Grocer- rything >s, Pies house fo arranted. e goods, erested ? Mass. P| S years of rials by s inclid- of Hub, h of our Recog- compet- roduced. Send N. Ys ae A S (x43, three | inch er of] st for ating. 't char Booklet nt Free me ds! e M. J. vite you Goods, st! CIO ly the ur pat- > all. J, Gina RS Tea TR pe © OS Se a» — Pore RT err pe BE nT —_ - eee sas moet EY 4 = rr . C tar. VOL. XIV. SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. NO. 7. 1908. = POllcal Ammouncements, Cunddales, Take Nofice Announcements under this head will be run until the date of the Spring primary for $5.00. Additional matter will be insert- ed for 5 cents per line, each insertion, ex- cept for candidates who carry no standing announcement in ‘this paper, who will be charged 10 cents per line, each insertion. Portrait cuts will Le inserted at the rate of 25 cents per inch, each insertion. 4 FOR RECORDER OF DEEDS. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Recorder of Deeds, and solicit the sup- port of Republicans at the Primary Elee- tion to be held on Saturday, April 11, 1908. D. W. WELLER, Somerset, Pa. For COMMISSIONER, P. K. MOORE, Or MIDDLECREEK TOWNSHIP. Subject to the decision of the Republican Primary Election to be held April 11, 1908. I kindly solicit the support of the Republi- can voters. For ASSEMBLY, P. L. LIVENGOOD, Or SALISBURY BOROUGH. 1 solicit the votes and influence of the Re- publicar voters at ti.c Primary Election to be held April 11th,1908. 1 am for local op- tion legislation and against the licensing of saloons, and I don’t care who knows it. . P. L. LIVENGOOD. For ASSEMBLY, WILLIAM H. FLOTO, Or MEYEReDALE BROUGH. Subject to the decision of the Republican voters at the Primary Election to be held April 1lith, 1908. Your vote and influence respectfully solicited. FOR ASSEMBLY. To the Republican voters of Somerset county, Pa.: I hereby announce my candidacy for re- election to the Pennsylvania legislature. It has been a time honored custom that Somerset county members should be given a second term. 1 always yielded to this point in regard to my predecessors in that body, and feel that I am deserving of the same honor that was accorded them. I respectfully solicit your influence and support at the primary election to be held Saturday, April 11, 1908. AmM0S W. KNEPPER. For PROTHONOTARY, J. H. HENTZ, BROTHERSVALLEY Twp. Subject to the decision of the Republican Primary Election to be held Saturday, Aprilil, 1908. Your vote and influence so- licited. ’ To Tue VoTERS oF SOMERSET COUNTY. At the request of a large number of pa- trons of the Prothonotary’s Office. I have consented to be a candidate for re-election to said office. Thanking my many friends throughout the county for their kindness in the past, I again, most respectfully so- licit your support and influence at the Re- publican Primary Election to be held April 11,1908. Very respectrully, 4-9 CHARLES C. SHAFER. For County TREASURER, U.F. RAYMAN, Or BROTHERSVALLEY TOWNSHIP. Subject to the decision of the Republican Primary Election, to be held Saturday, April 11,1908. YOUR VOTE AND INFLU- ENCE SOLICITED. For County TREASURER, JACOB KREGER, Or Kixgwoop, Pa. Iam a candidate for nomination on the Republican ticket for County Treasurer, and solicit support at the Primary Elec- tion on April 11th, 1908. IT am an old soldier and lost a leg in the service. JACOB KREGER. For County TREASURER, J. 8. HARTZELL, Or ADDISON. 1 respectfully solicit your support for nomination on the Republican Ticket at the Primary Election to be held Saturday, April 11, 1908. For SHERIFF, J. W. HANNA, Or NEw CENTERVILLE. I solicit your support for nomination on the Republican Ticket, at the Primary Election to be held on Saturday, April 11, 1908. For SHERIFF, C. A. HUMBERT, Or MEYERSDALE Boro. I respectfully solicit your support, at the Primary Election to be held on Saturday, April 11th, 1908, for nomination on the Re- publican ticket. For SuErIrFF, N. B. McGRIFF, Or SoMERSET BorOUGH. I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Sheriff of Somerset county, and respectfully ask the support of the Repub- licans at the coming Republican Primary Election to be held on Saturday, April 11 s 1908. f For CLERK oF THE COURTS, i JOHN E. LENOX, Epiror oF THE BERLIN RECORD. Subject to the decision of the Republican voters at the Primary Election to be held April 11th, 1908. Your vote and influence respectfully solicited. For CLERK oF COURTS, For County COMMISSIONER, C. C. HECKLE, OF Summit TowxsHIP. The support and influence of the Republi- cans of Somerset county is respectfully so- licited at the Primary Election to be held Saturday, April 11, 1908. For County COMMISSIONER, JOSIAH SPECHT. OF QuEMA HONING TowNsHIP. To the voters of Somerset county: At the request of a large number of pa- trons of the Commissioners’ office, I have consented to be a candidate for re-election to said office. Thanking my many friends throughout the county for their kindness in the past, I again most respectfully so- licit their support and influence at the coming Republican Primary Election to be held April 11,1908. Very Respectfully, JOSIAH SPECHT. To THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS OF SoMERSET COUNTY. I bereby announce myself as a Republi- can candidate for the nomination of Coun- ty Commissioner at the primary election to be held Saturday, April 11th, 1908. Your support is respectfully solicited. 