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VOLUME 18
McCONNELISBURG, PA., JULY 19.1917.
NUMBER 44
RECORD OF DEATHS.
iort Sketches of the Lives of Per-
..mm Wll
,oos Who nave Kecenuy
Passed Awsy.
Daniel E. Fore.
Having lived to the advanced
e of ninety year3 ana nineteen
Cv4 Daniel E. Fore, Esq., pass-
a oa'dv at ni3 nomo unisuim
... X-V-iU
fcmnd street, McConnellsburg,
V at an early hour Friday
joming, July 13, 1917. Funer
j services conducted by Rev.
ilward Jackson, of the Metho
fct Episcopal Church, took place
j his late residence at 12:45 p.
1, Sunday, after which the re
ams were taken to Knobsville
ir interment.
iir. Fore was a son of David
Id Elizabeth Kittle Fore, and
i was born near Knobsville,
le 24, 1827. He made atrip
feat" when 16 years of ag6.
the age of 20 he pushed his
Sy to the Pacific Coast, having
p attracted thither by the
;covery of gold in California.
editions in that new country
ihat time were not to his lik
i and he returned by boat to
ipulco, Mex., thence overland
Wh Mexico City to Vera
k and thence by boat to New
Vans.
je was married in Iowa on
i'Crd dav of Mav 1353 to Miss
Jey Jane Beatty, a native of
pin county, Pa., and after
h returning to Pennsylvania
ived on a farm four miles
of McConnellaburg until
nve years ago when he
his farm, bought a nice
jperty in McConnellaburg
Ji he, with his daughter
I Xatie, spent the remainder
h life. During his long life,
i is Bick but little, and was
3 to walk about town until a
J! few days prior to his death,
eh came as the result of a
id "wearing out."
b wife died about Bixteen
j ago. He is survived by two
nd two daughters, namely,
. near Markes, Franklin
f: ; Rolla B., residjng in
ldelphia; Mary Elizabeth,
of John La Master, Franklin
)', and Miss Katie at home,
j Joseph Markey.
.h Markey, a former Ful
unty citizen, died at his
fatLoysburg, Bedford coun
f., on Friday, June 29, 1917,
very brief illness,
j Markey spent his boyhood
it Burnt Cabins. He,after-
went to Wells Valley,
lie married Elizabeth,
'wofMr. and Mrs. Joseph
For a time they kept a
lNew Grenada, and later,
Wells Tannery. Some
; '-five or more years turn.
pnved to Loysburg, where
tit fhrt i . . .
r. Markey is still living
out among his friends
e nart nf fk i. .
"vj wees ana
;' was congenial to every-
d llWilVq hnrl !.:.. J
every person whom
He was an honorable,
j christian gentleman and
missed in that
Cove. Mr. Mnrlr
f 10, 1833, and was
paw 8 months and 13
fa a veteran of the Civil
r,pa. member of Company
P foment P. v infnt...
KtcdtQ C0rnnr.nl nnA
f?rib,y charged at the
'uJyM. 1805.
Cilrl of Thanks. '
M'oFo re, who for 8ev.
hi.',,kept house for.
Ti cared forhe
?Slre3 thrmmt, 4u. xt '
153 Binccre
gratitude
or8 and frmnc
J? during
aa
"CUM.
f',lnfJ circle
fh ndall Juy 2l8t.
Tnroed Turtle.
What might have turned out
more seriously, happened near
Jugtown in Ayr townsip last
Thursday evening. Ralph, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas H ih
man suddenly became verv sick.
Mr. Hohman, not having tele
phonic communication with the
doctor, Wilsuu Souders, a nca
neighbor who owns an automo
one, volunteered to go to town
for Dr. Mosser. Mr. Souders
wno was accompanied 'by his
son, had not proceeded more than
half a mile when hi3 car skidded
and quick as wink, it had turned
i..,-.! J ir t
iurue ann air. aouuers and son
were under the car. Claude
Stenger, who also owns a car,
came upon the scene and helped
liberate Mr. Souders and son,
ana then hastened to town for
the doctor. When Dr. Mosser
arrived, he found that Ralph
Hohman had suffered an attack
of vertigo or some kindred trouble
which was only temporary, and
that Mr. Souders had escaped
from the wreck with only three
ribs broken.
Peninsula, 0.
