VOL- XIX. NO. 37.
McC'ONNELLSBURG, PA., AUGUST 15, 1918
$1.50 A YE All.
RECORD OF DEATHS.
IShtft 3stch of the Lives of Per
sons rtlio Have Recently
Passed Away.
Julia A. Bates.
After a loner and useful life,
K Julia A. Bates paased away
Lthe home of her daughter,
jrs, William Xciieekin, uaiva,
in m Sunday morning July 28,
l'jlS at the advanced age of 98
years.
The deceased was a daughter
nf the late Ceneral John and
Mary Barton Sipes, and she was
born on the farm now owned by
Richard Schooloy, a mile east of
Harrisonville on the Lincoln
Highway. Her husband was a
brother of the late Henry Betz of
Harrisonville. Mrs. Samuel
Bender of McConnellsburg and
Mrs. Oliver Sipes of Licking
Creek township, and the late
ife of Judge J. Wesley Hoop,
are cousins.
For a period of eighty-six
year3 Mrs. Bates was a member
of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and one of those grand
old-faahioned Christians whose
life was always consistent with
her profession. .
She was the mother, of eight
children, four of whom are liv
ing namely, Mrs. Jane Willis, of
Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs. J. M.
Wyck, Galesburg. 111.; W. H.
Bate?, of Cody, Wyo. ; and Mrs.
Clara McMeekin, Galva, 111.
Harrison Mellott.
At 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon,
August 4, 1918 at the home of
Daniel Sheets in Chambersburg,
the Rev. J. Howard Ake united
in marriage Miss Samantha B.
Mellott. daughter of Hon. and
Mrs. George B. Mellott of Mc
Connellsburg and Harold F. Har
rison of Kansas City.
Mr. Harrison 13 a draftsman
and was employed by the Wolf
Company in its effices in Kansas
City and also in the offices in
Chambersburg. He enlisted last
June and went to the Great
Lakes training camp, 111. He
left Sunday night for Camp Sims
nd expects to sail for France in
the near future.
Mrs. Harrison is a very charm
ing woman and i3 employed in
the Cumberland Valley railroad
office where she will remain for
tne present.
The bride's parents, Hon. and
Mrs. Geo. B. Mellott of McCon
nellsburg, and her brother-in-
v and sister. Mr. and Mrs. E.
C.Van Hart, of Lambertville, N.
1; were present at the wedding.
Letter Frctn France.
The following extracts are
taken from a' letter written on
the Uth of July by Sergeant
John A. Hann, Co. H. 320th Inf.,
Am. Ex. Forces, France, to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Hann of this place. Before go
ing to France, John had spent
three years in the U. S. army,
and had seen service on the
border. In this letter John says
he is getting along fine-in the
very best of health. Am at pros
ent attending a school learning
the different infantry tactic?.
Uohn had been in the artillery
service, during his first enlist
ment. We have a very nice
Place with lots of conveniences
Am only sorry it will not last
longer. At the end of two weeks
1 will have to go back to my
company and get down to real
work. I haven't the least idea
where the company is. You per
haps wonder why I do not write
more frequently, but if you knew
, what little opportunity we have
l0P writing and how much work
t makes the ccrisors, you would
lot wonder letters did not come
more frequently. I suppose you
Would like to know when the
war would come to an end. So
would I. Ma one knows that It
N the duty of every one to keep
r'Kht on the job. If there were
no slackers, the end would be
"irer. Don't worry about me
anniofimiJ
and ftfivha annn WvifA onH foil
nil -J fcVf DVUUi MUM XVii
my friends to write.
Notice To Retail Merchants.
The following telegram has
been received from Howard
Heinz, Federal Food Administra
tor for Pennsylvania:
"In order to secure an equita
ble distribution of sugar in this
time of shortage it has been
found necessary to permit a gro
cer or retail merchant to install a
purchaser's registration system.
By this system it will be possible
for the merchant to keep track
of his customers and nee that
they get the amount of sugar due
them under the voluntary ration
system of one-half pound of su
gar per person per week. There
fore in order to be sure that this
is uniform everywhere in the
state of Pennsylvania, the follow
ing notice is hereby given, all
retailers not forwarding weekly
customers sugar sales reports to
the County Food Administrator
will have their claims for addi
tional sugar disregarded. These
sales records should contain the
name the address, number in
family, amount of sugar on hand,
and date. Forms may be se
cured from the County Food Ad
ministrator. Retailers wiil re
quire customers to sign the regis
tration blank except in the case
of telephone orders and children
when the merchant will register
for the purchaser. This order is
effective immediately.
' Howard Heinz."
