ft) Jttttotr VOLUME 18 AIcCONNELLSBURG, PA., MARCH 29,1917. NUMBER 2 S RECORD OF DEATHS. t Sketches of the Lives of Pep sods Who Dave Recently Passed Away.- Mrs. Lottie Wible.. "Irs. Charlotte Croft Wible, jW of Samuel Wible who died X eight years ago, died et home of her son, Rev. Lewis 7ible, near Dane at 1 o'clock -Jay afternoon, March 22, "7. aeed 56 years, 10 months 1 12 days. The f uueral service a conducted by Rev. Emon r, of the U. B. Church, on Sun y morning at 10 o'clock, and ;crment was made in the cem :ry at Bethlehem church. Mrs. Wible had been in failing :l:h for more than a year, and a bedfast nine weeks. Her licilon consisted of a compli .!ori of diseases. She was a voted member of the United ethren Church having connect hcrself with that denomina n when ten years of age; but r daily life during all these rs showed conclusively that 3 was not only a member, but Christian as well, rhe deceased was a daughter the late Rev.John R. Croft, d the is survived by three sons r.cly, John R., Orsian, and v Lewis D. Also by three sis 8 and five brothers: Lizzie, fe of John Marshall, near :ar.bersburg; Kate, .wife of trk Barnhart, Waynesboro; oca, wife of John Wagner, iilford Springs; A. L., Cham rctarg; John E.,York;Geo.E., :dover; Rev. Edward J., Dane; d Frank J., Chambersburg. IIrs. J. C. Garland. HILibeth, wife of Rev. J. lvia Garland, passed away at jir home in Belfast township tur.ay morning March 24, 1917 ei C9 years, 7 months and 9 ys. The funeral took place at o't'xk, Monday morning and xment was made at the Breth i (Larch on Pleasant Ridge. Garland had been in usual i!tb nd on Thursday evening ::')dthe preaching services C ) Brethren church. On Fri y r srning.N she complained of ill. This was followed i 'joke of paralysis and the d r He the following morning. Garland was a daughter D: el B. and Elizabeth Mel t L' e and was married to Rev. C. Cirland about forty years ?. or many years she has ' ' faithful member of the n Church, and had a wide devoted friends. The in which Bhe was held - wn by the attendance at r C 3ral, which is said to have ' f largest ever known in amunity. )s her husband, she is r I by one son, I. W. Gar- irried and living on the - Sice. V- ilct j Civic Club. vie Club will hold their meeting at the home of nn P. Sipes the first t in April (the 5th) at 7 AH v 'lo are interested in Civic work are asked to be - it this time.' Following tta; Jgram for th month- lay I be an inspiration'to bor to improve condi ?t the home? Miss Sey tnt back yards-M r s. (Can I improve the looks rden and at the same I it yield the "necessary ;s?-Miss McGovern. st Oflice Robbed. entered the post office wn Adams county early day morning and stole nof stamps, which Was the property of any ne office. None of the -ae in the store of Kob a in which the post pcated, was disturbed. Jd buggy belonging to r was stolen to make y-' The team was few hours later. ST JOHN FRANKLIN FORT I. vSss y i n .,, v t i . if . x s immfft John Franklin Fort of East Orange, N. J., who hat been appointed a mem ber of the federal trade commission, is m Rjannhtif an m Am. Iiia.l m Ik. M 1 . IVI 1 1 1 V I J1I.IIVS VI .119 supreme court of New Jersey, and has been a special envoy at different times from the United States to the Domini can Republic and to Haiti. He suc ceeds George Rublce, who was never confirmed, for a six-year term. J'oor-Wad dell. A very pretty wedding took place at the home of the bride on Mansfield avenue, Pittsburgh o n ' t h e 22nd o f February. Promptly at 7 o'clock, the bridal party entered the parlor with Mrs. E. E. Higgens daughter of the bride by her first husband William Dillon', as bridesmaid. The best man was Chester Wad- dell, a son of the bride by her second husband, James Waddell. On this particular occasion, she became the wife of William Moor husband No. 3. The bride was gowned in light silk draped in delicate lpvender. The bridesmaid wore a lighfblue silk trmmed in lace and beads. The ceremony was performed by the bride's brother-in-law, Rev. U. S. Drake, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After con gratulations, " they marched to the dining room where a sumpt uous supper awaited them pre pared by the bride's two sisters, Mrs. E. A. Sharpe and Mrs. U. S. Drake. The bride is perhaps better known in this county as Carrie Kerlin, daughter of the late Samuel and Jane Kerlin, of Dub lin township. Strait Sipes. Blair D. Strait, son of Joseph and Eureka ' Strain and Miss Clara E. Sipes daughter of C. M. and Laura Sipes, all of Licking Creek township were married at McConnellsburg, Pa., on Wed nesday, March 21, 1917 by Rev. J. L. Yearick, of the Reformed Church. Smith-Mentzer. Clarence E. Smith, of Huston- town, son of Elliott Smith, and Miss Edna Elizabeth Mentzer, daughter of Jere andlreneMentz er, Burnt Cabins, were married at the bride's home on Saturday, March 10, 1917, by Rev. Reidell, of the M. E. Church. Nesbit Tritle. Clarence K. Nesbit, son of John and Jennie Pittman Nesbit and Miss Mary Margaret Tritle, daughter of