Elias Hauman, writing from
Peninsula, 0 "The News comes
to me regularly and "it's like
getting a letter from home."
read about the big hail storm
you had a few weeks ago, but
one passed over this section on
the 9th of July that did a lot of
damage. The hail cut the corn
and garden vegetation badly
Most of the wheat was crushed
to the ground, and the wind was
so strong that many people were
greatly alarmed, fearing that
their houses would be blown
down. A regular cloud-burst oc
curred at Cleveland and' the rain
just poured down. For an hour
and a half, many of the streets
were flooded to the .depth of 4
and 5 feet. Automobiles were
stranded, and much damage re
sulted from the storm.
The weather has been unseas
onably cool in northern Ohio
this summer and everything
seems backward. I like the place
withal, and there is plenty of
employment for every one that
wants to work and the wages is
good.
Fatal Automobile Accident.
On Wednesday night of last
week, Fred I. Benson, accom
panied by three other persons,
was driving a Studebakcr car
down Rhodes', Hill, about a mile
south of Saxton, Bedford county.
The brakes refusing to hold, Mr.
Benson lost controll of the car
which ran off the road, crashed
through a nearby fence, and
turned turtle, pinning Mr. Ben
son under it. When rescued, he
was found to be badly injured,
and he was taken to the Chal-
fonte hotel in Saxton, where he
died about three hours later.
Mrs. Mortz and daughter who
were occupants of the car escap
ed without serious injury. The
unfortunate man was a son of
Mr. and Mrs. Jame3 A Benson,
near Dublin Mills, this county.
Auto Accident
An accident that should be
classed as something less digni
fied than accidental occurred in
front of Seylar's drug store last
Saturday morningbecause itlook
ed like reckless driving on the
part of a stranger who drove his
auto into Walter Johnston's car.
Walter was as close to the curb
a3 it was possible to go, when a
stranger drove up from behind
him and carelessly side-swiped
the Johnston car, denting the
latter's fender and running
board! The stranger offered to
pay the damage, but Walter is
too busy farming to "monkey"
with repairs, and he did not care
to accept pay for any thing less
than new parts, and he let the
other party go free.
The Lutheran Sunday School
of Cig Cove Tannery will hold a
picnic in Sloan's Woods, Satur
day, August 4th.
The Old Sand.
McConnellsburg's first Cornet
Band was organized in the ppring
of 1858, in the Squire Shoemaker
building, now owned by the
Theodore Thompson heirs on
East Lincoln Way. The original
members were: Leader,. Robert
Divelbiss: assistant leader. Peter
M. Lump; first alto, David Gold
smith; second alto, Willi xm Orth;
first tenor, John Linn; sec
ond tenor, Ii. N. Shimer; b
fht, Samuel Shoemaker; b:,.riton'3
William Downes; bans, D. L. Mc
Ntilty; enare drum Martin M.
Bender; bass drum, Bonjamin N.
Sterrett; cymbals, Benjamh
Shimer. The te-icher was a Mr.
Sh.ittuck, of Chambersburg.
Of these twelve men, but two
are. now living: D. L. McNulty
and M. M. Bender. Of the older
men that belonged to that or
ganization at a Iatr d:te are
Albert Stoner, John Comerer,
Henry Comerer, L. C. Bailey
and B. W. Peck.
Along in the SO's the band
reached a high water mark, be
ing nicely uniformed nnd ownincr
stylish band-wagon. In the
earlier days of the band, that or
ganization figured as an import
ant asset in political campaigns
Mass meetings were held in dif
ferent parts of the County, and,
of course no meeting would be
complete without the Band, and,
tne politicians came down with
lots of real money, and the band
thrived. As political orcraniza-
tions began to divert their funds
into different channels the bands
went down, and nowitisaBtrug'
gle for any band in small towns
to keep its head above water.
Vnj Shonld You Worry?
Of course, you ere not lying
awake nights fearing that you
may be drafted. If you knew
that your chance to win a prize
in the "Louisiana Lottery" was
no better than the chance that
you will get into the army over
the draft route, you would not
invest any money in it.
On the basis of ten million men,
the chances are only 1 to 10 that
you will be among the first mil-
ion called. Then, if you should
be among the number drafted,
the chances are only 1 to 40 that
you will see service. ,
Officials are going on the theory
that only about one man out of
our will meet the physical re
quirements for active service and
at the same time not be exempt
because of national, industrial or
family reasons.
O'.it of the entire 9, COO, 000 reg
istered it is estimated that a
field army of only about 2.500,000
at the outaide will be obtained.
