111101 r VOLUME 19 McCONNELLSBURG, PA., NOVEMBER f, 1917. NUMBER 1 1 RECORD OF DEATHS. t Sketches of the Lives of Per sons who nave Recently Passed Away. Daniel' G. Elvey. panielGillia Elvey died sud- church, Saturday, October 1917, aged 69 years, 6 months a 1 days. His funeral took We on the following Tuesday, rvices being conducted by Rev. n..mn it f Via TT R nVinrnK d interment was made in the metery at the Bethlehem urch. Oo Saturday morning, in his al health, Mr. Elvey went it to the field, husked corn un- dinner time, came in, ate his ner and went out te the pen feed the hogs. In less than a hour later his grandson Don t found him lying near the house dead. Mr. Elvey was married twice. is nrst wne was miss Anna vans, of Licking Creek town lip and of this union two sons irvive: Charles Elvey, of White load, Mich., and Oliver Elvey, Wedo, 0. His second wife who wives, was Miss Rebecca Jane jsvis, of Clearville, Pa. Of this Won, five chiidren snrvive: Sjd, McConnellsburg; Harry, Jtoona; Roy, Tod township, this Wy; Walter, farming the me place, and Daisy, wife of hnWible, residing in Licking ek to-vnship There, are two others living--John in Altoona dGeorgo, Fr -eport, 111., also ! sister, Mary, wife of William wan, near Me cersburg. There i twenty gran 1-children living, ir. Elvey wa- the oldest mem- of the Bf helehem U. B. lurch, he havng united with 1st class 45 years ago. He was excellent neighbor, a loyal i:en and will be greatly missed the community. Mrs. Andrew J. Fraker. lizabeth, wife of Andrew J. er, died at their home at Ridge, this county, on day, October 23, 1917, aged years, 8 months and 14 days, t funeral took place on Friday services being conducted by r.G.B. M. Reidell, of Hus town, and interment was feat Clear Ridge. ira. Fraker was a daughter of late Michael Gamble, of Path ley, and she was married to Fraker about fifty years ago. this union were born six chil li, two ftf vhnm nro livincr I ' w II V ... M W ' " O , fely, Teressa, wife of Jesse Heefner, near Gracey, and 'erva, widow of the late Geo. to, at home. She is also sur- by her husband and two children, Glenn 0. Miller pie she had been in declin- health for some time, she rc&lly confined to her room hys. Mrs. Fraker had nurtured in the Presbvter- faith, but belonged to the odist Church for forty years 'hen health permitted she a'ways found in herDlace .Public worship She was a iar of most exemplary char- ai'd was held in hieh esteem 01ly by her immediate fami ly the entire community. John Krugh. lhQKrugh, one of Hunting- wuntj's beEt citizens, died h uvai xt v-ui via wia ?a night of last week aged ft 65 year, The funeral took ? Sunday and interment was ? at Blacklog church. The is survived by his wife pne children, three of whom jed am the rest, are at Woodcoc -Denisar. t Joseph E. Woodcock, of P "Pa Mary Elizabeth Deni A, 8 larnery, were mar- AI)ree Springs, Saturday, C, 1917 by Rev. Frown fOItheM.E. church. . 'ibefor the News; Might Be Worse. Some one has dug uo an in voice of a bill of goods sold by a firm of wholesale grocers of Keokuk, la., in June. 1862. which shows that sugar was $58 a barrel and rice $38, while tea sold at $101 for a 25-pound chest. Coffee was four times the pres ent price, and the same bill of groceries which then brought $644.14 could be purchased to day for $291.61. Those were the days of the civil war, which accounts for the soaring prices. Nowadays when people kick over paying nine or ten cents a pound for sugar .and moderate sums for tea and coffee they may find some consolation is knowingjthat their grandparents were in much worse plight. Compared with most of the world, the United States is standing the stress and strain of the present war with comparatively little discomfort. Why We are at War. Recently the Secretary of Ag riculture gave his views as to why we are at war with Ger many. He asserted that we are at war with Germany because she made war on us, denying and invading our obvious rights; that we are at war with Germany to make good our claim that we are a free nation, to exercise our rights without restraint or dic tation from Prussion militarists, to have the kind of institutions we wish, and to live the kind of national life we have determined to live; that we are at war with Germany, in cooperation with other decent and liberty-loving nations of the earth, to preserve freedom in the world and to pre vent a recurrence, if possible, of another calamity such as , the world is now enduring. Harness Inspector A short time ago, Bert F. Smith a well known harness mak er in Mercersburg and who, a