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VOLUME IS
McCONELLSBURG, PA., NOVEMBER 30, 1916.
NUMBER 11
RECORD OF DEATHS. .
jort Sketches of the Lives of Per
sons Mo Have Recently
Passed Away.
John Samuel Shimer.
John Samuel Shimer, or
"Sammy" as he was more
familiarly known to his many
friends, was a son of Benjamin
and Elizabeth Doyle Shimer.
He was born in McConnellsburg
Dec. 17, 1874. After a week's ill
ness of pleuro-pneumonia,he died
at his home on North Second
Street last Saturday afternoon
at 2 o'clock, aged 41 years, 11
months and 8 days. The funeral
services were conducted by his
pastor Rev. Edward Jackson, of
theM. E. Church, assisted by
Rev. Yearick of the Reformed
Church, and Rev. Grove of the
U. P. Church, Tuesday after
noon at 2 o'clock, and interment
was made in the Union cemetry.
The deceased was one of Mc
Connellaburg's most useful citi
zens. A fine mechanic that
could turn his hand to almost any
emergency; that was faithful,
reliable, and honorable in all his
relations with his fellows his
place will not easily be filled.
Besides his mother, he is sur
vived by the following brothers
ind sisters: William W., McKees
Jocks, Pa.; Edward D., editor of
,he Fulton Republican; Christmas
2., McConnellsburg; Bessie wife
if Casper Whorley.Shippensburg;
2 me wife of Frank StClair,
Vashingtop, D. C, Jessie R.,
Olive B., ahd Arthur at home,
Robert N., and Benjamin F., Mc
Connellsburg. David Forner.
After an illness of less than a
week, David Forner died at his
iome on East Lincoln Way Mc
Connellsburg, Saturday evening,
Novemder25. 1916. Short fun
iral Bervices at the house at nine
clock, Monday morning, when
he remains were taken to Side
ing Hill Christian church, where
.he funeral sermon was preached
jyRev. James Logue, assisted
)y Rev. John Mellott and Rev.
2. J. Croft, after which inter
ment was made in the cemetery
nearby.
David Forner was a son of
rVilliam H. and Elizabeth Mann
forner, and he was born on the
farm now owned by Lee W. Funk,
in Belfast township, on the 4th
day of April, 1854; hence, at his
death he was aged 62 years, 7
months, and 21 days. On the
21st of December, 1877, he was
married to Miss Lucina M. Desh
ong, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Deshong, of Belfast town
ship, who survives, together
with the following children: Rey
nolds Albert, at home; AdaJane,
wife of Mack Chesnut, resid
ing in Todd townshiD: Cloeodosia.
wife of Edgar Pittman, Mercers-
burg; Sarah Elizabeth, wife of
V. Loy Hollenshead, Harrison
ville; Ira Judson, Scotland, Pa. ;
and Peter Calvin, in theU. S.
army, stationed in South Caro
lina. While Mr. Forner was a quiet
unassuming man, the county did
not have a better citizen he was
a consistent member of the
Christian Church, and consistent
means that he was loyal to his
church, moral, honest, industn
ous, and a good neighbor espec
Billy in time of sickness.
J. P. Starliper.
J. P. Starliper, long a promt
le.it resident of Fort Loudon.
lied suddenly at his home in that
slace Saturday morning at 12:30
J'clock. Mr. Starliper had been
-n hi8 usual health until Friday
ight, when he was seized with
i stroke. Friday afternoon he
flade an insDection of the pipe
ine of the Fort Loudon water
supply and at that time did not
complain of illness.
Mr. StarliDer was aeed 74
years. He was born near Mer-
cersburg, and for many years
bad conducted a harness and
jaddlery business in Fort Loudon,
He
was a veteran of the Civi
"W and served with distinction
OUR DISTANT FRIENDS.
utcrestiog Extracts from Letters Re
cently Received from Former Ful-
' ton County People.
Mrs. Fred W. MosES:-En-
closed you will find money order
for which please send the Ful
ton County News one year to
my mother, Mrs. Catherine E.
Comerer, 921 University St.,
Dixon, 111. Mother looks for
ward to the coming of the dear
old Fulton County News each
week as she does letters from
dear friends.
