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VOLUME 8
McCONNELLSHURG, PA., SEPTEMBER 5, 5007.
M M JJER 51
Birthday Parly. Sunday School Work.
The neighbors and friends of The brst Annual Sunday
Mrs. Mary Gregory, of Thomp-j School Institute of Belfast town
son township, made Saturday, : shiD c.nvened at Needmnm in
August 17th a very pleasant day j tne p 0 8 of A Ha Saturday, i
I'.... thnt winr hu a sail in 1,1 i n O . A a o iiwm
u viiov Bv.. -r i ;us;uhi . i, i;ni.
Proceedings, 10 a. ui., as fol
at her home with well tilled bask
ets, and later enjoying a sumptu
ous dinner in honor of her fifty
ninth birthday. Among those
present were Job Trn ix and wife;
Thomas Truax, 'wife, daughter
Jessie, and niece Mary Kelner;
Shade Truaz, wife aud daughter
Tenie; Mrs. Andrew Souders;
Mrs. Amanda Slacker, Mrs. Wil
liam Feck and daughter Amy;
Mrs. Amos Sbarpo and family,
Oliver Peck and wife, Mrs. John
Waltz, Johnson Keefer aud fami
ly, David Gregory and famiiy,
John Hoss, wife aud son Jack;
Dennis Everts and family, and
Edward Souders and wife.
Mrs. Gregory received many
nice presents.
HUSI0NT0WN.
Mrs. Bossier, of Saxt.n, is
spending some time with her
daughter Mrs. B. H. Shaw, who
has been on the sick list for sev
eral days.
Mrs. N. M. Kiik, of this place,
is visiting friends in Three
Springs this week.
Last Saturday eveu'ng two
birthday parties were given in
town, one for Miss Luemraa
Laidig, and one for Mrs Barry
Daniels. Quite a large number
of people were present at both
parties, while they all report the
the same thing-having had a fine
time.
Mrs. Kenneth Commoford, of
Brooklyn, N. Y. who has been
spending the summer in this
place, returned to her home on
Saturday. She was accompanied
as far as Shirleysburg by her
brother S. P. Woodcock.
Miss Maye Barton left for
Kittaming on Priday where she
is employed as a teacher in the
public schools of that city.
Mrs. Harry Daniels and daugh
ter returned to her home in this
place last Wednesday, after hav
ing spent a few weeks with her
pareutB at Lancaster.
Miss Katharine Crider, who
has been spending the summer
iu this place, returned to her
home near Lancaster, on Monday.
P,
lows :
MuBi'i By the School.
Devotional services Rav. T
Garland.
Topic "What are our oppor
tunities in Sunday School work V
Rev. T. P Garland. Topic
"The Adult in Sunday School,"
Logue Bess and Job Garland.
Topic "What constitutes a good
Sunday School teacher ?" Mrs.
J. J. Palmer and Thomas K.
Dowues.
Music by Schools.
Adjournment.
2 P. M.
Music.
Devotional services.
Music
Report of Sunday schools. En
rollment of Needmore Sunday
school, 50; Philip Morgret, 7L';
Pleasant Grove, 80; Pleasant
Ridge, 00.
Topic "Give full equipments
of a good Sunday school. " E. B.
Kirk.
Recitation, Eva Bedford.
Topic. "Cradle and Beginners'
Department," Blanch Smith.
Recitation, Cora Kershner.
Music.
Adjournment.
8 p. It,
Music.
Devotioual services.
M usic.
Recitation, Clyde Smith.
Topic. "Home Department,"
John C. Clevenger.
Recitation, Jennie Truax.
Recitation, Euzie Wink.
Music.
Recitation, Carrie Kershner.
Vithn Solo by Phil Schreiber.
Recitation, Ethel Mellott.
Violin Soto, Phil Schreiber.
Benediction.
Tne Institute was well attend
ed and was a complete success
throughout. The schools were
much benefited by the good and
well directed rjmarks of our
president, E. H. Kirk.
