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VOL. XV.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA., THURSDAY. APRIL 8. 1909.
NO. 13.
The Biggest and
the Best Net For
Getting Results.
In seining fish to get results
You have to take the net results.
In business, too, to get results
You, figure on the net results.
Netting fish ‘and netting profits sug-
gest each other. In each case you
must put out a net that moves around
and gathers ap the results.
So’ far as business goes, the local
newspaper is the biggest and best net
for getting results. It circulates around
town and in the country also.
Are you advertising? n
~ WANT COLUMN.
} For Sale, For Rent,
Lost, Found, Ete.
~ ‘AN OPPORTUNITY.
~~ WANTED !—A hustler for
each town in Somerset county
to represent a strong old line
eastern life ond accident com-
pany, having $1,000,000.00 cap-
ital stock. This is a good open-
ing for a hustler. “Write, giv-
ing age and reference. All
communications confidential.
“MANAGE,” P. O. Box 134, ,
McKeesport, Pa.
Six Posi Cards for Bec. at
Egan's. tf.
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“WANTED !—A good com-
pany writing best sick, accident
and ‘natural death policy on
earth, same rate for all occupa-
tions; desires special agents to
handle farm, country and town
trade. Good Pay. Can handle
as a side line. Address Box,
154, Scranton, Pa. 1t
"3 Three packages Indian Corn
lakes, or 3 large bottles Blue-
Jing, or 2 large cans Veribest
Pork and Beans for 25c., at
Egan’s.’ tf.
Timothy Seed, $2.00 per
bushel. Clovor Seed, $6.00 per
bushel. H. C. SAW.
4-22
Just received a fine lot of
Lake Herring, at Egan’s gro-
cery.: tf.
Egan sells 2 1bs of good Coffee
for 25c¢. tf.
A B.B. H. Special Watch,
good time-keeper, guaranteed
for one year, only 75¢c., at Egan’s
store. : tf
Persian Dates, 7c. per lb., at
Egan’s grocery. tf
Cleaned and stemless Cur-
rants, only 9c. per lb., at Egan’s
grocery. tf
WANTED |—Rents to collect, Deeds
Mortgages, Pension Vouchers, etc, to
fill out and attest. Satisfaction guar-
anteed. P. L. L1vENGOOD,
STAR Office.
Piano Tuning and Repairing.
Chas. H. Lantz, the reliable piano
and organ tunerand repairer, will be
at the Valley House, Saturday, April
10th, to remain far a few days. Leave
your orders early. Twenty-one years
experience. No introduction needed
to the people of Salisbury. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
1t Cuas. H. LaNTz.
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. Flote,
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, Rockwood ;
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 foriDirectors, 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
MRS. WOY NOT DEAD.
An Error We are Glad to Correct.
Some time ago Tur Star published
an item which stated that Mrs. Luther
Woy had died, and knowing that the
lady had been quite ill for a long time,
and believing our information con-
cerning Ler death to be a true report.
the item was published in good faith
However, we are pleased to learn that
the report was not true,’ and we con-
gratulate both Mr. and Mrs. Woy on
the fact that Mrs. Woy is still in the
land of the living. The following lines
received a few days ago from her hus-
band, who is working at Jenner, where
he and his family now reside, ought to
be ample proof that we are not in error
this time.
“Someone has told you my wife died.
The Mrs. is as well as can be expected,
and is a very lively corpse. I am also
pleased to report the arrival of a fine.
large boy, born week before last. The
smile won’t come off.
“Work has fallen off to three days a
week here. A good many of the old
boys are here toughing it out.”
Local Option in the Legislature.
The effort to secure a local option
law from the Legislature of 1909 has
ended disastriously,so far as the bill
was concerned, but there are some de-
feats that are the best guarantee of
coming victory. When on the evening
of March 9th the “Fair Local Option
Bill” went down to defeat, there was
practically no applause, and even now
the liquor interests of the state and
their allies are wondering how much
of a real victory they secured. At
most they can only see exemption from
a local option law for the short period
of twenty-four months, and some of
the wiser ones, seeing that the Local
Option movement has not been halt-
ed, are wondering whether it would
have not been better for them to have
accepted the “Fair Bill” without hav-
ing to run the rizk of a tremendous
downfall two years hence, due to the
accumulated sentiment and indigna-
tion which will gather back of the
Local Option movement in the mean-
time.
