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VOLUME 18
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., MARCH 8,1917,
NUMBER 25
SALIYIA SIMMARIZINGS.
1? Fashioned Winter. No Locusts
This Year. Fulton County Boy
I Goes to froth America.
here's no need of anyone's
ing after the good old fash
ed winters of long ago.' We
;e one with us now that will
!y measure up to the standard
iha worst in the "memory of
) oldest inhabitant," as far as
jjnsylvania in concerned. De
nber, January, February and
rch so far, have each contnb
J its full share of genuine
'time winter weather. The
7H iruiii rcuiumi wvu vj
ich 6th were record breakers.
S snow-falls of February 28th,
1 March 2-4th aggregated a
1 of not less than 30 inches.
.ing the intervening days the
w melted and packed some;
i on the morning of March 5th
neighbor W. E. Bair meas
j a depth of 21 inches in his
:den, which he regarded as a
'r. test On the mountains the
w is much deeper.
Wt be alarmed. While it is
eved by some people that the
ida, or seventeen-year locusts
i appear in Fulton County this
t it is a mistake. While this
Ihe year for counties in the
ihwestern part of the State,
: 'southern border counties east
layette will not be visited un
Cho summer of 1919. The old-
rnes of us remember that they
e in this county in 1851, 1868,
t and 1902. . So jour fruit
vers will have two years, . to
'. their young orchards in out
'anger.
iere were three or four se
I cases of grippe in the fami
Ieaiah Kline last week, but
jt are all reported better. The
a of grippe prevailing this
: ier is especially weakening to
t action, with the strong ten
7 to develop into pneumonia,
'e Sponsler, whose heart be-
very weak in an attack of
pe, is now becoming strong-
I
e are informed that W. Scott
,t is not recovering as rapid
his many friends would wish,
said that he was quite poor
jring most of last week,
e contemplated automobile
jssion with the remains of
is S. Foreman from Laidig
jdeling Hill Baptist church
;! to be abandoned last week
xcount of the condition of
bads, and horses and vehic
bstituted. cut 27 years ago, one of our
ng Creek Valley boys, Frank
"ann, went to Colorado "to
( up with the country." He
up a claim of 160 acres of
'under the Homestead Act
d, sandy prairie land sev
miles from a railroad station
)ost office. About the time
id proven up, a railroad came
i and dropped a town (Bur
n) right down on part of
is land. The soil seemed
right for towns, for the
t took root and put up a
pus growth from the start
ked good to Frank and he
Jverything in his power to
i-age the town and to de-
enterprises. Frank ac
? more land, made fortunate
Jnents and since that time
i have been coming Frank's
? He is now going to South
lea to develop some mining
rty ho has there. It will
hw about thirty days to
the journey one way. By
y. if you make a trip over
ncoln Highway next sum-
the Pacific Coast you will
ight through Burlington.
people who have great
:n the Groundhog as a
' prognosticate are re
d that the six weeks will
on the 16th (Friday of n'ext
f and then the Hog will
t of his hole into the
of beautiful springtime.
Jt look now like spring
' By the correct markings
.woolly worm-indicated
I black ring athishead
i was to have a sever
RECORD OF DEATHS.
Per
Short Sketches of the Lives of
sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.
Solomon Comerer.
Mrs. Susan Myers, East Lin
coln Way, recei ved a telegram
last Saturday, conveying the sad
message of the death of her son-in-law
Mr. Solomon Comerer at
his home in Clay Center, Kansas.
It was known here by his friends
that he had been in declining
health but the news of his death
caused a shock to his many rela
tives and friends.
The deceased was the only
child of Daniel and Eve Comerer
and he was born in Ayr township
July 6, 1852; hence he was aged
64 years, 7 months and 25 days.
On his 24th birthday, he was
united in marriage to Miss Lizzie
daughter of J. Thompson Myers
(deceased) and Susie Fox Myers,
and lived on the old home farm
in the Cove until about thirty
years ago when they went to
Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Comerer
visited their relatives and friends
here about seven or eight years
ago.
Solomon was chock full of
music and became a most pro
ficient band master and orchestra
eader. He is a cousin of our
townsmen John, Henry and Will
iam Comerer, and of Mrs. Lou
Jackson, Mrs. Fred Black and
Mrs.. Nick Roettger.
Solomon is survived by his
wife and one married daughter.
Mrs. Harvey Seville.
