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VOLUME 15
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., APRIL 1G, 1914.
NUMBER 31
THE GRIM REAPER.
Short Sketches of the Lives of Per
sons Who Dave Recently
Passed Away.
Maynard Dennis Keefer.
(lly One of III Touchers)
Maynard Dennis Keefer, eldest
son of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson A.
Keefer, of Thompson township,
died at 3:50 o'clock on Friday af
ternoon, April 10, 1914, aged 20
years, 3 months, and 13 days.
About nine weeks ago, upon the
advice of his physician, he under
went a delicate operation of the
lungs, and for several weeks
thereafter seemed to be getting
better, and hopes for his recov
ery were entertained; but about
two weeks ago he began a rapid
decline which ended in his death.
During the entire time of his
sickness he bore his intense suf
fering with patience and Chris
tian fortitude. Maynard was a
bright, cheerful young man, and
had been engaged in teaching in
the public schools of the County
for the past two years. He
taught the Oak Grove school last
winter. His entire life was that
of a christian, and during the
past winter he united .with the
Antioch Christian Church. The
large concourse that attended the
funeral, and the many beautiful
floral tributes the gifts of lov
ing friends bore testimony of
the esteem in which he was held
by all who new him.
He is survived by the follow
ing loving relatives; His father
and mother, and these brothers
and sisters Edith, Willian, Roy,
Herbeet, Oscar, Marshall, Bessie,
and Bruce.
The funeral services were held
on April rz, interment being
made in the cemetery at Antioch.
Rev. A. G. B. Powers officiated.
Clay M. Brown.
Clay M. Brown died at his
home in Maddensville, Hunting
don county, on April 7, 1914,
aged 53 years, 3 months and 17
days. Mr. Brown was a native
of Huntingdon county, intermar
ried with Aravado Locke Brown.
a daughter of the late D. Locke
of Maddensville, on October 19,
1S82, by the late Rev. W. H.
Stevens.
He is survived by his widow
and ten children; Raymond, of
Pitcairn, Mrs. Ed Loreng of
Huntingdon; Owen. Laura, El
len, Minota, Mary, Grace and
Bertha at home; Reba and Lu
verna at Huntingdon. He resid
ed at Burnt Cabins during the
building of the South Penn rail
road, and later at Cook's Mills,
afterwards buying a farm near
Maddensville where he resided at
time of his death.
He was converted, bantized
and received into the church at
Walnut Grove by the late Rev.
W. H. Dressier, of the Church of
God, in 1895; was a trustee of
ine Walnut Grove Camp Grounds
and a member of the Maddens
ville Patrons of Husbandry. He
served his township in the capac
ities of constable and school di
rector for several terms. He
was a man of good judgment
and stood bv his rnnvip.tinns of
riRht; and, like all other men
no live to any purpose in this
world, made fast friends among
the better class, and enemies a-
'ong the opposite class.
interment was made in the
Walnut Grove cemetery on the
"Jth. Fu nprnl c
ducted by his pastor, Rev. Spiece.
Frank Bailey.
n Sunday morning Mrs. Wil-
un vvoodall of this place receiv
ed a telephone message that her
.ther Mr. Frank Baiely, was se-
nn his fnrm
near Mercersburg. Mr. Bailey
sick at 9 o'clock Sunday
mrninir. nnrl i, ft, m
Jntl Mrs. Woodall reached there
iy auto he Wfl Q nntnncpmna o r d
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j Gained in that state until a-
rM o'clock Tuesday morning
Ven h died. We could not
Learn the nature of his illness,
ferment in the cemetery at
Brcersburg. Mr. Bailey was
Easter in The Churches.
Easter dawned bright, but
frosty. The latter condition did
not prevent representatives from
all the congregations in town
from meeting in the Presbyterian
church at G o'clock in the morn
ing. The church was comforta
bly filled when Rev. J. L. Year
ick of the Reformed church
opened the union services of
prayer and praise. Rev. R. E.
Peterman of the Lutheran church,
and laymen of several denomina
tions spoke or led in the exer
cises. The regular preaching
services were held later in the
day at all of the churches except
in the Presbyterian which is with
out a pastor. At the Lutheran
church four new members were
admitted, and communion held in
the morning. In the evening
they had very interesting Easter
exercises for the Sabbath School.
The same program was followed
in the Reformed, there being
seven new members received in
the morning, and in the evening,
officers and teachers of the Sab
bath School were installed, and
diplomas given to five graduates
from the teacherstraining class.
Thirty-three member of classes
were awarded silver pins for
have attended every session of
Sabbath School for six months.
