7 ft A LUME 18 McCONNELLSBURG, PA , MAY 3,1917, NUMBER 33 RECORD OF DEATHS. itches of the Lires of Per :$ Who Have Reccntlj Passed Away. ' Catharine Ferrenburg Catharine Ferrenburg pril 16, 1917 at the home daughter, Mrs. W. S. Zorn jonburg, Ohio, aged about irs. Surviving her ar daughters-Mrs. Mildred ; of California, Miss Olive 'ora. wife of W. S. Zorn bsonburg, Ohio. Another .ter was killed in a railroad i a few years ago. i Ferrenburg's maiden ; was Hamil and she was a of Veteran Thomas Hamil, Connellsburg. The Hamil a originally from Franklin j, having removed to Ful )unty very many years ago. ' r her marriage to Edward nburg they operated the I now known as the Maun ! in Ayr township. They 2 went to Ohio where Mr. . :nburg died many years ago. Mrs. Eli Hann. 1 j, Sarah E. Hann, wife of I ". '!ann, of Belfast township, " April 2G, M7, aged 59 years. ral was held last Sunday, i ' interment was made at Side 1!. : Hill Christian church. Ser V. j were conducted by Rev. T P. Cirland assisted by Rev. J. C. C .!nd. She is survived by her I ' ind and the following chil d i Philip, James, George, I" !son, Edward, David, and 1 as; Eliza Jane, wife of L sy Richards; Margaret, wife c! Cxar Truax. Also by the L'.'.. Ting brothers and sisters: 11. ) Strait, James Strait, Geo. Zl::'X and David Strait Mrs. L" ; Forner, Mrs. James Sipes. Lin Hann was a loving mother, a neighbor and will be miss ei 1 7 her many friends. j : '.Dr. Sappingtoo Eolisls. Hancock News of last contained the following bit 7s about a popular young ian who recently removed Webster Mills to Hancock: t W. F. Sappington, who after war was declared, Eered his services in the Medical Corps, went to X)re last Friday where he .the best physical examina jiong ten applicants, who Xamined at that time and ow awaiting his commis 7 I sometime past the doctor jen instructing a class of ladies on "first aid to the " who, together with his limber of friends in this pining counties, will be j learn of and admire his c enterprise, and in the t his departure would no nderhim a complimen fewell attended with such j his popularity and patri - 'eserve." i I j I Pocket Piece. IN neighbor Albert Ston a silver dollar that he as a pocket piece, and e prizes highly. It is of Jiage of 1800 and is in a state of preservation. it in at the counter while psiness on the Boardwalk the Stouteagle Brothers and because of the -ate of the coin and the t represented the year pother's birth, he has ?"ed it as a pocket piece. I had several tempting the coin. ,0K On Nice Trip. . a. W. Nace left a few ? for Rochello, N. Y., er sister, Mrs. Carl De- From there she will .. aucn., to visit her innLL m ... . be awav Miss Nell ott She will VO Wpolra M F Chambersburg, has - piace as nouse- the latter Is away. Aa Act by Wible. L. H. Wible, Esq., of McCon nellsburg, Chief of the Bureau of Farm Statistics, at Harrisburg, framed a bill "Requiring the as sessors for taxation purposes to collect certain agricultural infor mation, and fixing the duties of the county commissioners in con nection therewith." -The bill was introduced on April 2nd by our Senator Ensley. Briefly, the contents are as fol lows: In addition to their regu lar work, the assessors shall, every three years, report the number of acres harvested of the following farm products: Wheat, corn, oats, barley, buckwheat, potatoes, tobacco, and the num ber of acres of grass cut. The number of pounds, bushels, and tons of the various products shall be reported. The number and class of all domestic animalsand poultry shall be reported. Also the number of dozens of eggs and the number of pounds of butter, and the number of bushels of the prin cipal fruits. Each farm shall be reported separately. There is a fair prospect of the bill being passed. There is no question in the minds.'of thinking men that our agricultural department is a great benefit In many outlying dis tricts its work is only beginning to be appreciated. Practically all that vre know of intensive farming was learned through that channel. Since the creation of Mr. Wible's office, a vast and very valuable collection of infor mation has been collected, and the demand for it is increasing with leaps and bounds. More than seven hundred township correspondents are now report ing to Mr. Wible. Good Missionary Meeting. Last Friday the missionary workers of the Mercersburg Classis of the Reformed Church met in the Reformed church in McCon nellsburg and held