The Republic from Meyersdale, Pennsylvania • 1

MEYERSDALE REPUBLICAN. TWELVE PAGES PART I EIGHT PAGES MEYERSDALE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1913. WHOLE NUMBER 655. VOLUME XIII. No.

24. FOES OF LICENSE W. PAUL PASSES WHAT HAS BECOME OF SOMEWHAT OF A MIX HAD THESE TWO ICKS LITTLE PIGTAILED GIRL? FATAL COLLISION NEAR SAND PATCH Operator Bauman Dead and Conductor Kennedy and J. Cook Hurt. Country Woman Makes Some Observations to School on Day.

RECORD PROTESTS Meyersdale Leads in Num ber of Signatures to Remonstrances. The No-License crusade which was waged so vigorously in all parts of Somerset county for a month past came to a close last Saturday night. so far as tihe signing of remon stances was concerned. Monday was the last day on which remonstrances, could be filed prior to the session of the court at which the applicants for license are to learn their fate. Never before in the history of tha county have the remonstrants bee so numerous and determined.

There was a grand rush to Clerk Harah'a office Monday morning hy the custo dians of the remonstrances from the various boroughs and townships of the county to get them on record. The remonstrances contain the names of thousands of men and women from all sections of the county. The papers are so bulky that they tax the filing capacity of Clerk Harah's office and required several hours of his time in marking them "filed," as is required when any paper is left with the court for safe keeping. Meyersdale Leads the List. Meyersdale leads the list of the bor oughs and townships opposed to the granting of licenses as shown by the number of signers of remonstrances, 627 men and women of this borough having gone on record as being oppos ed to the granting of a license to sell intoxicating beverages to any of the five hotel-keepers of this town.

Somerset Borough is second in line as to the number of remonstrants, the average for the countyseat town, which is headquarters of the "License Trust, (highly favored by the court a year ago in the granting of licenses) being about 512. Windber, t'ie largest town in 9 county, and which by tne experimental grace of Judge Ruppel has during the past year enjoyed the privilege of harboring the only wholesale booze dispensary in the county, shows up with the least remonstrants in proportion to population, there being but 270 signers against license. Evidently the Ruppel "experiment" has given satisfaction to the majority of the people of Windber and they desire a continuance of tihe privilege to buy booze ad lib. both by wholesale aa-1 retail. List of Remonstrances.

Following is the list of applicants against whom remonstrances were filed, together with the number of signatures against the application wherever available: Addison Borough James W. Rush, Hotel Addison, 21. Benson Borough Ferdinand Sann, Hotel Holsopple; Jacob F. Kautz, Kautz Hotel. Berlin Borough Hiram Albright, Hotel Berlin, 2S6; Bridget McGrah, National House, 282.

Boswell Borough Louis Shultz, Central House, 84; Justus Volk, Mer- chants'' Hotel, 85; D. M. Wampler, Somerset House, 85. Brothersvalley Township Robert Henderson, Hotel MaoDonaldton, 388. Conemaugh Township W.

W. Lan- dis, Hotel Jerome, 176; Calvin Donges, Donges' Inn, 176; Barnett B. Hoffman, Island Park Hotel, 176. Confluence Borough W. H.

Coughe-nour, Riverside Hotel, 238; P. A. Logue, Dodd's House, 239; H. L. Sell ers, Hotel Gilchrist, 240.

Elkllck Township Samuel Paslke, ElkHck Hotel, 340. Garrett Borough Frederick D. Os- del, Merohants' Hotel, 151; James W. PEACEFULLY AWAY Best Beloved Citizen of Pocahontas is Called Higher Up. Wilson C.

Paul, Justice of the Peace and Health Officer of Greenville town ship, died at his home in Pocahontas at 4:15 o'clock this (Thursday) morn ing from a complication of Bright'3 and heart disease. Squire Paul had been ailing for some months and three weeks ago last Monday was taken to Allegany Hos pital, Cumberland, by his physician, Dr. F. (E. Sass, for special treatment by Dr.

A. L. Franklin, of Cumberland. The latter gave up the case as hope less after three weeks' endeavor, and last Monday the sick man was brought home to die In ibis own house. His end was peaceful and he was conscious to the last.

