f si i n r 4 ctf V0LU31E 17 McCONNELLSBURG, PA., APRIL 20. 1916. NUMBER 31 RECORD OF DEATHS. Aort Sketches of the Lives of Per sons .Who Dare Recently Passed Away. Mrs. Jacob Stine. Bertha Watkins, wife of Jacob Stine, died at their home near tfewville, Pa., early on Wednes ay morning of last week, after an illness of only a few days of pleurisy, aped 37 years, 10 months, and 13 days. The funeral took place last Sunday afternoon and interment was made near her late home. Besides her husband, she is sur vived by four children: Mary, Russell, Maude, and Dora. Mrs. Stine was born near New Gre nada, and is a sister of Mi3s Ida Watkins, who for many years has had her home in the family of ex-Commissioner A. M. Cor bin, of Taylor township. Mrs. Mary Gerehart. j Mrs. Mary (Hose) Gerehart, wife of Daniel Gerehart, of Beth el township, was born in Frank lin county, November 16, 1875, and died Tuesday, April 4, 1916, acred 40 years, 4 months, and 19 days. The funeral was conduct ed by her pastor, Rev. Edward 7. iVfellott, of the Christian Church, of which Mrs. Gerehart had been a devoted member for many years. Her remains were laid to rest in the presence of a large number of sorrowing friends in the cemetery at the upper church in Whips Cove. The deceased was married to Mr. Gerehart on the 1st of No vember, 1894, and to this union four children were born, only one of whom George, with the fath er, survives. Mrs. Emmeline Mellott. Mrs. Emmeline Mellott, widow of Reuben Mellott, died in Bethel township, this county on Thurs day, April 13, 1916, of a compli cation of diseases, aged 56 years, ; months, and 17 days. The fu neral took place last Sunday, and 'nterment was made in theceme--ery at Cedar Grove church. The deceased was a daughter fthe late ex-County Commis ioner George Holly, and she is urvived by two daughters, Miss ..aura, at home, and Letta, wife )f Mr. J. H. Grub, of Thurmond, W. Va. . Mrs. Mellott possessed those lualities of heart and mind that nade her a model wife and moth er, and a good neighbor. Chnrch Notices. Eld. C. L. Funk will preach at Damascus church at 10:30 on the fourth Sunday in April. On Saturday "evening, April 29th a Supper will be given at Zion Church on Timber Ridge, the proceeds to be used for the benefit of the new church. Ev erybody invited. You will get the worth of your money in a good supper and have the satis faction of knowing you are help ing along a good cause. In the Lutheran church Mc Connellsburg, the Easter Servi ces will be conducted as follows: Sunday School at 9.15. Holy Communion at 10.30 and the Eas ter Service at 7 o'clock. Let all those who will commune bring their names on a slip of paper to be placed into the offering plate. Come to the preparatory services on Saturday at 2:30 P. M. In the Big Cove Tannery Luth eran Church the Easter Service will consist of Sunday School at Lot) and Easter church service at 2.80 P. M. Easter Service on Sunday Eve ning April 30 (instead'of Easter aunaay) at Pleasant Grove. : In commenting last week on the candidacy of Geo. A. Harris for the Democratic nomination for Congress, we innocently wade the statement that he had no opposition in the District. We have since learned that a Frank Hn county man by the name of Allday will contest for the nomi . nation; but by the time he gets through with Harris it will be ail-day with him. Recent Weddings. Marshall- Bushong. At the home of the groom's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Snyder, near Three Springs, at 8:30 o'clock last Saturday evening, Rev. Ben son of the U. B. Church united in marriage George Marshall, of Todd township", and Mrs. Hannah Bushong, of McConnellsburg. The bride is the widow of the late Edward Bushong, of Ches ter county, Pa., and a daughter of the late Denton and Elizabeth Hoopengardner, of Whips Cove. The groom is one of Todd town ship's good citizens, and the bride a splendid housekeeper. The News joins in extending hearty congratulations. Barmiart Evans. At the residence of the officiat ing minister, Eld. C. L. Funk, on Thursday, April 13, 1916, Mr. Ira Henderson Barnhart, son of Oth'o and Margaret Mann Barn hart, was married to Miss Mary Etta Evans, daughter of the late N. H. and Dorothy Morgret Ev ans, all of Thompson township, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Barn hart have the hearty congratula tions of a wide circle of friends. Dwellings Duroed. The dwelling house and a small shop with all their contents be longing to Thurman Strait in Licking Creek township, were totally destroyed by fire last Monday night. These buildings were situate on Patterson's Run between the home of Maye Lake and that of David Strait. The fire was discovered about mid night ly Mrs. David Strait who sent her