Jfiit0!i VOL. XIX. ISO. 3G. McCONNELLSBURG, PA., MAY 30, 1918. $1.50 A YEAR. RECORD CF DEATHS. Short Sketch :s of the Lives of Per sons Who Dave Recently Passed Away. Mrs. J. K. Rhoades. Lydia Frances, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David M. Kendall, was born November 1, 1879. Early in life she made a public confession of faith in Christ and led a sincere Christian life from that time onward. On the first day of June, 1910, she was married to John K. Rhoade3 and to them were born a son and a daughter both of whom preceded ibtir mother to the better world who was laid to rest by their side in the beautiful cemetery at Mercersburg, Pa., on Saturday afternoon, May 25, 1918. Those who will mis3 her most are her husband, father and mother and six sisters, namely, Edith, wife of Rev. A. M. Malcolm, Albia, Iowa; Kath erine, wife of T. E. Shepherd, New ConcorJ, 0.; Minerv wife of Lieut. R. VV. McKibbin, Waynesboro, , Pa. ; Jesse, wife of Howard, Atchison, Albia, Iowa; Miss Ella (twin sister of the deceased) and Miss Ethel, at home. During the past two years, Mrs. Rhoades had been a patient sufferer, and she passed to her reward, Thursday, May 23, 1918. The funeral wa3 held at her late home at Mercersburg, on Satur day afternoon. Revs. Wilson V. Grove and J. L. Grove spoke words of great comfort to the bereaved ones. William F. Weller. William F. Weller, aged 48 years, 7 months, 4 days, died at his home in Thompson township on Monday. May 13. 1918. The funeral services, conducted by Rev, J. C. Garland assisted by Rev. John Mellott, took place at the Brethren church near Stone Bridge on the following Wednes day, and interment was made in the cemetery at that place. The deceased wa3 a son of Bar nabas and Catharine Yonker Weller. He is survived by an aged mother who is entirely helpless, by one brother Albert in Thompson township, and by two sisters Mrs. Edward Spiker and Mrs. George Myers. William served in the Spanish: American war, and Bince that time cared for his parents. About a year ago his father died and a week later his brother Anson. Mary Catharine Fore. Mary Catharine, aged 1 year, 5 months and 2G days, daughter of Boyd and Janet Gobin Fore, died at their home at Knobs- ville on Sunday, May 23, 1918, of convulsions. The funeral ser vices conducted by Rev. Ed ward Jackson of McConnells burg took place Tuesday after noon and interment was made in the cemetery at the Knobs ville M. E. church. The bereav ed parents have the sincere sympathy of their many friends. Gone to France. Sergeant G. Hayes Markley, of vamp Lnx, New Jersey, with zl Other officers, all nf whom sneak French, left from an Atlantic port a few days ago for France, These officers enmnrisft t.hp hil letincr dptanhmpnt xxhirh will make everything ready for the j ... ... . Division that will go over later. Sergeant Markley, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Markley, Warfordsburcr. and Sercreant Major Kingdom Gould are the iwo selected from their regiment -Hancock News. Good Elginuing. Mrs. Harry Peck and Mrs , sam Hess entertained jointly at the former's home for the bene . nt of the Red Cross War Fund last Thursday evening and real ized the sum of $15.50. This is the tainment chain in' Belfast town ship, a ad others will soon be heard from. Commissioner on Crutches. Last Saturday morning Charlie Weller, who is doing some repair ing, needed a load of lumber from Mellott's mill. Charlie has a good neighbor in the per?on of Cmmissioner Albert Nsbit. and he hitched a horse in a team with Albert making up a four horse rig. The rest, the horses had been getting during lhe rainy weather, made them feel like having exercise, and they made a ds sh up the hill from Weller'n mill toward the Cove road at a 2:30 gait. Albert did net trust his wind to chase them on foot, but mount ed a horse and galloped after them. When the team reached the big road at Charlie Nesbit's they turned toward McConnells? burg. Thurman Nesbit seeing the situation jumped into his Reo. When Albert came up on horseback, Albert left his hort;e and got into the Reo with Thur man. and at a 30-mile clip they succeeded in passing the runa ways just at the top of the hill Fouth of James H. Kenda!i'3, Without waiting for Thurman to slop his car, Albert sprang out with the intention of grabbing the leader by the bridle and bringing the team to a standstill. But Albert had not calculated the speed of the moving car arid when his feet struck the ground he set up a series of acrobatic stunts that would have made an ordinary circusman green with envy. Albert didn't catch the team, When he pulled himself together he found he needed a couple yards of court plaster, a half gallon of arnica, a bottle of Sloan's liniment and a pair of