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club or business men’s club can do it. You can do it individ-
ually.
If you don’t believe in
here?
making a good living.
booms now and then it helps
pening.
this town to go into business,
our natural resources.
A board of trade can do it.
If you do believe in it, why don’t you boom it?
Every new family means money in your pocket if you
are in business here or own property here.
your living by working here, every increase of popula-
tion tends to increase your wages, every new industry
brought to town tends to enlarge your opportunities for
Batteries in a battle boom together.
together something big is going to happen right off. It’s
just the same with town booming. When we all boom to-
gether, the things we desire to have happen will begin hap-
Now, suppose you who read this suggest through the col-
umns of this paper some method of massing our boom bat-
teries and making a noise that will bring people running into
guns thundered at Vicks-
urg and Lee’s guns thun-
dered at Fredericksburg.
Each of them thundered
a little louder than the
other fellow at each place
and won the battle.
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ago, but booming sti
wins.
Make this town and
the country around it
your battleground, and
then boom!
If you boom loud
enough, people will come
from afar off to find out
what’s up. Then a little
more booming will take
them prisoners and add
them to the population.
Then they will begin
booming, and other will-
ing captives will come in.
This is the inside his-
tory of every town on
earth that amounts to
anything more than a hill
of beans.
Booming may be done
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Tue County Auditors claim to have
. discovered some very ugly “niggers”
in the county “woodpile,” the presence
of which is charged to Joseph Specht,
one of the present board of Commis-
sioners, and Robert Augustine and
Charles Zimmerman, who with Specht
constituted the board of Commissioners
~ that went out of office about the first
~ of the year.
© the allegations of the Auditors is true,
a full investigation should at once be
If all, or even one-half of
made by the proper authorities, and if
intentional graft or rascality can be
~ shown, the offenders should be pun-
, v8 5 ished to the full extent of the law
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(ade in very positive language, and
re not mere hints. Next week THE
3 (ran will publish them in full, to-
&¢ 4 gether with such comment as the case
seems to warrant.
In the meantime:
let the light be turned on, to the end
that innocent men may be vindicated
or guilty rascals be brought to justice:
ApvocATEs of a local option law are
not surprised at the defeat of the Fair
. bill in the House, last Tuesday. No
. one expected it to pass. The vote for
the bill, however, revealed the wide
and growing sentiment throughout
’ Pennsylvania in favor of a law that
will permit the residents of the various
_ egounties to banish the saloon. The
i ‘Anti-Saloon League has a big task be-
fore it, but that it will ultimately suec-
ceed in securing for the voters of Penn-
sylvania the right to decide this ques-
* tion for themselves, admits of no doubt.
Local Option does not mean Prohibi-
tion, as the supporters of the saloon
would have people believe, but it does
mean that the voters of all counties
shall have the privilege of saying
whether or not the sale of intoxicating
liquor shall be continued therein. The
question appeals to every individual
voter, and just so long as the politi-
cians who shape legislation deny them
the right of saying whether or not the
saloon, which debauches our boys and
fills the jails with criminals, shall go,
the fight will continue.—Somerset Her-
ald.
How Can They Combine Something
They Haven’t Got?
It would be a grand thing to have
the new Philadelphia, Harrisburg and
Pittsburg boulevard, proposed by Gov.
Stuart, pass through Somerset county.
Other routes are open to it, but it is
believed that if our representatives,
Messrs. Knepper and Floto, can be in-
duced to lay aside their knitting for
awhile, they might, by consolidating
their influence, be able to bring such a
pressure to bear on the project that it
would just have to come through Som-
erset.—Turkeyfoot News. 0
We agree with our esteemed Conflu-
ence contemporary that Somerset
county ought to have the proposed new
highway mentioned, but how can Knep-
per and Floto combine their influence
when they haven’t got any more in-
fluence in our Assembly than a pair of
pollywogs? Influence, indeed! It is
the veriest folly to send men of the
Knepper and Floto class to Harrisburg
and expect them to have any influence
there. It requires some ability and
resourcefulness to wield influence in
the Assembly of Pennsylvania, and
Knepper and Floto have neither. Floto
was a Democrat who came over into
the Republican party solely" for office,
but when he and “Uncle Amos” went
to Harrisburg with the primary pur-
pose of disrupting the Republican or-
ganization, and the secondary purpose
ef bringing about some local option
legislation, they soon demonstrated
their utter lack of ability and influence,
two very necessary commodities for
legislators to possess.
