01 Mill 1 l 11tl VOLUME 17 McCONNELLSBURG, PA., FEBRUARY 17. 191ft. NUMBER 22 DEATQ WAS SUDDEN. rhomas F. Sloan, Esq., Passed Away ' : at Bis Borne oa Vest Lincoln Way Yesterday Morning. This community was greatly shocked yesterday morning about nine o'clock when the word was passed around that Thomas F. Sloan, Esq., one of this county's most prominent citizens, had passed away suddenly at his home West Lincoln Way. The News told of an accident that be fell Mr. Sloan while descending a telegraph pole on Sideling Hill mountain on New Year's Day. He was not considered seriously hurt, and since that time he had been in his home, up and about the house most of the time, . and until a day or two ago, his con dition seemed to be steadily im proving. Yesterday morning he arose from his bed and went in to the bathroom, where he had . an attack of heart failure and expired almost instantly. Mr. Sloan was very widely known among the officers, and employees of the Western Union Telegraph Company, he having taken charge of the office in Mc- Co wellsburg on the first day pf September, 18C4, and served that company in the capacity of oper ator, and lineman continuously for a period of 51 years and four months. During the last 13 years, he had charge of the testing sta tion at the Mountain House on Rays Hill, and never missed a day from duty on account of sick ness, and during that time he was apparently in the best of health. He had reached the time when he would be honorably re tired from service on half-pay for the remainder of his Hfe. In connection with his faithful cervice to the Company, he found time to read law, and in 1879, he was admitted to the Fulton Coun ty bar. As his reading had been a matter of pastime, and the ac quisition of the knowledge of law for his own personal use, he nev 3r entered into active practice. , In religion he was a devoted Presbyterian, and for many years i Ruling Elder jnt ..ACon- ; lellsburg Presbyterian church. , Oa.the 22nd, day of . February, 1870, he was married tbMfss Jo jephine Alexander, a sister of :he late Senator W. Scott Alex ander who- survives together With the following children,' namely, Alexander, Thomas Franklin, Findlay Morse, James Addison, Walter Reed, Miss Ma ry Jane, and Miss Harriet Bar ton. ; ,The funeral will be held Sat urday afternoon and interment will be made in Union cemetery. Mary Jane Anderson.- '. Mary Jane Anderson, widow of ' the late Jonathan Anderson, note of whose death was made last week, died at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James McElhaney, Tuesday morning, February 8, 1916, aged 81 years, 5 months, and 4 days. The funeral took place Thursday morning, the . Bervices being conducted by Rev. t Reidell, of the M. E. Church, and Kev. Benson, bf the U. B. Church. Interment was1 made in the ceme tery at Clear Ridge. The de ceased was converted at the age of twenty years, and for more than sixty-one, years, was a con sistent member of the Church of God, and she has entered into that rest that remaineth for the people of God.' She leaves to mourn their loss one son and seven daughters, namely, Chevilla Ravenstine, Cove Forge, Pa.;Samantha Wag ner, Laidig. Pa. : AlDhrettaSwart-r I Three Springs, Pa.; Louisa Ker- K Burnt Cabins, Pa.; Jenniah McElhaney,. Hustontown, Pa.; Grant Anderson, Three Springs, 1 Pa.; and Myrtle' Anderson and jNanssaShaw-both residing at j Tyrone, Pa. Mother Anderson i was a loving mother, and a kind and loving friend to all who knew' Her. She was an Invalid for wore than four years, and during Sales of Real Estate. On last Saturday, two pieces of real estate were sold at public sale in front of the Court House. Miss Hattie Alexander, adminis tratrix of the estate of John B. Alexander, late of Wells town ship, sold the farm of 160 acres to Walter R. Sloan, of McCon nellsburg, for $950, and Hon. John P. Sipes, trustee appointed to sell the real estate of Benja min Bolinger, deceased, sold a 30 acre tract in Taylor township to Harry Bolinger for $400. all of that time, she bore her suf ferings with Christian fortitude. Mrs. Rudolph Rissel. Maria Gress Rissel, wife of Rudolph Rissel, died in St Eliza beth Hospital in Elizabeth, New Jersey, at half past six, Tuesday January 18, 1916, in the C5th year of her age. The cause of her death was pneumonia. The funeral was held on the follow ing Monday, and interment was made in the cemetery at Eliza beth. She had been sick but nine days. The deceased wa3 a daughter of the late Godfred Gress, deceas ed, and many years ago she mar ried Rudolph Rissel and they re sided in Elizabeth, N. J. She is survived by her husband and the following children, namely, Ju lius, John, and Henry, in Eliza' beth, N. J.; Fred in the U. S, Navy, at present in the West In dies, and Lena, wife of . Martin Finhorn, Chrome, N. J.; also the following sisters and brothers: Louvinia, wife of Jerome Stahl, residing in Nebraska, and