TH1 FULTOH COtJHTY HEW. McGOlfNELUSBUIM. PA.
COUNTY NEWS
fished Every Thursday.
i. tf. fKol, Editor and Proprietor
McCONNElLSBURG. PA.
NOVEMBER 8, 1917
Published Weekly. 1.50 per
Annum in Advance.
I ilrd M the Postomoe it MoContwIliburg
Pn. ui laoond-olu mU matter.
Thv That Lame Back?
The uorning lameness those
sharp pains when bending or
lifting, made work a burden and
rest impossible. Don't be hand
icapped by a bad back look to
your kidneys. You will makeno
mistake by following this Mc
Coanellsburg resident's exam
ple, ' P. P. Black, McConnellsburg,
fcays: "While at work, I slipped
And wrenched my back badly.
After that I had great pain
across my loins and my back
often got lame and sore. I ued
Doan's Kidney Pills, procured at
Trout's Di'ng Store' and .they
,soou gave me relief."
' Price 80c at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills the
same that Mr. Black bad.
Foster-Milburn Co, Props, Buf
falo, N. Y.
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CLEAR RID0&
Miss Emma R. Grore spent
Monday at Saltillo.
Miss Mary Jane Fields spent a
day recently with Mrs. Mary E
. Fleming.
: Joseph H. Mower and son
John of Mowersvilie, spent Fri
day night in the home of Mrs.
Mary S. Mower in this place
Albert White of Johnstown is
rusticating among his old time
triends here, who are always glad
to see him.
Oh! our people hare been slay
ing the bunnies; some got their
. limit; some, a few, and some
'didn't get any.
Revival services . in th9 M. E.
church are being continued this
tweek. "
Miss Ethel Sipes and mother
VI UL II mUlf ITCH 1U VIII
' last Sunday.
Miss Gertrude Gelvm, of Fort
Littleton, spent Sunday night in
the home of Misses Maude and
' Mrs. Norman L McClain and
son Robert, of Robertsdale,
spent the past week in the home
of her aher John A. Henry.
Glei. ; 0. Miller and Scott Car
mack spent last Sunday in their
parental homes in this place.
. Howard A. Kerlin and son
Lloyd of Pittsburgh, spent the
i. I ! . U TJah.. In nn n n n
p&a wotu witu uuw-i u a pniauuB
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Kerlin, and
. on Saturday, Howard returned
home, but Lloyd remained for a
longer visit
Kevin Fraker who had spent
some time at home returned to
Harrisburg last Monday.
Clarence R. Shore, of McCon
nellsburg was a week end visitor
in the home of his uncle W.,R
Fields.
Vernon Kerlin went to Pitts
burgh the first of this week
where he expects employment
for the winter.
Robert J. Fleming of McCon
nellsburg called on friends here
the first of the week.
Mr. A. J. Fraker and daugb
ters Mrs. Miner via Miller, spent
last Friday shopping at the
County Seat.
James M. Brown is here doing
a little gunning.
Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Clip
pinger, and their son Frank
Cbppinger and wife of Fannetts
burg; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Se
ville and Mr. and Mrs. Grover
Fields of McConnellsburg, spent
last Sunday in the home of, Mr.
and Mrs. Jacob Wlnegardner.
Trespass notices for sale at the
News office 6 for a quarter.
Sent prepaid by mail if cash ac
companies the order.
DR. FAIIRfJEY
HAGERSTOWN, MD.
DIAGNOSTICIAN
Only chronic diseases. Send me
your same and address and I will
send you a mailing case and question
blank. Don't use dope for chronic
troubles, get cured. It is a satis
faction to know what the causs is.
CONSULTATION FREE.
The Production of Pork.
"The question of making pork
out of the small sboats is one that
comes to me almost daily, " says
L W. L'ghty, farm adv.ser of the
Pennsylvania Department of Ag
ncu tare "God fifty pound
pigs sell at $16 to $18 and quite a
few farmers who have no skim
milk to feed are selling the pigs.
O.bers are asking, 'Will it pay to
feed for pork?' To say: 'Oh yes
it will pay, ' is a foolish expression
to which feeders will not listen.
''Feeders are business men
and use the pencil in their busi
ness. They find in the feeding
of small shoats they get the saf
est results in feeding half corn
and half wheat middlings. With
this combination we can average
with good stock about 18 pouuda
of grain for a bushel of corn and
50 pounds of middlings. We
have to pay $3 a hundred for fine
middlings and the farmers ask
why they have to pay three cents
a pound for middlings when they
get not more than two cents for
the wheat. The prices for new
corn have not been established,
but if the old prices' would hold,
$1 90 a bushel, the grain would
cost for feed alone nineteen cents
a pound, but we think corn will
come down to possibly a stand
ard of $150 a bushel and if the
middlings would be sold at a
just price to us we could produce
pork at a feed cost of about six
teen cents and the other cost un
der good management is between
four and six cents. Thus we
could produce pork at a cost of
twenty to twenty two cents a
pound.
