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McCONNELLSBURG, PA., JULY 12,1917.
NUMBER 43
j RECORD OF DEATHS.
in Sketches of the Lives of Per
1 sods Who Hate Recently
2 a I
Fasseu Away. .
Rebecca Smith.
vfigq Rebecca Smith died at
he home of her brother-in-law
. . .... r... A Mm W M
jidBisier, ... .
Jine at Fort Littleton, Friday,
Jlyp. 1917, aged 81 years, 3
Whs, and 10 days. Funeral
t held last Sunday and inter
jent was made at Fort Littleton,
lev. Edward Jackson conducted
funeral services.
waq a daughter
J. I1C uvwvw
Rev. Amos and Eliza McCain
imsey Smith, and she was born
Harford county, Md., March
1 1836. Her father, an -oldie
Methodist itinerant, early
jght her the doctrines of that
iurch and she remained a faith
1 member until called away by
ith. She never lacked for a
id word or deed and she was
pecially fond of little children.
I retained her mental faculties
,til the end. Miss Smith was a
ierof the late George A. Smith.
I Job Hill.
Ifter an illness covering a pe
H of more than two years of
kage of the heart from which
psy developed, Job Hill
jsed away at his home in Day
i 0., on Wednesday, June 11,
X
,he deceased was a son of
yb Hill and was born in Bel
i township, this county more
i sixty years ago. Besides
wife, he is survived by one
a also, by two brothers Jacob
elfast township, this county;
cs, near Hagerstown, Md.,
I Mrs. Maria Miller, Green
fly Pa.
& Hill was a member of the
1 0. F., and the Masonic fra
aity, and was held in high
m in the large circle of
lis that he had formed in
Sdopted city.
Thomas Snyder.
mas Snyder died on July 4,
of paralysis, aged about 50
J. He had been living in
Jtno, Md and was interest-
mining. On the day he
e remarked to an acquaint-
that he believed he was go-
have another stroke and
rted to a doctor's office only
steps away. Before reach-
tllft flffipo Via oanlr tU
W and expired almost in
Jy. On the following Fri
tthe remains were brought
Damascus church in Thomp
fwnship, and interred,
je deceased was a widower.
survived by two sisters,
Asenath Mentzer, McCon
pzand Mrs. Ella Shives,
ysburg, and by four broth
Jesse, James, George and
Jnaa all residing in Thomp
pnship. President Wilson.
. MiiouHH caim ana
fMis keepmghim in good
J despite the responsible
that have been thrust up
F by Prussian outrages. He
fP at 5 o'clock every morn
PJfioes for a horseback ride
Wilson. By 830 he has
wjjaatand is ready for
H keeps the mental
Jahzed by short games
r'r and hu offnn:.
K Play a few evenings
i"iep. ne seldom rooHa mi nt
h ..... vvio wuak
-...vuauu iauit finders
and t .
la u 3 mer Morton re
r.,ctter a few days ago
fcrN-tonUng
3
i - " nan ornna titm
nec.essa,y to join an
V
t- mat will soon be
W KTh. Ncewton wa8
.been t. oume llme
CD ln the emDlov
fD6ofthetopogVhica
"Off to the War."
John Woodcock, of Huston
town, Sergeant in Battery F,
First Field Artillery of Penna.,
will go to Pittsburg to-morrow to
join his fellow artillerymen in
being mustered back into service
of the United States after having
been mustered out on their re
turn some time ago from the
Mexican border. The muster
will take place on next Sunday.
The Battery will then be sent to
some point as yet unknown to
the men to await further orders.
Company C has also been or
dered to mobilize at Chambers
burg. John Bishop, of Big Cove
Tannery, is a member and saw
service on the Mexican border.
To many of our readers, the
heading of this article will sound
like a dream echo of the time
when so many marched "off to
the war" to save the Union in the
60's.
New Mali Route.
In addition to the mail routes
mentioned in last week's News
is a through route between Ev
erett and Hancock, and the con
tract was given to John C. Sal
keld and son Lloyd.
Under their contract mail will
leave Hancock every morning at
9 a. m., and reach Everett at
2 30. Mail will be dispatched
from Everett at 10:00 a. m., and
reaches Hancock at 3:30 p. m.
The intermediate points served
are Breezewood, Crystal Springj,
Emmaville, Locust Grove, Side
ling Hill, Dott, Franklin, Mills
and Warfordsburg.