few years ago, worked in the shop with P. P. Mann in McCon nellsburg, received a telegram from Uncle Sam to report at onse at Jeffersonville, Ind., as a harness inspector. Mr. Smity some time ago had offered his service to the government but did not expect to be taken so sud denly. He arranged to leave his saddlery business in the care of his brother - Arthur, of St. Thomas, who had recently been hurt in an automobile accident and Mr. Edward Crumm will take charge of the mechanical part of the business. "Over There." .Judge Morton received three letters Tuesday from his son Newtorl who is "somewhere over there." Newt is a member of the 10th regiment, and the last word they had from him was when he landed in Southampton. The letters were written at dif ferent times but had evidently been held up by the censor. Newt said he had a grand trip going across the pond seasick but two clays and that he never was in finer physical condition than now. The last of the three letters was written on the 17th of October, and said they were leaving Southampton that day for, presumably, somewhere in France. Definition Of The Auto. Some newspaper has given this definition of an automobile: 'The automobile is a large iron and rubber contrivance for trans forming gasoline into speed lux ury, excitement and obituaries. It consists of a handsome leather upholstered carriage body mount ed on fat rubber tired wheels and containing a gizzard full of machinery suffering from various complications and ailments. ' It has run over 100 miles and ten thousand people. It can trans port seven people from the porch to the police station, the bank ruptcy court or the golden gate in less time than any other known method BAKNETT DUVALL. NUPTIALS. Wells Tannery duple Aae Married at Barnesboro, Pa., by Rer. George A. Duvall. John L. Duvall, daughters Ara- mintha and Lillian, and Jesse A. Barnett-all of Wells Tannery, boarded the train at . Hopewell Thursday morning, October 25th and journeyed to Barnesboro, Cambria county, Pa., arriving there at 8:00 p. m.kof the same day. They wended their way to the parsonage of the St. John's Methodist Episcopal church, but found the pastor engaged .in an evangelistic service. After the service was ended, they made known their wishes and the pas tor of the church and uncle of bride, the Rev. George A. Duvall said the v;ord3 that united Jesse A. Barnett and Ar&mintha L. Duvall in holy wedlock. The bride was given away by ' her father and was attended by her sister Miss Lillian. The ring ceremony was used. The happy party spent the next day very pleasantly visiting and on Sat urday they returned to the home of the groom where a wedding supper was served and a jolly good time was had. The groom is an electrician by profession and i3 a clean and highly respected young man of promise, ihe bride is the ac complished eldest daughter of John L. Duvall, and a former teacher in the public schools. Gowned in georgette crepe trim med in white satin as she was upon this occasion, her personal ity was such as to command the hand of most any ambitious young lover who would see her. The newly-weds will for the time being make their home at Wells Tannery. They have the best wishes of the entire community and a host of friends. Ran Down by an Automobile. Last Saturday evening about ten o'clock, Harry Mellott, who lives on the Thomas Johnson farm west of town, was very se riously injured by being run down by an automobile in the hand of a reckless driver. Harry was walking on the Lincoln Highway returning to his home from McConnellsburg. When at a point opposite the res idence of D. A. ' Washabaugh he discovered that a car was coming up behind him, and as he turned to look the machine was upon him, knocking him to the ground and both the front and rear wheel on one side of the car pass ed over his body. Acting as though he had done something smart, the driver put on the gas and was soon away. Harry managed to get to Mr. Johnson's and he was later taken to the home of his sister Osie Carbaugh and Doctor Mosser gave the in jured man necesary attention. Kesselring Hess. In Bloomsburg, Pa., Saturday, October 27, 1917, Rev. Harry W. Newman, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Ben ton, Pa., performed the marriage ceremony which united Haary L. Kesselring, of Altoona, Pa., and Miss Amy F. Hess of the same place. The ring ceremony was used. The groom is a nephew and namesake of the clergy man who officiated. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Kesselring of Hustontown, but now holding a lucrative position with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hess of Huston town and is a train nurse. Both are well known young people in the northern end of the county and their many friends wish for them a long and happy life to gether. They are now on a trip to Northumberland, Niagara Falls, Huntingdon and Fulton counties. They will go to housekeeping in the near future in Altoona, SCHOOL LESSON ON WAR. Bow Money Is Spent on Airplanes Told in Simple Manner for Children. What are your eyes worth? Just think how much you use them every day. If they were in danger, you would give every cent you have to save them. An army needs its eyes even more than you do, because you are among friends. It is there fore important that an army have eyes, good eyes. Jt has frequent ly happened in the past that an army has been defeated just be cause it could not see what the enemy was preparing to do. It was in this way that Washing ton hurpriaed the British at Tren ton and won a great victory. The cavalry formerly served as the eyes of the army. But horses, even the swiftest of them are too slow for the preseut war. And, of course, horses never could assist the ships at sea. So the airplane has come into use in many ways: First, because they can travel so fast. Our airplanes will rise to a height of 10,000 feet in about' ten minutes and then fly away at the rate of over 100 miles per hour. They will fly over the German lines and discover the locat'on of the big guns aid the movements of the troop. The discovery of these plans "ill enable our lead ers to meet ti.'t.n. The German uabmarines have been sinking pas30 nger vessels A submarine is ver difficult to notice because it can submerge, and then becomes invisible. But an airplane several hundred ieet in the air can see a submarine a hundred ftet under water. For this reason they are valuable sea scouts. The President feels that the army which is equipped with the greatest number of first-class airplanes will win the war. For this reason he, last July, signed a bill for the construction of 20, 000 airplanes, to cost $540,000,- 000. This vast sum of money would mean about $400 for each man, woman and child in the City of Philadelphia, and every dollar means money well invest ed. To train young men to oper ate these planes 24 flying schools are to be established in our coun try. Here the brightest and bravest of our young men will be prepared for the dangerous work of flying over sea and land, far beyond the enemy lines. All honor to our fighters! The best is none too good for them. What the Fighters Get A bill introduced in Congress to pay a bonus of $50 a month to the American soldiers sent to Europe met opposition on the ground that an American soldier didn't have to be paid to make him patriotic. Uncle Sam shows up as a generous provider as compared with some of the other nations. The Austrian soldiers get the munificent salary of 97 cents a month. France pays her poilus $1.45 for the same period of service, while the German in the trenches receives $3.78 and the Italian $2 67. There is a wide range of payment between Great Britain and her colonies. The English Tommy is paid $7.30 a month, although he fights eide by side with the Canadian at $33 the New Zealander at $36.50 and the Australian at $43.80, the highest-paid man of them all. The Russian foots the list at 39 cents a month for actual war service. All of these figures are for the lowest grades of fighting men, with the amounts rendered in the equivalent of American currency. The lowest pay of an American soldier is $30 a month at home, which ' is increased to $33 a month in foreign duty. Estimates on the State sweet potato crop are steadily ' grow ing and it is now figured that the crop will reach 114,000 bush els as compared 'with 100,000 bushels last year, OPEN LETTERS. The Following Letters Published as Ad vertising Matter are Self Explanatory. To Whom It May Concern : It has been reported that I, C. L McAfee, was furnishing mon ey to D. A. Black (Candidate for Associate Judge) to secure his election in order to have a "wet" judge in the interest of the Ha gerstown Brewing Co., and my benefit. I want to say to the public at large that any such statement is a libel, pure and simple. Any one wishing to contest this statement need only make public his announcement and I will meet him at any Magistrate's or Notary Public's office. (Signed) C. L. McAfee, Dealer in Wines, Liquors, Cigars, &c, Mancock, Md. To the Voters of Fulton Co. : Gentlemen: There is a report current over the County to the effect that I am a rich man; that 1 