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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-10
Birthday Party.

A very enjoyable birthday party
was held at the home Of Amos Rubeck
in Maryland last Friday evening TO
celebrate the oath anniversary OF his
birth. Those present on the occasion
we're Mr. and Mrs. David Host, and
children, Jennie, Edna, Rachel, Wal
ter, and Clara; Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Rubeck and two children, Bruce and
Nathan; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mellott
and children, Ralph, Boyd, Amos and
Mary; Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Haw-
becker and two children, Helen and
Preston; Mrs Rubeck, Earl, Fred,
Stella, and Ross Rubeck; Mrs. Ethel
Mock and little son Lester; Cora and
Edie and John Hawbaker; Miss
Blanche Slayman, Lewis Forsythe
Carl AUSTIN, Clifford Householder
Norbert Myers, John Robinson, Jol
Long, Edward Cunningham, Roy
Bair, and Amos Rubeck.
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TERMS OF. COURT.

The first term Of the Courts Of Full
ton county in the year shall commence
on the Tuesday following the second
Monday of January, , at 10 O'Clock a. m.
The second term commences on the
third Monday Of March, at 2 O'Clock
p. m, 0.
The third term on the Tuesday next
following the second Monday OF June,
at 10 O'Clock q. m. M
The fourth term on the first Monday
October, at 2 O'Clock p. m.
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SOCIETIES

Odd dFeIlows-M' Connellsburg Lodge
No. 744 meets every Friday evening In
the Cleyepger's Hall In McConnells-
burg.
Fort Littleton Lodge No. 484 meets
every Saturday evening In the New Hall
at Fort Littleton.
Wells Valley Lodge No. GOT meets
every Saturday evening In Odd Fell
lows Hall at Wells Tannery.
Harrisonville Lodge No, ITO meets
every Saturday evening In Odd Eel
lows' Hall at Harrisonville.
Waterfall Lodge No. 773 meets cv-
cry Saturday evening In Odd Fellows
Hall at New Grenada. w -
Warfordsburg odge No. e601 meets
in Warfordsburg every Saturday
evening.
King Post G. A. p. No. 1856 meets In
McConnellsburg In Clevenger's Hall
the first Saturday In every month at 2
p. m.
Washington Camp, No. 450, p. o.
Saturday evening at their hall at Need
more. Ae
Tuscarora Council, Royal Arcanum
meets every urbt unu t11ru MOuuby
evening In Clevenger's Hall, McCon-
nellsburg.
Washington Camp No. 4s7, p. o. s..
| A., of New Grenada, meets every Sat-
urday evening in P. o. 8. of Al. Hall.
Washington Camp, No. 5b4, p. O.S.
of A., Hustontown, meets every Satur-
urday evening In p. o. s. OLA. Hall.
John Q. Taylor Post G.. A. r., No.
$50, meets every Saturday, on or just
preceding full moon in Lashley hall
at 2 p.'m., at Buck Valley.
Woman's Relief Corps, No. 50
meets at same date and place at pm.
Gen. d. B. McKibbin Post dNo. 40l
G.. A. S., meets the second an fourth
Saturdays in each month Mt Pleasant
Ridge.
Clear Ridge Council, No. 940, Jr. o.
u. A. M, meets In their Hall at Clear
Ridge every Saturday evening.
The Aspasia Rebekah Lodge. 1. O.
o. F., of Harrisonville, meets the Isl
and Sd Wednesday of each month, IL
the /. o. o. r. Hall at Harrisonvllie
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Be Up to Date or Fall.

A physician tells me that he
goes through his medical library
every year and throWs out lot
of books which have become use
less to him because the new, up
to.date, the more progressive,
are pushing out the old.
We all know that some Of the
scientific books published are
useless a year after they appear
in print. There never was a
time in the history of the world
when the new IN every line ol
endeavor crowded out the old az
it does to day.
If you examine your business
thoroughly you will probably fine
old-fogy methods, obsolete ideas
and cumbersome ways of dong
things; a lot OF red tape In you
methods.
Remem Der that nothing else Il
improving faster than busines
methods. II you are keeping
books as they we're kept a quar-
ter Of a century ago, II you ar
using the same business system
you will Hnd that you are way b'
hind the times. From Su,ces
Magazine.
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President Judee-Hon. S Nc swopc.
Associate Judgcs--D. 7. Hun1bert, H. H.
Markley. -
Prothonotary. &c.-George A. Harris.
District Attorney Drank p. Lynch.
Trehsurer--C Charles y. stevens.
SheriY-Jen Harris
Deputy Sherif-A. ID. Hohnan: -
Jury Commissioners-David Rotz a. u
Auditors H. Myers. Aaron NJ. Garland.
'" "commissioners- 1ra G. Gracey, wilam G..
Davis = A. Nesbit.
Clefk-B. Frank Henry.
County observation-disclosures @. Lamberson.
Attorneys-W Scott Alexander, ]. Nelson
Sipes, Thomas II. 5 oan. Il. Mon: Johnston "a.
r. Shaffner JohnP. Sipes >. w. Kirk n. +.
Lynch H. N. Sipes, l.. ii. While.
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Western MARYLAND Railroad Company,
In Effect june 30. 1908.

