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VOLUME 17
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., DECEMBER 9 1915.
NUMBER 12
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THE GRIM REAPER.
Short Sketches of the Lives of Per
sons Who Bare Recently
Passed Away.
Mrs. Emma E. Tubbs.
from the Benton (Pa.) Argun.
The death of Mrs. Emma E.
'ubbs, wife of the Rev. Timothy
i. Tubbs, occurred at the home
of her brother, Mr. Thomas Ed
wards near town, on' Wednesday
morning Nov. 23, 1915.
Mrs. Tubbs came from her
home at Salisbury, N. C, three
weeks ago to attend the funeral
of her sister, Mrs. Margaret Eyer
at Berwick, and while visiting
her brother she contracted pneu
monia from which she died.
The deceased was aged C9 yrs.
1 months and 28 days. She is
survived by her husband the
Rev. Timothy H. Tubbs, a mem
ber of the Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the M. E. church,
Ralph, of North Emporia, Va.,
Mrs. Fannie Hess, of Berwick,
Dr. I. L. Edwards, of town, and
Thomas E. Edwards, near town.
The deceased was born at Lime
Ridga, this county, and in Jan. 8
1S74, was united in marriage to
Rev. Tubbs. Since the age of
twelve years she was a member
f the Methodist Episcopal church
The funeral was held on Sat
urday morning at the home of
her brother where she died, con
ducted by Rev. Harry W. New
man, pastor of the local M. E.
church, assisted by Rev. James
B. Stein, D. D. District Superin
tendent, and Rev. W. A. Faus,
of Millvillev
She was Buried at Beach Grove
near Shickshinney. The entire
funeral party went in automo
biles, a distance of 22 miles.
Note. Mrs; Tubbs will be re
membered by many people of
Hustontown and vicinity, as Rev
Tubbs served the Ft Littleton
:harge, now called Hustontown
:harge, from 1877-1879.
H. W. N.
James M. Moore.
James M. Moore, an uncle of
Mrs. T. F. Sloan, West Lincoln
Way, and for many years a resi
dent of Wells Valley, this county,
Jied at his home in Brule, Nebras
ka, on September 27, 1915, aged 80
years. The JUoores nave quite a
military history.
His grandfather, James M.
Moore served as Major through
the war of the Revolution and two
if his grandfather's brothers fell
in the battles of Lexington and
Brandywine, yet the family nev
er swerved from what they deem
ed their duty to their country,
and their names have been on
the Muster Roll of every war in
which the U. S. has been a party
with the exception of the Semi
nole, and some minor Indian
wars which wen? not according
to their sympathies.
When the CiviLwar broke out
he was one of the early ones to
enlist in the 28. Pa Vol. Inft His
enlistment was followed by seven
other brothers, making eight
brothers in the Union service.
A family record not duplicated
so far as known in the history of
that war.
Altho he had known the hard
est of service he reinlisted when
tiia time expired, in Co. B. 147
Pa. Inft. The severity of his
wounds and hard service follow
ed him through life.
He was married to Sarah
Haight, Jan. 1854. Chas. F.
Moore of this union survives
him. He was married the second
time to Margaret,. A Smith in
18G9. A. P. Moore and Mrs. Thos
Whvman of Brule, of this union
are citizens of this community,
his daughter having ministered
to and nursed him through the
declining years of his life. These
with an aged brother survive
hi
Mrs. Mary Deshong
ira. Mary Deshong, wiaow oi
late David D. Deshong, or
nor Creek township, died at
home of . her son David D.
long, Jr., in Pittsburgh, Sat-
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December 4, 1915, aged
Bad Been Lost Fourteen Years.
-Fourteen years ago Roy Mc-
Geehe, of Burnt Cabins, was
wearing a ring presented to him
by his mother as a Christmas
gift, and while in one of the sta
bles in his father's barn, lost the
ring. So highly was the ring
prized, that two men spent a
whole day searching the stable
for the lost ring. A few months
ago, Roy's brother Edgar was
cleaning a parsnip that had grown
in the garden at their home,
when he scraped into something
hard, and upon examination he
found Roy's ring imbedded in the
parsnip, lhe manure irom the
stable had been hauled into the
garden fourteen years ago. The
ring went into the garden with
the manure. As the parsnip was
growing, it shot one of its roots
through the ring, kept on grow
ing until the ring was completely
hidden within the parsnip.
about 75 years. Undertaker
Homer L Sipes, met the funeral
car at Everett and brought the
body to this side of the moun
tains on Monday, and the funer
al was held Tuesday, interment
being made by the side of her
husband at Sideling Hill Chris
tian church.
