... ..... Mrs. George Ranck, of Bethel township, is reported as being very sioK. All dollar medicines 88 cents at Trout 's Drug Store. Mr. Still well W. Truax and son Blair were in town a short time yesterday. All rubber floods guaran teed at Trout s Drug Store. Mr. c;ale Shaw, of Hancock, spent last Thursday night in the home of Ex -Sheriff Alexander. Hides Wanted. H i g h e s t market price paid for beef hides, horse hides, wildcat skins, and all kinds of grease, at Faul Wag ner's Tannery, McConaeilsburg. That same old stork sneaked into the home of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Mellott last Sunday morning aud left them a nice ten pound baby girl. HIDES. James Sipes & Sons pay the highest market price for beef hides at their butcher shop in McConnellsburg, also highest price paid for calf skins, sheepskins and tallow. The Cooper lot, fronting on the south side of east Main Street, opposite the property of the late John Linn, was sold at public sale last Saturday to D. E. Little for 2tt0. Harvey Cooper bought the O W. Mellott timber tract adver tised oy Geo. A. Harris. The property is situate near the Sideling Hill Baptist church in Belfast township. There will be a Christmas en tertainnient in the Asbury Meth odist church at Greenhill, on Thursday evening, December 24th, to which everybody is cor dially invited. You should always remember that most cough and cold cures are constipating. Yet the most important thing to do when you have a cold is to move the bowels. You cannot promptly cure a cold until you do this. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup stops the cough by allaying intlammation of the throat and lungs, and it drives the old f.om the system by gently moving the bowels. Children like it for it tastes near ly as good as maple sugar. Sold by Trout's drug store. A Russian Jew named Solomon Kelly, who has peddled notions &c, through this county and during the last twenty-nve years, was robbed of his pack valued at i;J0 while staying all night in the home of Morton Hess, of Belfast township.November 30th. Rats. George Kelly is worse than "old pizen" on rats. A few even ings ago, he wertto Uohman's butcher shr;p, and dropped down a door which had been previously left open to entrap the rodents, and then, with a rat terrier and a club, he killed twenty eight rats. That was such tine sport, that he tried it another evening, and suc ceeded in ktlhug fourteen. If your premises is iufosted with rat, just take them up to George, and lie will show you how to get rid of them. Kri g- iSPARKLINC i ''ir ui!tpJ' Bargains In Hats and Feathers -:- AT HUSTONTOWN -:- ALL STRICTLY NEW GOODS. oooooooooooo TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE I Farm For Rent. In case the Mill property and farm of Mr. Elijah Baldwin at Fort Littleton is not sold by the tirst of January, the same will be for rent on advantageous terms. Apply to Elijah Baldwin, Fort Littleton, Pa. THOMPSON. large crowd Ho !tki. no re, no flicker. No "f ot;d, chimney", nochnrwo wick. Jlnrniiont clean with n M, nnind. "n1y, wliltw flanit, to tbolut drop wlUiout reiidjunt luK wick. "Family Favorite" LAMP OIL IlMt light for UineyM. Pom wat with vf ry lump tronMn. Cnnm no more Minn Inferior tank wirn oil Almost erory dealer hu It Inqnlre. WAVERLY OIL WORKS CO., Independent Refiner PITT8BURC, " " PA. Also mekem of WRverly Spcclel Aoto Oil and Waverly Gaeolinee. Hats that wore 12.00, now $1 2T. Hat that were 11.70, now HSc. Huts that WOT fliM, now 75o. Hats that wero 25, now 65c. Hattt that WPtell 00, now 50c. Hahy caps of felt, white boar skin, and silk embroidered, at HALF I'KICK. Feathers of all descriptions from 5c. en'-h, up: Soutache Braids, la, jd: rm-hlna; , alover lace, veiling, etc . at lowest prices. Thanking the public for past patronajje and Mlititttng a share in the future. Mrs. H. C. McClain. Stop - Look - Listen Extravagant Road Building Proposal. From The I'hlludelphlu Uecortl. The Pennsylvania State Grange at Altoona was entertained by Mr. Weeks, of Philadelphia, chair man of a committee of motorists, with a proposition to amend the State Constitution so as to pro vide for an issue of 50.000,000 in bonds for good roads. It is not probable that the people of Penn sylvania would ratify so extrava gant a scheme, even if two suc cessive Legislatures should be reckless enough to submit it to them. With a surplus of nearly Sfclu.lH'O.Guo in the State Treasury and revenues constantly