'iimnwii:MiifW)vw t-.ttt''wt' W'ww.n'V'i.-';'pryjwri' vw- jwm'f ictr,',-iie wt.fr i.iwuwfr.Htwt- ip-iwiwwamii cn-'wwmiM'iHii wnnwww THE PULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA. INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS Four persons charged with murder are confined in the Cham bersburg gaol. Mrs. Annie Dellart, of Mer cersburg, is visiting ber mother, Mrs. Suders of this place. E. H. Kirk, of Hiram, was in town last Monday, transacting business at the Court House. Mr. P. R. Austin, near Cham bersburg, is spending a few days among Fulton county friends. Miss Zella Crouse, of Webster Mills, is employed in Mrs. D. A. Little's millinery establishment. Mrs. Nora Jackson, of Everett, came to this place last Saturday to visit her mother, Mrs. Malissa Lodge. Mrs. Nettie Alexander and daughter Miss Maria Dickson spent a day in Chambersburg last week. Miss Gertrude Sloan entertain ed the Thimble Club last week, and Miss Bess Taylor will enter tain it this week. Frank Mason wears a large amount of court plaster on his nose as the result of a hard fall on the icy pavement Jno. McLucas has rented a part of the D. A. Nelson house on west Market street, and will move into it the first of April. ' Mr. D. A. Little spent last week in Mercersbrg, keeping store for his brother-in-law, Del mer, McCune, who was siqk. ! Mr. Ralph Shives, near Han cock, spent the time from Satur day until yesterday in the home of Isaiah Barnhart at Back Run. : Mr. R. J. Lay ton, of Bethel township, spent Tuesday night in town and called at the News office to advance his subsciprtion. ', Miss Netha Nesbit returned a few days ago, after having spent nearly a month in the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Wible, in Harrisburg. ; Hon. C. R. Akers and Mr. Gates Seiling, of Brush Creek Valley, were in town last Mon day, and stopped over night at l the City Hotel. ; Mr. and Mrs. Wilson E. Litton accompanied by their uncle Mala chi Litton all of Thompson town f ship, made a trip to MoConnells burg Tuesday. " Mrs. E. Norman Akers of Sipes Mill, returned home last week from an extended visit to friends in Pittsburgh, Finleyville, Am bridge, and Johnstown. ?Mrs. C. W. Peck, her daughter Ruth Virginia, and son Robert Reimer. of east Market street, .rent to Philadelphia Monday, 1 t i. j weeks. I If you smoke, and contemplate spending a Sunday in Chambers burg, you must either take your cigars with you or buy them on Saturday the dealers do not sell 'em on Sunday. ! James Wainer and J. A. Rum tnel, of Gettysburg, James Sny der, Chambersburg, and Mrs. Joseph Doyle, Mercersburg, at tended the funeral of Mrs. Jas W. Rum mel, yesterday. j Miss Catherine Comerer, after having spent some time with her sitser, Mrs. Ralph Hill at Mer rsburg, has returned to the acme of her parents, Mr. and drs. William Comerer. George Buterbaugh of Ayr .Qwnship, is erecting a "pot" limekiln on his farm. He is lin ing it with mountain stone, and will burn with wood. We under ctand he will burn for his own uae. Mr. Chas. E. Cook, of Lanark. 13. who spent the winter in Wash ngton, D. C, with his sister, -Irs. Marshall McKibbin, is now t pending several weeks with his ' Jnt, Miss Mollie Seylar, in this I lace. ' Since laying hens is a favorite t Jpic with our readers just now, ve will add that Mr. Preston Ap8tin, of Franklin county, (for nerly of Saluvia) has a pen that garaged 180 eggs to each hen, one year. The revival meeting at the Side ig Hill Christian Church, under ; e direction of Rev. T. P. Gar ?d of Needmore has resulted in I unusually large number of aversions. Up to lastThurs y night 51 persons had united In the church. Scott Brant, near Dane, fed 'ail and turkeys this winter for Jistance of six miles radiating Jm his.home. He thinks there e at least 400 quail scattered tT e territory covered. He ?orts that coveys of quail were nd frozen. 