4-9 RUSH S. McMILLEN. For the Assembly. > PETER L. LIVENGOOD. The gospel according to Peter, as pro- claimed in last week’s STAR in an open letter to the voters of Somerset county, was well received. More of it will fol- low, in which other planks in our plat- form will be made known. This issue is largely devoted to unsolicited press opinions and opinions of good and prominent men. We feel very proud of the fine compliments and opinions of approval which the announcement of our candidacy and the portions of our platform already proclaimed have brought forth. The golden opinions showered upon us do not make us feel vain, however, but we believe we are pardonable for feeling proud of them. All are well worth reading and ponder- ing over, but we have space only to re- produce a few, which follow. Be sure to read them. NOTED FOR TELLING TRUTH. Calls Things by their Right Names and Would not Compromise With Cliques or Raseals. From the Rockwood Leader, Dec. 20, 1907. We notice with no degree of aston- ishment whatever, that P. L. Livengood, editor of Tue STAR, is a candidate for the Legislature. The only wonder to us is the fact that he hasn’t had a seat in that honorable body for years. We are absolutely certain that if “Pete” couldn’t frame better laws than some of those that have been passed within the last few years, he would go so far out West that no one would ever hear whether he ever grew up with the country or not. There is one thing for which Peter is noted, and that is that he tells the truth, and calls things by their proper names. When he knows a fellow is a liar, he tells him so, and does not say that he has *‘ipadvertently and injudiciously been somewhat guilty of misappropriating the truth.” If-he gets to the Legislature, we are positive that any deftly drawn lines of compromise with cliques and rascals in affairs pertaining to his constituency will receive his immediate disapproval | in such emphatic terms that the very pillars will tremble. The only thing F. A. HARAH, PrixcirAL or THE Rockwoop ScHooLs, golicits your support at the primary elec- | tion on Saturday, April 11, 1908, for nomi- | nation on the Republican Ticke!, that we can say is, go after it," Pete,” as though you meant it, use all the am- munition you have and can command, | and represent Somerset county in a way that it should be represented There is plenty of chance for making an envious record, LIVENGOOD A CANDIDATE. Will Make it Hot for Mollycoddles, Nature Fakirs, ete. Irom the Johnstown Democrat. P. L. Livengood, the fighting editor of the Salisbury Star, is out in his gingery paper with an announcement that he is a candidate for nomination to the Assembly, and he includes in his decleration that he will shortly issue a proclamation defining his position. His preliminary pronunciamento hints at something sensational to come, and it is not to be doubted that if Mr. Liv- engood once gets fairly started on the political war-path, he will make it ex- ceedingly interesting for mollycoddles, nature fakirs, practical men, the male- factors of great wealth and other un- desirable citizens. CHAMBERLAIN’S COUGH REMEDY A FAVORITE. “We prefer Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy to any other for our children,” says Mr. L. J. Woodbury, of Twining, Mich. “It has also done the work for us in hard colds and croup, and we take pleasure in recommending it.” For sale at Miller's Drug Store. 3-1 From Our Old Home Paper, the Carleton (Neb.) Leader. Our friend P. L. Livengood, of Elk Lick, Penn., has announced himself as a candidate for the Legislature. Have your territory enlarged, P. L., so that we are included, and we will help you all we can. THIS MAY INTEREST YOU. No one is immune from kidney trouble, so just remember that Foley's Kidney Cure will stop the irregulari- ties and cure any case of kidney and bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach of medicine. Sold by All Drug- gists. 