fill '5vAAAA'.!l 'I fix VOLUME 17 McCONNELLSBURG, PA., JULY '20, 1916. NUMBER 44 LIGHTNING PLAYS HAVOC. ROBBING THE CHILDREN. FAIRYTALES ANOTHER SOLDIER BOY. ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW. .Jrultoti M l W IV ii It 11 M Li f J Last Thursday's Storm Killed Cattle, Knocked Horses Down, Wrecked a Barn, Damaged a Dwelling. During a severe electrical storm that passed over this portion of theCounty Thursday afternoon of last week, lightning struck an apple tree on Clark McGovern's farm in Tod township and three head of cattle that were stand ing near the tree were killed. The cattle were the property of John F. Mackey, tenant on the McGovern farm. Mr. Mackey carried insurance on his live stock. The cattle killed were Holstcins, two cows and a steer. Lightning followed the tele phone wires into Mrs. Margaret Johnston's residence in Ayr town ship, putting the phone out of commission and tearing off sev eral boards where the wires en tered the building. No one was seriously injured in the house. Down on one ofSamuel Mellotts farms in Ayr township, a bolt struck the comb of the roof on the barn. The slate on one Bide of the barn was ripped off along one end of the building down to the eaves and on the opposite side, the slate was torn off in spots as the lightning followed over and under the roof like a needle. The upper story end wall of the barn was so badly split and wrecked that the remo val of the hay in the full mow was necessary before workmen could repair it. The farm is ten anted by Baltzer Cutchall whose horses were in the stable at the time. One of the animals was knocked down and jammed un der the manger. He had to be assisted to his feet. The horse was badly cut about the head, due to the objects with which it came in contact when it fell head first under the manger. Anoth er horse that had gotten out af ter the shock, was found in the yard with some hide missing from its back. The one render ed helpless, was crazy the next morning.' John F. Mason. John F. Johnson, a well known citizen of Taylor township, died last Sunday morning at the home of a neighbor, Orlando Wagner, after an illness of five or six weeks resulting from a complica tion of diseases. The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon at Mr. Wagner's home, the services being conducted by Rev. Reidell, of the M. E. church, and inter ment was made at Hustontown. Mr. Johnson was a son of Da vid and Susanna Johnson, and he was born on the old Johnson homestead (now the Scott Fruit Farm) in Thompson township on the 5th day of April, 1S46; hence he was aged 70"years, 3 months and 11 days. ' The deceased was married to Miss Jennie Blair, who survives, together with two sons, Lee B., and Dowling both married and residing in Pittsburgh. Accident at Quarry. Last Saturday, John P. Con rad met with an accident at the State Highway stone quarry east f town. They had put in a blast and the men were leaving the quarry when rock slipped down from near the top and it caught them about the legs. 'Squire Conrad's left leg was bruised below the knee so that he was unable to walk. , Geo. McEldowney was caught, but he was not severely injured, and he brought Conrad to town in a bug gy. Library Books. Any one desiring the book or books presented to the Scout Li brary several years ago may have them by calling at the Lutheran Parsonage within the next two eeks. After that time the books will be offered to the High School library. Robt. E. Peter-man. Little Talks on Health and Hjgicne by Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LL. D., Commissioner of Bcaltli. The present habit of turning night into day in our highly illu minated towns, with all sorts of exciting entertainment, keeps the nerves keyed up and upsets the equilibrium.- Children, especially, are apt to suffer from late hours and conse quent lack of sleep. For the first two years of life, eating and sleeping are two great essentials. Babies should sleep from fi f- teen to twenty hours out of the twenty-four; and older children from ten to fourteen hours. It is not an unusual thing to see ba bies, in arms of very young chil- dren, being carried about until their parents' bed time. This is injurious to the children and can not be made up by additional rest the next day. Permitting children to remain up late is a strain on their ner vous system which, while it may not be immediately apparent, is bound to exert a detrimental in fluence in the long run. Often times the ill effects are perfectly apparent to the intelligent ob server. Irritableness and any of the train of evils which result from an overtaxed nervous system may result from contindally robbing the child of sleep. A regular bed time should be set for chil dren according to their age, rang ing from six o'clock for babies, to eight for children of eight or nine, and this should be regular ly adhered to. This is a matter of the utmost importance in es tablishing a sturdy constitution in childhood. With adult3, irregularity and short hours of sleep are often a factor which predisposes to ill health. There are exceptions to this as to all rules. Occasionally one will find an individual who has an unusual capacity for work with less than the ordinary a mount of rest, but for the ordi nary man or woman this would end disastrously. Nelson Dorse Wins. Monday's Harrisburg Patriot says that one of the largest