MA .r VOL. XIX. NO. 31. McCONNELLSUURG, PA., APRIL 18,1918. $1.50 A YEAR. RECORD OF DEATHS. W Sketches of, the Lives of Per f sons Who Have Recently Passed Away. Mns. Mary Ellen Mellott. Mrs. Mary Ellen Deshong Mel ott, widow of Michael Mellott, fclied at her home on Pleasant Ridge, this county, Sunday, March H, 1912, after an illness taused by paralaysis, aged 75 ears, 5 months, and 7 days, 'he funeral services conducted jy Rev. T. P. Garland, assisted jy Rev. Powers, were held at 1 j'clock, Sunday afternoon, and nterment was made in the ceme tery at the Sideling Hill Chris- ian church. The deceased was a daughter M the late William and barah Sane Riblet Deshong, and sne ias born in Licking Creek town ihip, Fulton county, Pa., on the 17th. of October, 1843. On the Mrd of April. 18C3, she was uni- :ed in marriage to Michael Mel- li)tt. and to this union seven sons inH nne daushter were born. The daughter Catherine, died in "infancy. The sons are William end Ruben in Johnstown; Henry Wishart, near Knobsville; Lewis, pear Lamaster, Franklin County; Mitchell, Needmore ; Scott, Sharpe, and James W., on the hid home place. She survived jby 14 grand children and one 'great-grand child. She is united Vith the Christain Church when Nineteen years of age, and her 'life was one that proved a bless ing and help to every one within the circle of her influence. A. C. Matiiias. Albert C. Malhia3 was born iear Burnt Cabins, thi3 -county August 12, 1861 and died in ilulorado at the Monte ViHta hospital, Saturday, March 16, 1.918 aged 5G years, 7 months ; nd 4 days. The direct cause f his death was peritonitis, 1 fter an iliness of short duration. Mr. Mathias was married in 1SG8 to Miss Alice Golvin and to this union were born four chil- dren, namely, Elsie M. Adams, .of Fort Collins, Colo.; Mrs. lelen Seaman, of Denver; and Irs. Nettie E. Christensen and lilda Mathias, of Monte- Vista, le is also survived by two sis ers. Mrs. E. C. Wright and Mrs. Isaac Waters, and by two ibrothers E. S. Mathias and A. D. Mathias. His wife Alice, died November 11, 191C, and on the 18th of December 1917 he was married to Mrs. Laura Small, who survives him. Mr. Mathias taught the school at Burnt Cabins in 1888 and 1889 after which on account of fail ing health and threatened pul monary tuberculosis, he took his family and went to Colorado, which Droved to be iustthe right thing, for ho regained his health and became .stout and robust. He lived in Monte Vista about twenty-three years. He was a prominent Mason and Odd Fel low, and the funeral services at the local Presbyterian church at the cemetery were condncted by the Masonic Lodge. Mrs. Elmira Smith. Elmira Kerr, widow of Em manuel Smith, died about two weeks ago aged about 77 years. She wasamemberoftheKerr fam ily who lived in the Cove many yearsago, andthawas an aunt of Miss Mary Pittman. Goes to Pktry County. Rev. Lewis D. Wible, who was appointed at the late Conference to the Blaine, Perry County ri ... v-narge or tne r.l. E. church, is moving his family into the par sonage at Blaine to-day, and will enter upon his work in that 'ield. The Blaine Charge con sists of four appointments three oesides Blaine New German town, Fairview, and Emery Chapel, none of which is more than seven miles fion Blaine. We trust Rev. Wible and family ay find their new home pleas ant, and that their efforts may De ble3sed to great good Rcpublic, 0., The many friends of Mr. and j Mrs. J. R. Morgret, of Andover, u. will be pleased to near tnac they have stood the winter and are busy with their 6pring work. On account of the scarcity of coal Riley was obliged to burn wood all wi'iter. Early in the winter, while Riley was doitifr his chores and cutting and haul ing wood, a crafty old French man by the name of La Grippe slipped upon Riley and chased him into the house and kept him there for two weeks or more; but he had good neighbors, and they came to the rescue, and helped with the out-door work until he pulled himself together and chas ed the Frenchman off. . Riley would rather beat up a subject of the Kaiser if he had the opportunity; but what he saved on the coal will buy a lot of gasoline for that auto he is pi n-ing to buy in the near fu ture. Listen, Emory ! Keep it to your self; I do not think it will be a Ford. S. W. Ken Rule Amended. Official notice is given by John R. Jackson, Federal Food Ad ministrator for Fulton County, that the rule prohibiting licensed dealers from dealing in live or freshlv killed hens between February 11th and 'April 20 ih ias been amended to end at mid night of April 19, 1918. This means that pullets, after Friday