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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
For a Square Deal.

If there is any significance in
the meeting of 250 people in a
country church to swelter for
three hours in 80 degrees of tenn
perature, in order to organize,
then the people of Ayr township
mean to give and receive a square
deal at the next judicial election,
for that is just what they did
not once, but twice-last Sunday
afternoon at Big Cove Tannery.
A branch of the No-License
League known as the Inter- -Coun-
ty Judiciary League is being
formed in each township and
borough in Fulton and Adams
counties for the purpose of in
suring the election of a president
judge who will interpret the
Brooks License Law according to
the rulings of both the Superior
and the Supreme Courts of the
State. Last Sunday was the
date for the first of these meet
ings in Fulton county, and dates
for similar meetings in each of
the other townships will be an
nounced later.
We can state briefly that each
and every candidate for the Of
flee of President Judge of Fulton
and Adams counties will be asked
for assurance that he will either
grant or refuse licenses accord
ing to the will of a superior num-
Der of advocates for or against
licenses. This is in strict har-
mony with the American spirit
of fair play, and since there is
no longer any doubt that the
Brooks law was meant to be in
terpreted in this manner, instead
of the way in which it was be-
ing interpreted in both the Adams
and the Fulton county courts,
pressure that cannot be lightly
brushed aside will be brought to
bear upon candidates by the sub
stantial citizens of both counties.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
Enyiable Record.

j. Newton Morton, son of Hon.
and Mrs. Peter Morton, Of this
place a member of the Junior
Class at the Pennsylvania State
Forestry Academy passed the
subject of Tree Identification"
with a grade of 9S.5. Only five
men in the history of the school
have made a better grade than
this, and young Morton is to be
congratulated. Out of 700 speci-
mems of trees and shrubs that he
was asked to name he missed on
ly %. Newt" it will be remem-
bered, was Valedictorian of the
class of 1918 of the McConnells-
burg High School.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
Pennsylvania Crops Short.

The Bureau of Agricultural
Statistics at Harrisburg has sent
out the following forecast for the
1915 crops: Estimated crop of
wheat, 21, $780,, 900 bushels. Last
year it was 23,747,OOO bushels.
The hay crop will be short by
about one fourth.
Forecast for wheat in the Unit
ed States for this year, is o little
over that of last year as shown
by the following figures: For
1915, 963. 100000 bushels. For
1914 it was S91, OFT, 600 bushels.
A falling off of almost 2.000.- :
600 bushels of corn is expected
for Pennsylvania, with a corres-
ponding decrease for the United
States.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
C,incidents.

The Mercersburg Journal, in
commenting on the recent petit
tion of thirty-three Fort Loudon
citizens for State Police protec-
ton against intoxicated foreign
ers who are working on the Nc
Connellsburg and Fort Loudon
railroad, sees the following coin
cidents: The petition, the Judge
who endorsed it, the saloon, and
the State Police. Not half bad,
Brother Fleming!
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
Ont In Ohio.

The many friends of Frank E.
Mellott, of Bloomdale, Ohio, will
be pleased to learn that he is get
ting along nicely 1t will be re-
membered that the NEWS told
about Frank having both arms
broken by a runaway team on
the tenth of June, which of course
put him out of business, notwith-
standing the fact that Frank had
65 acres Of wheat to cut. But
Frank goes to Sunday school and
has the respect of the community
in which he lives. So when har-
vest time came, his Sunday school
classmates took the matter in
hand, set a day, and twenty-five
men turned out with the neces-
sary machinery. When night
came the wheat was in shock.
In singing the praises of the men
we would be very ungrateful not
to mention tie part taken by no.
BILE women in TIE neighborhood,
who assembled at the Mellott
home, took charge of the kitchen
and prepared dinner and sup
per for the reapers that made
them feel that their efforts in the
field were appreciated. Then to
make the day more memorable,
as the darkness began to disap-
pear in the east, the indistinct
form of an old stork was seen
winging his way toward Franks
home, with the result that after
the stork had disappeared, there
was in the house a great-big
brown-eyed baby girl.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
Big Peach Crop.

The Smithburg, Nd, peach
district is making great prepara-
tions to ship a bumper crop of
peaches to all parts of the United
States, to Canada, and to nearly
all parts of the world. 1000 car
loads is the estimate. Shipments
will begin about August 1st.
Reports from all along the
South Mountain district extend
ing on the Pennsylvania side
nearly to Harrisburg indicate
enormous crops of peaches this
year.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
CRASHED INTO TELEGRAPH POLE.
Pittsburgh Automobile Party Had Seri-
Gus Accident Near Everett Last
Thursday Afternoon.

