I 0ttf VOLUME 16 McCONNELLSBURG, PA., MAY 20.1915. NUMBER 35 THE GRIM REAPER. Short Sketches of the Lives of Per sons Who Dave Recently Passed Away. Samuel C. Kline. Samuel C. Kline died at his home in Belfast township, Thurs day, May 13, 1915, after a some what protracted illness resulting rom a complication of diseases. The funeral took place last Sun day, the Rev. J. C. Garland con ducting the services, and inter ment was made in the cemetery at the German Baptist church on Pleasant Ridge, of which church Mr. Kline had been a consistent member for a long time. The deceased, a son of Samuel Kline, Sr., was born on the farm now owned by A. W. Deshong in Licking Creek township, and would have rounded out seventy- five years, had his life been spared until next October. He was married to Miss Jane Fohner, who survives, together with the ollowing children, namely, Berkeley H., who owns the home farm; Will, residing near Shady Grove in Franklin county; Samuel in Waynesboro; Floyd, Riley, An nie and, Effie at home, The de- eased has four brothers living T. .Riley, Shady Grove. Franklin county; Harvey in Oklahoma; ames G., Alpha, N. J., and John G., near Saluvia. Mr. Kline was a most excellent citizen and will be missed, not n!y byhis immediate family, but by a "large circle of other 'riends. Philip Locke. Philip Locke, possibly the old est person in Huntingdon county, died at his home near Shade Gap on May 5, 1915, aged 97 years morlhs and 26 days. He died of extreme old age, apparently without disease or other ailments. He had the use of his mind to the last and was moderately active until he was ninety-five, years of age. Mr. Locke was a farmer all his ife and spent his early life in the same community and perhaps on the same farm. He leaves a nephew, William Locke, aged 84 years. William is still cultivat ing his farm much as he did fifty years ago. Lauver. Carl infant son of Mr. and Mrs Maynard Lauver, of Big Cove Tannery, born on Thursday April 29th and died on Tuesday, May 11th. Funeral services conducted by the Rev. A. Dotterman. Inter ment at Union cemetery. Swords, Versus Pruning Books. Shortly after the opening of the European-war, all of our arms and ammunition factories were deluged with orders from that country. That the orders might be filled promptly, these factor ies called upon manufacturers of other goods to use their machin ery to do such work on gun mak ing a3 might be done in their shops. For instance; over at Waynesboro, the Landi3 Tool Company that makes automatic grinding machinery, was asked by the Winchester Arms Com pany to take their rifle barrels in tho rough and grind them to size. Hundreds of other factor ies were pressed into service to make, or to finish, some part of gun. The Disston Saw Works, sear Philadelphia, has been call ed upon by European nations to make swords and bayonets along with the manufacture of its in struments of peaceful industry, h the latter instance! the biblic al 'beat the sword into a prun lng hook" has been reversed,, atd many a piece of fine Bteel 'hat should have gone into a pining saw is now being beaten '"to a sword with which to reach 6 vitals of some poor fellows ho have probably, left their own Pruning hooks far back on the f'opes with "the old folks at Home," "AULD ACQUAINTANCE." Bits of News and Gossip Extracted from the Letters from Oar Distant Subscribers. Lewis Clark, South Glaston bury, Conn., sent us a dollar a few days ago, and the Fulton County News will keep him in touch with the doings of his home county during the next year. Willard Plessinger, Julesburg, Colo., gets a big dollars worth of satisfaction out of the News ev ery week. He says he is glad we are, at last, getting a railroad "the real thing." He says they have had a nice winter, and the summer weather since is ideal. Colorado has been having good crops right along, and the pros pects ani fine for a bumper this year. "Sun in-Colorado is THE place, in my estimation, "says he and I think k wouid be for a lot more of my Fulton County friends, if they were only to see it" A recent letter from Rev. S. B. Houston, formerly pastor of the Associate Presbyterian church in Ayr township, states that he ha3 removed from North Topeka, Kansas, and taken work as pas tor of the Reformed Presbyterian church in Connellsville, Pa. The Thompson-EIIenberger Nuptials. Announcement of the marriage of Miss Nell Gertrude Thompson, of Tyrone, and Dr. J. W. Earl Ellenberger, of Wilkinsburg, Pa. ha3 been made by the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Thompson. The ceremony was performed Wednesday afternoon, the 12th inst in Sunbury, Rev. John Henry Daugherty, pastor of St John's Methodist. Episco pal church in that place, as well as a former pastor of the con