JOT FULTON OOtJHTY KIWI, McOOWOTLUBUKtt, FA.
FULTON COUNTY NEWS
Published Every Thursday.
B. V. PEOK, Editor and Proprietor
' McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
DECEMBER 6, 1917
Published Weekly.. $1.50 per
Annum in A'dvance
THIRTY YEARS AGOAND NOW.
Mfroi at the Pontoffloe at. MoOonnnlliburg
Pa., a leoood-claai mall matter.
tnshakea Testimony.
Time is the test of truth. And
Dean's Kidney Pills have stood
the test in McConnellsburg. No
McConnellsburg resident who
suffers backache, or annoying
urinary Ills can remain uncon
. vlnced by this twice-told testi
mony.-
John P. Conrad, McConnelis-
burir. savs: "I bad terrible
t
pains across my back and 1
didn't sleep well at night. I was
very nervous and when I got up
in the morning, I was more tired
than when I went to bed, Doan's
Kidney Pills soon freed my back
from pain."
Over Four Years Later, Mr
Conrad Bj. "I haven't needed
tnv medteina 1 for backache, or
other Kidney Pills,"
Price 60c. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doau's Kidney Pills the
' same that Mr. Conrad bad
StaterMilburn Co, Props, Buf
falo, N Y. . .
Advertisement.
Selecting Draft Dorses.
In spite of the increasing pop
ularity of the motor truck and
farm tractor there is still a de
mand for draft horses of a good
and serviceable type. Tractors
cannot do all the farm work, and
the cost of fuel for their opera
tion is becoming a limiting factor
in their use.
"The management of the grow
we colt is of utmost importance
if a good sizeble draft animal is to
. be secured upon maturity," says
P. S. Halts, of the department of
animal husbandry of the Penn
sylvania State College. "Feed
unrt mrA alone cannot make a I
perfect animal; good breeding al
so '.s essential. The three work
in hand. Breed discriminate!?,
allow plenty of feed and use care
ful management," be urges.
"Unsoundness ruins many an
imals, utterly destroying their
c&Dabihtv for work. Blemishes
r
detract from the appearance, but
buch malformations as bone spav
in, curby hocks, poll evil, bogs,
fistula, and ring and side .bones
muit not be overlooked in select
loe a draft animal.
There are several draft breeds.
The most popular breeds in tne
United States today are the Per
cheron, Belgian, Clydesdale and
Shire breeds. Differences in the
environment under which these
breeds were produced have affect
ed differences in their make up.
DUBLIN MILLS.
Miss Mae Aller spent Sunday
with her friend Miss Mae Knep-
per,
Mrs. Win. Cllppinger spent
Sunday at Jerre Kneppers.
Our school is progressing
nicely under the care of Earl
Keebaugh,
Miss Mame Fields spent Sun
day with Miss Bessie Brown.
F.I I a worth Wineeardner is
spending a few days at his home.
Ray Hess and Tbad Winegard-
ner have treated themselves with
Fords.
Mrs. Berlin Cornelius and
two sons spent a few days re
cently with Mrs Cornelius' aunt
Mrs. Wm. Knepper.
Thelma Wible is spending the
winter with her aunt Mrs. Lo
rain Madden.
Miss Rhoda Black spent Sat
nrdav mcht and Sunday at
David Hess's.
SALUVIA.
Mrs. Pheasant and son, and
Mr. Frazer, of Johnstown, Pa ,
accompanied Owen Sipes, who
resides aud works in that city,
on a visit to Owen's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Homer L. Sioes. On
Sunday morning they all attend
ed the morning services at As
bury M. E. church.
Mia' Bella E Balr returned
ho ue last Saturday from a very
enjoyable visit among relatives
in Carlisle and York.