night at midnight, may be sold and killed the same as before the rule was made. In this connec tion the United States Depart ment of Agriculture cautions farmers and others against a iU3h of too many fowls to mar ket as soon as the restrictions against selling laying hens is re moved, which, they say, may result in food losses. Think twice before selling a hen that is laying. Green food is becom ing more plentiful, and the de mand for eggs continues. Uni versal marketing of fowls, may react on prices, as well as cause spoilage of dressed poultry. The Latent Swindle. The war department at Wash ington has just discovered that a swindle is being worked upon parents of soldiers in the various camps in the following manner: A telegram is sent informing that the soldier has a furlough and requesting fund3 by wire to come home, waiving identifica tion. When this is done the rest is easy. In some cases the swindlers have telegraphed pa rents and friends to mail the money to the soldiers in care of the general delivery. In either case it is easy for the swindler" to get the money, and hard to ap prehend the swindler. Chance to Hear Dr. Herman. Rev. Theodore F. Herman, D. D., professor of Systematic Theology in the Theological Seminary, in Lancaster, Penna., will preach in the Reformed church next Sunday morning, and in the Presbyterian church in the evening. Dr. Herman is one of the strong men of to-day; and before accepting the position he now holds in the seminary, he was pastor of tho largest Re formed congregation and Sunday school in America. You Bhouid hear him. No special collection. Just an every day preaching ser vice, but you will be welcome. Mr. R. P. Deshong and son Clvdo called at the News office last Saturday and added a dollar and a half to our "cash on hand" for another year's subscription. About four years ago "Dick" bought the Rowland Austin farm at Saluvia that had been let run down, and by careful manage ment and lots of hard work, he is bringing the farm back to the position it occupied in the palmy days of the Austins. Subscribe tor tti fcifiWB. ANOTHER CHAPTER FINISHED. AlcCoondblmrg & rort Loudon Railroad Suld bj Receiver For Five Thous and Collars. In accordance with an adver tisement which appeared in the News, the McConnelluburg & Fort Loudon Railroad property consisting of a brand new st ation building at McConnellaburg, a graded road bud of s 'me ten miles in length and several acres of land, was sold at public sale in McConne'kburg lant Friday afternoon to o.e! of the contract ors, Walter Patterson, of Pitts burgh for live thoumd dollars. It will be recalled that the scheme was promoted three yours ago by a pair call.-d Pent and Shearer, and the enterprise was incorporated u i ler the name of the McConnelhu'urg arid Fort Loudon Electric Railway Com pany. At the end of Lycar.it was found that an electric road was impractical, and a new charter was obtained for the MeConnellsburg and Fort Loudon Steam Railroad Company. Among the new contractors to come on the ground was Clyde E. Coon, who pushed the work along until about a hundrtd thousand dollars had been spent and the Lemastcr Bank wrecked, when work stoppe 1 su Llenly, the road went ht.i th-; iiu'idsof a re ceiver, and sold as before told Walter Pattern , who bought tho road, has a cl .im of $11,000, -00 against the property and will have to pay the suite tax against it which will make it stand him some $-13.00.0(1. He is still better oil' thnn a lot. of our local pee.j-le who have anywhere from one hundred to fifteen hundred debars in it, which they are now trying to erase from the tablet of their memory. lH'k Ojtfor Ground Gh?s. Our people have heard much of the develL-hness i.i tho meth ods employed by the Germans in the warfare now being waged in Europe. That this country con tains German sympathizers is well known, and drastic meas ures are being taken by the Gov ernment to apprehend and pun ish all such. In many parts of the country, and especially, in York County, it has been dis covered that human fiends have been mixing cereals and flours with ground glass. The Food Administrator of York County has just issued an order to the residents of his county to be careful to sift all cereals es pecially those, put up in sealed packages before using. Miss Netha NesLit of McConnells- burg, who is w orking in a 'mil linery establishment in Hagers- town, reports that gruurd glass was found in the broad on her table iti allager.stoAn boarding house a few days ago. It is not known when, or how, the glass got into the bread- but it was there. Busy Nehjiilurliiid. "Hello, Lizzie! I haven't seen you lately. Where are you now?" "Got a situation in Mudhurst." "In Mudhurst? Isn't it awfully plow there?" "Slow?" replied the second girl' with a lauh. "The hou?e I'm in is at a crossroad; there's a church at the next corner, a fire station right opposite and a po lice station on tho fuhth corner. Yesterday there was a grand fu neral at the church, the fires brigade was culled out three times, and tvo men were run in by the police, all in one day ! And the coupl-j I'm living with are always quarreling. No. I shouldn't call it slow"!