Frank and Sadie, Maun Tritle all of Ayr township. were married in McConnellsburg on Tuesday evening, March 22, 1917, by Rev. C. F. Jacobs, of the Lutheran Church. The young couple will begin housekeeping in Chester, Pa., where the groom ha3 lucrative employment Mr. and Mrs. J. Lake Garland and family ' near Mercersburg attended the funeral of Mrs. J. C. Garland at the Brethren church on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Garland staid Monday night in the home of their son Dale on the Cyrus Wagner farm in Todd township. Court Proceedings. Court called at 9 o'clock Tues day morning of last week and a jury was called in the case of W. W, Fields vs. Lemaster Na tional Bank and C. E. Coon. This suit was brought to recover $536 the price for which the Sheriff of Fulton County sold six mules levied upon a3 the property of C. E. Coon. The trial only consumed about ninety minutes and the jury returned a verdict for the Plaintiff W. W. Fields of $53G. ' The 8tco.';d case was that of N. A. Mellott, vs J. Charles Eaan, for damage suffered or claimed Plaintiff moved his saw-miil onto land of defendant to saw lumber for defendant. Soon after th mill was placed, defendant sold his timber to Reightly Brothers who were content for plaintifF to complete his contract, but plain tiff removed his mill and brought the suit. This case consumed the time of the cojrt until Tues day evening. After court ad journed the partiei settled the case end it was withdrawn from the ccurt and jury Wednesday morning. Petition of Earl Morgretfc mi nor son of Calvin Morgret deceas ed was presented asking the ap pointment of a guardian, and the court appointed the Cham bersburg Trust Company. The Sheriff's distributions and schedules of lines were presented and filed and confirmed ni si, to be confirmed absolute unless ex ceptions are filed within 10 days: E. J. Post, property sold to D. E. Little; 'property of George A. Bishop, Ed G. Feldman' et al. (South McConnellsburg) and Celia Sipes. In the matter of the lunacy of Laura Mort a petition was pre sented and the court appointed Dr. A. J. Remsburg, W.B. Ranck and Frank P. Lynch, Esq com mission to make report to the court. The petition . of citizens o f Union Township was presented asking for the appointment of a tax collector and the court ap pointed Charles Geinger to fill vacancy. In the estate of Elmira Deshong the ward presented her petition asking the court an order per mitting guardian to pay over certain part of her estate. The court authorized the Chambers burg Trust Co. her guardian to expend the whole or part of ward's estate necessary to es tablish and equip a suitable home. In the matter of the claim of John Webb, to certain property levied upon by the Sheriff, as the property of C. E. Coon, and rule awarded for an issue. The claimant by his Attorney having filed an answer the plaintiiT hav ing failed to file an answer, the court made an order directing the Sheriff to withdraw from the property claimed by Mr. Webb. The petition of the Green Val ley Fruit Co., was presented ask ing for an order of dissolution, and the Court made the order as prayed for. Protecting Barnyard Manure Pajs As an average of 225 compari sons made during 19 years by the Ohio Experiment station with manure used alone and whew reinforced with such materials as acid phosphate, raw phosphate gypsum and kainit, an applica tion of eight tonsof.stall manure per acre on corn has produced 3.9 bushels of corn, one bushel of wheat and 476 pounds of hay more than the same amount of manure left in an open barnyard for three winter months. With corn at 70c a bushel, wheat at $1 and hay at $10 a ton, this increase would be worth 75c for keeping a ton of manure under shelter or for hauling in directly from stable to field. Mr. and Mrs. Dalla9 Lynch, of Belfast township, visited their son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. George McEldowney, on Monday; Going to Church a Good Habit, Says Champ Clark. Go to Church IN a letter to Edwin- B. Lord, secretary of the Mtwsillon (O.) chamber of commerce, which conducted a GO TO CHURCH campaign, Champ Clark says that he doesn't know of u better placo that people could be on Sunday than in church. A repro duction of Speaker Clark's letter follows: THE SPEAKER'S ROCfMS HOUSE Or REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON. D. C. 1 j Mr., Edwin B. lord, Massillon, Ohio. My dear Mr. Secretary: I do not know of a-bettor place that people oould be on Sunday than in church. Going to church is a good habit. Your friend. HB Ohio Letter. Peninsula, O., R. R. 15. Dear Editor: As my daugh ter takes the News. I have an opportunity in that way to hear from some of my old time friends and I wish space for this letter so that my old time friends, may hear from me. I was born and reared in Fulton County, and raised a family of eight children in that county. I am now 79 years of age, and am able to do most of the house work, and can hitch on to one end of the cross cut saw with my daughter at the