Staj There.
Young man, if your lot has fal
len in the country, and you have
an able body and brains, stay
there. Do not, however, be a
jellyfish, waiting for the tides
to wash food to your mouth, but
go after it it like the game fish
you can be. Be a real sport a
real gentleman. Dependence up
on lore and old wives, fables will
never get you beyond the slough
of despond. If you have not ac
quired the art of reading, begin
at once not Diamond Dick and
other rubbish but good business
papers pertaining to agriculture.
born in Baltimore, and for a long
time was in the employ of the
Cumberland Valley railroad. He
aftewards bought the farm on
which he resided at time of his
death. He raised a family of
twelve children, all of whom are
living. His wife died about four
teen years ago. Mr. Bailey was
about 77 years of age when he
died. He was a member of the
M. E. Church.
The names and addresses of
the children are: William and
Harry, at Hagerstown; Dice, of
Chambersburg; Harvey and Ben,
of Harrisburg; Cloyde, of Cana
da: Florence (married) of Ohio.
Mrs. William Woodall, of McCon
nellsburg; Mrs. Edith VanDraw,
and Mrs. Belle Hoover, of Mer
cersburg; Essie and Virgie, at
home.
Mrs. Martha E. Myers.
Mrs. Martha Esther Thomas
Myers, wife of Mr. Dallas Myers
died at their home one mile east
of McConnellsburg, on April 12,
1914, after having suffered for
some time with diabetes. Mrs.
Myers was a daughter of the late
Joseph and Mary Thomas, of Ayr
township. She was born in Oc
tober 1859, and was aged 54 years
G months and 7 days. In 1878
she was united in marriage to
Mr. Dallas Myers. To this union
three children were born; Nancy,
who married Edward Pine, and
is now living in Franklin county;
Mary, who married Edgar Down
in, and lives in Tod township,
this county, and Maud, deceased.
Her husband, Dallas Myers
survives.
Mrs. Myers united with the
United Presbyterian Church of
this place about twenty years ago
an was faithful in her attendance
upon the services, and an exem
plary member, of both church
and society, and will be greatly
missed by a very devoted circle
of friends.
Funeral services were conduct
ed by her pastor, Rev. J. L.
Grove, on Monday afternoon, in
terment being made in the union
cemetery,
Had Splinter in His Eve.
William E. Bair, who lives on
Green Hill, in Licking Creek
township, met with a most pain
ful accident last Saturday even
ing while splitting kindling
wood at the woodpile, when a
jagged sliver of wood struck him
in the left eye and pierced the
eyeball in two places.
He was brought to town as
quickly as possible by his neigh
bor John Kline, and taken to Dr.
Dalby's office where the physician
removed a splinter about half an
inch long. The splinter entered
the eye in in upward direction
and did not penetrate the back
part, and, for this reason, he
may not lose the sight. Every
thing possible was done to re
lieve the gentleman of the in
tense pain; but the attending
physician not being satisfied that
all foreign substance had been
removed, sent Mr. Bair to Cham
bersburg, where Dr. Emmert
made a thorough examination
under strong light, but failed to
locate anything of consequence
that had not been removed here.
The Doctors think that, if no un
usual inflammation sets in, his
sight will be spared; but cannot
promise that his vision will not
be slightly impaired.
Mr. Bair was taken to Cham-
oersDurg baturoay night by liv
eryman bheets, leaving here
sometime between 9 and 10
o'clock, arriving in Chambers
burg about 1 o'clock in the morn
ing. They returned early Sunday
morning and the patient was tak
en to his home eight miles west
of this place. If sympathy will
cure him, Mr. Bair will be all
right soon, for he has so many
friends who were shocked to hear
of his mishap that there will be
no end to the application of that
kind of "salve." It is a hard
blow to him, for he not only
works his own tidy farm on top
of Green Hill, but farms the
Mann place a half mile west of
it, hauls the freight for the Sa
luvia store, and is the "minute
man" for everybody needing a
"lift."
Had a Parade.
A procession of automobiles
passed through town on Monday,
stopping for a few minutes to
take on fuel. A reporter, with
pencil in hand, and eager for
news asked the undertaker who
was along with the crowd, whose
funeral it was? He replied, "No
bodies' yet." By that time Dr.
H. C McClain appeared and lignt
began to dawn. The Doctor had
taken the party to the railroad to
bring back a carload of new Ford
touring cars, vv nether it was a
coincidence or not that he took
along an undertaker anil several
mechanicians we did not learn.
