THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLBBUKO, FA.
'PULTON COUNTY NEWS
Published Every Thursday.
8. W. PECS, Editor and Proprietor
McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
" JUNE 14, 1917
Published Weekly. $1.50 per
Annum in Advance.
Altered at the Poatoffloe t MoConnsllsburg
P., as teoond-olasa mall matter.
MARKET REPORT.
CORRECTED KVKBT WBDNBSDAT.
The rraln markets are taken from the Cham
rsburs dally newspaper. The provision
orloie are "how that obtain In Mo6onnell.
GRAIN
Wheal
Nw wheat
Bran
Corn...s.
Oats
Kje
PROVISIONS
Butter, Creamery
Butter, Country 28
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Candidates' Announcements.
FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE.
to
a
.1 aerebya nounce myself
tiia vntnra of Fulton County as
Hiritu nn thfl Nin-Partnan
ticket for the office of Associate
Judge, subject to the decision of
the voters at the primary wee
Uoq to be held Tuesday, Septem
har 1ft 1917.
I pledge myself that if com
natedand elected, i ww ui-
t.hft dntiea of the office
fearlessly, honestly, and to the
verv heat of my ability. 1 re-
Twt.fullv solicit the vote and in
finance of all who deem me
worthy of support
David A. Black,
Taylor township.
FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE.
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate on the Non-Partison
ticket for the office of Associate
J udge. I pledge myself to abide
by the decision of the voters at
the Primary Election to be held
September 18, 1917, and if nom
inated and elected, to discharge
the duties of the office to the best
of my ability, fearlessly and hon
estly.
Frank Mason,
Todd township.
FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE.
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate, on the Nonpartisan
ticket for the office of Associate
Judge, subject to the decision of
the voters at the primary elec
tion to be held Tuesday Septem
ber 18, 1917.
If nominated and elected, I
pledge myself to discharge my
duty fearlessly and honestly.
Your vote and influence respect
fully solicited.
Geo. B. Mcck,
Todd township.
FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE.
I hereby announce myself as
candidate on the Non Paitisan
ticket for the office of Associate
Judge, subject to the decision of
the voters of Fulton county at the
primary election to be heldTubS
day, September 18, 1917.
If nominated and elected, I
pledge myself to discharge the
duties of the office fearlessly hon
estly and to the very best of my
ability and judgment, and re
spectfully solicit your vote and
influence.
J. Clayton Hixson.
Union township.
TOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE.
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate, on the Non Partisar
ticket for the office of Associate
Judge, subject to the decision of
the voters at the primary elec
tion to be held Tuesday Septem
derl8, 1917.
If nominated and elected, I
pledge myself to discharge my
duty fearlessly and honestly.
Your vote and influence respect
fully solicited.
S. Edward McKee
Union township.
FOR JURY COMMISSIONER.
To the Republican voters of Ful
ton County.
At the coming Primary Elec
tion I will be a candidate for the
Republican nomination for Jury
Commissioner, and respectfully
solicit the votes of the party.
Thomas T. Cromer,
Post Office Dublin township.
Fort Littleton.
At five o'clock last Friday even
ing Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith
and son Richard of Chambers
burg, and Mrs. Janet Jerald and
three children of Mansfield, 0.,
left Chambersburg in an automo
bile, went to McConnellsburg,
made a social call at the home of
Miss Mollie Seylar, North Second
street, and were back on top of
the mountain eating lunch be
fore sundown. ,
That Bad Back.
Do you have a dull, steady ache
in the small of the back sharp,
stabbing twinges when stoepmg
or lifting distressjng urinary
disorders? For bad back and
weakening kidneys McConnells
burg residents recom mendDoan's
Kidney Pills. Rad this McCon
nellsburg man's statement.
L A. Youse, retired butcher,
McConnellsburg, says: "About
three years ago my back ached
badly and it hurt me to stoop of
lift. Doan's Kidney Pills, pro
cured at Trout's Drug Store,
soon gave me relief. I gladly en
dorse them."
