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VOLUME 16
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., MAY 6,1915.
NUMBER 33
JUDGE McCLEAN, DEAD.
Presided Over the Courts of Fulton
County Twenty Years. Practiced
Law Sixty Years.
William McClean, for twenty
years president judge of the court
of Adams and Fulton counties
died at his home in Gettysburg
on Friday morning of last week,
after a brief illness of bronchial
pneumonia.
Judge McClean was the son of
Moses McClean, a former lawyer
in Gettysburg. He graduated
rom Washington and Jefferson
College and the law department
of Harvard University.
He was admitted to the Adams
county bar in 1854. In 1873 he
served as a member of the con
stitutional convention and in 1874
elected president judge of the
Adam3-Fulton district. Although
nearly 83 years old, Judge Mc
Clean maintained remarkable
health and continued his law
practice until about a week ago.
He was in recent years associa
ted with his son, William Arch
McClean, editor of the Gettys
burg Compiler, in the law firm of
McClean & McClean. He wa3 a
member of the Memorial Church
of the Prince of peace and was a
past grand commander of Good
Samaritan Lodge, Free and Ac
cepted Masons, Gettysburg. He
was Democratic candidate for
congress in 1902.
He was one of the citizens of
Gettysburg who was present
when President Lincoln made his
immortal , Address at the dedica
tion of the National Cemetery,
and attended services in the Pres
byterian Church immediately fol
lowing the exercises at the ceme
tery. He wa3 one of the four
men who, as eyewitnesses of the
historic scenes, made addresses
at the fiftieth anniversary of the
dedication of the cemetery.
As a Judge, he wa3 very popu
lar in Fulton County and was
considered by every one a
"splendid little gentleman."
Who Das Lived Here the Longest?
We would like to know who
has lived longest in Fulton coun
ty. Write us a letter, if you are
an old resident, and tell us some
facts about your early days. We
will publish the letters from the
oldest residents. We wish to se
cure as many interesting facts as
possible. The publication of one
incident will remind other old
timers of other incidents; so let
the letters come.
To the person showing the
longest continuous residence in
the county, absence of less than
one year, or service in the army
or navy not counted against the
pioneer, we will send the Fulton
County News free for the re
mainder of his or her life. To
the second oldest pioneer we will
send the paper for five years free
and to the third, one year free.
Railroad News.'
We do not expect much news
from the railroad before another
meeting of the board of directors
is held. Details of a tedious na
ture must be gone over in all
such cases, and it requires time.
Visiting contractors, and visiting
manufacturers of rails and other
necessary material must all be
heard: bonds of various kinds
must be secured, signed, examin
ed and accepted or rejected-,all
of which requires time.
Board of Health Acts.
Last fall, a decree was entered
against the McConnellsburg Wa
ter Company by Commissioner
of Health, Samuel G. Dixon, re
Quiring said water company" to
make certain permanent improve
ments at the source of supply.
These improvements have not
Wn made. Our local board of
health met on May 3rd and draft
ed resolutions urging Dr. Dixon
immediately enforce the,order
against the water company.
Subscribe tor the
$i,oo a yer,
'New i
Good Roads Day Set. (
Governor Brumbaugh ha3 se
lected May 2Cth as Good Roads
Day for Pennsylvania. On that
day every man in the state will
be expected to do something for
good roads. As has been stated
by the News on several occa
sions, everybody joins the crowd
and helps to put the roads in
good Bhape for the summer. The
women establish camps along the
roads where good meals are
cooked and served to the perspir
ing workers. In this way, chains
of workers repair many miles of
road, and their pay consists in
their being able to travel in com
fort during the balance of the
year. Nor is this all; the fun to
be had would make a barrel of
monkeys look like thirty cents.
There i3 ro time to be lost in
working up the plans for your
section of ror.1. Talk it up on
every occasion, some will bring
horses and wagons, other will
bring picks and shovels any
thing with which to make roads.