THE LURID GLOW OF DOOM
was seen in the red face, hands and
body of the little son of H. M. Adams,
of Henrietta, Pa. His awful plight
from eczema had, for five years, defied
all remedies and baffled the best doe-
tors, who said the poisoned blood had
affected his lungs and, nothing could
save him. “But,” writes his mother,
| pletely cured him.” For Eruptions.
| Eczema, Salt Rheum, Sores and all
Blood Disorders and Rheumatism,
Electric Bitters is supreme. Only 50c.
| Guaranteed by Elk Lick Pharmacy. 4-1
“seven bottles of Electric Bitters com- |
| to pursue the objects
while they are mourning over the death !
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—W. H. Floto,
Meyersdale ; A. W. Knepper.
Sheriff —Charles H. Weimer.
Prothonotary—J. B. Gerhard.
Register—Bert F. Landis.
Recorder—Norman E. Berkey.
Clerk of Courts—F. A. Harah.
Treasurer—Russell G. Walker.
District Attorney—John 8. Miller.
Coroner—Dr. H. 8. Kimmell.
Commissioners—Josiah Specht, Kant-
ner; Rush 8. McMillen, Rockwocd;
Hiram P. Hay, Berlin. Solicitor—
Charles W. Walker.
Jury Commissioners—George J.
Schrock, M. L. Weighley, Jenners.
Directors, of the Poor—J. F. Reiman,
William W. Baker, J. C. Dietz, Listie.
Attorney for Directors, H. F. Yost.
Superintendent of Schools—D. W-
Seibert.
County Auditors—Jacob 8. Miller,
Friedens ; W. H. H. Baker and Samuel
A. Kretchman, Rockwood.
Chairmen Political Organizations—
Jonas M. Cook, Republican; Alex B.
Grof, Democratic; Fred Groff, Berlin,
Prohibition. tf
PERSECUTION AKIN TO BRU-
TALITY. :
In a recent issue of the Somerset
Herald there appeared an item taken
from the Philadelphia Record that was
published for the purpose of making it
appear that Hon. J. A. Berkey, Com-
missioner of Banking, either through
carelessness or wilful neglect, failed to
attend either one of two meetings of
the Committee of the House on Bank-
ing and Banks, said committee meet-
ings having been called at Harrisburg,
Feb. 24th, at 5 clock p.m. and Tues-
day evening, Maxch 2nd.
That Mr. Berkey was to appear at
these meetings to confer with the com-
mittee, is a fact he does not attempt to
deny. Neither does he deny that he
failed to appear at those meetings, but
there are good and sufficient reasons
for his absence.
When the committee arranged for a
meeting with Mr. Berkey on the even-
ing of Feb. 24th, that date was selected
as one convenient for him to be on
hand. But owing to the sudden illness
and death of Mrs. H. F. Barron, Mr.
Berkey’s only sister, he could not at-
tend the meeting, as the beloved sister
was buried on the afternoon of Feb.
24th.
After the committee had been ape
prised of the facts in the case, it was
then arranged to hold a meeting with
Mr. Berkey on the evening of March
2nd. But the heavy hand of death
again interfered by sunffing out the
life of another very dear friend of Mr.
Berkey’s. This time it was Dr. Theo-
dore B. Noss, Principal of the State
Normal School at California, Pa.,
whose funeral took place on the second
date the aforesaid committee had ar-
ranged to meet with Mr. Berkey.
In speaking with Mr. Berkey on this
subject, that gentleman had the fol-
lowing to say: “I knew Dr. Noss for
30 years, had been a student at the
school while he was Principal, and
have been a member of the Board of
Trustees for 11 years during his in-
cumbeney. I felt it a duty to attend
the funeral, as well as a necessity to be
present at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees called for the day of the
funeral. The head of the school being
deceased, it nas necessary for the
Trustees to make arrangement for the
future of the school, and therefore it
was impossible for me to attend another
meeting at Harrisburg on the same
day.”
