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VOLUME 3.
McCONNELLSBURG. PA., November 14, 1901.
NUMBER 9.
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Mrs. Maggie Kendall Morrow.
The death of Mrs. Morrow oj
curred in Allegheny, Pa., on
Tuesday evening, November 12,
at 6.510 o'clock. Although her
health had never been very good,
the immediate cause of her death
was chronic pneumonia. Her
physical condition, too, was very
seriously affected by an accideut
several monhs ago, when a large
and heavy book-case toppled over
ou her with serious result.
She was born' in Ayr township,
this county, in 1350, and Wis the
youngest of ten children born to
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Kendall doe'd.
In September, 1872, she was mar
ried to Mr. Thomas Morrow, of
Allegheny where bhe has since
made her home. ' A strange cir
cumstance in connection with
this union is, that Mr. Morrow,
mo, died last March from the re
sult of an accideut he having
hoen thrown from his carriage,
with indirectly fatal result.
Mrs. Morrow is very pleas
antly remembered here in the
homo of her childhood, and, in
the city where she has so long
resided she will be remembered
as a friend whose heart was ever
open to the cry of the helpless,
aud whoso hand was ever ready
to give proof of the kindly and
noblo instincts of her soul. A
woman devoted to the church and
to its benevolent societies, could
not but give of herself and means
to the bettering of others. She
Mas, warmly attached to the
home of her childhood, and
strougl and really loved the old
home, its birds and trees, its
orchard, meadow, and pictur
esque surroundings. To her
brottte'rs and sisters, to whose
homes she made a yearly pil
grimage for health and rest, we
extend our warmest sympathy.
"Her grace is above gold."
Wells Valley.
The leading farmers have about
iinished husking corn, and tht
applobutter is all made.
The hunters are killing deer,
quail and rabbits.
Mr. Fesler killed a two hun
dred forty (240) pound deer. A
couple days succeeding the hun
ters brought in a couple more.
. Jno. Foster's have moved to Al
toona. Miss Belle Thornley is spoud
iug the winter with frieuds in
the valley.
Mr. James Stewart is tilling a
position at Hopewell.
Miss Nora Griffith and Lewis
Harris, with the assistance of tht
patrons, papered their school
rooms. Their schools are pro
gressing finely.
Mrs. Wm. Bivens and Miss
Nettie Woodcock spent some
time with friends in Pittsburg.
Miss Bessie Willet is visiting
fiionds in Johnstown.
Mr. David Duvall and daugh
ter, Mrs.. Beard, are spending
Homo time with friends in the
valley. ,
The institute which was held
at No. 1 was a success fourteen
teachers being present.
Miss Martha and Thomas
Hipo, who have secured positions,
have left the valley, the former
is at Pittsburg and the latter at
South Fork.
Misses Elizabeth Baker, Maude
Burngarduer, and Mr. Frauk
Cunuingham are attending Ju
niata college.
Miss Alice Griffith is visiting
her brother.
Rev. Schoaffer has closed a
series of protracted meetings at
Pine Grovo.
The Presbyterian church at
Wells Tannery is Hearing com
pletion. The Valley M, E. church ia bo
ing: repaired.
' Biglor Stunkard sold his span
of mules to Goo. Sipo.
Married.
Smith Pittman. At the
residence of the bride's pareuts,
November 8, 1001, by Rev. Lewis
Chambers, of Big Cove Tannery,
Mr. James E. Smith of McCon
nellsburg, and Miss Achsah J.
Pittuian of Thompson township.
Next Week's Lecture Course.
The demands of the public for
something higher in the line of
literary entertainments is becom
ing more critical every year, and
the county superintendent finds
that with each succeeding year
he must employ more expensive
talent
There was a time when a Mc-
Counellsburg audience could be
held in a spell of perfect delight
by some fellow who wr uld stand
on the platform and read the fun
ny pieces in an elocutionist's an
nual. Later it was insisted that
the fellow should commit them,
if he would be a success but all
that was when we were boys.
