The Somerset Gonntp Star, VOL. XIII. SALISBUR Y. ELK POSTOFFICE. PA. THURS DAY, MARCH 21.1907 NO. #8, Spring and Summer {ORY COS 4 NOTIN They are here, and the lina is very » complete in blue, red and gray cal 8 coes and percales, dress ginghams, % Nippon silks, Barnaby zephyrs, white € shirtwaistings and suitings at all pri- g ces from 6 to 50c. Elk Lick Supply Co. Salisbury, Penn. 1 Sy i OF SALISBURY. oS Capital paid in, $50,000. Surplus & undiyided profits, $15,000. oS Assets over $300,000. On Time § PER CENT. INTEREST oepess J. L. BarcHus, President. H. H. Mavusr, Vice President. 5% ALBERT REITZ, Cashier. os y DIRECTORS :—J. L. Barchus, H. H. Maust, Norman D. Hay, A. M. @® Tishi?, F. A. Maust, A. E. Fives; L. L. Pooery: Ns Seeds eedl call Before buying your seeds for spring sowing, and BBB examine our line of fancy, recleaned 08 MayvyorH CLovER, MEDIUM CLOVER, CRriMSON CLOVER, ALSIKE, MILLET, % Tizorny, Birrey. ¢9 We buy in large quantity, and prices are always.inline. | S. A. Lichliter, Salisbury, Pa. FDRBBBGHEORDVBDBBOBBD BeBe iE engine, manufactured at Elk Lick, Pa, composed of home capitalists, and officered as follows : Vice President ; Albert Reitz, Secretary and Treasurer. Miller, a son of an Elk Lick farmer and mechanic. traction and portable engines ever built. A letter or postal card pany’s handsome illustrated and descriptive cataalgues, showing A Handsome Product of Old Elk The above is a half-tone photograph of a 35 H. P. double cylinder Twentieth Century traction by the Improved Traction Engine Company, a concern H. H. Maust, President : The inventor of the engine is Gideon D. tury traction and portable engines has spread over a number of states Lick. ALE Livengood, The company has been in business only about two years, but the fame of the Twentieth Cen- ,and wherever these engines are introduced, the vy are declared the handsomest, lightest, and at the same time the most powerful will bring you one of the com- their various models. Four Distressing Allairs! River in a Boat-Three Companions Have Highest Waters in Many Years—Great Alvin D. Statler Drowned While Attempting to Cross Casselmén Narrow Escape-Two Men Drown at Bakersville-Boy Drowned at Wellersburg— Property Damage. Henry Mull, of Coal Run, Found Dead in Five or Six Weeks. Woods—Was Missing When interviewed by a representative of Tue Star after he returned to his home, Mr Statler said: “It by mere chance and good fortune that any of usreached the shore alive, being weighted down as we were with heavy slothes in that > deep, swift and’ cold water Coclirat e had one of his feet entang- led in a rope in the boat when it turn- ed over, and being under the boat be- sides, his perilous condition can be bet- ter imagined than described. tic efforts, however, he freed himself and reached the shore just his strength was about exhausted. Men and children on the banks of the river witnessed the ter- 'rible struggle going on in the angry | between Salisbury and Meyersdale, | waters, and their cries and sobs rent | He lost his life attempting to ithe air while they cross the river in yesterday | stricken, but unable to render any as- Somerset county, although the mo {elevated county in Pennsylvania, suf- | fered greatly by floods during the past week. Nor only have bridges, build- {ings and fences suffered great damage { on account of the high water, but { least four lives have been snuffed out | by raging streams in this county with- | in a week. One of the persons drowned was Ai- vin D. Stat ler, a well known and highly | esteemed young merchant, who resided lin Salisbury from the time of his birth. | He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Statler, and iu partnership with one of his brothers conducted a in the | little mining village on the East side of | the Casselman river, directly opposite the old Keystone mine, about midway was only ni Emanuel as store women while a boat, I 9 9) Salisbury, Pa Foreien and Domestic Finest of Groceries, Hardware, Miners’ Supplies, Shogs, Clothing, Ete. The best Powder and Squibs a Specialty. “Hest Marke Prices Pad "i DRY And Eggs. GOODS, | morning, at about. 