George and Adam residing in York, Pa. Thelma Weaver. Thelma Weaver died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Weaver near War fordsburg, on Friday February 11, 1916 aged 6 yrs. 4 mo. and 29 days. While having been del icate from infancy the immed iate cause of her death was acute gastritis. Thelma was a bright cheerful little girl and the large concourse of sorrowing friends who attended the funeral service. and the beautiful floral tributes, indicate in part the place she had won in the affection of those who rfcnew her. The funeral service was conducted by Dr. . Webster of Hancock, and interment . was "made at the cemetery at Tonolo- way on Sunday. The . parents have the sincere sympathy of their many friends in this, their bereavement Jane Elizabeth Baker. At the age of 84 years, 5 mo. and 11 days, Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Baker passed away at the home of her son, Grant Baker, near Knobsville, on Friday, February 12, 1916, of infirmities incident to advanced age. The funeral took place the following Sunday, the services being conducted by Rev. A. S. Luring, of the M. E, church, McConnellsburg, and in terment was made in the ceme tery at the M. E. " church aj; Knobsville. Besides Grant, she i3 survived by one other son, John Baker, whose home. is in Hagerstown, Md., and who . was present at the funeral. Bertha Decker. ; Mrs. Bertha Dicker, wife of Riley Decker, died at her home in Bethel . township, February 1916, aged 23 years, 10 months and 1 day. For more than a year Mrs. Decker was a sufferer from tuber culosis which ended her life. V Left to mourn the loss of a lov ing wife and mother are her hus-. band and an infant child. Her remains, were laid to rest In May's Chapel cemetery Sun day Feb. 6th. Funeral services conducted by Rev. E, F. Mellott Mary Marie Mellott. Mary Marie Mellott daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George C, Mel lott East Market street, ' died early yesterday morning "of acute pneumonia, aged 3 years, 6 mo. and 3 days. The little girl "had been Bick only a verv short time. and her death is a "great ' shock to her parents. The funeral will take place this afternoon and in terment will be made in Union cemetery, I FROM TBE PACIFIC COAST. While 0. R. Cline Is a Loyal Californi an, Be Cherishes Fond Memories of Bis Boyhood Dome. Long Beach, Calif., Feb. 3. Dear Mr. Peck: Enclosed please find draft for $3.00, which will put me ahead again on the News list fcT i ! i H iMoiwicnstanaing many years have come between me and the home of the News, as I view those dear old hill3 and valleys and their kindred associations from the memory of boyhood days, yet with all the new names of the living, and the weekly record of departing contempor- aries, the News comes a welcome weekly visitor to our distant home, where the varied lullaby of the grand old Pacific, as breaks in thundrous fury, or in gentle cadence on the shore m i m iew nunarea ieec away, is our last daily "Good-night." Many times I have been prompted to write a little letter to express my appreciation of the many contributions from other "Fultonites" scattered all over the United States, and bevond, and of the medium through which we learn of each other. But is so easy to defer such a matter that I find days and years go by without having acted., I am sure brother Peck will understand the sincere gratitude of each of us for his services; and also that each writer will feel that his or her contribution is appreciated, tho, may-be, not acknowledged Perhaps I may attempt to give some of my impressions of this coast country in contrast with the Atlantic coast country, some time in the future; but this will require both time and space not now available. tir . . a we nave just past through an unprecedented month of rains, floods and resultant disasters. If those of the News readers who, during the past summer, or at other times, viewed the rugged Sierras as their peaks pierced the fleecy clouds and stood out in bold relief against the. blue sky so serene and placid, could have witnessed the. transpositions to snow storms, thunder and light ningsof cloud-bursts that , sent floods and disaster into the semi tropical.valleys below, they would respect them more for their mighty possibilities." Then, if they could look upon them "some of these beautiful mornings, from amid ' the roses, geraniums and orange blossoms, as their, serra ted peaks, white as polished mar ble, stand out far above the clouds in the " brilliant sunlight, they would witness the grandest .and most magnificent sight that south em California presents. I was interested in the recent letter from J. K. Stevens, . of Kansas, on his trip through Cali fornia. , I am not sure just who this Mr. Stevens is; perhaps John Stevens of my boyhood acquaint ance. ' His observations an4 reflec tions, as. , expressed -concerning California indicate 'satisfaction