Wif 11 VOL. XIX. iNO. 20. McCONNELLSBURG, PA., JANUARY 31, 1918. $1.50 A YEAR. P ft. Alii JMIMm RECORD OF DEATHS. Short Sketches of the Lives of Per sans Who Have Recently Passed Away. Mary Layton. Mrs. Mary G. Layton died at her home at McKeesport, Pa., on Friday, January 18, 1913. She was a daughter of Abraham and Luemma Garlick and was born at Emrnaville, this county on the 8th of April, 18G9. She was united in marriage with James F. Layton. She is survived by the follow ing children; Jason, Minnie, George and Arthur Layton and Alvah Whitfield. The following brothers and sisters also survive; Andrew Garlick, of Everett Route 4: Irwin, John and Jacob ' Garlick, Mrs. Clara Selvey and Mrs. Susie Smith of Amaranth. The body was taken toEverett the following Monday evening, and on Tuesday funeral services were conducted at the Mt. Pleas ant church, and interment made in the graveyard at that church. Mrs. Hannah Truxell. Mrs. Hannah Truxell, widow of the late John Truxell, of Thompson township, died at her home on Tuesday morning at 9:30, from pneumonia aged 81 years. Mrs. Truxell was a fine old lady, quite active both men tally and physically for her age. She belonged to the old school of iturdy settlers and was well iked and greatly loved by her leighbors and close friends. She s survived by one son, John Truxell, and five daughters, Mrs. VV. T. Eootnaan, Mrs. Jere 3air, Mrs. Belle Shives, Miss Lydia Truxell and Mrs. Harrison it Harrisburg. Interment was made in the cemetery at the Presbyterian church at Warfords burg. No Schooi.'css Koudnys. In reply to a letter end a tele gram, Local Fuel Administrator M. W. Nace received a telegram ?flonday from State Fuel Admin iitrator Potter, in which, per nission was granted to Fulton County to keep the schools open i n Mondays. It is understood fiat schools using coal for fuel, hive the benefit of this gnnt ouly so long as their present supply of coal holds out. As most of the schools in this county u?a wood, closing the schools on Monday or any other day would n' t affect the coal situation. There is plenty of coal in the mines; plenty of men to take it oj1:, and millions of tons stand ing on railroad sidings through out the country; the shortage seems chargeable mostly to the cot- jestion of traffic, which is not a little due to the unusual climatic conditions. New Tarsonajje. Ew. C. F. Jacobs and family moved from the old Presbyterian ?roi erty on West Lincoln Way Tue day into the now Lutheran parsonage on South Second Street. The Lutheran congrega tion during the last year tore down the old parsonage and erect -jd a new one on the site 6f the old, which is now one of the finest and most modern "preach ers' homes" in town. It is a modem structure, 32x34 feet with an annex 15x22, two and a half stories, with twelve room.3, modern heating plant, bath room etc. To the west and south are fine la ge porches, with a balcony on the back buildingand all at a ens', not exceeding $3200.00. KO,0C9 Lutherans in Army. More- than 1G5.000 Lutheran men are in the national army, ac cording to Rev. HR Gold, field sec retary (if the eastern district of the national Lutheran commission for solders arid sailors welfare. Rev. Geld has just returned from an inspection o! the cantonments in the eastern district. Subscribe for the Nbws. SALLVIA Sl'MMARIZlNGS. frank D. Ma no En-notte from South America, Spends Few Days with Friends. Our old miller, Nathan C. De shong, has been quite poorly and feeble for sometime. There in very little, if any, change in the condition of little Thelma Deshong, and she is still critically ill. Doctors Palmer of Chambersburg, and McClain of Hustontown met in consultation at the home of her parent last Friday. Wm. E. Bair was called to Ickesburg the first of last week to see his very sick mother. He made a very hasty trip, but found she had passed the crisis -when she reached her. She had typhoid-pneumonia. Owing to the snow storm last Sunday, Rev. Croft did not get to his appointments at Asbury, etc. It was the first time he had failed to meet his appointments and it was just as well, for he was not expected, and nobody else went. Frank D. Mann, as i;oted in these items last fali, ieft Turling ton, Colo, on the 18th day of last Octooer to make a trip to South America where he is interested in gold mining.