A VOLUME 18 McCONNELLSBURG, PA.f AUGUST 9.1917. NUMBER 47 RECORD OF DEATHS. L Sketches of the Lives of Per- ions nflO mtq rbwuu Passed Away. Mrs. Asa Breakall. Susie Manning Breakall, wife i Asa Breakall, passea away t eir home near the Tonoloway ntist church on naay morn v t .i.. vi 1017 in the 53rd a of her age. The funeral, 'inducted by her pastor Rev. W. I. GilHs. of Hancock, took place V Sunday and her remains were jd to rest in the cemetery at the Jnoloway Baptist church. Mrs. Breakall had been a con sent member of St. Thomas Episcopal church at Hancock for lenty-nine years and she was a insistent christian woman. She 'survived by her husband and 'fee sons and three daughters, (at home, namely, Edgar Mau je, Bessie Grace, Janet Estelle, Jrie Effie. Leroy Woodrow, 3 Alonzo Edward. One son, jnes Marshall died nineteen arsago. She also leaves the flowing brothers and sisters: pmas and Benjamin, residing hompson township: Charles Warfordsburg; William, at jicock, Jane, wife of Joseph ivermale, Berkeley Springs, Va and Ellen Wisenberg, Korth Mountain, W. Va. Mrs. Aa'ron knepper. ftera period of ill health ring a period of several iths, Mrs. Aaron Knepper fed away at her home in Tay I township, early Tuesday ling, aged about 50 years, i funeral services conducted ta pastor Rev. G. B. M. Sell, of the M. E. Church, place yesterday and inter- was made in the cemetery Center M. E. church, 'is. Knepper was a daughter k late Stewart Landers, and fe survived by her husband, e daughter Miss Fannie at , and by one son, John, M and living near her late s. Knepper was a sufferer iBright's disease. She was f to the hospital at Roaring jg for treatment, and every- time for her comfort and ration to health that could k but to no avail. Ins. Charles Lewis. . Charles Lewis died in I township, August 3, 1917, jabout 57 years. She died Site indigestion, and was dead in bed by her son nd when he went to her p call her last Friday morn She had been dead about Jurs when found. Funeral fdonthe following Sun Interment 1X7 net moHa of , umuQ t w H (IvfWm ... J i.t u'c, nu me services lomiucted by Rev. James deceased 1$ I w Misu fcjr mni, and two sons tVlA - L 1 p. ai nome; Kussell, in nrk 1 . r. a daughter, Of Ttlloonll T Ruth near K Hill nnof , rvoi, unite, MURhter of Job Mellott, J Oliver Peck. She r Peck a veteran of the ?aUied at his home in n township on Thursday AW 2, 1917 aged about T. let Paralysis. The fun- TO conducted by Eld. ;unk. took nio A ' l"o uu Satur pwierment was piete-y of 7; made at 12 M. r'umoer Ridge, teased was a veteran Art T . of : ''ar, ne having been a regiment nd was mustered in ik- j ii ' w A V. it. 1 into ue xau of 1862, Be rar iirs. survived bv r- J-unes, near Big Cove MOO. near f o Clearso: ? residing ! inng, Thompi ?. this ison iend if fATTHEW BYERS. P Byers aa at the :ers in Thure- ? Augusta 1! ,1917 aged funeral In Error. Two weeks ago, a story went the rounds of the newspapers that the Westinghouse people would employ many hands on the secret manufacture of an article for the government. It fBeems to have been an error cs the following letter to Lee B. Truax will show: Dear Sir: Referring to your letter of July 21st, applying for position in our factory in ac cordance with the newspaper article referred to, we are writ ing to advise that this was an' unfounded rumor and there is absolutely no truth in tbe state ments made by the papers. We can say this not only so far as this Company is concerned, but for all of the Westinghouse in terests. Very truly yours, Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Stock Shipments. During the first four days of last week, Grant Baker shipped out of the County seventy-four ambs, and over forty head of cattle. In addition, he bought thirty-six head that he did not ship. We do not know what the to tal valuation was, but we know that the lambs alone represented nearly $1,000. It is not up to Grant to say what should be sold, but with sheep and wool selling at present prices, it seems too bad that the ewe lambs did not remain in the County in order that advantage might be taken of the improved conditions for raising sheep. Brokj Her Arm. Mrs. Susan Kerr and daughter Miss Mary, of Jersey Shore, Pa., came to McConnellsburg last Tuesday to visit Miss Mary Pitt- man and other friends. During the afternoon, they stopped at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Nelson, on south Second street and as Mrs. Kerr was descending a stairway she fell from the low er step and