Now, the Superintendent is oblig
ed to buy the best talent he can
find, and takes the chances of
"wind and weather."
Everybody remembers how Dr.
Lybarger got here by chance last
year, and what a h it he was as a
day instructor. That his Enter
tainment Monday evening will
"eutertain" goes without saying.
"Humorous Experiences of
Travels Abroad," by Hon. Walter
Chandler of New York is both
funny and instructive. Some
people are so constituted that
they see fun iu everything and
ho is one of them. The Jackson
ville (Fla.) Times-Union says he is
by far the best entertainer that
has appeared in Jacksonville this
season.
On account of the great ex
pense, superintendents have not
often been willing to risk a com
pany. At the urgent request of
many friends, Mr. Chesnut has
secured the Wesleyan Male Quar
tette of Chicago for Wednesday
night.
"If you want to drive away a
spell of the blues, just hear the
Wesleyan Male Quartette. When
thoso boys get to singing you will
forget the hard times, the worry
over business troubles, and feel
like a new person. Their songs
are as good as a tonic, and you
can-'t afford to miss them" Will
iam Reed Kpnroy (Author "Corn
Tassels.")
Then, as a fitting climax, Dr.
Morgan Wood of Cleveland, Ohio,
will on Thursday night give the
lecture that is now attracting so
much, attention, "Heavens and
Hells of Married Life, or Home
Sweet Home."
The Picayune says: He is one
of the most eloquent and forceful
speakers that has ever faced a
New Orleans audience.
Webster Mills.
Stech and Thompson, the ar
tistic paint splashers of McCon
nellsburg, having finished paint
ing Mr. Duffy's new house, have
left for other fields. The boys
are hustlers, and deserve the pa
tronage they are receiving.
S. R. Martin, who -wields the
birch in our school, butchers and
cries sales between times for
recreation aud exercise.
Messrs. Allen.two gentlemanly
capitalists, of Pittsburg, were
looking over our ore lands one
day last week. We hope they
saw enough to encourage them to
come again.
The steam cider mill has been
shut down for the season, and
the euergetic firm who conducts
it, has turned its atteuticm to
sawing wood for the villagers. It
was while engaged at this work
on Friday last, that the junior
member of the firm met with
what might have been a serious
accident. Mr. Warthin was feed
ing tho saw, a circular one, when
by some means a short stick of
wood about two feet in length was
caught aud hurled violently
against his face, indicting a pain
ful wound ou the jaw. Dr. Sap
piugtou was promptly on the
ground and rendered the neces
sary surgical aid, and Sloan now
carries his head iu a sling.
Daddy Glenn, whose facial hir
suit adornment is after the Ed
ward VII style, says he would
not take. a slate farm for his
whiskers these frosty mornings.
The farmers are generally
pretty well through with their
corn husking. The crop, with a
few exceptions, is w as largo as
was anticipated,
Home at Lut.
At ten o'clock Monday even
ing, November 4, there occurred
at the Women's Christian Asso
ciation Rooms, 219 Collins Ave.,
Pitttsburg, Pa., the death of Miss
Fannie Sipe, daughter of A. J.
Sipe of Fort Littleton, and niece
of James Henry of Tod township.
Her funeral services were held
in the association parlor on Tues
day evening by the Methodist
minister who attended her dur
ing her illness, aud the funeral
occurred on tho following day
Wednesday.
Miss Sipe was a young lady of
excellent character.and had made
a!ravofight for self-support in
the "Smoky City" untilher health
failed through consumption. At
this time she was a lodger in the
Association building, and as the
City Hospitals refused to take a
consumptive patient, the ladies of
this christian society provided a
nurse for her, and kindly render
ed her all necessary service until
her death. A pathetic interest is
attached to the sickness and
death of this young lady alone
in a city without a friend or rela
tive to offer tender services. Jas.
Henry, her uncle, had offered to
bring her to his home and kindly
care for her, but she was too
weak to attempt the journey.
