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VOLUME 19
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., OCTOBER 25, 1917.
NUMBER G
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RECORD OF DEATHS.
ySUches of Ibe Lires of Per-
iooi Who Dave Keceotij
Passed Away.
Mrs. M. A. Rash.
urv A. Rash, widow of theJ
L Thomas Rash, died at the
Cof her son E. B. Rash near
htlestowo, fa., on luesday,
Ctober 16, 1917, aged 86 years,
(months and 10 days. She was
jiwdhter of Thomas and Laura
Way and was born in Eng.
Ii She came to this county
it her parents when five years
ige. Mrs. Rash was a kind
j loving mother, and a mem
r of the M. 'E. church for
W years, having united when
Iter youth. The funeral took
ceon Wednesday of last week
j interment was made in the
:etery at the Presbyterian
JrchatWarfordsdurg, her pas
I Dr. Webster preaching the
fral sermon in the Presbyter
church at that place.
itout sixty years ago she was
Wed to Thomas Rash who
Wed her to the grave five
nago. To this union six
Jren were born, one of whom
keded her mother to the
tit world about seventeen
Is ago. The following chil-
mrvive, i imely, William,
mt in He cock, Aid.; Ea
rl, residing; iar Littlestown,
Letitia, wi ' of George C.
p, Dickeys . fountain; Laura,
of Jacob S Hill, Needmore,
DdTiisl, Ge: nantown, Md.
John W Mower.
m W. Mci-er died at his
ieat Clear I Mge this county
Way ever.jg October 20,
sged 76 years. Mr. Mower
i veteran of the civil war
i member of the United
fcren Church. For a num-
of years he conducted the
business at Mowersville
w county and was well
p throughout that commun-
ii survived by his widow
p following children: Mrs.
Crider, Chambersburg; J.
ower, Mowersville: Murry
per, Frank B. Mower and
p Mower, also of Cham-
KMrs. Russell Mohler of
H N. J., and Mrs. Charles
la and Mrs. John Bareford.
pningtown.
N services were held at
Wn church of
Nay afternoon at 2:30
Mower was stricken with
f is February 6,. 1915, and
w time he was a ereat
to himself, but he was
feared for by his faith-
He was a volunteer in
207th Reg. Penna. Inf.
f service from the 27th
MgU3tl864 until he was
N out at Alexandria, Va.,
day of May, 1865.
Mowersville. Pa., nn the
June, 1842. he was acred
4 months and 10 days
ume or his death.
M marrifloro oroa tft Tlfiaa
Clippinger- of Mowers-
lo thi3 union 9 children
f8' e'Kht of whom are
36 names beinir already
sketch.
TO
e ttomiurnthe loss of
COmt minn
.1 U g U 11
?eWil n Fleming nron.
mov' to Clear Ridire.
;e 'Pent ;he remainder of
Ue j a pleasing con-
l"8t, : id KJfl Vinmo woo
Pthe Itch Btrinw WBfl
0,11 toh',i wide circle of
Y Urbaugh.
Pba-.gha resident, of
i n'P. died in the hospi-
. - -'SI u.v...t.j
October 21. 1917, aged
' N 3 days. His re-
f9 taken to his home on
I'" and k- . . .
been in usual health
Yeager Back in the Pea.
The News last week told of the
brutal treatment of John Yeager's
wife at the hands of her husband,
and of his arrest and confinement
in the jail at Chambersburg.
Yeager had been serving a term
in the penitentiary and was pa
roled. After his arrest the
matter was brought to the at
tention of the authorities a
Philadelphia and Warden McKen
ty sent his son, who is parole
agent, to Chambersburg last
Friday morning and in the after
noon he left with his prisoner.
who took him to Philadelphia and
placed him behind the bars,
Fifty Years in W. Ya.
Mr. Jacob L. Richards, of
Clarksburg, W.Va., spent Mon
day night and Tuesday in town
on business. Mr. Richards is the
eldest of the boys of the family
of late Hon. and Mrs. John T.
Richards, of Union township,-
and a veteran of the Civil War.
During the last fifty years he has
resided in West Virginia. By
reference to the classified adver
tisements in another column it
will be seen that he is advertis
ing for sale the Old Richards
nomesteaa in buck valley, one
of the largest and finest farms in
that locality.
emu
Pastor Called.
