RB RSET, PA. J. G.0OGLE Ve T,. PENN’A 20n, Lick, .Pa. Ve ERSET, PA, "s SET, PA. mith Ave. preserva- ial sets in- I. L 'TONEER. ales, Live ate. N SCHOOL. ion guar- EK, PA. A ° ressive: ng. 1 effort ” to any Ss ARMS hicopee ; upon f price.. §- ver edi- Ocents; § 1d book: ) cents. Written ind pub-- shed by" NS: L CO. D99 Mass. ] Se i . Ss. NT! ters, Ice te. Is—Beef- age, Hot tt All ot. iroceries, s, ete. s, and we. e of your HERS, BURY, PA. I 5 ! { { County Star. VOL. X1V. SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY. NO. 15. NOVEMBER 19. 1908. 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. Clerk of Courts—Milton H. Fike. Treasurer—Peter Hoffman. District Attorney—John 8S. Miller. Coroner—Dr. C. L. Friedline, Stoys- town. Commissioners—Josiah Specht, Kant- ner; Charles F. Zimmerman 8Stoys- town, Robert Augustine, Somerfield. Solicitors—Berkey & Shaver. Jury Commissioners—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 of Schools—D. W. Seibert. Chairmen Political Organizations— Jonas M. Cook, Republican; Alex B. Grof, Democratic; Fred Groff, Berlin, Prohibition. tf. THE farmer’s hair may be bushy, his skin bronzed, but his eyes are clear, his digestion is like that of a three- year-old mule, his conscience is like the ether above his head, and his bank account as fat as his favorite shoat, provided, of course, that he is the right kind of a farmer, and the right kind of a8 man. A GIRL in her “teens” with too many and too costly clothes on her back, gets vain, and loves admiration—and you grown-ups know the next step. A. simple, pure-hearted girl, who has a place in a home, home work and home duties, has her heart there, and no boy can steal it. Even when maturity comes and a real man comes, and a real affair of her heart comes, will such ‘a girl leave home, and then only after _heart-rending. But a girl who is at home only at the table and in the bed, won’t love that home. Work makes things sacred. The child whose home memories are not haloed by work, who is not needed and does not feel the need, will not love home. And if she doesn’t love the home of her girlhood, she will love no other. She will go anywhere for anything. Home will mean nothing te such a woman, and if she is respectable she will only lack the opportunity to be a bad woman, and is good only through circumstances or by the necessity of an ugly face. She will curse any man she marries. - —————————— THE true solution of the marriage | and divorce question lies with the homes more than with the legislatures. It is more a matter for education and training than of legislation. The girl whose early education has been gained on the street, whose selfishness has been gratified at the expense Of her parents, and whose preparation for marriage has lacked an acquaintance with the common duties of the home- keeper, is a standing candidate for the divorce court. The young man who has grown up without responsibility, . who has wasted his youth and pawned his manhood to idle and dissolute hab- its, is another. The ministers who are asking the state to prevent divorce and repress marriage have their respon- sibility in these cases, many of whom have been of their flock and under their spiritual supervision. . The par- ents are mostly responsible for the | negligence and mistaken kindness that unfits children for the duties of life. Good fathers usually train good hus- bands, and good mothers usually pro- duee good wives. Marriage and di- voree seems to rest more upon the early training of the individual than with the law. OccASIONALLY some person will ask us to send them THE STAR at a reduced price, telling us that they have been offered a county paper in a neaighbor- ing town at a cut price, and in some cases they prove their assertions. In spite of all such evidence, however, TaE Star shall continue to do business on the square and treat all its sub- scribers alike. We are not going to run over several townships soliciting subscriptions at cut prices, and then accept full price from thoce who have subscribed of their own accord, and who usually pay up from year to year without being “dunned.” If the time ever comes that we are able to show special favors to any of our subscribers, we are going to show them to our faithful subscribers who have stood by us for years, the ones we did not need to coax to subscribe for the paper, or offer a special price to as an induce- ment to subscribe. This thing of a subscription solicitor going out and selling a newspaper at whatever price he can get, savors of crook methods, and it is more or less of a bunco game. If Sam Slick is coaxed for an hour to subscribe for a $1.50-newspa- per, and is finally placed on the list for six months by paying 50 cents, much more should Thomas Steady, who has been a steady paying subscriber to the same newspaper, at its regular rate of $1.50 per year, be given the same low rate. The newspaper that has one price for one subscriber and another price for another subscriber, is guilty of unfair and unbusinesslike tactics. It is all right, of course, to give dis- counts for cash, or for