VOLUME 15
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., FEBRUARY 19, 1914.
NUMBER 23
THE GRIM REAPER.
Short Sketches of the Lives of
' sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.
' Barney.
Per
Glen Willis, son of J. S. and
Alice Barney died a t the
home of his parents in Clearville,
Pa., Thursday, February 5, 1914,
aged 11 years, 1 month and 24
days. Glen was a bright boy, a
faithful attendant at Sunday
school, and a studious boy in the
day school. His teacher and his
classmates sent to Cumberland
and bought flowers to place upon
his casket as a slight token of
their affection for the boy. Fath
er, mother, 3 brothers, and 2 sis
ters mourn his loss. Loving
hands and sad hearts laid his lit
tie body away in the cemetery at
Rockhill on the 7th. Rev. W. C.
Garland, of Cumberland, Md.,
conducted the services.
Levi Keefer.
Mr. Levi. Keefer, an aged and
respected citizen of Thompson
township died on Monday of last
week with cancer, he having been
a great sufferer for many years
with that dreadful disease, aged
about 75 years. He leaves to
mourn his departure an aged
wife, one daughter, Mrs. Carl
Lanehart, of the Little Cove, and
seven sons, Lewis and George of
Hancock, Md.; Johnson A., of
Sharpe, Pa. ; Edward and Amos,
of Franklin county, Pa. ; and J.
Calvin and Neal, of Tiffin, Ohio.
He was buried Tuesday in the
cemetery adjoining Rehoboth
Church on Timber Ridge.
James R. Noble
James R Noble a son of the
late John Noble, of Cassville,
Huntingdon County, Pa., died at
Tampa, Florida, January 18th,
whither he had gone in search of
health. Mr. Noble for years had
been a resident and prominent
business man of Belle Fourche,
South Dakota. Mr. Noble was
aged about 53 years and leaves a
wife and three children.
He was a cousin of Mrs. Geo.
W, Hays and Geo. A. Harris of
this place.
i
Blames the Groundhog.
Summerfield, 111., Feb. 15th.
Pear Editor: In reading the
Fulton County News, I see so
many letters written by Pennsy
Ivanians that I thought I would
write a few lines telling you a
bout my chickens. I have 4 old
hens and 5 pullets, and during
the month of January, 1914 they
lajd 102 eggs for me. I feed
corn, wheat, and some scraps
We had fine weather all winter
up to Groundhog Day, and since
that day when he saw his sha
dow in great shape, we have had
alj kinds of winter weather Just
npw we have a deep snow and
very cold weather. I am the on
lyj Pennsylvanian in this commun
itjr and I look anxiously for the
coming of the Fulton County
News as I would a letter from
dear old Fulton.
Governor Hawley of Idaho.
Woman suffrage has proven
successful in Idaho in so many
ways that I cannot particularize.
Elections are quiet and orderly,
tnd the character of the candi
dates is scrupulously scanned.
Tremendous interest is taken by
tHe women through their various
organizations in all legislation re
nting to the welfare of children
id the uplift of humanity, and
their demands the legislators
wavs trivp hoorl TVi fmirrh on.
'ranchisement, woman's influ
jce is greatly augmented.
Only Forty-Eight Years Azo.
Abraham
T V4 OUiU
Hello Central," never dodged
A m.i- 1 ...
auwmoDiie, never held a strap
a trolley car, never pushed a
Jtton for a light, never heard a
Stenograph and never posed for
motion picture, and yet Abral
f1 Lincol died only forty-eight
Ms ago,
An Outbreak of Glanders is Checked.
Something over a year ago a
carload of twenty-six horses was
shipped from a Western State in
to Columbia county for public
sale.
These horses at that tine were
all in an apparently healthy con
dition and thus were sold tc vari
ous farmers aud horsemen
throughout that community. In
a short time, however, several of
these horses began to show symp
toms of glanders, a dangerous in
fectious disease, thereby jeopard
izing the health of hundreds of
horses in neighboring Counties,
as each horse in the car was un
doubtedly a source of infection.
Glanders is communiciable to
man and, as in horses, the dis
ease is fatal.
Following the development of
these cases, agents of the State
Livestock Sanitary Board began
to make a thorough investigation
By the tracing of all animals in
this shipment, by the testing of
these and in addition all exposed
animals with mallein, an efficient
diagnostic agent, and by an exa
mination of blood samples collect
ed from the horses and submit
ted to the Board's laboratory,
nearly all of the twenty-six, be
sides other horses, in all thirty-
three, were found to be infected
with glanders.