own coal mines and coal prop erties; that I own stock and have a vast income. In answer to this report, I wish to state that it is a malicious and libelous lie, pure and simple. I do not now have, nor did I ever have, one dollar or any other amount invested in coal mines, coal properties, or coal stocks. Neither have I ever been directly or indirectly inter ested financially in coal mines or coal properties, beyond the com pensation I received for services rendered as miner, mine fore man, or mine superintendent and that was years ago. Furth er, I wish to state that I have no interests or financial investments other than agriculture, and to this statement I am willing to be qualified. D. A. Black, Waterfall, Pa. October 29, 1917. Sare Enough Seed Corn. Special representatives of the United States Department of Ag riculture are in the fields in the corn-producing States of the Mid dle West to complete the cam paign for the saving of a two year's Bupply of seed corn from the present crop. Twenty emer gency workers have been sent to Iowa by the extension depart ment. Thirteen emergency men are in Indiana and corps of spe cial workers will be assigned to each corn-producing State coop erating with the State colleges and agents. For several weeks the county agents have been pav ing the way for the camprign wind-up now being nndertaken. The campaigners go into the corn field with the farmer, assist him in the selection of the best seed corn, and in its proper storage after selection. The necessity of making absolutely certain at this time an ample seed corn sup ply both for next year and the year following is being urged as one of the most important agri cultural duties in the corn belt Lochman Mock. The Editor, acknowledges the receipt of a'cari from Fred B. Mock, of Pittsburgh, announc ing the marriage of his sister Minnie E. Mock atCoiumbus, O., to Mr. John Lochman, of Pitts-, burgh. On October 1st they were "at home" to their friends at Bentwood, Pa. The bride is a native of this county and a sister of George B. Mock, of town. She was form erly a successful teacher in the schools of this county and also in the eastern part of the State. During the last few years, she has been employed in Pittsburgh. Many Borses Destroyed. Millions of horses are being destroyed in the present war. Since the beginning of the war about 750,000 have been sent from the United States to Europe and reports show a decrease of about 33,000 in the number of horses in this country for the year 1916 and 1917. Demand for Corn Meal. All corn meal and buckwheat flour seems to be of the "self- rising" variety, if one may judge from the price. The little 10-lb. sacks that we nscd to get for 20 cents are now costing 48 and the buckwheat flour that formerly came to us at fifty cents for a 241b sack, now sells for $1.50 right in McConnellsburg. .So great has become the demand for corn meal, with the scrapple season almost at its height in Berk 8 county, that the price of meal has gone up to a level with flour, and it is hardly a conser vation movement now to use corn bread and mush. Corn meal and flour both sell at 6 cent3 a pound. Thousands of pounds of scrapple are being made, and the price has advanc ed this year from 6 to 10 cents, a pound. The Berks county millers say that they have never before ex perienced such demands as are being made for corn meal. The millers are paying $2 a bushel for old corn, the same price as wheat while much new corn is being bought for December shipment, at $1.36 a bushel, Last year the miller paid $1.11 a bush el for new corn. Clean up Garden Remnants. Many destructive garden pests overwinter on the remnants of crops left in gardens and fields. Now is the time to prevent much of next year's. loss by gathering and burning or plowing under the remains of garden plants. Cutworms, stalk-borers, mag gots, flea beetles and many in- sect pupae and chrysalids will be destroyed .by thorough garden sanitation at this time. Many plant diseases will be reduced by these clean up methods. Fall plowing and thorough disking or harrowing kills many grubs, maggots and overwinter ing forms in the soil by breaking up their winter nests and hiber nation cells. Gardeps and fields can be worked earlier in spring if fall plowed. Secure cooperation of your neighbors in this good cause and note the cleaner conditions next growing season. x StevensShore. Stewart Stevens, of Spruce Creek and Miss Mildred Shore, of Huntingdon, were united in marriage on Monday evening, October 15th at Mount Union by the Methodist minister S. S. Car nell. N The