There U no present intention of
raising an army of this size, how
ever. The first draft army will
be for 500,000, plu what is need
ed to fill up other ranks. The
gures ha3 been tentatively set
at 087.000.
To Ba Done Secretly.
It is reported that the West-
nghouse interests in Pittsburgh
arc seeking one thousand men
who are willing to sign an agree
ment to enter a new plant to be
wilt for the manufacture of war
munitions. The men are to re
main imprisoned for ten monlhrf,
all communications from the out
side world to be shut off from
them. It is said that the new
plant will manufacture a power-
ul implement of war by a secret
process, which must be guarded
rom all except those who are
engaged in the work.
Recreation, enterteinment and
a large salary are promised to
all who have been approached
with offers of positions.
Tobacco for Soldiers.
Washington, July 13. Word
from France that totaoco is the
thing of all others most prized
by the men in the trenches,
caused Representative Gould, of
New York, to introduo a bill pro
viding for a pound of t.ithor chew
ing or smoking tobacco monthly
with the rations of every soldier,
sailor and marine,
POLITICAL CALENDAR FOR 1917
Giving dates when duties are to be
performed nndcr the several laws
relating to the Primary, and
the General Election.
The Political Parties which
must nominate their candidates
at the Primary Election are: Re
publican, Democrat, Socialist,
Prohibition, Washington, Roose
velt Progressive.
Fall Primary Election, Wed
nesday, September 19, 1917.
General Election, Tuesday,
November G, 1017.
Every voter in cities of the
first, second and third classes
must be registered to vote at
the Primary or the November
Election.
The Personal Registration days
in cities are: Thursday, Auguat
33. 1?17, Tuesday, September 1,
1017,' Saturday, September 15,
1!'17.
The hours for Registration are
8 o'c'ock a. m., to 1 o'clock p. m..
and 2 o'clock p. m., to 6 o'clock
p. m., and 7 o'clock p. m., to
10 o'clock p. m.
The first day for securing sig
natures tol'etitions to file with the
Secretary of tho Commonwealth
is Mond.w, July 2, 1917.
The. las k. lay to fill Petitions of
Nomination with the Secretary
of the Cor:, "inwealth for the
Primary is Fr lay, August 10,
1917.
The firt day to secure signa
tures on Petitions to be filed
with the County Commissioners
is Friday, July 13, 1917.
The last day for filing Petitions
with tho County Comnissioners
is Wednesday, Auguat 22, 1917.
The last days to be assessed in
boroughs and townships for the
November Election are: Tuesday
and Wednesday, September 4 and
5, 1917. Assessors sit at polling
places on these days.
The last day to pay tax to qual
ify for the November Election is
Saturday, October G, 1917.
The last day when candidates,
whose Petitions are filed with
the Secretary of the Common
wealth, may withdraw before the
Primary is Friday, August 17,
1917, up to 4 o'clock p. m.
No voter can vote a party ticket
at the Primary unless he is en
rolled as a member of the Party
whose ballot he asks for. Vo
ters living in townships and bor
oughs can be assessed and enroll
ed at the eame time by applying
to the Assessor at the polling
place on Tuesday and Wednes
day, September 1 and 5, 1917.
Voters in all cities can enroll
on Registration days.
Crop Ittport.
L. II. Wible's latest crop and
livestock report gives the aver-
ago weight of Fulton county wool
fleeces at just a trifile under six
pounds. Many of these fleeces
wero sold for $3.00 this year.
This money added to the sum
received for lanba made the av
erage returns from sheep prob
ably about $0 00 per head, or $G0
for a flock of ten, although we
believe there are flocks of ten in
the County that returned $100
to the owner this year.
We would le pleased to hear
from our readers, stating what
they consider a fair. return re
ceived from a sheep. You will be
glad to hear what the other fel-
ow h doing with his flock, and
the other fellow wants your ex
perience. Wool at present prices
is bringing sheep into the lime
light once more.
Illud on Auto Tags.
The first arre3ts in the cam
paign of the Gettysburg author
orities to enforce automobile
laws were made on Wednesday,
when fonr automobile drivers
were taken into custody and
given hearing's charged with
allowing mud and dirt to accum
ulate on their license tags, until
the figures ..ero not plainly leg
ible. They paid fines of $10
each and costs of $3.30,
Our Financial Strength.
Two billion dollars is a tremen
dous sum of money. Yet the
American people have loaned
their Government that much and
have barely touched their re
sources. The money wa3 raised
so easily it only seemed to show
the tremendous financial strength
of the country.