All' diseased animals were de
stroyed and thorough disinfection
was carried out in all stables and
on all premises where these ani
mals were found and thus the
horse owners of that community
were relieved from any further
loss.
Stuck In Snowdrift.
On last Monday night as Ben
McLucas was' on his way from
Mercersburg with the mail that
arrives here at 9 o'clock p. m.,
he struck a big snowdrift across
the road near the Trogler farm
on this side of Mercersburg, and
broke the tongue out of his sled.
Not being able to make repairs
immediately he was obliged to
seek shelter for self and horses
for the night at the farm house.
With the temperature at or near
zero, and the loose snow now fly
ing and piling up in drifts, it
would have been a risk of life to
enter the mountains at that time
of night, a good thing that the
accident happened near shelter.
This is the second time within a
week the mails have been unable
to cross the Cove mountain on ac
count of drifts.
Miss Seylar President.
At a meeting of the W. C. T. U.
on Tuesday evening, Miss Mol-
ie Seylar was elected president
to succeed Mrs. S. B. Woollett,
who was the first president of
the local union. The members'
wanted to elect Mrs. Woollett for
another term, but she felt that
she was not physically able for
some of the activities required,
and insisted upon her release.
Miss Seylar is at the head of the
Woman Suffrage movement i n
this county, and as the two or
ganizations are working hand in
hand in opposition to Sir John
Barleycorn's domination of the
affairs of this country, it seemed
fitting that Miss Seylar should
be president of the W, C. T. U.
Want Lincoln Way.
A campaign to induce the Lin
coln Highway Association to in
clude in its coast-to-coast route
both Baltimore and Washington,
as well as Hagerstown, was be
gun in earnest in Washington
when a delegation representing
the Merchants and Manufactur
ers' Association, headed by Sen
ator John Walter Smith, confer
red with District of Coloumbia
Commissioners Newman and
Siddons.
Daniel Baer, former landlord
at Fort Loudon, is sojourning in
Florida, and expects to remain
there during February and per
haps longer, finding the warm
and sunny southland more to his
liking,
CLEAN HANDS.
Little Talks on Health and Hygene by
Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LL. D.,
Commissioner of Health.
Keep your hands clean! It is
not without reason that the ex
pression "his hands are clean"
has grown to be a synonym for
moral as well as physical cleanli
ness. The hands are the part of our
body most frequently in contact
with infected and unclean mater
ials. Unless precautions are ob
served until they become a habit
this will lead to the conveying of
disease germs to the mouth eith
er directly or by the handling of
food or anything we put into the
mouth.
Keep soap and a good stiff
bristle brush always convenient
and make it a rule to wash your
hands thoroughly before each
meal. Before preparing food or
serving it.
After the necessary toilet at
tentions. After attentions to the sick
and the handling of articles in a
sick room.
It u a common thing to find
secondary causes of typhoid and
other diseases which have re
sulted from the failure to observe
the latter precautions. And if
the nurse must act as cook some
disinfectant such as a 2 percent,
carbolic solution should be used
as well as thoroughly scrubbing
the hand with plenty of soap and
warm water. The nails should
receive particular attention.
Washing the hands is one of
the simplest yet most important
of the precautions which one can
take to insure avoiding disease.
March 8 to 15.
IIo, Superintendents! Atten
tion, Again! Are the teams rea
dy for the Big Week? There is
a way in shaking hands by giv
ing a grip of welcome. It is call
ed the automobile grip. It beats
the pump-handle grip all hollow.
There is a way to make a per
son feel he wants to belong to a
Sabbath School. If you do not
succeed in getting "the hardest
one in the community to get" for
your Sunday School by sending
a squad of a half a dozen with
the "I mean it" grip after him
or her then tell me at the Con
vention next May. Some schools
use the following plan to get
ready for the canvass in March.
Members of all the teams or
squads come together at a home,
have a good time, and drill each
other on just what to say when
they will go out to ask the peo
ple to unite with the school. Its
great fun to go after some one
for the Sunday school. County
Convention at Cito, next May. ,
Secretary.
Watch For Seed Frauds.
There are some parties defraud
ing farmers up in New York
state by selling them adulterated
seeds. Generally these men prac
tice their nefarious business in
districts far far away from towns
large enough to operate a seed
house, because farmers there are
more or less accustomed to order
seeds shipped in. There is no
telling when the pest may ap
pear in this county nor would it
be his first trip if he came.
