The Sheets Stage Line takes
you to Mercersburg for 50 cents.
B. b Deshong appreciates the
kindly iuterest manifested by his
friends tn sending him nucha
tine lot of postal cards on his fifty-fourth
birthday, which occur
red on the 7th inst.
50 cents pays the fare one way
between McConnellsburg and
iUercersburg. bheets
line.
stage
HIDES. James Sipes & Sont.
pay the highest market price
for beef hiaes at t'leir butcher
shop m McConnellsburg, also
highest price paid for calf skins
sheepskins and tallow.
Next Sunday morning, Hev.
Charles 11. I'ittraan will preach
in the Presbyterian church at
Greenhill, at 10:30, and in the
Presbyterian church iu McCon
nellsburg in the evening. Mr.
Pittman spent nine years in mis
sionary 'vork in Persia, and, with
his good wile, will return to that
country next month lor a contin
uation of his labor among those
people.
Jacob llouser, sf Llouserville,
'is one of the most remarkable old
ladies iu Center county. She
makes" her homo with her daugh
ter and, although in her 91st year,
does all the baking for a large
family in addition to tending to
1 her own garden and to the flower
beds, and to helping with the
housework. Her faculties re
main alert and she is able to re
member clearly recent events, as
well as those of years passed by.
The wife of a Perry township,
Snyder county, farmer has dis
covered a good cure for troubles
caused by the pesky English
sparrow. The birds were de
stroying her young lettuce and,
after trying other remedies with
out avail, she conceived the idea
of soaking bread with whiskey
and placing it in the lettuce beds.
This she did aud the birds de
voured the food greedily. They
became so drunk that they lay on
the ground in a stupor and she
killed them bv the hundreds.
After July 1 users of tobacco
may look for a change in the size
of their boxes or bags of tobacco
and a rise in the price of their ci
gars and cigarettes as the result
of the new internal revenue law
that will go into effect on that
date. The tax on all manufac
tured tobacco will be raised 2
cents a pound while the tax on
the "smokers" will be boosted
from 25 to GO cents per thousand.
This advance can only result, re
tailers and users of the weed say,
in an increase ol the price.
1 Thomas McCallion, of Cessna,
Bedford county, is one of the
most interesting and honored
residents of that place and vicmi
ty. lie is a man well advanced in
years and has the distinction of
being the last survivor of the
Mexican war in 1 Jed ford county.
The men who marched with Scott
or Taylor in the invasion of Mexi
co back some sixty years ago
would hardly form a corporal's
guard in this state, and Mr. Mc
Callion happens to be one of them,
lie is yet hale and hearty, retains
all hia faculties and is one ot the
most interesting of men to meet
and converse with in that section
of the country. lie does not idle
away his . hours, but is a man of
activity.
To Move Ajalnst Toll Roads.
A meeting of the Toll Road
Commission, which has for its
purpose the elimination of all toll
.roads in the state of Pennsylva
nia, will be held in Philadelphia,
on Friday morning, June 21. The
immediate purpose of the assem
bly is to consider data pertaining
to the question gathered during
the past year and to frame a re
port and draft a bill for presenta
tion at the next session of the
Legislature. This bill will proba
bly provide for the condemnation
of every toll road in the state and
a proper division of the costs.
Notice to Contractors.
Scaled bid! will be received by the
Ayr Township BcIkmjI Hoard (or a
School House at McNaughtooa. All
bid to b handud to auy one of the
Cumnltl by 13 o'clock M., July
jto. .'
v giMtclik-attooa can .be awn with any
uui of tbe Committee 4 .' ' ;' ," '
, ;'. . " E. W. IlKUKHSUOTj
WM. H. NkI.RO.V,
0-H, 2t. CoinmltU.
WESTLRN LETTER.
Peter Scheldleman Writes from Washing
ton. Has Had the Trip of His Lite.
Sees Some Nice Country.
