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McCONNELLSBURG, PA., AUGUST 30. 1917.
NUJIBER 50
RECORD OF DEATHS.
jort Sketches of the Lives of Fer
gus ft no Dave kcicuu
Passed Away.
John Magsam.
Macrsam. as he
was
Liliarlv known to a large num
y of acquaintances, died sud
denly at his farm about U mile
fcutheast of McConnellsburg on
Monday, August 27 1917, aged
Aunt B8 years.
been in town that
Siorning, he found on his return
feme that his herd of goats had
itten into a neighbor's field and
ijent after them. Not return.
k for dinner, his brother Geo,
vent to the field and found
tie lifeless body of John lying
prone upon the ground. Dr.
Uosser was called at once and
ironounced death as having re
nted from a lesion of the heart
from which Mr. Magsam had
been afflicted for some time.
The funeral took place Wed-
.,day afternoon and interment
wsmade in the family burying
jrcund along the Mercersburg
Jitin wan mflrripn t.n Miss
Zdith McCune about two years
p, who survives.
Mas. A. D. Keith.
1'rs. Alice Rebecca, wife of
ttin De Forest Keith died at
.heir home near New Grenada,
ii-jst 1!), 1917, aged 51' years
nil 6 days. The funeral ser
'w conducted by Rev. Frown
jtr, of Three Springs, (took
the following Tuesday and
aternentwas made in Dethel
eitifiery at New Grenada. .
Mh. Keith was a daughter of
'.i&.rd and Lavinia Marlin and
ai liorn in Taylor township.
'i w as married to Mr. Keith
f i 9. 1S3G. Besides her hus
m, she is survived by the
Swing children: Sara, wife
ChiS. Stambaugh, Altoona;
ow ar.d Jtete, in Trough
ik Valley; Amon and Russell,
Se Grenada; Meta, wife of
iiaiFord, and Mary, wife of
Ke Heeter-reside at Wood
s' frs Keith had been ill during
two years, and the large
ab;r of sorrowing friends at
PKher funeral bore testi
ly to the esteem in which she
Mi in the community,
j Clarence J. Peck.
reuse J. Peck, aged 67
M months and 12 days,
j of Nicholas and Sara
f:o!!:ir Peck, died at his
I in Everett Saturdray even
Aug ist 24, 1917. His wife,
18 Elizabeth Weaverling,
P aix years ago. . He
fai:hful member of the
?n:ed Church and of the
Bible Class in the Reform
Nay school. Clarence was
f n of Denton and Alfred
"tit 1.
Ul mis county.'
Prolific.
N I'arr. who nvvnq anrt
?n th ! Otho Souders farm
f township has a ewe that
lb,r!h to four lambs about
ft of April., Mrs. Harr
r thp rescue and has rais
! of the Iambs by bottle,
fe mummy sheep took good
f he i other two, and now
p four are.fine big lambs.
ktf Price Reduced.
fjeen announced in Wash
I that an agreement be-
V1 sugar producers
Blminiatration was
?a.wh,,h will .reduce one
T Mi a Pound frnm tha
Pfw.of sugar. ."The
7 wve thirty million
Jetw.en now and the
'"e yeir.
J. L. Garland
I Jam33 and daughter
"ea,r Mercersburg spent
' fr?n Thursday until
eve"m;; among relatives
COUnt-ij rpi . . .
is-, mey attended
the Sideling Hill
I 4vii ounaay,
A Second Draft Army.
Word comes from Washington
that January first has been ten
tatively set for the second draft
and that the number of men cal
led will be approximately 750,000.
If there is any doubt where t he
United States stands in this
business the answer is furnished
in that brief but suggestive an
nouncement. We already have
assured an army of 1,200,000
for foreign service, and the trov.
ernment is devoting its energies
to securing transportation for
these men to France. The work
of training, drilling, equipping
and preparing goes on constant-
. We are giving the world an
object lesson in earnestness. It
is a big job and it i3 takinz time
and hard work to manage it, but
we are getting there just as sure
ly as the sun riies and sets.
But-to prove that . we have
gone into this war with our eyes
open and that we have counted
the cost and the men we are
not stopping with the first mil.
ion and a quarter of men. We
are looking ahead, and it is ex
pected that another three-quarters
of a million wil be summon
ed to the colors by the first of
the new year.
The importance and the' mean
ing of thi3 may be partially un
derstood if we pause to consider
the immense amount of detail in
volved before we start in on
this new batch of soldiers. It
means that the young men who
have gone into the second offi-
cer's training camps will have to
be trained and receive their com
missions before the close of . the
year, because they are the ones
who will be called upon to help
drill and prepare the new men.