In case the ladies wish to do
much cooking, make arrangement
for some old stoves to be set at
intervals along the road; this will
make cooking easier than by the
use of open fires. We must not
let any county beat us making
roads on that day. It is not pos
sible for the Highway Depart
ment to make all the roads; we
must make some of them by this
method, or let them remain bad.
A clause in the Governor's
proclamation is as follows: "That
each and every road supervisor
of the townships of the Common
wealth is in duty and good con
science obligated to give this
project his cordial support and to
call upon the men over whom he
has control to do the same.
Judge Buckley Burt.
On Wednesday afternoon of
last week, ex-Judge S. L Buck
ley, of Fort Littleton, was sitting
on a chair on his porch with his
feet raised against a post In
some manner, the rear feet of
the chair slipped over the end
of the porch and the Judge fell
backward a distance of four feet
and struck his head against a
stone wall and injured his right
shoulder so that his arm hung
limp at his side. He was taken
to the Chambersburg hospital
that evening where the X-ray
revealed no broken, nor displaced,
bones; but the shock to nerves
seemed to have paralyzed the
muscles from the shoulder to the
elbow. He is receiving treat
ment to restore the use of that
member.
Auto Clubs to Work Roads.
Since Governor Brumbaugh's
proclamation making May 26th
Good Roads Day, auto clubs have
been arranging to cooperate with
the local supervisors to make May
2Gth a memorable day all over
the State. We have heard of
many clubs that will go to work
at once to provide funds for the
purchase of material for making
roads. Some men are not able
to leave their business to work on
the roads, and they will contrib
ute cash, or pay deserving la
boring men a day's wages to go
in their stead. It is thought that
every owner of autos will be a
booster. Last year, Washington
county men and women turned
out and made $12,000 worth of
repairs in one day, and this year
they expect to do more.
, High School Play.
One of the most pleasing events
of the season will be the High
School play to be given in the
Auditorium next Wednesday even
ing. The play has a cast of sev
enteen characters, is called "A
College Town," and will occupy
about two hours. It will be in
tensely interesting from start to
finish, and is well deserving a big
house. Don't miss it. Admis
sion 25 cents. Tickets may be
had at Trout's Drug Store any
time after 9 o'clock, Wednesday
morning.
IleUott Bills.
In addition to the Bridge Bill
introduced by Hon. Geo. B. Mel
lott at this session of the Gener
al Assembly, and mentioned in
the News recently, he has three
other bills pending. Oneofthem
is to create a State road from
Webster Mills, by way of Big
Cove Tannery, and Plum Run, to
the Maryland line. Another bill
is to extend the State road that
is to run from the Maryland line
to Hustontown. Thi3 extension
is to begin at Hustontown and
go by way of Clear Ridge into
Huntingdon county by way of
Maddensville and Three Springs.
Another bill is known as the
Pension Bill. It is an act to pro
vide for the pensioning of sol
diers and marines who served in
the army of the United States
from Pennsylvania in the Civil
War of 1861 to 1863 fixing the
rate of said pensions the manner
of maintaining the same and
making an appropriation for the
payment thereof. To those who
served one year or less, $5.00 per
month; from one to two years
$6.00; and to those who served
more than two years $7.00 per
month shall be paid.
The sum proposed for appro
priation to meet requirements is
$1,900,000 or so much thereof as
may be necessary is specifically
appropriated for the purpose of
paying the pensions created here
by for the five quarterly pay
ments for the two fiscal years be
ginning June 1, 1915.
Birthday, Number 24.
Cloyd Stenger's friends cele
brated his 21th birth-lay on Fri
day evening, April 23rd, some
fine music being the chief feature
of the evening; but in addition,
there were some nice gifts left.
The merrymakers were; Cloyd
Stenger, wife, and children: Mr.
and Mrs. Clevenger and children
Luther Gordon and wife; Joseph
Sowers and wife; Luther Black
wife, and daughter; James Fry
man and wife, William Fix, wife
and daughter; John O. Hann and
family; Lewis Crouse and fami
ly; Charley Stenger and family;
WnvButerbaugh and wife; Mrs.