4r. H. n. Phenice, of Sylvan. f an i sister-in-law, Miss Annie Mrdon, of Plum Run, were in fn lor a few hours Tuesday, n8ing for the advertising the sale of the effects of the in nry Gordon. of Thompson '" "y.a nollce of wh chan. 8 ln the sale register, Overseer o f the Poor M. F. Black took Billy Egulf to a home for the feeble-minded at Pope, Pa , yesterday. A card from C II. Mann, St. Cloud, Flu , say there is no troat in the air them lie is greatly enjoying the trip. Mr. J. J. Conrad, of Cumber land county, is spending a few days among his Fulton county relatives and friends. Miss Elizabeth Patterson, of Baltimore, spent last week in the home of her parents, Hon. and Mrs. D. H. Patterson, at Web ster Mills. Rev. and Mrs. A. G. Wolf, of West Fairview, Pa., were here yesterday attending the funeral of Mrs. J. W. Rummell. Rev. Wolf was pastor of the Lutheran church in this place before going to his present charge, and was highly esteemed. Harvey A. Welch, of Brush Creek Valley, had caught eleven foxes and three wild cats this winter, up to last Monday, when Hon. Clarence R. Akers dropped into our office and told us about it He did not keep count of the 'coons, skunks, possums, wea sels and other varmints. Clark McGovern is enjoying all sorts of geological studies while taking out stone for a three-eye kiln on his lower farm in Ayr township. When the master Mason laid the stone in that quarry he practiced all kinds of architecture, in arches, angles and capitals. Mrs. Mattie Stouteagle, who spent five weeks visiting friends i n Waynesboro, during which time she attended the Biederwolf meetings, returned to her home in this place last Thursday. She had the pleasure of occupying a chair in the big choir in the tab ernacle. She was much delight with the great meetings. Mrs. B. C. Dawney, of Phila delphia, in renewing her sub scription says, "the News is like a weekly visitor from home each Friday morning but the arrival of the News is a signal for the suspension of household duties, while its columns are eagerly scanned, and I, of course, have an excuse to "rest awhile." Mrs. Asenath Mentzer and her daughter Miss Kittie, returned home from Waynesboro last Sat urday after having spent three weeks in that big manufacturing town and attending the Bieder wolf meetings. Mrs. Mentzer and Kittie were both members of the big choir of five hundred voices that led the singing during those great meetings. Luther Burbank, the "Plant Wizzard," has succeeded in grow- 200 tons of spineless cactus to the acre, enough to keep four head of cattle to the acre for one year. Heretofore, this cactus was not available for cattle on account of millions of spines, like those on chestnut burrs, unless singed of!, which was not always convenient to do. Boys and girls, do you like to have the merry little wrens a bout the house during summer months? If so, put up little box es, hollow sticks of wood, etc. with holes just of an inch in size. If holes are any larger, sparrows will take possession of the nesting places. Hide them in grapevines and other shady places. Do it now, before the little fellows come and go away because they did not find nesting places unoccupied by the spar rows. .Tnhn T,. Mitchell, of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, when interviewed in Alabama a lew days ago, said; "Woman suf frage is srainin eround through out the entire world." He ad ded; The various political par ties have come to recognize that it is a great issue and are, there fore, introducing the plank in their platforms. It is a live is sue in the Eastern States and is making great headway in the Wpqfr. The American Federation of Labor has gone on record as officially endorsing woman sut frage, andis pledged o do all it can to support the cause." George M. Myers, of Bethel towDship, favored the News of fice with a call on Tuesday after noon. He and his wife had been in attendance at the funeral of his father D. H. Myers. They were accompanied home by bis sisters, Miss Susan Myers, of Pittsburg, and Mrs. A. C. McCullough, of Jeannette, who had, also, been at the funeral. Other children who attended the funeral were John and Nelson both of the western part of the State, and Mrs. Mary Cordell and sou Ralph, Waynes boro: a grandson, Guy Myers, of western Pennsylvania, was also present. Sunday School Big Week. Ho, You Sunday School Work ers ! The Postmasters or carriers of the mails do not keep you from getting a prompt reply to your letters seeking information about Sunday School work, and, especi ally about the doings of the Big Week from March 8 to 15; but your County Secretary has no assistance to reply to the many letters which you write. They are coming every day, a mighty force from the North, the South, and the West. In answer to a letter, I reply Yes, the