Mr.. and Mrs. William Myers
and their three children passed
through McConnellsburg last
Thursday on their way to their
home in Pittsburgh, after having
been out on a thousand-mile auto
tour. Their journey had been
one of pleasure until they
reached a stretch in the Lincoln
Highway known as the Mile Lev
ell, a beautiful piece of road
straight as an arrow a short dis
tance east of Everett. After hav
ing passed over the sinuous wind
ing road through the mountains
to the east, the motorist is temp
ted to open the throttle just a
trifle more and notice the figures
in the odometer soar, notwith-
standing the fact that there is a
line of sturdy telegraph poles
standing along the roadside CIV
ing silent warning of danger.
Mr.. Myers had almost covered
the beautiful drive, when his car
suddenly swerved to the left and
with great force crashed into a
twenty-fve-foot pole planted five
feet in the ground and carrying
three arms with ten wires on
each arm. The car which was
a Ford touring, struck the pole
squarely near the center of the
radiator, and the impact was so
great that the pole was driven
forward in the earth, at least,
eight inches, shattering the pole
into splinters, and knocking two
of the cross arms entirely loose,
leaving them suspended from the
wires. Mrs. Myers was riding
on the front seat beside her hus-
band who was driving, and when
the car struck the pole, she was
shot through the windshield and
landed along the fence some dis
tance. She was terribly cut by
the glass and remained uncon-
scious for several hours. Mr..
Myers having hold of the steer
ing column, was able to save him
self from leaving the seat, but
the children were thrown out, and
strange as it may seem, neither
they nor Mr.. Myers suffered any
serious injury. The car was not,
as might be supposed, completely
wrecked. The radiator was
slightly mashed in, and one lamp
broken, and as it stood in the
Karns' garage when our reporter
saw it on Friday, it looked like
it would not hesitate to run up
against the whole Western Union
Line if its driver cared to take
the chance.
The Karns Garage people took
the Myers family to their home
in Pittsburg, Thursday evening.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
$3.50 for Harvest Hands.

Denton Hendershot, of Pigeon
Cove, called at the NEWS office
on Monday to order bills for his
sale of personal property, August
25th. Mr.. Hendershot helped
his son Lemuel, seven miles west
of Hagerstown, to harvest. Lem
uel cut 60 acres of wheat, and
estimated the yield at 1900 BUSH
els. He paid as high as So. so
per day to hands to shock wheat.
Mr.. Hendershot said that some
farmers in Maryland paid So. 90 a
day for help. This is the highest
price paid since the Civil war
period.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
Dry Farming Congress.

Semi-arid western states hold
a "Dry-Farming" congress each
year. Our former townsman.
John Fields, editor of the Okla
homa Farm Journal, says of the
organization "This congress has
without question done good work
in impressing upon people gener-
ally the necessity of cutting away
from the agricultural traditions
of the eastern states, and of de-
veloping methods and growing
crops adapted to the climatic con-
ditions of the Great Plains"
Our reason for quoting the fore
going is, that up-to-date eastern
farmers owe much to their BROTH
ers who went west and cast aside
some of the hide-bound notions
instilled into their minds by their
stubborn ancestors. One of the
important things learned from
our western friends is the con-
servation of moisture something
that is necessary here in the East
as in the West. Another good
thing that has been made popu-
lar by dry-farming states is the
necessity of sticking together"
for the spread of advancing meth
ods.
Much that we know about
farming has been handed down
to us by some one. The son
wants to absorb from his father
all the good things that the faith
er has learned about the subject;
the son wants to develop as much
original knowledge as possible,
and, in addition, he wants to
gather by reading and associat-
ing with successful farmers all
the information possible, and by
so doing he will not only be in
position to be successful farmer
himself, but be able to transmit
knowledge that will be helpful to
the generations that follow him.
Shallow cultivation which
leaves a very fine, level mulch ox-.
er planted ground, and the useof
a soil packer, conserves moisture
in dry lands of Fulton county as
profitably as in Oklahoma. Each
type of soil must receive the care
adapted to it; and. right here we
will say again Young Farmer,
read, READ! Get in touch with
the agricultural departments at
State College, Harrisburg, and
Washington. The times are
changing and we must keep up
with them
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
Sold Gish Mills.

The assignee of H. L. Gish
sold at auction the FIGURING Mills
at Fayetteville and Mercersburg
in front of the Franklin county
Court House last Saturday after
noon.
The Fayetteville Mill was sold
to Luther W. Knauff of MERGERS
burg for $3O50, and the MERGERS
burg Mill to w. D. Boyd of the
same town for $4910.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
Penrose's Car Brrned.

Senator Penrose and party left
Pittsburg last Sunday morning
for a trip over the Lincoln High
way, expecting to reach Harris
burg in time for dinner. In as
cending a hill two miles east of
Greensburg a back-fire from the
carburetor caused a blaze, and
the occupants had but little
enough time to escape from the
car and watch its total destruc-
ton by the fire.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
NUMBER ~
KEEP A LIGHT HEART.
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene BY
Samuel G. Dixon, NJ. D., IL. D.,
Commissioner OF Health.