tracting parties, reading the ser vice. After a brief honeymoon trip to eastern points of interest Dr. and Mrs. Ellenberger will be at home to their friends at 813 Wood street, Wilkinsburg, Pa. The bride is a graduate and postgraduate of the Tyrone High School, and since her graduation therefrom has been associate edi tor of the Tyrone Times, of which paper her father is editor and publisher. Dr. Ellenberger is a graduate of the Tyrone High School and of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Following his graduation from the latter place, he served one year a resident physician in the Allegheny Gen eral Hospital, Pittsburgh. He then located in Altoona, and be came established in a nice prac tice, which he surrendered to ac cept an offer from the State De partment of Health to become, a member of the Medical Staff at the Cresson Tubercular Sanitar ium, which he accepted, and where he remained for a couple of years. At present he is lo cated in Wilkinsburg, 'where he enjoys a growing private prac tice. He is also a member of the medical staff of the state Tuber cular Dispensary in Pittsburgh. Mr. Dcshong's Soybeans. When Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Deshong, who I've north of Need more, were shopping in town last Saturday, they told us that they had been raising soybeans for two years and that they heartily endorsed all that the News has been saying about the beans. Last year they had two , loads of bean hay; everything on the place, from hogs to horses, pre fer the coarse bean stalks to the choicest timothy. Mr. Deshong said that he had a lot of bean hay from which the chickens had eaten all the leaves. He offered the stalks to cattle and horses and they quit eating other hay to eat the bare bean stalks. He is convinced from trial that there is more nutriment in bean hay than any other kind he can raise, and he is anxious that we urge other Fulton county farmers to plant soybeans. - 1 Subscribe for the News. EARLY MORNING FIRE. H. S. Daniels' Fine .New Dwelling Nar rowly Escapes Total Destroy tion Last Friday Morning. About four o'clock last Friday morning, Mrs. H. Scott Daniels was awakened by smoke in her bedroom in their residence on west Market street McConnells burg, and went down to the kitchen which she found densely filled with smoke, and fire blaz ing in the wainscoting near a cor ner in the room. She called her husband who came at once and the two began a battle with the flames. It seemed for a time they would be successful, but finally they had to call their neighbors, who were yet sleeping. Judge J. W. Hoop was their nearest neighbor, and when the Hoops were aroused, it took but a few minutes to spread the alarm. .Messengers were sent for the hose reel, and in a very short time, a stream of water from the nearest plug was play ing on the fire, and soon had it under control The furniture, carpets and all the other house hold goods possible, were hurried ly set out of doors, but the throw ing of water through tho house, and the handling of the furni ture incident to natural haste, meant much damage. The kitch en, the room3 above the kitchen, and the back part of the main building were practically ruined. We are informed that there is sufficient insurance on the prop erty to cover the loss; but money can not make good the inconve nience, the physical and mental strain that is always incident to an experience like that. Mr. Daniels wa3 completely overcome by smoke before the firemen arrived, and fell to the floor of the kitchen where he was discovered by his wife who as sisted by Miss Sallie Hoop, drag ged his limp body from the burn ing room- Soon afterwards, Mrs. Daniels collapsed from shock, and both are still confined to bed at Judge Hoop's their next door neighbor. Had Narrow Escape. One day last week, while Miss Lolo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Deshong, nearNeedmore was burning caterpillars' nests by burning them with an oil soaked cob fixed on the end of a pole, the oil can exploded with a report that Mr. Deshong said, was as loud as the report of his big twelve-bore gun. Fortunate ly, the can was practically empty and no oil spattered her clothing; otherwise, she would have re ceived perhaps, fatal injuries. Miss Lolo was slightly burned on one arm. The bottom of the can blew out and struck her body The loud report brought the fam ily rushing to the scene. Miss Lolo didn't want the printer to hear about the accident, as peo ple would say she was careless; but she wasn't, for she was ex ercising much care; but well the can exploded despite careful ness, and she wants other young people to know that empty coal oil cans will explode. Hendcrshot Morton. Mr. Lemuel II. Hendershotand Mis3 Bessie L. Morton were quiet