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SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA. THURSDAY, MAY 14. 1908.
NO. 18.
SALISBURY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES-—CLASS OF 1908.
Upper Row— (from left to right) —Edith A. Deal, Alma G. Livengood, Mabel Newman.
Lower Row—May Lichliter, Bessie Cousins, Janet McKinley, Principal of the school; Myrtle
Johns, Grace Wagner. ;
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.
Salisbury High School Graduates
Render an Excellent Program
to a Large Audience.
Alumni Banquet Followed the Com-
mencement Exercises and Was
a Fine Affair.
The graduating exercises of the Sal-
isbury High School, class of 1908, were
held in Hay’s opera house, Friday
evening, May 1st. and were attended
by a large and appreciative audience.
The program was a most excellent one,
and the seven voung graduates, whose
portraits apperr on this page, with that
of their teacher, all performed their
parts well, and were greeted with en-
thusiastic applause. :
The stage was handsomely and tastily
decorated with the class colors, (black
and orange) and the graduates appear-
ed in cap and gown, making an ap-
pearance such as only sweet girl grad-
uates ean make.
The music was furnished by the Sal-
isbury Orchestra, assisted by Meyers-
dale talent, and was greatly enjoyed
by all present.
The handsome programs mailed to
many of the spectators, were printed at
Tre Stir office, and have brought
forth much favorable comment con-
cerning their artistic design and fine
quality-of workmanship.
The program was opened by a selec-
tion from the orchestra, followed by an
invocation by Rev. H. 8. May. Then
followed the salutatory by Miss Bessie
Cousins. Her subjict was, “Nor In-
cantus Futuri” (“Not Heedless of the
Future.”) \
Miss Cousins handled her subject
well, ond her salutatory was full of ine
spiring thought nicely blended with
the proper amount of humor to be
keenly relished by the audience.
Next came a fine selection from the
orchestra, after which Miss Edith Deal
delivered an excellent oration on
This oration
contained much good logic along ad-
vanced lines of thinking, and reflected
much credit on the one who delivered
it.
Miss Mabel Newman delivered an
able oration on “Nobility, the Only
Virtue,” after another selection had
been rendered by the orchestra. It
was full of lofty thought and whole-
‘some sentiment from beginning to end,
and to say the least, it was a noble
subject nobly handled.
The class prophecy was ther deliver-
ed by Miss May Lichliter. Prophets,
as a rule, are not honored in their own
country, but not so with the fair young
prophetess on this occasion. who was
honored by much applause for her
clever and humorous precictions. We
trust, however, that they will not all
come true.
After another selection from the
orchestra, Miss Alma Livengood de-
livered a recitation—that beautifully
pathetic war poem, entitled, “Angels of
Buena Vista.” This recitation, al-
though quite lengthy and committed
to memory on short notice, was admir-
ably delivered without the least
prompting. It was much enjoyed by
the audience, and greatly applauded.
Miss Grace Wagner, the class donor,
next appeared on the stage with a
queer assortment of gifts which she
presented to her classmates, preluding
each presentation with some very
comical and witty remarks, which
brought forth much laughter and ap-
plause from the audience. Miss Wag-
ner closed her part of the program
with the reading of a cleverly drawn
document designated as the last will
and testament of the class of 1908.
Some very interesting bequests were
made, and the reading of the same was
listened to with great interest.
Next came another .selection from
the orchestry, and then-the valedictory
was delivered by hy Myrtle Johns.
“The Meed of Strife” was the subject
forming the basis of her well chosen
remarks. No part of the program was
better than the valedictory, especially
the impressive parting words to teach-
ers and classmates in the closing por-
tion of it. Those words should linger
in the minds and hearts of the ones
whose benefit they were spoken for,
inspiring them to loftier deeds and
nobler resolves as the years roll by.
At the close of the valedictory, the
orchestra rendered more music, after
which Miss Janet McKinley, the Prin-
cipal of the schools, delivered a most
excellent address to the friends of ed-
ucation and the patrons of the schools.
