JHI0H Wops. VOLILWE 11 McCONNELLSBURG, PA., APRIL 14, 1910. NUMBER 27 RECORD OF DEATHS. Persons Well Known to Many of Our Readers, Who Have Answered . Final Summons. ALL SEASONS ARE THINE, 0 DEATH. Booth. On April the th, after an ill ness of four days of paralysis, all that was mortal of Jane A. Booth passed away, her husband Ex-County Surveyor William H. Booth having preceded her to the great beyond ten years ago. Grandma Booth as she was familiarly called was aged 71 years and twenty-nine days and had Bhe lived until the eighth day of July would have resided fifty years on the farm in Springfield township, Huntingdon county, where she died, she having first gone to house keeping there in 1860. Mrs. Booth had a light stroke about three years ago, and since that time has not been able to go about much, but would sit in her arm chair, always busy at some work trying to make some one more comfortable. She had se lected as her text the 23rd chap ter of Psalms, saying that she had derived so much comfort during the affliction from this chapter. She is survived oy the following children: Mrs. A. J. Grissinger of Maddensville; Mrs. II. T. Un verzaghtof Newburg Pa.; Mrsv C. E. Starr of Three Springs; John B. and Miss Ella on the homestead. The funeral was preached at her home by Rev. Martin C. Fie gal of the M. E. church of Three Springs, assisted by Rev. Reidel of Walnut Grove charge, after whish she was laid to rest beside her husband in the Cromwell cemetery. The large crowd of sorrowing friends bore evidence of the esteem in which Bhe was held in the community where she had lived so long. ' Ob, Mother dear, how we will miss you, how we looked forward with pleasure for your annual visit with us; how we will miss your loving smile, and tender embrace at the old homestead; but with aching hearts we sub mit to Him who doeth all things welL S. Wright. William Wright died at his home in Ayr township week be fore last, of hemorrhage of the stomach. He was a veteran hav ing been a member of the 76th regiment Pennsylvania Volun taers, and served his term of en listment. He contracted tho dis ease from which he died and was a great sufferer. His age was about 76 years. He was married to Miss Margaret McLucas to which union five - children were born, two dying in infancy. Three are living: Mrs. Ed.. Winters, liv ing at William sport, Md.; Lizzie wife of Bert Hess, of Foltz, Pa., and Samuel J. a crippled boy at home. He also bad three broth ers, Paul, . Morgan and James, and one Bister, Mrs. James Steck of McConnellsburg, who are all dead. He was a kind neighbor and always willing to lend a help ing hand to those in . need. He will be greatly missed by his neighbors and friends; He was preceeded to the grave 13 years ago by his wife. . Uis funeral was conducted by Rev. Capt Dotterman of the Sal vation Army and was buried in the Lutheran cemetery near Big ove Tannery. Taylor.' ' We are called on this week to re cord the untimely death otMrs. Margaret Gregory Taylor, widow Mr. J. Harvey Taylor, who died Tuesday, March 20tb, in Hancock." Mrs. Taylor survived him but only five days, dying Sunday afternoon April 6rd, of pueumo a! aged 75 years. She was born n this county, in 1835. Her sin ters surviving are Urn. Y7a. P. Coidou, of War ford;' tnd Mrs Anna Carl, of Ge' n, Md one brother Jctn ' . j All Because He Is Grandfather. Persona crossing the mountain on the Fort Loudon pike Tuesday evening, were amused at the an tics of a middle aged gentleman with an iron-gray Van Dyke beard, who, apparently bound for McConnellsburg, showed pecu liar evidences of great exuberance of spirit. Occasionally he climb ed trees, swung up and down from overhanging branches, yell ed "Hooray," and even Bprinted at a good gait a distance of sever al yards at a time up the mount am. When he reached the top, he was seen to turn several hand springs and somersaults, and once even tried to stand on his head. There was some mystery as to his identity until it became known that Don Morton, of Omaha, Ne braska, son of our near towns man, Ex-Associate Judge Peter Morton, bbcame, on the morning of the 12th Inst, the proud father of a bran new baby girl. The Judge, upon hearing the news, immediately took a trip to Cham bersburg, returning to Loudon on the evening train, and walking home from that point in a little less than two hours. Upon his arrival at home, it is said by mem bers of the family, that he cut wood on the woodpile for an hour and forty minutes something he has never before been known to do. While this is not conclusive evi dence that it was the Judge who was seen doing the stunts on the mountain, suspicion po.ints strongly his way, as the descrip tion of the man and the Judge's Van Dyke beard tally