With the defeat of the “Fair Local
Option Bill” in the Legislature, the
query uppermost in the minds of mul-
tiplied thousands of Pennsylvania citi-
zens, is as to the future of the Local
Option movement in this state. There
can hardly be a dissenting voice to the
proposition that the movement must go
on to ultimate triumph. To even halt
now would be to yield to unnecessary
discouragement, and to surrender with-
out further resistance to the domina- |
tion of rum in the Keystone .State.—
Somerset Democrat.
All kinds of Legal and Commercial
Blanks, Judgment Notes, ete., for sale
at Tue STAR office. tf
{ought to read Prov. 19: 9, Acts 5: 3,
| stirring so much sugar.
SUGAR SEASON CLOSED.
Largest Maple Sugar Crop in His-
tory of Somerset County.
The warm, sunshiny days that ush-
ered in the present week, closed the
maple sugar season with a rush, and
all the sugar-makers were very glad of
it. For once the sugar-makers got
their full satisfaction of sugar-making,
and never before did they reap such an
enormous crop. The quality is of the
finest, too, but the price is not as high
as the producers would like to see it.
They say the merchants do dot want to
pay them more than about 6 cents per
pound for their sugar, while the pur-
chasers who buy maple sugar from the
retail dealers complain of the high
prices they are required to pay for it.
Our local retailers are asking nine
cents per pound for the best quality of
maple sugar, while in Connellsville,
Bedford and other towns in some of
our neighboring counties that pro-
duce little or no maple sugar, it sells
at prices ranging from 1215 to 15 cents
per pound; according to quality.
Much sugar and syrup is being held
by local producers who expect to real-
ize higher prices later on, but whether
the higher prices will materialize, /re-
mains to be seen. Some people think
prices are more apt to decline than to
advance, and it need surprise no one if
such proves to be the case.
Some enormous yields are being re-
ported by local sugar producers.
Elijah Livengood, as usual, stands at
the head of the list. His crop this
year reaches a total of about 30,000
pounds, and had he opened his camp
early and tapped his trees as heavily
as some producers do, he could prob-
ably haYe made 50,000 pounds. David
Keim reports a vield of 15,000 pounds,
and yields ranging from 6,000 to 10,000
pounds are quite common in this lo-
cality, this year.*
‘| SoME FaBurous REPORTS CONCERNING
SomersET CounTty’s ENORMOUS
8raar Crop.
Each year some very erroneous re-
ports get into the newspapers conecern-
ing the maple sugar industry in Som-
erset county. In this statement we
have reference only to the newspapers
published outside of the maple sugar
zone. which usually publish all kinds
of wild rumors concerning the immen:-
ity of the crop, as well as much rot
coneerning the mode of its manufac-
ture, as deseribed by newspaper corre-
spondents that know no more about
the manufacture of maple sugar than a
hog knows of Latin and Greek.
Along this line we take pleasure in
reproducing a few extracts from a let-
ter recently received by Samuel A.
Beachy from Dr. A. Enfield, of Bed-
ford, Pa. We imagine we can see the
merry twinkle in the genial doctor’s
eyes, and we know that his many old-
time friends among THE STAR'S readers
will have a good laugh over his keen
sense of humor. Among other things
written to Mr. Beachy, the doctor has
the following to say:
“Your letter received, and yesterday
I called on some of my merchant
friends in regard to maple sugar. They
all claim it is too high. They claim to
have bought cake and crumb at 8 cents,
delivered. Barnett told me that one
man was down from Berlin and agreed
to take 7 cents for his whole crop, 13
barrels.
“Maple syrup retails here at $1.00 per
can, but they charge 124 cents for
cakes, and 15 cents for crumb sugar
Our local papers are to blame, as they
have published some wonderful stories
about the great yield in your county,
and declare that it is being manufac-
tured into denatured alcohal, also that
Somerset county farmers are spread-
ing it upon poor soil {instead of lime,
to keep the soil sweet.
