VOL. XIX. NO. 10
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., NOVEMBER 22, 1917.
$150 A YEAR.
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jort Sketches of the , Lives of Per
sons Who nave Recently
Passed Away.
Mrs. John P. Conrad.
Sarah Belle, wife of John P.
Conrad, passed away at their
home on west fliarKet street,
Thursday morning, November 15.
1317, after a lingering illness of
mite pulmonary tuberculosis.
the funeral took place on Satur
Jiv morning, the 17th, the ser
rices conducted by her pastor
C. F. Jacobs, of the Luth
eran Church, and interment was
made in Union cemetery.. '
The deceased was a daughter
5f the late Andrew and Rebecca
!ates Grissinger, and was born
Aonl 17, loo; hence she was
ized CO years, 6 months, and 29
lays. On the 9th of June, 1884,
to was married to John P. Con-
id, who survives, to mourn the
ss of a faithful wife.
Mrs. Conrad was a devoted
sember of the Lutheran Church,
ifaithful worker in the Sunday
and enthusiastic in all the
ittivities of the Church. . She is
survived by the following
iwthers and siuters:" Daniel L.,
iilcConnellsburg; William, of
Pliinfield, Cumberland County:
Annie, wife of David Rotz, of
!od township; Ada, wife of Wm.
Karns, of Everett, and Tillie,
kife of John B Both, near Mad-
ieusville, Huntingdon County.
Vns Jac.o Douglass.
At five o'clock Saturday morn
:i November 10, 1917, death
:tered the home of Jacob Doug
is on Timber Ridge and claim
iasits victim thj young wife
bd mother. '
lie, as she was familiarly
awn was a daughter of the
a Frank Hess. She was born
Hess' Mill October 23. 1890.
i was aged 27 years and 18
1FI
lb. Douglass had been in de
ling health for several months
i all that skilled medical aid
careful nursing could do.
only to prolone the vountr
(for a short while. She was
member of Damascus Christian
arch and attended worship as
Rasher healthwould permit.
not one known enemy
asofa sunny disDosition.
"fays bright and cheerful and
'erte'ned every hope of recov-
nP to within a few hours of
math, which
Mosia. Although her death
w unexpected, yet it was a
Uhock to this
-- "j
"ell as her rein Hvoa
L5 remains were laid to rest
w cemeterv at Damn.
M services being conducted
y by her pastor, Rev. A.
Wland. The flnrnl trihntea
h beautiful and the laree
ouiiuHiujj menus
P Wended her funeral was ev-
l""6 Of the hitrh oatoom in
:8he tuna UU
."e deceased is survived bv
; Wand and little four-year-Harold.
nd one hrnther -Itton.
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ie law
"n8 ill Pennsylvania, nn
:a!'.is as fnllmua-
Act May 1, 1909,
j7e snail be no fishing of any
fwith any device, by any
nthe first day of the
71 $20.
ia 2.
Act Anril 21. IMS
!'e8nHliLuno hunting or
H fir nU: r
L first rlav nt fV,a
alled Sunday. Pen-
k ii is not a violation
1 wme law rt h;a ctota tn
Sunday at tarcrets or at
or at at
. .. ' -"-""
JVf at any other thing
the game laws
V. eith and family, of
e: "Pent a few days last
lltl friends at Clear
Fall of Rock on Tuesday of Last Week
Causes tne. Death of Ernest Mort
at Sixmile Rao.
A distressing accident occurred
in a mine at Sixmile Run, Bed
ford County on Tuesday of last
week, in which Ernest Mort. son
of Mr. and Mrs. George Mort of
that place and grandson of Squire
J. S. Mort, of Clear Ridge, lost
his life.
' Ernest was a driver and had
gone into a room for a car of coal
about 10:30 o'clock when a rock
weighing about 400 lbs. dropped
on him, crushing him. In the
hope of eaving his life, he was
rushed to the Altoona General
Hospital, where upon examina-
tion, it was found that his back
and neck were both broken. He,
however, lived until 5 o'clock.
Wednesday. The funeral took
place at Clear Ridge last Sunday.
Rev. Speece conducting the ser
vices, and his remains were in
terred in the cemetery at that
place. The services were at
tended by perhaps, the largest
number of people ever seen at
Clear Ridge-there being 81 au
tomobiles, besides carriages.
buggies and wagons.
brnost was a- member of the
Miners' Union and a member of
the Jr. American Mechanics.
and held in high esteam by his
associates. His age was 19 years
ana u aays. Besides ns Bar
ents, he is survived by 3 brothers
and 4 sisters, namely. Charles.
in the U. S. Navy; Arthur and
Alfred at home, and Esther.