Price 50c. at all dealers. Don't
limply ask lor a nidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills the
same that Mr. Youse had
Foster-Milburn Co , Props., Buf
falo, N. Y.
Advertisement.
Borough Teachers Elected.
At a meeting of the board of
school directors Monday evening
last year's corps of borough
teachers was elected for the en
suing term of eight months be
ginning the first Monday in Sep
tember. The names of the
teachers with their respective
salaries is as follows: Admiral
Smith, $80; Sophia Hohman, Joan
Morton, Grace Lodge, and Jean
ette Stouteagle each $55.
At exactly noon to-day, the
old, cracked Liberty Bell in
Philadelphia will be rolled from
its glass case and lightly tapped
with a hammer and the fact will
be immediately flashed by wire
to McConnellsburg, and to every
telegraph station in the United
Stat 68, like a voice from the dead
calling us to a realization of the
necessity of coming to the aid of
the government by taking up the
Liberty Bond issue promptly.
The name of the wife In paren
theses opposite the name of the hus
band In the city directory niny be a
feature of the next Toledo directory,
at a means of reducing the matrlmo
nlal litigation In thla country. In
many small cities names are run tn
that manner. Having the wife's nnrue
In the directory with her liuubnrid's
makes It bad for the married man that
tells a chance acquaintance he Is
single.
Even In seasons as favorable as the
average It Is going to be more and
more profitable to raise good crops.
The massing of population In the cities
still re on and at the highest rate
ever known. It will not stop soon, If
ever. It Insures those who till the soil
a wider and better market for their
products, as the country Oils up and
the proportion of urban to rurul popu
lation continues to rise.
The time-honored custom which pre
scribed full dress as the proper nttlre
for civilians received tn audience by
Emperor Franz Joseph, has been abol
ished. In an order Just published, the
aged ruler expresses the wlxh that this
fashion shall be done away with, and
that civilians received In the future
present themselves In the simple
"GehrocU," or Prince Albert.
A Norwegian chemist bas discov
ered a substitute for coal. It Is not
a substitute for all coal, only for some
of It, because It cannot be made In
enough quantity to take the place of
coal. That Is Interesting, snys St.
Louis Star. What the consumer
wants Is not a substitute for coal, but
a substitute for conl bill.
The modern boy possesses some ad
vantages the old-time boy didn't have,
but the modern boy never experiences
the thrill of a missing front tooth, a
yarn gallus, a stone bruise nor theJ
privilege of going nil the wiuter with
out having to take a bath.
A plague of locusts Is said to threat
en the rice crop In Manila. Evidently
the notion of government experts that
locusts themselves are available as
food for human beings has not yet
proved sufllclently tempting to thin the
legions of these Insect raiders.
The English language Is now com
posed of bIx hundred thousand words.
With this extensive vocabulury, when
people whose tongue Is English say
that words full them It Is reasonable
to Infer that their emotions are raised,
to a high pitch.
In the past ten months, 1,015
vessels have been built In the
United States, all but 40 of them
owned In this country. That sad
refrain, "The passing of Old Glory
from the sens," seems to be ont of
date.
There's a new counterfeit federal re
serve hank $-0 bill In circulation, but
why bother about n trltle tike that tn
times like theset
It Is possibly true that all women
are alike to a lilanmlst.
Clock Struck Ono.
Horrid 1 lore "I rise by an nlnrm
clock." l'retty Girl "I retire by one.
There It ges now 1" Judge.
BROWS SARCASM
il
By HAROLD BRONSON.
ttroucher hud a naturally unpleas
ant wuy of expressing himself when
things didn't go to suit liiin and some
foolish person once told him that he
wus delightfully, wickedly sarcustlc.
That explained him. It is rutlior un
awful thing when u man gets nn Ideu
Unit ho has a gift for sarcasm, lie
Is particularly upt to cultivate It.
Broucher becume unpopulur. He
was not really such a bud sort of fel
low, not even Ill-tempered, but be de
veloped a sort of carping habit of
speech for the more frequent display
of his gift and his associates nntu
rally got down on him.