Stores will have to be replenish
ed, uniforms manufactured and
guns and ammunition purchased.
But the big moral of it all is
that we are fully in earnest and
that we are going into this war
with only one object-and that
object is to Win. Those misgui
ded persons across the water who
imagined that our declaration of
war was an "American bluff"
will be wiser soon. Pershing
and his expeditionaty force have
led the way, and American man
hood will follow in an unending
stream until the object for which
we entered this war ha3 been
attained. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Young Patriots.
We have a letter from someone
in Knobsville, asking the young
people of that village and vicin
ity between the ages of twelve
and nineteen to organize a lodge
called "Young Patriots" and "I
shall arrange a program for the
work of the ledge, and remem
ber young friends this does not
place you under any obligation.
I shall appoint a president arid
vice president."
As the writer forgot to sign
his, or her, name, it is impossi
ble for the News to give any
further information.
Didn't Want Another Farm.
Because her husband had
bought another farm, Mrs. Wm.
Overcash of Franklin county
raised the heavy plank cover'ng of
a well last week, and, forcing her
head and shoulders between sev
eral planks near the top, dropped
thirtyfive feet into the deep
water and was, drowned. Some
of her family were in the house
but' heard no noise. Missing
her, a search was kept up until
the body was found in the well.
Killed at Railroad Crossing.
A big Ugite oil tank on the
Lincoln Highway was struck at
WestFayetteville, Franklin coun
ty by a passenger train on the
Mont Alto branch of the C. V.
railroad last Friday afternoon
with the result that a workmen
by the name of Goodhart of
Carlisle on the Ugite truck was
thrown forty feet by the impact
and instantly killed, and the
driver John Ulrichdied a few
hours latter, '
The Prize Winners.
Of the three hundred men who
passed before the local exemption
board, eighty-three have been
reported to the Department as
eligible to military service, and
seventy-three of these men will
be called to fill Fulton County's
quota in the first draft.
Five per dent, of the 73 men
will be called into service on the
5th of .September; 40 per cent,
on the 19th of September, and 40
per cent, on the third of October.
Amaranth-F. M. McKibbin,
John M. Denton.
Andover-Clem C. Schooley,
Wm. Gilbert Polk, Jomes D.
Hoop, Jacob A. Deshong.
Big Cove Tannery Stanley
Quay Mellott, John II. Tritle,
Clarence J. Wright.
Burnt Cabins -Harvey E. Com
erer, Rolla O. Mock, Wm. II.
Metzler.
Buck Valley-Geo. Roy Hen
dershot, Marshall Sigel.
Cito Herman W. Keyser.
Clear Ridge-Robeit E. Wine
gardner. Crystal, SpringsJames C.
Akers, Ross J. Barton, II. Bruce
Barton.
, Dublin Mills-David R. Hess.
Enid -Robert R. Edwards.
EmmaviHe Frank B. Spade.
Fort Littleton-Ralph C. Fra.
ker, Alfred C. McCoy, Harry H.
Cromer.
Franklin Mills John E. Dive!
biss.
Hiram Edward S. Brant, H.
E. Kirk.
Hustontown Orville Mellott,
Orville V. Wink, Harvey Laidig,
Walter Ray Taylor, Chas. II.
Heeter, Harry S. Reeder, Fred
Lamberson, William M. McEl
haney.
Hajncock Alor.zo Funk, Wyli
E. Booth, Orben B. Hebner, Er
nest L. Keefer, William R. Ritz,
Cftas. H. Ritz, John M. Evert.
Harrisonville Clem C. Mellott,
Jo.eph B. Schooley, d'em A. De
shong, Dick Deshong, Norman
Schooley, Dwight R. Sipes.
Knobsville Brenton D. Regi,
Edgar Gobin, Rush Wagner.
Lashley Oscar H. Lashley,
Chester Bishop, James C. Scriev-
er.
McConnellsburg Russell L.
Stevens, Walter R. Barmont,
Herbert F. Cooper, Webster D.
Mellott, Thurman E. Nesbit, Or-
len S. Mock, John Duflield Sipes,
Robert B. Regi, Ralph C. Lining-
er, Russell G. Glazier, Norman
C. Raker, Harry D. Fix, Harry
Miller, Franklin B. Hampton,
Charles E. Barmont.
Northcraft-John E. Wigfield.
Needmore Ed w ar d Hann,
Reuben C. Hann.
New Grenada Mack C. Allo
way, James K. Alloway.
PleaSsnt Ridge Callie Truax.
