VOLUME. 17
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., NOVEMBER 25, 1915.
NUMBER 10
TOE GRIM REAPER.
Vt Sketches of the Lives of Per
sons Who Bave Recently
Passed ' Awaj.
Stillwell Palmer.
Stillwell Palmer died at his
jme near Ringwood, Oklahoma,
L'onday evening, November 8,
15, aged 79 years, 6 months,
L-.d 14 days. The funeral servi-
were held at the Glenwood
:urch, conducted by Rev Swartz
L'ter which the remains were
ii to rest in the Glenwood ceme
ry.
The deceased was a son of the
Fijah Palmer, of Belfast town-
dp this county, and was mar
ed to Deborah, daughter of Jon
iJian and Katy Peck, deceased.
Ir. and Mrs. Palmer removed to
Kansas in 1874, known in Kan
y as Grasshopper year. A few
ears ago they fell in with the
;sh to Oklahoma, with the re
,lt that several hundred of acres
: valuable land are now in pos
'3sion of members of the family
;he mother died less than a year
Mr. Palmer is survived by six
Lns and four daughters.
Mrs. Levi Keefer.
Mrs. Levi Keefer died at the
;me of her son Amos, near
"hambersburg, Tuesday, Novem-
er 16, 1915, ot heart failure.
!er son Amos arose early that
homing to build fire, and in pass
jt her bedroom door, found his
-other lying on the floor beside
er bed dead. The funeral was
eld on the Friday following and
:terment was made at Rehoboth
hurch on Timber Ridge, which
urch Mrs. Keefer was a mem-
er. she was a kind ana peace-
.ble neighbor, and will be miss
i by all who knew her. The de
eased was the widow of the late
jevi Keefer, and is survived by
ue following children, namely,
iwis and George near Hancock;
dward, Hying in the Little Cove
imos, near Chambersburg; John-
on. Sharpe, Pa. ; Mrs. Susanna
lenhart, Clyde, t. ; Calvin, Re
public, 0. ; and Will, at Fostoria,
Ohio. v
Mrs. Keefer was aged 74 years
months, and 6 days.
Miss Maude Stitt.
Miss Maude Stitt, a sister, of
Palmers Stitt, of Shade Gap,
::ed Saturday, Nov. 6, at the
Jme of her sister, Mrs. W. A.
iwan, at Altoona, aged about 40
ears. The body was conveyed
aNeelyton where burial took
ace at Pine Grove cemetery the
blowing Monday afternoon at 2
clock. The lady had a host of
lends who are sadly grieved
ver her death.
In Omaha.
A letter received from Hon.
eter Morton states that he and
pis wife arrived safely at the
'me of their son Don in Omaha,
Nebraska, and that they were
ery much pleased with their trip
hough the West Before re
irning home they will visit Mr.
Norton's brother "Mart" at
-teele. North Dakota, whom they
we not seen for more than
Jirty years.
Mrs. miller For Congress.
Mrs. James Monroe Miller
'hose husband is a full cousin of
S. B. Woollett of this place,
md ex-representative of Fourth
ongressional District of Kansas
'as been taken up by the Repub-
can party to succeed her bus
and in Congress and stands a
food chance "of being elected,
to. Miller was born in Hunting
don county not far from the coun
1 line at New Grenada.
His Beginning.
There is a story going the
iunds that when a certain crim-
M was brought before a judge
sentence and asked why he
N a criminal, he replied that
u first offense was when he
'heated an editor out of two
"ear's nuhficriDtion. and that af
inwards, the down-hill road was
Thoughts On Thieves.
Wrlltan tor the Nwn.
I am a very quiet person and
do not have much to say, but a
thought came to me the other
day about thieves and I am just
going to let the world know what
my thoughts were.
I just thought how the people
guard their wordly possessions
from thieves ! They will lock
their granary doors, their cellar
doors, and all the doors that have
anything in that any could pos
sibly get away with; but Oh the
pity of it 1 do they lock the door
of their souls? No; the most of
us just have them wide open that
Satan mind you, Old Black Sa
tan, the very worst thief on the
earth or in hell may just walk
right in and steal the very best
that is in us. He robs us of our
character, our health, our minds
our Strength, and our bodies.
He takes our wealth, spoils our
disposition, and worst of all de
stroys our souls. He even hides
the key to our souls, and some of
us find it, and some of us can
not Oh ! that is the sad part !