During her sickness she frequent
ly expressed the wish to go home
to the mother, of whose love and
companionship she had been de
prived at the age of nine years.
Hig Cove.
Our sportsmen, Dr. Sapping
ton, Joe Mellott, Jr., and George
Williams made a scatterment
among the rabbit tribe last Sat
urday, roping in five in tho fore
noon, and fourteen in the after
noon, making a total of 19 for the
day, or six and one-third rabbits
each.
Our friend Guy Crouse whose
illness was reported last week is
improving.
The angel of death once more
visitod our community and took
Mrs. Rebecca Darks who passed
away last Saturday morning.
Interment at Reformed church
in the Corner.
Our merchants, J. L. & R. S.
Patterson are doing a thriving
business.
We have, in our vicinity, a man
who can devour wator crackers
at the rate of six a minute; this
is a caution.
Rev. Poddon, who has been in
our midst for several weeks, left
for his liome near Knobsville ou
Tuesday last.
Among those who visited our
village last week were Peter Cul
ler and Wm. Wink.
Emanuel Sharp and family,
passed through this place last
Saturday enrouto for the county
seat.
Mr. and Mrs. Tobias Glazier
celebrated their 15th wedding an
niversary Tuesday evening by in
viting a number of their friends.
Saluvia.
Mrs. Etta Hass, of Little Cap
on. W. Va., is visiting her mother
Mrs. Mary Hann.
O. E. Hann and mother, Mrs.
Anna Hann, left for Clearfield
Thursday morning for a ten
days' visit with Mrs. Hann's son
Porter.
Miss Effie Cutchall, of Huston
town, spent a few days with her
sister, Mrs. W. R. Speer, last
week.
Mrs. Dr. II. S. Wishart, who
had beeu visiting her daughter
Mrs. George S. Fockler, of
Johnstown, returned to her homo
at Harrisouville, last Friday.
Mrs. George A. Stewart, and
son Walter, of Wells Tannery, at
tended communion services Sun
day morning.
Mrs. W. C. Mann, is visiting
her daughter Mrs. Vernon Skip
per, at Tyrouo.
Foster Patterson, of Iekesburg,
was tho guest of Mrs. MaunV
family from Saturday until Mon
day. Mr.' Patterson, and Miss Lydia
Mann, were guests of the Misses
Metzler, of Harrisouville, the first
of this week.
Ducks With a Jag On.
From the following "as full as a
goose" may not beany more sug
gestive than as full as a duck; for
down at Hooversdale a few days
ago, a flock of ducks wandered in
front of the hotel and a practical
joker enticed them inside the bar
room by scattering crumbled
pretzels soaked in brandy. In
ten minutes half the flock Was
moving about unsteadily. Ten
minutes later there was a free-for-all
fight, in which wings and
bills were used unmercifully.
Finally a big drake rolled over
upon his back and turned his web
feet toward the ceiling and died.
Soon a couple of lady ducks had
followed him to the bright shores
of the big duck pond. Then it
began to dawn upon the jokers
that perhaps their prank would
turn out to be costly.
Bromo-seltzer and other jag
easers known to the profession
were procured, but the drunken
ducks refused to return to sobri
ety. It was decided that fresh
air was what the ducks needed,
and the remnants of the flock
were hustled out of the place.
Two more of them died on the
way home.
When the owner of the ducks
learned of the affair, he handed
in a bill at the rate of a dollar per
dead duck, and the claim was
paid without dispute.
Kev. Dr. Swallow Convicted.
Dr. Silas C. Swallow was last
Wednesday convicted of falsehood
by a committee of the Central
Penusylvania Methodist Episco
pal conference, and suspended
from the miuistry until the next
annual conference, which meets
at Shamokiu next March. The
charges against Dr. Swallow
were preferred by Rev. Charles
V. Hartzell, pastor of the Vine
street Methodist Episcopal
church, and grew out of a con
troversy between Hartzell and
Swallow over a publication in the
Pennsylvania Methodist, of which
Dr. Swallow is editor.