In ERECT June 1Os ISOo'
Trains leave Hancock as follows;
No. $50 q. m. daily for Hagerstown, Bal
timore, Naynesboro, Chambersburg'
and intermediate.
No. 40 90 q. m iweek days. Baltimore, Get
tysburg, York and intermediate.
No. 2-255 D. m. (week days. Baltimore and in-
termediate stations. Vestibule train
with observation buffet car.
No. Is So a. m. (week days. Cumberland, and
intermediate.
No. 3-iOo p m. (week days. Little Orleans,
Old Town, Cumberland, Elkins ano
west. Vestbule train with observation
buffet car.
No. $40 D. m daily leaves Baltimore 421
D. m HaRerstown 7.40 p. m.
An trains make connection at Brucevile fol
Frederick and trains and for points nortf
and at Baltimore CUniou Station) for Phila
delphia and New York.
F.M HOWELL, O. w. MYERS
Gen. Pa 3. Agt Agent.
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Farming Possibilities In Alaska.

There Is enough OF llcn placer
and latent quartz mining in Alas
ka to employ 100000 mirers for
the next quarter of a century.
There is enough coal, copper, and
other minerals to employ anoth'
er 10000. But purely mining
population does not build country
homes, macadamized highways,
and beautiful cities. Alaska
must look to it's seed growing SOIL
for these things. 1t must look
to the fertility of its plains to help
support it's fast steaming rail-
ways and to found high clvillza-
ton for It's hardy pioneers. What
ground is there for the prophesy
that this cold northern empire
has in CESSATION three or four
great States like Iowa, Mime
sofa, and Michigan 1t has three
magnificent valleys, much OF
which is covered with lumber
bearing forests of spruce, birch,
poplar and cottonwood. All OF
It's great interior has a splendid
summer of continuous daylight.
Nearly all kinds of temperature
zone vegetables flourish there.
From actual figures the value OF
the product from truck farms
around the city of Fairbanks last
year was $4,000. Next year
will show big increase, as many
more persons are going into the
business. Wheat, oats, and bar
ley have matured at Rampant, moi
far from the Arctic Circle. From
thus point in the far north, dowr
through all the valleys to the
southern coast, where the climate
is tempered by the Japan cur
rent, many of the field and gard
en- crops of the Northern States
will grow with profit.
The United States Government
has distributed large quantite
of farm and garden seed to set
tiers in these valleys with excel
lent results. At Copper Centr
Is Government agricultural sta
ton, where wheat, oats, and bal
ley. and nearly all the garde
vegetables, grow to wonderft
perfection. have seen vas
areas of blue grass equal in qua
lty and as luxuriant as that
Kentucky. Central Alaska mus
attract the stockgrower and farI
er as soon as the railroad gel
there. The next great home
stead rush on this continent W
pe to It's plains and valleys. On'
IL is opened to the sea 1t will gro
faster than Northwestern Can
da, for here Is room for 5000
prosperous farms and homes u
der the American flag. Fro
"Alaska's Railroad Develol
ment." by Frederick H. Chas
IN the Amerlcsn Review of 4
views for Decem Der.
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BOROUGH OFFICERS.


Justice OF the Peace--L. II. While.
Con tab e-Charles steak, o.
Burgess--Dr. n. y. Wishart,
Couucilmen--D. l.. Grissinger John A. Irwin,
Harry Hammi A. u Mace, George W. Reis-
ner b. Il. Little Albert Stoner. -
Clerk-L. II. While. .
School Drectors-John Comerer. Charles y.
stevens, s B wooliet. L. H. While, M. W.
Mace. Il. +. sloan, .i-s
John y Harris, sec'y; George W. Hays. W. l.,
McIkibbln, NJ. d.; John W. Mosser, N. ID.
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PAINFUL ACCIDENT.
Lulu carbaugh's Finger Pierced with
Sewing Maebiue Needle. Needle
Broken In Three Pieces.