pouring into it, wherein lies the necessity of borrowing a vast sum of mon ey for good roads or any other des rable object ? After all that may be reasonaoly expended for State higbwaysor township roads under wise management, the mar gin of Treasury surplus, with its steady accretions, would remain much the same. It would be unjust to attribute to the promoters of this extrava gant scheme a design to induce the people of the Commonwealth to contract an enormous debt and pay interest upon it in order that the banks may continue to farm the Treasury surplus at its exist ing volume without interruption. But such would be the precise fi nancial result of the operation, instead of a loan of $50,000,00:), or an expenditure of $f, 000,000, experienced engineers estimate that Governor Stuart's plan of rehabilitating the historic old turnpike, the shortest route from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, and al most entirely free from toll gates, would cost less than 3,1)00,000. For the rest, the people of Peuu sylvauia in a former gene.ation had enough experience of such State expenditure as is involved in this scheme of an immense loan for good roads. It is not likely that the experience ofthe pres eut generation would differ in tint respect. Quite a large crowd greeted the pastor, Rev. Powers, at An tioch last Sabbath evening, at the beginning of the revival ser vices at that place. Services will be held every evening this week; also on next Sunday even mg when further anouncements will be made. W. R. Daniels is critically ill at Jiis writing. Miss Abbie Pittman and sister Georgia spent Sunday at Isaac Hewett's. Mrs. Willard Lytton spent Sunday with her pirents Mr. aud Mrs. B. R Simpson. Mrs. Elizabeth Hess is spend ing some time with her daughter Mrs. Geo. F. Mellott at Lemaster Franklin county. Mrs. J. C. Hewett and little; grandson Llyde spent ounuay with Mrs. J. C. Carbaugh. Lemuel Gordon of near Mc Connellst urg made a business trip to Thompson the tirst of this week. Health Otlicer Peck, of Xeed more was looking into the condi tions of the school houses and grounds of this township on Monday. Mrs. J. C. Carbaugh's well was completed last week. They found a strong current of water at the depth of one hundred and eighteen feet. J. E Simpson and J, F. Hess have contracted to paint several houses, for J. T. Bridges, in Hagerstown, this winter. Alvah Gordon ot Elkins, W. Va., spent a few days at his home here and attended institute in MtCounellsburg. He is a former teacher of Thompson. Preaching at Damascas Sun day at 10 a. m. and at Laurel Bidge at 3 p. m., Antioch in the evening at half past seven. Notice of Anual Meeting. A meeting of the Shareholders of The First National Bank of McConnellsburg will be held at its Banking House on Tuesday January 12th, 1909 between the hours of 12 o'clock m and 2 o' clock p. m. for the election of Directors, for the ensuing year. Mbbrill W. Nack, Cashier. Santa Claus will visit the store of -:- D. H. PATTERSON & SON, At Webster Mills, At the Xmas Holidaysand will have a load of Toys with him Railroad Trains, Talk It ovor with the V I MB, Plan so you can cut down the daily expenses. open an account with us so you will have a place for your sav ings where they will be safe, not only from thieves, hut from your selvesmoney In the house Is a temptation to spend. Have a purpose in your growing habit of depositing In V The First National Bank of McConnellsburg, :t I'l.KCKNT COMPOUND INTEREST. coxxxcox-oooooooooooo Jt FULTON COUNTY BANK X McConnellsburg, Fa. (OKOANIZKD IN 18B7.) - 3 per cent. Interest Paid on Time Money. Farmers' Week. If you have not seen the pro gram for Farmers' Week at The FennsylvaniaState College, which begins Dec. 30, 11)08, and closes Jan. ti, 1909, write for it, address ing the School of Agriculture and Fxperiment Station, State Col lege, Pa. The program for Farmers' Week at The Pennsylvania State College shows over 100 practical exercises and lectures. They in clude stock judging, corn-scoring, seed testing, identification of weed seeds, growing alfalfa, fer tilizer results, butter making, milk-testing, cattle-feeding, meat dressing, poultry judging, fruit growing, cooking demonstration, forestry, plant diseases, uses of cement and electricity. The list of speakers includes, not only regular instructors in the schools of Agriculture, En gineering and Science, but D'rect or Thome, of the Ohio Experi ment Station; Director