IV its. J. J. Palmer,
Secretary.
SALUVIA.
H. E. Deshong is on the sick
list at present.
Ned Mellott spent a few days
at the Grangers Picnic last week.
Lois Docker is employed in the
home of Alec Skipper at Harris
onville.
Isaiah Kline who has been ill
with typhoid fever is improving.
Some of the people of the Green
Hill Methodist church were clean
ing the cemetery last Saturday.
The cemetery was sadly in need
of some cleaning but the looks ol
it would be greatly improved if it
were not used by some of the
near residents tor cow pasture
aud chicken yeard. It seems
strange that some people will
show such disrespect for the
dead as la allow their chickens
and cattle to be in trie grave
yard.
Prof. William P. Hughes and
wife, of Philadelphia, who, have
beeu in our midst since the be
gininri, of August, recreating
and studying the unld flora of our
region, aie still with us. They
liud an extremely lutereuting
Held of inquiry and investigation
and are more than pleased and
surprised at the variety of plant
forms that have come under their
notice. They purpose to remain
in this locality for several weeks
more, and w.mld be glad to be of
help to those who desire to ac
quaint themselves with some of
l he beauty of the vegetable world
Should any ol our farmers wish
to know the names of trouble
some weeds on their estates, the
Prolesfeor and his wife will be
pleased to identify them, aud to
suggest inetl ods for their exter
mi nation.
Is the South doing "Dry."
Georgia's adoption of State
prohibition by legislative enact-1
ment directs national attenti n to !
the marvelous progress of this I
idea in the Southern States.
In the North, except ir. Indiann,
Oak), mid southern Illinois, the
prohibitiou sentiment is inori-1
bund, if not dtv.nl; but in the South
it is sweeping onward with re
leu tless and irresistible force,
gaining new converts and increas
ing in power every year.
Seven-eighths ot the territory
of the Southern States is to day
"dry", and it is believed that a
majority of the population favors
national prohibition. The Anti
Salooo L'. ague is well organized in
most of the State, and is pursu
ing a quiet, determined, relent,
less opposition to the liquor busi
ness. To day there are fewer saloons
in the thirteen Southern States
than in Greater New York, and
only a few more than in the city
of Chicago. In New York there
are 80,000 places where liquor is
sold, in Chicago 28,000, and iu the
entire South only 211,000. In New
Yom State the estimated popu
lation in 1908 was 8,1(50,000, and
the Government issued in the
State that year 34,080 "special
tax stamps" to persons desiring
to engage in iho manufacture and
sale of liquor. The thirteen
Southern States, with 8,600,000
people, secured in 1906 less than
80,000 stamps.
President Marion E Taylor, of
the National Liquor Dealers' Con
vention, held in June at Atlantic
City, in calling attention to the
assaults made by Prohibitionists
on the liquor business, especially
ia the South, said: "Cur only re
course DOW is to save our business.
Unless we work with energy and
determination to stop this tidal
wave, every State iu the South
will be closed against us."
Measures designed to restrict
or absolutely proh(bit the manfac-
ture and s lie of alcoholic beverage
have been introduced since tbe
first of tbe year in the legislatur
es of half a dozen SouthernStates,
and in almost every instance have
resulted in new victories for the
prohibition cause.
CLEAR RIUUE.
Mrs. Samuel Praker and her
children, and her brother, Will
Orth, and Mrs. George Miller
and son Glenn, were guests of
Cab Henry last Sunday.
Whooping cough is prevalent in
this community just now
Cleve Henry, who has been suf
fering from a bad case of blood
poisoning oil one ot his hands, is
slowly improving.
Kphraim A ml or son left last
Monday a week for the hospital
to have a surgical operation on
his jaw, for the removal of a tu
mor.
Elliott Pleming has been hous
ed up for a few days on account
of illness.