Some of us have got so used to
the devil holding the key so he
can steal every little good that
comes into us, that we don't even
hunt for it
Now, whoever may read this
stop and think who is holding
your soul key, you and the Lord,
or the Devil; and if it be the De
vil for the Lord's sake ask God
to be the detective , in helping
you make a search for that miss
ing key, and when you find it
lock the door of the most pre
cious possession your soul and
keep the old Devil, the worst of
thieves, forever banished.
Recent Weddings.
Richard Miller.
Justice of the Peace George M.
Deshong, performed the cere
mony that on Sunday, Novem
ber 14, 1915, made Geo. Ricard
of Erie county, Ohio, and Mrs.
Eliza Jane Miller, of Dublin town
ship, husband and wife.
Bard-Pittman.
Mr. Sherman H. Bard, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bard, and
Miss Goldie Pittman, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Pittman
all of Belfast township, were
married Sunday, November 14,
1915, by Rev. L. Benson, of Hus-
tontown. The ceremony took
place in the home of the groom's
brother, Newton Bard, of Tod
township.
fas at Excelsior Springs.
Mr. Emory Booth, employed in
Altoona, came home a few days
ago to recuperate. Daring the
past three months Mr. Booth has
suffered greatly from rheumatism
and about six weeks ago his phy
sician sent him to Excelsior
Springs, Mo., for treatment and
he has just returned greatly ben
efited. Emory says that some of
the mechanical treatments took
three pounds of perspiration out
of him, and that the twenty-one
treatments reduced his weight
nearly fifty pounds. As he has
over one hundred and seventy
pounds left he is not alarmed
about it
Peach Yellov.s.'
State Zoologist H. A. Surface
states that after having experi
mented for a long time, he has
yet to find a remedy for peach
yellows other than to dig up the
trees roots and all and burn
them. Here is his statement:
"By all persons in" one region
uniting in the agreement to pull
and burn the diseased trees at
once, it can be kept in check."
Fell From a Ladder. ,
While assistisg P. P. Shives to
put up a job of spouting on the
buildings on the Sallie Taggart
farm, Mr. Robert N. Fryman had
the misfortune to have a ladder
turn and throw him to the ground.
He Is considerably injured about
the head and shoulders, but gets
some consolation out of the fact
that "it might have been worse."
Clayton Dcshong's Soybeans.
We had the pleasure of a call
Thursday of last week from Mr.
and Mrs. Clayton Deshong and
their daughter who live five
miles south of Saluvia. Mrl De
shong is the man who furnished
the News with liberal samples
of soybeans for distribution last
spring. He has about fifteen bu
shels of seed this fall, and a good
supply of bean hay. As stated
last spring, everything on the
farm, including the chickens,
seem to prefer bean hay , to any
other' kind. Cattle, hogs, and
horses eat. all of it even the
coarse stems. In addition to
feed value, all who tested the
beans this summer agree that
there is nothing they can grow
that will so quickly furnish an
abundance of material to plough
down torestore humus one of the
greatest needs of our slate and
shale soils. Owing to late plant
ing and the continuous growing
weather this fall, some of the
beans given out by the News did
not ripen before frost; but all
were satisfied that the hay pe
riod (blooming time) comes early
enough to cure the hay.
Deer.
Deer season opens in Pennsyl
vania next Wednesday. Each
hunter may kill one deer during
the season that closes on Decem
ber 15th that is, if he can. Ful
ton county is rapidly becoming
the hunting grounds for hundred
of men from counties west of us.
There may be twenty-five deer
in the county; but we have not
heard of half that number. If
as many men from outside the
county come to hunt deer as came
during the first week of the tur
key season, and these be added
to the native hunters who will be
out the first day, there will be
one deer to every forty men. It
is during the deereeason that
most accidents occur. Hunters
do not always wait to see the
horns of a deer as required by
law, and they bang at moving
objects and hit a man. We con
gratulate the hunters of Fulton
county for the few accidents that
occur in our woods each season.
The one -reported last fall is said
to have been caused by a man
shooting buckshot somethi ng
strictly forbidden by law.
Garlic for Sores.
With tens of thousands of
wounded soldiers to be treated
on the European battlefields and
consequently, enormous quanti
ties of disinfectants needed, nurs
es and doctors are using every
thing known to be useful. Some
body remembered an old fashion
ed remedy made of crushed gar
lic made into poultices, or the
juice extracted and used to
wash wounds, and a few trials
proved that it was one of the
cheapest and at the same time,
one of the best remedies . to be
found, and it is gaid that tons of
garlic are now being eagerly
bought and prepared for use in
the armies.
Sparrows Must Co.
