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VOLUME 18
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., FEBRUARY 15, 1917.
NUMBER 22
RECORD OF DEATHS.
Est fetches of the Lhes of Per-
ku Who Bare Reccntlj -I,
. Passed Awaj.
; ' Wayne Cutciiall.
The News last week told that
5 Wayne Cutchall. a young Ayr
"" township farmer, went to fhe
I woods on Wednesday morning to
assist his neighbor George H.
Unger to get out timber for a
new barn. In cutting a tree
down, it fell in a direction oppo
site to which the choppers intend
ed, and in Wayne's effort to get
, away, he was caught by a heavy
limb and crushed to the ground,
i While it was known that he
was terribly hurt, he did not lose
consciousness. He was taken to
his home on the Alex Patterson
farm, a doctor summoned, and
it wta' found that one of his legs
was broken in two places, that
one1 or more of his ribs were frac-
I tured, and that he was bruised
I much about the head. An anaes
thetic was administered whilebia
leg was being set, and he came
out from under the influence in a
. very satisfactory manner. Later
he IcEt consciousness, and upon
.tie tdvice of his local physicians,
1 e wu sent to the Chambersburg
; ospital on Thursday, but it was
)uci that his condition was be-
:ondtny human help, and on
undzy morning he passed away,
i is remains were brought to the
I oma of his parents, Mr. and
1 Mrs. Robert Cutchall, on the T.
1 1 !oan farm in the Cove, and
I le funeral held on Wednesday
i iorz.:ag at 10 o'clock,
j 3 Wcne was aged 22 years and
1 3d:; a. About two years ago
I :.e wza married to Miss Martie,, a
: aughter of County Treasurer and
Mrs. Leonard Bivens, of Webster
Mills, who is prostrated with
rrief over the loss of her young
jmpiaion in life. Wayne was
m eamplary member of the
Lutheran church, and a splendid
out j man. The large number
)tf. ads who attended the fu
lfil bore testimony to the es
eeaEi which he was held in
he U-amunity.
i! . Hiss Clara Martin.
l-L1" f Clara Elizaheth Martin
( iei ; J the home of her mother,
Jrc! T ydia Martin, in Ayr town
hi Thursday evening, Febru
Jjrjt, 1917, aged 25 years, 7
"W.Lj and 22 days. The f uner-
1 Bcrvices conducted by Rev.
Iamirl Meyers, of Franklin
busJouni, took place Sunday morn
Sta8 1-i interment was made in
jr(a;he family cemetery near the
i allome. )
erQC Wfaila she has been in declin
Jg health for some time, her
ist illness covered a period of
uly a few days. Besides her
lother,' she is survived by the
allowing brothers and sisters:
ohn H, Welsh Run, ' Pa.; Wil
am F.; Greensburg, Ind,; Sam
el R., Gambier 0.; Aaron J.,
IcCohnellsburg, Pa.; David W.,
ladrid, Iowa; Silas C, West-
j ood,Cal. ; Miss Barbara, Tyrone,
'a,; td Misa Lydia, at home,
r The family have the sincere
jrmpLthy of their numerous
Hendaj for it was only on the
th of last July that Paul an old
t brother of Clara, passed away.
I IIrs. Mary Bedford.
Mr:. Mary Hess Bedford, wid
cf the late B. F. Bedford,
led ti the home of her snn.in.
w t 1 daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
In T.. I. . ..
on tne old Bedford
aorth of Needmore, on
ay of last week, aged
2 years. The funeral . took
unday. conducted hv Pv
J. Voft, and interment
t Pleasant fi
Bedford is survived by the
ng sons and daughters:
rife of John Mellott, of
sburg; Elnora, wife of
Potter, of Buck Valley;
Bedford, Shippensburg,
nes, wife of William Fite.
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jourg; jtimma, wife of
ounger, Shade Gap, Pa.;
vidow of William Spade;
feoflra Miller, Hancock;
'.wife of William Funk,
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FARMERS ARE NOT LIABLE.
New Ruling bj Workmen's Compensa
tion! Board Include Specialties
Under General Class.
