VOL. XIX. NO. 23. McCONNELLSBURG, PA., EFBRUARY '21,1918. $1.50 A YEAR. RECORD OF DEATHS. Short Sketches of the Lives of Per sons Who Have Recently Passed Away. Mrs. A. P. Doran. A beautiful life closed on the morning of Wednesday, Febru ary 6, 1918, when Mrs. Rosa Gamble Doran, wife of A. Put man Doran near Burnt Cabins, passed away. Mrs. Doran was born at Concord. Pa., June H, 1861. where she spent most p i her girlhood life. She was mar ried to Mr. A. P . Doran, Janu ary 26, 1882, and to this union were born two daughters who, with the husband, are left to mourn her departure. The daugh lers are Mrs. Cleveland Hayes, Charles City, Iowa, and Miss llessie M. Doran at home; also, t.vo little grandsons, John Doran end Boyd Gamble Hayes, and the fi llowing brothers and one sis ter: James W. Gamble, Bucyrus, 0 ; Wm. E. Gamble, Parkers La.id.ing, Pa.; Frank E. Gam ble, Youngstown, 0., and Mrs. Mary C. Alexander, Ovid, Colo. Trie funeral was held from the h:Hi3, Saturday morning, Febru ary 9th, conducted by her pas tor llev. J. Warren Kauffman of tno Presbyterian Church, assist ed by Rev. Ira Duvall, of the ;i. E. Church. At Mrs. Doran's request, the text used at her . uner:.l was, "For me to live is ftri3t and to dio i s gain," also, 'For I know that my Redeemer iveth." She also selected the ollowiug hymns to be used at the ervice: "I would not live al vays" Lead kindly light," Be yond the Smiling and the Weep ng" and "Saved by Grace." Mrs. Doran was a faithful mem ber of th'J Presbyterian Church, aving united with that church n childhood. She was a member of the King's Daughters, a soci ety of the Presbyterian Church. She wad a devout Christian and beautifully exemplified her faith in her home, in the church, and in all the rtlationa of life. Her life was one of kindness and hope never known to despair for a single moment; many hearts have been mude glad by her loving ords of cheer, and by her char Utale Wid generous deeds. In her home's ae wjh a veritable queen. No mother coild have held the sacred position in a more dignifi ed manner. Althongh she has been removed i'rom the home, the influence of her pure sweet life will live eternally in the hearts of those she ha.i left behind, and i.-.ake the hope strong for a fami ly reunion in that "Better Land." Gilbert E . Stevens. Gilbert E Stevens, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jamison K. Stevens, died at his ho ie i n Emporia, Kansa3, Thursn ly afternoon, February 7, 191S i tuberculosis. The funeral services were held in the United Presbyterian church in that city, the following Sunday afternoon, and interment was made in Map! 2 wood ceme tery. The deceased was born at Hustontown, thi3 comty, March 15, 18S8. hence be wa3 aged 2 9 years, 10 months and 23 days. He went to Kansas in 1905, at tended the Normal and after ward was principal of the High School at Marion, Utah, for sev eral years. Later h j went to California hoping for restora tion of failing health, !ut return edto Emporia last November. tiight years Ago ne re eived an appointment as cadet to the Mili tary Academy at A.nnap)lis, Md through the influence o Senator Curtias; but on account of his health, his family prev iled up' on him to waive the appointment. At an early aije he uni'od with tneM. iii. L-nurcn ana i.vea an exemplary Christian Life. He was beloved by every ona that knew him and his greatest joy was in spreading gladness where' ever he went. He is survived by hs father, at Emporia; four sistei's Mr. Narrow Escape from Fire. About midnight on Wednesday night of last week, the dwelling house on the David Woodal farm better known as the Dickson or George Mock farm, narrowly es caped destruction by fire. James Woodal, Sr., slept above the kitchen. Just before midnight he awoke almost suffocated with smoke, and peering down a stove pipe hole, discovered that the fire board back of the kitchen stove was in flames. . He immediately gave the alarm which brought his son David from another part of the house, and by vigorously applying water, they were able to extinguish the flames. Out side the loss of. some clothing that happened to be near the fire board, the damage did not amount to so very much and is fully cov ered by insurance. Good Prices. For high prices, sheep seem to be taking the lead at tales. A t Cyrus F. Wagner's sale last Thursday, 2 sheep brought $35.