0111111 VOLUME IS McCONNELLSHURG, PA., JANUARY 1S.19I7. NUMBER IS RECORD OF DEATHS. Short Sketches of the Lives of Per' sons Who Bare Recently Passed Away. i Rev. Aiiimaaz Mellott. ' Rev. Ahimaaz Mellott died Saturday afternoon, January 13, 1917. after several days and sights suffering from severe con pulsions. His age, from the best inowledge of nearby neighbors, would be 83 years, on his next )irthday. He died at the rest lence of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Decker the latter his daughter -where he had all the nursing, are, and attention that could be lestowed upon him. As noted rom time to time, in the Fulton Jounty News, he had a number f lingering spells of paralysis, nd convulsions, in the past three ears, at which time he suffered reatly, after which, he recov red partially. Two years ago e and his loving devoted wife ,'ere prostrated at the same time, nd she died. Mr.' Mellott had all the charac- iristics of a good father, neigh )r, and citizen. He was a zeal- is, loyal rrember and minister !the I'rimative Baptist Church, e preached Christ with all hid )wers,- for many years, and died ithful. The following children survive, o far as the writer could learn,) rs. Milton Decker, Mrs. G. L. hooley, Mrs. Berte Mellott, alker, Jonas, Chick, and Ri rd. , Funeral services were IcF, on Monday at Sideling Hill iptist Church, conducted by iv. C. L. Funk. Interment in netery near-by. Mrs. Caroline Dyer. !, Mrs.. Caroline Dyer, widow of :: late Basil Dyer, died at the J; lie of her son-in-law and ! Jghter, Mr. and Mrs. Sylves- j Pittman, about four miles th of Hancock, Wednesday, luary 3, 1917, in the 81st year her age. Irs. Dyer was well known to people of Hancock, she hav j resided there for many years. ;r to the death of her second J band, which occurred about !Jearsago, since which time iji J had been making her home jfljij'h her daughter. he wa3 a member of the Han C Presbyterian Church but ng to declining health was jusi ble to attend services in re , arut years. , an.he deceased is survived by alia daughter to her first hus rousd, Mrs. Sylvester Pittman. he funeral services were held he, house, Friday morning, . Dr, J. S. Webster, officiat- Interment was made in the ibyterian cemetery. George W. Pittman. eo. W. Pittman, a former well wn Hancock resident, died at iome in Washington, D. C., Viday morning, January' 5, ', after an illness of almost a being a sufferer from drop aged 69 years. r thirty years or more Mr. nan wa3 engaged in the gen merchandise business in the tal city, and prior to that was identified with the busi life of Hancock when he will Jmemberedby many of our ! citizens as the junior mem tf the firm, trading &3 Zim nan & Pittman, conducting leral store in the old Carl Bidea his widow, the deceas- survived by one son, Men Jd one daughter, Arlie, both horn hold government posi In Washington. Mr. Sylves Ittman, a brother, who re .neaf town, also survives e funeral was held Monday I late home in Washington! N. .Sylvester Pittman and Bhives, of this place, and Shives, of Smithsburg !in (attendance. -Hancock 'Iargaret Barnhart. rgaret Mann Barnhart, New Teacher at Needmore. 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 step?. 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 years, 0 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 Touoloway Baptist church. Mrs. Barnhart is survived by the following children: Howard, Washington county, Md.; Eva, wife of Thomas Wink, residing oft 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 Wrarfordsburg, aged 75; Elizabeth McClellan, Need more, aged 75 (Mrs. Runyan and Mrs. McClellan are twin sisters), and Jane Gordon, Needmore, (57. 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 76, and her maternal grand father, George Morgret. was aged 86; hence, it will be ob served that Mr3. 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 II., Margaret L., and Dessa. The funeral took place yesterday aft ernoon and ner 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. The 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 was taken to the home of Mrs. Laidig's brother, Charles Mellott in 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, of Needmore. ' THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY. While Many Miles Have Iken Com plstcd, Much Work Remains to Be 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 an asking advance road information, As the letter is similar 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 pose and activities of the Lincoln Highway Association, the 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 season? How much is hard surface? How much work are you going to do next year?" The Ivncoln Highway Associa tion cannot answer all thtso questions as succinctly as they are asked.- They are entirely too speculative in character. Aluch depends upon what the question er's idea of a completed Lincoln Highway would he. Does he ex pect a broad, hard surfaced, weil kept, perfectly marked and well prolicod boulevard from Nov Yory City to San Francisco, a distance of 3300 miles? If so he will be sadly disappointed. It may be many years before any approach, to such perfected road way will be realized. But the Lincoln Highway is a real traversable road for its en tire length and can be traveled in comfort in fair weather. It is hard surface through the east, but 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. Local endeavor keeps it up to the best standard possible all along the way. Approximately $5,000,000 was spent in improv ing the road in 1910. 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 mean3 are quite in adequate, are responsible for the actual physical betterment of thellighway. 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 Highway 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 his moral and financial support to the Lincoln Highway Association in this work. 