The Salkelds have had many
years' experience in carrying mail
and passengers, and w i 1 1 no
doubt render excellent service in
their new field.
Boy Shot.
While camping and fishing
along Aughwick Creek on July
Fourth, Denver Park, aged iour
teen years, son of Scott Park of
Three Springs, was accidentally
shot in the back by his cousin,
Raymond Park, a son of Clay
Park. Denver was fishing by a
growth of bushes and not know
ing that he was there, the other
lad fired a .22 calibre rifle at
some birds in the bushes. The
bullet struck Denver in the spine,
shattering two vertebrae and
breaking two ribs. The injured
boy was taken to the hospital in
Huntington and an operation to
remove part of the bullet was
made. We learn that Denver
died of his wound3, but we' have
no further particulars.
W heat, Vines and Trees Killed.
D. A. Black, of Taylor town
ship, recently received a letter
from his brother-in-law, D. W.
Baker, of Benedict, York county
Neb., scolding him for not writ
ing oftener, but evidently for
giving him too, for the letter
was very long. Among the
news items was the information
that he would have absolutely
no wheat to harvest because
practically all the wheat in that
county was winter-killed. His
alfalfa was also killed. Grape
vines and peach tree3 were frozen
but since peaches are a very un
reliable crop there at best, he
said they will not be greatly
missed.
National Guards Drafted.
In order to be prepared for any
emergency, the President by
proclamation drafted all of the
National Guards into federal ser
vice on Monday, and after Au
gust 5th the entire guard will be
on the same basis as the regular
army.
Fell From Cherry Tree.
Last Friday, Van Vert Kelso,
of Tod township, fell from a
cherry tree a distance of about
twenty-five feet and received
severe injuries consisting of a
broken shoulder blade, several
broken ribs, and injury to one of
hit hips.
DR. SAPPINGTON'S LETTE
Fublishcd by the Hancock News Last
Week. Makes the War Seem
More of a Reality.
France, June 12, 1917.
61st Field Ambulance, B. E. F.
Dear Editor:
As you will see bv the above
address, I am with the Royal
Army Medical Corps, just back
cf the first line in France. As I
am writing this, the guns are
flashing and roaring about three
miles from me. We are getting
ready to give "Fritz" a little
surprise later in the night. I
came here from General Hospital
No, 13, at Eoulogne, where I
have charge of a ward. This
means that I had all the operat
ing to do on every man who
came in, with no other help than
an orderly, and a doctor to ad
minister the ether. We changed
the patients about every other
day, as we fixed them up, re
moved the Bhrapnel or bullets
and sent thetn to a stationary
hospital.
' The surgery here is wonderful
and I was rather sorry to give
up that work, as it was very in
teresting, especially the gas gan
grene cases.
We have here many captured
balloons. I counted no less than
10 in the air at one time this
afternoon, and aeroplanes are
flying about all the time. I saw
this morning a lot of our anti
aircraft guns open on aTaube
and they put shell all around him
but he sailed serenely off. We
had one over us this morning
and in shelling him our guns
dropped a lot of small pieces of
Bhrapnel on our tents.
The ruined and devastated
small towns I saw coming up
here were very numerous and
the larger towns now have not
a single house that would house
a cat. Villages are only piles of
brick (the houses he -e an all
built of brick), and the country
along the Ancre river is desolate
not a tree or house to be seen.
The ground along the river at
many places is so covered with
shell crates that the stream with
its floating, debris resembles a
marsh, rather than a channel of
water.
land five other medical officers
were the first United States
soldiers to land in France. We
were joined in Boulogne by 14
other medical officers. We also
had the honor of being the first
officers to be ordered to the front.
I am working with Lieut. Paul
H. Zinkhan, who served 16
months with the Russian army
on its retreat from Galicia.
Yours sincerely,
W. F. Sappington.
la France.
Mrs. LucinaFornerof EastLin
coln Way received a letter last
week from the War Department
informing her that her son Peter
C. Forner, of the U.S. Battleship
Vermont, had landed safe in
France and would soon be fight
ing "that the world may be made
safe for democracy." The Depart
ment, also, sent Mrs. Forner a
nice large card to put up in one
of her front windows to inform
all passers by that a man from
her house was giving his service
in defense of his country.
Returned Missionary Here.
