County Star,
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY, MARCH 28. 1907.
NO. 11.
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Spring and Summer
FRY COS OTIS
They are here, and the line is very
complete in blue, red and gray cali-
% coes and percales, dress ginghams,
3 Nippon silks, Barnaby zephyrs, white
shirtwaistings and suitings at all pri-
ces from 6 to 90c. :
Elk Lick Supply Co.
Salisbury, Penn.
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» Capital paid in, $50,000. Surplus & undiyided profiits, $15,000.
Assets over $300,000.
On Time
J PER CENT. INTEREST 26yzerc
J. L. BaArcnus, President. H. H. MausT, Vice President. ¢
ALBERT REITz, Cashier.
DIRECTORS :—J. L. Barchus, H. H. Maust, Norman D. Hay, A. M. &®
Lichty, F. A. Maust, A. E. Livengood, L. L.. Beachy. &%
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& We buy in large quantity, and prices are always in line.
© S A Lichliter, Salisbury, P:
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Seeds, Seeds, Seeds!
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Salisbury, Pa
Foreien and Domestic “Goons
Finest of Groceries, Hardware, Miners’
Supplies, Shoes, Clothing, Ete. The
best Powder and Squibs a Specialty.
E I Bq] Nar IC Di For Butter
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And Fags.
| W. H. KooNTZ.
! VIRGIL R. SAYLOR,
BERKEY & SHAVER,
Attorneys-at-Law,
SOMERSET, PA.
Coffroth & Ruppel Building.
ERNEST 0. KOOSER,
Attorney-At-Il.aw,
SOMERSET, PA.
R. E. MEYERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Attorney-at-I.aw,
SOMERSET, PA.
| Office in Court House.
J. G. OGLE
KOONTZ & OGLE
Attorneys=-At-T.aw,
SOMERSET, PENN’A
| office opposite Court House.
Attorney-at-I.aw,
SOMERSET, PA.
Office in Mammoth Block.
DR.PETER L. SWANK,
Physician and Suargeon,
ELK LICK, PA.
Successor to Dr. E. H. Perry.
E.C. SAYLOR, D. D. 8S,
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.
P.L. LIVENGOOD,
Notary Public. i
Star Office, Salisbury Pa. E
DEEDS, MORTGAGES, PENSION 5
FOUCHERS, AGREEMENTS, :
WILLS, ETC, CAREFULLY S
ATTENDED TO. &
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Special Attention to Claims, Collections @&
and Marriage License Applications. &
FULL LINE OF LEGAL BLANKS ®
ALWAYS ON. HAND. we
Wagner's
RESTAURANT.
Ellis Wagner, Prop., Salisbury.
(Successor to F. A. Thompson.)
OYSTERS. IN EVERY STYLE
Also headquarters for Ice
Fresh Fish, Lunches, Confectionery, ete
A share of your patronage solicited.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Cream,
New Firm!
G. G. De Lozier,
GROGER AND CONFEGTIONER.
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 in every
way. Itismy aim to conduct a first class
grocery and confectionery store,and to give
Big Value For
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.
store
ash.
Notice of Application for Charter.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FOR THE
COUNTY OF SOMERSET.
Notice is hereby given that an application
will be made to the said Court on Saturday,
the 13th day of April, A. D. 1907, at 10 o’clock
A. M., under the Act of Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled
“An act to provide for the incorporation
and regulation of certain corporations,” ap-
proved April 20, 1874, and the supplements
thereto, for the charter of an intended cor-
yoration to be called St. John’s Evangelical
sutheran Church. of Saljsbury, Pa., the
charter and object whereof is the support
of the public worship of AInighey God, ac-’
cording to the faith,doctrine, discipline and
usages of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
as prescribed by the General Synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Unit-
ed Statesof America, and for these purposes
to have, possess, and enjoy all the rights,
benefits, and privileges of the said Act of
Assembly and its supplements. -
The proposed charter is now on file in the
Prothonotary’s office.
4-4
RuUPPEL & UHL,
Solicitors.
