VOLUME 19
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., OCTOBER 11, 1917.
NUMBER 4
RECORD OF DEATHS.
aort Stitches of the Lives of Per
sous Wbo Bsve Recently
Passed Away.
Mrs. Thomas H. McClure.
Elizabeth, wife of Thomas II.
McClure. died at their home in
Chambersburg, Friday evening,
October 3, 1917 in her G5th year.
Funeral services at the house on
the following Monday morning
conducted by her pastor, Rev. G.
A. McAlister, D. D , of the Pres
byterian Church, after which her
remains were taken to Union
Cemetery in Ayr township for in
terment. Twenty-six years ago, Mr. and
Mrs. McClure exchanged their
farm in Kansas for one in this
county and became residents of
Licking Creek township. About
four years ago, they removed to
Chambersburg. Besides her
husband, Mrs. McClure is surviv
ed by the following children:
Maggie, wife of Nevin Laidig,
Jeannette, Pa.; Edna, wife of
Frank Hockensmith, Johnstown,
Pa; Zella, widow of Baldwin
Fraker, now at her father's home
in Chambersburg; Robert L , re
siding at the Mountain House on
Rays Hill; Maye, wife of Floyd
T ! Tf ? Ml- I
liameis, near narnsonviue, unu
Leroy at home.
Mrs. Charles W. Lynch.
Mrs. Frances m Lynchwife of
Mr. Charles W. Lynch, died at
the family rexiJence at River
side ui u.Di x r k, on Thursday,
Ocuober 1 ID 17, aged 53 years,
1 month a;.! 1 ay. She was a
daughter of l:os and Mary
Winck a .J was iorn near Gaps-
ville, thi com.' : Twenty two
years ago Lst . ugust she was
united in marriage with Charles
W. Lynch and lathis union seven
chidren were hnra, one of whom,
Miss Mary, r'.eceded her mother
to the spit it world. The husband
and the following children sur
vive, namely: Gorman, at Camp
Lee, Virginia, Mamie. Enos,
Gaylon, Grace and Katharine.
One brother, irvtin Winck. of
Gapaville, and one Bister, Mrs.
EsteJla Kauffman, of Potters
ville, Massachusetts, also sur
vive. Deceased was a member
Of the Christian PKiirnVi nnA ti aa
vuimblHll vuui V.I UIIU it WW
keld in high esteem by all who
knew her.
Funeral services were held
Sunday morning at 9 o'clock at
Union Memorial church. E ver
ett Republican.
Mrs. Anna Ray.
Mrs. Anna Fix Ray died at her
tome in Belfast township on
Tuesday, September 18, 1917,
Bd about ninety years. The fu
neral tonknl
following and her remains were
laidtorest in the cemetery at
"e Methodist church in BuckVal
lil She spent her early life in
loe Vicinitv of MefVmnpllahnrcr
After the Civil War, she and her
"USOand movpfl tn C.antnn D
Alter having lived there several
s, they moved back to Buck
Mrs. Rav has made sev
era! trips back to Canton since
wming to B il!rt VflH.1V
Mrs. Ray i3 survived by three
. rr3 and three sons, name
Mb. Mary Elizabeth King
7 Mrs. Rebecca Fix -Doth in
' w.O.iMra. Sadie Uertty,
'UMwi townshin? William and
'.in Unio-.i township, and
"v"u. n Uttiwl townahio.
Christopher lurm.
Christmhn, i.j.
ti. t jianr uiau ttu me
,r ."Wisvlvunia Hosnits! . in
nsburg October 5, 1917. ag
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liv". """y two years aeo
L ??areat )art of the time
L V hecai ,of that inatitu
If " wa8 1 e to follow his
L.l aa carp iter and he did
K2i.0n Jie buildin8 on
grounds. The m
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f JtuH "umitsiiauuris last
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. ext day interment
A Pleasant Caller.
The Editor was delighted last
Sunday evening with a call from
his old-time . friend Dr. A. M.