son to awaken Thur- man's wife and three children, and a daughter of Nevin Strait, who were sleeping soundly in the burning building and doubt less would have perished had it not been for the timely warning. Thurman, at the time was sleep ing in a shanty at the Lincoln Highway stone crusher on Rays Hill. We are informed that there was some insurance on the buildings. About noon Tuesday the dwel ling house owned by B. F. De shong and occupied by Webster Sipes at Andover was found to be afire," and on account of the unusually high wind, the flames spread with such rapid headway. that it was impossible .. to save much of the household goods, and the rest of the goods and the house were totally destroyed. Thi3 is hard luck as we are in formed there was no insurance. , The Evangelistic Services. The Evangelistic services con ducted by Rev. Sieber, of Gettys burg, closed last Sunday evening. The meetings grew in interest and attendance until the last meeting when the church was not able to accomodate the large number that applied for admis- T-l 1 1 ft 1 sion. evangelist fcieDer, con ducted sixteen services during his stay with the result that forty-one unchurched persons, sig nified their wish to become mem bers of some church, and they will likely be received next Sun day into the church of their choice. As to the finances, the loose collections amounted to $91.00. Of this sun:, $58 was paid to Mr. Sieber, which, with the pers onal envelope gifts, wil net him about $200.00. Rev. Sieber is a strong man, and did good work. No one could listen to his earnest talks and not be spiritually strength ened, unless his heart was wil fully steeled against the Truth. Even when an American sticks on a postage stamp he faces a shortage in German dyes. Di rector Joseph E. Ralh of the bu reau of engraving a."d printing, which prints 1,000,000,000 stamps a month, said: "Lack of German dyes has resulted in a slight change in the color of our stamps. OUR DISTANT FRIENDS. Interesting Extracts from Letters Re cently Received from Former Ful ton County People. ' Eureka, Kans., April 15. Mr. B. W. Peck, McConnellburg, Pa. My dear old Teacher : En closed please find check for $2.00 which will make me good to 7-2-17. There is not much excitement here, except oil and gas. The major part of this county has been leased, and if the steel peo ple could supply the necessary material, we would soon be a gas town. Three wells have been drilled, and gas has been found 18 miles s. w. of town as the crow flies one, a deep one, in which a second sand has been struck. Well No. 3 is reported to be producing about 8 million feet of gas per day; the other two, 4 or 5 million. Lots of oil west of us. The El Dorado field 35 miles west and 50 mile? south west, is the famous Augusta field. A Star machine, owned by a bunch of the Standard, was wheeled out yesterday into the suburbs of our town, and drilling will commence soon. Two other rigs, 10 mile3 west. We hope to be on the map in three years with a population of 5000 instead of 2500 as now, and to be classed with the manufacturing towns end, we will be, if we have pas in the abundance now believed to be. Our farmers are discouraged on account of the unusual late ness cf the spring. On my birthday, April 7th, we had an 8-inch tf.ov,', on the Sih and 9th it was so cold that half-inch ici was formed, arid it k feared that there is much damage tto fruit. We hope, however, for a better season than for the six or eight past, and that we may have more use for ploughshares, and less use for swords. The railroad fever which seem ed to break out in McConnells burg about a year ago seems to have subsided until temperature is normal. I hope you may have a' relapse and not get over it un til you have'a real railroad. W. T. Grove, M. D. State Agriculture Notes. It is reported to the Depart ment of Agriculture that the winter has been hard on the hon ey bees in various sections on account of the many warm spells. Despite the good prices brought for horses at the rural sales in many sections of the State there has been a tendency of a drop in prices, the estimated value being $158 againstJ171 a year ago. There has been a wonderful in crease in the average " price of sheep, lambs and wool in Penn sylvania over a year ago and there promises to be an awaken ing of the sheep industry if leg islation to curb the ravages of the dogs can be obtained. Present averages show sheep worth $6.10 per hundred pounds against $5.00 a year ago and lambs worth $8.50 a hundred pounds against $7. 