mht 11,1 ,- - . VOLUME 18 McCONNELLSBURG, PA., MAY 10, 1917. NUMBER 34 RECORD OF DEATHS. Sort Seiches of the Uns ! Fcr- son) Who Dave Kecenuy Passed Awaj. I Mrs. Mary Clevenger. Mrs. Mary Jane Clevenger died Monday evening, May 7, 11)17 at the home of her son William," on the Alex Patterson firm, in Ayr township. She was ilck about a week. And two days before she died, pneumonia de veloped which resulted in her demise. .'Mrs. Clevenger was born No vember 1840, hence at the time of death she was in the seventy seventh year of her age. Her maiden name was Strait and when ghe was seventeen years of age ibe was married to Aaron Clev enger. Fifty years ago they took up their residence at what wis then the Buck Horn Hotel at the western end of Water Btreet, (now Lincoln Highway) in McConnellsburg and on April 5,1 four years ago, her husband died. About a month ago, she made sale of her personal prop erty and went to live with her son on the farm. She was a member of the Methodist church. pneson, William survives, and an adopted daughter, Mrs. Chas. Halves, of York is living. An only Bister, Mrs. Rebecca Do gbonff, lives in Johnstown. Fu neral was held at 1:30 yesterday, ani interment was made in Union Cemetery, Rev. Edward Jackson officiating. Mrs. Clevenger lived a quiet, retiring life, seldom going away from her door, but in her fifty years of active life in McCpn nellsburg she performed so many acts of kindness in one way or another, that there is very prob ably, not a McConnellsburg man or woman of mature years, who doei not cherish the recollection of some kindly deed at her hand. During her long life in McCon nellaburg she catered to the ccuort or more Fulton countv r pie than, probably, any other lady in the town, and her hospitality was far famed. is. Margaret Bolinger. rs. MargaretjBolinger, widow be late Jacob Bolinger died iome of her sonlsaacBolinger, ladeGap, Huntingdon county Sunday, April 29, 1917, aged ears, 6 months and 5 days. - )J funeral took place on the - wing Tuesday and interment )j made at the cemetery at jer church. For thirty-five f 1U13 linger naa been a rted member of tho u v. ch and i lllUDt CALCHCm !Btian woman. She is survive y the following children: John D. Cutchall, Huston jMrs. Samuel Stains, Three Ks; Foster. Wood; Isaac, JeGap;Martin,ThreeSpring9, Je, Wood; Lee, Salem, 111., Pwtie.atWood. Thefuner- wvices were ennrWhid Vw stor Rev. Geo. B. M. Rei- LlLLIAN Gracry f , , Lillian Gracey died May 5 me biair Momorial Hns- n Huntingdon. Miss Gra ss a dancrht-nr xxr:n:.. jrginia Gracey, of Taylor JhlP. On the day previous, f as taken to th h jnderwent an operation for ru8. er age was about jars, for nnmu.n.. FKht music at Saltillo and springs and pied. Tho ,u j : Per of tlm mu-j..-i. i: i - - "ituiuuiBicnurcn. f survivor w.. - uy uer parents, mothers and a sister. V.,. jas held last Tuesday with ana interment at Center Rs- Sarah A. Omwam Mhaa been death of Mrs. Sarah A. r Oldham of Conemaugh, th0 J'ed on Sabbath, May i;Mrn8' Oldham was a sis wm Brady Seylar, deceas- the last of her family. Z yeilr8 8le had made Z 7 h daughter, CT avinfif diedmany GAINS HIGH PLACE. Geo. A. Harris Appointed PeiisjlraiU Kepresenative of the Federal Land Bank, Baltimore. Geo. A. Harris, president of the Fulton County bank, has been appointed as the Pennsyl vania representative of the Fed eral Land bank, district Nn. 9. Baltimore, and reported for duty yeoieruiiy morning, mere are twelve Federal land banks locat ed throughout the United States. The Baltimore bank embraces the states of Pennsylvania, Vir ginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. The purpose of the Federal farm loan board is to appoint only men who are especially well quali fied; for the success of the banks depends upon the management. Mr. Harris' long and wide expert- mM. Mm GEO. A. IIAIiRIS. ence in banking, real estate and loans well fits him for the place. The applications for loans from Pennsylvania will all be passed upon by Mr. Harris and his duties will call him to all parts of the state. This appointment is a mark of appreciation of the capability of one of Fulton Cnunty's foremost citizens, and a compliment to Licking Creek township the place of his nativity. George is a young man yet, and it was entire ly through his own efforts that he fitted himself in young man hood to teach school, passing from that to nine years' service as prothonotary, register and re