with hia. ..present Kansas home life. ' And, after all, Jthis is. the measure by yihych we. gauge, in a very large degree, the relative merits of other; places when con trasting them with our home. I wish it were 'an even greater factor in' the lives of all our peo ple. Then greater contentment and happiness .would obtain. For me, there is no place, as sociation or condition of things no.matter how ely si an that can displace, or efface the scenes and environments," of my childhood days in dear old Fulton County, Pennsylvania, as they are f resr coed high on the walls ofmy. memory, uther associations are ikewise dear to me, and fill their allotted places in the course of life; but they do not supplant the former. ? I think much about the trans formation of the-old turnpike in to the Lincoln Highway, and wonder how much'it has been im- j tJ- yrvveu uuuer me new name BOILER EXPLOSION. John A. Irwin Painfully Scalded Mon day Afternoon When Boiler of His Heating Plant Burst Th,e home of Merchant John, A. Irwin, of the "Irwin Store," is equipped with a hot-water heat: ing plant the boiler being in the basement and the expansion tank and outlet pipe on the third story the pipe opening out on the north side of the building. ' J About 12:30 Monday afternoon, Mr. Irwin went down to the boiler and seeing that it. needed some additional water, opened the intake pipe. Soon after the beginning of the injection of the cold water, the boiler burst on the side by which Mr. Irwin was standing, and the 'escaping hot water and steam scalded him very severely from his chin to his feet. Dr. Mosser was called and rendered Mr. Irwin every at tention possible under the cir cumstances, and Mr. Irwin has been resting "as comfortably as might be expected. It is hoped that the burns were not deep, and that he will speedily recover without any ill effects of the ac cident. It is believed that the blizzard of Saturday night and Sunday, which drove down from the north, sealed the outlet r r pe, thus chang ing the plant from a hot-water, to one of steam. Bcr 81st Anniversary. Mrs. James A. Stewart, of Green Hill, expects to celebrate in a quiet way her 81st birthday on Friday, the 18 th. Among the guests to be present are her son, William. N. Stewart of Trenton, N. J., and her daughter, Mrs. L. H. Wible, " of Harrisburg. Her home the Green Hill House is flit a one or tne very lew remaining road houses that were famous among travelers between the East and the West before the ad vent of railroads, and it never closed. Mrs. Stewart lived there nearly all the years of her.life, and has rived to see the "Old Pike" rebuilt and rehabilitated by' travel, and the old House' is again frequently taxed . to over flowing on many- summer days and nights. We venture the as sertion that no other landlady be tween Philadelphia and Pittsburg is so often remembered by her guests who send her souvenirs from all. interesting points in North America. Mrs. Stewart assists actively every day in the duties of the household. Bought Nice Farm. ; Dayton Mellott formerly an Ayr township farmer, has just purchased the John F. Gelwicks farm near Edenville, Franklin county, and will soon move to it. The farm contains 231 acres, and has substantial and desirable buildings. It has been in the Gelwicks name for 103 years, and is known ' far and wide for its beauty of location and fertility of soil. through Fulton county, as well as throughout the State. Southern California has more hiehwav boulevards than, herhaps, any other, like area of the United States; and it has been a splen did investment, though not eco nomically expended. The con struction of good permanent roads is one:of the n ;st logical and practical business policies Fulton county . can adopt Then with the highly perfected auto vehic les pow available, and a qietus put on the 50 per cent dividends of the Standard Oil Co., the ques tion of transportation of all kinds can be quite satisfactory met With the fine boulevards i in this southern California the auto ve hicle has put railroads to a su preme test for existence in many places, in both passenger . and reight traffic. With best, wishes to all News readers' and the Edi tor thereof, I am, '' ' . Sincerely. O. R. Cline. FROM REV. GEO. SHOEMAKER. Wants to Visit Moonellsburg Soon as fie Can Ride Over the mountain on New Railroad. Waterloo, Iowa, Feb. 7. seen" in your last paper that all kind3 of birds had come to the old town, because it was so warm "Pshaw, now! you're joking, are you not?" Out here we have had "rasslin" time with the weather, Mercury racing away down to 36 degrees below zero, and the wind a howlin' to beat the band When I arose from my virtuous couch this morning, I was greet ed by a 26 degree count below zero, and, so far as 1 could see, there werent no manner of need" or use for such capers on the part of the weather. Ice is plenty thick enough; germs are all frozen,' and