FULTON COUNTY NEWS
Published Every Thursday.
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McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
FEBRUARY 25, 1915
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TESTED AND PROVEN.
There is a Heap of Solace in Being
Able to Depend I'pon a Well
Earned Reputation.
For months McConnellsburg
readers luve seen the constant
expression of praise for Doan's
Kidney Pills, and read about the
good work tney have done in this
locality. What other remedy ev
er produced such convincing
proof of merit?
W. A. McKinnie, N. Carlisle
St., Greencastle, Pa., says: "I
am only too glad to allow you to
use my name recommending
Doan's Kidney Pills. 1 am a
strong friend of this remedy.
1 take Doan's Kidney Pills about
twice a year and they keep my
kidneys normal and tone up my
system. There are no words too
good for me to say for Doan's
Kidney Pills."
Price 50c. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask lor a Kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills the
same that Mr. McKinnie had.
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Advertisement.
Local Institute.
The fourth local institute of
Belfast township was held at
Maple Grove school Friday even
ing, February 12. An interest
ing program was rendered. The
Questions discussed were; 1.
Spelling; How Taught? 2. Educa
cation; Value of. Teachers pres
ent, Thomas Truax, Orben Heb
ner, and Ethel McEldowney.
Ethel MrEldowney, Sec.
The eighth local institute of
Ayr township was held at Con
ner's school last Friday evening.
The subjects: Civil Govern
ment; How Taught? 2. Are the
school visitations of patrons and
directors of value to the school?
3. Special exercises. Were all
very ably discussed. Teachers
present were; Sophia llohman,
Maude Rinedollar, Hazal Garland
George Smith, Ketha Mellottand
Flora Shives from Ayr, and Tho
mas Truax and Orben Hebner
lrorn Belfast. The next institute
will be held at McNaughton's
School March 5th. Subjects;
1. Home Study, How acquired.
2 Discipline. 3. To what extent
would you take part in the chil
dren's games. Flora Shives, Sec
retary. BRUSH CREEK.
Miss Grace Patterson and two
children near Pittsburgh, are vis
itingher mother, Mrs. Amos
H xon who has been quite ill.
Protracted meeting is in prog
ress at Akersville M. E. Church
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hixson,
and Grant Hixson ol Parkers
Landing, who bad been visiting
ii the home of Amos Hixson, re
ti their homes.
Mr. and Mrs. . A. Hixson and
family, of Everett, spent Sat
urday and Sunday at M. P. Bar
ton's. The following persons callfd
on friends last Sunday: II. N.
Barton and wife on their daugh
ter, Mrs. Ernest Mellott; George
Rohm and wile on Amos Hixson 's
Clad Bequeath and wife on
John Mellott: Mrs. Ellie Simp
son at Oliver Clevenger's; Miss
Lulu Mills and Miss Fannie Mel
lott on the latter 's parents in
Breezewood; W. II. Duvall and
wife on Amos Duvall.
WATERFALL.
Mrs. Roy Witter is slowly im
proving. Some of our people have been
attending the gojd revival servi
ces at Zion.
Sunday callers wore: Mae Ma
lone on Margaret Price; Jesse
McClain and his sister Viola on
William Ileefner; Bert Lamber
son and wife on John Lam berBon
and the following at Geo. King's:
Bert Brant and wife, Boss King
and his wife snd mother; Mrs
Frank Price and son Albert, and
A-b..t K g, wife and children.