Warfordsburg Frank Fisher,
Dayton A. Lynch, Wm. Van Kirk
Thomas P. Kirk, Alonzo V.
Biveps.
Webster Mills Ira Bain.
Wells Tannery-H. A. Ed
wards. Venerable Land Turtle.
About the middle t)f last July,
while harvesting, Hon. Clarence
R. Akers, of Akersville, found a
land turtle marked with the ini
tals A. A. and the date July ?,
1829, which had been placed
there by Mr. Akers' grandfather
the late Amariah Akers. It was
a greatly prized discovery. Ev
erett Republican.
Among those who attended the
Reformed picnic at Tuscarora
Heights last Saturday were Mr.
and Mrs. William Grissinger and
sons Clyde and Frank and daugh
ter Miss Nell, and Mr. and Mrs.
Hayes Kennedy all of Plainfield,
Cumberland County; D. A. Gillis
and family . and Herman Smith
and wife of Centerville, and Mrs.
Hoke and Alyrtle of Plainfield.
Mr. Harvey D. Nelson, his son
Donald, and hU mother Mrs.
Johnston N. Nelson, who had
been visiting Harvey's sister,
Mrs. J. H. Kendall in the Cove,
A Banker's View.
The following taken from the
Financial Review is from the
pen of Henry Clews, one of New
York City's leading financiers,
and is an easily understood dis
cussion of present war conditions.
Mr. Clews says:
"The steady rise in power of
the Allies and corresponding de
cline among the Central Powers
strengthens the hopes of an
early peace; albeit the end of the
war is not yet in view. Germany
is by no moans exhausted to the
point of submission to the well
known terms of the Allies. Nor
are the Allies yet able to deliver
a decisive military blow. At
the moment their policy appears
to be that of wearing the enemy
down; the relative rise or fall in
the strength of opposing armies
being of more significance for
the tiVne being than the acquisi
tions of territory which are geo
graphically trilling. As the war
goes on, talking and planning
for peace becomes more and more
definite. Opinion u divided as
to what the effect will be upon
American trade, much depend
ing upon the individual point of
view. There 13 no doubt that
peace v. ill necessitate extensive
readju. tments. These will come
gradual, v and will by no means
demand, return to old conditions
which is possible. Concerns
devoted to w i." business will be
obliged to scra. considerable of
their plants or pr.-parefor other
lines oi worK. war pronts would
of course disappear, and a few
lines of endeavor would cease
entirely. But very important
offsets would quickly appear,
The fact that the world had
turned its fa;-e from destruction
to reconstruction would at once
sH loose great economic forces.
Optimism would promptly suc
ceed desp:iir, and the work of
rebuilding and rearranging the
civilized world would start with
a -vigor that would soon overcome
all confusion and hesitancy.
Our steel mills would receive
no more war orders, but far bet
ter, they would be pressed with
orders for shipbuilding and for
all kinds of construction work in
all parts of the world. Our tex
tile mil's would Sooner recover
from I033 of war orders and be
fully occupied with both domes
tic and foreign orders. Our
secondary industries, such as
automobiles, typewriters, ag
ricultural implements, machinery,
etc., would also be pressed with
orders to make good war losses in
Europe. Our mineral producers'
would be equally sure of good
markets and good prices; so, too
would the American farmer who
may rest assured of good prices
for all he can grow for some
years to come. The truth is war
has impoverished the whole
world. The waste of life and
wealth has been inconceivable.
Millions of lives have bsen de
stroyed or impaired, and the ex
penditures for war since 1914 of
all nations have been over $90,
000,000,000. Everything grown
r made by the hand of man is
scarce. Years will be required
to refill the enormous vacuum,
and the scarcity of men or labor
at a time when most needed
means high wages, high prices
and a long period of industrial
activity,
Thirty Cents Ait Ear.
A member of the corps of food
administrators for Illinois has
called attention to the wide dif
ferences in price of corn on the
cob, received by the producer
and that paid by the ultimately
consumer in Chicago.
It wa3 pointed out that com
mission men were paying 16i
cents a dozen ears. Retail gro
cers sold it at 40 cents. At the
leading hotels and restaurants
the vegetable brought v 30 cents
an order of one ear, while at the
moderate-priced eating places it
could be had for 15 cents an ear.
Miss Mary Fittman went to
Everett last week to be compani
on to Mrs. Frank Gump who has
been a invalid for a long time.
,
Wood for fuel.
Wool for fuel is valuable in
proportion to the heat units it
contains, just as food is valuable
in proportion to the number of
calories it contains. Every
laboring man knows "that he
must have meat, bread, butter,
and potatoes, if he is to keep his
strength up to its best, and he
knows just. as well that with the
fullest meal on vegetable soup
or cabbage, will "not stick to
the ribs."
