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VOLUME 12
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., JANUARY 19, 1911.
NUMBER IS
RECORD OF DEATHS.
i
I Persons Well Known to Many of Our
I Readers, Who Have Answered
Final Summons.
ALL SEASONS ARE THINE, 0 DEATH.
: Gkeathead.
i a telegram received here on
Monday, stated that Francis Al-
fredGreathead had died suddenly
I at the home of his grand daugb
! ter, Mrs. Harry Ualderman, at
! Mount Vernon, Mo., at noon last
S Sunday, and that interment
would be made in that city.
5 The deceased was a son of
) Thomas Greathead, one of the
pioneer merchants of this place,
and was born here, May 20, 1820;
i hence he was aged 81 years, 7
'months and 26 days. lie was
married to Miss Jane Work, a
( member of an old and influential
family, and they spent most of
their married lite in the brick
; house, now the residence of AI
) bert Stoner on Water street, Mc
Connellsburg. Soon after the
! death of his wife, which occurred
in 1892, Mr. Greathead Bold his
property here, and wont to Mount
5 Vernon, Mo., and made his
,) home with his daughter Nollie,
Mrs. Wm. B. Skinner, until she
removed to Springfield, and aft
erwards with his grand daugb-
?tor. lie, however, rciade several
'extended visits to his native town,
and left McConnellsburg last
April after having spent eleven
i months here. lie was the sixth
of a family of ten children in his
I father '8 family Frances, Sarah,
(Elizabeth, Thomas, William Ed-
ward, Francis A., Hepsibah, John
W., George W., and Newton
;J.W., who resides in this placets
(the only surviving member of
; the family. Of the immediate
family of the deceased, there is
but one survivor, Nellie, wife of
Wm. li. Skinner, residing at
ISpringtield, Mo. The deceased
.was an elder in the Presbyterian
.church and was a Christian gen
.tinman, enjoying the esteem of
every one who belongs to the
circle of his acquaintances.
I Fryman. .
At the hone of his parents, Mr
nd Mrs. Upton Fryman, Berrien
Springs, M:ch., Carl Fryman died
last Friday aged about 0 years.
The funeral took place Monday.
I Carl was a victim of tuborculo
ia, and in order to fret tha moat
konefitfrom the fresh air cure,
p slept in an open shack in the
ard at his father's home. A
tope, to which a bell was attach
ed, extended from his bed to the
)Qdroom of his parents so that
e might give them notice of any
fcttention he might need during
the night. Christmas night a
faint tinkling of the bell aroused
the always anxions parents, and
jpon going to their son, found
pirn swoltoring in profuse hemor
phages. He rallied somewhat,
but it was a question of only a
Ihort time when his weakened
Condition must succumb. The
lather is a brother of our towns
ttan, R, N. Fryman, and a native
Of the Big Cove. About a year
go, the parents lost a bright and
beautiful daughter aged 18 years
By the same disease. They have'
' sincere svomathv of their
fUlton COUntT fnonH a
Umholtz.
At the tender aere of 12 vpr
Wd 12 days, Helen Oneta Um
fltz,diedat the home of her
jrandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Catchall, near Waterfall,
fis county, on Thursday morn
Pgof la9t week. The funeral
r Place on Friday, and inter
ment was made in the cemetery
Betel church, New Grenada.
b bright little girl was a victim
f tuberculosis, and when a few
aT8 before her death .she took
toeomonia, there was little hope
wber recovery from the begin
P Of her immediate family,
'one member remains-Lena
jey-who lives with Mr. and
rg. Cutrhnll tJ , .
..... UBr utQef Qlea
ryear Ho at McConnells-
town, Huntingdon county, and
her mother whose maiden name
was Lizzie Cutchall, died at the
home of her parents on the 30th
of June, 1908.
Reichley.
Mrs. Anthony J. Reichley,
wife of the senior partner of the
Reichley Bros. & Co., the exten
sive, lumber manufacturers oper
atingm Wells Valley, died at
their beautiful home in Saint
Clair, Schuylkill county, Pa., on
Wednesday of last week, and in
torment was made in that town
on Monday of this week. The
immediate cause of her death was
B right's disease.
James Lyon Miller.
James Lyon Miller was norn
Lear Burnt Cabins, January 20,
1843, and departed this life at the
Columbia Hospital, 1'ittsburg,
January 9, 1911. He was married
to Margaret Rodkey, July 1805.
lie was converted to God in the
year 1870. These are the princi
pal dates in a long and useful life.
In boyhood be learned the print
ers trade, but after the civil war
m which he served for almost
three months, he started a shoe
business in his native town, of
Saxton, Pa. Ue was a successful
merchant and soon acquired a
comfortable home and place of
business.