Thursday March 4, G. F. Nau
gle, Intending to remove to a
smaller farm, will sell at his resi
dence on the T. J. Comerer farm
mile from Burnt Cabins, on
the road leading to Shade Gap, 2
horses, 9 cattle, farm machinery
harness, corn, hay &c. Sale be-
gi n s at 10 o'clock. Credit 0
months. J. J. Harris Auct
Thursday, March 4, Berkeley
Sipes, desiring to reduce his
stock, will sell at his residence
one-half mile north of Huston
town, 7 head of horses and colts,
including a pair of bay mares 8
and 10 years, respectively; a pair
of black matches (a mare and a
horse) 5 and 7 years old, dark
iron gray mare 3 years old, 2
yearling colts one bay and one
black, and one mule 2 years old;
10 head of cows and heifers all
withcilf, 6 fine yearling calces,
and one fat bull; 4 bead of fine
sheep; 9 head of fat hogs; good
3 seated hack, buggy, harness,
&c. ' Sale begin at 10 o'clock. A
credit of oae year will be given
3 per cent, off for cash. J. M.
Uhesnut, auctioneer.
Thursday, March 4, C. H. Wag
ner will sell at his residence 3
miles south of Mercersburg,
horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and
farming implements. Sale be
gins at 10 o'clock.
Saturday, March 6, A. M.
Grissinger will sell at his resi
dence in McConnellsburg, all his
household goods. See advertise
ment in another column.
Saturday, March 6, John D.
Cutchall, intending to quit farm
ing, will sell at his residence 2
miles northwest of Hustontown,
3 horseB, 1 mule, 8 head of cattle,
two of which are fat and the oth
er is a good cow that will be fresh
by day of sale; 2 fat hogs, farm
ing implements, wagons, surry,
buggy, grain, hay, &c. Sale will
begin at 10 o'clock. J. M. Ches
nut, auctianeer.
Thursday, March 11, D. W.
Cromer having rented his farm
for a term ot five years, and in
tending to quit farming, will sell
of his residence near Fort Little
ton, horses, cattle, hogs, farm
implements and machinery, hay,
gram, &c. Sale will begin at 10
oclnck. Credit, 9 months. J. M
Chesnut, auctioneer.
Friday, March 12, C. C. Crouse
intending to quit farming will
sell at his residence on the Cy
rus Wagner farm otherwise
known as the George Snyder
farm 2 miles north ol McCon
Conntj Railroad News.
Everything considered, w e
think remarkable progress is be
ing made to secure railroad con
nection with Fort Loudon. The
idea that railroads cannot be suc
cessfully operated on mountain-1
sides is vanishing too many in
stances of success right here
in the State. Mr. L. T. Peck,
expert examiner for the Westing
house Electric Company, is here
and in an interview with him he
called our attention to instances
in the State where the electric
locomotive had solved every dif
iculty of mountain roads on much
heavier grades than ours. Go
and hear him brush away all
doubts when he speaks at the
mass meeting in the Court House
Friday night
Birthday Party.
A surprise birthday party was
given on Tuesday, at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. II C. McGowan
near Decorum, to celebrate the
20th birthday of their son Dallas.
The evening was spent in play
ing games. After refreshments
were served they returned home
near midnight wishing Dallas
many more bappy birthdays.
Those present were; Mr. and
Mrs. II. C. McGowan, Mrs. Aman
da Metzler and children Mona,
James and Oliver, Mr. and Mrs.
Mathias, Mrs. D. C. Peterson,
Mable Peterson, Sarah Broad
beck, Mary Cline, Clementine
Peterson, Goldie Bowman, Ethel
Montaque, Amanda Tay, Emma
Kelley, Larue, Hazel McGowan,
George and Lorance Peterson,
Harry and Gerald Naugle, llarrv
Broad beck. John Shore, Stall
Baldwin, Wallace and Edgar Mc
Gehee, Ralph North, Oscar Whi
ley, Cdius aud Lasile Scott, Don
aid Kopo, Harvey Kelley, Jessie
Flood, Lem Cornelius, Harvey
Commer, Roger Cline, Lavaine
and Hirry Montaque, FaulHampj
nellsburg, horses, colts, cattle,
hogs, farming implements, hay,
fodder &c. Sale begins at 10 o'
clock. Credit 9 months. J. J.
Harris auctioneer.