Naomi, Clara and Alfaretta all
at home.
Men to Cospital.
Dr. Mosser took Mrs. Boyd
Elvey, East Lincoln Way, to' the
Chambersburg hospital last Fri
day for treatment and a possible
surgical operation. Mrs. Elvey
has been in declining health for
some time.
Since the foregoing was put in
type we have learned that Mrs.
Elvey underwent the operation
on Friday evening and that she is
now getting along well.
On the same day Dr. Robinson
took Mrs. Jacob Hykes of the
Cove to the same institution.
Mrs. Hykes has been afflicted in
one of her feet and a surgical op
eration will likely be necessary.
. Bran For His Trouble.
AbramW.' Deshong. of And-
over, was in town last Saturday
with a load of the old-fashioned
buckwheat flour. Mr. Deshong
had a crop of about 80 bushels
this year. He had 32 bushels
ground which made him almost
32 twenty-five-pound sacks.
which he is selling at $1.50 a
sack. This is about the same as
taking $1.50 a bushel for buck
wheat. He feels however, that
the bran just about pays for the
trouble of taking it to the mill
and sacking the flour.
Handled Bees in a Henry.
County Surveyor Frank P.
Plessinger of Whips Cove is not
only skilful in the use of the
transit, but knows a thine or two
about horticulture and beekeep
ing. After the death of Johnnie
Magsam, Mr. Plessinger bought
Johnnie's apiary of 21 colonies
and a few days ago, in a Ford
automobile, he removed the en
tire lot to his home a distance of
24 miles without the slightest
damage to the bees, to himself,
or to the automobile.
Beats All.
Misses Etta and Rebecca Hock-
insmith of Pleasant Ridge, ac
companied by Mr. Howard Kegg,
of Bedford, spent a few hours in
McConnellsburg last Saturday
afternoon. Among the vegeta
bles raised in the garden at the
Hockensmith home this' season
was a beet ' that measured 22
inches in circumference, was 15
inches in length, and weighed
eight pcunds.
Had rieasant Trip and Found Fulton
Comity Boys Glad to See Folks
from Home.
Misses Nellie'and Rhe'ue Bar
mont, of Tod township, whose
brother EarJ ia at Camp Lee. Va.,
and Mrs. Edgar Gobin of the
same township, whose husband
is at the same place, decided it
would be nice to go down and see
the boys, and accordingly, on the
9th inst.. they set out for the
journey and reached home on the
13th.
The following from Miss Nell
Barmont will be of interest to all
who have relatives at the camp.
or who may be contemplating a
visit to that place.
"Owing to the fact that Sat
urday afternoon and Sunday U
the only time the lrys are not
engaged in drill work, it is most
satisfactory to leave McConnells
burg on the five-o-cluck autobus
in the afternoon and go to Cham
bersburg in time to catch a train
down the Valley for Harrisburg
Atll:o0you can get a through
train at llarmburg which wi
take you to Richmond and Peters
burg via York. Baltimore and
Washington. This train i due
to reach 1'etersburg at 9:10 Sat
urday morning; but on account
of the congested truflic since the
establishment of military camps
in the South, nearly all trains
are late. Our train did not reach
Petersburg until 10:15.
. "Petersburg, a town of 30,000
people is doing a thriving busi
ness just now. Hotels are num
erous, but on Saturday you must
register early if you want to be
sure of a good room. There are
lots of restaurants and the rates
are fair. ' Lodging at the hotels
cost you from a dollar to $0 50 a
day. In a short time the Y. W.
C.A. building at Camp Lee will
be completed. Then ladies will
be accommodated right at the
camp, which will be very much
appreciated by tired visitors.
While the Camp is situated
but three milos from Petersburg,
it is very tiresome going back
and forth on trolleys which are
always crowded beyond their capacity.
"Conductors permit passen
gers to stand on the steps, which
of course is attended with more
or less danger. We saw a fine
young soldier crushed. He was
standing on the steps of the trol
ley on which we were riding, and
he was caught between the trol
ley and a telegraph pole. He
was hnrried off to a hospital, and
we did nor hear anything more
about him.
"News of our expected arrival
had been circulated among the
Fulton County boys, and while
we were personally acquainted
with only about a dozen of them,
during the time of our stay we
met most of the whole contin
gent. The boys who had been
strangers to us at homo, seemed
to appreciate our visit as highly as
our home folks. They would say,
'You are from Fulton County,
and that is home.'