Dr. Swallow was the prohib
ition nominee for state treasurer
in 1897, and the prohibition and
good government candidates for
governor in 1898. He was the
presidential nominee of the Chais
tian advocate party last Novem
ber and was strongly supported
for the presidential nomination
at the national prohibition con
vention in Chicago in 1900.
New Grenada.
Dusty roads and frosty nights.
Flick, tho assessor, is on his
fall tour.
Two more grass-widowors
Irish ahd Sammy.
John Mills has returned to
Portage, to clerk in J. Ii Ed
wards' store.
Hooky, and May Cunningham,
and Maud McClain, spent Sun
day with friends at Cassville.
Ethel Barnctt, of Hubbies ville,
and Mary Bergstresser of Water
fall, visited frieuds in New Gren
ada. Bortio Alloway is home after a
three weeks' sojourn at Wood vale.
Alice Grissinger has gone to
the Harrisburg Conservatory of
Music to tako a course of instruc
tion. Poor "Sam," don't weep!
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Cunning
ham and Mrs. L. L. Cunningham,
arrived home from Pittsburg
Tuesday, looking benefited by
their outing.
Fannie Fuller, of Oxford, Neb.,
and Lottie Harris, of Shirleys
burg, are visiting friends here
a for few days.
Guy Wathen, Retta Grove, Mel
Kimmel, and Clara Cutchall all
of Three Springs, dined at the
Ilouck House Sunday.
Chas. Thomas of Saltillo, with
his best girl visitod his parents
Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas, Sun
day. The P. O. S. of A. will hold an
oyster supper in their new hall
on Saturday night, November 10.
Everybody invited.
Tho printer caused tho wed
diug item In last week to read,
"married at Ilustontowa." It
should have read Huntingdon,
Harvey is thinking seriously of
going Into the saw mill business.
They Saved Their Money.
There would seem to bo but lit
tle excuse for any man who has
health to be in extreme poverty.
Most people make money enough,
but tho thing is to keep it. Here
are two cases where keeping it
was everything one a man, the
other, a woman:
Thomas Shannahan died at
Osceola last week. He was sup
posed to be very poor, but after
his death money to the amount of
$5,500 was found on his person,
sewed up in the lining of his cloth
es. Shannahan has been employ
ed for many years as a traci
hand at $1 per day, and some of
the bills dating back to 1850 on
banks long since out of existence,
show that he has been hoarding
and carrying the money in that
mauner for many years. The
money had to be fumigated be
fore it was placed in circulation
again. Three sisters, one of
whom lives in Osceola, are the
only known heirs.
A woman about 50 years of age
went into a drug store down at
Reading last Friday, handed the
clerk a bottle which she said she
wished filled with pepperment
extract. Then sho dropped dead.
Sewed up in her dress was
$7C0. More than $450 of it was
in gold of $20 and $5 gold pieces.
Some of the remainder of the
money was in the pocketbooks
found sewed up in the skirt. In
other places she had gold wrap
bed in greenbacks, some of which
were well worn and had the ap
appearance of having been there
a long time.
Pleasant Ridge.
Unger Mellott, of Crystal
Springs, spent Saturday and
Sunday with his parents Mr. and
Mrs. Joshua Mellott
Quite a number of our people
attended the Institute at Morton's
Point Friday evening. All re
port a good time, there being ten
teachers present.
Newt and Ross Bard, and How
ard Mellott, who have been
spending a couple of months in
Potter county have returned to
their homes.
Walter Peck, of Pittsburg, at
tended thi institute at Morton's
Point Friday evening.
Miss Anna Deshoug, teacher
of Oak Grove school in Whips
Cove spent Saturday and Sunday
with her parents Mr. and Mrs.
H. H. Deshoug.
Mrs. Rebecca Truax, who has
been spending a couple of weeks
at McConnellsburg visiting her
sister Mrs. Frank Mason, return
ed to her homo in this place last
week.
