VOL. XIX. NO. 11.
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., NOVEMBER 29, 1917.
$1.50 A YEAR.
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iuc iflUUAK BURL.
Ijd Sketches of- the Lives ol Pef
ims Who nave Kecenny ,
.Passed Away.
Dewey Scheidleman.
wtomn illness of six years
jased by typhoid fever Dewey'
iidleman passea peaceiuny
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Ure be hail been one year ror
Wment,
The deceased was the youngest
of Peter and Mary Scheidie-
... nf near Maquon, HI. He
Lorn May 14, 1898, at Knobs-
a Pa., and departed tnis me
1 m s f
the early age or. iy. years, o
Us, 1 day.
Dewey was a member or the
Lperance Union of De Long
i a faithtui sunoay scnooi
i church worker until poor
Jilth prevented his attendance.
3p Ipaves to mourn his loss be
lle bis father and mother three
m and one brother, and an
w erandmcther of Knobsville,
V His sisters are Mrs. Allie
Iwavof Knoxville, III: Mrs.
Kerlin of Knobsville, Pa.,
Miss Helen, at home: and
brother William, of - Maquon,
les a host of friends and rel
9.
)n Sunday, November 13, at
LOorayerwas offered at the
of Rev. Thomas VVillstead,
'which the body was taken
lieMaines chapel, near De
I where the funeral services
held, Rev. Thomas Will-
W pssfor of the Gilson M, E,
rch, officiating, assisted by
MaU! Swift. Tlie singing
a quartet from the De
b U. E. church, who sang
Jrffully "Jesus, Lover of My
.""Sometime We'll Under-
Id" and "We Will Never Sav
i-bye." A large company of
mot; friends were present
ier their svmDathies to the
pveil family. The body was
my in the Haines chapel
stery.
MiIlerSipes.
tie home of the bride's
prMrs. Lula Sipes on No-
r 21 1917 a very pretty
m was solemnized when
I Graver Miller and Miss
pipes' of Saluvia were
d in holy matrimony by
W. Croft. Miss Clomo
' o.i baitnio served a s
mi and Benjamin Mill-
Mr of the crnnm. an
man. "Those present
Mrs. Lnla Sines. Mrs.
tes, Rev E. J. Croft and
wemSiDesand wife. Mrs.
P Foreman. Mrs. G. B.
K Maud Grpon Paulino
pna Hollenshead, Ethel
Beatrice Sipes, Mildred
Evelvn Sln.i Tutha.
Lester Croft, and Harry
These are excellent
'People and will be at home
, "ffianv fi-ion, - nr.t..
j tuvuua near vraier-
fh lieutenant McKibbio.
- --wi 1CV.CIVCU I1CIC
Jarshall McKibbin, who
1 J months in an Offi-
nfla hoon award.
iionaa First Lfetitan.
'"fantrv 1,,,-fU -
5(1,1 'or & Cflntainnw Mar.
; Wad hand. The "pull"
rattle nrizfi wns hnrH
irshll j .
L e Kailwav Mnil
a year to takechan-
i .a commission ana
, -"uiouimi is a nauve
ana is a son or
13. Geo. McKibbin. of
lital N'ntR
irk, son of Hon. and
,te Mcuonneus-
WPerated uPn at the
ijf hospital for en-
iJHykesofAyrtown-
C ? has returned
Vk Chambersburg
j(e8he had been for
Cy' wter having had a
, --Valley Spirit
Car Burned on Sideling Bill.
Last Tuesday evening a prac
tically new Chalmers-6 Sedan
was destroyed by fire on the
Lincoln Highway, about a mile
east of the top of Sideling Hill
mountain. The car was owned
by Sam Thomas, proprietor of
Hotel Lenox. Allentown. Pa..
who with hi9 wife, and Mr. and
Mrs. C. L. Henry, of the same
town, were returning home from
a trip to Pittsburgh.
While descending the moun
tain, they discovered something
wrong with the working of the
machine, and when they got
out to look for the trouble, the
interior of the car burst into
flames. The theory for the fire
is, that a rear spring had broken
causing a tightening on one of
the brakes, which caused undue
friction. ' Garaeeman Ernest
McClain was summoned and he
went out to the fire and brought
the tourists to town where they
spent the night at the Fulton
House, and went on to Allentown
next morning by train. The
Chalmers bodyless, tireless, anti
radiator-less was purchased by
Ernest McClain, who expects
to make a dandy buckboard out
of it. Fortunately, the owner
carried an insurance of $1,200.00
on the car, which will help out
some even if it did cost him
$152.00 a year, it paid.
Back from Chicago.