'Any ttttcmpt the Lincoln High way Association may make in the way of actual road construc tion will he 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 feels 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. Subscribe tor the "New1 only tlO J a year. ANOTHER 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 they were paid ahead or not, would be charged $1.50 a year after the 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 tnve every one who wishes to take advantage of "another chance," we have decided to re ceive renewals aiid new subscrip tions to the News at one dollar a year until the first day of March. Tell your friends ab ut it. We intend that the News shall be worth a dollar and a half a year, and we know people are willing to pay when they get vn I ue received. la this world, wc generally get what we pay for. We have learned Ion ago that the cheap est sIk (H do not always wear the longest. Just a word to those who are in wears: If 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 pat to that one or two dollars more, and you will have the News that many years at the same price you would be paing 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. Unfortunate Man Was a Brother of Lewis Clark, of Belfast Township. Knmi The Kvrrrtt ! putilican. While Barton M. Clark, a form er resident of West Providence township, Bedford 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 his head, resulting in his death on last Sunday. Deceased 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, of Punxsutawney, 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 ho reached there. The body was brought th Everett and taken to the home of a relative, Mrs. J. A. Covalt, 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 ha3 made its 50th semi-annual re port and declared a semi-annual dividend of four per cer,t.The company has a surplus of $9, 076.31 and has $52,946.12 invest ed in the Bridge. Total receipts for past six montha were $3,689. 81. FARGO, N. DAK. LEfTER. From Elder II. flallahsr, Formerly of Burnt Cabins, is Now Manager of an Ice riant. Wc are now having real win ter weather. The thermometer ' has registered 151 degrees beUw zero. The ground has been cov ered with snow during the past four weeks, and we have good 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 Red River. 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 vastquar.tity of snow sudden ly, the river became very high and partly inundated the town Heavy rains in July gave us i second experience of a Hooded city. vvniieiris true that we can I 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, an 1 peo ple dropped over in the streets from sunstroke. As to fuel, we can buy hard coal at $11 2-, and soft coal at $3.50 and $1 00. Those who pre ler to burn wood, can get it at $:U)0 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 i3 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 $160, 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 4 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 the Ames Academy. There are also three large hospitals and a sana torium. We have among our 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, and both that town and our city aie 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 Rock 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 see for miles and miles. Elder H. Galaher, 1016 Fifth St. So., Fargo, N, Dak Statesmen and Speculators. "Tom" Lawson, the noted stock : market operator, says that some one made $60,000,000 on advance information about the President's peace note. The public feels' com forted to think that Congress is investigating the alleged "leak." But it's an elusive subject. Prob ably the result will be merely some more black covered govern ment reports, interesting to stu dents and valuable to the junk man. Utcour?eour public servants never speculate. But somebody may have office boys or second cousins to whom money could be leaned and increment thereof re ceived. 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 titudc, 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 U3e to be. Also in some cases there is a feeling that more refined methods pay better. The chance to make a million on Wall street might have no strings visible, no tuggestfon of influencing a public official's course. It might come indirect ly, involving the betrayal of 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 ofTici 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. 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 wa3 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, Bhe discovered there was something wrong with the water pipe. She took the spigot 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 w a3 shut off.'. Enters New Business. Mr. W. Scott Rinedollar a mem ber of Emme & Rinedollar mer chant tailors, until the 1st of Janunry, hag connected himself with the firm of II. Frank Gump & Sons, Inc., dealers in hard ware, turniture ana inrm ma chinery, of this place. Everett Press. Miss Mary Jane Johnston, of Canonsbursr, Pa., is spending; sometime with friends in Big Cove pndjhN rl""i - THE EVE AND ITS DANGERS. Little Talks on Health and Higicne by Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LL. D., . Commissioner of Heallh. 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- disponsal e part the eye plays in all our acts from the most ordi nary to the most important. The eye in one of the most highly completed, and at the sr.me time one of the most exact, piec es of animal mechanism 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, wo take account of our daily .move 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 acts and 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 sufferer who may be on your car has been wiping his eyes with his hand and has helped himself into 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 intect vourse f with the same disease is to rub your eye with the hand that has been on the rail. Notwithstanding this every-day danger we constantly see people rubbing their eyes with unclean hands or gloves. If only a small proportion of the readers of this journal 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. There are hundreds of others. Cutting Farm Cost of Production. A business man in the city has plant and equipment with which he can turn out a certain article at the lowest possible cost The farmer's plant and eciuin- ment is his soil. Every thinking farmer 13 thoroughly convinced that the richer and more depend able his soil, the cheaper will he be able to produce the various farm 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 thi3 case of a busi ness farmer) should be to get a certain number of acres in the est 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- tal 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 by Mench's generosity, made If v . ' I V
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