Broken In Three Pieces.
Lulu Car baugb, of Ayr town
ship, is suffering from painful
accident which occurred last Sat
urday while she was sewing on
her sewing machine. In some
way or other, her finger slipped
under the needle bar, and when
the needle came down 1T penetrat
ed the finger until the bone was
reached, when the needle broke
in three pieces leaving the point
sticking in the bone. 30 acnte
was, her suffering that physi-
clan was sum moned, and 1t wsa
with considerable difficulty that
the point OF the needle was ex-
! tracted.
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CHURCHES.

PREsByTERIAN.-K W. A. West,
D D., Pastor. Preaching services
each alternate Sabbath, ut 1880 q. m.
and every Sunday evening at 100.
Services at Green Hill on alternate
Sabbaths at 1890 a. m. ~ Sabbath
school at 9:15. Junior hr istisn En-
deavor at 200. Christian Endeayor
at 6:00. Prayer meeting Wednesday
evening at 100.
METHODIST EPIscoPAL-Rev. @ w.
Bryner, Pastor. Sunday school
at $3.50 q. nj. Preaching every other
Sunday morning at 1880 and every
Sunday evening at TOO. Epworth
| League at 900 p. m. Prayer meeting
Thursday evening at TOO.
UNITED PREsBYTERIAN--Rev ]. L.
Grove, Pastor. Sunday school at $3.50
a. m. Preaching every Sunday morn
ing at 1880, and every other Sunday
evening at7:00. The alternate Sabbath
| evenings are used by the Young Peo-
ple's Christian Union at TOO p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at TOO.
| EVANGELICAL Lutte 4 tAN-Rev. Cal
vipFassoldPastor Sunday schoole:15
q. No. Preaching every other Sunday
morning at 1880 and every other Sun
day evening at 700. hristiau En-
deavor at 800 p. m. Prayer meeting
on Wednesday evening at TOO.
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REFORMED - - FHb-
tor. Sunday school at $3.50 q. m.
Preaching on alternate Sabbaths at
1000 q. m. and TOO p. m. Christian
Endeavor at 500 p. m. Prayer meet
ing on Wednesday evening at TOO.
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Will be in Office from Thursday ev-
ening until Monday morning OF each
week.
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DR.. A. X. DAVIS,
Hustontown, Pa.
DENTAL WORK IN ALL ITS BRANCHES

Gold Crown and Bridge Work a
Specially. Teeth extracted
positively without pain.
All Work Guaranteed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-10

That Wilson carries full line of
everything usually found in first
class store, and he will treat you
right.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-10

OF the eighty-two teachers In
the county, forty-six are female
and thlrty-six male. Ayr town
ship has but one male teacher
and eight female teachers, while
Thompson employs but one fe-
male, and SIX male teachers.
The singing In the institute this
week is unusually good. Miss
Gertrude Sipes is the pianist, and
Prof Yoder Is the vocal instruc-
tor, and both are exceptionally
fine in their line.
Prof. Shaffer, of the Trl-Statt
Business College, Cumberland
Md, was here as usual to give {
free scholarship TO the teacher
receiving the most votes. The
lucky aspirant was
The News is indebted TO Misi
Blanche 0. Peck, u former teach
er 10 brakes Business College
New York, for reports OF tn
talks Of the Instructors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-17

