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VOLUME 9
McCONNELLSIiUHC;, PA., OCtOpEH ;i, 5907.
NUMBER
THIRD ANNUAL MEETING
POOR CROP OF APPLES.
01 the Fullon County Tournament Mid
Horse and Colt Show Association,
to Be Hold in Trout's Woods,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1907.
Arrangements have been per
fee td to make this meeting tlie
most interesting and successful in
the history of Iho Association.
In the tournament, there will bo
threo events: The first will bo for
nintiturcs -open to the world; the
second for professionals open to
the world; and in loth these event"
valuable prizes will be given. The
third will be the Coronation event,
open or by special invitation.
The-iio. so nnd Colt Show will
be divided into the following class
es: 1st. Draught horses.
2nd. Brood Mure and Colt
nure only to be judged.
3d. Suckling Colts with mare
colt only to be judged.
4th. 4-year-olds or older.
5lh. '2-year-olds, r
tltli. Yearling.
7lh. 4 horse teams.
8th. 2 horse teams.
9th. Pair of mules.
The Light Harness Class will be
as follows:
loth Beat light driver to be
shown in liarifpss.
lllh. 2-year-old-i.
12th. Yearlings.
13th. Sucklings.
The winners will receive a blue
ribbon; second place, a red ribbon,
nnd third place a yellow ribbon
There will not be any entrance
charged to exhibit in these classes
There will positively be a horse
raca run after the tournament, free
for all to entor.
The judging will begin at 10
o'clock, a. m.
The parade will form at the
Stone Bridge, McConnellsburg, at
1 o'clock, p. m.
The tournament will begin at 2
o'clock, p. m.
Admission to the grounds will
bo 25 cents for adults; 15 cents
for children, and special rates to
families. Exhibitors in llorse
Show, froo.
The public are respectfully re
quested to exhibit their stock in
this show; for if sufficient interest
is manifested in this show, the As,,
soeiation will endeavor to start a
fair for next year.
For further information apply
to the Secretary at Webster Mills.
All entries must be in the Secro
tary's hands by the 17th of Octo
ber.
W. F. Saitimiton, Pres.
J. C. Pattkkson, Secretary.
V. H. Sai'imnoton, Treas.
D. F. TROUT, Gen'l Manager.
Reunion of 22nd Pa. Vol. Cavalry.
The annual rouuion of the
22ud Pa. Vol. Cavalry association
will be held at Carlisle, Thursday,
Oct. 17, 1907, and all members
and friends of the regiment, six
months or three yeurs, are cor
dially invited to attend. An ex
cursion to the Gettysburg oattle
field will probably be taken on
the 18th. Excursion orders cm
be had upon application te Dr
A U. McCarthy, Mt. Union, Fa.,
secretary, permitting the pur
chase of tickets at a two cent j er
mile rate good going Oct. 14 to 17,
returning to OiJt. 22 inclusive.
If, however, the railroads adept
a two cent per mile rate on Oct.
1, there will be no need of send
ing card orders and the secretary
will not then send any out, as
the regular rate will be as low as
the excursion rate. The regi
inenJrwas made up largely of
W -
men from Bedford, Blair, Cen
tre, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Fultou
Franklin, Adams and Cumber
laud onnties. A large attend
ance is desired.
A lovers' quarrel is supposed
to have been the cause of an at
ML tempt at suicide by Miss Bessie
V-'eary, aged 19 year, of New
Past Warnings Unheeded and Growers
Now Face the Consequences.
State Pomologist Dr. John H.
Funk, of Boyerstown, Pi , who
has received reports from all ov
er tins country and from foreign
countries, says that 1907 has teen
the poorest apple year for years
In most locili ties, last year was a
pwr year, especially in Pennsyl
v.inia, there being only a 70 per
cent, crop Estimates frrin all
the orchards of the state show
thai this rear's crop will fall be
low the 50 per cent. mark. Mis
ouri, Dr. Funk says, is reckon
ed is the banne1' applelate. Its
crop this year will only be IK) per
ceut. of Inst year's crop. Arkun
sas will have a 90 per cent, crop,
but Kansas will have the poorest
crop in its history, amounting to
only per cent, of a full crop.
