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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-14
GALLsToNEs REMOVED

had suffered for years with gall
stones. No one but one similarly
affected can imagine the suffering
produced by this disease. l was
Treated by family doctors. They
,salled In consultation and finally
ecided l must go TO the city and be
operated upon. One of my physi-
clans went with me to Birmingham
anoS took me to hospital, where I
vast examined by the surgeons and
! told an operation was all that would
save my life. In the meantime /
learned OF the Electric Doctors. and
preferring death at home with my
children to death in a hospital away
from them (for l felt death would
result from the operation), l went
to the Advanced Medical Special
lists, In "a hours the gallstones
had been removed and without pain
or confinement to bed ] got relief
from my suffering in few hours.
1t has been over four months now
and 1 have gained in weight, and
appetite good and feel well and
strong, doing my own work.
1 am very grateful to be saved
for my family OF small children, and
urge all sufferers to try this won
derful treatment.
MRS CHRIST UNDERWOOD,
Leith, ALA.
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SAVED HIS LIFE

you have saved my life" said
Mr.. Frank Howard of 739 st. Peter
street When l first took your
electrical treatment | was in such
pain that, l could hardly walk. Life
was burden. 1t was with great
difficulty that / could eat and sleep.
Lord knows what would have be-
come of me had / not found you
two weeks ago. Today 1 am cured
of one of the hardest cases of neu-
ralgia / ever saw. Had / not found
you l would have either been dead
or crazy Anyone suffering as l did
and fails to try it is foolish, indeed.
1 recommend 1T to all my friends
and acquaintances as the greatest
discovery of the age"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-14
CamnIete Bernstein Jury

Chicago, August 13.-The jury to try
Mrs. Florence Bernstein of the charge
of killing her husband. George Bern
stein, was completed today. Mrs. Bern
stein today showed the effects of the
nerve rac<ing scenes which had fea-
tured the preliminaries to her trial
since Friday.
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MINISTER OF DOUGLASvILLE,
GA. WRITES,

] would have been dead by now
with tuberculosis had 1t not been
for that great resurrector of dis
eased flesh, electricity. AS you well
remember. / gained is pounds of
good solid flesh the first month. l
am proud to say that / have stead
lily improved ever since, and can do
my work now with all the vigor of
old 1t is a blessing to mankind. |
only hope that they will take adj
vantage of it,
REV. l.. Il. GILLAND.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-14
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE WILL
PROBABLY ADJOURN TONIGHT

CT state very much on the order of the
present measure The senate passed it
and it was generally conceded TO be
good measure. 1t was not reached by
the house until late in the afternoon of
the last day of the session, and when
the clerk began to read it a member
standing near the desk looked up and
saw that it was a voluminous document.
Mr.. Speaker" he said, there's too
much of that bill; L move we table it."
The motion was put and carried, and
that killed bank law revision for a time.
The incident offers a striking example
of what might happen to it again, unless
the house is in humor on the closing
day to do little real hard work.
Several constitutional amendments have
been passed this session and all but one
of them will be submitted to the people
in the state election of October 2. The
exception is the so-called farmers free
list bill, which was not passed in time
TO be advertised the requisite 60 days in
advance of the October election. 1t will,
therefore, be voted on by the people in
the November election, at which con-
gressmen and President are elected
This measure permits the exemption
by the Legislature of farm products in the
hands of the producer from taxation for
period of one year.
Two of the constitutional amendments
provide for the creation of new counties.
both in south Georgia-the county of
Bleckley, formed of a portion of Pulaski
with Cochran the county seat, and
the county of Wheeler, formed from a
part of Montgomery, with Alamo as the
county seat. The former was named In
honor of the late Chief Justice Logan r.
Bleckey of the state supreme court, and
the latter in honor of Gen. Joseph Wheel
er of Confederate cavalry fame.
Another constitutional amendment per-
m.ts the abolition of Justice courts in
cities having poulation of more than
10000, except in the city of Savannah,
and the substitution of municipal courts
in their stead, the duties and powers of
tn" new courts to be defined by the legis-
lature.
The Legislature has passed over 200 bills
this session, the vast majority of which
are local measures. The greater proper
ton of the bills of general importance
which stand any show at all will finally
get through in the closing hours.
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uRs NJ l.. PopE,s LETTER