Mrs. Deshong was a daughter
of the late Mathias and Julia
Hann who lived at Saluvia. She
was married in 18G5 to David D.
Deshong, a veteran of the Civil
War, who died about three years
ago. To this union were born
Harvey, Shaw, W. Va. ; Michael,
who died several years ago at
Hyndman, Pa.; David D Jr., of
Pittsburgh; James, of Delaware
City, Del.; Harry who died in
August of this year; Mary, wife
of John W. Ewing, of Ayr town
ship; Rebecca, married and liv
ing near Pittsburg; and Amanda,
in Pittsburgh. Her brothers and
sisters are all dead except Porter
Hann, residing in Everett, Pa.
Mrs. David S. Snyder.
Emma Michaels, wife of David
. Snyder, passed peacefully a-
way at their home in Peoria, 111.
Thursday evening, December 2,
1915, aged about 62 years.
Mrs. Snyder was a daughter of
the late David and Eliza Mich
aels, of McCbnnellsburg, and a
sister of Mrs. George W. , Hays
West Lincoln Way. She was
married to David Snyder, a na
tive of Todd township. She and
her husband "went west" about
forty years ago, and for several
years, they have been in the
Drug business in Peoria.
Besides her husband, she is
survived by four children, name
ly, Miss Effie, at home, Herbert,
residing in Denver Colo.; Nellie
married and living in Portland,
Oregon; and Ralph; married and
in the drug business with his
father.
. Silas Holly.
Silas Holly, a well-known citi
zen of this County, died at his
home in the southern end of
Brush Creek township near the
Union township line on 1 Friday,
December 3, 1915, age'd 68 years,
6 months, and 3" days. The fu
neral took place on the following
Sunday, The funeral sermon
was preached in the Whips Cove
Christian church by Rev. Ed Mel
lott, Revs. James Logue and Lew
is Duvall assisting in the servi
ces." I Interment wa3 made in the
cemetery at that church."
The deceased was a son of Ex
County Commissioner George Hoi
ly, deceased, and was married to
Miss Catherine Garland, who sur
vives her husband, together with
one child, Martha Lizzie, wife of
William Robinson, residing at
Canfield, 0.
Mr. Holly was a victim of
Bright's Disease, and had been a
great sufferer for a long time,
He was a consistent member - of
the Christian church, and bore
his affliction with that fortitude
that comes with an abiding faith
in the unerring providence of the
Supreme Ruler of the universe.
Continued on pace 6.
DISASTROUS FIRE.
Chalmer Mitt's Big Baro, Including Ten
Dorses and a Lot of Cattle, De
stroyed Sunday Night.
About ten o'clock last Sunday
night, after the family had all
gone to bed, it was discovered
that the large bank barn on
Chalmer Stitt's farm about a mile
and a half south of Shade Gap,
was in flames. An alarm was
made, but the fire had already
gained such headway, and the
means at hand for fighting the
devouring element, so meagre,
that but little of the contents
were saved. In the stables were
ten head of horses and colts, and
a lot of cattle which it was im
possible to liberate, and hay,
grain, straw, harness in fact,
everything in the barn was to
tally destroyed, with the excep
tion of , some farm machinery,
which was easy to get at.
Since putting the foregoing in
to type, we have a letter from
Mr. Isaac D, Bolinger, of Shade
Gap, saying that Mr. StittlostlO
head of horses, 8 milch cows, and
all his machinery down to gar
den tools. He managed to save
his automobile. His loss is from
$3,500 to $4,000.00 with an insur
ance of $1,200.00 on the barn
nothing on the stock. Mr. Bo
linger says the barn was full to
the roof from one end to the oth
er, including a lot of clover seed.
Mr. Stitt is the man who bought
the Spangler farm near Knobs
ville and sold it to Clarence Go-
bin.
Mr. Stitt has remaing 12 head
of cows and heifers coming fresh
soon, that he will sell; also, a
nice lot of shoats that will weigh
near a hundred pounds each.
This stock must be sold at once
as Mr. Stitt doe3 not have a
handful of feed.
It is not known how the fire
originated.
Deer Killed.
Rumors of many deer having
beed killed have reached this of
fice, yet we have been able to
verify less than a dozen. As cor
rect an account as we can give is
as follows; Jim Shore, of Burnt
Cabin a 153-pound buck in Locke
Valley; Jas. O. Mellott, Charlie
Wink, and Thos. Ensley together
secured a young buck on Edwin
C. Deshong's farm a half-mile
north of Green Hill House; Wm.