crowds in the history of racing at Carlisle, turned out to witness the midsummer event at the Car lisle Gentlemen's Driving Asso ciation, held at Carlisle last Sat urday. Several of the races were well contested, and the result, in at least one of the others, was a big surprise, George Nelson, a green horse owned by George K. Nelson, of Newville, winning in straight heats in the 2:30 pace over horses that had raced for years. The Nelson horse won over three competitors; Kid Har vey, owned by John Witmer, of New Kingdom; Happy Jack own ed by William Deitch, . Carlisle, and Lady McKay, owned by E. G. Eppley, Carlisle." George's horse made the first heat in 2:271 the second, 2:31, and the third, in '2:281. The Nelson horse will appear on the tracks in Altoona on the 9th of August. Five tlollars a Day. Mr. M. M. Brakeall, of Dra vosburg, Pa., accompanied by Allen Brakeall, Rush Whitten and E. A. Gisel all of the same place, stopped in McConnellsburg a few hours last Friday as they were enroute in an automobile to the Gettysburg battlefield. They were making the trip through in one day and had plenty of time to rest. "Mart" as he was fa miliarly known in his boyhood days is a. native of Thompson township, and went to school at Center. He has been in the western part of the State twenty eight years, and is a prominent contractor and builder. He says he could use a few good carpen ters to advantage just now at five dollars a day-eight hours work. - --' , i m i' K $ ' ,-7 ij f't -vr xfr -k: & y y., ; tili lili ii J lUulA it ZiZ t Of co'.ir.se every child loves fairy Mont Alto nre juwt as fond of stories us your youngsters, so whenever the on audlenco ready and an:cloiis to hear about the marvelous adventures of tuns or mo uolden Liver or any and Knlden-hulred princyscs, and wliere all the trouble cm;ic3 out right In llil.'l UI u. If - these little folks only knew, nurses at the sanatoria are working u, ,u""' muuicuiuaia, aim fc-iva mem a l I) I It I. mere are more than a hundred seventy at Cresson. As a rule the Fsv. Drawbaush Leaves Altoona. Rev. D. P. Drawbaugh, who during the past sixteen years, has been pastor of the Fourth Lutheran church, Altoona, Pa., tendered his resignation to his congregation on last Sunday morning to become effective Au gust 1st when he will accept a call from Camden, Ind. Rev. Drawbaugh came to Mc Connellsburg soon after graduat ing from Seminary, and served as pastor of the McConnellsburg Big Cove Tannery and Little Cove churches for five years, when he went to Altoona, and has served in that pastorate ever since. Rev. Drawbaugh is an able minister and has been iden tified with the Lutheran synodi cal bodies in numerous responsi ble offices. (iocs to Long Island. After having served the Luth eran congregation in McConrells- burg and at Big Cove Tannery very acceptably for a period of more than four year?, Rev. Rob ert E. Peterman, announced last Sunday that he had received a call from the English Lutheran church of St. Stephens, Hicks- ville, Long Island. Believing that a change in fields of labor would prove advantageous to both himself and the congrega tions he had been serving, Mr. Peterman asked that the pastoral relations here be dissolved to take effect September 1st, at which time he expects to take charge of his new work. The announcement that Rev. Peterman and his good wife were about to leave McConnellsburg was received with much regret by their numerous friends. Bjth Mr. and Mrs. Peterman have been active in every movement not only for the upbuilding of the congregations in which they were identified but that made for the betterment of the town and com munity. Hicksvillo is situated about 25 miles from New York City, 13 miles from Oyster Bay, 5 miles from the International Polo Grounds, and 10 miles from Gar den City. Hicksville is one of the main railroad junctions of Long Island. Hence, it will be seen that the place is easy of ac cess, is located right in the cen ter of interesting territory, and the Peterman parsonage at Hicks ville will be a splendid place for Fulton County people to spend a summer vacation. Li Snbicnbe lor the Naws. fc r ,WV V.-"-.s ."- -; I v - " - 'A ; y if- V ?3k A ;n M dl Li i-L fciff Ua Cii-LTtiiliiSiijlaLifialikLhlialuih tales nnd t!m Uiudirn in the State other stories from tint wonderland where Dr. Samuel O. Dixon,' Commissioner of Health, and all of the doctors and very hard to Rive them such pood care that they will drive away the dreaded cnance to live as napiiily eTer afterwards as one can In this workaday boys and frlrls amon the patients at the Mont Alto sanatorium and some children respond readily to treatment und are for the moat part cheery little Rural Health America's First Duty. Washington, D. C, July 14. "The estimated economic loss which our nation suffers each year from typhoid fever and ma laria alone aggregates 5928,234, leaving out of entire account the sorrow, the unhappiness, the misery, and the inefficiency which follow in their train." Senator Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisiana today addressed the Senate on the subject of "Rural Health America's First Duty." "The greatest asset which our country can have" said Senator Ransdell, "i3 the healthy American citizen, and valuable as it may be to in crease the health of livestock and vegetation, it is of far greater importance that we throw every possible safeguard about the health of the man who is respon sible for that livestock and vege tation. Over 900 million dollars lost every year. A sum which is sufficient to put our country into a state of preparedness equal to that of any nation in the world, enough money to give us the largest navy afloat and the most efficient army which the world has ever seen, is annually offered up as a sacrifice to two diseases which are entirely preventable. Enough money to pay the annual expenses of every college student in the United States, is ab.