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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
Had Splinter in His Eye.

William E. Bair, who lives on
Green Hill, in Licking Creek
township, met with a most pain
full accident last Saturday even
ing while splitting kin ing
wood at the woodpile, when a
jagged silver of wood struck him
in the left eye and pierced the
eyeball in two places.
He was brought to town as
quickly as possible by his neigh
Dor John Kline, and taken to DR..
Dalby's office where the physician
removed a splinter about half an
inch long. The splinter entered
the eye in an upward direction
and did not penetrate the back
part, and, for this reason, he
may not lose the sight. Every
thing possible was done to re-
lieve the gentleman of the in
tense pain; but the attending
physician not being satisfied that
all foreign substance had been
removed. sent Mr.. Bair to Cham
bersburg, where DR.. Emmert
made a thorough examination
under strong light, but failed to
locate anything of consequence
that had not been removed here.
The Doctors think that, if no un-
usual inflammation sets in, his
sight will be spared; but cannot
promise that his vision will not
be slightly impaired.
Mr.. Bair was taken to Cham
bersburg Saturday night by liv-
eryman Sheets, leaving here
sometime between 8 and 10
o'clock, arriving in Chambers
burg about l o'clock in the morn
ing. They returned early Sunday
morning and the patient was TAX
en- to his home eight miles west
of this place. If sympathy will
cure him, Mr.. Bair will be all
right soon, for he has so many
friends who were shocked to hear
of his mishap that there will be
no end to the application of that
kind of "salve. F" 1t is a hard
blow to him, for he not only
works his own tidy farm on top
of Green Hill, but farms the
Mann place a half mile west Of
it, hauls the freight for the Sa-
luvia store, and is the minute
man" for everybody needing a
lift"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
NUMBER 81
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
Snapshots at Their COmings and GOings
Here for Vacation, or Away
for a ReStfal Cutting.

Lemuel Owens having spent
last week at his home near
Knobsville, returned to his work
at Kearney.
Rev. j. L. Grove went to York
on Tuesday to attend a meeting
of Presbytery of the United Pres
byterian Church.
Mrs. Peter Morton spent last
week visiting her new" grand
daughter, Joan Elizabeth Norton,
at Petersburg, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Schenck.
of Wells Valley, spent part of
last week in the home of Judge
Morton, near town.
Harry Deshong, of Harrison
vile, who had been at home for
a few weeks on account of a bad
cold, has returned to his work at
Kearney.
Mrs. S. B. Woollet and her
nephew Fred Fisher left on Mon
day for Lancaster where Fred
was placed in the Thaddeus Ste
vens School.
Milton Shade, who has en-
ployment at Kearney, is spend
ing a little while at HE home in
Dublin township looking after
some spring work.
jolly Joe Edwards, of Taylor
township, was busily engaged in
delivering fruit trees last week
to purchasers up and down the
central portion of the County.
William j. Winter and wife of
Kearney, spent from Friday eve-
ming until Sunday with relatives
at Hustontown and attended d.
R. Mumma's sale last Saturday.
B. A. Brinkley, of Lemoyne,
Cumberland county, who is en-
ployed by Swift and Co., in Har-
risburg, spent a few days with
friends and relatives in this place,
returning Wednesday. He said
he enjoyed the Easter Services
in the Lutheran church very
much.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
The Money is There.

With $1,OOO,O 100000 paid into
the State Treasury in 1914 by au-
toists for the use of the Highway
Department, there should be less
antagonism between drivers of
horse drawn vehicles and motor
lists. 1t was the latter who were
the ones to actually put the idea
on a working basis. Good roads
have been discussed since the
dawn of civilization; but it re-
mained for the riders of bicycles
to start a campaign of education
that was again given a boost
when automobiles came into gen.
eral use. The result of this agi-
tation can now be seen in the for
mutation of plans to make good,
solid roads all over the State is
the politicians can soon come to
an agreement in regard to the
inevitable spoils.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
Stay There.