After having spent two
weeks with the Dawney boys in
Chicago, ex-County Treasurer C.
, Stevens returned to his home
in this place last week. Charlie
says, "Chicago is some 'town,
and don't you forget it" The
Dawney boys John, Mont Scott
and Harry are Bons of the late
Benjamin M. Dawney, who sev
eral years ago, was a leading
farmer in Taylor township, The
boys all "left the old farm" and
went to Chicago, and have prov
ed that Taylor township can grow
boys big enough to hold their
own in a city even as big as
Chicago. They showed Charlie
a good time.
Cbilton-McGehee.
Sergt, Alfred W. Chilton and
Miss Ruth Elizabeth McGehee
were married in the city of Nor
folk, Va., on Friday, November
16, 1917. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. John Roach
Straton of the Baptist Church.
Sergt Chilton was stationed at
Camp Meade, but left for France
last Monday. and the bride re
turned to the home of her father.
Mr. Charles McGehee at Burnt
Cabins, where she will await the
return of her husband "when
this cruel war is over."
Before entering the army, Mr.
Chilton was a prominent insur
ance man of Tyrone, Pa.
Nice Trip to Pittsburgh.
George K. Nelson and family.
and George's mother, Mrs. D. A.
Nelson, motored to Pittsburgh
last Wednesday where they
visited Mrs. D. A. Nelson's
mother, Mrs. M. Louisa Hull,
and .Mrs. Hull's daughters Susie
and Miss Mary. While Mrs.
Hull will be eighty years of age
next month, she is very well.
Her daughter Susie is the wife of
Mr. J. W. Moore a successful
hardware merchant, and Miss
Mary is teaching in one of the
City Schools. They were accom
panied on the trip by Jack
Snyder.
. sAlma to Baltimore.
Fleets of automobiles and trucks
passing over the Lincoln High
way from the great factories in
the Middle West to eastern cities
are so common as to attract. but
little attention. Thirty Republic
trucks en transit to Baltimore
from the factory at Alma. Mich
igan, passed thru town Tuesday
morning. They left Alma, Sun
day noon, November 18th and
would reach Baltimore the even
ing of the 27th, covering a dis
tance of 1000 miles in a little less
than 10 days.
is
Cnba Annaaifj Contributes More Than
One-Sixth of all the Sugar
Produced in the World.
Three Million tons of sugar!
A ton Of BUCrar Wfiirhs 9. 9A(
pounds, so that the 3,000,000 tons
estimated annual output of sugar
from the little island of Cuba
amounts to 6,720,000, 000 pounds
or, more than 60 pounds o
sugar for every inhabitant of the
United States.
tuDa, home or Havana cigars
and famous for its tobacco, ex
pons annually eight times as
many dollars' worth of sugar and
molasses as it does tobacco.
Although only about as large
a.s the state of Pennsylvania.
Cuba is producing more than one
sixth of the world's total output
of 40,000,000,000 pounds, the av
erage annual production since
1913. Cuba's possible su gar
acreage is said to be only one
fifth developed. If all the sugar
lands available were under cul
tivation, it is estimated that
Cuba could easily supply one
tnird or. the demand for sugar
from the entire world.
"The World's Sugar Bowl"
a well-merited title for Cuba.
THE HIGH PRIC9 OF SUGAR.
An explanation of the present
price of sugar, the highest since
the Civil War, is given by a
prominent sugar anthority who
is quoted as saying:
"Stocks of sugar In United
States and Cuba amounts t o
69,032 tons, against 200,844 tons
at the same time in 1916, a de
crease of 131,812 tons. The
shortage of stocks is due to sev
eral factors, the most important
of which is the export by Cuba
to tho United Kingdom of 262,-
647 tons more than in 1916, and
207,543 tons less to the ports of
United States north of Hatteras
in the same year.
"Shipments to New Orleans
increased 84.881 tons and the op
ening of the new Savannah Sug
ar Refinery, at Savannah, Ga.,
increased shipments to that port
16,852 tons. In addition to this.
consumption of sugar during the
first half of 1917 in the United
States showed an increase of 200,-
000 tons compared with the cor
responding period a year ago.
This is attributed in part to a
large amount of canning and pre
serving, and in some instances.
possibly, to hoardings."
In the United States the con
sumption of sugar per capita has
increased more than fourfold
since 1850, in which year it was
figured each person consumed
19.8 pounds. In 1870 the per
capita consumption was 32.7
pounds; in 1890 it was 50.7 pounds
in 1900, 58.9 pounds: in 1910,
79.9 pounds. In 1913 it was 89
pounds.