fractured one of her arms at the wrist. Barn Burned. During the severe electrical storm of last Monday, lightning struck Eli Hann's barn, in Bel fast township and the structure was burned to the ground. His grain and hay were destroyed, together with some farm ma chinery. All livestock was sav ed. The barn was practically new, large in size and well filled. We could not learn the estimated loss nor the amount of insurance. Mr. Joseph Sipes, near Harris- onville, was among the callers last Saturday who paid subscrip tions to 1918. took place on the following Sat urday, and interment was made at McKees Rocks. Much of the time during the last two or three years Mr. Byers made his home with his son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Peck at Need more. He served more than two years in tbe Uqion army during the war of the Re bellion. Mary Jane Unger. Mary Jane Unger, for many years an employee at the Na tional Hotel in Chambersburg, died at that place August 1, 1917, atred about 65 years. She is sur vived by the following brothers and sisters: Georee E. Unger, of Chambersburg; John, of Fulton county; Samuel, of Somerset county; and Mrs. John Davis, of Haeerstown. The deceased was a member of the First Lutheran church Chambersburg. George Gress. George . Gress, a son of the late Godfrey Gress, of Ayr town ship, died at the home of his brother Adam in York, Pa., Tuesday morning, aged about 79 years. HU funeral take? place to-day, and interment will be made in York. Tbe deceased was unmarried, FULTON COUNTY TEACHERS The Legislators Has Given Them an Increase of Tliirtyfive Hundred Dollars in Salaries. For the school-year 1917-18 the school directors of the several school districts in this county have selected the teachers, whose names will be given at the close of this article. An examination of the list shows that of the eighty-four teaehers, 62 hold provisional certificates; 7, pro fessional; 6. permanent; 2, normal school certificated, and 7, normal school diplomas. , Seventeen, or about 20 per cent, are beginners. This show3 improvement. Twenty-five years ago, the number of beginners averaged about one third. Last week Governor Brum baugh affixed his signature to a bill passed by the legislature giving teachers an increase in salary, hence, the teachers just elected will receive in salaries the following: provisionals, $45 a month; professionals, $55.00; permanents, $60.00; State Nor mal school certificates, $35 00; and Normal school diplomas, $60. To those of us who taught "years ago" for $15 a month, the present rate looks good; but when it is considered that the average man or woman who has brains enough to pass an exam ination, get a certificate, and teach a school successfully, has brains enough to earn more mon ey at something else. School teachers are slowly coming into their own. They have always been underpaid. While they were at it, the legislature did not forget the County Superintendent, and the gentleman who fills that office beginning with the close of the present term will receive no less than $2,000 a year and may re ceive $2500, if the directors at the Convention say so. Of this increase in salaries, Dr. Schaeifer, State Superintend ent, says: "During a period of increase of the cost of living and of general advance of the wages in all other occupations, our faithful teachers richly deserve the increase of salary fixed by the last legislature and approved by the Governor." The first thing most people will think of as they read this is: "Will it make my school tax high er?" No; to take care of the increas ed salaries, the legislature added two million dollars to the ap propriation making the sum 18 million dollars instead of 16. Of course, when the State gave 16 million dollars to the schools, the State paid the County Superin tendents and the Normnl school appropriation in addition. Now the salaries of the superintend ents and the Normal school ap propiations are paid out of the 18 million. As that takes only about -750 thousand, there is left a sum equal to a million and a quarter which will pay the in crease voted to the teachers and superintendents. The following list shows the names of the teachers and the schools thev will have during the ensuing year: Ayr Big Cove Tannery, Retha Mellott; Laurel Ridge, Cora Nes- bit; Webster Mills, Dorothy Kirk; Corner, Kenneth Glazier; Back Run, Lydia Humbert; Rock Hill, Stanley Humbert; Jugtown, Lew is Harris; Cito, Hazel McQuade; Road, May Pittman. Belfast Cross