VOLUME 17 McCONNELLSBURG, PA., AUGUST 10.1916. NUMBER 4 RECORD OF DEATHS. Short Sketches of the Lives of Per sons Who Have Recently Passed Away. DUFFIELD KEYSER. After an illness of several months, Samuel Elliott Duffield Keyser passed away at his home on East Market Street, McCon nellsburg, Wednesday evening, August 3, 1916, aped 62 years, 6 months, and 20 days. The funeral took place on the following Saturday morning, the services being conducted by his pastor, Rev. Yearick of the Re formed church, assisted by Rev. Peterman, of the Lutheran church. Interment was made in Union cemetery. The deceased was a son of John and Margaret Keyser, and was born in Ayr township. He was married to Miss Mary E. Harr, who survives him, together with one daughter Blanche, wife of Sanner E. Ray. Two sisters are living Miss Mary, and Nettie, wife of George Buterbaugh, re dding in Franklin county. For several years Mr. Keyser jv-as associated with his son-in-aw Sanner Ray in the baking ousiness, and he and his wife and sister Mary, and Mr. Ray ind family all resided in the same louse in McConnellsburg. Mr. Keyser was a member of the Reformed church, and one of those good-hearted men that won to him the friendship of every one within the circle of his ac quaintance. Daniul H. Comerer. Daniel Herbert Comerer passed way at the Chambersburg Hos pital, Saturday afternoon, Au irust 5, 1916, aged 31 years, 11 months, and 27 days. The fun eral took place at 10 o'clock the following Monday morning at his ate home in ' Mercersburg, his jastor, the Rev. Allison of the Lutheran Church, conducting the services, and interment was made in the Mercersburg cemetery. The deceased wa3 a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Comerer of Mc Connellsburg, and he was mar ried to Miss Etta E. Mellott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Mellott on the 10th day of June, 1908, who survives, to gether with one son Marshall in the fifth year of his age. The deceased is also survived by his parents and the following sisters: Annie, wife of David A. Ward, Chambersburg; Annetta, wife of Ralph E. Hill, near Foltz, and Miss Catherine, at home. Mr. Comerer was operating a creamery near Mercersburg, and apparently in the best of health. A few weeks ago, he began to complain of a. pain in the lower part of his bofly, and after treat ment by his local physician, he was advised to go to the Cham bersburg hospital . for an opera tion. Last Thursday an opera tion for appendicitis was per formed, but the surgeons found a large abscess connected with the appendix, and the weakened condition of the patient did not allow a recovery from the opera tion. Daniel was an officer in the Lutheran church at Mercersburg, 'i teacher in the Sabbath School, ind foremost in everything that made for the betterment of the hurch. Clyde N. Strait. Clyde N. Strait, son of Joseph nd Eureka Strait, of Belfast township, died Sunday morning July 30, 1916, aged about 20 years. Clyde had been in the employ of William McKee, in Whips Cove, and on the previous evening, he walked over to Lo McKee's only a short dis tance away, and later in the even mg while returning to the home of his employer he became very ck and lay down or fell down was not found until the next , morning. He was unconscious when discovered and remained n that condition but a short time until he died. Funeral was held Pn the following Monday, inter Rare Old Coins. Adam Kelner felt that he need ed a little extra exercise last Friday, so he walked from his home near Saluvia to McConnells burg, and said he intended to walk the return trip. While in the News office that day, he showed us three rare old coins. One is an old copper cent bearing date of 1834. The second is al so a copper cent, but bears the legend "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute," and is dated 1S37. Mr. Kelner found the latter piece while cutting corn in a field near Hustontown a lew years ago. The third coin is also of copper, about the size of a dime, and is very probably, an Austrian coin, dropped by a foreigner on the street