exactly. Birthday Surprise. Mrs. Ahimaaz Clevenger re membered that last Wednesday, April 6th, was Mr. Clevenger's birthday, so she asked him to go down the Cove with her to see about some guineas. While they were guinea hunting, about sev enty-two of their neighbors and friends assembled at the Cleven ger home south of town, to pay their respects to Mr. Clevenger, and have a jolly good time, which they had in every sense of the word. A very important feature of the evening was the serving of refreshments which werejbevond description, as Mrs. Clevenger had made ample provision tor ev eryone before starting on the hunting expedition, and any one who has been served at the Clev enger home, can imagine how the good things rolled in at the dining room door". The McConnellsburg Cornet Band, of which Mr. Clevenger is a member, furnished the music for the evening. Mr. Clevenger received quite a nice lot of pres entsOne Who Was There. Mercersburg Hotel Sold. The old Mansion House, at MercerBburg, operated for many years, by the late Jacob Fendrick, changed bands on Monday. C. W. Huff, a brother of J. J. Huff. of the Washington hotel, Cham ber sburg purchased the fixtures several months ago and had been successfully conducting the same since. Recently, Mr. Huff decid ed to engage in other business and dispose of his business at at Mercersburg. The purchaser is Wm. Myers a well known and successful resi dent of Clearfiold. (, of Kansas City, also survives, tier children surviving are Mrs. H. K. Beachloy of Hageratown, Mrs. Dr. J. E. Benson of Cock eysvllle, and Mr. John M. Taylor at home. The death of Mrs. Taylor breaks up the family home en tirely, There has been three deaths in the family since Novem ber last. Mrs. Mary Hill, a daughter, of Cumberland, died last December. , Mrs. Taylor was a consistent member of the Mothodlst church. Her funeral took place on Tues day afternoon. Interment bsside h?r lata husband, SEEINO CHICAGO. Miss Barbara ttartin Continues Her De scription of Places of Interest She Visited In the Great Metropo lis of the West. In my letter published in the News, December 13, 1909, I told of the Art Institute, and of Mont gomery, Ward's big store. In this letter I shall tell you of oth er places that were very interest ing to me. The second day, I started out a little earlier and visited the City Hall, Cook county Court House, Tribune Building, and the follow ing stores: Siegel Cooper, Man dell Brothers, Boston Store, Bur ley & Go's. China and Cut Glass one of the finest ot its kind in Chicago and Marshall Fields, which is the largest and finest re tail store in the world, and which I will attempt to describe. There are always a number of visitors making a tour of the store. Upon entering the store, there is someone in waiting to di rect the visitor to the waiting room on the third floor. We wait ed here until a guide came. There are a number of ladies who do nothing but show the visitors through the store and point out to them the most interesting plac es. They seldom take more than ten in a party at one time. We were taken up to the twelfth floor, where we entered a small cloak room adjoining the cold storage, and a heavy winter wrap was given to each one of us to put on. Then, another guide in heavy winter clothing showed us through the cold storaga, where $3,500,000 worth of furs were kept in excellent condition through the summer. This de partment was colder than the coldest day in January, and the guide looked as though he had come from the f.-ozen regions of the north. From here we were taken to the north rotund t, where we had a sectional view of the store. The granite monoliths at the mam entrance on State street are 484 feet high and 3i feet in diameter. The main aisle is 385 feet long. Above the rotunda in the south room there is a Tiffany Mosaic dome of iridescent favrile glass. This is the largest single piece of glass Mosaic in the world and so far as known, is the first dome ever built of iridescent glass. Its area is nearly 6000 square feet. This store has the busiest private telephone ex change in the world, handling ov er 10,000 calls a day. The Tea and Grill Rooms cover the entire seventh floor, and have' a seating capacity for 2,500 per sons. We were told that 5,000 visitors lunch -there every day. The total ivrea of these rooms is 81,450 square feet. The delivery system utilize over 300 wagons and 700 horses, and cover a terri tory of about 350 square miles. The volume of air supplied in the ventilating system is 425,420 cubic feet per minute. The ice machines have a capacity ot 100 tons daily. It is estimated thai the number of visitors average nearly 200,000 every day. There are reading, writing and rest rooms for, the visitor. The read ing