corder, and clerk of the courts of this county; thence as an officer in the First National Bank, and for several years the president of the Fulton County Bank. Dur ing the past year he made a very successful run for Congress in this district on the minority party ticket. His many friends join with the News in extending congratulations. Mr. Harris will continue to be a resident of McConnellsburg, and will probably spend a day or two in town each week. To Sabbath School Workers. Mr. EDiTOR:-WilI you kindly allow me through the columns of the News to call the attention of pastors, Sunday-school super intendents, teachers and others who may occupy cfHchl capacity in the Sunday-school work, to make special preparations to present to tho schools on the twentieth of May, the Temper ance lesson, scheduled for that day. For, as the prophet Isaiah yaw that the hope, remedy, ard continued prevention of the evil or evils of intemperance hy in the proper education of the children, eo it is to-day. WiLh victory almost ready to perch on our banners, unless we continue to educate the rising generation all our achievements along all lines of reform, will be torn to shreds. Never think that victor ies won, will warrant the laying of our armor do.wn.C. J. Brew er Superintendent, Temperance Department, Fulton County Sun day School Association. Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Kline whose farm lies north of the Lincoln Highway on Betz Hill in Licking Creek township, help ed swell the crowd of afternoon shoppers in town last Saturday. Time to Oil Streets. Juit recently the auto3 kicked up such a du.it on Lincoln Wav that (we) "Children cried for Castoria." Numerous comments were made to the effect that we should not wait until enough damage had been done to stocks of goods and to dwelling houses , to pay for oiling the street. It would be a good business policy to allay the dust nuisance at oncp. The idea that one oiling each sum mer is sufficient is not practical. During other years we suffered trom the dust d ;ring the early spring and nunimer months, to the injury of health and proper ty. We believe the loss more than offset the cost of an extra oiling which would insure comfort. No one would think of deliberately eating the dried filth of the street, I but every day we neglect tor ni-! edy tho dust nuisince we invoiun-. tarily take into our systems that very dirt. lianckk .Viiil I'uiti. After July 1st., mail will ta carried directly to Hancocl: from McCouiiollsl'urg by auto in two md oni'.half hours. Ira Diehl, of McCor.riell.-.burg was the ei;c OHjful bidder. M,-il will leave IJmieock each weekday at 9 o'clock a. m. Tho post offices 'served on Mm ro;,re km P'.um liufi, Dicky'M Mountain, Bi'fCove Tannery, Webster Mills, Citound ; McConnelilurg in the order riiimeil, arriving in McConnells burg at 11:.'W. On the return trip mail will leave McConnells burg r.t 12 noon, reversing the order of stops, and will arrive in Hancock at 2:30 p. m. The dis tance is twenty-four and six tent! is mile;:. Owing to the time of leaving Hancock, Mr. Diehl may have to remove to that place. his family Aeroplanes eeo. Anderson Mellott and Joseph F. Garland were in town on busi ness Monday. Mr. Garland in formed us that about 6 o'clock in the morning of April 27th, he and Harry Souders saw an aero plane passing northward over the central part of Fulton county. On the following Tuesday, he saw another moving in the same direction. The machines were at a high altitude and moving at great speed. The whirring of the propellers could be heard very plainly in fact, it was that which caused the beholders to turn their vision skyward. George luteods to Shoot. A few nights ago, Rev. Benson and others were visiting in the home of Geo. N. Sipes, in IIus tontown. During the evening Mr. Benson called attention to two men who were acting in a suspicious manner at the Sipes granary, and who ran when dis covered. George has not missed anything yet; but when he was in town Tuesday he completed his preparedness for war by pur chasing a supply of ammunition, believing that shotguns and shells are cheaper than flour at sixteen dollars a barrel. A word to the wise, &c. J Knox Ncu.;lon Enlists. On Monday of last week, S. Knox went to Pittsburgh and enlisted in the Light Artillery for coast defence, during the war. The day following at noon he left for Columdus, O.', where he entered a United States train