totting VOL. XIX. NO. 37. McCONNELLSBURG, PA., JUNE G, 1918. $1.50 A YEAR. WAR SAVINGS DAY. far Savings Meetings Will be Held la Fulton County un rnaay June 28;h. President Wilson has issued a 'reclamation, making June 28th, k'(;,nnl War Saving3 Day. In his proclamation President Wil son asks the people to attend a meeting at the nearest School Iou3e on the evening of June 'Sth, and to subscribe, during the 'emainder of 1918, War Sav-N-GS Stamps to the maturity alue of $150,000. So that this imount may be subscribed for ircong tne different parts of the county, a quota hos been assign ed for each district. The amount )( this quota will be stated at he opening of every meeting on une 2Sth, In order that we may raise the imount allotted to us it will be necessary for each district to subscribe. . This w ill not impose (i burden on U3 as it is our patriol e duty to invest our savings in War Savings Stamps. They 'pay 4 per cem. wiereia cuni- lounded quarterly. Let us show he balance of the United States hat Fulton County is in the front Sine trenches and will Go Over he Top with all patriotic citi zens. . 'Merrill W. Nace. war Savings Chairman for Ful ton County. Do Yen Want Ii? Does your community want the Farmer's Institute this year? bf course it does. , There was ii time when there was little in vest That was before farmers ,ad found out the value of these leetings. It has been customary or the Chairman to spend a day it McConnellsburg to receive ap- ilications. . That time is past. rhese are war times. If your :ommunity wants the Farmers' institute this year, ehoot a letter Sa to Frank Ranck, County Chair- pan, Hancock, Md., not later pan the middle of June, and fell him you would like to have Dt. It will help him to arrange Jthe itinerary. Do it now. C. D. Booker. Mrs. Wm. Heefner near Hi- jram, received word a few days ago that her brother Mr. C. D. Booker had died of epinal men ingitis at his. home in Bel grade, Mont, on the 22nd of May, pged about 5.4 years. Thp de ceased went west about 30 years ago, where he resided until the time of his death. He was a son of the late Mrs. Maria Doran of Taylor township who died about two months ago. Forest County "Drj" Forest county joined the dry counties of the State Monday when Judges Hinckley and asso ciates Carson and.Cook. handed jdown decisons in favor of the dry forces. Fonr applicants were re fused. ( License for liauors will there fore be knbckod out in the county July 1. Only two counties in north western Pennsylvania Erie and McKean-are in the wet class.' Lick Out ht It. The most interestinor astro nomical happening that has oc curred upon this continent for several years is the total eclipse of the Sun thuf: fnlrpq nlnpfi npvt Saturday, lasting from half past six until about quarter past eight me evening, as this part of the country is cnnwrnpd. There will not be another just "se it for five years. Ml Ps, A 1 - B T1.ll. -I township in his automobile .-louay Wi 'ast weeK, Drougm w town Mr. and Mrs. George W. way and their son George Mrs. Blanche PlpasinirPiv and Mr. V " vwwirf tand Mrs. Gray accompanied s ww son to town, and he lef ; th the other boya for Colum KO. on Friday. At Camp Lee. We left Fort Loudon at 3:13, arrived at Harrisburg at 6:17, left there at 10, and arrived at Camp Lee next day at 11. We were very tired but are in much better shape now. We shed' our first blocd when our train killed a horse at the Mercersburg junc tion. Wish it had been the whole German Army. There are eight of us Fulton County Boys together. So it seems like home. I saw Floyd Hart Thureday. Was surprised at seeing him so tuddenly. . Our officers say this is the best bunch that has come to Camp Lee. There are abc.ut 81,000 men here in Camp. There are hundreds leaving every day for the front. I have had one of my over-sea examinations and passed O. K. Believe the Huns will set up and take notice when we tret there! There are about 390 men in our Company. Our officers are all nice men. From all my friends who read this, I would appreciate a letter now and then. It is impossible for me to write individually to all. Myi address is: Private Levi II. Garland, 31 Co. 8 Tr. Battalion, 155 Depot Bri&ade, Camp Lee Va. Births in May. May 2nd. daughter to Rev. W. V. and Eva Marshall Grove, McConnellsburg. May 8th, son to Albert and Gertie Brubaker Cooper, Ayr township. May 11th, son to Thomas J. and Jessie Mellott Keefer, Ayr town ship. May 13th, son to Ed and Ida Rotz Lininger, McConnellsburg. May 21st, son to Maynard and Lily Houpt Crouse, Big