- He went from Buriington to New Orleans, where he boarded a steamer, and passed through the Panama ca nal, he landed at a port of the United States of Columbia; thence by river boat he spent six days in making his way back into the interior and reaching the camp in the Andes mountains, some miles from Bogota. He remained at the mines until the 29th of December when he left for his return trip to Burlington. Reach ing the coast, he took a steamer for New York; thence by P. R. R. Harrisburg; thence to Cham bersburg over the Cumberland Valley; thence by autobus to Mc Connellsburg, where he visited his Bick aunt, Mary E. Daniels; thence to Greenhill to see his sister Maye, (Mrs. Will Bair) and his former teacher James A. Stewart; thence to see his brother Lewis at Everett, thence to Bemistown, Pa., to see his sister Lydia; thence to Tyrone ti see his sister Tena, and then on to Burlington. It was a great change for Frank from a land of perpetual sum mer to the snow-bound hills of Fulton County. Frank is a close observer, a fine conversationalist and gives thrilling and instruc tive description of the people, climate, customs and exports of Columbia. , The mining is done by the "placer system" by which water 1 is conveyed to the mine in long large steel pipes and is discharg ed with such force as to separate the rock and dirt from the gold. Births Exceed Deaths. Pennsylvania had almost 10.000 more births than deaths during the month of October according to statistics issued by the Com missioner of Health. There were 19.224 . births and 9,546 deaths. Pneumonia caused more deaths than anything else the total from that cause being 1,002, while tuberculosis was third with 729. Bright's disease being the second cause of death with 781. Cancer caused 509 deaths. Other diseases causing deaths were: diphtheria, 231; typhoid, 118; 3carlet fever, 20; measles, 7; intestinal troubles, 733, of.which C23 were children under two years of age. There were 590 deaths from early in fancy; 53 persons committed sui cide; 85 were killed in mines; 112 killed by railway injuries of various sorts and 443 died from other forms of violence. Men ingitis caused 49 deaths and in fantile paralysis 19. Roy Kendall and family, Mrs. D. A. Nelson and Mrs. J. S. Nelson spent last Thursday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Philip , Rotz in Todd townBhip. . J TUE OLD SCITB M. If War Lasts Long Enough, Its Com pletiwi bj the Gftverninent May Cecome a Necessity. In its issue of January 11th the Somerset Democrat sprang the idea of the completion of the Old South Penn Railroad as a war necessity. The d;.iliei took it up immediately a,nd since tho Demo crat started the movement there have been many comments as weil as many conferences on the project. The mountains of Fulton Coun ty were bored full of tunnels, and had it not hem for the introduc tion of wire fencing, the tunnels would have been retailed to the farmers for poS't holes. The scheme for the completion of tho road will make Fulton County people pit up and take notice, even though nothing more comes out of it than the recent experi ence with the McCor.nellsburg ar.d Fort Loudon Railway. The truth auout the matter 13, that the work of priding throughout the entire length of the line wis practically com; Lj ted in likS.". There are nine tu :'., of which there tsre hut li.)"0 fret-kv-i than three mile- 1 he finished, m win oe noticed ov lie iohow - in;j: Com Tunnels. Li.mgt'1. liiue Bountaiii 4,24') Kiltannh'g 4 2(H) Tuscarora r,:!2 ;.!fte.l. Sidling Hill Ray's Kill Allegheny Mtn Of. tl,i)-.l 1 r.9i' 3,lMi Negro Mount:iin 1,1( 0 Quennthoriing 700 Finishfd 1.-275 Laurel H;:l o7,SS9 The first surveys of this road were made in IS 17 from Chsm lersburg to Pittsburgh. Further eurveyn were mide in 1854 by Col. James Warrell and Ce l. Rne h'hg, designer of .Brooklyn B.-idge. It was first incorporat ed in 1854 under the nivrne o'Dun cannon, Landinburg and Broad top R. R., but was ciax-ged in 1855 to Sherman Valley and Broad Top, and in 1857 it vm changed to Pennsylvania Pacific: and later to the South Penn. The Vanderbilts had spent nearly $15,000,000 on thirf road when they closed their wcrk in 1885 under some subterfuge. There were 300 engineers who had run 5,000 lines and mapped out 1,000 square miles of surfi.ee. Out of the 228 miles of length of road, 208.4 miles are graded, leaving a balance of 19 6 miles to be graded. This balance is prac tically 'all in Bedford county since there is no grndi 3J there except about th.'e miles in East Providence township. Officers and Jk'it in :n:y. There were 1,428,(550 enlisted men nndliu,8bi oincers in the United Ststes Army at the open ing of 191S, more than ore and a half times as lavs'? as any force ever before mobilized by this Nation, according to a rtatement by Secretary of War Brtker. Dur ing the war with Spa n the Army nf thft TTnitpH Rtnt-AC at it-q mnvi'. mum strength