everything else done that needs to be done by cold, so far as I am able to judge It must be 'that the weather man has designs on our coal piles burned up two tons of coke, for which I paid, of my hard earned money, seven dollars and fifty cents per ton, during the long month of January, just past I that rate is kept up during the year, 1 11 be all broken to pieces in more ways than one. . . But spring is coming, and sum- mer, too; and we will have the birds with us in due time. Iowa glorious Iowa has never failed us yet, and she will not I read your paper every week from top to bottom, inside, out side, underside and every other side that is readable, and while doing so have numerous "asides" with the dear good woman by my side. The old town and the old friends have a grip on us that will not let go. Do you know, I even read that yarn" of Nace's I think it must have been one of the young er generation. I never could be lieve my old friend A. U. would ever spin such yarns about his wonderful pullets. If he will just send those birds out here to Iowa, we will give them a touch of weather that will spoil their record for' eggs, 'and we'll do it dead easy."' The idea of such carrying oh" by a lot of chick ens! it beats alll.v But then, perhaps, that's what they plan ned to do. Eggs are selling here at 35 cents a dozen at the pres ent time. Pretty stiff price' for the buyer, but a smiling price for the seller. Apples are sixty cents a peck; My, but they taste good! Potatoes more than' a dol lar a bushel, cabbage, four cents a pound, &c, and yet we man age to ' live, and enjoy life- thanks to a kind Providence. During the month of Jaunary, under the leadership of the Coleg rone Evangelistic party, compos ed of Rev. W. S. Colegrone, Evan gelist Mrs. Colegrone, pianist and womens' worker, and Prof, L. G. Dibble, soloist and chorus eader, my church held revival meeti ngs. The work accomplish ed was excellent Nearly two hundred people renewed their covenant, or began the christian ife. The church and the com munity were greatly, helped by these meetings, and this pastor s wonderfully cheered. I began my work in this con erence in the fall of 1877. Of the men then members of the conference, there remain only 9 in the effective ranks. ' Of these nine, only four, including myself are pastors of churches, the' rest are. in detached work. Yet our Conference ranks are- full, -for God has raised up men to step in where others fall out .'. Say,' Mr. Editor, what has be come of the Railroad?:' I look for some word about 'it every week. I am persuaded 'that if there was any word to say, an editor with the "nose for news" you have, would "smell"-'it1' Before I go to Heaven, I want to ride over the Cove mountain on the cars. I maybe doomed 'to disappoint ment, but I hope not , I've just been thinking of the old time "butchering time." I ' Game Notes. Secretary of Game Commission, Joseph Kalbfus, addressed a meeting of the local sportsmen's associations at Bedford last week. Bedford county is to receive a liberal number of game birds and animals for distribution this spring. Fulton county, accord ing to a letter to this office, is to receive a small number of ring neck pheasants in the spring. We have been told that ten or twelve years ago, a covey of tame English pheasants were liberated in the north-eastern part of this county, and they soon fell a prey to boys (big ones) who could walk up to them and pot them as easily as any old rheumatic roost er on the farm could be shot. The idea of preserving them un til they become wild and multi plied seems not to have been con sidered. ihe Mexican quai brought from the torrid zone to be liberated in Pennsylvania to freeze to death, happily all died in Harrisburg before being set free. Experience in every state in the Union has shown that im ported game birds are a rank failure in the United States, in eluding those brought from simi lar climates. Local sportsmen united a few weeks ago in a re quest that several elk be liberated in the Meadowgrounds and in the Aughwick regions this spring. but the applications were refused by the Game Commission as not practical on account of probable damage suits that would be in stituted by land owners. The Secretary states that accumulat ed claims now run into manv thousands of dollars, and that wild turkeys are included in the nuisance class by some farmers, Visited Columbus. Clayton J. Hixson. of Unioa township, and Harry Mumma, o: Licking Creek, jury commission ers, were in town last Thursday drawing the jurors for the March term of court While calling at the News office, Mr. Hixson told of a very pleasant trip he had to Columbus, O., during the holi dayc, visiting his daughter Amy (Mrs. E. J. Bennett) and his sis terElmira, (Mrs. John Lodge). One of the things that makes Columbus famous is, that it is the city in which Peruna is made the medicine that has made Dr. Hartmaa a