Nettie Truax and Ethel; Mrs.
Mahlon Cline, Paul and Irene;
Mrs. John, Stenger, Frank and
Mildred, Elmer Truax; Mr. Bar
ton, and sons Blair and Warren;
Hazel McQuade, Wm. Youse and
wife; Mr. and Mrs. Souders and
family; Mrs. Andrew Lamberson
Mrs. Geo. Magsam and Mary,
and Miss Annie Shoemaker.
Some Colt.
David Maun, of Ayr township,
has a colt 30 years old, at least
it is a colt in spirit, and activity.
This handsome black is treated
with respect, on account of age,
and is not called upon to go ev
ery day. Consequently, when it
is led out and hitched to a light
machine for a short trip, the
black feels called upon to exhib
it old-time style to the younger,
and less polished, generation of
impudent up-starts. Like many
other old fellows, his legs cannot
move in sympathy with his idea
of speed, and the results are
sometimes laughable. His very
latest stunt was to try to walk
on his hind legs while being driv
en to town last Friday, and he
made a little job for the saddler
of repairing several broken parts
of harness.
Our Neigl bor Huntingdon.
Huntingdon county farmers
have been holding meetings to
take counsel of each other con
cerning plans to secure an agent
of the State Experiment Station
for that county. In this respect,
they are ahead of us. But just
wait until we get through build
ing railroads then lookout 1
Huntingdon county fanners
and those of this county have
many problems in common, sofar
as similarity of soils is concern
ed and some parts of that county
are as far from railroads as we
are. If "Bob" Seeds is still liv
ing and as enthusiastic about hil
ly farms as he once was, these
meetings will afford, him pleasure
Bob said that he never did like to
live in the West because the high
winds traded soils at least once a
year for the owners.
f . F. HUGHES' LETTER.
Would Arouse Greater Interest in the
Study of the Natural Sciences
Especially Botany.
"He Is hoppiost who hath power
To gather wisdom from a flower
And make his heart la every hour
To pleasant gratitude."
WOIIDS WORTH.
To my Fulton County Botany
Class.
My dear Friends: In occa
sionally sending these bits of
prosaic prose, with here and there
a spice of borrowed poetry, to the
genial editor of the News, for
him to pass along to you, it is
with the pleasing thought in
mind that there are in my native
county a multitude of girls and
boys, and of older persons, too,
who would not only be pleased at
knowing, but whose strong de
sire is to know, at least by name,
many individuals of that vast
host of wild plants Trees,
Shrubs, and the humbler herbs
or "flowers" that greet them on
every side, season after season,
year by year. You are not start
tied that I credit you with the
very laudable ambition for knowl
edge of the immense Vegetable
world, when you consider what a
wonder world it must necessarily
be. Simply to remind you that
our own existence, with that of
all other animals is absolutely
dependent upon it, is sufficient to
make us all, (if we are wise peo
ple), willing to be instructed in a
Kingdom of Nature of so vital
importance to us.
I do not blame you if you shrink
from poring over text-books on
Grammar, from which you never
ler.rn to "Speak or write the En
glish language with propriety;"
or arithmetic, which, after you
pass the first few pages of "fun
damentals," are choked to more
than satiety with problems whose
chief merit is that they are time
wasting and impracticable; or,
Geography, that is little more
than the bounding of States and
Counties, the location of lakes,
bays, capes, cities and towns, or
the description of the meander
ing of some African river which
is supposed somewhere along its
course, to be the life-giving
stream to the territory of a re
cently discovered race of Hot
tentots. The curricula of most
of our schools, public especially,
need heroic readjustment On
the whole there is too little Nat
ural Science taught too much of
the abstract, too little of the con
crete. We are learning that chil
dren need for the best of reasons
more of that sort of instruction
which is best given and best re
ceived out of doors, amid health
ful surroundings. You live in the
country, and should be glad of it.