It is apparent from the above
telegram that all merchants sell
ing sugar at retail vill have to
keep a record in the form men
tioned and send to the County
Administrator a copy of that rec
ord at the close of business each
week. The forms will have to be
secured through the printers of
the county, or the merchant can
furnish his own forma so long as
it contains the required informa
tion. The reports must be sent
in regularly each week
John R. Jackson,
County Food Administrator.
Soldier's Letter.
J. E. Grissinger, writing from
Camp Hill, Va., to his father, J.
L. Grissinger at New Grenada,
under date of June 23th, says,
I just, received the box of good
things. I have made my dinner
entirely of it. Everything tasted
great, and I certainly have en
joyed it too. I can't express my
feeling, of thanks. It's to great.
I am well and hope you are the
same. I guess 1 will not ce able
to write you again for a little
while; so don't worry about me,
for God is with me wherever I
go, and where he is, I am safe
always.
I am glad and anxious to go
across, for I am tired of this
place. I haven't heard from you
for a good while. I have not
time to write more this time.
Beef Conservation. Restriction Released.
We are advised by the State
Federal Food Administrator that
the restrictions of serving beef
a"; public eating places only one
meal per day, and the present
voluntary program for house
holders of one and one quarter
pounds of clear or one and one
half pounds of beef including the
bone, should be discontinued.
It is however highly desirable
that the American public consume
medium and lighter grades of
cattle, thus conserving the heav
ier grades of cattle for our own
armed forces and those of our
Allies.
John R. Jackson,
County Food Administrator.
Apple Butter Without Sugar.
Following is a recipe for mak
ing apple butter without sugar
which has been successfully used
by the department of Home
Economics of State College.
"Take half as much white corn
syrup as thick apple pulp, add one
teaspoon cinnamon to each quart
of the mixture and make other
wise exactly as the apple butter
is made with sugar,"
DESTROYED EY LIGHTNING.
Ezras and Oikr Miv& F:ftroycd
By Liguirju;; hiur." the Electrical
Storms Last Week.
On Wednosdy afternoon, of
hat week, the big bank barn of
Aron M. Garland on Pleasant
Ridfce in Belfast township, wa
struck by lightning and in 15
minutes from the time it vas
struck, the whole building seem
ed to be enveloped in fhnu'H. All
his pumper's crop of wheat,
rye and oats were destroyed, to
gether with three wagon?, two
corticribs, wagon shed, hog pen.
chicken house The !o"s,
which is probably not short of
$2 000.00 ia net covered by any
insurance.
On Thursday afternoon of hut
week lightning p'ruck George
V. Humbert's k'.rn in Ayr town
ship and tha buildi:.g3 r.r.ds con
tents were totally dtstoyed.
The entire summer's crops, con
sisting of al-out 800 bushels of
wheat, all his oats and other
train.' beridcj farm machinery.
h irnes;; etc. Tho less is estimat
ed at thive th.H:s'Aid dollars with
an insurai'ce of about ?(i00 on
t. rn and cortnK It in re
p.'irtfd that ' Mr. Humbert, who
was n?ar the barn at the time it
v,n9 struck, rect iv d some o? the
eleclric current and w:3 Rtunnod.
On the tame evening that Mr.
Giriand's br.r'n was burnt, light
ning struck the etore building at
W. L. Berksteeaser's near Lai
dig, setting it afire, and caus
ing tha destruction of the build
ing, which was 43 x20 x 1(3, with
all it3 contents, consisting of a
stock of merchandise, Harvey's
automobile, camera outfit, cloth
ing, and W. L. 's trunk and
clothing, together with their
sleigh. c':-rnp!anter, tools etc.
The fact that part of the build
ing was used as a kind of store
house fcr the farm, added to the
general lea-3.
Was ct Camp Humphreys.
Mr. George Ileitzler was a
pleasant callow at the News of
fice. Tuesday morning. Mr.IIertz
ler came from hi3 home in Hast
ing, Nebr., in May, and has been
spending much of hi.- time among
Ids old time friends arid relatives
up about Burnt Cabins, lie spent
ten days recently in Washington,
arid down at Camp Humphreys
where his brother Blaine is work
ing at carpenter work. Mr.
ileitzler say3, fie cantonment of
Camp Humphreys ia built right
in a beautiful forest about three
mi!e3 in length by about a mile
in width and overlooks a beauti
ful lake. All tl.o email timber is
removed and thi large trees left
for shade. About two thousand
carpenters are employed in the
construction of the buildings nec
essary to the housing of the sol
diers in training. Any kind of
an old carpenter gets eight dol
lars a day and double pay on
Sunday. Camp Humphreys is
about nine miles south of Alex
andria, Va.