multi-millionaire. Mr Hixson, with some friends, visit ed' the Doctor's dairy farms eight or ten of them-near- Col umbus. Three hundred and forty cows are milked daily and the milk taken into the City and sold at 10 cents a quart The men that do the milking are dressed in spotless white garments, and there is a man to do the milking for every twenty-six cows the milking being done by hand. Lost Two Nice Heifers. A peculiar accident happened causing the loss of two valuable young heifers to Farmer Conrad Glazier of the Cove on Sunday night He was keeping a herd of cattle at his farm just south of town, tenanted by Dale Gar land. When Dale went to the barn Monday morning to feed. he noticed that the cattle did not get up when the feed was placed in the manger, and on goine around into the stable to investi gate, found, two nice " two-year- old heifers lying dead in one of the stalls. It seems that one of the heifers Had stripped her chain sometime during the night went to visit a neighbor in a nearby stall, both became tangled ud in the latter's chain, both fell ' arid strangled to death. ! Mrs. David M. Kendall enter tained a few ladies at dinner on Thursday of last week at her home in Big Cove. wish I knew who told the big gest butchering yarn this fall or winter. God bless all the friends old and new, Vsry truly, Geo. B. Shoemaker. OUR DISTANT FRIENDS. Interesting Extracts from Letters Re cently Received from Former Ful ton County People. L. F. Tritle, Spirit Lake, Iowa RR. 3. For the enclosed dollar bill, please renew my subscrip tion to the Fulton County News for the year 1916. We would not like to miss its weekly visits. It is very cold here and lots of snow, which interferes with travel on the public highways, ap there is usually much trouble from drift ing. ' '' Mrs. B. C. Dawney, Phi'ade' phia, Pa.-"Can!t do without the News" so here's a dollar to put a "7" on our label. Even amidst the rush and bustle of a big city, our old home and friends occupy a great big place in our affec tions. Farm Notes. We are at a loss how. to begin our "notes" this week, ' for the reason that the mass of 'splendid data pertains to districts r organ ized with some definite object in view. It seems that things that are worth while, things that bring solid and lasting benefit are being accomplished only through, or by community work. Here is a story pf a community that is selling 400 pounds of but ter every week in distant cities at city retail prices. The butter is sent directly to the consumers by parcel post" That district has a wide-awake agent of the State- Experimenttation to work up such matter&fflrthem. Brief ly, the butter js al made by an expert in a centrally located creamery and it is real butter for which the city eaters gladly pay the price, for it. i never offends those aristocratic noses. The splendid workof boys and girls, clubs that never "go to pieces" would fill this page of the DaDer. Granges that deserve the name, conducted on sound business principles, seem to be winning wonderful results socially, finan cially, and politically. They are claiming the fatherhood of many, of the recent laws that favor the farmer. ' All this looks easy and simple, but when we dig down under the surface for reasons, we invariably find that some where in the "bunch" there is a ''gander" whose sole business it is to lead in the interest cf his people. He reverses the usual order of too many isolated, tem porary organizations by eliminat ing the cause of failure, namely, what s everybody's business is nobody's business." Hundreds of men are men now past the A B C stage of learning the ac tion, or the purpose of either of the three ingredients that com pose a complete fertilizer and they are eager to enter a higher class a class composed of men of their neighborhood who will stick to gether year after year for the ac complishment of some ripfinitfi object But which will nsanmn the responsibility and. give freely oi nis time in the necessary man- agement? "Aye, there's the . rub." ' - .. License Courts. Judge Gillan. last Friday, filed a decree granting all the liquor licenses applied for in Franklin county with the exceolion of the National Hotel at Greencastle. which was the only one against which there was a remonstrance. Owing to the fact that ..Bedford . county has a "dry" Court there are no applications for license this spring. The Adams 'county license court came to a close last Friday after a fight of almost three weeks. The remonstrances were, against the hotel at York Springs, and two places,. in Get tysburg. Judge McPherson has set March 6th as the time for handing down the decisions in all of the cases. Jefferson countv has been added to the "dry" list of counties of this state. The Judge recently refused all ap plications for " licenses 44 in number. Last year the county had 43 licensed places.
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