Dear Doctor-Your letter asking
me for a statement to be given to
the public at hand. OF course, l will
make statement. but I cannot ex-
press in words my feeling | am
shedding tears of gratitude even
now, when l think of your Kindness
and sympathy. After l had been
given up to die by my family doc
tor, how you cured me of that aw-
full fstula and female disease and
restored me to my children, whom
thought | would never see again
when l went to you for treatment.
/ really never expected to come
home alive, but, thank God, now l
am as well as l ever was. thanks
to you and that great saver of, hui
man lives, electricity.
tSignedD MRS. NJ. l.. POPE,
Fla Bellwood Ave.
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Aged Folk Wed

Cincinnati O.. August l3.-After a brief
courtship. David NJ. Beach. 81. widower
of Covington, KY, and Miss Sarah A.
Thompson. aged 73, sister of his first
wife, were married here today. The BRIDE
groom is a veteran of the civil war. So
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-14

in the lepers' colony. All that can
say Is that | owe my life to this
great discovery.
(Signed) T. ]. RYAN.
50 Nashville Ave. New orleans.
Sworn to January 2S. 1912.
If You DOUBT us, READ THIS
Gentlemen: What world have be-
come of me had ] listened to other
doctors when ! first began electric
treatment in Memphis two years
ago? They told me L had paralysis
up to my neck. and there was no
cure for me. They said you were
fraud and would kin me. Now |
know you are not a fraud, because
] can walk as good as you can, and
after suffering for years of many
things from doctors that robb ed me
of my substance, | was pronounced
hopeless cripple and invalid for
life. But I can now take up my
bed and walk. And | want every
body to know 1t, so they can go to
you and get real cure, not a
patch up" | have seen them cure
most everything as my doctors now
admit Electro Therapeutics lis mere
ly healing up the dead, para1yzed
nerves and putting them back to
l.
err / have gone, far and near, and
expect to do so as long as | live,
(Signed) MRS. M. l.. FERGUSON.
Queen Alexandra Interested
Mrs c. A. Heisman, who is quite
familiar with Queen AleXandra's
philanthropy by installing electricity
in the Middlesex hospital, London.
Eng. She has twice married men of
nobility, and still retains her title.
1881 Jackson Ave, New Orleans.
1t gives me great pleasure TO be
able to testify to the remarkable
cure called High Frequency Elec-
tricity. At present 1t is all the rage
In London. Paris and Carlsbad, Ger
many, among royalty and the higher
classes. Indeed, the queen of Eng
land has always been most inter
ested in this, one of the worlds
greatest discoveries, as well as the
Finsen rays, both of which have
been installed, l understand, at her
personal expense. She has always
been interested in the welfare of
those who suffer the ravages of dis
ease, and is a frequent visitor at the
Middlesex hospital, London. 1t
gives me additional pleasure to
state that / have not only witnessed
many remarkable cures on others,
but was cured myself. When | re-
turned from Europe two years ago
/ became Ill with stomach and kid
ney troubles, which baffied the best
physicians in this country and Eu-
rope. | continued to suffer In bed
most all the time, until you arrived
with this wonderful life-giving
force two months ago. | was one
of the first to begin your cure. l
could hardly walk up stairs nor
turn over in my bed. ] am now able
to do so with ease. l was benefited
from the start and sincerely hope
that all my friends and acquaint-
ances will believe me, trust my
statement and take advantage of
this, the greatest of all cures | will
be delighted to explain to any one
desiring to know about this method
and the technique employed In cur
ing me.
MRS. c. A. HEISMAN,
1851 Jackson Ave, ". o.
Sworn to this 2sth DAY of Novem-
ber 1871.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-14
A WONDERFUL CASE