It contained excellent logic all the way
through, as well as many facts which
not enough people are familiar with:
The address would have done credit to
any one, was timely and in order, and
should bring good results.
The diplomas were presented to the
graduates by 8S. R. McKinley, President
of the Board of Education, and the
presentation was accompanied. by very.
appropriate remarks, which ought to
be remembered by the graduatés, who
should profit by them. .
Next came the class ode, after which
a benediction was pronounced by Rev.
S. M.-Cousins, and the audience was
dismissed. The usual congratulaticns
and hand-shaking followed, and thus
ended the graduating exercises of the
class of 1908.
We would indeed like to publish
some of the renditions in full, but we
find that space will not permit, and
hence this must suffice. However, we
wish to add our best wishes to our in-
adequate remarks, to teachers and
graduates alike, and may they all live
long and useful lives. The editor is
pardonably proud that his eldest
daughter is one of the class of 1908.
After the commencement exercises
and the usual congratulations came to
a close, the annual banquet of the Sal-
isbury High School Alumni Association
took place at the Valley House, where
a menu fit for the Gods was served, and
a most interesting program was ren-
dered. “Squire” George C. Hay was
the toastmaster, and the respondents
were Miss Annie McKinley, Miss Al-
myra Lichliter, Miss Florence Rayman,
Miss Lottie Boyer and O. W. Petry
The class of 1908 participated in the
festivities, and all made merry until
the small hours of morning. The ban-
quet was a fine affair, and the menu
was of the superb kind for which the
Valley House is noted.
| severely punished.
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
\TERRIBLE IF TRUE. -
Awful Charges Against Somerset
County Poor Directors.
Last week THE Star made mention
of a prosecution recently brought
against two of the County Poor Direc-
tors by Constable Wm. Gilbert. If all
of Mr. Gilbert’s allegations can be
proven, the offending officers should be
In fact many men
have been lynched for much smaller
offenses. Constable Gilbert’s charges
are substantially as follows:
That Ralph Sandgrass, an Italian,
who was committed to the Poor House,
suffering with partial paralysis of the
body, was kept there in a filthy condi-
tion, without proper nursing, proper
bedding, protection from flies in hot
weather, and was so utterly neglected
that his body became infested with
maggots, all of which was known to
the directors of the poor, who permit-
ted the said pauper to remain in that
condition until he died from neglect.
That Charles Peters, who had been
found at Berlin in an unconscious con-
dition, was removed to the Poor House.
still unconscious, and was permitted to
remain in that condition for three or
four days without the attention of the
attending physician being called to the
man’s condition.
That John Gibbon, an insane inmate,
became otherwise sick and feeble in
body, but was so neglected that at
times he was not given food for a period
of from one to three days, and was con-
stantly neglected in refusing to furnish
the pauper with the diet prescribed by
the attending physician.
That Charles Benz, a pauper, became
ill of Cardiac Asthma, and was con-
fined in the White House, where he
was nursed by an insane pauper who
was unfit and incompetent to nurse the
sick man.
That Thomas Brisco, a pauper, was
committed to the institution with toes
of both feet frozen and bones of the
toes protruding through the flesh ; that
he was neglected by the Steward and
permitted to suffer in said condition
for a period of five days before the at-
tention of the physician in charge was
directed to the man’s condition.
That John Mowry was elected Stew-
ard on the first Monday of January,
1907, and re-elected one year later;
that Mowry is utterly incompetent and
unable to perform the duties of Stew-
ard, all of which was frequently called
to the attention of the Directors by the
physician in charge ; that bed-clothing,
towels and toilet rooms have been al-
lowed to become filthy, so as to en-
danger the health of the inmates of the
Home.
Directors Reiman and Brant went
before Justice Pisel, where they were
permitted to enter into their own re-
cognizance for their appearance at
court. The case will be set for the
week commencing May 18. Ruppel &
Uhl, Koontz & Ogle, and H. F. Yost
will defend the Directors, and J. A.
Berkey will be associated with the Dis-
trict Attorney. Mr. Berkey’s law |
partner, Mr. Shaver, is Secretary to the
Board of Poor House Directors.