But it will be seen that the in
crease in consumption has far
outstripped the increase in pop
ulation of the United States. In
the decade ended with 1912-1913,
the total, consumption of sugar
RED CROSS DRIVE.
Nation-Wide Christmas Campaign to
Raise Membership of American Red
Cross to Fifteen Millions.
Mrs. B;. Frank Henry, secretary
of Fulton Chapter of the Ameri
can Red Cross, represented this
county at a meeting of the Har-
risburg Division, held in Harris
burg last Thursday.
The Red Cross is the Nation'
right arm in winning the world
for Democracy and'this arm must
he upheld by eyery Aaron and
Hur in the land, if the end o
the great struggle is to, be has
tened.
Strong speakers were present
who outlined the plan of a na
tion-wide Christmas campaign to
raise the membership to 15.000.
000.
Of that number, an allotment
of two thousand is made to Ful
ton County, which means about
one person to each family. Not
every one may shoulder a mus
ket or carry a knapsack, but
every one-man, woman and
child can be a member of the
Red Cross, and thus feel that he
or she is really enrolled as an ac
tive helper in the winning of the
greatest war the world has ever
seen.
While you nay be enrolled at
any time the g. t drive will be
made during the ?ek just before
Christmas. "He i! at is not for
me is against me." There are
no neutrals in this war. Fulton
County Chapter already has a
membership of something more
than five hundred: hence about
1500 persons muBt be enrolled
before Christmas. Taylor town
ship is leading" the County in ac
tivity just now and the names o
the persona added to the Taylor
auxiliary since the last published
list are: Ruthlless. Marv Brat-
tan, Clara Brattan. Eliza Hess.
Rolla Laidig, H. Frank Brattan.
Ed Brattan Blanche Winegard
ner, J. M. Houck, Mrs. J. M,
Houck Mrs. John Thomas. Kate
Wilds, Kate Alloway, Mrs. Frank
Thomas, Olive Shaw, Mrs. M.
W. Houck, Robert Mosbey, Will
Wakefield, Hartman Anderson.
Anna Anderson, Nellie Davis. E.
A. Horton, A. G. Edwards. Alice
Edwards, Ruth Edwards, John
Stunkard, Rebecca Edwards,
Rachel Edwards, Joseph Wood
cock, Howard Tice, Harry Zern,
G. W. Alloway, A. O. Griffith.'
Mrs. A. 0. Griffith, Stella Horton,
Mrs. W. W. Cessna.
BELFAST AUYILIARY.
R. C. Dixon, Mrs. R. C. Dixon.
Mrs. A. P. Garland, Mae Peck,
Rev. E. J. Croft, Mr3. Harrison
Hann, Mrs. H. L. Peck, Mrs
'rancis Truax.Mrs. BerthaTruax
Mrs. T. W. Peck, J. J. Palmer.
W. R. Palmer, Mrs. W. R. Pal
mer, Lessie Bard, Cleo Bard.
ANNUAL MEMBER.
Miss Lydia Martin.
was 42 per cent, greater than in
the preceding decade, against
an increase of 21 per cent in
population for the same period.
DEMAND FOR SUGAR INCREASED
FOURFOLD.
Within two short generations
we have developed a national de
mand for sugar equivalent to
four times our former supply.
The 'sugar production of the
world is equivalent in market
value to three times the value of
gold mined annually; four times
as great as the production of pe
troleum; three times as great as
the production of tobacco; four
times as great as the production
of rubber; and is greater than
the entire cotton crop of the
world.
It has been figured that if the
demand for sugar increases in
the next fifty years as it has in
creased in the past fifteen, facil
ities for the production of sugar
must be increased to at least sev
en times their present capacity.
Sugar haa long since ceased to
HOW WOMEN WON NEW YORK STATE
be considered a luxury, although
Uncle Sam's candy bill alone ex
ceeds $500,000,000 per year. Sug
ar is one of the best elements for
a balanced ration. Its heat and
energy producing value is as
great as that of lean meat. The
nitrogen retention of proteid food
such as meat fish, eggs and
milk is said to be increased 25
per cent when consumed with
sugar.
Sugar isgnow widely regarded
as an ideal medium for the in
vestment of funds. It is a basic
commodity one Of the -necessities
and what is of even more
importance, it can be produced at
a good profit even at the lowest
market prces recorded in the
previous history of the industry.
There is no satisfactory substi
tute for sugar and, since the
world demand for this commodity
continues to increase more rap
idly than production, there is
little danger.of the sugar market
ever being over-supplied, a con
dition which indicates good
market prices at all times with
consequent opportunities for
handsome profits for the com
panies engaged in the production
of sugar, . .
