V J -II J I II II IL IJ II II VOLUME 5. McCONNELLSBURG, PA., APRIL 27, 1904. NUMUE R 32 MISSION SCHOOL IN INDIA. Miss Alice Wlshart Speaks - of Her Visit to One of Them. GIRLS PRETTY, WITH LARGE DARK EVES The Bubonic Plague Spreading So Rapidly That Many School Will Have to be Closed Alarming Fatality. AU.AIIAIIAII. Iniiia. Feb. i. Yesterday I went with Miss Todd to visit one of our schools in llie native city, a school of about fnrty girls ranging from five to twelve in age, who were to receive prizes for attendance for the year. These prizes were dressed dolls and scrap books sent from America. We had toleavethegairi (vehicle) in one of the side streets and walk some distance through alloys just about wide enough for two people abreast. When we met anyone, it was sometimes necessary to lean up close to the wall to let him pass. When we reached the school, which is held in a clean, bare, whitewashed room about 6x12 feet, we found thirty girls already there, seated on the lloor with book and slate iu front of them, arrayed in all those brilliant colors, and loaded down with the rings, baugles and bracelets of which they are very fond. Such a Variety of chaddars (veils) I never saw : pink, yellow, scarlet, orange, and green, and often all five in one. Some of them had four or live hoops in each car,"and nose rings reaching clown to and below their chins, with bracelets and anklets galore and funniest of all, bigihick rings ou each great toe. Some of the girls were quite pretty, with those large, dark eyes, and pen sive looks. They were all inter esting and it made one feel like gathering them all together in ouo's arms, so as to keep them for Him, and away from the lives they have to lead. Two bright native Christian women have charge of this school, one of whom has come out from Hinduism only within the past two years. Their work is not easy, for there are so many things to keep the children away from school disincliuation, care less mothers, influence of some prejudiced neighbor, feasts, weddings and holidays ; and just now there is much persecution, and plague is raging 57 deaths reported in a day, which is just about half the number that oc cur. It is marvelous what these girls, both little and big, have learned in the short time they have been in school. A number of the older ones repeated cor rectly in the native tongue the Ten Commandments, 13th chap ter of First Corinthians, cate chism, and gave answers to ques tions asked them from. both Old and New Testaments. The little tots we' e quite as bright in their way: they would put our Sunday school children at home to shame with their knowledge of the Bi ble, I am sure. After the school had finished "showing off" by singing some hymns, the dolls and scrap-books were brought out, the roll call cd, and each young lady came shyly but, gracefully forward, clasped a precious doll to her heart, salamed (bow with aand to forehead) to Miss Todd, who was giving them, and would hurry back to her seat with anklets jingling to inspect her dolly's clothes, discuss in smothered whispers its beauty, or to com pare it with her seatmate's. In addition to the dolls there was given a very pretty scrap-book to about a dozen of the older girls, who had been present one hun dred times, I think it was, during the school year. Many of the girls will soon have to go to their husband's homes and perhaps never see Bchool again. Three or four of the girls' mothers came to the door and shyly peeped in to see the dolls being given. It was a great occasion, you may bo sure. Plague is so bad and spreading so fast that we may have to close several of just such schools. While Miss Todd was in ii house teaching, six dead bodies were carried past her on the way - to the burning ghat. God it mer cifully preserving us. FULTON FOR GOOD ROADS. Three of Fulton County's Eleven Town ships to Share Appropriation. Au enthusiastic Meeting of the citizens of Ayr ; township was held at Webster Mills recently and the supervisors instructed lo ask the county commissioners to go ahead and arrange for the building of 5,000 feet of Macad amized road in accordance with the provisions of tho Sprowl Good Road Law. The piece of road decided upon extends from the first lane north of Webster Mills to about 100 feet north of the covered bridge at the late Dr. Cook property, now owned by To bias Glazier. The commissioners appointed Civil Engineer F. M. Taylor to make a profile of tho road, which he has partly done. Like action has been taken by the supervisors of Bethel town ship, asking for four miles lend ing from W. B. Stiver's mill north of Warfordsburg to the Maryland line. Wells township has asked for eight