a Executor’s Notice. Estate of Amelia Keim, late of Elk Lick township, Somerset county, Pa., deceased. Letters testamentary having been issued to the undersigned by the Re ister of Wills in and for Somerset county, Penn’a., upon the above named estate, all persons having claims against the same will present them for payment,duly authenticated, at the res- idence of the executor, in Eik Lick town- ship, on Saturday,June 1st, 1907,in the after- noon,and those indebted thereto will please make immediate payment to 5-50 DAVID H. KEIM, RX equlon BALTIMORE & OHI RAILROAD. VERY LOW RATE SUMMER EXCURSIONS TO TY . . 7 a 14 Jamestown Exposition UNTIL NOVEMBER 30. ATLANTIC CITY, AMERICAN MEDICAL ATLANTIC CITY AND SEASHORE, SPECIAL EXCURSION, JUNE 27, JULY 11 AND 25, AUGUST 8S AND 22, AND SEPT. H. 1.OS ANGELES, NATIONAL ECLECTIC JUNE 18-2], WASH. ASS'N, JUNE 4-7. MEDICAL ASS0- CIATION, SPOKANE, B. XY. P. UL. lenny 4-7. SEATTLE WASH. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR, pris ADELPHIA, PA. 0. ELKS, JULY 15-20. Sin en SPRINGS, N.Y, XN HTS TEMPLAR, JULY 9-13 Rie NATIONAT ENCAMPMENT, a 9-14. BOSTON, MASS, NEW NGL i¥h on bn HOME WEEK, JULY 29-A UG. [For full details as to rates, routes, dates on which tickets will be sold, time: of trains, ete, apply to ticket agents, Balti- more & Ohio Railroad. H-30 . JUEY 10-15. F FREDERICK MUSIC reat Clearance Sale Of The Reich & GRANDS, UPRIGHTS ck Stock O & PLAYER PIANOS! COMPANY'S | | | { READ, READ, READ! Finest New Goods in Town Just Re- ceived at Elk Lick Variety Store. Come and see our beautiful new line of Ladies’ Dress” Skirts, Dress Goods, Lace Curtains, Mattings and Boys’ - Clothing. The nicest goods you ever saw, and the prices so very reasonable. We will say no more, speak for themselves. tf Erk Lick VARIETY STORE. — NEW UNDERTAKER. as The undersigned announces to the] people of Salisbury and Elk lick that he has embarked in the Undertaking business; corner North and Center streets, Meyersdale, Pa., next door to Will & furniture store. business in his line will be given prompt. and skillful attention, and at reasonable prices, Economy and Somerset Coun- ty telephones. te Saler’s W. A, Crake EVERY TIME you hire a rig at Williams, Livery, Salisbury, Pa. will get the your Somerset County telephone, FOR RENT!—The large double dwelling corner Ord Sr. and Smith Ave., adjoining Dull Mercantile Cos store. Will rent either the wheie or one-half of residsnce. (Good and outbuildings. Plenty of fruit cellent water. Apply to tf STEWART SMITH, DEF OFFER the you money. tf worth of lot and ex- YOU all varieties of field-grown Cabbage Plants at 30c. per 100 or. $1.00 1000. Cauliflower Plants, 50c. per 100. Celery Plants, per the goods | All (xrea | It was one of Europe’s mos | the tumult of war or in the « | good.” est influence for good” to the people of Somerset county, in a manner and on such terms i | las to put it in the reach of ever | The new W. F. mid-summer night. | alm of home, And now it is the greatest piano firm in America which is giving this Frederick Music Company has taken over | Reich & Plock house, and is offering this stock for sale with a romantic generosity that recalls the stories of the ease and liberality Cupid deals in hearts in the moonlight of Exceptiona Opportunit To Secure Pianos of Merita t One-Third to One-Half Off Regular Prices. UNDOUBTEDLY THE test Of its Character Ever Held in Somerset County, Pa. Easy Terms of Payment. Store Open Evenings. t famous geniuses who said : “I music is the world’s y household. t Presi le have observed that in strongest influence for “strong- he entire stock of the dent WF FREDERICK, tW.F. Frederick Music Co. Eros WM. SHAFENBERG. Vice Pres. Frederick Music Co. Excellent Assortment. Pianos of standard makes, pianos that have received the commendation large and small—all are offered to the many ues of the instruments. Purchasers are assured that practically they may make their own arrangements about the size of the payments they make on the pianos. The main object, the only object of the W. F. Frederick Music Company to sell and sell quickly. is 30c. per 100 or $200 per 1000. Tomato | Plants for shipment last of May, at 40c. per 100 or $3.00 per 1000. At Haper & PuiLires, Meyersdale. Pa. D- 23 | Somerset and Economy “phones. C. E. Livengood, the Piano Tuner, announces that he regu- lar tuning through this vie nity | the latter part of this month. Anyone | aside patrons can | have work done Ly notifying Mr. Liven- | good. 593 | will make his trip regular from his WANTED, MEN AND WOMEN TO | SWEAR and affirm before the under- | signed, when they have documents to | which lawful affidavits are required. 1 | also draw up all manner of deeds, | leases, mortgages, etc., neatly and ac- curately, according to the reguire- | ments of the law. Typewritten work a | specialty. A full line of legal blanks always on | hand. P. L. LivENGOOD, Notary Public and Conveyancer. Star Ogrice, Elk Lick, Pa. tf Store and Fixtures for Sale. I hereby offer my entire stock of Confectionery, etc., together with my Store Fixtures, for sale at a reasonable figure, as I desire to quit business. For parsiculars apply to . ELLis WAGNER, Salisbury, Pa. tf IT IS BAD BUSINESS to allow peo- ple to look in vain through the col- umns of THE Star for an advertise- ment of your business. ‘tf WHEN A MAN TELLS YOU it does not pay to advertise, he is simply ad- mitting that he is conducting a busi- ness that is not worth advertising, a business conducted by a man unfit to do business, and a business which should be advertised for sale. tf unis Early Risers The