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VOLUME IS
McCONNELLSJiURG, PA.. JANUARY ls1917.
NUMBER 1SN
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RECORD OF DEATHS.
Short Sketches of the Lives of
Per-
i sons Who Have Recently
' Passed Away.
! Rev. Aiiimaaz Mellott.
Rev. Ahimaaz Mellott died
Saturday afternoon, January 13,
1917, after several days and
nights suffering from severe con
vulsions. His age, from the best
knowledge of nearby neighbors,
. would be 83 years, on his next
birthday. He died at the resi
dence of Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Decker the latter his daughter
i where he had all the nursing,
I care, and attention that could be
beBtowed upon him. As noted
from time to time, in the Fulton
County News, he had a number
of lingering spells of paralysis,
and convulsions, in the past three
years, at which time he suffered
greatly, after which, he recov
ered partially. Two years ago
he and his loving devoted wife
were prostrated at the same time,
and she died.
Mr. Mellott had all the charac
teristics of a good father, neigh
bor, and citizen. He was a zeal
ous, loyalrrember and minister
of the Primative Baptist Church.
He preached Christ with all his
powers,- for many years, and died
faithful.
The following children survive,
(so far as the writer could learn,)
Mrs. Milton Decker, Mrs. G. L.
jchooley, Mrs. Berte Mellott,
Valker, Jonas, Chick, and Ri-
iara. funeral services were
ielf, on Monday at Sideling Hill
iaptist Church, conducted by
lev. C. L. Funk. Interment in
cemetery near-by.
Mrs. Caroline Dyer.
Mrs. Caroline Dyer, widow of
the late Basil Dyer, died at the
'.iome of her son-in-law and
iaughter, Mr. and Mrs. Sylves
ter Pittman, about four miles
lorth of Hancock, Wednesday,
Tanuary 3, 1917, in the 81st year
if her age.
Mrs. Dyer was well known to
he people of Hancock, she hav
ag resided there for many years,
trior to the death of her second
lusband, which occurred about
4 years ago, since which time
he had been making her home
nth her daughter.
' She was a member of the Han-
)ck Presbyterian Church but
wing to declining health was
ii- nable to attend services in re-
;nt years.
The deceased is survived by
le daughter to her first hus
ind, Mrs. Sylvester Pittman.
The funeral services were held
!the house. Friday morning,
ev. Dr. J. S. Webster, officiat
g. Interment was made in the
resbyterian cemetery.
George W. Pittman.
Geo. W. Pittman, a former well
own Hancock resident, died at
8 home in Washington, D. C,
(Friday morning, January' 5,
17, after an illness of almost a
ar, being a sufferer fromdrop
V aged 69 years.
For thirty years or more Mr.
ttman was engaged in the gen
ii merchandise business in the
pital city, and prior to that
ae was identified with the busi
J9 life of Hancock when he will
remembered by many of our
er citizens as the junior mem
? of the firm, trading ss Zim
rman & Pittman, conducting
teneralBtore in the old Carl
ck.
Jesides his widow, the deceas
la survived by one son, Men
.and one daughter, Arlie, both
Whom hold government posi
1 in Washington. Mr. Sylves
Tittman, a brother, who re
es near town, also survives
i. i
'he funeral waa held Monday,
i8 late home in Washington!
srs. Sylvester Pittman and
1 Shives, of this place, and
tG.' Shives, of Smithsburg.
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Margaret Barnhart.
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New Teacher at Necdmore.
Last Saturday Miss Esta Hart
took a teachers' examination be
fore County SuperintendentThom
as and obtained a certificate by
which she became legally eligible
to take charge of the school at
Needmore made temporarily va
cant by an accident which hap
pened to her brother Floyd, who
was the teacher in charge of the
school.
Wednesday after Christmas,
the steps at the schoolhouse were
glazed with ice, and Floyd, who
always had the comfort and safe
ty of his pupils at heart, took a
basin of hot water out just be
fore recess with a view of get
ting the ice off the steps. As he
stepped from the door his feet
slipped and he fell receiving the
entire contents of the basin of
hot water in his lap. He was
terribly scalded, and from that
time until now, he has been con
fined to his bed.
widow of the late Otho Barnhart
died at her home in Thompson
township, at 12 o'clock, Tuesday
night, January 8, 1917, aged 78 I
years, b months, and 8 days.
Her funeral took place on Thurs
day, the 11th, and her remains
were laid to rest in the cemetery
at the Tonoloway Baptist church.
