mm 0 . VOLUME 15 McCONNELLSBURG, PA., AUGUST 0,1914. NUMBER 47 HE GRIM REAPER. Short Sketches of the Lives of Per- Jons Who Have Kcccnuy Passed Away. Annie Fore. Tho nallbcarers at the funeral f Annie Fore whose death no L annparcd in the News last Jeek, were eight of her little as Liates, namely-Ruth Crouse, heue Barmont. Kose Daniels, olen Bender, Thclma Glazier, Pw-hnrHs. Marv Fisher. y Helen Washabaugh. Servi- i were conducted by nor pas- if, KCV. J. -U' ik"-) wl . formed Church, and interment I 1L. r.4- U E. church, Knobsville, Friday mine. July 31st. She died Wednesday evening July 25, 1914 r ape was 13 years, 2 months, Id 24 days. Previous to the removal of Mr. Varies Fore, her father, to nobsville last Spring, Annie liv in McConnellsburg for about tear where she endeared her eto friends not only of her n acre, but to many older. For lire than a year she had suffer- with pulmonary tuberculosis, id since the death of her moth- several years ago, she did i,at she could to fill a mother 1 housekeeper's place in her ither's family. It was a sor- wful task for her little friends lay her body in its long last ting place. orge Washington Dunlai. The subject of this notice died ddenlv on Saturday evening. jlylS, 1014, at the home of his jn Scott in Coles Valley, Hunt ydon county, Pa., four miles 0rth of New Grenada. He was jrn on Broad Top mountain, No mber 4, 1833, and was aged, 'prefore, at the time of his ath, 80 years, 8 months, and 14 ys. He spent most of his life the farm where he died, ex ? t a few years of his earlier (e which he spent in the West, j married Sophia Yingling in ? year 18o5. To this union re bom eleven children six of om are living, namely James Huntingdon; Scott, on home e; Wilson and Mason, at Mt. ion: Mvrtle. at Cassville. Pa.. f Lizzie, in Montana. tervices at home by Rev. Mc- "n, of Cassville: interment !e in the home graveyard on farm whore his remains were f to rest by the side of his wife l died twenty-eight years ago. T. Dunlap was a member of M. E. Church at Smiths, in s Valley and was a great Bi student, reading a portion of Scriptures each day. He had J1 fairly well, and had Hied out and found some car- f which he pulled; returning p house he said he felt sick. remarked "I just cot here in ; or I could not have made He grew rapidly worse and lred in a short timp from a 'al)'tic stroke. Another va 11 Place in that home that can be filled. A Friend. Fish Got Away. )ne day last week, Rev. J. V. l0r. Samuel Mellott. nnmVl Jluade and some others whose F we did not learn, were ""8 m Licking Creek. Rev. ,er had a half-dozen or more s- When ft .1 J tVUVIIVU F'l of Cove Creek, Mr.-Mc- ft Who was' pnrrvincr tVio n8 Of flsll. nut fVlrv ,.nf,)' 1 1 tte stream, and set the bait uaillV Willi lllti tied (as he thought; to DUCket. A W TvWnno of. lfi ul,twaa discovered that I an nad escaned. Tt. is vprv 2 that the stringer was not oy one of the Rev's fa- matrimonial "knots." n 3 lianiet Ibw ined the Thimble Ispa u uuse guests, tne ttheus, of Philadel-i WILL WIELD THE BIRCH. Names of Those Who Will Have Charge of the Schools ia Fulton County Eusuing School Year. Ayr Jugtown, Sophia Hoh man; Road School, Hazel Garland; Back Run, Maude Rinedolbr; Cito, Retha Mellott; Rock Hi'.!, Olive Wiblo; Webster Mills, Ja nette Stoutcagle; Connors, Stan ley Humbert; Corner, George Smith ; Laurel Ridge, FloraShi ves. BELFAST-Cedar Lane, Thomas Truax; Maple Grove, Orbcn Heb- ner; Mortons Point, Ethel McEl downey; Jacob Lakes, Virgie Cress; Sipes Hill, Harry Deshong; Philip Morgrets, Maye Pittman; Pleasant Grove, Blair Garland; Needmore, Vacant; Cross Roads, Russell Stevens. Bethel Warfordsburg, Alice Brewer; Mays Chapel, Webster Mellott; Mount Airy, Blanche Smith; Gordons, Clara Norris: Franklin Mills, Katie Mentzcr; Black Oak, Reed Bishop; Alpine, Vacant. Brush Creek Akersville Ad vanced, Russell Akers, Akersville Primary, Thelma Metzler; Buf falo, Iva Ilixson; Emmaville, Ernest Walters; Buchanan, Wal ter Smith; Oak Grove, Walter Barkman; Locust Grove, Lois Mason. DuuLiN-Fort Littleton, Jennie Cromer; Clear Ridge, Harry Sny der; Chesnuts, Esther Welsh; Glunts, ErmaGress; Battle Ridge, Ira L. Peck; Burnt Cabins, and Mud Level vacant. Licking CREEK-Harrisonville, Belle Mellott; Shanes, Kathryn Hoop; Compulsion, Ally Deshong; Daniels, C. W. Mellott; Siloam, Lenora Decker; Vallance, Mayo Sipes; Forest Dale, Verlie Deck er; Saluvia, vacant. McCoonellshurg Primary, Minnie Reisncr; Intermediate, Grace Lodge; Grammar, Joan Morton; High School, H. P. Bar ton. Taylor Hustontown, W. II. Ranck; Gracey, Fred Lamberson; Fairview, Alice Cutchall; Water fall, Ruth Strait; Winegardners, 0. V. Wink; Wintergreen, Olitipa Keebaugh; Cherry