other end, and saw wood. I have fair health yet, but of course, cannot stand the winter as well as I used to. We have had a hard winter, but I am now about "wintered over" and com' ing out in good shape. I have seen quite a corner of the world since I was with my friends in Fulton County. Dur ing the last five years I have lived in Ohio. I have three daughters and one son in Ohio, Ihey are doing well, mere is plenty of work here for every body that wants to work, and wages good. Of course, cost of living is high, almost as bad as it was during the days of the Civil War. I wish to extend my best regards to all my old Fulton County friends, and would be delighted to get a letter from any of them, or to hear from them through the Fulton County News. Rachel Hauman. care of Wm. Hutsler. Surgical Operations. Ralph Reed, who underwent a surgical operation in the Cham bersburg hospital last Thursday for appendicitis is getting along very well as far as that operation is concerned. It was feared lat er by the surgeons that a second operation would be performed for gall stones. Doctors Palmer and Weagley. of Chambersburg, came to Mc Connellsburg las$ Friday and performed a slight surgical op eration on Mrs.' Frank P. Lynch. Mrs. Lynch, who had been rath er miserable for some time, is getting along fine, and it is hoped that this will be the begining of a new lease of health. Charlie Earley's . wife (Tillie Stunkard) of Wells Valley was taken to the Altoona hospital by her local physician Dr. Davis, i last week and underwent an op eration for appendicitis. At last report, Mrs. Earley was getting along well. Mr. and Mrs. S. Murray Pol lock returned to their home in: Washington, Pa., on Monday. No Borough Ownership. That McConnellsburg citizens love darkness rather than light was shown on Tuesday when a special borough election was held to determine whether or not the borough indebtedness should be increased to tfie extent of some twelve thousand dollars to estab lish an electric light plant A company had been incorporated to put in the plant; but it was thought by some of our people that the Borough, rather than private company, should own the plant. Hence the election. When the ballots were counted in the. evening it was found that there were 57 for, and 74 against Many voters did not know enough about the conducting of electric light plants to vote intelligently and were not willing to take chances. Curweosville, Pa., March 25. Dear Editor: W, T. Wink's twin boys want to thank their many friends through the col umns of your paper for the many birthday cards they received on their birthday, March 20th. Cards came from Bedford Coun ty, Pittsburgh, Fulton County, from Deshler, 0. They received fifty apiece. .Mrs. Florence Wink. MRS. JOHN M. HORTON . A four-cornered fight It being waged for the presidency cf the National So ciety of the Daughter! .of the Ameri can Revolution. Although the election will not be held until April, the cam paign la now well under way. Mrs. John Miller Horton of Buffalo la one pf the leading candidates. "Hollering.- Tbnnian who hag s thing to soil, And simply tells It down a well, Will never get so many dollars, As the one that climbs a tree and boi lers! The foregoing little ditty is homely, but it conveys about as much business truth as was ever put together in a sentence of thirty words. It is according to human nature, that the more publicity a thing ha9, the more interest it excites in the mind of the people. You can't promote any kind of enterprise without pushing it and telling people about it. If you give an entertainment in a public hall, and merely open the doors relying on word of mouth to spread the news, you will get handful of people. It is nobody's business to spread the news about it, and the great bulk o people never hear about it. Mpreoverpeople may hear about it, but if a thing is not pushed and advertised, they' get the idea into their heads that it not of much account Anything has to create a certain .amount o noise and stir before people wil believe it amounts to anything or is worth their attention. The same thing applies equally to a busiuess enterprise. If it isn't advertised and pushed and talked about in the newspapers people will say that it is a one horse concern, doing a small busi ness, .that can t aftord to spend money on publicity, or they wil argue that the concern lacks con fidence in its proposition. Peo ple will walk right by the place day after day and never look in the windows. The moment a place begins to advertise, that moment people begin to wake up about it "Guess X must be doing some business the way he pushes it" they say and they come around to see what is going on. "Internationalists." Much comment has been caus ed by the unusual case of six Baltimore boys who were supend ed from school because they de clined to salute the flag, stating that they were "International' ists." Incidents like these sug gest that there is a growing ele ment in this country that frankly does not consider itself