"Tankage and corn make a
good combination for larger
boge but in many sections tank
age is not to be had, or the price
is prohibitive. I meet quite a
few farmers who are well ac
quanited with these matters and
are feeding corn and other feeds
at present prices to a bunch of
hogs, feeling quite sure they
will not be paid for their labor
but are willing to contribute
this as their ' bit" to the world
in distress.
The items of cost in pork pro
duction are the feed, labor, risk
of unavoidable losses in breeding
and feeding stock, interest on in
vestments and depreciation of
equipment. The big bulk of
the cost is feed and labor. This
season no man can afford to pro
duce very heavy hogs, fattened
breeders excepted. It is well
known by all feeders that the
first two hundred pounds can be
produced at considerably leas
cost than the following two hun
dred and this year the wise feed
er stops somewhere about the
two hundred pounds. The wise
swine breeder will not sacrifice
his good breeding stock now as
the law of com pensation will ad
just matters so we can continue
to produce pork and live."
Our Food. Saving Army.
There are 2,546,003 women in
Pennsylvania above the age of
fit teen vears actively engaged in
home making duties and they are
being enlisted in the fight for
democracy. List . July 700,000
pledged themselves to aid in the
conservation of food. Today in
every city and town and in the
remote country districts school
children are making a second
canvass to obtain the written
word of the women that they
will save food.
Just as the soldiers in the
trenches are battling against
Pru88ianism so the housewives
of Pennsylvania are organizing
for vic ory. The boys and girls
who spread the alarm through
city street and country lane are
the Paul Reveres of 1917. It is
expected that more than a mil
lion women in Pennsylvania will
have signed the Hoover pledge
card by the close of the cam
paign. The Pennsylvania Pub
lic Safety Food department office
in- Philadelphia has set a million
as the mark and from the reports
that have been coming in from
many counties this figure - may
be exceeded It has been esti
mated in Washington. D. C,
that if the people of the United
States systematically consumed
less meat and wheat each week
there would be a saving of two
b Jhon, two hundred and twenty
million pounds of each annually.
The largest peanut crop ever
grown in this country will be
harvt sted within the next few
weeks.
Soothero Crops locrease.
It is good news which comes
from official sources that in all
of the Southern States diversifi
cation of crops has been prao
Used on an unprecedented scale
Corn enough to supp'y most sec
tions was raised, beans are a
bu ra per cop and other vegetables
and fruits have done very well
It seems likely that this coming
year wi 1 find the South making
few demands on the North for
food.
It has been oneof the anomalies
of our history that for more than
a century the South has bought
its food supplies from the North;
that with rich land at its doors,
with much of the land unutilized,
it has insisted on raising cotton
alone and sending the money
North. The economic indepen
denceof the South will never
come, until it feeds itself. In it
day seems at hand
At the same time the South
has a crop of cotton worth more
thau $1,500,000,000 in cash with
the world begging for it. Such a
sum ought to make the South
rich if properly invested. News
from the South is that in unpre
cedented scale the negroes are
now buying the cotton patches
which they have tilled as renters
for fifty years. It was long the
custom of the landlord to keep
the negro patcber in debt, but
high prices of cotton for two
years are making the negro ec
onomically independent, and in
proportion as he gets possession
of the land he is going to get
recognition.
Waste In Molding flogs.
A loss of live weight of hogs
and waste of feed result from
the practice of purchasing local
hogs in small lots and holding
them in local stockyards until
a carload shipment is collected,
according to specialists vof the
United States Bureau of Markets.
They point out that at this and
other seasons when runs are
light, it often takes local buyers
four or five days to aseemble
enough small lots for a carload.
As facilities for feed and water
ing are inferior in Email yards,
the hogs made no further gains
on their feed and often suffer
actual loss of live weight Local
buyers, therefore, would do well
to specify a certain day for the
delivery of lots from the various
farms and load and ship without
holding. Farmers also could
club together to make up cooper
ative carload shipments on regu
lar week days, thus saving the
margin lost in individual small
lot selling.
EXTERMINATING FARM PEST8.
During the past year over 250,000
acres of government and public lands
have been covered with poisoned
grain for the extermination of
ground squirrels. Large areas of
private agricultural land also have
been cleared of these pests through
campaigns conducted by the owners
under the direction of representa
tives of the biological survey. Op
erations have been continued effec
tively against prairie dogs, and ovei
1,500,000 acres have been practically
cleared of these destructive animals.
Improvements which have been made
by the bureau in methods of exter
minating prairie dogs have encour
aged large numbers of farmers to de
stroy them on their lands.
