"Glory to God in the Highest, and on Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men." P 1 HI VOLUME 1G McCONNELLSBURG, PA.t DECEMBER 24,191. NUMBER n THE GRIM REAPER. iort Sketches of the Lives of Per- i sons Who Have Recently Passed Away. Adam Long. Adam Long died suddenly a i Tf . I i nome near ivnoDSvme. a j;30 o'clock in the afternoon ednesday, December 1G, 1914 d 83 years. 6 months, and 2' kys. Aitnougn ne naa been in i iii. i i i i y health for two years, hissud- en death is thought to have been :e to a paralytic stroke. Fu- m was held on Friday, inter- Ut being made in the Knobs- !e cemetery. Services were nducted by Rev. J. V. Rover. His wife whose maiden name nsJane Glunt, died about three -ars ago. Six of his seven chil l-en survive, namely, Mrs. Mar ket Gress, McConnellsburg; in A., of Dublin township, hiry, wife of Jame3 Gifliin, of nrinia: Jacob, of Hagerstown: liria A., wife of David Woodall $ township; Annie R., wife of iward Foster who lives in the ;me where Mr. Long died. Adam Long, son of John and larearet Long, was born in Ger- iiy and with his parents and i sister, Barbara, came to erica about sixty-four years ), While spending a short :ein New Jersey after .their .rival, the mother died,' and the it of the family came to this .caty. Hr. Long wa3 a member of the Armed church of Knobsville :SI that congregation ceased to it and since that time he has a physically unable to attend a church of his choice very f re ally. He was a member of rt Littleton Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. lit veteran of the Cjvil War. l-.Lonir was ag ireader, and Li a mind well stored with cur- pt events and a general know- ije of human affaire. Mrs. Anna M. Sites. fa. Anna M. Sites, widow of alate Samuel Sites, of Mer- ssburg, passed to her final rest :aday, December 13, 1914, at 3 home in Dayton, Ohio. The serai services were conducted J ner pastor, Kev. J. L. or- 7, of the Methodist Episcopal :zch, and the large attendance i friends and the beautiful flor 1 display, bore testimony of the eem in which she was held in a city in which she had resided tot 27 years. Mrs. Sites was confined to her d about ten weeks before she N called home and relieved of suffering. She wa3 a good ttstian woman very quiet in J way-but always pleasant N kind to every one. The foi ling children are left to mourn pe loss of a mother, namely, hr M. Pittman. Anna M. William Sites and Margaret -aith; tour grandsons, four d-daughters, and one great- "dson all residing in Dayton, : also, two sisters, Mrs. Denton :A of Thompson township, Mrs. Job Truax, of Belfast Unship. Mrs. Sites was a daughter of fljamin'and Elizabeth Pittman, 1 this county both long since leased. After the death of 'husband, which occurred in Jereersburg about 28 years ago, removed tnDavton 0.. where :e spent the remainder of her Interment was made in 'iodlawn cemetery. Bertha Miller. , Btha Freine, daughter of r8e Miller near Warfords- died December 10, 1914, 'd 24 vpars 3 months, and 2 1S' Funeral was held on De- fatmonf KAincr marie 'MVarfordsburg Presbyteri- 'Cemptoru Pnnoral SPrvlCPS fere conducted by Rev. Edward Jl JL WI'V,1H eiiott toss Nelle Van Cleve. ;te'egram received by Mrs. T conveyed the sad intelli- ; cethat Miss Nelle Van Cleve, . d'ed on Fridav evening at -tt home in Washington, Pa. Another Fulton County Boy. Prof. J. E. Helman, who is a graduate of F. & M. College and University of Michigan was ad mitted to the Bar of the State of Ohio to practice law in all the courts of that state and before the Supreme Court of the United States Mr. Helman received his first instruction at Cito; and after his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Helman, moved to the vicinity of Knobsville he attended the school there for twelve years. After completing the work in the com mon school, he attended a sum mer session at Hustontown, and one summer session at McCon nellsburg. He taught school for two terms at Black Oak, and one term at Clear Ridge. After graduat ig -nmF. & M. collece. he was eke d principal of the schools at M fli'ntown. Pa. Aft er filling this position for three years, he was elected Vice Prin cipal and the Head of the Math metical Department of the Schools of Conneaut, Ohio, which he hold3 at the present time. We all wish him the greatest suc cess in his new work. Revival Meetings. Rev. Edward F. Mellott will hold a series of meetings at Oak ley church, just south of Need- more, beginning Tuesday even ing, December 29. Rev. Mellott i3 also conducting a series of meetings at Damascus Christian Church, which are a grand, success. All are made welcome at these meetings. His invitation is "Come, one and all, To-day is the day of salvation; come, drink of the waters of life without money and without