Rev. Wilson V. Grove, of Lew
istown, Pa., preached to the two
United Presbyterian congrega
tions of the Cove last Friday and
Saturday and on Sabbath held
communion services for both con
gregations in the church in town
After the Saturday services the
congregations held a business
meeting at which time a vote
was taken to decide whether a
call should be extended to the
visiting minister and practically
all members voted in favor of
making the call a matter that
is now under consideration.
until a few days before his death
when he complained of a pain in
his side. Upon the advice of his
physician he was taken to the
Chambersburg hospital last
Thursday evening and an opera
tion performed for abscess of the
iver on Friday.
The deceased was a son of Mr.
and Mrs. John S. Carbaugh.
Fifteen years ago on the 11th of
this month, he was married to
Miss Frances Fittery, who Sur
vives, together with the follow
ing children: Willie, Dannie,
Ruthie, Herman, Abbie, and Da
vidall at home.
Mrs. Amelia Bealman.
Mrs. Amelia Bealman died at
the home of Miss Ella Lafferty
in Bethel township on Thursday,
October 18, 1917, aged about 60
i
years, lhe deceased was a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Mellott and she was born in
Licking Creek township. In
June, 1876 she was married to
Henry Adams, who died in June
1890. A few years later she
was married to Peter C. Beal
man of Franklin County and he
died in 1903.
Mrs Ward.
Mrs. Beulah, wife of Daniel
Ward died Oct 12th, at her home
at Camp Hill, Harrisburg, in her
53d year, from tuberculosis.
The remains were taken to the
home of her mother, Mrs. Hen
dricks, in Chambersburg, Octo
ber 16th.
The funeral was held Thurs
day morning at 10 o'clock at the
home of Mrs. Hendricks, inter
ment was at Cashtown,. Pa.
The deceased was a sister-in
aw of our townsman John Doyle.
George C. Mason.
George Christley ' Mason, son
of Roy and Annie Mason, died
at their home in Thompson town
ship, this county, on Saturday,
October 20, 1917, aged 7 months
and 20 days. The funeral ser
vices conducted by Rev. John
Mellott of the Brethren Church,
took place7 Monday; and inter
ment was made in the cemetery
at Damascus. The parents have
the sincere sympathy of their
many friends,
Doings at Camp Hancock.
The following items clippe
from "Trench and Camp" an
edition of which was published
by the Augusta Herald on the
10th Inst, will be read with in
terest by every one who has
friend at that Camp.
Eighty-nine soldiers joined the
First Presbyterian Church of Au
gusta on Sunday, as war mem
bers. When they leave fo
France, their membership wi
revert to their home churches in
Pennsylvania.
une oi trie finest records in
Camp Hancock has been made
by the 16th Infantry, now the
112th. Since being here, but one
man has been placed in the
guard house. This commendable
showing is very gratifying to the
officers and is one that other
commandents might well
late.
first hike freat success.
On Saturday morning, the first
practice hike in Camp Hancock
was undertaken most successful
ly by the 56th Brigade. Briga
dier-General Logan, command
ing. The Sixteenth, Eighteenth
and Tenth Infantry Regiments
furnished a total of more than
6,000 men and the long column
swung out of the camp and down
to Highland avenue, Agusta,
thence up Walton Way for a con
siderable distance, where a by
road was taken through the
woods and fields and the return
trip made over the Wrightsboro
road to camp.
General Logan and all the
officers and men were dismounted
and with two exceptions every
man finished in excellent condi
tion. This is highly commend
able when it is considered that
fully 75 per cent of the men
were green. Ouly 25 per cent.
had been to the border and the
troops swung along the line of
march with the ease and steadi
ness of seasoned veterans. It
proved the thoroughness of the
men's physical training, for much
of the march was over rough and
untraveled roads.
Upon the return to camp, the
brigade was reviewed by Gener
al Logan near division headquar
ters. The troops left camp at
9:45 and made the eight miles in
good time, returning at 11:45.
The men sang popular songs
along the line of march and the
officers realize the need of
thorough coaching of the men in
singing the late songs, it in
spires them and makes the march
ing easy.
General Logan was delighted
with the splendid showing made
by the troops in the division's
first practice march.
Peace Not in Sight.
At a meeting in London Mon
day, Lloyd George, premier of
England said: "I have scanned
the horizon intently, and can see
no terms in sight which would
ead to enduring peace. . The only
terms now possible would mean
an armed truce ending in an
even more frightful struggle."
