VOL. XIX. NO. 13.
McCONNELLSBURG, PA., DECEMBER 13, 1917.
$1.50 A YEAR.
RECORD OF DEATHS.
jKt Sketches of the Lires of Per
kids who Dave Recently
FassedAway.
Jacob Wiland.
After a lona: illnesa Jacob Wi
died at his home in Cham
'tersburg on Thursday morning:
u last week aged 71 years, 9
Lths and 1 day. He was born
'i Hamilton township, Franklin
County, and was engaged in farm
'igin St Thomas township for
W years. About three years
'jo he moved his family to Cham
'taburtr.
I Besides his wife he is survived
V the following children: Mrs.
lilliam Upperman, Chambers
rg; Mrs. John B. Kellar, Car
le; E. R. Wiland, Adams ex-
mi Rorpnt at HftrriRhiiror? J.
. A "0 ' & t
jiilind, chief clerk to the gener
al agent of the C. V. Railroad
L j T . T '
lompany at mgerscown; w. u
Jiland, St Thomas township;
by these sisters: Mrs. Cath-
oe Tweedall, Front Royal, Va. ;
William Wister, Mechanics-
m; Mrs. John Steiger, Mer
mbarg.
Among those who attended his
neral from this county last Sat
lay were Miss Margaret E.
idi?, Mrs. M. G. Lamberson,
Mrs. H. C. McClain of Hub
town, and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
mg and daughter Marjorie,
kLaidig.
Urs. J. W. Swisher. .
Frances Wilson Swisher, wife
il W. S A'isher, of Waynesboro
at a hospital in Cleveland,
, after having submitted to a
ious surgical operation for
ter, Tuesday, December 4,
.7 aged 57 years, 11 months
5 days.
I few weeks ago Mr. and Mrs.
per went to Cleveland to
at the family of Mrs. Swisher's
;fcew, Charles Wilson. She
'been in Cleveland but a few
n when she became very ill
I was ordered to the hospital.
I brief funeral service was
tt the Wilson home Tuesday
ling conducted by a Baptist
iter, whose text was, 'The
w my shepherd," after
two hymns were sung:
,-tfein the Arms of Jesus" and
eday We',11 Understand."
deceased left these comfort
jlwds, "I am prepared to go."
jH remains were shipped to
y former home at Waynesboro
)j interment was made in a
ffcryat that city. Besides
Husband, she is survived by
following brothers and sister:
FJ and Elias Wilson, Mad
Javille, Pa. ; and Anna, wife 6f
Stevens, near Clear Ridare
Harriet Darks.
.L
Jrnei uarks (colored) wid
f the late Dennis Darks,
'tithe home of her son Ed-
"1 Keith at Thomastown in
township, on Saturday, De-
8, 1917 aged about 69
P The funeral took place
lwaday and interment was
r6 ID TTnmn AAiMAlAan
ffog the past few years,
lived in Mercersburg.
to the Cove to eat her
giving dinner in the home
9 8n, and soon thereafter
e ill.
ttany years Harriet lived
PjCove. Being honest in
rouand capable, her aer
F'eremuch sought by house
in helping out with do
f Work 'n times sf emergen
ce was held in high es-
111 the community.
William McQuade.
Kffl. littln arm nt .Tnhn onrl
Wer McQuade, died at
'b0ne in Altoona on Friday,
fif I 1917, aged 11
rnd a few days. The
."Of fk J...L I t
1. - o ueatn was. wnooping
MinA v ' n-u-
pneumonia, ceaiuea
ta, the child is survived
brother, John Jr., and
ii Virginia, ine par
vjj the sympathy of their
County friends.
Final Quota Go Next Week.
Information has been received
at draft headquarters that the
remaining number in the firs
draft- will be sent - to Camps
Meade and Lee next week.
Twenty-eight thousand Penn
sylvania are still in the State.
and there are twenty-five Fulton
County men needed to fill out
our quota.
The first Installment we sent
out contained four men; the sec
ond, 29 men, the third, 15. Our
apportionment was 73. hence, 25
will be sent next week.
There were 671 Fulton County
men drafted and the Govern
ment's first call was for 79. As
we had 6 enlisted men to our
credit, only 73 drafted men were
needed to complete the first call.
To get 73 men who could pass
all the military requirements, it
became necessary for the Board
to examine 298 men. This left
373 men who were drafted, to be
called for examination later.
The discharges granted to
those of the 298 men who were
examined and excused from go
ing into service at this time, will
be revoked on the 15th day of
December, and after that date
they will be liable to be called
for service at any time.