New York will bave three coun
ties which will be able to show a
good report. Cauada will be way
behind other years, and so ail ov
er the world.
Years ago Dr. Fuuk predicted
thatwhosoever would not heed
the advice in the San Joe s al.
sermons, spoken m clear tones a1
the farmers' institutes, would
suffer and have no apples. Tfio
prediction has come true.
Dealers are already furnishing
the barrels and paying from $3
to $4 per barrel for every bushel
of apples they can engage in ad
vance. Dr. Funk will have 3000
bushels, which will all be shipped
to Philadelphia, and put in cold
storage for late winter and spring
sales, when, he says, apples wdl
sell at $3 to $9 per barrel.
He has 200 bushels of pears ol
the Garber, Seckle, Kieffer, and
the Birtlett varieties, and thej
will easily command $5 per bar
rel. Another large pear orchard
at Boyertown realizes for every
bushel on the trees frcm 4)1.50 to
1.75 per bushel
Dr. Fuuk is often called upon
to judge the fruit exhibited at
the county fairs, but says so fai
this year he has failed to find 8
dozen plates of apples that could
be called first class fruit, true to
name and without a blemish that
would bar them from a grand
prize. Those that were npxt to
perfect, he says, were from or
chards where the San .lose scab
was treated by spraying. Anoth
or trouble the farmers of eastern
Pennsylvania are burdened with,
is the dropping of apples before
they are npe. Dr. Funk sayt
they fail to thin the fruit at the
proper time, and that he has no
trouble whatever in this direc
tioh.
With 3000 baskets cf peach ei-
3000 bushels of apples, 200 bush
els of pears, and other fruit in
plenty, such as plums, cherries,
and eraDes. Dr. Fuuk says be
has no complaint to make. He is
convinced tint he has solved the
truit problem by spraying
In Sunday School.
No story illuslrates the curious
mixture of associated ideas bet
ter than the following: 1 asked
i small boy one day after a long
and labored Scripture lesson.
"What did Peter do to prove that
he was peuitenlr" Up rose t
dozen hands, and I selected one.
"Please, teacher," came breath
lessly, "he crowed three timet.!'
Another time 1 was explaining
about the gathering of the manna
in the wilderness, and how the
Israelites had to collect a double
quantity on the Saturday so as
to last over Sunday. "But if,'
I pointed out, "they gathered
enough for two days on the Mou
day, the heavenly food would be
unlit t eat on the Tuesday."
little girl of five was deeply
terested, and auxiously asked
"Hut, teacher, s'pos'n that Toes
day was Washin 'ton's hirthdayV
"Humors of the Schoolroom,
in The Ladies' World for October
WARNING TO HUNTERS.
Flicker and Meadow Lark Are Not Oame
Blrda.
The Farmers' Year.
Adverting to the high prices of 1
I all products on the farm, the
J Reading Times says: This has
Secrotary Kalbfus, of the State j been a farmer's year. Not only
Game Commission, at Harris , have the crops, as a ml, been
Durjr, issued a sinioincni loan i m:i, iiiu itin pi ices r every
ville. She swallowed a dose of
carbolic acid m the presence of
her lover, who promptly summon
ea a priyaioifto. bite vtui recov
hunters jn Peuusy Ivanis, warn
tug them that it is a crime to kill
any bird not specially named in
the game laws.
"It has come to my knowl
edge," says Commissioner Kalb
fus, "that the impression has got
ten abroad that the meadow lark
and dicker were made game birds
by the last Legislature, the sea
son for them opening on the tirst j quart; corn
of September, and extending to
the first day ot December. This
is a mistaken idea. No such bill
has been passed by the Legisla
ture or signed by the Governor.
Both these birds are extremely
valuable to agriculture, and more
worthy of protection as insectiv
orous birds then almost any oth
er bird that I might na i.e."
Hunters and others will save
themselves a lot of trouble by ob
serving the above facts.