price. This same gentleman closed on December Cth, a series of meet ings of twelve nights' duration, at Mays Chapel Christian church, with thirty-four convers ions. Thirty-two united with the Mays Chapel church, one, goes to Whips Cove, and one, to the M. E. church on Black Ook. We Greet Yon. To oifr more than ten thousand readers the News wishes a "Mer ry Christmas, and a Happy Mew Year." To the half-score in for eign lands, and to the several hundred in the Great West, this will come a little late. But to them our greeting i3 no less sin cere. As Christmas after Christ mas vanishes into the eternal past, we receive fresh assurance from these distant friends that the News is the great medium of intercourse between them and 'Down on the Old Farm" in Ful ton countv. Therefore, through the same channel, we extend a cordial invitation to each and all of them to visit old friends and scenes; or, if they cannot come, Uncle Sam will, for two cents, bring tidings of them to be broad casted by the News. Cut End of Finger Off. fin Thursday of last week, while B. W. Logue was rapidly turning a sausage grinder with his right hand and feeding the machine with the other, he let th third fintrer of his left hand slip into the screw feed, with the result that the end ot the nnger was cut off between the root of the nail and the first joint. w llf n 0i-ivinnrfn o f for Mrs. vv. r. ottuiiswi naving open iuum sister, Mrs. J. Campbell Patter son in this place, left for Han cock last Friday. Dr. and Mrs. Sappington have rented apart- x : Va TlArei hmldiniy in menia m " Hancock and will at once go to housekeeping. Miss Van Cleve was the youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Abram Van Cleve, formerly residents of Ayr township, this county, inty, and a teacner in me puu schools. This is peculiarly sad lie from the fact that but nuie more weeks had elapsed since than two1 the death of her sister jMizaiaein, Mrs. Geo. A Stewart, FIONEER STORIES. Intcres!ing Reminiscences Related By Daniel E. Fore, Esq., of His Ex perknecs in tlie Far West. In continuation, of Mr. Fore's stories of adventure during pio neer days on the western plains, we have selected a short one for this week that reveals some char acteristics of wild life be it human or that of bird or beast. In this instance the wild creature was a human being. The second in stallment of stories follows: Seemingly authentic instances are on record of how wild birds and animals seek shelter from their enemies, when hard press ed, in the dwellings of men. Mr Fore relates an incident in which a half-wild Indian exhibited this trait and took chances to escape from pursuing enemies by rush ing headlong into his camp one night. Mr. Fore's party had moved camp that evening in cr der to place greater distance be tween thorn and a party of In dians' in whom he had little con fidence. They had settled down the second time for the night and Mr. Fore wa3 on guard on the brow of a hill when he heard run ning footsteps approaching. Soon a lone fiigure appeared in the circle of light of the camp fire. Not halting at command to so do, the Indian (for such he was) dived under a wagon and lay down close behind one of the white men who had retired for the night. The Indian could not be induced to make explanation of his conduct, and as he had no weapons, and showed fear in stead of defiance, the refugee was permitted to remnin under the wagon at the side of the white man all night. IIowever.Mr. Fore had a clue to the wild man's con duct before the latter had been in camp very long. Shortly af ter the Indian appeared, a gal loping horseman was heard to pass below them, whooping and calling to some one. Mr. Fore at once concluded that his guest was an escaped prisoner, fleeing from possible torture at the hands of a hostile tribe, although that wily wild creature might have timed the horseman in order to deceive the white men in this very manner. Not wishing to kill the man, nor to expose him to needless danger at the hands of less civi lized enemies, he was permitted to remain, but was closely guard ed. Next morning when the teams were ready to start, the Indian started with the party, walking at the side of the wagon between the front and rear wheel for several miles. When they reached an overhanging cliff, seemingly too steep for any hu man being to scale, the myster ious visitor clambered up the side of the cliff as nimbly as a fly and disappeared over the top. As he never appeared again, and as no hostile bands molested them that trip, it was concluded that the poor fellow had been so closely persued the night before that, in sheer desperation, he took chan ces with the unknown white men rather than be retaken by his savage brethren and perhaps be put to a cruel