The Government has found
that it needs men for many pur
poses besides that of actual fight
ing in the, trenches; and those
drafted, who may not be physi
cally able to bear arms, will be
used in other branches of the
service and thus be able to ren
der as valuable assistance to
their country as though really
under arms.
Look Oat for Them.
Despite the warnings of the
News and other periodicals,
many people are permitting
thieves to fool them by a story
that should not deceive a ten-year-old
boy or girl. When John
Keebaugh, tenant on S. B. Wool-
et's farm in Dublin township,
was in town Friday, he reported
the operations of a gang just
across the line in Huntingdon
county, who represent themselves
to be in the employ of the U. S.
government their duty being to
visit fruit cellars to determine
whether "hoarding" is going on.(
f they find more than one hun
dred cans or jars of fruit, the
rascals appropriate the surplus.
A few weeks ago, the Cham-
bersburg papers reported a simi-
ar gang that visited smokehouses
n Franklin County and appropri
ated all the surplus hams. ' One
ady smart enough to act, held
the thieves on a pretext until she
called her husband from the field
and he Boon told them "where to
get off." .
Let the News readers not for
get that Uncle Sam is not Bend
ing spies to inspect farmers' eel-
ars and that all suspicious char
acters should be rounded up and
held until a constable can be call
ed.
Elected Cashier of First National.
From Hancock Star, V
At a special meeting of the
directors of the The First Nation
al Bank on Tuesday, Lieutenant
Robert J. McCandlish resigned
as cashier and Mr. Roy M. Dan
iels was elected cashier to suc
ceed Mr. McCandlish. "
Mr. Daniels had been with
the bank as assistant cashier for
ever five years and his selection
as cashier is due to his intelli
gence and diligence as well as
his all round true worth. He
possesses all the honesty and
integrity so characteristic of his
ather W. Riley Daniels and his
grand-father Dennis Morgret
both of whom are noted for their
integrity and honesty that have
made them successful men', use-
ul and respected in this section.
Mr. Roy M. Daniels aside from
his duties as cashier of the bank
is treasurer of the. town of Han
cock and a leading member of
Masonic Fraternity. We con
gratulate him on his preferment.
BED CROSS CHRISTMAS DRIVE.
Hany Names Added to tbe Roll of Mem
bers from Tbose Attending
Institute Last Week. '
While the sunshine of prosperi
ty is resting upon America, the
darkness of poverty, destruction
and suffering lies heavily on the
face of Europe. Thousands
millions of dollars worth of prop
erty have been wantonly destroy
ed, homes have been broken up.
mothers and children have been
separated, and In many places
the direst devastation prevails.
is it any fault of theirs that
they thus suffer? And have we
any assurance that we shall al
ways be as free from calamitous
conditions as now?
I m .
as a memoer or society, are
you living for yourself alone, or
are you living that others may be
better-happier, for your life?
Just now, every man, woman,
boy, girl, has an opportunity to
help in the greatest work for the
relief of humanity ever offered,
and this is done by becoming a
member of the Red Cross.
Get it out of your head that
you are helping the Red Cross.
In joining, you become a unit in
an organization whose sole pur
pose is to care for the suffering,
ihe distressed, the dying wheth
er it be in the training carrm of
the soldies, the trench iawhich
his life blood is slowly oozing
away, or in the care of his loved
ones at home. The work of the
Red Cross is to find suffering and
minister to its relief.
Last June Woodrow Wilson
asked the American people for
one hundred million dollars; and
in a few days it came. The Red
Cross has a big field in which to
work, and if the work is to be
continued, there must be a con
stant influx of funds and work
ers.
Hence the great Christmas
drive for 2000 members from Ful
ton County is now on, and the
enthusiasm with which the work
ers all over the County are work
ing, more than that many mem
bers will have enrolled before the
rush is over. If you are not in
terested in it, it is because you
have not made yourself acquaint
ed with its objects and with your
privilege for doing a good thing.
Below will be found the names
of those recently added , to the
iSt : ' . '
'' ANNUAL MEMBERS.
Rose Keefer, Lydia Humbert,
Clara Norris, John Mentzer, Mrs.
D, A. Nelson, Maye Pittman,
Cora Nesbit, Gladys Charlton,
Minnie Lynch, Helen Daniels,
Cloyd Everhart, Andrew . Sipe,
Frank Chesnut, Mrs. A. J. Mar
tin, A. J. Martin, Daisy Strait,
F. Morse Sloan, C. W. Mellott
H. S. Alexander, Mary Unger,
Howard B. Knepper, . J. K. Mc-
Kee, Hazel Cline, S. E. Walters,
A. E. Deshong, E. C. Hann, W.
C. Mason L D. Wible, Myrtle
Alloway, Celia Barton, David
Hollinshead, Roy Mathias, Elias
P. Lynch, Harvey Raker, Levi
H. Garland, Clarence Morton,
John W. Garner, G. E. Clouser,
Foster Hollenshead, Thelma Glaz
ier, Hobart Truax, Oliver Win-
ter, Etta P. Waltz, Earl Golden,
Kenneth Glazier, Mrs. Geo. K.