J. J. Conrad: I see by the
abel that I am back with my sub
scription to the Fulton County
News. Enclosed find check for
two dollars, which place to my
credit. The News has been a
weekly visitor to our home dur
ing the eight years we have been
in Cumberland County, and it
comes like an old friend from our
native county.
Mrs. F. C. Mumma, Wilkens-
burg, Pa. Enclosed find a check
for two dollars as I 6ee no better
way to save a dollar than to send
you two.
Pittsburgh never experienced
such high cost of living as now.
think, as I read in your col
umn's of this one and that one in
Fulton county getting an automo
bile that the farmers must be
the ones that are making the
money just now. Quite a change
as I look back twenty-one years
ago to the time when I left my
native county to dwell in the
Smoky City. I am glad indeed
to see the change for the better
and hope some day to be able to
see a train pull into McConnells
burg, so Fulton county no longer
will be the butt of all jokes, as
having no railroad.
Onr Railroad.
Work is temporarily suspended
on the construction of the McCon
nellsburg and Fort Loudon Rail
way, but we are assured by those
in a position to know that there
is nothing to get excited about
The grading from Fort Loudon
to the top of the mountain is
probably three-fourths completed
and a long stretch on the west
side of the mountain. The sta
tion building at McConnellsburg
is almost done. Thousands of
ties have been delivered along
the grade, and there is little
reason for believing that the
work will not go on. It is not to
be expected that a work of such
magnitude will proceed without
a hitch once in awhile.
A meeting of the members of
the W. C T. U. will be held on
Friday evening at 7 o'clock at
the home of Mrs. S. B. Woollet
A full attendance is desired.
in the 148th Pennsylvania Volun
teer Infantry.
In politics he was a Democrat.
During Cleveland's second ad
ministration he was postmaster
of Fort Loudon and served that
office in an efficient and satisfac
tory manner.
His wife and these children
survive: John, Pittsburgh; Ar
thur. New Orleans; Mrs. George
Foreman of towr; Mrs. George
Winkler of Oklahoma and Miss
Lottie, at home.
Solomon Palmer.
After an illness of six weeks
Solomon Palmer died at his home,
Connellsville. Pa.. November 26
1916, aged 69 years 9 months
and 13 days. The funeral held
on Tuesday at the Sideling Hill
Baptist Church near the place
where he was born, was conduct
ed by Rev. C. L. Funk assisted
by Revi E. J. Croft He is sur
vived by his widow; one son
Arlington H. Palmer, of Oxford,
Mass.. one daughter Mrs. Maud
Beal, of Connellsville, Pa,, and
the followingbrothers and sisters:
W. Scott. Albert R. Miss Suttiah
and Mrs. Matilda Akers, of Sipes
Mill, Pa., Watson W., Orville S.,
of Connellsville, Pa., and Mrs
AngelineHixson, of Philadelphia,
Pa.
HEALTH AND BIG BUSINESS
Little Talks on Health and Hjgiene by
Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LL. D.,
Commissioner of Health.
Efficiency is generally consid
ered the god of Big Business.
Certain it is that great corpora
tions have carried organization
to a point which has materially
ncreased the effectiveness o f
their employees; therefore, it is
not surprising to find that in all
great commercial and industrial!
plants there are well organized
medical departments.
The employers who have upon
their rolls tens of thousands of
men and wonen find that it pays
them to provide for the adequate
medical care of their working
men and women. This has been
carried to a degree which would
have been considered astounding
generation ago. Practically
every department store has its
medical and nursing staff. Some
even have dentists and chirop
odists whose services are at the
disposal of their employees.
Instead of considering the ap
plications without regard for
their physical condition, examina
tions are now required in order
that sufferers from tuberculosis
and other diseases will not be
added to the force of employees
apd menace the healthy workers
and the establishment's custom
ers. Great industrial plants not
only offer medical and surgical
treatment to their employees,
but the majority of them con
duct wellfare work, carrying
modern medical and sanitary
practice into the homes of their
employees to the great benefit
and protection of the workers
and their families.