THE local option bill went down in
defeat in the House of Representatives
at Harrisburg, Monday night, being
defeated by eight votes. Both of the
Somerset county members voted for
the bill, as they should have done.
The sale of liquor is something that
every community should have the
right to settle for itself.
It is not likely that the editor of the
Rockwood Leader is at heart really op-
posed to trolley lines using county
bridges and here and there a small
portion of a county roadbed. Itis more
likely that he feels a little sore at the
P. & M. Street Railway Company on
| -account of the fact that said’ company
| will not extend
line to Somerset
via Rockwood, but is going via Berlin
instead. Anyway, “Urie” needn’t shed
any tears over the use of county bridges
by the trolley people. That will be a
benefit to the bridges and to the tax-
payers. for the trolley company must
make the bridges strong enough to
carry their cars, and the company will
also keep the bridges in good repair, at
its own expense. Editor Werner is too
good and too intelligent a man to mean
all he said in his blistering anti-trolley
editorial of last week.
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ARE EXPERTS MERCENARY.
its
“Experts.” What a complicated and
perplexed time the public must be hav-
ing over the“e&xpert” testimony sub-
mitted in the Thaw trial. It is always
the same. No great case is complete
without “experts,” and the manner in
which they cut each other’s throats
never varies. If the prosecution wants
an “expert,” it hires him and gets any
kind of testimony it desires. If the de-
fense wants an “expert,” it opens its
wallet, abstracts a sufficient number of
gold notes, and the testimony belongs
to it and is at its command. What are
the people to think? What can they
expect to think except that “experts”
are mercenary, or else that they really
do not know what they are talking
about, and do a great deal of guessing?
—Philadelphia Inquirer.
Tt is said that the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania has characterized the
testimony of so-called expert witnesses
as the lowest grade of evidence that is
admitted to cases before the courts.
And to prove that such is really the
case, all that is necessary to convince
one is to note how these experts, (?)
who are usually physicians, disagree
with each other and give any old kind
of expert (?) testimony they are hired
to give. The average “expert” witness
is almost invariably a hired knave, in
many cases a numbskull, and frequent-
ly a perjurer who should be sent to
penitentiary for a long term. There is
much food for reflection in the Phila-
delphia Inquirer's remarks, and much
truthful and timely comment could
yet be added.
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SALOON “REVENUE.”
The saloons of West Virginia ,will
pay $600,000 a year into the state
treasury. That is forty per cent. of
the entire state revenue. It is. right
that the liquor traflic should help pay
the state’s expenses, for it is a traffic
wholly non-productive. - It digs no
coal. It raises no corn or cattle. It
drills no oil or gas wells. It builds no
houses, shops, factories or railroads.
It plants no orchards, runs no sawmills,
prints no papers or books, erects
churches, constructs no bridges. It
does nothing except to take the labor-
ing man’s money, rob the children of
shoes that they need, take the bread and
meat from the poor family’s table, fill
the jails, send men, women and chil-
dren to the poor house, destroy the
moral sentiment, undermine honor,
wreck integrity, sap manhood, debauch
womankind, starve and brutalize chil-
dren, and drag down, destroy, condemn
and damn as much of the human race
"as it can reach with its devilfish claws.
In return for all of this damage, the
liquor traffic pays the state $600,000.
That is not one per cent. of the damage
it does. It is blood money, the price
exacted by the state for protecting the
traffic in its infernal business. A mil-
lion dollars a year would be a light tax
tolay. That would make it possible
for the state to ease to some extent the
burden laid on the producer and the
builders, the men who furnish the
strength, bone, blood and manhood of
the commonwealth—Morgantown
Chronicle.
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WORKED LIKE A CHARM.
Mr. D. N. Walker, editor of that spicy
journal, the Enterprise, Louisa, Ya.
says: “I ran a nail in my foot last
week and at once applied Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve. No inflammation fol-
lowed ; the salve simply healed the
wound.” Heals every sore, burn and
skin disease. Guaranteed at E. H.
Miller’s Drug Store. 4-1
AMUSING.
Rockwood Leader Cries ‘‘Wolf”’
When There is no Wolf.