It is a pretty good rule at all
times not to be on the lookout
for something for nothing; or, at
least, for too low a price. Good
seeds never need to be peddled
about; there is always a market
for them by a cheaper method.
Indeed, it is not necessary to
peddle any staple. Sometime a
man will call on you with a mer
itorious article, but when fraudu
lent, there are certain earmarks
that should tell you that "some
thing is wrong." Never give
notes to strangers.
Prothonotary B. F. Henry had
to climb fences and take a cir
cuitous route to reach the Court
House last Tuesday morning, on
account of the snowdrifts, but he
got there all the same.
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
Report of Meeting in Harrisburg Janu
ary 23 to 30, by Delegate From
This County.
Editor NEWs:-By your re
quest I send you a brief report
of the meeting of the State Board
of Agriculture which met at
Harrisburg, January 28, 29 and
30th. Members who have at
tended such meetings, before de
clare it was the most interesting
meeting of the State Board they
have attended.
The Secretary of Agriculture,
Hon. N. B. Crichfield, who has
charge of arranging the program
for these meetings, conceived the
idea of inviting the heads of all
the departments in the State
Capital to make a report of their
special line of State business.
Each department responded will
ingly and gave interesting state
ments of work being done along
their line. Governor Tener,
who is President of the State
Board of Agriculture, presided at
the opening session, and made an
address on general topics of in
terest. The Governor paid speci
al attention to the road question
and requested the Board to sug
gest some feasible plan by which
ten millions cf dollars could be
raised for building roads each
year. This subject was discussed
to some extent, and a committee
was appointed to suggest some
probable plan to get money for
road improvement and report at
the meeting of the Board at
Stroudsburg next May. Dr. C.
J. Marshal, State Veterinary,
made a report on control of con
tagious diseases of animals such
as Tuberculosis. Rabies, Hoof
and Mouth disease, Glanders and
others of like nature. Prof.
Surface showed lantern slides of
the parasite which is putting the
San Jose scale out of business in
several counties, and it is ex
pected to exterminate it entirely
in the State. I have not the time
or inclination to mention all the
reports from the different de
partments; but will refer to the
Auditor General's report of the
duties of his department. All
vouchers drawn on the State
Treasurer must have his approval
before money can he drawn on
them. Of course, Mr. Powel was
asked why he would not allow
the State Highway Department
to use the automobile license fund
for road improvement as intend
ed by an act of the Legislature.
Mr. Powel is the live wire of the
Harrisburg combination, and
quoted law at a 2-40 gate. Had
a good sized law library brought
in and two of his clerks to find
acts and sections while he read
and explained. According to his
interpretation of the law, the
automobile license fund cannot
be used until the Legislature
names a specific sum in round
number of dollars; and that can
not be done until the Legislature
meets again. Mr. Powel declared
the State Highway Department
had a large sum of money on
hanr when they stopped work
last September and could not see
any reason for stopping. He
seemed to place the blame on
Mr. Bigelow, when he remarked
"if Mr. Hunter had been at the
head of the Department such
conditions would not have exist-1
ed." Mr. Hunter was then call
ed in to explain why they stopped
work when they had a good sum
of money on hand. Mr. Hunter
explained the appropriations,
with the Automobile License
fund added, was to be used in
two years one half each year.
In September more than one-half
the appropriation had been used
and eighteen or nineteen State
Aid contracts had been let to be
paid for out of the balance. They
then found Mr. Powel refused
to let the automobile license fund
be used and they were obliged to
stop work so they might have
some money for maintenance
fund for 1914. There will be but
a small amount of money for use
this year unless. Mr.. Powel
will allow the automobile license
A NERVY WOMAN.
Mrs. Jesse Kurd Slashes a Negro With
a Butcher Knife, Who Enters
Her Home.
The Mrs. Jesse Hiird In this article
Is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Slinon
Uesliong, formerly of Lick tug Creek
township, but for several years resid
ing In the Eastern Shore, Maryland.
The article Is copied from last Satur
day's Kent County (Md. ) News, and
Is as follows: Editor.
"Another startling occurrence
has stirred the people of this com
munity. Mrs. Jesse Hurd, a
young wife with two children, 3
and 1 year old, who resides with
her husband on the Geo. II. Watts
farm, about two miles from Ches
tertown, had and encounter with
a burly negro Saturday evening
about 9 o'clock and drove him
bleeding from her home.