Walter Brown, of the U. S. ar
my, who came home a few days
ago on a furlough from Boston,
returned to his post of duty
Wednesday morning.
i. lit. ineraing took bis son
Lloyd to Dr. Plemiug at Blairs
ville for treatment.
Mrs. James Lamberson and
Miss Sadie Fields spent last Sun
day with Grandmother Fields.
Rev. Daniels will preach at the
home ot Grandmother Fields
Wednesday evening.
Mildred Henry has been poorly
and Morr'U Ueury has whoopiug
cough.
Mrs. Harry Walker is on the
sick list.
Jess Miller is the proud father
of a sweet little baby girl.
B. S. Winegarduor was out
driving with his wife and little
daughter lost Sunday.
Family Reunion.
The family of Mr. and MrB.
George Piniff, Sr., of Tod town
ship, spent Saturday very pleas
antly in the Grove at McGovern's
school house. It was the cele
bration of tbe home coming of
their children, and was to them
a very enjoyable occasion. Among
those present were Lewis Fred
erick, wife and daughter, of Pitts
burg; Mrs. Sword, of Niw Bright
on, Pa.; Mrs. Sophia Bietch, Mr.
Fimff's sister, of Chambersburg;
Mr. and Mrs Abraham Wagner;
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Wagner,
Newville, Pa,; J. L. Fiuiff and son,
Hogerstown, Md.; P, L. Finiff
and family, Pittsburg; Peter Fin
iff, Sr.; Nicholas I , and George,
Jr., of the Cove, and Charles Pre
and family, of Knobsville, and
Miss Mary Ewing.
Miss Minnie Reianer, who hod
been spending her summer vaca
tion with her parents in this
place, has returned to Homestead,
Pa., for another year's work in
the pu) he sol ools.
There is a growing sentiment
in. favor of a repeal of tbe tax on
merchants. The proceeds of this
tax are largely consumed iu the
expense of collecting it, and what
is left does not form an import
antpirtof the State's revenue.
On the other hand, it bears heavi
ly on the retail merchants who
have a hard enough struggle with
out the imposition of any unnec
essary burdens. The merchant
has to pay alll the other taxes
and there does not seem to be
any good reason why he should
bi taxed for the privilege of sell
ing goods. It ts said that this
tax was by Quay in ttio course of
the warfare between him and
Wanamaker. Whatever, may
have been its object iu the begin
ning, it has never been a popular
or proper means of raising reve
nue and the people in general
would be glad to have it removed.
Subscribe for the "News, 'only
11.00 a year.
II Al TWO WIVES,
Suit to he l.ntercd to l (.cover $300
r.stutc
The Repository Mja that Mi
chael Ego If died near Meroeraburg j
shout ii month ago, leaving hi en-1
tire estate, tiiiioiinting to about
IB00 to hi wife Rebecca, with
whom he has lived for twenty
years and to whom he was legally j
married, bince hi: death it devel
oped Unit he ha a former wife liv
ing in Pulton county to whom he
was also legally married and from
whom lie never obtained a divorce.
This latter woman has engaged an
attorney who came to Chninbers
burg to look up tbe records ami
enter suit iu order to sel aside the
will, he claiming that his client in
Fulton county IS the only woman
to whom Michael Kgolf was law
fully married. With this woman
Ego If lived in Fulton county for
several years, when he came to
Franklin county, married the sec
ond wife and has resided with her
ever since.
Pleasant family Kennion.
The Johnston aud Kendall
famil'es had their annual family
picnic on Tuesday of last Week,
It was planned to baVe it, in
Sloan's woods near Webster Mills
but owing to the threatening
weather they went over to Will
iam M. Kendall's nam, and had a
very enjoyable time. Etch if the
families iu the CoVS were ropros
euted, and il the appetites of the
sixjy-two persons seated at the
picnic dinner is any indication,
there is a chance for those occas
ions to bn observed for man
years vet to come.
Full Fledged Teacher.