He conversed lucidly with his wife a few minutes before he passed awy. He was prepared for the end and idled at peace with all the world and with his God. Squire Paul was heyoni doubt Greenville townships best beloved citizen. He was a man absolutely without malice or guile and his friends were legion. He leaves a widow, a daughter of Joel M.

Yutzy, but no children. A more extended obituary will be published later. Funeral services will be held Sunday morning at 10 o'clock at the Greenville Lutheran Church. MADE FATAL LEAP FROM MOVING TRAIN Roy Bills of Summit Mills Killed at Rockwood Last Saturday. (Roy Bills, eldest son of Mr.

and Mrs. John Bils of Somerset, was accidentally killed at Rockwood on Sat urday while he was on his way from his home at Summit Mills to Somerset to visit his parents. Having missed the passenger train at Meyersdale he rode a freight train to Rockwood, where he expected to catch the regu lar passenger train. He jumped from the moving train at Rockwood and losing his balance fell under the train and was Instantly 'killed. His body was taken to Somerset, prepared for burial at the Huston un dertaking rooms, and removed to the home of his parents, from which the funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon, the services being condusted by Rev.

H. L. Goughnour of Meyersdale Mr. (Bill was 34 years of age and leaves a wife and three children. Be sides his parents, he is survived by Mildred Bills and William Bills, broth er and sister, respectively.

He was a blacksmith by trade and conducted the blacksmith shop at Summit Mills, for many years conducted by his father- in-law, the late George Rubright. His tragic death was a shock not only to the family but to his many friends. WHY BURIAL WAS POSTNONED. Emanuel Hershberger Gives Reasons For Delaying Interment of Mrs. Gideon Bender.

Editor Republican: A word in regard to Mrs. Gideon Bender as stated in The Republican. Such things nearly always run into extremes by spreading. I don't think that the recovery of Mrs. Bender was very strongly expected, but the strange signs that were visible, which we are not at all acustomed to find with corpses that laid as long as she had, were the cause of us hesitating to bury her as long as they did not disappear and the general condition of the dead showed more plainly.

Thinking there would he plenty of time to bury her later we postponed it. Not meaning to dispute the doctor's claim of her being dead, the least, but only waiting for develop ments we did as we did, and I feel very sure we are all the better satisfied as it now is. The funeral was preached on Sunday, Feb. 23rd. EMANUEL.

HERSHBERGER Feb. 25,1913. Grantsville, Md. Great multiple reel, K-B headliner, "The Little Turncoat," Auditorium, Saturday evening; music by Prof. Lew With Poker One Received a Lick and with Knife the Other Did Stick.

Filled with Old Nick until they were fuller than a tick Dominick Mushniclt and Joe Castick a quarrel did pick with each other, during which Castick with a poker hit Mushink a lick on the head, and Mushink dnto Castick a knife did stick, from the result of which Castick Is quite sick and the law is after Dominick with a big stick. All of which happened at the Western Maryland boarding camp just east of the borough limits last Monday night. Mushink and Castick are Austrians who were employed by the railroad confpany as track laborers until Monday when they were paid off and discharged. They preceeded to celebrate the event by imbibing vinous and spiritous liquor until they were filled with the old Nick. It was then that Castick hit Mushink a lick with a poker, laying open Mushink's scalp for a distance of several inches.

Mushink retaliated by drawing a snickersnee which he proceeded to stick into Castick's abdomen. The fight took place about 8 o'clock in the evening. News of the affray reached the ears of officer Hare who hastened to the scene with his big stick and took Mushnick into custody. Hare brought the prisoner to town and locked'jhim up. He then sent for Dr.

Large who dressed the wound in the prisoner's scalp and then, in company with Constable Bittner, went to the hoarding camp to give Castick surgical attention. The latter was found to be seriously wounded, having a knife wound several Inches long in the left side of the abdomen about midway between the lower rib and the hip. Dr. Large bandaged the wound and then took the injured man to the Western Maryland Hospital at Cumberland on M. train No.