“One paper here says that Elijah
Livengood, the sugar king, has made
300,000 pounds, even though he opened
late, and adds that he expects to boil
until the 4th of July, after which he
expects to turn all his sour grass into
sweet hay.
“Frank McMullen is going to locate
in Washington City, the best market
for maple sugar in the Upited States.
I-told him about your goods and quot-
ed prices. He is an pushing man and a
good salesman. Itold him he could
sell to Roosevelt and Ben Tillman to
sweeten their dispositions,
“The traveling men are responsible
for some of these exaggerated reports
of miple sugar production. They
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“Stir up Old Home Week, and stop
I have five
nice maple trees around my yard, but
the school boys have all the bark
sucked off now, and I fear they will
perish.”
and Rev. 22
Making it Easy to Escape from
School.
County Commissioners Rush 8. Me-
Millen and Josiah Specht, accompan-
ied by a state factory inspector, in-
spected the fire escape at the Rock-
wood public school building, on Tues-
day afternoon, pronouncing it-a most
modern equipment in every respect.
According to the factory inspector,
Rockwood is the only district in the
county that has taken the precaytion
to safeguard its school children by the
erection of a fire escape.—Rockwood
Leader.
‘Here in Salisbury some of our young
folks occasionally escape from school,
or rather escape going to school, with-
out the aid of fire escape or any any
other kind of aid, except the aid of
over-indulgent parents who foolishly
take sides against the teachers when
their spoiled offspring and the teachers
have a clash. The truant officer, if
Salisbury has such an officer, ought to
round up all the “hookies” and home
and store loafers and see that they are
kept in school. What the boy or girl
needs who is constantly having trouble
w.th the teacher, is a good sound wal-
lopping every once in a while, and not
the foolish indulgence and wasted
sympathy of the parents. A second
walloping should be administered by
the father or the mother, every time it
becomes necessary for the teacher to
administer one.
If the plan herein suggested were
more generally resorted to, there would
be fewer boys and. girls growing into
worthless ignoramuses, while the num-
ber of intelligent,” useful men and
women would be increased correspond-
ingly. The trouble with many parents
is that they help their children to make
little devils of themselves, and then
expect the Sunday schools to make
little angles of them. Naturally, they
are usually disappointed. and after
their sons and daughters grow up to be
either numbskulls or criminals or both.
they see the fruits of their own folly,
when it is too late to help matters much.
Wouldn’t This Jar You?
An elaborately equipped room has
been opened in one of New York’s
most sumptuous hotels for the accom-
modation of pet dogs. It is designed
to offer every comfort to the most care-
fully reared dog, while its master or
mistress may be otherwise engaged.
The dogs are checked in the eare of
a maid. A long felt want is thus satis-
fied. A man or woman taking a dog
out for a stroll, may thus be relieved
of the responsibility, while lunching or
making a call—Somerset Standard.
Yes, it jars us, and in the langupge
of one William Shakespeare, we may
well exclaim, “What fools these mor-
tals be!” A place has also been pre-
pared for the poodle pukes and dis-
gusting, dizzy dog dunces, where they
will in due time also be taken care of,
The place is not said to be very sump-
tuous, except in the matter of fire
works, ard a good tracking snow never
lays over night in that place. In fact
it is supposed to be a real warm place,
and no man or woman ever gets cold
feet there.
B. & 0. Employes Tear Out Crossing
Put Down by Somerset Street
Railway Company.
On Friday night there were big do-
ings in local railroad circles. The Som-
erset Street Railway Company on Fri-
day afternoon installed a crossing over
a right of way of the B. & O.,, on West
Sanner street. At midnight a force of
B. & O. workmen. appeared on the
scene, tore up the rails >f the street
railway company and constructed a
siding for the B. & O. This will likely
lead to protracted litigation, as both
companies claim the right’ of way. A
number of years ago the main tracks
of the B. & O. were construeted on this
right of way, but for several years only
a portion of this right of way has been
in use, and that as a siding. Last week
the B. & O. commenced the construe-
tion of an additional siding along this
right of way, as already noted in these
columns, and expressed their intention
of extending their tracks to Race
street. The Somerset Street Railway
Co., having been granted franchises to
construct tracks along several streets
of the borough, at once installed their
crossing directly in the path of the B.