mother was five feet ten inches tall, a
rather unusual height for "a woman. All
of his three brothers. who are now living,
are about six feet two inches. and his
four living sisters are unusually tall
women The family originally numbered
eleven children. When he was twenty
six years old-in 1S77-Mr. Carter went to
Minnesota. where he was III the employ
of a large lumber concern for seventeen
years Returning to Maine he worked
several years in Bangor. where at one
time he was offered quite a large weekly
salary by a local Snowman To be eX-
hibited as the long man. which orer
he respectfully declined. He then entered
the employ of the Kicker Brothers. pro-
prietors of the Poland Spring Hotel, in
1897. He was in charge of the crew OF
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twelve or fifteen men who are employed
in the fields. gardens and stables of that
large estate Carter has the strength of
two ordinary men. On one occasion in
lumber camp in Oxford county the bully
of the camp a man weighing more than
200 and unusually strong forced quar-
rel upon Carter, who has always been of
the most kindly disposition and opposed
to fighting. The bully made rush at
Carter. when the latter seized him In his
long. sinewy arms, threw him to the floor
of the camp. and then. lifting him as If
he were a child. hung him up by the
seat of his trousers on a couple of stout
hooks that were at the end of chains
hanging from the roof. That was enough
for the bully. who afterward became
very decent sort of fellow.
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well nurtured. housed, fed and clothed as
compared with low scholarship men,
might be still better scholars DR. Sargent
thinks if they Iaid more attention to
their physiques. They are in better con
dition than the average student of 1880
but they are below the height and weight
Of the average student of today, and
fall even further below the average
standards for athletes. In their peculiar
sphere they are entertaining" Univer-
stiles would do well to adopt the doctors
suggestion that inasmuch as a certain
minimum scholarship requirement is made
of men who compete for foot ball honors
the scholars should in their turn be
kept to a certain standard of physical
work to become eligible for honors.
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the average student in the academic de-
partment from 1904 to 1906 records 600
points, only points below that of the
varsity foot ball men in the score of
years up TO 1900. These facts confirm con
illusions reached by DIR. Porter in 1873.
and later by Drs. Hastings in Omahar
Dyer in Cambridge. Christopher in Chi
cago, Roberts in London, Burg erstetn in
Vienna and Lehazig in st. Petersburg,
that men who rank highest in scholarship
tend to have the best physiques Mem
bers of the British professions and of the
Royal Society average five feet nine and
one-quarter inches in height and 100
pounds in weight, or 4SS inches taller
and 81 pounds heavier than the lowest
classes in English society.
The Harvard honor scholars, though
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Physique of Scholars.
rom the New York Times.

from the New York Times.
The honor scholars at Harvard, as DR..
Sargent testifies in the Popular Science
Monthly, are almost three-quarters of an
inch taller than the average university
students Of 1880. and just that height above
the present lowest grade of scholarship
men In all the groups the scholarship stu
dents are stronger than the average col
lege mum of 1850. The honor men, although
the youngest. ARE the tallest heaviest
strong eSt.''
The men of the Lawrence Scientific
School, although somewhat shorter and
lighter, are stronger than the average
Harvard crew and foot ball men from
1900 to 1900. while the strength test of
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ream."
Farman Liked Idea.
Edisons idea of heliocoptal aeroplane
: the Same theory he advanced IN HeDri
Psychical Research.
rom the New York Times.


Sir Oliver Lodge. whose scientific
authority in the field of physics is I'M
questioned, but whose authority In the
field of psychical research has not been
acknowledged by psychologists, speaks
with seeming authority in Harper's Mag
azine for August on the possibility of
communion with the spirits of the dead.
This is a step beyond 1.-The reality of
telepathy' which he AYERS. He says:
The boundary between the two states
the known and the unknown-is still
substantial, but it is wearing thin in
places; and. like excavators engaged in
boring a tunnel from opposite ends, amid
the roar of water and other noises, we
are beginning to hear now and again
the strokes of the pickaxes of our COM
rades on the other side
His theory is, in brief. that during a
volitional surrender of consciousness the
body of medium may be entered by
departed spirit, which proceeds to try
by directing hands and voice. to estab-
hsh It's identity to observers. This utili-
zaton of physiological apparatus by an
intelligence to which it does not normally
belong Sir Oliver calls motor automatism,
or "telergy. 1t CORES spends in every de-
tail. but more Observation-Disclosures the
apparatus is unfamiliar-to the operation
OF the body by its real owners intelH-
gence.
But why study such vicarious and
numbering phenomena, If there be such?
1t were an easier task and one OF indis-
pensable fulfillment to scientist on such
a quest. first TO find out how the human
machine is set in skilled and familiar mo-
ton by the ideas of its rightful possess
sor We know that energy is discharged
from the brain cells to the members and
that this results in purposafu action. Rut
what force releases the energy? 1t is nor
physical yet 1t has an indubitable rela-
tlos 10 physicist controls the body's
physical activities. Why should the So
clety Tor Psychical Research expend its
Sclentlnc energies upon rare cases of
problematic posses son?" The cases of
genuine possession are wonderful and
they are as numerous, as the beings that
people this globe
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A Maine Giant.
ON the Kennebec journal

FrOn the NehheNec JOURNAL.
Richard Carter of South Portland is
probably the tallest man in Maine being
six feet eight inches in height and as
straight as an arrow. His shoulders are
very broad, his arms unusually long and
his body we'll proportioned He hasn't an
ounce of extra flesh. as shown by the fact
that he weighs only 100 pounds. Carter
is ffty-seven years old, having been born
in Kenduskeag on December 6. 1851 His
hair is dark brown as ever, and only
a few gray hairs are to be seen in his
mustache. His father, who was a farmer.
stood six feet three inches, while his
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Lessons in Drowning