in Cum berland, Md., where Mr. Kelner found it several years ago. The two old copper . cents are about the size of a silver quarter dollar. Rnhtwita for tho Nirwti ment being made in the Sideling Hill cemetery. Rev. J. C, Gar land, assisted by Rev. John Mel lott, conducted the services. Besides his parents, Clyde is survived by the following broth ers and sisters: Charles Reed, of near Johnstown; Lewis F., War fordsburg; Daniel B., Jesse V., William B., James S., and Silas M., all'of Belfast township, and Elizabeth, wife of Martin Sipes. of Franklin county. Walter E. Jones. Walter E. Jones, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Gress, of York, Pa., died Sunday, July 30, 1916, at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jones in York. He was aged 23 years and death was caused by tuber culosis. He was affiliated with Chosen Knights commandery No. 174, A. and I. Order Knights of Mal ta, and Washington camp No. 608, P. O. S. of A. He was also a member of Trinity Lutheran church, Linden avenue and West street. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at2:30 o'clock in Trinity Lutheran church, following brief services at his late residence. The Rev. Dr. Frederick G. Gotwald, pas tor, was assisted by the Rev. George Livingston, of Mt. Wolf, in conducting the funeral servi ces. Besides his parents he is survived by one brother and one sister, Carl Jones and Pauline Jones, both at home. Ella Irwin Porter. Ella Maria Irwin, wife of John Porter, died at their home near Wellington, Kansas, Sunday, Ju ly 30, 1916, aged 56 years, 9 months, and 10 days. The de ceased was a daughter of the late Samuel and Susan Irwin, and she was born in McConnellsburg, October 20, 1859. Ella was mar ried to John Porter a son of the late ex-Associate Judge Jere Por ter, and from that time until the end of her life was a resident of Kansas. Besides her husband, she is survived by the following broth ers and sisters: William, Altoona; James H., Washington, D. C; John A., McConnellsburg, Pa.; Mrs. Catherine Comerer, Dixon, 111.; and Miss Ann?., Harrisburg, Pa. Early in life she became a member of the Presbyterian church of which her father was an Elder, and was a faithful and devoted christian woman. Ed'gar Sprigs, Jr. Edgar, Jr., son of Fan Sprigs (colored), died of bowel trouble, hist Saturday, aged 8 months and 25 days, and was buried next aft ernoon in the colored people's burial ground on Sprigs' Hill near their settlement on the Ridge west of McConnellsburg. Rev. J. L. Grove officiated. Incidentally, this is the seven teeth interment in that place at which Rev. Grove conducted ser vices during hia pastorate in Mc Connellsburg, thirteen of them being children, m i V V. f - A tr 'f - ' ill ' M il ' If Ii it I V i Jjft's cats ure iibuully coiiKldtTed tlio particular friends and pets of the children. There are often times however, when thiy become a nienuce to their chlldluh playfellows, for both dogs and cats may become carriers of dlseine gcrmfl. When certain diseases occur In a neighborhood, unless these domestic animals are kept In quarantine thej may help to spread It. Dogs are al.io the carriers of other parasites and unless care is observed may transmit them to children. Somo of tho smaller animals also carry disease. The pround squirrels and rats, for example, carry the dread ed bubonic plaguo. Of these two the rat is far more dangerous. As Its migratory habits and ability to live under conditions and In localities where animal llfo would not ordinarily exist in and about the human dwelling places make It particularly dangerous. Rats destroy each year food products worth millions of dollars. Terrible Auto Accident. The Mount Union Times last week tells of a shocking automo bile accident that occurred be tween C and . 