It is not one-tenth of our bank
deposit. It is less than one-eighth
of our bank loans for one year.
It was less than one-half of our
national savings for 1916 and
only five per cent of our national
income for tho year according to
estimates.
Not only is this first Liberty
Loan Bond issue of two billion
dollars much larger than the in-
ital loans of tho other nations
engaged in the war but it was
raised in much less time with
much less effort and was sub
scribed to by a vastly greater
number of individuals; this too
when danger was far from us
and the nation in a calm frame
of mind.
The coming second issue of Lib
erty Loan Bends, with the great
mass of the people of the country
much belter educated as to Gov
ernment bond issues and Govern
ment finances in general, it is
reasonable to suppose, will be
disposed of with even greater
success than the inital issue.
The over-subscription to the
initial issue of over a billion
dollars augurs well for the suc
cess of the next loan. There are
several rffillion more investors in
Government bonds in America
than there were a month ago.
Then there were some three hun
dred thousand holders of United
States bonds; now there are over
four million. And the thrill of
the thought of our soldiers in
France will rally the people to
the nation's call.
Troops Mobilizing.
One hundred and twenty-five
thousand national guardsmen in
eleven states, the first contin
gent of nearly a million men were
mobilized at noon last Sunday,
Company C, in which are some
Fulton County boys, going into
camp at Wolf Park, Chambers
burg. The boys have twelve big
tents, the kind they used down
on the border, and the camp gives
the impression that war is in
our midst ana we are in the
midst of war.
Next Tuesday another 100,000
represnting nineteen other States
will be mobilized and made ready
to entrain for the South.
In three weeks the third con
tingent from seventeen southern
States will be called to the colors
completing the mobilization of
the first sixteen divisions of the
citizen army from which an ex
peditionary force to re-enforce
the regulars under General Per
shing in France will soon be
drawn.
Had Leg Taken Off.
Harvey Brodbeck, a'sonof Van
Brodbeck, of Three Springs,
where the youvj man was reared
who had been Tving at Mount
Union and was employed at the
powder works until about three
weeks ago when he moved to
Pitcairn, met with a very serious
accident on Friday morning at 1
o'clock. He had been employed
as a brakeman on the Pennsyl
vania railroad, and was on a car
loaded with steel rails, when a
wreck occurred and he had his
right leg ground off between tho
ankle and the knee.
Milk an Economical Food
Milk is a fairly economical food
as prices now stand. It contains
no refuse and the food nutrients
it furnishes are completely digest
ed. However, the amount of
water in proportion to nutrients
is large. Even at a high price
per quart, milk should be used
as a staple article of diet, advises
Miss Pearl MacDonald, of tho
Pennsylvania oiate College.
Subiorioe for trs News.
. Why Make the Farmer the Goat?
Of course the farmer should
raise more crops lengthen out
his already long hours, pound his
horse a little harder, work his
half grown boys as men all out
of pure patriotism.
Who says so? Why, the bank
ers, the railroads, the packers,
tho grain interests-all the anvil
choru3 of how-to-do-it advisers
Very well, gentlemen. What
is eauce for the goose ought to
be eauce for the gander. Suppose
we farmers ask you a few ques
tions:
Mr. Binker, are you now work
ing your money overtime, at pa
triotically low rates, or are you
shoving the rates up a bit, on the
principle of charging all the
traffic will bear?
Mr. Railroad, are you turning
over rolling stock without anv
guarantees as to reasonable pay
for its use, purely as a patriotic
duty?
Mr. Packers, are you paying
more for livestock today than
before the war began in order to
encourage meat production, and
are you charging less per pound
for meat in order to make living
conditions for dependents of sol
diers more tolerable?
Mr. Grainman, are you cutting
out the gambling wastes, and are
you setting the prices of flour
low enough so as to. give the con
sumer your war profits?
And any others, are you doing
the thing you advise the farmer
to do or are you enlisting the
farmers in a service you are
dodging?
Gentlemen, if you are pulling
a free-swinging evener, well and
good. We will pull with you
e win listen to your advice in
patience. We will even take
such of your advice a3 we can
and still hold our business togeth
er. Your advice is doubtless well
meant But dosen't it savor just
a bit of Pharisee unless it is
backed up by corresponding
deeds? To the farmer who is to
day, bending his back to the
burden of feeding a hungry
world, without guarantee of price,
or of labor, when labor will be
needed, something more tangible
than good advice would seem
timely and fitting.
