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The Somerset
VOL. XIV.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY, JUNE 18. 1908.
Fire, Fire,
Fire!
HIRE INSURANCE 3<-
Can you afford to have your
dwelling or household goods go
up in smoke without a cent of in-
surance with which to cover your
Do It Now!
Call on E. H. Miller, at the Elk
#8 Lick drug store, and have him
show you how small the cost
# would be to have a polacy written
2% insuring you against such losses.
EH. Milly, Salsbury,
Agent for
WB. Cok So
RRR
a as sss as tasamasnations
Jf
generally have good complexions.
Summertime is a time when
liquid nourishment is best, and
while soda water is primarily
* merely a pleasant beverage, it is
a mild tonic for the stomach,
and with fruit syrups and ice
cream, really contains a good
deal of nourishment, and is
much better than too much solid
food in the torrid time.
We pride ourselves on our
absolutely pure soda watrr.
CITY DRUG STORE,
CLUTTON BROS.
Main St. Meyersdale.
Baltimore & Ohio R. R.
VERY LOW RATE
SUMMER EXCURSIONS TO
ATLANTIC CITY, -
CAPE MAY, SEA ISLE CITY, OCEAN CITY,
ASBURY PARK, LONG BRANCH, POINT
PLEASANT, N. I.,0CEAN CITY, MD., AND
REHOBOTH BEACH, DEL. EAST OF OHIO
RIVER, SPECIAL LOW RATE EXCUR-
SIONS JULY 2, 16,80; AUGUST 13 AND 27
AND SEPTEMBER 10.
BOSTON, MASS.,
GENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S
CLUBS, JUNE 22 TO JULY 1.
SUPREME LODGE, KNIGHTS PYTHIAS,
AUGUST 4 TO 15.
CHICAGO, ILL,
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION,
JUNE I7,1
CLEVELAND, OHIO.
NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION
JUNE2) TO JULY 3. INTERNATIONAL
CONVENTION B. Y. P. U. OF AMERICA,
JULY 8 TO 13.
COLUMBUS, OHIO,
PROHIBITION NATIONAL CONVENTION’
JULY 14 10 16.
DENVER, COL,
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION,
JULY 7. I. O. O. F. SOVEREIN GRAND
LODGE & PATRIARCHS MILITANT, SEP-
TEMBER 19 TO 26.
LOUISVILLE, KY.,
Triennial Convention Inteinasional S.
i 5 to 22.
. S. Association, June I
ST. PAUL, MINN.,
Ancient Arabin Order Mystic Shrine,
Imperial Counecil,July 13 to 18.
TOLEDO, OHIO,
G. A. R. 42d Annual Encampment, Au-
gust 31 to September 4.
For full details as to rates, routes,
dates on which tickets will be sold, time
of trains, etc., apply to ticket agents,
Baltimoee & Ohio Railroad. 6-25
~ Rings Dyspepsia Tablets
RELIEVE INDIGESTION
AND STOMACH TROUBLES
SPECIAL PRICES AT
BGAN'S GROCERY.
HONEY, was 25¢., now 20c.
HONOLULU HOT, was 25c., now 20ec.
SALAD DRESSING, was 25¢c., now 20ec.
CANNED PEAS, were 12¢., now 10c.
EVAPORATED APPLES, were 15c¢.
now 12%ec.
GRAHAM CRACKERS, were 10c.,
now 8e.
TEA, was 15¢. per package, now 12¢.
ECLIPSE COFFEE, was 20c., now 18e.
DRIED PEAS, were bc. per pound:
now 4c. \
GOLDEN DRIP COFFEE, was 18c.,
now 17e.
CAMPBELL’S SOUPS, were 10c., now
8e.
Many other articles at very low
prices. Come and examine goods.
WINDSOR Olt
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“A SQUARE FROM EVERYWHERE.”
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An excellent restaurant where good
service combines with low prices.
ROOMS $1.00 PER DAY AND UP.