Carlin, a State Forest Ranger
making headquarters at Burnt
Cabins, killed a buck; Ira Kerlin
of Knobsville, killed a five-prong
buck on Cove mountain. The five
prongs on each side of the head
are perfect and it will be mount
ed by Leslie Seylar. John Marks
of Tod township, killed a buck;
Everett and Wells Valley hunters
jointly killed four; Earl Bard of
Sipes Mills, killed a large buck
that had enormous, horns carry
ing fifteen knobs and points, but
it would be classed as a five-prong
and it will be mounted.
A curious thing happened on
Sideling Hill on Tuesday. Some
hunter mistook a stranger's auto
on the LTncoln Highway for a
buck and fired a shot through it,
the ball entering just above one
of the rear wheels, coming out
on the opposite side, and leaving
a large jagged hole. If the one
who fired the Bhot looked for
horns before shooting, he doubt
less saw them; but he must have
had a bad case of "buck fever"
if he could not distinguish a Klax
on from the kind deer wear.
Two esteemed' subscribers
whom we do not see often drift
ed into the News office last Sat
urday W. R. Palmer, and John
Hollenshead, of Sipes Mill. .If
so inclined, these gentlemen may
shake their fists at ' the Editor
with' impunity, because they are
both paid in advance.
Last Saturday, Bert Hann, of
Saluvia, loaned his ride to some
hunterd. When the rifle came
home in the evening, it had 22
pounds, of venison hanging to it.
Not a bad loan, Fert,
From the Pacific Coast
Los Angeles, Cal Nov. 24.
Dear Editor: I see by the label
on my paper that if I want the
news I must pay for the News,
so here goes two dollars more,
and keep it coming.
Well, Mr. Editor, I am sorry
to see that Pennsylvania, my
own native state, voted down
Woman Suffrage; but Mollie Sey
lar hit the nail on the head when
she said it was caused by Old
Standpats, Negroes, and Booze.
That is just our experience out
here in California; but thank
goodness, there were too many
Progressives and others in favor
of fair play for the women, and
now women have the same right
at the polls as men.
At our first city election that
the women enjoyed the privilege
of voting (and they enjoyed it)
a lady stood first in line and cast
the first ballot in our precinct;
and so they came in age from' 21
to 76. The lady of 76 said it was
one of the most 'pleasant events
of her life to be able to vote.
We had a long ballot a full city
ticket, and several amendments
and out of 310 ballots cast (about
one-third women) there was not
one thrown out on account of
mistakes. One "Lord of Crea
tion" did not care at all about
who was elected to office or about
any of the amendments. His on
ly concern was whether our city
should be "wet" or "dry". He
voted "wet," and confessed to
it later. We have ladies in office
State, County, and City some
elected some appointed. Mrs.
Lindsay, our council woman, is
recognized as one of the most
able members in our city council.
There are many things I could
say in favor of woman Suffrage
and nothing against it So I will
close by saying to the women of
Pennsylvania and elsewhere, be
of good cheer, your time is com
ing. As for the natives of Fulton
county who live in Los Angeles
and vicinity they are well and
doing well. Ed Austin and wife
refuse to go back to Minneapolis
even on a visit
My best wishes to you and the
many readers of the Fulton
County News.
Yours truly,
M. L. Hann, 954 E 42 St, Los
Angeles, California.
Think First, Young Men.
You may have heard, or seen
in the city papers, that city em
ployers are begging for workmen
to help out on the rush of orders
that are being received. Did
you notice that they, want men
for work real manual labor, of
ten harder than ploughing or
grubbing? The pay of. $1.25 to
$1.50 a day does not mean for six
days in the week it never does.
Four and one half days is the
best average for a whole year.
But your costiy, boarding goes on
just the same. Think first then
before you rush away from the
good old home in the country to
what looks like a better , job in
the city. Unless you have had
years of training, you will be put
to work out in the cold alongside
of the roughest kind of foreign
ers who never pretend to know
how to do any other kind of work
than that which can be done with
pick and shovel, or by lifting and
carrying heavy articles.'
1 Were at Sliippcnsburg. ,
An automobile party composed
of Mr. and Mrs. John Baughman
and their little grandson John
Eshelman.'and James Baughman
and Allen Eshelman all of Ever
ett spent a few hours in McCon
nellsburg last Saturday as the
guests of Chas. Hixson and fam
ily' while on the'r way to Ship
peisburg where they spent the
time from Saturday afternoon
until Monday afternoon. Miss
Mildred Hixson accompanied
them to Shippensburg. Mildred
says she visited the C. V. S. N.
School and saw our Fulton coun
ty girls who are attending that
institution,
ORDER OF COURT.
Resolutions of Committe Upon the Death
of J. Nelson Sipes Esq. By Order
of the Court.
