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VOLUME 18
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., MAY 17, 1917.
NUMBER 35
I RECORD OF DEATHS.
jirtStetches of the Lives of Per
sons Who Save Kecenuj
Passed Away.
Annie E. Sheets.'
Jliss Annie tneets cuea at
te home of her aunt, Miss Kate
A! Sheets, in Lancaster, Wed
nlday. May 9, 1917, aged 27
-ra nd 11 days. Funeral was
l.w hat Fridav at the home of
US1U iuw.
f sister Mrs. Harvey. Karper,
Mercersburg. Miss Sheets
tho vnunirest daughter of
ex-Sheriff Daniel Sheets of Ful
to county, but now. living in
rkmhprshurp. She has been
livfnor near Mercersburg, an
about ten days before her death
tha, went to visit her aunt in Lan
caster. On the way to the aunt'i
hame. she stopped at a restaur
ta in that city and ate ome
oysters, and it was to these that
Cfj physician traced ptomaine
r 'inn which resulted in her
( ith. Nothing was known of
I rillne3s at Mercersburg until
: s of her death came and it
v j a great shock to her friends.
T giving her are her father, in
C snbersburg and two sisters
; fa brother, namely, Mildred,
. 1 of Charles Glazier,, near
' xersburjr; Nellie, wife of
L ey Karper, on the old Sheets
t place ne;ir Mercersburg;
i 'tAIvin who makes his home
. his sisters.
1 Henry Anderson.
Vjteran Henry Anderson died
:t sis home near Knobsville,
Ij) 11, 1017. aped 81 yerrs, 10
r.::ths and 18days. Funeral was
he!d)ast Monday and interment
remade at the Knobsville M.
E. csmetery. Rev. VV. M. Cline,
of Fort Littleton, officiated. He
ia livived by his wife and seven
ch::dyen; Malinda, wife of Peter
SJdleman, Maquan, III.; Clara
tt;.'; of Daniel Crouse, of Waynes
Levina, wife of Albert
t-J, of Franklin county; Lottie
J'3;of Charles Tice, of Shade
-:p; Bert, in the West; William,
JTiugh Creek, and Charlie, of
7land. The deceased was a
He was highly respect--'
a good citizen.
-the draft of '64, he was
ed into service on Novem
Jth and served with Com
. p, 82nd Reg. Penna. Infant
' rid was metered out with
fcpany July 13, 18G5.
jDREW L. LAMBEHSON..
few L. Lamberson, died at
-ne in Ayr township, May
Y7. aged 69 years 2 months
' f days. Mr. Lamberaon
3 Jot been well for many
suffering from several
For many years he was
Bent in farming circles and
T I an inteligent, highly re
citizen and neighbor.
5 a, survived by his wife and
, - Children, William, at home
-Uder. num. a .:u-
i t . ".ncisvuie ana
L ife of Charles Hammers,
ljfercersburg. Funeral was
-f Monday, and interment
-Ale in the Tonoloway Bap
c&ieterv. i?fl t t v
,-ycConnellsburg, conduct-
oervices.
, f- R- F. McClain.
Robert Finley McClain
bishomeinMechanicsburg,
J "17, as the result of a
,3,of Paralysis about a week
s. Rev. McClain wag
J lttyrburg March 13,
i" graduated at nff,
i mi8G8 and from
- wiogicaI Seminary
"u wr his ordination
Pur at Waynesboro and
r Porof the McCon
Ef wh. He did not
. - -wnuieii dv nis
survive him, and his
;lf? who was Elizabeth
1" 1'ving. Interment
;f yesterday at New
Rs- Sarah Peck.
JRuhFPeikdiedat
Monday of lastweek.
Notice of S. S. Convention.
.Last week's issue of the News
contained the program for the
Sunday school convention to be
held at Needmore, May 24 and
25, 1917. A good program is be
fore our people and it is earnest
ly hoped that a full attendance
will greet our state and loca
workers. The importance of the
S. S. work cannot be over esti
mated. When war rumors and
alarms are so numerous, ought
not Christian people to work with
their Great Leader towards peace
with victory? To neglect organi
zation is to invite disaster. A
noble army of young people is
growing up in Fulton county,
Shall they not have the best pos
sible training for Christian ser
vice? Apparently, our failure of
the past has been in not sending
earnest young people to our
County Conventions. Every S
S. superintendent in the County
is urged to send delegates, to
gether with the yearly contribu
tions. The benefits are for those
who contributed, as no salaries
are paid. Some of the schools
have, up to this time, failed to
send in their yearly statistical
report. The secretaries will
please attend to this important
matter at once. Let all our
schools make the Convention a
subject of earnest prayer.