The only moderate priced hotel of
reputation and consequence in
PHILADELPHIA.
FROM W. S. LIVENGOOD.
Favprs Old-Home Week for Salis-
bury—Tidings from Many Former
Citizens of Somerset County—A
Letter of Much Interest to Many
of Our Readers.
DururH, MINN. June 7, 1908.
Dear BrorHER:—I read with much
interest, some weeks ago, your editorial
in Tue Star, advocating an “Old-
Home” week for Salisbury, next fall.
I think the idea is a splendid one, and
I would like to see it carried out.
If the citizens of Salisbury and Elk
Lick township were as enterprising as
they should be, they would get togeth-
er, map out a program for a reunion of
natives and former residents of Somer-
set county, set a date for it and send
invitations broadcast for their kith and
kin and friends of “Auld Lang Syne”
to assemble in Salisbury about the
time chestnuts are ripe, for a grand
jollification and strengthening of the
ties that bind, or that should bind
every “Frosty Son of Somerset” to his
native heath. >
There are no associations so hallowed
as those of rosy youth. There is no
soil so sacred as that with which is
commingled the dust of our fathers
and mothers. There is no pilgrimage
that any of us wonderers from the
home of our youth could undertake
that would afford us keener pleasure,
and at the same time awaken in our
breasts nobler impulses, than a journey
back to the land of our birth, or to the
scenes of our early joys and sorrows.
I, for one, would be glad to attend a
great reunion of the “Frosty Sons and
Daughters” of old Somerset county,
more particularly those of Salisbury
borough and Elk Lick township. I be-
lieve that fully as many of us “Dutch”
scattered through the West, would
avail ourselves of the opportunity to
make a joint pilgrimage to the old
home ’mid the hills of Somerset to
meet and greet the friends of yore, as
flock to the “grosse versommeling” of
the Dunkard church, which aside from
its ecclesiastical aspect, is nothing
‘more nor less than a great annual re-
union of people closely related, but
scattered over a vast expanse of coun-
try. Such assemblages afford the ad-
vantage of low railroad fares and the
opportunity of meeting many friends
from widely separated places of resi-
dence.
By all means go ahead with your
plans for an “Old-Home” week at Salis-
bury, next fall. Some of us, at least,
will make an effort to be there when
the fatted calf is killed and served.
During the last few weeks I have
visited a number of Somerset county
settlements in the West, and every-
where I have found sentiment favor-
able to an “Old-Home” week in the
autumn. Many whom I have conversed
with would like to attend such a gath-
ering at Salisbury.
‘While I am on this subject, I might
tell you about some of the former Som-
erset countians I have met in my re-
cent travels. Some of your readers
will be interested in hearing about
them. I will begin at Lincoln, Neb.,
where I spent the greater part of the
months of April and May. I cannot
mention all the “Frosty Sons and
Daughters” I met, but following. are
some of those best known to your
readers:
At Lincoln I met Ed Keim, who
lived in the brick house that stood op-
posite the residence of the editor of
THE STAR, more than 30 years ago, and
who emigrated to Kansas with his
family in the year 1878, I think. Mr.
Keim, though past his three score
years and ten, is still bale and hearty
and able to do a man’s work. His wife,
who was a sister to the late Mrs. Jonas
Keim, lately deceased, in Elk Lick
township, died several years ago. All
of Mr. Keim’s children are doing well.
I had the pleasure of taking dinner at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Amanda
Guile, in Lincoln, and can testify that
she can cook as good a meal as any of
her Pennsylvania cousins, and that is
saying a good deal. Mrs. Guile is an
admirable hostess and an estimable
woman. Mr. Keim’s eldest son, Wal-
lace, is a wealthy business man of
Denver. He was one of the brightest
boys who ever went to school in Salis-
bury, as his old preceptor, “Squire”
Lichliter, can testify, and in the West
he developed into a big man mentally
and physically. What wealth he has
attained came to him through industry
and thrift; and not through any acci-
deat of birth or inheritance. Clayton
Keim, the second of Edward’s sons, is
in the marble business in Lincoln, and
doing well. Wilson, the youngest, is in
the insurance business in Phoenix,
Ariz
While at Lincoln, I also had the
pleasure of enjoying the hospitality of
Wm. 8. Lichty and family. They live
on the outskirts of Lincoln, and W. S.