miles leading from the Huntingdon county line on the north and following the main road through the Valley lo Wells Tannery. The prelimina ry surveys on the latter roads will be made at once. It is prob able, however, that Bethel and Wells will each build but one mite during the next year. The Stato Highway Depart ment has received fifty-eight ap plications from twenty-seven dif ferent counties, and covering nearly 115 miles of roads. Con tracts have been signed or award ed for five ditTerent nieces of road, bids are in on another, and bids are being asked at the pres ent time for five more, with the plans in course of preparation for several more. Still the appli cations continue to come in, five having been received during the past few days from Erie, Venan go, Crawford, Lycoming and Chester counties. We feel proud of the fact that Fulton will stand among the pro gressive counties of the State ; and as June 1 is the last day for taking advantage oJ the State aid, there will be not a few townships that will be booting themselves because they didn't get a move on. RAILROAD NEWS NOTES. Will Baltimore & Ohio and Wabash Bid For Old South Penn? Tho famous South Peun rail road, which has planned cuts through the richest soft coal ter ritory in Pennsylvania and which was to have given Pittsburg a new outlet to Baltimore by meeting the Western Maryland railroad at Hagerstowu, is to be sold at public auction at Somerset, on May 14, as told in this paper some time ago. The sale is to be made under foreclosure proceedings in stituted by the Union Trust Com pany of New York under a mort gage dated January 1, 1805. Railroad-circles are wondering wheth er the Baltimore & Ohio aud the Wabash will appear as competi tors at the sale. OFFICIAL STATEMENT. Explanation of the Age Pension Or der. To make clear the actual effect of provisions of the recent nge pension order of Commissioner Ware about which a large nu mber of inquiries are being made, the following official statement was issued from Washington Friday : There appears to be an impres sion among many ot the soldiers that allowances of pensions un der the age order ot the commis sioner of pensions are in addition to pensions allowed heretofore. This Is an erroneous idea of Raid order. The law prohibits tho payment of more than one pen sion to a person of the same peri od, and the effect of t'.io order on those haviug a pension already only will be to increase 8uch pen sion up to the age limit, if the pension already drawn is below that amount WILL YOU GOTO ST. LOUIS To Sec the Louisiana Purchase Expo siton This Summer? THE GREATEST OF WORLD'S FAIRS. Mr. Blair W. Truax, a Former Fulton County Teacher, but Now a Resident ol St. Louis, Makes Valuable Snggestlnns As only a few days will elapse j before the formal opening of the I greatest of all the"World'sFairs" (The Louisiana Purchase Exposi tion), a short article appertaining to the conditions under which it will be found, will probably prove of interest to tho contemplative visitors to the Fair from old Ful ton. The first thing to be considered is tho transportation by which you expect to reach St. Louis. All railroads will sell excursion tickets at greatly reduced rates during Iho i-ntire season; .aud probaoly, as toe season advances the rates will decrease. In the selection of a road it will be bet tor for all Fulton county people to ch"oso the Baltimore and Ohio as it affords a more direct route than any other road in southern Peui"yiv:.niH and parses through the moss i'fcHiuIfui .voctii'ii of the country east of the Mississippi river. The tripaloue will recom pense vni for your expenditure. Up"ii arriving iu St. Louis, itis best 1o maintain a sharp lookout tor swindlers us you will come in contact withallclassesof sharpers ntnl confidence men; and as vou will soon perceive St. Louis is not a "Utopia" regarding to strict laws and their surveillance. After reaching tho station, tho first thing to be observed is the selection of proper lodgings. Do not go to places adjacent the "Fair Grounds" for quarters as tliey will all charge extremely ex orbitant prices; and as I am well aware, I am not addressing many persons wlio have unlimited means at their command. I will try to pioseut the most economical course to be pursued, consistent with convenience aud comfort: Select a room in some of the suburbs of the city, like Ferguson, Baden, South St. Louis and many of the little suburban places which are connected with the city proper by the street car hues. You can secure rooms in these places that are far superior with regard to being pleasant and quiet, and with terms but slightly advaucod above the uor mal rates; aud, while