Mr. George said Germany
would make peace now only on
terms which would enable her to
benefit by tlie war. He assert
ed that would be encouragement
to every buccaneering empire i n
the future to repeat the experi
ment and that there will be no
peace in the. world until the
shrine of the war spirit of Pots
dam is shattered and its priest
hood dispersed and discredited
forever.
Left for Home.
After having spent three
months in Pennsylvania, much
of the time at the home of ex
Sheriff and Mrs. Frank Mason,
Mrs. W. B. Stephenson, left
Washington City Monday even
ing for her home in the state of
Washington. Mrs. Stephenson
was accompanied last Friday to
Harrisburg, by Mrs. Mason and
the two ladies then spent the
time until Monday with Mrs.
Mason's daughter, Miss Goldie
at Middletswn, Pa.'
MOST UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT.
Carelessness in the Handling of Re
volver Results ia Loss of Life of
Noble Young Man.
Edgar Frederic Young a neph
ew of the editor of the News, and
a fireman on the Pennsylvania
railroad, was instatnly killed
about 11 o'clock last Friday morn
ing twelve miles west of Johns
town, Pa by a stray bullet from
a revolver in the hand of a
negro shooting mark.,
Fred as he was familiarly
known, was a son of Calvin C,
and Celesta Virginia Harrington
Young, near Hollidaysburg, Pa,
unmarried, and was aged 32
years 11 months and 12 days
He was fireman on the Commer
cial Express a heavy passenger
train and had been in the employ
of the Company for twelve years
Along the main line of the
railroad about twelve miles west
of Johnstown, Pa., in a piece o
woods is a camp of negro laborers
employed as track hands. On
account of the rain last Friday
morning, two of the negroes did
not go to work and remained in
the camp with the cook.
On schedule time the Commer
cial Expms left Pittsburgh Fri
day mornig and was rolling
along on time vhen the engineer
found that hu ongine was not
working and i.: train was
brought to a stanitill, as it hap
pened, just at this camp. The
engineer and fireman dropped to
the track and began an investi
gation, when it was found they
had a hot box. They had been
at work on the trouble but a few
minutes wnen a report or a gun
was heard, Fred clasped his hands
to his breast and immediately be
gan to sink to the ground. In a
ew minutes he was dead.
ine negroes remaining in
Camp, to pass the time away,
were shooting at a tin can in the
direction of the train, and a bul
et nren nit tne can and sped on
entering the heart of the fire
nlan, Fred Young, with the re
suit already stated. The Bhot
was fired at a distance of about
35 yards from the spot where
Fred was at work, from a 38-
cal. revolver.
In the excitement that follow
ed the shooting the negro made
his escape.
The funeral took place from
the home of his parents on Mon
day morning at 10 o, clock, at
which time a very large number
of people assembled to mingle
their sorrow with that of the
stricken parents. A profusion
beautiful floral pieces, the
gift of the Orders to which he
belonged, and from the hands of
admiring friends, bore- eloquent
tribute to the mental and moral
worth of the noble young fellow
whose life was a sacrifice to care-
essness in the handling of fire
arms.
Visited Washington.
After having spent several
days visiting in the homes of his
brother Jacob in Ayr township,
and Amos in McConnellsburg
Mr. John B. Clouser of Altoona,
a., went to Washington last
Saturday morning where he join
ed his daughter Laura and her
husband Mr. Samuel Guyer, and
his grand-daughter Florence and
her husband Mr. C. B. Hesser'-
all of Altoona, The object of
thefr visit to the Capitol City at
this time was to spend a day or
two with Mr. Clouser's grandson,
Lieut John F. Walters, who is
stationed at Camp Meade, and
who had a leave of absence from
Saturday until Monday to spend
with the visitors.
Licnt. Stevens.
Russell Stevens who went to
Camp Lee with the last increment
of drafted boys from Fulton
County, returned home last Sat
urday. After having reached the
Camp, he was notified that he
had been assigned to the Dental
Corps of Surgeons with the rank
of first lieutenant He is now at
home awaiting orders,
Threatened Meat Shortage.
If statistics prove anything,
the American Nation is facing a
meat shortage unlike anything in
history.
What can be done to alleviate
the shortage? The most import
ant thing is to show up the true
feeding value of corn silage and
cotton seed meal as a cattle feed.
