The Republican., 1899-07-27


We find the visiting card of g. b.
Ryland, of Pittsburg, on our table
Monday. Mr. Ryland is proprietor
of the Kaufman Pharmacy and was
home at Grantsville over Sunday
where family reunion was the at
traction. We are sorry we missed see
ing Bert who is making his mark as
a business man in the Smoky City
Meyersdale Commercial.
Mayor Il. S. Jamison returned Sun
day night from a business trip to
Cleveland, Ohio, where he was sent
by the Town Council to make ar
rangements about shipping the curb
ing for use on Alder and Third streets.
The Mayor reports that the stone
will be shipped Immediately and that
it will arrive the latter part of this
week.
An excursion from Friendsville and
intermediate points ON the Confiu-
ence and Oakland branch of the b. &
O. will be run on Sunday to Pittsburg
at a rate of $50 from the formeY'
place for the round trip. The train
will leave Friendsville at $40 and re-
turn about . a. IN. Monday 1t is
expected that five hundred people
will patronize the excursion from
Friendsville alone.
Alfred Yaist, an old citizen of near
Grantsville, Md, is visiting his son,
Charles Yaist, on the South Side.
This is Mr.. Waists first visit to Mey-
ersdale in twenty years, and natural
ly he reports a great improvement in
the towns appearance. Though we'll
up in the sixties, Mr.. Iaist is hale and
heaTty.-COmmercial.
Mr.. Emanuel Custer, of Hoyes, ac-
companied by Mr.. D. Chisholm, of
MckeespOrt, Pa, who is summering
with the former gentleman's family,
were early Monday morning callers
at this office Mr.. Custer has a num-
Der of fine bodies of water on his
place which are all stocked with the
finest varieties of fish, great number
of which are being daily caught and
enjoyed by Mr.. Custer and his nu-
merous visitors.
Mr.. John n Parker, chairman of
the State Prohibition Committee,
will deliver a temperance address on
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the
Union church at Deer Park. Mrs.
Belle Harmison, OF Romney, eX-Presi-
dent OF the w. c. 7. U. of the State
of West Virginia, will have charge of
the musical portion of the program
and being gifted with an excellent
voice the singing will be worth hear
ing. Mr.. Parker conducted Il spirited
meeting at Crellin last Sunday after
noon and evening in the NJ Z. church
upon the same lines as the proposed
meeting at Deer Park.
All signs fail in dry time and they
all failed this week. On account of
dog days opening wet we were to have
six weeks of rain. Again on account
of its having rained on st. Swithin's
day we were to have rain for forty
days. And by reason of it's having
showered on Monday we were enti-
tied to have it rain for four days this
week. However in spite of all OF
these signs it has strained but a drop
for the last few days and all of the
time honored signs are knocked out.
Those who believe one or another of
the signs above will now have to ac-
knowledge that sometimes they fail
to make connections.
The Department is contemplating
a new form of postal money order. If
introduced it will be made to conform
to the size of an ordinary bank check,
and the marginal figures heretofore
printed on the money order will no
longer be used. A receipt will also be
given the remitter at the time of the
purchase of the order. The new form
will be much more convenient for
handling by the people and the banks
and We are informed it will be
brought into use about September
Is, 1899.
The dog days have begun. This
season, which we believe lasts six
weeks, is regarded by many persons
as more unhealthy than that which
Immediately precedes or succeeds it
and as being time when mankind is
more liable to attacks from disease
through exposure or imprudence in
general habits than in any other. If
there is no foundation in fact for the
belief it is a superstition of long
standing. There are even those now
who would not for single moment
be regarded as at all superstitious who
look upon dog days as exercising bad
influence upon everything. The heat
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