Mr. Berkey and his friends are char-
itable enough to believe that the
Philadelphia Record people did not
know the circumstances that kept the
Commissioner of Banking away from
tke committee meetings referred to,
but the Somerset Herald people did
know the-circumstances. It can only
‘| be construed as a piece of pure malice
on their part to reproduce an article of
that kind without setting forth the
facts in the case, with which they were
thoroughly familiar. But persecution
seems to be the delight of the Herald
people when dealing with those who
refuse to take political orders from the
old Scull family organ, hence the de-
testable tactics of the Herald in this
instance will ereate no surprise. How-
ever, when the Herald goes so far as
of its malice
of near and dear relatives and friends,
it is pursuing its natural course so far
as to be justly designated as persecu-
tion akin to brutality.
When persecution and malice of the
most unjust kind, as in this instance,
will follow a man to the very brink of
a deceased sister’s grave, it is time to
call a halt.
If Mr. Berkey were to go to the Her-
ald office and wreak personal violence
upon the dirty coward who is the of-
fender in this instance, the act would
be applauded by hundreds of justice-
loving people. Nobody but “Red
Jersey Bob” and “Poland China Tim”
Scull would be guilty of such persecu-
tion and brutality as we cite our read-
ers to in this article. They, above all
other men in Somerset county, are
jealous and ill at ease when they see a
good public office go to some one pos-
sessing too much manhood and intel-
ligence to take political orders from
the Herald office.
The old family organ has grown fat
on grab, graft and greed, and the
Scull family has reaped more in the
shape of political and official emolu-
ments than other family in Somerset
county, and, furthermore, has rendered
but little of value in exchange there-
for.
We once heard General Koontz refer
to “Tim” Scull as “the man without a
countenance,” and he might also have
added without a conscience, for we
opine that it is hard for a man without
a countenance to have a consciences,
and neither “Tim” nor “Sob” are likely
to ever be accused of having much of
the latter, at least.
IT SAVED HIS LEG.
“All thought I’d lose my leg,” writes
J. A. Swenson, Watertown, Wis. “Ten
years of eczema, that 15 doctors could
not cure, had at last laid me up. Then
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured it sound
and well.” Infallible for Skin Erup-
tions, Eczema, Salt Rheum, Boils, Fe-
ver Sores, Burns, Scalds, Cuts and
Piles. 25c. at Elk Lick Pharmacy. 4-1
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LIQUOR LICENSES.
All New Applicants Refused—All
Old Ones Get License.
The following liquor license news is
contained in a news dispatch sent out
from Somerset under date of March
15th: .
On Saturday evening Judge F. J.
Kooser took action on the license pe-
titions, refusing all new applications
for retail license, and granting all the
old. The four retail licenses refused
were George Lochrie, who made appli-
cation for a license for a new hotel to
be constructed between Boswell and
Jenners No. 2, two prosperous mining
towns in the northern part of the
county ; William M. Bowser, who ap-
plied for a license at Meyersdale;
Francis L. O'Connor, who wanted a re-
tail license for a hotel at Belmont, a
coal town in Paint township, and Clar-
| ence F. Miller, who made application
for a license for a new hotel in Wind-
ber.
Remonstrapcss were filed against
granting license to Lochrie, Bowser
and O’Connor, but no remonstrance
was filed against Clarence F. Miller, of
Windber. Brewers’ licenses were
granted to the Rockwood, Meyersdale
and Windber Brewing Companies, and
all the distillers’ licenses were granted.
The only petition in which the court
filed an opinion was the application
for bottler’s license filed by John B.
Hughes and Thomas Delehunt, of
Windber. Judge Kooser set forth that
such license will not likely prove det-
rimental to the morals of the citizens
of Windber, and granted the license as
prayed for.
Action was take on the petitions
about two weeks ago, and at that time
there were several arguments regard-
ing the new applicants. There were
85 applicants for retail license, three
brewer’s license, and five for distiller’s
license.
Simplicity in Spring Waists.