Mrs. Barnhart is survived by
the following children: Howard,
Washington county, Md.; Eva,
wife of Thomas Wink, residing
on the home place; Ross, living
in Washington county, M3., and
Ira, in Thompson township.
Mrs. Barnhart is also survived
by four sisters and one brother:
Dollie Graves, of Needmore,
aged 85; John Mann, Needmore,
aged 83; Rachel, wife of Joseph
Runyan near Warfordsburg, aged
75; Elizabeth McClellan. Need
more, aged 75 (Mrs. Runyan and
Mrs. McUellan are twin sisters),
and Jane Gordon, Needmore, 67.
Mrs. Barnhart's father and
mother, Peter and Rachel Mor
gret Mann were aged respect
ively, 76 and 81 years; her pater
nal grandfather, John Mann, was
aged ib, and her maternal grand
f.il r mm .
iamer, ueorge worgret, was
aged 86; hence, it will be ob
served that Mrs. Barnhart be
longed to a family of more than
ordinary longevity.
Mrs. Geo. W. Brenner.
. Ora E., wife of Georgo W.
Brenner, died at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred D.
Young in Hollidaysburg, Tues
day morning, January 16, 1917,
aged "40 years, 10 months, and 21
days, as a result of a stroke of
paralysis a week before her
death.
On the 22nd day of August,
1900, Ora was married to George
W. Brenner, of Hollidaysburg,
who survives, together with the
following children: Frederic H.,
Margaret E., and Dessa. The
funeral took place yesterday aft
ernoon and her remains were
laid to rest in the cemetery at
Hollidaysburg.
Mrs. Brenner was a niece of
Mrs. B. W. Peck.
Mrs. Frank Guillard.
Margaret, wife of Dr. Frank
Guillard, died at their home at
Breezewood last Sunday night in
the throes of motherhood. On
Monday her remains were taken
to the home of her parents at
Greensburg, Pa., where funeral
services were held and interment
made.
Mrs. Guillard was aged about
21 years and is survived by her
husband, a little son about three
years of age and by an infant.
lhe Doctor has the sincere
sympathy of his numerous friends
in this keen loss of a loving
companion.
Alberta M Laidig
Alberta Maragaret, the eight-
months old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Laidig, of Hollidays
burg, Pa., died at their home,
Tuesday, Jan. 9, 1917. The body
waa taken to the home of Mrs.
Laidig's brother, Charles Mellott
m Licking Creek township on
Wednesday and the funeral took
place on Thursday, interment
being made in the cemetery at
theSideling Hill Christian church.
The funeral services were con
ducted by Rev. T. P. Garland,
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY.
While Many Miles Have Been Com
pletcd, Much Work Remains to
He Done.
. A letter has just reached the
offices of the Lincoln Highway
Association from a motorist con
templating the transcontinental
drive during the coming year ant
asking advance road information,
As the letter is simitar to thous
ands regularly received by the
Association, indicating a certain
misconception on the part of the
writers and of a goodly part of
public generally, as to what the
Lincoln Highway is and the pur
pone and activities of tho Lincob
i f : i . . .
ujKnway association, trie answer
is of interest.
The questioner above referred
to writes, How much of the
Lincoln Highway is finished?
How much will be finished for
the 1917 se.-non? How much is
hard surface? How much work
are you going to do next year?"
The Lincoln Highway Associa
tion cannot answer all thtse
questions, as succinctly as they
are asked. They are entirely too
speculative in character. Much
depends upon what the question
er's idea of a completed Lincoln
Highway would he. Does he ex
pect a broad, hard surfaced, well
kept, perfectly marked and well
proliced boulevard from No
f -. . r.
ioiy icy 10 san nanciseo, a
distance of 3300 miles? If so
will be sadly disappointed. It
may be many years before anv
approach to such perfected road
way will be realized.
But the Lincoln Highway is
u .! 4. LI 1
ieai iruversaoie rcaa ror its en
tire length and can be traveled
in comfort in fair weather. It is
hard surface through the east,
out it is quite impractical to
build or to expect a brick or con
crete road across the wide,
sparsely populated stretch.es of
the west. The road is marked
and can.be easily followed.
Liocai endeavor keeps it up to
the best standard possible all
along the way. Approximately
$a, 000, 000 was spent in improv
ing the road in 1916. And three
years ago there was no through,
connected transcontinetal High
way.
The Lincoln Association is not
building the Lincoln Highway.