8. A section of the omentum (the sac enclosing the intestines) about the size of a man's hand, protruded from the wound and it was feared the intestines were punctured, but an examination made at the hospital proved that such was not the case. Castick will probably recover. Mushnick was arraigned before Squire Hay and held to answer for assault to murder. SENDING A BRICK HOUSE BY MAIL.

Savage Fire Brick Company Helps to Test Parcels Post Service. Manager -Winter Rose of the Savage Fire Brick Company sent by parcels post Monday morning a brick of local manufacture to be used in building a brick house at the Coloseum, Chicago, during the Clay Products Exposition which is to be held February 26th to March 8th. This brick will be one of 25,000 sent by parcels post, one each from every brick plant in the United States to be used in the construction of this house, which will be given away and re-erected after the expo sition. The idea was originated to test the merits of the parcel 'post system, and it is certainly a novel one. A record will be kept of each brick from the time the brick is mailed until it is de livered in Chicago, In order to see how speedily Uncle Sam can deliver a brick house 'by mall.

It is probable that Uncle Sam mail carriers in Chicago will not be overly enthusiastic for this method of delivery of a brick house. Other mall carriers throughout the country will watch the experiment with inter est and fear and trembling. While the brick fireproof home is becoming more and more popular, because of its permanency, economy and super iority, it is not probable that they will be delivered by mail to any alarming extent. At any rate the Savage Fire Brick Co. will have a brick in the first brick house ever sent by mail.

Boy Run Down at Sand Patch. Held up at the railroad crossing by a Baltimore Ohio freight train as he was on his way home from the Sand Patch school, eight-year-old How ard Francis hurried across just as the eabbose sped by. He stepped from behind the caboose onto the other track in front of another train, and was run down. One of his legs was crushed above the foot. Good evaporated peaches at 10 cents per lb.

at Bittners Grocery. Adv. On Her Visit Patron's Dear Editor: As It is sort of be tween seasons for us country folks just now butcherings all over and not quite time for sugar-boiling, I conclud ed to take a day off and go to town. Seeing that it is about time to clean up my back yard I wanted to get a few pointers from the Civic League, as I see by the papers that they are meeting around, having meals together, so as to discuss the scientific way of dis posing of 'tater peelings over the back yard fence also how to eat a peeling and all on Saturday night, so as not to have the skins lying around the streets Sunday morning for pedestrians to slip on. As banana skins are no respecters of persons, they might cause the downfall of a profane man, and the ladles of the Civic League, as representatives of cleanliness, hate to think of what he might say of a Sunday morning.

At least that is how I take their teachings. Now I am just a simple country wo man and know nothing of science so just make my 'tater peelings into sugar-cured hams, and ducks grow and fatten on banana skins. It isn't many years ago that a well-known family in Meyersdale grew and fattened a flock of 50 ducks on our streets, most ly on banana skins. Talk of the high cost of living! Yes even at this date their are ducks being raised on our front streets, but alas! you cant eat them! Well, about noon I started to go in to see the treasurer of the Fair Asso ciation to hear what our chances were for a faro wheel, (Wilson now being dn,) and whether if we take our fine cattle to the "Fair this year they would have to stand in those swimming pools fenced off "for cattle only." But Providence Interfered in the person of one of my friends who 'bore me oft to the school house to witness Perents' Day. We were met at the door by mem bers of the faculty wearing broad smiles and boiled shirts, who extended to us the glad hand and ushered us in to Room No.

1. Here I was convinced that my early education was indeed a back number. These little fellows don't learn their C's anymore. When they say they make a sound like a breathing ah! sounds like our old gander about to charge, and like a cow choking, etc. But the method must be all right for the teacher assured me everybody's doing it.

This heing Washington's birthday, the cherry tree was dn evidence in every room, and such a devastation of trees I never before witnessed. Other years the tree had just a chip out, with the hatchet still sticking murderously dn it; or it was partly cut off, or ringed, but this year it was down. All over those black boards they lay dozens and dozens of cherry trees, and in the little chil dren's room, they were covered with ripe red cherries. Why," I asked tearfully, "teach conservation in your schools and then cut down trees loaded With "mat, answered the teacher, "was done so the smallest child could eat." Quarantine Raised. 1 Dr.