Nelson, Geo. Mock, Fred Akers,
Anna Mary Si pes, Willis Daniels,;
Edith Fix, Walter S. Cooper,
Florence Truax.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
Miss Mary Knauff $1.00, Mrs.
E.R. McClain $1.50.
UNION AUXILIARY.
Alice Deneen, Delila Rhea,
Clyde Stahle, Joseph Hendershot
Garfieldf' Mann, W. L. Geinger,
ra L. Smith, George Carnell,
Margaret Lee, Rebecca Schet-
romff, Hazel Scriever, Mrs. Ber
tha Stahle, John Scriever, Jack
son Hendershot, Howard Deneen.
FRANK P. LYNCH.
Keefer Troax.
Jacob Keefer, Hancock, and Ora
ruax, Warfordsburg, Pa., were
quietly married on November
25th at Belle Grove by the Rev.
A. W. May..
Ex-Protbonotarj and Attorney Passes
Awaj after Brief Illness ofAcnte
Bright'! Disease.
Frank P. Lynch, one of Fulton
County's best knowa citizens,
passed away at his home in Mc
Connelleburg on Monday night
after a brief illness of acute
Bright's Disease. Mr. Lynch had
been in his usual health and was
down town attending to business
as late as last Friday afternoon.
Friday evening he became ill,
rapidly sank into unconsciousness
and remained in that pondition
until death camev
Frank P. Lynch was a son of
Anthony and Catherine Hull
Lynch, and was born in Bethel
township, this county, March 18
1857. During the earlier years
of his manhood he taught in the
p'ublic schools. In the fall of
1893 he was elected prothonotary
register and recorder and clerk
of the courts of this county and
was twice re-elected, serving al
together nine years. Having
read law under the tutilage of
the late J. Nelson Sipes, Mr.
Lvnch was admitted to the bar
on the 12th of January, 1904. In
1907 he v&s appointed to fiill the
unexpired term of George B.
Daniels as J istrict attorney, at
the close of w " Ich he was elected
and served the succeeding term.
For Beveral years he had given
his time to the practice of law
and to the insurance business.
Mr. Lynch was united in mar
riage with Miss Elizabeth C. Hill,
daughter of ex-County Commis
sioner Lemuel Hill, who survives,
together with the following chil
dren: Watson C. Ellis L.. Aenes.
wife of Clarence E. Seville; Wat
ter E., residing at Lamoille, 111.;
Thurman G., Frank Howard,
Jennings McCaulay, Charles An
thony, Ruth E. and George Al-
vin.
The funeral will take place this
afternoon at 1 o'clock, and infer-
ment will be made in Union ceme
tery.
DEPENDENTS OF ENLISTED HEN.
is
is a
Made Good Wages.
The corn crop this year
good one, the price is high, and
the corn huskers have come in
for their share of the prosperity.
A man living near McConnells
burg has a wife whose household
cares do not stand in the way of
her going out occasionally and
helping her husband to make the
living. They went down the
Cove, husked fifty barrels of corn
one day. The old rule is, the
tenth barrel for the husking.
When night came, they had five
barrels to their credit. The farm
er said to them, "If it's all the
same to you, I will give you ten
dollars in cash instead of the five
barrels of corn." The offer was
accepted, and the worthy pair
went home with a ten-spot as
their reward for a day's work.
George A. Sipes, nearAndover
in Licking Creek township, beats
that just a little. George went
to Franklin county and set to
work husking corn for George H.
Martin on the 11th of October.
At the end of thirty-five working
days, George had husked 975
barrels an average of 27 6-7
barrels a day. Applying the
rule of one-tenth for husking,
and the price, two dollars a bar
rel, George cleaned up about
$5.57 a day. George then came
over to Fulton and husked 188
barrels on the Alex Patterson
arm in the Cove.
Quite a number of people re
ceived post-cards last week from
Lieut, W. F. Sappington, who is
with the British Expeditionary
'orces "Somewhere" in France,
and who has just been released
rom the hospital, where for five
weeks he suffered with mustard
gas poisoning.