crutches. Thurman soon had the horses under control, the team had its, frolic, and everything was just as good as ever but Albert, who soon will be. Letter cf I hanks. Russell H. Runyan writing to Mrs. C. B. Stevens under date of May 21th says: Dear Mrs. Stevens:-! want to thank you and the McConnells burg Chapter of the Red Cross so much for the nice kit which you gave to my mother to send to me. I had asked mother to make me one, but I suppose there will be many times when the Red Cross will have to fill the place of a mother. It helps so much when you think how the good people at home are helping to "back us up.", The Y. M. C. A. huts in camp are the greatest places we have to go in the evenings. The Red Triangle i3 all that it stands for Body, Mind and Soul of the fellows here in Camp. I hope the home Red Cross society has had a succesful week, thisveek. Thanking you all for this little need of mine, I am, yours truly, Russell H. Runyan. Farmers, Market Your Wheal! The United States Food Ad ministration is calling on the Farmers to market immediately all the wheat they have on hand over their own requirements till harVest time. The County Food Administrator is receiving daily appeals from the authorities to see that all the available wheat in this county is marketed at once. -The Government ha3 said that if the farmers did not mark et their wheat within a reason able time it would be requisition ed. I hope that there is not a farmer in Fulton County that will hold hi3 wheat till the Gov ernment is forced to take drastic action to get it. I appeal to all farmers in this county that have wheat, to market it, and save your county and yourself the dis grace of being compelled to do your plain duty. John R. Jackson, County Food Administrator. Mr. and Mrs. J. Houston Johnston, of Pittsburgh, are spending a few days in the home of the former's brother Editor F. McNaughton Johnston at the farm south of town. MRS. FEIGKT'S BODY FOUND. Was ia 7'atcr from Tuesday Evening lot:! Friday Aficrnonn. Hun dreds Searched the Creek. The News last week told of the drowning of Mrs. Elsie Feight in Licking Creek, but at the time of going to press her body had not been found. The story of the said affair ia about as fol lows: Mrs. Feight, who was a daughter of the late William T. and Mary Lake now Mary Swope Clevengcr, lived near the fording ,'t Lake's Mill in Belfast township. On Tue.dsy of last week, she drove over to Walker Mellott's w ith a horse and Lugey to attend to a litllo biibine33 at the storo, and started to return home ir. the evening. It had been raining and when she reach ed the forcing opposite her home the creek was much swollen, but as it was about half past eight or nine o'clock, the probability i3 that she misjudged the condi tion of the stream, and when she reached the strong current, the bu;Tgy wa? upset and she and the hor-e and bngy carried down. She has a tenant farmer living in her house, arai when she did not return in the evening, he just thougnt she had decided to spend the night with some neighbor. Next morning he went to the fording and saw that a buggy had entered the stream, but there were no tracks to show that it had come out. A little later the horse, with the shafts attached, was found about half a mile be low the Lake fording, and after ward the buggy, lap, robe, etc. It was then apparent that the body of the unfortunate woman was somewhere in the stream. Soon the word was spread throughout the neighborhood and scores of men and women turned out and the search was kept up diligently until Friday afternoon, when her body was ciccovered in some aldcr3 fringing a little isl and in the Creek a half mile or so below the fording at Amos Gordon's (thcoldLyndi fording). Her clothing wa3 not torn, and her body had but few bruises. It is said that she carried a con siderable sum of money in a hand bag, but the hand-bag had not been found. Her body was removed to the home of her mother Mrs. Mary Swope, where short funeral ser vices were held on Saturday after noon. Her remains were then con veyed to the Ebenezer church where the funeral services were conducted by her pastor R?v. E. J. Croft, assisted by Rev. Will Truax, John Mellott, Isaiah Mel lott, and Ri!V. J. C. Garland, aft er which interment was made in the cemetery at that church. The funeral was attended by the largest number of persons ever seen at a similar occasion in that neighborhood. Mrs. Feip.ht is the widow of the late Andrew Feight. She is survived by her aged mother, two sisters Ditha Hann and Jennie Truax, and two half broth ers, Will and Andrew Swope. A l'atrictic bclio.l The teacher, Miss Barbara Mar tin, and pupils of the Central Grammar school of Bellwood, gave a social on Thursday after noon for the benefit of the