AUdnta, ga, June II, l9l
To Whom 1t May Concern:
Five years ago l had a nervous
breakdown, followed with lung
trouble, pleurisy, with effusion of
water on the lungs. | couldn't get
a long breath without great pain.
My stomach was also out of order
had some kidney disease-just which
l do not know. My heart was weak
and my home physician said l had
heart trouble, and he further said |
couldn't be helped by treatment,
much less, be cured. Now, l want to
say that after taking the wonderful
treatment OF electricity as given by
you 1 am sure that j am now well.
Anyone who wants to know more
about my case and the treatment |
have been taking can write me at
10 owens avenue, and | Will take
pleasure in answering any question
you may ask. Respectfully,
MRS. ]. c. BOWEN.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-14
March 10. 1912.

To Whom 1t May Concern:
| hereby take oath that two years
ago l contracted some terrible dis
ease. Some said II was tuberculosis,
and one celebrated physician said II
looked like leprosy and tried TO send
me to the State Lepers Colony. They
kept me Guaranteed until they ar
rived at correct diagnosis. AS
soon as liberated l went to the Ad-
vanced Medical Specialists. located
at Mobile, and in two months | was
pronounced entirely cured by the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-14

The consumer of less than 1000 gallons.
If he has good luck, If the meter works
correctly, IL the water company finds no
leakage on him, may save something.
but the saving is small In any event
compared to the advantage gained by the
water company over the concessions that
ought TO have been secured by the small
consumer.
Let us compare the fiat rates of Mo-
bile and Birmingham for a year on a
six room house:
House. Bath. Closet. Total
Mobile ......... $50 s2.75 $500 SHIPS
Birmingham :. eco 400 400 1900
These fiat rates for Birmingham are the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-14

Atlanta, August 13.-(Special)-Th cur
tain will ring down on the general as
sembly of 1s1l-12 tomorrow night at just
what hour is yet to be developed. but
II is not beyond the probabilities that the
house will be so far behind with its i'm
portant work at that time that the hands
of the clock will be covered with news
paper before the midnight hour is
reached.
This has been a customary stunt
with house and senate whenever they
wanted to go over into the fifty-first leg
islative day without making 1t officially
appear that they did SO. Sometimes the
lust days session has lasted until or 4
oclock the next morning and on one oe-
casion it was just turning daylight as the
legislators left the capitol after singing
Home, Sweet Home.
But there is nothing of an imperative
nature to keep this legislature in session
beyond the midnight hour. There are no
bills pending which the constitution re-
quires shall be passed, and the members
inay adjourn whenever they want to. 1t
is only question of how much influence
IAN be exerted to keep them by members
who have measures pending which they
are anxious to get through.
The two most important bills, perhaps,
with which the legislature had to deal
in its colsing days are those creating de-
partments of insurance and banking, and
revising the laws relating to those two
subjects.
The senate put through the insurance
bill after it had passed the house, and
sent 1t on its way to the governor on
Monday. There is no question, therefore,
about this measure becoming a law.
The house will not finally dispose of the
banking measure which has already
uassed the senate, until Wednesday, the
last day of the session. On account OF
its length and the numerous amendments
which will liFely be offered, as was the
case in the senate. there is little doubt
that the banking bill will have a close
shave.
Three years ago the legislature had be-
fore 1t a bill to revise the banking laws
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-14

WANTED - SEVERAL POSITIONS
OPEN FOR YOUNG LADY STENO-
GRAPHERS. CALL At ONCE IN
PERSON. UNDER WOOD TYPE
WAITER COMPANY.
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from ambuscade and killed while on
his way TO attend the trial. No clue
to his assassin has been obtained.
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The Wonderful Merits of the Tele-
vita, Vitapathic and Nitrogen
. liant Treatments Will Be
Demonstrated Free.

