THE FULT01C COUNTY 1HBWS, McCOHHELLBBUKI, PA.
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FULTON COUNTY NEWS
Published Every Thursday.
8. I
PECK, Editor ind Proprietor
McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
OCTOBER M, 1917
Published Weekly. 51.50 per
Annum in Advance.
EMrlhPortoffloe M MeOonnilliburf
P.., m oood-oiMi mU matter.
Bwework Is a Borden.
Woman's lot is ft eary one at
beat But with backache and
other distressing kidney ills life
Indeed becomes a burden.
Doan's Kidney Pills have made
life brighter for many McCon
nellsburg women. . Read what
Mrs. Clevenger says:
Mrs. Luanda Clevenger, Mo
Connellsbnrg, says; "My back
ached badly and 1 couldn't do my
housework. Tbad dizzy spells
tod chills and was annoyed by
the kidney secretions. Often
veilings appeared under my
eyes and I was nervous at night
I was troubled by rheumatic
twinges. Doan's Kidney Pills
removed all signs of the trouble.
I procured them atTrout's Drug
Store."
Price 60c. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills the
same that Mrs. Clevenrer bad.
Foster-Mil burn Co, Props, Buf
falo, N. Y.
AdT.rtlMment.
Storing Potatoes.
- Potatoes keep bent if stored at
a temperature of 8336 degrees
P , but very well also at a tem
perature of 40 degrees or even a
little higher, according to the
authorities of the Pennsylvania
Bute College.
Ideal conditions for potatoes
are seldom attained where cel
lars of dwelling houses .are nsed
for storage places, but such eel
lars may often be made satisfac
tory. A cellar room in which
there is a furnace is too warm
for potatoes. . When there is heat
in any part of the cellar the stor
age room should be separated
from the rest of the house by
brick, concrete or double wall of
tonguedand grooved boards hav
ing a dead air space.
Such storage room should have
at least one window by which
ventilation can be arranged. The
floor should be of earth rather
than concrete or wood. It is im
portant that light be excluded
from stored potatoes, for even
diffused light tends to turn the
tubers green and to injure them
for table use.
. When conditions are not suit
able for cellar storage, it is often
advisable to store in pits those
intended for late winter and
spring use. Only a well drained
site should be chosen for a pit
An excavation five or six inches
- deep should be made and this
cavity lined with straw, hay or
leaves. The potatoes should be
piled on this material in a com
pact heap then covered with four
to six inches of straw and follow
ed by a six inch layer of earth.
After the earth has frozon
somewhat another layer of straw
DR. FAIIRNEY
HAGERSTOWN, MD.
DIAGNOSTICIAN
Onlr chronic disMiei. Send ma
your name and address and I will
send you a mailing case and question
blank. Doat use dope for chronic
troubles, get cured. It Is a satis
faction to know what the oause is.
COKgULTATIOH FREE.
LADIES Can secure the very latest novelties and finest quality-fabrics at wholesale prices.
1IF7M Can obtain the best custom tailored suits and overcoats made to their order for less
IVliZav than redy made garments.
IT IS ONLY A FEW STEPS FROM THE TROLLEY TO OUR MILL.
Home Woolen Mills Co.,
Spring Street Chambersburg, Pe. Retail Store Adjoins TVlill.
WE HAVE NO STORE ON MAIN STREET.
and a second layer o f earth
should be added. The layer o f
earth should be eight or ten inch
es 'deep. Water should be drain
ed away from the pit ' by means
of shallow ditches.
CLEAR BIDOK. '
Applebutter boiling has had
the right of way the last few
weeks.
Mrs. William Grove is just re
covering from the effects of a
severe fall she had a few weens
go.
Mrs. A. J. Fraker is quite ill.
Revival services began in the
M.E church at this place Mon
day evening.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Grove, son
Luther, daughter M.iss Minnie
and Horace Grove and wife, spent
last Sunday at Judson M. Mad
den's at Meadow Gap.
Misses Maude and Mayme
Fields and Bess Brown are
spending this week wish friends
at McConnellsburg.
Mr. John W. Mower died at
his home here last Saturday even
ing. Short funeral services were
held at the house Sunday even
ing. Monday the remains were
tauen to Mowersville, Franklin
county, and on Tuesday inter
ment was made in the cemetery
at that place.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Appleby
visited friends at Shirleysburg
the latter part of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse B. Heef
ner and daughter Olive were
guests recently in the home of
Mrs. Ueefner's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Fraker.
Clarence Henry and brother
Cleveland of Dudley, were week
end guests in the parettal home
of Mr. and Mrs. John A Henry.
SALUVIA SUMMARIZES.