Greene county has produced a
prodigy in Stanley Wright, its
youngest school teacher, who for
height and avoirdupois it is be
lieved stands without a peer in the
State. Young Wright is a pro
duct of Richhill township, and
though only 1" years of agestands
six feet seven inches iu his hose,
tips the beam at BfiG pounds and
is still growing.
He wears a number 1 shoo,
which he has made to order. The
young giant will teach in one of
the schools of Richhill township-
kNOBSVILLE.
Curtis Kelso, of Saltillo, spent
Sunday with his father, Willi un
Kelso, at this place.
Amy Myers spent Sunday with
he- parants, John A. Myers and
wife.
Mabel and Lucille Chesnut, of
Hancock, are spending some time
with friends iu this place.
Kathryn Campbell has gone to
Everett, where she has employ
ment. Ira Fore and wife were guests
of Alice Long last Sunday.
Pearl Scheidleman, who has
been employed at Fort Littleton,
spent the past week at her home
in this place.
Mayme Wilson, of Fort Little
ton, and Mabel Fore, spent Sun
day the guests of Lola Wilson.
John Black, of McCounells
burg, is visiting his grandtather,
John V. Gluut.
Nettie fleeter has returned to
Dunlo, after having spent two
wrHo in Jus place visiting
friend.
Ella Wagner has returned to
her work iu Pittsburg, after
spending some time with her
parents.
Philip Fini!? and wife, of the
Cove, were visitiug Iriends in
this place last week.
She Knew.
A Washington public school
teacher vas quoting to her pupils
the sayings of various wise meu
touch mg the value of silence on
certain occasions, when she gave
them the proverb to the effect
that we have one mouth and two
ears, in order that wo may listen
twice as much as we speak.
A day or so after the instruc
tion, the teacher, to see how well
the lesson bad been learned, ask
edagirl pupil the question, as
above.
Little Mabel had forgotten the
philosopher's maxim; but the
question did not seem a difficult
one to answer.
. "Because," said she, "we
should not have room in our lace
for t vo mouths, and we should
look too crooked if we hud ouly
one ear."
"No, Mabel," said tho teacher,
"that is not the reason. Perhaps
Rosalie cau tell us."
"Yessum," responded Rosalie.
"It's that way so we can let what
we hear go iu at one ear and out
at the other !" Youth 's Companion
Increased Demand For Capital.
The fall iu prices is due, pri
marily, to the absorption of capi
tal the world over. If it were lo
cal to the United States, as some
of the critics of the Administra
tion would have us believe, it
might be attributed to local caus
es. In fact, however, it alTects
Great Britain, where the price of
onsols has fallen as low as SDj,
or lowe than at any time since
1848; it affects Berlin, whore ser
lous banking troubh-s have boon
feired; and oven alTects Pans,
where the Bank of France car
ries a stock of gold which makes
the Pans market almost impreg
nable, There is a simple philosophy to
the monetary situation in these
great markets. It is a philoso
phy which is simple, at least to
the student of political economy.
but urfortunately not all our!
statesmen nor eveu till our tinan
cial writers are trained econo
mists. Tho explanation of high
rates for money all over the world
is that the capital sought for the
creation of new enterprises, like
railway extensions, new rolling
mills, new buddings, and the op
eniug up of new couutries, does
not equal the uomaud for it. E
ery civilized community today
produces annually not only all
that is needed for its immediate
consumptive wauts, but a surplus
over for making additions to the
existing equipmentof production.
It is not money which is lacking
in the souse of gold coin and notes.
It is a sufficient supply ot raw
matorial, labor aud machinery to
croate all these new works. Men
who wish to enter upon such
creations seek to borrow the capi
tal of others through the form of
banking credits. Tlo-y tind that
those credits ar j exhausted or
reduced. They then oiler a high
er bid for su:plus capital by of
fering new securities cheap. In
order to buy these now securities
holders of old securities are will
ing to sacrifice them iu some cas
es at reduced prices iu order to
take the new. In oilier words,
the mass of securities, both old
and now, competing for a market,
is in excess of the combined de
mand for securities at former
prices. Hence tho fall ID. their
curreut quotations. Prom "The
IVogress of the World," in the
American Review of Reviews for
September.