ly married at the Lutheran par sonage in Clearspring, Md on Wednesday of last week by Rev. W. K. Diehj, of the Methodist Episcopal church. The bride is a daughter of Judge and Mrs. Morton, McConnellsburg, and one of the County's successful teach ers. The groom is a son of Den ton Ilcndershot, of Bethel town ship and owns a good limestone' farm eight miles west of Hagers town upon which he and his bride will live. Lemuel's sister Stella, who had been keeping house for him, has gone West to make a visit among her relatives and other friefids, after which she will return and make her home with Lemuel and Bessie. NORTH DAKOTA LETTER. Miss Lillian Fleming, Formerly of Clear Ridge, Describes Western Life As She Sees It. A long and interesting letter from Miss Lillian Flemming gives a history of the difficulties met in building the great Northern Pacific railroad, and how that portion of the country through which it passes rapidly developed Our business men have claimed much space this week for adver ing purposes, so on that account we cannot print this part of the letter. Miss Flemming says; "The state is primarily .adapted to wheat culture. Sowing began about April 5th. Rainfall has been too light for successful farming this spring. During the winter, all the houses had storm windows on. In these storm win dows there is a small ventilator in the frame by which fresh air may be admitted by hoisting the inside window and opening the ventilator. They also bank the houses in the fall. Some tack some kind of heavy paper against the house, and then put earth against that Some are banked up to the first windows. When spring comes the storm windows are replaced by screens. "I have not yet learned to like the water in this state. Much of the water here contains alkali, and some of it tastes salty. On the fifth of May, it stormed and snowed all day, froze icicles, and on the morning of the sixth there was some snow on the ground. But it was soon a thing of the prist, the wind soon dried up the mud, and the roads now are in fine condition, and those who have autos are making good use of them. "One day last week, three In dian women drove up, tied their team and came to the schoolhouse door, offering beads for sale. During the winter when the weather was not too severe, I could see horses and cattle turned out on the prairie providing for themselves. They would gather near and around hay and straw stacks also would paw the snow off and eat that coarse grass. This made the chores lighter when a man could have the stock turned outof the barn. Here they do not burn lime, nor use fertilizer the land does not seem to need these things. But I presume when this soil has been cultivated as long as that of Pennsylvania, it may also need some fertilizer. Farmers have a special plow (grass-hopper plow so called) for breaking new land that had been broken for the first time and I could not imagine what they had been doing. "In the early fall I passed a place where there stood an old sod house and sod barn. No one lives in them now as they have nice buildings on the place." Directors Do Not Agree. Knobsville is to have a new school house. The directors of Tod township could not agree on the site. Some of them want to erect the building on the old grounds, while others claim that a new site should be selected with more play ground. M. I. Kast an architect from the De partment of Education at Har risburg was called to this place last Monday. He rnd Dr. Mos ser went to Knobsville, and after viewing the old site, and that of some proposed locations, Mr. Kast expressed his opinion that it would not be wise to place the modern structure on the old grounds. He pointed out to the directors that since the old grounds contained but one-fifth of an acre, it was too small. He tohr the directors that there was no longer any doubt that agricul ture would be made a part of the common school curriculum in the very near future, and that in ad dition to spacious play grounds needed at all schools, ground would be needed for the demon stration of scientific agriculture. HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1915. Commencement Last Wednesday Even' ing in Auditorium Consisted of Splendid Comedy. The McConnellsburg High School class of 1915 began their graduation program on Sunday evening, May 7th, when Rev. A. S. Luring, pastor of the M. E. church, preached the baccalau reate sermon to an appreciative audience in the Auditorium. . The class of five passed suc cessfully the rigid examination and all received exceptionly high marks. . The graduates are; Olive Lodge, Mildred Mock,- Esther Kendall, Dorothy Hamil, and Mac Morton. The class departed from the customary formal graduating exercises and gave a play called "A