Young man, if your lot has fall
len in the country, and you have
an able body and brains, stay
there. Do not, however, be a
jellyfsh, waiting for the tides
to wash food to your mouth, but
go after it it like the game fish
you can be. Be a real sport-a
real gentleman. Dependence up
on lore and old wives, fables will
never get you beyond the slough
of despond. If you have not ac-
quired the art of reading, begin
at once-not Diamond Dick and
other rubbish-bu good business
papers pertaining to agriculture.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
GARDENS.
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by
Samuel G. Dixon, NJ. D., IL. D.,
Commissioner Of Health.

Plant a garden. Some of the
worlds greatest thinkers have
found diversion and inspiration
in their gardens. If your con-
troll of agricultural space is limit
ed to a twenty foot back yard do
not be discouraged. 1t is even
possible to transform an unat-
tractive fiat roof into a garden.
The possibilities of exercise and
profit to be derived from the cul-
tlvation of even a small plot, are
greater than one might think.
The use Of the spade, the hoe
and the rake prove the equiva-
lent Of many of the gymnastic
exercises which everybody con-
cedes to be beneficial and few
people take. In addition to the
advantage Of exercise in the open
air it is keen satisfaction to the
vast majority of men and women
to see things that they have cul-
tivated grow and mature.
The practical benefits derived
from the tillage of a little garden
are usually exceeded by the aes-
theft; but in the hurly-buriy of
every day life perhaps we weigh
as of too little Importance our op-
portunities for the cultivation
and appreciation of the beautiful.
1t is difficult to tell how far reach
ing may be the effect of some
slight effort at Identification.
Years ago a boy station agent
of a railroad traversing the plains
of the Canadian North West sent
back home for a few packages of
flower seed and with such time as
he could spare transformed the
surroundings of his mean little
one room station. Sir Thomas
Shaughnessy, President of the
road was making a tour of in
spection and when he reached
this little garden spot in the un-
cultivated wastes, he asked to see
the boy and learned from him the
story of his garden. AS a result
the next year all agents of this
road. which stretches from the
Atlantic to the Pacific received
of seeds and instruc,
tions to plant flowers around ev-
cry station and the custom then
begun has ever since continued.
The cultivation of twenty feet
or more OF back yard may not re-
suit in anything of this sort but
should prove a healthful, restful
and profitable diversion after the
labors of the day for the busy
man or woman.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
Had a Parade.

A procession of automobiles
passed through town on Monday,
stopping for a few minutes to
take on fuel. A reporter, with
pencil in hand, and eager for
news asked the undertaken who
was along with the crowd, whose
funeral it was? He replied, mo
bodies'-yet." By that time DR..
H. G McClain appeared and lignt
began to dawn. The Doctor had
taken the party to the railroad to
bring back a carload of new Ford
touring cars. Whether it was a
coincidence or not that he took
along an undertaken and several
mechanicians we did not learn.
The jolly crowd consisted of the
Doctor, H. E. Kirk, Jesse Laidig,
H. H. Clevenger, and Harvey
Fisher, all of Hustontown and
vicinity.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
Easter in The Churches.

Easter dawned bright, but
frosty. The latter condition did
not prevent representatives from
all the congregations in town
from meeting in the Presbyterian
church at 6 o'clock in the morn
ing. The church was comforta-
bly, filled when Rev. j. L. Year
lex Of the Reformed church
opened the union services of
prayer and praise. Rev. R. E.
Peterman of the Lutheran church,
and laymen of several denomina-
tions spoke or led in the exer-
cises. The regular preaching
services were held later in the
day at all of the churches except
in the Presbyterian which is with
out pastor. At the Lutheran
church four new members were
admitted, and communion held in
the morning. In the evening
they had very interesting Easter
exercises for the Sabbath School.
The same program was followed
in the Reformed, there being
seven new members received in
the morning, and in the evening,
officers and teachers of the Sab
bath School were installed, and
diplomas given to five graduates
from the teachers training class.
Thirty-three member of classes
were awarded silver pins for
have attended every session of
Sabbath School for six months.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
They Breed EnrOute.