In the Court of Common Pleas
of Fulton County. In reference
to the death of J. Nelson Sipes
Esq., the Nestor of the Bar of
Fulton County.
And now, Nov. 15, 1915, the
Court appointed Hon. John P.
Sipes, M. R. Shaffner, Esq., and
Hon. S. W. Kirk, as a committee
to draft suitable resolutions on
the death of the Nestor of our
Bar, J. Nelson Sipes Esq.
The Hon. John P. Sipes is here
by directed to call a meeting of
the Bar and upon their approval
of the said resolutions, they are
ordered to be published in the
three papers published in the Bor
ough of McConnellsburg, the
News, Democrat and the Repub
lican, to be spread on the records
of the Court, and a copy of the
same to be sent to the oldest liv
ing child of our deceased brother.
S. McSwope,
Pres. Judge.
In the pursuance of the above
order of Court, the committee
met and drafted the following
resolutions which were approved
by a meeting of the Bar Associa
tion. TO THE HONORABLE, THE JUDG
ES OF THE SEVERAL COURTS OF
FULTON COUNTY:
We, the undersigned, appoint
ed by your honorable court to
frame and submit resolutions,
consistent with the life, charac
ter and death of J. Nelson Sipes,
Esq., late a member and officer
of the Court, beg leave tosubrfit
the following:
Whereas, These courts have
officially learned with profound
sorrow the sad intelligence of the
death of J. Nelson Sipes, Esq.,
the nestor of the Fulton County
Bar, therefore be it
Resolved, That.the Bar and
the several courts record their
high esteem and regard for John
Nelson Sipes, Esq., among whose
chief attainments and character
istics were his unfailing courte
sy, matchless determination and
unfaltering fidelity to duty in all
the varied relations in life as a
citizen, as a keen business asso
ciate and as a wise and alert at
torney and officer of the Court
whose dignity and honor he
sought untiringly to uphold.
Resolved, That in the death
of John Nelson Sipes, Esq., his
clients have lost a safe, wise and
conserative counselor and advo
cate, the Bar and able and exper
ienced practitioner, the commu
nity one of its most substantial
citizens and his family a most de
voted father.
Resolved That in this time of
great affliction and deep sorrow,
we tender to his children and
friends our herjtfelt and sincere
sympathy.
Respectfully submitted by
John P. Sipes,
M. R, Shaffner,
. S. W. Kirk.
Cash Prizes for M Trees.
George Wv Reisner handed us
the following clipping and said
that he is collecting samples of
the excellent niits found in the
County and will forward them to
the Nut Growers Association:
To help to bring promising nut
trees to light and thus start a
new industry, the Northern Nut
Growers' Association is offering
cash prizes of from $10 to $50 for
the best tree of black walnuts,
butternuts, shagbark, hickories,
hazel nuts and northern pecans.
Send a dozen nuts from the best
nut tree of any kind that you
know of to Dr. W. C. Deming
Secretary of the Northern Nut
Growers' Association, George
town, Connecticut and ask for
particulars of the prizes and the
rufys of the contest. ,
Ve hope some of our readers
will get these prizes, for them
are some fine nuts produce I in
the territory covered by this pa
Crops and Livestock Report.
L. H. Wible's Crop and Live
stock report for November 1915
shows that 6 per cent more than
the average wheat acreage was
sown in Fulton county this fall.
Condition of wheat in ground is
one per cent above average.
Corn averaged 3G bushels to the
acre in the County. Average for
the whole State was 36 bushels.
York county, averaged 45 bushels
highest in the State. Buckwheat
averaged 17 bushels in the coun
ty. Potatoes, 85. 2 per cent
more hogs than average for the
County. Turkeys, 14 per cent,
less in County than average. 2
farms in every 100 in County use
silos.
We think it is well to call at
tention to the . corn average of
the County and for the State
they are the same 36 bushels.
This should be an encouragement
to fester Boys Corn Clubs in the
County. Underlying all scientif
ic methods of doing things are
fixed principles that must be mas
tered at the beginning. There
is no know better way to teach
them to a boy than by example.
Show him how an acre of ground
may be made to produce 100 to
150 bushels, and when he goes
to farming on a larger scale the
taste of that profitable acre will
stay with him and he will not be
content with 36-bushel nor 50-bu-shel
averages.
We are fully alive to the fact
that very few farmers in the
County can afford to buy $15
worth of right kind of fertilizers
for each acre of a 20-acre corn
field. But every farm can afford
to bug $15 worth for one acre,
and that acre can be made to
clear a profit of many times $15.