Barton, of Homestead, Pa. Dr.
and Mrs. Barton, and his nephew
Charles Barton, wife and child,
of Pittsburgh, had left home
after dinner, swung around in
Charlie's car by way of Union
town,. Cumberland, Ilagerstown
and Chambersburg. reaching
McConnellsburg Sunday evening,
where they spent the night at
ilotel Harris, and returned home
Monday. Dr. Cirton is a native
f Brush Creek Valley, attended
County Superintendent Hiram
Winters' Summer normal school
at McConncilsburg, taught the
first school at Buchanan school
house and boarded at Bartley
aytons, the following winter
taught at Akersville, later read
medicine, and for many years
has been one of the leading phy
sicians in Homestead. His neph-
w, Charlie Barton with whom
le was traveling, is a son of his
half-brother Henry, and Kate
Gregory Barton, both of whom
have been dead several years.
While the Doctor has been away
from Fulton Connty for thirty-
five years he is familiar with the
listory of the Barton family
from the time George Barton,
Sr., and bis sons Elijah and
Noah came to Brush Creek Va!-
ey in the second year of Wash-
ngtort's administration on down
to the present time.
My Should We Worry?
The Fulton County farmers
may have hayseeds in their hair,
and the editors, moss on their
backs, but from present indica
tions, nobody in the old county
is likely to go to I ed hungry dur
ing the coming winter, ine
principal articles of diet to the
average Fulton County citizen
during the winter months are
pork, buckwheat cakes and honey.
he corn crop this season is ex
ceptionally fine, and it docs not
.take any more weeks for a pig
to develop into a 250-pound
porker, than "before de wah."
Bees have never done so well as
this summer, and honey is abund
ant. A farmer, not a dozen
miles from McConnellsburg,
went out into the "woods" a few
nights ago and cut a bee-tree
that yielded him ninety pounds
of prime honey. The acreage
planted to buckwheat was unus
ually large, and the following in
dicates something of the yield:
Joseph E. Mellott, whose farm
is on Timber Ridge, about two
miles north, of the Cross-roads
school house' threshed from five
acres, a crop of 158 bushels. From
29 acres on the Bennett A. Truax
farm (the old George Morton
farm) in Belfast township, 355
bushels were threshed. 0, man!
Buckwheat cakes and sausage
for breakfast, buckwheat cakes
and honey for dinner, and mush
and milk for supper. Wow! Wow!
Miss Rose Fisher has recover
ed from ah operation at the Cham
bersburg hospital four weeks
ago for the removal of her ton
ails and Ehe returned to Cham
bersburg yesterday to resume
her duties in Attorney M. Z.
Mihehart's offices.
was made at the Pleasant Ridge
Bretheren church.
Three brothers and two sisters
are living, namely, John, Mi
chael and Lewis all in thevicin-
ty of Needmore. The sisters
are' Mrs. Henry Truax and Mrs
Sheridan Hann. The deceased
was not married.
Rpioda Mann.
Rhoda, daughter of David
Mann, died at the home of Sam
uel Weise in Bethel township
Sunday, September 23,' 1917,
aged G years and 7 months. The
funeral services were conducted
by Rev. T. P. Garland on Monday
evening an interment was made
in the cemetery at Mayes Chapel.
She is survived by her parents
and one brother. The father
who is a volunteer in the army
was not present at the funeral.
AUTOJIOBlli ACCIDENT.
Ten-year-old San of Jolia Hoapingard-
oer Killed Instantly When Car
Kii Into Woods.
A distressing automobile ac
cident occurred last Saturday
evening on the road leading from
Amaranth to McKees Gap. Union
township. Elmer Smith and
wife, and son aged about nine
years, accompanied by Jchnlloop-
engardner and wife and son agd
about ten yeara, were traveling
in a Ford car. It was after drrk
and they were depending on one
side lamp and a flash li.nht. In
some way the car left the road
and dashed into the woodn. A
protruding limb struck the Hoop-
engardner family, who vara sit
ting on the right hand side of the
car, killing the son instantly,
breaking Mrs. Hoopengardner's
jaw, and severely cutting her
head. Mr. Hov'ger.gardner, who
was sitting on the front seat,
was also severely cut and bruised.