Mr. and Mrs Ray W. Hntley
and four children, of Petersburg
Pa, are visiting the former's
paronts Mr. and Mrs J. M. Hur
ley this week. M r. Hu rley k eeps
a meat market in Petersburg and
is kept very busy supplying his
customers. He thinks the prices
of meat are soaring beyond all
precedent, in the United States.
It is truly to be feared that
prices may get beyond the means
ot all common people.
Rev. Reidell of Hustontown
preached a very impressive ser
mon at Asbury M. E. church on
Sabbath evening.
Quite a number of hunters
have come to Licking Creek val
ley in quest of game. The Game
Commissioner of Pennsylvania
gets the revenue of the hunters
license and license hunters to
hunt but how much game do they
propagate for them?
The friends and relatives of
Mr. JobnS Sipesare regretting
to hear that his health is rapidly
failing.
Eva the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John S. Sipes, aged about
14 years in trying to escape from
a running horse hurriedly ju mped
on a fence and accidentally fell
over to the ground, causing a
compound dislocation of hee arm
necessitating her removal to tte
Chambersburg . hospital wt ere
the fracture is being treated.
Dr. McClain of Hustontown took
her to the hospital in bis auto.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sipes
both in their 75th year returned
home from an extended visit to
relatives. They visited Mrs.
Mary Hanks, of Everett, J. W.
Booty and Mrs. Amanda Wool-
fcrd, of Befdord; and Mrs. Shoe
maker, of Buffalo Mills, Bedford
county. Their son Homer L.
Sipes met them at Everett on
tbeir return trip and brought
them home in hi. aut".
Mr. Simon E'aosof B airsville
Pa , aged 71 years, recently vis
ited his sister Mrs. Joseph Sipes
and family, spending one week
with them, it being his first visit
in 29 years. On this trip Mr.
Evans first visited relatives at
Huntingdon, Three Springs and
Springfield Baptist Church sec
tion, then to flagerstown to at
tend the Fair thence to view the
Gettysburg Battlefi Id.
WEST DUBLIN.
Ida Watkina visited friends at
Woodvale last week.
Our farmers are busy busking
corn. Most of the buckwheat is
thrashed. It is a good crop.
On Saturday, October 13th,
Harmon Cromwell and Blanche
Moore and sister, and Mrs. Eliza
Hoover and N. E. M. Hoover,
took a trip through part of Bed
ford county, stopping at Samuel
Fink's near Cypher Station on
the H. & B. T. railroad, and in
Everett on their return.
Dawson Strait visited his sis
ter Mrs. Alice McClain near 0 .k
Gr ve Huntingdon County on
Sunday, October 14:h.
Charles Henry and family of
Robertsdale visited at Clear
Ridge last Sunday.
Mrs. Margaret Kesselring, of
Hustontown, spent the past two
weeks at Mrs. Jennie Brant's
and Dallas Brant's.
SIDEUNO HILL
Mrs. Moses Hess and children,
and Frank Hill, wife and child,
of Pigeon Cove, spent Sunday, at
William Mellott's.
James Truax and family of
Need more recently visited rela
tives here.
George F. B.'HiU is visiting
his roa in law and daughter Mr.
and Mrs. Bennett Robison at
Ellerslie, Md.
Mrs. Jeremiah Golden and
sons Jerry and Bryan of Dott,
spent a day recently with Sher
man Truax and family at Locust
Grove.
Sheriff and Mrs Job. L Gar
land visited relatives and friends
here last week.
Elmer Bernhardt and mother,
of Everett, accompanied by Miss
Smith of Tennessee, spent Sun
day with Mrs. Cassia Winter.
Scott Deneen was a Monday
visitor at Mr. Riley Lynch's.
Stats Agricultural Notes.
The average yield per acre of
rye in the State this year is 17.3
bushels to an acre as compared
with 16.9 bushels last year.
The high price for wheat dur
ing the past year has caused the
farmers to sell of! all but seven
tenths of one per cent of the
crop as compared with holdings
of three per cent at the same
time last year.
Some of the counties show
splendid increases in the wheat
crop through better cultivation
and care of fields when the cry
of the country went up for more
wheat and the coming year prom
ises Pennsylvania's b u m per
wheat acreage and crop.
The average yield of oats for
the State this year is 35.6 bush
els to an acre as compared with
31 bushels last year. This will
show a big increase in the oats
crop.
Both the corn and buckwheat
crops will be below the average
yield, both being about six per
cent below the average on the
first of October.
Pasture conditions have increas
ed and are now rated at 98 per
cent by the farmers of the State.
The apple crop in the State is
about fifty per cent, of a normal
yield.
Save Skim Milk is U. S. Advice.