, Rhoda, wife of Harvey Seville,
near Cito in Ayr township, died
last Sunday forenoon, aged about
31 years. The funeral services
conducted by Rev. Ed Jackson,
of the M. E. Church took place
Monday afternoon and interment
was made in Union cemetery.
Mrs. bevwe s death was un
expected. She had been appar
ently well as usually until the
morning of her death when she
became indisposed and in a few
few minutes passed away.
i The deceased was a daughter
of Jacob (deceased) and Lucinda
Clevenger. She is survived by
her husband and five children;
who have the sincere sympathy
of the community in the loss of a
kind and loving wife and mother.
Eye Injured.
Last Monday morning the
ground was covered with a
heavy fall of snow that interfer
ed with much of the regular work
about a farm, and a boy must do
something. So, Earl Ott son of
William Ott" near Back Run,
thought it would not be a bad
time to practice shooting at a
mark. These are war times,
you know, and it is well enough
to know how to shoot. '
For some reason or other, there
was a premature explosion of a
cartridge, and a sliver went into
one of Earl's eyes. He came to
town and Dr. Mosser dressed the
injured optic, which fortunately
was not hurt as seriously as it
might 'have been.
Evidently Earl was not shoot
ing like a woman or he would
have had both eyes shut.
Dr. Stevens will be at Huston-
town, March 19th and 20; at
Needmore, March 26th, and at
Burnt Cabins, March 27th.
starting. Didn't December give
it to us? ten-inch ice before
Christmas? The brown belt fol
lowing indicated continuous cold
with bleak winter and a dread
ful icy time during January and
February. Didn't we get a
plenty of it? The black ring at
the tail well, look outl Spring
is not here yet, and don't you
think notwithstanding the
fact that wild geese were mak
ing their trip north ten days ago
and robins and bluebirds are
here.
Mrs. Philip Strait . and Mrs.
Cadiz Schooley were on the sick
list Monday. ,
J. A Stewart; !
Hotel Bnrned.
The Eagle Hotel at Fort Little-
ton was totally destroyed by fire
on Wednesday afternoon of last
week. It was owned by Charlie
Whitsel, who conducted it as a
hotel until license was refused a
year ago, when he closed the
house and went out to his farm.
At the time of the fire the house
was occupied by DeKalb Wilt
This was one of the most pop
ular hostleries on the State Road.
In 1868 the late Michael Wilt
bought the property and remodel
ed the building suitable for hotel
purposes and it has been in con
tinuous operation under differ
ent managements as a licensed
hotel from that time until a little
more than a year ago when on
application of Charles Whitsel
license to sell liquors was refus
ed.
For years this had been a pop
ular hostelry supplying a public
demand, and was favorably
known to residents and travelers.
One tragic event occurred in
the old hotel a few years aeo
when John Husler was shot by
the lessee, Miller Jones, in an at
tempt to subdue a riot. Husier
died from the bullet wound but
Jones was acquitted.
The building carried some in
surance. It is not likely that it
will be rebuilt, for hotel purpos
es.
Chateau Heya.
Monday's Chambersburg Val
ley Spirit says that Sidney F.
Heckert, Jr., the prominent Pitts
burgh architect, was in Cham
bersburg relative to the proposed
year 'round mountain hotel,
Chateau Heyn, which will be
erected on the mountain top,
near the dividing, line between
Franklin and Fulton counties
along , the Lincoln Highway.
Architect Heckert went there to
confer with various local contrac
tors who were asked to bid on
the structure.
Mr. Heckert stated that all
plans for Chateau Heyn had been
completed and but few if any im
portant changes have been made
from the detailed plans given by
The Spirit" several days ago.
Among local contractors who
are expected to submit bids are:
Quigley Hafer, C. E. Kump, E.
M. Shields, M. R. Rhoads, of
Chambersburg; W. A. Pentz of
Scotland and A. R. Warner of
Waynesboro. It is hoped to have
all bids submitted within a few
days so that the contract may be
awarded within the next ten
days.
It is- further expected that the
construction will be rushed rap
idly forward so that by midsum
mer the new mountain hotel will
be thrown open to the traveling
public. Mr. Heckert said that it
is the wish of the builders, Heyn
brothers, Leopold L. and Roman
H. Heyn, to make the hotel the
most attractive mountain hotel
between Pittsburgh and Phila
delphia.
Gas Plant Blew Up.