Harrisburg, Feb. 3. The State
Workmen's Compensation Board
has ruled that in using the word
"agriculture" ' in exemption of
that occupation and domestic ser
vice from the operation of the
compensation act the Legislature
employed the word "in its broad
sense and intended to -include
within its meaning such employ
ments and pursuits as are usually
connected with and incidental to
the work of farming or agricul
ture as ordinarily understood."
This ruling is made in setting
aside the award of compensation
by Referee L. E Chistley to
Nancy Jane Dimple.of Pittsburgh
and will stand as the ruling un
less set aside by the Courts.
The Legislature of 1915 ex
empted "agriculture and domes
tic service" from compensation
provisions. Joseph Dimple, hus
band of the claimant, managed a
chicken farm which also contain
ed a garden patch with some
wheat, owned by William Fromm
Mt Oliver, and located in Butler
county. While cranking an au
tomobile to go to a nearby sta
tion to meet his wife and also to
bring back some lime for white
washing the chickenhouses he
was fatally hurt
"We have decided," says the
decision, "that it is not reason
able to conclude that the Legis
lature in using the term agricul
ture intended it to epply only to
the production of grains, grasses
and other products of the soil.
The purpose of the Legislature
seems to have been to relieve
farmers as a class from liability
under the compensation law, and
the phrase agriculture should be
construed so as to give effect to
this legislative purpose, and it
should not be narrowly interpret
ed so as to apply only to a part
of the operations which are usu
ally carried on upon farms of this
Commonwealth."
A farmer, it is held, may de
vote all his time to general farm
ing, or he may specialize and
may do so without taking him
self out of his occupation as gen
erally understood.
Socialettes.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Harris
entertained ' a number of their
friends at dinner last Friday.
A dinner party was given at
the home of D. E. Fore, Esq,
and his daughter Miss Katie last
Thursday in honor of a number
of their friends.
Mrs. Wilson Nace entertained
at luncheon at her home yester
day. The Governor and Mrs. Martin
Grove Brumbaugh gave a dinner
Tuesday evening at the executive
mansion, Harrisburg, in compli
ment to Miss Violet Oakley, and
whose new paintings for the
State were unveiled later in the
evening. The large round table
was. aglow with pink snapdragon
sweet peas, and the more deli
cate spring blossoms.
Miss Lillian Fleming who has
been teaching in the province of
Saskatchewan, Canada, is now
at her home at'Clear Ridge, aft
er an absence of two and one
half years.
Needmore, R. R. 1.
The deceased was a daughter
of the late Jerry and Delilah
Hess.
Barney Weller.
Barney Weller a well known
citizen ofThompson township and
a veteran of the Civil War, passed
away at his home on Thursday of
last week. Hi3 funeral took place
last Sunday. His wife who was
Mjsb Catherine Ingram, of Han
cock, survives, together with the
following children: Anson, Wil
liam and Albert, and Zeda, wife
of George Myers.
The deceased was an excellent
citizen and enjoyed the good will
and respect of everybody. '
WILSON
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1'renldpnt Wilson ndilrcsslng congress Kebruury 3 on the developments
ruthless submarine warfare and telling tlio lawmakers of the breaking off
government.
Letter from Ms. Garmao.
Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 5.
Editor News: Please find enclos
ed money order for the past year
and the year to come. I just
couldn't get along without the
News. It is just like getting a
letter from my dear ones at home.
I read lots of things I would not
get to know if it were not for
the paper, from Dublin Mills, for
that was my old home town. On
the 28th of March I will have
lived in Fort Wayne six years.
When I was sixteen years of age,
I left Fulton County and went
with my sister L'zzie to Nebras
ka, where I lived eight years,
visiting my old home once in that
time. I was married in Omaha,
Neb. on the 18th day of March,
1909. We came to Indiana, lived
id the country two years, then
moved into the city (Fort Wayne)
where we have since lived. Of
all the places I have lived, dear
old Pennsylvania suits me best.
I have been back to Pennsylva
nia twice since we came to Indi
ana, and unless I miss my guess,
you may all look for me soon
again.