Grove, W. G. Wink; Laidig, Ethel Sipes. Thompson Center, II. S. Sharpe; Board Yard, Fleasant Sipes; Bald Eagle, Pearl Fisher; Ditch Run, Mattie Winters; In dependence, Jessie Yeakel; West- view, II. W. Wink; Oakley, Den ver Evans. Todd Knobsville, John Kelso; Woodburn, Maudleen Stevens; McGbverns, Jessie Mason; Scotts, H. S. Alexander; Summers, Rush Wagner. Union -Center, Ada Lehman; Fairview, Mary McKibbin; Zacks Ridge, Jessie Hoopengardner; Harmonia, Oscar Lashley; Excel sior, Nellie Morgret; Barnes Gap, Gilbert Mellott. Wells Number one, Advanc ed, II. M. Griffith; Primary, va cant; Number two,. Roy Shafer; Number three, Ejeanor Sipe: Number four, vacant. Painful Accident. An accident that might have been mifch more serious happen ed to Martha Jane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Comerer, of Hagerstown, on Monday, July 27th. The Comerer home is on a street car line, and Martha Jane had gone out with a friend who was boarding a car. Just as she turned to go back to the side walk, a motorcycle came whiz zing by, running between her and the car, entangling her dress skirt in the machine, which threw Martha to the ground, and drag ged her several feet along the street, completely tearing her clothing into shreds. She was picked up and carefully taken in to her home, and a physician call ed. Outside of the great shock and a number of bruises, she was not greatly injured, but has been under the physician's care since. Thomas Hamil is adding an ex tension to the store room next door to his residence, occupied by Watson C. Lynch. farming In Olden Times. He that goeth forth and weep eth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." Psalm 12(:(5. To many, this is a strange pas sage of scripture. Why did the farmer "weep" as he went forth to sow his seed? To explain part of the meaning of the text, we will have to tell something of the methods and the results, of farm ing in the Psalmist's day. In those days the average farm was little larger than some of our potato pat. hes; the work was all done with hand-tools, the grain was beaten out with slicks, and the chair was blown away with a fan similar to the kind used to cool our faces. We can readily see, therefore, that the number of bushels a farmer could raise was not often represented by more than two figures. Upon this small supply the farmer and his family had to depend for bread until another harvest time; and it frequently happened that, at sowing time, there was not 'enough grain 1 e f t to comfortably keep the family and furnish seed too. The fath er of the household well knew that if he did not take some of the scanty store for seed, his famiiy would have no bread next winter. To take the seed wheat meant that his little ones would, of necessity, have to eat less bread until another crop was raised. He had neither money nor opportunity to buy wheat, corn, or whatever it was, and there was no other way out of the difficulty. Other reasons that might be given as occasion for weeping, were, thj discour aging nature of the rocky, thorny soil, and the constant fear of in vasion by enemies. Do you now understand why he wept? The sight of men weep ing, while sowing, in those, days was so common that the Psalmist knew that none of his people would fail to understand his illus tration of great trifth which we will leave to the pulpit to ex pound. Three Ilou.-s to Gettysburg. A letter from Rev. It. E. Te- terman, dated Gettysburg, Au gust 3rd, runs as follows; "We had the greatest trip this morn ing from McConnellsburg to Gettysburg. Arrived in time for breakfast thanks to Heny Ford and others in a little more than three hours. I think the road builders deserve to be congratu lated for the excellent road they are making over Cove mountain. No longer will any one heed to dread the mountain. It is a pleasure, indeed, and something of a wonder, to find a boulevard on the mountain in Fulton coun ty. The mountain top is only a iif teen to twenty-minute pleas ure trip from McConnellsburg. I hope to be back by Friday." Lost His Wallet. E. R. McClain knows "how good" it feels after it quits hurt ing." Be lost his wallet in the smoker on a Cumberland Valley train while on his way to Cham bersburg to bring his wife home from the hospital last Sunday, and did not discover the loss un til he was near the hospital. Thinking that he might have dropped the wallet in the toilet of the smoker, he outrivaled the spend of his auto in hikeingback to the depot where the cars were being cleaned. Workmen had not yet reached that car in their dusting and scrubbing operations, but Mr. McClain lost no time in investigating it, and found the wallet Misses Bess and Fannie Gress visited their aunt, Mrs. Rhoda