7 o'clock Sunday evening, July 30th, nonr Allen vine, Huntingdon county. Samuel L. Smith with hi3 wife who was Currance Bumgarner, a daughter of the late Scolt Bum garner of Belfast township, this county, and their three children, the youngest of whom was two years of age, were driving along the highway in Mr. Smith's auto mobile. Ahead of Mr. Smith and family, going in the same di rection, was Harry Speck's auto mobile driven by Harry's son-in-law, Chester Simms, accompa nied by the latter's son, Chester Speck. Mr. Smith desired to pass the Speck machine, and made the attempt; but the road was very narrow and Mr. Smith ran his machine into a ditch, struck an old tar barrel and tore one wheel oil' his machine. Mrs. Smith who is a hrgo, hca vy woman, was thrown headlong into a barbed wire fence. The baby Harold was thrown out, his side striking somo hard obstruc tion, instantly killing him. Mrs. Smith received a bad cut down through the forehead and hor skull was f racturod. She receiv ed a barbed wire cut which rip ped her mouth wider on each side. Another wire caught her above the mouth and tore a cut upward across the cheek bone, toward the eyes. The biceps muscles of one of her arni3 was literally torn in shreds. She sus tained two bad cuts in the lower part of the abdomen, running up ward in two directions. Mr. Smith had an ugly bruise near one of his eyes. His son Clair and daughter Edith were not hurt much. Mrs. Smith was soon to become a mother, and her condition is such that there is lit tle hope for her recovery. Mrs. Smith has seven children living besides the little bov who was killed in the accident Sam uel Smith is a brother of ex Sheriff Smith of Huntingdon county. J. L. Garland and son Floyd, near Mercersburg, camo to this side of the mountain lust Friday and were tho guests that night of the former's Bon Dale, north of town. Next day the Garlands bargained for the purchase of a horse from Calvin Clevenger, . '".!) ; VV"" ' t .' ' mm , ... u .. r f.',; t - . TRIP THK01GII T1IEWESL A. C. Kortoa Yritcs frcm Benedict, Ne braska lri(!er Mi of August tlic Second. Dear Editor: Perhaps some cf my friends in Fulton County would like to know something about my trip west. I left Mt Dallas at 3:40 July 10th. Went to Bedford, then over the Mid land to Altoona, arriving there at 6;50 p. m. took No. 5 to Pitts burgh, arrived there 9:45 eastern time. Left at nine p. m. Central time for Chicago, got sleeper and went to my berth and slept to Fort Wayne, Ind. Arrived there without a stop 320 miles. Got there at 4:50 Tuer.day morning and left 455. The next stop was Engelwood, seven miles of Chicago. Arrived at Chicago at 9:46 a. m. Tuesday. The crops look fine through Indiana and in Illinois. Corn certainly is king. I left Chicago 10:05 a. m. over the C. B. and Q. R. R. crossed Mississippi river at Burlington Iowa at 2:57 p. m. Tne corn crop looks good through Iowa. The wheat is a big crop in thi3 state. It has to be seen before you can grasp the great ness of it. We passed on through Iowa to Omaha. Part of Iowa is broken and rough along the railroad. We crossed the Miss ouri river to Omaha, Neb., at 12:01 Wednesday morning, and reached Lincoln at 1;50 a. m. Ju ly 11th. I staid in-the depot till daylight. Could not get a train to Benedict until 11 o'clock. Took a trolley to Havelock five miles out from Lincoln, found my old friend Fletcher Miller, and took breakfast with him. As I had j not slept any Tuesday night, I went to bed and slept until 1:30. i Spent the afternoon and night! with him. Mrs. Miller is a daugh J ter of the late Joseph Cornelius of Tecumseh. Wednesday forenoon I went back to Lincoln, took the 11 o' clock train to Benedict, 67 miles farther west where my brother-in-law George Keith lives. Found them all well. July 22nd Keith, his wife, and I went to Loop City, Neb., to visit their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Plants. While .there J found Mr. Taylor Gibson vfho used to live in Everett. I had a very nice visit with him. The corn and wheat crops are extra in Nebraska. Wheat yields 20 to ..'I. 4. .'