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tf THaE STAR, Elk Lick, Pa
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
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 ot Congress—A. F. Cooper,
Uniontown, Pa.
State Senator—William C. Miller,
Bedford, Pa.
Members of Assembly—J. W. Ends-
ley, Somerfield ; A. W. Knepper.
Sheriff —William C. Begley.
Prothonotary—Charles C. Shafer.
Register—Charles F. Cook.
Recorder—John R. Boose.
|v Clerk of Courts—Milton H. Fike.
Treasurer—Peter Hoffman. :
District Attorney—John 8. Miller.
Coroner—Dr. C, L. Friedline, Stoys-
town.
Commissioners—Josiah Specht, Kant-
ner; Charles F. Zimmerman Stoys-
town, Robert Augustine, Somerfield.
Solicitors—Berkey & Shaver.
Jury Cammissioners—George J.
Schrock, Joseph B. Miller.
Directors, of the Poor—J. F. Reiman,
William Brant and William W. Baker.
Attorney for Directors, H. F. Yost;
clerk, C. L. Shaver.
Superintendent
Seibert. .
Chairmen Political Organizations—
Jonas M. Cook, Republican; Alex B.
Grof, Democratic; Fred Groff, Berlin,
Prohibition. tf,
of Schools—D. W.
SERIOUS RESULTS FEARED.
You may well fear serious results
from a cough or cold, as pneumonia
and consumption start with a cold.
Foley’s Honey and Tar cures the most
obstinate coughs or colds and prevents
serious results. Refuse substitutes.
Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Miller, pro-
prietor. 6-1
ee
Three Prisoners in the County Jail
Bear Ear Marks of Being Bold
Bandits.
The county authorities are holding
three men in the county jail for trial at
the criminal court this month, who are
bolieved to be a bad gang. They are
charged with robbery, receiving stolen
goods, and perhaps other charges will
be preferred against them. The men
gave their names as James K. Lake, J.
P. Hartel, and Geary Johnson.
The informations against the men
were made by Constable Lawhead, of
Ashtola. Officers of the Babcock Lum-
ber Company believe the defendants
belong to a bad gang of highwaymen.
The information against the men was
the result of the holding up of two
Italians by them, from whom they
took all the men had with them—two
revolvers, two quarts of whiskey, and
twelve cents.
The Babcock Lumber Company con-
veys considerable money from Windber
to Ashtola for its regular pays, but the
team carrying the money is always
well guarded. No chances are taken.
The wagon is always accompanied by
eight men who are heavily armed with
Winchesters.—Somerset Standard.
PERSONAL.
If any person suspects that their kid-
neys are deranged they should take
Foley’s Kidney Remedy at once and
not risk having Bright’s disease or dia-
betes. Delay gives the disease a
stronger foothold, and you should not
delay taking Foley’s Kidney Remedy.
Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Miller, pro-
prietor. Lol 6-1
They’re Hard Hit.
Under the operation of the new local
option law for this county, passed at
last session of the Legislature, several
licenses heretofore granted for the sale
of liquor in unincorporated towns have
been refused by Clerk Tower, and as a
result no less than four or five saloons
have been closed, and there is weeping,
wailing and gnashing of teeth in many
quarters against the author of the law.
Under the operations of the law, the
bar in the Ries Hotel at Accident,
which has been operated in connection
with the hotel for the past thirty years,
has been closed, as well as a saloon
near Gorman, one near Finzel and one
or two at Bloomington. We under-
stand that a test case of the law will
be made before the courts, but on what
grounds we are not informed. —Oak-
land Journal.
CHRONIC CONSTIPATION CURED.
One who suffers from chronic con-
stipation is in danger of many serious
ailments. Foley’s Orino Laxative
cures chronic constipation, as it aids
| Refuse
| macy, E, H, Miller, propristor, 6-1
digestion and stimulates the liver and
bowels, restoring the natural action of
these organs. Commence taking it to-
| day, and you will feel better at once.
Foley’s Orino Laxative does not nause-
ate or gripe, and is pleasanf to
substitutes. Elk Lick
Changes in Maryland Sehool Law.
