VOLUME 15
McCONNELLSUURG, PA., FEBRUARY 5. 1914.
NUMBER 21
i
THE GRIM REAPER.
Short Sketches of the Lives of Per
sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.
Philip S. Miller.
Philip S. Miller was born in
McConnellsbuag, Pa., October 17
1867 and departed this life at hi3
home southwest of Tiskilwa, 111.,
January 13, 1914, being at the
time of his death, 46 years, 2
months and 26 days of age.
He was the sixth child of a
family of nine children born to
Solomon . Isaac and Mary Ann
Miller. Mr. Miller united with
the Methodist church at McCon
nellsburg, Penn., at the age of
twelve years.
He went west at the age of
seventeen years, and almost his
entire life since that time has
been spent in the neighborhood
of Door Hill, he having spent
some years before his marriage
in that vicinity.
December 4, 1800 he was unit
ed in marriage to Miss Adaline
Elizabeth McKeean of Buda, 111.
To this union were born nine chil
dren, eight sons and one daugh
ter, all of whom are living. They
are as follows; the daughter Miss
Josephine; the sons: Earl, Shars
wood, Scott, Clyde, Edward, Iiay
mond, Homer and William, the
last named child being a babe of
four months.
His death was caused by gall
stones after an illness of less
than a week.
Mrs. C. E. Trice.
Caroline Eleanor, youngest
daughter of General John and
Mary Sipes was born in Licking
Creek township, this county,
March 8, 1833. After reaching
womanhood, she taught school
until she went to Galva, III., in
1856. September 3, 1857 she was
married to Wilson Price, who
died July 21, 1891. Early in life
Mrs. Price was converted and
united with the Methodist Epis
copal "Church and was a living
member in that church to the
time of her death. She died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Margaret Axemaker at Brawley,
Cal., on the 28th of December,
1913, and her remains were
brought to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. McMeekin, at Galva,
111., where her sister Mrs. Julia
Bates makes her home, and inter
ment was made in that city. She
is survived by four sons and one
daughter; by nineteen grandchil
dren, and by three great-grandchildren.
Lemuel Hill.
After an illness covering a per
iod of several weeks, Lemuel
Hill died at his home in Belfast
township, on Monday night of
last week, aged about fifty years.
The funeral took place on Wed
nesday, and interment was made
at Antioch church. The deceas
ed is survived by his widow, who
was Martha, a daughter of the
late Emanuel Keyser, and by
seven children.
Great Convention.
In a recent letter from Helen
McC. Kendall, to Mrs. A. J. Mar
tin, near this place, she tells how
she was highly privileged and
honored in being chosen as one
of the six student delegates' to
represent Wooster University at
the seventh Quadrennial conven
tionofthe students' Volunteer
Movement at Kansas City, Mo
It was held during the latter part
of December and beginning of
January. There were 5. 000 dele
gates there including returned
missionaries, professors, minis
ters, secretaries, and students
from 800 universities and colleges
from U. S. and Canada.
( "It was" Miss Kendall says
'tho most wonderful and inspir
mg convention I ever hope to at
tend. There were 1,500 Student
volunteers there, and as I sat
the midst, I felt that I belonged
& movement rpallv worth wliil
Some of the speakers were: John
Mott, Robt. E. SDeer. Sher
wood Eddy, J. Campbell White,
Niamey White, W. J, Bryan, and
piners."
Lawrence County Letter.
Excerpts from a letter from Mr.
J. G. Patterson, Lawrence coun
ty, Pa., is a sample of the many
etters that reached our desk
the Court granted license to all
applicants at tho last term of
court. Former residents i'eem to
be as bitterly disappointed as
many of the home people. The
etter shows the effects of no li
quor license in that county for
two years.
Mr. Patterson says; "When
awrence was "wet" it was not
safe for a lady to go down town
alone in our county-seat, New
Castle, but the city is now clean,
decent and prosperous."
'It was my pleasure to carry
the remonstrance, and in our
town all signed it but one. Can
you beat it?"
We have a judge with back
bone, a heart that reaches out to
the mothers, wives and sisters
and interprets the law as the
masses would have it."
'Since the county went dry,
criminal court cases dropped from
07 to 71. Average saving in ju
ry lees, ,ni.bi. Arrests lor
drunkenness decreased 50 per
cent. Increase in sales by whole
salers and jobbers within the
county for 1913 over 1910, was
$313,811.99."
A Real Santa CI '.us.
