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Sort Sketches of the Lives of Per
ioos Who Hare Recently
Passed Away.
A. V. B. Souders.
Arthur Van Buren Souders,
one of Ayr township's oldest
citizens, died at his residence at
the old Souders home on Scrub
Ridee, Thursday, September 6,
1917, aged 83 years and 23 days.
The funeral took place on the
following Sunday, and interment
was made in Union cemetery.
The deceased was a son of
John and Sallie Sewalt Souders,
and he spent most of his life on
the farm upon which he died.
In his earlier manhood, he
taught school, and in after years
served his township as school
director, supervisor, etc. He
was married to Miss Margaret
Welter, who survives, together
with the following daughters and
sons: Samantha, CeleBta, Lettie,
Rose, Bert, Ira and Clyde.
Arthur's father was a soldier
in the War of 1812 and possessed
a fund of very interesting inci
dents in connection with his
I participation in our second war
with Great Britain. Arthur was
a soldier in the Civil War, he be
ing a member of Company B,
3rd Maryland Infantry.
As a result of a fall on ice)
Arthur was prectically helpless
j for almost two years prior to his
J death.
j Mary Jane Miller.
Mrs. Mary Jane Miller, widow
'of Samuel who died in 1902,
'' passed away at her home in
Mercersburg on Thursday after
noon September 30, 1917, aged
60 years, 8 months, and lday.
She was a mamber of the United
.Brethren Church and a good
woman. Although afflicted for
fifteen years, she bore her
afflictions with Christian forti
tude. Mrs. Miller's maiden
tame was Oyler and she was
born in this County,
She is survived by six children
namely; Mrs. David Shatzer of
Greencastle; William and James
of Tiffin Ohio; Fred of Mercers
burg and Miss Florence and
Benjamin at home: Funeral
fcrvice was held at her home on
Sabbath at 2 o'clock, conducted
ky her pastor Rev. Hutzler of
JJeU. B. Church, assisted by
Jev. McCoy of Church of the
Brethren and Rev. Allison of the
wtheran Church. Interment
Fairview Cemetery at Mercers
burg. j Amos S. Barber.
f Amos Scott Barber died at his
Jome west of Needmore on Mon
"V. September 3, 1917, aged 56
Wars and 22 days. The funeral
jervices conducted by Rev. E. J.
Croft of the M. E. Church and
v. Jacob Powers, of the Christ-
Church, took place on the
lowing Wednesday, and inter
wnt was made in the cemetery
"Pleasant Grove church.
e deceased was a son of
Jomas and Nellie Peck Barber,
VtKWaS married t0 Mi98 Mary
th To this union were born
Zrwuiaren two f whorr sur
v. uwneiy ueorge and Francis,
-" ainome. He is also surviv
;lbI,S 8i.9t58. Catherine,
9,
:v V. "uie. wife of Wm.
-'Ml, Akersville, and Jennie
H.
a
'TT' wife of David Gra
. Romulus, Mich.
- SfV identified himself
i t r Uhurch wl:
hen
r-Tewy years of age,
and
Hin l uuccuiiui uie en-
tf?!.te8pect ohi3neigh
and friends.
1 John B. Lesher.
"B'Lesher, aged about
S .'ed 8uddenty at the
3 lvania railroad station at
JJpt last Saturday. He
0 'his way from his home at
en-
I Sen- Pa- to visit
rela-
W 8hr was born and
nailh00d on tKa T ,
grew
farm,
H Tobie Glazier, in
pwnBhip, and was a broth-
At eleven o'clock, Tuesday,
beptember 4th, Miss Mary Iva
Hixson was united in wedlock
with John Truax by Rev. C. F.
Hoggs, Ph. D. at the Methodist
Lpiscopal church. Altoona. Pa.
The bride is a daughter of Mrs.
George W. Hixson, of Crveta
Springs and was one of Fulton
County '8 successful teachers.
Air.- m
mr. iruax is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Truax, of Wells
Valley. He is a eraduate of Ju
niata College, Huntingdon. Pa.,
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Washington. D. G. and ia nt-
present engaged as an electrician
nri'fk ca. p. rt 1. T
niw owue ol eusiur ningineer
ing Co., Youngstown. Ohio.
After the ceremonv the hannv
couple left for Washington. D.
r 1 f k
, from which city they will go
Baltimore, Harrisbunr and
other points of interest.
After November 1st thev will
be at home at Youngstown, O.
Wible Starr.
Miss Inez Flossie Starr daugh
A. . If.. T. r .
ler oi ivir. josepn j. starr was
quitely married at the home of
her father, in Snake Spring
township, Bedford county, Pa,
to Mr. Scott Wible of Three
Springs, Huntingdon, county,
Pa. August 22.