Cove Tannery. May 21st, daughther to Elvie and Regina Decker De3hong. May 22nd, daughter to Elim and Minerva Walker, McConnells burg; May 23rd, son to George B. and Maggie Deshong Souders, Ayr township. May 23rd, daughter to Calvin and Bessie Cooper, Ayr township. May 30th, daughter to Roy and Elizabeth Nelson Kendall, Ayr townsMjp. Knitting. The Red Cross chapter has just received 240 pounds of yarn valu ed at $570.00. One half of this is, dark gray for socks, the other half ' is brown for sweaters, wristlets and helmets. This yarn has been divided as equally as the hanks permitted among the auxilliaries and Mc Connellsburg. The Red Cross room, near the Court House, will be open every Thursday and Friday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 at which time McConnellsburg people will have an opportunity to' call for the yarn they wish to. knit. We would like to have the yarn all knitted and returned by Oc tober 15. Knitting Committee Twentj-fivs Years. Dr. Nathan C. Shaeffer last Saturday completed twenty-five years service as State Superin tendent of Public Instruction, the longest service of any head of department in the history of the Pennsylvania State govern ment. The doctor is now dean of heads of departments at the State Capitol and he received many congratulatory messages. He was first commissioned by Robert E. Pattison. June 1, 1893, and has been reappointed by every governor since. The Dactor is a grand old man-old only in years, but young in heart and intellect ual vigor. Mrs N. f!. Trout, of Fairfield. Pa., spent several diys during the past week in the home of her mother-ia.law Mrs. M. B. Trout memorial Services in McConnellsburg. Of the many beautiful Memo rial Day services held in McCon nellsburg, perhaps never was one so impressive or interesting as that last Thursday. On account of the Great War, the air is charged with patriotic interest in everything pertaining to the great struggle now on for the preser vation and perpetuation of de mocracy. The committee in charge were wise in their choice of the speaker of the day, Rev. Dr. Rose, of Mercersburg, whose. only son is clad in khaki arid marching :th his comrades against the arch-enemy of liber ty and world-wide democracy. Dr. Rose was accompanied to Mc Connellsburg by the wlerceraburg Band, one of the finest musical organizations in the State, and, they added muh to the inspira tion of the occiiiiun by the excel lent music produced-and, it bhould be paid right here, that thoy did not come' to McCon nellsburg for hire. It was pure ly their desire to be able to "do their bit" in awakening the pub lic to greater effort in helping to win the war that they came with out any cost to McConnellsburg for their services and transporta tion. As a slight token of ap preciation, McConnellsburg en tertained the band at supper at Hotel IlarrU. Dr, Rose is a man of fine pres ence, a finished scholar, and a brilliant orator, and these quali ties combined with a burning zeal for the welfare of hig country, makes him a power for good as he goes about addressing large audiences in the interest of war activities. The formal exercises of the day were held in the Auditorium, and in addition to Dr. Rose's address, M. R. ShtfFner, Esq., delivered a splendid eulogy in honor of those connected with our local post who had passed away during the year, namely, Vet. John H. Truax, Vet. A. V. B. Souders, and President of the Soldiers Re lief Corps, Mrs. S. B. Woollett. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was delivered by Ruth, daughter of Hon. and Mrs. S. W. Kirk, and a poem written by William S. Clevenger, entitled "A Tribute to the Boys of '61 and 'IS," was delivered by his daughter Amy. The girl3 who did the reciting, "did splendidly" is what every one said; and when the audience realized that the author of the beautiful lines was none other than our own Billy Clevenger, the applause was as generous as it wa3 deserving. Formal Reception. The Federated congregations of the local Presbyterian and Re formed churches, assembled in the Refurmed church last Thurs day evening to extend formally the "glad hand." to Rev. Wm. J. Lowe and family-Mr. Lowe hav- ingbeen recently installed a spast- orof the joint congregations. In addition to the federated congre gations just named, Reg. J. L. Grove, formerly pastor of the U. P. churches in town and the Cove. Rev. C. F. Jacobs, of the Lutheran Church, and Rev. Wil son V. Grove, present pastor of the United Presbyterian church es, were present and joined in happy addresses