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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,