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The Somerset
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VOL. XIV.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY. JULY 9.1908.
NO. 26.
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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
For President,
WILLIAM H. TAFT,
Of Ohio.
For Vice President,
JAMES S. SHERMAN,
Of New York.
STATE.
Judge of Superior Court,
WILLIAM D. PORTER.
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DISTRICT.
Congress, 23rd District,
‘ALLEN F. COOPER. '
county. °
Legislature,
WM. H. FLOTO,
A. W. KNEPPER.
Sheriff,
CHARLES H. WEIMER.
Auditor,
W. H. H. BAKER,
JACOB 8. MILLER.
Recorder of Deeds,
NORMAN E. BERKEY.
Clerk of Courts,
F. A. HARAH.
Register of Wills,
BERT F. LANDIS.
Treasurer,
RUSSELL G. WALKER.
Prothonotary,
" JACOB B. GERHARD.
Poor Director,
JACOB C. DEITZ.
County Commissioner,
R. 8. McMILLEN,
JOSIAH SPECHT.
County Surveyor,
IRENIS'S. PYLE.
OFFICMAL 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, Fa.
"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.
Clerk of Courts—Milton H. Fike.
Treasurer—Peter Hoffman.
District Attorney—John 8. Miller.
Coroner—Dr. C. L. Friedline, Stoys-
town. i
Commissioners—Josiah Specht, Kant-
ner; Charles F. Zimmerman Stoys-
town, Robert Augustine, Somerfield.
~Solicitors—Berkey & Shaver.
" Jury Commissioners—George J.
‘Sehrock, 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. 4
Superintenfient of Schools—D. W.
Seibert. .
Chairmen Political Organizations=-
Jonas M. Cook, Republican;' Alex B.
Grof, Democratic; Fred Groff, Berlin,
©, Prohibition. LY tf.
How much better it is to take the
brambles out of the path of your friend
than to add thorns to wound his feet.
Erna WHEELER WiLcox says that
pain is her dearest friend. No one is
going to try to rob her of her dearest
friend.
a
Tue world’s greatest men grew up-
ward from the lower classes, while the
world’s meanest men grew downward
from the upper class.
* SomE people marry because it is con-
tagious. Others because they can’t
work in single harness. But the most
marry because they fall in love and
can’t fall out, *
Surrack indications to the contrary
' notwithstanding, Zero Snow, who was a
delegate to the Chicago convention, is
one of the warmest Republicans on the
.Pacifie coast.
No oNE has expressed any surprise
over Mr. Bryan’s criticism of the Re-
publican platform. The: men who
framed it had a’ suspicion that he
wouldn’t like it.
Courage and effort alone are requir-
ed to insure victory to the worthy. In
“Phere is no politics in hades,” says
the New Orleans Item. We suppose
not; Old Nick isn’t going to take
chances on being ousted by the “re-
formers” down there.
CoLONEL BRYAN strews a few verbal
flowers on the bier of Grover Cleve-
land, and doubtless wishes he could
withdraw a lot of the opprobrious
names he used to call him.
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Ox retreating Mr. Bryan is somewhat
of an expert. He has a magnificent
record of masterly retirements, bi-
metalism, anti-imperialism, and the
government ownership-of railroads.
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CHICAGO is said to have a bartenders’
and saloonkeepers’ total abstinence
| society with a membership of 2.000.
By setting their patrons a good ex-
ample they may succeed ‘in putting
themselves out of business.
In an article in the Delineator, Wil-
liam T. Stead, the London editor, says:
“There are some dairymaids T would
rather marry than some of the wives of
college presidents.” He has a plenty
of company, too, in that choice.
“I must refuse to discuss subjects
and issues of which I know nothing,”
says John Mitchell, the great labor
Tleader. It would help a good deal if
some politicians would follow Mr.
Mitchell’s example in that respect.
Tae Lord had the right idea when he
made man. He said it was not good
for man to be alone, but had he made
more than one wife for Adam, there
would have been more trouble than
there was in the shade of that old ap-
ple tree.
SHALL we compensate the saloon-
keeper if we shut up his murder shop?
Let him first go around with the brew-
er’s big horse and gather the rags off
the backs of the wives and children
who have been made miserable and
starved while he built mansions.
Lewis Nixon, a former Tammany
leader, cables from London that Mr.