This Is what leaves all the good
"taste" mentioned above, and
there is no "taste" that sticks to
a man like that of lots of dollars
to jingle in his pocket. He .will
scrape up $15 for each of two
acres the following year as sure
as you live. By-and-by, he will
have a whole farm that will av
erage 75 bushels to twice that
much. Every fall we read of
hundreds of boys who get prizes
and free trips to interesting pla
ces at the expense of the State
for having demonstrated the old
er folks that it don't pay to "fid
dle along" with poor land when
it might as well be made rich and
kept so. Let the teachers, and
pastors too, organize Boys Corn
Clubs this winter.
Program.
The program of the local C. L
S. C, for their third meeting in
December is
Roll call Christmas quotations
Story of the week Miss Hoh
man. Sectionalism in the south and
the "Crisis" by Winston Church
hill Mrs. C. B. Stevens.
Reading, Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address Mrs. R. E. Peterman.
The inventions of the periods
and their effect on National Life.
Rev. Peterman.
Sketch of Horace Mann Miss
Reisner.
Sketch of Robert E. Lee Miss
Pittman.
Sketch of Stonewall Jackson
Miss Sloan.
Sketch of U. S. Grant Mrs.
Luring.
He Appreciates It.
As a recognition of their ap
preciation of the courteous and
faithful manner in which Mr. A.
M. Grissinger, who has charge
of the Public School Building,
looked after the comfort of the
teachers while in attendance , at
the Institute last week, they
"passed the hat around" before
leaving town with the result that
Mr. Grissinger received a very
substantial gift Mr. Grissing
er appreciates this all the more
from the fact that it was entire
ly unexpected; and as he cannot
take each teacher by the hand
and thank him or her personally
he wishes through the News to
say a great big THANK YOU,
and hope that every one of them
miy have a merry Christmas and
a hanpy New Year. .
INJUDICIOUS INDULGENCES.
Little Talks on Health and Hjgieoe by
Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LI. D.,
Commissioner of fleclll -
The holiday season is a busy
time for the doctors. Many
things contribute to make it so.
The nervous strain of holiday
shopping and living in overcrowd
ed cars and shops get the people
pretty well fagged out; and then,
while in this condition, the di
gestive system is often loaded to
the breaking point.
That's the program for a very
large percentage of our popula
tion about this time of the year;
and even a layman, when he
reads it over, hasn't very much
difficulty in discerning that in all
probability, it would result in a
call for the doctor.
Those who can afford to do so
seem to regard the over-loading
of the digestive tract as an es
sential part of the holiday fes
tivities. A3 a matter of actual
practice there is a great deal
more enjoyment to be derived
from conservative indulgences in
tempting viands, than eating to
satiation; and this is the case,
even though the feasting results
in no noticeable distress.
When excessive quantities of
food are consumed, the digestive
organs are over-worked and cer
tain "poisons are formed which
are absorbed by the blood and
carried through the body, often
to'the extentof taking life.
There are numerous serious
disorders which may be traced to
the failure of the digestive tract
to properly act because it has
been over-loaded.
The failure of these important
functions of digestion speedily
reacts upon the rest of the body,
and results in special suscepti
bility to colds and other infec
tions which find fertile fields
among those whose natural re
sistance to disease is thus lower
ed. It would be well to consult a
doctor before the Christmas meal
instead of after when the harm
has been done.
. Taylor Township and Potash.
What has become of the Wa
terfall Agricultural Club? Don't
they keep fire in the mill room
now? Why this silence? For
several years we caught inspira
tion from remarks that overflow
ed and reached this office. A
certain statement made by Dave
led us to investigate the action
of lime on soils of various kinds,
and, as the Club may recall, we
found that careful tests showed
that lime had a greater action on
red shales (Taylor township soils)
than on any of a dozen other
types. The locked-up "natural
strength" of shale soils may be
released by lime. This i3 well
worth, remembering, for the pur
chase of commercial potash i3
now impossible. Shale soils, es
pecially the red varieties, are
known to contain great quanti
ties of it but it is not naturally
available. Lime releases it And
since it is-there, why not use it
during the present Germam cri
sis? Then, if greedy robbery be
avoided, our Taylor township
friends should not worry over the
potash situation since by the lib
eral use of lime, purchased pot
ash will not be missed, and the
extra growth will create 'humus
to be returned to the soil to give
it "body" for the retention of
moisture and to increase fertility.
Never plough lime under.
Demand for common labor is
said to be so great in Harrisburg
that enough employees cannot be
secured, and the professional
hard-luck bums are receiving
cold receptions when they tall at
private residences or food and
aid. The papers of the city are
printing directions to give these
lazy fellows the address of the
nearest employment station
where neither employee nor em
ployer is charged for filling or
ders for jobs.