& O.Js siding. It is stated that by
virtue of legislation, the street railway
company has the right to cross the
right of way of the B. & O., it being
used only for a siding, and not having
been used even for that purpose, for a
long time. —Somerse} Demoerat.
WHEN A MAN TELLS You it does
not pay to advertise, he is simply ad- | King’s
mitting that he is conducting a busi- |
ness that is not worth advertising, a
business conducted by a man unfit to |
sss, and a business which |
should be advertised for sale. tf
How They Keep Down Drunkenness
at Coatsville, Pa.
At Coatsville, Pa., the borough au-
thorities have made out a list of the
names of all persons in the town of
known intemperate habits, and have
served notice on all the saloon-keepers
not to sell any intoxicating drinks to
any of the persons whose names ap-
pear on said list. The list contains 102
names, and each saloon-keeper has
been supplied with a copy of the same.
The plan is said to work well, dnd it
should be tried right here in Salisbury.
The habitual drunkards and persons oft
intemperate habits who reside in this
town are well khown to the Burgess
and Town Council, and it wouldn’t be
a bad idea to put the Coatsville plan
into effect here. There are a good
many poor women and little children
in this community who hardly know
what it is to have their stomachs hit
with a good, substantial meal, on ac-
count of the worthless, drunken fathers
and husbands drinking most of their
earnings.
Considerable of this drinking is done,
too, by professing Christians, who on
communion days in the churches can
be found well up in front, looking as
sanctimonious as sick monkeys, and
partaking of the Holy Sacrament, while
on week days and in the evenings they
can be found in the saloons, reveling
in debauchery, profanity and filthy
stories.
Stanley Boucher left here on Mon-
day for Damascus, Va., where he has
secured employment with the same
lumber company his brother George is
working for. He has decided to learn
the saw-filling trade, for which high
wages are paid at big lumbering mills
using band saws. He is to have $2.00
per day while learning the trade, and
when he becomes an expert filer he
can readily command four times that
amount for his services. Stanley was
one of the applicants for rural mail
carrier on the route to be in operation
here by May 1st, but he got tired wait-
ing for the announcement of the ap-
pointment. He acted wisely in decid-
ing to learn a good trade in preference
to fooling away time with the Postof-
fice Department, the poorest managed
institution of our entire government,
and we wish him much success.
WORDS TO FREEZE THE SOUL.
~ “Your son has’ Consumption. His
case is hopeless.” These appalling
words were spoken to Geo. E. Blevens,
a leading merchant of Springfield, N.
C.,by two expert doctors—one a lung
specialist. Then was shown the won-
derful power of Dr. King’s New Dis-
covery. “After three weeks use,”
writes Mr. Blevens, “he was as well as
ever. I would not take all the money
in the world for what it did for my
boy.” Infallible for Coughs and Colds,
it’s the safest, surest cure of desperate
Lung diseases on earth. 50c.and $1.00.
Elk Lick Pharmacy. Guarantee satis-
faction. Trial bottle frec, 5-1
Gigantie Coal Deal.
A gigantic coal deal was made in
Pittsburg, last Thursday, in which J.
C. Brydon, who is well known in Som-
erset county, is interested. The deal
is for 3,000 acres of Connellsville qok-
ing coal lands in Fayette county, ra:
ing on the Monongahela river. The
purchase was made by the Isabella-
Connellsville Coal & Coke Company,
from J. V. Thompson and his associ-
ates. The price paid was $1,700 an
acre, making a total of $5,100,000 for
the coal, and the company purchased
in addition $50,000 worth of surface
land to be used for development pur-
poses.
John C. Brydon, President of the
company, is also President of the West
Kentucky Coal Company, and was
formerly general manager of the Davis
Coal & Coke Company of West Vir-
ginia, the Consolidation Coal Company
of Maryland, and the Somerset Coal
Company, and has had 20 years exper-
.ience in coal and coke business.
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Two Bright Business Sayings of
Swift & Co., the Chicago Meat
Packers.
Well-advertised goods. made by a
responsible house, are sold to the con-
sumer before the retail dealer puts
them on his shelves.