Voorhees, of the New Jersey Experiment Station; B. D. White, of the Dairy Division, U. S. Department of Agriculture; Prof. Graham, of the Ontario Agricultural College; H. E. Cook, of New York, and a number of Pennsylvania men em inent in their respective lines of work. Men and women interested in practical farm or home subjects will tiud the week, Dec. 30 to Jan. , a profitable one to spend at State College. The only oxpeus es are for traveling and living. The Pennsylvania R. 14. Company will sell a reduced rate round trip ticket from all statiouaon its road to Dellefonte or Lemont and return. Oet up a party of neigh bors to go. A System Of Free Roads. From the PMUHtolpMl Preiw. The Commonwealth never un dertook a work ii;ore worthy of its power, resources and stand ini? than when it embarked on j the policy of road improvement, i It has been engaged in this work I for tiv-B vpara and has construct j - ed 525 miles of improved roads, paying from two thirds to three fourths of the cost and investing more than 16000,000 of State money, yet there is a general discontent with the result. This has been shown strongly at the convention of the State Grange, at Altoona, and the dissatisfac tion .f the farmers is only an echo of the general sense of dis appointment with the working out of the State's beneficent poli cy of improving the public roads. The troublo is that the .State has not proceeded on any system. Its road improvement has been determined by local requests from here and there and its work has been patchwork, widely sep arated, giving the State good roads in spots and these not the most important spots. If the State money is to go into roads it ought tr go into the main roads aud not be sunk altogether in ob scure secondary township roads. One of the State Grange resolu tious advocates State roads be tween county seats. This pro poses a rational policy which if persistency pursued will give us in the end a system of State roads connecting all county seats and making continuous highways across and up and down the State in every direction. Many of these are toll turn pikes. These public roads in private hands naturally follow the traveled ways between coun ty seats. These are the roads the State should hrst acquire. With the purchase and freeing of the toll turnpikes a very im- I portant system of State roads I would oe put at once in posses I sion of the State. The State I system coulil then be strength til ed and developed by the improve ment of these turnpikes and their extension as free roads to other important points crossing county Lines. The results ot road improve ment on this system could at once be seen, appreciated and enjoyed. It would give the State both improved highways and free highways along the principal lines of travel. These would gradually connect and make an unbroken State system serving eyory part of the Commonwealth and unvexed by a single toll gate. Sleds and Wagons for the boys and Dolls for the girls, and a large assortment of Candies for the children. All are invited to come and see him. .... There will also be found a lot of N ovelties suitable for . . . CVAS GIFTS Consisting of fancy Glass-ware, Decorated China-ware, Toques, Fascinators, Men's and Ladies' fancy Handkerchiefs; also, Oranges, Figs, Dates, and Nuts of all kinds. The Irwin Store Deposit it, when you have a fl surplus, with $ The Fulton County Bank.. Borrow, when in need from ' We are ready with a Com plete Assortment ot . Holliday -:- Goods FOR CHRISTMAS BUYING. Our special effort this season in the direction of Original Novelties and New Features has met with most gratifying success, and we shall deem it a privilege to show you a very ex tensive assortment of FANCY DECORATED CHINA, CUT GLASS, SIL VER NOVELTIES, SILVERWARE, LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWEL RY, BOOKS, FRAMED PICTURES, LADIES' AND GENTS' TOILET CASES, CARD ALBUMS AND Card boxes, Toys, Dolls and Novelties of all kinds for the Children, Groceries Candies. ...... GOLDEN STAR AND WHITE SEWING MACHINES. We feel confident that the most critical examination of our stock will convince you it is not equaled elsewhere in merit or in price. We invite you to give us your business. ....... THE IRWIN STORE. . The officers are men with years of practical training In their re spective lines. They are thoroughly competent and exercise pru dence and the utmost care In the management of this institution. They do not have a dollar invested