Every Christmas for several
years, Dr. I. S. Garth waite, form
erly of Webster Mills, this coun
ty, but now a resident of Chama,
New Mexico, has made every boy
and girl in that New Mexico
town happier than he ever was
before, and this, says a local
newspaper of that place, is how
he does it:
He invites every child to his of
fice on Christmas eve. They are
admitted in groups and when
they emerge the crowds waiting
their turn in the street see their
arms loaded with toys, bags of
candy and nuts and apples and
everything that kids like.
Most of these children are lit
tle Mexicans, dark-skinned and
quiet, but what joy surges
through their hearts can be seen
in the growing of the big, black
eyes as they hurry home with
their present to tell everybody
that Santa Claus is not a myth.
Painful Accident.
Ellsworth W. Hendershot, of
Ayr township, owns a steam saw
mill and is working up the timber
on the Glazier farm in Ayr town
ship, now owned by Samuel Mel-
lott. Last Friday Mr. Hender
shot and Jacob Eshelman were
working at the mill, when some
thing went bad in the friction
feed, and Ellsworth went to in
vestigate. While probing with a
small piece of wire, his right
hand was caught in the machin
ery and terribly crushed. Dr.
Sappington was called and did
the best.that could be done under
the circumstances, but every
bone in the back of the hand was
crushed and the skin torn off.
The Doctor amputated the little
finger, and placed more than a
hundred stitches to hold the torn
skin. It was necessary for Mr,
Hendershot to remain three hours
under the influence of the anaes'
thetic.
Surprise Party.
Singing merrily at her work
last Monday morning, Mrs. O. C.
Wible was surprised to see a
crowd of between fifty and sixty
merry makers swoop down from
all directions, and who informed
her that as she was eleventeen
years old on that day, and that
they had come to celebrate the
event. The whole day was spent
as only a jolly crowd knows how,
Space this week will not permit
details and the names of the par
ticipants. All were the better
for the day's relaxation from the
hum-drum cares of life.
Veteran George W. Glenn, of
Webster Mills, was shaking hands
in town with friends on Ground
Hog day.
COOPERATION ALL AROUND.
Influential Quotations Emphasizing Pka
fur Closer Town and Rural
Relations.
In line w'th, and explanatory of,
a criticism I made of some of our
business men, I would like to
submit a few quotations from The
Banker-Farmer, which is pub
lished in Champaign, 111. These
articles are from business men
all over the country. W. C. Pat
terson. "Tho idea of The Banker-Farm
er movement indicates a bringing
together of interests that have
been partially separate, if not
intagonistic S. G. Daws.Cham-
ier of Commerce, Washington,
D. C.
"The idea of humanity com
mended by The Banker-Farmer
should connect us all in a cause
of common good, common inter
est, and common .sense. W. II.
Miller, Lumberman, Spokane,
Wash.
"Keep to the front the idea of
team work between the banker,
the farmer, the merchant, and
the country newspaper which is
still a power although everyone
is reading a daily paper or a
magazine. J. R. Moorhead, Re
tail Merchant, Lexington, Mo.
E. F. Harris, the originator of
co-operation bet ween tankers
and farmers, has an unusually
clear conception of the problems
which farmers must face: "If
you can only get bankers to read
The Banker-Farmer great good
will come of it.
"We realize that conditions
make farm life impossible for
many on account of lack of co
operation in educational matters;
but such knowledge keeps us
working away to improve them.
It's a lonesome struggle, but
someone must fight. J no. Fields,
Editor of the Oklahoma Farm
Journal. (Formerly of this coun
ty.)
"All a farmer needs do these
days is to sprinkle a little milk on
his shoes, walk into our bank and
command our services. Thus
spoke a leading banker of Hick
ory, N. C, where bankers and
merchants and field demonstra
tors, such as we have in S. W.
Lighty and Dr. Conrad, united in
a great movement to build up
dairying, general farming, and
promote good roads and good
country schools. The result is the'
existence of the Catawba Coop
erative Creamery producing 3,000
pounds of butter per month, com
munity work in fine roads, new
barns and silos by the score where
they were formerly unknown,
and the egg business built up
and prosperous. The Country
Gentleman.
The other day a prominent
Pennsylvanian was speaking of
the unrealized agricultural pos
sibilities of this State, and re
marked: "Most of us don't know
what we've got or how to use it.
Food is the fundamental. Even
for us Americans situated in the
world's food belt, it is becoming
a problem. Such booklets as
'The Beef Steer and His Sister,'
and The Helpful Hen,' by Col
burn, of Kansas, have gone
around the world. A man like
Colburn, if he could be got, would
be worth $100,000 a year to Penn
sylvania or any other agricultural
state. North American."