W. H. Anstine, Bank Examin
er of the Banking Department of
ennsylvania, spent Wednesday
and Thursday of last week with
the Fulton County Bank, on the
regular examination of bank.
Provision Government Hakes for Fam
ilj, and for Han, in Case of Per
manent Disability.
Since the order from the War
Department was received giving
the local recruiting officers au
thority to accept married men on
the same basis as single men nu
merous queries have been made
regarding the provision made by
the Government for the depend
ents of enlisted men.
MEN MAKE ALLOTMENTS
a minimum sum 01 $io is ap
portioned by an enlisted man with
dependent or dependents from
his pay monthly to the depend
ent, the amount increasing in ac
cordance with the salary of the
man.
In the case of a dependent wife
the allotment is compulsory but
may be waived upon written con
sent of the wife, supported by
evidence that she is capable to
support himself.
FAMILY ALLOWANCE
The family allowance paid by
the Government shall at no time
exceed $50. The allowance
paid from time of enlistment
Besides the amount alloted by
the enlisted man to dependents
the, Government pays allowances
on the following schedule:
Wife with no children, $15
wife and one child, $25; wife and
two children $32.50, with $5 per
month additional for each addi
tional child; no wife and only one
child, $5, two children, 12.50
three children, $20; four children
$30, with $5 per month for each
additional child; for one parent,
$10; for two parents, $20; for
each dependent brother or sister
$5 and a like amount for each
dependent grandchild.
LIBERAL COMPENSATION
liiDerai compensation is pro
vided for by the Government for
the widow, children and depend
ent widowed mother in case of
death. The monthly sums pay
able follows: For a widow, $25
a widow with one child, $35;wid
ow with two children, $47.50 with
$5 additional for each child up to
two; if there be no widow and
one child, $20; two children, $30;
three children, $40 with $5 for
each additional child ud to two:
for a widowed mother, $20.
Compensation shall continue
until death or remarriage of wid
ow or widowed mother. Com
pensation to a child shall cease at
the age of 18, or at marriage, un
less child is incompetent
In case of total disability the
following allowances are made
monthly: If he has neither wife
nor child living, . $30; if he has
wife, $45; if he has wife and one
child, $55; if he has wife and two
ehildren, 65; if he has wife and
three children or more $75; if he
has no wife but 'one child, $40,
with $10 for each additional child
up to two; if he has a widowed
mother dependent upon him for
support then in addition to above
amounts he receives $10.
GOVERNMENT INSURANCE.
Insurance against death or to
tal permanent disability is pro
vided by the United States. It
is given in multiples of $500,
ranging from $1,000 to $10,000.
It is granted without medical ex
amination to every man in the
service.
Every person enlisting is auto
matically insured until February
12, 1918, but can take out addi
tional insurance before that date
if they so desire. '
The Government gives enlisted
men a very fair rate of insurance,
the rate being, similar to that
which may be secured by a civil
ian, Uncle Sam assuming all war
risks.
To give an idea of the insur
ance rate the amount that a man
21 years of age must pay on the
minimum and maximum amounts
is giving as follows: For $1,000,
65 cents per month; for $10,000,
$6.50 per month. Other amounts
between the two extremes are
payable on the same basis.
Keep the Roads Open.
Keep the roads open, do not
let snow block the Government"
is the slogan adopted by the
Pennsylvania Committee of Pub
lic Safety. They have sent a
call for organized community
workers, equipped with automo
biles, snow plows and shovels,
to every district in the State, to
keep the roads open during the
present winter. They say the
railroads are doing their utmost
to handle the transportation prob
lem, but they are congested and
the highways must be kept in
shape to make possible the con
tinuous use of motor trucks and
passenger cars.
The Lincoln Highway has been
doing much to relieve the rail
road congestion. The thousands
of new cars that are being driven
over it from western factories,
the large trucks hauling great
loads, that otherwise would have
to be shipped by rail have help
ed solve this serious problem.
In addition to this the announce
ment has just been made that
the initial fleet of thousands of
war trucks will go over this road
within the next week or two,
traveling from Detroit and other
western points eastward.
The Lincoln Highway has put
Fulton County on the map. Not
having a railroad this great ar
tery of travel has been opened
to us, supplying our every need.
It must not become snow bound
this winter not only for our
own local use but for that of
the Government Every man
should feel it his patriotic duty
to put forth every means at his
command in doing this work.
Our part in winning the War
has been put squarely up to us
and we must assume it
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY.
Little Talks 00 Health and Djgiene bj
Samnel Q. Dixon, H. Dn LL D.,
Commissioner of Health.