famous Nttle pills. Rannedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar hpi Bly i ané expels Colds from ys by gently moving the bowels. {and it has secured the | Plock house with Nor is this desire reason. The W.. F. Frederick Music | cinnany does business on a big scale, | on a bigger scale than business is done | by any other American firm handling has endless chain of throughout Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio, Reich & Plock house to convert it into one link in this almost endless chain The will make Meyersdale the distributing point for Somerset county and adjoin- ing territories. It will fill the Reich & stock of pianos even finer and grander than the instru- It ware-houses | West Virginia, pianos. an company a ments now in it But room must be made for the new stock, a stock that will contain pianos And to se- cure this & | stock must be gotten out of the way at That in of the most exquisite type. room, the Reich the earliest possible moment. the W. FE. Frederick Company earnest when it says the Reich & Plock stock must go at any cost.or at practic- is ally no cost to the public, some of its offerings, as follows: How The Prices Fall. One set of Cabinet Grand Uprights, worth from $275 to $400, cut down to $133, $164, $187, $215 and $254. Other uprights, worth from $400 to | $600, at $254 to $435. And still another group of the World’s Best Uprights, worth from $500 | to $6850, cut to $337, $395, $435 and $485. The company even offers a slightly | used upright for the mere trifle of $87, and another at $98. spectacular depth of prices, it presents a Smith & Nixon Art Grand Piano worth $1050, for $715. The sale commenced a little over one week ago. Since that time the store of the world’s greatest pianists, pianos Somerset county public on the publie’s | own terms and at prices which are in| cases less than half the real val-' shall | Plock | is shown by | has been crowded with people, and has kept two teams busy delivering instruments in Meyersdale and through the adjacent territory. Very many families have been sup- plied with pianos who had hitherto | thought the instruments beyond the reach of their slender purses. It is a scene never before presented to Mey- ersdale. Pianos, good pianos, standard pianos, ean be obtained for any price {from $87 upward. Such a- sale never before tempted the lovers of mu- has sic. ple of this section. ful if its equal has ever been known in any city. without excellent Time of Sale Limited. But there may be some would-be purchasers delaying the transaction of which will make them owners of pianos. This is exactly what the W. F. Frederick Music Company does not want. It afford to waste an unnecessary hour in disposing It price values so as to the business cannot of this stoek of exquisite pianos. is slaughtering the hurry the instruments out of the way of the stock. And there the danger that the time limit the sale may expire, leaving the would-be pur- chaser without the desired piano. new is of Salesmen are kept at the warerooms in the evenings so as fo expedite the sale. No objection made to the easiest terms that the fertile brain of the purchaser can frame. The one motto of the company is: “The stock must go. Help us make it go.” If cash | were paid for the pianos, the bargain would even then be unprecedented. But when easy terms of payment can be arranged, the customer ‘is almost persuaded that he is dealing in some realm of romance where money has ceased to be the prime consideration is and where business is done as a pas-| time. Of the quality of the pianos. offered | All Somerset | { county knows the high quality of every | there can be no doubt. | piano that is in the Reich & Plock house. In the largely varied stock are | Smith & Nixon, Knabe, Stieff, Bush | Lane, Kohler & Campbell, Lakeside, Cable-Nelson, Bush & Gerts, | Crown, Price & Teeple, Kimball, plex, Sherwood, Kingsbury, Hasbrouck, ' and others. Sim- It will sell to the first comer, a Cecilian piano-player for | only $125, and, to cap the climax in this Only Praises Heard. Of these pianos, only the greatest | commendation has been heard ever it: It was unheard of among the peo- | Indeed, it is doubt- & Victor, various hues of the voices of the world’s greatest singers. It would be interest- ling to have that scientist attempt to do justice by any colors or combination of colors to the tones of these pianos. Everybody knows that the tone is the one supreme essential in a piano. { These instruments have the sweetness and softness of tone. Built so as to be i handsome ornaments for any parlor or [drawing room, they are lasting. com- { bining every desirable thing in instru- { ments of this kind. Not only are mere pianos offered at these low. prices, but there are. player pianos at correspondingly low figures. Worth from $700 to $1,000, they are be- ing sold at $395 and slightly higher. This is a record in low prices for these marvelous mechanisms. The public has been quick to take advantage of the terms. People from Confluence, Garrett, Salis- bury and Rockwood have been among the purchasers. And yet, the W. F. Frederick Music Company is not satis- fied. It wants every piano out of the wareroom at the very earliest possible date. Good bargains are going every day, but others are left for the next purchaser. Somerset, The new occupants” of the building want to make alterations and improve- ments in the structure which explains their willingness to offer the stock at prices that make them look almost like gifts. Lovers’ Trysting Place. A piano sale should be, and generally is, a