Talk about the high cost of liv
ing ! We know something about
it With potatoes, $2 20 a bush
el; eggs, 46 cents a dozen; butter
45 cents a pound, you don't
blame me for wanting to get
back to Fulton county. The
crops in this section were fair
last season, except potatoes and
cabbage and not many apples.
I suppose you have heard that In
diana has gone "dry" "dry" by
the most sweeping of restrictions
No intoxicating liquors can be
manufactured in the state, none
sold, none shipped into the state,
and no newspapers dare crrry
any advertising of liquors. This
puts out of business 143 saloons
in this city to say nothing of ho
tels that sell liquor.
It occurs to me just now, that
even around Dublin Mills, some
one reading this may be wonder
ing who Mrs. Garman is. Per
haps, if I tell you that before I
became the wife of Mr. Owen E.
Carman, I was known as Tillie
Hershey. I now have two dear
little children: Royce, almost 4
years old, and Rosene, almost
three. And -what they doh't
think of isn't worth thinking of.
There is now about two inches
of snow on the ground and more
falling. We are having the cold
est weather we have had this
winter. We have had four or
five snows this winter, but I have
not seen a sleigh since I was in
Pennsylvania during the winter
of 1915, when I had some of those
good old fashioned sled rides
I had a letter from Mrs. John
Barnett last week saying that
my sister Lizzie's husband is in
poor health. They live in Dan
vers, Minnesota.
My husband is a carpenter con
TELLING CONGRESS OF
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tractor. I have always tried to
persuade him to go to Pennsyl
vania to live. I tell him, there
we could have real buckwheat
cakes here we only have "make
believe." It is with sadness of heart that
I read in the News of the death
of many of my old acquaintances;
but, we must be prepared to take
the bitter with the sweet. I
shall be glad to get a letter from
any of my old time friends who
may care to write. My address
is: Mrs, Owen E. Garman, 1925
Creighton Ave., Fort Wayne,
Ind.
The Ditcb Digger.
In spite of all that can be said
about the honorable quality of all
labor, many people have always
regarded those who dig ditches
and perform other unspilled la
bor, with some contempt Of
recent years this work has been
largely done by non-English
speaking aliens. It was not so
many years ago that this type of
labor could be commonly had for
about $1.50 a day.
Recent years have placed the
ditch digger in a more independ
ent position. His wages in many
places have doubled. The war
has made raw labor scarce. The
man with energy and muscle
enough to handle pick and shovel
is not so common as he was. Our
native Americans do not like
manual labor, though they may
be earning less money sonjewhere
at clean handed jobs.
The new literacy test law
promises to make the ditch dig
ger even pcarcer. Of course the
man who has energy enough to
leave friends and earn passage
money may have the grit to fit
himself to pass our new require
ments. But the new standard
must have some tendency to re
duce the supply of raw labor.
Wherefore it behooves us to
feel a little more respect for the
ditch digger. He performs a
useful and toilsome task which
the rest of us are unable or not
willing to undertake. He is in a
position to get a higher price for
this disagreeable service, and he
will make farm, highway, and
construction work cost more.
It seems incongruous to many
people that clergymen and teach
ers, who have spent good money
going through the schools, must
often earn less than the unskilled
laborer who never took the least
pains to educate himself. Possi
bly machinery may yet be devis
ed to fill the gap caused by scar
city of unskilled labor. Machines
are digging trenches in France,
why not machines also to dig our
sewers? But until this substitu
tion can be made, we must all
pay the penalty of the general
inability or unwillingness to work
with our hands and delve in the
dirt
THE BREAK
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tins i jir J n
SKI IMliA ?
following Gormuny'a -decision to wugo
of diplomatic relutlons with tlie kaiser's
Spelling Lesson Pleasant Pastim;.
It is a well-known truth that a
child learns more quickly through
the medium of play than through
dull hours of tedious instruction.