Very careful and delicate ex-
periments have proven that mi
crobes not only live much longer
in air that has come in contact
with decayed vegetable or animal
matter, but that they actually
multiply rapidly while in suspen-
sion III the air that furnishes
food for them. All know that
many odors are unhealthy, but
never knew why; but we can
readily see, therefore, how it is
unnecessary for disease microbes
to find Judgement in filth in order
that they maymultiply. The mi
crobes that rise into the air on
Water street, and float in a
zephyr, may have increased a
million fold by the time that par
ticular puff of air reaches VIC
Tins in another part Of the town.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
Go To Church May 3rd.

The rural church has come ir
for much criticism-some of il
just and some of it unjust. That
rural churches are a vital part OF
every rural community there can
be no question. Spreading over
the country is a religious wave
that is certain to benefit the age.
In arousing the public conscience
concerning politics, political cor
ruption, unholy materialism and
vice in high places the fundamen-
tails of religion have once more
been received and the steps of
the Master accepted as the path
way for personal and national
salvation. To promote the fur
therance Of this idea a go-to-
church movement has been in
augurated among farmers, and
May third has been selected as
the day that every one attend
some church. Everybody is ur-
ged to make an effort to get ev-
erybody else to attend-an to at
tend themselves. You are asked
to speak to your minister and
have him prepare a special SER
vice on that day. The ministers
are asked to speak to you and ask
you to help by your presence.
Let May third be the rally day
Of the beginning of a new era of
church-going. Let the country
church once more be the centre
of religious and educational train
ing that marked the early history
of this country. Be sure to go to
ch ur c h somewhere ON May
third; and see to it that some sig
nificance be attached to the SER
vices of that day:..it will be as
leaven for future days.
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Huhaor,ha fo,. +ha Nux.,e
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
Put On A Good Front.

1t would make mighty interest
ing reading if the impressions of
the 20, 1000 automobile parties who
passed through this place last
summer could be compiled. Over
so, 900 strangers passed through
here during that time, and car
ried their impressions of the
place to almost every state in the
Union. Business men took in
the place at a glance and formed
opinions according to what they
saw, and that opinion may inhu-
ence business relations between
them and the place in the future.
We flatter ourselves that the
impressions were at least on a
par with those made in other
places along the old, translate
highway. However we fancy
that a little paint, and the remov-
al of some of thankee-man cross
ings, and the daily cleaning up
of loose papers and rubbish, would
impress travellers with the vim
of the Burg, to the financial bene-
fit of the community. Put Sun
day-go-to-meetin' clothes on Wa
ter street and let it wear 'em ev-
cry day this summer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
Rabbits Damaging Trees.

t' - '~foSi ohS w h'' bi' Ss''
imal or bird, whether protected
by law or not, is fully set forth
in letter written recently to a
Potter county horticulturist by
Professor H. A. Surface, State
Economic Zoologist, from Har-
risburg. The writer complained
of trees being damaged by rab-
bits, and stated that he had been
fined for killing one of the rab-
bits; he suggested that the State
ought to allow damages under
the circumstances. Zoologist Sur
face replied:
I'VE have been sending out in
formation at every opportunity
to tell the people how to prevent
injury to trees by rabbits and
mice, and have used the meth
ods for some years on my own
trees without damage to the tree
either from the treatment or
from the rabbits. Therefore, |
feel that the State has given in
formation as to practical and eff
ficient methods of protecting the
trees from injuries, and if you
have not applied this information
the State can not be to blame.
The method consists in spray
ing and washing the trees with
strong lime-sulfer solution, made
by boiling one pound of lime and
two of suffer in each gallon of
water for forty-fve minutes, and
then diluting with six or seven
times its bulk of water, adding
a half ounce of lead arsenate or
Paris green to each gallon, and
spraying it over the trees. The
rabbits will not go where it has
been applied. 1t should not pre-
vent your mulching the trees, or
following any other method OF
horticulture that you wish. 1t
can be applied as a wash with a
brush.
1t is true that through the
Game Commission the rabbits are
protected, but there is no law
against person killing rabbits
as pests if at the time of killing
them he lets them remain on the
ground or throws them away like
he would any other pest. When
you shot the rabbit for which
you were fined, if you had let it
remain on the ground where you
shot it, they could not have fined
you. A person, of course, has a
right to protect his property from
damage, but he should first find
out the legal method by which |
this can be done"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
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Death of Infant.