Friday, March 19, 1915, at his
residence on the John Nelson
farm in Todd township, one and
one-half mile north of McCon
nellsburg, John Gillis will sell at
public sale valuable personal
property consisting of good hors
es, fine cattle, farm implements
and many other articles. See
bills. James J. Harris, and A.
L. Wible, Auctioneers.
Saturday, March 20, Jchn V.
Stouteale will sell at bis house
on Lincoln Way, all his household
goods, consisting of bedroom par
lor, and kitchen furniture, stoves
carpets, Miller organ, queens
ware, tinware, cutlery, &c. Sale
begins at 1 o'clock.
Saturday, March 20, M. A.
Detwiler having rented his farm,
will sell at public sale on his farm
li mile southwest of Three
Springs, and 1 mile south of Sal
tillo, 4 horses including a tboro
bred Percheron stallion; 15 bead
of fine cattle, including a thoro
bred Guernsey bull; 30 head of
hogs, chickens, farm machinery,
harness, 700 bushels of corn and
many other things. Sale will be
gin at 10 o'clock sharp. Credit
9 months. J. M. Chesnut auc
tioneer. Monday, March 22, J. C. Crom
well having sold his farm and in
tending to quit farming, will sell
at his residence at Maddensville,
horses, cattle, hogs, farm machin
ery, &c, &c. Sale will begin at
10 o'clock sharp. J. J. Harris,
auctioneer.
On Tuesday, March 23, Wil
liam Bivens intending to quit
farming will sell at his residence
on the Frank Sipes farm, I mile
east of McConnellsburg, horses,
cattle, hogs, farming implements,
including, wagons, harness, John
ston binder, Milwauke mower,
grain drill, haytedder, plows,
barrows, &c. Sale begins at 10
o'clock. Credit, 1 year. James
J. Harris, Auctioneer.
Wednesday, March 24, 1915, H.
P. Palmer intending te quit farm
ing, will sell at his residence 3
miles north of Warfordsburg on
the road leading from Warfords
burg to Need more, 1 horse, cat
tle, sheep, farm implements, sew
ing machine, cream separator,
&c. Sale begins at 10 o'clock.
Credit 6 months.
ton Alva Peterson, Foster and
Dallas McGowan.
STOCKHOLDERS"
ASKEO TO HELP
Railroads Put Full Crew Law
Question Up to the
Stockholders.
Philadelphia, Feb. 24.
Direct appeal has been made to the
army of railroad stockholders for
their active support in the fight be
ing made for repeal of the Full Crew
LawB. Letters are going out to the
shareholders of each ot the twenty
one railroads operating in Pennsyl
vania and New Jersey.
William H. Truesdale, president of
the Lackawanna Railroad; E. B.
Thomas, president of the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad, and Samuel Rea, presi
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
are among those who have turned to
stockholders for help. President Ret
writes as follows:
"To you, as owners of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, I now make appeal
for your active, earnest and prompt
support in a matter which most di
rectly concerns your personal Inter
ests. The management greatly needs
your assistance. I ask It in full be
lief that you will gladly respond.
"With twenty other railroads oper
ating in Pennsylvania and New Jer
sey, your company is working through
a public campaign for repeal of the
Full Crew Laws. These work hard
ship upon the public, they are unfair
to the great body of railroad em
ployes, and the unnecessary costs
they impose upon the companies
strike even at the safety of your divi
dends. "Pennsylvania Railroad r.ockhold-
era number some 92,000 constituting
a great army of the most substantial
citizenship of the country. I ask you
In your own Interest and for the
larger public weal, to talk to your
friends and associates, to the end
that they may clearly understand tin
matter and join you In urging directly
upon the Legislatures of Pennsylvania
and New Jersey the Importance of re
pealing the Full Crew Laws at the
present sessions.
Fulton County Soils.
Young men,, why does every
lecturer, and every writer, on
soil management, begin with
"firstlys" that are all identical?