' We spent Saturday afternoon,
Sunday, and Monday forenoon
at the Camp. Sunday we visit
ed brother Earl's barrack, the
trenches, the wire netting, the
Y. M. C. A. auditorium, the post
exchange building etc. And. by-'
the-way, an airship from New
port News, Va., was a very un
expected, though much appre
ciated visitor Sunday; for we, as
many of the boys, had never seen
one.
"Monday morning we went
out to the grounds to see the
boys drill, which was intensely
interesting, but the limited space
allotted to this r.rticle, forbids
an attempt at description.
"We believe that our boys, in
general, are getting along " very
nicely; although many of them
are realizing that it is much hard
er to live a consistent Christian
life at Camp Lee, than back in
farming districts of old Fulton
County. Yet they are happy.
and are anxious to help bring
December 3-7. Tbe Strongest and Best
Talent in the History of the
Ccunty Work.
The fifty-first annual session
of the Fulton County Teachers,
Institute will convene in the au
ditorium of the Public School
Building Monday December 3 at
1:30 o'clock.
We wish to invite, and Indeed
to urge, all friends of education
to attend all sessions.
Our instructors have a national
reputation along their line of
work and, therefore,' live educa
tional subjects will be discussed
at ch'ih and every one of its ses
sions.
No ratron interested in the
good of our schools can alford to
miss any of these addresses.
The night entertainments are
first class.
On Monday evening, we shall
have with us Hon. Nathan C.
Schairer, State Superintendent
of 'Public Institution, who wi!
deliver a lecture, "The School
and the War."
Our people have heard Dr.
Schaffer on former occasions.
and it is needless to say that this
lecture wi'l le most valuable and
instructive our people coming
as it does, w, n we are engaged
in the most . ivrantic struarcrle
that the world hu. ever seen
Alton Packard, ihe "Master
Cartoonist," will give an enter
tainment on Tuesday evening.
This is said to be very humorous
racKara draws his cartoons in
tho presence of his audience.
Those persons who enjoy an eve
ning of good, clean, fun, cannot
afford to miss Packard. '
This is actually a high priced
entertainment.
On Wednesday evening Dr.
Edward Amherst Ott, will de
Ijver his famous lecture "Sour
Grapes."
This lecture has been delivered
over two thousand times.
The management of the Coun
ty Institute has been desirous of
securing Dr. Ott during the past
three years, but the source of
finance with which to run a coun
ty institute in Fulton County is
small there being only eighty-
lour teachers in the county we
have not had Dr. Ott before
This time we have -taken the
chance; and we wish to say that
any one who does not take advan
tage of the opportunity, will
miss a first class lecture.
The Fairchild Ladies Quartet
will entertain us on Thursday
evening. This, also, comes
highly recommended as a first
class entertainment.
The County Superintendent has
spared neither time nor money
n his effort to make this one of
the most entertaining and profit
able institutes the county has
ever held.
To all persons (and eapecially
to those persons who may feel
unable to attend the night ses
sions) we give a strong invitation
to attend every one of its day
sessions. We feel that all friends
of education need the institute,
and that the institute needs all
riends of education.
Respectfully,
J. Emery Thomas,
County Supt
flow You Can Help loclc Sam Win the Secretary McAdoo Calls Attention to
war, ana at me Same Time Help tbe Generous Provision Made for
Yourself. Enlisted Men and Women.
this awful war to a close. Let
us not forget that while they are
exposed to the dangers incident
to camn Ufa and to the hand-tn.
hand conflict with the enemy on
the front line, we at home can
do much to add to their comfort
and safety by giving to the Y.
M. C. A. work. Will we do it?
...It is well worth any one's time
and money to visit our bovs at a
traininff canrn Not onlv are the
visits appreciated by the boys
but it is a gain ot valuable infor
mation to tho visitors.
O no: it dnpsn't. enst sn much.
The railroad fare from Chambers-
bwg to Petersburg is $8 (9 one
way. A "25-dollar bill" ought
to cover all railroad fares and a
liberal allowance for living and
other incidental expenses in
making the trip.
Writ 1M niDitnun
McConnellsburg, Pa,
It is by saving the pennies that
you may be able to save the
dimes. It was Franklin that
said, "A penny saved is two
pence earned." A government
is powerful just in proportion as
its people are thrifty and frugal.
Just now the Government needs
money and at the same time, it
wants you to learn the lesson of
Baving and thrift.