It has been demonstrated be
yond the question of a doubt that
this is an excellent investment
from the employers standpoint
No man can render the max
imum of service who is physi
cally unfit. Big business has
proved health a primary neces
sity in industay and it is willing
to pay for it .
The employees have never been
taken better care of than at the
present time. This has come
about through the educational
work of health authorities with
the assistance of the public press.
Had Nice Trip.
Mr. Austin Cardaugh is spend
ing a week among his Fulton
county relatives and friends.
Mr. Carbaugh spent four months
during the pa3t summer in Illi
nois visiting among former Ful
ton county people. While there
he saw Andrew Glenn, the
Houcks, Mrs. Jacob Unger (Han
nah Glenn), Ella Lock hart
(formerly Ella Lucasof the Cove),
George Doyle, Seymour Carbaugh
and Austin's sons Elmer at
Rockford, and Humphrey at Ce
dar Rapids. Austin says the
Fulton county people living in
Illinois are all getting along fine
as silk. As hands seemed to be
scarce Austin took off his coat
and ploughed corn, helped to
thresh and made himself general
ly useful. He must have pleased
his employer for at the end of
36i days work his boss gave him
a check for 580. 00 Mr. Carbaugh
says the farmers there are
mighty glad to have a chance to
get labor at two dollars, a day
and board, of cour3e.
Wxllcr Mullott.
Miss Tenie Mellott, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William H.
Mellott of Sipes Mills, was mar
ried at Berkeley Springs, W. Va.,
on Wednesday, October 25, 1916,
to Mr. John Weller, of Thompson,
township. The young people
have the best wishes of their
numerous friends.
Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Reisner
came over from Hagerstcwn last
Saturday evening. Harry return
ed home Monday morning and his
wife is staying over Thanksgiv
ing in the home of her mother,
Mr3. Josephlr e Sloan,
Do Potatoes Pay?
The farmer who raises 220
bushels to the acre this year and
is able to unload them at the
present market price has no rea
son to complain. If there is such
a thing as knowing how to keep
hens on the job when eggs are
bringing anywhere from three to
five cents a piece, there is such a
thing as knnwing how to have
lots of potatoes to sell wheh they
bring from $1.25 to $1.80 a bushel.
"There are certain underlying
principles in the production of a
successful and profitable potato
crop which are always present,
and must never be overlooked,"
says William M. Patton, of Mos
grove, Armstrong cnunty, a
Farmers' Institute lecturer of
the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture. "I would classify
them as follows:
"The soil, the seed, planting
and after care. There are thous
ands of acres planted each year
on soils, which in their present
condition, would yield a disap
pointing crop under anyone's
management.
"The tuber, unlike any other
standard crop produced upon the
average farm, developes entire
ly within the soil. It demands a
fertile, mellow, well drained,
humus filled seed bed. This con
dition we has afforded by using
a last season's clover sod from
which the second crop had not
been removed. This was rein
forced by the addition of eight
to ten loads of unleached manure
applied to the acre, in the early
fall.,
"The plot was broken in the
early spring and tilled possibly
eight to ten times before seeding
when 300 pounds to the acre of
16 per cent, acid phosphate was
applied with the grain drill.
Now, we had a seed bed abund
ant in ail the soil elements, mel
low and having such a water
holding capacity as to cause us to
have little fear of drought.
"The seed, Sir Walter Raleigh,
had been kept under such con
ditions that we were absolutely
certain every cut piece would
germinate. The seed wa3 cut
two eyes to the piece, having
been given the formaldehyde
treatment for scab, and was
planted by hand on May 5, 1916,
in furrows which had been open
ed to such a depth that the cut
pieces, planted ten inches apart
in the row, could be covered two
and one-half inches deep, and the
furrows still well ridged. These
were all leveled down with the
weeder before the potatoes were
up. We tilled fourteen times from
planting to digging, September
18th and 19th. The bugs were
never worse. We controlled them
by using one part Paris green
mixed with forty parts low grade
flour and applying in dust form
when needed.
"We never suffered seriously
from drought. The foliage was
entire season. Notwithstanding
the fact that we have our own
spraying outfit we didn't find it
necessary to spray, never having
any appearance of Blight. We
dug early, harvesting a crop of
220 bushels to the acre, and have
seeded the plot to wheat" -
Three Women Electors.