Miss Jessie Brewer who spent
fifteen years in the Lutheran
mission fields in India, spoke in
the McConnellsburg and Big
Cove Tannery Lutheran churches
last Sunday. She was listened
to with great interest as she re
lated first-hand experience in
the foreign field. Miss Brewer
is a native of Williamsport, Pa.
Band Crashed.
Last Saturday, a son of Albert
Wilson, near Andover, received
severe injury to one of his hands
by getting it caught between
cogs at Wm. Mellott's mill. The
fiesh was torn nearly to the wrist
j but no bones were broken.
BUNCH OF FINE BOYS.
Scoutmaster Harry Johnston and His
Troop Entertained Allegheny County
Scouts Last Thursday Night.
On Monday morning of last
week a squad of twenty-eight
Boy Scouts in charge of Scout
masters F. C. Copp and E. H.
Keibler, members of the faculty
of the Turtle Creek High School,
left Turtle Creek, Pa., for a two
weeks' outing over the Lincoln
Highway. Mr. Wilfred Kenyon
furnished an automobile to trans
port the camping outfit and to
Eerve as an ambulance in case of
sickness or accident. They spent
their first night out at Greens
burg, the second, at Stoyestown,
the third at Bedford and the
fourth, at McConnellsburg.
Unheralded, they reached Mc
Connellsburg from Bedford about
six o'clock, and distributed them
selves among the restaurants for
flipper. As soon as our local
Scouts learned of the presence
of the visitors, they tendred to
then the hospitality for which
McConnellsburg is famous, pro
vided a camp site in the beauti
ful park at the Court House, and
entertained them at breakfajt at
the City Hotel.
In the i a-k a commodious tent
was pitche' and "Camp Wild
wood" as it ,. is called, became
center of attraion not only of
our twenty loi.al scouts, but
other citizens, both old and young
took pleasure in going to see it
At a proper hour, the bugle
notified all that the next stop was
"Dream Land" and soon all was
quiet Before the tired travelers
spread their ponchos and blank
ets on the grass under the tent,
they were invited by our . troop
of sconts to take breakfast next
morning at the City Hotel. After
breakfast Friday morning the
scouts Bpent the time pleasantly
sending souvenir postcards of
"The nicest nlace at which we
have camped since starting."
At 11 o'clock, the squad was es
corted to Tuscarora Heights and
at noon dinner was eaten at an
elevation of 2,210 feet above sea
level.
Sunday was spent in Gettys
burg where a special sermon was
preached to the visitors in the
First Presbyterian church and
the boys were shown to the pew
occupied by Abraham Lincoln at
the time he delivered his immort
al address at Gettysburg.
At Harrisburg, two sealed mes
sages were delivered to Gover
nor Brumbaugh one from May
or Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, the
other from the president of the
Allegheny Boy Scout Associa
tion. Troop No. 2, of Turtle Creek,
formed the mucleus of the squad
and the balance were from ad
jacent citie3. At Greensburg
Monday night they were the
guests of the local Scotts and
carefully provided 'for. At
Stoystown they paid their way
Tuesday night. Wednesday night
they camped at Bedford and B.
H. Joy, President of the Lincoln
Highway Association , treated
them to supper at the Hoffman
garage hotel.
The longest stop was made in
McConnellsburg, anl one of the
scoutmasters told a News report
er that our local troop had enter
ed into greater details of a cour
teous entertainment than had
been shown at any point up to
that time. The return trip through
this place is scheduled for today.
During the trip to McConnells
burg but one boy had need of
medical attention.
Why the Noise?
Notwithstanding the ordinance
against noise nuisance, autoists
and motorcycle riders are make
ing a joke of the little borough of
McConnellsburg every day. The
only interpretation that can be
put on the racket some of them
make is that they wish to show
contempt for the comfort of our
people, knowing that they are per
fectly safe from arrest Why?
PREVENTION OF DISEASE
Little Talks on Health and Hjgicne by
Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., 11. D.,
Commissioner of Health,
Before the cause of diseases
where known or the practical ap
plication of Nature's ways of
producing immunity to disease,
we had to suffer an attack of
sickness and then trust to drugs
and nursing for cure.
This was a difficult task and
the death rate was sometimes
enormous, both in times of peace
as well as of war.
Then the day of prevention
came. Gradually the laws of
Nature were unfolded until to
day we know methods of pre
venting diseases and antidoting
the poisons generated by germs
in the body.