and sons, Edward and William, are do-
ing a thriving business in selling Cana-
dian and Texas lands. W. 8. (“Fancy
Bill” Lichty as he used to he nicknamed
‘in Salisbury) and his good wife (Sadie
Beachly, daughter of the late Daniel
Beachly, of Meyersdale) emigrated to
Nebraska many years ago, and are
held in loving remembrance by hosts of
friends who have been favored with
their generous hospitality. Sickness,
death and adversity have brought much
sorrow into their houschold in times
past, but through it all they have lost
none of their geniality and good cheer.
It will please their many friends to
know that fortune is treating them
more kindly in their latter years.
At Lincoln, also, I had the pleasure
of renewing acquaintance with Ed. L.
Beachly and wife and Mrs. Beachly’s
brothers—Albert, Bart and George
Heffley—all formerly of Meyersdale.
Ed. Beachly and his two sons are pros-
pering in the grocery trade. The Heff-
ley brothers are proprietors of a large
tailoring establishment.
At Beatrice I broke bread on Easter
Sunday with Gabriel L. Beachly and
his charming wife, who was Annie
Beachy, daughter of the late A. P.
Beachy, as fine a type of the Somerset
county farmer as ever turned a furrow
in old Elk Lick township. Mr. and
Mrs. Beachly dispense hospitality at
their handsome suburban home as
generously as did their parents at the
old Beachly and Beachy homesteads in
Somerset county during the latter half
of the past century, and most famous
entertainers were they.
At Beatrice I also had the pleasure
of visiting my old friend Ed. 8. Miller,
a grandson of the late Daniel Beachly,
of Meyersdale. “Eddie” is proprietor
of a large corn mill, and is one of Be-
atrice’s foremost citizens. He is mar-
ried to Ida Arnold, a niece of Mrs,
Keim, of Salisbury. Their family con-
sists of two sons and one daughter.
It may interest some of the “freund-
schoft” in Pennsylvania and else-
where to learn that Gabe. Beachly and
Ed. Miller are colaborating on a hisfory
of the Beachly family—the various
branches of which spell the name in
many different ways, such as Buechly,
Beekly, Beagley, Beakley, Bueghley,
ete.
In order to secure some authentic
data regarding the early history of the
Livengood family, I paid a visit to the
home of William J. Miller, of Holmes-
ville, Gage county, Neb.,a son of the
late “Oregon Dan.” Miller, who was
born in Greenville township, Somerset
county, Pa. Mr. Miller is a great
grandson of our great great grand-
father, Peter Livengood, who emigrat-
ed from Switzerland to America in
1749, and was one of the earliest set-
tlers of Somerset county, Pa. “Oregon
Dan” Miller inherited through his
grandmother, Fraena Livengood, the
youngest daughter of old Peter Liven-
good, a volume of the works of Flavius
Josephus, printed in Strausburg in
1531, which our forefather brought with
him from Europe. This ancient volume
and a German testament, which was
also the property of our great great
grandfather, are now in the possession
of Wm. J. Miller, who prizes the relics
highly. He has in his possession also
much data bearing on the genealogy of
the Livengood and other pioneer fam-
ilies of Somerset county, although most
of his life was spent in the west. He
is a graduate of Willamette University,
at Salem, Oregon, and followed the
profession of civil engineering for some
years, but is now a prosperous farmer.
He is a first cousin of the Kendall
brothers—John, Samuel, Jacob and
Grant—whose mother was a sister of
“Oregon Dan.” Miller, so called be-
cause he lived in the Webfoot state for
many years. “Oregon Dan.” died at
the home of his son, some years ago,
in Gage county, Neb., at the age of 84
years. I spent a very pleasant day at
the farm home of William J. Miller,
and found him to be a very entertain-
ing, intelligent and hospitable kins-
man.