W. C. Patterson,
Field Secretary.
War Notice.
Fulton County's Public Safety
Committee, appcinted by Gov
ernor Brumbai'gh, met and or
ganized Tuesday evening. . The
Committee is composed of B. C.
LamVrson, L. W. Seylar, M. H.
Hollinshead, P. C. Bare, B. F.
Henry, W. L. Nace, W. R. Sloan,
John R. Jackson, H. M. Johnston,
L. L. Cunningham, Jefferson C.
Mellott, H. H. Berkstresser, Dr.
J. W. Mosser, T. F. Sloan, H. E.
Chesnut, Wm. Hull, W. H. Wible,
D. E. Cromer, G. A. Comerer,
Peter Morton, E. N. Akers, Geo.
W. Reisner, D. M. Morton, A.
W. Grissinger, H. A. Duffy, W.
R. Greathead, Harvey Bender,
Rev. Edward Jackson, M. W.
Nace, D. F. Trout, and perhaps
others. A most important public
meeting will be held in the Au.
ditorium Monday evening, May
21, at 7:30 o'clock at which time
war questions of vital importance
to Fulton county will be presented.
Good Roads Did It.
Speaking of the Lincoln High
way, Pittsburgh wholesalers are
delivering merchandise to retail
ers along the route as far east as
Bedford and Fulton counties.
Trucks from Pittsburgh are
getting butter and eggs from
farmers and dealers for 100 miles
east of Pittsburgh. -
Delivery of merchandise along
the line as well as long distance
express service will make the
Lincoln Highway a business ar
tery as well as a popular pleasuie
and travel route. Beford (Pa.)
Gazette. .
She was keeping house alone that
day and was found dead on the
floor by her daughter, Mrs.
Grant Shaffer, of Rays Cove.
William Ruby, of Fort Little
ton is a brother. Mrs. Jane
Ritchie4 Burnt Cabins; Mrs.
Hosanna Brown, of Fort Little
ton, and Caroline Ruby, of Mad-
densville, are sisters of the de
ceased. Eight children are living.
William Stuckey.
William Stuckey, of Bedford
county, died last Monday. He
was an uncle to Mrs. Stdie Fish
er of McUonnellsbnrg and ,for
nearly two months she had been
nursing him at his home. Funer
at, today , at Everett.
Mrs. Conrad Lamp.
Word of the death of Mrs. Con
rad Lamp, nee Bertha Bermond,
on May 2nd," at Lanark, III., was
received too late for this issue.
Particulars next week.
Long Pastorate Ended.
Sabbath, May 13, 1917, marked
an epoch in -the history of
the two United Pres-
byterian churcnes of Big Cove,
Fulton County, Pa. On that
day, both congregations met in
the First church in McConnells
burg and listened to the last
pastoral sermon of Rev. J. L.
Grove. After the sermon all
joined in the celebration of the
Lord's Supper.
As has been announced in
these columns, Mr. Grove asked
to be relieved of the pastoral
cares of the two churches on ac
count of his health which was
rapidly making it impossible for
him to meet all the responsibili
ties of his charges. To this his
people sorrowfully agreed, and
at a recent meeting of Presby
tery, Mr. Grove's application
was confirmed and he was au
thorized to declare the two Cove
pulpits vacant.
On December 16, 1884, Rev.
Grove drove through a big snow
storm to McConnellsburg from
the scene of his former pastorate
at Worthingtdn, Pa., at which
place he served his first pastoral
charge for a period of twelve
years. For several months he
boarded in McConnellsburg and
in the spring of 18S5 he bought
his present home and brought
his family to town and occupied
his own bouse where he has
lived ever since.
In the spring of 1912 Rev. S.
B. Houston resigned as pastor of
the Associate Pres by terian church
a few miles south of McConnells
burg and Mr. Grove was called
to preach for them quite frequent
ly until bepiemLer or that year
when that congregation made
application to be received into
the United Presbyterian Church
and by agreement Mr. Grove be
came pastor of both c?nirrega
tions. It will be seen that the
First Church in McConnellsburg
enjoyed the continued service of
their pastor for a period o f
almost thirty-three years along
time for a man to preach to the
same people. The loving ties of
friendship will not be severed,
however, for Mr. Grove and his
faitheful wife will continue their
residence here and after he takes
a much needed rest, he expects
to minister to the spiritual needs
of his people whenever they may
call upon him. Twice during his
pastorate here he received calls
to go elsewhere, both of which
he declined.
