THIS FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNZLIBBUlQ, PA.
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS
Of I tical and Qeoeral Intercut, Oathered
at Home or Clipped frm oor
Exchanges.
CONDENSED FOR HURRIED READERS
Little Billy Nace is slowly con
valescing. Robins were seen in Franklin
county last week. Early spring?
Miss Bess Nesbit spent from
last Friday until Monday in
Chambersburg.
Burgess W. A. Sloan was quite
"poorly" for several days, but is
some better now.
Mrs. Ellis Lynch will entertain
a party of lady friends at a lunch
eon this afternoon.
Judge S, McC. Swope presided
at the Cumberland county court,
Carlis le, last week.
Wilson Peck, who has be .11
during the past three months, is
not so well this week.
Frank Ray and his son John,
of Bethel township, were busi
ness visitors in town last Friday.
A Waynesboro man was arrest
ed and jailed last week for fur
nishing cigarettes to a 16-year old
boy.
Miss Maggie Rexroth spent
the time from Saturday until
Monday with the Misses , Stigers,
Bridgeside, Mercersburg.
Geo. S. Mellott and J. W. Mel
lott, of Pleasant Ridge, made a
trip to McConnellsburg yesterday
and called a few minutes at the
News office.
Luther Grove, postmaster at
Clear Ridge, lost his wallet Mon
day some place between that
place and Knobsville. We do
not know the amount lost.
A Chambersburg paper says
"Refuse to buy vegetables and
goods displayed on the sidewalks
and grocers will quickly.stop the
practice of ''jus exposing goods."
Mrs. Rebecca Wishart, of Lew
istDwn, is at the Union Hotel
with Mrs. S. Ella Wishart who is
spending the winter there with
her daughter. Everett Republi
can. Miss Olive Rotz and Miss Olive
Shimer left on the noon hack
Tuesday for a two weeks' visit
among relatives and friends in
Chambersburg, Shippensburg and
Carlisle.
Miss Alice Wishart, who has
been spending the winter with
her mother at the Union Hotel in
Everett, went to New York last
week to attend a missionary con
vention. John Gillis, who lives on the
John Nelson farm in Tod town
ship, called at the News office
Monday to arrange for the ad
vertisement of his public sale on
Friday, March, 19.
Mrs. Annie De Hart and her
daughter Lillian (Mrs. Joseph B.
Doyle,) of Mercersburg, have
been spending the past week
among friends and relatives in
McConnellsburg and vicinity.
During the session of the li
cense court in Carlisle on Mon
day, Judge Sadler said that it
was imcumbent upon the public
aa well as the courts to bring of-
j fending liquor sellers to justice.
S At the meeting of the Cum
berland Valley Holstein-Friesian
Association in Chambersburg on
last Saturday it was decided to
' join the national association, and
the officers were instructed to
carry out the decision.
Elliott Kirk, Harvey Clevenger
. Joe Deavor, J. E. Lyons, M. G.
I Lamberson, and Harry Henry,
j were among the Taylor township
j people attending the regular an-
nual meeting of the stockholders
of the Valmont Telephone Com-
pany held in McConnellsburg,
Monday.
I Sheller, a 12-year old son of D.
' Carey Gillan, a Chambersburg
hardware dealer, fell into the
creek at that place Monday, , and
would have drowned, but for the
bravery of Norman Gabler, a
; pr'nter, who risked his life in
the deep, icy water and swam to
I shore with the unconscious boy.
J On January 25, 1914, two men
,! conversed over the telephone
from New York to San Francis
, co. It is eaid that this is the
first time the feat of talking a
. cross the continent 3,400 miles
; has been accomplished. The
' White House line was connected
with the trans-continent wire and
'; President Wilson's voice was im-
-mediated heard distinctly on the
! Pacific coast
FIRE IN BELFAST.
John Bard's Dwelling Rouse Entirely
Destroyed Tuesday Evening. Some
Household Goods Saved.
About four o'clock, Tuesday
afternoon, smoke was seen issu
ing from the garret of John
Bard's dwelling house on Pleas
ant Ridge in Belfast township.
An effort was made to get into
the garret, but the dense smoke
and heat made it impossible. On
account of the meager supply of
water, small force of fire-fighters,
the only thing left was to
get all the household goods out
to place of safety, and in this
they were reasonably successful;
but the house was totally de
stroyed. Mr. Bard's son Virgil
and family lived in the house and
Mr. Bard had his home with them.