Edwin Milton Hollar, a native
of Franklin County, was killed at
his home a few miles southwest
of Custer, Okla., a few days ago.
His house is lighted with an
acetylene gas system, and while
no one saw the accident, it is be-
ieved he was examing the tank
ocated outside the dwelling, and
was attempting to remove the
id of the casing containing the
tank, when the explosion took
place. His face and head were
badly crushed and he lived but
wenty minutes after the acci
dent. His friends think the ex
plosion was the result of an over
charge. This is not a good the
ory as modern plants are provid
ed with an escape pipe to lead
off any overcharge automatically.
The main caution to be observed
with an acetylene light plant is
not to take an open flame near
it. Don't work about the tank
with matches in your pocket
Use a flash light if your tank is
in a dark place, j
Who Can Tell of the Morrow? Doa't
Delay. Co to Church Next Sunday.
SOME of the young people of today when asked why they do not
GO TO CI1UKCII say that they arc too busy having a eood
time; that they wiU GO TO CHURCH when they grow
old. They'll vehemently dcclaro their belief in God and admit
tha.t the church is' all right. But they repeat that they will have
plenty of time to repent and GO TO CHURCH in their declin
ing years.
How many of these young people are sure that they will live
to be old? How many of them can positively say that thev will
LIVE TO SEE ANOTHER DAY? Procrastination in the thief
of time. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today. If
you are having a good time now and neglectinc church. GOD
MAY NEGLECT YOU when you need hini most!
Mi-itH all, the BO CALLED GOOD TIMES ARE MORE OR
LESS EMPTY. YOU'LL HAVE A REAL GOOD TIME IN CHURCH.
IT'S THE MAN WITH THE EASY CONSCIENCE WHO HAS THE
REAL GOOD TIME IN THIS WORLD. TROUBLED CONSCIENCES
RESULT FROM MANY OF THE SO CALLED GOOD TIMES OF
TODAY. ' ISN'T THIS TRUE? THINK IT OVER. GOD WANTS THE
YOUNG PEOPLE. THE CHURCH WANTS THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
PREACHERS WANT THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN CHURCH. THE
LESSONS THAT ARE TAUGHT THERE FIT A MAN OR WOMAN
FOR THE BATTLE OF LIFE.
It seems that in every lino of endeavor but the church YOUTH
IS ENTHUSIASTIC. Why not become enthusiustic over church ?
Isn't the goal worth while? Every young man and young woman
in this community should make it a point to GO TO CHURCH
next Sunday. When you were a child you went to church. Why
forget tho church in the days of earlv manhood or womanhood?
If there ever is a time when you NEED THE CHURCH MOST
it is then. It is the MOST CRITICAL PERIOD of your life.
The church is tho BULWARK OF THE NATION. You
will have to admit that, young people. Then why not help along
'his grand GO TO CHURCH movement and attend diviuo serv
ii next Sunday?
00 TO CUURCn.
A STITCH IN TIME.
Correction.
In regard to the play given on
the 22nd of February, last week's
town papers seemed to leave some
in doubt by whom the Old New
Hampshire Home was given.
The article stated it was given
by the Dramatic Club and the
proceeds given to the Civic Club.
So that there may be no misun
derstanding this correction is
made. The play was gotten up
by the Civic Club, instead of. by
Dramatic Club, as that organiza
tion was not in existence until a
week after the play was given;
but somo of the characters" in the
play have since that time organ
ized into the D. C.
As the play originated from
the Civic Club, naturally the pro
ceeds belonged to that club to be
used for the town's improvement
as stated before.
Everybody is glad to know
there is a Dramatic Club in the
town, because we believe'; there
is a need , for such an organiza
tion and they should be encour
aged in their undertaking by co
operation from all of us; yet,
there are prior rights to be re
cognized. The Civic Club feels
it is an infringement upon their
rights for the Dramatic Club to
repeat their play and take all
proceeds to be used as they see
fit; without consulting them, es
pecially, bo as it was well known
to them that it was the intention
of the Civic Club (by the consent
of those who had a part in it) to
give the play again either here
or elsewhere.
"Civicus."
Little Talks on Health and Hjgiene by
Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LL. D.,
Commissioner of Health.