- 00 each, and two $30.75 each. A cow brought $09 and one of the 1 prses $192.51. Mr. Wagner, will remove from the Conrad Glazier (Newt Hoke) farm this ppring to his own (the George Snider) farm in Tod township. Just a few days a;ro he purchas e d from Stanly Snider the 8 acre field lying juat north of the Gipe barn, which will be a valu able acquisition to Cyrus's farm. Mr. Ernest Cooper who is em ployed by the Cumberland Valley railroad Company in Chambers burg, spomt the week-end with his family at Cito. Harry White, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Ole Secoy and Mrs. Clara Smith, both of Emporia, and Misa Nora K. Stevens, who i s teaching school a t Virgil, Kans. ; also, four brothers: Wilmer, Wayne, Pa.; John, FortinOlon tana; Dill, St. Louis, and Warren at Yates Center. Mrs. John H. Miller. Elizabeth, wife of John H. Miller, died at her home at Piney Grove, Md., Saturday evening, February 9 , 1918. Funeral ser vices the following Wednesday at Fairview, conducted by Rev. A. R. Garland. Interment in the family lot at that place. Mrs. Miller had been in her usual health until the day before her death, when she was sudden ly stricken with paralysis, never regaining consciousness, and the next evening passed away. She spent almost her entire life in the community in which she died, and was a kind and affectionate neighbor, ever ready to extend a helping hand, and she will be greatly missed by every one, but no place so much as i n her own home. She was a faithful member of the Christian Church for about forty-five years, and a bright and shining light in the service of her master. She was a daugh ter o f William and Mary Ann Smith May, was born September 1, 1856, and was aged 61 years, 5 months and 8 days. She was married to John H. Miller on the 17th. day o f October, 1875, and to this union 11 children were born, ten of whom, with their father survive, namely, Cora, wife of George E . Bowles, Cum berland, Md.; Lewis W. Frost- burg, Md. ; J. Garfield, Piney Grove, Md.; Elias, Cumberland, Md.; Mary, wife of Raymond Redinger, Chaney ville, Pa.; Edgar, West Virginia; Ira D . S., Shade Gap, Pa. ; Ethel, wife o f Howard Redinger, Everett, Pa.; Lillie and Albert, at home. Sev enteen grand-children and the following brothers and sisters are living: Henry May, Cum berland, Md.; David May.; and Mrs. Margaret Smith, Purcell Pa. ; also, three half sisters, Mrs. Neal Wright, Cumberland; Mrs. George Kennard and Mrs. Jonas Sparks. Purcell. Pa. One son. Hamilton, died about 18 years ago. United States Food Adm.oistratioa. To The People of Pennsylva nia: The ready and effective re sponse by the people of Pennsyl vania to the appeals of the Food Administration for the conserva tion of our food supply has been highly commendable and pro ductive of gratifying results. But the food situation in Europe proves to be far more alarming than when the first survey of the food supply of the world for this year was made. llurveBta in the countries of our Allies have turned out much less than contemplated and shortage of shipping has made ic impos sible to bring supplies from countries more distant than the United States. The civilian consumption of our Allies has been reduced to the minimum and still there is not enough left to sustain the men on the fighting fronts. AU of our surplus wheat from the 1917 crop has already gone to the Allies or to the bottom o f the sea. And there wasn't enough to feed them if it had all reached its destination. Our friends are in dire distress. ' It aly is today in a state of semi starvation and France and Eng land are undergoing the sev. rest privations. Italy's defeat v ? largely due to lack of food an : not lack of skiii in warfare or fighting spirit among its people. The Russian collapse was chiefly the result of desperate hunger. To fail to supply the needed bread to England, France and Italy would be to invite more disaster, and possibly complete defeat and ruin. We need to save many things by Eeif-denial and substitution. Meats, fats and sugar, but the all important thing for the next few months is wheat and more Wheat. Our own boys are over there SI 1 1 . I now. uur own sons anu nrotn- ers to the numoor or some hundreds of thousands, and more are going every week. A col- apse or even a serious defeat on the Allied front, through failure to sustain the man-power on the fighting line and behind it with sufficient food, would involve our own men in the general loss, as well as those who have fought our battles for us so long. Such a misfortune must nev er be allowed to befall us through the indulgence of those of us who are safely comfortable here at home. We can save enough t o meet the crisis. We must do it and we will. To enable us to meet the grave situation which confronts us, every man, woman and child i n the American nation is asked t o have two wheatless days ( Monday and Wednesday) in every week, and one wheatles3 meal (the even ing meal) in every day. To have one meatless day (Tuesday) in every week and one meatless .meal every day. To have one porkless day (Sat urday). To have every day a fat-saving day. To make every day a sugar saving day. These things constitute an irreducible minimum o f personal sacrifice that is expected of ev ery patriotic American. Many of us can and will volunteer even more. The American people as indi viduals must wake up to the sit uation as they have not waked up before. The solution of this food crisis is not up to the nation, or the state, or to any official. 