That he was held in high esteem
by his fellow citizens is shown by
the fact that he was Justice of
the Peace of Saxton, for fifteen
years, that his brothers in Christ
trusted him is shown by the fact
that he was an Elder of the Beth
el church of Saxton for fourteen
years, and choir leader of tho
same church for eighteen years,
and that he was broad in his re
ligious sympathies is shown by
the fact that he was a constant
worker, not only in his own
church, but in all the other
churches of Saxton.
In 1892 he moved to Pittsburg
and soon thereafter he and his
family united with Walton M. .
church. It has been often ob
served that it is a hazardous ex
periment for a christian man to
leave a country church where he
has been actively identified with
its various enterprises and to go
to a big city, with all its tempta
tions and multitudinous demands
upon his time and strength. But
not so with brother Miller, tor
after he went to Pittsburg al
though he was a traveling sales
man and was compelled to bo
away from home a great deal he
was a regular attendant at public
worship and Sunday School down
to the date of his last illness.
It was not until a few days be
fore he died that his family rea
lized how serions was his con
dition. About Thanksgiving time
Nov. 22, 1910, he was struck by
an automobile at Turtle Creek,
Pa., as he was crossing the street
while at his work. He was taken
to Columbia Hospital at Wilkins
burg, a suburb of Pittsburg.
His rapid recovery dispelled for
the time being any thought of his
injuries being fatal, for he
gradually grew better and better
until he became so well that the
attending physicians allowed him
to be taken to his home for
Christmas a holiday he had not
missed spending with his family
lor forty years. He went back
to the hospital for further treat
ment, thinking that he could have
his injuries better cared for there
under the constant care of skilled
physicians and traned nurses.
But in such an hour as we think
not the Son of Man cometh. A
deadly complication of diseases
had attacked his vital organs and
before anyone scarcely realized
what was coming he slipped
away from us.
He left surviving him a widow,
Margaret, who resides with the
remainder of her family at Pitts
burg; a brother, Solomon Miller,
at McConnellsburg; nve sons and
five daughters Charles Huyet
Miller, a boilermaker; Mrs. Lillie
Ida McCormick, of Philadelphia;
Miss Lucy Emma Miller; Mrs.
Myra Virge Grigg, of Hazeldell;
Mr a. Liberty Helen Christopher;
WHOOPING COUGH
KILLS 91 PEOPLE.
The Bureau of Vital
Statistics Reports
for 1910.
Ninety-one deaths occurred
from whooping cough in Pennsyl
vania in October, 1910, according
to the records of tho Bureau of
Vital Statistics of tho Depart
ment of Health. The record for
this disease is unusually large,
and Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State
Health Commissioner, is seeking
to educate the public to a realiza
tion of the danger of whooping
cough, measles and other so-
called minor diseases of children.
A circular of rules has been
sent out for the care and manage
mcut of whooping cough.
The patient should be kept en
tirely away from other children
or adults who have not had the
disease, and it is advisable to con
tine the patient to a well lighted,
well ventilated room, with vin
dows screened, remoto from oth
er occupied rooms in the house.
Soiled bed and body clothing,
including handkerchiefs and
cloths used for collection of dis
charges from the nose and mouth,
or soiled by vomited matter,
should be thoroughly disinfected.
This may be done by placing them
in water and boiling . for thirty
minutes, or by use of disinfect
ants.
A tub or other vessel contain
ing a sufficient quantity of one of
the disinfecting solutions should
be kept in a convenient place for
soaking bed and body linen.
Remnants of food loft by the
patients should bo burned. Eat
ing utonsils or drinking vessels
from the sick room should not bo
used until they have beon boiled
for at least half an hour.
The air of tho sick room cannot
he disinfected during its occu
pacy by the patient. The prac
tico of hanging up clothes satur
ated with carbolic acid or of
placing saucers of shlorinated
lime or proprietary disinfectants
in the sick room is not only an
noying to the patient but utterly
useless and often injurious.
Individual milk bottles should
not be taken into or removed from
the premises during the exist
ence of the disoase.
"Are You a Fisher?"
Under the above caption, I read
on article in the Fulton County
News of October 0, 1910, in which
the statement was made that a
fortune of eight millions of dol
lars was awaiting Fishers in
America from the estate of one
Baron Fisher in Germany
Now, as I am a daughter of
Jacob S. Fisher who lived and
died in Pigeon Cove, Fulton
county, Pa., perhaps I can tell
something to interest the heirs.