several sessions, the time being devoted to interesting phases of their work. Miss Gertrude Cogan, the field secretary of the Woman's Mis sionary society of the General Synod o( the Reformed Church gave a very interesting review of her work among the Jews in Brooklyn, N. Y. The reports of the delegates and superintend ents indicate a marked increase of interest in the woman's mis sionary work of Mercersburg Classis. In the evening Rev. Dr. Foust, who spent seventeen years as missionary in Japan, and is now home on a furlough, gave a very interesting address on the diffi culties and progress of mission ary work in that country. It is the accumulated ef orta of thousands of small groups of such workers that make this old world better. They have done more to civilize nations than all political legislation com bined. First Electric Sign. The Linn garage, located next to the City Hotel, has an electric ight sign in front of the store room, in principle the sign is the same a3 those that require amps placed inside of them, but in this instance real electric ights from the Delco generator at the garage will illuminate the ettering. When Mr. Linn was operating'the garage at the west end of town, he furnished elec tric light for the Western Union telegraph office. Dcnlej Bratlon. Alex Henley, of Kistler, Pa.. and Georgia Emma Bratton, of Mt Union were married April 26th, at the Court House in Mc Connellsburg, by Clerk of Courts B. Frank Henry. Both are gen uine southern negros,' natives of "Ole Virginny." Subscribe for theNsws. BUILDING BUMPED. Derailed Section of Traia Ran into Newt Palmer's Big Feed Store at Portage. Portage, April 18. Five load ed coal cars of the steel hopper type jumped the tracks on Mar tin's Branch of the P. II. R. here yesterday afternoon and crashed into the big flour and feed store of B. N. Palmer, moving the building 18 inches. Mr. Palmer was insiJe the store at the tirm-. "I thought that the big United States Battleship Pennsylvania had hurled a broadside," said Mr. Palmer, "and I did not stay in the building very long after the crash.'.' The coal train was coming down the Martin's Branch grade with the locomotive at the rear. The train was under control, al though traveling rather fast. At the Waldorf Hotel, the fast five cars left the mils, running along on the tics for a distance of about a square and piling up against the Palmer store. The first car struck the build ing diagonally, ripping out a space of 20 feet long. The car penetrated the building to a depth of about six feet. Coal and flour were "scrambled." The Palmer building was con structed only last summer, ac counting for the fact that it stood up so well as it did under the onslaught of the coal train. The building is 20 feet high and 74 feet long and heaily loaded with grain and flour. An empty box car standing at the door of the feed store was thrown to the other end of the building. The wreck was a "fortunate" one. Had the derailed csrs struck the Waldorf Hotel, where they jumped the tracks, lives probab ly would have been lost. The first floor of the Waldorf Hotel contains a barbershop, paintshop and the office of Dr. Buzzard. They would have offered little resistance and the cars would have ploughed through them all. The first five cars broke loose from the remainder of the train. or the wreck would have been more serious. Repairs to the Pal mer building will cost several hundred dollars. . Will Do Dis "Bit." Mac Morton came home from State College last Friday to work for his brother Earl on the Trout farm a short distance west of town. Owing to the shortage of farm help the students at State College were told that they could go home and at the same time receive credit for the' studios that they would have pursued by remaining at College until regu lar vacation time near the latter part of June. However students leaving before vacation time were required to Eecure positions on farms where they could engage in the actual production of food stuffs. Otherwise ' they would receive no credit on their studies. Mac is a Sophomore. The Seniors who agreed to do farm work dur ing the busy planting time will receive their diplomas latter part of June. Many hundreds of stud ents accepted the proposition to leave their studies to engage in assisting Uncle Sam to produce a large supply of food to insure plenty during the war with Ger many. Students will be paid by the man for whom they work. Fine Thorobred