1 1 is not to be solved by the few, or b y our neighbors. It is a question for each and every one of ud ipdividually. It is asking little -when we think of our brave American boys who have gone forth to make the surpreme sac rifice that you may live in peace under free American in stitutions. May the response of Pennsyl vania in this hour of grave danger to our cauBe b e immediate and From Cur Subscribers. John W. Rotz, Harristown, III., Feb. 13, 1918. My dear Editor; It is thirty-five years this month since I came to Illi nois to live. I worked by the month for five years at twenty dollars a month. Now some farm hands are getting eighty dollars, altho this isn't a general price. Good hands, this year,' will be worth forty dollars. After working five years, I re turned to Fulton County, got married, and then came back to Illinois and settled down. We lived on a 100-acre farm for twenty-three years. When we moved onto this farm, there wasn't a bush, tree, nor shrub of any kind growing. We planted some smill maples, but they aren't small any more. Some walnuts, apricot and apple seeds were planted. We now eat fruit each sej'.son from the trees. Some peach seeds were planted, and the trees after several years of service, were blown down b y storms, or died from old age, A very nice orchard now grows on the farm some especially nice peach trees being in the orchard. There ha3 not been a peach crop here for four years. The cold wiriter kills the jourg fruit. Seven years ago I purchased a home in Harristown. This is a viilage of about 2U0, and is locat - 1 about thirty miles east of the turite capital. The old farm is two and one half miles from here and my oLlest son, Harry, is now in charge. I am now farming eighty acres adjoining the old farm. A bumper crop was raised last year. Wheat av eraged about twenty bushels to the acre; oats, between fifty and sixty, and corn the same. I pold my oats for fifty cents a bushel. They are offering a dollar and twenty cent3 for corn now but we are unable to market it, on account of the scarcity of cars. These prices are quite a con trast to those of the nineties, when I sold entire crops of oats at eight cents a bushel, and corn at twenty. In past years, my wife has sold dozens of eggs for six cent3; now they are 7i cents apiece. I often think of the time when I was a boy at school, with the Editor of the News as teacher. The News keeps me inform ed of my old friends and school mates passing out o f this world, one by one; and the time has come when I begin to wonder, as I read each account, how soon one may be written for me. I have been in poor health for four years, and I don't expect to ever see my old home in Fulton county again. But that dosen't keep me from living my boyhood days over many times in my rev eries. Altho it is hard to leave one's home friends and g o into a new country to live, I have never re gretted that I came to Illinois. We extend a cordial invitation to any of the home folks to visit u s at any time. Sincerely. John W. Rotz. W. P. Stern, Yonngstown. Q., February 12th. "I think tie poem Old Sideling Hill published in the News' last week would ba of interest, and, perhaps, new, to many persons living near, this famous old mountain. I think Sideling Hill mountain traverses Fuiton County from end to end, extends across Maryland to the Potomac river. This poem wa3 a song in the sixties and early seventies in the neghborhood of Sideling Hill post office and in Whips Cove. I have been told that the name of the auther was "Divelbis3 and that he lived near Sideling Hill post office. Was the last half of the 'fifth stanza left out intentionally, or has it been lost?." generously worthy of our great State. . Howard Heinz. Federal Food Administrator for Pennsylvania. . HELP 1WH YOUR MEANS. Yoj Are Nut Asked to dive, but to Lend, Ycur Money to the Coverumcnt. Philadelphia, Februaryl8, 1918. George W. Wickersham, former Attorney General of the United States, in an address advocating thrift and the purchase of War Savings Stamps called upon his hearers to insure the world against the Hazard of Teuton domination. He urged men and women to establish war-savings Societies to help finance the Unit ed States in the war enterprise. "We must make every man and woman realize," Mr. Wicker sham asserted, "that in this war nothing that we can give is too much, and everything that we think of giving would be too lit tle. Think what we are confront ed with today! Germany stands in possession of territory belong ing to almost every one of her enemies. No foreign