Our Contemporary Ought to Post
Itself Before Slopping Over.
issue of the Rockwood Leader:
According to the evidence adduced
at the equity hearing, last week, alo 1 d
| displeased.
fecting the trolley railroads between
Meyersdale and Salisbury, it would be !
road |
a public misfortune if the new
should succeed, because along
whole chartered line the new
road is projected to follow the publie
highway. An electric railroad that
aims to occupy the public highways is
a public menace, =a i
And what is more,
its
the new company
purposes to have its road occupy the |
c : ng ] { guessed at are not of much importance
view of these facts it is highly perti- |
county bridges along its route. In
nent to inquire—" What has become of
the wit and judgment of the road su-
pervisors and county
who have given their permission to
such a glaring misuse of the public's |
highways and bridges?” It still lies
within the power of the land-owners
along the contemplated line to put a
stop to this high-handed grab after
public property, unless the present
Legislature confers the right of emi-
nent domain upon the -eleetrie “lines.
The old trolley company is guilty of
some remissness toward the public in
delaying construction; but, compared
with the attitude of its more recent
competitor, the old eorporation is a
public benefactor. If the new concern
wins out in court, the individual land-
owners whose farms abut upon its line
will of necessity be compelled to go in-
to court and put a check upon its pred-
atory progress, and, incidentally, the
too easily consenting road supervisors
should be hanged by the heels as an
object lesson to their successors who.
in future years, may be tempted to sell
out the public highways to the high-
waymen of the corporations. Somerset
county wants the trolley roads, but our
people are not ready to abandon their
highways and bridges to get them.
WHAT THE FACTS ARE.
The Leader’s editorial not only con-
tains false statements, but it savors of
mossbackism from one end tothe other:
in that it creates the belief that the
electric road complained of will have
its track in or immediately along side
of the county road the entire distance
between Salisbury and Meyersdale,
which is far from being the case.
Most of the distance the trolley road
is from fifty to several hundred yards
away from the county road, and there
isn’t a place along the entire line where
the cars will in the least interfere with
wagon traffic. It is true that in a
couple of places, for very short dis-
tances, the trolley road will utilize a
small portion of the original county
road bed, but at those points the trol-
ley company will widen the county
road at its own expense and build
suitable fences for safety. :
The 8. & O. railroad crowds the pub-
lic highways in many places in this
county, builds no fences whatever, and
trainmen pay not the least attention to
passing teams. Yet accidents on that
account have been extremely rare,
although the B. & O. has been running
trains through this county for nearly
forty years.
Automobiles traction engines
cause more accidents to and
teams in one year than the steam and
electric railways do in ten. Besides,
why should country roads be held any
more free from generai traffic than
city and village streets?
The editor of the Rockwood ‘l.eader
ought to know by common -instinet, if
nothing else, that trolley lines would
not push their way out into the country
if they had to take to the woods and
keep away from the public roads.
Trolley lines are built to reach and
carry people, and most people in the
country live along the principally trav-
eled roads, not out in the woods, where
Editor Werner seems to have drawn
the inspiration from that caused him
to write his silly, mossy editorial.
" No, no, “Urie,”” the supervisors and
commissioners are not going to be
hanged by the heels, and your tirade
against them is as unjust as it is sense-
less. They are men of progress and
20th century ideas, and not in as much
danger of hanging as you are. We re-
gret exceedingly that you, being up to
date and abreast with the times in
most matters, are sitting on the tail of
progress and setting up such a ridicu-
lous how] against the P. & M. Street
Railway Company and the progressive
officers who have granted the said
company only reasonable and sensible
rights and franchises. Get off of that
tail, young man, before it lashes you
off, wraps around your neck and
strangles you to death—hangs you, as
it were. Also scrape the anti-trolley
moss off yourself, look pleasant and
watch out for the cars. Don’t be a
pessimist when there is no occasion for
it, and remember that trolley lines are
constructed to haul people, not wood
and hay. For that reason they must
go where the people are, which makes
it necessary to keep close to the public
roads, and frequently use .them for
short distances.
and
wagons
electric | : : :
contains much interesting and valuable
{ historical matter.
nuisance per se. |
commissioners |
“A DISAPPOINTMENT.