Why do they find it necessary to
repeat it so often? For answer
we have only to point to the
thousands of acres that, at one
time, grew wheat "as high as
the fence," but which are now
"rundown." The "firstly" re
ferred to is, that before there is
much use to try to farm success
fully, plenty of humus must be
restored to the soil. Our ances
tors ignored this first prin
ciple so long that many sons have
not heard of in soil management.
Two years from now the State
College expects to offer Fulton
county the privilege of securing
a resident farm counselor; but
before he could make much pro
gress in furthering better farm
ing, he would have to teach this
principle and wait two or three
years for it to go into effect
Why not begin now?
Do you remember Mr. Terry's
stories that ran in the Stockman
and Farmer for several years?
Mr. Terry was not well, and did
not have much money. He mov
ed out of town to a small, run
down farm of thirty-three acres.
It was the nearest to a "farm"
that his means permitted him to
buy. He reserved three acres
for garden, fruits, vegetables,
and a cow. On these three acres
he kept his family for three
years. On the remaining thirty
acres he Bowed clover and plough
ed all of it down for three suc
ceeding crops. After he had
ploughed down the second fine
stand of clover instead of cutting
it for hay, his neighbors began
tapping their foreheads when
speaking of that "city feller Ter
ry." But Mr. Terry was not con
cerned about what his neighbors
thought of him, and after he was
good and ready" to go to farm
ing, he rolled in such immense
crops, that by another year or
two his neighbors were falling
over themselves to imitate him,
with the result that Terry and
his neighborhood became central
figures in the agricultural papers
for several years. After start
ing to farm, Terry's method was
to plough down a heavy crop of
clover at least once in three years,
and in some cases, every year, and
he soon "got rich" on what was
but a few years previously, a run
down farm. Some time after he
had secured a comfortable bank
account, it occurred to him that
it would be fun to turn "robber"
for just one year, chiefly for the
benefit of his fellow farmers, by
showing what the possibilities of
his methods were. So he pro
ceeded to gather in everything
that the soil would yield hay,
potatoes, cloverseed, fruits, &c.
leaving nothing except closely
clipped hay sods to plough down
just as many of us do now.
When the money was counted,
he found the amount to be $3,300
just $100 for each acre. He lost
something in fertility, but he dem
onstrated a great principle for the
benefit of the public. Our
Experiment stations and counse
lors would have us all learn to be
Terries.
Bringing the illustration a lit
tle nearer home, we need but to
visit the truck growers down in
Maryland. When Mr. Moses Hill
a former Fulton county man
now trucking near Sharpsburg,
Md., was in our office last week,
he said that he noticed that na
tive growers were sowing alfalfa
or clover, after the last cultiva
tion of such crops as sweet corn,
&C He followed their example
and sowed more than a peck of
alfalfa seed per acre in his late
sweet corn, in August. It made
good growth, and by ploughing
time next season it was a foot
high. By ploughing down the
alfalfa, he increased his crop
from CO-odd dollars worth of
roasting ears, to $113.00 worth in
one season.
Let Sitting Heos Alone.
The time is almost at hand
when the hens will be bringing
their broods of "peeps" into this
great world, and we regret that
we cannot devote space to repeat
more of the good advice given by
those whose business it is to
study every feature of poultry
raising. One of the most fatal
mistakes made when trying to
hatch little chickens is the one
most often mentioned by speak
ers, and it is the one to which
To Provide for the Utmost Safety
of Patrons and Property is the
First Duty of Every Well
Managed Railroad
The railroads of Pennsylvania and New Jersey fully realize the
importance of properly manned trains. Were the claims of those
who arbitrarily forced the railroads, under the Full Crew Laws, to
employ men for whom no jobs exist just an'd warrantable, the rail
roads themselves would be the first to recognize those claims.
Full Crew Laws Costly
Interstate Commerce Commission statistics conclusively prove
that Full Crew Laws work three grave hardships, e.:
1 They increase the number of casualties.
2 They cost the railroads and thousands of men and women
who, directly, or indirectly, as depositors in banks, trust companies,
and savings funds are investors in railroad bonds and stocks, approxi
mately $2,000,000 a year in wages for unnecessary labor.