College Town," instead. They were ably assisted in the play by twelve other pupils of the High School, namely, Lucille Grissinger, Bertha Tritle, Saman tha Mellott, Mildred Hixson, John Maun, Raymond Grissinger, Ross Hamil, Kenneth Glazier, Peter Morton, Guy Reed, Paul Ramsey and Walter Johnston. The play was held last Wednesday even ing before a crowded house. On the following Friday evening the play was repeated. The total amount for tickets sold was $71. The presentation of diplomas by Director Dr. A. D. Dalbey, after the play wa3 over was the only formal feature. Prof. H. P. Barton principal of the schools, informed us that all five passed close examinations, and that each was entitled to nearly perfect marks. For Pure Water and Plenty of It. Mr. C. R. Forbes, of the Di vision of Engineers of the State Board of Health, Harrisburg, Pa., was in McConnellsburg last Mon day and at his direction surneys of the channels leading from the several springs along the moun tain side to the reservoir of the McConnellsburg Water Company were made by engineers F. M. Taylor and son Earl. It is the intention of the State Board of Health to see to it that pipes are laid from these springs to the reservoir; that the springs shall be properly walled to prevent con tamination, and that the surface wash from the highways and hol lows shall no longer be piped in to McConnellsburg and sold for pure water. PerdcwHess. At the parsonage of the Metho dist Episcopal church in this place on Monday, Rev. A. S. Luring united in marriage Miss Sarah Maymie Hess, of Dickeys Mountain, this county, and Mr. John D. Perdew, of Clearville, Bedford county. The bride is a daughter of the late B. F. Hess and his wife Catherine McEl downey Hess, of Thompson town ship, and the groom is a son of the late Jesse and Annie Gordon Perdew, Southampton township, Bedford county. The bride is an excellent young woman, and the groom an industrious young man employed in the Gibbony Planing Mill at Everett in which town Mr. and Mrs. Perdew will go to housekeeping. Civil War Horse Still Survives. The oldest horse that served the country in the War of the Rebellion is still alive, at the age of 53 years, at Horseheads, N. Y. It is owned by P. A. Mcin tosh who is also a veteran of the same war. To prove, his asser tion Mr. Mcintosh shows the government brand on the ani mal's hip, which reads I. C, 1805." Horse and man served in the same regiment Although bent with age, his hair turning gray and his teeth becoming worn j the old warhorse is still able to eat 12 quarts of oats and take his master to town several times a week. It is estimated the ani mal is at least 53 years old. Farmers say the average life of a horse is about 15 years. Railroad News. Hull & Bender informed us that on Tuesday of this week they telegraphed for axes of a certain specification with which to begin the work of clearing the right of way for the McConnells burg and Fort Loudon railway. At the railroad office in tnis place we were told that orders had been received from the contrac tors to put a force of men to work to clear the right of way. Monday of next week is the near est date upon which they can start the men to work after hav ing received the axes and tocls. About a dozen automobiles have been secured to take the board of directors and a delega tion of citizens to Hagerstown next Saturday to inspect the great electric plant at that place. From that point the visitors will go to other points to see the big electric motors at work on' the Hagerstown and Frederick rail road between Frederick and My- erstown where they haul freight cars over an eight per cent grade two per cent greater than at any point on our road. The manage ment informed our reporter that between sixty and seventy men are expected to go from here with the party. They also said that applications for work would be received at the Company's of fice in town. The Snmmer Normal. The summer normal school con ducted by Professors H. P. Bar ton and W. H. Ranck is now in full swing and the usual number of students enrolled with more to come in. The following list shows the names of those al ready enrolled: Ayr Hazel McQuade, Jose phine Gordon, Hazel Garland, Lydia Humbert, Geo. A. Smith and Elia3 Lynch. Belfast-Etta Waltz, Levi Gar land, Webster Mellott Floyd Hart John Morton, Venona Mel lott and Hobart Truax. Bethel Clara Norris, Frances Norris, Gladys Charlton, "and Reed Bishop. Brush Creek Walter Barkman and Roy Plessinger. Dublin Esther Welch, Gert rude Gelvin, Raymond Cromer, and Emma Kerlin. Licking Creek Wilmer Sipes, Wilmer Mason, Thelma Metzler and Daisy Strait McConnellsburg Peter Forner and James Davis. Taylor Ethel Sipes, Lillian, Laidig. Ruth Lyon, Jessie Cut chall, Thad Winegardner and