To those whose memories re
call the stirring times of more
than fifty years ago, the reunion
of the two congregations last
Sabbath was pleasing indeed.
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Tree Talk.
A single issue of a New York
Sunday paper is said to consume
the timber from fifteen acros of
forest. If Pennsylvania's State
Forests were fully stocked, they
could furnish fnouh pulp wood
to keep forty Sunday papers go
ing indefinitely.
Forest fires in the United
States have caused an average
annual loss of seventy human
ives and twenty-five to fifty
million dollars worth of timber.
The indirect losses run close to
half a billion a year.
If the 25.000,000 trees planted
on the Pennsylvania State For
ests were set four feet apart, as
they actually are in the woods,
and planted in a straight lin
they would cover almost 19.000
miles. Plantedtwenty feet apart
they would provide shade trees
on notii sides of 40.UUU miles of
highway.
INFANTILE PARALYSIS 0JJTL00K.
Little Talks on Health and Hjgiene bj
Samoel G. Dixon, M. D., LL. D.,
Commissioner of Health.
We are fast approaching the
warm months of the year that
favor Infantile Paralysis.
Last year the public lost its
nerve. This season it is hoped
that the epidemic will not reap
pear. From the history of the dis
ease it would not be surprising if
we had comparatively .little this
year, yet no man can perdict
whfit nature may do.
The health authorities are
alert and busy doing all those
things the,y believe can in any
way lessen the chances of having
another epidemic.
To contract the disease it may
require direct contact with the
sick. This, however, is far from
being a settled question.
The well must be kept from
the sick, however, in human life,
While the disease is lurking about,
ii tii i ii
no wen cnna snouia oe exposed
to one showing the least illness
Ihe sick should be quarantin
ed, the State Health Department
has always held, for two weeks,
The lueharges from the bow
els, thro it or nose should be dis
infected. The nurse or the one
in care of sick should wear
a gown and U face and hands
should be washt.il or disinfected
before mingling with those out
side the sick room.
If the conditions of a home are
bad and the child cannot be iso
lated or kept alone, the hospita
is the best place for it. This
should be done very early in the
sickness as quiet and rest are
essential to recovery. A doctor
experienced in treating the dis
ease una a nurse witn line ex
perienced in treating the disease
add much to the chances of re
covery.
i raveling with children and
congregating them in groups
should be discouraged.
Dr. B. W. TruaxHurL
The Burr Oak, Kansas, Herald
of May 3 contained the following
account of an accident to Dr. B.
W. Truax, of this place. The
Doctor is a brother-in-law of ex
County Treasurer, Samuel A.
Hess, of this county.
Dr. B. W. iruaxthe veterina
rian, and Clare Shupp.his driver,
had a serious auto accident Mon
day, several miles west of town.
Loose dirt at the side of a high
fill caused the machine to upset
into the ditch below, turning over
completely once, and halfway
over the second time. Clare was
caught under the wheel, with
the weight on his chest and suf
fered a bad cut on his head. He
has since been in rather serious
conditions, but with hopes for
his recovery. The doctor was
temporarily stunned and con
siderably bruised but not severe
ly injured.
Ajar: Cromwell.
The marriage of Arthur D.
Ayars, of Bridgeton, N. J,, and
Miss Mary J. Cromwell, of Wild-
wood, N. J., took place an April
21, 1917. After spending their
honeymoon in ,New York, Mr.
and Mrs. Ayars have returned to
Wildwood and will open the
Cromwell for the seisnp.
Subscribe for the Nkwp,
The Spelling Bee.
Last Friday evening, as pre
viously announced, a spelling bee
was held in the auditorium.
Forty-six took part twenty
three on each side. Mrs. C. B.
Stevens and Miss Mollie Seylar
were the captains of the respec-
tives sides. In order to "limber
up" the contestants, each speller
was given four words by spell
ing around the two sides four
times and no one was "spelled
down" no matter if he missed al!
four words, On the fifth round,
the sides "went down" like
Germans ..before the French and
English gu;ns. On the sixth
round. everjTremaining mother's
son or daughter failed to spell
the word "desiccate," and that
wound up the bee so far as fur
ther attempts to spell were concerned.
Mrs. Sarah E. Souders is away
on a trip visitingf riends in Mer
cersburg, Harrisburg and Hagers
town, she will visit her daughter
Mrs. Chas. McCurdy.
Live Topics.
