THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
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Mews Reader:
PENNSYLVANIA
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Jn This Department Our Readers In Fulton County a
Around the World Afitri the Gam or a
of History Making Happenln
nd, Elsewhere May journey
on the Trail
1 American murines operating a five-inch gun on a battleship "somewhere on the Atlantic." 2 New- photograph
of Duvld F. Houston, son of the secretary of agriculture, who Is In training at the New port naval station. 3 Steel
frames which, covered with canvas, conceal big. French guns thut are In a steel and ccmei't shelter. 4 Liberty Loun
float iu St. I'uul's great Liberty Loan day parade.
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Scene In Mattoon, 111.. Just after the tornado that killed scores of ncrsons anil caused tremendous nronprtv iliimni'e
la central Illinois. Sir. and Mrs. J. McLane are seen climbing over the ruins of their residence.
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Tho m, .' y ns Possible, so thnt each department of-a dreadnought Is shown.
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tntinnU.C Du,tcd Slntes firmy dirigible D-N-l In a trial flight at the
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"KIT" WILLIAMS IN CAMP
0. II. Williams III Is one of the two
Bons of Senator John Sharp Williams
of Mississippi who Is In the officers'
training camp at Fort Myer, Va. An
other son will enter the engineer corps
at Fort Ethan Allen. The fourth broth
er, now on the home plnntntlon near
Yazoo City, wanted to Join the army,
but Senator Williams declared he
could do more good raising food. 0.
II., known ns "Kit," received a degree
of A. B. from the University of Vir
ginia when he entered the camp, lie
would have graduated In June. lie is
twenty-one years old.
Art and Nature.
Art is the expression of life. Na
ture Is beloved by every normal human
being. Because of this we are apt to
think that nature Is art. Nature Is
the Inspiration for art, but the two
are widely different. Nature does not
take Into consideration the needs to
which these objects are to be put. A
bower growing In the field was never
supposed to be embroidered on a sofa
pillow or painted on a plnte. If you
are translating anything Into art, con
ventionalize It Exchange.
EMPRESS OF ABYSSINIA FORMALLY CROWNED
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Zeodlton, a mere slip of a girl who, It is said, can trace her ancestry buck to the queen of Shebn who visited
Solomon, has been formally crowned empress of Abyssinia. The illustration shows Zeodlton ou her throne, uud, lu the
background, the main street in Adls Ababa, her capital, on coronation day.
RUSSIA'S NEW ARMIES TRAIN IN THE STREETS
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Itecrulti on a plaza In Petrograd going through a practice drill. Thousuuds of men are trained at the national
capital before being sent to the front.
PRETTY AMBULANCE DRIVERS
Nearly 100 of Washington's best
known society girls and young matrons
have become Qualified as ambulance
drivers for the American Red Cross.
Here are two of them Miss Ethel
Harrtman (left), daughter of Mrs. J.
Borden Ilorrlmnn, and Mrs. W. D. Rob
bins, wife of an official In the state
department. The reason their uni
forms look so good Is that they were
made to order by real tailors and have
never known a commissary shelf.
Tho Word "Arsenal."
Tim interpretation of the depart
ment of lustlco that the word "arsenal"
In the president's war proclamation
bars unnaturalized (Jermans rrom tlio
vieinltv of state armories as well as
navy yards, forts or camps occupied
by tho military, will affect thousands
of such residents in nil parts of New
York city. Before Juno 1, when the
order becomes effective, the United
Khitns mnrshal's office here expects a
rush of Germans, who had neglected
to become citizens, for permits to re
tain their present places or residence.
Mnnv of the districts affected are
thickly populated, some being apartment-house
districts In which there are
hundreds, of German residents. Not
only these but their German friends
desiring to visit them must have per
mits. According to a list prepared by
federal officials there ore 19 armories
in tho pntlre city coming under the
terms of the proclamation, as well as
two naval mllltla posts.
WORKING FOR THE MILITIA OF MERCY
Receive '.if and labeling packages of knit goods nt the headquarters of the
Militia of Mtrry In New York. The organization aids the families of enlisted
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SOUTHERN GOVERNORS' SONS TRAINING
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Four young Southerners, three of them sons of ex-governors and tho other
son of a governor, In the officers' training camp at Fort MacPherson, Georgia.
They are, from left to right: Charles Brown, son of ex-Governor Brown of
Georgia ; Hugh Comer, son of ex-Governor Comer of Alabama ; S. J. Cntts, Jr.,
son of Governor Catts of Florida, and Dnu I'owie, son of cx-Governor Fowle
of North Carolina.
TowanJa. The board of managers
of the Bradford County Agricultural
Society will conduct the annual fair
n September at Towanda. Soma time
so It waa suggested that the fair
:o abandoned because of the war, but
it was voted down.
Mercer. Postmaster Craig, of this
fity, has notified supervisors of four
townships In the vicinity of Mercer
borough that highways must be put
Into proper condition at once, else
the rural mall Bervlce will be discon
tinued upon some of the roads in
that, part of the county.