Those who are resolved apains. ,aa
ing now 10 swim can hardly escape learn
Ing how to drown. To do so they must
S"uh the newspapers, for they are filled
with an astonishing diversity of exam
pres Vi now 10 seek death by the water
route The lessons in drowning which
are peculiarly appropriate to the season,
and precautionary especially to those who
swim, are the misadventures of those who
ought 10 be alive today. and whose sad
endings have moral too useful to he
wasted
Take the case of the men WHO went
swimming from boats One anchored he
boat and the other did not-which was
the correct procedure? Both are correct
under certain conditions but both took
the wrong course in the individual cases
The man who dived off a beat anchorea
in a strong tideway found that he could
not get back to the boat. The man who
did not anchor his boat neglected TO think
of the wind When he came up from his
dive he found that his boat had been
blown away. and sailed before the wind
faster than he could swim. In different
class was the death of the talented writer
and strong swimmer who went into the
high surf. although he was more accus-
TONED To saltwater bathing In still
another class, and even more pathetic
was the case of the father and son who
swan together. and the father. becoming
exhausted. deliberately drowned rather
than accept the aid offered by the son at
the risk of his own life. which probably
was saved by his fathers sacrifice An
excellent way OF drowning other people is
To weary the life savers by false cries OF
distress until at length they fail TO re-
spond to TIE needs of the really drowning
In the case in yesterdays newspapers the
appropriate remedy was applied. The
practical jokers who were not drowning
were treated as though they We're. They
were dragged ashore with good care that
part OF their trip was underneath the sur
face. The water which they swallowed
was removed by rolling on barrel and
other methods only to be recommended in
similar cases, and when they were pretty
well exhausted they were restored by
heroic uses Of ammonia.
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EDISON ON HOW TO FLY
HeIiocoptaI AeropIane's the
Right Idea, He's Sure.
INVENTORS GOING WRONG
north Pole Can Be Reached in Forty
Hour Trip.
POSSIBLE WITHIN FIVE YEARS
Calls Dirigible Balloon Farce-Suc-
cessful Machine Must
Be Automatic.
INVENTORS GOING WRONG
POSSIBLE WITHIN FIVE YEARS

SALT LAKE CITY Utah September
17-''Within five years airships VIII ne
carving passengers across the ocean III
eighteen hours 900 miles an hour. Aerial
flight will be commercialized in that time
The north pole can and will be reached |
in forty-ho trip. The perfected hello
coptal will be able to encircle the Slope
in week.
These statements were made ny NOM
as A. Edison the famous inventor, In the
course of talk on aerial naVlSatloh-
He asserted that the proper idea had not
yet been worked out. but would be within
five years.
Neither the aeroplanes now owned by
the Wright brothers. any airship
built along that principle nor along the
idea of the dirigible balloon. will ever be
of practical use or success commercially,
he said
Weak Point of Aeroplanes.
THE weak point of the present aero
plane around which the Wright inventors
will never be able TO get. is that the
operation of the machine lies wholly In
the wonderful brain of its operator Every
movement made by the Wrights in ma
neuvering their machine must be done in
planes One fractional mismovement
would mean destruction to the machine
and operator. too.
The dirigible balloon is a farce and the
aeroplane impracticable
Edison weighed the words one natu-
rally would in casting aside the only two
present methods of aerial navigation.
With the circular application of the
principle of the aeroplane. making what
/ have styled the heliocoptal aerOplane,
the commercial lizing of aerial flight is
mere matter of perfecting the idea he
continued. Within five years this will
be done.
1.-The successful machine must be auto
matte in operation. The human part of
ii must be reduced to mere mechanism.
as in the case of the automobile and
steam engine. Otherwise the dream of
skimming the clouds must ever remain a
dream.
Farman Liked Idea.
Edison's idea of a heliocoptal aeroplane
is the same theory he advanced to Henri
Farman, the French aeronaut, at the
Aero Club of America. August II last
larly. He illustrated his meaning at that
time in a diagram which seemed only a
conglomerate mass of lines.
When the trained eye of Farman noted
the rough pencil sketch and read its
meaning he shouted with See. Later he
visited Edison at Orange, n. j.
Neither Edison nor Farman has ever
published the plan advanced by the in
ventor. AT his meeting with the French
balioonist however Edison said he had
no faith in dirigible balloons. and that in
his judgment the heavier han-air ma
chimes" would prove to be those which
would do the flying in the future.
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