With the war clouds floating
over us and the grave possibili
ties of our peace being Btill fur
ther disturbed by the continuance
of a desperate struggle in force
among so many nations in the
civilized world, we can very well
afford to remember that a Btitch
in time eaves nine and take those
steps of preparedness which are
available along the lines of health
as they are affected by the foods
we consume in our daily life,
This may not be as spectacular
an element as others that are be
ing featured under the head of
preparedness now-a-days, but if
anyone stops to think he will rea
lize that it ha3 a value that is es
sential and primary to the health
of a nation either from the stand
point of the artificial prices that
are now being forced upon us by
the pressure of outside events or
even in the event of greater conditions.
We all realize some of the con
ditions which lie at the bottom of
the present scarcity of food and
high prices with the bearing it
has upon the public health. We
know that the war has made
phenomenal demand for labor in
the munition works and that this
has become so generally respond
ed to that the farmers and truck
gardners have been robbed
ABOUT PEOPLE. YOU KNOW.
Cere of Sows anl Pigs
A close watch should be kept
of the sow at farrowing time.
f the weather is cold it is bet
ter to remove the pigs from the
pen as fast as they are farrowed.
They may be put in a basket and
placed in a warm room with arti-
fical heat The pig3 may be re
turned to the sow after she has
finished farrowing and has quiet
ed down.
The use of pig rails or guard
rails in the farrowing pen is
essential to prevent the sow
from crushing' her pigs against
the wall. The practice at the
Pennsylvania State College
school of agriculture and experi
ment station is to place such
rails from six to ten inches from
the floor according to the sow.
The rails should stand out six or
eight inches from the wall.
It is attention to little details
of this nature that make for
success and profit in hog raising.
Miss Samantha Mellott return
ed to Harrisburg Monday to re
sume work in the large Depart
ment Store of Dives & Pomeroy,
Water System for Farms
"Every farm is not blessed
with springs that can be taken
to the house by gravity system" their help and we lose thus a cer
says Chas. G. McLain, drainage tain volume of our regular vege
engineer o f the Pennsylvania table food. This has been one
Department of Agriculture, cause of the advance in prices,
"Oftentimes the buildings are There are others that we are ask
so located that the springs are at Jed to believe in but find less easy
a lower level, then some other of credence. We know advan
syBtem must be employed. It is tage has been taken of this ac
necessary to elevate the water tual condition in the way of repre
some way. Possibly the first in senting that expenses of produc
use was the windmill running tion are higher, and we know that
the pump to elevate the water these expenses have often been
to a tank, to be distributed to exaggerated. We also know that
buildings. There is also the corners in food stuffs have been
pressure tank system the forcing made for the sole purpose of ad
of water into a large tank under vancing the pr i c e s. Exports
air pressure and then forced to must pay a part in high prices,
the different places by air press- yet when potatoes are said to be
ure. There is also the smaller selling for less in London than in
tank in the attic supplied by a New York, one questions what
hydraulic ram the tank having proportion foreign sales play in
an overflow to take care of the the high prices asked.
excess water. The middleman seems hard to
"Any of the systems are good control, vet he is one of the fao
and can be used to advantage, tors that is causing the unnatu
It depends largely on your own rally high prices of food.
condition which is the best to While, by the enforcement of
use and that can only be deter- good laws, we may reduce the
mined by an inspection of the speculative feature and cause
conditions. some improvement in regulation
The luxury of a water system of price, the fact still remains
soon pays for it all and the ad- that even the natural causes
STSwTSkte der present condition, and thoe
the good wife. Notonly the relief 10 UB eAcieu W1U Ul necessity
from "pumping and carrying wat- keep up the prices of food beyond
er but the added pleasure of anything we have experienced
thinking that it means better for years.
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W. A. Caller, Justice of the Peace.
of W. A. Culler as a justice of
the peace for Waynesboro, to
succeed J. F. Newman, resigned.
xne senate win likely take up
the matter of the confirmation
of the appointment when it re
convenes March 12.
Mr. Culler is a native of Ful
ton county taught school in Mer-
cersburg tor ten years and now
teaches the Roadside school in
Washington township. He has
lived in Waynesboro 16 years and
to those occupations necessary to
prepare and maintain the nation
al defense. It also behooves us
to think deeply and take stock of
matters that relate to our food
supply, since day by day in the
papers we have seen what this
question means not only to the
fighting armies but to the nations
behind them.
We shall refer to this subject
from time to time in 'these little
Talks issued by the State Depart
ment of Health of Pennsylvania.