John P. Schooler of Andover,
who works at Squire W. H. Baum
garde er's sawmill near the Wish-
Thfrrw vam floro." the editor of the News, who was then County
Superintendent, was holding his first County Institute. W. Grant
Wink in thfl nnlv nerson teaching in the County this winter that
taught in the County thirty years ago. Thirty years ago, salaries
were as low as fifteen dollars a month-four dollars lor Doara. ine
Mcrheat anlarv naid was $45. Bethel emDloy&l more teacher; Brush
Creek, 2; Dublin, 1 less; Licking Creek, 1 more; McConnellsburg, 2
more; Tod, 2 more; Union, 2, more, and Wells, 1 more, ine mini
mum length of the school term is now one month more than at
that time. The lowest salary paid in the County now, is just what
the highest was then. The standard of qualification has been rais
ed, school buildings and equipment have been standardized, and
the work of popular education has kept pace with improvements in
other lines of human endeavor. Believing that it will be a matter
of interest to many of our readers, we give a list of the teachers
in the several school districts of the County thirty years ago, ana a
corresponding list of those who are occupying the schools this
winter.
1887-88
Kate Sheets
Nettie A. Hunter
W. C. Patterson
J. S. Hunter
U. G., Humbert
Rachel Humbert
Jennie Morton
Georgia Morton
Alice Hendershot
Jessie A. Peck
W. Grant Wink "
Daniel A. Mellott
Sadie A. Sharpe
Rev. A.. Overlander
Amanda Palmer
Sallie Hoop
Emery Thomas
Elmer Zimmerman
Rose Brooks
Mattie E. Daniels
Alice V. Lewis
Oliver Lafferty .
Joe Charlton
James T. Hill.
Frank P. Lynch
Letitia N. Richards
Frank P. Diehl
Burt Sipes
J. C. Lodge '
Lizzie Akera
A. C. Matthias .
Ada McGowan
T. Scott Hershey
Sander Cline
Emma Fraker
Clem Chesnut
Alice Wogan
J. C. Comerer
AYR.
BELFAST
1917-18
Retha Mellott
Cora Nesbit
Dorothy Kirk
Kenneth Glazier
Lydia Humbert
Stanley Humbert
Lewis Harris
Hazel McQuade
Maye Pittman.
Levi Garland -,
Foster Hollinshead
Etta Waltz
Hobart Truax
Clarence Morton
Vernona Mellott
Floyd T. Hart
Florence Truax
George Mellott
BETHEL
Blanche Smith
Gladys Charlton
Frances Norris
Mary Breakall
Elias Lynch
Earle Golden
Clara Norris
Myrtle Remsburg
BRUSH CREEK
) " Roy Plessinger
Celia Barton
Myrtle Duvall
Minnie Lynch
Ernest Walters
Hazel Cline
Hazel Reeder.
DUBLIN
John Kelso
Roy J. Matthias
Jane Cromer
Esther Welch
Gertrude Gelvin
Oda Gutshall
Edith Wilds
LICKING CREEK
Philip Barton
Walter Decker
Reuben R. Sipes
Nannie Sipes
P. J. Bernhardt
John A. Myers
Frank E. W. Scott
H. H.Woodall
J. Grant Hanks
Sadie A. Dunlap
Ally Deshong
Edith Fix
Wilmer Mason
Rebecca Hockensmith
C. W. Mellott '
Daisy Strait
Huldah Foreman
Edgar E. Hann
m'connellsburg
Jeannette Stouteagle
Grace Lodge
Joan Morton
Sophia Hohman
Admiral Smith.
B. C. Dawney
M. Luther Kirk
N. E. M. Hoover
Nannie Witter
Florence Cutchall
Annie Sipes
John Hess
Barbara Truax '
Sadie E. Sipes
Louie Powell
W. W. Douglass
A. J. Pittman
Jennie Bailey
J. I. Winger
Rolla B. Fore
L. H. Wible
William T. Greer
M. M. Boor
Cecil Barnhart
George 0. Lynch
Chas. W. Lynch
S. W. Kirk
M. J. Miller
John R. Lockard
tt a mi. .
1 narry a. iiiuiiiubuh
TAYLOR
H. P. Barton
Olive Clevenger
Myrtle Alloway
Thad Winegardner
Beatrice Mellott v
Earl Keebaugh
W. Grant Wink
Howark Knepper
THOMPSON
Thomas Truax
Rose Keefer
Jeannette Breakall
Oliver Winters
Pearl Stahle
Jessie Yeakel
Alice Brewer
TODD
UNION
WELLS
H. Scott Alexander
Maudleen Stevens
Etta Snyder
Harvey Raker
Willis Daniels
Kenneth McKee
Lewis Stahle .