The jolly crowd consisted of the
Doctor, H. E. Kirk, Jesse Laidig,
II. II. Clevenger, and Harvey
Fisher, all of Ilustontown and
vicinity.
They Breed Enroute.
Very careful and delicate ex
periments have proven that mi
crobes not only live much longer
in air that has come in contact
with decayed vegetable or animal
matter, but that they actually
multiply rapidly while in suspen
sion lh the air that furnishes
food for them. All know that
many odors are unhealthy, but
never knew why; but we can
readily see, therefore, how it is
unnecessary for disease microbes
to find lodgement in filth in order
that they may multiply. The mi
crobes that rise into the air on
Water street, and iloat i n a
zephyr, may have increased a
million fold by the time that par
ticular puff of air reaches vic
tims in another part of the town.
Miss Mollie Seylar went to
Washington, D. C, last Saturday,
to spend some time with her
niece, Mrs. Marshall McKibbin.
Mrs. Ola Cowan and Miss Sa-
villa Bowman, of Burnt Cabins,
spent Monday with friends at
the county seat.
GARDENS.
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by
Samuel fl. Dixon, !H. D., LI. D.,
Commissioner of Health.
Plant a garden. Some of the
world's greatest thinkers have
found diversion and inspiration
in their gardens. If your con
trol of agricultural space is limit
ed to a twenty foot back yard do
not be discouraged. It is even
possible to transform an unat
tractive flat roof into a garden.
The possibilities of exercise and
profit to be derived from the cul
tivation of even a small plot, are
greater than one might think.
The use of the spade, the hoe
and the rake prove the equiva
lent of many of the gymnastic
exercises which everybody con
cedes to be beneficial and few
people take. In addition to the
advantage of exercise in the open
air it is a keen satisfaction to the
vast majority of men and women
to see things that they have cul
tivated grow and mature.
The practical benefits derived
from the tillage of a little garden
are usually exceeded by the aes
thetic but in the hurly-buriy of
every day life perhaps we weigh
as of too little importance our op
portunities for the cultivation
and appreciation of the beautiful.
It is difficult to tell how far reach
ing may be the effect of some
slight effort at beautification.
Years ago a boy station agent
of a railroad traversing the plains
of the Canadian North West sent
back home for a few packages of
flower seed and with such time as
he "could spare transformed the
surroundings of his mean little
one, room station. Sir Thomas
Shaughnessy, President of the
road was making a tour of in
spection and when he reached
this little garden spot in the un
cultivated wastes, he asked to see
the boy and learned from him the
story of his garden. As a result
the next year all agents of this
road, which stretches from the
Atlantic to the Pacific received
packages of seeds and instruc
tions to plant flowers around ev
ery station and the custom then
begun has ever since continued.
The cultivation of twenty feet
or more of back yard may not re
suit in anything of this sort but
should prove a healthful, restful
and profitable diversion after the
labors of the day for the busy
man or woman.
Go To Church May 3rd.
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ine rural cnurcn has come in
for much criticism some of it
just and some of it unjust. That
rural churches are a vital part of
every rural community there can
oe no question, spreading over
the country is a religious wave
that is certain to benefit the age.
In arousing the public conscience
concerning politics, political cor
ruption, unholy materialism and
vice in high places the fundamen-
tais oi religion nave once more
been received and the steps of
the Master accepted as the path
way for personal and national
salvation. To promote the fur
therance of this idea a go-to-church
movement has been in
augurated among farmers, and
May third has been selected as
the day that every one attend
some church. Everybody is ur
ged to make an effort to got ev
erybody else to attend-and to at
tend themselves. You are asked
to speak to your minister and
have him prepare a special ser
vice on that day. The ministers
are asked to speak to you and ask
you to help by your presence.
Let May third be the rally day
of the beginning of a new era of
church-going. Let the country
church once more be the centre
of religious and educational train
ing that marked the early history
of this country. Be sure to go to
c h ur c h somewhere on May
third; and see to it that some sig
nificance be attached to the ser
vices of that day:'it will be as
leaven for future days.
Subscribe or the Mews.
In Memoriam.
Written by Ooorire W.
Ashton In
memory of his only sister,
Lvilla A.
wool leu, win died n few months ago
In I'ittsburjr. Pa. Mrs. Woollen was
tho widow of Oliver Scott Woollett
and resided at Fort Littleton several
years Kditor
What hallowed associations
cluster around the fireside! Here
character is molded, , honor en
shrined, and destiny fixed. The
impressions of the home circle
are lasting a3 time itself.