Howard Knepper. Thompson -Pearle Fisher Rose Keefer, Denver Evans and Oli ver Winters. Tod-Rush Wagner and Etta M. Snyder. Union Annie Uhlig, James Stahle and Orben Hebner. Wells -Aramintha Duvall. Local Temperance Sentiment Growing. Last week Rev. Robert E. Pe- terman continued his temperance lectures a meeting was held at Knobsville, and one at Rock Hill school house. As is the custom at these meetings, an opportunity was given the audience to declare their attitude on the temperance question by rising in the presence of their fellow citizens. At Knobsville, 125 so voted, and at Rock Hill over 100 registered in like manner. At the four meet ings recently held, namely at Ci to, Big Cove Tannery, Rockhill and Knobsvile, a total of more than five hundred fifty persons publicly identified themselves with the cause, and in some instances nearly all were men. Owing to quarantine for -foot and mouth disease. Pennsylva nia livestock may not be shipped into Maryland. For this reason many Fulton county farmers who had been selling stock to D. H. Anthony, near Hagerstown, dur ing other years, were disappoint ed this year because they could not sell their stock to him for his big sale in May. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY. Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by Samuel G. Dixon, M. C, LL. D., Commissioner of Health. When in our morning prayer we ask to be spared from sick ness, let us pause to realize that health is often in our own hand3 to keep or fritter away. We are often individually re sponsible for our personal health and in a degree for the health of those about us. In the vast ma jority of instances sickness is the result of indiscretion which is not unconscious though we may not stop to calculate the results. If weknowing by jeopardize our individual health and risk illness on the chance that we will escape "this once," we are putting our selves in the same category with the criminal who risks his free dom each time he breaks the law. Ethically the one is no better than the other. The man who wilfully transgresses Nature's laws by excesses, may have far less self control than one who vi olates the penal code. If each individual member of a community fail to exercise con trol in the matter of his bodily well-being it would be danger ously immoral. If we are to im prove the general health of our Nation it must be thought stimu lating individual citizens to ap preciate their responsibilities. Each man, woman, and child should try and measure what in dividual health means. He should be brought to realize how easily it can slip away never to return. A single violation of a law of Nature may mean death; or, what is worse a lingering illness. We are vigilant in watching our money lest it slip away and leave us impoverished; and yet we are prodigal with our physic al resources, forgetting that the poorest individual is he who has lost his health. Now for Good Roads Day. Next Wednesday will be Good Roads Day for Pennsylvania. Our exchanges are telling of movements by supervisors and others to make a record for their respective counties. McConnells burg citizens have subscribed money, bought oil, and oiled the Lincoln Way through town. Ma ny have expressed a willingness to give a day's work outside of town. We feel sure that the on ly thing needed is for neighbors to agree to hold picnics along the road on that day and devote the time to fixing bad places. It is a busy time with farmers; but if a day's work or half a day's work on the road near home be given, it would save time, money, and vexation during all the remain der of the summer. The scheme is no new one. It is being done in many states, and in some of the counties in this state. We want a report at once from every locality that met and made reads in Fulton county on that day. Discovering Corn Meal. The war in Europe is likely to teach the Europeans the value of corn meal as human food. The demand for it has already boost ed the price of cornintheAmeri- ' can markets, and it is likely to boost it still higher. This is un fortunate for the domestic con sumers of corn bread and boiled mush, but there will be compen sations. After the war i3 over the Europeans having eaten corn will continue to eat it, and the fields of waving corn on the American farms will be trans formed into gold mines. The yellow kernel will glint with the. real luster of wealth. But even though corn meal is. dearer than it was a few weeks ago, it is . still cheaper than wheat flour. Necessity may teach some Ameri cans that they can reduce' the cost of living, even now, by us ing more corn meal. And that will be another form in which the compensation will manifest itself.
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