tablea are supplied with Hall standard magazines, Chicago newspapers, and the leading pa pers from other large cities. There is a library and writing- room exclus?vely for women. Woiren'a waiting rocaa, men's waiting room, ' and children's room. There is a medical room fitted with all the most modern conveniences. There are 871,125 Bquare feejt of Wilton carpet used on the floors in the selling section of the store. If this carpet was rolled out in one strip it would extend thirty one and aquirter miles. There are three stories below the level of ' the street. From the ground floor there is an underground electno railway which connects the retail house with the wholesale house. The distance between the two houses is one mile. There are ' twelve thousand employes in the tore. Historic Bedford House Closed. The Bedford House, in Bert ford, the oldest hotel in the town, was permanently closed on the 1st of April, no license having been granted the place this spring. This h-use was built in 1771, is a fine and substantial struc'ute, has been one of the leading hotels of the place, and is one of its historic edifices, in which many prominent men have been entertained during the many years that it was a public house, among them being General Wash ington. The hotel was conducted for many years by Col. John Haf er and after his death by his sons the late J. Harper and Harry O. Hafer, the latter having had charge since the death of his brother a few months ago. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Myers, and their little son, of Mercersburg, spent Sunday on this side of the mountain, guests of Mrs. Myer's mother Mrs. R. M. Kendall. We were a little over an hour in going through. I will give a few interesting facts about Chicago. The city is twenty-six miles long and its greatest width is fifteen miles. Its area is 190 square miles with a lake frontage of twenty two miles. It has 4152.73 miles of streets, of which 1324.60 are improved. Fifty-nine miles are boulevards. Its park area is 2232 acres. The great fire began October 8th, 1871 by the upsetting of a lamp by Mrs. U Leary s ill temp ered cow, and burned until ex tinguished by a rain on the morn ing of October 10th. There were 2100 acres of land burned over 18000 buildings destroyed, and 100,000 people rendered homeless by the calamity. The estimated loss was $200,000,000. Chicago is destinp-J to be the first city in America.' It is now the largest hog market in the world; the largest cattle market; the largest lumber market; the the greatest grain market; the greatest stove market; the largest packing center; the greatest rail way center in the world. Chi cago has the largest stock yards; the finest hotel buildings; the largest office buildings n the world. It covers a greater area than any other city in the world, and has the greatest elevator ca pacity. It has the largest agri cultural implement factory in the world, the largest mining ma chine factory; the largest com mercial building; the larget re tail dry goods house; the largest cold storage buildings- in the world. It has the largest library circulation in the United States, aud the largest percentage of bank reserves in America. It has the most complete water sys tem in the world; has 93 educa tional institutions; 81 benevolent institutions; and 66 hospitals. I liked Illinois on account of her balmy zephyrs; so I decided to spend the winter within her bord ers. 1 applied for a school and soon found a vacancy. The term is eight and one half months. Af ter deciding to remain there for the winter, 1 went down to southern Indiana to visit another brother whom I had not seen for a number of years. Owing to family cares and the close con finement to business, he seldom gets away. V rule there I bad the pleasure of attending the Teachers' County Institute. As August is a very warm month for Bush work, they held half day sessions for two weeks. It was conducted along the lines of class room work. I also had the pleas ure of seeing Armour's team of four gray horses which cost $25, 000. They were well worth Bee iDg. Cue of the tnoSt interesting things I saw in the town was a small tree growing from the tow er in the Court House. It looked to be about three feet high and two feet across the branches. . bad evidently started from seed which had been carried by the wind and lodged there, KILL THE SPARROWS. festroy Their Nests, Eggs, or Young, Whenever You Have an Opportunity. Do Not Use Poison. You May Destroy Other Birds. To the gardener and fruit grow er the English sparrow is a nuis ance rather than a help. It was introduced into the Uoited States about forty years ago, to prey upon the measuring worm, or canker worm, which had become very destructive to shade