Those present were Elder J.
M. Felton of Philadelphia who
officiated: Mr. and Mrs. Jeffer
son Mellott, Mr. and Mrs. Mar
cus Meliott and son and daugh
ter, Mrs. David R. Mellott and
daughter Rosie, Miss Lola De-
shong of this county, Mrs. M.
E. Mock of Bedford and Mr.
George Middleton of Sterling,
Va. The newly married couple
went to his home immedately.
Mr. Wible is a prominent
farmer and bank director of the
First National Bank of Three
Springs. Mrs. Wible is well
known in Fulton where she was
born and had visited often.
Murphy Culler.
On Wednesday A u g u st 29,
1917, Miss Elizabeth Blanche
Culler, of Johnstown, daughter
of Peter Culler formerly of Ful
ton County now of Republic,
Ohio, was united in marriage to
George I. Murhpy, of California,
a. The marriage ceremony was
performed in the Smithfield
Methodist Episcopal church in
ittsburgh, by Rev. Thomas
Charlesworth one of the pastors
of that church.
The young couple have gone to
California, Pa., to reside. Mr.
Murphy is employed by the Ad
ams Express Company at that
place. Miss Culler was employ
ed until recently in the office of
Optician William Tepdegrave in
Johnstown.
Gobio Kirk.
At the residence of the offici
ating minister in McConnells-
burg Tuesday afternoon, Rev.
Ed Jackson united in marriage
Miss Esther daughter of M. Luth
er and Frances Copenhaver Kirk,
of Hustdntown, and Mr. Edgar
H.,'Son of Clarence aud Mary
Bootman Gobin, near Knobsville.
The bride and groom are excel-
ent young people and have the
best wishes of a large circle of
riends.
er
of John F. Kendall's first
wife. Mr. Lesher was a veteran
of
the Civil War, he being a
m
ember of Company B, 12G Reg
iment, P. V. Infantry. He is
survived by one son and three
daughters. He served three
terms as prothonatary of Clinton
county.
Harry Angel.
Mrs. W. H. James, East Lin
coln Way, received a telegram
saying that her brother Harry
Angel h&d died in, York, Pa.,
yesterday morning; Her brother
had visited her just a few days
. 1 1 1
ago, and was in usual neaitn.
wa9 unmarried. The news
came as a great shock,
LETTER FROM FRANCE.
Dr. Sappingtoo, Formerly at Webster
Mills, Writes to Dr. Swarlzwelder
at Mercersburg.
"Somewhere in France,"
August 9, 1917.
'Dear DocTOR:-Your letter of
the 15th ult. just read and I am
answering it at once, as I may
not get another chance very
soon. I expect to go up to the
front line trenches at any time.
I am now with the Army Service
Corps, 20th Divisional Train, as
medical office-. The train, which
consists of horse transports (wag
ons) takes therations(corisisting
of fresh beef, canned beef, sar
dines, cheese, condensed milk,
tea, sugar, salt, bread, etc.) for
the men, and oats and hay for
the horses, from the railroad to
the battalion or artillery lines.
We do this each day. -I have 4
companies consisting of 800 men
to look after. Until the last two
days they were scattered and I
had to ride about 30 miles a day
to keep in touch with them.
We had a big push here in
Flanders (Belgium) last week.
G250 prisoners were captured by
our army corps. We gained about
four miles of ground beyond the
Ypres canal. We would have
continued our push, but big rains
came on, and the mud became
worse than it was on the Somme
last fait. We could not move our
guns forward. Thi9 corps suf
fered only about 2,000 casualties
(killed and wounded), although
we expected there would be about
10,000. We had, previous to the
push, a bombardment of eight
days. Just before the infantry
advanced, our guns sent over
about 700,000 gas shells and the
men advanced behind our Bar
rage (cuitain of fire). This bar
rage creeps forward, advancing
its distance every three minutes,
and the men stay back about
forty yards. Of course, once in
awhile, a man gets too close and
i3 killed. When the trenches
(Boche) are reached, the bar
rage advances, and we take the
trenches.
In the push, we met with very
little resistance until we reached
the fourth line trenches, as most
of the men were killed in the
three preceding trenches by our
gas. We did not nave a man
killed by a machine gun or rifle
bullet, but our casualties came
from the boche shrapnel. I am
sending to you a piece of 3-inch
shell that landed just back of my
tent while I was reading your
letter. I picked up this piece
with many large ones all around.
We all would have been killed,
probably, had not the ground
been very soft from recent rains.