"Mr. Hurd, as was his custom
left for Chestertown to bring his
young sister home, the latter be
ing employed in the Candy Kitch
en. At the time he left a negro
was secreted under the wagon
shed and evidently had seen Mr.
Hurd take some money from a
hand satchel and replace the
same on a peg in the kitchen.
"Mrs. Hurd was sitting near a
table, close to the stove, while
the two little children were asleep
in an adjoining room, when in
walked the negro. As he ap
proached and reached for the
satchel Mrs. Hurd grabbed up a
butcher knife. The negro struck
at her with an empty beer bottle
which he carried in his hand but
she dodged the blow. In dodg
ing the negro she tripped over a
small chair and started her no?e
to bleeding. Thi3 did not deter
her, however, for as the negro
rushed toward her she swiped
him with the knife and he quick
ly tied leaving his hat, bottle and
satchel.
"The negro was tracked by
blood spots to his hiding place un
der the shed where he had evi
dently left something, then he
returned and looked in the win
dow, and went off. The noise
awakened the three-year-old child
who got up and came out in the
room with her mother. Mrs.
Hurd says the negro hearing the
child returned to see who it was
and let fly a brick through the
window before taking his depar
ture. "It was after midnight when
the husband returned but the
plucky little wife kept up her
courage all the time and was pre
pared for most anything.
"States Attorney Harrison W.
Vickers and Sheriff Brown were
at once notified and going to the
scene found spots of blood in sev
eral places and tracks with blood
here and there, showing conclu
sively that the negro had been
wounded.
"Upon investigation, tracks
were seen where a man had crept
cautiously up the side of the
fence, blood being found spattered
on several boards. Tracks were
also followed, showing that the
man had made for the marsh on
the Schauber place.
"State's Attorney Vickers
thinks that the cause of the ne
gro entering Mr. Hurd's house
was probably robbery. (
"A posse led by Sheriff Brown
scoured the woods near Mr.
Hurd's home Tuesday, but no
further evidence was found. The
authorities are making a diligent
search to apprehend the guilty
party and he will be dealt with
severely.
"Mrs. Hurd is the daughter of
Mr. Simon Dishong, of near
Hanesville. She is young and
will weigh about ninety pounds.
She has been brought up to use a
pistol handily but had none in the
house.
"Detective Hogans arrived
from Baltimore Tuesday night
and has been at work on the case
with Attorney Vickers. It is
thought a good clue has been
found."
fund to be used.
The next meeting of the Board
will be the Farmer's Annual
Normal Institute at Stroudsburg,
next May.
Sincerely,
Frank Ranck,
Unjust Prejudice Against Bloodhounds.
Popular prejudice against blood
hounds operates against the ad
visability of this dog as a watch
dog in the opinion of the State
Economic Zoologist, Professor II.
A. Surface, who had one on his
Cumberland county farm. To a
Huntingdon county man who in
quired about getting a blood
hound to guard his orchard, Prof
Surface wrote:
"While bloodhounds are very
gentle and affectionate in dispo
sition, they are ferocious looking,
and strangers are afraid of them.
The very fact that there is a
bloodhound on the premises keeps
strangers away, especially after
night.
"The difiiculty was that some
of my near neighbors and good
friends hesitated to come to the
place on account of the presence
of the dog, and as he was of a
visiting disposition, he would
often go to their premises, and I
fear that this may have worried
them and caused them anxiety as
to the safety of their families. I
never had any trouble from ma
rauders while I had this dog, yet
there seemed to bean unjust pre
judice against him, and finally
one of the neighbors shot him.
As he was off of my proyerty at
the time I have said nothing
about it.
"To solve the problem further
I obtained an Airdale dog, which
is practically as good as a blood
hound, and is an excellent watch
dog around the premises, and at
the same time is of a very kind
disposition toward members of
the family. Neither the blood
hound nor the Airdale will be
found at all cross to children."
Oats For Hay.