Roads, Levi Garland; Sipes Mill, Foster Ho linshead; Maple, Ettie, Waltz; Jacob Lake's Hobart Truax; Philip Morgret's Clarence Mor ton; Pleasant Grove, Vernona Mellott; Needmore, Floyd Hart; Morton's Point, Florence Truax; Cedar Lane, George Mellott. Bethel Warfordsburg Ad vanced, Blanche Smith; War fordsburg Primaryi Gladys Charl ton; Gordon's, Frances Morris; Alpine, Mary Breakall; Mt Airy, W. W. Mellott; Franklin Mills, Earl Golden; Mayi Chapel, Clara Costly Bluffing. Last Friday morning, an auto bearing New York State license tags became disabled at Harrison ville. The occupants were Ital ians. Thev went to Hollins- head's store and a.sked him to telephone to McConnellsburg for a car to tow them to a garage. Mr. Hollinshead telephoned to J. W. Linn who replied that his truck would be there promptly and Mr. Hollinshead reported same to the waiting men. It seems that after having received word that Linn's ma chine would come, the Italians stopped a car on the bridge at Harrisonville and sent word with the driver to send help from McConnellsburg, and by reason of having a lighter car, the man sent by this party reached the wrecked car ahead of Linn's truck and towed it to town. Mr. Linn then asked the Ital ians to pay for the trip with the truck to Harrisonville, but the strangers flatly refused payment. Suit was then brought before Justice of the Peace A. D. Peigh- tel, and in addition to the claim for three dollars by Mr. Linn. the bluff relieved the fellows of $5.00 i03ts-a total of $8.00, this to- in addition to vhat the other '(.an charged for bring ing the car ' t town and repairing it. Lighting's Work. The record-breakir.g heat of last week was broken on Thurs day afternoon by an electrical storm that did much damage. Seven barns were struck by lightning in Lancaster county and one in Franklin county. While the storm was severe in the vicinity of McConnells burg the only damage reported to us was the loss of a valuable cow belonging to William Wood all, on the Jared Pittman farm a short distance south of town. Norris; Black Oak, Myrtle Rems burg. Brush Creek -Oak Grove, Roy Plessinger; Locust Grove, Celia Barton; Buchanan, Myrtle Duvall; Buffalo, Minnie Lynch; Akersville Advanced, Ernest Walters; Akersville Primary, Hazel Reeder; Emmaville, Hazel Cline. Dublin Battle Ridge, John Kelso; Burnt Cabins, Roy J. Mathias; Mud Level, Jane Crom er; Fort Littleton, Esther Welch; Clear Ridge, Gertrude Gelvin; Glunt's Oda Gutsliall; Chesnut's, Edith Wilds. McConnellsb'g High School Admiral Smith; Assistant High School, Sophia Hohman; Gram mar, Joan Morton; Intermediate, Grace Lodge; Primary, Jeanette Stouteagle. Taylor Hustontown, H. P. Barton; Laidig, Olive Clevenger; Fairview, Myrtle Alloway; Gracey Thad Winegardner; Waterfall, Beatrice Mellott; Winegardner, Earl Keebaugh; Wintergreen, W. G. Wink; Cherry Grove, Howard Knepper. Thompson -Bald Eagle, Thom as Truax; Board Yard, Rose Keefer; Ditch Run, Janet Brake all; Westview, Oliver Winters; Oakdale, Pearle Stahle; Indepen dence, Jessie Yeakel; Center, Alice Brewer. Tod Douglass, Scott Alexan der; Knobsville, Maudleen Ste vens; Woodburn, Ettie Snyder; Scott's, Harvey Raker; Summer's Willis Daniels. Union Amaranth, Kenneth McKee; Zack's Ridge, Ada Leh man; Centrei Orben Hebner; Harmonia, Gilbert Mellott; Ex: celsior, Lily Ritz; Barnes Gap, Clyde Stahle. Wells Tannery Advanced, Alice Cutchall; Tannery Primary, Jessie Cutchall; No. 2, Elizabeth Hixson; No. 3, Mary Helman; No. 4, Anna Howard. Licking Creek Shanes, Ally Deshong; Compulsion, Edith Fix; Siloam, Wilmer Mason ; Valance, Rebecca Hockensmith; Saluvia, C. W. Mellott; Forest Dale, Daisy Strait; Daniels, Verlie Decker. KILLED IN FRANCE. Schoolmate of Several McConnellsburg Boys Killed ft hi I c On Duty at Front in France. Word was received recently of the death in France of James Wilson Gailey, of New Park, Pa., Gailey and another young Amer ican named Hamilton, of Clinton, Mass., had been in active service in an ambulance corps for a month. The day on which they died the two men had placed four wounded men in an ambulance. Hamilton mounted the machine and took the wheel. Gailey was just closing the door of the am bulance when a bursting shell killed both of them, and two of the wounded men. The two Americans were given .full mili tary honors at their burial at the front. Hamilton was twenty- four years of age, and Gailey twenty-one. s Gailey was a classmate of Wil mer Hays and a schoolmate of John Taylor and Russell Stevens