3-1 el ee AN EDITOR’S CANDIDACY. Unawed by Power and Unbribed by Gain—No Mollyecoddle. From the Connellsville Courier. The Courier has always encouraged newspaper men to enter politics, and especially to seek legislative office, be- cause they are as a rule equally as well if not better equipped for this public duty than lawyers and doctors and other professional men who seem to think they have superior claims to this preferment; but, either through their natural modesty or because of the fact that they are so busy saving the nation through the columns of their newspapers, editors have been most reluctant to enter politics. We, therefore, note with pride and pleasure that Peter 4.. Livengood, the pictur- esque editor of the SALISBURY STAR, will offer himself upon the altar of public duty as a candidate for the As- sembly in Somerset county. Editor Livengood has a reputation of speaking and writing “the words with the bark on.” What he may lack mollycoddle elegance he makes up in strenuous strength. If Somerset coun- ty people want a representative who will be “unawed by power and unbrib- ed by gain,” and who won’t be afraid to swat the “snakes,” they will by their suffrages send to Harrisburg the al- ways honest and never afraid Elk Lick editor. THE JUMPING OFF PLACE. “Consumption had me in its grasp; and I had almost reached the jumping off place when I was advised to try Dr. King’s New Discovery; and I want to say right now, it saved my life. Im- provement began with the first bottle, and after taking one dozen bottles I was a well and happy man again,” says George Moore, of Grimesland, N. C. As a remedy for coughs and colds and healer of weak, sore lungs, and for pre- venting pneumonia, New Discovery is supreme. 50c. and $1.00 at E. H. Mil- ler’s, druggist. Trial bottle free. 3-1 Would Adhere to the Platform on Which Elected. From the Berlin Record, Nov. 29, 1907. In the last week’s issue of the Salis- bury Star, its editor, P. L. Livengood, announces his candidacy on the Repub- lican ticket for the Legislature, at the next primary election. Mr. Livengood says that he is no “dodger,” and will make known his platform at the proper time. All who know the gentleman are aware that if elected to represent this district at Harrisburg, he would adhere to the principles of the platform on which elected, whatever they may be. - a | those that I understand From John Crawford Mackey, D. D., of Uniontown, Pa. “Old fellow, I have listed you among and admire— one well worthy of the friendship of the best men. I only wish I was in Somerset county. I should be tempted to ‘stump’ it for yo 1 in your r e for | ature. THE KIND OF MAN TO ELECT. “Frosty Sons” Should not Let Op- portunity Escape. From the Cumberland Alleganian. Editor Peter L. Livengood, of THE SoMeERsET CoUNTY STAR, has announced his intentions of being a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Legislature, next campaign. He is the kind of man to elect, one who has talent to accomplish something. No class of men knows the real needs of a country better than the newspaper men. They detect the lameness of laws at once, know how to improve them, know just how to word a para- graph in a law so that it will say what it means, and then the interpretation is plain and easy. The great trouble with the laws en- acted in most all states is in the if- terpretation of the meaning. If a document is properly and intelligently worded, there is no question as to its meaning. Laws that can be interpret- ed a half dozen ways, as cunning law- yers desire to suit their sides of cases, cause untold litigation, and the coun- ties pay the costs. Elect representatives like Editor Livengood, and avoid at least half the litigation and costs. Editors come in contact with all classes of people. learn their desiras and needs, and know how to remedy evils. Only one man out of a thousand or two is an editor. This is why so few editors are ever HBonored with office. Their turn rarely comes. but, when it does come, the people should elect them. They are especially fited for legislative duties. Somerset county will now have its opportunity, and the “Frosty Sons” should not let it escape. ; KEEPING OPEN HOUSE. Everybody is welcome when we feel good ; and we feel that way only when our digestive organs are working prop- erly. Dr. King’s New Life Pills regu- late the action of stomach, liver and bowels so perfectly one can’t help feel- ing good when he uses these pills. 25c. at E. H. Miller’s drug store. 3-1 From a Broad-Minded and Brainy Saloon Keeper. Evkins, W.Va, Feb, 25th, 1908. Mr. P. L. Livengood, Elk Lick. Pa. DEAR FriEND “PeTE” :— Iread your open letter with much interest, and assure youI have noex- ceptions to take to your position. There is no logic by which to reason a man to be a fool or an idiot because he does not view things as we do. With best wishes for your success, I am yours very truly Lew 8S. Kev. SIMPLE REMEDY FOR LA GRIPPE. La grippe coughs are dangerous, as they frequently develop into pneu- monia. Foley’s Honey and Tar not only stops the cough, but heals and strengthens the lungs so that no ser- ious results need be feared. The gen- uine Foley’s Honey and Tar contains no harmful drugs, and is in a yellow package. Refuse substitutes. Sold by all Druggists. 