Walter Charles Mellott, little
son of Charles and Rhoda Mellott
near Sipes Mill, this county, died
April 7, 1914, aged l year, 2
months, and 5 days. Interment
was made in the Sideling Hill
Christian Church Cemetery, on
April 9th. Rev. j. P. Garland
officiated, assisted by Rev. John
Mellott. The parents and sur
viving sister have the sympathy
of a wide circle of friends,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16

born in Baltimore, and for a long
time was in the employ of the
Cumberland Valley railroad. He
afterwards bought the farm on
which he resided at time of his
death. He raised a family of
twelve children, all of whom are
living. His wife died about four
teen years ago. Mr.. Bailey was
about n years of age when he
died. He was a member of the
M. E. Church.
The names and addresses of
the children are: William and
Harry, at Hagerstown; Dice, of
Chambersburg; Harvey and Ben,
of Harrisburg; Cloyde, of Cana
da: Florence (married) of Ohio.
Mrs. William Woodall, of McCon-
nellsburg; Mrs. Edith VanDraw,
and Mrs. Belle Hoover, of Mer-
cersburg; Essie and Virgie, at
home.
Mrs. MARTHA E. MYERS.
Mrs. Martha Esther Thomas
Myers, wife of Mr.. Dallas Myers
died at their home one mile east
of McConnellsburg, on April II,
1914, after having suffered for
some time with diabetes. Mrs.
Myers was daughter of the late
Joseph and Mary Thomas, of Ayr
township. She was born in Oc-
tober 1859, and was aged 54 years
6 months and 7 days. In 1878
she was united in marriage to
Mr.. Dallas Myers. To this union
three children were born; Nancy,
who married Edward Pine, and
is now living in Franklin county;
Mary, who married Edgar Down
in, and lives in Tod township,
this county, and Maud, deceased.
Her husband, Dallas Myers
survives.
Mrs. Myers united with the
United Presbyterian Church of
this place about twenty years ago
an was faithful in her attendance
upon the services, and an exem-
plary member, of both church
and society, and will be greatly
missed by a very devoted circle
of friends.
Funeral services were conduct
ed by her pastor, Rev. ]. L.
Grove, on Monday afternoon, in
terment being made in the union
cemetery.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16

love. The value of love- for grief
is not too great a price to pay for
love. Our deepest joys and our
bitterest griefs grow on the same
stalk. To love always involves
suffering sooner or later, for
there must some time be a sepa-
ration. One must go on from a
new made grave and watch and
wait for the sunrise-land where
love shall find it soon again.
GEO. w. ASHTON,
Oklahoma City,
Okla.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
Death Of Famous Writer.

Lovers of books will be mysti
fled to know that three of their
favorite authors were born at the
same moment and that all three
died recently at the same mo-
entail three in their fifty
eighth year. Their names are:
Bertha M. Clay, Charlotte M.
Breame, and Thomas w. Han
shew. The mystery will have
disappeared when you learn that
all three were but one person,
namely, Thomas w. Hanshew.
He was an American by birth,
but lived most the time in Eng
land, dying in Amnesty. 1t is
said that he died of overwork, he
having contracted with an En-
glish publishing company to write
four novels a year besides two
short stories each month.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16

Miss Mollie Seylar went to
Washington, D. c., last Saturday,
to spend some time with her
niece, Mrs. Marshall McKibbin.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16

Mrs. Ola Cowan and Miss Sa-
villa Bowman, of Burnt Cabins,
spent Monday with friends at
the county seat.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16

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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-16
In MemOrianl.