Mock. James II. Kendall and his neighbor Conrad Glazier have just received from Ohio a thoro- bred stallion colt that is a beauty. The .colt is nineteen months oldl and weighs 1500 pounds. Mr. Kendall hat two thorobred per cberon fillies. While it is doubt ful whether there is another com munity in the State where farm ers have been more intelligently interested in improved strains of live stock than in the Cove, yet, nothing short of perfection will satisfy the more enterprising of farmers and stock raisers, Is Qod Your Friend? Then Visit His Home. Go to Church. fiv I ATCII the long lino of people entering church on ounuay. isn't it a fact that they aro really tho worth while people in the com munity? If you are a huine8 man, don't you prefer dealing with a man who is a CONSISTENT CHURCHGOER mlher than with a man who never goes to ehureh ? You wouldn't hesitate to INVITE ANY AND ALL OF Til USE PEOPLE enter-, ing church to your homo. A MAN WHO GOES TO CHURCH CAN NOT GO WRONG VERY LONG. A COMMON EXPRESSION IS THAT 80ME PEOPLE GO TO CHURCH TO KEEP UP APPEARANCES. THAT MAY BE TRUE. BUT THE FACT THAT A MAN WANTS THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH HE LIVES TO THINK THAT HE IS GOOD AND COD FEARING SHOWS THAT HE WANTS TO BE GOOD. HE WANTS TO ENJOY THE RESPECT OF HIS FELLOWS. WHILE THERE MAY BE SOME HYPOCRITES IN THE CHURCH, IT IS NO EXAGGERATION TO STATE THAT THE GREAT MAJORITY OF CHURCHGOERS ARE HONI8T, UPRIGHT CITIZENS. There is something basically wrong with a man who, while pro fessing a belief in a Supreme IJeing, fuils to take the opportunity the church affords to WORSHIP THAT SUPREME BEING. If you hne a dear friend and you pass his houne e?ery day without dropping iu to see him, you would not blame that man for DOUDT INU THE SINCERITY of your friendship. Do you wish God to DOUBT YOUR FRIENDSHIP? Do you want to LOSE HIM AS A FRIEND. If you dou't, drop iulo his house AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK. Show that you are iincere in your belief in God by GOING TO CHURCH next Sunday. THEN GO TO CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY. Fallot. County S:Iiicrs. Since its early settlement, Ful ton county has furnished its full share of soldiers for the defense of the country. Although only about a half dozen have enlisted in the present war with Germany, it is, very probably, a larger number than the average for each 10,000 inhabitants-that be ing the population of our county. We believe we are nearing fact when we state that,' during past wars, the moat and best soldiers came from the mountainous dis tricts of the country. Over in Cumberland county, no township i as proud of its record for num bers and efficiency of its soldiery aa the northern half of Mifflin township which includes the rugged and famous Doubling Gap mountain district. Practically every boy in Fulton county is an expert with the rifle and can ride and care for horses. This is of great advantage when enlisting. It gives him tho laugh on his "green" city cousin. It is not the desire of the gov ernment to attract efficient farm labor to the ranks of the army or navy. Legislators are now viewing with dread the effects qf their former efforts to build up Manufacturing centers at the ex I ense of the strictly rural com munities. But Fulton county is r ot a food-producing district in the same sense that the broad l mestone acres of the Cumber land Valley, Lancaster, Berks, and other south-eastern counties tre held. Therefore, we believe there are more young men of the county who Bhould respond to the call of their country in its present need, and not wait to be crafted. A frank volunteer stands much higher in the estimate of his neighbors than one who was forced to enlist. Both will share in the bountiful pensions of Un cle Sam, but how much higher will the volunteer be able to hold his head when the war is over? Some one has said that the mothers of this country have al ways been the best recruiting of ficers. Our hint to these dear mothers would be that they en courage enlistment before the drafts goes into effect which will be soon and thereby digni fy the future lives of the boys by having their names go down in history as volunteers not con scriptsfor it is practically cer tain that they will be drafted if they do not volunteer. They have no time to lose. - Goo3 illustrations of "Faith and Work" were seen in the Cove yesterday when men plant ed corn with their