John Ituriinati Dead.
Mr. John llartm.m, Who had
'icon spending several months ii
'.he homo of his daughter, Mrs
I. O. Retther, of this place, dfc d
In Fredericksburg, Ya., Mbudaj
night. A few days ago, he left
McConnellsburg, apparently iu
good health, for n little visit to
his old bome at Fredericksburg,
md the Rjll tier family hero were
surprised to receive word a few
(lays ago Of his illness. His
daughter, Mrs. R letter, left
ea ly Tuesday morning for Fred
ertcksburg, and a few hours uf
ier her departure, a telegram
was received here announcing
liis death. Mr. Keisner, whi
had left Monday morning for the
City, was notitied, and returned
to tJarrtsburg to go with Mrs
Reisner to Fredericksburg.
Mr. Hartman was a most ex
Cedent old gentleman, and his un
expected death causes profound
sorrow among his many friends
here.
BEST TOR A (ilRI..
What She Told Him.
The pastor of a church in
Washington, on leaviug his study
which is :u the rear of the church,
saw a little girl, a friend of hu,
talking to a stranger.
"What was that man saying to
you, Madge?'' asked the minis
ter as ho came up with the little
girl.
"Oh, he just wanted to know if
Doctor C. was the preacher of this
church."
"And what did you tell him ? "
"1 told him," she said, with
dignity, "that you were the pres
ent encumbrance. "
Mr. and Mrs. .). S. Eitemiller,
of McKeesport, Pa., anuounce the
marrago of their dauther Cither
me Elizabeth to Mr. Arthur Hen
tiood Manners Arc More Than Merc Po
lite 1 ricks.
One of the greatest attractions
thai a girl can have is good man
ners, and they are within the
possibility of all to acquire.
Every girl would like to be pretty
and the majority are, in one way
or another, out tho' most beauti
tul is made more so if she is
sweet and gentle in manner, and
the homeliest girl becomes
charming by cultivating the art
(if how to please.
It is precisely this that good
manners achieve. They are far
more than simply doiug the prop
er thing says the New York Even
ing Telegram. When a young
girl steps aside to let an older
woman go through a door tirst
she has not merely been polite,
but in standing aside she has
shown a defore.ico to the other
which tbe older will not resent,
bo she iiO or 60 years.
You will notice that a kind
hearted person is always well
mannered. The two invariably
go together when the latter arc
not acquired, for thoughtfuluess
aud consideration that spring
from the heart do not express
themselves roughly or brutally,
but gently and kindly. Such per
sons may not always be quiet or
low voiced, and both are desir
able for perfect manners, but
you do not tind them poshing
roughly in crowds or tryiug to
get everything that is in sight be
fore anyone else can. They eith
er go slowly or stand aside, am1
sometimes even hell) aloug the
W( aker.
ry Schropp of Lebanon, Pa., on
Tuesday August 27, 1907. At Fonly a little time until tho people
NttNKUN MILLS.
John Keefer, the veteran mail
cariier, assumed the transports
tiou aud delivery of tho mail the
postotliccs along tho route from
Hancock to Locust Grove. Mr.
Keefer is, possibly, the oldest mail
carrier in the service of Uncle
Sam nil star routes, - his service
having novel od a period of more
than forty years. He is well up
in tho eightieth milestone in the
journey through life, though with
the activitv and vigor of one much
younger in years. If the distance
ho has traveled in carrying the
mails was iu a straigst line, it
would encircle the globe several
times. Ho is a man of great phy
sical endurance, and iu his young
er years traveled with a theatn
cal troupe, aud was well up as a
high stepper.
ThoMesseis. Mellott who re
tire iu Mr. Reefer's favor, were
very efficient and obliging offici
als giviug good service, aud al
ways delivering the mails on time.