Orben Hebner
Gilbert Mellott
Lily Ritz
Clyde Stahle
Jessie Cutchall
Alice Cutchall
Elizabeth Hixson
Mary Helman
Annie Howard.
Deceased.
Report of the Y. W. C. A. far Work.
The b e v e r a 1 orfc an Ization s,
schools aud collectors who have
answered the call issued several
weeks ago in behalf of the Y W.
0. A War Work, submit the
following report, and we want to
thank all those who responded
so generously, in spite of the fact
that so many demands are being
made on the public today. We
have but ope regret ty express
and that is in regard to the indif
ference of our public school
teachers in the matter. ' Out of
84 teachers in the County, but 12
responded and we feel they have
missed an opportunity to enlist
the cooperation of the pupils iu
this great work.
The followinu is a list of con
tributions:
Camp Fire GirJs under the
guardianship of Mrs. 0. B. Stev
ens, $27 50; Suffrage Social under
the direction ot Miss Molhe bey
ar, $10 21;C L 8 0 Club-held
at the home of Mrs. B W. Peck
Miss Emma McGovern, Presi
dent, $315; Woman's C. T. U ,
Mrs, Winnie Kendall, President,
$10 97
SCHOOLS
High School, Admiral Smith,
iaacber, $2 45; Grammar School,
Miss Joan Morton, teacher, $1 75;
otermediate School, Miss Grace
idee, teacher, $171; Primary
School, Miss Jeanerte Stouteagle
teacher, $2 03 McGoverns, Scott
Alexauder, teacher, $2 15; Fort
attleton, Esther Welsh teacher,
$1 55; Mud Lwel, Jennie C omer
eacher, 50 ct ; Knobsville,
Maudlme Stevens, teacher, $1 50;
Battle Ridge, J. W. Kelbo, teach
er, $2 10; Summer, Willis Dan
iels, teache-, $1 10; Oak Grove,
Roy Plessinger teacher, 75 cent;
Harmonia,Gilbert Mellott teacher
$2 00; Wood burn, Etta Snyder
teachrr $2 85: Juctown from
Mary Magttam, 25 cents.
f TOWNSHIPS
Ayr. Mr. Aaron Martin, Mrs.
H A Duffy, Miss Mary N Kend
all, Mis Hazil McQjade, Miss
Flora Smvcs, -Miss Jeannette
Nesbit, Mrs. 0 B Weller, collec
tors, $32.15; Toid, Joan Morton,
collector, $1 75; Union, Mrs. Geo
LehroaD, collector, $33 85; Taylor
Mrs. H C. McClam, collector,
$12 41; Wells, Mrs. W. H. Baum-
gai drier, collector, $1910, Boro,
Mrs. W. R Sloan, collector, $5 10
Harriett Sloan, collector, $1 65;
Ethel Kendall, collector, $6 05;
Mrs. Wilson Nace, collector $18
25: Florence Johnston, collector,
$6 35. Total, $208 42,less 48 cents
postage, $207 ,94
Respectfully submitted; Mrs
Chas. Spangler, Chairman; Miss
Emma McGovern, Vice Chair
man: Mrs. Geo. Reisner, Treas
urer, Miss Mary Seylar, Secre
tary.
, On The Bargain Counter.
Not often that five-dollar bills
are "marked down" and placed
on the bargain counter; but that
is just what this war has com
pelled Uncle Samuel to do. If
you are right brisk about it, you
can exchange four old rag
ged faded, fringy, dollar-bills
and a dime and two cents, and
get a nice, bright, new "fiver".
The8ale began last Saturday
morning, and every postoffice bas
a bargain counter, and the post
master will be glad to tell you
all about it.
There is only one stipulation
and that is made to g've every
man, woman and child in the
country a chance to "get in" on
the bargain. No one may pur
chase more than 200 of the five
dollar bills at the cut rate price.
In consideration of the bargain
rates asked for the $5 bills, the
government expects purchasers
not to demand the full, face val
ue for nve years. However,
there is no stipulation which
makes a purchaser refrain from
spending the bill before that time.
During December, 1917, and
January, 1918, war-savings
stamps will be sold for $4.12 each.
At the beeinnine of each of the
succeeding months of 1918, start
ing February 1, the cost of a
stamp will increase one cant per
month. All war savings stamps
issued during 1918 will mature on
Janurary 1, 1923, wjien they will
be redeemed at $5.00 each.