The shell went about eight feet
into the ground before it explod
ed. The hole which it made when
it exploded was 10 feet in diam-
eted and, of course, 8 feet in
depth. This is rather a smaller
hole than those made by other
Bhells that have been thrown into
our camp. We have had 200
horses and 4 or 5 men killed "here
in tne last iu aays some by
shells, and others by bombs from
airplanes which come Bailing
over our camp on mooniignt
nights.
We have some yery fine horses
in this train mostly Clydesdales
and be have some very fine
riding horses. Our sergeant-ma
jor (our highest non-commission
ed officer), is an ex-cow-puncher
rom Montana.
I left the States early in May,
having entered the medical corps
after having taken a physical and
mental examination in April. I
was ordered to proceed to Lon
don where I reported to the mili
tary attache of the American Em
bassy. He turned us (four be
sides myself) over to the British
War Office, and three days later
T-1 ftT
we were sent to .trance, we
had the distinction of being the
first U. S, army officers to reach
France (except hospital units
which are kept intact back at the
coast).
We reported to the Deputy Di-
MCCONNELLSBURG, PA., SEPTEMBER 13. 1917.
Interesting Visitors.
Mr. Robert J. Boyd of Upton,
iranklin County, accompanied
by his daughter Mrs. Stella W.
Angle, of the same place and by
his son Edward M. Boyd for 36
years cashier of the Carson Nat
ional Bank at Auburn, Neb., and
by the latter's son Edward D.
Boyd, of the same place, and bv
J. M. Springer of Mercersburg,
spent a few hours in town Tues
day afternoon. Sixty-two years
ago, Robert J. Boyd was married
in the house notv, the residence
of the editor of the News, to
Miss Sue C. White, a niece of
Rev. N. G. White who served as
pastor of the Presbyterian church
i:i McConnellsburg during the
Civil War and for many years
prior. Miss White was also a
step-daughter of John W. Bohn,
who owned and lived in the house
at that time, and kept store in
the room now used as the News
printing office. The late Roland
Austin, of Saluvia, was married
in the same room to one of John
Bohn'a daughters. The elder
Boyd, while up in the eighties,
is a well preserved man and a
very pleasant gentleman.
Contributes Three Sons.
Mi i. Lucy Evans Kriechbaum.
of Chb.i.bersburg, in doing her
bit" t nd this cruel war, con
tributed i.;. oe sons and they are
now wean. ; the uniform of
United State Boldiers. The
boys are: First Lieutenant Roy
Ritner Kriechbaum of Company
C, 8th Penna. Inf.; Second
Lieut. Joseph Ritner Kriech
baum, a recent graduate of the
Fort Niagara training camp
and now assigned to the National
army at Camp Meade, and Pri
vates Philip Evans Kriechbaum
a member of Company C.
Red Cross ia Wells.
Hon. S. W. Kirk, Chairman o
the Red Crons Auxiliary Commit
tee of Fulton County, will be at
a meeting of the people of Wells
Valley at the Valley M. E. church
next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock
for the purpose of orgainzing an
Auxiliary for Wells township,
The good people of Wells Valley
are anxious to be identified with
this great work. Kindly take
your dollar along to the meet
ing to pay your membership fee,
and thus save the trouble of col
lecting it afterward.
Boil Your Hydrant Water..
An analysis oi tne water sup
plied by the McConnellsburg
Water Company made a few
days ago, shows that if you do
not care to take any risks, you
should boil the water. Most Mc
Connellsburg people are familiar
with conditions on the watershed
from which comes the town's
supply of water. Hence, boil
the water.
rector of Medical Services in Bou
logne, who assigned Lieut. Zuib-
han and myself to No: 13 Gener
al Hospital in Boulogne, where
we were broken in for a few days
and then given wards of our own
each man operating upon, or
treating, every case that came
into his ward. I was allowed a
non-commissioned orderly as an
assistant, and in busy times, was
allowed but 30 minutes to an op
eration. Most of my work there
consisted in opening up wounds,
removing bullets, pieces of shrap
nel sliver3 of bones, and making
amputations, which we did with
out flaps or large incisions. Aft
er working at No. 13 two weeks,
I was sent to an ambulance where
I worked 10 days, and then was
sent to the Advanced Dressing
Station located in a dug-out at
the side of a deep sunken road.
Here f was thoroughly shelled
had 27 shells to explode at a dis
tance of 25 yds. to 200 yds. while
walking across a little valley. It
was directly down from the Hind
enberg line near Quenten Woods.