The following synopsis of a recent
act of the Maryland General Assembly
will be of interest to school teachers:
The general educational law enacted
at the recent session of the Legislature
provides that all white teachers hold-
ing a first-class teachers’ certificate,
and having taught for a period of three
years in any public school of Maryland,
shall receive as a salary not less than
$350.00 per annum, and provides further
that if such teacher holds a first-class
ceritficates and has taught for a period
of five years, he or she shall not re-
ceive less than $400 per annum, and if
such teacher holds a first-class certifi-
cate and has taught for a period of
eight years, he or she shall not receive
‘less than $450 per annum, and provides
that if such teacher holds a second-
grade certificate, and has taught for a
period of eight years,he or she shall
not receive less than $350 per annum.
The law further provides that County
Commissioners of the several counties
shall levy a sufficient amount to meet
the increase of salaries provided for in
the act. The act is to go into effect
August 1, 1908. and none of the coun-
ties are exempted from these provis-
ions.
THE WORLD’S BEST CLIMATE
is not entirely free from disease, on
the high elevations fevers prevail,
while on the lower levels malaria is en-
countered to a greater or less extent,
according to altitude. To overcome
climate affections, lassitude, malaria,
jaundice, biliousness, fever and ague,
and general debility, the most effec-
tive remedy is Electric Bitters, the
great alterative and blood purifier ; the
antidote for every form of bodily weak-
ness, nervousness, and insomnia. Sold
under guarantee at E. H. Miller’s drug
store. Price 50c. 6-1
Is an Expert Taxidermist.
Visitors at the hotel of Harry C. Far-
ner, at Sand Patch, leave with the firm
conviction that Mr. Farner is not only
an excellent hotel man, but an expert
taxidermist as well. Recently, eight
or ten gentlemen went to the hotel un-
expectedly to Mr. Farner, but in a re-
markably short time Mr. Farner’s as-
sistants served them with an excellent
country dinner, which all pronounced
inviting and satisfying. Mr. Farner
receives his guests graciously and is a
good hotel man.
One among a number of things about
Mr. Farner’s hotel that impress a visi-
tor is a collection of wild native game,
natural as life, preserved through the
art of taxidermy. In a large case en-
cased with glass, are species of practic-
ally every kind of game to be found
in Somerset county, which has been
preserved by Mr. Farner, who is an ex-
pert taxidermist. It is a fine collee-
tion, and Mr. Farner would immortal-
ize himself if he should present the
collection to some public school, says
the Somerset Standard, and so say we
all.
COLDS THAT HANG ON.
Colds that hang on in the spring de-
plete the system, exhaust the nerves,
and open the way for serious illness,
Take Foley’s Honey and Tar. It quick-
ly stops the cough and expels the cold.
It is safe and certain in results. Elk
Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Miller, proprie-
tor. 6-1
Pennsylvania Inventors.
The following patents were issued
this week to Pennsylvania inventors,
reported by D. Swift & Co., Patent
Lawyers, Washington, D. C.
G. Brunberg, Windber, cut-out block ;
E. J. Clarke, Scranton, safety valve for
steam boiler; M. R. DeFrance, Belle-
vue, trench brace; H. P. Gorman,
Hazleton, dispensing liguid holder; 7.
M. Kiehle, Coudersport, combination
tool; H. C. Lafferty, New Castle, dust
guard ; A. K. Landis, Schwenkville, mail
delivery apparatus; F. F. Landis,
Waynesboro, threshing machine; A. C.
Lindstrom, Allegheny, car-door operat-
ing mechanism ; B. H. Prack, Crafton,
core oven; A. 8S. Seidel, Reading,
burial casket; G. H. Trisch, Lloydell,
railway frog; J. F. Wagner, Tamaqua,
chain.
Copies of any of the above patents
will be furnished to our readers at ten
cents each, by D. Swift & Co., Wash-
ington, D. C., our special patent cor-
respondents.
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VALUED SAME AS GOLD.