You may not have fifty dollars
to buy a liberty bond. The Gov
ernment has made it possible for
jou to help with a small sum as
twenty-five cents. Thewar-sav
ings plan provided for in the last
bond act, of September 24, 1917,
had been formulated and announ
ed by the Treasury Department
and goes into operation on Mon
day, December 3.
The plan puts if easily in reach
of every American citizen to save
money and at the same time aid
the Government by supplying it
w ith sinews of war.
Stamps which are the Govern
ment's certificates of indebted
ness, are to besoldintwodenom
inations thrift stamps, which
cost 25 cents each and war-sav
ings stamps which cost from
$t1.12 to $4 23 each according to
the month in which they are
purchased.
With the first thrift stamp the
purchaser is given a thrift card
with spaces for 16 stamps. When
1G thrift stamps have been pur
chased and affixed the thrift
card can be exchanged for a war-
savings stamp by paying the dif
ference between the $4 the thrift
stamps represent and the cur
rent value of a war-savings stamp
which in December 1917 and Jan
uary, 1918. will be $4.12 and
thereafter 1 cent for each suc
ceeding month during the year
1918.
With the first war-savmes
stamps obtained by purchase or
exchange the owner is given a
war-savings certificate contain
ing space for 20 war-savings
stamps. If the 20 spaces are fill
ed during December. 1917 or Jan
uary 1918 the costtothepurchas
erwill be $4.12 for each stamp or
$82.40 for the full certificate and
on the 1st day of January. 1923.
the Government will redeem the
certificate at $100, giving the
holder a net profit of $17.60 for
the use of his money.
Although these investments do
not mature until January 1, 1923
provision is made whereby upon
10 days written notice after Jan
uary 1, 1918, such certificates will
be redeemed by postmasters at
their cost to the purchaser plus 1
cent a month on each war-savings
stamp on the certificate.
The thrift stamps do not bear
interest, but the war-savings
stamps bear 4 percent, compound
ed quarterly. The certificates
will be dated January 2, 1918 and
mature January 1, 1923.
Under the man an amount as
small as 25 cents can be invest
ed in a Government security.
and as soon as $4 has been thus
invested an interest-bearing
certificate of the United States
Government can be secured
The stamps and certficates can
be obtained from post offices,
banks, or trust companies, at
most railroad Rtationa. stnrpa
factories, and many other Dublic
nlaces.
Havinor the entire wealth nf
tne united states oack of them,
and being redeemable as above
stated, there is no dancrerof anv
depreciation in value of the cer-
tincfctes.
To t he Officers and Enlisted
Men and Women of the
Army and Navy of the Unit
ed" States and Their Rela
tives:
Mrs. McAdoo Tbanks.
Mrs. Wm. G. McAdoo, wife of
the secretary of the treasury and
daughter of President Wilson
writes to the News, as chair
man of the Woman's liberty
loan committee, thanking this
newspaper for "the splendid co
operation given in obtaining
wide publicity during the Liberty
Loan campaign."
The Secretary of the Treasury.
through the Bureau of War Risk
Insurance, has been charged
with the administration of the
War Insurance Law enacted by
the Congress as a measure Of
justice to the men and women
i ...
wnq nave been called to give
their lives, if need be, in the ser
vice of their country.
I wish to acquaint you with the
benefits and privileires which
your Government has placed at
your disposal. ,It is essential
that you and your families at
home should know of your and
their rights under this law in or
der that full advantage may be
taken of them.
To care for the wife and chil
dren of the enlisted man durine
his service, the War Insurance
Law compels him to contribute
up to one-half of his pay for their
support. The Government, on
application, will generously add'
to this an allowance of from $5
to $50 a month, according to the
size of the family. Moreover.
- , - -
if the enlisted man will make
some further Drovision himself
for a dependent parent, brother,
sister, or grandchild, they may
be included in the Government
allowance.
If, as a result of injuries in
curred or disease contracted in
the line of duty, an officer or en
listed man or an Army or Navy
nurse should be disabled, pro'
vision is made for compensation
of from $30 to $100 a month to
him, and, should he die. compen
sation of from $20 to $75 a month
will be paid to his wife, his child
or his widowed mother.