Both families are residents of
Union townsh'p, near Amaranth.
The funeral of the Hoopengnrd-
ner boy took pla-M Monday after
noon and interment was made
in the cemetery at the Buck
Valley M. E. church.
Sildi:r's Address.
Last Saturday, Mrs. Robert
Mellott, of Big Cove Tannery.
called at the News (.-flice to havo
published the correct addres3 of
her son Stanley Quay who is
now with Uncle Sim's forces
ar.d will eventually take part in
the suppression of the Prussian
outrage, against civilization. The
friends of all Fulton county sol
diers are rtqueLit-d to send or
brin.'us the ad l'esscs of the
boys who have ban selected to
enter training camps, because
former companions whortmaii
at home wish to send letters,
books, and many little peisona!
comforts that help greatly to
make camp life pleasant.
Stanley Quay Mellolt's ad-
dres is Camp Leo, Petersburg,
Va., Co. F, 303:h Keg. Engi
neers.
Pleasing Couccrt.
A3 was announced in the News
two weeks ago, the Needmore
Band came to McConnellsburg
last Friday and did their "bit"
toward giving the Foldier boys
an appropriate 'Vend-ofF."
In the evening from the upper
porch of thellarris House, they
gave a concert of more than or
dinary merit to a large gather
ing of citizens who , expressed
their appreciation by generous
applause. The leader, Prof.
Wagner, of Hancock, is not only
a band-master but a past-master
in the art of training musicians.
This was not McConnell-sburg's
first opporturity of hearing Mrs.
Richey, and Iht foIos lat Friday
evening were in keeping with
her splendid reputation as a solo
ist. tivcns-'Foor.
A quiet wedding ceremony
was performed at the Harris
House in McConnellsburg last
Saturday morning at eleven
o'clock, when Mr. John Bivens,
of Wells Valley, and Miss Bessie
Foor, of Bedford county, weie
united in marriage by Rev. Ed
ward Jackson, of McConnells
burg.
The bride and groom were ac
companied by the latter's parents
Mr. and Mrs II. R. Bivens,
end Mr. Ellis Sprowl-all of
Wells Valley.
Car L'pset.
Jacob Hann, Carl Garland,
Vernon Mellott, Lee Truax ar.d
David Hann all living in the
vicinity of Needmore, had the
misfortune to upset their car last
Saturday evemng on their return
trip from Hancock. Lee Truax
received a cut on his head that
required-twelve stitches to close
and Carl Garland wa3 badly
bruised about his body. The
others were roughly shaken and
the car was badly damaged.
THIRD CONTRIBUTION.
Fulton Giiinty Sent Tiftecn Kore of
Her Ho)s to Cairp Lee Last Fri
day Afternoon.
Of the seventy-four men allot
ted a3 Fulton County's apportion
ment to the draft, fifty-throe
have now responded. Four weeks
ago last Friday, we sent four;
two woeks lator, tweny-nine, and
last Friday, fifteen. The names
of the men bent hit week are
Ruisell Stevens. Charles E. Par
mont, Robert Bonner Rt-gi, Har
ry II. Crcmer, Jos. B. Schooley,
Alor.zo Fur.k, Ghas. H. Ileottr,
John B. Evert?. Wm. G.
IL-rbtrt F. Coopa, John E. Wu
held, Reuben C. Hann, Marshall
Sigel, Wm. Van Kirk, and Wm.
R. Ritz.
At 1 o'clock lavt Friday a'tor
noon, the boys with near rela
tives and hundreds of other
friends assembled at the Court
House the boys to get their
final instructions and thelrieivls
to give them a royal t'ond-off.
On account of the chill in the at-
moshparc, the doors of the big
Court Room were thrown open
ind soon every available space
vas filLd. The boys under the
lotdi.-rship of Russell Stevens
who ,ad been appointed Captain
by th local hoard and would
have ci -rge of the men until
turned o . to the proper officers
it Camp Lev filed in, and took
their places c: chairs reserved
"inside the rail."