death. Fell Off Roof. On Monday of last week, John V. Schooley, near Andover, dis covered that his chimney was on fire. A son climbed from the porch roof to the roof of the house to extinguish the blaze. The roof was slippery with ice and the young man slipped off. The father who was on the porch roof attempted to catch him, but they both fell to the ground. The son escaped with minor in juries, but Mr. Schooley sustain ed severe sprains of the muscles of his back, and has not fully re covered. Thomas J. Comerer lost a good horse last Friday from colic, and on the same day Bert Henry lost one from stoppage of the "wind pipe." The Strength of the Church. According to the census of 1913 there were then in this country 7,280,370 communicant members of the Christian Church, and 225,000 churches. The popula tion of the country is about 90, 000,000, and this means that there are about 60,000,000 who are of church membership age, so that more than half of the adult population is in the Christ lan Church. This is an immense gain over the state of affairs at the beginning of the nineteenth century when only about three per cent, of the people were in the churches. Admitting that this half of the population is only half Christianized, yet this mass of Christians is a tremendous fact and force in our country It is as yet only loosely organized as an instrument of public opin ion and righteousness, but that it is an enormous reservoir of power cannot be doubted. It is only beginning to find itself and its day is yet to come. It has put its shoulder under a few things and has something to show to its credit. Slavery never be gan to budge until the churches began to talk of it as a sin, and then its da'y was short. It is growing into a solid front against the liquor traflic, und is slowly pressing back this organized evil into narrower areas and is sure to crowd it off the map. It is permeating our business relations and transactions and will in time write "Holiness unto the Lord" on the bells of the horses! It is pervading our social life and look ing into every human condition and will in time cleanse the slums and build a decent civilization for all the children of men. It is lilting up its voice against war, and every Christian nation now at war is trying to escape the re sponsibility for it and endeavor ing to throw the blame on some body else. The church is yet in its untrained youth, and when it attains to full manhood and is or ganized and drilled it will wage battles and win victories of which we do not yet dream. Like a mighty army moves this Church of God, and it is our business to get into its ranks and help to in crease its unity and efficiency in the service of building the King dom of God in the world. How We Get The News. Day before yesterday a perfect ly nice lady called us up and with tears in her voice re iroved us for not mentioning the fact that she had had a friend visiting her last week. We told her that she had not let us know anything about it and that therefore, we did not know that she had a visitor. Then she said, "Well you should have known. I thought you were runninganewspaper." Wouldn't that rattle your slats? Some peo pie think that the editor ought to be a cross between Argus and Anna Eva Fay. They seem to think that our five senses are augmented byfa sixth that lets us know everything that happens even if we see, hear, feel, taste or smell it not. Dear lady, . edi tors are only human or at least, almost human. If you have a friend visiting you, if you are go ing away, or have returned from a visit out of town, if Johnnie fills ar.d breaks his arm, if your husband chops his toe instead of a stick of wood, if anything hap pens that makes you glad, or sad happy, or mad, call us up. Tell us obout it. That's the way to get it in the paper. Big Foreign Orders, Byron & Sons, the steam tan nery firm with plants in Mercers burg and in Williamsport, Md., have received large orders for harness and similar leather from the Allies, in the European war. This will necessitate an increase of force by fully a hundred men at the beginning of the year and the running of the plant in Mer cersburg on full time to fill the orders. Subscribo for iho News. REV. GEO. B. SHOEMAKER. Says "McConnellsburg and Fort Lou don Railroad Company" Looks Good in Print Editor News: I have watch ed with great interest your re ports about the proposed Elec tric Railroad, and feel that the project is assuming good form "The McConnellsburg and Fort Loudon Railroad Company," looks well in print; sounds very pleasant to my ears, and, I think, has a prophecy in it that will come to a complete fulfillment. All hail the day, when the smoke less Railroad reaches the dear old town! You report fine sleighing in your last