For the first time in the history
of the United States, three Cali
fornia women will sit in the elec
toral college next January.
These are the women upon
whom the voters of California
have conferred this honor: Mrs.
W. C. Tyler, Los Angeles; Mrs.
Spinks, San Francisco, and Mrs.
Wylie, of Fresno.
It Cerjainly Pays.
A year ago an Aurora girl ad
vertised at a cost of 111.25 for a
husband. She was successful
and last Saturday he died leaving
her $19, COO or a net profit of $18,
989.75. We simply can't refrain
from remarking again that it
pays to advertise.
Sabtcribe for the Nawe,
NOVEMBER
Name9 of New Subscribers and Others Who Renewed
Their Subscription in November. Look over the
List and See the Names of Your Friends.
The November Honor Roll is somewhat larger than last month's.
There are reasons: 1. A number of subscriptions fall due in No
vember, and many people make it a point to renew their subscrip
tion promptly. 2. It is drawing down toward the close of the year
when most people like to square up all little accounts, and start the
New Year with a clean sheet 3. Then there are others who are
taking advantage of the time before the 20th of December to pay
ud all arrearages and Dav two or three years in advance while they
can get in at a dollar a year. It
list that many persons are paid two, three, four, and even five years
ahead. The Editor will regard it a great favor if all who notice by
their label, that they are behind, will send the money in, so that
we may start the new year with a clean sheet. There is not a sub
scriber on our list that owes more than a very small sum one that
can be paid just easily if attended to.
Remember, that the price to everybody will be $1.50 after the
20th of December.
Alexander, A. C. 31 18
Anderson, Henry 10 13 17
Barber, Geo. T. 11 1 17
Barcroft, Mrs. Hannah 11 18 17
Bard, John 11 23 17
Barnhart, Ira 1 1 19
Barnhart, Ward 61017
Barnhart Mrs, Fannie 1 20 18
Barnett, George N. 12 1 17
Barton. Frank H. 11 10 17
Baumgardner, H. L. 11 15 17
Besore, J. H. 9 6 17
Bell Telephone Co., 1 1 17
Berkstresser, A. D. 12 19
Bivens, Mrs. Barney 2 1 18
Bohn, Mrs. M. A. 9 1 17
Bollinger, J. Foster 4 1 18
Bowman, J. W. 1 1 18
Bradnick, Mrs. Ella 1 1 18
Breakalk Edward 1 2 13
Breakall, G. H. 7 24 18
Brewer, C. F. 21 17
Brown, Chas. F. 1 2 18
Carbaugh, Austin 1 15 18
Carmack, John W. 8 13 17
Carnell, John F. 6 1 17
Chesnut, Joseph A. 7 27 18
Chesnut, DeKalb 5 23 18
Clevenger, Mrs. Alice P. 1 1 18
Clevenger, Mrs. M. L. 11 18
Clippinger, W. M. 6 5 18
Clower, Stella t 8 25 17
Conrad, J. J. 9 21 17
Comerer, Catherine 12 1 17
Cromer, Robert 11 18 19
Croyl, C. S. 7 22 17
Crouse, Miss Jessie 6 21 17
Cutchall, Mrs. J. D. 11 28 17
Decker, F. 1 1 18
Decker, Chester A. 11 22 18
Deshong A. W. 7 1 17
Deshong, Geo. C. 3 1 17
Deshong, LI. 10 1 17
Deshong, Charlie 11 15 17
Diggins, Anthony 11 9 17
Dotterman, Rev. A. 2 4 IS
Doyle, Geo. W. 6 1 16
Eader, John P. 7 13 17
Elvey, Roy 11 4 17
Everts, John 1 25 18
Evans, Lloyd 6 1 17
Feight. Miss Elsie 1 2 17
Ficks, Mrs. John 1 2 17
Finiff, N. I. 6 1 18
Fisher, D. A. ' 10 26 16
Fisher, Miss Rose 1 7 18
Fix, Daniel 113017
Foreman, G. W. 7 20 17
Fraker, D. W. 10 10 17
Garland, D. R. 10 14 17