ing camp. His cousin Franklin Marshall enlisted with him. Knox is a son of Rev. and Mrs. S. B. Houston formerly of Ayr town ship; Strait ipes. On Saturday, April 28, 1917, Mr. Speer Strait and Miss Winnie Sipes came to McConnellsburg, engaged Ira Diehl and his car and went to Hagerstown and were married. The groom is a son of Philip Strait and the bride is a daughter of Isaiah Sipes, all of Licking Creek township. Br Crowd the Front Pews. Adver tise Your Belief. Qo to Church. ERALLY ARE PILLARS OF BUSINESS. AD VERTISE THE FACT THAT YOU GO TO CHURCH. IT PAYS YOU SPIRITUALLY. IT PAYS YOU MATERIALLY. THE CHURCH EN VIRONMENT HELPS THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT. THE CHURCH TEACHING HELPS EVERY MAN TO THINK CLEARLY AND TO THINK CORRECTLY. THE CHURCH COMMANDMENTS ARE ONLY THE COMMANDMENTS OF HEALTH AND MIND. Statistics show that communities with the greater nuinher of churehfs ire prosperous. The people, as a whole, are HAPPY AND CONTENT. If you have neglected going to church, don't let another Sunday pass Without making a visit to tho house of God. God is forgiving. He is patient. But his patience niav bo ex hausted if a man continually ignores him. You IGNORE AND Ol'l'ENl) GOD when you stav away from church. Y'ou like to see your children GO TO CHURCH and Sunday school. The chil dren will bo DO UP. I A' IMPRESSED with the importance of at tend tig church if they see the father in church, GC TO CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY. GO TO CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY. Crrp it; port. following ii'-e some extracts from L H. Wible's crop report i or me scaie icr lite rnontn o April. i a. i. n.i r .i . t Average condition of wheat, 90 per cent. Fruit prospects good. Almost on! third of the ,farm ers of the State are in need of male help. Livestock wintered well and is fully up to the average condition at this time of year. Indications are that about ten per cent, more acres of potatoes will be planted this year than were planted last year. Local reports from Fulton county were as follows: Tod township March was fine month for the grain, and wheat and gained considerable since the last report. Brush Creek township Very little wheat hurt by freezing. Wells township Very little damage done to the wheat by freezing and thawing. LickingCreektown ship Outlook good for normal crop of fruit; wheat badly frozen out on low ground. Has Fine Position. Several weeks ago, Fred S Fisher, son of Mrs. Sadie Fisher of McConnellsburg, was graduat ed from the Stevens Trade School at Lancaster. Fred studied pat tern making, including drawing and he is now holding a good po nition as draftsman with the Bald win LocomotiveWorks and boards with his brother and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs. A. A. (Pat) Fisher in Philadelphia. A. A. has a nice run as Pullman conductor on a train running between New York and Florida, making round trips swicea week. round Dead. Mrs. D. R. P. Enyeart, wife of a well known merchant of Orbisonia, started to the home of her washer woman on Tues day evening of last week. The fact that she did not return be fore bedtime did not alarm the family, but after midnight a search was made among friends without finding her. After fur ther investigations she was found dead at a neighbor's gate, the result of a stroke of paraly sis. Baik Bobbed. On Friday of last week, three men with blackened faces held up the cashies of the First Nati onal Bank at Kitzmiller, Md., and took $10,000. A posse fol lowed and wounded one of the robbers, but no capture was made. HEX you GO TO CHURCH Sunday MAIiCII NIGHT UP TO THE EKOXT PEWS. Don't take u scat in tho rear of the church. In many churches some worshipers make for the rear pews as if they were umIiuiiwJ to be seen. Is there anything dishonorable in being seen in church? If you go to a theater you are proud to be seen in the front rows. CKOWD THE FIRST PEWS 01-' THE CIIL'HCH. THERE CERTAINLY 13 NOTHING UN MANLY IN GOING TO CHURCH. RATHER IS IT A SIGN OF STRENGTH OF CHARAC TER. PILLARS OF THE CHURCH GEN to The Tramp Must Co. Franklin county authorities have decided that no more free meals and lodgings shall be giv en to tramps. Magistrates are being urged to commit vagrants for a year instead of the custom ary thirty days. The plea o hunting work no longer stands and free comfort must not be given hobos. Jail them and make them work. Here in