Superin tendents of the Schools that are closed during the winter can also make the canvass of every per son in the community who does not belong to the School Call the teachers of the School to your home or to a central place of meeting and organize the teams as directed by last week's article. Continued next week. Another Egg Living Report Our recent reports of the pro lific Leghorn hens of the Brook Side Farm, and the R. I. Reds of S. R. Martin, Gambier, Ohio, are still calling out reports from oth er places. The latest is from R. M. Nell, of Ephrata, Lancaster county, who is a son-in-law of optometrist W. T. Runyan, for merly of this county. Mr. Neli has twelve S. C. White Leghorn exhibition hens, hatched June 21, 1912, that laid 240 eggs from December 17, 1913, to Jandary 31, 1914, an average of 20 eggs per hen during the 45 winter days. Two of the birds were disturbed during the period by being prepared and exhibited at the Lancaster county Poultry Show, December 22 to 27, 1913, winning 1st and 4th prizes. A cock bird of the same hatching won 1st prize in a strong class of competitors. These fowls are kept in a small house, 16 by 14 feet, with no free range, and with only ordinary attention. Another Fultonian. Horace W. Cromer has an nounced himself as a "dry" can didate for the state legislature from the fifth district of Alle gheny county. Mr. Cromer is a son of the late George and Han nah Richardson Cromer, and was born at Fort Littleton, this coun ty. His wife, Mary Woodall, a daughter of the late ex-County Superintendent H. H. Woodall, is a former McConnellsburg girl. Horace started out to fight life's battles single handed, and he's been "cuttin right and left" He has not only been very success ful in business, but he stands high in, at least, two of the lead ing fraternal organizations in the country, and is very popular in his home county. Having learn ed by experience that success comes from standing on the right side of all great moral questions, Horace would make a very safe legislator, and we hope he may land the nomination and election not so much that he may gratify and ambition, but that Allegheny county may have a dependable representative. Lewis E. Athey. A letter received by Clark Mc Govern from his sister Emma, who attended the funeral of her brother-in-law, Lewis E. Athey, at Columbus Ohio, on the 7th inst, says that Mr. Athey, one morning, was decending the steps at his home going out for a milk bottle. On the steps, he slipped and fell. He at once arose, and walked up stairs, but soon be came unconscious, and remained in that condition until death came three days later. He is survived by his widow (Marion McGovern) and by two children: Ward and Alide. His physician said the fall caused a rupture of a blood ves sel in the brain. Weller's Sale. In addition to the articles mentioned under the proper head in another col umn to be sold at C. B. Weller's sale in Ayr township, are the following: 2 spike harrows, spring tooth harrow, 2 sets of breechbands, 2 sets of lead harness, saddle, lines, collars, bri dles, hay by the ton, fodder by the bundle, and potatoes by the bushel. Sale, March 4th. Look! As I will not be able to , be at McConneilsburg as frequently as heretofore, 1 will, this trip, be there 2J days Tuesday, Wed nesday and until Thursday noon, Feb. 17, 18, and 19. W, T, Runyan, Optician, FRESH AIR AND ILL TEMPER. Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by S. G. Dixon, M. D., L. L. D., Com missioner of Health. Half the ill temper in the world is the result of poor ventilation. Think of your own case. Let the office or the house or the school room become close and "stuffy" and immediately there follows a feeling of depression. The lungs being robbed of fresh air, the blood is deprived of oxygen, the purifying agency, the nerve cen ters are depressed in their turn and all of a sudden we find our selves in an irritable, peevish humor without any apparent ex planation for it Ask any teach er which is the most trying time of the day and she will tell you the last hour. Which hours are hardest at the office the last ones, of course. Not necessarily because it means the culmination of the day's efforts but because the windows have been kept down and the steam on until the air becomes hot, dry and parched j and then follows in due turn this ! depression and with it irritability. People whose occupations keep them out of doors are as a class more even tempered and genial than shut-ins. The conditions in our homes are equally worth watching. Many a housewife who feels nervousely exhausted would would find that a few minutes exercise in fresh air would pre vent a nervous headache. A temperature of C5 degrees fah renheit where the air i3 fresh is far healthier and more accepta ble to the normal young or mid dle aged individual than a tern temperature of 70 or more de grees in a vitiated atmosphere. As a preventive fresh air is of the greatest value. Overheated, ill-ventilated rooms, offices, cars, etc., are predisposing agencies to both colds and pneumonia. To Better Conditions. The high cost of food products in the cities is not fully appre ciated in farming districts like our little county where we get it at first hands. After it leaves our doors a profit is taken by the huckster, the railroad, the com mission man, the jobber, and fi nally by the retailer five profits which, in many instances, brings the price to the consumer to one hundred and fifty per cent, more that we received for it We men tion this because we would have our readers keep awake to the ef forts being made to bring the producer and the consumer into closer touch in order to eliminate some of the five profits, and give the producer a little higher, and the consumer a little lower price, to their mutual benefit Intelli gence will be needed by both, if better conditions are to be had. This is one of the reasons why farm instructors are preaching local unions of farmer, (coopera tion) basket of eggs, or my pota toes cuts no figure in the market unless combined with forty or fif ty of our neighbors, making a quantity worth while. Keep a breast of the times. Subscribe for the "News' enly 1.0Ovear. I called Ben. Eggs are up three cents" Market pirces respond to the demand but with Bell Telephone they're yours to command. Every farmer can keep his finger on the pulse of the demand with a farm telephone, and sell at the peak of the market. You're a modern farmer, no doubt, but why do you try to get along without a telephone when most every farmer in the country hails it as the great- ' est of rural comforts? Prices are low. Post-a card to the Bell Business Office fy a free book let, "What Uncle Sam Says About the Rural Telephone." " . When You Telephone, Smile J 1 I I w il lSSBBWBBi Constables Duty. A subscriber called our atten tion to a late act of our legisla ture making the duty of local of ficers of the law to keep tab on how licensed hotels conduct busi ness, and sends the following clipping; "A law of the state, act of 1913, provides for still another watcher. His services might be said to be a half-way-bet ween work. He is to be paid for his services out of the public crib. He is none other than the ward constable, whose duty under the 1913 statue is to visit all the li censed houses in his bailiwick, once a month, take notice how matters are being conducted, and report the same to the courts, for which the law provides that he shall receive a fee of 25 cents for each and every hotel or saloon visited. This information is gleaned for the information of the court and is returned under oath. The scheme was thought by the members of the State Ho tel Men's Association to be good, as it gave protection to the care ful hotel man, as well as terror to the reckless one, who by the good hotel men are regarded as the worst foe to their own busi ness." February 12th is Valentine day. We are pleased to note the disap perance of the vulgar sort of val entines once so popular; it indi cates improved taste. successfully used iur .years' 4245 Fifth AvlPittsburch. Pa. Western Maryland Railway Company. la Effeet November 10. 1913. Tralna leare Hancock ai follows: I. OS a, m. (dally) Fast Fiprrss for Cumberland ConnvllNvllle, PlitHhurKb, and western point Pullman deeper. 3.