clubs, when the same discounts are offered to all cash- paying subscribers alike. But it is not right to take the regular subscrip- tion price in full from voluntary sub- scriber, and then give greatly reduced prices to the subscribers that a solici- tor must first take the trouble to hunt up and coax, all of which means extra expense. The voluntary, cash-paying subscriber should not stand for any such unfair monkey business, and if a square deal is not accorded him by other newspapers, he can always get a square deal at THE SrAR office, where one man’s money will go just as far as that of any other person. HOW I8 YOUR DIGESTION? Mrs. Mary Dowling of No. 228 8th Ave., San Francisco, recommends a remedy for stomach trouble. She says: “Gratitude for the wonderful effect of Electric Bitters in a case of acute indi- gestion, prompts this testimonial. I am fully convinced that for stomach and liver troubles Electric Bitters is the best remedy on the market to-day.” This great tonic and alterative . medi- cine invigorates the system, purifies the blood and is esspecially helpful in all forms of female weakness. 50c. at E. H. Miller’s drug store. 15-1 THE LAST DEMOCRATIC WAIL. It has been customary with the Dem- ocrats for many years to accuse the Republican party of buying elections. Whenever the old political scrap heap known as the Democratic party gets a fresh wallopping, which happens about every time there is an election of any consequence, the same old threadbare, stereotyped howls go up from the “Demmies,” and the last wail is usually the cry that the Republicans beat them with money, that the election was bought. It matters not how much Senator Ben Tillman and other noted Southern Democrats brag of Demo- cratic victories won by shooting *nig- gers” ard stuffing ballot-boxes, the same old cry goes up from Democratic throats that the Republicans win elec- tions by buying votes. In reply to that charge. the Yellow Jacket. a real warm Republican paper published in North Carolina, has the fcllowing to say: Say there, you poor, down-in-the- mouth “Dimmyecrat,” can’t you look at the sun without batting your eyes? Why don’t you look a fellow in the Tace and admit that all this Bryan darnphoolishness is ‘a joke? Why don’c you get a move on yourself and quit this fiddling business of talking about principle, when Bryanism is without principles? The Democrats say the Republicans bought their election. They did, eh? Bought it of whom? Of course, bought the Democrats. Well, we’ll just be derned if we would want to belong to a party which was always admitting that its members were for sale. The Democrats always insist that when the Republicans are hard - push- ed they buy their way in. This means that they could buy the whole flannel- mouthed lay-out of national and in- ternational bellyachers. But that is buncombe. That’s dish- water, and the cat is sick. The Re- publican party appeals to people who have brains, and those with brains vote for their own good. The un- washed Democracy votes for glittering generalities dished up by the “Peerless One,” and he runs in order to mgke himself popular at the county fairs. But still you need’t look so derned ornery about it. Of course, a sheep- stealing dog looks like a lion com- pared to your looks, but you’ve been guilty so many times, seems like it would come natural to you to be de- feated just like it comes natural to Bryan to run all the time. OLD PAPERS for sale at Tur Srasz office. They are just the thing for pantry shelves, wrapping paper and cartridge paper for the miners. Five cents buys a large roll of them. tf SOCIALISTS DISAPPOINTED. Whenever Socialism is mentioned in this country it causes an uneasy feel- ing, People dread to think of the rad- ical revolution that Socialism means. Back of it stands a sinister threat, the threat being that the drone and the worker, the loafer apd the toiler will. be made to stand on the same plane and equally benefit from whatever has been accomplished or what is to be ac- complished. The professional and ever glib So- cialist who reads this statement will be beard to break out into violent laugh- ter of a most satirical character, fol- lowed by remarks upon the pathetic ignorance of newspaper writers. But that doesn’t change facts; it doesn’t upset truth, nor does it change human nature. The soap box orators may talk till they are black in the face—which they do without rest or intermission, be- cause they love to talk and make a business of it—but that does not change natural laws; theorists may theorize and dreamers may dream, but the world continues to make a man earn what he gets, just the same. So- cialism appeals to two classes of men only—the man who wants something for nothing and the man who poses as a benefactor of mankind without being willing to put his preaching into prac- tice. The Socialists have been disappoint- ed, however, in the result of the recent elections in the United States. They advertised themselved as in shape to make big gaing. Instead they have rather lost ground. They madé a ter- rific amount of noise, but not very much came of it. There is considerable satisfaction in all this. It is assuring to think that the American people do not take kind- ly to the teachings of foreign theorists who are too ignorant to understand the things that are complained of in Europe have no existence here in this free rapublic where the people rule. Prior to the late election the publ e was led to believe that the coming po- litical battle in this country would be between conservatism on the one side ‘and Socialism on the other. It was natural to believe this, because of the noise the Socialists made. But it is not now believed that a battle of that character will ever become necessary. Socialism is more likely to be laughed down the wind for the crazy pipe- dream that it is.