Taft will grow weaker as a candidate,
every day, and that the Democrats will
have no difficulty in carrying the
country. Mr. Nixon has had dreamis of
that kind every four years, and it would
be a shame to wake him up before No-
vember. :
re prem ree
TrE world is full of women who can
amuse the ordinary man. They can
sing, dance or recite to him; can paint,
write or decorate in a manner most
pleasing, but the poor man often goes
begging for a woman who can sew on
buttons or mend his clothes; who can
cook his food with economy and flavor
it to his taste. 2
ApMIRAL Evaxs thinks that twenty-
four battleships in the Pacific and a
like number in the Atlantic would be
about the right size for the United
States. *The Admiral must understand,
however, that it is easier to agree on
the size of the fleet than it is to agree
én the size of the congressional ap-
propriation.for naval purposes.
WE are told by friends of “personal
liberty” that “nobody compels a man to
get drunk ;” than “he is a free agent
and need not go into a saloon unless
he wants to.” That is not true. Once
the man was an innocent boy, and
some one first persuaded him to drink;
but he is:no longer free. He is now a
slave to an appetite that no power on
earth can break.
DRUNKENNESS is the prime cause of
mob violence. When you license an
open bar-room you license lawlessness
in all its forms. A bar-room is usually
the birthplace of a mob. If there are
any latent elements of combustion in a
community, the whiskey devil will ap-
ply the match: Drunkenness and mobs
hold the relation to each other of cause
and effect. When you license the one
you bargain for the other. =
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THE money spent for liquor during
the past 100 years of our history would
build and equip six lines of railroad
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, endow
a university of $10,000,000 in every state,
erect a $5,000 school house for every
200 inhabitants; build a $25,000 church
for every, 2,000 inhabitants; pay the
national debt; and, with the rest of
the money at interest, support a teach-
er for every 100 inhabitants of the
country.
Our idea of a good citizen, and we
are glad there are many in this com-
| and development.
what it is worth. He talks up his town
at home and abroad, thinks it is the
healthiest place on earth, believing it
to be destined to be the biggest city in
its section, and wants to be buried there
when he dies. And he’s worth a whole
regiment of the lukewarm kind.
THE liquor traffic in no way produces
anything of value, but prospers by the
destruction of wealth produced by
other occupations. The wants of men
in civilized society are food, clothing,
shelter, and educational and religious
advantages. These engaged in the
manufacture and sale of liquors are
constant consumers of these necessaries
and comforts of life—the products of
human labor—yet they in .no way aid
in their production. They consequent-
ly live at the expense of others. Those
engaged in other occupations in ex-
change for what they consume bring
into the world’s markets that which is
useful, and the exchange is an advan-
tage. The dealer in intoxicants has
produced nothing of value to offer in
exchange. He produces nothing that
supplies any need or furnishes any
comfort. The expense of his business,
and the support of his family, is a tax
on productive industry and is taken
from the earnings of labor.
THE REMEDY THAT DOES.
“Dr. King’s New Discovery is the
remedy that does the healing others
promise, but fail to perform,” says Mrs.
E. R. Rierson, of Auburn Centre, Pa.
“It is curing me of throat and lung
trouble of long standing, that other
treatments relieved only temporarily.
New Discovery is doing me so much
good that I-feel confident its continued
use for a reasonable length of time will
restore me to perfect health.” This re-
nowned cough and cold remedy and
throat and lung healer is sold at E. H-
Miller's drug store. 50c. and $1.00.
Trial bottle free. 8-1
WHY GO TO COLLEGE?
We are often asked, should a young
man or woman go to college? Now-a-
days the thing of going to college or
not is in the air. We hear it discussed
a great deal and hear many arguments,
both for and against a college course.
As to the propriety of it, let it be said
that it all depends on so many circum-
stances that a direct answer is impos-
sible. That every young man or woman
should go to college is just as nonsensi-
cal as that no one should go at all.
Real genius is independent of all con-
ditions, and hence some of the world’s
greatest men never entered a college
door. Such was the case of Abraham
Lincoln. It always seems to us that a
college education would have spoiled
bim and crippled his rare genius. But
all such men have a training of some
kind, and equal to a college education.
But on the other hand, all other
things'being equal, a college education
is necessarily of great value. Because
a few, or even many college graduates
are “asses,” is no argument against the
college. The college cannot change
the nature of men or women. If they
go into college as impracticables, they
will, as a rule, come out the same. A
college develops, but noes not create.
1t is an artificial institution, and not a
supernatural one. The question of go-
ing to college or nat can only be solved
by knowing the man or woman, the
college and the circumstances incident
to the case. Here, as in all cases,
every tub must stand on its own bot-
tom. Individuality must be consulted.