overcoats on. Buying tbe New Bonds. The United States government is about to begin the biggest fi nancial undertaking of the world's financial history that is, to raise in a hurry the sum of 7,000,000, 000 on its own bonds. Tho una nimity which the loan bill passed Congress demonstrates that it will encounter no open opposition. But there is always the selfish ness and lethargy of individuals to be reckoned with. Some people will say that the government must expect to pay as much interest as the private investor and that they will not accept a beggarly Si per cent., when they can get good 5 per cent bonds or stocks that are still more profitable. Yet these people may later on wish that they had taken hold to help. . It is the testimony of the nations with which we have al lied ourselves, that one of their first needs is to float their loans at a moderate rate of interest'. Their previous bonds have been selling somewhere near a six per cent, basis. Russian govern ment, in its present uncertain condition, would in all probabili ty not be able to sell its bonds at so favorable a rate as six per cent. That piles up a crushing bur den of interest for the people of these countries to pay. It strenthens the appeal of all the plotters and the pacifist elements that are working to get Russia and other countries to conclude a separate peace. If the alliance should break up it would leave Uncle Sam hold the bag. Our best policy is to sacrifice a little ini-rest money and help these nations at the earliest pos sible moment by lending them money at a decent rate. It may save us some terrible war costs later on. Every dollar spent in supplying munitions to a Russian soldier, may save us spending five dollars to defend our own coasts and to send an army to the French trenches. Mr. Brant Getting Well. W. Scott Brant, near Dane, has so far recovered from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, which he suffered last fall, that he can ride to town. He and Mrs. Brant were in town last Saturday. One week prior to that time he came to town in his physician's auto. Many friends were glad to welcome him back to health. Will they have turk eys? Sure! Mrs. Brant has over one hundred eggs in course of hatching, with more to follow nd the hens still laying. County Report on Sheep. L. H. Wible, Esq., of McCon nellsburg, Chief of the Bureau of Farm Statistics, at Harrisburg, handed us the following report for Fulton county. Information concerning sheep is of particular interest at this time . owing to the revival of the wool and mut ton industry in all parts of the United States. The report in cludes the dog tax for the year 1916. Number of sheep killed by dogs during the year 1916, 21 Number of sheep injured by dogs during the year 1916, 14 Average price paid for Bhcep killed by dogs during the year, 1916, $6.08 Average price paid for sheep injured by dogs during the year 1916, $3.53 Amount paid for Bheep killed and injured by dogs, for the year 1916, including costs, $234.60 Number of dogs (male and female) assessed for the year 1916, 1509 Amount of tax levied for each male dog for the year 1916, $0.50 Amount of tax levied for each female dog for the year 1918 $1 Amount of dog tax collected for the year 1911, $563.50 Number of dogs killed by di rection of the County Commis sioners and Tax Collectors, 39 Amount expended for the pub lication of the assessors' list of dogs in the county papers for the year 1916, $127.75 Amount expended for the kill ing of dogs by Constables and Borough Policemen, $39.00 Amount expended by the coun ty for dog tags, $39.00 Plant What fill Keep. Fulton county has not yet felt tho pinch of war, but we will feel it before peace is declared. With a few exceptions, Fulton county families raise their own potatoes, cabbage, and much oth er common garden vegetable that are either stored in their natural state, or preserved in some man ner, chiefly by canning. How ever, there is always an increased demand for food stuffs in war times, and we are willing to ven ture the prediction that all prod ucts that may be sold and ship ped in their natural, raw state will command high prices next winter. Among these products are potatoes and Fulton county produces good ones. Another is cabbage. Beans do fairly well, although we are a little too far south to avoid the weevil that attacks some kinds. New York is the bean state. Onions will be in demand, and right here we stop to say