—Los Angeles Times. RAW LUNGS. When the lungs are sore and in- flamed, the germs of pneumonia and consumption find lodgement and mul- tiply. Foley’s Honey and Tar kills the cough germs, cures the most ob- stinate racking cough, heals the lungs, and prevents serious results. The genuine is in the yellow package. Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H, Miller, proprie- tor. 12-1 A BARBARIC CUSTOM. We wish a law could be passed pro- hibiting the barbaric custom of open- ing caskets in public at church funer- als. Itis a relic of dark ages and has no place in a civilized community. It jars on the sensibility of every tender cord, and is something that the churches and undertakers ought to combine and put to an end. In nine- tenths of the cases it’s merely a pan- dering to ghoulish curiosity, People who never spoke to the deceased in their lives, parade around the church, gape at the form of the dead one, then go out of the presence of death, not to talk of the good deeds done in life, but to criticise the appearance of the poor clay that death has left for once at their mercy. If we are going on a long journey we do not make our adieus before a gaping crowd, and we ought not to be expected to bid our dead a last good-bye while curious eyes fatten on our grief, and we ought not t8 be extected to sit in the house of mourning with people we scarcely know, who have no claim on us or our loved one, but jostle each otherin their desire to view the remains, and then get together and gossip over what they saw or failed to see. We believe that a majority of the people detest the pain- ful funeral scenes as much as we do, and would be more than glad to see them ended, but are afraid to break a “custom.” Bat it is a duty the minis- ter and undertaker owe to themselves and the long-suffering public to put a stop to the exhibition, and they will find the public only too glad to uphold them with a hearty amen. WHEN A MAN TELLS YOU idoes not pay to advertise, he is simply ad- mitting that he is conducting a busi- ness that is not worth advertising, a business conducted byia man unfit to ‘vices, the privilege of selecting Socialism as Sized Up by a Fiery Southern Editor. From the Moravian Falls (N. C.) Yellow Jacket. Mr. Debbs would, of course, like to be Pzésident. He would like to take the reins of government, and he would like to.sit down behind his throne and pick out a cabinet. He would be sure to get in the cabinet wind-jammers of his school ; he would want men who could show a gentleman from Missouri that white was black and black was as the driven snow ; he would want thim- ble-riggers and shell-game men to constitute the cabinet—in order that a nation could hurriedly be taken over under Eugene Debs, Emperor. Nothing short of monarchial powers would satisfy a leather-lunged and empty-headed wind-jammer from So- cialville. A man with bowels to fill and no brains to worry him. A man with an idea that the country belongs to the men who build the houses and not the men who pay for them—that is the Debs doctrine—well imagine a gentleman of Debs’ stripe, grown weary with affairs of state, sitting on his golden throne, throwing railroad sand- wiches at capital, and pelting it to death because it dared to suggest that it would like to build a house. But it will be some time before Debs wins the world to his way of thinking. It will be quite a spell before he makes the conscientious and honest man be- lieve that a jack-leg carpenter who builds a house should live in the house, and the man who pays for it should roost on a rail fence with the rooster. But then Debs appeals to men who do not think. That is the mob. The men who think in the Debs party are the ones who ride on the special trains which Debs did not build, but in which he rides. They take up the cellection, and the schemers live on wine and are arrayed in purple and fine linen. We just thought we’d take a look backward, now that the smoke has cleared somewhat away, and Debs is still there. He will be there as long as an easy job is in sight for him. Let the Socialists put him where he be- longs, and he wouldn’t be a member of the party three weeks. No, no. ’Gene Debs was born to loaf—and he is loaf- ing to the Queen’s taste. Nothing is too fine for ’Gene—so long as the mis- guided and half-witted of the earth pay the. bill and let ‘Gene bunco them. HEXAMETHYLENETETRAMINE. The above is the name of a German chemical, which is one of the many valuable ingredients of Foley’s Kidney Remedy. Hexamethylenetetramine is recognized by medical text books and authorities as a uric acid solvent and antiseptic for the urine. Take Foley's Kidney Remedy as soon as you notice any irregularities, and avoid a serious malady. Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Miller, proprietor. 12-1 Doings of the Local Ministerial As- sociation—Thanksgiving Ser- vices, Ete. At a recent meeting of the Minister- ial Association of this town, it was de- cided to hold three union meetings during the year, if so desired, namely: Thanksgiving, Memorial and Baceca- laureate services. 1. Thanksgiving services to be held on Thanksgiving Day, at 7.30 P. M. The place and speaker to be selected by the Association. 2. If the soldiers or others interested desire a Memorial sermon preached on the Sunday preceding Memorial Day, the Association will be pleased to con- duct such services, the church and speaker to be selected by the Associ- ation. 3. If the School Beard, teachers, and members of the graduating class desire a Baccalaureate sermon preched, the Association will gladly hold such ser- the place and speaker being accorded to the Association. Union Thanksgiving services will be held in the Lutheran Church, Thanks- giving evening, Nov. 26, at 7.30. Rev. Wagner, of the M. E. Church, will preach. Everybody is invited to at- tend. / SEVEN YEARS OF PROOF. “I have had seven years of proof that Dr. King’s New Discovery is the best medicine to take for coughs and colds and for every diseased condition of throat, chest or lungs,” says W.V. Henry, of Panama, Mo. The world has had thirty-eight years of proof that Dr. | King’s New Discovery is the best rem- edy for coughs and colds, la grippe, at all times at Tuk Star office: Leases, | asthma, hay fever, bronchitis, hemor- rhage of the lungs, and the early stages of consumption. Its timely use always prevents pneumonia. Sold under guarantee at do business, and a business which | should be advertised for sale. tf { $1.00. E. H. Miller's drug store. 50c. and Trial bottle free. 12—1 Franchise Granted to Somerset Street Railway Company. From the Somerset Standard. It now seems probable that Somer- set will have one, and perhaps two, street railways entering the borough within the next two years. At 2 meet- ing of the Somerset Town Council on Friday evening, a franchise was grant- ed to the Somerset Street Railway Company, and the ordinance has been signed by Burgess Welfley. The Pennsylvania and Maryland Street Railway Company has also made an application for a franchise, and it is reported that the privilege will also be granted to it when the company meets the conditions required by the council. The franchise granted to the’Somerset Street Railway Com- pany isnot exclusive. The company must commence work on the road within a year, and complete the same within two years. The franchise can- not be sold or transferred to another company without the approval of the Town Council. The Somerset Street Railway Com- pany proposes to build a line from Somerset to Rockwood, and, if possible, to complete the road next year. The franchise permits it to enter Somerset borough on West street, running to Sanner street; over Sanner street to Main Cross street, and thereon to the Pittsburg, Westmoreland and Somer- set depot. The Pennsylvania and Maryland Street Railway Company has in opera- tion its line from Salisbury to Meyers- dale, and tracks laid to Garrett. It is proposed to extend the line to Somer- set. If a franchise is granted to it, thé company will enter the borough on South Main Cross street, and connect with the tracks of the Somerset Street Railway Company at Main Cross and Sanner street. The applications for franchises by the two companies were in the hands of the Town Council for a number of weeks, and the franchise to the Somer- set Street Railway Company was not granted until it complied with the con- ditions required by Council. Like all progressive movements, the granting of a franchise for street railway pur- poses, meets with some opposition, but the opposition is not well founded. A survey for the proposed trolley line be- tween Somerset and Rockwood was made about two years ago. The inter- ests of the trolley companies should not conflict. The granting of fran- chises to both companies, with proper restrictions, will meet the approval of a majority of our citizens. IF YOU ARE OVER FIFTY, READ THIS. Most people past middleage suffer from kidney and bladder disorders which Foley’s Kidney Remedy would cure. Stop the drain on the vitality and restore needed strength and vigor. Commence taking Foley’s Kidney Remedy today. Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Miller, proprietor. 