| Written by George w. Ashton in
memory OF his only sister, Lydia A..
Woollett, who died few months ago
in Pittsburg. Pa. Mrs. Woollett was
the widow OF Oliver Scott Woollett
and resided at Fort Littleton several
years -Editorl
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-09-05
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For Observation-Disclosures wilson.
For Vice Presidcnt-ThOmas Z
Marshall.
Presidential ElectOrs-Jefers0n b
Browne, j. Fred DeBerry. Charles =
Jones, w. Chipley Jones. Leland J.
Henderson, Ii. c. Sparkman.
Congressman, State at Large
Claude L'Engle.
Congressman, First Districts
M. Sparkman.
Congressman, Second District y
Frank Clark.
Congressman. Third Distr.ct-Em'
clett Wilson.
Goyernor-Park Trammell.
Attorney General-Th0s. +. West
Secretary of State-H. &. Craw
ford.
Commissioner Of Agriculture-W
~ Mcliae.
Treasurer. c. Luning.
Compatibility. V. Knott.
Superintendent of Public Instruc'
ton w. N. She; IS.
State Chcmist-R. Z. Rose.
Adiutant Gencrai--J. G. r. Foster
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-09-05
and they send their friends.

But there is another and still bet
ter class of visitors who come to
Florida each winter in increasing
numbers. These are people Of mod
crate means, who come TO Florida to
spend the winter because they are
induced to do SO by some acquaint-
ance who is a resident of the State.
These people may go to the cities or
they may elect to spend their time
far out in the country. Many times
they board in private families or in
small boarding houses. At other
times they rent rooms or houses. In
all cases they see more of the real
Florida than the wealthy tourist who
trcads the beaten path, and frequent
~ they become home seekers.
The best class Of settlers that Flor
ida has ever had has been made up
of people who have visited the State
in winter at the invitation of some
acquaintance or relative and who on
learning the advantages the State Of
fers to men of small and moderate
means, have invested in Florida
homes
These people seldom get their
names in the society column Of the
city newspapers. but they are build
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-09-05

,unmeraple steps of the spiral stair
case that winds around that lady S
backbone; saw the Olympic, the IL
tanics sister ship and exact dupli-
cate ais, the Mauritania. the fast
est ship in the world, arrive from
and depart for foreign ports; at
TEMPTED to eat rice with chop sticks
in Mott street, and drank Tokay in
the famous Bohemian restaurant OF
Little Hungary. And always the
most interesting things to see and
study were people-people. Here one
comes in contact with 80 many types
one has read about. Potash & PERL
mutter, y'understan' me. have seen
EN- vet, as many as a hundred times.
already; patriarchs who might have
stepped from the Old Testament
prints may be met at every corner OF
certain quarters: the experience OF a
visit to foreign lands may be had, SO
far as observation of their people
t,oes, in a walk of few blocks. Bul
with all that was wonderful, lux
urious. picturesque and interesting.
| am glad do not have to live there.
| would rather share the Everglades
with Tommy Tigertail. am thank
full that am compelled to do Meth
er, but am able to make my home in
a good town, where. com parativply
| life is pure and simple and sweet
Ito Be Continued
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-09-05
MAKE INDIVIDUAL BIDS
FOR WINTER VISITORS

With each recurring winter more
and more people from the less fav-
Drcd States to the north of us come
to Florida and spend at least part
of the winter season in this glorious
land of the sun and the sea.
The big winter hotels that line
the coast of both sea and ocean have
already busted themselves in adver-
Using their resorts, especially and
the State generally, among the peo-
pie where it will do the most good
4 great many of these hotels and
resorts know already, approximately
how many guests they will have next
Winter. where they are coming from
and how long they will remain.
This is all good The number OF
rclthcrn visitors to Florida has been
decreasing from year to year. The
benefits hey have done the State has
been large and the share these visit
crs have had in the development of
the resources of Florida has in one
way and another been almost meal
culable.
Still these visitors follow the beat
on path. They 20 from hotel to ho-
tel, from town to town on gulf and