Many persons will not take an educa-
tion any more than some coarse rough
stone will not take a polish. To at-
tempt to educate them is to throw
away time and money. It is to en-
courage false ambitions and to breed
disappointments. On the contrary,
supposing the possession of a good
mind and character, there is nothing
that can add to its power and useful-
ness like a college education. Here
the mind is taught to work. The foun-
dation may be laid for all future growth
A college educa-
tion of the right kind, and in the care
of the right person, is capital invested,
and well invested. It is not simply a
money investment, but also a mind and
heart investment, and brings pleasure
and enjoyment to all the subsequent
life. Hence go to college, if at all
possible.
WAR AGAINST CONSUMPTION.
All nations are endeavoring to check
the ravages of consumption, the “white
| plague” that claims so many victims
| each year. Foley’s Honey and Tar
| cures coughs and colds perfectly, and
the struggle of life the good is the more munity, is one always ready to give, ac- | you are in no danger of consumption.
powerful. Itis only when the giant |cording to his means, to community | hg not risk your health by taking some
lolls by the wayside that evil creeps |enterprises.
tts wounds, | all, and doesn’t lose his faith if an oc- Honey and Tar is safe and certain in
upon him and inflicts
He takes stock in them
{
| unknown preparation when
“Thrice is he arm’d who hath his quar- | casional venture proves bad. Heisnot | rggults. Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H.
rel just,” is not an idle adage.
| afraid to buy real estate
and to pay
| Miller, proprietor. ]-1
Foley's |
| and pain in my lungs and they are now |
$2,000,000 COAL DEAL.
Merchants Coal Company Sells to
United Coal Company.
For some time rumors have been
current to the effect that the Mer-
chants Coal Company had or was about
to dispose of its holdings in Somerset
county and West Virginia to the
United Coal Company, a Pitisburg
concern now operating at Jerome, this
county, and elsewhere. These rumors
are now confirmed. .
The deal includes possession of the
extensive operations of the Merchants
company at Boswell, and at Salisbury.
These operations employ in the neigh-
borhood of 1,000 men.
It is allegedthat the Merchants Coal
Oompany relinquished possession of its
holdings on Friday evening, and that
changes in officialdom resulting from
the consummation of the deal took.
place Monday merning.
William H. Morris, the retiring Sup-
erintendent at Bosweil, who will be
succeeded by a Mr. Logan, of Pitts-
burg, when questioned about his fu-
ture plans, said: “For a short time I
am going to take a needed rest. After
Mr. Logan arrives here and I turn mat-
ters over to him and give him all the
advice that might seem appropriate, [
propose to return to Johnstown, then I
will look after my private affairs while
also engaged in the organization of
another coal company whose principal
stockholders will be eastern capitalists.
They have secured possession of sever-
al large tracts on which coal can be
mined on a highly profitable basis. I
am not able to give particulars at this
time, as the publicity of our plans
might interfere with their ultimate
consummation.”
Superintendent R. 8. Garrett, who
presides over the Merchants Coal Com-
papy’s mines in this locality, is not at
home, hence THE STAR can give no re-
port of a late interview with him.
However, it is a certainty that a great
change has taken place in the said
company’s affairs. Of course, no one
outside of the company can give full
details of the new deal at this time.
One report has it that President Bos-
well will continueto hold the controll-
ing interest in the holdings of the
Merchants Coal Company, while anoth-
er report has it that James S. and Wm.
8. Kuhn, prominent Pittsburg baakers,
have secured the controlling interest.
Under what name the new concern
will do business, remains to be seen;
but it seems to be a certainty that the
company’s headquarters will be Pitts-
burg instead of Baltimore. Whatever
the new deal may bring about, we trust
that the change will benefit the various
communities in which the company
-will operate. The old Merchants com-
pany always had a good standing where
it operated, and we trust that the same
may prove true of its successor.
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IT CAN'T BE BEAT.
The best of all teachers is experience.
C. M. Harden, of Silver City, North
Carolina, says: “I find Electric Bit-
ters does all that’s claimed for it. For
Stomach, Liver and Kidney troubles it
can’t be beat. I have tried it and find
it a most excellent medicine.” Mr.
Harden is right; it’s the best of all
medicines also for weakness, lame back,
and all run down conditions. Best too
for chills and malaria. Sold under
guarantee at E. H. Miller’s drug store.
50c. 8-1.
The Fourth at Salisbury.