NASTY ONE. '
She (after a till) I presume you
would like your ring back ?
He Never mind; keep it. No
other girl I know could use that
ring unless she wore it on her
thumb. Boston Evening Tran
script i
OF COURSE IT WAS SAFE.
Jones Is that taxicab stock per
fectly safe?
, Broker Safel Why, nothing is
sure but death and taxis 1
EXCEPTION NOTED.
He No one likes to show one's
hand.
She Oh, yes, if there is an en
gagement ring on it. '
THE 1017 MODEL.
Modern Schoolboy Teacher,
would you mind telling my chauf
feur I'm kept in and that he'll have
to wait J Puck.
ABSENT-MINDED.
Corporal The men have halted
on the left of the river.
Sergeant Well, tell them to fall
in.
FRENCH INDUSTRY
IS RECOVERING
Natural Tferlft and Economy
Promise Rapid Progress.
EXPORT BUSINESS GROWING
Our Grat Ally Poimm FUouparatlv
Power Whloh Justify Blif that 8h
Will Mt and Solve Triumphantly
th Problems Whioh Confront Her
After the War.
With Paris Boulevard echoing with
"rlvea" for American troops our inter
est in the welfare of our ally voMlly
Increases, end the facte are not lack
ing to eucourage the belief that she Is
alruudy on the road to recovery from
the blow of Invasion by ruthless en
emy. One of the moat Important devel
opmeuts Is the announcement that
one of the largest banking institutions
In America concerned with foreign
trade, the Guaranty Trust Company
of New York, has opened a Paris
branch to handle the rapidly increas
ing volume of French business.
This action may surprise many per
sons who had thought of France as
AW
SOLDIERS IN THE VERDUN 8ECTOR REPAIRING A RUINED CANAL.
bowed under a calamitous Invasion.
The bank, however, gives figures Indi
cating that France is not only meeting
I t military and civilian problems with
a stout heart and never falling cour
age, but is re-establishing her export
business with this country.
In 11)14, the year of the outbreak of
the War. imports from France to this
country totaled $141.flU.2.r2. This to
tal was reduced to $77,l.r8,740 In 1015,
but last year the value of French im
ports to the United States rose to $102.
077,000. "A nation that can achieve such a
commercial recovery while her terri
tory is being ravished by the invader,"
says the Trust company's statement,
"possesses recuperative powers which
Justify the belief that she will emerge
from the present conflict prepared to
meet and solve triumphantly the prob
lems which confront her."
The commercial and industrial record
of France, following past wars, indi
cates that she should recover quickly
from the actual physical destruction
Inflicted in the present conflict The
reconstruction of railroads, the erection
of factories to replace those destroyed,
and the replacement of the mechanism
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IN THEIR RETIREMENT FROM OCCUPIED TERRITORY THE GER
MAN ARMY DE8TROYED MILLIONS OP DOLLARS OP AGRICUL
TURAL MACHINERY.
of Industrial activity that will be re
quired and that is In part already
planned, offer a peculiarly inviting
field to American capital and enter
prise. Tentative steps have already
been taken by representatives of Amer
ican engineers aud business men In this
work.
Aside from its attractive business
aspect, the enlistment of American
money and effort iu the great task of
reconstructs that will remain at the
end of the war will tend to cement still
more closely the ties that bind the two
great Repnbllcs together, and will en
able Americans to discharge In part
the debt they owe to France for her
friendly Interest In the welfare and
progress of the United States from
the beginning .of Its life as a na
tion. In Judging the Industrial status of
any nation, its production and con
sumption of coal, iron, and steel and
the growth of its trasportatlon sys
tems are highly significant factors.
In 1809, French industries consumed
II million tons of coal, of which 13.5
millions were taken from home mines.
In 1012, the consumption was 01 mil
lions, of which 41 million tons were
taken from Some mines.
In 1808, the French output of cast
Iron wis 1,880,000 tons, and of steel,
1,000,000 tons. In 1914, France pro
duced 5,811,000 tons of cast Iron and
4,6311,000 tons of steel
Dried Pumpkin.
Remcve the rind and cut the
Dumpkin in (mall pieces. Cook
it ery slowly without adding
my water until it is reduced to a
pulp. Continue the cooking un
til much of the moisture has been
evaporated and the mass is fair
ly thick ; then spread it on trays
to dry it For serving, soak it
over night in a very small amount
of water and prepare it as usual
for the table.
The lncreni)? activity of her ran"-
wuy g)tuui Is similarly demoiiutrnhle.
In 1S(M), there wore lii France 10.743
wiles of railroad truck; in 1012, therj j
were 81,540 miles. I
Between 16(19 and 1912, inland navi
gation increased 150; while the trutlla
of her mercantile marine bad amusing
ly expanded. The touuage entering
French ports in 1809 is set down as
11,000,000 tons. In 1012, this had been
increased to 63,000,000 tons.