Mt. Vernon, Wash., June 7,
1010. I left Old Fulton county
April 11, 1910. I got to brother
John's April 13th. While I was
there it snowed and . rained. I
had a nice time. John has a nice
farm. On Monday noon, the 18th,
started for the State of Wash
ington. I saw some tine country
and saw some that was awfully
poor. When I struck Washing
ton, I saw some awful mountains
and rocks. They were straight
up, and, if anything, were leaning
over a little. I landed at sister
Mary's, Friday night, April 22nd,
about 12 o'clock. I never ' had
such a long trip in my life. I was
glad when I got here. Seattle is
a wonderfully big city the big
gest I was ever in.
Sister Mary didn't know me. I
had to tell her who I was. Mon
day, the 25th, I started for moth
er's; landed there the same day.
When I got to mother's, I asked
them if I could get dinner, and
they said 1 could. They got din
ner ready and told me to come in
so I had to tell them who I was
I couldn't stand it any longer.
The next morning, I came over to
brother Sam's. He. knew me.
He was the only one that did know
me. I went to sister Lizzie's tbe
next day. I had to tell her who
I was too. They all live near each
other. I think this country is
all right; I like it. I saw some
of the biggest trees and stumps
stumps that a fellow can't fall
over some as big as houses.
Sam has got as good a farm as 1
have seen anywhere; and Dan,
also, has a good little farm. Sam
is pasturing his meadow what
he intends to cut for hay pastur
ed it till the last of May. i cut
thistles in it, and it was knee high
then. He says he will make four
tons to the acre. It is all the way
from $15 to $18 a ton, and oats
and potatoes I never saw so
many. People have got wagon
loads of potatoes going to waste.
If you haven't got any, let me
know and 1 will snd you some
by mail. There is fruit in abun
dance cherry trees that have a
ton of cherries on them. Prunes
are fine. They grow as big as
hen eggs. Work is plenty and
wages are better here than "in
Fulton. I wish I had come about
20 years ago. I never will be sat
isfied back there any more. The
people are nice and clever out
here.
P. S. SCHEIDLEMAN.
Letter to Sheriff Harris,
McConnellsburg, Pa.
Dear Sir: Experience teaches
some people sometimes; it teach
es a few some things; it's a
mighty slow school though, that
same experience.
Lots of people paint Jead-and-oil,
paint once in three years, and
think themselves wise; they are
wastiDg half their money and
fuss. Ther're so sure they are
wise, they die as they live, paint
foolish. Experience teaches
them nothing.
There's another set, who buy
paint by the gallon, and go by tbe
price of e. gallon. They think
one price is high and another is
low; and they pay about middling
why don't they pay low 5 They
know that milk isn't dear or
cheap by the price of a quart;
that the milk has something to
do with it. They don't buy
"cheap" milk; but they buy
"cheap paint and pay double. Ex
perience toaches them nothing.
There's another set. They
palnte-1 years ago lead-and-oil;
exhausted that. Then tried some
thing else; it was better or worse
Then Devoe; it cost about half
and wore twice as long. That's
bow experience teaches some of
us.
Yours truly
64 F. W. Devoe & Co.
P. 3. Hull & Bender, McCon
nellsburg; J. A. Uoyd, Mercers
burg, and. Norman O. Huber,
Cbambersburg, sell our paint
Albert T. Eyerly, Ilagerstown,
who was bitten by a supposed
a; ad dog and who took three
weeks treatment at the Pastour
Institute, Baltimore, has return
ed honxjand believes he is entire
ly cured. Dunn? the treatment
be gained ix pound ' The treat
tnent consisted of 28 injections
in the stomach, and cost t-50.
TABLE MANNERS.
An Important Branch of Knowledge Which
Should Be Imparted Early la the
Lite of the Child.
The first thing a child learns is
the road that lies between its lit
tie hand and rosy mouth. Yet,
despite this early start in a very
important branch of knowledge,
nine out of ten adult persons eat
improperly.