The difference between the
purchase price paid at any time
during 1918. and. $5 00, lepre
sents the interest the government
will pay the holder.
The holder may spend it at
any time. If your dealer does
not want to give you chmTe for
it, Uncle Sam will. This insures
it having the value of a $5 gold
piece. If you' want it clung d
before the five-year period is up,
Uncle Sam will give you one cent
each month you have held it.
CULBRANSEN DICKINSON
Player Piano
You Can Play It I
A Million Melodies at Your Command
1 1
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Easy to Play, Easy to Pay For.
$395, $430, $475, $525.
12 Rolls Music, Bench, Scarf, 2 Free Tunings.
DUFFIELD MUSIC HOUSE,
61 SOUTH MAIN STREET,
Chambersburg, Penna.
DR. FAIIRNEY
- HAGERSTOWN, MD.
DIAGNOSTICIAN
Only chronic diseases. Send me
your name and address and I will
send you a mailing case and question
blank. Don't use done for chronic
troubles, get cured. It is a satis
faction to know what the cause is.
i CONSULTATION FREE.
art coal mine on Broad top, was
hocae to see his family last Son
day. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. Bair, ac
companied by E R. Ilpcdershon!
and family, motored to McCon
nellshorg lat Sunday to pec
Mrs Bair's aunt Mary E Daniels
who is in a critical condition ow-
Thursday.
State Agricultural Notes.
There are 334 poultry plants in
the State that are carrying over
500 hens this season.
Farmers in Allegheny county
are killing off stock of all kinds
and a milk shortage is predicted
by some farmers.
There were 4.225 oleomargar
ine licenses issued by the Dairy
and Food Bureau of the Depart
ment of Agriculture this year as
compared with 3,348 last year.
Commercial orchards through
out the State are being listed in
a new bulletin to be issued by
the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture. Owners of orchards
are requested to write for regis
tration blanks.
The apiary advisers of the State
are urging the keeping of bees
and the discontinuance of the old
method of smoking out the hives
to secure honey.
Hay is selling at high prices in
many sections of the State, the
variance of price in sections be
ine greater than ever before.
There was an appreciable in
crease in alfalfa acreage in
number of counties this year.
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Care of Dorses.
1. If farm horses are turned
out together, remove their shoes.
2. Make the horses clean up
roughage; avoid all possible
waste in feeding. If legumin
oug roughages are fed, a little
straw or corn stover will be ben:
eficial.
3. Be careful of mares in foal.
Avoid strains or other dangers.
4. Bear in mind the care re
ceived bv the colt the first 18
months of his life will be a big
factor in his worth at maturity.
Deaths in Camp.
Going into the army does not
carry with it the assurance that
the soldier will be immune to all
forms of disease, and ; that the
enemy's bullet is the only thing
that is between him and death.
He might get sick and die, if he
remained at home: and in the
discharge of his duties in the
service outside the time of acta
al fighting, he may take cold, or
contract disease that will termin
ate fatally." From the Surgeon
General's office in Washington,
comes the report that 157 deaths
occurred in the national guard
and national army forces in this
country during the week ending
November 23rd. One hundred
wenty eight were from pneumo
nia, and nine from meningitis.
General Pershing reports five
more deaths in the expeditionary
force in France all from natural
causes.
Rev. Yearick's Safe.
Rev. J. Leidy Yearick having
accepted a call to another pastor
ate, will sell at the Reformed
parsonage, McConnellsburg, on
Saturday, December 15, 1917, at
o'clock in the afternoon, the
following:
Oik bedroom . suite, white
enamel bedroom suite, 1 2 mat
tresses, 2 bedsprings, 6 oak din
ing chairs, glass-top sideboard.
leather couoh, rocking chairs,
parlor lamp, hanging lamp, par
lor stand, range, coal heater, coa
and wood stove, linoleum, mat
ting, carpet, rugs, cooking uten
sils, framed pictures, 8-burner
blue flame oil stove and oven,
washtubs. wringer. forks,
scythes, shovels, etc. Also: One
Overland Roadster, Model 81 in
good condition, Emerson type
writer. All this furniture is
in A 1 coudition. Terms made
known on day of sale. A. L
Wible, auctioneer.