Successis a train of good products
running on the rails of good advertis-
ing. Every retail dealer's store should
be a station on the line.
—
UP BEFORE THE BAR.
N. H. Brown, an attorney, of Pitts- |
field, Vt., writes: “We have used Dr.
New Life Pills for years and |
find them such a good family medicine
we wouldn't be without them.” For |
Chills, Constipation, Biliousness or Sick |
=
Headache they work wonders. 25¢
a
{ Elk Lick Pharmacy. 6-1
No B. & 0. Employe Must Be Seen
in a Saloon.
There is no let-up in the prohibitory
measures introduced recently by Vice
President G. L. Potter, with regard to
B. & O. employes, especially trainmen,
drinking on or off duty.
Notwithstanding the fixed rule that
the use of intoxicants is absolutely for-
bidden, and repeated warnings that
have been given from time to time,
several employes have been.either sus-
pended or dropped from the service
since the new year.
To illustrate what aj determined
stand the company has taken in this
direction, several local men were in
Baltimore within the past week, mak-
ing an effort to secure re-instatement
in the service. Whiie awaiting an
audience with Vice President Potter
in the anti-rooms in the general office,
they were asked by the clerk if it was
a “whisky case.” “If your’s is such?”
said the clerk, “you might as well not
waste time, but leave the office, as Mr.
Potter will under. no eironmetsnces re-
open such a case, now or ever.
A prominent local official'in a recent
talk with trainmen taken out of the
service for alleged drinking, is said to
have stated: “Any man who works
for the B. & Q. and goes into a saloon,
leaves his job on the outside, which
can be picked up by a better man, and
thus he runs chances of losing it when
he comes out of the door to take it up
again.”
The reason that so many Cumber-
land division men have been sufferers
of the anti-drink edict, is that it is said
to have become noised on other divis-
ions that no punishment was meted out
to men on this division for drinking,
and to refute this assertion is the in-
tention of the local management to
discharge men wherever found guilty
of an infraction of the company’s rules
in this respect.—Qakland Republican.
“I’D RATHER DIE DOCTOR,
than have my feet cut off,” said M. L.
Bingham, of Princeville, Ill, “but you'll
die from gangreen (which had eaten
away eight toes) if you don’t” said all
doctors. Instead—he used Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve till wholly cured. Its
cures of Eczema, Fever Sores, Boils,
Burns and Piles astound the world.
25c. at Elk Lick Pharmacy. 5-1
Stem-Heat Trough for Maple Syrup.
Windber, April 1.—Reducing sugar-
water to syrup in a large pine trough
is something new in the sugar-produc-
ing districts in Shade township. This
means of boiling sugar and syrup has
been introduced into the township by
Albert Gohn, proprietor of the East
End Hotel, of this place, who owns a
farm in this township.
The trough is fifteen feet long and
eighteen inches deep. In the bottom of
it are placed nine galvanized pipes
about an inch and a--half in diameter.
Steam is forced through the pipes, and
when the register shows 80 to 100
pounds of steam, “she boils to beat
the band.” :
Mr. Gohn has expended about $1,000
in making the changes and improve-
ments. Besides the installation of the
boiler, ete., he has built a new furnace
for coal to be ready for a big run.”
His sons rrank and Robert, and Zach
Lambert, are in charge of the camp.
Do Trout Shrink?
The nearness of the open trout season
has brought out.the Brosius case,
which was introduced in the local
courts about a year ago, and which
was to have come up for argument last
week. It will be remembered that
Ray S. Brosius, of Morrellville, while
engaged in fishing in this county, last
year, was arrested for having trout in
his possession under six inches. The
defendant was fined $30 and costs.
Brosius is anxious to test the ease in
court. He denies that he violated the
law, and claims that the fish were six
inches in length when taken from the
stream, but that they shrunk after
being out for several hours. The ques-
tion is, “Do trout shrink?’—Somerset
Standard. *
As an experienced and skillful trout
fisher, the editor of THE STAR can
vouch for the fact that trout actually
shrink after being out of the water for
a couple of hours. All kinds of fish
shrink after being taken from the
water, but very seldom do fish of any
kind shrink while the average fisher-
man it telling of the size of those he
has caught.
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