.. J I 1 0.9 AV-V V AAWMAWtA V. A V 11 11 0 J T dill Ck
is a licensed local preacher of the Certain food 8tuff8 will be spoken
Methodist Episcopal Cjiurch. of and comparative vvalue
EdmondsMichael.
approximately estimated.
The potato is at present the
A very pretty wedding was most advertised vegetable we
solemnized at the home of Mr. have. Its consumption far ex-
and Mrs. M. Hoyt Michael, at ceeds any other vegetable made
Swiss vale, Pa., on February 22, up of a large proportion of starch,
when their daughter, Miss Maude Let us consider the claims of the
F. Michael, became the bride of potato fo the high dignity that
W. Carey Edmunds. The bride has suddenly been thrust upon
wore an elaborate gown of white it
crepe meteor and carried a bridal The human digestive system is
boquet of pink roses. limited in its power to digest prop-
The bride's father is a native erly large quantities of starch.
of McConnellsburg, he being a Americans have made general
brother of Mrs. Geo. W. Hays, use of starchy foods and this
WeBt Lincoln Way,
Snapshots at Their Comings and Goings
Cere for a Vacation, or Away
for a Restful Outing. .
Bundy 0. Crist, who has lied
in McConnellsburg. for. a couple
years, ret'-.rned with his fan'ly
to ( their former homo at War
fordsburg last week.
Misses Annie and Minnia
Dickson went to -Washington
last Frid ;v to attend the Wilson
Inaugura'.on and visit their
niece Maria Dicksou Alexander
two weeks.
Miss Mary K. Hoke, who dur
ing the past three year3 has been
head saleslady in a leading mill-
inery establishment in Chambers
burg, left Monday morning for
Pottstown, Pa., where she has
accepted a similar position for
the coming season.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Harris,
of this place, and Mr. and Mrs.
James K. Linn, of Philadelphia,
were guests a few days this
week of Mr. and Mrs.' Marshall
McKibbin in Washington D. C.
Mrs. Harris (Sallie) and Mrs.
Linn (Maggie) are sistsrs of
Marshall McKibbin.
Wilmer Suders, son of Frank
Suders, of Chambersburg, spent
a few days with relatives in
McConnellsburg during the past '
week. Arthur was a member of
Company C, Eighth Regiment,
that returned from the Mexican
frontier last week. Wilmer's
grandfather, the late John Sud
ers, was a soldier in the Mexican
War 1847-9, and also served in
the army during the Great Rebellion.
checking the natural growth of
our people both in mind and in
body.
. The excessive eating of pota
toes so often taken at a meal
simply as a matter of habit when
there are other starchy foods
and sugar in the meal to supply
the same want, causes a catarrh
al condition of the digestive
system, thereby preventing the
normal working of the glands of
digestion. Gradually a diseased
condition of the organs of diges
tion results and this prevents
nature's process of preparing
food for assimilation. Conse
quently the system has to absi.-b
the waste products and a gradu
al starvation and poisoning is
the result.
From babyhood and childhood
up, we Americans indulge in an
excess of starchy foods. A well
rounded "diet demands starch
along with meat and fat of course
but we indulge in an excess of
starch and the habit often con
tinues through adult life.
Raw potatoes contain about 80
per cent, of water, and in skin
ning and eying we lose of an av
erage about .10 per cent, of the
raw potato. The baking of pota
toes causes less loss and produces
the most wholesome preparation
or human consumption that can
be made of the vegetable.
What does this suggest with
the potato in the limelight and
its cost out of all proportion to
its real value? The answer is
that its use can not only be cut
down to a normal proportion of
the diet for those who like its
taste, but it can be entirely re
placed by other foodstuffs which .
would supply starch in even
greater quantities.
Potatoes have 18 parts to the
hundred of starch and sugar (car
bohydrates) ; jellies and marma-
ades, 60 to 90 parts; rice, 79;
buckwheat and barley, 77; homi
ny, 7b; cracked wheat, 75: ma
caroni and spaghetti, 74; raisins
68; oatmeal, 67; toast, 66; beans,
60; bread 50 to 60; chocolate, 30;
canned peas, 9; dried peas,. 62.
In raisins the carbohydrates
are mostly of the soluble variety
known, as sugars. In all the oth
er foods mentioned the carbohy
drates present is mainly starch.
With these things in mind it is
not hard to think of the potato
practice is playing its part ia ! being knocked off its pedestal,