If farmers generally understood
the value of this combination, a
great many more young cattle
would be raised on the average
farm. No feed is equal to it for
cheap gams. While corn silage
is by no means a new feed, sti
its feeding value when combined
with a highly concentrated pro
lein ieea, sucn as cotton seed
meal or linseed meal, is not gen
erally well understood. Most
farmers feel that other roughage
must be fed in conjunction wit!
t mt
suage. inia is not necessary
and only increases the cost
grain.
a Bcming comparison was
never better understood from
practical feeding contest unti
late in the summer," says Dr. J
N. Rosetberger, farm adviser o
the Pennsylvania Department o
ft IIA . .
Agriculture. uur cattle were
removed from a good pasture to
the barn and placed on a ration
of all the good silage they would
clean up twice daily, and one
half pound daily (to yearling
heifers) of cake meal per animal.
lhe gam of a pound daily as it
had been on pasture wa3 increas
ed to two pounds daily.
many iarmers are inquiring
if it pays to put good ears in silo
when corn is Belling for $2. 00 and
Deuerper Dusnei. mere is no
other form in which you can feed
corn where it will return as
much as through the silo.
"More silage means more cat
. .
tie, more cattle more manure,
more manure more crops."
FEAST OR FAST.
Market Potatoes Now.
Farmers who are in touch with
market conditions are taking ad- Little Talks on Health and Djgiene ij
vamage t tne present aesire on ianmel 0. Dixon, JB. DM LL. D..
uie partoime consumer to lay Commissioner of Health,
in the winter sunnlv of nntatnes.
These observing producers are In civilized life men find it im-
marketing at least half of their P88ible to pay proper attention
crop. t0 tnelr meals. They cannot eat
For the past thirty days house- re2u,arly and have no time to eat
holders have been purchasing 8lowIv. and they apparently will
enough potatoes to carrv them Cttl WUiU "'
Not "Blowing It In."
Mr. Thomas Hampton spent
the week-end with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. James Hampton,
west of town. Tom is employed
in the Westingbouse Works in
dred and forty dollars a month.
What are you doing with
yourmoney, Tom blowingit in?"
jocularly inquired a friend Mon
day.
Noton'your life." said Tom.
'When I get my board paid,
put the rest in bank. I have
two Liberty Bonds now, and if 1
ive I'll have some more."
Bigger Tomatoes.
un account oi in health our
ormer townsman, Isaac D. Bol
inger has sold out his business at
Shade Gap and moved to Orbiso-
nia, where he has accepted light
er work with the Rockhill Iron
and Coal Company. Mr. Boling-
er says that if George Tice will
send him that tomato belt by
parcel post, he will wear it
awhile; for Mr. Bolinger raised
one this fall that weighed two
pounds and a quarter; also, a
pumpkin that measured 4 feet
six inches in circumference.
Card of Thanks.
Thomas T. Cromer, of Dublin
township, desires through the
columns of the News to thank
the voters of the County for the
very handsome support given
him for the nomination for the
office of jury commissioner at
the primaries, and solicits a con
tinuance of the same at the gen
eral election in November.
Hundreds Starve in Streets.
A cablegram from the Ameri
can legation or Copenhagen
through the state department
says hundreds of persons are lit
erally starving to death in the
streets of Warsaw and other
cities of Poland and Lithuania in
Russia.
Agriculturist Frank Ranck
bought a husker and shredder
ast week to take care of the
crop of corn after having stored
one hundred tons in his silo.
through the winter. The fact
that this movement has begun
about a month earlier than
usual would seem to indicate
that the storage demand mav
have learned
by precept and experience is fit
ting for those who do work in
doors that requires intense men
tal application. Failinu- to fol.
low the laws of health over a
be met by the first of December period of time- they beSin to feel
and possibly by the middle of inert roentmly and physically;
November. their work becomes a burden;
The Food Supply Department eyesight lo8eB ita acuteness,
of the Pennsylvania Committee while the natural white of the
of Public Safety advises that eye 8 Ios' and it becomes con-
the time to sell potatoes is when gested showing sometime a yel-
the movement into storatre i8 low tinge; the appetite begins to
taking place. For instance if the fail; natural Bleep is broken up
demand in a certain community and interrupted, and when awak-
is 100 bushels a day and that
supply ia not forthcoming and
the people consume other foods
the demand for that 100 bushels
is lost forever. If this continues
for any length of time there
would be a glut in the Spring.
This would mean low prices and
also a large number of potatoes
wasted by spoiling.