The New History of Somerset Coun-
ty a Disgusting Piece of Boteh
Work.
Wm. Welfley’s
H. new history of
: ! : | Somerset county is bei i i
She lat Maly oe hl) y is being delivered ir
silly twaddle appeared in last week’s |
this vicinity, this week.
mental piece of botech work if there
ever was one, and many of the sub-
scribers are sadly disappointed and
It is a monu-
We are not finding much fault with
the historian, for part
fairly well performed, and
been
book
has
the
his
In a few places we
notice where the historian has guessed
at information where there was no oc
casion for guessing. but the things
and should be charitably passed by.:
However, where a just kick is due
from those subseribed for the
work, is the careless or incompetent
manner in which the final proofs were
read and corrected, the poor quality of
binding, the cheap ink and paper used,
and the dauby manner in which the
printing is done.
On an extra leaf added to Vol. II of
the work a long list of errors are aec-
knowledged and noted, and in the lit-
tle time we have spent examining the
work we have found fully as many
more errors that are not noted on the
leaf bearing the heading “Errata.”
Whoever read the final proofs be-
fore the manuscript was sent to the
printers was either very careless,
naturally incompetent or not in proper
condition to read proof at that time. -
The portion of the work that relates
to Bedford county, shows much better
editing and proof reading than the
portions devoted to Somerset county.
The printing of the volumes is noth-
ing but a wretched piece of blacksmith
work, to say the least. On some of the
pages the cheap ink used has badly off
set, in other places the quads used
who
in
spacing out lines have worked up and
made ugly blurs, ete, ete.
With all due respect for the historian,
to whom much credit and praise is due
we regret exceedingly that his other-
wise valuable work was so badly botch-
ed in the editing, proof-reading, print:
ing and binding.
HOW TO REMAIN YOUNG.
To continue young in health and
strength, do as Mrs. N. F. Rowan, Mec-
Donough, Ga., did. She says: “Three
bottles of Electric Bitters cured me of
chronic liver and stomach trouble,
complicated with such an unhealthy
condition of the blood that my skin
turned red as flannel. I am now prae-
tically 20 years younger than before 1
took Electric Bitters. I can now do all
my work with ease and assist in my
husband’s store.” Guaranteed at E. H
Miller's Drug Store. 4-1
NEW RULES FOR POSTCARDS.
Price 50c¢.
An order has been issued by the
postmaster general providing new reg-
ulations governing the size, form and
weight of private postcards entering
the mails. Such posteards must be
made of an unfolded of card-
board, not exceeding three and nine-
sixteenths inches, nor than
and three-fourths by four inches.
They must in form and quality
and weight of paper be substantially
like the government postcards. They
must be of form and color not interfer-
ing with a legible address and postmark.
Very thin sheets of paper may be at-
tached to them on the condition that
they completely adhere to the card.
Cards bearing particles of glass, metal,
mica, sand, tinsel or other similar sub-
stance will not be accepted for mailing
except when enclosed in envelopes.
The new ruling is a very sensible
one, and all postoftice employes will be
heartily glad that the cards bearing
particles of glass, metal, mica, sand
tinsel, etc., are to be barred out.. We
know by experience what a nuisance
such cards are. In stamping and hand-
ling them, a fine dust arises from the
substances named, filling the lungs and
nostrils of the mail distribution and
assorting clerks, thus endangering
their health.
a A eam
Pointer for Horsemen.
Some horses haye a very ugly and
annoying habit of gnawing their feed
boxes, mangers, and in fact - every
piece of wood in reach of them when
tied in the stable, to a rack, fence or
gate. A very simple and effectual pre-
ventive is coal oil. Apply it with a
brush or rag, so as to saturate the
wood, and they will not touch it as
long as the smell or taste of the oil re-
mains. Coal oil is quite offensive to
all kinds of animals. When oiling har-
ness, add a little kerosene .to the har-
nes oil, and it will prevent rats and:
mice or anything else from guswin :
and chewing the leather.—Oakland*
Journal.
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