in stocks or corporation bonds. Individual liability and Beourlty to Depositors of more than fl.TOO.OOO.OO. W. H. NELSON, - - - Cashier. EIGHTEEEN STOCKHOLDERS DTRKOTOKS : J. Nelson Sipes, Chas. R. Spangler, A. U. Naee Wm. H. Nelson. J. P. Johnston. Walter M. Comerer, A. F. Baker INSTITUTE ,4 Special Sales in Millinery During Institute Week. 44.4. " We have the most attractive display of hats in town. Hats of su perior materials and excellent workmanship: Hats not equaled any where else The newly trimmed Velvet, Silk, aud Kelt Hats; In fact, hats in every fashionable color, among them some WORTH ALMOST DOUBLE THE PRICE WE ASK We will he pleased to have you call at our Store during Institute Week. Everybody welcome. All hats trimmed free. Store opposite PoBtolltce, MRS. A. F. LITTLE. TO UNITE CHURCHES. Presbyterian, Reformed and Interested. Welsh Are J. K. Johnstons Give a Serviceable Girt. Xmeu Give a ChJJj Serviceable Present. GOODS ARE SERVICEABLE. tlarrisonville M. E. Church Notice. Revival services at Siloam. Fourth quarterly meeting will be held at Anbury, Saturday af ternoon, December l'Jth. at 2:30. District Supt. E. M. Stevens will preach at Siloam, Saturday evening at 7. Asbury Sunday, Dec. 20th Sunday school, 0:80 a. m.; Christ mas sermon by Dr. Stevens, at 10:30 a. m. biloam Sunday school, 9:30 a. in. revival services by pastor, at 9:80 p. in. Lu'Phek W. McGakvey, Pastor. As a direct result of the move ment to secure a unity in the Christian churches by the estab lishment ot the federil council of the churches of Christ in Ameri ca, which closed its session in Philadelphia, announcement was made last Wednesday that a joint committee representing the Pres byterian church in thetlnited States ol America, the Reformed church in the United States aud horse. the Welsh Presbyterian church I He is never in love, but attends Why We Like a Mule. I '.realist; he is the most tireless worker on the farm. He eats less than a horse, but does more work. He is always as good as cash iu the bank. He never falls through a bole in a bridge and generally keeps out of danger. He is an excellent saddle ani mal if you know how to saddle him. His feet stand hard roads bet ter than those of a horse. He is more intelligent than a has recommended to the respec tive bodies a consolidation of the three churches. Dr. William H. Roberts, form er moderator of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America, was chairman of the committee representing that body; Rev. J. Spangler Kietler, of Hagerstown, Md., was chair rrtau of the committee of the Re formed church, and Rev. R. T. Roberts, of Wilkesbrre, headed the committee of the Welsh church. Miss Maye McEldowuey, ot Hagerstown, and Miss Heas Mot ter spent last week the guests of J. G. Alexander' family. strictly to business all the time. He is never sick but once, and then he dies. Hut who ever saw a dead muls since the war? He never stops to tight Hies as a horse does, because his hide is tougher. He is just as gentle as a horse if he has. not been spoiled iu breaking. His aire cuts little titure in a sale. Nobody caies much hew old a mule is. He will bring from $150 to 2f0 when he is full grown if he is big and smooth aud strong. Farir. World. For The Men Neckties, lOto 50c. Mufflers, 25c to $1.00. Umbrellas, 75c to $1.00 Kid Gloves, 50c to $1,00 Golf Gloves, 25 to 50c. Hose--fancy, 10 to 25c. Fur Caps, $1.00 to $1.50 Coat Sweaters, 50c to $3.50. Handkerchiefs, 5c to $1.00. Suit Brush, 25c. Suit Cases, 1.00 to 5.00. Cuff Links, 26c. Pocket Books, 10 to 50c. Fancy Shirts, 50c to $1.00. Shoes or Suits always make a serviceable gift. Hair Brush, 25c. Over-gaiters, 25c. Hand Bags, 25c to $1.00. Side or Back Combs 10 to 25c Hair Ribbons, any width or color. Watch Guards, 25c. Patent Leather or Gun Metal Shoes, 1.50 to $3.00. Fur Sets Muffs $1.50 up. Fur Scarfs, 75c to $4.50. Silk Shirt Waist Patterns. any color. A Dress or an Overcoat is a serviceable present. Subscribe tor only 11.00 a year. the "News;" For The Ladies Fascinators,25cto$1.50. Wool Gloves and Mittens 10 to 25c. Kid Gloves, $1.00. Fancy Collars, 5 to 25c. Handkerchiefs, 5 to 25c. For The Children Golf Gloves, 25c. Mittens, 10 to 25c. Handkerchiefs, 5c. up. Hoods, 25c. Toques, 25 and 50c. Leggins, 40 to 60c. Children can always use Hose, 10 to 25c. Fur Sets, 1.25 to $1.60. Dress,Coats or Suits are always useful presents. J. KL. JOHNSTON.
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