It was In his loneliness that he be
gan his wooing of Miss Bnrdexter, the
meek and amiable little woman whose
nimble, white fingers rattled over the
keys of the typewriter In the office,
Miss Durdexter rather admired
Broucher's style of talk. Perhaps It
was she who originally complimented
him on It. Anyway, Broucher got
Into the habit of lingering about her
desk and saying wickedly sarcustlc
things about the other men In the
oflice. The upshot of the thing was
that he married her.
But with the waning of the honey'
moon It was different If anything
went a little crosswoys he usually
called attention to It, and 6f course
a young housekeeper Is not nn old
one, and things will go a little cross-
ways at first.
Then it was: "Dearest, I hnve ob
served u'th some pain that you are
not sufllclently considerate of the feel
ings of the young lady who has so
kindly consented to oRslst you In the
care of the household. Vou must re
member that girls In domestic service
hnve their feelings."
"Why, Courtney, dear I I urn sure I
hove always tried "
"Yes, yes, I know. I don't think yon
meant to hurt her, hut there Is that
young mnn of hers and her girl friend
and her young mnn In the kitchen
now. I know they are there because
I hear them very plainly, Indeed. They
have been there three nights hand
running now, and you hnve never
once Invited them to use the pnrlnr
and the piano, so that they have been
obliged to put up with the kitchen and
a mouth orgnn. Don't you think It
would be nice for you to go out and
Invite them In. I'm afraid If I do It I
shall be tactless."
Mrs. Broucher would look at him
timidly and hesitatingly, and he would
sustain her look with an unpleasantly
bland smile. Then she would go out
to the kitchen, and shortly after the
sounds of revelry would cense.
But Broucher was not dissatisfied
when a letter came announcing a visit
from his mother-ln-lnw whom he hnd
never seen ; he snld ho would be more
thnn delighted. "Tou see, we bore
men other so thnt any distraction Is
welcome," he snld with a smile, and
patted his wife on her plump cheek
But Mrs. Bnrdexter arrived, bag and
baggage, for a month's visit, and then
well, there was no trouble; she was
a mighty sweet and easy-tempered
woman. But she seemed to tnke
Broucher so seriously. When he came
down n llttlo late and observed thnt
he apprehended the conSlderntlop his
wife had 'shown In not waking him,
as he liked to bo late nt the oflice. oc
casionallyIt looked Independent
then did Mrs. Burdexter exclaim:
"Well! I should think you would be
nfrnld they might not like It"
"You don't mean to say we hove
eggs, dear!" Broucher snld a little
later. "This Is Indeed a surprise. Nice
little chnnge, Isn't It?"
"Emmie snld you had been hnvlng
them so often lately that you were
kind of sick of them," said Mrs. Bur
dexter In a surprised tone.
"Whnt did you put that roast In the
oven for, my own?" asked Broucher.
"You have warmed It almost through,
I believe, and It would have been so
much nicer quite raw, to say nothing
of the gns you must have used.
Haven't you a little really raw meat?"
Mrs. Bardexter got up from the ta
ble, went out nnd came bnck with a
nice little piece of raw beefsteak.
"Oh, mamma," said Mrs. Broucher.
"Courtney doesn't really like raw
meat. He was Just making fun. He
likes It quite well done and I'm afraid
It Is Just a little bit undone."
"Courtney, do you uhvoys mean
what you don't suy?" Inquired his
mother-ln-lnw.
How could Broucher keep It up? ne
couldn't All this hnppened In the first
week nnd Mrs. Bnrdexter's stay was
prolonged to five more. People with
out any sense of humor ore awfully
trying, but there Is reully no use In
fighting against them.
"Courtney," said Mrs. Bardexter,
when she was leuvlng for her home
In Grand Rapids, "when I first enme I
noticed thnt you talked very strange
ly, but you don't do It nny more nnd
I'm glad of It for Emmie's sake and
yours. I kind of think you were Jok
ing, but Jokes like thnt hurt some peo
ple's feelings. You can't make a real
Joke out of a grumble nnd a mean
thing Isn't any more pleasant becauso
you say It with n smile. That's all
I've got to say. Now, don't tell me
thnt you're poing to rnlsc tho lake
level two Inches with your tears for
my departure, because I shan't believe
you."
