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VOLUME 10
McCONNLLSHURG, PA., SEPTEMHEU 24.1911.
NUMBER 1
THE GRIM REAPER.
M Sketches of the Lives of Per
sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.
William Beidleman.
A telegram to Mr. and Mrs. C.
rn i
m. Stevens xuesuay aiternoon,
irouKht the sad intelligence of
Via death of William Beidleman
it his home in Harrisburg, which
ecurred at 11 o'clock on that
Mr. Beidelman was Assis-
nt Superintendent of the Har-
sburg Branch of the Swift Pack
Company, and was held in
h esteem by the Company in
hose employ he had been for
vera! years. Last spring his
alth began to fail and he went
the German Hospital, Phila-
iphia for treatment. His ail-
nt was diagnosed as Cyst on
i liver, and little encourage
nt was held out for a perman-
fct cure.
About twelve years ago he was
irried to Miss Virginia Doyle,
ighter of Cornelius and Sadie
!dsniith Doyle, who survives,
ether with one son Charles
d about 10 years.
Jlr. Eeiilelman was a Mason, a
lorn Woodman, and a Knight
Pythias, as well as a consis
it member of the Lutheran
irch. He was a most excel
it citizen, and his wife and son
i'j the sincere sympathy of
rmany McConnellsburg rela
sand friends. Mr. Beidel
ji was aged about 3G years.
J. R. McKelvey.
hn R. McKelvey, County
purer of Huntingdon county,
at his home in Mt. Union
.Sunday evening, September
.11914, at 6 o'clock, of conges
I of the lungs, catarrhal trou
pnd general breakdown from
work. He was aged about
vars.
wife was Miss Hester R.
irds, daughter of Joseph
Margaret Edwards, both de-
, of New Grenada. He is
jived by his wife and by one
harles, also by his aged
-t, an invalid, who has been
ng her home with her son's
y at Mt. Union.
je funeral services were held
lis late home ' on Market
it at 2 n. m Wod
cted by his pastor. Rev.
W. Todd. Interment in
nion cemetery. Cromwell
of Masons attended the
fal in a bodv and
beautiful ceremony at the
fery.
ts. Rehecca Barton.
1 1 Rebecca Barton, an aged
My esteemed lady of Six
!un. died at her home in
"Me on Thursday morning,
8:00 o'clock. She was
J years and was the widow
!iia Barton who preceded
(the grave about eleven
t'KO. bhO WPS hnrn in fKio
Mrs. Barton is survived
i(e sons and one daughter,
nawilbert Barton, of
Run; George W. Barton.
FBstown, Ohio, and Mrs.
uarber, of Sixmile Run.
Accident.
ft Diehl m of unfit n
I accident while making ci
fid Garland's on the
the lever to lowpr tho
of the swords broke,
"e'gnt caused the lever
leaking one of his nrma
f r'st, and badly bruising
' Robert's brother Ed
,hnny on the Spot" for he
"P his new Ford, and
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own naa tne
re('uced. Robert, how.
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P thankful to these good
Volume XVI.
With this issue the Fulton
County News enters upon the
sixteenth year of its existence.
and this is a reminder that the
Editor is fifteen years farther
down in the afternoon of life,
than the summer of 1809, when
he circulated among ihe citizens
of this county for the purpose of
find.ng out how many persons
would be willing to take and pay
for a newspaper, if he should re
ceive sufficient encouragement to
establish one.
When 3S0 persons had signified
their willingness to take the pa
per from the postofliee for at
least ten weeks at a cost not to
exceed ten ccnls, or three months
for a quaater, a modest printing
outfit was ordered, and on the
20th day of September 1800, an
edition of 480 papers was run oil'
and mailed out. The ".80 peonle
who started with the first issue,
were pleased and stayed on the
job, while others came, and stum
U .... i. . .
uie huusmpuon nsi ran up to a
point that gave assurance that
there was plenty of room in the
County for the Fulton County
News, and now it has a circula
tion far in excess of any other
paper in the county and more
A. L 1 II ,1 M.l
man uouDie mat ot tne avernpe
of weekly newspapers in Pennsylvania.
The Editor has merely, (lore
his best to give the people of
Fulton county a clean, well print
ed newspaper, that would con
tain an epitome of all the news
happenings in the county, as well
as an outline of all the principal
news events of the State and
Nation. In addition to this, es
pecial attention is paid to every
thing that will be helpful to the
business interests of the County.