Churches Unite.
At leant a temporary union of
churches in eighteen Connecticut
towns has been accomplished
within a year owing to circum
stances resulting from the war,
reports a committee of the Con
necticut federation of churches.
Denominations in the movenifti.it
were Baptist, Methodist, Con
gregational, Free Baptist Luth
eran and Independent Methodist.
Thirty-seven organizations now
are combining services iri eigh
teen buildings. In one town
Baptists and Free Baptists
united under a Methodist min
ister. Each church organization
has retained its own officers and
adheres to its own denomination
al beliefs. In most cases the
union is considered a temporary
expedient for the period of the
war. It is pointed out that the
federation of churches is rot
irrevoiable.
Subscribe tor the Wjcws,
REV. EDVARD K MELLOTT.
Cinnscls Perseverance and Patience ia
Cur Attitude Toward the lai
of the (ireat War.
"I notice by tha label on my
paper that I owe you. Well I
should be thankful that it is
only two dolhrs--since these are
war times. We are having ex
tremely warm weather in New
York state at ' present. When
the mercury climbs around 10G in
the shade, even a dominie per
sists in perspiring quite freely.
Season so far is a very favorable
one. Rain, though not in an
abundance, keeps crops growing.
Corn very promising. Wheat
yielding well; oata a bumper
crop; fruit not so plentiful, and
slightly damaged by hail in some
sections. Eggs are selling for
HOC dozen, and butter so high
that it spreads itself all over the
plate in vain show. Hens are
bringing 35c lb. The farmers
have the advantage of excellent
markets for everything they
have to sell. Labor for farms or
factories is at a premium. The
draft is gathering up the boys
quite close, and woo be unto
"Kaiser Bill" when they all get
"over there." While we all
work, hope, and pray for an
early peace with victory, yet
there are so many things which
enter into the proposition that
make it necessary for ua to exer
cise an abundance of patience
and perseverance, with an in
domitable faith in the eternal
purpose which must and i.hc.11
compel even the wrath of man
to glorify our God, and further
the work and cause of Christ in
the world.
"In his poem, "Preparing The
Soul For God," Edward Everett
Hale climbs the Himalayan
steeps of faith, and seated upon
a throne of Supreme God Con
sciousness which shall never fail
him, he reviews the hoary ages
of the pas't as like an endlessreel
age afrer age passes before his
vision; each a mysterious chapter
of a book of deep purpose and
infinite design, f;nd lo a voice!
Revelation answers to inspiration;
eternity shouts back the enigma
of time and the empyrean heights
stoop to unfold the mystery and
declare the secret to the yearn
ing soul. Hear him:
Tito plowing of tlio Lord U deep,
Or. ocean or en land;
IIU furrows erosH tlio Mt. steep,
They cross tl.o son washed sand.
Wise men mid prophets know not how,
Hut work their mastcr'a will;
The kuijrs and nations drujf the plow,
ills purposes to fnllill. N
Tin y work his will because they must.
On hillside- or ou plniu;
Tlui clods urn broken luto dust,
And ready for the. tira.ii).
Then comes the planllnp of the Lord,
His kingdom eouieth now,
Tho oee:ins deepest depths nre stirred,
And all their secrets show.
Whore piophcts trod Hfs deserts broad.
Where monarch drufied the plow;
Behold the seod-timo of His word,
The sower comes to sow.
And when the nations return
to God whom they have so large
ly forsaken,' and when they be
come as eager for the truth, as
they are for gold today, then we
shall have the peace worthy of a
people who call themselves
Christian. This has been the
busiest season of my life. Work
is progre?ring along all lines.
The News is an indispensable
caller, tho somewhat late in ar
riving. Hastily.
Rf.v. E. F. Mellott.
Letters from 'Oyer There.
More than 0,000,000 letters
from Americnn soldiers in France
have been received at Atlantic
piirts since July 29, and the post
office department announced that
every one of them was started
for its destination within 24 hours
after its arrival. One ship
brought 2.S23.000 letters and an
other 300,000 on August 2, and a
Blip arriving August 5 brought
2,031,000.
FULTON'S 11RST SUPREME SACRIFICE
Corporal John C. Eishnp Killed in Ac
tiuo hi France on Sunday, July
Tweaty-first.
Corporal John Calvin Bishop of
Company C, 112th Infantry, was
killed in battle on the western
front in France on Sunday, July
21, 1918, as stated in a telegram
to his wife at her home in Cham
bersburg on Friday of lat week.