I have the will of my grandfath
er, and ol my great grandfather,
and a dozen or more receipts.
Greatgrandfather's name was
Jacob Fisher, who had eight
children, namely, John, and Pe
ter; Polly, married to George
Shafer; Anna, married to Jacob
Q. Shafer; Fanny, married to
Bethuel Covalt; Elizabeth, mar
ried to George Garland; Sally
must have married a Kelly, for
signing a receipt she signed her
name Sarah Kelly. This receipt
was given in 1851. Grandfather
Peter Fisher, had eight children:
Jacob S., George, John, Marga
ret, Elcy, Mary, Banner and Re
becca. My name is
Allie Laffeuty,
Monroeville, N. J.
Jesse RodkeyMiller, an engineer;
Eli Warren Miller; a clerk; Devoe
P. Miller, a student at law; James
William Miller, a clerk; and Miss
Margaret Rhoda Miller all of
Pittsburg, except, where other
wise stated, and eighteen grand
children. The funeral services were held
in the Walton M. E. church and
the interment was in the South
Side cemetery, Pittsburg,
STRAIT STLTZMAN.
Fulton County Boy Wins Illinois Bride.
Married On 28th of December.
From the Buda, (111.) Plain
Dealer, wo clip the following:
"A pretty home wedding took
place on Wednesday evening Dec.
28, 1910, at tho home of Mr. and
Mrs. A. L. Stutzman four miles
south of Buda, when Rev. Fred.
M. Newhn united in marriage
their daughter, Mary Elizabeth
to Thomas Clyde Strait. At eight
o'clock to the strains of the wed
ding march played by Miss Mary
Robinson, the bridal pair entered
the room led by tho officiating
minister and Durward Crisman,
who carried a large crimson car
nation in which was tho wedding
ring The bride and groom stood
beneath an arch of snowy white
trimmed with holly while they ex
changed tho vows that made them
man and wife in the presence of
over half a hundred guests.
"The bride wore a gown of Per
sian lawn and carried a large bou
quet of white roses. The groom
wore a suit of dark blue. After
congratulations a three course
lap supper was served. Many
beautiful presents were received
including chiua. cut glass, silver
waro and furniture.
"The happy couple left the
next morning for Kansas, 111.,
where they will spend two weeks
visiting in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph W. Lake, with whom
Mr. Strait had his home for four
years while they lived at Pleasant
Ridge, Pa. Tho groom's half
sister, Miss Mary Strait, lives
with Mr. and Mrs. Lake at this
time.
"The groom is a son of H. U.
Strait of Pleasant Ridge, and the
bride is the youngest daughter
of the Stutzman family and is a
charming and talented young wo
man. The groom was born in
Pennsylvania and came to Buda
live years ago. He is a hard
working and energetic young
man. They are faithful workers
in the church and have the high
esteem of a large circle of friends.
They will reside on a farm five
miles south east of Buda and will
commence housekeeping m a
few weens.
HecfncrBerkstresser.
A high-noon wedding occurred
at the Hustontown Methodist
Episcopal parsonage, Tuesday,
January 10th, when Rev. L. W.
McGarvey united for life Jere L.
Hoefuer and Martha E. Bork-
stresser,both of Taylor township.
The bride is a daughter of W. R.
Berkstressor, and is well known
and highly respected in the com
munity. Jere is an industrious
young man and he has a nice
farm and good home at which
they will reside.
A Pleasant Evening:.
Last Saturday evening Miss
Mertyl Sipes, near Andover, in
vited a few of her young friends
in to spend the evening with her.
As it began to get dark they
began to come m until the parlor,
dining room, kitchen, and even
down to the yard were full with
her friends, among whom were:
Miss Etta Hockinsmith, Ethel
Schooley, Leona and Regina
Decker, Ella Hoop, Helen Desh-
ong, Georgia and Edith Deshoug,
Thomas Morton, Harry Deshong,
Cadiz, Clem and Vernon Schooly;
Earnest, Richard, John, James,
and David Sipes; Calvin Logue,
John Deshong, wife and children
Clyde, George und Ada; Gilbert
Deshong, wife and son, Floyd.
Thomas Mellott furnished the
music with his graphophone
which was appreciated very
much. The evening was spent in
playing parlor games, pulling
taffy, and other refreshments
were served. John Deshong
furnished plenty of song music.
Which he is surely good at
About 11 o'clock they all depart
ed for their respective homes,
wishing Miss Mertyl many more
such evenings.
One Whq Was There, ,
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.