Chambersburg Bird Club has
decided that the English spar
rows must go. During summer
they drive away native birds that
formerly nested in town, and in
the winter time they devour all
the food placed fora few native
birds that happen to remain.' If
we understand the English spar
row problem, our Chambersburg
friends will find that for every
sparrow destroyed ' this winter
eleventeen will come to the fu
eral and remain to occupy the
boxes at the theater of opera
tions. ' .
We know a 'man who, in
stead of allowing junk dealers to
carry awav for a few cents all
the metal, from wornout farm ma
chinery, saves it carefully on a
pile and in the course of a year
he makes more than a hundred
times as much out of it by find
ing "just what he 'rwa3 looking
for" to finish some odd job.
THE WEAKEST LINK.
Little Talks on Health and fljgicne by
Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LL D.,
Commissioner of Health.
Do you know which is the
weakest link in your chain of
life? Is it heart, lungs, diges
tion or nerves? Which of the
various functions of the body
seems to threaten trouble.
The chances are that unless
you have a through physical ex
amination you could not tell, for
symptoms are misleading and of
tentimes their manifestation is
general or sympathetically indi
cates the trouble is located in
some other organ than the one
which is the actual seat of the
trouble.
If there is a knock in the en
gine of your automobile you are
the first to desire an over-hauling
to rectify the trouble. You
know if a mechanical defect of
this sort continues it is going to
multiply the trouble before long
and that is just what happens
with the human mechanism.
It is well known by the medi
cal profession that those suffer
ing from organic complaints may
often through vigorous adherence
to certain rational methods of
living, recover sufficiently to" live
long and useful lives while those
suffering from functional disor
ders may, by following out the
instructions of able medical men
entirely recover their health.
Everyone suffering with a per
sistent cold, headache or pains,
should consult a good physician
and to submit themselves to a
thorough physical examination.
It would be well for every one to
be examined once a year. This
should include an examination of
the blood-vessels, blood, heart
lungs, kidneys, a consideration
of weight in regard to height
and the general activities of the
various organs. '
Such an examination superfi
cially made is of no value. It
should be thorough and the dai
ly routine and habits of the in
dividual carefully considered in
relation to his physical condition.
Men ordinarily are obliged to
submit to a medical examination
now and then when they take
out life insurance. Women are
not so often insured and hence
under ordinary circumstances are
more apt to neglect physical ex
amination. It is equally essen
tial to both.
Program.
The program of the local C. L.
S. C, for their first meeting in
December is
Roll Call-Current Events.
The influence of the fur trade
on the western settlement Mrs.
J. L. Grove.
Review of "Astoria" Irving
Harriet Sloan.
' Lewis and Clark Expedition
Prof. Smith.
Marcus Whitman Mrs. H. L.
McKibbin.
American social characteristics
Mrs. B. Frank Henry.
Debate -Resolved, that armies
are the real promoters of peace
Affirmative, Rev. Yearick, Prof.
Smith, Negative, Rev. Peterman
Dr. Mosser.
Piano Solo Miss Reisner.
More Fulton County Cora. . v
I have in my possession an ear
of corn which contains 22 rows of
kernels with an average of 55
grains to the row, making a to
tal of 1210 grains on the ear.
The corn was presented to me
by Emmanuel T. Mills, one of
Bethel township's tillers of the
soil. Mr. Mills resides on the
farm which my husband bought
about two years ago, and which
was formerly known as the "Ma
jor Chesnut Farm." Mrs. (Wil
lard A. Litton. '
In order to get the paper1 out
this week a day in advance of the
usual time we had to use a little
'.'shortening" in the articles pub
lished; but weTiope they will not
seem "crusty." We wanted to
enjoy Thanksgiving Day, too.
Lime Vs. Potash.'
Potash used for fertilizing pur
poses costs six times as much as
it did before the German supply
was cut off by i the war. Farm
ers are not able to pay such pric
es, and the result i3 that land
must go without it But there
is a way to get around the diffi
culty. In all soils that have be
come poor, there is more or less
native potash "locked up," that
is, conditions have reached a
point where this is not available.
A few months ago the News
pointed out this fact and told
how lime liberates the potash
and better crops follow. But so
many abuse' the land after the
application of lime that they had
better let it alone until the land
fall into the hands of those who
will follow the lime with proper
treatment The very fact that
lime is not a fertilizer, and that
things always grow better after
lime has been used, should teach
that the crops taken off rob the
soil and soon leave it in a worse
condition than before. But there
liming is followed by returning
to the soil heavy sods (not the
ones mowed to death first) the
land will be built up. But lim
ing and then robbing until land
fails to produce, then lime again
to liberate more native fertility,
is what has brought so much
eastern land to its present de
plorable condition. Lime, inteli
gently used, will tide over the
present potash troubles.