I spent two days in the front line
battalions and believe me, had an
exciting time. Then we got a
rest for a little while and, were
moved to Flanders,
OFF TO THE WAR.
Large Number of Persons Assembled
Last Friday to Say Goodbye To
Our Soldier Boys.
The first installment of our
quota of 74 men to leave for a
training camp was composed of
four men, namely, Orlen S. Mock,
of McConnellsburg, Fred Lamber
son, of Hustontown, James D.
Hoop, of Andover, and James C.
Screiver, of Buck Valley.
In obedience to orders, they
reported at McConnellsburg on
Thursday of last week, and en
trained at Fort Loudon at 3:13
Friday afternoon to go to Camp
Lee, near Petersburg, Va.
A large number of citizens
assembled at the Court House
on Friday afternoon to give the
boys "goodbye." At 1:45
o'clock, the Boy Scouts in com
mand of Scoutmaster Harrv
Johnston, followed by the Camp-
fire Girls and the pupils of the
public schools, marched from the
School building and took their
places in front of the Court
House. The registration board
then presented the four young
men who were about to leave
for Camp, and the audience
sang America. Miss Anna C.
Reisner in a neat and appropri
ate address, presented each of
the soldier boys with a sewing
kit and a pocket testament.
After the close of the formal
exercises a train of seventeen
automobiles conveying the boys
and about eighty of their friends,
went accross the mountain and
saw them leave Fort Loudon
station.
Among those who went to
Fort Loudon were seven veterans
of the Civil War, namely, Wil
liam Reed, Abram Runyan
James W. Rumel, Thomas
Hamil, S. B. ' Woollet. Adam
Clevenger and David IT. Kendall.
At Fort Loudon as the Veterans
gave the boys goodbye, D. M
Kendall gave some good fatherly
advice and encouragement.
is Responsible?
Last winter, after a hard fight
the legislature of Pennsylvania
passed a dog law that would
cover about one page of the Ful
ton County News, an object of
which was to please the lover of
dogs from the man who owns a
kennel, to the woman who would
rather nurse a pug dog than a
baby. The main object, however
was to protect sheep from the
ravages of dogs, and to encourage
th sheep industry in the State.
The Government is calling for
wool so that its millions of sol
diers may be clad in good warm
clothing, and may sleep warm
under a good blanket that is not
infrequently the only thing be
tween them and the canopy of
heaven, and those at home need
wool and its products just the
same.
Mr. Herbert C. Hoover, United
States Food Commissioner, is
calling attention to the fact that
we are facing a meat famine,
and the fanners of the State are
stocking up . with sheep just as
fast as they :cn be had paying
exorbitant pric for them and
hoping that they may be protect
ed by law from the loss of their
flocks by the depreciations of
dogs.
Notwithstanding all these
glaring facts, dogs are allowed
to prowl around at night, chasing
and destroying game, and caus
ing anxiety to sheep owners.
The law emphatically says that
all dogs shall be confined from
sundown to sunrise, and. also.
that they shall be under the con
trol and on the premises of their
owners.
These two clauses are enough
to put a stop to the destruction
of Bheep by dogs. We hope it
may not be necessary from to an
organization to compel officers to
enforce the law. .
C. J. Brewer.
Rev. Will Truax and family of I
feasant Ridge, were in .town ,
Monday.
War Bond Bill.
Tl 1 I'll .
it is not HKeiy that many
changes will be made in the new
Bond bill which has passed the
House of Representatives. It
completes the appropriation of
nearly $20,000,000,000 for the
current year, of which $7,000,
000,000 ft for our allies, who will
pay the interest thereon. It
seems likely that the final rev
enue bills provide for close on to
$4,000,000,000 from varioustaxes,
This leaves less than $9,000,000,.
000 of bonds for our own use, of
which two billions have been
issued.
An interesting feature -of the
measure is that it removes the
convertible clause as to the $3,
000,000,000, of bonds formely
authorized, but not issued, and
there will be no increase on the
new ones, which will probably
be floated at four per cent, and
be subject, not to ordinary in
come taxes, but only to the superr
tax. This is to prevent the very
rich from buying up the bonds to
escape taxation.
Large as is the sum . proposed,
it is less proportionately to the
wealth and population of the
country than our expense in the
Civil War. It is estimated that
we can issue $35,000,000,000 of
the debt before reaching the
proportional status of 1S0G as
to population and a good deal
more before getting an equal
share of the national wealth.
.No one can foresee how much
we shall have to spend, but we
shall raise all the money necessary
to win this war, whether we
ever get back from our allies
the loans we have made them or
not. As nearly all of the money
remains in this country we are
not growing poorer, even if we
are accumulating a debt. When
the war is over it . will only be
necessary to continue super-taxes
for less than a generation to pay
through a sinking fund all that
we owe. Philadelphia Inquirer.