Keefer, in Franklin county, last week, and Mrs. Keefer and her daughter came home with them to visit in the home of her neices and at her old home in Licking Creek township. Mrs. Keefer is a Bister of Joseph and R. R. Sipe. BITS BOTANICAL. Will Hughes Urges His Class to Keep Alive Their Interest ia riant Study. My Dear FRiENDs:-Among the many pleasures experienced in my recent visit to my native town, not the least,- let me say, was that of acting as your lead er in a series of excursions tot nearby fields and woodlands in quest of wild flowers. I much regret that the preliminary talk I gave you, prior to our trips, was not before a large blackboard, on which I might have placed, at least, the more salient points; for I do not forget that that which is merely heard may die in one short hour; while that which strikes the eye lives long upon the mind. This well known fact was brought out in the remark of a member of the clas3 who de clared, on one occasion, when an interesting, but singular new fact was presented, that she wotild like to "visualize" it-and visualize it she did. Now that ia just what Nature Study, and especially Botany, does; it sharp ens amazingly both the physical and the mental eye, creating and quickening the power of correct seeing. We are not mere gues sers at truth, but real perceivers thereof. What we did was done on right lines you have nothing to unlearn from it; the regret is that there was not more time at our disposal to make the impres sion deeper, and hence more last ingbut that will come to you in your further pursuit of the sub jectfor you certainly do not mean to abandon it at its very beginning. Let every day open wider to you the gate of this in teresting and useful field of knowledge. My pleasure was heightened when I found you willing to learn from the humble wayside "weed," socalled. All plants in their natural habitats appeal to the botanist, who well knows that many of the cultivat ed forms, despite their comeli ness, are simply plant monstrosities-departures-from the typical his is the strictly wild garden, where none are weeds, but all true and beauteous flowers; the study of which throughout the ages has given to us the wonder ful science of Botany. Let me here commend to you an article by Dolly Wayne in the Philadel phia Public Ledger of July 27th, on "The pleasure of knowing the Wild Flowers." Get it, follow its suggestions, and you will sooner or later come to under stand the meaning of her final paragraph. You are surrounded by a rich wild garden; be not content with only a slight ac quaintance with it procure the proper books and visit it'often. Go in groups help one another. Get one or more of the popular treatises on the Wild Flowers; but get also, "Gray's Manual of Botany," 7th Edition. The pop ular manuals will help you to know many, while Gray's will enable you to know ALL of the wild plants in your region. We learned a tew there are many more new ones appearing right along all worthy of being known and loved. While all was so pleasant in our little journeys, I feel a keen regret that we did not take one in the first three meadows below town; for there I saw plants of a different sort from those we gathered; plant promises, also, for next Spring, to delight you after being snow bound for several months. Soon the Golden rods and Asters, and a mighty multitude of others of the great family Compostae will appear these you should not ne glect I am sure you will feel it your privilege to ramble amongst them often. And, re member that; if you find a plant that puzzles you, send me a spec imen of it and I will try to name it for you. The name is the open sesame get the correct name, then read and study. Some of you wisely wrote in your books both the Latin and the common Barn and Live Stock Burned. Just before dark on Sunday evening, during the severe thun der storm that passed over that section, the barn belonging to A. J. Sipes, of Licking Creek town ship, was struck by lightning and destroyed. a numDer or norses were in the building, but all but three were rescued. Besides the three horses burned were a cow belong ing to Ross Hann, and a bull be longing to Charles Mumma. About 400 bushels of wheat, and all the hay and other crops that had been stored this season were burned. The barn was good as new, it having been erected less than eight years ago. There was some insurance, just how much we did not learn; but it is said that the amount is insignificant in comparaison with the loss. The blow is a severe one to Mr, Sipes, and his many friends are very sorry to know of his misfor tune. New Kind of Potato Bugs. I). W. Mellott, of Plum Run, wants to know if any other farm er has seen