You may browse ad libitum, in
Nature's garden, the choicest
specimens ever at your command,
with no one mean enough to mo
lest or make you afraid. Con
trast your condition with that of
the ordinary city-dweller. Here
we are most of the time bottled
up in an atmosphere of mal-odor-ous
alcohol as it undergoes fer
mentation in thousands of human
stomachs; also constantly breath
ing the poisonous fumes of to
bacco, proceeding from the nasal
chimneys of untold numbers of
those who think themselves hon
orable men and the multitudes
of boys of all ages to whom they
set the pernicious example.
(Would Woman Suffrage destroy
this iniquity?) You have an ozone
there that is free from impuri
ties, that maintains and strength
ens your health, and carries you
forward in easy physical well
being to triumphant old age.
Your chances are superb if you
but have the desire, and the nec
essary helps in the matter of
books? Let me recommend to
all as a complete guide to every
plant that grows in your region,
Gray's New Manual of Botany,
7th edition; This will cost you in
cloth about $2.25. It contains a
description of all the "Flowering
Plants and Ferns of the Central
and Northeastern United States
Crop and Livestock Report.
The Crop and Livestock Re
port for the month of April, is
sued by L. H. Wible, formerly of
this place, contains interesting in
formation concerning the num
ber of tons of manure produced
annually on farms of the State.
More than seven hundred corres
pondents reported the average
for their respective districts, and
the total is estimated to be 16,
478,000 tons, valued at $1.00 a
ton, or $16,478,000 total value.
Mr. Wible's figures show that
the average number of tons pro
duced annually on Fulton' county
farms is 60, which is also the av
erage for the state. Cumberland
county stands highest with 118
tons to the farm.
A little figuring on our own ac
count shows the following results
A ton of good, fresh stable ma
nure should contain 10 pounds of
nitrogen, 5 pounds of phosphorus
and 10 pounds of potash, which
at normal price should be worth
about $1.67, 25 cents, and 50
cents respectively. Adding all
together, we find that a ton of
manure that has not been per
mitted to leach or evaporate
should be worth $2.42 cents, so
that Mr. Wible's estimate is no
doubt correct, because very little
manure is hauled to the fields be
fore nearly all of the nitrogen
($1.67 worth) has been leached
out.
if the manufacturers of ferti
lizers sold fresh stable manure
by the ton, in bags, they would
be compelled by law to mark the
analysis plainly in figures, and
they would be about i-i-h. This
low showing is offset by the use
of many tons to the acre, 20 tons
of highest trrade manure to the
acre being equal to an application
of i a ton of 10-5-10 commercial
fertilizer. But the great value
of stable manure lies in the hu
mus furnished to the soil, togeth
er with the beneficial results of
mellowing, and the liberation of
natural strength of soil by decay.
Members of G. A. R., Sons of
Veterans, and the Women's Re
lief Corps, are requested to meet
in the Lodge room, next Satur
day evening at 7 o'clock to make
arrangements for Memorial Day
services.
and adjacent Canada." This
book is authority.
Then the following:
Flower Guide!
Wild Flowers East of the Rockies,
by
Chester A. Reed,
With over 200 Flowers in Color.
You can buy this charming lit
tle book at a cost, in cloth, I
think, of 75c. The Introduction
alone is worth the price of the
book, and by means of it (the
book; any one should be able to
make the acquaintance of many
hitherto unknown plants. Get it,
and delight yourself in its use;
and do not forget that, in order
to be friendly and helpful to you
I hereby agree to help you make
sure of the name of any plant
you may send me, gratis.
And now my allotted space is
consumed, without my having
said a word about the early
spring flowers, Blood root,
Spring Beauty, Hepatica,' Early
Saxifrage, Innocence, the Chick
weeds, Lamium, and many oth
ers that have had their brief day
of flowering, and are now hasten
ing to fruitage. So many oth
ers, too, are here, especially the
violets, blue, yellow, and white;
and just now the fruit-tree fami
ly, including the Apples, Pears,
Quinces, Cherries, Peaches, etc.,
etc. Oh!, it is altogether lovely
in town and country now, so,
'Uf ! let us to the fields away
And breathe the fresh and balmy air;
The bird is building In the tree,
The flower has opened to the bee,
Vnd health and peace and love are
there."
with thanks for specimens of
Arbutus, etc., from several, I am
Sincerely yours,
Wm. F. Hughes,
143 N. 8th St., Phila.
AI'KIL HONOR ROLL.