nggregated 272,-1 000 men and officers. The Army in the field and in training cow is practically six times as great as the maximum number under arms in the Spanish-American War. About 45,000 d2eers were commissioned from civil life in the two series of training camps, nearly eight times jis rnaay as the number of ofiVers in the Regular Army April 1, 1917. An Early Easier. The Lenten season this year will be an early one. In less than a "month the world will have en tered formally upon the sea9on. According to the church calen dars, Ash Wednesday win occur this year on February 13; the first Sunday in Lent wi?l 1V.11 up rn February 17; and Easter it- self w ill occur on the S'lst a the last day of March. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS. It Is the Duty of Every Man, Woman and Child in the lulled States to Gnu, at Least, One. The main reason for the pur chase of War-Savings Stamps is because your Country is at war. Your Country need3 every penny which every man, woman, and child can save and lend, in order to feed, clothe, arm, and equip the soldiers and Bailors of Ameri ca and to win this righteous war in defense of American honor and the cause of democracy throughout the world. jf we are to win the war, we must win it as a united people. The savings of every man, wo man, and child are necessary if we are to hasten the victorious ending of the war. War savers arp Life Savers. A single strand in the cables which upheld the great Brooklyn bUHpenKion bridge is not very strong, but thousands of these strands bound together uphold one of the great through fares of the world. when our lathers and sons imd brothers were culled by our ! Country to take up arms in her defense, you did not hear an in : dividual soldier reiuse to serve I because hi 1 service alone would not win the var. Each man was 'r.'uly to do his part. The great v.OuO j army thu3 formed u going for 4.'J7T j ward to 'face the fire of battle o. and to risk everything, for the 3.27G ! safety and security of our homes 2.512 i an I 0 ir families, and for the very, existence of our Country 1 The. e are the men for whem ycu are asked to 6ave and lend your dollars.' A Country worth fighting for is a Country worth saving for. . To save money is to save life, Buy War-Savings Stamps at post office, banks, trust compani es, or other authorized agencies, and strike a blow for our Coun try. THE WAR-SAVINGS PLAN. Q. What is the War-Savings Plan? A. it is a plan Dy which you can lend small savings to your Government at 4 per cent inter est, compounded quarterly. Q. How may this be done? A. By purchasing War-Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamp3. Q. What is a Wur-Savings Stamp? . A. It is a stamp for which the Government will pay you $5 on January 1, 1923. Q. What does it cost? A. Between $1 12 and $4.23 during 1918, depending upon the month in which purchased. Q. What is a Thrift Stamp? A. It is a stamp costing 25 cents, to b? applied in payment for a War-Savings Stamp. It does not earn interest. The pur pose of its H.sue is to enable peo ple to accumulate in small sums the amount necessary to pay for a War-Savings Stamp Q. Where can I buy them? A. At post offices, banks, and authorized agencies. Q. Why should I buy them? A. Every dollar loaned to the Government helps to save the Iive3.f our men at the fromt Brid to win the war, WAR-SAVINGS STAMrS AND CER TIFICATES. Q. I want to begin to save on the War-Savings Plan. What is The first thing to do? A. Take $4.12 to the post office or a bank or any other agent, buy a War-Savings Stamp, and a3k for a War-Savings Certificate. Q. What is a War-Savings Cer tificate? A. It is a pocket-sized folder containiug 20 Kpaces upon which to affix War-Savings Stamps. THE PRICE OF WAR-SAVINGS STAMPS. Q. Does the price of a War Savings Stamps always remain the same? A. No. The prices for x each mcnth appears on the face of each etamp. Never pay either more or less than the amount Will Leave Friday Morning. Two weeks ago, Corporal II. R. Wilson was sent to this coun ty to recruit an a;ro squadron. He wasted no time 0 n prelimi naries, but settled down to busi ness at once with the result that he leaves to-morrow morning with a bunch of fine Fulton County boys, who will go direct to Kentucky for examination and uniforms, thence to the Klley Aviation Field, San Antonia, Texas, for training. The local squadron is made up of Willis Daniels, Lester Waid llch, Pete Morton, John Suders, Charlie Goldsmith, Wayne Tay lor, and Earl Ott. McConnells burg; Dewey Smith, Herman L. Richards, Ormond Humbert and Herman B. Mellott, Big Cove Tannery; Russell