaty, F. A. Maust, A. E. %. Livengood, 1. 1. Beachy. CANDIES, § Tai : CANDIES, ; (ver 2000 | At Lichliter’s. ALL KINDS. ALL PRICES. Don’t miss seeing our line before making your Xmas Special bargains to churches and teachers. ‘&—Salisbury, Pa—~ Foreion and Domestic "4 GOODS, Finest of Groceries, Hardware, Miners’ .« Supplies, Shoes, Clothing, Etc. The best Powder and Squibs a Specialty. i q i For Butter And Fas. DR.PETER L. SWANK, Physician and Surgeon, ELK LICK, PA. Successor to Dr. E. H. Perry. 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. WINDSOR HOTEL, 1217-1229 FILBERT ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA, Modern, up-to-date accommodations at moderate rates. A square each way from the two principal railroad stations and in the center of the shoppin and theatre dis- trict. American Plan, $2.00 to $3.50 per day. European Plan, $1.00 to $2.50 lot day. Don’t let beer get the best of you. Get the best of it— Monastery brewed at Latrobe, Pa., and recognized by chemists and judges of a good article as a pure, wholesome, beverage. Delicious! Refreshing! Sold at the West Salisbury Hotel, West Salisbury, Pa. CHAS. PASCHKE, Propr. New Firm! G. G. De Lozier, GROGER AND GONFEGTIONER. Having purchased the well known Jeffery grocery opposite the postoffice, I want the public to know that I will add greatly to the stock and improve the store in every way. It is my aim to conduct a first class grocery and confectionery store,and to give Big Value For Cash. I solicit a fair share of your patronage, and I promise a square deal and courteous treatment to all customers. My line will consist “of ;, Staple and Fancy Groceries Choice Confectionery, Country Produce, Cigars, Tobacco, etc. OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE, SALISBURY, PA. Wagner's RESTAURANT, Ellis Wagner, Prop., Salisbury. (Successor to F. A. Stor fo, 4, Thompson.) OYSTERS IN EVERY STYLE Also headquarters for Ice Cream, Fresh Fish, Lunches, Confectionery, etc A share of your patronage solicited. Satisfaction guaranteed. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. OFFICIAL vIRECTORY. Below will be found the names of the various county and district officials. Unless otherwise indicated, their ad- dresses are, Somerset, Pa. President Judge—Francis J. Kooser, Member of Congress—A. F. Kooper, Uniontown, Pa. State Senator—William C. Miller, Bedford, P=. Members of the Assembly—J. W. Endsley, Somerfield ; L. C. Lambert. Sheriff —William C. Begley. Prothonotary—Chas. C. Shafer. Register—Chas. F. Cook. Recorder—John R. Boose. Clerk of Courts—Milton H. Fike. Treasurer—Peter Hoffman. District Attorney—R. E. Meyers. Coroner—Dr. 8. J. H. Louther. Commissioners—Josiah Specht, Kant- ner ; Chas. F. Zimmerman, Stoyestown ; Robert Augustine, Somerfield. Solici- tor—Berkey & Shaver. Jury Commissioners—C. R. MeMillan Listonburg; W. J. R. Hay, Lavansville Directors of the Poor—Chauncey F. Dickey ; Aaron F. Swank, Davidsville; William Brant, Somerset, R. F. No. 5. Attorney for Directors, H. BP, Yost ; Clerk, C. L. Shaver. County Auditors—W. H. H. Baker, Rockwood ; J. 8. Miller, Friedens ; Geo. Steinbaugh, Stoyestown. Superintendent of Schools—D. W. Seibert. County Surveyor—A. E. Rayman. Chairmen Political Organizations—N. B. McGriff, Republican ; Alex. B. Grof, Democratic; R. M. Walker, Berlin, Prohibition. THE new court house at Somerset is now completed, and it is truly a credit to Somerset county. The mossbacks and political grafters who kicked against its erection for political effect, kicked in vain. This is an age of prog- ress, and the new court house is such an one that the county needed and is well able to pay for. The next term of court will be held in the new court house, but whether “Squire Edwie” Werner’s court house anaconda will be provided a den in it remains to be seen. THE deficit in the postal department of the government for the year just closed amounts to $10,600,000. And yet there is a large army of good men in this country who advocate government ownership of all public utilities, and these same man point to the postal service as an argument in favor of their hobby, says the Somerset Democrat. There is much for reflection in this, and the editor of this paper is firmly of the opinion that if the U. 8. postal bus- iness could be turned over to a big private corporation, that we would have a far better and more economically managed postoffice system than that which we now have. The hundreds of thousands of tons of medicine circulars and almanacs, as well as the numerous cheap and rotten story papers pub- lished solely for the revenue derived from fraudulent advertisements, ought to be charged a rate high enough to keep them out of the mails. That would soon eliminate an army of postal employes and wipe out the deficit. Besides, it would protect the poor and the ignorant against the wiles of fraud- ulent advertisers who reach them through cheap, trashy story papers which are sent out to all persons whose names can be obtained, no matter whether they are subscribers to that class of papers or not. Much of the expense of our postal system is due to carrying and handling