Names of New Subscribers and of Those
Who Dave Renewed During the
Month of April.
The Hancock News, a few
weeks ago, said that subscribers
of the Fulton County News did
little else than watch the label on
their paper, and that he would
like to have our recipe. Now,
Brother Huber, there is nothing
to it, except, that the subscribers
of the News take pleasure in
keeping their subscription paid
up; and no publisher ever had a
clientele of subscribers of which
he had more reason to be proud.
Our subscribers have long since
learned that it is easier to pay a
dollar at a time, and keep right
up, than to let it run, and then
have to "pay for a dead horse."
Look over the list and see who be
long to the big News family.
Mrs. Lydia Aller 2 1 16
Mrs. Barney Eivens 2 1 16
H. H. Bergstresser 1 1 16
Mrs. F. H. Benson 4 9 16
Howard Barnett 9 17 15
W. J. Cline 9 21 15
Mrs. Geo. W. Cooper 4 15 16
Henry Carbaugh 3 26 15
Lee B. Cattlett 6 11 16
J. W. Deshong 1 1 15
Clayton Deshong 4 1 16
Mrs. Nancy Divens 1 1 15
H. W. Decker 10 1 15
Alice Deneen 5 3 15
E. F. Davis 4 12 16
D. E. Eley 5 29 15
Mrs. Elsie Feight 1 2 16
James A. Funk 1 17 16
Wm. A. Fox 4 2 16
Elliott T. Fox 4 2 16
D. W. Fraker . 10 10 15
Geo. Garland 3 8 15
Mrs. Axie Geinger 4 18 16
J. L. Grissinger 1 1 16
C. O. Grissinger 1 1 16
D. L. Grissinger 3 28 15
Geo. W. Glenn 4 1 16
Miss Lib V. Hess 3 1 16
Lemuel Hendershot 4 1 16
James Hoopengardner 2 21 16
Charles D. Ilixson 2 27 16
S. A. Hess 4 2 16
Bessie Helsel 5 8 15
Rufus Harvey 4 1 16
W. W. Hoover 4 21 16
Mrs. E. J. Johnston 2 21 16
Anna C. Johnston 11 10 15
Jacob Jaymes 5 8 15
Jessie M. Keith 4 8 16
A. B. Keefer 3 2 15
Wash Kelso 4 17 16
Maye Lake 1 21 16
Wm. B. Lake 3 21 16
M. E. Mellott 4 1 15
Ralph H. May 3 20 16
Earl Morton 5 15 15
J. R. Morgret 3 2 16
Nathan H. Mellott 1 2 15
J. E. Mellott 4 15 16
Charles H. Mellott 2 1 16
W. A. McNeal 3 1 15
Mrs. W. B. McDowell 3 1 16
L. M. McEldowney 4 1 16
Mias Lydia E. Mills 61715
Oliver Oakman 6 5 15
W. E. Ott 41 16
Mrs. J. H. Owens 4 20 16
Willard Plessinger 4 1 16
A. R. Powell 12 19 15
John S. Powell 3 19 16
Wm. Robinson 12 2 15
C. T. Reed 3 23 16
Mary Rosenberry 5 15 15
Mrs. Bessie S. Stiver 2 20 16
Mrs. Hugh Shoap 8 11 15
N. F. Sharp 4 8 16
Mrs. Elizabeth Sharp 4 21 15
Rev. Geo. M. Shimer 9 21 15
John Secrist 5 16 16
W. L. Stevens 4 22 16
McC. D. Skinner 4 1 16
Allison Sipes 3 20 16
F. D. Skiles 5 4 16
Mrs. J. H. Shimer 4 15 16
Walter Seelar 4 15 16
Mrs. Mary Strait 1 2 16
D. E. Strait 1 9 16
Mavnard Sipes 1 1 15
Stella F. Spade 8 20 15
Miss Myrtle Sipes 4 1 16
Albert Thomas 4 1 16
John Thomas 3 1 16
Wm. Troxell 11 12 14
Geo. W. Tice 4 8 16
James Truax 4 16 16
W. R. Truax , 10 19 15
Mrs. Amanda Unger 3 21 16
I. G. Waters 2 7 16
Mrs. Joseph Wyles 2 1 16
R. H. Witter 3 10 16
W. H. Wagner 4 21 16
Mrs. W. W. Woods 5 22 15
C. B. Weller -5 715
William Wink 9 12 15
A. L. Wible v 11 15 15
Adam West 5 1 16
Ernest Zimmerman 4 29 16
HINTS TO VACATIONISTS.