McConnellsburg a fav orite excuse for begging is the plea that the beggar is working his way home, or, is trying to get to Pittsburgh where a job awaits him when the truth that he could instantly find work at any point along the road and thereby earn money to quickly take him to the desired point, We believe in charity to the lim it, but it is wrong to encourage begging along any public high ways when a moment's thought will show that the beggar could earn money to ride it he were not a rank fraud. Do not be de ceived by their smooth talk- that is professional with them. No Food Shortage. There is no food shortage. We confidently assure our readers of this fact after having made most searching inquiry. There may be a shortage on a few articles, but in others the known supplies are normal. Taking the world in general, there is the customary quantity of food stuff, and there certainly are no more people to eat it However, agriculture m many countries is out of joint, ana a iuture snortage could oc cur. But the sobor judgment of men whose business it is to know is that tv.e rule of demand and supply has nothing whatever to do with the present high prices. Speculation and manipulation are saidto be back of high prices in deed the evidence is so great that the heavy hand of the govern ment may toon be laid on those responsible for the burden of un necessary high cost of food. Two Bushels of Birds. Last Sunday morning, between six ana seven o clock. Wm. Baumgardner started the furnace in the Reformed church. By the time Sunday school met, the rooms were filled with smoke and school was dismissed. An investigation proved that the chimney was filled with dead chimney swifts and fully two bushels of the dead birds wera removed. It is supposed that the birds were chilled and weak rom cold when the fire was started and were unable to get' out of the chimney before they were suffocated. Ml'lfl DRIED NUT WANTED Eirope'i Call for trait in baceatrat e I Dried Form is I niton County's Opportunity. Europe has sent out a call for dried fruit for its Boldiers in tho trencher Every housewife and every man having an orchard can contribute to the annetite and comfort of these poor fellows who are not only fighting their own battles but those of this country for are they not holding our great enemy at bay until we can get ready to strike? Not only is a duty presented, but the much-wished opening for profitable disposal of fruit that formerly went, to waste looms u) oeiore us. ine time nas come when men and women mui wake up and think and act. No farther away than Hancock hunt ling men and women are evapo A 1 I . rating ana canning the tame grades of fruit that we annually let go to waste, and they have been disposing of it at handsome profit! for Beveral years, Of course we could sun-dry our fruits a very cheap process but we are liable to much trouble and vexation and would have to take lower prices because of hav ing the fruit blackened, spoiled, and dampened by wet weather, as well as risk danger of infec tion by dust, flies and other ex posure. Governments are taking greater care to purchase whole some food than was ever known. The most safe, practical and con venient way is to have private, inaiviauai evaporators, a very simple little out-door structure that insures products of the most exacting commercial standard. (This little 4x4 building was de scribed by the News last spring.) Another way is for several neigh bors to jointly furnish a cheap, clean shed where work can be carried on by a paid member and on a larger scale. The latter is a good way where help is scarce, as one or two women can do the work of a whole neighborhood. A community factory-made evap orator can be had as low as $100.- 00, but many private families need one that size. However, home made ones are cheaper and last almcst a lifetime, as they are made of boards, wire netting and an old stove. The writer is well acquainted with a lady who lives in this county (could name her if we had permission) who, in her younger days, when all the neigh borhood knew nothing but sun- dried process, purchased an evap orator and evaporated all the fruit for sale., in her father's large orchard. She always se lected good fruit, had her dried fruits look bright and attractive and she received from 12 to 15 cents per pound for her dried apples when sun-dried were sell ing for but 2 cents. To further show her enterprise, we