"1 would tell you thnt" said
Broucher, "but honestly, I'll miss you,
and I hope It won't be long before you
come to visit us again. . And I be
lieve you've done me good."
Terrestrial Magnetism Blamed.
In the opinion of a French scleuUst,
Hip swinging motion thnt often breaks
ilectrlc transmission lines Is due as
i iu h to tcrrestrlul magnetism us It Is
to wind.
BRITISH EXPERT
LAUDS RAILROADS
OF UNITED STATES
Tells Congress Committee That
They Lead World.
NO GOVERNMENTOWNERSHIP
It Would Mean Political Control and
Lots of Efficiency Dsolaret That
Crisis Confronts Country on Aocount
of Transportation Situation Lowest
Freight Rates to Be Found In United
6tatet.
Washington, May 14.-That the Unit
ed Stutes is face to face with a serious
crisis In its commercial affairs, due to
the conditions by which Its transports'
tlon system Is confronted, was the opin
ion expressed by W. M. Acworth. Eng.
land's leading authority on railways,
before the Newlunds Joint committee
on Interstate commerce at a special
session held here to enable the com
ndttee to hear his views before his de
parture for London this week. Two
steps are necessary, according to Mr.
Acworth, to avert this crisis and to
solve the threatening rullroud problem
confronting the country.
The first Is to allow the railroads to
charge freight rules sullicieut to meet
the great advance In operating ex
penses which Is taking place uud to
enable them to command tho credit
necessary to provide the extensions
and Improvements needed to meet the
growing demands of business. The sec
ond is to do away with t lie inultlplo
uud coiilllctlug systems of regulation
that now bumper railway operation
and to provide oue centralized regula'
tory agency with such local subdivl
slous ns may be necessary.
Higher Rates a Publio Necessity.
Mr. AcwortU's views on the transpor
tation situation In the United States
were expressed In unswer to questions
by members of the committee, who
asked him to apply his knowledge
of railway conditions throughout tho
world and of the experience of other
countries with piveriiineiit ownership
to the present problem before the Unit
ed States.
"The fuiidumentnal factor In the sit
uation Is very simple," said Mr. Ac
worth. "It lies In the fact that yon
cannot get three-quarters of a rent's
worth nt work done for le. s than three
quarters r.t n i-ont. no matter whether
the apeiw-y peiY rmlng IMs u govern
ment or irl. out 'rprivi'. Freight
rotes must udvuuce when the cost of
performing the service advances as
It Is doing at present. Just as the price
of bread or meat or any other com
modity Increases with lnrrea-ed cost
of production."
In answer to a question Mr. Ac
worth snld that he thought American
freight rates had been at much too low
a level for several years past, that they
had reached this low point during the
period of cutthroat competition among
the roads and hnd since been held
there by regulating bodies. Unless re
lief were afforded to the .carriers very
promptly, he said, the result would
be a tremendous loss to tho people of
the whole country through Insufficien
cy of transportation facilities.
Weakness of Government Ownership.
On the subject of government owner
ship of railways Mr. Acworth said:
"It Is Impossible to obtain satisfac
tory results' on government railways
In a democratic state unless the man
agement Is cut loose from direct polit
ical control. Neither Australia nor
any other country with a democrat
ic constitution perhaps an exception
ought to he made of Switzerland has
succeeded In maintaining a permanent
severance. In France, in Belgium, In
Itnly, parliamentary Interference never
bus been abandoned for a moment
The facts show that government In
terference hus meant running the rail
ways not for the benefit of the people
at large, but to satisfy local and sec
tional and even personal Interests.
Prussia, Mr. Acworth said, was tho
best example of on cMcicnt govern
ment railway system, and lie pointed
out thnt military considerations were
treated as of paramount Importance In
the Prussian railway system. Whllo
American freight rates had been re
duced nearly 40 per cent In thirty
yenrs, rates In Prussia were nearly as
high as at the beginning of the period.
While the charge for moving n'ton of
freight one nillo In the United States
was a trifle over three-quarters of a
cent the rate In Prussia was 1.41
cents.