C. P. Large, State Medical In spector, last Monday paid his final visit to Springs on account of the smallpox epidemic which had appeared in mild lorm there. He found all the patients recovered and all danger of further infection ended. Accordingly the quarantine on F.

W. Bender's home, the last to remain isolated, was raised and the entire community officially pronounced immune from a fur ther outbreak of the disease due to recent cases. The principal sufferer in a business way, owing to the preval ence of smallpox in the Springs com munity, was F. W. Bender who con ducts a large general store and is also postmaster.

As Mr. Bender's family was one of those affected by the disease, many of his customers were afraid to go to his store or to the post-office, even after the place had been thoroughly fumigated and no longer subject to quarantine. All danger now is past and business at the store is picking up. Persons who had their mail ordered addressed to Elk Lick, instead of Springs, during the small pox scare, are now ordering it back to Springs again and things generally in and about the Springs are restored to their normal condition. in I a a A rear-end collision between 2 extra eastbound B.

O. freight oc-cured at 5 o'clock this (Thursday) morning at the water tank just above Keystone Junction, resulting in the fatal injury of one man and slight in-Jury of two others. The victims: O. HENRY BAUMAN, telegraph operator, died on his way to the (hospital at Connellsville. W.

Hi KENNEDY, conductor, slightly injured. J. COOK, brakeman, slightly injured. The trains were passing on a siding when the leading train drawn by locomotives No. 2224 and 2672 was struck from the rear by the second train drawn by locomotive No.

2870. The men who were injured were In the caboose at the rear of the leading train which was crushed, and the men caught in the wreck. The eastbound track was obstructed 'by the wreck, resulting In the delay of traffic for several hours. The injured men were taken immediately to the Meyersdale station and the railroad Burgeons, Drs. W.

T. Rowe and B. Lichty called to attend them. Kennedy and Cook were not seriously disabled, but Bauman had his pelvis crushed and was hurt internally. He was placed aboard train No.

11, which was half an hour late and started for the hospital at Connellsville. Dr. Lichty accompanied the Injured man who was conscious during part of the time and told the doctor that his wife was In Connellsville. He gave the doctor her address and requested that ehe be notified as soon as possible, Just as the train was pulling into Connellsville lie expired. Bauman had been 22 years in the em ploy of the B.

O. as an operator and bad an" excellent, reputation, both as an employee and as a citizen. He was lately employed as operator at Wilson Creek on the S. C. branch and was returning to his home in Sand Patch on a freight train when he met bis fate.

Mr. Bauman recently sold his home tn Sand Patch and with the proceeds only last week bought the Ferner property in Meyersdale and was prepar-' ing to move into it. The cause of the wreck has not 'been ascertained, but the company has started an investigation. SWAPPED LOCATIONS. Zufall Millinery Co.

and City Drug Store Exchange Quarters Families Also on the Move. Two well known Meyersdale business establishments the Zufall Millinery Store and Thorley's City Drug Store exchanged locations this week, the former having vacated the room next door to the postofflce in the Naugle block and moved to the other side of the postofflce on Main street Into the building so long occupied by the City Drug Store, and Mr. Thorley having moved Ms fixtures and stock of merchandise from the Main-street site in tihe rear of the P. to the fine large room on Center street occupied by the Zufall Company ever since the Naugle building was erected. Druggist Thorley is now ready for business at his new stand, although it will take him some time to get the new store fixed up the way he wants it.

He will, however, take care of his trade as usual while he is getting settled down in me new quarters. The Zufall sisters are also ready to see their customers in their new quarters, although It will take them some time, too, to get adjusted to their new location. Their move was accomplished under difficulties, on account of Miss Nelle being in New York laying in their spring stock of millinery, and Miss Pink being just a short while out of the hospital and as yet usable to attend to work or busi ness. Their brother, Stanley, who returned from Minnesota come weeks ago, was on hand, however, and direct ed operations. The Zufall sisters will also remove from the apartments they have been occupying in the Hartley block, for the past two years, to the living quarters on- the second floor of the City Drug Store building, where Mr.

and Mrs. Thorley have had their home. The Thorleys will share the Dr. Meyers residence on the avenue with W. The work was commendable in every room.