It was even as late as the Spanish-American
War that we lost
more soldiers from preventable
diseases than we did from bul
lets. This was a disgraceful
thing, as sanatarians could have
prevented the high death rate.
From what we can learn through
the newspapers and other sources
France today is short of disin
fectants in her trenches. We do
not see any great public excite
ment over this condition, or any
concerned action of our good
citizens to give their mites to
purchase and transport disinfec
tants for the French trenches so
as to prevent disease.
Therapeutics or drug treat
ment seems to continue to have
a hold on the lay mind, and pos
sibly, to some extent on the
medical mind.
Both the people at home in
every day life and the soldiers in
our army are much to blame for
the sickness that exists. The
medical profession's Advice is
not taken when these persons
are well but the moment they
get good and sick they call "oh,
docto do relieve me from this
awful pain" or "oh, doctor save
my life."
Perhaps this call comes too
late. A few words of preven
tion from the doctor to the pa
tient and those few words obeyed
might have prevented the sick
ness and saved suffering and
sorrow.
Ba.j Party.
Last Friday evening, Mr. and
Mrs. F. McN. Johnston, enter
tained nearly one hundred friends
at a barn party at their home a
mile south of McConnellsburg.
The two big .floors were swept
clean of all dust, lanterns were
hung on many of the posts and
com f ortable seats provided.
After the many autos began to
arrive, several of them were
headed towards the barn floors
and the light3 dimmed and in
that way just the right brilliancy
was provided.
The company was composed of
guests from the age of three
years to three score. Twophon
ographsfurnished constant music.
Some were there who missed the
old-fashoned fiddlers, but so
many of the ynger folk pres
ent knew nothing of the ecstasy
of an old-time "hoe-down" that
the modern music ser ed all pur
poses. Many of the dances were fun
nier than a barrel of monkeys.
The older ones knew little of the
modern "trots" and "Grand
Right and Left" was simply an
impossibility to the younger set
who could not get it out of their
heads that a complete circle had
not to be made with each hand
grasp. An abundance of lemonade
was on tap and later in the even
ing ice cream was served. Many
spent a happy evening in the
"renewal of youth," and the
others reveled in the pleasures
of youth unsullied by stern re
alities that mark the passing of
that c&re-free period of life.
Miss Jennie Cooper expects to
go to Chicago latter part of this
week to visit for an indefinite
period.
Dorse Dot Fly.
Untold suffering, reduced ef
ficiency and many deaths of
horses are caused by attacks of
horse bot flies. Few people real
ize how many horses are affect
ed by these pests, which attach
themselves as larvae or maggots
to the inner wall of the stomach,
where they remain for the great
er part of a year. The stomach
walls are often so thickly stud
ded . with the maggots, as large
as a lead pencil in diameter, that
digestion is seriously impaired.
The adult is a large tawny fly,
which lays yellow eggs on the
horse's legs. These eggs are
licked off by the horse, and quick
ly hatch, the tiny maggots attach
ing themselves finally to the
stomach walls, and grow rapidly.
Control is easy. At least once
a day rub down the horses legs
with an oily cloth. Kerosene
lightly applied is best, but too
much may injure the hair.
Eggs are laid also on the horse's
chin and are rubbed off in the
trough and taken up with the
feed. Kill then wherever
found.
Suffrage Note.
It has been Baid that suffrage
would unsex women. In reply,
Alice Stone Black well said "The
differences between men and wo
men are natural; they are not
the result of disfranchisement.
The fact that all men have equal
rights before the law does not
wipe out natural difference of
character and temperament be
tween man and man. Why
should it wipe out the natural dif
ference between men and women?
Thewomenof England, Scotland,
Ireland, Australia, New Zealand,
the Scandinavian countries and
our own equal suffrage states are
not perceptibly different in looks
or manners from women else
where, although they have been
voting for years
New Numbers Given.
When the draft becomes effec
tive, the drawing will be made
by numbers. The numbers drawn
will be reported to the county
exemption boards. But the
numbers will not correspond to
those received at the time of reg
istration on June 5th when each
registration district began with
number one, instead, the regis
tration in the County has been
numbered by beginning at one
and continuing for the more than
six hundred registered. The
News will endeavor to get the
numbers as they are drawn and
report them opposite the names
of the men to whom the numbers
belong. Those registered may
find their new numbers at the
Commissioners' office.
. Tree Talk.
Prepared by the Stuto ForeHtry Department.