bride is a daughter of Har ry Shore who is a well known carpenter and a member of the Huntingdon borough council. She has been a clerk in George K. Megahan'8 grocery, store, also that of George S. Woods and at the time of her marriage she was employed at the Blair station ery establishment The groom is an excellent young man and has been assisting his father on the home farm near Spruce Creek. The couple expect to go to farm ing next spring. The many friends of this couple wish them a long and happy mar ried life. RegiShadle. A . very pretty wedding was solemnized last Thursday at . the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Regi, near Knobsville. The con tracting parties were Mr. Bren ton B. Regi and Miss Lucille Shadle. The ceremony was per formed by Rev. G. B. M. Reidell, pastor of the M. E. church at Hustontown the couple being attended by Dallas Regi and Miss Stella Regi, brother and Bister of the groom. A sumptuous wedding dinner was partaken of by the families and the immedi ate friends of the bride and groom who were present. Both are excellent young peo ple, and a host of friends wish them abundant success and hap- piness. FRESH AIR IN flOME AND BOSPITAL. Little Talks on Health and Bjgieoe by. Samnel G. Dixon, M. D, LL D., Commissioner of Health. Fresh air is the ' environment in which man developed to his present state of perfection. Now that our great newspapers reach to every nook and corner of the world bearing the message, most men and women appreciate the part pure air plays in sustaining health. Owing to the various demands of civilization we find it hard to be where we can best earn a livelihood and at the same time dwell in an atmosphere suffici ently pure to maintain perfect health. Not only the medical profession, but now the general public, appreciates- that in the cure of tuberculosis of the lungs fresh air is essential, and, there fore, all our best hospitals are built and managed so that the patients may receive the maxi mum of fresh air. Purity of air is necessary for the sick. This is often lost sight of by patients and those to whose care they are entrusted. During the convalescence of pa tients from acute diseases in cold weather, we find in homes and hospitals where there are the greatest luxuries that those in attendance on the sick often ne glect maintaining the regulation temperature. The patient does not get his fresh air unless it happens to be summer. Physi cians, internes and nurses, who have to be up and down at all times of the day and nights are -often thoughtless of those whom they serve and often fail to dress themselves sufficiently for pro tection against tho cold air that the patient in bed should re ceive if those in charge are to get the best results. They -should measure the temperature of the room by a thermometer and not by their own feelings. This is an important fact to be remembered by both patient and caretakers. Keep Another Brood Sow. Farm Agent Joseph S. Oberle has written the following for Franklin county farmers, and the News passes it along for Fulton County farmers. It does not re quire any argument, to convince any one that it is good business. If you don't have a brood sow, get one. It will be highly profit able as well as patriotic. Our soldiers must have meat and the country at large must have more fats. The pig is the best, and quickest source of fat and returns more for the feed than sheep or steers. If you have steers have the largest number of hogs pos sible follow them. Hogs are and likely will be a very profitable source through which to market your corn. The world supply of meat is short and the price is likely to stay up and the brood sow will be worth more as a breeder than as a fat carcas. Don't fatten your brood sows for market be cause of the present prices. It will bo far more profitable and better to select an extra brood sow in addition to those you al ready have. Select breeding sows with good bone, long bodies, good strong broad arched backs, good deep sides, and strong pasterns. It is worth going a long way to get the services of a high class sire of some breed that produces large litters. Much of your suc cess lies in the sire. - Balance up your rations with a high protein feed such as tank age. , Consult the Farm Bureau at the courthouse in Chambersburg on questions on hog feeding. Services are free. Send for free bulletins and circulars on hog feeding. 1 The pear crop for 1917 is esti mated at 439,000 bushels as com- pared with 506,000 bushels last year. t 1 I- v
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