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McCONNELLSBURG, PA., JANUARY 13, 1916.
TOE GRIM REAPER.
Short Sketches of the Lives of
Per-
sons Who Bare Recently
Passed Away.
Mrs. Geo. W. Coulter.
Mrs. Minnie Ethel Coulter,
vife of George W. Coulter, pass
ed away at her home in Edge
wood Park, Pittsburgh, Friday
evening, January 7, 1916, aged
60 years, 4 months, and 13 days.
Minnie was a .daughter of
Mr. and' Mrs. Jehu G. Cun
ninghatn, of New Grenada, this
county, and was married to Mr.
Coulter at New Grenada on the
19th of November, 1878. To this
union were born four children,
two of whom are living Paul
and Maude both of whom are
f grown up and living at home
Paul assisting his father as tick
et agent at Edgewood Station P.
R. R.
The funeral took place on the
10th and interment was made in
Homewood cemetery.
A few days prior to her death,
Mrs. Coulter was attacked by
grippe which soon developed in
to r. violent form of pneumonia;
and, while she had the very best
medical attention, she continued
to grow weaker until the end
came. On account of the widely
scattered residences of her broth
ers and sisters, Mr. and Mrs. L.
L, Cunningham, of Akron, Ohio,
and her only surviving sister Mrs
Alice McClain, and son Vaughn,
of Wilkinsburg, Pa., weretheon
ly ones of her fathers family who
attended her funeral. Her
mother at the age of 86, and her
brother Newton, reside at New
Grenada; Duffield, at Enterprise,
Ore.; Joe Addison and Fleegal at
Englevale, Kans.
A good and faithful wife and
mother has fallen in Israel. She
was one of those kind, meek and
inoffensive mothers who take
pride in their homes, and spend
their earthly lives in the prepa
ration of a home in heaven.
Mrs. Riley Wagner.
Mrs. Riley Wagner lied at her
lome at Newcastle, lnd., Janu
ary. 4, 1916, aged about.74 years.
A.bout a year ago, Mrs. Wagner
lad a stroke of paralysis, and
ibout a month ago, she fell and
oroke one of her arms. These
:wo shocks are supposed to have
fastened her death. Her maiden
name was Kathryn Gress daugh
ter of Adam Gress, of Tod town
ship, deceased. She is survived
by her husband and five children
namely, Ernest, Vernon, Erma,
Ida, and Harry all of Indiana.
Also by the following brothers
and sisters: John Gress of Dane;
; George, of Enid; Mrs. Henry
Wolf, of Tod township, and Mrs.
Sophia Smith of Indiana.
"Jolly Wood-Cutting Party.
A party of sixteen hearty wood
choppers met in the wood3 on
January 4th and cut twenty-two
2-horse loads of wood for VV L.
Fields, near Clear Ridge.
Fields has been Bick for some
'time, and he appreciates this act
of kindness and requests the
News to publicly thank these
men for him. The workers were
Geo. Taylor, E. S. flead, J'.!.n
Sips; Arthur, Otis, Vernon, end
Russell Kerlin; Mack, Rush and
Rufus Henry; Ralph and Harvey
Ramsey; W. R. and Earl Fields;
Merrill Stevens and Calvin Ba
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A Good Way.
Thousands of farmers cannot
remember what part the thi ee
commercial fertilizers play in the
growth of a plant Paste this
rhyme where you can always
find it, or, better still, commit it
to memory. Then, when you
buy fertilizer, first look at your
crops and determine , how many,
or which one,, -6f them they need.
It't'c ttrppeD that makes things green
Sal j' e 'man of active brain;
AiUne(jUBh ma Wei the good strong
IOCS',
A4 Amotsphate plump the grain.
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Holiday Nuptials.
On Monday, January 3rd, Rev.
Ira R. Duvall, who has been paf
tor of the Keating Summit charge
in Potter county for some months,
returned home and after having
secured a license on Tuesday,
was united in holy wedlock to
Miss Ramie 0. Jackson, Wednes
day, January 5th just before
noon. The ceremony was per
formed in the home of the bride
by Rev. D. J. Frum, the bride's
pastor. Rev. Lewis A. Duvall,
brother of the groom, performed
the duties of groomsman, and
Mrs. Lewis Duvall acted as
bridesmaid. The bride is the
eldest daughter of Mrs. Maria
Jackson and is a highly esteemed
young lady. The groom is the
youngest son' of W. H. Duvall,
of Akersville, and is a bright,
energetic young man recently
graduated from Williamsport
Dickinson Seminary.
The bride's gown was white
silk with an overdress of richly
embroidered net The elaborate
trimming was of fiber silk and
crystal beads, with crystal bead
finish to sleeves, sash ends, and
bottom of net overskirt
Among the valuable presents
received by the happy couple was
a check for thirty dollars from
the M. E. Sunday school of Em
porium, the charge adjoining the
Keating Summit charge, and was
sent by Rev. James Morgret, the
pastor, and to them the bride and
groom extend sincere thanks.
