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Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Nichols and
Mrs. Austin Nicely attended the Bill.
man.Haines reunion at Moundbuild.
ers' Park, Newark last Thursday.
Mr. Iohn Frey and family of Texas
are visiting Mrs. Margaret Hayden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Taylor of Mt.
Vernon spent Saturday night and Sun.
day with Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Cooksey of
Utica were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Morrow Saturday night and
Sunday.
A large crowd attended the Mt.
Zion picnic Saturday.
Miss Gertha Hall spent Sunday ev.
ening with Miss Evaline Schooler.
Mr. and Mrs. George harris at
tended the funeral OF Mr.. Jackson
Pipes at Union Grove Sunday.
Miss Della Morrow of Vannata is
visiting relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Doodle spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Van
Wrinkle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Scoles spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Scoles
of near Gambler
Miss Evaline Schooler is spending
this week in vt. Vernon attending the
teachers institute.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Nichols of Dus.
ty Bottom, spent Saturday night with
MIR. and Mrs. Earl Burch.
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HOME
tSt. Louis Post-Dispatch)

The Americans have delightful
country In summer, but they make
themselves miserable milling around
In It. Great hordes of people travel
on any thing they can board, and
there Is general exodus from wher.
ever one lives to some place where
1t Is Just as hot and twice as un-
comfortable. II is as If the Romans
OF the time Of Augustus had all spent
the heated term in Norway and Rus
sia, or as II all the Persians OF the
time OF Cyrus had similarly set out
every summer for the steppes of 81.
IBERIA. There is. of course, more facil-
ity In travel now, but there Is prob.
ably no more comfort. The crowds
are dense, everything is packed and
jammed and virtually no one is in a
good humor from the time he sets out
until he returns.
This Is purely habit-and ma
tiOnal one. No other country does It,
and none ever WILL Fashion has
something to do with it. An Ameri.
can family With nice, cool home
thinks 1t must close 1t through the
summer and wander in misery over
the face OF the earth until II is fash.
ionable to go back to its electric fans
and Its tile bath. It is almost pathetic
to see an American family return
from this exile. The father and moth.
er join hands and dance all over the
house. The children fill the neighbor-
hood with shrill srieks OF laughter.
the dog barks. The phonograph is
turned on. The lights glow. The
help scurries about. One would think
1t wedding, but 1t is not. 1t is
home.
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SEEK
Pretty Girl In Connection
With A Robbery

Philadelphia. Penn, August 22-
John N. Schmidt, 81 years old, veal
thy furniture dealer. OF 1115 Broad.
way, Camden, N. j., reported to Cap.
tain OF Detectives Cameron today
that he had been robbed of 1000
In new bills under circumstances that
he considered decidedly strange. but
which detectives looked upon as hav.
Ing more OF tipge OF romance.
Considerable mystery surrounded
the story OF the theft, but that a
young woman figured In the robbery
was admitted by the detectives. and
II she can be found she will probably
be able to clear up the Disappearance
of the $1,000 roll.
Shortly after noon Schmidt, ac-
companied by a friend, reported the
theft OF the money lie was very re-
tlcent regarding the details of the rob-
berry, but bit by bit Captain Cameron
and a couple OF detectives whom he
oSniSueu W uithe All luNestisutiOu OD
tained from Schmidt quite roman
tic story In which the young woman
was u conspicuous figure.
A week ago Schmidt, who is said
to be worth 100000, was In Ocean
City. and, according to his own
statement, he there met Miss Helen
Roy, ~ years old, young and pretty,
who was also n resident of Camden
The two had a conversation, and II
was airaigncd that he should accom-.
pony the girl to Philadelphia, Schmidt
drew the money, It was said, to 20
away with the girl, and 1t disappeared
from his coat In cafe.
He went home, told his wife. who
advised him to ask the police to hunt
the girl.
II want the girl arrested" he said.
II thought she was nice girl. but !
don't know. ] have learned lesson"
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The Standard Flag.