trees in the cities. It found many other things, however, to engage its attention, and soon became so undesirable in its habits as to be come despised by gardeners, far mers, fruit growers and horti culturists generally. It is a pug nacious bird, and on account ol its violent attacks upon them many of cur most valuable native song and insectivorous birds have greatly diminished. It not only is disposed to drive such birds from their nests, but has been known to kill and devour their young and their eggs. Moreover, the English sparrow feeds largely in the spring on the bnds . of fruit trees, and, also, does great damage in vegetable gardens in pulling up and eating the seeds, such as peas, etc., as they come up. It is, likewise, destructive in grain fields, as it alights on the stalks of wheat and bats, and not only consumes large quantities of grain, but wastes a great deal through sway ing to and fro on the slender stalks, causiug the grain to fall to the ground. It has been known to tear open the husks of green corn, devour the tender kernels, and cause much loss through ex posure the remaining grains to atmospheric changes and the ravages of insects. The martens which formerly returned every spring to the boxes provided for them in towns and cities, have, in many instan ces, failed to turn up, on account of their nesting places having been seized and occupied by Eng hsh sparrows. Many other in sectivorous birds, as useful as the marten, have been driven away by the common feathered enemy. In fact, there is hardly a species of our native birds that the English sparrow will not mo lest. In view of the pugnaciousness of the English sparrows and their destructiveness, and but few re deeming qualities. State Zoolo gist Surface recommends that a war' of extermination be waged against them. It will not do to endeavor to poison them, he says, as by scattering grain for that purpose which had been soaked in some poisonous solution, the lives of useful birds would be en dangered, as well as domestic fowls. They can be shot and trapped, or their nests destroyed when containing young, thus keeping them down to a mini mum. There was formerly a law which protected the English sparrow, the same having been passed soon after its advent in the United States, but in 1883, at the suggestion of a number of agricultural and horticultural societies, the law was repealed, and the killing of English spar rows, and the destroying of their nests, egg or young, at all sea- eons of the year, is now legalized Kind Words. . Harrisburq, April 11, 1910. Dear Editor: Eaclosed please find the sum of one dollar to boost my subscription to Fulton County News into 1911 as X do not see how 1 can get along without the News aud the many letters from my old home. It certainly is a great pleasure and satisfaction to sit down and read from all over the county what my old acquaint ances and associates are doing and of one being sick or another being dead which I never would have known had I not received your welcome paper. I, N. Horto;?. April Weddings. IIendershot Funk. On Wednesday. April 6. 1910. at Washington, D. C, Mr. Ed ward IIendershot, of Warlords burg, and Miss Minnie C. Funk. of Needmore, were united in holy wedlock, at the home of the offi ciating minister, Rev. E. E. Oli ver. The bride was handsomely gowned in white silk, and the groom wore the conventional black. Amid a shower of rice the happy couple departed. On Friday evening, at 6 o'clock, the in fair was held at the home of the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Denton Hendershot. The bride was the recipient of many beautiful and valuable presents The bride is the daughter of Rev. Calvin Funk, near Need- more, Pa., and is esteemed by a host of friends. The groom is an industrious young man of many good qualities. Mr. and Mrs. IIendershot will go to housekeeping in a few days near Harrisonvile, where a well furnished house is in readiness The numerous friends of the bride and groom wish them much happiness in their journey through life. Slacker Porter. A quiet wedding was solemniz ed at the M. E. parsonage in this place, on Tuesday morning, April 12, 1910, when Benjamin Slacker and Miss Madge Porter, both of Plum Run, Thompson township, were united in holy wedlock, by Rev. C, J. Bryner. Mr. and Mrs. Slacker are worthy young people, and their many friends wish them a happy and prosperous journey through life. Surprise Party. April 4th and April 8th being the birthdays of Misses Mabel and Ethel Long, of Knobsville, their mother thought she would compromise and celeprate both their birthdays on Wednesday. So she with the little help quietly passed the word around among their young friends, and on Wed nesday forenoo as the girls