We have no doubt that there
are many among our readers who
could use oats straw for hay to
better advantage than to let
ripen and thresh it. The writer
of this article lived in Texas for
a number of years, and oats cut
in the dough state was the only
kind of hay used in this part of
the country. Oats hay not thresh
ed, compared with timothy, con
tains about ten per cent, more
dry matter, two-thirds more pro
tein, and from hve to ten per
cent, more carbohydrates and
fat Smut, that so often renders
oat3 straw useiess and even dan
gerous to feed, can be controlled
by first soaking t.ie seed oats in
a solution containing one pound
of formalin in fifty gallons of
water. Soak for thirty minutes
then dry on barn floor. As this
will treat nearly fifty bushels of
seed, a less quantity say half
pound of formalin and 25 gallons
of water, if 25 bushels of seed
are to be sown. Horses in Tex
as, ied on an exclusive diet oi
half-ripe oats hay, were able to
stand hard work as saddlers for
the "cow punchers" as the feed
ing value of the oat grain in the
dough state almost equals that
of ripened grain, and the straw
cut green and dried is relished
by all kinds of hay-eating stock.
Miss Mary Strait, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Strait, of
Licking Creek township, went to
Ashmore, 111., about four years
ago with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
W. Lake when the latter remov
ed from Pleasant Ridge. Miss
Strait returned about January
first to visit her parents and
friends in this county, and will
go back to Ashmore next week.
She reports that the Lake family
like farm life out there, and that
they are prospering, although Mr
Lake had the misfortune to lose
fifty-seven hogs last year from
cholera. (Better luck this year,
Joe. Editor.)
Rev. George A. McAllister, Ph
D., of Chester, N. Y., ha3 ac
cepted the call to become pastor
of the Central Presbyterian
church, Chambersburg, made va
cant by the resignation of Rev.
A. F. Waldo, and Mr. McAllister
will enter upon the duties of his
pastorate the first of April,
ORCHARD TIPS.
Valuable Suggestions for Improving
the Crops from Fruit Trees.
Many inquiries are being re
ceived at the Division of Zoology
at Harrisburg regarding the treat
ment of fruit tree3 during the
late winter and early spring, and
the following valuable sugges
tions are culled from the corres
pondence of Prof. II. A. Surface,
State Economic Zoologist, as of
benefit to everyone. To an in
quiry about general pruning at
the present time Professor Sur
face replied;
"It is the proper time of year
to prune apple trees, and I rec
ommend you to go ahead with
this. You can also prune pear
and even grape vines during the
winter, if you wish; but I recom-,,
mend postponing the pruning of
peach until you are sure whether
or not the fruit buds are ruined.
If you find there will be no crop
you should much more severely
than otherwise. Cut the bran
ches away back, and by stimu
lating new growth you can de
velop new branches heavily set
with fruit buds for the crop dur
ing the second summer following
By such severe pruning you
would be removing only the dead
buds, which would, if alive, form
fruit for the next summer, but
in case these are not alive they
are useless, and the art of th)
grower should be to insure plen
ty of buds for the following sum
mer. One can not consider the
time proper to prune his peach
trees until after the period for
late spring frosts is past. If a
person should prune only lightly
before blooming, for the purpose
of saving fruit buds, and these
should afterwards be damaged
he is justified in going after the
trees again and pruning much
more severely.
"This is an important andprac
tical point in horticulture which
I think has not been set forh in
the books on this subject. At
least if this be true, I have not
seen it. I have made use of it
very considerably in my own ex
tensive orchards. After I found
that a temperature of 35 degrees
below zero had killed my fruit
buds a year ago last winter, I
pruned the trees back very se
verely by semi-topping, and this
resulted in the growth of an abun
dance of new branches, heavily
set with fruit buds that gave me
magnificent crop of peache3
last summer."
Gaining Ground.
The idea of consolidating the
publi: schools of the rural dis
tricts will not down. Every few
weeks some district bobs up with
a report of having tried it, and
we have yet to hear of a failure.
The children are taken to school
in public conveyances, and are
then put into graded schools
which, we all know, afford the
child better opportunity for
advancement. The children
do not have to sit with wet feet
do not feel too tired to study, do
not wear out so many shoes, and
have few doctor bills as the con
sequence of exposure, and can at
tend more days during the term.
The plan affords the opportunity
to teach more subjects that will
educate the child to stay on the
farm where, if he have the right
kind of education, he can live a
more intelligent and happy life
than when thrown among the
rougher element found crowding
big factories. Our wisest men
grew up on the farm.
Missionary Coming Home.
Miss Alice Wishart, daughter
of Mrs. S. P. Wishart, of Wells
Tannery, who is doing mission
ary work in India, has not been
enjoying good health for some
time and intends to sail for home
next Wednesday. She contem
plates stopping off at several
places of interest in Asia, Egyyt
and Europe, and will be on her
journey a month or more.
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