they may lack some of the conveniences found in the large rooming places the deficiency will scarcely be perceived by persons who have spent the greater portion of their lives iu the rural districts and country towns. In fact, they will "feel more at homo" as tho peo plo who comprise a mnjeity of the population of the suburban communities are Germans who live in a comfortable, prosperous manner peculiar to that nationali ty, and which forms one of the most stable factors iu the pros perity of our country. It is the better plan to have a companion with you, as two cau occupy one room at a figure but little higher than for a single individual. Some may deem it toa inconvenient to be several miles remote from the "grounds;" but with the excel lent 6treet car service which we anticipate enjoying tho journey to and fro, will be one of delight ful recreation after a prolonged day of sight-seeing. Wo have two street car linos in ervice hero. Tho Transit Com pany and The Suburban Hallway. The Suburban is considered one of the finest lines in tho country, as anyone familiar with it will testify; and while The Transit has not boon kept to the same high standard of efficiency, it has recently been placed UDder the management of one of the ablest street car officials in the United States, and its rolling stock has been augmented by hundreds of new cars of the lat est and most approved types. Hence for economy, safety and FOREST FIRES. Thousands of Acres Burnt Over on Cove Mountain. Fire on Ridge. About livu o'clock last Wednes day afternoon smoke was seen ascending from the pine forest just above Spriggtown on the east side of tho Uidge west of this place. The wind was strong, aud in a few minutes it was dis covered that the fire was spread ing rapidly and that the property along the foot of the ridge was in danger. Many persons went promptly to the scene and by vigorous efforts the fire was un der control in about an hour. A tire had been raging in Al iens Valley several days and on Friday morning made its way across the top to the west side of Cove Mountain. Friday night there was a line of fire on the side of the mountain from the Chamborsburg pike northward for two or threo miles. The wind being high and the leaves dry, the tire burned with a fury that threatened with destruction ev erything in its path. About 10 o'clock a horseman came gallop uigiuto town askiug for men to go out and help save the dwell ings of the families living near th" tYiot of the mountain. Iu a short time there was a small ar my of men at work, and it was not until 2 o'clock next morning that the danger was considered past. PENSION INCREASED. John Linn's Pension Increased from $12 to $24 by Special Act of Congress. John Linn of this place, a vet eran of the Civil War, has just been granted an increase of pen sion from twelve to twenty-four dollars. During the past few years Mr. Linn, who had been an industri ous and skilful carpenter, has al most entirely lost his sight. Last fall a petition was circulated among his frieuds here and Con gress asked to pass a special act allowing him an increase of pen sion, which the pension depart ment seemed powerless to do. This has just been done, and Mr. Linn is truly grateful to ail who were instrumental in bringing about tin help which he so much needed in his declining years. PLEASANT GROVE. Our farmers are busy plow ing. Lige Wink visited J. L. Pies singer Suuday. A large crowd attended preach ing at this place Sunday. Hiram Hill aud wife visited Benjamin Truax last Sunday eve niug. Samuel Truax is busy hauling out his lime. He says it pays to lime. John Truax and Morton Hess are busy building a house ou the farm they purchased. Watson Peck is working for Moses Hess, but he still has some attraction near this place. comfort, it is evidently better to room in the suburbs, especially during the congested seasou. As to meals you cau secure the best at the numerous restaurants to be found throughout the city. One careful statistician has es timated the entire cost of being admitted to every department of the Fair at eighty dollars; but, as many of the features would bo unprofitable to tho average sight seer, one fourth of that amount will prove am pi .adequate to en able one to see all the principal object of interest. But, in your visit, it U advis able not to devote your entire time at the Exposition; you should form some acquaintance with the city itself, and its magnificent and varied industries. By all means all those who can should pay a visit to the World's Fair during the coming summer. The mere outlay of a few dollars should deprive no one of so great an educational advantage. THE WEEK'S DEATH