the new potato bug, fly, or whatever the critter may be. During a call at this office Saturday while his wife was do ing some shopping, he said that about two Weeks previously his wife noticed some small, green insects darting at the leaves of his large potato patch. She rec ommended that the tops be paris- greened. Being busy, Mr. Mel lott did not go to the patch for perhaps ten days when he found the potatoes to be swarming with little insects about three-eighths of an inch in length, and the tops nearly dead with blight. The in sect resembles katydids, an d flew in clouds in front of him as he walked through the patch spraying with paris green. or English names that is just right always do so the Latin name first of all. Local names are often deceptive misleading. It is well, though, to have one right common name for every plant. Do you know two species of Mullein, two Pipsissewas, sev eral Polygoumus or knotweeds, several Vervains, two kinds of Plantain, Wild Carrot, Wild Par snip, Blue-weed, Calamint, Wood Sage, Honewort, Jimson-weed, Clotbur, Chicory or Succory, Horehound, Peppermint, Spear mint, Catmint, Bittter-Sweet, Pimperned, Cone-flower, Jewel weed, Sweet Cicely, Wild Berga mot, Bouncing Bet, The Flower- of an hour, Butter fly-weed, Prick ly Lettuce in its two forms, Daisy Fleabane, St. John'swort. Surely you remember these, and many others; but you will as surely forget many of them if you do not often see them. And what of the trees? Well, you will no longer mistake a Silver or White Poplar for a Silver Maple; you know the Norway Maple by its peculiar sap, Catalpa, Honey Locust, Linden, Kentucky Coffee Tree, Carolina Poplar, Lombartfy Poplar remember these. And the Cucumber Tree, and Red- bud, and Sassafras, with its three forms of leaf, a laudable ambi tion would be to' know all the trees, fruit, timber, ornamental, or shade, about you. Who will doit?. What tree stands at the S. E. Cor. of the Luthernan Church yard (outside)? Well, now, dear class I must end this poor letter. My trust is that, you learned something from our walks and talks and that you may go forward earnestly to learn more, forever more, from the vast garden at . your very doors, increasing knowledge of which will convince you that Not a tree, a plant, a leaf, a blossom but contains a folio vol ume. We may read, and read, again, and still find something new, something to please, and something to instruct, e'en in the noisome weed." Sincerely yours, for service, W. H. Hughes. 143 N. 8th Street, Phila. THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY. President Woodrow Wilson's Request to Have Route Changed is Refused by Highway Association. When the movement to erect a memorial arch in this place wa3 started, J. K. Johnston wrote to Henry B. Joy, president of , the Lincoln Highway Association, asking for definite information concerning the final location of the road whether it was to pass through this county, or wheth er it was going north or south of us. In reply to Mr. Johns ton's letter, Mr. Joy sept a copy of the correspondence that passed between the president of the United States and the presi dent of the Association, part of which we quote'below. "Honorable Woodrow Wilson, "President of the United States. "Washington, D. C. "My Dear Sir: "Your letter addressed tome a president of the Lincoln High way Association, under date of June 19th, was duly received and duly acknowledged. In that let ter you suggested that the Lin coln Highway Association give its consent to the placing of the official Lincoln highway markers along the route from Philadelphia to Baltimore, thence to Washing ton, thence to Frederick, thence to Gettysburg," thus ' re-routing the Lincoln highway via those cities and increasing the length of the route by 172 miles between New York and San Francisco." The two-column list of corres pondence between the president and Mr. Joy may be summed up by stating that the Association refused to disappoint the people along the Forbes route, since a great amount of marking had been done by the people living tributary to that route. Mr. Joy added the recommendation, in his letter to Mr. Johnston, that "I think you are entitled to a 'On the Lincoln Highway' on your letter head." As to the advisability of our hastening the erection of an arch we will quote the motto that ap pears on the Packard Motor Car Company's letter head. "Business is sensitive It eroes only where it is invited and stays only where it is well treated." Timely Farm Notes. Skunks will steal a few chick ensso will some of our two- legged neighbors. For each fifty-cent chicken a skunk steals it prevents fully a dollar's worth of damage to crops from insects which it eats. On