SALUVIA
Latest word from Chas. Maori,
of St, Cloud, Fla., who has been
lymg seriously ill of a dangerous
fever, for the past six weeks,
states that be is a little better.
Casper Brant, of near Laidig,
19 very poorly with cancer of the
liver.
Mrs. Lydia Minnick suffers
very much atr times and is now
quite poorly with cancer.
A goodly portion of the Ladies
Aid Society, of Asbury M. E.
Church, had an enjoyable outing
and got a good sniff of mountain
air, on last Saturday afternoon,
going over ' o Everett to hold
their usual services with Mrs.
Dora Schooley. Mr. and Mrs.
Schooley gave them a warm re
ception, and provided a fine sup
per. After partaking of the
good things they started home
ward where they arrived without
a single mishap about 6 p. m
Rev. E. J. Croft, Edward R Hen
dershot, and Miss Marie Ilann,
with Origin Mellott assisting,
kindly conveyed them over with
their automobiles, of course
they too bad a part of the good
supper. The following named
aiders were in the party. Mrs.
John Mumma and daughter Ju
lia, Mrs. W. E. Bair and son Max
Mrs. Edwin Deshong and daugh
ter Thelma. and niece, Mrs. Esta
Ddshong, Mrs. ii. F. Mellott and
daughter Alda, Mrs. Ii. R. Hann
and daughter Pauline, Mrs. II.
M. Strait, Mrs Fernando Deck
er. Revival services have been an
nounced at Siloam M. E. church
beginning Sat. Nov. 27th, at 7:30
p. m. and continuing nightly as
long as any interest may be mani
tested.
Quarterly Conference will be
held at said church, on Nov. 30lh
10:30 a. m , Dr, Fasick of Car
lisle is coming the first night and
will preach at these services un
til after conference. A general
hearty invitation has been extend
ed to all to attend these services.
Eggs at One Cent Each.
With eggs selling for 34 cents
a dozen in McConnellsburg, it
reminds us to again call attention
to the ideal soil conditions on our
sunny slate hillsides for raising
healthy poultry, and that . eggs
can be produced the year round
for one cent each if our hit-and-miss
ideas could be forever aban
doned and some of thesimple in
structions practiced as a substi
tute.
Subsciber for the "Newt1
fl.00ayer, '
oily
Objects of Charity.
Space and copies of his paper
go to make up the newspaper
man's entire stock in trade. For
these two are all that he has
to offer for sale to the public,
and no one has yet given any
sort of satisfactory reasons why
he should ever be asked by any
one to donate them.
One thing newspaper people
will never be able to understand
is why any person will walk into
a newspaper office and make him
self or herself an object of chari
ty and insist upon what they
would disdain to ask for in any
other shop or place of business
in the town. The principal is
the same in the newspaper office
as in dry goods store, the gro
cery, the drug store, and what
a great many people need is to
recognize it as the same and get
off the newspaper list.
Advertising space in the news
paper is for sale, not to give a
way. It has a certain value in
itself that makes it wortl mon
ey. Copies of the newspaper are
for sale not to give away. If
they are worth having, they are
worth exceedingly small price is
asked for them.
The public, or at least a large
portion of it, has some very er
roneous ideas about these mat
ters, and it is but just to the
newspaper folk that their ideas
be corrected in accordance with
the same business principles that
prevail in all other business es
tablishments. In a vast majority of cases this
generous charity on the part of
the newspapers is blissfully ta
ken for granted, and the paper's
liberality is abused. That which
i3 purejy a favor is accepted as a
matter of course, and what
should be requests are couched
as demands.
When the courtesy has been
performed there is rarely appre
ciation and more often dissatis
factiongenerally silence.
The result in many other towns
and cities is that a ban has been
put upon all free publicity, no
matter what its object In these
cities such favors as the press
bestows are properly appreciated
and valued. The Fourth Estate.
In Memoriam.