Interesting Article from the Pen of
Nellie Skinner Crisswell, Former
Folton ConotjGirl.
With 193 presidential electors
in the hands of the Empire State,
it will make a mighty Bicht o
ainerence as to whether a
candidate for President of the
United States carries New York
or not. This great change has
been brought about by the addi
tion of two million voters when
it was decided by the men of
New Youk state at the election,
that women should have in that
state, the same rights at the
polls as men. The following is
Mrs. Cnsswell's article:
Him A... -
wnermvoman Suffrage was
defeated in New York State in
1915, we realized two things: (1)
In order to win the next time,
one man out of every nine i
be induced to change his mind:
and. (2) that our first big work
was with the women. '
So many men have said:' "No:
I didn't vote for suffrage; the
majority of the women don'
want it; my wife isn't interested.
my mother is opposed to it. etc."
And so we decided not only to go
after that ninth man. but to
nterest the women all women
from the mistress of a Fifth
Avenue mansion, down to the
humble foreign-born laundress.
Many women would not come
out to meetings, and would not
read our literature. How then
would we reach them? Only,
by a house-to-house canvass,
personal interview, and that we
set out to do all of last spring
and summer weary work some
times, but intensely interesting
and well worth while; for this
fall, we could present to the
skeptics the signatures of one
million, thirteen thousand, and
eight hundred New York wo
men who desired the erifran
chisement of their sex.
We have a really wonderfu
organization here city officers,
boro otneers, a leader in every
Assembly district, and a captain
in every election district; and,
because of this well organized
body of trained women, from
the day the United States enter
ed the great world war, we were
asked to do a tremendous amount
of patriotic work. We had al
most entire charge of (he State
military census in June; we sold
hundreds of thoupands of dollars
worth of Liberty Bonds, we
canvassed the City with the
Hoover Food Conservator pledg
es, and we are taking an active
part in all branches of the Red
Cross work. We have never
turned down any patriotic job,
and we have always ''made
good."
During last summer, the politi
cians for some reason best known
to themselves, changed the bound
ary lines of all election districts
in Brooklyn. In the new ar
rangement, the 23rd election dis
tricts of the First Assembly was
assigned to me. It is what we
call a "silk stocking district," in
cluding several of t'.i finest res
idential blocks in' tti; City; but,
also, embracing a small section
of a totally different class. So,
in my voters' list I had "all sorts
and conditions" of men from
Bank Presidents and Wall Street
Magnates to some poor speci
mens of human driftwood lodg
ed temporarily in the cheapest of
rooming houses.
The real work of our campaign
began with Kegistration Week,
when I Bpent every evening and
all day Saturday at my polling
place. As the men registered, I
put down in my little book their
names, addresses, business, and
registration numbers., In my
lesiure moments, I knitted at my
gray navy sweater while the
men smoked. I was pleased to
find a very marked change in the
attitude of the men on the board.
wo years ago. they were courte
ous enough, but it was plain to be
seen they considered me an out
sider. I was merely a woman
who bad forced herself into
Borne from Colorado.
Mrs. W, D. Myers spent the
time from Wednesday until Sat
urday in the home of her brother
Geo. W. Hays, West Lincoln Way.
After having sold their property
in Hancock, Mr. and Mrs. Myers
went to Colorado in July, where
they then had two sons living.
While the country was beautiful
and the scenery most attractive,
the climate did not agree with
Mrs. Myers, and she was ob
liged to return to the East. Her
husband soon followed, and he is
now at Norristown, Pa. Mrs.
Myers is expecting a visit from
one of her sons who is in the
army, after which the will join
her husband at Norristown. Pa.
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wnere meir daughter Miss Bess
is a teacher in the public schools.
and they will reside there indef'
initely.
THE VALUE OF fUY.
Little Talks on Health and Dvgieoe bj
Samuel G. Dixon, M. LL. D.,
Commissioner of Health.
rieasant Reunion.
George Suders went to Altoona
last Wednesday and spent the
time in the home of his son Harry
until Sunday, when Harry in his
automobile, brought his father
and mother (the latter with her
children Mary, Marshall and Eva,
had been in Altoona two weeks)
to their home in McConnellsburg.
where they found Clem, of
Philadelphia, and John, cf Pitts
I .
ourgn; ana tney also found a
sumptuous dinner awaiting them
a dinner that had been prepar
ed for the occasion by Pauline.
who had been keeping house for
her mother during her absence
It was, indeed, a happy occasion.
for it was the first time in twelve
years that the family had all been
at home at one time.
More Turkeys. .