the other hand, the two-legged thief often steals the grain saved from destruction by the skunk. Last year this country sold $3,000,000 worth of skunk furs to Europe, most of the money going into the pockets of the boys on the farm. How much would the "scalp" of the two legged thief bring if you could get" it? Skunks do not make desirable house pets, and have some undesirable qualities, but there are other creatures that do less to pay their way through this good old world. The Commissioners of Erie county, Pa., decided to submit to the vote this fall a proposal to establish a County Demonstra tion farm. Other counties are contemplating a similar move ment. The extra taxation has been found to be trifling, when compared with the benefits; and besides, these farms become self sustaining in a few years. Drop a postal giving your name and address plainly 'written thereon to State College, State College, Pa., and ask for the bulletin re lating to County Demonstration Farms. It is free. We cannot "go back" on what our patient experimenters find out for us. One of the old theo ries concerning manure has been exploded, namely; that manure should lie in the barnyard a long timo hpfnrp hpincr hanlnri to. nnrl spread on, the field. The process , DL'ST. Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by Samuel G. Dixon, III. D., LL D., Commissioner Health. The hot, dry winds of August eddying through the city streets and along the country roads will carry everywhere clouds of dust. It is the pet abomination of hou? ' wives and their instincitive dis like is well founded, for in the city streets each tiny particle that is blown about may be a raft which bears the minute disease producing organisms which we call germs. The means by which many of our contagious diseases are trans mitted have been discovered to be through personal contact or through insects which carry the disease germs from the sick to the well. While the ancient the ory that plagues were transmit ted by the air has been disproved by the investigations of modern science, a dust laden atmosphere may be responsible for spreading certain infections. Experiments have shown that some of the germs of communicable diseases die under brief exposure to the sun's rays. Others are less sus ceptible and thrive for a certain length of time amid the tiny par ticles of dust. The germs of tet anus or lockjaw are found in roads and about stables, and if the tiny particles of dust carry ing these germs are introduced into a wound, tetanus is apt to result. In the sputum of a sufferer from tuberculosis, in the dust of the streets or sidewalks we often find the tuberculosis bacillus, the germ responsible for consumption. We have reason to believe that the germs of smallpox and pos sibly pneumonia may also be transmitted in this way. Dry sweeping of the streets with its accompanying clouds of more or less infected dust, and the dry sweepings of buildings may be a possible source of dis ease infection. In many of the European and in some American cities the streets are washed ev ery day. This is a sanitary mea sure of no little importance and should be followed wherever pos sible. Dry Sweeping and dust ing with the old fashioned duster should be abolished. Wool. A glance at any of the weekly farm papers will show that sheep raising is being discussed seri ously. The nroduction of wool has declined through the world, or rather, the consumption of wool has gained on the produc tion, until there is a scarcity of that article. According to re ports, wool is expected to remain high' until the supply can be met. This is inducing one-time grow ers on a small scale to again start raising sheep.. About the only serious obstacle in sight is the roving dog. More printers' ink is being used up on this one topic than for any other "knot" the average farmer has struck for a long time. The arguments for and against the roving dogs are about equal, with the "indicator" pointing in the direction of laws compelling owners of dogs to keep, them as strictly in confine ment as are the sheep. of rotting is one of Nature's methods of keeping the soil in good condition physically. Side-by-side tests have proven that when stable manure is spread evenly on the ground as fast as made, more benefit results than when manure from tho same stable is first rotted in the barn yard. The manure spreader can be set in a low place so that the wheelborrow load from the sta ble may be dumped directly into it, and the cost of loading manure is also saved. When the spread er (or a low wagon) is filled, it is then drawn to the field and spread, whether it be winter, or summer, time.
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