Those who apply before August 90 will be given these
simple effective and painless for days free
of charge.
lifetime has been extended from August 10 to August 20
to give sufferers opportunity to test the wonderful merit
of Televita Vtapaic Vibrogenitant treatment free
Those who called and unable the doctors
count of the rush particularly invited to again. 1t
may be the of adding golden years your future 1t
costs you nothing give this wonderful curative power
trial Quit druggng your system with useless and harm
full drugs The progress of the world in curing disease is
being revoutionzed by the scientific of Nature forces
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-14
Convincing Evidence That Advanced Medical Specialists Do
Cure Where Others Fail

very physician who at first thought
he would send me to living death
in the lepers' colony. All that I can
say is that / owe my life to this
great discovery.
(Signed) T. j. RYAN.
50 Nashville Ave. New Orleans.
Sworn to January %. 1912.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
II firebugs are Convicted.

During November, and up to
December 18th, the Department
of the State Fire Marshall has OBJ
tanned the conviction of seven
teen firebugs, the majority of
whom set fire to buildings in or
der to get the insurance money.
These convictions covered a
wide territory, showing the ex-
tensive work of the deputy mar
shals, convictions being made in
Berks, Crawford, Carbon, West
moreland, Schuylkill, Clari o n,
Beaver and Dauphin county.
Six of the men sentenced, when
confronted with the evidence of
their guilt gathered by the de-
putty marshals, confessed rather
than go to trial. All were sent
to the penitentiary except one
who was sent to the insane asy-
lum, two to county jails and two
who are awaiting sentence.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
Church Notices.

Sunday, December 9th, Rev.
E. j. Croft will preach at Mt.
Zion at 10:15 in the morning, and
at Ebenezer at z o'clock in the
evening.
Rev. Yearick will preach in the
Reformed church next Sunday
morning, and in the Presbyteri-
an church in the evening. Sum-
day, school in the Presbyterian
church at 2::3O in the afternoon.
We have been requested to say
that Elder H. H. Lefferts, of
Leesburg, Va, will preach at
Needmore, Saturday 26th at 3
O'Clock, and Sunday morning at
10 o'clock at the same place, and
Sunday evening at Army J.
Peck's.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
Onr Distant Subscribers.

Mr.. 0. E. Hockensmith, who
has been residing at Galesburg,
ILL.,, for some time, has removed
to Cameron, in the same state.
We take the Fulton County
NEWS because we want to keep
in touch with our old Fulton
county friends, says L. F. Tritle,
writing from Spirit Lake, Iowa.
We are having a good old-fash-
ioned winter in Iowa how're
minds of the good times we used
to have in dear old Pennsylvania.
We are just in receipt of some
of Colorado's "long green" sent
by our old friend S. M. McEl-
haney for another years SUBJ
scription to the NEWS. Sam says
Colorado had a bumper crop this
year, lots Of sunshine and pure
air, and plenty of opportunities
lying around loose, for those who
who know a good thing when
they see it.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
A Turnpike Verdict.

On Thursday of last week, the
Franklin county Common Pleas
court awarded the Chambersburg
and Bedford turnpike company
$4,000 for the eighteen an d
three-tenth miles between the
Fulton county eastern border and
Chambersburg. The viewers had
awarded the company $23, 500;
but this was not satisfactory to
the former owners and the case
was taken into court. Practical
ly the same mileage remains to
be settled for between the east
ern and the western borders of
Fulton county.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
The Belgian Relief Fund.

The following letter is self ex.
planatory, and shows that the
money subscribed by our people
has been sent to the Christian
Herald Relief Fund and put to
work for the benefit of those for
whom it was intended:
New York, Dec. %, 1914.
W. R. SLOAN,
McConnellsburg, Pa.
Dear Friend:
We take pleasure to ac-
knowledging the receipt of your
favor of recent date enclosing
check for 1884 for The Chris
tian Heard Relief Fund for the
Widows and Orphans of the War
in Europe.
Kindly convey our sin C ere
thanks to the members of the
McConnellsburg Civic League for
this contribution which in accord
ance with their instructions will
be used for Belgium.
1t certainly must be a source of
great satisfaction to those who
have subscribed to this Fund to
know that the first real Ameri-
can cargo to reach the suffering
BelgianS was that bought with
the first installment of $40, 900, 90
Of the Christian Herald Relief
Fund.
Trusting that this generous s
gift may be the means of saving
life and alleviating much suffer-
ing among the stricken families
who are the innocent victims of
the War, we are,
Very trulys.yours,
The Christian Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
LOttie AkerS.