re turned home from the store they were very much surprised to find a number of friends awaiting them. After they had gotten over their surprise they were all invited into the dining room, where a fine dinner was served to which they alt did justice. The afternoon was spent in playing games, after which they all re turned home wishing the girls many more happy birth days. The girls received some nice presents. Oettysburc Wins. The joint maneuvers of the reg ular troops and the organized militia of the District of Colum bia, Maryland, Virginia, Penn sylvania, Delaware and New Jer sey will be held at Gettysburg, Pa., in July next General Oliver assistant secretary of war, said that the decision to hold the camp at Gettysburg was based on tho recommendation of Major Gen eral Leonard Wood, commanding the Department of the East, who was especially charged with the duty of selecting a city centrally located with gopd railroad facili ties and best adapted to the pur poses of the camp. ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW Snapshots at Their Comings and Goings Here for a Vacation, or Away for a Restful Outing. NAMES OF VISITORS AND VISITED Driving Accident. One day last week, as Mrs. D. F. Trout was driving a spirited horse home from town, she met with an accident that might have ended very seriously. When near the home of James Henry, the horse became frightened and growing unmanageable, bolted, overturning the buggy, throwing Mrs. Trout to the ground. She was very severely bruised, and has since been confined to the house. After ridding himself of a very dilapidated buggy, the horse reached home in good shape. ,11. D. Matbias, one of Huston town's residents, was doing busl nen In town on Monday, Dr. J. J. Palmer, of Needmore, was in town the first of tho week. Miss Anna Reisner returned to Wilson College on Tuesday. Chas. Mann, of Saluvia, regis tered at the Washington House on Tuesday night Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Diehl, went to Harris burg Tuesday, to attend Presbytery. W. B. Stigers, one of Bethel township's good citizens, was a Monday Visitor to the County Seat. Mr. and Mrs. ililey Cline, of Licking Creek township, were among the town visitors on Sat urday. Chas. B. Stevens and A. B. Wilkinson spent last Friday and Saturday in Cham bersburg on business. ' Harry II. Gaster, of New Gie nada, spent a few hours in town last Thursday. Earl Taylor, of this place, has gone to Harrisburg, where he has secured a position in the liar risburg auto works. Newton Alloway, of New Gre nada, was in town, Monday, con sulting a doctor. Newton has been in poor health lately. Robert F. Wilmnson, sou of Amos Wilkinson, left on Wednes day to enter the automobile shops of Mr. Shaw,, at Chambersburg. Misses Ethel Freeman, Olive Shimer and Emma Ray, spent from Saturday until Monday in Chambersburg, the guests of Miss Daisy Kelley. Mrs. Wm. B. Skinner, of Mount Vernon, Mo., came to Mc Connellsburg last week on ac count of the illness of her father, F. A. Greathead. Clem Chesnut. one of the Dem ocratic candidates for thenomina tion for the legislature, was look ing after his interests in this place on Monday. J. K. Johnston, who has been under treatment in a hospital in Philadelphia, raturned to his home in this place last Friday, much improved in health. Misses Blanche and Henrietta Patterson, of Webster Mills, dined with Katherine Cook on Tuesday. The latter will return to her hospital duties in Balti more at an early date. Mrs. Aaron Morgret, of Ayr township, was in town on Satur day. For ten years Mrs. Mor gret had the care of Davy Good man, an account of whose death we published last week. Miss Meta Bergstresser, of Pittsburg, is taking a vacation at her home at Waterfall She and her father, W. R. Bergstresser, were in town on Monday and were callers at the News office. Masters Ralph and Earl McEl haney, near Hustontown, accom panied their father, Mr. Zack Mc Elhanay, to town last Thursday, and were interested callers at the News office. - Miss Mary Wilkinson left Tues day morning to attend the wed ding of her friend, Orintha Ex hne, at Hancock, Md. Her grand father, Jacob Wilkinson, accom panied her, and will remain in that town a couple weeks, M. W. Byron, one of the pro prietors of the tannery at Mer cersburg,' and William Boyd, cash ier of the Farmers' Bank at Mer cersburg, drove over to town on Monday m Mr. Byron' auto, and spent a couple hours calling on mends. Miss Ella Brewer, who has been suffering from a severe at tack of typhoid fever, at the resi dence of Mrs. R. M. Kendall, In this place, has so far recovered an to be able to leave for her horns In New Jersey, which she did oa Tueaiiy,
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