Didn't Want to Go Back.
In a fit of despondency
cause his furlough was up
he was required to report
be-
and
Don't Worry.
Among the many absurd and
vicious rumors which are Deing
put into circulation these days,
probably through pro-German in
fluences, is one that the Govern
ment proposes to confiscate the
money on deposit in the banks of
the Country.
On account of the absurdity of
the report, it is not likely that
anv one will take it seriously, for
it is entirely without foundation.
The truth about the matter Is,
that the Government has no pow
er to confiscate the money of de
positors in banks
Smallpox in State.
With new cases reported to the
office of Dr. Samuel G. Dixon,
State Health Commissioner, there
is now smallpox in twelve coun
ties, with thirty-eight patients
under Quarantine. This state of
affairs, according to Dr. Dixon,
although it does not constitute a
severe epidemic, is a serious one
and unless the public will hearti.
Iv coorjerate with what the State
Health Department is doing may
very well grow into a condition
that will menace not only the
health and well-being of large
numbers of our citizens in differ
ent parts of the state but retard
and handicap the prodigious la
borthat Pennsylvania is called
upon to do in support of the
United States at War,
Users of Explosives Must
Secure Federal' License.
A Federal license is now re
quired in the United States for
the legal possession of explosives,
any person having explosives and
not holding a license therefor be
ing subject to a fine ot f 5,000 and
imprisonment lor one year.
Only citizens of the Uoited
States and friendly countries
may obtain licenses. The pur
chaser of dynamite must state
definitely what the explofiive is to
be used for when obtaining his
license, and will beheld account
able for its use as stated and the
return of any that may be left
With the strict enforcement of
Mrs. Frank Bowser and son?
George, of Bedford, are spending;
this week in the home ot Mrs,
Bowser's sister Annie, Mr?
Fagley, of Licking Ureek towii'
ship. On Wednesday. CbarhJ
Hor.kenberry brought bis mothei
and aunt Mary and cousin Georg
to McConnellsburg in bis car:
and the party were pleasant call!
ers at the Mews cilice. Georef
Bowser, who was with the
tioual Guards at Camp Hancock!
was discharged from service
few days ago, on account of ph
sical disability.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Myers an
'amily of Mercersburg, spenf
Thanksgiving Day in the bomj
nf Mrs. Myers' mother. Mrl
Winnie Kendall, south Seconf
street
for . this law the Federal authorities
duty again on his ship, Ralph ! hope to prevent explosivse falling
Funk of Waynesboro aged 35
years purchased a revolver last
Friday afternoon, went to the
kitchen in his father's home in
that town, fired two shots into
his mouth, both of which pene
trated through into the brain
killing him instantly.
into the hands of evilly duspised
naraons. and to DUt a Bton to al
further dynamite plots.
Hon. D. H. Patterson has Bold
his residence and store property
at Webster Mills to D. E. Crouse
I the present merchant and deputy
cinita hia oniiafmont. InntRnrincr rjostmaster at that place. That
tHW tai W mmm -f - 0 JT -
he had made three trips across property had been in the Patter
the Atlantic, as his ship is used son name for many years. It is
as a transport. He told his moth- one of the bestpoint3 for a coun-
er he did not want to go back. try store in the County.
PUBLIC SALE
- OF
REAL ESTATE
By virtue of an order oftheOrphaJ
Court of Fulton county, rennsjij
nlu. the underslcned. administrai
d. b. n. o. t. a. of Rebecca J. Kessj
rlmr. lain of Tavior township,
ill sell on theDremlseiof
decedent, about two mile souin
Gracey post oQlce, on
Saturday, December 8, 19
at 10 o'clock, a. ro., the following
scribed real eat ate, te win
The Mansion Farm
t.,tQ in Tavlnrtownishlp, Fj
DUW.tu J J
ton County, Penna., adjoining ."J
John Shaw, A. L. Shaw, a.
bin, William Edwards and oU4
containing
120 Acres
more or less, partly cleared and
der good state of cuitiva"""
part In good timber, consisting
clnallv of oak and pine.
mv.- i ..mnt.a are a fair D1
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terms; K'Hieeu il
nnno la onlH? one-nan, i
theirpercenuon
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confirmation with interest fro""1 J
conQrmatlon. p0
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