(8 a. m (dally) Express for Harerntown. Hal tlniore, New York, Philadelphia, Wash ItiKion, eta. 8.41 a. m. (dally except Sunday) Express for UuuiDerland ami intermediate points. D.M a. m. (dally except Sunday) F.xprem for niiKiTHiowo, v imiesiMiro. unamucrxnurir. Ilitltlmme and Intermcdiatepolnta. New York, Philadelphia, Washington, ete. t.ll p. m. (dally) Western Express for Cum- oerianu, weal Virginia points ana ine west. I.M p. m. (dally) Express for Harerntown. Waynexhoro, ChamlicrNhurR, Hanover. Gettysburg, York. Ualtimore and Inter mediate points, New York, Philadelphia, Washington. O F Stewart, Oen'l Pais, A cent POPULAR ci 300 ARTICLES 300 ILLUSTPA TIONS Popular Mechanics Magazine "WRimN SO VOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT" ACREAT Continued Story of the World's ProgroM which you may Iwgm reading at any time, and which will hold your interest forever. You are living in the beat year, of the most wonderful one. of what is doubtless the Rrrateit world in the universe, A rcsiJunt of Mars would gladly pay $1,000 FOR ONE YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION to this mncazine.in order to keep Informed of our progress in Engineering and Mechanics. Are you reading it? Two millions of your nci;liors are, and it is the favorite maga zine in thousands of the bent American homes. It appeals to all classes oM and young men and women. The "Shoo Notes" Sesartmtat (SO Barm) nlvns cany ways to do limit; bow to uulio . Uiof ul articled for borne and shop, repaint, oto. " Amitpur Mechanic," (10 paints) tell bow to luuliu Mission furniture, wlroleMotitiltti, Iwmtiv OUKlnea, iu:it:lc, and all the things a boy lores, $1.30 Pitt VEAR. niNOLI COPIES tS CCNTS A.k roar N.wwlMl.r to .how ri onm or WHITS FOR rWE ItWftl COPY TQOAY ?OFULAIt MECHANICS y f. J18 W.Wwhlngtoo SL, CHICAGO 0 S MECHANICS The Bell Telephone Co. of Pa. B. H. OVERPECK. Local Mgr. Chambersburg, Pa. Great XXXXXXKXXXJ!-MJeOG!JOBO; Ladies' and Misses Coats at Flat Cost. Preparatory to invoicing, we will sell what we have left of our Ladies' and Misses Coats at FLAT COST. Ladies suits at and BELOW cost to close them out. We have had an elegant trade in these lines and they prove out all right to the buyer. If you want a good suit for yourself or your boy, you can get it now at less mon ey than you can later on. We must have t the room, and the suits must go. Suits for men $5.00 to $17.50. Over coats $2.50 to $15.00, less 20 percent, thus making the best overcoat in the house at only $12.00. A lot of Boys' and Men's Caps at cost and less, to close. Elegant Men's Caps 25 cents; were 40 cents. Boys' Caps 15 cents and up. Lot of dress goods ends that will prove great bargains to you. We want these goods all cleared out by the time we begin our invoice. Some elegant pat ternsregular dollar stuffs at 75 cents. An elegant serge at 39 cents, never sold for less than 50 cents. We will give you bargains in whatever you want. Try us out. Thanking our friends for the large business we had during 1913, promising you better things for the current year, and assuring you that we shall do all in our power to make your trading with us prof itable and satisfactory to yourself, we are, Very truly, Geo. W. Reisner & Co., McConnellsburg, Penn'a. Racket We have just finished up we started m business, and we want to thank you for it; and, now, this year, we are go ing to try and give you more for your money than ever. We have bought a great many of our Spring Goods and think we can save you some money. Note a Few Prices. Glass nest eggs 4 mouse traps 5 doz. clothes pins lc. each 5c 5c lc 14 ro-vs pins 2 pks. hold fast shoe nails 5c 8 pks. carpet tacks 5c 22-short catridges 12c box 22-long and long rifle cartridge 15c box Coat and hat books 5c doz Coffee pot knobs 6 for 5c Shoemakers wax lc Flaxseed meal; pure 5c lb. Belts 1J in. to 7 in. lc each Buggy whips 10 to 50c Heel plates 5c per doz Cow chains 10 and 16c 7 ft. traces 50 to 70o Hand-made open links lc Hatchets 88 to 48c Axes-double bitted 50 to 95c Uome-made handles 25c Wetfavea great line of Child's, Misses', Ladies', Boy's, and Men's Arctics and Rub bers. Rubbers 33 to 90c. Arctics, 60c to $2.50. Respectfully, HULL & BENDER. Pre-Invoice Sale Store the greatest year since 13 and 16 m. horse rasps 20 to 25c Try our 12c horse shoe nails Steel picks 40c Mattocks 40c Mattock handles 16c Handsaws 10c to $160 Taper saw files - 3 to 5c Cant saw files 5 to 8c Mill saw files 6 and 8 inch 8 and 9c Mrs. Pott's sad iron handles 8c No, 2 lanterns 50 and 08c Neata foot oil for harness 75c gal. House hold paint 10c can Paint brushes 5c to $1.25 2-in-l 6hoe polish 8c box No. 1 and 2 lamp globes 4 and 5c
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