Then, the Sunday school, the
Church, and the cause of tem
perance come in each for its full
share of attention, while a clean,
wholesome story is kept running
for the benefit of those who may
have time for it In fact, it has
been the aim of the publisher to
make each issue of the News of
value and interest to every mem
ber of the family; and, the fact
that the News is found in more
than two-thirds of all the families
in Fulton County, is an evidence
of the appreciation of effort to
make it worth while.
The Editor wishes to thank the
friends of the News everywhere
for the many kind words of en
couragement, and the substantial
patronage accorded, and it is his
hope that the paper may continue
to hold the friendship and sup
port of its patrons during the
year just entered, as in the past,
and add to its already long list,
many new names.
Too Many Churches.
An exchange gives off the fol
lowing:
Let somebody propose a school
house for every street corner,
with geography a speciality in
one, arithmetic in another, his
tory in a third, reading in a
fourth, and so through the cur
riculum. The vote would be un
animous to send the proposer to
an insane asylum.
The difference between the
creed of Reformeds, Christians,
Methodists, Baptists, Lutherans
and Presbyterians is far less rad
ical than the difference between
history and penmanship, or arith
metic and geography.
If children do not become con
fused, but many readily acquire
knowledge of all these things
under one roof, why deos each
slight shade of a religious belief
require a costly individual plan
for its dissemination?
Having a church at almost
every corner is one way to create
church debts, to make little con
gregations, to pile up huge oper
ating expenses and generally di
vert the hre of religious endeavor.
John Souders raised the frame
of a nice new barn on his farm
near Thomastown Saturday.
About fifty neighbors assisted,
and there were no accidents,
Robbers About.
Shortly after midnight last Sat
urday, some one sot a ladder
against the back part of E. R.
Alcuam s house and climbed to
the upper pweh. At about 1;.0,
Miss Olive Rotz called" the family
. ,1 i i i n r .i
aim ioiu :-ir. .ucuain that some
one was trying to got into the
second story. It is supposed that
the would-be intruder heard the
cor.vcrsation and skipped off, as
no one could be seen when Mr.
McClain investigated. However,
next morning a .short balder was
discovered leaning against a
porch nest, and, as bidders are
not in the habit ot walking about
alone at night, it is reasonable to
suppose that Miss Olive was not
mistaken when she made her re
port that a man was trying to
get in. A disappearing German
siege gun now awaits the next
one who disturbs slumber at that
house.
Some t ! me d i i ri n g th j latter part
of h-t w- ok some one who was
too thrifty to take time to raise
his own potatoes, "raised" about
seven bu-hols from the pile in
Genrge W. Si j is' wagon Hied.
Perh.-ip ! it was the same party
who felt the need of grease in
which to fry the Sipos tubers that
lifted a nice bam from the larder
of William Woo, hi last week.
Or, was it the s-et of thieves that
is operating down about Ando
ver, in Lie-king Creek township?
A HEAVY HANDICAP.
fur !hc Tcinpivancc Licint.
Rev. J. V. lioyer was the dele
gate form the County Local Op
tion League to the convention at
Harrisburg last Thursday.
About nine-tenths of the counties
of the State were represented by
about three hundred delegates.
Thevonvention was held in re
sponse to a cull of fifty leading
temperance workers of the State
to meet in Harrisburg and select
a ticket of temperance men from
the candidates named by the Re
publican, the Democrat, and the
Washington party tickets, the
candidates endorsed were Vance
McCormick (Democrat) for Gov
ernor, and Gilford Pint-hot (Wash
ington) for United States Sena
tor. Other candidates endorsed
were: Lieutenant governor, Wil
liam T. Creasy; secretary of in
ternal aifairs, William N. Mt-Nair
congressman-at-large, Anderson
H. Walters, Arthur R. Kupley,
Henry Watson and LexN. Mitch
ell. Creasey and McN'air are
Democrats. The candidates for
congress-at-Iarge are Washington
party men.
Set I!is ld on Fire.
On the 10th of this month the
home of Roy M. Daniels, of
Thompson township, might have
been destroyed by fire but for the
prompt discovery of the blax.e
and the fortunate presence of
help.
Mrs. Daniels had put their lit
tle son, Wilson Riley Daniels, to
lcep in the afternoon, and plac
d the little fellow in his cot.
When he awoke he went to his
father's coat and took out a box
of matches and began plavinsr
with them. In a short time be
had set fire to a bed. and the
ames were rapidly spreading.