We understand that there is some
insurance, but that does not make
the change from living in a nice
comfortable house to that of
bunking these cold nights in a
carpenter shop or smoke house
any more attractive.
Credit Due.
Concrete work was successfully
done on the bridge at the west
foot of Green Hill while the ther
mometer registered zero. Fur
naces were i.i.Je by placing three
pieces of galv:"'iized culvert pipe
side by side in which fires were
kept burning. Sand, cement and
water were heated on these fur
naces, and after the mixture was
put into the forms, broken stone
heated very hot in the same man
ner, werejput into the forms. The
hot stone held the concrete at a
temperature above freezing un
til all was nicely "set." The
force of workmen deserve credit
for the "spunk" displayed b y
staying with the job when Old
Boreas swooped down on them
with a ten-below stinger in his
whiskers. To have abandoned
the work at that time would have
meant a miserable crossing at
that place all winter.
To Horse Breeders.
The Pennsylvania Live Stock
Sanitary Board has sent a long
circular to the newspapers advis
ing that good horses will be very
high in price soon. The matter
in hand may be condensed as fol
lows: The normal home demand
for horses will be resumed this
spring. Foreign demand is not
only at hand, but it will be great
er as soon as reconstruction be
gins after the war is over. Many
other logical reasons are given
why horses will be high, and it
is to put all owners of breeding
mares on guard against sacrific
ing them that the circular is be
ing sent out. They are advised
to breed their mares to thorough
bred horses.
Agricultural Bulletin Received.
Through the courtesy of L. H.
Wible, Statistician in the Agri
cultural Department at Harris
burg, this office recently receive a
copy of bulletin No. 250, a book
of nearly 500 pages devoted to
the origin and capacity of the
soils of the State by counties and
townships. From time to time,
we will publish parts of this
bulletin, taking one township at
a time, and try to tell our read
ers what their soils are best
adapted to. The book is publish
ed by the Department of Agri
culture, Harrisburg.
Church Notices.
There will be regular preach
ing services in the Bethany
church at Big Cove Tannery next
Sunday evening at 7 o'clock, by
the pastor.
At Pleasant Grove Church next
Sunday: Rov. Powers will preach
at 10:30 m the morning alter Sun
day School, and the Missionary
Society will render its monthly
program m the evening.
Saw Fifteen Deer.
John F, Sharp, chauffeur of
the Caledonia-Gettysburg auto
bus line saw in all, Thursday, of
last week, fifteen deer along the
roadway on the western slope of
the South Mountain.
Ross Hollinshead sold his farm
inLickingCreek township, known
as the B.. F. Deshong farm, and
moved to Mrs. am Hess's farm,
known as theStilwellTruax farm
in Belfast township.
The many friends of Miss Delia
Carnell will learn with regret that
she is very ill.
Farmers' Institute.
Elsewhere in this issue, we
print the program for the Mov
able Institute School to be held
in the Court House in McCon
nellsburg February 8, 9, 10, 11.
It i3 recommended that this pro
gram be saved. It will be con
venient as a reference in case
you cannot attend every session,
but would like to know when cer
tain subjects are to be discussed.
Be sure, therefore, that your
copy is not mislaid. We repeat
what we said last week about at
tendance, namely, that every
young man and young women at
tend every session if possible.
There is nothing like rubbing el
bows with fellow workers to
arouse enthusiasm in business.
The sense of fellowship among
soldiers is what enables them to
face unflinchingly the greatest
dangers. All important manu
facturing industries are support
ed by the association of members
for the discussion of plans and
methods, and this in the face of
the fact that manufacturing con
cerns are business rivals, while
the business of farming is
best served by the prosperity of
neighbors. But, farmers as a
class are the least inclined to
take advantage of this way of
boosting business. How long, do
you suppose, the manufacture
of shoes, clothing, machinery, or
any other commodity, would
stand for paying $G a ton more
for raw material than they should
rather than get their heads to
gether and devise plans for get
ting supplies at the least possi
ble cost? Do you imagine for
one moment that they would pay
$18 for 1-8-1 fertilizer when a
mixture of three times that
strength can be bought for but
little more? Not a bit of it!
Three times $1G is $18. Three
times 1-8-1 are 3-24-3, and while
fertilizer does not usually come
to us in exactly that proportion,
if it did, it would be worth at
McConnellsburg, about $32. Nor
is this all; in the first mixture we
have to haul three tons out over
the cute little hills of this county
but in the latter case we had to
haul but one. If by attending
the institute we acquire nothing
else than the ability to read a
fertilizer bag, it would be worth
$100.00 a year.