10 a year ago. Wool averages 28 cents a pound against 22 cents a year ago. The New Railroad. It takes time. Any project re quiring tiie expenditure of many thousands of dollars must be de veloped with care. The McCon nellsburg and Fort Loudon Rail way began work a year ago. One-third of the' grading was completed when the work closed down L' it Christmas on account of rough weather and all debts were paid up in full to that time. A reorganization is on foot now, and it is believed that arrange ments have been perfected with a Construction Company that will go ahead and complete the work, and have the road in op eration by the close of Bummer. Another Fulton County Boy. We have before us a copy of an industrial edition of the Advo cate, a newspaper published in the county seat of Logan coun ty, Colorado, that has the rustle of western enterprise and "get there." Every one of its thirty four pages is full of interesting information concerning the coun ty and its people. From this pa per we copy the following which tells something of a Fulton Coun ty boy who cast his lot with the people of Logan county, Colo., and has had no reason to regret it. The Advocate says: "In treating of the town of Crook, in the eastern end of Lo gan county, too much emphasis cannot be laid on the important relationship of Crook to one of its citizens, namely E. A. Buck ley, and of E. A. Buckley to Crook. "For nearly ten years E. A. Buckley labored at the meagre salaried occupation which he went to Crook to accept while at the same time he paid for and built up the mercantile business which now occupies nil his time. It is this kind of devotion and work that ha3 von for E. A. Buckley the hip;h position which he holds among his fellow-citizens and won for him the title of the most consistent, persistent and loyal booster which Crook possesses. It is th's type of man which is responsible wholly for the progress Crook has made. "E. A. Buckley came from Fulton county, Pennsylvania, where he was born on February 23, 1S47. He a! .'.ended the com mon school.; aid the normal school and th:jn taught in the Fulton county schools two years, and came west on July 21, 1895. He railroaded with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and the Union Pacific as operator, and engaged in the mercantile busi ness in Crook March 10, 1901, buying the S. L. Breckenridge stock. This stock inventoried at $1,000 and the business was con ducted in a structure of small di mensions. But embarkation in a new business did not tempt him to let go his profession of those days. He continued as station agent at Crook from February, 1901, until October 25, 1909. It was then that he gave up the railroad world; since he has been devoting his time to the mercan tile business and farming and conducting the postoflice atCrook. The stock of the Buckley Mer cantile company to-day is valued at $4,000 and in the handling of the large business Mr. Buckley is assisted by one man. and his wife, the latter held by Mr. Buckley to be his best aid. Mr. Buckley is also a member of the school board, and he occupies a promi nent place in all affairs that go for the advancement of the town." Logan County is situated in the northeastern part of Colorado, and it was organized only 29 years ago. Two years later, it gave up territory enough to make two counties and still has an area greater than the state of Rhode Island. It sports a hundred-thousand-dellar Court house. The present Clerk and Recorder is Mrs. Una B. Wesner a na t!ve of Ohio, and the office car ries with it a salary that would look good even to an Editor. Fifteen years ago she went to Logan County, after having taught school in her home state nine years. In 1912 she was elected to the office of Clerk and Recorder, and re-elected two years ago. The office of Clerk and Recorder in Colorado is one of the busiest offices at the coun ty capital. . The County Superintendent of Logan County is Miss Flora A. Allison, a former Ibwa school teacher. She went to Colorado four and a half years ago, filed on a homestead near Padroni and taught in the schools of that vil lage while the crops and final proofs were ripening on her GOOD WORK! A Notoriously Bad Section of the Lin coln Highway to be Made a Boulevard. Under the direction cf Super intendent Kilmer of the State Highway Department, work h&s begun in earnest to resurface the Lincoln Highway with Medina rock from tl.e summitof Sideling Hill mountain to the summit of Rays Hill, a distance of about three miles. Since the days when the Cham bersburg and Bedford turnpike was built one hundred years ago, this piece of road has had a na tional reputation for being the worst piece between the two oceans. It is on a bed of Pocono sandstone (the softest sandstone known) and they have been po konothin but sandstone on it ever since it was first built, with the result that the more they repair ed it, the deeper became the sand. When the Glidden tour ists