It being the day for the Pietro
Mordu'ia Company to appear at
the Chautauqua, they very kind
ly came to the Court House, and
Pietro with hij wonderful pi-ano-acccrdion
and Miss Buck
the famous vi ilia artir.t, enter
tamed the audience most royally.
The time came all too soon, for
the boys to take their leave so
they might be. at Fort Loudon
for the 3:13 train, and filling out
they boarded automobiles in
waiting to take them away.
Amid the clanging of the bell i
the long line of automobiles was
preceded down the hill from the
Court House by the Boy Scouts
and Campfi .e Girls all in full
uniform, the sidewalks being
crowded by spectators. The lane
on Lincoln Way between Second
Street and First Street, was
fringed by these organizations.
It was a grand sight, and aa one
of the older citizens remarked,
"This is the greatest day Mc
Connellsburg has ever seen."
But just then there was an
undue commotion, and a breath
less stillness came over the crowd
as the word passed excitedly,
"A child has been run over!"
This wa3 soon found to be only
too true.
Since the death of his mother
some five years ago, little Bobbie
Cunningham had the tenderest
care of loving grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. John A. Irwin. The
little fellow was standing on the
sidewalk in front of his grand
father's store, when he espied
his aunt on the other side of the
street, and darted forward tow
ard her, only to be caught by
an automobile driven by Peter
Morton, Jr. 'Ihe bruise i uncor.
scious form of the little fellow
was picked up and tenderly car
ried into the house, skilled sur
geons and nurses called, but the
injury was too great. He pass
ed away on the evening of the
next day.
The funeral was private, and
he was placed in Union cemetery
ir a grave be:ide that of his
mother, on the following Monday
afternoon.
Bobbie was a son of Robert
and Bess Irwin Cunningham, the
father now a resident of Hobok-
en, N. J.
Landed Safs in Eugland.
Hon. and Mrs. Peter Morton
received a cablegram last Satur
day evening from their son New
ton stating that he had arrived
safe in the southern part of Eng
land. Newton is with the For
e3try Engineer Corps.
TUG CHAUTAUQUA FESTIVAL
lldld WcdiiCfdaj, Tliaffday and Friday.
Car Third Yea;. Splendid Cuter
taiiiiiicnls. !uxt Year's Assured.
With the exception of the lec
tures and entertainments given
ench year at thf County Institute
our people have no opportunity
of hearing any of the first class
lectures and entertainments with
out m-ikuig a (iii to Chambers
burg, llumsbu;; or Philadelphia.
In the latter case, the expense
attending the trip to one of these
places exceeds the cost of admis
Kion to the show, even when it
is 50, 73 cents and a dollar cr
mure, single admission.
To provide for the bringing of
firit-cliisa entertainers and lec
turers within the reach of every
body at a nominal cost, the Penn
sylvania Chautauqua Association,
of Swarthmore, Pa., was incor
porated, by philanthropic men
whoso only thought was tin pro
viding of elevating entertain
ment and instruction for the
masses. The corporation is non-
dividend pajing; that is, if there
is a surplus in the treasury at the
closo of thi3 year after the pay
ment of legitimate expenses, it
is used to provide a higher grade
of talent for next year. Herce,
every community that supports a
Chaul:u:qia festival, gela just
exactly what it pays for.
Before the Association will
agree to give McConnellsburg a
three days' course, it must have
the guarantee backed by respon
sible citizens, that it shall receive
$210.00 in cash at the opening of
the festival. Then, in addition,
the guarantors must arrange for
the payment of $33 rent for ti e
luditorium, j initor service, etc.
This makes a total of $275.00.
To raise thi ' m iney, the Associa
tion furnishes the guarantors
with $275 worth of season tick
ets which they sell at $1.25
each. In case the guarantors
fail to market the $275 worth of
tickets, they go down into their
clothes and make good the short
age. To show that the Chautau
qua is growing in popularity, it
may be stated that the season
ju'it closed is the first time that
the guarantors have come out
whole.