Garland, A. P. 5 8 19
Geinger, Mrs. Achsah 4 18 18
Golden, Charles 10 24 17
Gordon, Luther 9 3 17
Greathead, C. D. 12 12 17
Gress, George 5 25 17
Greenland, A. S. 10 18 17
Grubb, M.rs. J. H. 8 1 19
Hampton, J. L. 1 1 17
Hann, D. D. 3 10 17
HartW. V. 215 20
Harcleroade, Blanche 9 217
Heefner, Jere 12 IS 17
Heefner, Geo. D. 3 26.18
Hege, J. P 111617
Hendershot Alfred 6 16 18
Hershey, David 10 18 18
less, C. W. 11 1 17
Hill, Mrs. M. B. 11 10 18
Hill, Mrs. D. Howard 1 19 18
Hixson, C. E. 10 8 17
Hockensmith, F. C. 11 2 16
Hollinshead, Mrs. Reuben 5 22 17
Hollinshead, Richard 10 8 17
Horton, Edward 7 19 18
Horton,Dr. II. G. 5 29 19
Humbert Geo. W.1 9 1 17
Hutsler, Mrs. W. M. 11 13 17
Johnson, S. H. f 5 16 17
Johnston, T. E. 1 1 18
Johnson, Mrs. A. A. 9 20 16
Keebaugh, J. C. 5 8 17
Keith, Amon L. 11 3 17
HONOR ROLL.
will be seen by glancing down the
Keith, Jesse M.
Kelso, Miss Nellie
Kindle, Mrs. Ellen
King, Albert F.
Kirk, J. C.
Kuhn, Miss Jennie
Lake, Mrs. May
Little, D. E
Lodge, Mrs. E. M.
Logue, Miss Ethel
Lynch, Austin
Lynch, Biddis
Mann, L. C.
Martin, Mrs. Lydia
Martin, J. F.
Mayne, Miss Anna
McElhaney, S. M.
McEldowney, Mrs. E.
McClain, Isaac C.
4 818
6118
11 1 17
2 27 19
210 18
810 17
121 17
11817
4 18 18
812 17
1118
It 24 17
3 22 20
515 18
11216
11 13 17
9 2118
11216
913 17
McKibbin, Mrs. Elizabeth 11 4 17
Mellott, Harvey R. 11 4 17
Mellott Geo. S. 11 2 16
Mellott, Mrs. D. R. 4 13 18
Mellott Frances 2 14 17
Mellott R. J. 10 1 17
Mellott, Unger 9 21 20
Mellott Mrs. Almira 11 22 17
Mellott Robert W. 1 2 19
Mellott Mrs. F. E. 1 13 18
Mellott W. F. T. 3 21 19
Metzler, Thos. S. 1 1 18
Mills. Miss Lydia 6 17 18
Morgret G. R. 5 23 18
Moseby, Mrs. M. E. 11 11 17
Mumma, Mrs. Fannie 5 8 17
Mumma, D. B. 11 18
Mumma, Mrs. F. C. 8 7 18
Oakman, Mrs. Oliver 1 1 17
Naugel, Jacob 11 1 17
Nelson, James P. 9 21 17
Palmer, O. S. 9 19 21
Peck, W., H. 9 21 17
Peck, Austin 1 18 19
Peck, Mrs. Alfred 10 9 17
Peters, Mrs. Geo. W. 1 1 IS
Pittman, John A. 5 1 17
Pittman, John M. 6 10 17
Pittman, Harry E. 11 24 16
Pittman, Ephraim 1 8 17
Pittman, Miss Ella 9 21 17
Pott Miss Lillian 10 25 17
Riley, Mrs. A. E. 8 2 17
Robison, L M. 9 21 18
Robinson, Mary J. 4 11 18
Romig, M. H. 4 24 17
Schcnck, John M. 1 13 19
Schetrompf, A. W. 11 8 17
Schultz, Jacob Sr., 2 2 IS
Sharpe, Remmie A. . 1 11 IS
Shaw, Walter, 7 13 17
Shimer, Mrs. J. II. 4 15 17
Shirk, Mrs. M. E. 9 16 IS
Shoemaker, Dr. F. S. 2 5 17
Sigel, Amos 12 10 17
Simpson, Mrs. B. R. 1 5 18
Sipes, Mrs. Ray 1 9 17
Sipes, Mrs. James 12 11 18
Sipes, Berkley 11 2 19
Sipes, A. Clifton 10 18 18
Sipes, Frank B. 3 15 18
Sipes, Geo. C. 10 1 17
Sipes, Geo, W. 3 17 18
Sipes, Miss Olive J. 1 1 18
Skiles, F. D. 5 4 18
Slacker, Ben 1 14 IS
Souders, Wilson 7 23 16
Spenser, Asie 7 11 17
Stevens, Jas. D. 10 16 17
Stoner, Mary A. 1 1 18
Swank, Mrs. E. H. 11 1 16
Swope, G. W. 11 18
Thomas, John 8 1 IS
Tritle, Scott 10 18 17
Truax, Howard 9 2117
Trueax, C. W. 91 17
Truax, B. H. , ' 8 9 18
Truax, Urner 3 13 18
Wagner, John C. 101017
Whitehill, Mrs. E. C. 11 19
Wible, Lll. . 9 1 17
Wink, Harold 5 .1 18
Winter, Maple C. 9 2118
Wishart Miss Jessie B. 10 5 17
Woollet S. B. . 9 2117
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU L0W.