3-1 —— — They Like Our Platform. Since publicly announcing a portion of our political platform, in last week’s Star, we have been accorded many words of encouragement and praise for the firm stand taken in favor of local option. The congratulations are coming from all classes of people— church members and people who make no religious profession, from total ab- stainers, moderate drinkers, and even from self-confessed drunkards. With one accord they say: “You have ut- tered the truth, and we heartily agree with you.” Mr. John O. Getty, the popular and efficient cashier of the First National Bank of Grantsville, Md., who has known us from our childhood, writes as follows: “We admire the candid and cour- ageous stand you have taken political- ly, only sorry we are not there to vote for you, but hope you will have votes to spare without us.” Mr. Alex. Casebeer, 2 well-known and prominent citizen of Somerset township, sends us the following: “That letter of yours had no uncer- tain sound about it. I read it to some of my friends, and they pronounce it ‘clear bell metal’ If all candidates would ring out like that, we would know how to vote, and the Liberty bell in its silent place would pealin thun- dering tones until graft would fall to rise no more. May God helpto make your election sure. “Enclosed find $1.00 to apply on sub- | scription. Had I the means, I would | Star for persons who are not subserib- ' ers of the same.” subscribe for a dozen copies of THE | A Very Exemplary Young Man En- dorses Our Temperance Plank. ALLEGHENY, Pa. Feb. 24, 1908. Mr. P. L. Livengcod, Elk Lick, Pa. DEAR Sir: —As a reader of THE Star, I am certainly glad to note the stand you take on the liquor question and your views in regard to local option. I trust the pecple of my home coun- ty will realize that local. option is a good thing, and that they will say so with their votes whenever the oppor- tunity is given. It is one firm step to- ward crushing out the accursed liquor traffic. As we look on the ruined homes and suffering caused by the use of liquor, 1 do not see how any one professing to be a Christian can con- scientiously uphold a business which is daily the cause of starting young men and women on the way to de- struction. Another phase of the question is the fact that by upholding the liquor license, we help to supply the ignorant foreign element which crowds into our mining and manufacturing communi- ties with booze, under the influence of which nearly all their crimes are com- mitted. Would we not by voting out the liquor license entirely, help to make valuable citizens of these people instead of swelling the pockets of the saloon-keeper and filling our jails with criminals? County after county and state after state are coming out boldly in the cause of temperance, and IT hope to see the day not so far off when the citizens of the dear old Keystone state will de- cide in sober earnestness that saloons and breweries are not a necessity, but a nuisance. Wishing you success as a candidate for the General Assembly, I am re- spectfully, yours, : D. RusseELL JOHNSON. The writer of the foregoing letter is one of the most exemplary young men that Elk Lick township has ever pro- duced. All who know him hold him in the highest esteem, and for a number of years he was one of Elk Lick’s fore- most school teachers. At present he is holding a very responsidle position with J. H. Heinz, the multo-millionaire pickler and preserver, of Pittsburg. D. R. Johnson began life very poor, but he is advancing rapidly, and is one of the kind of young men wha are al- ways in demand by employers who have use for competent aud trust- worthy help. His success is due to his correct habits, close application to duty, and sterling honesty. His moral support is worth a great deal to our cause. From an Unfortunate Schoolmate. County Home, Feb. 24, 1908. Mr. P. L. Livengood, Elk Lick, Pa. My DEAR FRIEND AND SCHOOLMATE: I have not read anything for a long time that pleased me better than your message on the liguor traffic. You hit the nail squarely on the head. You told the truth and nothing but the truth. I hope your victory may be =o overwhelming that it will run the liquor dealers into their holes, never to show up agaid. I am at this hame now almost two years. My main object in coming here was to get away from the devilish booze, and I can say with a clear con- science that I am a new man, spiritual- ly. When I retire at night, my con- science is easy, with the assurance that I have tried to serve my Redeemer in- stead of the devil. You are at liberty to publish this let- ter if you wish. From your old school- mate. Louis MUHLENBERG. The above letter has taken us com- pletely by surprise. It is from one of our old boyhood friends and school- mates that we had lost: all track of. When we were schoolmates in the town of Grantsville, Md., some thirty years ago, Louis Muhlenberg was one of the brightest boys in the school. He was a close student and gave promise of becoming a useful and scholarly man. However, when yet a youth, he was stricken by disease, which made of him a poor cripple. But in spite of his