of welcome to the new minister and his family. The meeting was in charge of Mr. C. Murray Ray, a member of the consistory of-the Reformed church, who proved himself equal to the occasion, and the fine music rendered by the choir add ed to the pleasure of the audi ence. Then last, but not least, was the serving of an abundance of Seylars Velvet Ice Cream and War Wafers great big ten-cent saucers and a second serving to those who wished it. After having spent two weeks very pleasantly with friends in Chambersburg, Mercersburg and McConnellsburg, ,Mr3. L. C. Bailey returned to her home in Saxton, Pa. last Saturday. HONOR ROLL. Names of New Subscribers and Others lha Have raid Subscription Dur ing the Mouth of May. Another Honor ' Roll reminds us that another Month has ROLLED by leaving us that much nearer the end of the year. No column in the News i3 scan ned mere closely and with more intereFt by more readers than the column containing the month ly honor roll. It is in the Honor Roll that you seem to have a moathly meeting with your old friends; and just as you are af forded pleasure by finding their names in the paper, they are just as much interested when thoy pee yours. When they see ycur name, Uieytake it for print ed that you are livi-ig, and if you are paid a year or two ahead, thoy know you are prosperous, and not a laggard in ycur busi ness habits. At no time in the history of tho world have news papers been nought with greater interest and read with greater av- iditv. It h the County Paper aftor all that is most indispens able; for it not only gives you a faithful chronicle of the home happenings that are weekly be coming local history, but it gives yon in a eondonsed form every thing in connection with the war that is vital, and at a much low er co3t. The combination of the News and the THRICE-A-WEEK WORLD at $2 15 .for a whole year is the greatest bargain we know anything about. With this combination you have afresh city paper every other day, and a first class weekly at a cost of little more than one-third what a regular city daily costs. But here's the Honor Roll. See if you can find your name! Aller, James A. 2-1-10 Aller, Nevin 2 2 21 Baker, Mrs. Calvin 5-23 19 Barnett. W. H. 7-21-19 Benson, James A. 7-16-19 Black. D. A. 14-19 Brakeall, M. M. 4-1-19 Clevenger, Mrs. Alice P. 1-1-19 Comerer, Henry A. 5 8-19 Corbin, Mrs. Mary E. 5-15-19 Cutchall, Jacob 4-25-19 Dotterman, Rev. A. 2-1-19 Eader, John P. 7-13-18 Everts, Harvey 5-25-19 Everts, Dennis 5-23-19 Feight, Mrs. Elsie 5 27-18 Fisher, D. H. 10-28-18 Fix, Howard 9-7-18 Foreman, James K. 5-1-20 Foster, Mrs. Thornton 5-20-19 Foutz, Mrs. J. F. . 5-8-18 Fraker, Hunter 7-15-18 Fraker, Mrs. Dyson F. 4-20-19 Funk, Mrs. J. II. 5-20-19 Garland, D. S. 1-9-19 Helinan, Harvey 4-18-19 Hershey, William 3-14-19 Hess, Samuel A. ' , 4-2-19 Hill, Oliver 1-2 19 Hollinshead, J. C. 11-11-19 Hot-ton, Mrs. Mary C. 2-17-18 Busier, Mrs. Thomas 9-1-18 Keith. Jesse M. 4-3-20 Kline, David M. - 4-1-19 Lake, Abner M. 5-15-18 Linn, J. W. ' 2-8-19 Linn, J. Calvin 5-9-19 Little, P. T. 5 15-19 Mann, U. S. G. 1-2-19 Marshall, Thomas 2-1-18 Martin, Mrs. Lydia 5-15-19 Martin, Miss Barbara 3-17-19 Martin, David W. 6-1219 Mellott, Mrs. William 4-10-19 Mellott, Miss Zoe 9-20-1S Miller, D. J. . . 7-1-19 Motter, John D. 4-27-19 Mumma. L. D'. 8-16-18 Munima, Mrs. Mack 5 20-19 Ott, William E. 4-1-19 Plessinger, Mrs. Blanche 3-18-19 Pittman, A. J. 4-1-18 Rinedollar, W. Scott 5 22-18 Rinedollar, J. W. 6-1-19 Ritchey, Mrs. Anna L. 5-1-20 Robinson, Bennett W. 1-1-16 Roudabush, U. W. 6-1-19 Rupp, A. E. ' ' 6-1-19 Schenck, Geo. H. 4 25-19 Secrist, John 5-16-19 Sharpe, Mrs. E. M. 4-1-19 Sipes, Allison 2-20-19 Sipe3, Geo. C. . 5-25-18 Spadss, Frank 4-11-19, NEW DRAFT CALL. 12,500 Fennsvlvanians Will Go to Three Cantonments During Month Of June. Harrisburg, Pa., Juno 1. State drsft headquarters today announced that Pennsylvania would te called upon to furnish 12,500 men for three camps dur ing the month of June, and that the quotas would be worked out within a few days. These men are all to Le white except COO, who are to be colored. The state ment issued today says: "Call No. CG2 for 9000, to be sent to Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va,, during the five-day period beginning June 24. "Call No. C73 for 3000 men, to be sent to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., during the five-day period be ginning June 21. "Only white men and men physically qualified for general military service are to be fur nished under these two