8 or 8.30 o’clock. sistance. In the boat with him were three! companions—his brother “Bert,” Chas. | D. Cochrane and a Slavishman—all | employes at the mine, who desired to cross the swollen stream to get to their | work. Alvin left his store and went | with the other men for the purpose of | bringing the boat back. The boat was attached by chains to a steel wire cable stretched across the river, and the men propelled it by pulling on the cable. rise no more, his brother heard him ery out “I am drowning!” or *I am gone!” near as he could understand the words. It was a heart-rending scene, as cast a gloom over this whole com- munity. Deceased was born Sept. 7th, 1881, to Miss Mildred Gotfelty, one of Salis- All went well until they reached | bury’s most estimable young ladies. | about the middle of the river, when He is survived by his young wife, { one end of the cable gave way from his parents, four brothers and one "where it was attached to a building | sister. | near the mines, and the boat immedi- | At the time this is written, | ately cn psized. throwing the men into ! the madly rushing stream. All of them | | could swim, and at once they made a | 7 o’clock ing concerning the funeral arrange- ments, as the body has not yet been | desperate effort to reach the shore, all | recovered from the raging stream, | succeeding in doing so, except Alvin, although a general search has been { who sank when only about ten feet | kept up ever since the sad accident oc- from the bank, several hundred yards curred. | down the stream | None of the others were near enough On Wednesday afternoon of last | to assist him, and all had a very narrow | week, two men and a horse they were | escape, especially “Bert” Statler and |driving were drowned while trying to | young Cochrane, who landed under the | cross Laurel Hill creek, at- Bakersville, boat when it capsized. “Bert” Statler |this county. The stream being very made two attempts at diving from | high and the current swift, horse, buggy | str the boat before he succeeded,| and men went down together, and all striking his head the first time against | were drowned. One of the men was ¢ | the boat and bruising it in two places. | Lloyd Weyand: of near Bakersville, TWO OTHER DROWNINGS, lowing morning, and that By fran- | lad was returning from | while standing on the bank at Jennings stood there terror- Shortly before Alvin Statler sank to! to say the least, and the sad affair has | { steamboats could sail in some of the and on Sept. 28, 1905, he was married | | Thursday morning, we can say noth-| aged about 32 years, who ‘is survived by a wife and two children, one a babe aged only a few days. The other man was Wm. Beers, aged about 55 years, of Jannette, Pa., who is survived by a wife and seven or eight children. The body of Beers was recovered the fol- of Weyand on Friday morning, both near the place where they went down. The same afternoon this drowning occurred, Wilbert, an 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hirsch Meyer, was drowned at his home near Wellers- burg, also in this county. The little school, and run, watching the turbulent water, he lost his balance, fell into the stream and was drowned. He was found the next day lodged against some drift- wood, with his book satehel still around him. These are only a few of the calami- | ties caused by the recent heavy rains and melting snows in Western Penn- | sylvania. Lives were lost elsewhere, too, and the damage to property in Pittsburg alone is estimated at $2,000,- [000. Almost the entire business dis- trict of Pittsburg was submurged, and streets, while many of the big steel ! mills had their fires quenched for the | first time since they were extinguished by the last Democratic administration, which was worse than any deluge since the time of Noah’s ark. : Johnstown and other towns also suf- fered heavily, while washouts and land- | slides tied up the mails and railway | traffic for several days. HENRY MULL FOUND DEAD IN THE WOODS. Henry Mull, a well known citizen of Coal Run, in Elk Lick township,who was missing for the past five or six weeks, was found dead in the woods, Tuesday, on what is known as Chestnut Ridge, about midway between Coal Run and Keystone Mines. He was found in a sitting posture, with his back against a log, by Henry Ringler, who made his weird discovery known, and the body has since been given a decent burial. Several reports are current-as to how hh | while in | | | | { I lence ly | marrie | ter of the late J [known some | one son {dren {considered | sat down to rest, Mull came to his death, and the one that seems to be the most