In order, however, fully to pro
tect each person and family,
Congress has made it possible
for every soldier, sailor, and
nurse to obtain life and total
disability insurance. This in
surance applies to injuries re
ceived while he or she is in the
service or after he or she shal
have felt it
Exposure to the extra dangers
of war makes the cost of life in
surance in private life insurance
companies prohibitive. It was
therefore, a plain duty and obli
gation for the Government to
assume the risk of insuring hun
dreds of thousands of our soldiers
and sailors who are making the
supreme sacrifice. Under this
law, every soldier and sailor
and nurse, commissioned and en
listed, and of any age. has the
right, between now and Febru
arr 12, 1918 to take out life and
total-disability insurance up to
$10,000 at very low cost, with
he Government without medical
examination. 1 his right is pure
ly optional. The soldiers and
sailors are not compelled to take
insurance, but if they desire to
exercise the right, they must do
so before the 12th of February,
1918. The cost ranges from 65
cents monthly, at the age of 21,
to $1.20 monthly, at the age of
51, for each $1,000 of insurance".
This is a small charge on a man's
pay small in proportion to the
benefits it may bring. The Dre-
miums will be deducted from his
pay if he desires, thus eliminat
ing trouble on his part.
lo provide adequate protection
until February 12, 1918. durine
the period when the soldiers and
sailors are learning the details of
this law, the Government auto
matically insures each man and
woman, commissioned or enlisted
in the military service of the
United States. It pays the man
$25 a month during total perman
ent disability; if he dies within
20 years, it pays the rest of 240
monthly installments of $25 each
to his wife, child or widowed
mother.
I desire to call the provisions
THE BANANA AS A FOOD.
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by
Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LL. D.,
Commissioner of Health.
The banana is a tropical fruit.
In its natural state it grows in
great abundance and the cost is
comparatively little in labor to
sustain the trees. Its flavor is
generally liked by man. It is
nourshing as it contains one and
three-tenths per cent. proteins,
six-tenths per cent, fats, and
twenty-two per cent, carbohy
drates, vhth a full value of four
hundred and forty-seven calories
per pound.
In Rio de Janeiro. S o u t Ii
America, the forests of tutsa
tall dignified trees present an at
tractive sight. The leaves are
not as beautiful as those of the
hard-wood trees of our colder
climates which shed their foliage
in the fall of the year and sleep
until the warm sun starts the
sap circulating, somewhat as
the blood circulates throueh
man's vascular system. Foliaire
of tropical vegetation that is ex
posed the entire year around to
winds, hot suns, etc., is thereby
aded and damaged until it is
not comparable to our fresh,
spring growths.
In the tropics the fruit is left on
the banana tree until thoroughly
ripe, and the natives are partic
ular to cook it before eatinir. as
it i3 otherwise hard to digest.
But in order to allow of shipoine
it is packed green. Then it is
sent all over the civilized world
to a people who. even 'to this
day, do not know how to handle
it.
The beautiful yellow fruit is
attractive and therefore is plac-
ed on our tables to be eaten raw.
This is often injurious, as it
causes indigestion. The fruit,
when fit to eat, has many black
spots on the skin and sometimes,
even, the whole skin becomes
black. This indicates that it has
ripened. Even in this state,
however, it is not as easily diges
tible as when cooked.
The small dealers purchase
the) fruit green and, to hasten
the ripening of some to sell at
once so as to get their money
back quickly, resort to different
methods. One is to put it in
their beds so that the heat of
the body makes it marketable
sooner. This is a dirty, danger
ous habit. Once we had a ty
phoid fever epidemic at Lynn,
Mass., as a result of this custom.
One of the occupants of the bed
had the fever. " Always treat the
skin as a dirty, infected part of
the banana, which should be
washed or destroyed.
Our children are often made
sick by eating the raw fruit i. ;
are not infrequently poisoncu t y
the dirt shey get off the skins.
The banana, however, intelligent
ly handled, is of vital importance
to our economy and should be
eaten even more generally than
it is in these times of conservation
of food values.
of this just and generous law to
the attention of our officers and
enlisted men and women so that
they may not be deprived of their
rights through lack of knowl
edge. Full information may be
obtained from the Bureau of War
Risk Insurance of the Treasury
Department, Washington, D.
I earnestly urge that the
officers of the Army and Navy
give to the men under their com
mand all possible aid in helping
them to understand fully, the
benefits that th's insurance may
bring to their families and the
small cost at which it may be ob
tained.
This is the greatest measure
of protection ever offered to its
fightinsr forces bv anv nation in
the history of the world. It is
not cnanty; it is simply justice
to the enlisted men and women
and to their loved ones nf hnme
and each and every one of them
Bhould promptly take the benefits
of this great law.
W. G. McAdoo.
Secretary of the Treasury.