Delicate Operation.
After having passed .through
a "spell" of pneumonia, followed
by an attack of pleurisy, it be
came necessary to telephone Drs.
Palmer and Skinner, who, came
over from Chambcrsburg last
Wednesday and performed a sur
gical operation on Stella, nine
years of age, 'daughter of Sheriff
and Mrs. J. J. Harris. The child
was placed under the influence
of an anaesthetic; a portion of
one of her ribs taken out and a
pus sack in her chest tapped from
which was taken more than three
quart3 of pus. A drainage pipe
was then inserted and the little
girl is now as comfortable as
might be expected.
REV. GEO. B. SHOEMAKER.
Tells of the Ringing of the Cells cf
Brandon as the Locomotive
Pulled In.
Sumner, Ia., January 28th.
Editor News: You will sec,
by the change of address, that
the old habit has gripped me once
more, and I have moved. Pretty
hard for a Methodist preacher to
settle down and stay on in one
place for a generation, like a
staid old Presbyterian sure it
is in my caae, that I am not stay
ing forever in one place. The
minister in the Lutheran church
in our city, has held his pulpit
here for twenty-five years, and
scorns destined to like the brook
"run on forever."
I wonder why it is? Are Metho
dists fickle and hard to please, or
are Methodist Ministers, distant
ly related to the "Weary Willies,"
and the "moving bug" grips
them frequently.
Well, anyway, we left Brandon
last fall just as the cars were
coming in. We went there over
land for nine miles, from the
nearest town, but we loaded our
goods to leave, on the cars in the
village, just one block from the
parsonage. It was quite an ex
perience for us to live for a whole
year in a town without a railroad.
To wait for your mail until the
stage came in, and when you
wanted to go away, to take the
stage or hitch up your own team
and drive nine miles. Why, it
was like my boyhood days in old
McConnellsburg, except there
were no mountains.
One day along in late July or
August, I took one of the old
residents of the town, and drove
out a mile or two to where they
wore laying rails for the track.
We drove up a slight hill, and
from the top of the hill, we could
see the smoke of the engine and
the men at work. The gentle
man with me could scarcely con
tain himself. Ilesaid "Look at
that! Iv'e been waiting for forty
years to see a sight like that,"
and he nearly jumped out of the
buggy in his excitement. Well
it was a great day when the crew
laying rails reached the town of
Brandon. Everybody was out to
meet them, and greet them with
shouts. But the excitement was
greater when the first trains be
gan to run and haul freight to
and from the town. With the
rest of the natives, I was down
to see the first car load of hogs
go out; and, then, soon cattle;
and, then, began to come in coal
and household goods and full cars
of all kinds of stuir; and, then,
local freight. Then a temporary
depot was established, and.on the
Sunday I was at conference,
passenger traflic was started,
and, on Friday of that week, we
left, taking everything with us,
except the old horse and buggy.
In about ten days after we
left, I went back, to get the horse
and buggy, and to attend the
great jubilee. It was a great
time, and I am sure my friend
Hughes of Philadelphia, do you
know him? if he had been in
this country, would have walked
all over himself in order to get
there. The officials of the road
were there; the people from all
the surrounding town3 were
there; brass bands were there;
buggies, surreys, wagons and
automobiles were there! There
were thousands of people out to
that meeting. They had speak
ing and singing and praying and
band playing &c. Everybody
was at a fever heat of interest,
even the "roast ox" they had was
hot! Why, I got so interested in
anticipation of the coming of
of the day that I wrote a song
for the children to sing on the
occasion, and they sang it too, I
tell you. I'll give you one verse
and the chorus, and you find the
familiar tune they sang it to,
"Listen to the rumblo of the curs up
on the truck,
They're coining on at rapid speed,
and none can krep them back,
Every one go at it now, and sing or
shout or quack,
SAM MARTIN.
Former Fulton Teacher, Now a Success
ful Business Man in the
Buckeye State.
Gambier, O., Jan. 27.
Dear Editor: As you know,
we get the Fulton County News
every week, and I read every
item. In last week's issue, the
item which caught my special at
tention was that concerning the
record of a pen of 25 Leghorns
kept at Brookside Farm. I am
interested in poultry, having
made a specialty of producing
thorough bred laying stock for
the past three years, consisting
of Rhode Island Reds, Barred
Rocks, White Manorca, White
Orpington, and White and Brown
Leghorns. We figure, from the
statement in the News, that the
25 hens referred to must have
laid about 2S8 eggs during six
weeks time from Dec. 1st, to
Jan. 15th, or an average produc
tion, per hen of 11 13-27 eggs.