There is wood AND wood.
Same wood is cheaper at four
dollars a cord than other, at two
dollars. The heavier the fire
wood (provided,, of course, that
it is not ' wet or water-soaked)
the more heat to the cord. Hick
ory, oak, beech, hard maple,
locust, ash, and elm have high
heat value, and on authority of
the State Forestry Association,
one cord of seasoned wood with
bark on, has a heat value as fuel
equal to one ton of coal.
The man who hauls wood to
town should have a just compen
sation; but both the hauler and
the wood should be straight. It
is by no means reasonable that
the man who bring three-foot
wood and sells it for four foot;
or the man who brings wood cut
from tops that have Iain in fhe
woods until it is half rotten that
brings huge knots that a stick of
dynamite wouldn't split, or limbs
so crooked that they can't lie
still should receive the same
price as the man who hauls
strictly staaight young wood, full
length and 128 feet to the cord.
The editor of the News who
has hauled many a load of wood
to McConnellsburg, knows that
when you cut up a lot of timber
into fire wood for the market,
that it cannot all be split wood,
nor can it all ba straight, or be
maple or hickory. . But, it can
all be four feet in length instead
of three, or three-six. The
point we wish to make is; Grade
your wood, same as you grade
your flocks or your fruit, and the
buyer who wants only the best,
let him pay for it, and the one
who takes the cullings, sell it to
him at the price of culls.
It has not been many years
since the citizens of McConnells
burg could get wood "to burn"
at two dollars a cord, and have
it split up ready for the stove,
from fifty to seventy-five cents
a cord. Now, the price is al
most double that. The cost of
fuel, is therefore, quite an item
in the expense of many people
daring the long winters, and it is
well worth while to select such
wood as will give most heat for
the money, and to get all that
is coming to you.
Barracks Will Be Completed.
The barracks at Camp Meade
to accommodate Pennsylvania's
entire first draft contingent of
nearly 10,000 men will be com
plete before their arrival at Ad
miral Md., September 5. This
statement was made at the office
of the army construction head
quarters on tl.i camp site, where
Major Proctoi.' of the quarter
master's corps, N in charge of
the preparations for receiving
the 40,000 national amy recruits.
The remainder of the barracks
will be sufficiently completed to
accommodate each succeding con
tingent cf 30 per cent as it ar
rives. Boost For Williamson.
John E. Baker, of York, Pa.,
has purchased 772 acres of lime
stone land near the village of
Williamson, Franklin county,
and will proceed at once to de
velop the property, which has
been purchased for the high
imestone deposits found there.
By official analysis by the State's
chemists, the stone shows 974
per cent, carbon of lime. It is
said that Mr. Baker expects to
employ several hundred hands
n his quarry before the end of
;he year which will mean quite a
boost for Williamson,
CLEAK KIDUb.
Miss Inez Winegardner spent
several days during the past
week in the home of her brother-in-law
and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
G. C. Fields, in McConnellsburg.
On Sunday she, in company with
the Fields family, visited Mr.
and Mrs. B. S. Fleming in Way.
nesboro.
E. M. Gelvin, near Fort Little
ton, was a business visitor to
our village last Thursday.
Mrs. Retta Hockenberry, of
Pitcairn, is visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William Grove, of
this place. '
Mrs. Louie Winegardner left
last Friday for Wells Valley
where she is conducting a con
fectionery at a bush meeting
which is in progress there.
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Fleming
and daughter Cora, of Waynes
boro, were recent visitors in the
home of the Fleming family here.
Miss Maude M. Fields returned
last' Wednesday from Tyrone,
Pa., where she had spent six
weeks in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Jessie Bloom. Mrs. Bloom
will be remembered as Miss Elsie
Baker, formerly one of Fulton
County's successful teachers.
Miss Dora Baker, who during
the past three years had been in
training for nurse in one of the
hospitals in western Pennsylva
nia, accompanied by her niece
Althea Bloom, of Tyrone, is vis
iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Calvin Baker.
Miss Mayme Fields is spending
two weeks visiting Miss Olive
Snyder at New Enterprise, Pa.
Luther H. Grove and sister
Miss Minnie attended bushmeet-
ing in Wells Valley last Sunday.
The Misses Stewart, of Tyrone,
are visiting their uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. II. I. Fraker
in this place.
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Fleming
returned to their home in Turtle
Creek, Pa., last Saturday, after
a two weeks' visit in the homes
of their respective parents here.
After having spent a few
months in Pittsburgh, Miss
Eunice Brown has returned to
her home in this place.