soldier is on her8oil;she stands triumphant, believing herself to be on the eve of obtaining her desires. Russia has melted away into complete demoralization. Her armies which stood, one or two months ago, on the eastern frontier of Germany, requiring German sol diers to the number of one or two million, in ceaseless vigilance, to hold them back, have now left and gone home. "So, these German armies have been transferred to the Western front, and we read from day to day of the confidence of Hinden burg to land his forces in Pari before summer. I don't say he will. The German forces never again will be as confident of vic tory as they were in August 1914. At the Mai ne the tide was turned. And never since that day have they been so near Paris. But they are strong in their belief that they are achieving their pur poses. They are strong in the belief that they can achieve their ends; and it requires all the cour bge and devotion of the Allies to be assured once more that Ger many cannot dominate the world. "Wars cannot, be waged with out money, Wars cannot be waped without men. To !you falls the task of stimulating en thuyiapm which is needed to bring victory to our arms and liberty to the world." Appeal to Teachers and Ministcos. All the teachers in the public schools o f the County, and all the ministers of the Gospel are earnestly requested, as their patriotic duty, to use every op portunity to explain to the peo ple the food regulations. I f you. have informed yourself on the subject, you know of the imper ative need of a strict compliance with nil the food regulations, by all the people. These rules are made for our good and a strict observation of them may pre vent untold suffering and per haps the starvation of millions in Europe. I urge upon you as a patriotic and religious duty the necessity of explaining the food situation to our people. John R. Jackson, Federal food Administrator for Fulton County. Expresses Regret. A recent letter from our friend Rev. E. M. Aller, pastor of the M. E. church at Dillsburg, Pa., expresses deep regret that the sisters and friends of Daniel Peffer, who reside east of the mountains, were unable to at tend the funeral on account of the drifted condition of the roads, Mr. Aller further says, "We had no trains from Harrisburg to Dillsburg for more than three days. Uncle Dan was a brother beloved and it was a source of bitter disappointment that we could not be present when his body was laid to its rest Last Saturday D. E. Little, purchased the S. A. Nesbit farm in Tod township. This farm will be known to the older people as the Kittle farm. From the buildings one has one of the finest views in the Cove. Millers and Farmers. The attention o f all millers of wheat and rye i 8 called to the following telegram received from the State Food Administrator: "All millers of wheat and rye must be licensed. Farm ers a r e permitted to have wheat grown by them milled or exchanged for flour in amount not in excess of thirty days supply for per sonal use. This does not apply to wheat owned by oth er than the grower. N o re strictions on the use of buck wheat." It is plain therefore that the rule is that the farmer who grew the wheat, and no other person, can have wheat grown b y his ground into or exchanged for Hour in amount not in excess of a thirty da'ys supply for personal use. The miller is forbidden to grind wheat for farmers in ex cess of thirty day supply for per sonal use, and the farmer i s for bidden to sell or exchange flour in any quanity. The miller is bound to exercise his sound judg ment in determining the amount of flour it requires for a farmer for his personal use during any thirty days, and i f there are any grounds of suspicion that a farm er is asking for more flour than the law entitles him to, the mil ler may require him to make affidavit. The flour ground for or exchanged with farmers must be the same as that made for the trade, that is, there must b e at least 45 lbs. of flour made out o f a bushel of wheat weighing 58 lbs. These rules become laws of the Pennsylvania State Govern ment and any viloation of them lays the violater open t o prose cution by the United States Gov ernment. It is as much the duty of every patriotic citizen ta Bee that others obey the law as i t is to obey it himself, because it is only by the universal observance of these food rules, that the re sult sought by the government can be attained. The govern ment doea not want to impose a heavier burden on any one than is absolutely necessary in order to win this war, but i t wants that burden to be as equally borne by all as is possible to make it. Let every citizen of Fulton County show that he is a true patriot by observing all these food rules and thereby do "his bit" in helping to win the war. John R. Jackson, Federal Food