Miss Laura Bard, who had
been spending a week with her
sistoi' in Yellow Creek, returned
home last week.
Miss Pleasant Starr and Viola
Deshong visited Miss Linna A.
Deshong last week.
H. H. Deshong, wife and daugh
ter Miss Anna spent Saturday
evening with Mr. Deshong's
brother, Mr. Joseph Deshong,
who is danger ou si j' ill.
Mrs. Grant Hann preached at
Siloam last Thursday evening.
She said many good things.
hire Mill.
Saturday evening Nov. 2, Mil
ton Mellott's barn and wagon
shed, including all his hay and
grain, drill and mower, about 7(H)
bushels of corn and the fodder of
the above amount of corn, was en
tirely consumed by fire.
Messrs. Scott Palmer and Rob
ertSipe have returned to their
respective homes in Everett and
Martinsburg.
Mrs. Frances Mellott raised
seven pumpkins on one vino this
summer that weighed 93, 75, 70,
65, GO, 48, and 85 lbs., respective
ly, making a total of 448 lbs., to
one vine. Who can beat It?
Mr. Russol Ijayton was a pleas
ant caller at the home of 1L H.
Deshong last Saturday evening.
Mr, A. T. Wink after spending
a few days with his friends re
turned to his work on the P. R. R.
W. H. Peck, of Gem, was among
our Monday callers.
Fred Cromer.
Fred, a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel Cromer, of Fort Littleton,
died at the home of his parents
November 2, 1901, aged 20 years
and 27 days.
Fred was an exceedingly geni
al and promising young man, and
his death, coming just as he was
standing on the threshold of man
hood, always seems from a human
standpoint most unfortunate.
He was formerly employed in
Pittsburg, and won the esteem of
his employers and the love of a
largo circle of friends by his
faithfulness and affability. De
termining to lit himself for the
practice of medicine, he came
home, and spent the winter tak
ing his first year's course of
study in a medical institution in
Baltimore. Soon after returning
to his home last spring, it was dis
covered that he was the victim of
consumption, and this fall when
his comrades returned to college
he was obliged to remain at home,
growing weaker from day to day
until the end came.
He was a member of the M. E.
church, and of the Jr. O. U. A.M.
His remains were laid to rest in
the cemetery at Fort Littleton on
Monday followed thither by a
large concourse of sorrowing
friends.
Just So.
The Decorum Huntingdon coun
ty correspondent of the Mount
Union Times last week says:
"Mr. and Mrs, J. C. ' Kelley
made a business trip to McCon
nellsburg on Monday and were
unable to return on the same day
on account of overloading their
conveyance with dry goods and
groceries."
They couldn't help it, you see.
They had read the News and
knew just where to go for bar
gains, and they went; and lo the
half had not been told, and they
just laid in a stock that will last
them all winter.
Moral: Keep an eye on the mer
chants who advertise.
Resolutions of Respect.
At a regular meeting of Clear
Ridge Council No. 940 Jr. O. U.
A. M., the following resolutions
were adopted:
Whereas, It has pleased Al
mighty God to remove from our
midst and hearts, after a pro
tracted illness and suffering our
worthy brother Frederick A.
Cromer, Therefore be it
Resolved, That in his death,
this council has lost a brother of
whom it has just occasion to be
proud one who loved and lived
the principles of patriotism, and
that the family has lost a kind
and promising son.
Resolved, That while"we deeply
deplore our loss, and that while
his departure will create a void in
our hearts that time cannot fill,
and believing that the good that
men do will live after them, and
that their character will abide as
a fragrant influence, yet we bow
in humble submission to the Di
vine will, knowing that he who
doeth all things well hath not
dealt unkindly in thus calling our
brother from our midst.
Resolved, That we extend our
heartfelt sympathy to the father
and mother and to tho family in
this sad hour of bereavement, that
we, as a council, in presenting
these resolutions of respect to the
bereft family as a manifest evi
dence of our esteem to one whom
they loved and cherishod as a sou
and to one whom we honored as a
brother, we commend to the cart)
of Him that doeth all things well.