This I consider a very good aver
age for Leghorns during the
winter months; but my experi
ence has been that the Rhode Is
land Red is the most valuable hen
for egg production, as well as a
good fowl for table use. In com
parison with the above named
pen of Leghorns, I would like to
place a pen of 8 Rhode Island Red
pullets. These pullets were
hatched the latter part of last
March, were raised on a town lot
with good feed and proper at
tention. During the six weeks
from Dec. 1st, to Jan. 15th, these
eight pullets laid 140 eggs, or an
average per hen of 171 eggs
The pullets refered to were placed
in their winter quarters, which
are much the same as those de
scribed by the writer from Brook
side Farm, about Oct. 1st. Their
feed, for each day since going in
their winter quarters, consists of
a feed of sprouted oats in the
morning, dry mash at noon, the
formula of which I shall give la
ter, and grain at night usually
half and half of wheat and corn,
always feeding this last feed as
late in the day as possible.
Our formula for dry mash is as
follows: First month in the
house: -300 lbs. wheat bran, 100
lbs. each, cornmeal, midlings,
beef-scraps, and gluten meal.
Second month in the house: 200
lbs. wheat bran, other ingredi
ents same as first month. Third
month: same as second with 50
lbs. linseed meal added. Remain
ing months in house same as sec
ond. This is my second year to use
this mash and I am satisfied that
it is an egg producer. I notice
the writer from Brookside Farm
does not feed much bran. I be
lieve it pays to feed bran at all
times during the year. During
the winter months I feed it with
other ground feed; while in the
summer, I feed it alone.
I just thought I'd drop you
these lines to let you know that
your Ohio friends are wide awake
to what is going on in "Little
Fulton," and that I am endeav
oring to maintain the high stan
dard of progress prevalent in so
many of her sons and daughters
that have crossed her boundary
lines to seak a livelihood else
where. With kind regards for all, I am
Yours truly,
S. R. Martin.
George W. Wagoner, Esq., of
Knobsville spent Monday in town
on business.
While the cars roll into Brandon.
Choi-
Hurrah! Hurrah! The cars are here at
last!
Hurrah. Throe Cheors (or the Presl
dent Mr. Caso,
So we'll aag the chorus, forgetting
all the past
While the cars are rolling Into Bran
don."
Would'nt if be fine if someone
could have the chance to write a
song celebrating the coming of
the cars into the dear old "Home
town."
Kind regards to all.
Geo. B. Shoemaker.
Highway Department.
Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 2. Al
though hampered by insufficient
funds wherewith to build first
class highways throughout the
Commonwealth, the State High
way Department expects to spend
such money as is available in put
ting the Highways of Pennsylva
nia in as good a condition as is
possible during 1914. This was
made clear in a statement issued
by the Department in which the
program for the coming year was
outlined.
State Highway Commissioner
E. M. Bigelow has decided that
if the automobile money is made
available for road work, the a-
mount shall be used for putting
in shape as many of the high
ways in the State as possible. It
is his intention to have the roads
gone over, scraped and cleaned
and then to have all gutters clean
ed out and repaired and to have
the drains and culverts fixed.
After this has been done the
roads will be patrolled and offort
will be made to keep them in as
nearly perfect condition as pos
sible. It will not be feasible to
proceed with much in the way of
construction of new highways,
since the amount of money avail
able will not suffice to do more
than keep the highways in pass
able condition.
The State Highway Depart
ment maps of the counties in the
State are being eagerly sought
for by those who are anxious to
have accurate data on the roads
in the various counties. These
maps, which are made from sur
veys by the Department engi
neers, are of the same quality
that map makers usually charge
for at the rate of from $2.00 to
$3.50. They are furnished to the
public i y the State Highway De
partment at the nominal cost of
25 cents each . At the present
time the Department has for sale
maps of Fulton County.
Just So.