Corporal Bishop was a son of
William and Mary Harris Bishop
of Ayr township, and he was
born September 21, 1890; hence,
at his death, he wes aged 27
years and 10 months. Two year3
ago, last June, he enlisted in the
r..i.: in .. - j n i
iNauoiiui uuitruj ui i finis ivuiiiu,
and when the trouble between
the United States and Mexico
broke out, hi3 regiment was sent
to the Border where, he served a
year. Last September his regi
ment was sent to Camp Hancock,
Ga., where they remained until
May of this year, when they were
sent to Franco. Being seasoned
soldiers, they wereator.ee placed
on the battle front, and gave
great account of themselves as
fighters.
During his service on the Bord
er, he returned home on a fur
lough und was married to Miss
Mary Margaret Sensheimer of
Chambersburg, who survives him
as does one son, John William
Bishop, aged 3 months, born since
his father went to France.
Besides his parents, Corporal
Bishop is survived by the follow
ing brothers and sisters: Lillie,
wife of Clarence Cooper, near
McConnellsburg; Luther W.,
Company B, 20th M. G. Battal
ion, now on his way to France;
Lulu, wife of Walter Peck, near
Webster Mills; Lucy, Virgil and
Olive, at home.
John was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and
an exemplary young man. He
had a wide circle of friends, both
here and in Chambersburg,
where he wa3 employed in the
baggage department at the Cum
berland Valley railroad station,
before going into active Military
Service.
Camp Fire Gills' Oatifff
The local organization of Camp
Fire Girls is spending its annual
outing at Tuscarora Heights
this week and, of course, the
girls are having "the time of
their lives." They are in charge
of Mrs. C. B. Stevenn, assisted
by Mrs. Virginia Beidleman, of
Harrisburg, The name3 of the
girls in the party are: Helen
and Marion Bender, Winnie and
Nettie Mellott, Ted and Bess
Harris, Blanche Peck, Marian
Hessler. Mildred Hull, Helen
Daniels, Helen Nace, Mary Logan
Nace, and Thelma Glazier.
Seven years ago' the idea was
conceived that an organization
nhould be formed that vould do
for the girls of the world what
Boy Scout organization has done
for the boys, and the scheme had
the sanction and financial back
ing of such person3 as Andy
Carnegie, Miss Elizabeth Dodge,
John D. Rockefeller, Mrs. Kus
sell Sage and, to-day ex-President
Taft is one of its most interested
vice presidents. Its principal,
object is, to teach girls self
reliance, to teach them to be use
ful, to bo unselfish, to be indus-'.
trious, to be real helpers in their
homes and in the community, '
and to be areal comp-fire girls and
not camphor girl3.
Five Sons in Service.
Mr. and Mr?, Dorsey Holmes,
of Liberty township, Bedford
county, have the honor of having
five sons, who are in the United
States Military Service, and do-;
ing their bit to aid in the over-'
throwing of a despot and making j
the world ,eafe for v democracy. 1
The boys are Chester Holmes,'
William Clarence Holmes. Ray
mond Albert Holmes, Levi
Holmes and George W, Holmes.
Soldier's Letter.
Harry D. Fix, Co. C, 107th Inf.,
Am. Ex. Forces, France, writes
to his sister, Miss Lottie Fix,
under date of June 2Gth, as fol
lows: "As 1 have just been pent
back again from the front for a
little rest, 1 will try to answer
vour welcome letters received a
few days ago. We cannot write
every time we would wish tc;
we have to write just when we
have the chance. Lottie don't
worry about me; I am feeling
fine. Through the mercy of God
and the prayers of mother, my life
has been spared, and I am ready
to go back into the fray again,
for I am anxious to do more of
the kind we have been doing to
the Huns. I tell you thst I have
been having some real experience
fighting the Huns. It's the real
thing, and no sham battle busi
ness. They are finding out whst
the Sammic3 can do. I wish 1
could tell you some of the expe
riences we pass through, but
must be content to wait until I
get home for that.
The Huns tried twice to give
U3 a dose of gas, but we were
too quick for them we were
under a good offiser, and got in
to our masks in good time. I do
not see why I do not get more
!etter3 from home. I have re
ceived but four 3inco I came to
France.
Sister, this ia some war! The
good luck is all coming our way
now. We are doing good work
and have been. . Lottie, it seems
to me there id something wrong
at home. If there is, do not fear
to write me, for I want to know
the worst as well as the best that
is going on at home. You know
that I said in one of my late
letters that something seemed to
tell me that there was something
serious had happened at home.
Now, if my presentiments are
correct, please write and tell me
the worst; for if, when I get
home I should find a vacant
chair, I should feel that you. had
not treated me just right. Poor
boy! his presentiments have
been correct; for his father
Grant Fix died a few weeks ago,
and the family did not feel that
they1 could break the newsto
Harry. -Editor. Tell father I
will write him soon; I suppose he
is done with his harvesting by
this time.