passed over it a few years ago, the City newspapers gave it a notoriety that had much to do with warning travelers against its use. That it is now to be con verted into a veritable boulevard will be joyous news to tourists, for the watershed over which it passes affords most magnifi cent scenery. J. A. S. Limits Use of Fuuds. In an opinion filed last Friday, supplemental to one handed over earlier in the week relative to construction and maintenance of state aid roads and state high ways, Deputy Attorney General Keller holds that the state high way commipsioner cannot build state-aid roads in townships on state highway routes. Earlier in the week he held that state-aid funds cannot be used on state highway routes in boroughs. He holds that counties, bor oughs and townships, under the act of 1913 may contribute to the cost of reconstruction and im provement of state highways in the same manner as provided for state-aid roads. In such cases, he holds that the entire cost of maintenance and repair must be paid by the state, and that the state's share in such construction and the maintenance cost must be paid out of the state highway funds as distinguished from the state-aid funds. His opinion establishes a line of procedure which will be fol lowed throughout the remainder of the appropriation year. Profitable in Chester County. Chester County, Pennsylvania, is considered one of the best farmed counties in the United States. When the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture wanted to determine the value of intensive as compared with extensive farm ing, Chester county was select ed. The survey shows that the crop yield produced by intensify ing the farming process rises along with the labor income up f to a certain point. Loss through intensiveness does not occur on many Chester County farms. Most of the losses arise from too small yields, The survey also shows that crop yields may be increased by intensive methods to a point about 40 percent high er than the Chester County aver age before intensifying ceases to be profitable. SnW.nbe for the News. farm. Then she proved up in October 1914, and was elected County Superintendent in Novem ber, resigning her school at Pad roni to assume the duties of the office which she is now filling with signal success. Of course, it is not necessary to tell you that the E. A. Buck ley is a son of Judge Buckley at Fort Littleton, and a son-in-law of George S. D jran at Burnt Cabins. What Dues It Cost to Produce a Quart of Milk? Manufacturers, transportation people and other business men employ expert efficiency counsel ors to strictly account for all items of cost of production, trans portation and doing business. L. W. Lighty, dairying expert of the Pennsylvania Department 01 Agriculture says that the farmer can use business methods with good results. To place the dairy on a profit-making basis, Mr. Lighty says: "The farmer is a manufacturer and should be a business man and cannot begin too soon to do some careful cost accounting. In the production of a quart of milk enter many items of cost. The feed cost is the largest and the next is the labor cost, then follow the buildings and the cost of delivering the milk at the sta tion or creamery. The interest and depreciation on the stock and equipment is an important item. Taxes and other miscellaneous items, six or seven in number, all help to swell the cost. Ex perts at Cornell University com piled cost figures obtained in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Con necticut. New Jersey and New York and found that the average cost of keeping a cow a year ranged from $107.67 in New York, to $63.19 in Massachusetts. "The New Hampshire figures were obtained by keeping a strict record of twenty-six farm herds in a cow testing association for one year. The cows were above the average of the state in quali ty and production. The average cost of keeping the cow for a year was $147.73 and the aver age cost of a quart of milk from these twenty-six herds was $.042 The New Jersey cost of milk is the same and the figures were ta ken from the work of the Agri cultural Experiment Station herd which has better animals than the average on the farms. Con necticut and Massachusetts re spectively found the cost of a quart of milk $.046 and $.052 the figures also taken from the work of the Experiment Station herds. The New York figures were ob tained by keeping careful records of 174 farm herds consisting of abont 5,000 cows during two years. In 1912 a quart of milk $.051 and in 1913 a quart cost $.044 on the average. "Here is something strange. In 1913 feeds were higher, labor was higher, cows were higher and yet the cost of milk dropped seven-tenths of a cent per quart. Why this