Proposed Amendment to the Constitution
of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
There is an organization of wo
men in the State known as the
Woman's Suffrage Constitutional
Amendment League of Pennsyl
vania, who are making a determ
ined effort to have the present
legislature submit to the voters ol
this State an amendment to the
constitution, which if carried,
will allow women to have an equal
right with the men to casta bal
lot at an election. They ask that
Section 1, Article VIII of the
Constitution of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania shall read
as follows:
Sfiction 1. Every citizen, twen
ty one years of age, possessing
tho following qualifications, shal
bo entitled to vote at all elections
I. He or she shall have been a
citizen of the United States at
least one month.
II. He or she shall have resided
in the stato one year, (or, if hav
ing previously been a qualified
elector or native born citizen of
the state, he or she shall have re
moved therefrom and returned,
there six months) immediately
preceding the election.
III. He or she shall have resid
ed in tho election district where
he or she shall offer to vote at
least two months immediately
preceding the eloction.
IV. If twenty-two years of age
or upwards, he or she shall have
paid, within two years, a state or
county tax, which shall have been
assessed at least two months.
and paid at least one month before
the election.
School Directors' Convention.
The seventh annual convention
of the Fulton County School Di
rectors' Association will be held
in the Court House, McConnells
burg, Thursday afternoon and
evening, and Friday forenoon,
January 2Gth and 27th. A care
fully prepared program has been
made and the services of Dr,
Chas. H. Gordimer, of Shippens
burg, have been secured to aid in
the discussions during the day
sessions. On Thursday evening
Dr. Gordimer will give his lec
ture "Nozzles," the admission to
which will bo free to everybody.
These annual conventions have
been established by the State,
and each director attending is al
lowed pay at rate of two dollars
a day, and three cents mileage,
to be paid by tho district to which
the director belongs, The Coun
ty is required to pay to the treas
urer of the Association one dollar
for each director attondmg for
the purpose of paying the expen
ses of printing, or for and other
expenses incurred in providing
for the meetings.
The public schools are worthy
the best interests of the best
men. and their progress or fail
ure must necessarily depend up
on the school officers and teach
ers. Pension Bill Passes.
The House of Representatives
has passed the Sulloway general
appropriation bill, which grants
pensions ranging from $12 to $30
a month to all soldiers who server
90 days in the Unitad States
army in the Civil War, or CO days
in the Mexican War, and who
have reached the age of 02 years.
The bill adds about $4,000,000 a
year to the pension roll. Speak
er Cannon took the floor at the
close ot the debate and made an
earnest plea for tue passage of
the bill. The bill was passed by
212 to 62.
Opposition was expressed by
some members on the ground
that its terms were too general.
It provides for the pensioning of
all Union soldiers, regardless of
disability, the only requirement
being that they shall have at
tained the age of 62 years. The
general scale o! pensions fixed in
the new bill, according to age, is
as follows: Sixty-two years, $15
a month; 65 years, $20 a month;
70 years, $25 a month; 75 years,
$30 a monh.
Taxpayers Take Notice.
Mr. Editoh: Not owning a
newspaper, or even being a small
Bized stockholder in a small sized
paper, I am obliged to ask your
permission to use your columns
to reply to an article in last week 's
Democrat, headed "borough fa
thers take notice," but which
was directed especially toward
me. The writer whose shield of
"Citizen" hides his identity about
as much as a chicken wire fanco,
tried to create a little sentiment
by referring to the condition of
the side walks last winter and
this. If the writer had known
enough to hunt up the law in the
matter he would have found out
that "a borough is not liable for
the general shpporiness of the
streets caused by ice formed by
the rain and snow falling on
them." This has been effectually
settled in the cases Decker v.
Scranton City; 151 Pa. 211; Wy
man v. Philadelphia, 175 Pa. 117.
The tender spot in "Citizen" is
not so much that which comes in
contact with an icy pavement, as
the prospects of loss to himself,
when the opportunity to mulct
three hundred good dollars a
year from the taxpayers of the
borough of McConnellsburg, for
allowing the use of water for
which the taxpayers of McCon
nellsburg have never been paid a
cent, and for the privilege of buy
ing the water they drink, and
that their children drink from a
soulless water company. Why
should Citizen jump on the Bur
gess about wasting energy try
ing to have the Water plant un
loaded on the Borough? Citizen
knows very well that a majority
of the taxpayers of the borough
have petitioned the Court for the
taking over of the plant in accor
dance with the law made and pro
vided for just such cases. Had
the corporate greed of the Water
Company been content with a
reasonable compensation for the
use of the water in the fire plugs,
there would never have been a
word said about it. But our poo
pie know that the same service
for which we have been paying
$25 a plug, Mercersburg gets for
$10; Mount Union gets for $10
and Saltillo, for nothing more
than the grant of the privelege to
install the water plant and sell
the water to her citizens if they
want to buy it.