at Ferkiomen Seminary in 1911- 12-13. . At the time he went to France, he and Amos Huston were students at Princeton and were members of the "Princeton College Unit" that went to France. Huston is a son of the late Henry Huston, of Clear Ridge, this county, and he is the youngest of the Huston Brothers of Three Springs. Huston, Ga iley and Hamilton were members of the same unit. A Family Keuuion. A reunion was held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Crom well, .near Maddensville, on Thursday, August 2, 1917, and for the first time in seven years the family of eight children six boys and two girls were at home at the same time. A sumpt uous dinner was served out in the orchard under the walnut trees, after which a photograph of the party was made. The party consisted of Ira H. Crom well, wife, and children Florence and Bernice, of Orbisonia; Roy C. Cromwell, wife, and children Ar thur, Beulah and Alta, of Mer cersburg; Oscar Cromwell and wife, of Pitcairn, Pa.; Thomas R. Cromwell, wife, and chil dren George and Paul, of Laidig; Mr. and Mrs. Scott Stains (Eula) and children Ruth, Harold and Althea Grace, of Wood, Pa., Fred Madden and wife (Elsie) and baby Adele Rose, of Orbiso nia: Emery, at home. Also, Miss Grace Mort and Miss Nellie Stape. None of the six sons has been drafted, but three sons and two sons-in-law have been registered. Birthday Surprise. Mrs. Job Hess had a birthday recently, and, according to her statement, she did not know she had Bomany friends until the au tos began to arrive. They came from all directions, , and they brought chicken, ice cream, ba nanas, watermelons, and other good things to eat. The party was a surprise to Mrs. Hess and her family. Among the guests were the following fronds and neigh bors: Mrs. F. P. V'art, Mrs. J. J. Palmer Mrs Maggie Bard, Mrs. Moses Hess, James Truax and wife; Mrs. Annie O'Rourke, Vin cent Hart and wife; Geo. Evans and wife; Marcus Mellott and wife; Alexander Barnhart, Flor ence Truax, Morea Mellott, Mada line Truax, Irene Hess, and Beu lah O'Rourke. Floyd Hart, Fred Dixon, Denver andDaytonEvans, Melvin Culler, Kermit Bard, Ray mond Mellott, George and Rolla Hess and Paul Palmer. Had Hard Fall. A few days ago, Mrs. E. R. McClain stood on a chair on the south end of her front porch to adjust some strings for vines. She lost her balance and fell to the lawn at the end of the porch, a distance of about four or five feet from the chair seat She fainted, but soon revived after she was carried to the porch swing. Some very severe bruis es resulted from tbe fall. Cash Road Tax Bonus. The several townships in Ful ton county will soon be paid the cash road tax bonus for the years 1910-12. The bonus for 1913-14 will be paid next year. Readers, will recall that the leg islature of 1909 amended the tax law so that townships of the second class should thereafter receive from the state a bonus of fifty per centum of the cash road tax collected. The law re quires that townships must file annual reports with the Bureau of Township Highways, of the State Highway Department, be fore they may receive this bonus also, they must file an agreement with the State Highway Depart ment, setting forth the purpose for which the township and State money will be spent. The fltate bonus money must be expended for one or more of the following purposes: Buying and installing concrete, cast iron, corrugated pipe and installing concrete or stone mas onry headwalls;for the construct ion of concrete culverts and of concreie or of steel bridges, ac cording to plans approved by the Bureau of Township Highways; for permanent grading, Widen ing, or straightening roads; for the construction of brick, con crete, macadam, slag, gravel, or flint roads; for the construction of concrete, or concrete and stone masonry retaining walls to support roads and for the town ship's share of the cost of state aid road construction. Following is a list of the amounts that will be paid to the townships mentioned: Township. Amount. Ayr $897.02 Belfast 95.71 Bethel 6S0.59 Brush Creek 349.68 Dublin 54 9!) Licking Creek 462.42 Taylor 78.78 Thompson 72.81 Tod 248.64 Union . 