issue. Out here in Iowa, we have some snow but not enough for sleighing; but all signs point to the coming of plen ty of the beautiful before the w inter is over. You did pretty well back there to have zero weather; but on last Monday morning, my thermome ter registered 20 degrees below zero, and, until yesterday, we had a pretty cold snap. Today is moderate, starting this morn ing at 10 degrees above zero. We had a beautiful fall. The men on farms got all the corn out of the fields and into cribs before Thanksgiving, and with out snow on it. Fine crop this year for which they are now getting 50c per bushel. Not long ago there came a soft spell of weather, with some rain, and then a sudden freeze. That made the roads very rough. Now the roads are quite good, and, if no thaw comes, we will have find roads all winter. If enough snow falls we will have fine sleighing. My friend Stevens, an old Fulton County boy, had a car load of apples, York Imperal shipped from Lehmaster's Sta tion to Sumner, Iowa. I bought some, and some of those I bought are "a mellerin" up down in the cellar. My brother, Will, sent me by mail some good chestnuts from the old State, and Mr. Reed, a resident of Sumner, had buck wheat flour shipped from old Pennsy," and I bought some of that; thus it is that I am enabled to keep in touch with the old home state, though I am far, far away. When you come to your Christ mas festivities think of us as all gathering in our home at Sum ner. The three married sons, with their wives and children twelve of us in all three sons, three grandsons, three daughters-in-law, the daughter at home, and Grandpa and Grand ma, (This last sounds funny to me,) four famines of three each, will be stowed away in the par sonage at Sumner for a few days during the Xmas holidays. To all the families of the News I send a "Merry Christmas Greet ing." What ha3 become of my friend Hughes, who used to live in the city of Brotherly Love? George B. Shoemaker. Sumner, Iowa., December 19, 1914. Must Stop Hunting. The State Livestock Sanitary Board has ordered that all hunt ing be stopped in counties under quarantine for foot and mouth disease. We are unable to give the reasons for the order, but as fresh outbreaks of the disease have recently occurred in many places, we presume that the Board has good reasons for believing that those who roam through in fected fields and woodlands pick up the infection and carry it on their feet and clothing to other places. Also, the rabbits and other game killed may carry the germs. The fact that "visiting" cats, dogs, foxes, rats, and even birds, are known to carry disease makes it necessary that all pre cautions be taken when any out break occurs in a community. To-night and to-morrow are the times for Christmas fires. Of Course-Why Not. "Will good times ever return?" inquired a pessimist in speculat ing on his Christmas expendi' tures. Of course they will I Why not? Here's the why of the will : 1. There is just as much mon ey in the country now a3 there ever was. 2. The farmers have just har vested one of the biggest crops in history and are selling at good prices. 3. Federal reserve banks have been opened and millions of dol lars of new money will be placed at the disposal of the banks of the country. ' 4. The banks in turn will have plenty of money to loan to big manufacturing and other indus tries for operating capital. 5. These concerns in turn will start the wheels of commerce to revolving and millions of unem ployed men and women will re turn to work. C. Foreign 'governments are placing heavy orders for all kinds of supplies needed in prosecut ing their war. 7. Other orders for American made goods are pouring in from all parts of the world. 9. The financial situation has clarified, banks are opening up their vaults, and great manufac turing industries are preparing to open again on an extensive scale, many of them even now calling in employees who were laid off many weeks ago. Yes, you can dig down and spend that Christmas money without any fear of where the next dollar i3 coming from. It is on the way and hitting the high places. A Ham and Bacon Show. Why doesn't one of our enter prising merchants or a group of them-organize a country ham and bacon show to be held at some convenient place within the next few weeks? It could easily be made so attractive that it might become an annual early-winter event There are many farmers who are curing their own hams and bacon and these could be in duced to exhibit It might be possible to secure the services of a demonstrator from the agricul tural college who would instruct other farmers and their sons, wives and daughters in the best methods of home-curing. The smoke house, so long a neglected adjunct to the farm, is coming into