-Ex-change. Mrs. E. E. Dimm (Helen John ston) of Granville, Pa., return ed to her homo last Saturday after having spent a week in the home of her mother, Mrs. E, J. Johnston, South Second Street. Red Cross Work. The ladies among our local Red Cross workers have been busy doing their bit that more money may flow into the great war fund where it is so mnch needed just now. Recently a Bcheme was set on foot by which one lady entertained ten persons, each of the ten paying 50 cents and agreeing to entertain eight; in turn, each of the 8 was to en tertain six, etc., of course, the paying each time of fifty cents was to be kept promiently in view. The following report shows what is being accomplished along this line: Mrs. James II. Kendall, $13 00 Mrs Lt'Hlifi W. Seylar, 5.50 Mrs. J. 15. Runyan, 4.50 Mrs. Winifred Kendall, 4 (10 MUs Florence Johnston, 3.00 Mrs. George B. Mock, 4 Q0 Mrs. W. R. Sloan, 3 00 Miss Mary 13. Trout. 3.00 Mrs. George W. Reisner, 4 00 Mrs. Josephine A. Sloan, 5 00 Mrs. A. 1). Ilohman, Mrs. I). M. Kendall, ,Vr.s. Scott Runyan, M'-s. John P. Sipc. 3 00 2.20 4.00 4.50 Mi: 3 Josephine Ehalt, 3.00 Mr?. B. C. Limberson, 4.00 OTIILIl CONTIUKUTIONS. Hon. i-1Mr.s. ClemChesnut 10.00 Dublin . -xiliary 20.40 Akeravili. School 5.73 ANiW ' L JiEMIJEItS. Mrs. Elton Batten Edith Wilds Nellie Bare Co-id Advice To All Fricr.(h in Fulton County: This afternoon a3 I sit in rny study I cannot direct my thoughts in. my line excepting my two years' teaching in the County. I have, from day today, meditated upon Supreme power for spiritu al direction; yet my ideals were immoral enough to cause errors in my work that I can not justly pass away. The pov.er of human energy is tremendous when worked by con centrated effort; but as soon as the ideal we have becomes aim less, we can never hit a mark. Patrons, I sincerely urge upon you the duty of inquiring early into the interests of your chil dren. God has sent them to you for care and when you neglect giving them spiritual and educa tional teaching, you sin against God and his Kingdom. What sends one boy to prison and andther to the world to pro clainfi to its inhabitants the mes sage'of an inner conscience? First the parents -fail to instruct the child of the inner nature and its power over humanity; and, sec ond, is the fulfillment of that duty. Lit us each and all rai.-se our racial standard so that we need riot be afraid to btar.d before immortal sou's. How.uu) B. Kneiter, Student I. S. N. S., April ninth. ?g Sjrir I'rcsbjtiry. Among those present at the meeting of the Big Spring Pres bytery held hero last week were Rev. Geo. M. R?ed, D. D. and Eid r J;mas Dudap, of New ville; Rev. J. L. Grove and Rev. W. V. Grove, McConnellaburg; Eider J. II. Johnston, Webster Mills; Rev. H. S. Wilson ar.d Eldor S. A. Grove, York; Rev. J. S, Tus?oy and Elder Matthew borers, Mexico, Pa ; Rev. Geo. A. Roseberg and Elder Thoma9 McDonald, Muddy Creek Fork; Rev. Jame3 Porter and Elder John W. Barv McAl'evy'a Fort: Rev. D. I. Itee, McCoysville; Rev. J. S. Kyle, Laurel, Pa.; Rev. J A, Alexander, Pitts burgh; Elder W. M. Grove, Woodbine, Pa.; Elder Chester Hyson, tewartstown, Pa.; El der J.N. Schilling, Lcwistown, Pa. Ex-Judge Nelson is confined to his home in Ayr township suffering from an acute attack of rhejmatism. THE FINCH OF LINGER. T!ic Call for Greater Conservation in focdslufis Has Made Cut Little Im pressiou I'pou America. How slow we are to realize that we have been for more than one year engaged in one of the most terrible wars of all time's. Not alone, it is true, but fighting along side of England, France and Italy. And ii all of the three long years since the other countries were drawn into it, France has been the battle ground, and it is her soil that is drinking up the blood of mil lions of human beings. It is France that is bearing the brunt of the conflict France that help ei us win our Independence: i Uur people are sometimes tempted to complain when the Government regulates what we must eat, and the quantity we may consume; but let us spend a minute in reading the