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by
Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LL D.,
Commissioner of Health.
Nature's siren song is calling
the city dweller. It lures to
mountain, meadow, lake or camp.
The call is universal and all who
are free hasten to answer.
In selecting a place for a sum
mer home or a brief vacation it
is well to observe a few basic pre
cautions and so avoid incurring
illness which may result seriously.
There are thousands of resorts,
cottages and camps where the
defects in sanitation present a
genuine menace. Certain things
should be carefully observed.
The water supply.
The disposal of sewage and
garbage.
The milk supply, particularly
if there are infants oryoung chil
dren. If the water supply comes from
a well, be sure that it is not lo
cated where it will receive under
ground or surface drainage from
a barn-yard or outhouse. It is
essential to boil water taken from
surface streams. Clearness is
no guarantee of purity.
If springs are the source of
supply, care should be taken that
they are not surrounded by habi
tations or other sources of pollu
tion. In small villages or shore
places if the water supplies are
public, diligent inquiry should be
made as to whether the source is
free from sewage contamination.
If the disposal of sewage and
garbage is careless, flies are cer
tain to breed, and unless kitch
ens and dining rooms are care
fully screened there is the possi
bility of typhoid or diarrhoeal in
fection from this source.
With young children, particu
larly infants, the question of a
clean milk supply i3 one of vital
importance. Fresh milk is of lit
tle or no advantage unless it be
clean milk.
Mosquitoes also may prove a
pestiferous nuisance. There is
the possibility of malarial infec
tion in regions where they abound
Failure to give attention to
these essential points of sanita
tion may result in poignant re
grets instead of delightful holi
day memories.
DUBLIN MILLS.
Mrs. Margaret Kesselring who
spent the winter with the lamiJy
o.' her brother Casper Brant has
returned to her home in Huston
town. ..Clarence Hoover, of
Dane, spont Sunday with the
family of his mother, Mrs. Elizi
Hoover, of this place. ..Rev.
Eeidell preached a practical ser
mon on Sunday forenoon at Fair-
view from II. Kings 10:15. . .Al
ice Clevenger, Clara Lyon, and
Paul Kirk, of Pine Grove School,
successfully passed the County
course Examination and have re
ceived diplomas. When it is re
membered that the average, a?e
of these pupils is about thirteen
years, it speaks well both tor.
their industry and that of their
teacher. ..Last Wednesday.
when Elliott Kirk put off a blast
on the -Lamberson hill on the
road being built by the State, a
piece of rock struck him on tho
head cutting his head rather se
verely then bruised his side and
left leg. Had the piece of rock
struck' Mr. Kirk higher upou the
head it would have been a fatal
injury. . . Harvey Uicvonger with
the assistance of Messrs Kirk &
Lamberson ot Hustoutowu re
cently treated bis dwelling to a
coat of fresh paint. . We have
some complaint as to ihe condi
tion of our roads. Many loose
8 tones are on somo of the roads '
and the sido ditches are. tilled up.
No doubt when corn planting is
over the roads will receive the
work that is needed. . . Bernard
Foreman bought a driving horse
last week. ..Harvey Clevenger
and wife visited the family of Dr.
Campbell, of New Grenada, on
Sunday.
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