State Agricultural Notes.
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it is estimated tnat there are
24,000 silos in Pennsylvania and
the average capacity of each is
65 tons.
Keports on the harvesting of
the potato crop indicate that the
yield is much smaller than was
anticipated in many counties,
few tubers growing to a stalk.
Estimates place the Pennsyl
vania apple crop at about two
million bushel less than last year.
The peach crop is much larger
than a year ago.
It is estimated that the pear
crop in the State will be about
447,000 bushels. This is about
50,000 bushels less than last year.
Pennsylvania canners have
contracted for the crops of 5,200
acres of corn, 834 acres of peas,
3,187 acres of tomatoes and 29G
acres of. soup beans.
October and November seem
to be the popular months for the
armers to dispose of their pro
ducts as statistics show a dis
position of 15.5 per cent, in Oc
tober and 15.7 per cent, in Nov
ember.
Will Change Crossing.
The railroad crossing at Mt.
Dallas on the Lincoln Highway
one mile west of Everett which
or many years has been one of
the most dreaded crossings in
the Stale, will be changed in
near future- at a cost of about
$32,000.00, to be apportioned
among the State Highway De
paatment, the H. & B. T. rail
road, and possibly a small portion
to the adjoining townships. The
State Highway Department will
construct the new roadbed.
which will be under the railroad
tracks.
Card of Thanks.
Mrs. Amos Barber and her sons
George and Francis take this
method of thanking the many
kind friends and neichbors for
aymnathv and assistance durinz
the illness and death of thehus-
band and father.
NUMBER 52
WATCH YOLK CHILDREN.
Little Talks oo Health and Hygiene bj
Samuel G. Dixon, H. D., LL D.,
Commissioner of Health.
School days are here. For
weeks our children have been
scattered in their respective
homes and in many cases living
in the open air. Now the days
are here when they begin to con
gregate together at the school
houses and often under bad sani
tary conditions.
This is the season that weighs
heavily upon the conscientious
Health Officer. Experience has
taught him infallibly that the
congregating of the sick and the
well will again cause the annual
increase of children's diseases.
Increased deaths will occur in
spite of all that can be done by
the Health Department in con
junction with our educators to
safeguard the health of our chil
dren. This work to increase safe
guards over the health and lives
of our school children is only in
its infancy. Until it is full grown
we must appeal to the parents
and guardians of the children to
help us. We all love our chil
dren and would sacrifice our
lives to save theirs, yet we do '
not make sufficient study of how
to care for them.
The first thought in the morn
ing should be the child. We
should not content ourselves with
greeting our sons and daughters
with an impulsive and affection
ate kiss and hug, and then rush
to other duties that the dav has
brought with it. Instead, the
first Iduty is to tarry with the
child sufficiently long to deter
mine whether or not it seems
well. Without letting the child
appreciate that there is a sus
picion of its being sick, get to
see the tongue, notice how it
swallows, look for any spots or
rash on the skin, for congested
eyes, for a hot skin, for want of
usual good cheer.
If the child shows any indi
cation of sickness it should not
be permitted to associate with
the other children in the house,
and under no circumstances
should it be permitted to go to
school. Its life is first; educa
tion, second.
While it does not do to be pes
simistic, it is better to consider
any sign of illness the possible
forerunner of some one of some
of the diseases that children are .
so susceptible to.
For the child's sake it should
be kept away from other chil
dren, as has been suggested,
and unless the condition clears
up in a very short time medical
aid should be called in. A
stitch in time saves nine. Such
precautions as mentioned may
not only save your own child's
ife but an epidemic of measles,
scarlet fever, diphtheria or
other communicable disease not
only in a school, but maybe in a
whole community. What is ask
ed of 'mothers and guardians of
children is so little and means so
many human lives, that certain-
y the warning is worth taking.
Seeding Wheat
Farmers using their own
wheat for fall planting should
not spare the fanning mill. A
whole day spent fanning and
cleaning the seed would be a day
well spent. It is an excellent
plan to put the seed through
the mill three or four times, be
cause each fanning removes
immature, shriveled seed. On
ly plump, well ripened seeds
should be planted. After
thorough cleaning the seed
should be treated for disease.
If it is necessary to purchase
seed from outside sources, it is
best to patronize a neighbor
whom you know Raises good
wheat, or otherwise insist on
getting Beed grown as near your
home as possible. In either
case, it will do no harm to fan it
again when you get it home, to
insure healthy and clean kernels,
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