latest re gime of bread rationing to the people of France on account of the shortage of wheat and other grains available for food in that country. The allowances to a family in that country is henceforth to be as follows: Children less than 3 years old, 2 V oz per day. Children from 3 to 13 years, 7 oz per day. Persons from 13 to 00 years, li oz per day. Persons more than sixty year?, 7 oz per day. This ration 13 only about two thirds of the meagre bread al lowance heretofore maintained. Bread constitutes more than one half of the diet of the French nation and the price of meat is so high as to prohibit its use by a large part of the people. Think of this, American Moth ers and Fathers of young chil dren! A slice or two or a few slices of bread per day, not pure wheat bread mind you, but war bread for growing boys and girls and not much of anything else to eat. No butter, sugar or meat to the average family and few of any vegetables to help out, and these are the wives and chil dren of those men who have bravely fought our battles for three years the men who have sacrificed everything including life itself for the cause of Free dom and Democracy. A story like this should make the American heart bleed and stimulate every man, woman and child in the nation to renewed effort for food conservation even to the entire elimination of wheat food when possible as it is in many homes. . Vessels have been ready to take wheat across, but we have not had it to send because with all our sacrifice so far we have not saved enough. Let us remember Italy and be warned. The great Italian de feat of a few month's ago was not a Military victory for the enemy but wa3 chiefly brought about by the reduced morale of the Italian troops who were dis hearten, not only by lack of sufficient food for themselves, but by the kr.owledge that their families at hon:e were starving. If the enemy succeeds in break ing through during the present drive, the American people must be charged with a part of the re sponsibility for having failed to provide sufficient food for the Civil population behind the Alli ed Armies. ' And our own American boys are now helping to hold the battle line over there. Come, help out a little on the debt of the Auditorium decora tions. Friday night 25c. and 15c. Seats reserved at Seylars Drug Store. Everybody enjoys a Honey moon, why riot a minister, Come, and see, Friday night at the Auditorium. Tickets at Sey lars Drug Store. Our Amnsement Bill. Belated receipts from various special taxes to produce war rev enue indicate that Treasury es timates will be exceeded. Ow' ing to the employment of almost every one at good wages, ex penditure for all purposes has been on a liberal scale and gov ernment receipts have been cor respondingly large, Bays the Philadelphia Inquirer. It is not possible to make too many deductions from the Feb ruary reports alone. It will be remembered that during the first half of that month the cold was extreme all over the country, and it is likely that the returns are below the average for the other months. Yet the ten per cent, tax on amusements pro duced $3,703,000, which would be about four million for an ordinary month. On this basis the Nation would get almost fifty millions a year out of amusement taxes, assuming that Bummer months are as productive as those in the winter. Playing cards may or may not have fallen olf, since the number of decks sold is reduced by more than a million. Possibly women are devoting so much time to Red Cross and other patriotic work that they do not have time for bridge, or it may be that they are using more older cards than formerly. In any event Uncle Sam got five cents from each of the nearly two million packs which were sold. Automobile sales produced considerably over two millions, representing three per cent, on sales in a month which is not considered an active one. Other factors in the special tax receipts bear so little on amusements as not to be analyzed. In the first eight months of the year the internal revenue receipts from all sources totaled $519,- 000,000. As very little of this was from distilled liquors, the gain is very great, but it also included some income taxes paid in advance. The month of June will produce most of the internal revenue, and there are those who think the total for the fical year will be $4,000,000,000. based on partial returns from offices all over the country. In any event this country has not 'found the war taxes a burden thus far. Even if they are increased, as Secretary Mc- Adoo suggests, the country can pay them easily so long as there i3 general employment