-.V. sr. 40 bushels per acre. Oats are good. They thresh a lot of wheat , and oats put of the shock. They have from' eight to ten teams hauling to the machine. They will drive a team on each side of the machine, a man on each wag' on pitching the bundles into the machine. It cuts the band, feeds itsself, threshes, cleans, weighs, j and puts it in the wagon box ready to haul to the elevator at the rate of three bushels per minute. Some may say fish story but it is an honest fact for I timed it several times, and oats five to seven bushels per minute. I will close for fear of the waste basket. A. C. Horton, Benedict, Neb. Troup Reunion. The annual Troup family re union was held on a farm near Hagerstown last Saturday. About 50 were in attendance. Mrs. David M. s Kendall whose maden name was Troup, and two daughters, Misses Ethel and Ella, represented Big Cove at the re union.. Miss Ella, who is a trained nurse in Philadelphia, came home hist Friday for a va cation and the three ladies at tended together. Another daugh ter, , Mrs. (Dr) R. W. McKibbin, of Waynesboro, met them at the reunion and came' home with them. Peslmng Barber. James F. Doshong, son of John C. and Lillian May Deshong, near Saluvia, and Miss Flora Iretta Barber, daughter of Elliott Bar ber (deceased), and Mrs. Eliza beth Barber, of Licking Creek township, were married by Jus-tice-of-the-Feace T. A. Weight, in Three Springs, August 2, 1916. The bride and groom and the bride'3 mother have beenjiving at Coles Summit, Huntingdon county, where Mr. and Mrs. Deshong will make their home. Chickens Stolen. On Wednesday night of last week, a thief stole fifteen or twenty chickens from B. W. Logue, on south Second street. The thief, who has big feet, was tracked by foot prints and feath ers back through the Washa baugh farm to a point south of the Trout farm, where the track was lost. One chicken was dropped by the thief in one of the fields, It had been killed. . mm,. JULY HONOR ROLL. Names of New Subscribers and Others Who Paid Subscription During the Month of July. The months come and go with such rapidity that it keeps one busy to keep pace in the race with Time. This list was due to be published last week, but it was forgotten. If you have paid subscription recently and your name is not in this list it is be cause you have paid since the lust day of July. Your name, in that case will appear in the Au gust list to be published in the first week in September, unless we forget it like we did this time. An old colored preacher forgot his sermon. He justified himself by telling his congregation that forgetfulness had run through the human race from early bible times; "for you know," said he, that Adam "forgat," Seth, and Seth "forgat" Enos, and Enos "forgat" Cainan." O yes, bied dern we are all forgetful 'crit ters.'" The expenses of the newspaper publishers go on in hot weather just the same as at other times, and he appreciates the money that comes in at that time. Look at the label on your pa per. If you are paid up, or in advance, you have cause for self congratulation. If you are be hind, do not put off squaring up the account and paying a year in advance. Do not think that because it is only a dollar or two that the publisher can get along as well without it. Not so. With the constantly advancing cost of paper, ink, type, labor, and ev erything else that enters into the cost of production of newspapers the publisher needs every dollar, and needs it bad. The subscrip tion price of dollar newspapers all over the country is being changed from $1.00 to $1.50. Many of the City Dailies have changed from one cent to two cents a copy, and it i3 only a question of a short time when the Fulton County News will be obliged to follow in the footsteps of the Bedford papers, the Ev erett papers, the Mount Union Times, and dozens of other pa pers, and go from a dollar, to a dollar and a half a year. Aikens, Mrs. Cora 1 8 17 Aller, Nevin 10 2 17 Baker, Wilson 7 20 17 Barton, Sebert N. 7 11 17 Bender, M. M. 5 3 16 Bender, Samuel 4 1 16 Bequeath, Mrs. C. C. 7 22 17 Bernhard, Sherman L. 7 10 17 Bohn, Miss M. A. 91 16 Clevenger, H. II. ' 7 24 17 Clouser, Geo. E. 8 25 15 Cluck, Mrs. Mervin 9 7 17 Comerer, J. C. . 5 8 17 Coolidge, Mrs. A. C. 11 18 Cooper, Lillian 6 13 14 Cooper, J. H. 7 10 17 Covalt, J. H. - 4 5 17 Curfman, Raynor 7 20 16 Denisar, M. 3 28 17 Deshong, A. K. 2 6 17 Deshong, E. H. 3 9 17 Deshong, Reuben 1 2 19 Deshong, Mrs. Rebecca 7 1 17 Diven, Oliver 6 5 14 Doyle, John H. 10 7 17 Elder, Mrs. W. H. . 