hundreds of thousands of tons of trash at a ridicu- lously low rate of postage—trash which should not be admitted to the mails at any price. DIGESTION DECIDES IT. GOOD DIGESTION MORE THAN HALF THE BATTLE, Life is a ceaseless struggle for suc- cess because success is supposed to in- sure happiness. Ambition and ability make for sue- cess, but without health too, failure is more than probable. If the digestion is poor, the nerves unsteady, the blood thin, the weight less than it should be, and ambition and energy at low tide because of stomach trouble, failure is almost a certainty. Whether you make much or little of life, whether you fail or succeed, your digestion largely decides it. So “con- fident is E. H. Miller that Pepsikola Tablets will renew your energy, steady your nerves, drive away that tired feeling, give tone to the digestion, im- prove your appetite, bring up your weight to where it should be, put new color into your cheeks and new life in- our stomach, that they continue to | [sal this grand dyspepsa remedy on the money-back plan. Have confidence. The guarantee absolutely protects you. Mr. Miller will gladly pay back your quarter if at the end of the ten days’ treatment you have not been cured or decidedly ben- efited. 1-1 TaE STAR and the Pittsburg Daily Gazette Times, both papers ome year for only $3.75. Send all remittances to THE STAR, Elk Lick, Pa. tf LICKED AGAIN. The Koontz Petition Quashed by the Court. General Koontz has again met a re- versal in his ill-advised effort to secure the certificate of nomination to the State Senate from the Thirty-sixth dis- trict, which was given to Dr. Wm, C. Miller, of Bedford, who received a plu- rality of forty votes in the district at the November election. Characteriz- ing the Koontz petition for the appoint- ment of a commissioner to take testi- mony as being “defective, irregular and not according to the Act of As- sembly,” Judge J. M. Woods, of Bed- ford, sustained the motion to quash the petition and dismissed the case. Gen eral Koontz can carry his fight to the Senate committee on elections, when that body meets in January, but since the courts of Bedford and Somerset counties have refused to investigate the allegations made by Koontz and his petitioners, it does not take a prophet to foresee what the result of his effort before that body would be. It will be remembered that General Koontz filed a protest before the Com- putation Court of Somerset county against counting to vote of one ward of Windber, where a registry had not been made, and where the voters had to establish their right to vote by affi- davit, and that Judge Kooser swept aside the protest in an elaborate opin- ion and counted the vote; that a cer- tificate of election was given to Dr. Miller by the return judges of the three counties of the district; that Koontz then petitioned Judge Woods, of Bedford, to appoint a commissioner with full power to compel the attend- ance of any officer of the election com- plained of, and of any other person capable of testifying concerning the same ; that a hearing was set for the 18th of December, at Bebford, when a motion to quash the Koontz petition was made on the ground that it was fa- tally defective in failing to set forth in- formation required by the Act of As- sembly, says the Somerset Standard, and but little more remains to be said. Koontz is down and out for good, and he ought to be down and out for good. He was fairly and honestly beaten, and it didn’t take a strong man to do it, either. It comes with poor grace for Mr. Koontz to try to disfranchise voters and thereby break into the Senate, and we are glad to note that his ill-advised methods are doomed to fail, as they ought to. Koontz’s political career is as good as closed, and it is closed in disappoint- ment and disgrace, ‘the fruits of his own folly. The winding up of his po- litical career is like the winding up of his military career. DR. DAVIS’ PRESCRIPTION FOR HEADACHES. When we recommend and guarantee Ake-In-The-Head tablets for headaches and neuralgia it is because we know you must obtain relief or we stand ready to pay your ten cents back. Safe, sure, and always cure. E. H. Miller. 1-1 John Miller Charged With Murder of Catharine Stauffer. John Miller. a resident of Stonyecreek township was arrested and lodged in jail, last week, charged with the mur- der of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Cath- arine Stauffer, which occurred at her home on the night of Nov. 8th, last. Miller was believed to be the guilty one from the start, by his neighbors, and a strong chain of evidence is forg- ed around him. That he will be found guilty of the crime seems to be pretty generally believed, but at present we deem it best to say but little about this case. It is believed that Miller had an ac- complice, and until fnrther develop- ments are made in the case, we shall say nothing further. The Old and New, We are saying “good-bye” to the old year, it is slipping away from us with all its memories, and it wakes a chord of pain in our hearts as we think that it will e’er long be a thing of the past; gone forever, with its sunshine and its shadow, its joy and its pain, its many opportunities, employed or disregarded. Gone, and we cannot call it back again, we cannot live over again one day that is past, or use again one opportunity that we have allowed to slip by us un- heeded. As the shadows gather round us, At the closing of the year, We look back at days departed And perchance may drop a tear. ANNOUNCEMENT. We call your attention to the fact that Dermakola ointment is a positive cure for Eczema, ulcers, wounds, piles, and every kind of skin or scalp trouble. It costs 25 cents if it cures. If it don’t we return your money. E. H. Miller. 