A
in
thii g the farmer Ii.ih to sell have
been h.gher, perhaps, than at any I
time since the civil v ar. All I
Slit , mi' nnd Knmmir I,, lit Ihn
i ----- n
price of eggs has been 80 cents
and over ; butter has been any
where from to 3," cents per
pound ; wild berri"S that need
only to bo gathered, havo boon
selling at from 13 to 15 cents )e
Huston -Klmmcl.
At the rcsidonco of Iho bride's
parents, Wedresday morning,
tie 18th ult., nany E Huston
and Miss Mary Kimmol, Im b of
naituio. 14 , were united in the !U,, ('ld8s
minds of marriage. Soon aflor ! opened bv
and oats have not
been so high in years, notwith
standing the excellent crop of
last year; wheat is also up, and
may go still higher; poultry was
never higher in Uih market than
during the present, and yot it
costs no more to raise chickens,
huckleberries and eggs than before."
American Paotorln I. cud the
World.
The extent and the variety of
ts natural resources, as. in one
particular held, is revealed by its
nineral riches, is one of the reas
ons why the United States heads
the list of the world's nations in
prosperity and progress. In the
ten years which have passed since
the business revival set in at the
lose of the industrial stagnation
of 1893-97, the country's popula
tion has increased twenty-ono per
cent. In those ten years the value
of its annual mineral output has
expanded more than 900 per cent.
Those who take a gloomy view
of the outlook for btmrress in the
United States should try to grasp
the facts just presented. Here
are a few more facts for them to
ponder on: While th'J United
States has only five per cent, of
the world's population, it produces
twenty per cent, of world's wheat,
twenty-five per cent, of its'gold,
thirty-three per cent, of its coal,
thirty-five per cent, of its manu
factures, thirty-eight per cent, of
ts silver, forty per cent, of its
iron, forty-two per cent, ot its
steel, fifty-two per cent, of its pe
troleum, lifty-tivo per cent., of its
copper, seventy per cent ol us
cotton und eighty per cent of its
corn.
William Stanly Jevons, the Brit
ish economist, said in 1S7 that
when England lost her supremacy
in coal and iron production her
fall would be as sure as Koine's
was after Constantino removed
the capital to Constantinople, aud
after his sons divided the empire
into three parts, and the fall would
le swifter than was Koine's. For
ty years aro that seemed to be a
safe forecast, for iron production
in the United States in 18(57 was
loss than a twenty-fifth part of
what it is in 1907, coal production
was less than a fortieth of what it
is now.
But the years which have pass
ed since 1807 havo told a talc
which nobody in that day dreamed
of. In the extent of its manufac
tures the United States pussed
England in 1880, and it passed
England in iron and steel produc
tion in 1895, 'and m coal output in
1900. And in overy opo of thee
fields the United States lead is rap
idly lengthening. Tha wealth of
the United States to-day is $120,
000,000,000, or more than that of
its two greatest competitors,
(ireut Hi it uii: and France, com
blued. Every successive sunrise
sees $10,000,000 added to the mar
ket value of the tangible property
.f the Uuited States. From 'Why
Prosperity will Continue,' by Jus.
W. Van Cleave, President of the
National Association of Manufac
turers in 'The Circle' for October.
CLEAR KUKil.
John Alexauder, of Piudlcv,
Ohio, spent a couple days with
his sister, Mrs. J. W Mower.
His wife had sient the past five
weeks in the Mower home, and
they loft for Franklin county
Mouday, wlioro they will spend
a short time with relatives.
Bphraim Anderson has return
ed home from the hospital, and is
carrying a very sore jiw.
I t aco Henry, the four year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin
Henry, had the misfortune to get
the top of he. head and ber fore
head scalded with boiling water.
Mrs. Sarah Fit. Ids is poorly at
this writing.
Gertrude Henry kad been vis
iting her sister, Mrs. John Le-
bard, at Huntingdon, the past two
weeks.
Bess Fields, of Fort Littleton,
spent Sunday with relatives hero.
Samuel Reese, of Sixmile Run,
spent Suuday with the families
ot J. P. KerhnTind T. E Fleming.
Mrs. Scott Unger and little
daughter Edna, of Altoona, visit
ed her parents, Mrs. and Mrs.