There Is to he a standard flag Of the
United States. which will be formally
Indicated In the report on the stand
nrdIzntion of American flags to be
made by a board representing all the
executive departments Of the govern.
mcnt. II was appointed for that pur-
pose. From this report Will come out
an executive order prescribing the size
OF the various flags and emblems used
by the United States and especially
those used ut garrisons and posts and
those used for storms. The colors OF
the troops will he the sizes that
already been adopted by the army
the navy.--BOston Advertiser.
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OUT OF DANGER
Is Miss shufi Who Accidentally Drank
CarbOliC Acid

Lock, Ohio, August 22-Miss May
Shuff of this place, who accidental
ly drank carbolic acid about eight
weeks ago, mistaking 1t for medicine,
is now entirely out of danger. Her
recovery has been slow and was, for
several weeks, very doubtful. She
was able to go to Utica Thursday
morning to visit her aunt, Mrs. Mary
Snuff
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POISONED
Was Detective Burns. ..Con.
ditlOD Said To Be Critical

New York, Aug. 22--A report from
Denver, COL, states that Detective
William J. Burns is there critically
III and 10 said to be poisoned.
The detective, according to this re.
port, was stricken soon after meet.
ing some unidentified man.
The report caused profound shoe k
here. Burns was supposed to be in
this city.
The district attorneys office had
announced that Burns would be a
witness today In the grand jury In.
vestigation of the RosenthaI case.
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Thos. Portertield of Bladensburg
was buying cows In this vicinity Mon
day.
VIM. Purdy spent the latter part of
last week at Cavalle fishing.
George Horn predicts a great corn
crop having 140 acres out.
Mrs, Hiram Stricken of Howard
spent Tuesday with her sister. Mrs.
VIM. Whitmore.
Mr.. N. Petry threshed Tuesday.
Mr.. John Mckee threshed a field
Of oats making II bushels to the acre.
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Cociety
0News
e Entertained
Most Pleasantly

Mrs. j.. A. Culbertson entertained
very pleasantly at her home on East
Vine street Wednesday evening in
honor of Miss Ruth Cooper of Akron
who has been guest at the Culbert-
son home for several days. After an
enjoyable hour early in the evening
the entire party, twenty-one in mum.
ber, attended a moving picture show
Delicious refreshments were served
after the return from the theatre. The
Misses Rhea and Florence Masteller
of Niles, Ohio, were present from out
of the city
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Mr.. and Mrs. b. E. Salisbury are
spending the day at Rogers Lake.
They will attend a picnic given by the
Sparta High school of which Mrs. Sal
isbury was member of the class of
SO.
fance, Ohio, is visiting for several
days with relatives in Danville and
Buckeye City.
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4 ohip'o epeed.

A ships speed is reckoned by knots.
knot being a geographical mile or
one-sixtieth Of degree. Six geograph-
teal miles are about equal to seven
statute miles. and ship that sails
twelve knots therefore IL really moving
at the rate OF fourteen statute miles an
hour. II should be remembered that II
Is incorrect to say so many 'knots an
hour" simply 50 many knots. for
knot means zone mile an hour"
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No Navy, No Enaland.