When it is considered that for
the $1.25 the holder is entitled to
a reserved seat in the auditorium
for the entire twelve entertain
ments and lectures, at a cost of
a little more than ten cents each,
it U little wonder that people are
so eager to secure tickets ia time,
and that the auditorium is always
crowded. Persons who. do not
buy a season'tickct pay 35 cents
for the afternoon, and CO cents
admission for the evenings.
The auditorium seats a few
mere than four hundred persons,
and already 131 seasons tickets
for the season of 191S have been
pplies fi r. Buy a season ticket.
If you attend only the ni'iiht ses
sions you are in a quarter; and if
you do not attend all the night
till...
sessions, you tnouiu nave no
trouble selling your ticket to
some one who dojs not have a
season ticket.
8i!i. Biifiday.
On Thursday, September 27,
1917, William Sigtl," Sr., of Buck
Valley, was pleasantly surprised
in the receiving of- about ' 190
birthday cards from a3 many
friends. The occasion wa3 his
87ih. birthday. He is in the en
joyment of excellent health for
a man of hia years. Mrs. Sigel
is 83 years of age, and both she
and her husband do the ordinary
work about their home just aa
they used to. They are am6ng
the oldest residents of this coun
ty. Mr. Sigel feels very grate
ful to the friends who were so
thoughtful of hia pleasure on his
birthday.
Chainberlain Mellott.
On Thursday, September 27,
1917, at the home of the groom,
Mr. Samuel Chamberlain and
Miss Alda Mellott were married
by Justice W. H.CBaumgardner.
Duck Valley Boy.
Mr. and Mr3. A. A. Richards
and son Joe, of Washington, D.
C, and their brother-in-law and
wife, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Owens
of Russellviile, Ark., spent last
Saturday night at Hotel Harris.
The party was out in a big car to
catch the autumn breezes, and
they had driven from Washing
ton to Cumberland on the Nation
al Tike; thence across the Country
to Bedford and east on the Lin
coln Higeway. They left here
for Washington Sunday morning.
Mr. Richards is a Fulton Coun
ty boy that has won wealth and
distinction. His father (Hon.
John T. Richards) felt that be
ciue he happened to live in
Buck Valley where the facilities
for education were mecger (as
they were fifty years ago) it was
no reaeon why his children
should not have an education,
and he made it possible for Al
bert to graduate from Lafayette
College before arriving at the
age of twenty-one. During the
years that have followed, Mr.
Richards went West read and
practiced law; owned and pub
lished not fewer than thirteen
newspapers at different times;
he was known as a political boss
in Kansas, was assistant attorney
general of the United States, fell
into the oil business and, up to
this time, he has drilled 150 wells,
and they were not all dry
holes, either.
Letters from Camp.
Cards from D wight Sipe3 and
R-iph L::iingcr to friends in
McConnellsburg 6tate that the
boys w ho left last Friday arrived
safe at Camp Lee.
A letter from Walter Shimcr,
who is in can.p at Chattanooga,
gives an account of the "sham
trench fighting" drills the boys
are undergoing to "harden"
them for the real thing in France.
Walter had been quite ill, but he
has fully recovered.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Hays
received word a few days ago
from their son Wilmer stating
that he had been transferred
from a camp near Denver, Colo.,
to the Pacific coast in California.
Wilmer is a-memberof a cavalry
company known as the Rocky
Mountain Rangers.
Scrgcnt Watkins.
A quiet little wedding took
place at the home of J. S. Mort,
Esq.. near Clear Ridge, Saturday,
October G, 1917, when John Scr
gent and Gertrude Watkins of
Coal, Huntingdon County, were
united in marriage by Justice J.
S. Mort. The groom, who ia a
coal miner, was born in France
and came to America with his
father when quite a lad. After
remaining here a year, lvs father
returned to France and John has
been here since, not' having any
near relatives in this country.
The bri le is a daughter of Thomas
and Ella Watkins, near Coal. The
happy couple have the best wish
es of their friends for a long,
happy and prosperous life.