319.82 Wells 406.58 Total $3,667.04 French Losses Small. The French loss in killed in battle is very small when the great number of men 'in service is considered. The loss includ ing killed, wounded and taken prisoner is estimated at five out of every four hundred engaged. Eliminating the ..wounded and captured, probably not more than one in every four hundred is killed. It is said that more are killed on duty outside of the trenches than inside. According to these figures, fighting in the trenches is not as dangerous as working with machinery in the harvest fields of America. France has 3,000,000 men in the field. If but one in every four hundred is killed in battle, the number of fatalities would have to be 7,500 in each battle. This number would not include wounded and prisoners. Anghwich Picnic. Last Sunday, Mr. Lutz, Mrs. Blanche Harglerode and little daughter Lucy all of Everett; Mrs. Couch, of Johnstown, and Mrs. Mary E. Campbell, of Knobsville, went to see Mrs. Campbell's daughter, Mrs. Wil son L. Cline, near Fort Littleton. (It was Mrs. Cline's birthday.) When they arrived, they found assembled Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cline and Miss Bertha Cline and her mother, of Burnt Cabins; Charles Wagner, wife and son Lloyd, of Mercersburg; Miss Helen Little, of Lemasttrs; John Barmont, wife and sons Paul and John and daughters Mabel, Vera and Ruth, of Chambersburg. They Bpread their "eats" 'neath the shade along Aughwick Creek and drank of the water from the "Indian Spring" and spent the day on the childhood playgrounds of Mrs. Barmont and Mrs. Wagner, ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW. Snapshts at Their Comcings and Going! Here for a Vacation, or Away for a Restful Outing. Miss Elsie Greathead returned home last Monday from Missouri where she had been teaching. Mrs.1 Franklin S. Clouse, of Philadelphia is visiting her aunt Mrs. Thomas Hamil, on east Lin coln Way. Miss Grace Mosser, of Altoona, came last Monday to visit her brother, J. W. Mosser, for sev eral weeks. John B. Sipes, accompanied by h'B grandson Orrin Shaw, both of Hustontown, were pleas ant callers at this office last Sat urday. F. C. Hockensmith, wife and four children, of Johnstown, came to this county Thursday of last week to visit relatives, after having spent some time in Frank lin county with the wife's rela tives. Mr. and Mrs. Knepp, of Pitts burg, accompanied by C. G. Spence and J. C. Hixon and daughter Miss Myrtle of Union township, spent a few hours in McConnellsburg Tuesday after noon. 'S. G. Lashley, postmaster at Lashley, Nathan Wigfield and son John of Union township, called on us during the shower on Monday. Farmer Wigfield reports labor scarce and would be glad to secure a good farm hand. Mr. W. M. Lodge',and family of Saxton came to McConnellsburg last Sunday morning, spent the day and in the evening returned home accompanied by Mrs. Lodge's father, Mr. Albert Sto ner, who will spend a few weeks in the home of his daughter. Mrs. Minnie King and daugh ter Margaret, near Hiram, were guests during last week of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Scott Brant, near Dane. Last Saturday all came to Mc Connellsburg in Mr. Brant's new Ford, with Clem C. Brant at the wheel. Rev. and Mrs. J. Leidy Year ick . left Monday morning for a two-weeks' outing at Mt. Gretna. They will be domiciled while there in the cottage of Mr. Year ick's brother, Rev. Z. A. Yearick. In consequence of Mr. Yearick's absence, there will not be any preaching services in the Reform ed or the Presbyterian church during his absence. Home Defense Police. Last week, we briefly mention ed a move to organize a home defense police force in every county in Pennsylvania. Execu tive Secretary Walter R. Sloan of the Public Safety Committee for Fulton county has received sample copies of instructions and application blanks as well as a sample billy, arm band, and me tallic badge to be supplied to each policeman. Application blanks and little printed folders of explanation will soon be sent out over the County. Cumberland county has been organized as a model. Probably nine men in each township will be accepted as local units. Men between the ages of 45 and 60 are eligible if they possess the necessary qualifications. , Full details are too long to print Se cure official printed matter when it appears through some promi nent person in your township. Severe Storm. Last Monday afternoon, a se-' vere storm swept across part of the County. The storm seemed hardest between Webster Mills and Needmore. Great damage was done to standing corn. As an illustratiou of the strength of the wind, a large apple tree load ed with green fruit was lifted bodily out of the ground and carried across the road at William Mellott's home in Ayr township
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