calls. Practicable men completely and assiduously engaged in the plant ing ana cultivation ot crops should not be Entrained unless absolutely necessary in order to fill the allotment. "Call No. G51 for 500 .colored men. to be sent, to Camp Sher man, Chillicothe, O., during the five-day period beginning June 19. Only colored men and men physically qualified for general military service are to be fur nished under this call, and men engaged in farming should not be entrained unless absslutely necessary to fill the allotment." Calls for more than 1900 gram mar school graduates, to report for special instruction for train ing in various branches at the University of Pittsburgh, Lafay ette College, Carnegie Institute and Erie High School, were also issued today. These men must beinducted by June 7 and report June 15. These calls are i sep arate from those issued a few days ago for men with certain qualifications to be specially in ducted for the spruce production divison of the aircraft bureau by June 4. Feed Mills. It hag come to the attention of the County Food Administrator that there are a number of feed mills in the county being operat ed without a license from the Food Administration. Under the rules of the Food Administration it is unlawful to operate a feed mill and grind for the public without first taking out a license with the United States Food Ad ministration, Law Department License Division, Washington, D. C. The owner of a mill may grind his own grain'for his own use without taking out a license, but if he sells feed or grinds for other people he must have a li cense. ' All owners of feed mills in the county are hereby notified to im mediately comply with the above instructions. Unless the grind ing for the public is an important part of your business you should confine your grinding to your own grain and save yourself the necessity and trouble of taking out a license. John R. Jackson, Federal Food Administrator for Fulton County. Mr. and Mrs. John Lachman (Minnie Mock) of Pittsburg, motored to McConnellsburg last Thursday and spent a few days visiting relatives and other friends. Spade, Chester A. -5 919 Spencer, Asie 7-11-19 Thomas, John 3-1-19 Tritle, C. P. 5-9-19 Truax, Bert v 3-4-19 Truax, Miss Ella 6-15-19 Truax, Samuel 5-29-19 Truax, C. W. ' 9-1-18 Wagoner. Geo. W. 2-5-19 Wilds, Miss Alice 4-10-19 Wolford, Mrs. Amy 1-4-18 Wright, John 5-1-19 GERMAN GAS. Huns Are Using It All Orer This Coun try. Yea Don't Want to Help ' Them Along. The following article is written by Harvey O'Higgins, Associate Chairman, Committee on Public Information, and deals with the propoganda of the enemy in our country. Washington, June 2. Mr. Citizen, you are now on the fir ing line. ; Imperial Germany is not mere ly attacking on the western front. She is attacking in every com munity in the United States. Her assault is under the direc tion of the German general staff. It has been prepared as carefully as the strategy and tactics of a military drive. As in Russia and in Italy, so here also a campaign of German propaganda a gas attack of poisonous lies and ru mors and false reports has been launched successfully and is now under way. The collapse of Russia wa3 not a victory for German arms. It was a triumph of German propa ganda. And the defeat of the Italian armies was achieved only after German agents, working with rumors, slanders, counter feit newspapers, forged letters and all the other weapons of German treachery, had opened an impregnable Italian position to the successful assault of an in ferior German force. America is now the strongest enemy that Germany has. A weakening of our public morale is as necessary to German suc cess as the weakening of Russia was. And the attempt to weak en us has already developed two main lines of movement. The first aims to destroy our unity of action with our allies by setting us against the French, the British and the Japanese. The second proposes to destroy our domestic unity by encour aging among us " every sort of class dissension, religious, dif ference, racial prejudice and political quarrel. The officials of the Red Cross report that many loyal mothers are refusing to let their daugh ters volunteer as nurses in France because of rumors of immoral conditions in the hospitals there. A detailed story has been circu lated to the effect that 200 Red Cross nurses have recently been returned on a transport from abroad and secretly removed to maternity hospitals here as pa tients. - There is not a word of truth in the story. It has been investi gated by a