Whereas, The Aid Society of
the M. E. church of Green Hill,
has been called upon to mourn
the loss of one of its esteemed
friends and co-workers, Mrs. Ma
hala Deshong, and
Whereas, Throughout her as
sociation with the Aid Society
and the M. E. church, she has
proven herself an earnest and en
ergetic worker, her upright Chris
tian character and patient dispo
sition made her loved by her as
sociates, and her memory will be
cherished with deep affection:
Resolved, That while we bow
in submission to the Divine Will,
we unite in -.paying a deserved
tribute to one of the best and
most loved friends of the Aid
Society:
Resolved, That we extend to
the members of the family and
kindred our profound sympathy
in this their time of grief and be
reavement: Resolved, That a copy of
these resolutions be spread upon
our minutes and a copy be sent
to the sorrowing family.
' , Nancy Decker,
Maye Bair,
Alice Strait.
Who's Doing It? .
A. R. Mock and R. 0. Mock,
who . live near Burnt Cabins,
found two dead does last Friday
about a mile south of Burnt Cab
ins in Aughwick Valley. Both
deer had been shot just back of
the left foreleg with a small ball
and were lying about sixty yds.
apart They were fat young
deer, and from appearance, had
not been dead long. The same
day, L, D. Keebaugh, of Burnt
Cabin3, found a large buck. The
horns and most of the carcass
had been taken.
ABCl'T PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
Snapshots at Their Comings and Goings
Here for a Vacation, or Away
for a Restful Outing:
Mrs. Emma Rexroth is visiting
her niece Mrs. Virginia Beidel
man in Harrisburg.
Mrs. M. R. Shaffner spent sev
eral days during the past week
with relatives in Waynesboro.
Mrs. H. B. Trout and Mrs. D.
F. Trout are visiting Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Mayes, at Red Lion.
Harry Wagner, son of Paul
Wagner, came home Saturday
after an absence of seven years.
Mr. George Fox and bride, of
Kansas, are visiting the former's
aunts, Mr3. H. B. Trout and Mrs.
Harvey Cooper.
Mr. and Mrs. George McKibbin,
of Hancock, are visiting in the
home of their daughter, Mrs.
Geo. A. Harris.
Miss Emily Greathead and her
sister-in-law, Mrs. W. H. Great
head, spent a' day shopping in
Chambersburg last week.
George Fox and family, of
Franklin county, visited friends
and relatives in McConnellsburg
last Saturday and Sunday.
Jonathan P. Peck and daugh
ter Miss Blanche, Chambersburg
R. R. 7, autoed to their farm
near Knobsville last Saturday
and returned same day.
George K. Nelson, of Newville
Cumberland county, spent the
time from Friday evening until
Monday morning in the home of
his parents, Hon. and Mrs. D.
A. Nelson in Ayr township.
Mrs. T. H. Walker and son
William Sloan, of Franklin coun
ty, spent several days during the
past week in the home Mrs. Walk
er's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Sloan, West Lincoln Way.
Rev. George Shimer, wife, t.nd
daughter, of Martinsburg, Pa.,
are visiting their relatives
in McConnellsburg and vicinity.
The Reverend preached in the
Methodist church last Sunday
evening.
Let us know the date of your
sale and we will hold it for you
by publishing it in the News
free of charge in our sale regis
ter until day of sale. The News
misses few families in the coun
ty, consequently sales advertised
by U3 have large attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. McCand
lish, and Dr. and Mrs. W. F. '
Sappington, of Hancock, accom
panied by Mrs. Sappington's sis
ter, Miss Kitty Robertson, of
Baltimore, motored to McCon
nellsburg Sunday afternoon and
returned home Sunday evening.
Miss Robertson is spending two
weeks with her sister Mrs. J. C.
Patterson on N. First Street
Prof. H. 0. Wible who, for a
year, has been teaching in
the Huntingdon Reformatory, re
moved his household goods from
his father's farm near Dane last
Monday and sent them to Hunt
ingdon, and next day he and his
family followed. Mr. Wible found
it inconvenient to carry on farm
in Fulton county and teach at
the same time in Huntingdon;
hence the change of residence.
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Sipes, of
Coshocton, Ohio, came east last
Saturday to Bee the latter's moth
er, Mrs. Sarah Deshong who is
very ill at her home in East Ex
tension. Both were former Lick
ing Creek residents, leaving there
and going to Ohio many years
ago. Sometime during last win
ter, Mr. Sipes fell backwards off
a coal tipple fourteen feet and
cut a gash in his head requiring
fourteen stitches to close.
Marshall Logue returned to
McConnellsburg last Saturday af
ter having taken treatment in
Baltimore for a week. If" was
found that an enlargement of the
liver caused pressure on the lung
and stomach. This was relieved
and Marshall will continue the
treatment here; but he will re
main in bed for three weeks, al
though he is much 1 better than
when he went away.