To make play of work is the en
deavor of almost all really sue
cessful tutors, of little tots. The
February Popular M e c h a n i cs
Magazine tells how a teacher in
one of the public schools at Col'
umbus, Ohio,- found a way of
making her pupils look anxious
ly forward for the daily spelling
lesson. Her plan of teaching is
a most novel one and has proved
so effective that it has been ad
opted by other instructors in the
elementary grades of the city's
schools. A telegraph key and
receiver are mounted on the
teacher's desk. The children have
been taught the Morse code and
when a word is ticked off in dots
and dashes they inscribe the
characters on the blackboard and
then translate them. A varia
tion of the routine is to have dif
ferent children tick out the dots
and dashes as words are pro
nounced by the teacher.
Famous Dotel. .
The Commonwealth Hotel, the
oldest in Harrisburg, and now oc
cupying a corner used for hotel
purposes since 1790. will go out
of business April 1 unless some
one will agree to lease it for a
year, which appears to be unlike
ly. The hotel i3 owned by the
McCormick estate and has been
dry since 1904. The owners plan
to convert it into store rooms.
The Commonwealth and its pre
decessors, the Washington, Jones
and Leland on the same site have
played a big part in Pennsylva
nia history from the days that
Washington had his headquarters
in the hotel on his way to the
Whiskey Insurrection. Lincoln
spent a day there in a council on
his way to his inauguration, and
as a result changed his route to
Washington. It was in the Com
monwealth that Nell Skinner and
Edgar Criswell were married.
Prohibition Amendment
Hon. Edgar R. Smith, of Bed
ford county, introduced into the
house of representatives the last
week a joint resolution providing
for state-wide prohibition of the
strictest nature.
Smith proposes a new article
to the constitution prohibiting
"the manufacture, sale or keep
ing for sale of vinous, spirituous,
malt or brewed liquors, or any
admixtures thereof, or any other
intoxicating liquor, for beverage
purposes." Manufacture and
Bale of liquor for medical purpos
es is allowed in the proposed
amendment
It is believed that this amend
ment will be passed by the house
and senate and that the people
of the state will be permitted to
vote on it
EARLY HATCHING BRINGS WINTER EGGS
A Simple Waj for Poultry Owners to
Profit from High Prices in Fall
and Winter. -
Early hatching is the secret of
winter egg production, say speci
alists in the U." S. Department of
Agriculture. The pullet thatia
hatched early matures early and
is ready to lay eggs in the fall
when the supply is scarcest and
prices highest. Chickens that
are expected to be revenue pro
ducers for their owners later in
the year should be- out of their
shells ly April 30 at the latest.
If they are properly cared for
thereafter they will begin to lay
eggs at me very time tnat eggs
are most wanted.
lo a great extent the poultry-
men of the country have over
looked this simple fact. For ore
thing, birds hatched later in the
spring or summer are not inclined
to become broody until late the
f ilIo Aing season and thus an un
profitable circle is formed. Each
year pullets mature too late to
produce in the fall and winter,
and thfy sit too late for their off
springs to do any better. The
(Poultryman who wishes to get
really good returns from his
flock must break this circle.
The growing use of incubators
has made this comparatively eas
ler. mere is no reason why in
cubators should not be filled in
March and early April and the
hatching over before May 1. If
no incubator is available it may
be possible to secure broody hens
in the neighborhood. That they
will repay the trouble and ex
pense necessary to obtain them,
is indicated by results at the gov
ernment poultry farm in Mary
land. There it is not unusual to
get a daily average of one egg
for every five hens throughout
the fall and winter, and in some
pens the average has been as
high as one egg for three birds.
If any thing like this percentage
could be obtained on farms, the
ordinary poultry farmer would
derive real benefit from the high
prices which eggs invariably
bring for a period of several
months.
Readv to Serve U. S.
State College, Pa., Feb. 6.