John Henry. This is her first
visit to the parental home since
her marriage.
Mrs. J. W. Mower is rustioat
ing among relatives in Franklin
county.
Mrs. Harriet J. Giove has been
sick during the past week.
Jess Henry speut Sunday at
her home here.
Jacob Carmack was the guest
of Amos Gill's family, at Decor
um, on Sunday.
Jesse Carmack and wife, visit
ed the family of Howard Denisar
last Sunday.
Miss Louie Anderson, of Mc
Connellsburg, speut a few days
with friends here the past week.
There will be a festival at this
place Saturday evening.
the ceremony, the bride and
groom boardud the mornint,' traiu
and ltft for a visit to W isbinirton,
D. O, and other p Juts ot inter
est. Upon their icluru, thoy were
given a reception at the Huston
home in Saliillo, last Friday even
ing, at which about fifty guests
were present, among whom were
Max and Uex Irwin, of this place,
cousins of the groom.
Harry is a native of Fulton
county, and now ono of Hunting
don county's most energetic and
successful young business men,
and the brde possesses delight
ful qualities of mind and heart.
Mr. and Mrs. tlustou wdl go to
housekeiping in the near future,
and ths News extends best wish
es for a long life ol happiness and
prosperity.
and
Mr.
Co
Cducailonil MceJn;.
The teachers of Dublin held
their first educational meeting
lat Friday evening at Clear
Ridge, Iho subject, "Grading
Management", was
Miss Fleming
farther discussed by
Dosbong, Mr. Wink and
Supt. Lamberson.
"How Do You Toach Geogra
phy'" was discussed by Miss
Henry, Mr. Doshong, Mr. Cook,
Miss Steveus, I). K. Chesnut,
and Supt. Limberson.
"Troubles of a Teacher"
discussed by Mr. Deshong,
Wiuk, Mr. Chesnut, and
Limberson.
The last topic was "Aims
the Country Schools".
The meeting was well attended,
and much interest was mam
fested. The discussions wore
all practical, and we regret that
space will not permit the giving
of extracts from the talks of each
one.
The Most Regal Is Schwab's.
Of all the great aud grand man
sions in New York, Charles M.
Schwab's is by far the mos im
posing. He occupies an entire
block on Riverside drive, and his
premises are incomparably beau
tiful as a city mansion. Notwitb
standing the yarns they circulate
about Schwab I see him every
day or two in the Waldorf, and
he has every appearance of being
just the same plain, amiable,
shiowdest chap ho has always
bben. Dire calamities have be3n
prodicied to overtake' him. Dis
credit them. Certainly there are
no evldencos but hois quite "ou
the job," attending to his busi
ness, with a sharp eye ever stead
ily fixed on what conterns
Schwab. Thai's what he has al
ways been, and by all indications,
that's what he is likely to contin
ue to oe. But if they waut to
show you New York's most mag
uitioeut private home, say : "I'll
have a look at Schwab's."
NEW GRENADA.
Oscar Houck aud Cloyd Black
are working at the minjs at
North Point.
Horace Sipss of McCmnells
burg was here last Tnursdiv
'ookina; up his politic il fence i.
Mrs. Oirne Lmikin, of Alio
"heny, Pa., and Mrs Martha
Akors, ot Huntingdon, are spend
ing a few days in the home of
their brother, F. G. Mills.
Supervisors Wishart, Moseby
and Grlssiugor met at this place
last Friday and decided to build
a uew bridge over the Liberty
aud Rock stroets. It is to be
just a common structure, four
teen feet wide. The iumber is
now on the ground for the erec
tion of the samo.
Postofrice Inspector Clark was
here last week, and found the
working coudition of our office
first class, and complimented the
present postmaster on the etTi
ciency of his work.
Bessie Bivens and her mother
Mrs. Wm. Horton, of Wells Tan
nery, dined last Fidiy at Rich
ard Alloway's.
Rev. Sollenberger preached
his farewell sermon at Bethel
last Saturday evening. He will
attend the East Pennsylvania
Eldership, and will, no doubt, be
returned to this field another
year.