After leaving Lincoln I spent two
days at your and my old stamping
ground at Carleton, Neb. It was my
first visit there since I emigrated from
Nebraska to California in 1887. Ifound
many of the old landmarks, as well as
old friends, missing, but there were yet
many reminders of the old days.
The village has certainly undergone
many changes for the better. The
most notable improvements are nicely
graded cement pavements instead of
the old rickety wooden sidewalks of
profane memory. Many of the old
buildings have been réplaced by more
commodious and much handsomer new
ones. The new brick high school build-
ing on the site of the old frame struct-
ure in which I taught more than two
decades ago, would be a credit to any
city. Frank P. Beachy and a few other
publie-spirited citizens have just erect-
ed one of the most commodious and
best appointed public halls'I have ever
seen in any town of less than 5000 in-
habitants. Progress and prosperity are
manifest on every hand in the little
village where you and .I began our
journalistic careers. I heard it said
many times during my brief stay, that
Carleton has never had such a lively
newspaper as Pete Ltvengood printed
when he occupied the, local editorial
chair and set the whole town by the
ears. They are talking yet about the
lambastings you used to give your
choice crop of enemies.
During our all too short §tay at Car-
leton, my wife and I were royally en-
tertained by D. H. and E. J. Kelso,
Frank P. Beachy, Ross Lichty and their
estimable wives and families. It was
very pleasant to meet these old chums
of my boyhood days, and they surely
did all they could to make our visit a
pleasant one, which it most assuredly
was. The friends we met there, and
whose hospitality was urged upon us,
are too numerous to mention individu-
ally. Suffice it to say that their kinde
ness was greatly appreciated.
The Carleton Leader, suceessor to
the Carleton Times, which I founded
and you conducted after my departure,
is ably managed by the present editors,
Messrs. Bryant and Eastabrooks, who
are giving the town a good newspaper.
From Carleton we went to Falls
City, Neb., where we visited our
grand uncle, Elias Peck, who will be
93 years old next August. He has out-
lived all the generations of Pecks since
his grandfather came over to Pennsyl-
vania from Baden, Germany, in 1767.
Elias Peck was born at Savage, Ne-
gro Mountain, in 1815. He farmed in
the mountain until about 1866, when he
removed to the old Flickinger farm in
Elk Lick township, where he lived un-
til 1873, when he emigrated to Rich-
ardson county, Neb., with his family.
I spent the summers of 1871 and 1872
with him on the Flickinger farm. I
was then a lad of only 10 and 11 years
of age, and the attachment formed by
me for the grand old man at that
tender age has never ceased. I saw
him but once after he went west, and
that was in 1885, when I went to that
state myself. A better farmer and a
nobler exemplar of the simple life the
county of Somerset has never pro-
duced than uncle Elias Peck. He has
lived to enjoy the fruits of a useful and
upright life for more than a score of
years beyond the allotted three score
years and ten. A serene old age is his,
and well has he deserved to live among
the children of men for nearly a cen-
tury. Although blind and somewhat
tottering in the limbs, he still has a
clear mind- and eats and sleeps well.
To bed at 8 p. m., and up at 6 for break-
fast with the rest of the family, is his
daily routine. He still walks about the
premises unaided, and never fails to
sit at table with the rest of the family
for his three square meals a day. Not
many men of 93 can do that. Indeed
he bids fair to round out his full cen-
tury of existence. May he be blessed
with good health to the end!
Aunt Mary
and died in 1889.
cept Epbraim—George, Noah
Uriah—died in recent years; all left
good-sized families well provided for.
Ephraim married his brother Uriah’s
widow (daughter of th& late Ephraim
Miller, of Summit Mills) and has one
young son. The Peck farms are among
the best in Richardson county, and
there are no better people in Nebraska
than the numerous descendants of the
grand old patriarch, uncle Elias Peck,
the last of his generation. It was with
much reluctance that we terminated
our visit with these good people.