The odor of roast-turkeys fills
the air since the advent of the
season on the 15th inst. and the
hunters down about Webster
Mills and the Tannery have been
getting their share. John Rasp
killed a 16i lb. gobbler; Hayes
Richards, an 8-lb. hen; Henry
Hann, a 20-lb. gobbler: George
Keefer, one that weighed 11 lbs. ;
George Fittery, one that weighed
12 lbs, and George Williams, one.
the weight of which our reporter
did not know. '
their domain; but this year, they
recognized my right to be there:
was one of them an intelligent
human being and I was even
consulted on matters of ' impor
tance.
When Registration Week clos
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ea, i felt that every man in my
board was friendly to me and
most of them to my cause, and I
had my precious little book with
its 387 names and 14 others in
the National Army at Camy Up
ton. My first duty then was to
write a long chatty letter to each
of the latter, for a soldier appre
ciates his mail and knew those
letters, at least, would not be
tossed aside unread. Then I
called upon the political bosses
in my district Everywhere I
was received with respect and
encouragement although I can't
say I found much enthusiasm for
'or our cause rather call it "res
ignation." it s bound to come
soon; why not now? Yes. I'll
help you, were the usual ans
wers. Two big stumbling blocks
in my way in my district were
Congressman Jeanette Rankin's
vote against war and the Wash
ington Pickets. Its funny how
many men who didn t want to
vote for Suffrage, hid behind the
petticoats of those pickets. Over
and over again I explained, pati
ently, that Miss Rankin was only
one woman and did not represent
it all, and that the New York
State Suffrage Party was oppos
ed to the picketing.
We have had all along a fine
Headquarters for the Borough of
Brooklyn, but a month before
the election, we opened a Cam
paign Headquarters in our As
sembly District I was chairman
of the committee in charge and
here I spent many busy, inter
esting hours, the pleasantest be
Continued on pg i,
Most people would say that
play's first requisite was, that it
should consist of something one
doesn't have to do. Play is in
reality, however, of all sorts and
descriptions. Those that produce
something useful besides giving
rest are greatly to be preferred.
There are many sorts equally
stimulating to the mind and to
the body and productive of valu
able results.
One essential to beneficial play
is that it ,bo wholesome and be
performed in a healthful envir
on .nent, that is, where we have
pure moving air of the right tem
perature and preferably sunlight
The body should be maintained
in such a position as to permit an
even circulation of the blood and
normal respiration. The object cf
the exercise would otherwise te
very much discounted. The air
carries food to the blood which it
furnishes to the tissues, and the
blood in turn takes away the de
bris and returns it to the out3ide
atmosphere. This will make
plain to any reader the necessity
of what has been said about the
proper environment in which to
exercise.
Unless the blood is supplied
with what nature has provided
for her normal function, the di
gestive system will fail and the
body will be wanting in nourish
ment When this condition takes
place man becomes susceptible to
the disease germs that are ever
present in the atmosphere. The
greatest safety is to be found
in keeping up the resistance. It
is much easier to battle against
the germ organisms before they '
get established in the system.
Once they establish themselves
in the tissues they generate pois
ons which interfere with the nor
mal working of the body and en
able them to nourish themselves
and increase, often at an alarm
ing rate. In fact some of them
reproduce themselves to the ex
tent of thousands, yes, hundreds
of thousands in a minute of time.
Variation of types of work
properly adjusted will often sub
stitute for what is generally
known as play. For instance.
one's brain center may become
weary at a monotonous occupa
tion and a decided change of oc
cupation, notwithstanding it be
what we usually call work, will
permit the first brain center in
volved to rest while another
works.
,But we come back to the fact
that what most people regard as
play is an occupation that they
are not required to perform, and.
it would seem from a psycholog
ical standpoint to give greater
rest if it be an occupation that is
particularly useless from the
standpoint of producing economic
results.
Therefore there should be time
set aside in the work of the day,
no matter whether it be varied
or not. when the environment
may be changed and play should
be taken up.
I speak of games in a broad
sense. For instance, after sitting
at a task for a given number of
hours, a walk in the open air, the
body held erect and the limbs
swinging so as to produce circu
lation, and attention given to
surroundings so that the mind
may be occupied and contented.
constitutes one of the best kinds
of play, preferably performed.in
company.
In these times it is well to re
member the simple saying of the
old days that all work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy.
Scott Brant and wife and Clem
C. Brent spent last Sunday in
the home of the former's Bon-in-
law and daughter Mr. and Mrs
Geo. King at Hiram. In the
evening Mrs. King and daughter
Margaret accompanied them
hnmn ini) nn 'Tnacon all nrant
'to Chambersburg.
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