The reason of this, in the first
instance, is that parents have ne
glected to reprove the first signs
of clumsiness, thinking it all
right if the child only eats the
meal set before it.
To eat gracefully, which is to
say noiselessly and -properly, is
one of the first accomplishments
demanded by polite society. It
is impossible to know the elegant
world without it that is, to go on
knowing it, for the taoleboor may
have crept in once somehow.
And, though one may be inclined
to forgive the -clumsy, hearty,
and really big boy somewhat,
there seems no excuse for tha
girl whatever her age. As she
represents the ornamentll side
of the human race, more Is ex
pected of her than of the other
sex.
As a well set table is the begin
ning of table education, the girl
who finds her home neglected m
this respect, should take it upon
herself to make the family board
more attractive.
In tbe land in which we live
what constitutes bad manners at
table ? Eating noisily, voracious
ly.. with the elbow on the table,
with the mouth full when speak
ing; in the guest dabbing quanti
ties of pepper and salt and other
condiment8-cpon the food served;
in wearing the napkin as a bib in
stead of placing it upon the knees;
in not knowing the fork for this
thing and the knife for that; in
buttering the bread in a whole
slice instead of breaking it off in
morsels and buttering those
when ready to eat them; in eating
the soup from the tip of the spoan
instead of from the side; in the
hostess or host apologizing for
the simplicity of the meal and ap
pointments when they can afford
nothing better; in the guest not
knowing that it is the height of
indelicacy te ask for things not
on the table suppose there is no
Worcestershire or mustard or
olive oil in the house and in their
going away without compliment
ing the host or hostess upon the
meal.
Along witb these graver offens
es, there are some minor ones,
though each, and every "slip"
counts in the summing up. For
example, the polite world expects
you to know that you must eat as
paragus with a fork aud not with
the fingers; that the spaghetti
must be rolled over the fork and
carried deftly to the mouth with
out a hanging end, and never cut
up; that green salad must also be
disposed of, somehow, without
cutting; that fish is a food for
forks and never for knives; that
you ought to understand, if you
don't already, that if you take a
chicken or bird bone la the left
hand and nibble it prettily, you
would be doing quite a permissi
ble thing, whereas to hold the
bone in both hands and eat greed
ily, is an actual impertinence.
To sum up the moral signifi
cance of table manners, it must
be remembered always that the
offer of a meal in a private family
is the highest compliment that
can be paid. It is incumbent up
on the guest, then, to hold all that
has passed at this table as holy,
whether some defects marked the
meal or not. Which is to say,
there must be no unflattering dis
cussion of the entertainers upon
going home, no ungracious word
concormng the meal or its man
ner of serving. The hostess
must be equally exquisite toward
the departed guest, letting fall no
word that would put her in any
belittling or ungraceful light.
Definition.
Vera (eight years old) What
does transatlantic mean, mother?
Mother Across the Atlantic;
of course; but you mcsn'k bother
me.
Vera Does "traus" always
mean across T '
Mother I suppose it Hoes.
Now, if you don't stop bothering
me with your questions I shall
end you right to bed. '
.Vera (after a few minutes' al
ienee) Then does transparent
mean a cross parent Ideas,
MRS. A. F. LITTLE'S
Summer Millinery."
Kaster, 1911), has come and gone, and with It winter and spring mil
linery. The Good Old Summer Time, is here, with Its. wealth of flowers and
fruits, and the discriminating buyer wants her hat trimmed in unison
with the season.
It was to meet this demand that we made the second trip to the east
ern cities, and are now busy unpacking and marking the finest, fresh
est, and most up-to-date millinery attractions It ever has been our
pleasure to offer.
".lust too lovely for anything" is the' Involuntary expression
of every ore who sees them.
Maybe you want a large hat. We have them just what you want.
Then, our flowers and fruits and ribbons and all that go toward
making seasonably trimmed hats. Peaches, apricots, grapes, cherries
so natural that they fool the robins.