The communities along the way,
aid by the patriotically inclined
American public who recognize
the economic importance of the
great road and are willing to as
sist, particularly in the far west
where local means are quite in
adequate, are responsible for the
actual physical betterment of
the Highway. TheLincoln High
way will be completed as they de
termine to build it-it will be
completed when they see fit to
finish it. The Lincoln Hiirhwav
Association works to the single
purpose of aiding in every way
posihle in the endeavor to hasten
and build efficiently and perman
ently all sections of the route.
It acts as a great clearing house
for this national endeavor. The
American motorist can do no
more to aid in the promotion of
the good roads cause than by
giving hi3 moral and financial
support to the Lincoln Highway
Association in this work.
Any attempt the Lincoln High
way Association may make in
the way of actual road construc
tion will be west of the Missouri
River, particularly between Salt
Lake City, Utah and Reno Ne
vada, where the long mileage
and sparse population make the
road problem one absolutely be
yond the utmost endeavor of the
local committee.
The Association is endeavoring
to finance this most necessary
piece of construction and fecte
confident that the ever-increasing
interest in the Lincoln Way
and its satisfactory progress will
eventually create the national
sentiment needed to provide the
necessary funds.
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ANOTHEK OUNCE.
Several of our subscribers have
told us recently that they did not
understand that they might get
the News at a dollar a year, by
paying for it before the 20th of
December. They thought that
everybody, whether
paid ahead or not,
they were
would hp
charged $1.50 a year after
20th day of December. Of
course they did not understand
it right.
Now, as this will not be an in
justice to those who paid before
the 20th of December, and to
(iive every one who wishes to
take advantage of "another
chance," we have decided to re
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tions to tho News at one dollar a
year until the first day of March.
Tell your friends about it.
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be worth a dollar and a half a
year, ami we know people are
wniing to pay when they get
value received.
In this world, we generally
get what wo pay for. We have
earned lor e1: ago that the cheap
est slu t s flu not always wear the
ongest.
Just a word to those who are in
arrears: It you want a County
paper in your horn ?., and you feel
that you would rather have the
News, just send in the back sub
scription due, and put to that one
or two dollars more, and you vs ill
have the News that many years
at the same price you w ould be
pa ing for one of the other pa
pers.
We want to play fair; but when
we see that mora than nine hun
dred newspapers have been oblig
ed to go out of business on ac
count of the high cost of publica
tion, we feel like staying on our
feet, even if we have to ask our
subscribers for additional sub
scription.
FATAL ACCIDENT.
Uforlunate Man Was a Brother of
Lewis Clark, of Belfast
Township.
Krom Tlic Kvi-rrtl li' publican.
While Barton M. Clark, a form
er resident ot West rrovidence
townsnip, isearord county was
engaged in putting threads on
some metal pipe in the manufac
turing plant of Shears Bros. &
Co., at Alliance, Ohio, his cloth
ing was caught by the machinery
and he was thrown violently to
the ground and sustained a frac
ture to hi3 head, resulting in his
death on last Sunday.
Decpased was a son of Philip
and Sarah Sigel Clark. He was
born in East Providence town
ship, January 2, 1858. He was
united in marriage with Miss
Nancy Conner. His wife pre
ceded him to the spirit world
several years ago and a daughter
Mrs. Myrtle Alexander, of West
Chester survives. Three broth
ers, Isaac, ot runxsutawney,
Louis, of Needmore and Harry
H., of Six Mile Run, and two
sisters, Mrs. W. Scott Gordon
and Mrs. Jacob Ritchey, of West
Providence township, also sur
vive.
On receipt of a telegram an
nouncing the accident his brother
Harry H. Clark went to Alliance
but death had ensued before he
reached there. The body was
brought th Everett and taken to
the home of a relative, Mrs. J.
A. Covnlt, on Spring street.
Funeral services were held on
last Wednesday at Union Mem
orial church, Rev. J. W. Hoffman
officiating.
Mr. Clark was a member of
the I. O. O. F.. of Six Mile Run.
Good Investment. .
The Hancock Bridge Company
has made its 50th semi-annual re
port and declared a semi-annual
dividend of four per cert." The
company has a surplus of $9,-
076.31 and has $52,9-10.12 invest
ed in the Bridge. Total receipts
FARGO, N. DAK. LETTER.
From Elder II. Gallaher, Formerly
Burnt Cabins, is Now Manager of
an Ice Tlant.
We are now having real win
ter weather. The thermometer
registered SI degrees beUw
Z9ro- Tiie ground has been eov-
past
we have iiood
sleighing now.