After having spent the week-end
visiting friends, Mr. and Mrs.
Duvall left on January 10th for
their parsonage home in Keating
Summit taking with them the
best wishes of a host of friends.
Sipes-Strait.
Mr. Alvin Sipes, son of George
Sipes, and Miss El vaVerda Strait
daughter of Philip Strait both of
Licking Creek township were
married Wednesday January 5,
1916, at the home of the officiat
ing minister, Rev. E. J. Croft
at Dane, Pa. The contracting
parties are excellent young peo
ple and we wish them a long hap
py, and prosperous life.
Will You Have Sale?
Are you going to have a sale
this spring?
If so it's time to begin to plan
for it
First thirrjr is to select your
date. See to it that nobody in
your neighborhood has a sale on
that day; that court week, which
begins on the third Monday in
March,' does not interfere; and
see your auctioneer, whether he
is open for that date. Having
done this, notify the Fulton
County News to place your sale
in its register. It will staiicn
til the day of sale and will not
cost you anything if the News
prints your bills.
Why put it in the News?
Well, it's like this: If you se
lect a date for your sale and do
not let anybody know it. there
will not be any bidders at your
sale.
The more bidders you get to
your sale, the more money you
will get for your property. It's
a very easy matter to lose from
50 to 500 dollars by not having
the sale well advertised.
That's reasonable.
Well, then. The News goes
into twice as many homes in Ful
ton County as any other news
paper. Yes; we can prove it
Then, our bills. Do you see
any others that are printed on
better paper, or any more at
tractive? Com to the News office for
your sale advertising. '
Jcdgo Swope Elected.
At a meeting of the Adams
County1 Bar Association in the
LawXibrary of the Court House
Wednesday afternoon of last
week the Hon.' S. Mc. J. Swope
was elected president Judge D.
P. McPherson, treasurer and At
torney William L Meals secre
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On the slopes of South mountain, just below the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Mont Alto, Pa., on the main
tabS'whlcTreads6 " ln8tUution there Btands by the massive atone monument bearing a
h, 'rrit8-aS 8v.PnCa,Pt,al,tt Jhn EC!k f Jhn Br0Wn'8 Army ot Lleratlon captured and disarmed on Octo
ber 2-th. 189, by Daniel Logan and others. He was hanged at Charlestown. rglnla, December 16. 1859"
h.tSeM"!Sl nnt? I Cumberland valley In the Immediate Tlclnlty of the Institution Is rich In historic lore. The
battlefield of Get ysburg Is only a few miles away, and during the Civil war all of the country in the vicinity was
traversed and retraversod by both the troops of the North and South. wu
P?r. l? ?9 '"f'.J COofUct SUth mountaln waa a favo-o resort for Virginia, planters and their families With
in a short distance of the Sanatorium are the ruins of an old hotel which in ante bellum days was much freuuented
by well-to-do planters, from Maryland and Virginia. , - - utu ireuueniea
Even in that early day South mountain was noted as a health resort The hcilthfulricss of the locality, the beauty
h mTT "g C0U!Ury l"11 the CCntral l0Catln' led Con"n'sfor of Health Dixon to develop there , thVSi
Uon which has grown into the world's largent tuberculosis sanatorium.
Y01NGST0WN STRIKE RIOD.
Former McConnellsbarg Boy, C. Eugene
Linn, Sajs the Demon Rum Was
Responsible for Bloodshed.
Editor Peck: The great
strike now on among the laborers
of the Republic Iron and Steel
Company and those of the Youngs
town Sheet and Tube Company
together numbering about 27,000
men, started over a demand of
some of the Tube Mill laborers
for a raise of wages from 19i
cents to 25 cents an hour, which
was refused by the employers.
The dissatisfied men walked out,
and by force, compelled many
more to quit work. Some of the
Sheet and Tube Mills men re
mained in the mills, and when
they tried to escape, they were
fired upon by the strikers and a
general riot followed in which
dozens of onlookers, policemen,
and strikers were killed, several
buildings dynamited, many Bet
on fire, and the firemen beaten
back and prevented from extin
guishing the flames. Stores were
looted, saloons broken into,' and
beer and whisky rolled into the
streets and consumed by the mob
mostly foreigners. It is said
that beer and whiskey flowed in
the streets like water. State
troops now have matters partly
under control, the strikers hav
ing been driven to the hills. I
am employed by the Republic
Iron and Steel Company in the
offices as Voucher Auditing Clerk
and am in position to get in touch
with all phases of the strike and
I can say that but for the fren
zied mobs, made so by the demon
rum, such f earful ' consequences
would not have been known. I
firmly believe that this lesson
will make Youngstown dry in
1916.