W. J. Crider, of Pittsburg, re
turned to the home of his father,
Jacob Crider, last Satuiday.
Martha Black left to begin her
school at Centre Grove, in Clay
township, on the 29lh ult.
The sick people of our com
munity are all improving slowly.
John Linn, the genial notion
man was interviewing our merch
ants Mocday.
G race Lodge, teacher of "No.
4." spent Saturday and Sunday
in the home of Mt. aud Mrs. J.
C. Kirk of Wells.
George W. Thomas lost a
valuable colt last Friday.
Ex Treasurer John A. Henry,
of Clear Ridge, was an early
Monday business visitor at the
County. OipiUl.
A newspaper, describing the
elici ts of a hurricane, said : "It
shattered mountains, tore up oaks
by the roots, dismantled church
es, laid vlll-tgcs waste, and over
turned a hay stack." Puck.
A Philadelphia parent wrote to a
school teacher in that city: "Miss
Brown You must stop teaching my
Lfczie nsical torture she needs yet
loadin' and rigors mil sums more
as that, if I want her to do jump
iu 1 kin make ber jump.
The Talent of S icceas.
Iv.'ury man must patieutly
abide his time. He must wait ;
not in listless idleness, not in
useless pastime, not in querulous
dejection, but in constant, steady
cheerful endeavor, "that when
the occasion comes he may be
equal to the occasion." The
talent ot success is nothing more
tbau doing what you can do well,
without a thought of fame. If
it comes at all, it will come be
cause it is deserved, not because
it stught after. It is an indis
creet am troublesome ambition
which cares so much about fame,
about wht the world says of us;
to be always lookiug in the face
of others for approval; to be al
wars an ions about the effect ol
was
Mr.
Mr.
of
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW
Local Institute.
The teachers of Wells held their
tirst Institute at Wells Tannery
last Friday evening, wrrtch was
call yd to order by the teacher,
Murrill Foreman. J. W. Gibson
was appointed chairman.
The program rendered was as
follows: 1 Music. 2. Todic,
The Child," discussed by Prot.
Seville. 3. Instrumental Music.
4 "Method of taachmg lauguago
tosecond and third grade pupils,"
opened by W. V. Stewart, and
followed by Prof. Seville and R.
H. Eirley. 5. Music. 0. '-School
Virtues; How secured and held,"
discussed by Murrill Foreman. 7.
Music by choir. 8. "What meth
od would you use in teaching be
ginners and Why opened by
Miss Lodge, followed by R H.
Eirley and Miss Burkett. 9. Mu
sic. 10. "Duties of Teacher," dis
cussed by R. H. Eirley. 11. Ad
dress by HoraceSipes subject
'Eiucition." 12. Music.
Adjourned to meet at No. 3,
Friday, October 18th. Cnarles
Eirley, Sec.
The Happy Farmer.
The happiest man in the land
co day is the successful farmer.
Ho sits under his own vine aud
fig tree, undisturbed by the
maddening noise of the great city.
Hanks fail, railroads go mio the
hands of receivers, booming
towns collapse, all business stag
nates, but the farmer can snap
his fingers at these things. He
is a monarch of all be surveys on
his broad acre. And in briuging
up his boys and girls to follow in
the straight and narrow pathway
he gives to the nation its best
blood. The American farmer is
to be envied, and if he is not con
tent with his lot he is lacking
wisdom.
.Snapshots at Their Comings and (ininc a
Here for a Vacation, or Away
for a ResMut'Oullntr.
NAMES OF VISITORS AND VISITED
Miss Helen Fore, or this place,
is visiting Miss Mayc Stiver at
Bedford.
Mrs. Goorgo W. Si pes ai.d son
Emanuel, of Saluvia, spent Mon
day in this place on business.
Miss Nelho Mctjuade, of this
place, spent a few days with
frieuds in Chambersburg.
Max and Rex Irwin, of this
place, were guests of relatives at
Saltillo, Saturday aud Sunday.
Miss Jennie Stonor, of this
place, has been visiting her sister
Mrs. J. Martin in Chambershu
a few days.