The mother arrived on the scene
in time to rescue the boy, and
she immediately cried for help to
Chester Rider, of Hancock, who
was passing. Mr. Rider rushed
into the burning room and threw
the bedding out of the window
and extinguished the lire before
more serious damage occurred.
Lillle Tallis on Health and Iljgiene bj
Samuel (i. Dixon, M. D., IX. D.,
Commissioner Health.
In all of our schools there are
children, who to use the small
boys expression are "blind in one
eye and can't see out of the oth
er." Unfortunately often the
children themselves are not
aware of it nor are their parents
and teachers.
Near sighted children struggle
to see the blackboard from their
benches in the rear of the school
room and far sighted children in
the front rows endeavor in vain
to get distinctly the image on the
board immediately before them.
Children with an astigmatism
in one or both eyes are made un
accountably nervous and irritable
by the constant demands upon
their imperfect vision. Persist
ent headaches are often caused
by fuch imperfections.
Of three hundred thousand chil
dren inspected in the rural
schools of Pennsylvania over 82,
0(50 were found to have defects
of sight which no effort had been
made to correct. Nothing is
more irritating or trying to the
nerves than the continual strain
resulting roin the effort to
through imperfect eyes. To
growing child, whose brain
endeavoring to grasp new facts
and solve new problems it is of-
ton times an insurmountable bar
rier. There are hundreds of du
children who could be cured by
properly fitted glasses. Unfor
tunately many parents hesitate
to have small children wear glass
en on account or appearances or
for other equally foolish reasons.
They fail to realize that often the
wearing of glasses , for a few
jenrs is sufficient to correct a vis
ual error which left uncared for
would continue for a lifetime.
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Soldier's Keuiiioa in Everett.
The reunion of the 22nd Regi
ment Pennsylvania Cavalry, will
be held at Everett on Thursday,
October 8. Arrangemer ts have
been made to entertain the veter
ans in a hospitable manner. Mr.
W. Snyder is the only survivor
of the regiment residing in Ev
cret Everett Republican. If
we are not mistaken, there are
several members now living in
Fulton county to whom this item
will be of interest-Editor
News.
Recent Wedding.
Ott-Beal.
The Butler County (Iowa)
Press, published at Greene, Iowa
gives the following account of a
wedding in which Paul Ott, son
of Mr. John Ott of this place was
one of the principals.
"The home of Mr. and Mrs.
Freeman N. Eeal east of town
was the scene of a pretty home
wedding on Thursday evening,
September 3rd, when their oldest
daughter, Dortha L., was united
in holy wedlock to Mr. Paul Ott.
The event was celebrated at
eight o'clock. At the appointed
hour the contracting parties, un
attended, came down the stairs
to the strains of Lohengrin's wed
ding march, and were led by
Rev. L. L. Lockard, pastor of
the Methodist church, to the, cor
ner of the parlor where the sol
emn words were spoken that unit
ed for life, these worthy young
people. In accordance with the
wishes of the bride only the im
mediate relatives of the family
witnessed the ceremony. The
impressive, single ring service
was used, after which the officia
ting clergyman introduced to the
guests Mr. and Mrs. Ott.
Hearty congratulations were
then given followed by the serv
ing of refreshments consisting of
ice cream and cake.
The bride was becomingly
gowned in white silk crepe and
carried a bouquet of white roses
and ferns. With the exception
of six years spent in California,
she has lived since childhood on
a farm near Greene, and posses
ses all the necessary qualities to
grace the home of him who has
chosen her for a life companion.
The groom, formerly lived in
Pennsylvania but has spent the
past four years in the vicinity of
Greene and has proven himself
to be an honest, upright and in
dustrious young man, well worthy
of the one, of his choice.
Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs
Ott left by auto for Charles City;
thence going to Clear Lake the
following day. After a brief out
ing they will return to Greene,
and after October first will be at
home to their friends on the T.
B. Russel farm, four and one half
miles northeast of Greene.
Hogs in an Orchard.
"A Philadelphia lawyer" wrote
to State Zoologist II. A. Surface,
Harrisburg, asking, "Will you
kindly advise me whether it will
be safe to pasture hogs next year
in a young orchard consisting of
peach and apple trees, some of
which were planted only last
spring; others have been planted
three years and a few bore this
year? I have also been advised
that soy beans and rape sown
together furnishes sufficient pas
turage for hogs for the summer
months without any other ration,
provided they are given access to
plenty of salt. Have I been in
formed correctly, or will hogs
pastured on such food need a
supplementary grain ration to
insure the best growth?"