B. Lanehart, Warford3burg, and David S. Mellott, Cito. If McConnellsburg people, sometime next summer, .should hear an unusual buzzing noie in the air, and should look for the cause, they may ste iust clear ing the top of the Mead owground mountain one cf the "boys" in an airplane, coming ha me on a five-day furlough. Earl Barmont, one of Fulton County's soldier boys at Camp Lee, Va., gave his home folks a pleasant surprise Satunlaj even by coming home for a five days' furlough. Earl is looking ..fine. Mrs. Eli Largent is spencYng a week in the home of her- son William Largent in Tyrone, I'a. shown for the month in which you make the purchase. The price is $4.12 in December, 1917. and January, r.)lS. and increas es 1 cent each month after Janu ary 1918, until in December, 1918, when the price is $4,23. Q. Why is the price higher each month? A. Because the stamps are earning interest. THRIFT STAMPS AND THRIFT CARDS. Q. If I do not have enough money saved up to buy a War Savings Stamp and can only save in small amounts, what should I do? A. Buy a 25-cent Thrift Stamp at a post office, bank, or other authorized agency and ask for a Thrift Card, to which you can attach your Thrift Stamp. Q. Isjthere any charge for a Thrift Card? A. No. It is given you to hold Thrift Stamps and contains a place for your name and ad dress. Q. How many Thrift Stamps will this card hold?. A, Sixteen stamps, -which rep resent a value of $-1. EXCHANGING THRIFT CARDS FOR WAR-SAVINGS ST AMFS. Q When I have filled the the Thrift Card, whn t do I do? A. Take it to a post office. bank, or other autho rized agen cy, surrender the cart 1 and pay in cash the few cents di Iference be tween the $4 wort'a. of Thrift Stamps and the pric( of a War- Bavings Stamp for tl le mouth in which the exchange is made Q. What do I do in ;xt? A. You take the War-Savings Stomp given you in exchangu for your Thrift Card, r.n k for a War Savings certificate, i f you hav en't one already, and atta ch the st amp to the certificate. Q. Should I continue to buy Thrift Stamps? A. Yes. Ask for a neVr Thrift Card and begi aga in. Q. Do Thrift Sts.mp3 bear in terest? A. No. Q. Then why are the y issi red? A. To make it c inv nien t for you to save in em: ill a moun ts so that you can pure Vise ?a War -Savings Stamp, whiiih do es be ar in terest. Q. May I excftM ge ' Thrift Stamps for War-Sawn gs S'temps at any time?' A. No; only on.or llefore J)e cember 31, 1918. AMPLE SUPPLY OF SALT. United Slates Geological Survey De nies That There Is any Shortage in Salt Production. The rumor.that there is a gen eral shortage of salt in the United States has no foundation, as is shown by the following statement made by the United States Geological Survey, De partment of the Interior. Esti mates of the production in 1917, compiled by R. W. Stone, show a total of more than 0,916.000 Bhort tons, an increase of 5S3, 000 tons, or 9 per cent, over the production in 1916. As the larg est domestic consumption on re cord, that of 1916, was less than 6,500,000 tons and as the im ports in 1916 were less than 2 per cent, of the total consumption it is evident that the country is in no way dependent on a foreign supply for it3 salt, for the do mestic production is amble. Any local or temporary shortage that may have occurred in the last few weeks of 1917 was due main ly to congestion of freight. The increase in production was induced by higher crices and brisk demand and was made in spite of unfavorable conditions at some plants. Shortage of labor,- difficulty in obtaining fuel, and an inadequate supply of freight cars are given as reasons why some plants did not make an even larger increase. Estimates of the production of salt in 1917 by States, in short tons, are as follows: California 178,000 Kansas 726,000 Michigan 2 293,000 New York 2,175,000 Ohio 954.000 Texas 86,700 L'tah 65.000 Wst Virginia 20,000 H.vwaii, Idaho, Louis ini 1. Nevada, New Me 31 ico, Oklahoma, Porta Rico, and Virgi nia.... 447,300 6,946,000 In thi 1 ble, rock salt is rep resented b.v 1.610,000 tons an increase of 1 7 per cent over 1916; evaporated sa.'t by 2,452,000 tons practically the same 83 in tne previous year; z salt in brine by 2.8S4.000 tons, an increase of 13 per cent. The lrge increase in the nrndnotinn -,of rock salt and brine, was due m ostly to an increase in the demon d for salt required in the manul. acture of chemicals. So far as the raw material is concerned, this country is 'eas ed with a practically unlimited supply of salt. From the roc k salt mines and brine wells 0 New York to the solar-evaporation plants that get salt from sea water 0:1 San