federal grand jury in New York City and found to be false. German sympathi zers caught circulating it have been interned. The nurses in service in our hospitals in France have the same discipline and pro tection that they have here and need it as little. The story has been invented to hamper the work of the Red Cross and to pre judice us against our French al ios. A similar aim is evident in the reports of drunkenness and im morality among our forces at the front. These charges, most cir cumstantial' made, were even taken up by the national leaders of our prohibition societies and purity leagues, and an appeal was sent out to the readers of the religious press asking them to protest to President Wilson. The number of these protests showed the success of the slander. As a matter of fact, no liquor ration is served to our troops either here or abroad. By Gener al Pershing's orders, our soldiers in France are forbidden "either! to buy or to accept as gifts from 1 the inhabitants, " any "alcoholic; beverages other than light wine 1 or beer." Twins a boy and girl came to the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Cuff near Cito, on May 18th. Both are healthy babies. FIREARM LAW. Governor Brumbaugh Calls Upon Offi cers to See to It That Deadly Weapoiis Be Not Carried. Governor Brumbaugh calls up on all mayors, burgesses, police, officers and all others charged , . with the public safety of the people to aid in the enforcement of the laws relating to the use and possession of firearms and other deadly weapons. The gov ernor asks that pains be taken to acquaint the people of the state with the provisions of the various statues that apply in tho aase. In summarizing the stat utes now in force, he says: "The act of March IS,' 1S73, prohibits the carrying of any deadly weapon concealed. x "The act -of May 8, 1909, aa N amended by the act of July 11, 1917, makes it unlawful for any unnaturalized foreign born resi dent within the commonwealth to either own, or be possessed cf a shotgun or rifle of any make; or a pistol or firearm of any kind. "The act of June 6, 1913, pro hibits the discharge of a shot- . gun or rifle' or firearm of any description upon grounds of a hospital, park or any such pub-. lie resort. "The act of July 11, 1916,' pro hibits the use of a gun, cannon, revolver or other explosive de vices at any wedding serenade ' in this commonwealth. "With those comprehensive measures provided by the legis lature, it remains but for the constituted authorities in the various parts of the common wealth to enforce their provisions in-order to insure the continu ance bf the peace and safety of the people, 'and this they are called upon to do." The Army. The American Red Cross has been asked by the Army Medical Department to secure 25,000 nurses for the Army Nurse Corps by January 1,1918. These nurses are needed for service in army hospitals both in this country and abroad. Next to the enlistment of sol- . diers and sailors there is not a greater patriotic duty than an adequate enrollment of nurses. This is the only group of women recognized as part of the military establishment. Uponthem de volves to a great degree the health, morale and lives of the men fighting for America. A privilege unsurpassed in the his tory of the world awaits the nurses of this country. While thousands of nurses are needed by the Army Medical De partment, the number is relative ly small compared with the num ber of women who must stand back of them and make possible the service for which they are so greatly needed at this time. No more urgent need exists today and no factor can be more impor tant in the winning of this war than adepuate care of our sick and wounded. Furses who res pond will have the infinite satis faction of knowing that they are lessening the sufferings of the men "of our own county; those bound by ties of blood, friendship and national brotherhood. Nurses of America your coun try calls you!, (Signed) W. C. Gorgas, Surgeon-General U. S. A.. Lightning's Pranks. Last Thursday aftrnoon during the electrical storm in McCon nellsburg, a house on West Wal nut Street, owned by T. J. Com erer and occupied by Harry Hull and family was struck by light ning. The bolt hit the chimney, ran down and scattered soot out of all the stove pipe holes covering the beds with soot, and then took the 'spouting and ran down within a few feet of the' ground when it tore the end of the pipe off and disappeared into the ground. Stbacribe for tne Mxws.
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