The new waists for practical wear
are remarkable for their simplicity,
and, indeed, this is the key-note of
fashion, this spring. Novel features
are, however, introduced in unexpect-
ed ways. One characteristic that will
appeal to tke woman who likes to make
cone model do the work of two, is the
choice offered by the two styles of
waistline. The short waist is especial-
ly liked for dressy wear, although
some very practical frocks for shop-
ping or business are made in this style.
WHEN A MAN TELLS YOU it does
not pay to advertise, he is simply ad-
mitting that he is conducting a busi-
ness that is not worth advertising, a
business conducted by a man unfit to
do business, and a business which
should be advertised for sale. tf
OVERRIDE VETO.
Somerset Couueil Grants Franchise
of Main X Street to P. & M. Com-
pany—More Complications
in Sight.
As many complications promise to
arise in the struggle for a street rail-
way franchise covering Main Cross
Street as the Public Service Commis-
sioners of New York have met with in
their efforts to regulate the subway
traffic of the Metropolis.
At a meeting of Council, Thursday
night, the grant recently made to the
Pennsylvania & Maryland company
was passed over the Burgess’ veto. As
matters now stand, it would seem that
the concern which first places its rails
down-will be in a position to dictate
terms to its rival, so far as running cars
on that street is concerned.
There is this satisfaction in the situ-
ation to the public, however, that one,
or both of these companies, must move
speedily to give Somerset an outlet by
trolley.
Burgess Welfley’s position that
Council could not legally bestow a
grant of the same street to two com-
panies, it is understood, is to be sub-
mitted to the judgment of three disin-
terested attorneys. A more serious
question, it is said, will be raised ques-
tioning the validity of the grant made
to the Pennsylvania & Maryland cor-
poration by a council taking the oath
of office subsequent to the hour the
veto was filed.
Officials of the Pennsylvania & Mary-
land, who were here on Friday, said
that work on the projected Somerset-
Boswell line will be underway in a few
weeks.—Somerset Herald.
KILLS WOULD-BE SLAYER.
A merciless murderer is Appendi-
citis, with many victims. But Dr.
King’s New Life Pills kill it by preven-
tion. They gently stimulate stomach,
liver and bowels, preventing that clog-
ging that invites appendicitis, curing
Constipation, Biliousness, Chills, Ma-
laria, Headache and Indigestion. 25c.
at Elk Lick Pharmacy. 4-1
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How Liquor License Profits Somer-
set County.
Ex-Sheriff Begley, who went out of
office about the first of the present
year, has compiled some interesting
statistics which ought to set the tax-
payers of Somerset county to thinking,
Among other interesting statistics
compiled by Mr. Begley, are the fol-
lowing:
During Sheriff Begley’s term of of-
fice, Somerset county paid for 22,986
days boarding for prisoners in the
county jail, as follows:
Intemperate prisoners..... 21,976 days.
Temperate prisoners....... 969 “
Total abstainers 4] &
The county paid for boarding these
prisoners at the rate of 45 cents per
day. Thus it will be seen that the
county paid during Sheriff Begley’s
term of three years the sum of $9,862.20
for boarding intemperate prisoners.
For temperate prisoners, $436.05, and
for abstainers, $18.45. The boarding of
intemperate prisoners is only a small
item compared with the cost placed on
the county in the trials of intemperate
prisoners, which is about six times
more than the cost of boarding them,
not saying anything of the cost of hold-
ing court, which is no small item each
year.
The results of the liquor traffic in
Somerset county costs the tax-payers
at least two dollars for every dollar of
revenue the county gets from the
liquor dealers in license fees. Not-
withstanding these facts, we still have
men who ask what the county, state
and nation would do for revenue if the
liquor business should be outlawed.
SIMPLE REMEDY FOR LA
GRIPPE.
La grippe coughs are dangerous, as
they frequently develop into pneu-
monia. Foley’s Honey and Tar not
only stops the cough, but heals and
strengthens the lungs, so that no serious
results need be feared. The genuine
Foley’s Honey and Tar contains no
harmful drugs, and is in a yellow pack-
%ge. Refuse substitutes. Elk Lick
Pharmacy, E. H. Miller, Prop. 4-1
Death of an Estimable Lady.