Mr. C. A. Bard and Watson
Plessinger, of Emmaville motor
ed to McConnellsburg last Thurs
day and attended to some busi
ness. Bert has just sold his farm
to a Somerset county man, and
will have sale on the 3rd of Feb
ruary, and retire from . farming
for the present,
A REMINDER OF JOHN BROWN'S RAID
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It's Poeumococcos.
That's what's the matter with
youl It's not the purpose of the
News to Rcare anybody to death
but there is not any harm likely
to result from your knowing the
worst. That troublesome disease
that doctors are puzzled to know
how to treat and printers, to
know how to spell called grip,
grippe, lagrippe, La Grippe i3
now a thing of the past It has
just been discovered that the
"grip business" is all a mistake,
and that the disease is really
pneumococcus. Now, you'd bet
ter be good !
The pneumococcus," says Dr.
Emerson, Commissioner of Health
in New York, is found in the
throats of healthy men and wo
men. When the vitality is so
lowered that the body ha3 not
sufficient power of resistance dis
ease appears, mat pneumonia
does not appear, is only due to
the power of resistance.
"With the beginning of winter
comes a social whirl. In the hol
iday season people are more fre
quently in tightly packed thea
ters and stuffy restaurants, mov
ing picture shows and other plac
es. They get less rest and sleep.
Consequently there is a certain
breaking down of resistance and
conditions favorable to passing
germs from one person to anoth
er. The epidemic is the result."
Whatever it may be called, the
fact remains that when you be
gin to sneeze, your nose begins
to run, your head gets stuffy and
your bones ache, it is time for
you take care of yourself. Don't
forget that the disease is "catch
in" and do not take pains to go
about any one who has it. It
does not follow that you cannot
be near any one who ha3 the dis
ease without taking it yourself.
Smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fe
ver are highly contagious, and
yet not every one who is exposed
to contact with a patient having
one or another of these diseases
takes it . If your physical condi
tion is perfect you have nothing
to fear; if your system is run
down, you have. That's all there
is to it
Use you handkerchief when
you sneeze or cough, and thus
avoid spreading the infection to
those about you, ,
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EFFICENCY OF GRANGE WORK.
Clear Cot Expressions from the Pen of
Irvie Dull Dohmaa of Gosh
en, Washington.
Dear Mr. Peck: Herewith
you will find a money order for
one dollar to cover my subscrip
tion to the News to December 1,
1916. Can't get along without
the news from dear "Little Ful
ton."
My husband and I read with
much interest the editorial which
appeared in your paper of De
cember 30th, entitled, "Business
Men vs. Farmers," written by J
D. Ream, Master of the State
Grange of Nebraska. Our
Grange, Van Wyck, No. 217, or
ganized in 1908, is greatly inter
ested in the Rural Credits and
Natioual Marketing issues. Aft
er a careful study of the various
plans of Rural Credits, we de
cided in favor of the Louck's
plan, considering it most practi
cable and best suited to our con
ditions. C. B. Kegley, Master
of our State Grange, is the Pres
ident of the Rural Credit League
of America.
Every rural mail box in our
country is a monument to the
efficiency of Grange work; for it
was theconstant pressure brought
to bear upon Congress by the
National Grange and the thous
ands of its members, that brought
this just piece of legislation to
the farmer. To the Grange are
we also indebted for our Parcels
Post law; and we are confident
of a right settlement of the
Rural Credits and National Mar
keting questions, which means
financial freedom ' and square
dealing in selling.
Broke Collar Bone..
Last Sunday, Mrs. Emily Eys-
ter, who lives with her son Frank
Smith, near Webster,. MiKs, ' fell
down a stairway and broke one
of her collar bones.; Dr. .Mosser
reduced the fracture, t The fall
was quite a shock to .the, aged
lady, but she stood (he operation
of having the bones put to their
place very-j'-1- ' "ST Mo be
The Half Was Not Told.
In the issue of the News
December lbth, 1 notice y
scribe lost sight of some of J.
Mort's close calls. Here are
few more or them: A lew years
ago while cutting ice on the Mad
densvijie dam, he broke through
and fell into about nine feet of
water when he unwittingly step
ped on thin ice frozen over a hole
made the day before. His com
panions, Eli Ferrenburg and Rob
ert Ramsey, were at the bank at
the time. Ferrenberg saw Mort
go down and began to yell. Ram
sey reached the drowning man
first and found him holding to
the edge of the ice and swinging
under the 16-inch covering of the
dam. Siezing Mort by the arm
Ramsey held him until Ferren
berg arrived and, together they
pulled the unfortunate man out
in an exhausted condition. When
asked if he touched bottom Mort
replied "I wasn't hunting bot
torn; I was hunting the hole
fell through."