infirmities, he nevertheless became a good harness-maker, which trade he learned in his father’s shop, and which he followed successfully for a number of years. Louis also served as post- master at Grantsville, Md., for a num- ber of years, and was a good official. He prospered in spite of his physical disabilities, until he acquired the drink habit and began drinking to excess. | He finally left Grantsville and his old associates, locating in Salisbury, where | he soon built up a nice trade at har- | ness-making and repairing. For a time his conduct here was exemplary, and he he formed bad ass | began drinki oi siations 1g heavily, T second time and again at w ' downfs finally ‘compelled to elose his shop. | He wandered from place to place, until | he finally went “over the hills to the Poor House,” principally, he says, to get away from the devilish booze. Louis Muhlenberg’s career is indeed asad one, and we sympathize with him most deeply, but his case is only one of many thousands practically like it. “John Barley Corn” is no respect- or of persons, and he drags down the invalid as well as the mann robust health. Louis was ever a kind-heart- ed, easy going fellow, better to every- body else than to himself. His con- gcience was always right, but his will power weak. Poor fellow! May he live to see the day when the traffic that was his undoing shall be banished from this fair land forever. and may . the mantel of charity cover the faults of those whose conscience is right, bat whose flesh is weak. Letter From Sergent Mark A. Prynn, of the State Police. READING, Pa. Nov. 24, 1907. MR. P. L. Livencoob, EpiTor Star. Dear Bir :—The item that was pub- lished by you in last Thursday’s Star, pertaining to your candidacy for nomi- nation for Assembly at the next coun- ty primary, was read by me with a great deal of interest, because I know you are in favor of a law-abiding state, and I know you will stand up for the policing of this great state, to suppress the many crimes that are being com- mitted daily. At present the State Police are un- able to cope with the work that is ex- pected of them, owing to a deficiency of men, and I know all law-abiding citizens are looking forward in antieci- pation of seeing the State Police force increased at the next term of the Leg- continued to do well, until | islature, in 1908, to enable them to cover a larger territory than at the present. Papers in different parts of the state say that the State police is the only efficent organization than can perform their duties without fear or reserva- tion, owing to politics being kept out of same. Wishing that I could assist you in every possible way, and hoping that you will succeed in being nominated, I re- main yours most respectfully, M. A. Pry~N. From Elder Howard H. Keim, Sec- retary of American Sheep Breed- ers’ Association. “Since your announcement for As- sembly, I have wanted to write and say I am for Peter L.. I think you are the right stuff, and would, like Senator Jeff Davis, break over precedent to tell the truth. May success be yours.” Thinks it’s Salisbury’s Turn. W. 8. Livengood, a former Somerset county educator, but now a metropol- itan newspaper man of high rank, re- cently wrote to Editor P. L. Livengood as follows: “While congratulating you on having reached the age of two score years and four, and wishing you may at least double your present span of life, I note with pleasure that you have decided to enter'the race for the Legislature. “I wish you success in your campaign as I think you a great deal more capa- ble to become a wise and efficient Solon than the majority of the fellows whe misrepresent the people at the State Capital. I agree with you that it is about time for the south of the county to have a representative at Harrisburg. Not since the palmy days of the Hon. Sam Mier and the late Senator Hiram Findlay, I believe, has Salisbury or Elk Lick township had a representa- tive in the legislative halls of the state. However, it is not a question of ge- ography as much as of brains that should determine the nomination, and since you are in the right location, and have the requisite quantity and quality of “gray matter,” there is no good rea- son why you should not be the choice of the Republican voters of the county for the office. “The Livengoods have always been good patriots, and seldom asked for political jobs, which is another reasom why your ambition is worthy of recog- nition. However, if I believed you were simply after the spoils of the of fice, I would not .wish you success. believe, however, you are inspired Fk higher motives. “Since the trolley has infused new life into the old town of Salisbury, thers | is all the more reason why it should im the future have an able representative in the legislative halls of the state.” I hy 1 > — | WHEN A MAN TELLS YOU it does not pay to advertise, he is si ] mitting that he is
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