Then, finally and lastly, the price is right. Just about half what you
would have to pay If you went to Harrlsburg or Philadelphia; and It
would not be a bit better in quality or style either.
Just opposite the Postolllce, McConnellsburg.
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ruLi vll wUli 1 I oim
McConnellsburg, Pa.
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Unvarnished Dependable Facts
Such points as peculiar sagging pockets,
lapels becoming shapeless, buttons drop
ping off at unwarranted moments, and
seams ripping here and there, are all to
tally foreign to the suits you buy of us.
The Key-note of This Business Is,
as much good making as can be squeezed
into a suit made to your order.
-:- The Suitings to Suit Are Here in All Grades. -:
We have the season's styles, in Straw
Hats, Stiff and Dress 'Hats. They come
in new every few weeks.
Dusters, Khaki Pantaloons, all kinds.
Sress Shirts in great variety.
Men's Boys' and Children's Suits. Do not
forget the place.
(ORGANIZED IN 1887.)
EIGHTEEN STOCKHOLDERS
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all among the prominent business men of the County.
m 5 ine resources or this Hank now ar exceed any neiiod In its ex-
J"S existence.
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We Pay 3 Per Ceut. Interest.
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v Our customers value and "bank on" our security to depositors,
J and our willingness and ability to assist them In every way consist- M
ent with sound banking, "v 0.0
5S More Than $;100.000.)0 Security to Depositors. Jf
W. II. NELSON. - - - fnslnPr
DIRECTORS : J. Nelson Sipes, Chas. R. Spangler, A. U. Nace
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
of McConnellsburg,
At the close of business March 29, 19IO.
RESOURCES.
LonDKund DIhoouiUh SITS.IMSHI)
OverdrufU, neuured and unsecured. , KH.MO
U. 8. Ilonds to Hecure circulation .... 2S.0G0 CO
1'remlunw on U. 8. Uundi W1.15
Bonds, securities, etc 50.hkm.ki
IJnnklUK bouse, furniture, and fixtures 70.00
Due from Stutc, Prlvute IlunkH, and
Hankers, Trust Co' and Sav. Hanks 1,M&.ft!
Due from upproved reserve ugenu... H4.4H7.M
Checks undother cash Items , 1.8S0.42
Notes of otber Nallonul Dunks 740.00
Fractional paper currency, nickels and
cents 1J0.98
LAwrui. Monby KB4EKVI in Bank, viz ;
Specie Si 8.80? 05
Leval-tender notes 1,310.00 17,942.95
UedemptloD fund with U. 8. Treasurer
5per cent, of circulation) 1,850.00
Total 1318,761 09
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock puld In (X.OOO.OO
Murplus fund 7.IW0.00
Undivided profits, less expenses and
taxes paid 4.094.9S
Nutlouul H.ink notes outitandlng 24.rtoO.00
Due to other Nutlonul Hanks 3,693.8-.!
Individual deposits subject to aheck. 70,811.91
Demand certlllcutes of deposit 8-6.00
Time cert ttuates of deposit 178.522.74
Certified checks 769 98
Cusbler's cheeks outBtundlnif HQS H
total 1813,761.99
The law requires us to make five sworn state
ments to the Comptroller of the Currency at Wash
ington, D. C, eachyear. The last call was on"
March 29th, which statement appears above. The
next call will be made soon. WATCH THIS
SPACE. Compare this statement with the one
to be published soon and Note Our Growth.
A. U. NACE & SON.
SPRING, 1910
New Millinery :-: Smart
Styles :-: Superior Quality.
, We offer for the coming season the most superb
line of high grade Fashionable Millinery it has ever
been our good fortune to offer to our customers and
trade.
.We have - all the latest New
York and Philadelphia styles.
' Our Hats trimmed and untrimmed have a certain1
charm and individuality about them that you only
find in a first-class Millinery Store
Prices, you will always find right.
Thanking you for past favors you are cordially in
vited to call, see our goods, get - prices, and be one
of our many customers.