Commenting on Winston Churchill's
assertion that to Great Britain the pos
session of II navy Is necessity, while
to Germany II II II luxury, n London
journal remarks: Germany might lose
It's fleet ana yet remain the foremost
power IN Europe. II a great maritime
disaster happened to us we should be
blottcd out Of the ranks of European
powers"
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6lencS government Fof raw ''
Women Are Compelled TO Work at
Ninht In Factories Of international
Harvester Company, Of Which He
Is Director, and Points Out Planks
In Progressive Platform Touching
on Subject Of Lahor.
New Y X, Aug. 22.-Chairman
George w. Perkins of the national
committee of the Progressive party,
who is also a director in the lnterna-
tional Harvester company, defended
both party and business when he
said the government was to blame
for the night work for women carried
on in one of the International Har'
vester company's plants; that the
women wouldn't be permitted to work
AT night II the third party was in
power, and that the Harvester com
pany was getting rid Of the evil just
as fast as ii could
Evidence taken before the New
York state factory investigating com.
mittee on Aug. IA and made public
told the story of how women worked
in the Osborne Twine company plant
at Auburn, y. Y, one OF the impor'
tant branches of the Harvester com.
pany One of the girl workers was
only l6 and several others who tes'
tilted were near her age. They de.
clared the women in the factory
worked 10 hours a day or at night
for wages usually under sS week,
and that they were obliged to do
their work standing and worked fire.
quently in dark and poorly ventilated
rooms, where the air was filled with
dust.
Girl Gives Testimony.
Mary Previ, who is 10 and has
worked In the factory since she was
16. told the factory investigating
committee, represented at this hear.
ing by it's chairman, Senator Wag'
ner, and others, that the long hours
of standing on a slippery floor tired
her feet so that she could do little
more than crawl into bed at night,
and that the dust from the twine
made her sick.
When the facts as brought out by
the factory committee were shown to
Mr.. Perkins In the Progressive execu
tive committee headquarters at the
Manhattan. he issued statement,
saying In part:
This Is all part OF welfare work
that every corporation should be
doing. The Harvester company has
spent, as it's annual report shows
many thousands Of dollars year
more and more each year. In this di
rection. II does not pretend to have
reached point Of perfection as yet
but 1t Is headed In that direction.
"The platform Of the Progressive
party is strong on this very question
declaring for a minimum wage stand
ard for women, for living wage IL
Industrial occupations and the prohi
| bition OF night work for women ant
an eight-hour day for women, for on,
! days rest In seven for all wag'
workers: publicity as to wages ant
hours and conditions OF labor. To-
full publicity on accidents and dis
| Naosan
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H;s standino.

THAT young fellow seems to have
made himself solid ut your house"
'Yes; Judge he has, Nh is looking
M his family. Fwliile pa Is investigat.
Ing his commercial rating. g."--Louisville
Courier Journal
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Deeds Filed

Deeds Filed
VIM. A. Ulrcy to j. Wesley Turner,
George w. Lepley to J. Wesley Tur-
2.4j acres In Howard, $500.
ner, lot 149, Fairview. 81.
Mary b. Gotshall ct AL, to Leroy
French ct al. lot 8, Gotshall's pro.
posed add, Mt. Vernon, $24O.
M. j. Van Voorhis ct al, to A. V.
Rowley, lots 3S-4S, Martinsburg, $3.50.
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Entertained
For Mrs. Gebhardt

Entertained
For Mrs. Gebhardt
Mrs. J. II. Beach of North Mulberry
street entertained Wednesday with a
dinner in honor Of Mrs. Katherine d..
Gebhardt Of Marion, Ohio, superin-
tendent of Scientific Temperance In.
struction of the w. c. r. U.
Those seated were Mesdames J..
A. Splitter, Silas Parr, w. G. Creveling
John Mason, Il. F. Altenburg, J. M.
Walker, Kaufman, M. Nixon, X. d.
Gebhardt and Miss Flora Farquhar Of
Fredericktown. The favors were
white carnations.
Following the dinner the ladies
went in IA body to the X. C. r. insti-
tute to listen to an address given by
Mrs. Gebhardt.
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Administrator Appointed

~. b. Hancock of Martinsburg has
been appointed administrator of A. j.
Pipes, giving bond in the sum of ST.
900, with Eliza j. Pipes and Cora b.
Hancock as sureties. The appraisers
are James Bell, Ira Ewart and Allen
Bebout.
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*~%The I. o. o. +. lodge of New
Castle will give picnic Saturday,
Sept. ID, in the park at New Castle,
to which all members and their
families are invited. Also members
of neighboring lodges are invited to
come and spend the ay. A fine pro-
gramme is being prepared.
'+%On Sunday Sept. Is, the old sol.
diers of the G. G. Nichols Post, will
hold their annual camp fire in the
park at New Castle. Everybody cor
daily invited.
""The Mt. Vernon Christian Confer.
ence will be neld at Appleton, Licking
Co. Opening session will be August
2S in the evening and ending on Sep.
tember |.
@**The Ladies of the Maccabees
will hold their annual picmc Friday
afternoon at Riverside park. Every
member and every visiting l.. o. T.
NJ. in the city are cordially invited.
$s@Eros Court. Tribe of Ben Hur
will meet Friday evening, August 23.
Dues may be paid to the scribe at
Lawler's Drug store on Saturday
from $3.50 until 4:3O p. IN. and from
Z until 9 p. IN.
***All members taking part in the
Moose Minstrel show will be on hand
Friday night at 7:l5 o'clock. Profes-
sor Harry Bolus of Mansfield, Minis.
trel instructor, will be present to
start rehearsals. A representative of
a costume firm will be present.
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Tho Spirit Of In. Times.