At another time, Mr. Mort was
going home from Hustontown at
night The colt he was driving
frightened at some calves in
Henry Wilson's field, wheeled
short in the road, and took to
the woods despite all he could do
to hold it. As the horse turned
into the road again the buggy
was upset and the driver pinned
under and dragged some dis
tance. Fortunately the harness
gave way and the animal was re
leased from the buggy and start
ed alone to its home. Mr. Wil
son saw the running colt and
took the back track in search of
the driver. He found him lying
at the side of the road badly
bruised and sprained, but no
bones broken.
During a recent winter when
the earth was covered with a sol
id sheet of ice, and water had to
be carried by hand to some cal
ves, Mr. Mort got tired of the
job and dusted a path over the
ice to the water. Soon after
turning the calves out he heard
a racket at the barn and with
the aid of a stout stick from the
woodpile, he started to investi
gate. Very soon his feet and the
ice parted company and Mr.
Mort proceeded at greatly in
creased speed head foremost
down hill until a stone reversed
him, and his feet led the way at
a speed that beat Jersey light
ning. 50 rods down the hill a
patch of .green briers stopped the
mad flight. Nothing worse of
the wear, he had almost reached
the top of the hill again when-
well, this time when he involun
tarily reached the foot of the hill
on the second trip, at another
place not so soft as the green
brier patch, he was injured so
badly that Mr. Wilson was called
by phone and he and the Mr.
Mort's wife and daughter helped
the unfortunate man to the house
where he nursed many bruises
and cuts for several days. Now,
if any other man has gone all
through the flintmill ten times
and still feels like a 16-year-old.
;et us hear from him.
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A Suggestion.
F. M. Taylor, and his son John
of Harrisburg, spent the holidays
at home, and both returned to
Harrisburg early this week. John
is employed at the Pipe and Pipe
Bending Works assisting to make
shells for the Allies. His father
is employed in the State Engin
eering Department Mr. Taylor
is arranging to erect a rest house
and refreshment stand on his
and at the west foot of Cove
mountain for the accommodation
cf summer motorists. If Frank
will pardon our "butt in," we
would respectfully suggest that
he carry out a former idea for
the use of this land inconneet:on
with the rest house,
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If we did not stay up so late at
night we might breakfast earlierf
and walk foar.d from ourplacesol
work. Every well man and woA
man leading a sedentary life!
should walk five or six miles al
day in the open air assuming an
erect carriage and swinging the
arms freely. I
.We can go for days without
food and water but the moment
air is cut off from our lungs we
begin to struggle for that life
giving element If it is not re
stored the person dies in minutes
instead of days. From this we
may get a true measure of the
relative importance of air to
i;fo
To maintain health we mr-i.
breathe air that has not.
robbed of its oxygen by j
person just having used it.
must breathe in air free
poison given off from the b
of those crowded in poorly
tilated places and particul.
must we avoid air loaded w
germs of grippe, tuberculosis,
pneumonia and other diseases.
When compelled to submit to
the evils of crowded civilization
during grippe and pneumonic
seasons, it is well to get your
doctor to write a prescription for
good disinfection solution to
rinse the mouth and throat with
several times a day. It has been
demonstrated that there are
many pneumonia germs in the
mouths of those suffering from
grippe.
Farmers Institute.
As announced last week, Farm
ers Institutes will be held Janu
ary 18th and 19th at Rehoboth
M. E. church, and in the Clear
Ridge M. E. church January 20th
and 21st In addition to what,
wa3 said in the News last week
Chairman Frank Ranck states
that the subject of County Agent
would be considered at some of
the sessions. We are glad of it
The News has been spokesman
on thi3 subject for some of the
progressive farmers of Fulton
county for more than a year. We
did the best we could. Still.
hundreds do not seem to under
stand the movement We fully"
pelieve that abundant fruits of
our institutes will not appear un
til the Farm Extension : Depart
ment is permitted to keep an
Agent permanently in the Coun
ty. It will then be more like one
continuous institute. We hope
that when we secure an Agent,
he will be a lover of good homes,,
and that he will have been train
ed to understand that merely liv-
ing for the sake of making mon
ey is a low ideal, and that he
will immediately set about to
guide the young people to realizo
that there are ways of making
as nice homes and as good living
here as they think they see at
the far end of the rainbow.
Another Attorney In Town.
John R. Jackson, Esq. son of
James R. Jackson, of Brush Creek
township, has rented the offices
J
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formerly occupied by the late
Senator Alexander, and has be-
gun the practice of law in this (
place. His family will remainA
in New York until spring, at V1
which time they will' 'remove to v
McConnellsburg. Mr. Jackson
was graduated from the Dickin
son Law School in 1911, and was
admitted to practice at the Ful
ton County Bar duringjl
year.
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