generall yaas- cepted is about as follows: He wacam very intemperate man, and rumor ‘ss it that he went on a spree about fivemr six weeks ago, when his daughter me married, the father strenuously oppos- ing the marrige. It is believed the intoxicated condition “mw fell asleep and did an | from exposure, either while on his VO | to or from Meyersdale, The body showed no marks of the freezing to death the intoxicated, is doubtless the Dee TiE—- oT Cos i >, and while rect one, eased was aged abou and abouf twenty years ago wa :d to Barbara Cochrane, a dates e, the wed! wife ears James Cochran The daughter ad: surviving ch coal o ye perator. ey and one the only ars ago, are The time was when Henry Mull wees a good citizen, but fie liquor habit finally brought him to es untimely and lamentable end. FOUND AT LAST. J. A. Harmon, of Lizemore, Weg Va, says: “Atlast I have found tise perfect pill that never disappoints nee and for the benefit of others afflicts. with torpid liver and chronic constips- tion, will say: take Dr. King’s New Life Pills.” Guaranteed satisfactosg. 25c. at E. H. Miller's Drug store. 44 a — SOMEWHAT MISTAKEN. A Few Corrections as to Councils Recent Hiring of Policeman. Last week THe Star expressed am sentiment and belief of a goodly nue ber of displeased citizens in regard tw the recent hiring of a policeman by Ges Town Couneil. The hiring of Gees. ®& Walker was regarded by many peopis, last week, as a set up job on the partuffi people were beliewd#t to have a very dull ax to grin, and who were willing to sacrifice te borough’s interests to satisfy their ows personal whims and schemes. It looked as though snap judgmest was taken in the matter in the absense - of two councilmen who could not Ss - present at the Council meeting, lagt week, and what added strength to Game belief was the fact that a brother & one of the councilmen was known ¢w= be very busy in trying to set up & jie in the interest of a certain candidate. However, it has since been learns that the man who was chosen was ng the candidate that the brother of ome of the councilmen was “legging” fex, and we are convinced that there was no graft or set-up job about the matte Like others, we believed for atime ths unfair means, treachery and deceit’ haf been used in making the selection, batt we are now convinced that such a ‘be lief became current through misrepre- sentation, and we are pleased to with draw any and all charges of crooke€ ness in the matter. Some of the councilmen say that ts election of Walker was an accidest,, and that not a member of the .entie: body favored his election. It caw about by the Council agreeing that ths successful applicant must have not les than four votes, or a majority of tam entire Council. That was, we think, se improper arrangement, but as it was agreed to by at least a majority of Gee five members present, it cannot be »e garded as unfair. When it come to the balloting, M.™® Thomas received three votes on mex of the ballots, and Frank Wagner auf Tom Daugherty one each. Other bd lots would occasionally change the == sult to two for Thomas and -one = ditional vote for one of the other =m plicants. Finally all five of the mess bers present voted for Walker, an each of the five supposed that he wes certain who | the only member voting for him, urs the vote was announced, which sue prised one as much as the other. At least two of the councilmen’ Tass — 7 told us that they regard their selection a very poor one, adding that Walks would be promptly discharged .as sco as he fails in doing his duty, whiéh thes seem, to think will be at no very: te tant day. It is now up to Walker to foél Ser Council and do his duty well. ‘#= should be able to do this if he has Gar courage and desires so to do, and if ‘de proves himself a good and impartsf officer, he should be permitted to ‘hdl the job as long as he wants it. What the people want is a policeman wim will do his whole duty, without fear «= favor, and they don’t care what “&x name is. EAE RI For Catarrh, let me send you ‘frase. just to prove merit, a Trial size Box «f Dr. Shoop’s Catarrh Remedy. It is = snow white, creamy, healing antisepée balm that gives instant relief to Ce- tarrh of the nose and throat. Msdiee the free test and see. Address Br. Shoop, Racine, Wis. Large jars &8 gens, Sold by Elk Lick Pharmacy. ,. 41 | :
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