Junior R:;d Cross, Games, music and other amusements were enjoyed. A neat little sum was realized from a prize fish pond. Light refreshments were 6erved by Miss Martin. Everybody ex pressed having had a splendid time. This was the first school in the building to enroll one hundred percent in the Junior Red Cross. The pupils have knit an ambu lance robe, and invested $037.75 in Thrift Stamps and . Liberty bonds. The school closes next Tuesday, May 2S, and Miss Mar tin will spend , a part of her va cation in Tyrone. She has been asked to return as teacher of the Bame school next year. Tyrone I Herald. All Host Work or Fight. , Provost Marshal General Crow der has isaued an order that aft er Jnly 1 every man jn the draft must be fighting or working at a useful occupation v hich will have some relation to winning the war. This is a good deal more drastic than certain laws passed by various States, which only provided for work of any kind. So as to make the matter clear, General CroA'der had specified various' occupations which are not useful. The list begins with gamblers, race track and bucketshop at tendants, arid fortune tellers. This will hit only a limited num ber of persons, and more follow ers of thifse "professions" are outside the draft limits. Others are more inclusive. Waiters, bartenders, theatre ushers, ele vator operators, servants in clubs and hotels and clerks in stores mustgetinto war-like occupations. It may be said that a good many of these places are already held by women bartenders omitted so that in this locality there will nut be much of a round-up. In fact, the demand for high priced labor i3 so great that most young msn have needed no com pulsion to go where the most money awaits them. A few are considered slackers, and if they don't change their jobs they will be put in Class 1, which means immediate army service. Thi3 will apply to married 'men and all with, dependents. There i3 to be no favoritism shown. If you can't or won't do war work, you must light. It is the desire of the govern ment to increase the number of me n in the shipyards and in the merchant marine as rapidly as possible, and compulsion will be used when necessary. It is a good plan, although it may cause some perturbation in particular instances. Admittedly it is rad ical and unprecedented, but we are getting used to such things. Men in the draft should under stand that they are really in the military service now, and can be made to work as the government pleases, so long as not called to the colors. Perhaps this will have a stimulating effect on some languid souls. In any event the workmen are to be secured. Nothing is to be omitted to win the var, and just now labor of certain kinds is as necesssry as an army in the field. Itcd Cross Chain. That the Dublin township aux iliary Red Cross Chain has no weak links in it is shown by the fact that the following ladies have entertained, and in thi3 way added nearly 37 dollars to the War Fund. Mrs. F. C. Bare $3.00 Mrs. C. II. Fields 2.00 Mrs. Bertha Bare 2.00 Miss Margaret Cromer 2.00 Miss Florence Cromer 1.00 Mrs. John Baldwin 1.00 Mrs. Thos. Husler 1.00 Mrs. Geo. Sheffield 1.50 Miss Annie Mayne 1.00 Miss Sue Orth 1.00 Miss Alice Fraker ' 1.00 Miss Annie Luckley 2.00 Miss Frances Fields ' 1.00 Miss Cora Doran 1.00 Miss Mary Kope . 1.00 Mrs. Cha3. Cline 1.00 Mrs. D. W.'Cromer and daughters 3 90 Mrs. Hunter Fraker 1.50 Mrs. Irwin Wilson 1.00 Mrs. J. B. Fraker 1.00 Miss Esther Welsh 1.00 Mrs. John Martz 100 Mrs. Alice Fraker and son 3.00 Mrs. Grant Shoemaker 1.00 Miss Mayme Cromerer 1.00 Total $36 90 F. C. Bare Sec'y . Miss AliceMichaelsoneof Ever ett's leading , business Women, is taking a little vacation. After having spent 10 days in the home of her sister Mrs. Geo. W. Hays, she went to Hustontown Tuesday morning to attend the Sunday school convention and see some of her Taylor township friends. KED CSOSS MEETING. Attorneys Alexander and Sharpe, of CliaKbersburg, and Lieut. Kaia ville Made Interesting Addresses While the Red Cross meeting in the Auditorium last Saturday evening was not so largely at tended a3 some others, and while most of those present were la dies, the fact that two hundred thirty ei jrht dollars was contrib uted showed that the meeting was $100 per cent, effective. Lieut. Rainville a Canadian officer, who had two-and-a-half years experience on the front line in France, made the first ad dress. He told a wonderful story of his experience, and of the great work the Red Cross is doing. On account of having to leave for Chambersburg a t 9 o'clock to catch a train to make his next engagement, he had to cut his address short just at a time when his audience were keyed to the highest pitch of in terest. The Lieutenant was followed by Mr. Schaff, Joshua