Miss Emma S. Kerlin, who
holds a lucrative position with
the Westinghouse Company, and
boards in Turtle Creek, was re
cently a visitor in the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
P. Kerlin.
Miss Mary Henry, near Mc
Connellsburg, is visiting her
grandparents, John Kerlin and
wife.
The many friends of J. W.
Mower will regret to learn that
he has lost the power of speech,
and become quite an invalid.
Miss Slaughterly, of Pitts
burgh, has spent the past three
weeks with her friend Miss Lil
ian Henry.
Mac, Clyde, and James Grove,
sons of Harris Grove and wife,
have been August visitors in the
home of their parents.
Clair Baker is home from De
troit.
Mervin Stewart, a Clear Ridge
boy, who is doing evangelical
work at Buckholtz, Texas,
writes that they have been hav
ing dry weather with intense
neat, and crops below normal.
Lienteant Skinner.
Parker R. Skinner, son .of the
ate Captain Geo. W. Skinner,
and Attorney Charles Walters
both of Chambersburg, spent a
ew hours in town one day last
week. Parker has enlisted in
the military service of the United
States and carries in his pocket
a commission as Second Lieuten
ant. He went to Camp, Meade
Md., yesterday to be in readiness
for the. drilling of drafted men
from the eastern part of Penn
sylvania. As an officer in the
Camp, he will have charge of
sixty men.
Miss Harriet Alexander, who
had been spending'two weeks in
the home of her sister Mrs.
Josephine A. Sloan in McCon
nellsburg, returned to her home
in Wells Valley Tuesday.
THE BOYS' WORKING RESERVE, U.S. A.
Letter of Information to Parents, Con
cerning tbe Objects of the Or
ganization.
The Committee of Public Safe
ty for Fulton County wishes the
parents of the county to be in
formed regarding the Boy's
Working Reserve, U. S. A.,
Pennsylvania Division.
The Boy's Working Reserve,
U. S. A., is a national emergency
organization created by the
United States Government. It
is designed as an agency to as
sist the Nation in the successful
prosecution of the present war
by enlisting boys .between the
ages of sixteen and twenty-one,
for supervised temporary, em
ployment, in proper and needful
forms of non-military service, at
times during the continuance of
the war emergency.
The duties which the members
of the Reserve may assume upon
occasion will include general and
special work in various lines of.
agricultural, industrial and com
mercial service.
The need for such service
growing out of the great labor
shortage in the country, due on
one hand to the large withdrawal
of men from their regular occu
pations, and on the other hand
to the present neccessity of great
ly increased agricultural and in
dustrial production, will frequent
ly be imperative. It is intended
however that the participation
of the Reserve in such emergency
work shall be so organized that
it shall not retard the education
of those boys who are attending
school and that it shall not prove
a detriment to those : who are
regularly employed. Enrolment
in the Reserve does not necessa
rily involve an immediate call to
service. The motto of the Re
serves is "I will be ready."
Membership in the Reserve is
open equally to employed and un
employed boys.
The Oath of Service, to which
ever"y member is required to sub
scribe is as follows:
I do solemnly
swear that I will support the
Constitution of the United States;
that I will bear true faith and al
legiance to the same; that I will
well and faithfully discharge the
duties which I am about to as
same. The right to furlough or dis
missal from connection with the
Reserve, upon the request of his
parents or guardian, is retained
by every boy enrolled in the
Reserve.
Enrolment week begins Sep
tember 3. The apportionment
for Fulton County, to be enrolled
during Enrolment week is 26.
The patriotic cooperation of
parents is solicited.
H. P. Barton.
Supt. Boy's Working Reserve, U.
S. A.
No Bonus For Soldiers.
Despite efforts of state officials
to inform the country at large
that Pennsylvania does not pay
bonuses of $10 for enlistments,
scores of letters continue to reach
the adjutant general's depart
ment from all parts of the coun
try seeking in formation. Most
of them come from sol diers who
enlisted in Pennsylvania at one
time or another and they can use
the bonus if the state "cornea
across." A few days ago an in
quiry was received from the
Philippines and a half dozen
came from along the Mexican
border. The letters have become
so numerous that form replies
have been printed. The replies
say: You are advised that there
is no law in force in Pennsylvania
authorizing the payment of a bon
us for enlistments in the U. S.
army, navy, or marine corps, or
national guard of the U. S. or
Pennsylvania," The note is
signed by Adjuant General Stew
art and the general hopes it will
put a stop to the inquiries.
Clarence Shimer of Altoona is
visiting his mother and other
relatives in this place.