They won the friendship of tho
patrons along the route who will
learu of their retirinent from tho
service with regret however, it is
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW
Snapshots at Their Cnmingi and doings
Merc (or a Vacation, or Away
for it Restful Outing.
homeo'tur September, L';trd at
Elm Grove, W. Va. The many
frionds of the bride in McUou
nellsburg extoad 1 appy congrat
i lati ma.
of the lower end of tho County,
will be supplied with Rural (free
Delivery service, aud those who
do the work, will jecieve uiujh
better com j ensatiuu.
NAMES OF VISITORS AND VISITFD
.Jacob Cutchall, of Waterfall
spent a few hours in McCouuclls-
')urg last Saturday.
.lames fields and daughter
Miss Bessie, of Fort Littleton,
were in town Monday.
K u 1 Taylor went over to Dry
Unu Monday, to join the engin
let (-' ps in Path Valley.
A. J. Hess aud John I). Cuteh
all, of Taylor, were pleasant call
ers at the News office, Tuesday.
leorge C. Melius called at the
News office Monday to renew his
subscription to the News and the
World.
Misses Margaret and Manne
Unger returned home last Thurs
day after having spent a week in
Cha mbersburg.
Miss Minnie Mock left last
Saturday for Allen, Cumberland
county, where she will teach dur
ihg the coming year.
Miss Olive Kendall lias gone
over to Lemaster, where she will
lie engaged this winter teaching
the 1 1 ram mai' school in that place.
P. Luther Pintfl' aud family,
who had been visiting relatives
and friends in this community,
lelt lor th?ir home in Pittsburg,
Monday.
W. Sloin War thin and wife
Miss Esther Sloan, and Russeil
Glazier, went-over to Gettysburg
Tuesday, in Mr. War thin 's auto
mobile. .Mrs. Nancy H. Arthur of Alle
gheny City, was the guest of Hon.
and Mrs. 1). H. Patterson at
Webster Mills, several days dur
ing the past week.
Ml s. R. N. Grea head and chil
dren who had beeu spending sev
eral weeks with friends in this
place left for thou home in Staun
ton, Va., on Tuesday.
Daniel ELelmen und wife, who
resido iu Kansas, are visiting
their ol 1 time friends here. It
has beeu eighteen years since
Mr. Helmau was here.
Miss Bstelie Logno left Mon
day for Wayne, Pa., where sho
will be engaged a teacher in the
public schools of that place dur
ing the coining school year.
Miss Olive L'nger after having
spent her summer vacatiou with
hor mother in the Cove, returned
to Scotland on Saturday where
sho will continue her studies.
Miss Mary Houston is making
a little t''ip this week to Gettys
burg aud Harris burg, before en
tering upon hor winter's work
teeobing in Ayr township.
.1. G. Reisner, of the linn of
Goo. W. Reisner A: Co., left Mou
day morning for New York,
where he is spending this W t - K
buying fall aud wiuter goods.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Fore, of
Kuobsvtlle, were among those
who went over the mountain on
the buck Mouday uoju for a trip
to lla. risburg and other places.
Dr. aud Mrs. S. A. Martin, of
Shippensburg, spent last Thurs
day night at tho Washington
House. Dr. Martin is the new
principal of the Cumberland Val
ley State Normal.
Mr. aud Mrs. T. E. Johnston
of Graud View, Iowa, arrived
bore Monday evening to spend a
fow weeks with relatives and
friends. They spent the time
from Saturdoy uutil Monday
morning with their uncle aud
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. C. 11. Kendall
in Altoonu.
Mr. Robert P. Wolvorton re
turned to hu; homo in Danville,
Pa., on Mouday after having
spent several days very pleasant
ly iu tho home of his cousins, Mr
aud Mrs A. Is. Wilkiuson of this
place. He V7as accompanied home
by Miss Valotta Wilkinson, wl.o
expects to eud some tim- vtsr,
ing iu Danville.