J. G. Sharpe, Esq., and Hon. William Alexander of Chambersburg, who have a State-wide reputa tion as strong public speakers, On this occasion they all made interesting and inspiring ad dresses; and, notwithstanding the fact that they had all con tributed liberally to the lied Cross fund in their home town, they each contributed gener ously to our fund, and under their inspiration and enthusiasm, the audience came across with $238.00. This sum was in ad dition to the sum coutributed to our solicitors during the canvass. Last Saturday being the last day of the Special Drive week, several of the younger ladies of town took it upon themselves to help out with our quota, and booths were placed one at Tus carora Heights, one at Hotel Harris, McConnellsburg, and one at the Thomastown road on the Lincoln Highway, west of town. Mrs. Blanche Patterson and Mrs. Mary Nace had charge of the one on the mountain: Miss Harriet Sloan, Mrs. Irene Lynch and Miss Mildred Hull, the one in town, and Mrs. Cam Patterson and Lois Nace, the one at the Ridge. These ladies were joined in the afternoon by Miss Minnie Reis ncr, and Mrs. Mabel Sloan. Of course, the scheme in placing booths along the Highway was to give the traveling public especially automobile tourists a chance to "do their bit". It meant a day of strenuous effort on the part of those who had charge of the booths, but when evening came.Stheyjhad onehun dred and twenty-four dc liars to turn into the General treasury of the Red Cross Fund to the credit of Fulton County. The ladies had some experien ces. Blanche Patterson "held up" a party of four tourists, who each gave her a crisp five-dollar bill. A Packard touring party was chased more than a hundred yards by one of the ladies before it could be brought to a stand still, and when the lady almost out of breath succeeded in telling them what a grand opportunity they had to contribute to so no ble a cause, and how much the bleeding country needed assist ance at this time, one of the men, whose heart had evidently been touched by her earnest appeal, reached forth and placed a nick el in the outstretched hand saying,- "This is for the family." A colored chauffeur, driving a car eastward, gave the ladies at the Ridge a dollar, and when thanked, said, "I'm glad for the opportunity; we're all likely to give a great deal more." That same man, gave the ladies on the mountain seventy-five cents, say ing that he had already given a dollar. These, of course, are ex ceptional cases. Most of the tourists treated the ladies cour teously and in most cases 'gave a dollor or two. About noon a camping party Germany Still Hesitating. No abatement can be detected in war-time activities, which grow more and more intense as the struggle progresses. At this writing the expected renewal of Germany's great drive has not materialized, says Henry Clews in his last Saturday's advices, presumably because of incom plete preparations. Meanwhile the strength and morale of the' Allies is steadily rising, largely owing to the rapid influx of American troops into France This movement is now progress ing at a rate of probably 10,000 per day, ,which is highly satis factory to American expectations and decidedly threatening to those of Germany. The longer the enemy's offensive is delayed the more complete will be its de feat. Time works more effect ively than ever against the Cen tral Powers, which find the paci fication of Russia increasingly difficult, the new supply of food and raw materials below expect ations, and dissensions in Austria constantly increasing. By con trast, the Allies are working to gether more harmoniously than at any period of the war; their strength is rising as American preparations approach their max imum, and each day strengthens confidence in ultinate German de feat. The one great hindrance to peace is Germany's blindress of the real Allied situation. Duped as they are by military leaders, whose all is at stake, there seems to be no way out ex cept fighting to the bitter end un til we have completely smashed the cruel autocracy which threat ens the freedom of the civilized world. It ia our detemination as a nation to deliver that final blow; and exert particle of strength that we possess should be spent for speeding the war and hastening the decisive mo ment. The News last week told of the appointment of Miss Rose Fisher to a position as stenog rapher in the War Department at Washington, D. C. While the position carried with it a salary of $1,100.00 a year, Miss Rose declined it preferring her, old positiou and her connection with the Red Cross Work, she being Executive Secretary of the Frank lin County Chapter. consisting of young men and women in a Ford with a New York license tag, stayed about an hour