For the first time in many years,
Salisbury had a Fourth of July cele-
bration. It was gotten up on a few
days’ notice, and was held in what is
now known as Wagner’s Park, formerly
M. J. Beachy’s sugar grove, which
Frank Wagner has leased and equip-
ped with electric light, dancing plat-
form, ball ground. ete.
The picnic and celebration held
therein, last Saturday, was well at-
tended, considering the short time
that it was announced, and the attrac-
tions were fully up to those of the
average 4th of July blowout.
The greatest interest centered in the
game of baseball between the Salis-
bury and Frostburg clubs. It was a
very nice game throughout, Salisbury
carrying off the honors by a score of 8
to 3.
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A REVELATION,
It is a revelation to people, the se-
vere cases of lung trouble that have
been cured by Foley’s Honey and Tar.
It not only stops the cough, but heals
and strengthens the lungs. L. M. Rug-
gles, Reasnor, Towa, writes: “The doc-
tors said I had consumption, and I got
and Tar. It stopped the hemorrhages
as sound as a bullet.” Elk Lick Phar-
| macy, E, H. Miller, proprietor. 8e1
no better until I took Foley’s Honey | peach Fo Sam,
, $70, § S wp;
More Sentiment in Favor of Olds
Home Week.
Since the Old-Home Week idea was
first mentioned in Tae STAR, some
weeks ago, the sentiment in favor of
such an event for Salisbury and Elk
Lick has been rapidly spreading. The
many sons and daughters of our county
who emigrated from this town and
vicinity to the West and elsewhere, are
enthusiastically in favor of the pro-
posed event, and one after another
they are writing to their friends here,
expressing the hope that the Old-Home
Week celebration will become a re-
ality, and declaring their intentions of
participating in the great event if it
materializes.
Mr. John J. Keim recently received a
letter from his daughter, Mrs. Richard
Beachy, of Kansas, who writes as fol-
lows concerning an Old-Home Week
for Salisbury:
“Well. I notice in THE STAR that old
Salisbury is thinking of celebrating an
Old-Home week. Good for her! I
don’t know of anything that could take
place in the old town that would be
more thoroughly enjoyed by the peo-
ple than an Old-Home week, especially
by those who have been away from the
dear old place so many years. We are
in hopes that it will be a go, and that
they won’t have it any later than the
last of August or first of September. I
am pretty sure we will be. among the
number.”
THE STAR is sorry to state that up to
this time nothing but newspaper agita-
tion and considerable favorable talk
has been done in aid of the proposed
celebration. That is all right so far as
it goes, but it does not go far enough.
All seem to be in favor of Old-Home
week, but there is where the matter
rests with many of them. Some say
times are too hard now, others declare
that the affair could not be arranged
for on a sufficiently large scale before
some time next year, and some have
one excuse and some another. :
We will admit that there is much
preliminary work to do in order to
make the affair a success, and that un-
der the most favorable circumstances
all the necessary arrangements could
not be completed before October. Per-
haps all necessary arrangements could
not be completed even that soon. But
no matter whether the celebration is
to be held this year or next year,it is
time to be up and doing, and the peo-
ple who should take the lead in this
matter are the local officers of the P.
& M. Street Railway Company. This
for the reason that the P. & M. would
be greatly benefited by carrying people
to and from the town. Now, we sug-
gest that the local officers go ahead
and call a town meeting, decide on the
time for the celebration to be held, ap-
point committees and get down to
business. ~ Gentlemen, will you do it?
If so, Tue Star and its editor hereby
pledge themselves to help you in
every way possible, and we know that
others will also fall into line and go to
work with a determination to make the
affair a sure thing and a gigantic suc-
cess. It’s up to you, local officers of
the P. & M., to show the other people
of your company and of your com-
munity what you are made of in the
matter of doing something towards
having a big time in the old town, and
at the same time creating business for
your railway. The town has given you
a liberal franchise to use the streets of
this borough, and it is now up to you
to take the leading part in a proposed
celebration that will do the town honor
and credit. We believe you will do it,
and who knows how much good may
come out of it? We have a most beau-
tiful and desirable country town to
live in, and an.Old-Home week will
bring many people here who have been
absent from Salisbury for many years,
and some of them may invest in
country homes here or be the means
of helping our town along in other
ways not now thought of.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The following list contains the more
important deeds entered of record
since our last report:
Angelo Lucenti to Gessippi Poliman,
$455, in Jenner ; dated June 29, 1908.