3 They deprive the people of a vast amount of improvements.
No Trains Undermanned
The railroads contend that their trains never could be undermanned for
the following good business reasons :
First A freight train of one locomotive at $25,000, and 75 cars at $1000
each, would represent $100,000 in rolling stock. Is it reasonable to assume that
a railroad would jeopardize the safety of that great capital investment to save
$2.75, the wage of an extra brakeman ? Would it risk the loss of $100,000 worth
of property to save $2.75? .....
Second The railroads know that, to reach full earning capacity and to get
from their equipment and roadway greatest possible service, all trains must be
manned with enough men to enable them to do their work and make their trips
in the least possible time.
Public Inconvenienced
Suppose, for example, the Lackawanna Limited left New York for Buffalo
with four cars. Suppose it arrived at Stroudsburg and there it became necessary
to put on a fifth car to accommodate unexpected traffic. Under the Full Crew
Laws this could be done only after an extra brakeman had been brought from a
division point, or the Stroudsburg passengers would have to stand in crowded
cars until the train reached Scranton. Should the public be so inconvenienced ?
Why Laws Should Be Repealed
The railroads now as always intend to man every freight and passenger
train to the full requirements of safety and operating efficiency. They intend
to do all within their power to expedite traffic and promote public conven
ience. They desire to give that absolute safety, efficiency and service to which
the people are entitled.
There is no purpose to lay off men whose services are necessary to ade
quately man trains ; the object is merely to eliminate men for whom there
is no real necessity and for whom jobs exist only by edict of law.
Legislation that hampers railroad service, safety and efficiency by expend
ing money which should be used to increase the safety, the welfare and the con
venience of the public is unfair to the people.
SAMUEL REA, DANIEL WILLARD,
President, Pennsylvania Railroad. President, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
THEODORE VOORHEES,
President, Philadelphia and Reading Railway.
R. L. O'DONNEL, Chairman,
Executive (Committee, Associated Railroads of Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
121 Commercial Trust Building, Philadelphia.
least attention is paid even after
warning has been given. It is
this: to slip your hand under a
hen while the chicks are still wet
is to kill every one that was ex
posed for just a fraction of a sec
ond to cold air. Every one of
them will die inside of ten days.
They cannot help but die. The
temperature under the hen is 103
degrees. If the outside tempera
ture is 53, it means that the deli
cate little things were shocked
beyond recovery by the sudden
exposure to a drop of 50 degrees.
Every one so exposed will die of
bowel trouble before it is two
weeks old. Let the hen alone.
You cannot do anything to assist
her at the time eggs are chip
ping. Better far better let
her bring off what come into this
world without your help, for any
attempt on your part to break
shells, &c, onlyresultsin the loss
of several times the number that
would have died had you let them
alone until the hen's instinct told
her to uncover them. Of course
you have noticed that the hen
that steals her nest invariably
raises more chicks than the one
that you helped. If you have
trouble with little chickens dying
at the age of from one to two
weeks, make note of the flocks
so dying and see if they were the
ones you took a peep at before
they were dry and on their feet
Another fatal mistake, one that
causes bowel trouble and death,
is to feed litt'e chickens or any
young poultry for from a day
and a half to two days after the
last one escaped from the shell.
Place clean water before them as
soon as they seem to want to
stir from under the hen, but give
them no feed. Why? Because
Nature so arranged that just be
fore a chick pierces the shell, the
yolk of the egg is absorbed by
the chick, and all of its little in
sides are filled with rich food al
most equal in weight to the chick
Can you wonder then, that bow
el trouble follows when the igno
rant things are permitted to stuff
extra food into their stomachs?
Note how long a hen will sit on
her brood, if left alone, before
attempting to lead them to food.
Steel your nerves to let hens
alone for a day or two after chicks
are hatched if you wish to raise
more, and stronger, chickens.