B. G. Stewart, a merchant of Cedar
View, Miss., says: “Itell my customers
when they buy a box of Dr. King’s
New Life Pills they get worth of
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| Miller’s drug store. 25¢
that much gold in weight, if afflicted |
with constipation, malaria or bilious- |
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ACCORDING to the Somerset Standard,
Judge Kooser recently made it plain
that he would not tolerate any land-
lord who sells liquor to persons visibly
intoxicated. The Judge is reported by
the Standard to have thus expressed
himself, recently. while pronouncing
sentence on one Jacob Varner, whe
had been found guilty of assault and
battery with intent to kill, and carry-
ing concealed weapons. Varner and
his brother had been drinking, and
while quarreling in the bar room of a
Windber hotel, the bar-keeper, A. L.
Gohn, attempted to put them out of
the house, as is usually the custon with
bar-keepers when their customers be-
come too noisy through overindulgence
of the liquid damnation dispensed at
hotel bars. Jacob Varner, who claims
to have drank five drinks of whisky
sold to him by the bar-keeper afore-
said, which he declared made him
drunk, was not in a mood to be thrown
out of the bar room, and he resisted
Gobn with a revolver, shooting him ia
the face, for which the court sentenced
him to one year in tbe penitentiary.
Varner’s only plea for a light sentence
was drunkenness, which the court told
him was not a valid excuse, but added
that if Varner’s statement could be
verified that Gohn had sold him five
drinks of whiskey during the short in-
terval the men were in the bar room,
that the license of that hotel would be
revoked. Gohn, of course, denied Var-
ner’s statement, but the chances are
that the prisoner had told the truth,
and if Judge Kooser meant what he
said as to not tolerating landlords who
sell liquor to men visibly intoxicated,
he should proceed to revoke all the
licenses he has granted, for liquor is
sold daily in practically every bar
room in the county to men visibly in-
toxicated—yea, more than intoxicated
—very frequently crazy drunk and ut-
terly devoid of all sense or reason. If
Judge Kooser does ‘not know of the
drunken orgies that can be witnessed
almost daily in inany of the saloons he
has licensed, he can easily learn the
facts by suddenly stepping inside of
them occasionally during busy times
therein. If he does so, he will have no
trouble in getting into Somerset county
bar rooms where he can see whole
crowds of men lined up to the counter
like hogs at a swill trough, and most of
them in such a condition as to render
them unfit company for swine. Fur-
thermore, he can find others in back
rooms just as drunk, and all of them
being supplied with all the drink they
want, whether drunk or sober, Brooks
law or no Brooks law. It’s only when
the drunks want to kick up a row that
the drinks are usually shut off, and
trying to shut a man’s mouth and keep
down his passion after his reason has
first been stolen away by the rum
devil, is about as wise a proceedure as
locking the stable after the horse is
stolen. It’s too late then. The mar
who gets violent when drunk is ne
worse than the fellow who sold him
the booze, but the poor inebriate usual-
ly has to suffer all the penalty for vis-
lating the law, while the bar-keepers
the primary criminal, goes free. It
isn’t a square deal, and reason as we
will, we can’t get away from the facts.
All the booze joints should be closed
and kept closed. They are a nuisance
on general principles, the hotbeds of
crime, the destroyers of homes, an
enemy to everything good, and a hurt
to all kinds of legitimate, respectable
business. He who feigns ignorance of
the gigantic wave of crime and waas
they are responsible for, is blind to the
facts because he wants to be blind ¢eo
them.
IT REACHED THE SPOT.
Mr. E. Humphrey, who owns a large
general store at Omega, O., and is pres-
ident of the Adams County Telephone
Co., as well as of the Home Telephone
Co., of Pike county, O., says of Dr.
King’s New Discovery: “It saved my
life once. At least I think it did. I§
seemed to reach the spot—the very seat
of my cough,—when everything else
failed.” Dr, King’s New Discovery not
only reaches the cough spot; it healg
the sore spots and the weak spots im
throat, lungs and chest. Sold undas
guarantee at E. H. Miller’s drug store,
50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. 6-1
Ir is time for the paper trust to turn
over a new leaf,
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Europe ought to be encouraged.
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support the weight of a merry widow
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