at high wages. State Agricultural Notes. It is estimated that 40 per cent. of the wheat produced in Penn sylvania is shipped out of the counties where grown. Pennsylvania farmers on March 1 held about 42 per cent, of the 1917 oats crop. Statistics show that only G3 per cent, of the 1917 corn crop was of merchantable quality. . Seventy-one per cent, of the farm labor in Pennsylvania is hired with board, 40 per cent, of which is by the month, 20 per cent by the day and 11 per cent, extra harvest labor. Government figures show that 719 tons of cabbage were manu factured into Bauer kraut by can neries in the State last year. In 1910 there , were 162,081 farm laborers in Pennsylvania, but there are scarcely half that number available this year. The Everett Republican. With last week's issue, John C. Chamberlain entered upon his twenty-fifth year as editor and publisher of the. Everett Repub lican. During the last twenty four years the Republican has been one of our most welcome exchanges, and we extend, to brother Chamberlain our sincere congratulations upon the success that has attended his efforts as a newspaper man, and hope he may be spared to stay right on the job many more years. MILK AS A FOOD. The Cheapest in the Market To-daj. Sour Kilt Is One of the Best of Touics. It is possible for people to learn much of the food value of. even so common an article or diet as milk. The following from L. W. Lighty, farm adviser of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, and well known to the farmers of Fulton County as one of the most practical of Farmers' Institute Instructors, should be read with much inter est and profit: Milk is a balanced food, con taining the corre ct proportion of protein and energy. It is a very digestible food and the fat in milk is the easiest dige-sted fat in all the dietary of many. It is rich in the needed minerals readi ly assimilable. For real complete nourishment there is no food like it. There is no waste as it is all digestible. 'Milk is the cheapest food on the market when we consider all the nutrients contained. A quart of 5 per cent, milk is worth as much as 14 ounces of the best beef. The beef costs 30 cents and the milk less , than half as much and why not use the milk? We have formed a lot of bad habits and now is a good time to quit them. Many dishes are served with a sugar sauce or brandy sauce so called that would be much more palatable served with whole milk and a very little sugar. Milk as a sauce adds a complete food while sugar sauce gives nothing but energy. "We must get over the idea that milk is a beverage only. It is an unsurpassed beverage we admit, but it is a most valuable food and must be considered a3 such. "Learn once for all the' real truth that when milk sours, it is not spoiled for food, but is irrt- proved. Sour milk is one of the best tonics. Thousands think highly of buttermilk, and sour milk is the same with the butter- fat incorporated with it. J "As the professional cook9tfnd cook books increased, the pro portion of milk consumption decreased and futhermore at the same time and in the same proportion the doctors increas ed. I am not a centenarian, but I well remember when practi cally everybody made one meal of the day on some form of bak ed or cooked corn meal with an abundance of whole milk and a ittle sugar. "I also know that at that time we had o:ie doctor, physician they call him n w, to cover a radius of ten miles and the poor fellow could hs-rdly make a living be cause the'-e was no one sick ex cept when some epidemic like mumps or other infantile trouble struck the country. "Do you know that there i3 Life in milk? What is life? It is that which the Creator gives us and no man ha3 defined it. But the scientific man has found ife or the life principle in milk and he calls it vitaniines. ' Vita- mines are absolutely essential to the healthy body and by no food can you get this element in , so perfect a form and condition as in whole milk. Does that explain why we now need and furnish a living and fortune to retire on to six doctors in a territory where one nearly starved for want of patients? "If you eat and drink more milk you will be healthier and stronger and sweeter tempered." Card of Thanks. , ' The sons of Mary Ellen Mellott desires through the columns of the News to express their sincere thanks to the many kind friends and neighbors, who in any way contributed sympathy or assist ance during the illness and death of their beloved mother. Everybody says it i3 a trreat success. What? Why, The Mini sters Honeymoon. n
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