More than 2000 students at the
Pennsylvania State College last
night volunteered their services
to the country in case of war
with Germany. At a monster
mass-meeting held in the Schwab
auditorium, resolutions were ad
opted which offered the students'
assistance in whatever capacity
they can be used by the Govern
ment
The resolutions went through
without a dissenting vote. When
A. W. Roberts, '17, colonel of the
student regiment, presented the
matter a wave of patriotism swept
the student body. Amid cheers
and national airs played by the
cadet band, every student present
declared his intention of serving
the flag, if called upon to protect
national honor. All of these
students have had military train
ing, ranging from four months,
for the freshmen, to three and a
half years ' for senior officers in
the college regiment' Under the
direction of three regular army
officers the State College students
drill every day in the spring and
fall.
In the winter they study . tac
tics and military science in class
rooms. At tne end or two years
all of them are qualified to serve
as officers in a volunteer army.
It is estimated that there are
enough trained officers now at
State College to efficiently direct
the elementary training of 10,000
raw troops,
Copies of the resolutions were
telegraphed to President Wils.on
and Governor Brumbaugh.
Mr. Aaron J. Martin, a student
at Conway Hall, Carlisle, and his
sister, ' Miss Barbara, a teacher
nearTyn.ne, Pa., attended the
funeral o'i their Bister Miss Clara
E. Martin last Sunday. ,
CONSERVATION OF EYESIGHT.
Little Talks on Health and Hjgieae bj
Samuel G. Dixon, SI. D., LL D.,
Commissioner of Health.
Everyone reaiizes what sight
means for the comfort and effici
ency of daily life. Man is not
much better off without his eyes
than a submarine would be with
out her periscope. A blind her
mit would soon die for the want
of food. One's efficiency along
most lines nowadays, depends a
great deal upon the strength of
the sight. Tha perfect yourg
eye has a wide margin of endur
ance and few of us realize when
its strength is being used up un
til it is cripnled.
Now that tha price of paper is
soaring higher and higher, small
type is being introduced in - all
kinds of reading matter. It ex
hausts the eye if worked long at
a time to decipher small letters
or figures. This causes nervous
disturbance, headaches, indiges
tion, sleeplessness, etc. We had
better be a little liberal in paying
for editions of books, magazines,
and other reading matter with
legible type and economze in
other ways tobacco or imita
tion flowers on our spring hats
for instance.
Save your eyes from dust as
much as possible.
If you have to read when rid
ing in cars or trolleys do not rest
your book or arm on any part of
the seat, but hold it in your hand
or hands so that it will move
with the body and not be going
one way while the head and eyes
are swinging in another direc
tion.
Never read with a bright light
shining directly in your face, but
try and get it over one or the
other shoulder, or shining down
over your head.
Try and hold your reading mat
ter at an angle bo that the light
reflected from the paper will not
shine directly in your eyes.
The color of the paper is worth
considering in account books and
such things. The contrast be
tween a pure white paper and a
jet black handwriting or type
causes a little confusion along the
lines between the white and
black. It is easier to ' follow let
ters' or figures if they are brown .
on a light buff paper. Practical
tests will soon convince you that
the lines under the latter condi
tion will be more distinct than
when the sharper contrast of
black with white is made.
The desk upon which you have
your reading matter should be of
a material that will not ruled
the glare of the light into the
face, which will irritate the eyes.
When you have to seek artifi
cial aid by the use of glasses,
there is no one too learned in the
anatomy of the eye and the many
abnormalities to which it is sub
ject for the task of giving advice.
Often more harm is done by glas
ses selected by those not educated
in medical science than would be
done without the glasses. Fur
thermore, one is misled by a false
sense of security, while an un
discovered diseased condition of
the eye runs on until it is too late
to remedy it
Never forget to take the best
care of you eyes. They are good .
and necessary friends.
Gun 70 Feet Long.
The Bethlehem Steel Works has
just forged the first 16-inch gun
for the United States navy the
second made in this country. The
first one now guards the Atlantic
entrance to the Panama canal.
and can fire a shot almost 16
miles.
There is no difference in di
ameter, but the 16-inch navy gun
is 840 inches, or 70 feet long,
while the 16-inch army howitzer.
more nearly a duplicate of the
German 42-centimetre terrors, i$
but 300 inches, or 25 feet long.
So far as known, the new
United States 16-inch gun for the
navy is the heaviest and most
powerful weapon ever made ia
the world's history.