To this communication Profes
sor Surface replied as follows:
'It will be safe to pasture hogs
in your orchard next year if you
win waicn two or three impor
tant points.. One is to be sure
that the hogs do not get to rub
bing the trees hard, 'as in the
process of scratching themselves.
Sometimes when hogs have lice
they rub against the trees, and
thus do considerable injury. This
damage may finally end in collar
blight of the apple, and by this
means hogs also aid in spreading
the collar blight or collar rot,
which is by far the most serious
disease of the apple tree.
"Another point to watch is that
hogs do not root out the roots of
young trees. If there are white
grubs in the ground close to the
roots the hogs may root there to
obtain them, and by tearing out
the roots they would, of course,
do considerable damage. The
last point is the possible damage
to the lower branches or low
hanging fruit, but if such injury
is observed at the begining it is
easy to prevent it from going
further by removing the hogs
from the orchard. On the whole,
tne conditions are favorable to
pasturing the orchard rather than
otherwise.
"It is probably true that soy
beans and rape will furnish suf-
ficent pasturage to keep hogs
without needing other food of
any kind, or they may at least
need but a small supplemental
feeding of grain. Any of the
legume plants, if sufficiently
abundant, will keep hogs for
quite a length of time without
the addition of other food."
Farm Notes.
Do not let us forget that this
is the time to select seed corn.
big ears selected from the crib
next spring may not prove to be
good seed. You want to know
the kind of a stalk that produced
the ear. If it is from a stalk
that produced but one ear, and
that stalk had long joints and
few leaves, do not plant it, be
cause you want corn that reprb
duces itself by making two
healthy ears, short joints, and
many leaves. Husk the selected
ears from such stalks, hang them
in an airy place where they will
not touch each other, and where
they will neither freeze nor get
damp.
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
Fire!
With no water with which to
fight it, would you like to hear
the cry of "Fire!"r This is the
time of year when fires are most
frequent, because chimneys that
iave not been used during the
summer have accumulated more
or less rubbish, and when fires
are started on the first cool days,
the usual consequence is a blaze
of greater or less proportions.
Be careful; but do not stop at
that; call attention of your neigh
bors to the necessity of caution
when they light the first fire.
requently during the summer
time chimneys and flues become
damaged from some cause, and
the fact is not known until the
:iouse takes fire. We can think
of no greater subject for consid
eration than the thorough inspec
tion of flues and chimneys before
starting urst nres, wnetner we
are tenants, or landlords,
you know that yours is safe?
"As the pressure for supplies
becomes greater, it becomes more
evident that the world cannot af
ford large farms skimmed over
with careless culture. In an ac
tual experiment a gain of 200 per
cent, which was made in the
productiveness of a certain area,
100 per cent, was found to be
due to better plowing and har
rowing, 50 per cent, to better
cultivation, and the rest to bet
ter seed." Selected.
Snapshots at Their Comings and Goings
Here for a Vacation, or Away
for a Restful Outing.
Mrs. Emaline Lodge is visiting
Dr. and Mrs. Campbell in New
Grenada.
Mrs. Louisa Jackson is spend
ing two weeks with friends in
Franklin county.
John Mentzer and son Roy, of
Burnt Cabins, greeted friends in
this place Saturday.
H. L. Wishart, of Wells Valley
spent several days in town last
week transacting business with
his attorney.
Miss Mcta Fryman went to
Waynesboro Monday, and ill
take in the Hagerstown fair be
fore returning.
Mrs. W. D. Duvall and Mrs.
E. N. Akers, of Sipes Mills, were
shopping in town Saturday and
spent the night, and part of Sun
day with relatives.
The Farmers Opportunity.
No American farmer can have
failed to realize that the Europe
an War has presented him with
an opportunity u n precedente
and limited only by the amount
of work he is willing and able to
do. The agriculture of Europe
has been practically suspended.
With the vast majority of her
able-bodied men fighting in the
various armies, Europe will be
prevented from reaping this years
crops, but her demand for food
will continue unabated. It is the
privilege as well as the duty of
the American farmer to supply
this demand.
W hue the farmers of Europe
are fighting, the farmers of Amer-
ico must sow and reap as they
have never done before. Theirs
is the part to fill with golden
grain the hungry hands that will
soon be stretched across the sea.
The duty of feeding famished
Europe must fall largely upon
American farms. It is a duty at
once humanitarian and profitable.
With favorable weather condi
tions and every farmer striving
to increase the average yield of
his land American's next crop
should surpass even the record-
breaking crop of this year.
