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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.
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