It Helps All Round.
Plans for helping needy poor
at home, and at the same time
greatly increasing the value of
contributions to Belgian sufferers
are being carried out in many
large towns and cities. The plan
is to collect funds from all who
care to contribute to the Belgian
Relief Fund. Some of the mon
ey is then used to purchase ma
terial for garments. These gar
ments are being made up by the
needy women of the city, and
they are paid a fair price for
their work. Each woman is per
mitted to do from two to three
dollar's worth of work aweek.
Since the finished garment is
worth more than the cost of the
material plus the sum paid for
its making, the intrinsic value of
the Belgian shipment is increas
ed. This works no hardship on
regular garment makers, as the
product of the private sewers
does not come in competition with
the markets of the former. The
work furnished to these needy
women has proved to be a great
relief of want, while at the same
time they have not been made to
feel that they are objects of char
itythey earned the money.
Suffering With Sciatica.
David L. Peck, his brother
Daniel and wife, and Daniel's
son Frank, visited relatives in
this county during the early part
of December. Since his return
to his home at Greenville, O. Da
vid has been suffering greatly
with neuralgia of the sciatic
nerve; has been confined to his
home and scarcely able to walk.
The pain is especially acute at
night. As Daniel's had almost
most reaphed their home in Cald
well, Kansas, they received in
formation of the death of Dan
iel'8 sister, Mrs. Still well Palmer
at Ringwood, Okla., and went di
rectly to the Palmer home. The
funeral took place on the last day
of December, All of the ten Pal
mer children were at home at
the time of their mother's death
and funeral, gtillwell Palmer is
almost helpless, but still seems to
have a tight grip on life.
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For Sale : - Pair of good mules;
or, will trade for good horse, or,
will sell a horse and keep mules.
Have too many.
Geo. N. Sipes,
10-29-14-tf Hustontown.
Foit Sale One 35 hp. Craw
ford auto truck, 3 speeds lorward
and one reverse. Can be seen at
Johnson's Flour Mill in Thomp
son township. Address: C S.
Johnson, P. 0. box 207, tioncock,
Md. 1 28 -4t.
Fju Sale No. 1. House and
lot near Lashley, Pa. No. 2. Red
Slate farm of about 4." or 50
acres, house and other buildings,
and orchard of good fruit at Lash
ley, Ta. No. 8 Farm of 100
acres about one mile south of
VVarford8burg, Pa , part lime
stone, well watered, suitable for
stock farm, house, barn, wagon
shed, fruit, and some timber.
For futther information, call on,
or address, Jas. ' E Ritz, War
fordsburg, Pa 1 28 2t
Will Fnlton County "Quake."
That Fulton county is right in
line with possible earthquakes
is not at all improbable. Earth
quakes are caused by the settling
of faults in the earth's crust. At
some time, probably while the
cooling process of the many stra
ta of the earth's crust was in
operation, two or more strata be
came jammed as in wrinkles of
cloth, and one was forced out and
upwards until it reached the sur
faceor near the surface, and
now lies with one edge against
that of a much more recent for
mation of earth and rock. This
meeting of a very old stratum
with one" of more recent forma
tion is called a "fault" just as
anything out of place is a fault.
It stands to reason, therefore,
that the foundation on which
these two edges rt may, at any
time, settle a few feet or inches,
and this would cause the earth's
surface to tremble along the line
of the fault.
Pennsylvania's greatest fault
(geological not political) lies
near Webster Mills. At this
point a stratum that, by all the
laws of geology, should be buri
ed more than 800 feet, appears
near the surface and lies "jam
med" against what is known as
stratum No. 2, and while it may
be pretty well "welded" by this
time, no man can tell when a tre
mor of greater or less severity
may occur at this fault. Earth
quakes have been known to oc
cur in faults as seemingly well
settled as is this one. It is
thought that the heavy cannon
ading in European countries may
have furnished the slight jar that
was all that was needed to topple
the foundations of the faults in
Italy's surface, and the recent
frightful disaster resulted.
Ayr township citizens need not
take alarm and sell out at the
first opportunity and move away,
since the foregoing dissertation
will not produce sufficient "jar"
to set off an earthquake in Ful
ton county.
Wolves Follow Armies.