We began to put up our first
cutting of ice the week before
Christmas. It is about 22 inches
thick. We are getting it on the
lied Kiver. We deliver a small
quantity of ice in town this time
of year-usually enough to keep
one wagon going. This, of
course, is our slack time. Last
spring, owing to the melting of
the vastquantity of snow sudden
ly, tho river became very high
and partly inundated the town.
Heavy rains in July gave us a
second experience of a flooded
city.
While it is true that we can
l roduce 22-inch natural ice, in
the winter time, I would not have
you think it does not get hot in
the summer time. Most of June
and all of July last summer was
very hot- so hot that many hors
es die J from the heat, and peo
ple dropped over in the streets
from sunstroke.
As to fuel, we can buy hard
coal at $11 25, and soft coal at
$3.50 and $100. Those who pre
fer to burn wood, can get it at
$9.00 and $10.00 a cord-depend
ing upon quality. Many trees
grow along the Red River, and
this town is beautifully shaded
In some sections of the State
wood is very scarce, hardly
enough to furnish kindling.
Our plant which filters the City
water, cost $200,000. The men
employed in that plant get from
$80 to $100, a month. They work
about sixteen men in three shifts
a day of eight hours each.
Our fire department has an au
tomobile truck which takes the
place of two teams. In addition
there are three teams of horses.
A short time ago we almost lost
our High School building by fire
The City has an automobile
street sprinkler. There are nine
banks in Fargo that pay 3 and
per cent, on time loans and lend
the money at 8 and 10 per cent.
The population is 22,000, 10 grad
ed school buildings, not fewer
than 80 teachers. Then, there is
the Fargo College, The North
Dakota Business College, Fargo
Auto-Gas Engine School, and th
Ames Academy. There are also
three large hospitals and a sana-
lorium. we nave among our
. nr i
medical practitioners. Osteo
paths, who do not cure you with
drugs, but depend upon the re
adjustment of your bones and
ligaments.
Our city seems like a little
Heaven since Moorhead went
dry. ' North Dakota has been in
the dry column for several years,
but just across the river from
Fargo is the town of Moorhead
in Minnesota, and that town has
been wide open for saloons that
did much to coirupt the habits of
our citizens. Fortunately the
question was left to the voters
of the county in which Moorhead
is situated, and out went the sa
loon, arid both that town and our
city ate now feeling that we have
passed out from under a dark
cloud and are resting in the sun
shine of peace and quiet.
Orin Cisney, a son of McClel
lan Cisney, formerly of Burnt
Cabins but who is now living in
Illinois, spent two summers in
this city. Last fall he went to
Montana and took up a home
stead. Philip and Mac Curfman form
erly of Burnt Cabins, left this
city two or three years ago, Phil
ip is at Detroit, Minn., and Mac
at New Hock ford, N. Dak. Da
vid Curfman is at Page, N. Dak.
North Dakota is beautiful in
summer time. Looking out a
cross the prairies, one can Bee
for miles and miles.
Elder H. Galaher,
Statesmen and Speculators.
"Tom" Lawson, the noted stock
of!
)
I
market operator, says that some
one made $00,000,000 on advance
information about the President's
peace note. The public feels' com
forted to think that Congress is
investigating the alleged 'leak."
l!jt it's an elusive subject. Prob
ably the result will Le merely
some more black covered govern
ment reports, interesting to stu
dents and valuable to the junk
man.
f ...
urcour?eour public servants
never speculate. But somebody
may have ollice boys or second
cousins to whom money could be
leaned and increment thereof re
cetved. He would not know
where it came from.
The stock market dances at the
end of the Washington wire, and
millions can be picked out by fore
stalling the newspapers. The
outsider condemns with five rec
titude, never having had the
chance.
louwavea ten-thousand dol
lar bill in a public man's face,
and he laughs. Moral standards
are really higher than they use
to be. Also in some cases there
is a feeling that more refined
methods pay better.
lhe chance to make a million
on Wall street might have no
strings visible, no suggestion o
influencing a public official's
course. It might come indirect
I.. : i - .i i -
iy, involving me Deirayai ot no
confidence. But usually the tip
giver turns up later expecting his
fair return.
The Washington circle includes
an army of camp followers with
anxious ears to the ground for
salable or usable information. It
must be difficult for public offici
als not to do business with his
crowd, as they have influence at
home. The chances are that
that $60,000,000, if it was made
went to this element and their
backers. The less our public of
ficials have to do with this crowd,
the better for their careers. An
inglorious but safe and clean five
per cent, is better business than
speculation, if a public official
wants to settle down in Washing
ton. Snow Fall,
nine o'clock
About nine o'clock Monday
morning snow began falling, and
by four o'clock, when it ceased,
the ground was covered to a
depth of about eight inches.