1-1 FAREWELL OLD YEAR. The old year will soon have passed into history. We part with it as with an old friend. To some it has brought much joy—to others sorrow. Yet we are reluctant to say farewell. Like a palsied man it totters as it nears the end of life’s journey and goes forward towards that vast vault wherein doth lie the forms of dead dynasties and sheeted centuries swept by the re- morseless hand of time to that great graveyard at the entrance of which rises the imaginary tombstone upon which is inscribed the words: THE PAST. There is a sublime solemnity in the slowly moving, yet never vary- ing, tide of years. Man has marked its course into hours, days, weeks, months, .years and centuries, yet it rushes on, on, on, and still on, utterly unmindful of the puny marks raised to measure the tide that never tires. Dynasties have rose, flourished and decayed; cities have sprung from fertile plains and then sank beneath the desert’s drifting sands; continents have reared their lofty brows above the ocean’s trackless waste, only to return to the coral caverns from whence they rose; races have risen to the noon of splen- dor and become lost in the depths of night, but Time, patient, plodding, tire- Jess Time, sweeps on with the same regularity as when it first issued forth, from the hollow of God’s hand, to the chant of the morning stars that pro= claimed Creation’s dawn. And yet time is but the image of eternity, the shadow of a shoreless sea, the type of & duration for which all the pages past and all the aeons to come would not make or constitute the first faint flush of the first streak of the dawn of its second morning. “Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!” That never ending reign succeeding the crash of matter and the wreck of the worlds, - suns and systems! Intelli- gence has achieved triumphs. It has read the stars of heaven and can fore- tellto a second when the great, fiery sun will be hidden in partial or total eclipse; it can read the history of the creation on the rocks of nature and unfold the secrets hidden by God in the bowels of the earth; but when it attempts to grasp the significance of eternity, it stands abashed and dumb- founded at its inability to comprehend an infinite plan. LONG TENNESSEE FIGHT. For twenty years, W. L. Rawls, of Bells, Tenn., fought nasal catarrh. He writes: “The swelling and soreness in- side my nose was fearful, till I began applying Bucklen’s Arnica Salve to the sore surface ; this caused the soreness and swelling to disappear, never to re- turn.” Best salve in existence. 25c. at E. H. Miller’s drug store. 1-1 PRESIDENT AT PANAMA. How He Was Sized Up There by s Somerset County Man. J. R. Heckman, of Jenner township, this county, recently received an in- teresting letter from a friend in the Canal zone, giving the following short, but very interesting account of how he sized up President Roosevelt during his recent visit to the great canal. “ ‘Teddy’ was here and saw more in three days than the Commission has seen in two weeks. He did not go any place they wanted to take him ; he just went where he darned pleased. He never ate a meal at their banquets. He would sneak off and eat at some of the Government boarding houses, where they least expected him. He actually went through mud up to his knees, with his white suit on while the rain fell in bucketfuls. “Oh, he fooled them. He that he did aot want to see the places that were all right; it was the places that were not right that he wanted to see. There was not one in the bunch that could keep up with him. He went into ‘nigger’ quarters and sat down and talked with the ‘niggers’ and asked them all kinds of questions. Also he went into the white quarters. I heard he told officials how things had to be from this on. Some of them went to arguing the case, and said that such could not be done. He simply said tbat if they nad no remedy he had one. “I heard he got mad at one placs, and just raised Cain; talked out in the street so everybody could see him. You should have seen him galloping down some of these muddy streets, the mud flying high over his head. He showed them how to get around.” told them NEW CURE FOR EPILEPSY, J. B. Waterman, of Watertown, O., Rural free delivery, writes: “My daughter, afflicted for years with epi- lepsy, was cured by Dr. King’s New Life Pills. She has not had an attack for over two years.” Best body cleans- ers and life-giving tonic pills on earth 25c. at E. H. Miller's drug store, 1-1
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