Resolved, That in respect to
tho memory of our deceased
brother, that our chapter be
draped in mourning for thirty
days.
Rosolved, That these resolu
tious be recorded on the minutes
of the council, that a copy-be pre
sou tod to the bereft family, and
tho same published in the county
papers.
B. H. Shaw,
B. E. Stevens,
Elliott Fraker,
Com in it toe.
Personal.
John S. Harris of Saluvia spent
last Saturday in town.
Walter Peck, of Pittsburg is
visiting friends in this county.
Mr. J. Michael Cook of Sylvan,
was the guest of Mrs. S. M. Cook
of this place Tuesday.
Ephraim Houck of Big Cove
Tannery called to see ns a few
minutes while in town Wednesday
and left us some cash.
Andy Rotz and brother Daniel
of Tod township left on Monday
morning for Pitcairn, where they
have secured employment.
Newton T. Downs and wife of
Coketon, W. Va., are visiting Mr.
Downs's parents Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Downs, at Franklin Mills.
Mr. Arthur Cox, of Oswego, N.
Y., has been spending several
days with his uncle and aunt Mr.
and Mrs. C. B. Stevens of thi9
place.
Jonas Truax of Belfast town
ship, was among the visitors that
attended Love Feast at McCon
nellsdale church last Saturday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Sharpe
of Needmore were in town Satur
day, and took dinner with their
cousins, Mr. and Mrs. John B.
Runyan.
Bert Winegardner, of Dublin
Mills, called at the News office
last Saturday, advanced his own
subscription, and turned in anew
subscriber.
Mr. and Mrs. William Sigel
and daughter Miss Laura, and
Miss Clara Pittman, of Thomp
son township, spent Tuesday at
McConnellsburg.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. T. Mellott
and their little daughter Lenora
were in town Wednesday. They
expect to move to Riddlesburg
next Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F. Stiver
of Bedford are visiting Mrs. Sti
ver's brother, the editor of the
News and other friends in tho
county this week.
Mrs. George Myers and her
daughter Mrs. Howard Mellott,
both of Bethel township, spent a
few days the past week with
friends in this section.
James G. Kendall left Tuesday
noon for the bedside of his sick
sister, Mrs. Morrow, in Alleghe
ny, but did not reach there until
a few hours after her death.
Charles T. Sloan, Jr.,of Buffalo,
N. Y., is spending a couple of
weeks with McConnellsburg rel
atives. Charlie is very popular
with our young people, who al
ways give him a hearty welcome.
Mr. and Mrs. James McFerren
of ChamberBburg, went home
Tuesday after spending several
days with friends at McConnells
burg. Mr. McFerren's popularity
at home is shown by the fact that
he was the only Democrat on the
county ticket in Franklin County
that made the election last eek.
It is Sheriff McFerren now.
Shooting Accident In Huntingdon
County.
Lemuel Vanorman, of McCon
nellstown and Marshall R. Ilelf
ner were sitting on a log in a field
belonging to John L. Isenberg,
near the station at that place Sat
urday afternoon watching their
dog chasing a rabbit when Hef
ner's gun was accidentally dis- .
charged, the contents 1 entering
Vanorman's body. The wound
ed man jumped up and said:
"Marsh, you 6hot me." The
wounded man was assisted to Mr.
Isenberg's house whore Dr. Big-,
leow was summoned and upon
examination found one rib crush
ed. Dr. Harman, of Huntingdon,
was called into consultation and
helped to remove the shot and
dress the wound. The wounded
man's condition is favorable.
Rev. Lewis Chambers will
preach the unioa'Thanksgiving
sermon at the Lutheran church
at Big Cove Tannery at 10:ROa. m.;
also, it is probable that Thanks
giving services will be held at
GreenhiU; if so,f urther notice wlU
be given next week.
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