in McConnellsburg where they purchased needed supplies. They saw the Red Cross ladie3 "holding up" auto mobile parties and collecting con tributions, and they "caught on." Toward evening, tourists travel ing eastward informed our work ers that they had contributed to an automobile party traveling westward, and when they de scribed the party, our workers "caught on." These New York ers had begun to collect Red Cro3S Funds when they got away from McConnellsburg. Leslie W. Seylar, Merrill W. Nace and J. Campbell Patterson in Mr. Patterson's Oakland-Six, gave them chase, and apprehended them on top of Sideling Hill mountain. Of course, they were awfully sorry, and did not know that they had to have a commis sion before they dared to collect war funds, and gladly forked over $5.50 the sum they said they had succeeded in collecting, which sum was brought to Mc Connellsburg and turned into our local Red Cross treasury. The total amount credited to Fulton County in the Red Cross War Relief Fund to date is $2021.60.' A number of town ships that did good work, have not reported, and their figures will be givn later. It is esti mated that Fulton County will reach a total of at least, $3, 700.00. This sum compared with larger and wealthier coun ties, will carry Fulton "over the top.L' ' ' FARM LABOR. if Fulton County farmers Need Labor Help, Communicate with Julio B. Jackson The Committee of Public Safety for Pennsylvania has ap pointed the undersigned County Manager for Farm Labor in Ful ton County. The duties of the County Manager For Farm La bor will, in brief, be to learn the needs of our farmers for labor, and to apply such labor to them as is available. The first source of labor will be the labor that is available in the county. So far as this labor is concerned the farmers will, to a large ex tent, secure their own labor as they have always done. But fly Committee of Public Safety and the United States Department of Agriculture, and the United . States Department of Labor, are conducting a campaign through out the County in the interest of farm labor. Thru these depart ments men, and boys betveen the age3 of 1G and 21, are biing recruited for farm labor. Ar rangements have been made with many high schools and colleges whereby young men fitted ' for agriculture service are enrolled in the Boys Working Reserve and sent to State College for a two weeks' course in practical farm ing and then sent out on the farms. These boy3 are under dicipline and must perform the ' work on the farm in a satisfac tory way in order to obtain credit on their school course. The Boy3 Working Reserve and the County Manager For Farm Labor have direct supervision of boys placed on the farm, and see to it that the boy performs his duties as he y should and aho that the farmer treat3 the boy properly. It is the duty of the farmers at this time to grow everything possible in the food line, and if the farmer by taking on addi tional labor can increase his pro duction it is his patriotic duty to take such labor, as we now have two to feed where we had one before. While our farmers may not feel that they are in such great need of additional labor as would justify them in taking one of these high school boys between 1G and 21, for present needs, yet the farm ers should recognize in this sys tem a source of labor which they will surely be in very great need of before this war continues an other two years. It is a known fact by the best authorities that within another two years, if the war continues, there will be such a shottage of farm labor as to effect every farmer in this coun try; therefore, the farmer should commence to prepare to meet that shortage by helping to train the thousands of high school boys who are willing to under take farm work because they recognize it as a patriotic duty. . Next year when the need for la- ' bor is greater, we should have thousands of these young men with, at least, one season's ex perience on the farm. We will have them and the farmer will get the benefit of their service, if he will cooperate in helping to train these young men. Communicate with meeoncern- ing your farm labor needs that you are not able to supply in your local community. I am here to help you help your government win this war. John R. Jackson, County Manager for Farm La bor. Robbed Turkey Nests. We have been reliably inform ed that II. C. McGaughey, Gam3 Protector, of Lamaster, Franklin county, made information a few days ago before W. B. Ranck of Warfordsburg, against three per sons in Bethel township " for rob bing a wild turkey's nest. The parties accused will' likely find that the eggs that they were ac cused of taking will be very ex pensive ones. Fulton Democrat,
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