Do
Two Horses With Lockjaw.
One day last week, while cross
ing Cove mountain, one of Hot
Glenn's horses tore a shoe loose
and a nail in the shoe pierced the
frog of its foot. A new shoe was
put on at Mercersburg, and for
several day3 the animal seemed
all right; but lockjaw developed
and it died last Friday. The
horse was worth $200. Another
of his horses on his farm near
Big Cdve Tannery is suffering
with the same thing, from hav
ing stepped on a nail, probably
in the barnyard, and may die,
Subionb9 for the Nsws.
Extended Drought.
This county has not experienced
a drought so extended or pro
nounced within the memory of
the "oldest inhabitants." There
has not been a rain sufficient to
soak the soil two inches since the
eighth day of May. Streams every
where in the County are very
ow, or have dried up entirely.
icking Creek is barely running
from one pond to another. To-
noloway creek is dry as punk
from Barnetts Run to its source.
Of course, as the ponds along the
creek dry up, the fish all die, and,
as the water becomes low, cranes
are attracted and eat thousands
of fish. Many farmers are oblig
ed to take their stock a great
distance for water, or depend up
on hauling a supply. The grass
on the lighter land is burned to
death. What is somewhat re
markable, the corn has matured
and is much above the average
in yield in many parts of the
county. The water in McCon
nellsburg has been almost to the
point of exhaustion for several
weeks. The town would be en
tirely helpless in case of fire.
We note that Shippensburg is in
the same condition, and has asked
the fire companies in its neighbor
ing towns to be in readiness to
respond with chemical apparatus
in case of fire.
The amount of money subscrib
ed by the Pleasant Grove congre
gation for painting their pastor's
house at Needmore was $6.50 in
stead of $5.50, as reported last ey's daughter, Mrs. Earl Morton,
week by mistake. while here,
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Morgret,
of Thompson township, siient
from Friday until Sundav i n
town in the homes of John Run
yan and B. W. Logue,
William Hull and daughter
Katharine, Mrs. I). T. Fields,
and Harry Hull, spent Sunday in
Fannettsburg, with Mrs. Fields'
sister, Mrs. James Lessig.
Jno. A. Pittman, of Sipes Mill,
called Saturday to push his sub
scription well into 1915. He does
not get to town often, but makes
friends when he docs come.
Mr. and Mrs. W.' A. Sloan are
spending two weeks in the home
of their son-in-law and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. T. II. Walker, near
St. Thomas, Franklin county.
John Kahn, former mail car
rier between this place and Burnt
Cabins, moved to Fort London
last spring. Mr. Kahn wasshak
ing hands with acquaintances in
town Monday.
Mrs. Mary E. Deshong and
son David, of Pittsburgh, are
spending several weeks with old
friends in Licking Creek town
ship and in other places in the
county. Mrs. Deshong is in good
health.
Robert C. Dixon and family
spent Sunday in the home of
Mrs. Emory Ilessler near Salu-
via. ihey were accompanied
home by Mrs. Hessler's mother,
Mrs. Joanna Dixon who had
spent two months with her daughter.
A Hagerstown automobile par
ty composed of Oscar M. Corder-
man, wife, and son Charles, Miss
Mary Roessner, Miss Mayme Loh
man, and Miss SallieEader, were
guests of Mrs. Frances P. Hart
and family at Needmore last Sunday.
Dr. A. N. Mellott and lady
friend Miss Anna June Clark, of
Ambridge, Ta., autoed to the
County latter part of last week
and spent a few days with the
Doctor's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George S. Mellott, near Sipes
Mills.
Harvey Clevenger and his sis
ter, Miss Alice, of Hiram, and
Iarvey Bohn and wife, of Pitts
burgh, spent Saturday and Sun
day in the home of their uncle,
udge Morton, of this place.
Mrs. Bohn is a sister of Harvey
and Alice Clevenger.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin E. Bobbs .
and daughter Scottanna, Mr. J.
A. Hessinger, of Beavertown,
and Miss Nela Bair who is at
tending school in that place, au
toed to Miss Bair's home on
Green Hill Sunday, where they
spent the day and part of Mon
day with Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Bair.
. Mrs. Elizabeth McEldowney
and her daughter, Mrs. Corder
Snyder and the former's grand
daughter Annie McEldowney, all
of Belfast township, were among
many pleasant callers at the
News office Saturday. They
were guest3 of Mrs. McEIdown-