The precious memory of father
mother, brother, sister, is most
sacred, tender and enduring. A
christian home with its family
altar is a citadel of moral and
spiritual strength, through all
the coming years, to those thus
blessed in the springtime of life.
We cherish with fondness and re
call with delight the companion
ships born of a common parent
age and cemented by the tender,
loving relation of brother and sis
ter dwelling sweetly together in
childhood under the same parent
al roof. And, when love's rich
est fruits have been lavished up
on each other, with unselfish de
votion, all through youthful and
maturer years and the Grim
Reaper suddenly appears and
robs us of an only sister, most
affectionately endeared to U3 by
blood and love, but for the sun
light of immortality falling on
our hopes, we would lose oursel
ves in- the darkness. I would not
be ungrateful for the more than
three score years of mortal life
allotted to the departed sister,
nor for the nearly four score
years graciously granted to my
precious and only brother, who
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is still wun us. ine .Lord is
good" "full of compassion and
plenteous in mercy." "But
though he cause grief, yet wi
he have compassion according to
the multitude of his mercies.1
(Psa. 86:15; Lam. 3; 25, 32.)
But the passage of the death
stream is inevitable and awaits
us all. and when the clock of
eternity strikes the hour whoever
is called must go.
Because of the weakness of
human nature, perhaps the bit
terest sorrow and anguish which
we are here doomed to endure,
are occasioned by that fatal
stroke which separates us from
those with whom either nature or
friendship had intimately joined
our hearts; hence we deplore the
recent death of our own beloved
sister, Mrs. Lydia A. Woollet, at
her home in Pittsburgh, Ta.,
with deep feelings of sadness
and regret, softened only by the
confident hope that from the
crowded vestibule of the living
she has passed the pearly gates
of immortality and entered that
blessed realm, where
" that, which lived
True life, lives on."
For hers was "a quiet, patient
heart that meekly serves itsLord"
and such "God's finger joys to
touch."
She was pure in thought and
life; noble in nature; confiding in
affection, and unsparing in devo
tion. A dutiful daughter: a lov
ing sister; a devoted wife and
mother; a steadfast friend.
A rich vase is shattered, but
we know where blooms the beau
teous immortelle it once contain
ed. A presence an d a glory have
departed from a home she made
so happy, but in that holy temple
of which it is said, "the Lamb
is the light thereof," a radiant
face has been added to the spot
less throng and even the Blessed
are richer for our loss.
From our human standpoint, it
is impossible to see any justice in
the removal by death of those
we have learned to love and prize
beyond all else on earth. We
know not the why, now. We
shall know. The dawn will
break. The mist will rise. Some
time in the boundless ages and
the ample creation we shall un
derstand. These bereavements
broaden our sympathies. Today
we place our wounded hearts be
sides the broken hearts of others
We feel for them because they
have tasted the same bitter cup.
Today we learn the weight of
Rabbits' Damaging Trees.
Man's legal right to kill an an
imal or bird, whether protected
by law or not, is fully set forth
in a letter written recently to a
Potter county horticulturist by
Professor II. A. Surfaee, State
Economic Zoologist, from Har
risburg. The writer complained
of trees being damaged by rab
bits, and stated that he had been
fined for killing one of the rab
bits; he suggested that the State
ought to allow damages under
the circumstances. Zoologist Sur
face replied:
"We have been sending out in
formation at every opportunity
to tell the people how to prevent
injury to trees by rabbits and
mice, and I have used the meth
od3 for some years on my ow
trees without damage to the tree
either from the treatment
from the rabbits. Therefore,
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ieei mat ine state nas given in
formation as to practical and e
ficient methods of protecting the
trees from injuries, and if you
have not applied this information
the State can not be to blame
The method consists in spray
ing and washing the trees witl
strong lime-sulfer solution, made
by boiling one pound of lime and
two of sulfer in each gallon
water for forty-five minutes, and
men diluting witn six or seven
times its bulk of water, adding
a half ounce of lead arsenate
or
Paris green to each gallon,
spraying it over the trees.
and
The
rabbits will not go where it has
been applied. It should not pre
vent your mulching the trees, or
following any other method
ot
horticulture that you wish.
It
can be applied as a wash with
brush.
It 13 true that through the
Game Commission the rabbits are
protected, but there is no law
against a person killing rabbits
as pests if at the time of killing
them he let3 them remain on the
ground or throws them away like
he would any other pest. When
you shot the rabbit for which
you were fined, if you had let
remain on the ground where you
shot it, they could not have fined
you. A person, of course, has a
right to protect his property from
damage, but he should first find
out the legal method by which
this can be done."