-iolute-fy thrown away every year." Senator Ransdell estimates thp grand total loss from typhoid fever at $271,032,880 per annum, and the loss from malaria at ?Gl)l,904.750 per year; the total ner capita loss from these twe diseases being $9.46. By com parative estimates it was shown that the United States Govern ment appropriated $5,010,175 for the investigation and prevention of - the diseases of animal and plant life and only $1,917,506 for the investigation and prevention of the diseases of man. The Eclipse. Last Friday night, there was a beautiful three-quarter eclipse of the moon. Shortly after ten o' clock the earth's shadow began to creep over the moon, and by half past eleven all but the lowei portion was covered. The shad ow seemed to stand at that posi tion-for half an hour, durinp which time a well defined ring indicated the 'moon's outlines, with the central portions shaded to a peculiar tint. McConnells burg was fortunate in having an ideal sky only enojgh fleecy clouds to add to the splendor of the scene. ' V'.. ' -i- : .r mm ,.- -i ' . Tuberculosis Sanatoria at rrpssnn nnrl nurses can find time there Is always Cinderella, The Three Sisters or the there nre elants and cnomes. fnlrlnH the end and everybody lives happy ever Good Shot Mrs. W. M. Hann who resides near Bethlehem church in Tod township, is much interested in poultry raising and was the pos sessor of a fine flock of nice chick ens. A family of weasels resid ing in the same community be came interested in Mrs. Hann's chickens with the result that the number of chickens was steadily diminishing. Her husband, Mr. W. M. Hann became interested, and decided he would "clean up" the weasel family with his trusty rule. -He shot several times at the maurauders. At first he scared the weasels, but in time they became used to it. Last Saturday during Mr. Hann's ab sence from home, Mrs. Hann saw a big weasel trying to kill one of her best hens, and she got down the gun, pointed it in the direction of the weasel, shut both eyes, pulled the trigger and bang! When she walked to the place where the weasel and hen were, the old hen was stretching herself up and shaking out her feathers, and the weasel was as dead as a last year's bird nest, Mrs. Hann having shot the ani mal through the heart. A wea sel's pelt is worth good money. rree Sheep. Two weeks ago, we told brief ly the story of free sheep, the animals to be given to farmers oy an ansociation of businessmen of the State in conjunction with the State Agricultural Depart ment. About five hundred farm ers will be given ten pure bred .theep each. For the farmer's ?are of the sheep he will receive til the wool and half the lambs. We have not heard of any move to have part of the 5,000 sheep corne to Fulton county. Other counties are rushing in for their ihare, why not have some here? Have we positively no organiza tion through which the Agricul tural Department can act? Does Fulton county propose to let every ffer of something good slip away? A'e know that a few men here have labored for years to get the farmers together in an effective organization, but one of them laid to us recently that he had about despaired of ever accom plishing anything.. The Aetna Powder Co., at Mt Union, is making five million rounds of powder for the govern ment. Each batch of powder is tested in a 3-inch gun before it is packed. This is bringing pre paredness pretty close home, ' Wi-...." Howard N. Hoke, Company B, Engineer BatallioD, Writes from El Paso, Texas, Under Date, July 7th. The following taken from a letter from Howard N. Hoke, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Will E. Hoke, former residents of Ayr town ship, to his cousin Josephine Run yan, will be read with interest by Howard's Fulton County friends and by others interested in the boys down on the frontier. How ard says: "Well, we are here on the bor der ready to cross the Rio Grande into Mexico at a moment's no tice. It looks now like Mexico was going to back down, and we will be called upon to clean up the country for Carranza if we go in at all. I want to go in to fight; for, in my estimation we will have the fighting to do soon er or later, and 'why not now?' It is an awful country down here all sand as far as the eye can see no vegetation except the cactus, and a few other thorn bearing plants. And, talk about it's being hot! Howly Moses About a hundred in the shade. The only thing that saves at all, is the cool breeze that finds its way up from the Gulf, and the fact that we are at an altitude of 1700 feet above sea level almost as high as your Cove mountain. Then, too, we have no humidity, When we are exposed to the sun, it seems just like we were stand ing by a hot fire. It is necessary for us to keep a wet cloth in our hats. It is only when we are in the shade that we get the cooling effect of