This is the logical time there
fore, regardless of price, for
farmers to dispose of half or all
of their crop. While an unusual
food condition mav result in a
higher market in the Spring yet
the reverse may happen. The
farmer who meets the demand
when the household is willing to
stock up not only saves cost of
storage and handling but escapes
losses through sweating, shrink
age in weight and decay. He al
so gets his cash in hand early.
The New Libertj Truck.
ening comes, the mind is puzzled
Dy confused ideas.
When these symptoms are rec
ognized, men of experience know
it is because the food taken has
been in excess of the demands
of the body.
Such a man was a laboratory
associate of mine years ago. Oc
casionally he would salute me in
the morning and say, "What do
you prescribe, doctor, a feast or
a' fast?" He meant that he felt
he had been neglecting aH" out
door exercise for a long time and
had not at all neglected taking
heavy and frequent meals, until
now his system was out of bal
ance and something had to be
done to restore' balance. Query
should he fast himself back to
health, or should he emulate the
old Romans and start with a
feast?
Most people are familiar with
the ancient Roman feast whose
features we would deaenhn now.
The first of the new Liberty adava more accurately with thA
trucks to pass over the Lincoln name of orev or debauch. ThM
Highway attracted much atten- feasts always made them sick
tion as it stood in front of Hotel and the physical reaction would
Harris a few days ago. be such that no food wag taken
Thia truck is the forerunner of into the svstem for sometime
35,000 to be manufactured in afterward. So that th same, re.
western factories and sent via suit of a fast was arrived at bv a
the Lincoln Highway to New different route. My associate,
York for shipment to France, beincr a man of humorous view-
The first truck, assembled by the point, was just accenting this
Gramm-Bernstein Motor Truck condition.
Company, Lima, Ohio, was fin- When I asked him why he
ished and running on October 8 thought of the more roundabout
and put on the road the next way of the Romans, he replied
day, two days ahead of schedule that vou srot some hilarity with
and a little more than a month
from the beginning of its devel
opment The truck is on its first
trip from Lima to Washington and
was accompanied by engineers
rom twelve truck plants and all
were high in their praise of its
wonderful performance over the
Allegheny mountains. In De
cember the factories will com
mence Bhipping these trucks over
the Lincoln Highway at the rateJ
of about 200 a day until the en
tire 35,000 are manufactured.
State Highway Commissioner
O'Neil last week fn a statement
referred to the fact that the
heavy trucks are breaking down
the Lincoln Highway. He will
make special effort to keep this
highway open all winter in order
to help in thia and other move
ments of war goods.
150 Lives Lost
One hundred and fifty lives
were lost on Wednesday when
five Norwegian, one Danish and
three Swedish vessels were sunk
by two German raiders in the
North Sea. The admiralty state
ment on Saturday said 135 officers
and men of the British destroy
ers Mary Kose and Dtrongbow
were lost when these two vessels
were sunk while convoying the
merchantmen.
Sipes-Hoop.
David I Si pes, son of Mrs. Fan
nie Sipes of Licking Creek town
ship and Miss Ella Hoop, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs, Geo. Hoop,
it "You get more out of treat
ing yourself by debauch, than
drugs," he said, and that is the
way a good many people look at
it unfortunately.
The Roman custom is recogniz
ed historically as having continu
ed long afterward in other races,
and perhaps it is still surviving
today, in principle at least among
individuals here and there.
Still, the mass. of our people
have a more sensible view. It is
known that a fast will relieve
nature while she is coping with
the task of overcoming extra bur
dens that have been laid upon
the system. The debauch, which
is genneraily what high livers
make of their "feast" on the
contrary is seen generally as
something that overloads the
svstem and adds to nature's bur
den even though it mentally
stimulates the subject, some
time to the point where he might
be guilty of crime. And there
is the hilarity a thing to be re
membered and tempt the sub
ject to try the same remedy the
next time.
The alcohol that goes with over-"
indulgent living makes an over
demand for water upon the tis
sues and gradually changes their
physical condition and interferes
with their physiological action.
The result is that permanent
harm ia done. Each time an ex
cess of alcohol is indulged in
there is left a permanent im
print upon the digestive system
that will never be erased. Each
time this imprint will become
deeper until the subject is indeli
bly marked as an alcoholic. For-
fnnofolu ma oil lrnnr fha a4?aa
same township were united into of ftIcohoi ftn(1 ftV(.5(1 ilL ex.
the Holy Bonds of. matrimony
is Hagerstown last week.
pnnfinf in ifa nnno r)ata and
then use it only immoderation.
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