Snapshots at Their Comings and Goingi
Here for a Vacation, or Away
for a Restful Outing.
Miss Ursa Tritle returned home
last Sunday after having spent
five weeks in Mount Union.
Howard Truax, of Belfast town
ship, called a few minutes at the
News office while in town last
Friday.
Harry Bender, near Princeton,
111., is spending a week with his
father, M. M. Bender and other
friends in town.
Mrs. H. O. Hamil and children,
of Knobsville spent from Satur
day until Sunday in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Wible atMc '
Connellsburg.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Smith, Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Peck and the
latter's son Watson, in Watson's
car, passed through McConnells
burg early last Saturday morning
on their way to visit Jonathan P.
Peck and family near St. Thomas.
Mr, and Mrs. J. C. Wagner
and daughter Bernice and son
Herman, of Guilford Springs,
Franklin county, returned home
last Friday after having spent a
week among their Fulton county
relatives and friends. Mr. Wag
ner is a section foreman on the
Cumberland Valley railroad.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reisner, their
daughter Elizabeth, and Mrs.
Reisners's mother, Mrs. Anna
Montgomery, accompanied by
Rev. Henry Snyder all of Ship
pensburg, spent last Sunday in
McConnellsburg. Rev. Snyder
preached in the local Lutheran
church Sunday morning very
much to the pleasure and edifica- .
tion of those present.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Fix, near
Selea, Huntingdon county, were
circulating among their old
friends and relatives in. this
county last week. Mr. Fix is
employed on the E. B. T. railroad.
He says they are having a coal
famine in that section on account
of the miners refusing to take
out coal in accordance with the
law which prohibits "bumping."
State Agricultural Notes.
The high prices being obtained
by the farmers for the 1916 wheat
crop has caused an increase in
acreage of about 3 per cent sown
this fall to wheat.
Lancaster county farmers ob
tained an average of 65 bushels of
shelled corn to an acre.
Elk county shows a ten per
cent increase in acreage sown to
wheat over the past season.
Delaware county farmers have
increased the acreage sown to
wheat and rye and both are re
ported in the ground above aver
age condition.
ThfrA is n stpnHv inrrenan in
the acreage of alfalfa harvested
each year and the tonnage pro
duction per acre lias shown some
imDrovement Few counties bo-
low the center of the State fail to
get three good cuttings.
Bradford county, where the
dairy interests are large, shows
forty per cent of the farmers to
have silos. Crawford county
shows twenty per cent of farm
ers having silos.
The tobacco crop in Lancaster
county shows a general average
of about 1325 pounds to an acre,
a decrease over last year.
Prosent indications are that the
buckwheat crop of the State will
be about twenty per cent below
that of last year.
Berks county farmers who have
had a sucessful season report an
average of 51 bushels of bhelled
corn to an acre.
An estimated increase of 20O
per cent in the apple production
Elk county over last year is noted
by crop reporters.