What the farmer expects for
himself is exactly what you gen
tlemen each demand a guaran
tee of prices that will enable him
to secure labor and at least break
even on the costs of production.
Had you gentlemen spent the
same amount of energy telling
your senators and your congress
men to give the farmer such
guarantees, as you have in tell
ing the overworked farmer how
and what and when to farm, you
would have made some progress
toward a solution of the nation's
food problem.
If everybody is to have a hand
in telling tho farmer what to do
and how to do it, let everybody
carry a share of the risk that tho
following of free advice involves.
Guarantee the farmer minimum
prices on his wheat, barley, oats,
corn, potatoes, and hay, good for
this season's crop. Give him, too,
minimum prices on wool, mutton,
beef and pork, covering a term
of years, so that his brewing
plans can't be laid out on the
basis of a safe return, pre?cnt
high prices of feed considered.
Gentlemn of the advice-to-the-
farmer persuasion, it's your
move. f arm stock and Home.
Scrionsly Burned.
Last Saturday an explosion oc
curred at the Jacobs mines on
East Broadtop, by which Ray
mond Park was seriously, per
haps, fatally burned. A spark
of fire dropped into a twenty-five
pound open keg of powder near
where Raymond Park and his
brother Edgar were working.
The powder burned up with a
flash, scattering fire over the
men, and the clothing of Ray.
mond was Marly all burned from:
his body. Edgar escaped without
serious burns, ' I
THAT IS rQOD ECONOMY?
Little Talks on Health and Bygicne by
Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LL P.,
Commissioner of Health.
Hysteria of the individual is
very catching, often becoming
an epidemic. Community hys
teria in a representative form of
government destroys its efficien
cy. Hysterical people are apt to
run to great excesses and neglect
those things in life which ere cf
the greatest importance, not only
to the success of tho individual
but of the community. At pres
ent wo find individuals and whole
communities hysterical on the
economy of food-stuffs, even to
the extreme of confining them
selves to a maize (corn) diet in
stead of having a well balanced
diet with the variety of food that
will not only fitimulate tho nppo
tite and the digestive glands, but
will meet Nature's demand. '
Man is an omnivorous being.
We can best economize by eat
ing what agrees with us. To re
sist tuberculosis and other wast
ing diseases nnd to keep in the
best form for working of our
physical and mental body, par
ticularly in these times of high
nervous tension, we should have
meat or some good vegetable
protein as a substitute in mod
eration once a day. '
In addition to this we want fat.
preferably butter or cream or
fats of animals, tho latter only
cooked sufficiently to heat them
through, with tho proteins and
fats we want a carbohydrate
(starch or sugar.)
Today there r.re many diet
lists being given to the public
worked up into tables based upon
their heat-producing power. The
trouble with thes;o diet receipts
is that they arc based upon test3
made upon those having perfect
digestion and normal amount of
physical exercise in a normal
atmosphere.
Life is a factor scientific med
icine cannot measure. It forbids
the human body from being com
pared with an inorganic machine
or test tube experiments in the
laboratory.
The digestive tract and its
many glands that vary in their
powers to prepare food for tho
assimilation of tho body, are
governed by the nervous system.
They vary greatly in their life
power to produce digestive se
cretions. For the reasons given
each individual, after once realiz
ing that meats, fat, starches and
sugar are necessary in various
proportions to maintain his health,
will have to make an intensive
study of what digests, so as to
give him the best health and
keep up his weight to give him
energy, and premit him to sleep,
and to be of good cheer.
You will always find that peo
ple differ from each other in their
selection of food stuffs, some
doing well on a large proportion
of vegetable food, others doing
better on a reasonable amount
of meat and carbohydrates or
Btarch, while others have to avoid
starches and sugar to prevent
violent indigestion and ill health.
We often find powerful men
who live on very little food,
while many frail, illy-nourished
people have good appetities and
eat plenty. Theee things are
hard to explain. The laws of
Nature are so profound that even
today in this scientific age we
find the digestion of people differs
so that we must at present attrib
ute it to the variation of life
force.
From our actual experience in
life, after long devotion to the
feeding of people, we have learn
ed that a mixed diet is essential
to good health. The practical .
experience of the individual
must be a factor in guiding him
in the selection of foods and the
quantity he can eat.
Mrs. Herbert Rhodes (Rosella
Stevens) and little son Robert,
of Mercersburg, we visitiiig Mrs.
Rhodes' parents, Dr. and Mrs.
F. K. Stevens East Lincoln Way,