This fell on a glaze surface that
started with two inches of snow
on Saturday evening, followed by
almost as much rainfall and a
much lower temperature. The
depth of snow on the mountains
is much greater, and the auto
buses, while making their regu
lar trips, are having a fight with
the drifts. The snow. Monday.
fell with the temperature at about
12 degrees, and consequently it
was very light.
Ccld Water Bath.
Mrs. Wm. Bivens, East Lincoln
Way thinks a cold water bath
this time of year is not the most
pleasant thing in the world.
Last Friday while she was pre
paring dinner, she discovered
there was something wrong with
the water pipe. She took the
ppigot off, thinking she might
find out what was wrong. Just
as she got it off the water came
pouring out over her and all
over the kitchen. All she could
do was to call lustily for help. The
nt-ighbors came to her rescue.
and soon the flow of water was
shut off.'
Enters New Business.
Mr. W. Scott Rinedollar a mem
ber of Etnme & Rinedollar mer
chant tailors, until the 1st of
Janunry, ha3 connected himself
with the firm of H. Frank Gump
& Sons, Inc., dealers in hard
ware, furniture and farm ma
chinery, of this place. Everett
re ss.
Miss Mary Jane Johnston, of
Canonsburg, Pa., Is spending
THE EVE AND ITS DANGERS.
Little Talks on Health and Bigicne fcy
Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LU D., .
Commissioner of Health.
If mankind were suddenly to
lose its eyesight the race would
die out. No one can review the
ordinary acts of his daily life
without a realization of the in-
dispensal 'e part the eye plays in
all our acts from the moat ordi
nary to the most important.
The eye is one of the most
highly completed, and at the same
time one of the most exact, piec
es of animal mechar.is-m that ex-'
ists. It is much exposed to in
jury through wounds or by germs
of disease.
Man is not as dependent upon
his hands as the monkeys in the
wilds of their native forests,
where they travel about by
swinging from limb to limb by
their hands. If, however, we
take account of our daily jnove
ments we will realize that our
hands are kept busy during our
working hours.
To open a door we catch the
knob with the hand. To climb
into a trolley car we grasp the
rail with the hand. These act
nnd a hundred others like them,
thousands of people are perform
ing every moment.
Some of these people are suf
fering with chronic diseases of
the eyes and may for instance.
be on their way to the hospital,
not having been instructed as to
the character of the malady.
The MifTerer who may be on your
car has been wiping his eyes with
his hand and has helped himself
nto the car with the germs of
disease on his hands just previ
ous to your catching hold of the
same rail. The only step furth
er to infect yourself with the
same disease is to rub your eye
with the hand that has been on
the rail.
Notwithstanding this every-dav
danger we constantly see people
rubbing their eyes with unclean
hands or gloves. If only a small
proportion of the readers of this
ounial will take the warning
contained herein, many cases of
diseased eyes may be avoided.
Needless to say, car rails are
not the only means of communi
cating infection in this way.
here are hundreds of others.
Cutting Farm Cost of Production.
A business man in the city has
plant and equipment with
which he'ean turn out a certain
article at the lowest possible cost
he farmer's plant and equip
ment is his soil. Every thinking
farmer is thoroughly convinced
that the richer and more depend
able his soil, the cheaper will he
be able to produce the various
arm products. One acre of rich,
dependable soil will produce more
products with much less work
and expense than two or three
acres of poor soil.
The first move of a business
man (or in this case of a busi
ness farmer) should be to get a
certain number of acres in the
best state of fertility. He should
improve his soil by the best and
most economical means within
his power. When a business man
wishes to turn out more products
and at a cheaper rate, he does
not hesitate to borrow more cap
ital to secure the necessary ma
chinery, or raw materials in large
quantity. The Practical Farmer.
Deer Was Legally Killed.
For a deer that he had legally
killed, Eugene Spoonhour, of
Franklin County had to pay a
fine of one hundred dollars in
Chambersburg last Saturday.
Spoonhour is a mountain resident
and something of a shot. Milton
Mench, proprietor of a hotel at
Hummellstown was hunting deer
at Caledonia last season. Not
having any luck, he made Spoon
hour a present of thirty dollars
in a saloon one day. The next
day Spoonhour, not to be outdone