Lock Haven. Lock Haven people
complain bocause Henovo people go
to that town on early trains and buy
all tlio desirable things in the mar
kets before Lock Haven's prospective
purchasers are out of their beds,
itonovo is 28 miles from Lock Haven,
but the cornering of the county seat's
fftock of vegetables and produce will
likely continue despite tho protests, '
unless Lock Haven's folks can Insure
themselves to the habit of early ris
ing, at least on market days.
Butler. Tho congregation of the
Presbyterian Church at Parkers Land
ing has extended a call to Rev. J.
M. Briceland, of this city, to fill tho
vacancy In the pastorate Of the Parker
Church, made vacant through the
resignation of Rev. Maxwell Cornelius.
The congregation offers a salary of
$1500 a year, with four weeks' vaca
tion. Shlppenshurg. H. S. Carothers,
sealer of weights and measures, has
been notified to quit, and a new man
will be appointed by the new Repub
lican Board.
Pittsburgh. City, county and Fed-.
oral agents were on duty through
out the entire Pittsburgh district,
Instructed to "tolerate no foolishness"
In tho conduct of the draft registra
tion. Harrisburg. Blair county prisoners
will till the land at the County Home.
Scranton. Anti-draft circulars ap
peared in the alien parts of this city.
Ashland This city complains of a
proposed Increase In street railway
fares.
Pittsburgh. Less than 5 per cent,
of eligible Pittsburghers claim exemp
tion from conscription.
Danville. By a house-to-house can
vass the Red Cross membership has
oeen Increased to 1537.
Altoona. Aitoonans subscribed fur
$200,000 of the Liberty Loan before
the local selling campaign opened.
Northumberland. The Forging Com
pany has offered for its 500 employes
to buy all the Liberty Bonds they
want.
Nlsbet. William Hobble was killed
and Thomas Zuber, also of Nisbot,
seriously hurt In a fall from a scaf
fold at Jack's Hollow.
Lattimer. Tho local of United Mine
Workers has resolved that members
shall remain Idle on no holy days ex
cept Christmas, New Year, Good Fri
day and Easter.
Chamhershuig. Wilson College of
this city, learning that tlio Federal
Government needs 2500 women tele
graph operators at once, has estab
lished a branch of telegraphy In Its
curriculum.
Chester. T. W. Allison, a Chester
business man, helped along the Lib
erty bonds by taking $10,000 worth
Chester. Companies B and C, of
the Sixth Regiment, National Guard,
located lu Chester, have 30 recruits
in a campaign for 200 men.
Hazleton. The Hazleton Chamber
of Commerce has been asked by the
authorities at Washington to aid In
food preparedness by backing a plan
to raise 25,000 Mexican goats on the
mountain arouud this city. It Is
claimed that the animals give three
pints of milk a day, are prolific and
their meat Is palatable.
Groensburg. Artie Atherton Noll,
the human skelton with Burnum &
Bailey's circus and 17 other bIiow
men, enrolled for military duty with
Sheriff John P. Kllgore when the
circus was In Groensburg. Noll weighs
but 38 pounds, and is five feet, six
Inches tali.
Harrisburg. Speculation is rife
as to whether Fort Niagara will be
used for the training of the second
class of candidates from Pennsylvania
for commissions in the new army, at
the conclusion of the present camp
There is a belief that sites in more
southerly sections of the country will
be used.
Altoona. Joseph Furry, 30, married,
killed himself ou the porch of his
home at Eldorado, a suburb, of Al
toona. After a week's absence from
home ho returned, and, finding the
door locked, put a bullet through his
head.
Harrisburg. Rates have been rais
ed by Perry county physicians on
account of the high cost of living.
Bloomfleld. Perry County Public
Safety unit organized with James M.
Barnett, New Bloomfleld, president.
Greensburg. Colonel Richard Coul
ter, Greenaburg, has been appointed
colonel of the Tenth Regiment, the
third time.
Klnborton. The Parker graphite
mines, near here, have beeu sold and
will be started with a full force.
South Bethlehem. Mrs. Emma
Ehret, aged 79, died here as the fu
noral of her twin sister, Mrs. Matilda
Hlllfllcker, was occurring. Grief over
the doath of Mrs. Hlllfllcker is given
as the direct cause.
Norrlstown. Several parents were
fined for not Bonding children to
school.
Chester. Ground was broken by
Senator Sprcul for the $130,000 Mu
nicipal Building in the rear of Ches
ter's present City Hall, erected in
1724.
Reading. Miss Emily Levan was
the first Koading woman to volunteer
her services as a draft registrar.
Harrisburg. During the month 17 '
rabbits have been killed after night
fall on the Hollldaysburg and Tyrone
lines of the Logan Valley Railway.
This occurs because the bunnies run
about to feed at night and, blinded
by the headlights on the cars, are
run down.