Last week. James A. Stewart,
of Licking Creek township, wrote
an article for the News calling
attention to the demand from
Europe Tor fruit in dried form,
so as to avoid all leakage and
breakage in the difficult route to
the trenches. For the benefit of
any who have forgotten, we will
again describe the commercial
fruit drers used by the thous
ands up in New York state where
most of our finest dried iruits
come from. It is as follows:
A pit not over eight feet square
is dug in the ground exactly as a
cellar for a house. The little
house that is.built over it is not
weatherboarded, but the four
sides are clo3ed with shallow
drawers with'bottoms made of
fine wire screen. A stove is
placed in the pit with pipe run
ning out at the ground and up
outside of the building. The
shallow drawers are filled with
prepared fruit and the heat
turned on not enough to coo
the fruit, but just enough to dry
it quickly. The attendant must
change the upper drawers to the
lower and the lower to the upper
part in order that all be treated
alike. For this reason all draw
ers must be same size. This
method makes perfection products
that bring top-notch prices be
cause iney are not discolored or
in any degree affected by dust,
light or insects, The drier must
have ventilation at the top or
eaves.
Do you know that forty
five of the counties of Pennsyl
vania nave iarm oureuas and
county, agents? These trained
man are, with few exceptions,
binding the farmers together so
that they area big powerful busi
ness firm able to cope with com
petition. The State pays about
two-thirds of the cost, the county
paying the balance. County
Commissioners are by law enabl
ed to appropriate the county's
share. It is thought that by 1919
(two years in the future) al
but one or two counties will be
organized. Wonder what two
counties they will be?
Al. .1
adoui a montn ago, two or
three bankers in Lewistown met
and agreed to meet the county's
cost of a County Agent if the
County Commissioners couldn't
see it." Result was a demand
by the taxpayers, that an agent
be secured and that ended th
matter they got their agent.
Our Apples in Favor.
Apples from the southern coun
ties of Pennsylvania are rapidly
gaining m favor over western
products. This, of course, in
eludes Fulton county apples, than
which, no finer can be grown in
the State. It was to guard this
section that a bill was recently
passed to regulate the packing of
apples in Pennsylvania. We
never saw finer samples of apples
than were shown in this office
ast fall big, rosy, fine flavored
and sound as a dollar. If dried
as described by James Stewart
ast week, , asd again by the
News this wt?k, big money
ought to be made by Fulton coun
ty people this fall and winter.
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU LNOW.
WEST DUBLIN.
David IIer8hey took bis double
r.vt,u...uei . .v.. snapsnots at ineir wnnngs and doin
lu'niu jui men lumiai blip liver
the mad route on Monday. Davy
says they went on "high" all
forenoon.
Oar friend Harris Wagner Is
in poor health.
O.iver Eitchov made a trip to
Ayr township last week for corn.
John Mumma, representative
of the Harrisonville Lodge I. O.
0 F., and John Mai tz represen
tative from Fort Littleton Lodge
attended the Grand Ledge ut
York Monday.
Last Sunday, Dallas Brant and
family. Mrs. Jennie Brain acd
sou E. b visited Hiram Bumgard
ner in Wells Valley. Mr. Baum
gardner 14 in poor health.
Let The Hens "Set"
Set all the hens you can, to
come out" during July and Au-
guest and let them go fo forage
for themselves unless you have
plenty of time and feed. If each
hen raise but one chick to ma
turity, it will have paid for the
setting of eggs. But she will
do better than that, and the
money they will bring next fall
will surprise you, for meat will
Dy hign in price. These late
hatchings should be in addition
to ail you can handle in the usual
way. It will pay well.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob S. Hill and
amily of Needmore, R. R. 2,
motored to Greencastle last Sun
day and took dinner in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller.
Mr. Miller has been quite ill for
;wo weeks. .
BETZ HILL
Arthur McCabe, wife anl two
children, accompanied by R. M.
Finniff, wife and daughter Har
riet all of Pittsburgh with
Mr. McCaleb at the wheel motor-
Here for a Vacation, or Away
. for a Restful Outing.
Mrs. II. U. Nace entertained
at six o'clock dinner Saturday of
last week.
Geo. C. Sipes and family, of
Dickeys Mountain, shopped in
town last Saturday.
Miss Elsie Fite, of Needmore,
was shopping and calling on
friends in town last Saturday.
Miss Dora Shaal, of Cham
bersburg, was a recent guest for
several days of Mrs. Ross Doyle.
Lewis Largent, employed in
the rWe factory at Eddystone,
came home last week for a short
Vacation.
Rev. Sprigs, pastor of the A.