ROLL. Those Who Have Been Called Across to the Other Shore. HAVE ANSWERED SILENT SUMMONS. Ex-Postmaster Robert Nlxson Shimer, Charle Taggart Sloan. Isaiah P. Bradnick, and Mr. McClcllon IHclil. It. N SHIM Kit Robert Nixon Shimer died at his late re.sider.ee in this place Thursday, April -1, I'.m-J, aneil (m years, " months and lit day Funeral was conducted by his pastor, Kev. Adams, on Sunday afternoon and interment made m tho Methodist graveyard iu town. While he had been iu declining health for several months, it was only two or three weeks ago that his condition became sufficiently critical to excite alarm, the cause V - .f.A K. NIXON SHIMfcU. of his death being due to lung trou ble. The deceased belonged to one of the old McConnellsburg fami lies, and was a thorough Chris tian gentleman. On the 4th day of November 18G2 he was mustered into Com pany I, 15Sth Regiment, Pennsyl vania Militia, his brother James (deceased), Samuel Unger (de ceased), John II. Wilt, aud Philip H. Snyder bemg members of tiie same company. His regiment was sent to North Carolina, where they spent most of the winter hi the vicinity of Newborn and Little Washington ; were sent northward iu the spring of 180J, and reached Meade iu timo to join iu the pursuit of Lee as tho latter was retreating from Gettysburg. Mr. Shimer was mustered out with his company August 12, IStnS. The war still coutinuing, and there being repeated calls for volunteers, Mr. Shimer for the second time left his young wife and children aud went to the front. This time he was muster ed intoCaptaiu Harvey Wishart's Company (II), L'osth Regiment, Pa. Vol., at Camp Curtin during the first weok in September lf)4, and they afterward became a part of 1st Brigade, of Ilart ranft's (3d) Division, Dth Army Corps. Among thoso in his com pany were Elliott Rummel, Wil liam Stoner, and Nick Ott (de ceased), tho last named of whom lost his arm in the hard fighting before Petersburg in March '(i.". They saw lots of hot service dur ing tho closing days of the war, followed close on tho heels of the rebels retreating from Peters burg, and were at Nottoway OH. on the 9th of April when Leo passed his sword over to General Grant. Juno 1, 1 H .", Mr. Shimer was mustered out, came home, and was soon thereafter appointed postmaster of McConnellsburg, a position which he held continu ously uut.il after Cleveland's in auguration in 1j. R. N. Shimer was in 1S,"9 mar ried to Miss Annie Brahm of this place, who survives. To them were, born six 'sons and five daughters, eight of whom are liv ing, namely, Joseph, Ella, Mary, Frank, liev. George M., Laura (Mrs. Lloyd Doyle), Clarence, Al bert, and Grace. MltS. M'CLKIXAN DiKHL. From tho Breeze wood cor res pondence in tho Everett Itepu oil can, we learn that the funeral of Mrs. McClellan Diohl occurred in j 1 '"7 AVR TOWNSHIP CAVE. Recent Exploration of Large Underj j ground Room. I Attention is again being direct ed tot heCaveon the farm now occu ' pied by A. L. Lamberson in Ayr ' township. A party composed of j A. L Lamberson, Nathaniel Mel i lott.Chas. Ham mors, Uh as. Gross, Alex L-iiuherson. Hanson Sowers, 1 0a Mellott, Savannah Stevens, i Flora and Mary Lamberson, and Ada Mellott, visited this cavern I recently, noting its condition and j dimensions, aud make the follow i ing report: The main chamber I'O feet square with an average height of H feet, is reached by an entrance extending JJ0 leet from oho outside. A chim uey-hke open ing asceuds from the cave 20 feet t the soil above. The cave is in habited by millions and millions of bats, that hang iu great clus ters to the roof of the chamber, aud add a weirduess to the place calculated to send a chill scam pering along onus's spinal column. On the dark and gloomy walls inscribed tho names of some of those who have been brave euough to explore this cave in years agone. The names of Frank Hess, now a retired army officer, and John A. Robinson (deceased), are about the only ones easily deciphered, and those names were likely placed there when the aforesaid gentlemen were enjoying their boyhood days. Mrs. Maria Mann and daugh ter Miss Ella ot Saluvia. spent a day last week the guests of frieuds in town. Whips Cove on Tuesday of last week. Mrs. Diehl had been a great sufferer for several months and her husband and other friends and relatives have sincere sym pathy in their bereavement. t'HAUr.KS TA(.i ART SLOAN. Mr. Charles T. Sloan of Buffa lo, N. Y., son of the late John M. Sloan ol this place died at South ern Pines, a winter resort in North Carolina, last Thursday night, and his funeral took place from his late residence in Buffalo on Monday. Mr. Sloan when a young man, becoming tired ol farm