its own once more and the farmers who are overlooking this source of profit are just a bit be hind the times. There is a brisk market for home cured hams and bacon in the larger town3 and in the cities and this market may easily be cultivated to the great advantage of the farmer. Let us make this section of the coun try famous for its home-cured bams and bacon. The way to start the thing is to organize an exhibit, offer attractive prizes, work up plenty of enthusiasm. This paper will do its share. Who's for the first annual ham and bacon exhibit? The Stongh Campaign Closed. The Stough evangelistic meet ings came to a close in Harris burg on Sunday with 7,000 con verts in the campaign. Themon ey given to Dr. Stough amount ed to 5500 for himself and party, the whole campaign cost $25,000 Chambersburg gave Dr. Bieder wolf $4300. The Hamilton Gould campaign which just closed in Bedford re sulted in 436 conversions, and $11S0 given to Hamilton and his party. In proportion to popula tion, Hamilton had about 25 per cent more converts than Stough, and Bedford gave about three times as much as a free will of fering to the evangelist If Har risburg had contributed to Stough as Chambersburg did to Bieder wolf, Stough would have receiv ee more than $17,000 instead of $7,000. CANDIES FOR CHILDREN. Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LL D., Commissioner Health. Along with Santa Claus' other provisions is usually a generous store of sweets. No matter how many dolls and drums and other things may have been re quested by the younger members of the family, they take it for granted that there will be candy. Much of the indigestion and consequent distress which follow the holiday feastings is due to the excessive use of candy by both old and young. Of course, the principal constituent of can dy is sugar. Sugar is a food, and one that is necessary to the human body. It produces heat and energy, but when taken in excess, it undergoes fermenta tion in the digestive tract and gives rise to various disturbances in the stomach and intestines. Not only this, but it overburdens the liver with evil results. If the children and grown-ups are to have candy, it should be eaten with or immediately after the meals. The usual custom is to have sweets within every body's reach and to stuff them between meals. To properly carry on their func tions the stomach and intestinal tract require a certain degree of rest. This i3 the reason that it is much better to eat at regular hours. When candy 13 eaten be tween meals, it means that the digestive organs must be contin ually at work. As a result, in stead of exercising their func tions during the usual portion of the twenty-four hours, they are overworked and it is not surpris ing when the consumption of food is apt to be excessive. Pure candies are not harmful if they are taken in reasonable quantities. Unfortunately there is an enormous amount of cheap candy sold throughoutthe country which is grossly adulterated. Much of this is colored with coal- tar dye to make it attractive to the eye of youth. Following the holiday season there is always a notable increase in illnesses which are traceable to disturbances of the digestive system, and there is likewise a perceptible increase in the mor tality from these causes. There is little doubt that the overfeed ing and the excessive use of sweets, which do not permit the rational rest of the digestive or gans and so reduce the general resistance of the entire system, is the cause." Feed Downy, Trap Sparrow. Do you like to see the fussy little "woodpeckers come to the trees at your door to amuse you with their summersaults and upside-down trapeze performances? They will come every cold day if you nail little pieces of fatty beef to the trunks of the trees for them to eat. It must be fresh not salted. Then, next summer they will repay you 1000 per cent, by nesting near by and raising more little downy wood peckers to eat up the insects. True, it is discouraging to try to coax other than sparrows to stay, but what shall we do about it? Shall we let all perish rather than let the pesky sparrow share the food? To shoot the sparrows frightens other birds away. Thousands of sparrows can be trapped at night by putting up a box say ten feet long and di vide into little apartments like nesting places, with little holes for entrance. A trap door as long as the box can be made to drop and shut the holes after dark. In the morning the spar rows can be killed in a merciful manner, and made into delicate potpies, for the sparrow is as good to eat as quail. Russel Runyan, of Pittsburgh, expects to eat his Christmas din ner with 'The Old Folks at Home." Nothing like it; is then Russell?
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