Put On A Good Front.
It would make mighty interest
ing reading if the impressions of
the 20,000 automobile parties who
passed through this place last
summer could be compiled. Over
50,000 strangers passed through
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nere auring mat time, ana car
ried their impressions of the
place to almost every state in the
Union. Business men took in
the place at a glance and formed
opinions according to what they
saw, and that opinion may influ
ence business relations between
them and the place in the future
We flatter ourselves that the
impressions were at least on
par with those made in other
places along the old, trans-state
highway. However we fancy
that a little paint, and the remov
al of some of thankee-man cross
ings, and the daily cleaning up
of loose papers and rubbish, would
impress travelers with the vim
of the Burg, to the financial bene
fit of the community. Put Sun-
day-go-to-mectin' clothes on Wa
ter street and let it wear 'em ev
ery day this summer.
Subscribe for the "News'
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only
love. The value of love' for grief
is not too great a price to pay for
love. Our deepest joys and our
bitterest griefs grow on the same
stalk. To love always involves
suffering sooner or later, for
there must some time be a sepa
ration. One must go on from a
new made grave and watch and
wait for the sunrise-land where
love shall find it soon again.
Geo. W. Asiiton,
Oklahoma City,
Okla.
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
Snapshots at Their Comings and Goings
Here for a Vacation, or Awa v
for a Restful Outing.
Lemuel Divens having spent
last week at his home near
Knobsville, returned to his work
at Kearney.
Rev. J. L. Grove went to York
on Tuesday to attend a meeting
of Presbytery of the United Pres
byterian Church.
Mrs. Peter Morton spent last
week visiting her "new" grand
daughter, Joan Elizabeth Morton,
at Petersburg, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Schenck,
of Wells Valley, spent part of
last week in the home of Judge
Morton, near town.
Harry Deshong, of Ilarrison
ville, who had been at home for
a few weeks on account of a bad
cold, has returned to his work at
Kearney.
Mrs. S. B. Woollet and her
nephew Fred Fisher left on Mon
day for Lancaster where Fred
was placed in the Thaddeus 'Ste
vens School.
Milton Shadle, who has em
ployment at Kearney, is spend
ing a little while at hie home in
Dublin township looking after
some spring work.
Jolly Joe Edwards, of Taylor
township, was busily engaged in
delivering fruit trees last week
to purchasers up and down the
central portion of the County.
William J. Winter and wife of
Kearney, spent from Friday eve
ning until Sunday with relatives
at Ilustontown and attended D.
R. Mumma's sale last Saturday.
B. A. Brinkley, of Lemoyne,
Cumberland county, who is em
ployed by Swift and Co., in Har
risburg, spent a few days with
friends and relatives in this place,
returning Wednesday. He said
he enjoyed the Easter Services
in the .Lutheran church very
much.
The Sluncy is There.
With $1,000,000.00 paid into
the State Treasury in 1914 by au-
toists for the use of the Highway
Department, there should be less
antagonism between drivers of
horse drawn vehicles and motor
ists. It was the latter who were
the ones to actually put the idea
on a working basis. Good roads
have been discussed since the
dawn of civilization; but it re
mained for the riders of bicycles
to start a campaign of education
that was again given a boost
when automobiles came into gen
eral use. The result of this agi
tation can now be seen in the for
mulation of plans to make good,
solid roads all over the State is
the politicians can soon come to
an agreement in regard to the
inevitable spoils.
Death of Famous Writer.
Lovers of books will be mysti
fied to know that three of their
favorite authors were born at the
same moment and that all three
died recently at the same mo
mentall three, in their fifty-
eighth year. Their names are:
Bertha M. Clay, Charlotte M.
Breame, and Thomas W. Han-
shew. The mystery will have
disappeared when you learn that
all three were but one person.
namely, Thomas W. Hanshew.
Ie was an American by birth,
but lived most the time in Eng-
and, dying in Annesly. It is
said that he died of overwork, he
laving contracted with an En
glish publishing company to write
our novels a year besides two
short stories each month.
Death of Infant.
Walter Charles Mellott, little
son of Charles and Rhoda Mellott
near Sipes Mill, this county, died
April 7, 1914, aged 1 year, 2
months, and 5 days. Interment
was" made in the Sideling Hill
Christian Church Cemetery, on
April 9th. Rev. J. P. Garland
officiated, assisted b,y Rev. John
Mellott The parents and sur
viving sister have the sympathy
of a wid,e circle of friends.
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