the air. At night it is so cool that we are glad to sleep under a blanket. "I am with Company B, Engi neers Battalion, N. G. U.S., and we are very proud of ourselves, as the War Department has giv en us first place among the En gineering Companies of the mil itia. Pennsylvania has two com panies of Engineers A, of Scran ton; B, of Philadelphia. Our company has 89 enlisted men, ana ours wa3 tne only company in Pennsylvania counting all classes of the service that didn't have a man turned down when we passed the examination for service. "We spent five days and nights in transit from Mt. Gretna to El Paso, and we were a tired bunch when we reached our destination. There are now thousands of troops encamped here. Separat ing our camp from the Rio Grande is a sand hill which protects us from the fire of snipers on the Mexican border. On the whole, we are very comfortable. Of course, there are a tew things we have to depend upon our pa triotic friends at home for. Army rations may be all right from a scientific standpoint, but when a soldier sits down to his mess, he misses a lot of appetizing things he was accustomed to find on mother's table. We are not al lowed outside of camp to get any extra 'eats', or tobacco, cigar ettes, soap, stationery, tooth powder, etc. some, or all, of which articles, most soldier boys need. 'Now, if there is any one in dear old McConnellsburg that wants to do something for any of the 'boys' and will send it to me, I will see that it gets to its prop er destination. Lven a nennv box of matches is a fortune down here. Newspapers sell for five cent3 a piece, and when it is con sidered that we have - but fifty cents a day as a wage income, it behooves us to think twice before we decide to be lavish in our expenditures. 'In conclusion, permit me to say that there is one thing that always looks good to a boy in camp; that is, a letter from any of the home friends. My ad dress is, H. N. Hoke, Company B, Eng. Batt. U. S. N. G. Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas." Subscribe for the News. Snapshots atThiir Com'ugs and Goingi Here for a Vacation, or Away for a Restful Outing. David Naugle, of Mercersburg, was entertained in the H. A. Comerer home last week. Miss Rose Fisher, of Cham beraburg, was a week-end gueLit in the S. B. Woollet home. Mis3 Janet Gobin and brother Charles near Knobsville, were in town last Saturday morning. Fred Fisher who ha3 been at tending school in Lancaster, i3 home for the summer vacation. Miss Mildred Dunlap, of New ark, N. J., is visiting Mr. Frank Stouteagle and daughter Miss Jeannette. Miss A. L. Robinson, of Phila delphia, is a gue3t in the home of Mr. and Mrs. II. U. Nace, west Lincoln Way. Miss Anna Pittman of Todd township is spending some time visiting relatives in Franklin and Cumberland counties. Miss Louie Pittman, of Sipes Mill, was a guest in the homes of her uncles, Richard and A. J. Pittman during the past week. Rev. C. W. Bryner, of Houtz sale, spent a week in this place and preached to his former con gregation in the M. E. church in McConnellsburg last Sabbath. Miss Clara Starr, of Littles town, Pa., i3 a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Taylor. Her brother Allen was here for a week during beginning of July. Miss Mary McElroy, of Fay- etteville, was a recent gueat of Miss Emma Sloan for several days. Both ladies have been teaching in Johnstwon for several years. Hon. and Mrs. S. W. Kirk and their children Malcolm and Ruth, accompanied by Misses Oiive Lodge and Esther Kendall, motored to New Grenada last Friday. Miss Helen Hanks, of Everett, has been visiting Miss Jeannette Stouteagle since early part of last week, and on Monday, the two ladies went to Chambersburg, re turning next day. Mrs. F. W. Zorn (NoraFerren berg) and daughter Milliard, of Gibsonburg, O. are visiting in the home of Mrs. Zorn's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Hamil, East LincolrvWay. Prof, and Mrs. A. J. Dohner and their little son Carl, of Sa lem, N. J., visited relatives in McConnellsburg last week, re maining for about a week. Mrs. Dohner was Nora Fisher, of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Sipe and their daughter Miss Eleanor, Mr3 J C. Kirk, and Miss Martha Ed wards, of Wells Tannery, motor ed to McConnellsburg last Thurs day morning and spent the day shopping. Mrs. Maria Dickson Alexan der and baby Mary Anna, finding. Washington to hot for comfort, came up to McConnellsburg last week to share in the more re- reshing breezes from off Old Tuscarora. George Mayne, of Altoona and lis brother Samuel, of Duncannon spent several days in the County last week, returning to their re spective homes Monday. Judge S. L. Buckley, accompanied them as far as Chambersburg in Sam's car. Miss Nellie Rumel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs J. A. Rumel, of Gettysburg, is spending this week in the home of her uncle James W. Rumel in this place. Miss Nellie is a Bell Telephone operator in her town, and' is now taking a well earned vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mayes, of Red Lion, and the former's sis ter, Mrs. Kerr, of Baltimore, mo tored to McConnellsburg last Sat urday and were the guests in, the home of Mrs. Matflda Trout un til Monday. On their return to Red Lion they took with theia Rose Daniels and Mildred Hull, '
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