Washington, Oct. 17 -Save
every drop ot skim milk. It is a
valuable food. Use it in your
kitchen and on your table.
It is valuable as a beverage, in
cookery, as cottage cheese too
valuable to waste, whether it
comes through your own separa
tor or the separator at the cream
erytoo valuable to be thrown
away or fed to farm animals if
it can be used for human food.
At creameries where whole
milk is bandied, skim milk is
often thrown down the drains.
Creameries ought to make their
skim milk into cottage cheese.
Farmers ought to make cot
tage cheese at borne. Skim milk
so used will supplement our meat
supply, for cottage cheese is one
of the best substitutes for meat
Ufce it in your cooking.
Make and eat cottage cheese
and encourage others to use it.
Mako puddings and soups and
bread with skim milk.
The dairy divison of the Unit
ed SthUs dcparlmen of agricul
ture, Washington, D. C, will
tell y u how to make cottage
cheese m the home or creamery
and in what dishes it may be
used.
"Root tlie Rat"
"Rout the rat" is a new Blogan
proposed by the Food Supply
Department of the Pennsylvania
Committee of Public Safety.
There is just as much perhaps
more need for routing the rat
than for "swatting the fly."
Flies transmit disease. Rats not
only spread disease but leave a
costly trail of destruction.
Probably 200,000 men in the
United States are devoting their
energies and time to feeding rats.
Of this number 120,000 are farm
ers who are giving their farms,
agricultural implements and oth
er equipment to supply the food
stuffs annually consumed by rats.
This striking illustration is giv
en by Edward W. Nelson, chief
of the United States Biological
Survey to point out the menace
by rodents at a time when every
ounce of food is vital. Writing
in the Geographic Magazine,
Prof. Nelson declares that the
actual money loss caused each
year by rats is $500,000,000.
Pennsylvania by pro rata as
one of forty-eight states would
contribute 400 men to this rat
feeding army. But as Pennsyl
vania in productive energy contri
bute more than one forty-eighth
of the national total it follows
thattheefforts of many more than
4000 Pennsylvania workers go to
waste by way of the rat-hole.
Statistics are at hand to illus
trate the damage done by rats.
In Iowa one farmer lost 500
bushels of corn out of a crib con
taining 2000. The Virginia com
missioner of health says that in
parts of his state rats have de
stroyed 75 per cent of the poultry
and 10 percent of growing crops.
A large milling company in Louis
ville, Ky., estimate that rats
cause a loss of $3000 a year to
sacks alone, not to speak o f the
huge damage done the contents.
Twenty-four Snows.
The first intimation that the
fine weather of the past weeks
was not to continue, was given
Tuesday morning by flocks of
wild geese passing toward the
South; this was followed by rain
which began to fall at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon and continued
steadily until Wednesday morn
ing when it turned to snow the
first fall of the season. If Char
lie Stevens' sign (the day of the
month on which the first snow
falls denotes the number of snows
during the winter) is any good
and it isn't safe to tell him it
isn't we are to have twenty-four
snows this winter.
Use Cheaper Food. .
The first effect of high-priced
grain is to decrease interest in
livestock. The competition o f
two dollar corn and two dollar
wheat is driving many a dairy
farmer to sacrifice his herd, and
many a stock man to sell his corn
instead of feeding it on the farm.
Cattle must not be allowed to
compete with man for the grain
crops. America needs' cattle
not to consume the grain on
the farm, but to convert grain
refuse and roughage into meat
and milk.
The United States Department
of Agriculture says "It is time
to quit shoveling grain indiscrim
inately into livestock. Feeding
grain to meat animals with a
lavish hand is responsible for one
of the greatest feed losses on the
farms of this country. Hay, fod
der, silage, and pasture are the
cheapest feeds and will carry
animals' along with a minimum of
grain.
More extensive use of roughage
in the cattle ration will release
immense quantities of grain for
human consumption and still
maintain the cattle population of
the country. Just now hay is
cheap and plentiful, and grain is
expensive. It is especially good
economy to feed all the roughage
on the farm and save the grain
to sell.
"No Harm Doneh
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wiiny powder, it's
INFALLIBLE
The Dense Waterproof
Smokeless Powder"
Guns and ammunition (of
ail sportejnen'a requirements.
Call or send your order.
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59 N. Main St.,
Chambersburg, Pa.
Western Maryland Railway.
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with a view to giving his entire attention to Real
Estate, the undersigned offers his service to any
one having real estate for sale, or wanting to
buy.
His thorough acquaintance with values and
conditions in Fulton County, coupled with long
and successful experience in handling Real Es
tate, makes it possible for him to bring about
results in the shortest possible time.
Write, or call on,
D. H. PATTERSON,
WEBSTER MILLS, PA.
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