While chatting with a visitor
in our office the other day, the
conversation turned to the farm
er's institutes held in the county
this winter; he said they were a
mighty good thing, and that
many difficult points had been
made clear to those in attend
ance. He said, however, that
there was much in the general
lectures that did not apply to his
particular locality, on account of
local conditions that called for
special consideration. We re
plied that we appreciated what
he said, and that while writing,
or in selecting farm articles for
the News readers, we tried to
keep that fact in mind. An ef
fort will be made to have a ser
ies of "Movable Schools" held in
the county next winter, and it is
not too soon to make the sugges
tion that some one or several of
the lecturers be invited to study
local conditions in the more hilly
districts of the county, and pre
pare a talk in accordance, as a
"relish," to sandwich in with the
program. 1 raveling lecturers
must, of necessity, prepare to
talk on broad lines, basing their
remarks on foundation principles
that apply to farm needs in gen
eral, but good anywhere. Op
portunities for making the old
farm keep the family are as good
here as elsewhere; but, as the
gentleman said, they are "differ
ent." What do you think of our
suggestion, Messrs. President
and Secretary? How would this
topic do? "Farming Eighteen
Miles From a Railroad."
That the anti-booze sentiment
is developing was recently exem
plified on the part of the Pitts
burg and Brownsville divisions
of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
railroad, when 120 employes
were dismissed summarily for
drinking. The company had
posted notices to the effect that
employes found drinking whether
on or off duty, would be dismiss
ed. The dismissals included en
gineers, conductors, firemen,
brakemen and flagmen. A few
more doses of this kind, we think
will have a sanitary effect, and
so may it be. ,
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
Snapshots at Their Coinings and Goings
Hcrelor a Vacation, or Away
for a Restful Outing.
Mr. John G. Hess, of Need-
more, called at the News office a
few minutes while in town last
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Bradnick
and their children Lottie, John
and Paul were in McConnellsburg
last Friday.
Druggist Leslie W. Seylar
spent three days last week in
Philadelphia and other eastern
towns.
Walter Teck, of Needmore,
made a business trip to McCon
nellsburg last Thursday, driving
a team of dandy mules.
Bennet Truax, Michael Mellott
and Stuart Strait, all of near
Tleasant Ridge, were transacting
business in town last Monday.
Mr. C. W. Peek, who spent
eight weeks in Minersville work
ing at the carpenter business is
spending this week with his
family' in this place, and will re
turn to Minersville next Monday.
M. J. Truax and little son John
nie R. D. 3. Mercersburg, spent
last Wednesday night with the
former's father Joseph, in Bel
fast township, and dropped in
to renew his subscription, on
the way home, next day.
William Deavor, of Taylor town
ship, and his brother Frank, of
Huntingdon, paid this office a call
last Thursday. Frank was called
home when his father was seized
with paralysis, but could not
reach there before he died.
Miss Mary Baumgardner, teach
ing the Mayes Chapel school in
Bethel township, accompanied by
Reed and Ruie Bishop, spent the '
time from Friday evening until
Sunday afternoon in the home of
Mary's parents Mr. and Mrs.
William Baumgardner.
Mr. D. F. Tenley, of Sixmile
Run, came down to McConnells
burg Monday bringing with him
John and Daniel Tritle, who had
been working at Kearney. The
Tritle boys are going west in a
couple of weeks to spend the sum
mer. Mr. Tenley wanted to buy
some pigs and take them home
withhim.
On January 1st. Mr. and Mrs.
Morgan Clingerman, of Piney
Creek, Bedford county, moved to
their new home on the John W.
Potter farm near Northcraft, Un
ion township, this county. They
were in town on last Mon
day and Tuesday, looking af
ter the settlement of the estate
of John W. Potter, deceased of
whom Mrs. Clingerman is a
daughter. It was their first trip
to McConnellsburg.
Tlcnty of Farms.
The Department of Agriculture
has been taking stock of the till
able land in the country. The
"back to the farm" dreamers
need have no fear of a scarcity
of farms. Sixty per cent of the
area of the United States, or ov
er a billion acres is tillable, in
cluding that which can be made
so by clearing, drainage or irri
gation. Only 27 per cent, a lit
tle over one-quarter of that, is
now under actual cultivation. Or
for every hundred acres tilled
there are 375 tillable acres left.
In addition there is one- third of
a billion acres situated for fruit
or pasturage, the remaining third
of a billion acres of our national
area being of no agricultural use.
It is therefore, evident that we
have hardly begun to farm as we
might, even in tilling our acre
age, to say nothing of what can
be done by intensive cultivation
a3 practiced abroad. When we
settle ourselves to it the solution
of the high cost of living should
be only a question of energy and
ability in cultivation and in dis
tribution. , Do not forget that the proper
time to prune grapevines is rap
idly passing. They should be
trimmed before Bap begins to
flow,