As Illustrating the difference In rates
between government nnd private roads
Mr. Acworth compared the railways
of New South Wales, Australia, with
those of Texas. While the amount of
traffic to euch mile of line was about
the same In both cases, he pointed out,
the Texas railways performed for the
public four times as much service as
the government owned roads of New
South Wales. The charge In Texas
for hauling a ton of freight one mile
was less than 1 cent, while In tho Aus
tralian state It was well over 2 cents.
"American railways loud the world,"
said Mr. Acworth. "Nowadays when
men in any other part of the world
want to know bow to run a railway
they come to the United States and
study your railways here. The Amer
ican railways are entirely the result
of private enterprise, and I think they
go a long way toward proving the case
agahist government ownership."
Had Felt Like Doing the Same.
"What was tho gunpowder plot?"
"Some Englishmen wanted to blow up
their whole legislative body." "Well,
I couldn't go thnt far. Still, I under
stand their point of view." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Irreverent Minx.
"In my time," declared grandma,
"clrls w-re more modest." "I know,"
raid the tllppnut girl. "It was a fad
once. Wo may get back to It." Life.
Good In Various Vegetables.
rolutoeo are said to Improve tho
llutlr, which may account for tho won
derful bonds of hnlr In Ireland. Cel
ery nnd lettuce are aids for tho nerves,
and cucumbers nnd carrots uffect the
complexion beneficially.
'Make the World Safe For Democracy
PRESIDIUM WILJ-ON.
June 15th is the last day to buy
LIBERTY BONDS
Have you bought yours? Have you
"done your bit"? Have you bought all
you can afford? If not, buy NOW.
The entire sales organization of The
Atlantic Refining Company in the states
of Pennsylvania and Delaware, consist
ing'of 400 trained men, will devote its
full time this week to the solicitation of
subscriptions, which they are authorized
to accept for the
U. S. Government
LIBERTY LOAN
Subscribe before Friday or you'll be too late.
The Atlantic Refining Company
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. -
The FISK Smile
the smile of tire satisfaction.
This man has found a manu
facturer he likes to do business
with, who fulfills all his ideas
of what a concern should be
in its policy and methods.
The company that makes
stands back of every Fisk . Jp,W-.
dealer to see that every user lpr
gets his full moneys worth in 1B!!0,I(J)
mileage and tire satisfaction. P'
TOHrft? J& Fik Tire For Sale By All Dealers
HlrS Ij TheFiskRirCompany
i II General Offices: Chicopee Falls, Mai.
' I rF Fik Branches in More Than 125 Cilia
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Straw Hats yk
Mrs E"zbeth Carnell has re- !
tamed homo after having visitc d
friends and relatives in Need
more. John Hess and family were
guests in the home ct I. P.
Sharpe last Sunday.
Mrs. T. Sharpe returned home
a few days ago after having visit
ed her sister, Mrs. Geo. Lodge,
of Crystal Springs.
The DjH baseball team cross
ed bats with tho Pur cell team
last Siturday. Score, 2 3 in the
latter's favor.
There will be a picnic in
Sharpe's Grove Saturday, June
23rd. The program will con
sibt of patriotic speakiug, recita
tions, dtal(ue?, vocal music, in
strumental music by the Colored
String Batid of Hancock, and a
baseball game between Dott and
Purodl. There will be a box
social in the evening. Come and
have a good time.
The "Wedding" announced
for the Wednesday evening lec
ture in the Presbyterian church
was suggested by the fact that
all but one at the previous Wed
nesday evening service were
-) maids. Not the least slur
is meant by these lines all honor
to that dependable support of our
civic and religious institutions.
$1.00, $2.00, $3.00.
Straw Hat Weather is
Here.
PANAMAS
$3.00, $5.00, $6.00.
Children's Hats a Big
Specialty.
Henninger the Hatter,
Charnbersburg, Pa.
FOR SALE 11V
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Western Maryland
In Effect May 27, 1917.
Subject to change without
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on a daily paper has over his
brother on a weekly periodical is,
the former can "re-hash" a story
for several days and get away
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