Subscribe tor the "Newa"
only f 1.00 a year.
"Ben" Focht's Batting Average.
From the Hurrlsburg Stur-Independeut.
"Ben'1 K. Focht,of Lewisburg,
Congressman elect from the Sev
enteeth or Shoestring district,
was in the city this week attend
ing a meeting of the State Water
Supply Commission. There are
eight couuties in Mr. Focht's
district, and be traveled all of
them durmg his campaign doing
some of his traveling on foot He
wore out three pairs of shoes and
reduced his weight considerably,
but he is none the less jolly for
that
"I believe my batting average
in the political game is about as
good, it not better, than that o'
any other candidate for office in
the state," said Mr. Focht "1
have been a candidate twenty one
times and have nineteen wins to
my credit twenty otie times at
bat and nineteen hits."
This is an average of 949, or far
greater even than Ty Cobb or
Hans Wagner. Having signed
up to play in the Congressional
League for the next two years,
Mr. Focht has already announced
his intention of going to the bat
in 1916.
KN0BSV1LLK.
Mr 8. Ella Bradnick has com
pleted a rug that weighs fourteen
pounds, and measures seventeen
feet in circumference. What do
you think of it?
A "rug-rag" party met at Mrs
Campbell's a few evenings ago to
sew rug rags.
Since surprise parties are fash
ionable, Mrs. Ethel Mellott en
gineered one for her mother, Mrs
John Long. Accordingly, a quilt
ing party was arranged, and the
follo'virg friends brought their
thimbles; Mrs. John Foreman
and little daughter, Mrs. Earl
Long, Mrs. Harrison Gutsball,
Mrs. Edith Regi, Mrs. Ellie Brad
nick, Mrs. Mary J. Campbell,
Mrs. P. Mellott and two little
sons, and all had a good time and
good dinner.
A horse belonging to Bert
Sipes, of Taylor township, and
for which he was recently of
fered a big price, choked on hay
last Friday evening, and died the
next morning. While the animal
was struggling on Saturday morn
ing, it hit Mr. Sipes on the ankle j
with its foot with the result that i
that gentleman is now walking
with a limp, j
NEED-MORE.
Wonder what has happened to
the Needmore scribe? Has he,
or she, housed tip like the ground
hog and forgot to come forth
again.
O W. Plessinger and wife were
Sunday visitors at the former's
uncle A. P. Garland.
Squire T. K. Downes was made
happy on Valentine day by know
ing that he could be called 'Papa'
Tommy, which name sounds
tetter "Squire" or "Papa."
Our Literary Society met on
last Friday evening and debated
on the question Resolved; That
the statesman has done more for
bis country than the soldier.
The judges of debate decided two
for the affirmative and one for
the negative. Next debate on
Wednesday evening Feb. 24th
with following question, Resolv
ed, That law has more influence
over man for good and bad, than
anger
H. E Wink has moved his taw
mill to Remmie Sharp's.
Quite a number of persona are
passing through our little village
hauling cross ties to Hancock.
Our Calathumpian Band gath
ered up their bells, tin cans horns
and other noisy instruments for
the purpose of giving Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Duvall some music
last Wednesday evening. Won
der who the next couple will be
that will be favored by the same
music.
John E. Mellott went to Fos
toria, Ohio, last Saturday where
he has employment for the sum
mer.
Erra Clevenger of Hustontown
has been helping his brother-in
law, Job P. Garland on the saw
mill the past ween.
The article in last week's pa
per headed "Compulsory atten
dance" ought to be of seme value
to the citizens of Belfast town
ship. The Needmore Band is pro
gressing mceJy under the leader
ship of Floyd Hart.
John C. Keebaugh, the hustler
on Postmaster Woollet's farm
near Fort Littleton, informs us
that the fire in his limekiln has
not been out since it was started
last fall a year ago, and that his
average burn is about 325 bush
els per week. He has put more
than 2,000 bushels on the Woollet
farm since starting the kiln.
Now for the clover,