Mr. S. C. Dickson and sisters
Misses Minnie and Sadie, spent
Saturday and Sunday in the
Lyons home at West Dublin.
Miss Lizzie Bender, daughter
ot Hon. Wm. H. Bender, who
had been spending a week in
Washington D. C, has returned
home,
Misses Lulu Snider, Maude
Ott, and Besse Grissinger, ot
this place are spending a few
days with frieuds in Carlisle and
Harrisburg.
After having spent several
weeks with hr brother and oth
er friends in this county, Miss
Annie Wink expects to return to
McKeesport Saturday.
Rev. William Armstrong of
Warriors, Mark, and mother of
Lock Haven, spent last Wednes
day the guests of Mr. and Mrp.
John Ott North of town.
Miss Minnie Mock, who is em
ployed teaching at Allen. Pa ,
spent Saturday and Sunday with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan
iel Mock in Tod township.
Among the town visitors Mon
day, was S. tl. Hockensmith, of
West Dublin. Mr. Hockensmith
was making arrangements to
leave Hancock this morning on
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad to
accompany Mrs. ueorge a.
Hockensmith and Mis. Jennie
Mellott, to their home in Iowa.
Was Collector Of Buttons.
John C. llepler died at Reading
last Thursday, aged 78 years. He
was famous as a collector of but
tons. His collection numbers
80,000, and there are no dupli
cates. Mr. Hepler began this pe
culiar fad more ihan forty years
ago, and for new specimens of
buttons he sought the ends of the
earth. His collection starts with
the shirt button, then comes the
trousers button, next the buttons
worn on women's dresses, and so
on through a long list to the mili
tary buttons of all the nations of
the world. Among his collection
are buttons worn by royalty. Of
campaign and other medals, he
possessed several thousand.
boioi Business Again.
"When my frieuds thought 1
was a.iout to take leave of this
world, on account ot indigestion,
nervousuess and general debili
ty," write A. A. Chieholm,
what we do or sav: to bo ulwuva Tread well. N. Y , "and when it
shouting, to hear the echoes
our own voioe.
Miss Mary Bender, who had
been heme for soma time, has re
turned to York, Pa., where Bbe
has been employed for the last
nine year.
Df ! looked as if there was no hope
left, 1 waa persuaded to try Elec
tric Bitter:, and I rejoice to say
that thoy are curing me. lam
now doiug business Again as of
old, aud am still gaining daily."
Best of all ionic medicines. Guar
anteed at Trout's drugstore. &0u.
litis fJNT.WN.
Thetocul held in the Grove
last Saturday evei.lag by tha Ej
worth League of this place, was a
success financially, although the
inclemency of the weather kept a
number from attending.
H. E Chesnut loft Saturday to
take charge of ins school at Uuion
Church, which is located seven
miles from Huntingdon.
Hon. S. W. Kirk, of McConnells
burg, was seen in our town on
Monday.
Mrs. Armstrong, widow of
Rev. R. L. Armstrong, deceased,
spent part of last Thursday in
our town. About thirty years
have elapsed sii.ee h?r husband
was pastor of this church. Sin;
noticed quite a chauge in tho
town. She was accompanied by
her son, Rev. W. L. Armstrong,
or War.'iors Mark.
Miss Elizabeth Evans, of Mad
deusville. aad brother, Ira Evans,
of Shelby, Iowa, speut last Thurs
day with friends here.
M. G. Lambersou is improving
bis home by having his house re
painted. M ' ss Gertrude Laidig, who bad j
been visiting her sister Luella, m
Altoona, has returned hjme.
Waiter Mumma, wife and little
daughters Lois and Margaret, of
Jeaunette, are visiting in the fam
ilies of D. R. Mumma aud Georgu
Laidig.
Miss I .'ia Kelso, of Kuobsvdle,
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Elisa
beth House.
Dr. Campbell and wife, of IV ,
tersburg, and Mr. Wood and wife
of Huntingdon, stoppad over
Monday night at the ludlau
Queen Hotel. They were en route i
toGettyiburg, and were travel-
log in the Docto -'a au touobtia,