Administrator for Fulton County. Has Cad Hard Lack. On Sunday the third day of last December, Mr. Boyd Elvey and his family were taking a lit tle walk, and in passing through a little clump of bushes he ran a locust thorn into one of the fin gers of his right hand. That night he began to suffer severe pain from what seemed to be on ly a trifling accident, and al though everything was done to correct the trouble, he has not been able to do an hour's work since. Boyd is an industrious young mechanic and it was hard luck for him to be thrown out of work for so long a period. Last week a few of his kind neigh bors took it upon themselves to solicit a donation for the Elvey family, and every one who was approached, was only too glad to have an opportunity to do their bit. The result was, that on last Thursday evening the family was much surprised when the dona tion was brought to the home, which consisted of almost every thing in the line of "eats" not to say anything about a purse well filled with ready cash. Mr. and Mrs. Elvey wish the News to convey their heartfelt gratitude to the kind donors. The peace Russia gets com pares very favorably with the purchase made by a number of chaps who answered an adver tisement and sent $1 for "a fine steel engraving of George Wash ington" and got a postage stamp. GOOD NEKS! Dr. Dixon Advises Economy in the Use of Soap, While Cost of Living Is so High. In this season and at this time when thousands o f our young troops' are being mobilized for the National Army and are, of necessity, exposed to unusual conditions, often producing ner vous chills, is the wise time to economize in soap. Again, when the cost of living is s o high all along the line, it will be an econ omy to use less soap as it is a much abused article. It ' uc necessary, as so many nun to think, to have a stiff, creamy lather i n order to dissolve the dirt that is filling up the pores of the skin. On the cuntrany, very little soap pure poap is required to break up the dirt and pormit the water to remove it from the pores so that the glands may perform their normal duty. The pores are the openings on the surface of the skin and the sweat glands must be kept clear and free from either dirt, soap o r any matter that would tend to.interfere with their action in the elimination of perspiration. Imperfect action of 'the sweat glands is a source of disease, va rious matters accumulating in the system, which would other wise not be eliminated. Therefore,' economy i n soap would not only be a saving in money but would help in saving human life, by cutting down res piratory diseases. Livestock co Pennsylvania Farms. The census of livestock on the farms of Pennsylvania January 1, as announced by the Bureau of Statistics o f the Pennsyjvania Department of Agriculture, shows the following: Horses, 577.8S7; mules, 46,216; milch cows, 921,639; other cattle, 621, 307; sheep, 820,705; swine, 1, 068.333. The figures show that there has been a decrease in horses during the past year o f about two psr cent, while the number of mules is about the same as a year ago. Many horses and mules have been shipped from the State for use in the war and the auto truck and tractor are re placing others, but not enough to stop the breeding at about its standard maximum. Dairy cows have decreased about four per cent, and the number o f other cattle about three per cent.' The high price3 of feed and the high prices offer ed for cattle have brought about this decrease. During the past two ears much interest has been made i n the sheep industry and the movement started by Secretary of Agriculture Charles E. Pat ton to have the farmers take u p sheep raising has brought an in crease of about two per cent, o r 17,400 sheep, during the pust year. For ten years there was an annual decrease of about three per cent until 1916, when the interest created in the sheep in dustry brought about a slight increase over 1915. The increase of the past year promises t o cre ate a new interest in sheep rais ing and with the benefits from the new dog law the million mark is again being sought for. . The estimated total value of the livestock is placed a t $190, 863.653.00 as compared with $173,580,100,00 a year ago. The county having the largest number of horses is Lancaster, 24,833; the county having the largest number of mules is York, 7739, Chester county leads in the number of milch cows, 41,948, while Crawford has the largest number of other cattle. Camer on county has but 493 horses. 4 mules", 737 milch ows and 6S0 other cattle. Fulton has 3.86.: horses, 219 mules, 3,924 milch cows, and 4,335 other cattle. All cereals should be kept in dry, . w e 1 1 , lighted storerooms. Damp, dark cellars should never be used for storing fooda. sX 1 K
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