American but holds itself only to some dreary world wide organization. v. J 41 a. a in tne nnai world Btate, it is conceivable that delegates may be sent to 'some Central Congress at London, New York, or Tokyo, who may govern the whole world. But that is many thous ands of years distant at present outlook. The world makes the largest progress where political and nat ional divisions exist In that way every section of the world gets a government best suited to its own temperament and in heritance. The people of Cent ral Africa, for instance, would not prosper under the democratic institutions prevailing with us, Similarly our people would not advance if placed under an auto cratic rule of kings and emperors. Nationalism permits every peo ple to.choose the form of govern ment that suits them. Russia's experience the last lew days proves that where a type of gov eminent is not. best adapted to a people, it will finally be over turned. No matter how strongly it mny be intrenched in tradition and military power, it can not Fifrvive popular disapproval in definitely.. , There is nothing to be gained by surrendering national lines in present age. The preaching of this visionary idea merely serves to weaken the tie of obli gaton to one's own country and it produces no other loyalty to take its place. "International istis" would better retire to -the jungle3 of Africa, where nation al feeling is not Rtrongly devel oped, and where each little com munity and individual can exe cute its own savage will. THE TEETH AND HEALTH. Little Talks on Health and Hjgicne bj Samuel G. Diiou, A2. D., IL D., Commissioner of Health. We frequently hear specialists declaring that the health of man kind depends upon the ;iruper care of that portion of the body upon whidi they snecializ-3. Now, the human organism is so com plicated an affair that nobody 13 safe in putting such a sweeping responsibility upon ' any one or gan; yet there are many who will say the dental surgeon, when he makes his claim that defective teeth have more to da with phys ical degeneration in humankind, than any other member gone wrong, has more behind him than some of his brother specialists. Uii is a claim that cannot be checked off with exactness, but we do know through scientific in vestigation, as well as from ex perfence in practice, that defec tive teeth cause a great deal of ill health; and I am one of those who will go as far as to say that care of the teeth from infancy onward brings certainly as great, and possibly greater, rewards than like care of any other one organ. It is a wonder men and wo men do not take better care of their teeth, not because of the benefit to health because that seems to be the last thing wo could hope to have any influence but because there is nothing that adds more to the personal appearance of man or woman than a beautiful set of teeth. If, for instance, some women would pay as much attention to their teeth as they do to putting splotches of paint on their faces, they would not only be more at tractive personally but would en joy better health. The mouth and nose are the busiest ports of entry for disease in the humah body. The mouth, particularly when the teeth c . defective, retains many gerais that would produce disease, and the environment will furnish that which promotes their multiplica tion. The mucous membrane of the mouth is in itself quite resist ful to disease germs, yet at times it becomes infected and the pus forming germs bore their, way into the bones of the face, pro ducing long suffering, disfigure ment and sometimes even pro ceed until they destroy the life of the individual. Pyorrhea e n c 0 u rages the growth of pus-producing organ isms, which from their purulent matter around the teeth. This is discharged into the mouth with every act or mastication, thus often helping to cause stomach and intestinal diseases. Through the poisons that are produced by the absorption from these centers of pus, the vital or gans of the body are frequently disturbed. Disease of the intes tinal tract, which is often secon dary to infected teeth, even in its early stages is very distress ing and has a terribly depressing effect on the sufferer. It has been said that no man dies a heroic death who has a disease of the stomach or intestinal tract The formation of the pus in the mouth is often long neglect ed, whereas if a small scratch on the finger becomes infected and pus forms, the doctor is general ly called in'consultation immedi- 1 ately because of the feur of blood poisoning. Long life, happiness and pros perity depends much upon a Clean mouth full of healthy teeth. This talk is only to warn those who have not stopped to think of what evils co.ne from neglecting the teeth. Do not forget the . baby's first dentition, as its en tire life may be effected by . the ; habits that are formed at that time. Mr Grove Keefer, of Cham bersburg spent two, days in the Cove last' week and attenucvl Mrs. Cleona Kendall's sale, I
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