We once heard a native Texan
express doubt as to the veracity
of a Pennsylvania man when the
latter said that hundreds of deer
and bears were annually killed in
the Keystone State. These west
em-born men seem to think tha'
the old eastern states are to
thickly settled for large garr
like bears and deer. Since win
ter settled over the countries i l
which European armies are fight
ing, packs of hungry wolves hav'
been killing and eating woundec
soldiers. While we know it h
true, the statement arous33 feel
ings similar to those of the Tex
an, because Americans are prom
to think df European countries a?
being too thickly settled fo
wolves fierce brutes that hav
become extinct ir. all older part
of the United Staces.
New Read Map Out Soon.
Harrisburg, Jan. 25. About
the first of March the State High
way department will have readj
its road map of the southwestern
part of the State, the first of th
kind ever made for that grea'
section of the Commonwealth
W
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A Large Assortment of Sum
mer Dress Stuff's Just In.
Ginghams, Seersuckers, Madras, Silk and Cot
ton Mixtures that are beautiful for
early Sewing.
We have these things all in. See them and
you will want them.
Muslins are Cheaper.
Muslins are cheaper than for some time past.
A good unbleached yard-wide Muslin
for 6 cents we say a GOOD ONE.
Cretonnes for Comforts
Cretonnes for comforts a yard wide for 10
cents a yard.
Come in and see these Goods. We know
we can PLEASE YOU.
G. W. REISNER & CO.
McConnellsburg, pa.
west of the mountains. The new
map will contain all roads from a
point on a line with Shippens
burg in Cumberland county and
Danville, Montour county, on the
east of the Ohio line and as far
north as Venango county.
FARM FOR SALE.
113-aere farm, 05 acres cultivated,
balance good timber. Good produc
ing land, (t-room house with porches,
summer kitchen, woodhouse, bank
barn with shed overbarnyard. 2-storv
implement sliod. Wagon shed and
corncrib, hogpen, chicken house,
sprlnghouse All buildings have on
worked siding and are well painted
Good running water close the house.
Close to store, school, and church.
Plenty of (ru It. 1H acres in wheat. A
good stream of limestone water runs
through the farm. The farm is situate
miles north of McConnellsburg the
County Seat on State road, and it can
be bought for almost what it cost to
nut up the buildings. Will sell stock,
farm implements and household goods
with the farm if desired. Possession
given April 1, 11)15. My reason for
helling Is that I .am greatly atlllcted
with rheumatism. If you think you
would like to have the farm, get busy,
tor I mean to sell. Call on, or ad
dress. J. C. FORK,
l-2.'-8t Knobsville, Pa.
NOTICE.
I hereby give notice that Emma
Yeakle, my wife has loft my bed and
board; and I will not pay any debts
contracted by her.
l-14-3t. Jacou Ykaki.e.
to. R. SHAFFNER,
Attorney at Law,
Office on Square,
McConnellsburg, Pa.
All legal bus.ness and eolleotlons entrusted
win tinelYK aare'ul tnd prompt attention
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Nothing adds more to the refinements of home than
good music. To have good music you must have a good
instrument. There are good bad and indifferent instru
ments, and to the unskilled eye they look much alike.
The unprincipled dealer is likely to make you pay a
first-class price for a fourth-class instrument. I have
lived in this county since my birth, I am a taxpayer and
in a position to make good any business transactions.
Buy your piano, organ, or victrola from me and if it is
not all right you can come back at me.
There are families in every part of this county that
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HT. M. COMER ER,
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Portable Engines, Gaso
line, Separators, Clo
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mills. Sc.
Engines on hand all
the timer
Western Maryland Railway Company.
Ia Effect September 27, 1914.
Train leave Hancock m follows :
No. 7-1 40 a, m. (dally) forCumberland, Pitta
burgh and west, also Went Virginia
points.
No. 8 S Wa . m. for Hngeratown, Gettysburg,
Hanover, York and Baltimore.
No, 1 B.30 a. m. (dally exeept Sunday) Ex
press for Cumberland and intermediate
pointa.
No. 4-8.07 a. m. (dally exoept Sunday) Ex
Press for Hagerstown, Gettysburg
lanover, Baltimore and Intermediate
pointa. New York, Philadelphia, Wash
ington, etc ,
No, S 2.l p. m. (dally) Western Express for
Cumberland, Weat Virginia pointa and
the West.
No. I 8.07 p. m. (dally) Express for Hagers
town, Waynesboro, Chambersburg,
Frederick. Baltimore, New York, Pbl!;
delphla, Waahtngoa.
A. L. WIBLE
Auctioneer, McConneMnrg, Fa.
Prompt kttentloa to all builatei In thla
line. He may be found at his home on
Weat Water street where he eondueu a
aaiber, and shoe mending shop, t-II-tt.