thing of universal interest. It would be hard, indeed, to find a family in which there was not one real devotee of music. And the blessings that flow from a piano are manifold. is the trysting place every evening of "millions of sweethearts, for it is there The piano through the ivory keys. It is from the piano that the wives that love songs are sung and love made | the selling done quickly. position: No Time To Lose. It takes this | There is nothing shoddy in {the entire stock. It is all that | lovers want, good pianos of beautiful design and exquisite tone. low prices. music “We are giving che Somerset county | public an unprecedented opportunity in pianos. It is such a chance as will not occur. again in Therefore. the publie should accommo- date us by doing their buying promptly Delays will not be of value to the pur- chaser, while they will be of harm to the company. We want our new stock installed and we want alterations in the building. Those who intend purchase should do so at once.” this to What the purchaser will tind on en- indi- But how been indescribable. partial list field from which to seleet, as tering the stores is, as has cated, well-nigh the following shows rich is the long as the field lasts: I $250 new 2 $300 2 $325 "pright Pianos now. { new Upright ** now new Upright now: ,..$ Upright U { { y 4 $350 new now... O $400 3 $450 5 $500 new new Upright now new Upright Tpright others in pronation, now. . now And man New and Second-Hand Organs. We are continually taking organs in exchange for and these place in good, serviceable condition for again at of their true worth, A good selection ean be made at from $15 to $30, pianos, we sale a fraction Easiest Of Terms. It is a mistake of those who think they are “not quite ready to buy” to lose the opportunities offered by this sale. Pianos can be secured any day or evening by the payment of a small deposit and the promise to pay $5.00 or "$10.00 per month. It requires no hoarded wealth to get the instrument. It will require no particular amount of skimping and saving in the future Never was the path to music and mu- sical instruments made more easy than is this one. draw music in the evenings to please and rest their husbands after the days’ work. and learn the lessons that will, perhaps, result in great musical careers. | the piano college boys sing their songs | [to their sisters’ accompaniment. | no home in which there is a piano lacks | cause it is exactly in line with the And | amusement and entertainment. The W. F. Frederick Music Company It is at the piano that faltering, | childish fingers pick out the numbers At | One provision is made by the com- pany. No pianos will be reserved. Tt have an instrument held for a few days. Absolutely and without varia- | tion, the rule is followed that the pi- anos go to the first purchasers who present themselves at the store and say | they want to buy. This is done be- | | company ’s chief motive in making this | extraordinary sale, the desire to make | since they were put on the market. |realize all these things and knows the | room for the new stock. | Press dispatches recently told of a scientist who claimed that the human voice had colors, and who gave the universal desire for pianos... Conse- | quently, it has no fear that the entire stock will not be sold. But it wants The explanation for the enthusiasm aroused by the sale is that unusually high quality is offered for unusually | 2 generation. | is useless to go to the store and ask to! How It Happened. One of the best testimonials the excellence of this stock which is being swept into the homes by a veritable hurricane of falling prices, is that Reich & Plock did not sell out their stock and business because they had to. It for quite another reason. to peoples’ was The ever furniture busi- ness of which Mr. Reich increasing proprietor. propor- required is has grown to such enormous tions that it absolutely his undivided attention. and when the W. I'. Frederick Music Company broached their plans to sh & Plock. they age of such Reic readily saw the advant an arrangement and accepted it eved of the busi- vith the Plock being re- Frederick Muzic this branch Mr. Hess cares Reich being reti connected department and Mr. tained by the W. FI Company as manag: piano for house. In this way it's a on all sides, Somerset county getting of the finest piano stores that could be desir- ed, the people getting at the lowest possible prices, the W. F. Fred- erick Music Company gets a desirable, well established business in Somerset county, and Mr, Plock becomes identi- fied with the big corporation as man- ager of one of its branches. And here it may be. stated that the salesmen formerly in the employ of & Plock are also retained by W. Fred- erick Music Company. gain one pianos Reich OF Want Public's Help. The sale will not last long. It can- not last long. The demand for the bargains are greater than the cry for pianos has ever been before. There will not be much time left for the pur- chase of the highest grade instruments known on the best terms ever offered here in this line. The W. F. Frederick Music Company would like the sale to end tonight or tomorrow. It wants the help of public make it end | swiftly. the to The urgent demand now is for haste- haste, so that the new stock may be in- | stalled in the improved and altered warerooms of the Reich & Plock estab- |lishment. To achieve this haste, the | prices have been cut down to almost | nothing. | While the people hurry to buy the company urges more haste, and the sale goes on with increasing sa pidity and volume.