Norman Reeder is writing
home. Norman and I are togeth
er all the time just like broth
ers work together eat togeth
er, and sleep together. We have
been lucky so far to escape the
Hun bullets, and if one of ua
were to fall, it would go hard
with the other, t
We notice some difference in
the length of the days and nights
as compared with those in Fulton
County. Here it gets dark about
10:30 and daylight about 3:30.
Then, on account of the differ
ence in longitude, there is five
hours difference in the time;
that is, when it ia 12 o'clock
noon here, and' we are eating our
dinners, it is only 7 o'clock in
the morning in McConnellsburg
just about the time some of the,
bleepyheads in that town get up.
It will soon be a year the 2Gth
of September since I left Mc
Connellsburg to go to work for
Uncle Sam. I tell you I am glad
I started' then. I would not
want to be back there when
Uncle Sam needs all of the boys
my age. I had a letter from
Belle a few days ago giving me
the names of some of the slack
ers back in my old home county.
I wonder how the slacker boys
would like to wear a big tin S on
the lapel of their coats.
Call For 100,000 Men.
A call for 100,000 white se
lective service men to join the
colors for general military ser
vice was issued last Friday by
Provost Marshall General Crow
der. They will entrain during
the period from August 29 to 30.
Forty-three states were asked
to furnish quotas under this call,
which is the largest issued dur
ing August.
ORPHANS' HOSE LAND.
The Concert Given' Last Saturday: Aft
ernoon and Evening Greatly Ap
prcisted by Large Crowd.
A3 was announced in theNEW3
last week, the thirty-nine boys
from the Tressler Orphans' Homo
at Loysville, arrived here last '
Saturday afternoon and found a
large crowd of people waiting to
see the boys and hear the mufii ' v
They enme in from Bedford, ard
werj a little late, but within ten
minutes after their arrival, the
concert was "on," thus showing
how thoroughly they were drilled
for the work.
Tho ages of the boys run from
ten to sixteen years. Sinee their ,
virit to this town last October,
fourteen of the boys in the hand
at that time, htve graduated from
the school, and seventeen others
have been trained to take their
places, which proves the u-iusuai
efficiency of their leader, Prof.
Stou fTe, a former Band Master
at the Carlisle Indian School, and
the wonderful possibilities wrap
ped up in the average boy.
The music rendered vas of a
very high order much beyond
that to be expected from boys of
that age.
This Band, traveling aiJ it does
during the summer season aa far
west aa Pittsburgh, as far cat
a3 Philadelphia and Camden,
with side trips into Maryland and
Virginia, has earned a state-wida
reputation; and it has proved to
he a wonderfnl inspiration to tho
people of the Lutheran Church of
Pennsylvania in caring for tho
orphans. An interest is being
aroused whhh is making the
work caiy as compared with
what it vai six or seven year3 . .
ago.
The people of McConnellsburg
have a special interest in the
school on account of the fact of
having two boys Robert and
Donald Downed in that institu
tion, and they expressed their
appreciation of their service by
giving an offering that amounted
to almost eighty dollars for the
Home.
The music rendered Saturday
afternoon and evening and es
pecially that in connection with
the services in the Lutheran .
church Sunday morning will long
bn. remembered by the pe,op!e of
McConnelltsbhrg and vicinity.
The boys may alvvays be sure
of a royal welcome when they
visit McConnellsburg. N
The Fif;h Year of the War.
Four years ago Austria de
clared war on Serbia. That was
the beginning of the great war.
That war was brought about
by diplomatists. It was not a
rising of one nation against an
other, at the start, but a game
of bluff and threat between
chancellories. The ultimatum
served upon Serbia by Austria
was indefensible, one of the most
peremptory and contemptuous in
history.
The statesmen and politicians
who brought on the war know
better now, If they could live
over these four years, there would
be no, war. The ultimatum ,to-
Serbia would be different, the
action and behavior of Germany
would be different, the states
men who were trying in July,
1914, to avert war would have
had better backing and would
have appealed to more willing
hearers. If the war began in
maneuvers of the diplomatists.
it has grown into something else.
It has developed into a war of
principles. We are not fighting,
any more, over the demands
made by an Austrian cabinet
upon Serbia. We are fighting to
end the conditions which made
thi3 world war possibte. We are
fighting for the welfare of tho
common man, who is but a pawn
in the view of old-style diploma
tists and of militarists, b it who
has become, in the last four year?,
a bigger figure in the world thai
he ever was before. Buffalo
Express,