M. E. church at Cito, is in Phil
adelphia this week attending Con
ference. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Seylar and
son Joe motored to Gettysburg
ed to the homo of Geo. Fix last last Sunday and returned Monday
Sunday and returned home Mon- evening.
day. Mrs. Hester Mellott, of Pleas-
Nathan Dosbong ia in poor ant Ridge, visited her daughter,
health. Mrs. Jefferson Harris, a few
Miss Pearle Cutchall recently days ago.
spent a few days with her grand-
ptrents,
Vife.
Nathan
Desbong
and
Lans and jars lor preserving
fruit will be scarce this year.
We feel that we can do a little
"bit" for the cause by persist
ently recommending drying pro
cess this summer, Happy will
be she who, next fall, has lots of
dried corn, apples, peaches, and
berries to sell. And happier
still will be the poor creatures in
the trenches whose feverish hard
ships are somewhat allayed by a
handful of these necessities.
Dr. Mosser and Grant Baker
were in Cha nbersburg la3t Fri
day to see Mrs. Biker who is in
the hospital.
Jordon Deshong and family,
of Pleasant Ridge, helped swell
the throng of shoppers in town
last Saturday.
Mrs. Annie E. Dellart, of Mer
cersburg, srent eeveral days this
week, with her sisters and her
mother in this place.
William Oit and daughter
Pearl spent Saturday and Sunday
in the home of the former's son
Daniel, near Mercersburg.
District Superintendent M. E.
They cannot be sent to the bat
tie fields in canned form-too Swartz, of Harrisburg, preached
in the Methodist church in Mc-
heavy, bulky
struction.
and liable to de-
Even the whales in the North
Sea have turned against the
Kaiser and are cheerfully giving
their lives by the score in the in
terest of the Allies. The mon
sters have been bumping into the
mines planted there by the Ger
mans, exploding them and there
by rennenng them harmless to
the enemies of the German
rulers. Here is an idea why
not train a school of whales to
whale-it-to" the German sub
marines?
Many, women- in Fulton coun
ty are at this moment wondering
how they can do their "bit" as
called for by the President.
Every one of them, can prepare a
few extra pounds of dried fruit
not to give away, but to sell to
be sent to the trenches to relieve
the suffering of the poor fellows
who are, many of them, giving
their young lives to save the lib
erties of our homes.
Do you rememler what the
ittle lady said at the entertain'
ment last winter: booner or
ater a bug will get you." That
Civic Club bug is showing won
derful signs of activity toward
dirty alleys and lots. When a
woman will she will that's all's
to it.
Complaint has been made that
old tin cans and other rubbish
has been dumped on other peo
ple's vacant lots, thereby giving
the impression to the public that
the owners are slovenly. It is
said that photographs of dirty
alleys and lots in town may be
taken and published in the papers
by the Civic Club.
Connellsburg Tuesday evening.
Mis3 Nell Palmer, of Sipes
Mill was a recent guest in the
home of Hon. and Mrs. Peter
Morton and other friends in
town.
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Miss Olive Lodge and Miss
Esther Kendall, students at
Shippensburg Normal, were week
end guests at their resDective
homes.
William P. Nelson, of Cumber
land county, visited his parents,
Eon) and Mrs. David A. Nelson,
of Ayr township, several days
recently.
Mrs. John A. Irwin, Miss
Minnie Dickson and Miss Flora
Rexroth were guest of Mrs. J.
F. McFerren, in Chambersburg
last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Scott Brant,
near Dane, were guests of their
SDn-in-lavv and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. John Wible, of Cham
bersburg, last Thursday and Fri
day.
Mrs. John Ilann, of Saluvia,
and daughter Mrs. White,, of
New York, were shopping in
town Tuesday. Mrs White is
quite pleased with her visit to
the historical "Packers Path,"
now the Lincoln Highway.
After all the efforts put forth
to increase the food supply of
this country by urging each man
woman and child to produce even
a little bit more than usual.
wouldn't it be nice if we could
tell each other what we did? A
postal card to this office telling
what you did will do the trick.
Dear friends, when you ask to
have the address of your paper
changed won't you please re
member to tell where the paper '
has been going? We cannot
possibly remember the address
of more than 2,000 subscribers.
spend two hours
Comparatively few white car
nations were in evidence last
Sunday, which was Mother's day.
h e supply in Chambersburg and we often
was exhausted by orders placed hunting your name to make the
many weeks ago, change requested and even then
we are seldom sure that we hit
Postmaster Blair, of Shippens- the right Smith or Jones. You
burg, has asiced tne btate for are all registered by post offices
200 rifles to be used in drilling and we have to turn to that office
young men of that town and vi- to find your name before we can
cinity. transfer it to new address,
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