ANNA B. FREY, McConnellsburg, Pa.
BUGGIES:
BUGGIES
I have 'ugt refilled my sheds with a fine lot ot new Top
Buggies, both factory and hand-made; ranging in price
from 145 00 up to 175.00 for the best hand-made Mlfflin
burg buggy. My t45 buggy is a good, strong, substan
tial one that I will guarantee to give good satisfaction.
I will sell on time to suit customers. It will pa? you to
examine my stock before you buy elsewhere.
Thanking the public for past patronage and soliciting
a continuance of their favors I am,
Very truly yours, ,
W . R . E V A N
HUSTONTOWN, F.
How To Keep Young.
, A well known woman m society
held forth the other day on the
subject of health, eturnal youth
and so on. She gave some prac
tical advice and the pith ef it is
as follows: "Theecret of youth
and health is rest, plain liviug
and exercise. Let nothing keep
you out of bed after e'pven. Nev
er walk less than one mile in the
day. Eit no breakfast and at
luncheon or dinner choose only
plain dishes. Do dot driuk at
meals, but always have a glass of
Vtry hot water the last thing at
night. Above all, never worry."
Woman's Life.
MARVaOUS DISCOVERIES
mark the wonderful progress of
the age. Air flights on heavy
machines, telegrams without
wires, terrible war inventions to
kill them, and that wonder of
wonders Dr. King's New Dis
covery to save life when threat
ened by coughs, colds, lagrippo
asthma, croup, bronchitis, hem
orrhage, bay fever and whooping
cough or lung trouble. For all
bronchial affections it has no
equal; It relieves instantly. Its
the surest cure. James M, Black)
of Ashevlllo, & C, K K. No. 4,
writes it cured him vt an obstin
ate cough after all otber remedies
tailed. 50o, and $1.00. Atrial
bottle, free. Guaranteed by
Trout's drug store.
-:- J. L JOHNSTON ...
Have you thought about your -
19 10 :
SPRING SUIT,
About the style and shade,
DON'T make a selection until
you have looked over our
FULL LINES
Groens, Grey, and Blues are
the colors for this year and
don't let any one sell you any
thing else,
Boys' $1.25 to $3.50.
Youths'- $3.50 to $10.00.
Men's $5.00 to $15.00
Wo can't show you on paper
the quality but ask that you
give them your own personal
Inspection. We have them In
stock any size and am sure
we can sav you MONKY.
J. X
'11.
Ladies' Linen Jacket Suits,
all new styles, plain white or
natural Linen color, also in -extra
skirts, Khl Kal and white.
Our Shirt Waists
are all new ones new patterns
and new material, 60c, plain
white or colored. The 75o. to
91.50 are embroidered fronts .
and long sleeved and also in
Tailored; the 12.00 to 3 50 are
. In China Silk and Net.
Summer Lawns,
Jacket Suitings, Seersuckers,
Percales. Although prices
' have raised, we still can sell .,
. them at OLD PRICES.
- J. K. JOHNSTON. -:
OXFORDS
We are showing the prettiest
line of Ladles' and Gents'
1910 styles in all the shades of
Tan, Ox Blood, Gun Metal,
and Patent Leathers, either
Pumps or high cut. Don't
fall to see the quality of Leath
er in the in these goods. , We
can recommend them to be 1st
Class.
We are carrying a full line
of Dress and Everyday Shoes
that cannot be excelled any
where, and the prion is right.
! oJr fu
Ask ito see '-our full
line of Hats and Caps
Carpets and Mattings no advance over last year's prices.
BASE BALL GOODS ,
are now in, Catchers Mitts, Field Gloves and plenty, of Guaranteed
Balls (doubled covered). We also can furnish the Material for Uni
forms. Base Ball Shoes, 50c, any size and color. Call around and
see pur,full stock. Thanking you for past patronage. x
J. R. JQHNSTON, McConnellsburGf, Pa.