Francirco Bay, from the abundance in Michigan to the superabundance tn Louis iana and Texas, where reck salt occurs in deposits 2,000 to 3,000 feet thiclc tfcere is salt in quanti ties beyord comprehen Bion. So long as tabor and fuel are plenti ful and cars are fur.oished to transport the product the salt producers of the Unitf 1 StaW8 can supply alF. our needs. Soldier's Bed of Air. A new service bed has ':een de signed by an English manufac turer, which will t into a small valise when folded, says Popular Science Monthly. It is made of a fabric strong enough to with stand hard wear. When it is to be made up, an inner cs.sing of rubber is inflated by means of two valves. Should it be torn or punctured the rubber can be re paired in the same manner as a tire. The bed is 23 inches in width, but to accommodate those who find . comfort in sleeping with knees slightly raised, the knee rests have been made seven inches wider on ea?h side. It requires about two minutes to inflate the rubber section. When the bed is not being used, the air is discharged from the rub ber section. WINTER COLDS. Little Talks on Health and Bjgiene by Samuel G. Diion, M. D., LL D., Commissiuner of Health. During the frigid weather, you want to keep well nourished. To do this, your meals should be taken with regularity, and you should take a moderate amount of exercise, not too near meal time." No better form of exer cise can be found than that of walking with a good bri?k step and swinging of the arms. You should keep up a good circoU.tion of blood that the '.-3tive felanda may secrete a healthful quur.ity of digtslive fluid:, md thu food' be prepared for and a. imihteil by tie body. No c xcisaes should be i n dulged in, particularly the tak ing of alcoholic beverages. You should live in pure air night and day; but the very young, and the very old, should not b exposed to extremely low tem peratures. Careful observance of these suggestions will do much to pre vent, and at bast to some ex tent, help pull you through con gestive or even infective colds, which are prevalent when the weather is so very changeable as it is in winter in our North Atlantic climate. From Cur Subscribers. G. R. Unger, writing from Oakland, Calif., under date of January 18th, says: "I enclose M. O. for $1.50 to boost my sub scription ahead one year. I know I am over a month delin quent, and I should have attended to it before but we were intend ing to leave Spokane for Cali fornia, and I did not know what addreis to give you until now. I have missed one or two numbers now, and I don't want to miss any more. I am not much given to flattery, but I want to say that, in my opinion, the News has any county paper that I have ever seen, backed clean olf the boards. It digs up news from all parts of the country, and, although it is 45 years since I left Fulton County, I often see the names of some that I knew when I was a boy, mentioned in the News, and, be lieve me, it often iives me a sort of homesick feeling, and a big wish to see the old stamp ing ground again. I put in 17 years in Illinois, and 23 years in Spokane, Wash- ington, and last week we came to Oakland California. Do not know how long we shall slay here, but we like it to &Lal with. Although we are in the middle of winter, the rose3 are bl.v::Jngr every v. nor?, and the cianges .are ripcr.u g. 1 h e wcatner fvtms like May time in Pennsyl vania. Oakland is a beautiful place of, I th'u:k, about three hundred thous and people, and San Francisco, only five miles across the Bay. So if we feel crowded, you know, we can just slip over there for a little while. ' I know it's rather late, but I'll take a chance any way, and wuh you and every body in the old home, A Happy New Year. O. R. Cline, 1453 E. Second St., Long Beach, Calif., in en closing his check for a dollar and a half, says, "We are enjoying beautiful weather nice rain Jast Saturday night, beautitui sunshine to-day, and tne uty tchock full" of winter tourists Irjm every quarter of the United SUtes and Canada. Hundreds more are unable to procure ac commodations. "War themes are the all absorbing interest, and its issues occupy our thoughts by day and our dreams by night. Gilbert Rice, Tiffin, O., R. 7. Box 40. Enclosed find check for. $1.50 for which send me theNEws another year. We surely appreci ate its weekly visits, but would like to see more news from Brush Creek and Union townships. What has become of the report ers? We are having a real old fashioned winter. There has been sno w on the ground since the mid dle of December. (r : 1 v. 4
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