121 Daring Holdup in Shade. Sunday night (Nov. 1) about 9 o’clock, Sylvester Pebly, a game and fire war- den of this county, was held up and re- lieved of about $350 in currency. The robbery took place twelve miles from Windber, along the Bender road, some distance from Hitechew’s coal bank. Some time previous to the robbery, Mr. Pebley secured between $700 and $800 to pay the men who had been em- ployed to fight fires the past two months. He had paid out all but $350, which he had in his vest pocket. “Wes, hold, or I will shoot you,” was the com» mand given by a small man, when the three men caught him, tied his hands behind his back, his feet together, and first searched his vest pocket, where they found the money in the inside pocket. -Of the amount taken; $200 was new bills from the First National Bank of Hooversville. According to indications, the men are well known in the community, and arrests are likely to follow in a few days.—Windber Era. - If there really was a hold-up as above stated, every effort should be made to bring the robbers to justice, but it should not be forgotten that many of these alleged hold-ups never happen. We are not saying, however, that the one above related was a fake hold-up, for we are not in a position to know anything about it. — THE BLANKS WE KEEP. The following blanks can be obtained | Mortgages, Deeds, Judgment Bonds, the development of Common Bonds, Judgment Notes, Re- ceipt Books, Landlord s Notice to Ten- ants, Constable Sale Blanks, Summons Execution for Debt, Notice of Claims for Collection, Commitments, Subpoe- | nas, Criminal Warrants, etc. tf REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The following list contains the more important deeds entered of record since ‘our last report: John Gahring to Barbara Sheeler, $1750, in Milford, dated July 13, 1908. Somerset Trust Co. to Albert C. Ritchie, $70,000, in Upper Turkeyfoot, dated Oct. 27, 1908. H. M. Berkeley et ux. to Wm. C. Peoples et al., $2000, in Shade, dated Oct. 31, 1908. Mary M. Zimmerman to Wm. D. Sargent, $3800, in Somerset township, dated Oct. 17, 1908. Valentine Hay et ux. to Simon P. Weimer, $250, in Rockwood, dated Oct. 28, 1908. Same grantor to Edward J. Weimer, $125, in Rockwood, dated Oct. 28, 1908. Michael Knecht to Salisbury Rail- road Co., $100, in Elk Lick, dated Nov. 2, 1908, J. Irvin Beals to Mary C. Kubhs, $1800, in Meyersdale, dated Oct. 21, 1908. Mary I. Barnhart et vir. to Anna M. Ankeny, $3500, in Jenner, dated Sept. 5, 1908. Marcus Wohl et ux. to Laura Kor- lath, $7300, in Paint borough, dated Oct. 30, 1908. S.P. Young et ux. to M. H. Miller, $100, in Black, dated Oct. 31, 1908. Jokn H. Seibert et ux. to United Evan. church, $700, in Somerset town- ship, dated Oct. 9, 1908. Allen Hyatt to David Parker, et al, $1725, in Lower Turkeyfoot, dated March 14, 1908. David Parker et ux. to Orville Osler, $1725, in Lower Turkeyfoot, dated Oct. 31, 1908. Simon Stutzman to Geo. H. Trent, $8000, in Listie, dated Oct. 31, 1908. W. C. Brenneke et al. to Wm. Gaha- gan, $8500, in Paint township, date June 16, 1908. ? Milton Shaffer et ux. to same gran- tee. $75, in Paint borough, dated Oct. 31, 1908. THE COMMON SCHOOL. There’s many a stately edifice With grand and stately walls, And many an institution rare With academic halls. And normal schools and colleges Where stern professors rule, But dearer far than all to me I count the Common School. The Common School for one and all A helping hand extends. It counts the poor as well as rich Among its list of friends. It nothing knows of caste or sect (God grant it never may), Bat nay its record be unstained To many a distant day. Our Common School! name Forever from disgrace. Oh, raise it high in prominenee! Give it an honored place. The Common School! oh, let it stay To educate the youth; It shall not wrong or error teach, But plain and honest truth. oh, save that Oh, guard that institution well, It is our country’s pride; Within this much loved land of ours Let it in peace abide; And garland it with letters bright Which plainly shall declare: “Our bulwark is the Common School; Molest it if you dare!” WANTED, MEN AND WOMEN TO SWEAR and affirm before the under- signed, when they have documents to which lawful affidavits are required. I also draw up all manner of deeds, leases, mortgages, etc., neatly and ac- curately, according to the require- ments of the law. Typewritten work a specialty. A full line of legal blanks always on hand. " P. L. LivEN@ooD, Notary Public and Conveyancer. Star OFFICE, Elk Lick, Pa. tf TO LAND OWNERS: —We have printed and keep in stock a supply of trespass notices containing extracts from the far-reaching trespass law pass- ed at the 1905 session of the Pennsyl- vania Legislature. The notices are printed on good cardboard with blank line for signature, and they will last for years in all kinds of weather. Every and owner should buy some of them, as the law requires land owners to post their lands if they want the protection of the latest and best trespass law ever passed. Send all orders to THE STAR, Elk Lick, Pa. tf | BUY A TYPEWRITER !—See the | Pittsburg Visible, at Tur Star office. | None better, no other quite so simple lin construction. Holds world’s record for speed. Very easy to operate. Price - very reasonable. | tf P. L. LiveNGcoon, Agent.
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