Had Appendices.
Margaret Wright, aged 12
years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John L. Wright, of Taylor town
ship, became suddenly very ill
on Mond.ay morning of last week
vomiting almost constantly.
Dr. R. B. Campbell, of Mount
Union was summoned by phone,
and after a thorough examina
tion, pronounced it a very serious
case of appendicitis. Margaret
was at once taken to Roaring
Spring hospital, accompanied by
Dr. Campbell, and her parents,
where she was operated upon.
Latest report says she ia getting
along excellently.
Last Monday Mr. and Mrs. C.
R. Spangler began removing their
household goods from Hancock
to their new house at the north
end of North Second Btreot in
McConnellsburg and they expect
to be "settled" by the end of
this week. Welcome back to our
village nestled in the mountains.
A CAUTION TO WAR KNITTERS.
Little Talks on Health and Hjgicne bj
Samuel C. Dixon, M. D., LL D.,
Commissioner of Health.
The thousands of women and
girls one sec3 nowadays working
with their needles on socks and
stockings for the soldiers are do
ing a patriotic and necessary ser
vice,, but some of them are doing
it wrong. The question of foot
covering in extreme winter
weather has always been a vexed
one with our people. Most of
them have seemed to think that
if you wore socks or stockings of
the heaviest weight wool obtain
able, it naturally followed that
you were making your feet as
comfortable as they could be
made in extreme weather. Many
of our knitters have the same
idea.
This ia not so. If you clothe
the feet with too heavy covering
you are merely providing an
over-dressing which will cause
perspiration. This perspiration
will freeze in extreme tempera
tures and will give the sensation
of cold and discomfort. The
wearer will then be tempted to
add even more covering, which
will aggravate the condition.
Those who have not been ex
posed to the severe weather of
our northernmost climate will
perhaps not be able to appreciate
this thoroughly. I was a mem
ber of the Commodore Peary
Committee on his first explora
tion in Arct:c circles. Our idea
of the right thing to do was to
stock the kit with plenty of
heavy clothing. The result waa
that many of the men had frozen
feet, and the cause was found to
be what I have described above.
The same thing occurred on our
reiief expedition, as its members,
of course, had had no opportuni
ty of learning the experience of
the first party and profiting by
it.
The conditions which cur own
soldiers and those of our allies
will have to face next winter will
be, judging by the history of the
present war's previous winter
campaigns, almost as taxing in
many instances aa those arctic
parties have to face. Therefore
we must consider carefully what
is best for them.
I do not mean to say that socks
and stockings and other clothing
must not be heavy enough to
provide the indispensable warmth,
but I believe a word of caution ia
necessary to those who believe
that piling on weight of material
ia all that ia required.
The lesson ia just as important
for those of us who are at home.
Experience has demonstrated
that the dressing of the feet and
limbs requires the nicest adjust
ment w hich will provide warmth
but not induce perspiration.
tuftyJohnston.
A quiet home wedding took
place Wednesday afternoon, at
3 o'clock October 10, 1917, at the
residence of Rev. and Mrs. J. L.
Grove, in McConnellsburg, when
Mr. Herbert A. Duffy, of Web
ster Mills, and Miss Mary Jane
Johnston, of McConnellsburg,
were united in marriage by Rev.
J. L. Grove, assisted by Rev. J.
L. Yearick. The guests were
members of the immediate fam
ilies. The parlor decorations
were pink and white autumn
foliage and flowers forming a
part. After the ceremony, Mr.
and Mrs. Duffy left on a trip by
auto to several places of interest.
They will be at home at Webster
Mills after October 15th.
The bride ia a daughter of the
late J. Findlay and Elizabeth
Morrow'Johnston, a graduate of
the Cumberland Valley State
Normal School and a popular and
very successful teacher. The
groom is a son of the late W.
Harry Duffy and Mcs. Catharine
Glazier Duffy at Webster Mills,
and is a member of the firm of
Duffy Bros., who own and oper
ate the large flouring mill at that
place.