will state that she was the first to intro duce and breed the beautiful Ui viiv tutuvju ta unto vuuimjt i There is no mystery about pre. ; bronze turkeys in tins county. paring our fruits for market, ac tion is all that is needed. Think over it, get ready and act upon the suggestions. Your friend, J. A. Stewart. Will Go to France. , Miss Olive Grissinger, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Gris singer, oi Mount union has completed arrangements to go to France. She is connected with the Pennsylvania hospital at Philadelphia, and it is in the capacity of nurse or medical at tendant that she will go to that country. Miss Grissinger is a niece of Adam Grissinger, of McConaellsburg. Her mother's maiden name wat Harriet Stev ens, of Waterfall, a full cousin of Mrs. S. B. Wjollet, McCon nelUburg. William Cutchall and family, near Bethlehem Church, compos ed a good-sized auto load of Bhoppers in town last Saturday. SANITATION NT TO A TEST. Little Talks on Health and Dgiene bj Samel fi. Dixon, M. D., LL D., . Commissioner of Health. Typhus fever exists today in Mtxico, and thousands of Mexi cans are traveling across the boundary lines into the United States in search of work and the good money it brings. The bound ary line formed by the Rio Grande is so long and tortuous, that our little army of sanitarians is not able to prevent many of the Mexicans from coming into our midit without any sanitary treat ment. The danger is obvious. There is, at present," much scientific evidence that the cause of typhus fever is a bacillus that is found in the body of lice feed ing on typhus fever patients. While the scientific workers con tinue to pursue or to prove furth er the guilt of the bacillus for our typhus fever, we are fortun- ' ate to know that whatever it may be is carried in the body louse, and there is a fair degree of suspicion that the head louse may also carry the organism. The body louse delights in woolen clothing and can make it self very much at home in cotton spun material. To prevent the introduction of typhus fever from Mexico into the States, no Mexican should be transported across the boundary line without a permit, given by the United States Bureau of Pub lic Health Service. All health of ficers should be on the lookout for the newly-arrived Mexicans. who are now settling in construc tion camps and around the cen ters of the great industries, and when these foreigners are found and fail to show a clean bill of health, they should be examined for lice. If these are found, the clothes of the patient should be burned and the body should be shaven, washed and wrapped in a sheet soaked with a mixture of one-half kerosene and one-half vinegar, while the head should be wrapped in cheese cloth which has been soaked in this same mixture. In looking for the lice, it is well to remember that when you begin to strip the clothing they immediately make their retreat into its fabric. This makes it very essential to examine the clothing and, if lice are found there, it is certain that there are some on the body and therefore the process of disinfecting is es sential. If conditions.will not permit of the destruction of clothing, it should be baked until all signs of life have been destroyed, or boil ed in water for at least twenty minutes. if infected lice are carried across our border into our midst, typhus fever may become epi demic in many places, owing to the fact that those carrying the lice are very apt to get into crowded housing conditions. . ere the lice have every oppor tunity of infecting a large num ber of people. Grain $2100 Bushel. Corn and wheat are selling in McConnellsburg and in all towns in the State at $21.00 a bushel. Let us prove it. Next time you buy prepared corn and wheat breakfast foods, weigh the con tents of the package and compute for your own satisfaction how much a bushel would cost. Oat meal at six cents a pound is the cheapest form that cereals may be had, and at that price it is economical to use because of its food value. On the other hand the other grains sold in fancy packages cost as high as 40 cents a pound-a price .that all will agree is more than the actual food value. But these toasted and puffed foods are wholesome, no doubt, and taste good, and as long as we extravagant Ameri cans have money to buy fancy foods we will continue to pay $24.00 a bushel for them,
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