that a patch of onions can be grown by almost any youngster, and an eighth of an acre of onions will bring in as much cash returns as several acres of corn, oats, or wheat on the same quality of soil. Avoid as far as possible all products that must be sold and used short ly after being picked if they in terfere with staples. No danger of an over production of staples that may be kept through the winter in a raw state. Enough onion sets may not be had, but some kinds of onions grow to large size directly from seed when sown in rows and seeds placed several inches apart DroTC to Pittsburgh. Last Thursday, two men in a big auto stopped in front of mer chant J; K. Johnston's store and one of them asked the privilege of resting on a couch for a short time. Just before leaving Cham- bersburg, he had fallen on a stairway and by the time he reached McConnellsburg he was feeling very "sore." He pur suaded Harry Johnston to drive the car to Pittsburgh and while in that city Harry was his guest Last Monday Harry was properly tagged and shipped" back to McConnellsburg, after having had a nice time la the Smoky City, ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW. Snapshots at Their Comings and (ioingi Here for a Vacation, or Away for a Restful Outing. Chas. D. Hixson spent the week-end with .his family, on East Lincoln Way. . ,Miss Etta Snyder, of Knobs ville, was shopping in McCon nellsburg last Saturday. Miss Elsie Wagner, of Knobs ville spent last Saturday with Mrs. Henry A. Comerer. Mrs. J. C. McQuade spent Sat urday and Sunday with her par ents Mr. and Mrs. David H. Fore near Ivnobsville. Mrs. Allison Sipes and daugh ter Miss Ethel and Mis3 Liliian Laidig were pleasant callers at the News office Tuesday. Judge and Mrs. W. B. Stigers, of Warfordsburg were transact ing business and calling on friends in town last Friday. Postmaster and .Mrs. W. R. Speer, of Everett were guests of Postmaster and Mrs. B. C. Lamberson, in McConnellsburg. Miss Nella Bair returned to her home on Green Hill last Fri day after having visited relatives in Carlisle during the past four weeks. Miss Laura Mort, a feeble minded resident of Bethel town ship, was taken to the institution for that class at Polk, Pa., a few days ago. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Hays, Miss Nellie Hays and Mrs. Geo. A. Harris motored to Hancock last Sunday to call on Mr. Hays' sister Mrs. W. D. Myers, who with her family, expect to re move to Colorado in the near fu ture. Earl Keebaugh, Mr. and Mrs. John Keebaugh, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Keebaugh and children Leslie and Harper nutced from Hustontown to Fort Loudon last Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. John Keebaugh's daughter Mrs. John Spidle. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Lodge and children Martha and Robert ac companied by Mrs. Lodge's uncle Christ Hoover, drove over from their home in Saxton last Satur day afternoon in their Cadillac and spent the time until Sunday afternoon in the home of Albert Stoner. Mark took Mr. Hoover to his home at Burnt Cabins Saturday evening, For Oats Smnt. If oats smut is troubling any of our readers, it may not be too late to call attention to the cure for it. For twenty to twenty five bushels of seed oats, buy at drug store half a pint of form aldehydeit will not cost over twenty-five cents. Mix it with fifteen gallons of water. Spread the oats on a floor and sprinkle with the mixture until all the oats are wet by turning over sev eral times with a shovel. Heap the seed on a pile and cover for several hours with bags or blank ets, being sure that the bags are free of smut. Spread the seed again and thoroughly dry it to prevent sprouting. Sow where ground is known to be free of smut. A pint of formaldehyde to thirty gallons of water is right proportion to mix for oats. For Potato Scab. If common potato scab is troublesome, mix a quarter pint of formaldehyde with ten gallons of water and let seed potatoes soak in the solution for two hours. Care should then be taken to pre vent the seed from coming in contact with infected bags or vessels of any kind before plant ing and the seed should be plant ed in ground known to be free of scab disease. The cost will be but a few cents. From the foregoing it will be seen that a pint of the disinfectant will make forty gallons of the mixture. Sabioribe tor the Mews.
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