Miss Lottie Akers, aged 81
years, 5 months, and 20 days,
died at the home of her STEP
father, Mr.. James Mellott, south
of Saluvia, on Thursday of last
week, and was buried at the
Sideling Hill Christian church on
Monday, the services being con-
Quoted by Rev. T. P. Garland, of
Needmore. Miss Akers had been
an invalid for many years. Her
mother, only recently gone on a
visit among friends in the West,
was called home to attend the
funeral.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
Home for the HOLIDAYS.

The following students and
teachers are home for the holi-
days: Orlen Mock and Rudolph
Spangler from F. & M. Academy,
Lancaster; Miss Anna Reisner,
McKeesport; Miss Jean Johnston,
Shippensburg; Misses Ethel
Hays and Grace Sinner, New
Jersey; George Reisner, State
College; Miss Bess Helman, Cham
bersburg; Miss Mary Baumgard-
ner, West Chester, and Miss
Mary Jane Johnston, Western
Pennsylvania.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
What They Eat.

The meat ration of the British
and the German soldiers is about
a pound and a quarter a day;
that of the French soldiers only
half a pound. But the French
soldier has nearly twice as much
bread as the Englishman and
about ten ounces more than the
German. The mainstay of
the Kaiser's soldiers seems to
be potatoes three pounds and
FIVE ounces a day for every man
of them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
Probably A,oOO,OoO.

The State Highway Depart
ment during the first eleven
months of 1914, expended $3,-
100, 1851 at least on the high
ways of the State and overhead
charges. The figure is probably
larger than this for there are
some contracts awarded of which
there is no record yet in the Au-
ditor Generals Department.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
Value Of Good Highways.

In 1909 Spottsylvania County,
in Virginia, voted 100000 to i'm
prove forty miles of highway.
The year before the work was
done the railroads hauled 49, 900
tons of country produce away
from the county seat; two years
later they hauled II, 900 tons. In
earlier years the cost of hauling
produce to the railway was twen-
ty cents a ton-mile; now it is
twelve cents.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
Notice 10 Shareholders.

The regular annual meeting of
the shareholders of the First Ma
tional Bank, of McConnellsburg,
Pa, for the election of directors
for the ensuing year, will be held
in the Banking Rooms on Tues
day, January IL, 1915, between
the hours of II o'clock, noon and
2 o'clock, p. m.
Merrill w. Mace,
1910 At. Cashier.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
DR.. Stiger's House Burned.

The fine dwelling house of DR..
P. Ellwood Stigers, edjacent to
the Maryland Inn, Hancock, Nd,
was entirely destroyed by fire on
Thursday morning of last week.
The fire originated in the base
ment, and is supposed to have
caught from some ashes thrown
out from the heater. All the
Doctors books, surgical instru-
ments, and household goods were
destroyed. The loss was $4,000.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
"SOme Big" Onions.

This office received by mail on
Tuesday, three onions, the COM
bined weight of which is l pound
and 6 ounces. They were raised
by Mr.. Walter W. Smith, of En-
maville. One of these ''ingons"
weighs half pound. That
they grew from seed places them
on the champion list for size.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
HeIman...Neff.

On Thursday, December 10th,
by the Rev. F. N. Parson at New
vile, Cumberlad county, Mr.. Ir-
win Helman, son of of the late
Michael Helman, of this county
was married to Miss Pearle Neff,
of Newville. The young people
have the congratulations of their
Fulton County friends.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24

A package containing a half
dozen linen handkerchiefs was
dropped in town last Saturday.
The finder will confer a favor up
on the owner by returning them
to Reisners' store.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24

Mr.. Russell Nelson who teaches
in the public schools of Prince
ton, N. j., was accompanied
home for the holidays by a young
friend from Italy, student at
Princeton Seminary.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-24
Racket Store News.

the last issue this told that we had fodder
coming n and that would quote next week. but did
DONE Wewe have sold and have second
lot in The 7c pound for the finest rope had