W. H. Nesuit.
Missionary Social.
On last Friday evening a very
pleasant and commendable Mis
sionary Social was held in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
McQuade of Ayr township for
the little people. The Mission
Word of the Nile Boat, Ibis, on
the Nile river in Egypt, under
the direction ,of Rev. and Mrs.
W. H. Roed was selected as the
object of the offerings. Mrs.
McQuade devised the plan of
putting an envelope in the hands
of each one of the gu&sts when
invited with their name written
upon it, with the request that
they bring an offering of as many
pennies as they have had birth
days. Then a program was pre
pared, embracing prayer, praise,
short recitations of Missionary
Themes by the children, an ex
planation of the Nile Boat work
by the pastor, and general re
marks by others. One quite in
teresting part of it was the open
ing of the envelopes and announc
ing the names and number of
pennies in each offering. It was
noticeable that a number of the
elderly people were announced
according to the envelopes as a
a hundred years old.
The offerings aggregated$l 1. 79.
Bountiful refreshments were
seryed, and everybody seemed to
have a general good time socially
and every way. Tho guests were
made up of the children's asso
ciates and the near neighboring
families.
There will be a chicken a wallop
supper at Knobsville Saturday
evening, Jan. 21. Proceeds for
the benefit of the Knobsville Cor
net Band,
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
D. R. Mumma, of Hustontown,
was in Everett last week.
Rush Minnich, of Johnstown,
is visiting among his Fulton coun
ty friends.
Miss Nora Chesnut of Huston
town spent a few days with her
cousin Nora Vallanco.
Adam Vallance, of Ohio, is
spending this week with his
brother Zack Vallance in Todd
township.
Geo. A. Melius and George N.
Sipes, both of Taylor township,
called at the News oflice whilo
in town Monday.
Mr. IL C. Miller of Burnt Cab
ins, spent a few hours in town on
business last Friday, and called
at the News office.
Geo. A. Harris and M. R. Shaff
ner are among thoso of our peo
ple attending the inaugural at
Uarrisburg this week.
Nora Vallanco spent a few days
with her uncle Emanuel Sipes,
and attended tho funeral of her
aunt Mrs. Jane Sipes.
Mrs. Frances Hart and son
Lloyd, and J. C. Mellott and Miss
Maye Mellott all of Need more,
were in town a few hoursMonday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Car
baugh, after having spent somo
time at Jonas Lake's, have re
turned to their home in Bedford
county.
Clara and Roy Laidig havo
returned to their home at Laidip,
after having speut several weeks
visiting in tho home of their sis
ter in Altoona.
Miss Ethel Logue of the Uni
versity - Hospital Baltimore Is
spending a short vacation with
her parents Mr. and Mrs. B. W.
Logue of Ayr township.
Miss Bess Irwin of this place,
now teaching in Philadelphia, was
an honored guest of the family of
Secretary Knox at the launching
of the Alabama in Philadelphia
last Saturday.
Miss Nora Watson has return
ed to her home in McConnells
burg after a pleasant visit with
her friends Miss Rebecca How
ard, east German street. Frank
lin Repository.
Mr. George B. Kirk of Mis
souri, or Bert as his chums of
boyhood days in Taylor township
better remember him, is visiting
his brothers Wesley and Morrow
in this place, and other relatives
and frionds in tho County. Mr.
Kirk has been away from this
county for thirty-two years.
Local Institutes.
The sixth local institute of
Dublin township was hold at Ft.
Littleton, Jan. G, 1911. The meet
ing was called to ordor by tho
teacher Levi P. Morton who ap
pointed John Woodcock chair
man. The following questions were
well discussed by teachers, pa
trons, and director: 1. Teaching
of Current Events. What and
How? 2. Civics: How Taught,
to what extent, and to what
grades? 3. How do you start
and proceed with a class in per
centage? Teachers present were:
Myrtle Stevens, Dotte Dishoug,
Levi Morton, David Chesnut.
John Woodcock, Robert Cromer,
and Fred Lodge, frrm Dublin,
and Zanna Laidig, Glen Laidig,
W. H. Ranck, and G. W. Wink,
from Taylor. There wore excel
lent recitations and songs ren
dered bv the school which speaks
well for both teacher and pupils.
Dotte Dishong, Secretary.
In the obituary notice of Mr.
J. G. Cunningham last week, the
statement was made that thera
were 8 sons, which should ha?e
read 8 children; and be learned
his trade with his brother John
E., Instead of his uncle. I