We were much pained last week to
learn of the death of Mrs. Missouri
Bauermaster, which occurred at her
home in Broithersvalley township, Fri-
day, the 5th inst. Deceased was the
eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Lentz, who resided in Elk Lick town-
ship for many years, but located in
Brothersvalley township about 20
years ago. The deceased was aged
nearly 45 years, and death was caused
by dropsy of the heart. She is surviv=-
ed by her husband, and the following
children, all at home and unmarried:
Lizzie, Annie, Claude, Elsie and Ira.
She is also survived by her father, by
one brother, Milton K. Lentz, of Som-
erset, and by the following sisters:
Mrs. Clarence Hay and Mrs. B. Frank
Suder, both of Brothersvalley town-
ship, and Mrs. L. A. Maust and Miss
Anna L. Lentz, both of Garrett.
She was a consistent member of the
Church of the Brethren. She was a
kind neighbor, a lovirg wife, and an af-
fectionate mother, respected by all
who knew her. .
Funeral services were conducted
from the Pike church, at 2:30 o'clock,
Sunday afternoon, obsequies being con-
ducted by Elder Galen K. Walker, as-
sisted by Elder W. G. Schrock.
Over-Cutting of Connecticut’s For-
ests Indicates General Rate of
Timber Consumption.
It has been estimated that the
amount of wood annually consumed in
the United States at the present time
is twenty-three billion cubic feet
the growth of the forest is only seven
billion feet. In other words, Ameri-
cans all over the country are using
more than three times as much wood
as the forests are producing. The fig-
ures are based upon a large number of
state and local reports collected by the
government and upon actual measure-
ments.
The State Forester of Connecticut, in
a recent report, has given figures on
growth and use for New Haven Coun-
ty, which give many more valuable de-
tails than are generally to be obtained,
and will illustrate how the forest is be-
ing reduced by over-cutting. In this
county a very careful study was made
on each township of the amount of for-
est, the rate of growth, and tke amount
of timber used. For the year 1907 the
timber used was 120,000 cords, in the
form of cordwood, lumber, ties, poles,
and piles. The annual growth on all
types of forest land, including the
trees standing on abandoned fields, for
the year, reached a total of 70,000 cords.
Thus the amount cut yearly exceeds
the growth by 50,000 cords.
The amount of standing timber con-
sidered as merchantable and available
for cutting within the next few years
was found to be 1,200,000 cords. Each
year the annual growth increases the
supply on hand by 70,000 cords, while
the use decreases it by 120000. The
net reduction is therefore 50,000 cords
a year. If the cut and the growth re-
main at the present figures, the supply
of merchantable timber will be ex-
hausted in about twenty years. At
the end of that time there will be a
large amount of forest standing in the
county, but it will be in tracts under
forty years of age, containing wood be-
low the most profitable size for cutting.
Cordwood could still be cut, but sup-
plies of the most profitable products,
like ties and lumber, would be practie-
ally exhausted.
Connecticut’s case illustrates what is
meant when the exhaustion of the
timber supply is spoken of. It does
not mean that every tree will be cut
and that the ground will be bare. It
means, on the other hand, that year by
year the people of the country are cut-
ting more timber than the forest grows,
and that within a comparatively short
time the continued loss will have so re-
duced the forest that it will be difficult
and expensive to obtain timber of use-
ful size in sufficient quantity.
An Editor’s Blissful Dream.
Twas night, and the editor lay in bed
And thought of the weary day
That had just passed by—of his aching
head
And the bills he had to pay.
He watched the stars through the wine
dow peep,
And Cynthia’s silver beams,
Till his eyes grew tired and he fell
asleep
And passed to the land of dreams.
He slept and dreamed till the morning
broke,
And the day began its race,
And the wife who lay by his side awoke
And gazed on his placid face.
She looked and saw on his face a light
Like the sun’s first golden ray,
That softly kisses the mountain’s
height
As the darkness fades away.
Then she nudged his arm—it was time
to rise,
For the clock was striking seven—
And asked, as he rubbed his sleepy eyes,
“Did youdream you were in heaven?”
“Oh, not quite that, my love,” said he,
“But it made my heart so glad :
I dreamed that an advertiser came
And gave me a full-page ad.”
—Exchange.
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& WEDDING Invitations at THE
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CARBON PAPER ior sale at TaE
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