change? Invariably when we begin to keep records of the production of the cows, the cost of production i3 reduced. So long as we keep no records, we keep boarders and not a few robber cows. Let me show you what the Cornell investigators found in 1912. An average loss wa3 sustained by the owners of 540 cows of $16.00 per cow, for while the average milk produc tion per cow was about 1,500 quart3 the year through. Cows to make a profit had to produce fully twice as much milk during the year. "Wherever and whenever we keep records of the production of our herds we find from one third to two-thirds of the cows we feed are not making "iy prof it and often we sustau consid erable loss by keeping such indi vidual cows. The most practical most economical and altogether the best way to keep these re cords is by the organization of cow-testing associations. At a very small cost to the individual farmer, a strict accounting and record of production can be kept of every individual cow in the entire community. These neigh borhood organizations have re duced the cost of milk production by nearly one-half in many com munities. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture will send a rep resentative into any ' community to explain the methods of organi zing and conducting a cow-test- AMBITION VS. HEALTH. Little Talks on Health and iljgicne by Samuel G. D.Jon, 31. D., LL D., Commissioner of Health. The accumulated knowledge of science regarding the workings of the human mind d-monstrates how little has been accomplished toward cM'-'covering the rt'. ioii ship between the physical and the mental. It is, however, plain to even the most casual observer that the condition ci the mind makes a profound impression up on our health. The intensity of life in modern civilization makes demands up on us in many ways thut aro in excess of those which the mors primitive environment required of our forefathers. This often results in a mental and nervous condition detrimental to good health. We Americans have often been accused by observers from other lands of living under an intense strain and struggling to advance our financial and social status greatly at the expense of higher aims. It is unquestionably true that ambition often leads us far from the paths of peace and contentment. Our National ideals seem to lean strongly toward the achievement of pecuniary suc cess. In seeking this thousands of men and women sacrifice them selves and fail to observe the simple rules of right living which their intelligence teaches are necessary for the maintenance of health. Those who plunge unrestrain edly into the exhausting struggle for great riches and power, cast aside what the philosophers of all ages have deemed most worth while, the . peace of an humble mind open to impressions of the wonders and beauties of Nature, art and the sweetness and purpose of a simple life. Simple Tests for Seed Corn. Testing seed corn becomes doubly important this year, ow ing to the fact that last year much of the corn failed to ma ture entirely. Tests should be made before the corn is shelled and every ear should be tested. A simple method is recommend ed by the Pennsylvania State College School of Agriculture and Experiment Station: Two inches of wet sawdust, well packed down, should be placed in a box about twenty inches square and three inches deep. A sheet of muslin of the same size as the box marked off into two-inch squares, numbered from one to 100 should be laid over the saw dust. The germinator will then hold seed from one hundred ears. The ears to be tested should be laid out in a row and every fifth one numbered. Beginning with the first ear two grains should be picked out of the ear near the tip two near the middle and two near the butt, and these six grains placed on the square num bered "1". Likewise six grains . should be taken from each of the other ears until the germinator is full. Then the corn should be covered with a wet burlap bag. If the germinator is kept at room temperature for five or six days it may then be opened and the vitality of each ear determin ed. An ear should not be regard ed as first class for seed, accord ing to the Pennsylvania Experi ment Station, unless all the six'' grains from it have germinated. The ears not indicating good vi tality should be discarded. Mrs. Ellis C. Lynch, Mrs. W. R. Sloan, Mrs. H. U. Nace, and Miss Emily Greathead spent Tuesday in Chambersburg. ing association and even assist in the organization, and free of charge. Simply write your wants to the Department of Ag riculture at Harri8burg, Pa. The cow-testing association will re duce the cost of milk production and put the dairy on a prcfit making basis."
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