The demand for men to serve
in the army is fast making seri
ous inroads upon the forces en
gaged as producers of food, fab
ricators pf munitions of war and
guardians of the sick. Our In
dian corn is standing uncut in
the fields while other foodstuffs
are rotting in the ground for the
want of human hands to work
them. The prospects are that
the home army which produces
those things necessary to sup
port our boys at the front is go
ing to be still further reduced in
number.
This condition of things makes
it obligatory for each individual
to take care of his own health as
well as to be his "brother's keep
er."
Walter Won One.
Fulton County boys are win
ning their share or commissions
in the U. S. Army. In addition
to those already named is Walter
S. Hendershot son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Hendershot 0 f Buck
Valley. Walter is a member of
the 1910 class, Cumberland Val
ley State Normal school, and aft
er graduation, taught two years
in Allegheny County. He then
accepted a position as traveling
salesman with a wholesale Mc
Keesport Grocery Company,
which position he resigned last
spring to go into the Second Re
serve Officers Training Camp at
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., from which
he won a commission as second
lieutenant, and He has been
assigned to the 51st Regiment of
n fan try at Chickamauga Park,
Ga.
Lieutenant Hendershot ac
companied by h i 8 friend Miss
Etta Smith, of Wilson, Pa., has
been visiting his parents for sev
eral days, and will report for
duty on the 15th inst
Badly Rammed.
Mr. William Hershey, one of
Taylor township's enterprising
armers who is trying to help the
Government keep up its wool sup
ply, had an experience last week
that he will not soon forget. He
was out in a pasture where the
sheep were, when he noticed a
big ram plunging toward him
with head down. The "gentle
man" sheep had blood in his eye,
and a wicked pair of horns, but
William made up his mind to
stand his ground, and when the
sheep came near enough, he
would grab him by the horns and
sling him into the middle of next
week. Human calculations some
times fail. William missed his
dip. The head of the sheep hit
one of William's legs between
the knee and ankle and broke it
off like a pipe stem. Fortunately
Dr. McClain knew how to fix it
and William will be just as good
as ever if he has patience enough
not to try to walk on it too soon.
Today, the point of our talk
will be on a custom of the retail
druggist and of those who have
contagious and infectious diseas
es at their homes. Take as an
example what may very well be
atypical illustration in the case
of a child suffering from scarlet
fever. The doctor leaves his
prescription, which is Bent to the
retail druggist to be prepared.
The medicine is sent home and
given to the patient There be
ing signs of improvement the
doctor orders the prescription re-.
newed.
The bottie that has been kept
in the patient's room is sent to
the druggist, who is busy putting
up a prescription for another
child who only has a bad stomach-ache.
The druggist takes
the bottle from the scarlet fever
patient in his hands, but, , being
in a hurry to get the prescription
off to the prtient suffering from
stomach-ache, , sets the bottle
down and puts up the powders
with his infected fingers.
One of these powders is given
to the patient directly out of the
paper from the druggist with a
result that in a few days she has
a slight sore throat etc. The
doctor is sent for, and informs
the anxious mother that he very
much suepects scarlet fever.
The bottle, boxes or jars fn
which prescriptions are put up,
should never be returned to the
druggist from a house where
there is a contagious or infec
tious disease. These communica
ble diseases have to be quaran
tined to prevent them from be
coming epidemic.
Thus in the case mentioned
above, the illness of the second '
child would probably make nec
essary the isolation of some wage
earner in its family, man or wo
man, and thus cause the econom
ic loss of one who contributed
not only to the support of those
at home but also to the upkeep
of the soldier boys at the front
Let us take care to keep well,
that we may produce our share
of the winning of the war fought
to free the peoples of the world.
J. W. Mellott, of this place and
Samuel Lauver, near Mercers
burg, each killed a deer on the
mountain last week,
Fonr-Prooged Bock. '
A party of Bethel township
boys had a fine time last week
in a deer hunt down in the South
Mountain near Caledonia. On
Friday afternoon, part of the
crowd passed through. McCon
nellsburg with a big. buck tied
on the automobile. It had been
shot by Frank Hill. The hunt
ing party was composed of nine
persons, namely, Frank Hill,
Ross Barnhart,- Oscar , Bivens,
Walter Palmer, John HilL Al
bert Carnell, John Carnell, Thur
man Sharpe and Glenn Yonker.
They had made the trip in two
automobiles Frank Hill taking
part of the boys, and James
Sharpe, the rest While they
didn't get a buck apiece, they
got a lot of fun out of the trip.
The deer killed by Frank Hill
had four prongs and weighed
about 150 pounds.
Fred Wilds was a guest of Miss
Rose Fisher in Chambersburg a
few days last week,
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