II IL an age Of artificial devices.
Rare, indeed. 10 the man and rarer
still the woman In whose physical
makeup there y not something false.
either eyes orttseth or hair.-Atlautc.
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COuRT H0usE NOTEs
Inventory Filed

Inventory Filed
In the matter of the estate of Mar.
garet Morris, the trustee has filed an
inventory, showing the following:
Personal property $19S.96.
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Entertained
With Luncheon
Mrs. John J. Toole, Lamartine
street, was the hostess of a hand.
somely appointed luncheon Wednes.
day afternoon In honor of her house
guest, Miss Washington of New York
City. Covers were laid for ten.
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A Dinner
At Gambler

A Dinner
At Gambler
A number of Mt. Vernon ladies en-
joyed sumptuous dinner at the home
of Mr. and Mrs Royal Dial of Gam
bier on Wednesday. Those present
were Mrs George Slmpkins, Mrs. JOS
eph Severns, Mrs 7. s. Collie, Mrs
V. Kaiser, Misses Nellie Severns and
Dorothy Kaiser
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*""The prayer band will meet al
the home Of Mrs. Lee. 305 Coshoctor
avenue. Friday August 23. Every
body invited.
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!. WILL OCCUR SOON y

*SfThe Woman's Guild of the Pres
byterian church will hold a picnic a,
Riverside park on Wednesday after
noon, August 2S.
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Entertained
With Dinner

Entertained
With Dinner
Mr.. and Mrs. Newton Il. Eastman
delightfully."- entertained with din
ner Wednesday evening in honor OF
out of town guests.
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Mr.. and Mrs. George Frontz.
Alice Lorey OF Mt. Vernon was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. George Weaver
Sunday.
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HOW TO
REMEDY EVILS
Perkins Defends New Party and
Big Business.
DISCUSSES LABOR CONDITIONS

Blsnes Government For Fact That
WcNen Are Compelled to Work at
Nirht In Factories Of international
Harvester Company, Of Which He
Is Director, and Points Out Planks
In Progressive Platform Touching
on Subject Of Lator.
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WHY FULTON COUNTY
MERCHANTS SHOULD
ADVERTISE IN THE
FULTON COUNTY NEWS.
4t@*Gse!4.:.% &C.: g: !; +:
~-i=-< Camden, N. J.
A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT.


That we often hear of the lar
ger advertising successes and the
smaller successes rarely, does
not prove that there are few
small successes.
1t is on the contrary for the
same reason that we heard all de-
tails of the sinking of the Titanic
while the sinking of smaller craft
receive but small comment.
Early IN June, 1912, Mr.. B. P.
Cobb, of Camden, N. j., despite
twenty years of experience as an
awning maker, had no orders.
He expended the munlficent
sum OF $500 for advertising in
the Post Telegram and received
one hundred and eight orders In
less than week.
Just as long as you are doing
business, there is opportunity
for increasing it by use of The
FULTON COUNTY News.
Write, phone or call and say
you are willing to talk 1t over.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-30
All BOSh and Rubbish.

Those newspapers that are do
ing their best to belittle the Ad-
ministration at Washington are
now crying out that President
Wilson should have recognized
the murderer Huerta a year ago
and saved this country from hav-
ing to go to war with Mexico.
Had Mr.. Wilson done so these
same papers would now be claim
ing that twas a blunder. In the
language of "ole" Uncle Rastus,
deed they would"
If any man can point out how
the recognition of Huerta would
have saved the lives and property
of Americans and other foreign
ers in Mexico, when more than
half of the people were at war
with him, he will prove himself
a seer that would make the shade
of Mormon John Smith green
with envy.
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Subscribe for the NEWS.