The drawings were line. The growing plants made everything homelike, but the biggest things in the Meyersdale school tocray are the bows the girls' hair! Some were tied on, some skewered on, some buckled on. You couldn tell the miss of 10 from the miss of 18. Almost all had their hair pinned up and topped off' with one of those enormous ribbon bows. And, being old-fashioned and rather sentimental, gave a sigh for the little pig-tailed girl of my childhood, who knew nothing of clothes, or boys, or looking-glasses, until Nature herself taught them.

And I wondered where are our little girls that were content to go to school with a big gingham apron and pig-tail? Oh! little girl, little shy, sweet girl, come back! You were so wholesome with your soft shiney hair brushed back from your childish forehead and just plaited down your back in a pigtail! No rats, no false hair, no rib bons, no decorations only just those little new tendrils that always hang so gently, so softly, about the face of young girl, only half veiling the love liness of the color that comes and goes! My little pig-tailed girl wasn't a young lady until she had to be. She ran like a boy; climbed fences and trees; learned to bake a good loaf of bread, to make a bed so your feet stay ed in grew a garden had a kitten or dog, and when it came time to be a young lady there wasn't a corset in the village store big enough to go around that well developed body, and if she took a full breath, look out for seams! For' she had been a real little girl. She had health of mind and body, and that precious gift, Her eyes were so bright, her skin like the petal of a rose, her Hps so red that whether her features were reg ular or not, she was the loveliest cre ation of God a young girl with a childhood, just budding into a woman! Ah! me! for more little girls with pig-tails and gingham aprons; more little girls that look at you with big childish eyes, that climb up into mother's lap when they are much too big, and tell her everything. For, oh! little girl, while this world is a glorious place, it is big and hard, wllfc so many things to break yiur flne spirit and dull jour bright Don't shed that gingham apron too soon. Let the glory that goes with it your childhood cling to you as long as it will.

Be a little slender green bud as long as you can, for after 'the rose unfolds, it is soon gone. After awhile there will be no school; no mother; no childhood home, but jus. the big serious everyday world in which you must take your part, and how big a part that will be, depends on your childhood, for "as the twig Is bent the tree Is inclined." Take the advice of your old lady friend who loves little gilrs, and stick to the gingham apron and the pigtail as long as you can. A WOMAN FROM THE COUNTRY. Going to Farm for the County.

Mr. and Mrs. David Manges and young son will leave for Somerset township Saturday, where Mr. Manges will take charge of the County Home farm for the year beginning March 1. Mr.

Manges for the past five years has been a trusted employee of the J. M. Cook Son both as a teamster and candy-maker. He leaves here with the best wishes of his employers and the businessmen of Meyersdale generally, on account of his enviable reputation for sobriety, industry and integrity. He was brought up on a farm and it is believed the Directors of the Poor have made no mistake in employing a young man of his stamp to run the County farm.

PUBLIC SALE. The furniture and household goods of the late M. P. Stump will be offered at public sale at the residence, 351 Meyers Avenue, on SATURDAY. MARCH 8, 1913.

beginning at lo'clock p. m. Terms Ca655-2t. MRS. M.

P. STUMP. Another big six-reel Saturday show at the Auditorium. Don't miss It. Adv.

Hopkinson, Hotel Hentz, 146; N. P. Meyers, Meyers House, 152. Hoove rsvllle Borough Samuel Rel-singer, Coal Exchange Hotel, 209; Da-iel W. Saylor, Grand Central Hotel.

210; Edward Lauer, Lauer House, JOS. Larimer Township Charles S. Kl-fer, Sand Patch Hotel, 73. Lower Turkeyfoot Township Charles Rockwell Marietta, Hotel Humbert. Meyersdale Borough Elbridge C.

Kyle, Colonial Hotel, 627; John B. Schardt, American House, 627; Joha H. Altmiller, Hotel Altmiller, 627; Joha W. Haley, Union Hotel, 627; George P. Logue, Slicer House, 627.

New Baltimore Borough Francis B. Straub, Mountain View Hotel, 22. Northampton Township G. G. Lozier, Hotel ulencoe, 42 (Continued on Page 4.) iLiireagood and family.

Bittner, Adv..