8 24 16 Felton, T. M. 7 15 16 Fletcher, Theodore 8 7 16 Fraker, D. W. 10 10 10 Fraker, Hunter 7 15 17 Fryman. James 9 21 17 Garland, A. P. 5 8 17 Glenn, Andrew 7 12 17 Glunt, Adam V. 4 5 16 Gordon, Walter 2 1 17 Greathead, R. N. 10 6 16 Haiston, Mrs. A. A. 2 11 17 Hill, J. S. " 6 1 17 Hockensmith, R. C. 6 12 18 Hollinshead, Thomas 6 20 17 Horton, Elmer 9 1 17 Horton, Mrs. Martha 2 4 17 Humbert, Nora E. 12 20 16' Irwin, J. Frank 7 10 17 Kendall, Roy M. 4 21 17 Keyser, D. E. 11 13 16 Laidig, M. 7 24 17 Lamberson, A. J. 1 2 17 Layton, Roy W. 7 12 16 Little, P. T. 51517! THE IMCItOSCOi'Ii. Little Talks on Health and Hjgiene by Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LL. D., Commissioner of Health. No single invention 'ha"s made possible greater saving of human life than the microscope. Its or igin dates back to antiquity. There is every reason to believe that the ancients had some knowl edge of the use of the single lens. The compound microscope was probably invented shortly after the middle ages. The Ital ians and the Dutch both claim the discovery. These ancient microscope, were very crude instruments compared with those of to-day. They were, however, sufficiently powerful to reveal myriads of living things in the clear atmosphere as well as in a clear tumbler of water, but they left us to imagine a great unseen living world beyond the power of the new instrument, and that is even so to-day with our most improved microscopes. In the hands of scientists the microscope ha3 revealed from time to time a teeming life of bacteria everywhere present. Some of these minute organisms are the friends and some the deadly foes of man. Vegetable, and, indirectly, animal life, de pends upon their work. Typhoid fever, tuberculosis, typhus fever, tetanus, and other diseases are the result of certain of these bacteria which can only be seen by the aid of the micro scope. There is evidence, but as yet no positive proof, that they are responsible for many other diseases, the aetiology of which is yet unknown. An army of scientific workers ' is to-day occupied in the study of bacteriology for the purpose of discovering the organisms that produce the different diseases, and then to push on with the idea of discovering that which would produce immunity or cure. Thi3 work is vital to the welfare of humanity indeed it is that which forms the foundation of prepar edness. There is a constant warfare be tween these little single celled organisms and man. The bac teria have the advantage of re producing themselves in untold numbers and of adapting them selves to different environments, and when the conditions surround ing them suit their existence they produce great epidemics of dis eases that man is unable to re sist. The fight is an interesting one as man has already discover ed how to combat successfully many diseases which for centur ies baflled the skill of science. McCoy, Mrs. Margaret 8 27 16 McDonald, Lake J. 6 1 18 McEldowney, Mrs. Geo. 1 1 17 McGovern, Clark 9 21 16 McNeil, Mrs. W. A. 3 1 17 Mellott, Mrs. Dayton 2 1 17 Mellott, Anderson 1 9 17 Mellott, James A. 3 17 10 Mock, Clarence T. 7 13 16 Morgret, Mrs. Aaron 10 2 15 Ott, John 9 21 17 Palmer, T. E. 7 25 17 Patterson, T. Elliott 2 25 17 Peightel, E. N. 8 19 17 Plessinger, Willard 7 1 17 Ray, James R. 7 27 17 Reese, Margaret 11 1 16 Richards, Harvey 11 22 17 Robinson, Miss Augusta L. 8 1 17 Runion, Jacob 8 7 17 Sipes, Rev. Horace N. 9 17 16 Sipes, Howard 6 24 17 Sipes, CO. 31 17 Sipes, Geo. C. 10 1 16 Smith, Ira L. 2 1 17 Smyser, Mrs. W. E. 7 22 17 St. Clair, W. S. 10 12 16 Stevens, D. N. 12 1 15 Stigers, W. B. 4 20 17 Stoops, Mrs. D. A. 71 17 Strait, Miss Jennie 11 15 16 Summers, John 5 8 17 Swope, Ruth V. .6.12 17 Truax, Mrs. Nettie ' 9 20 16 Weisel, L. W. 3 31 17 Wilson, Miss Lola . ;3 717 Woy, Mrs. C. F. 6 11 17 Zimmerman, Geo. E. 2-1-17 Zimmerman, Howard 9 21 16 Zorn, F. W. 9 23 17
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