WANTED. "A very stout boy to
hold the assistant editor on his
job during this enticing weather
when the fish are biting.
The classis of the Reformed
Church will meet in their church
in this place on May 5th, contin-
uing to and including the 9Th.
Forest fires in the United States
have caused an average annual
loss of seventy human lives and
the detruction of $25, 900, 900
worth of timber.
HlDES.-Frank B. Sipes
pays the highest market price
for beef hides at their butcher
shop IN McConnellsburg, also
highest price paid for calf SKINS
sheepSklns and talloW.
Advertisement.
Ed Sollenberger, Of Hamburg,
Pa, spend a day or two in this
place last week examining the
reservoir of the city waterworks
with a view to preventing a rep
etition of last summers scarcity
of water.
George W. Sipes whose fine
residence near Harrisonville was
destroyed by fire recently, NOV
ed his family to one of Frank
Taylor's houses on east Water
street, this place. Mr.. Sipes is a
very fine carpenter and builder,
and will have no difficulty to find
employment at remunerative pri-
ces.
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Motor Trucks on Pike.

On Friday of last week a light
motor truck intended to haul l,
500 pounds, came over from Mer-
cersburg in little over an hour
and quarter, loaded with 1,800
pounds of flour. For some time
the Atlantic Refining Company
at Chambersburg has been deliv-
ering thousands of gallons of oil
and gasoline to this place in mo-
tortruck tanks. Itmust be cheap
er for the Franklin county firms
to deliver by motor truck than
with horses, or they would not
use the former. Notwithstand-
ing the bad breakers in the road,
some of these concerns offer to
deliver full loads to points far
west of us.
Our object in referring to the
foregoing is to keep before our
people the possibility of our being
connected with the Cumberland
Valley railroad by swift autos,
and auto freight trucks, as soon
as we make-or have them
made-roads free from breakers
and ruts too much for business
vehicles to negotiate. We will
also repeat what we have said
several times-that the muddle
at Harrisburg will necessitate
our building some of the roads
by private subscriptions and la
Dor. There is no possible other
way unless, the State return
some of the roads to the town.
ships.
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MARKET REPORT.
CORRECTED EVERY WEDNESDAY.

The grain markets are taken from the Cham
persburg daily newspapers The provision
prices are those that obtain In McConnells
Durg.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-30
Abnormal Eggs.

Frequent accounts of quarter
pound eggs lead us to ask readers
to give their experience with
hens that lay these eggs. For
several years we had a flock of
about a dozen hens under obser-
walton, and during that time
hardly ever failed to get an egg,
at least, once a year. that weigh
ed about twice as much as the
same hens normal egg. If men,
ory serves us right, a hen laid
two such eggs several years ago,
and she was carefully watched to
see if she would make it a "hab-
it." She died very shortly aft
erward, much to our disappoint-
ment. In the course of time 9TH
er hens laid similar eggs, and
careful trace of their actions in
variably ended in their death
soon after laying big egg.
This led to the conclusion that
the cause of the big egg was a
diseased condition of the hen,
which interrupted the natural
fInctions of her body, producing
the abnormal egg, and causing
her early death. What has been
your experience?
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-30
Scare Crows.

The time is here when some of
us will want to scare crows and
blackbirds from our fields. An
old time scare-crow that works
better than anything we know of
is made by binding two looking
glasses back to back and suspen-
ding them from an arm fastened
to a pole or tree. The looking
glasses must be suspended so
that they will move in the least
breeze. The flashes of light is
what frightens the birds.
A writer in one of our farm
papers tells of how he frightens
crows by making a platform in
the field and placing an old wash
boiler on it with an old clock un-
der it. He arranges so that the
ticking of the pendulum beats
against the sides of the washboil-
err and which can be heard all
over the field. He says crows will
give the mysterious invention a
very wide berth. Perhaps some
of our boys can make a wind
wheel to beat against the sides
of the old boiler to make the rack
ct.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-30
Sale Register.

Saturday, May 2, Mrs. Sarah
Fisher will sell at her residence
on east Water street, all her
household goods. Sale to begin
at | O'Clock.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-04-30
MEMS AND BOYS CLOTHING

The large sale of mems and boys clothing this pngpoves that
have been exceedingly fortunate the selection Of stock Come right
along for spring and while have sold have plenty
left and adding stock right along.