Leaders in American finance ascribe
the solidarity of tho Freueh republic to
three influences: flrst,' a thoroughly
sound banking system, centralized in
one of the greatest banking institutions
of the world, the Bank of France; sec
ond, the" ingrained thrift and frugality
of the French people as a whole, to
gether with a national economic vigor
not elsewhere surpassed; third, wise su
pervision, and patriotic coUpernttou by
the government with banking aud bust,
ness Interests.
The government does its part to wbn
rant nnd retain the confidence of the
holders of its securities. One of its
wise poMclos is to impose new taxes to
defray the Interest charges on new se
curity issues. It began this practice
after the Franco-Prussian War, and is
today following the same rule in regard
to securities issued to finance the pres
ent conflict This continuity of pur
pose, doubtless, will prove reassuring
to all holders of French government
securities.
The Franco-Prussian wu of 1870
1871 taught . the French people the
meaning of thrift and economy. Bo
well did tbey learn this lesson, that
the whole sum of the Indemnity de
manded by Germany, 1 1,000.000,000,
was raised within the republic's con-
fines by its own Inhabitants and paid
off more than one year before the time
stipulated by the Germans'. '
The habit thus acquired has never
been forgotten by the French, and to
day the aggregate number of Investors
purchasing the French war loans has
reached the amazing total of 4.5)0,000
Individual subscribers. Perlinps no oth
er country, in proportion to Its popula
tion, can make so good a showing.
' France Is particularly foruuate In
that her small Investors prefer "safe"
Investments rather than offerings which
promise high returns. Government
Heutes, in 'France are perpetual, and
this characteristic seems to obtain for
these government bonds increasing fa
vor in the eyes of the French peo
ple. The points of sympathy between
France and America are too many to
enumerate, but the spirit of liberty and
lta resultant democracy, are, today as
always, the major ideals of both na
tions. Seeking no victories but those
of peace, no territory except their own,
no sovereignty except sovereignty over
themselves the independence and
equal rights of the weakest member of
the family of nations are to the people
of the United States and of France en
titled to as'much respect as those of
the mightiest empire. In defense of
these principles, France Is engaged In
a death atruggle with militant autoc
racy and ruthless aggression, and It Is
not surprising to learn that she has
loaned to her allies and to other friend
ly states 7.0110,000,000 francs with which
to further the cause of democracy. It
Is In keeping with America's traditions
thnt since tho date on which we for
mally ullhed ourselves with Francs
and her allies In the great struggle, our
(iovernmeut has lent to France $370,-
000,000. ,
It Is eminently fitting that America
should now be fighting on French soil
to make the world safe for democracy.
The liberty that America has enjoyed
for 140 years France helped her to
achieve. The swords of Lafayette and
Rocharabeau, aided by the guns of De
Gras8e,upon the high seas, assisted In
cutting the foreign ties that bound the
American colonies prior to the War for
Independence, - and from the private
purse of King Louis himself came the
flrst loan to America unsecured and
unconditional to finance that historic
undertaking. It was With entire Just
tice that Washington wrote to Hoclium
beau, "To the generous aid of your na
tion and to the bravery of Its sons Is
to be ascribed hi a very great degree
that Independence for which we bar
fought."
Damascus an Ancient City.
Dninnscus Is the oldest city remain
ing in tho modern world.- It Is first
mentioned in Scripture In connection
with Abraham (Genesis 14:15), whose
steward wus a nutlve of the place
(15:2).
Daniel Webster's Warning.
Tho lust hopes of mankind, there
fore, rest with us; and if it should be
proclaimed that our example had be
come an argument against the experi
ment, the knell of popular liberty
would be sounded throughout the
earth. Dunlel Webster.
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Alfalta Failures.
Warren Yi. Oley, Cumberland
County Farm Demonstrator in
New Jersey, reports that the
greatest cause of failure in new
stands of alfalfa i sour soil,
arid states that "alfalfa needs
p'enty of lime and many men do
not use enough". He goes on to
say that, "practically everyone
inoculates properly, though one
man was found who spread soil
over the field in preparation for
seeding and left the soil in the
hot sun without harrowing it in.
Under such conditions, he would
have a failure, as bright sun will
kill the needed germs. "
Tests of the effcieny of inocula
tion of alfalfa made by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture in a
number of different soils, bhow
clearly it is much more success
ful in well-limed soils Lime
and bacteria work band in hand
toward better alfalfa produc
tion. The farmer fahould re
member also, that alfalfa uses
lime as a food, and he sbonld
take care to seo tbat neither of
these factors are the caube of
failure
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