In Falls City we were very hospitably
entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Musselman and other relatives. Mr.
Musselman is an alternate to the Re-
publican national convention, and he
and his amiable wife and their bright
little son, Beachy. will be in Chicago
for the next few weeks, visiting Mrs.
Musselman’s brother, Peter A. Beachy,
and family, after which they will visit
Mr. Musselman’s sisters in New York.
Dr. J. C. Yutzy, Simon Beachy, Wil-
liam Boose, Sam. and Harvey Wahl
Mrs. Samuel Lichty (Ellen Gnagey)
and Elias Maust are other former resi-
dents of Somerset caunty I saw at
Falls City. All are prospering and
always glad to see people from the old
home.
Excessive rain fall did much damage
to crops in Nebraska before and after
we left there.
From Falls City we went direct to
Chicago, and a few days later I came
to Daluth, Minn., where I am under
contract to the News Tribune for the
next two months.
If possible I will visit my native
heath before returning to the Pacific
Coast. I would like to be there during
“Old-Home” week, if there is going to
be any. Yours fraternally,
W. S. LIVENGOOD.
BUCKLEN’S ARNICA SALVE WINS.
Tom Moore, of Rural Route 1, Coch-
ran, Ga., writes: “I had a bad sore
come on the instep of my foot and
could find nothing that would heal it
until I applied Bucklen’s Arnica Salve,
Less than half of a 25 cent box won the
day for me by affecting a perfect cure.”
Sold under guarantee at E. H. Miller's
drug store. 7-1
Mucnh of the so-called friendship of
the day is but pretense. It exists only
in name, and as soon as it ceases to be
advantageous it is dropped. The friend-
ship that continues the same in pros-
perity and adversity is -to be prized,
but all other kinds are worthless. It
matters not how hard a man may
struggle to do right and make a suec-
cess of life, there is always some loath-
some reptile, some worthless wretch
who is ready to drag him down, to
blight his hopes and blast his fondest
ambitions. The loss of money and
property is not the greatest loss a man
can sustain in the business world; far
better to lose your money than to lose
hope and ambition.
BE RR
ADVERTISING seems to be an art yet
to be discovered by some people. That
is, the practical part of it. A constant
stream of water from one or more fire
engines will soon extinguish or get
under control a very large fire, while a
few buckets of water, dashed on here
and there, have little or no effect. The
modern fire department is practical
and has outgrown the bucket system;
and so with modern advertising—plenty
of it, used in a practical, common
sense and judicious manner, pays. If
you want to catch a certain kind of fish
you use a certain kind of bait; not all
fish bite at all kinds of bait. Not all
people respond to every advertisement.
The newspaper is a medium indispen-
sable to the majority of advertisers, be-
cause of its wide and repeating circu-
lation. As a promoter of trade and
profit, newspaper advertising is no
longer an open question ; that is, when
done in a practical and intelligent
manner, and pays because of its effec-
tiveness and cheapness.
Prvsicians tell us that marriage
conduces to longevity. Yet a recent
news dispatch gives an account of a
maiden lady in New York who is chip-
per, sprightly and able to write legible
and interesting letters at the ripe age
of 101 years. For exactly a century
and a hundredth fraction thereof has
this remarkable person dwelt in single
blessedness, and in a letter to an ad-
miring correspondent she gives as a
reason for her long life, peace and
general happiness, the facet that she
never married. Her nine brothers and
sisters, she says, all married, and all
died long ago. She, with only herself
to look after, still lives. This is cer-
tainly expert testimony in favor of
| celibacy from a strictly hygeinie stand-
| point.
Peck (nee Klingaman) |
was nine days older than Uncle Elias, |
All of their sons, ex- |
and |
But we do not believe it will
lessen the marriage rate. Most young
people would not be deterred from
matrimony, even if they knew that a
single life would carry them forward
alone and loveless, to the Twenty-firgt
century’s dawn. And in spite of this
wonderful old maid’s belief to the com-
trary, there is no doubt that the me
jority of married people are happies,
healthier and very much better off im
all respects than the majority of wa-
married people.