Cyrus M. Hostetler and wife - to
Rachel B. Clapper, $330, in Summit;
dated Feb, 1908.
John M. Topper et ux. to Nancy Kel-
ley, $500, in New Baltimore ; dated May
8, 1908.
Cyrus W. Truxall et ux. to Elbridge
C. Kyle, $925, in Meyersdale; dated
June 10, 1908.
John Sarver et ux. to Wm. H, and
Harry Sarver, $2600, in Allegheny ; dat-
| ed June 4, 1908.
E. 0. Kooser to Herman G. Stam-
| June 11, 1908.
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| CARBON PAPER for sale at Tue | bili
Frank DeLozier Heard From.
BISBEE, ARIZONA, June 29, 1908.
Eprror Star:—Enclosed find $5.08,
which you will please credit to my ae-
count,
I am still high and dry in the town of
Bisbee. 5,300 feet above sea level. We
have had no rain here worth mention
ing for about ten weeks, but the inner
man need not go dry gon that account.
The bar rooms (and there are many of
them) are never closed here, except ca
election days.
I have been in this territory for about
eleven monihs now, and have good
work and wages.
Sister Ada, and. George Schrock, of
Kingwood, Somerset county, Pa., were
married here on Sunday, June 28th.
The ceremony was witnessed by twe
strangers, Charles Romesburg and
myself.
I suppose you are now on the water:
wagon, but I would appreciate it to .at
least have a drink of good old Somer
set county buttermilk with you.
Time only can tell of our return te
the old home. I wish all the people of
your community a glorious Fourth.
Yours Respectfully,
F. H. DeLozIER.
THE Star is very thankful to its
friend DeLozier for his newsy letter,
and doubly thankful for his remittance
of $5.00. In all our dealings with
Frank DeLozier, we have found him
honest and manly. Would that we
could say as much for some others whe
make much greater religious preten-
tions, but who seem to be continually
on the bum, seeking whom they may
defraud.
We would greatly relish taking a
drink of good buttermilk with Frank
DeLozier or any other man, for there
isn’t a better or more wholesome bev-
erage to be had. We always have a
warm spot in our heart for those who
occasionally treat us to a pitcherful of
buttermilk, for it’s the best medicine
on earth.
To the newly married couple men-
tioned in Mr. DeLozier’s letter, THE
Star sends its best wishes and most
hearty congratulations. We don’t
kaoow anything about the groom, buf
the bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Howard DelLozier, of this place, where
she is well and favorably known.
BEST THE WORLD AFFORDS.
“It gives me unbounded pleasure te
recommend Buecklen’s Arnica Salve,”
says J. W. Jenkins, of Chapel Hill, N.
C. “I am convinced it’s the best salve
the world affords. It cured a felon on
my thumb, and it never fails to heal
every sore, burn or wound to whieh it
is applied. 25c. at E. H. Miller's drug
store. 8-1
Local Industry to Double its Capi-
tal Stoek.
On Tuesday the stock-holders of The
Improved Traction Engine Company
had a meeting at which it was decided
to increase the capital stock of the
company from $25,000 to $50,000. This
means that the company will soon be
doing business on a larger scale, whick
will be a corresponding benefit to our
community.
At present the company is having
the finishing touches put onto twe
large 50-horse power traction engines
and some specially designed heavy ore
wagons to be used by a firm in Mexico
for transporting ore from their mines
to railway.
The contract for the engines was
given to The Improved Traction Ea-
gine Company after the mining cos-
pany’s representative had examined
many of the leading makes of tractiom
engines manufactured by other firms.
The contract going to our local engine
factory is a high testimonial of its pro-
duct. We hope in time to see our lecal
engine works employ several hundred
workmen.
Notable Group of Octogenarians.
Berlin, Pa., July 8.—Of the tem Ber.
lin octogenarians photographed a fem
weeks ago, not more than twe -of the
years of age.
The aggregate ages of the tem «mem
are 827 years, and Levi Shoemaker, the
oldest man in the group, has passed his
97th birthday. He cast his first vote im
1832, voting for Andrew Jackson for
President of the United States. With
one exception, all voted at the Presi-
dential election in 1848, but not all the
| same way.
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| JUST EXACTLY RIGHT.
“I have used Dr. King’s New Life
| Pills for several years, and find thems
just exactly right,” says Mr, A, A, Fad
| ton, of Harrisville, N. Y. New Lia
| Pills relieve without the least discome-
| fort. Best remedy for constipatio
: 1d malaria. 25¢, at E.. H.
M g store, 8-