State forests with a total area
of over 3,600,000 acres have been
established in thirteen states.
New York has 1,826,000 acres,
Pennsylvania has 1,014,000 acres,
and Wisconsin has 400,000 acres.
A relative of the white pine
blister rust has been found on
another species of pine in Hunt
ingdon county.
Chestnut east of a line drawn
from Smethport to Bedford may
as well be cut The blight will
kill it
Pennsylvania's lumber cut lest
year was only a trifle over half
a billion feet Washington cut
over four billion feet and stood
first on the list, Pennsylvania's
place twenty years ago.
Planted First Flag.
Boone Bowman, son of Rev.
John C. Bowman, formerly of
Franklin county, but now of
Lancaster, is Baid to have planted
the first United states flag over
a captured German trench. Bow
man always carried with him a
small flag, and one n ight while
he was assigned to duty on "No
Man's land" he found the oppor
tunity, although he was not fight
ing under that emblen.
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
Snapshots at Their Comings and Goingi
Here for a Vacation, or Away
' for a Restful Outing.
David McNulty, of Laurel, Md.,
is enjoying his annual summer
vacation in McConnellsburg.
Miss Elizabeth Taylor who had
been teaching drawing in Sun
bury, is at home for the summer
vacation.
Paul Alexander, of Lamasters.
is spending a week in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pay
lor and other relatives in this
county.
James K. Linn came to McConn
ellsburg last Saturday to meet
his wife who had been visiting
hersister, Mrs. George A. Harris,
and next day they returned to
their home in Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bender
and son Clarence, accompanied
by their boarding students,
Misses Huldah Foreman and
Daisy Strait, spent the afternoon .
of July 4th in Bedford county.
Mr. Will Reianer, one of Lan
caster's hustling young business
men, drove to McConnellsburg
last Saturday morning in his
Chev. and spent the time until
Sunday in the home of his uncle
Jake.
Casper Whorley and two daugh
ters Margaret and Lillian, of
Shippensburg, and his son Mar
shall, of Chester, Pa., were
guests in the home of Mrs, Eliz
abeth Shimer, on North Second
street, one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Stiver, John
Stiver, Miss Ruth McMullin all
of Bedford, and Mrs. Wm. H.
Ayres (May Stiver) and daugh
ter Betty, motored over from
Bedford Tuesday morning and
spent the day in the home of
Mrs. B. W. Peck.
After having spent four weeks
very plertantly with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Kendall in
in the Cove, Mrs. Edith Malcolm
and little daughter left last Sat
urday morning for their home in
Albia, Iowa. On their way they
will stop with relatives.
Thursday of last week, Hon.
and Mrs. John P. Sipes, their
granddaughter Anna Mary, and
Helen Daniels went to Atlantic
City. Helen and Anna Mary re
mained in Philadelphia to visit
in the home of the former's
brother Frank, and Mr. and Mrs.
Sipes came home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Myers, of
Hancock, accompanied from
Chambersburg by Mrs. Mver's
sister, Mrs. Jerinie Hanks, came
to McConnellsburg last Saturday
and spent Sunday in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Hays. '
Mrs. Myers (Aleba) and Mrs.
Hanks are sisters of Mr. Hays.
Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Crom
well and baby Paul and Mrs.
Abbie Moore, near Laidig, were
shopping in McConnellsburg last
Monday. On last Sunday, Har
mon took the following neighbors
to Gettysburg and returned:
Mrs. John Hochensmith, Mrs.
Dick Deshong and Mr. and Mrs.
"01" Deshong.
Dr. and Mrs. C. N. Trout and
daughter Esther and son Will
iam, accomplished by Mrs. Chas.
Desenberg, and the Docor's
mother, Mrs. Matilda B. Trout,
drove over from Red Lion, Pa.,
last Sunday morning and spent
the time until Wednesday in the
Trout home in this place. Mrs.
M. B. Trout had been visiting in
Red Lion.
Mr. and Mrs. Delwin Canfield
(Laura) Stoner arrived in Mc
Connellsburg last Saturday from
their home in Cocoa, Fla., and
are spending a few days in the
home of their uncle Albert Sto
ner and their aunt Mrs. Annie
Benford. Mr. Canfield is a prom
inent business man in his home
city, and is enthusiastic in his
statements of the possibilites to
"make money" in Flordia-es-pecially
in the Indian River sec
tion of which Cocoa is the busi
ness center.