Eh en eae
SoMEBODY has figured out that the
average boy who is dependent upem
his parents for a livelihood until &e
reaches the age of twenty-one years,
costs them four thousand dollars. Gm
this/basis of calculation, a brood, for
instance, of six boys would represest
an outlay of twenty-four thousand dof
lars by the time they get away free
the home roost. The question arises,
Does it pay to raise boys, and are thers
no other crops that would prove more
profitable? If a boy turns outtobee
cigarette fiend with a breath like =
turkey buzzard and a laugh that woul
make the untutored donkey feel pee
fectly at home in his society, and with
an untrammeled and unconquerabie
desire to avoid work, it is safe to say
that his parents might have invested
their four thousand dollars at a muck
better advantage. But if the boy
grows up to manhood with the lessom
well learned that wealth and success
grow only on bushes watered by the
sweat of one’s brow, the parents need
not begrudge whatever they have spent
on him, for he will be a source of im-
creasing pride and joy to their hearts,
and when they grow old/ and their
hands tremble and their legs wabble
and their step is slow and faltering,
they have two strong arms to lean upoam
and help them over all the rough
places that lie in their twilight path.
THINKS IT SAVED HIS LIFE.
Lester M. Nelson, of Naples, Maine,
says in a recent letter: “I have used
Dr. King’s New Discovery many years,
for coughs and colds, and I think it
saved my life. I have found it a re-
liable remedy for throat and lung com-
plaints, and would no more be without
a bottle than I would be without food
For nearly forty years New Discovery
has stood at the head of throat and
lung remedies. As a preventive of
pneumonia, and healer of weak lungs it
has no equal. Sold under guarantee at
E. H. Miller's drug store. 50c. and
$1.00. Trial bottle free. 7-1
Sudden Death of John H. Pfahler.
John H. Pfahler, one of the most
highly esteemed and best known busi-
ness men of Meyersdale, dropped deaé
while witnessing a baseball game at
the ball ground of that town, last Sag¢-
urdey afternoon. Heart-failure is
given as the cause of his sudden taking
off. »
Mr. Pfahler’s sudden death was e
great shock to the people of Meyers-
dale and Salisbury, for he was a man
held in high esteem by all who knew
him. He was one of our old school-
mates, and for a number of years, when
a youth, resided in Salisbury with his
parents, the late Rev. and Mrs. P. P.
Pfahler. He was one of many good,
practical scholars turned out by the
old white school house on the hill, and
as a citizen and business man he rank-
ed very high.
Deceased was aged about 48 years,
and was born in Larimer township,
this county. He is survived by hic
wife, two sons and one daughter, all of
whom reside at home.
The funeral service was held at the
family residence, conducted by Rev. C.
P. MacLaughlin, assisted by Rev. B. B.
Collins, on Mcnday, the 15th inst. The
funeral cortege was headed by the Ma-
sonic fraternity, followed by the Mod-
ern Woodmen of America and a large
number of friends of the deceased,
among which many Salisbury people
were numbered.
C. J. Yoder Goes to the Wali.
Christian J. Yoder, who operated the
lime quarry and kiln on the Manasseg
J. Beachy farm, has gone to the wali,
and it is reported that his laborers and
creditors will lose heavily. We strust,
however, that the failure is not as :badl
as reported.
By many people Mr. Yoder had bean
regarded as quite a business man, bug
we regret to say that his businesg
methods never appeared otherwise to
us than those of a man penny wise and
pound foolish. In all our dealings
with him we found him unfair and ut-
terly devoid of good business sense,
and while we regret to learn of hig
failure, we are not much surprised af
it. Men of Yoder’s kind should neves
forsake the plow.
YOU SHOULD KNOW TIIS.
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| case of kidney or bladder trouble thag
| is not beyond the reach of medic
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