life, joinr ed a gang of men putting in new poles on the Western Union line through this placi and started digging holes. From, this he secured a position in Pitts burg in tho battery depart ment of the W, U. office, and rose to tho rank of Chief Electrician. From this place he was offered an important position with the Buf falo Natural Gas and Oil company and by his natural ability and close application, he rose from one step to another until, he took rank with the hrst electricians and pipe line constructionists in the United States, having had charge of some of the most diffi cult feats known to the profes sion. Although only about 5- years of age, a few months ago, his health began to fail, and although everything that a change of cli mate or the attention of the best medical skill could do for him, he succumbed at last to deadly ef fects of uremic poison. Mr. Sloan was what is knowu in the Masonic fraternity as a "shriner," the highest degree of that order, and was buried in full Masonic dress. ISAIAH HUADN1CK. At his late home near Knobs ville Isaiah Bradnick died last Sunday evening of typhoid fever. Funeral services on Tuesday and interment in tho graveyard ot tho U. B. church at Knobsville. Mr. Bradnick was an industri ous citizen, just in tno prime of life, and a short time ago went to Pittsburg to seek employment; but feeling unwell on his arrival at Pittsburg, he returned home at ouce, took his bed from which he never arose in health. Mr. Bradnick was united In marriage to Cora, a daughter of D. LL Myers, who with one child survives. ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW Snapshots at Their Movements, as They Come and Go. NAMES OF VISITORS AND VISITED. Home lor a Vacation, Away lor an Outing, a Trip lor Business or Pleasure, Vau'll Find It Right Here. Miss EfTa Razer visited Mr. Benjamin Shives at Cambria last Sunday. Misses Orpah and Addie Suy der ol Gem spent a day in town last week. Miss Emma Sloan left Tuesday morning for Shippensburg to take the spring term at the Nor mal. Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Lynch are happy over the arrival of a brand new daughter iu their home. Our old friend, M. E. H. Bard of Pleasant Ridge, called at this office a few minutes while in town Monday. The McConnellsburg Manufac turing Company made a ship ment of 102,000 insulator pins oue dav last week. Charlie Stevens, Merril Nace, George Harris, and Charlie Bar ton attended Harrisonville Lodge last Saturday evening. Dr. and Mrs. Teeter and Miss Annie Shimer all of Chambers burg, came over to attend the fu neral of Mr. It. N. Shimer. A band of gypsies Having a train of ten wagons spent Sun day in camp near the old toll-gale on the Ridge. Rev. Geo. M. Shimer of Osce ola Mills arrived here Saturday evening lor the funeral of his fa ther on Sunday. Mr. Henry Ewing of Newton Hamilton, spent a few days last week with tne family of his broth er Hughie in Licking Creek town ship. After a protracted visit in the home of her uncle, N. H. Peck, at Ambridge, Pa., Miss Tempie Snyder has returned to her homo near Gem. Elder Thomas Palmer and son Prof. B. N., of Needmore, spent last Wednesday at McCon nellsburg. The father is nursing a sore finger the result of hand ling a large stone. Mr. Chris Buterbaugh, who lives near Mercersburg, was stricken with paralysis ou Mon day evening of last week from which he has since been confined to his bed. Prof. B. C. Lamberson aud N. E. Hoover of Huston town were iu town last Saturday. The Profes sor says the outlook for a big school here this summer is very promising. Miss Marden Stouteagle, who had been spending several weeks with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Hixson, in Brush Creek Valley, returned home oue day last week. Mr. Roy Mason and Miss Ma ry Rumel were guests of John Hunt at Cambria a few days ago. Mr. Mason bad the misfortune recently to be Injured by a back ing train at Johnstown. Mr. Obod T. Mellott and his grand-daughter, Miss Eva Mel lott, were In town last Thursday with a load of twenty-five bushels of nice apples, which went like hot-cakes at 10 and ."0 cents a busheL Hon. William McClean, nestor of the Adams county bar, and former president judge of our courts recently passed the seven tieth anniversary of tils ad mission to the bar. The Jndge has many frieuds in this county. Some miscreant on Monday night tore off tho steam clock, and otherwise damaged Newt Mellott's steam engine standing near Back Run in Ayr township. Newt has a pretty good Idea who did it, and if there is any attempt at a repetition of such conduct, there is likely to be trouble for some one.
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