Frame your mind to mirth and mer-
riment which bar thousand harms
and lengthens Life" ("
Lycurgus decreed that statues
of the God of Mirth should be set
up in the halls where the citizens
of Sparta ate.
Men of all ages have appreciat-
ed the value of a cheerful dispo-
sition. The cultivation of cheer
fulness even in the face of mis-
fortune and disaster unquestion-
ably helps to prevent illness. On
the other hand those who always
take a sober view of life are so
distressed by misfortunes when
they come, that there is often
danger of physical impairment.
The nervous system in the hu-
man body is so delicately adjust
ed that comparatively slight
disturbance may seriously dis
turb certain of the bodily func-
tions. While it might be at the
time difficult for the most skill
ful diagnostician to trace the ex-
act connection between mental
depression and q physical illness,
the fact that they are often init
mately related is well known.
Habits of mind like habits of
body can be cultivated through
persistent effort. Cheerfulness
is one which will not only prove
a distinct benefit to its possessor
but serve to stimulate and en-
courage those with whom he
comes in contact.
Melancholia and similar serious
disturbances may be brought
about'by permitting the mind to
brood over real or fancied trou-
bles and if INDUCED in the line of
demarcation between the two be-
comes more and more indistinct.
Therefore, though you do not
set up the statue of the god of
Mirth in your house bear ever in
mind that "the light neart lives
long,"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
They Want Fair Play.

Woman Suffrage has received
the unqualified Endorsement of
those lovers of fair play and good
sportsmanship, the big leaguers
on the Philadelphia National and
the Pirates. Hard on the heels
of the Suffrage Day game in
Philadelphia on July z, when so
many of the players declared
themselves for the cause, comes
the news that the Buccaneers are
to play for Votes for Women"
on September 8.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
CHARGED WITH FORGERY.
James Smith Used J. K. JOhnstOn'S Name
on Check 10 Raise Need.
ed Funds.

Last March Charlie McLaugh-
lin Of the Hotel Mercer, Mercers-
burg, cashed check bearing the
name of j. X. Johnston in favor
of James Smith, for the sum of
nine dollarg. When the check
reached the Fulton County Bank,
there was something about the
signature that aroused suspicion,
and when the check was present
ed to Mr.. Johnston, he pronounc-
ed it a forgery. The check was
returned to Mercersburg. Infor-
nation was made before Justice
of-the-Peace Shaffner of McCon-
nellsburg, a warrant issued, and
placed in the hands of an officer
who waited until Jim returned
from Canada on Monday, when
he was arrested and taken before
Justice Shaffner. For want of
sufficient collateral, the prisoner
was sent to Jail, to answer the
charge of forgere before Judge
Swope.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
Hunters Licenses.

pennsylvania is being given
credit by the newspapers of the
United States as being the great
est all-round game state in the
Union. Last week 325, 900 licen-
ses for hunters were distributed
among the county treasurers Of
the state, and the Game Com
mission is prepared to issue more
if needed. 1t is said that the
revenue from the sale of the IL
censes is to be held in a special
fund and to be disbursed for
game work only.
There are two sides to every
question and, of course, two sides
to the question of whether hunt
ers should be taxed. No hunter
objects to the payment of a dol
lar for the purpose of increasing
game in the State; but there is a
feeling-with or without base
that the greedy eye of Glass"
directs the disbursement of game
funds. If the American spirit of
fair play be followed closely, and
the money disbursed economical
ly and efficiently, and without
favor, then let US pay the tax.
But if the system smacks in the
least of European practice of
gradually reducing good hunting
areas to privately owned loca-
tons, then away with it. Fulton
county, despite the destruction
of its timber, is a natural breeding
ground for game and is rapidly
becoming the Mecca for hun
dreds of outsiders during the
hunting season. But as yet, very
little money has been spent by
the State in the county for the
propagation of game. We be-
lieve that the Game Commission
is making an honest effort,
through the help of the United
Sportsmen's Association of Penn
sylvania to distribute game and
protect it; but Fulton county is
too small, and too poor, to main
tain branch of that organization
strong enough to pay in a suffici-
ent sum to insure us proper
share of stock game and fish, and
since it is the favorite hunting
ground of Pittsburg and western
county sportsmen, we think our
selves entitled to special notice
by the Commission. AS an ex-
ample of the feeling toward Full
ton county, three wild turkeys
were said to have been exhibited
last fall by hunter from west
ern county. When told that it
was illegal to kill turkeys in
Pennsylvania last fall, the hunt
er said "Oh, l did not kill them
in the State, got them down in
Fulton County.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22
Lost Two Fingers.

One day last week, while work.
ing at the small circular saw in
his planning mill at Hustontown,
William Laidig made a misscal-
culation so that one of his hands
came in contact with the saw.
DR.. McClain had to amputate the
index and middle fingers at the
first joint.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22

Hon. w. S. Flemming used a
gasoline tractor in his wheatfeld
near Greencastle last week to
draw the binder. 1t is said that
this is the first time a tractor has
been used to cut wheat in south
ern Pennsylvania. Every thing
worked smoothly to the satisfac-
ton of the harvesters. A great
crowd of people witnessed the
work.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22

terian church of McConnellsburg
was born in that town on the
26th of October, 1S45. He visit
ed McConnellsburg about two
years ago.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-07-22

Mrs. Harvey Bender spent last
week with relatives near Burnt
Cabins.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-09
The Eden Musee.

Rus in urbe. That might well have been
the inscription over the entrance of the
Eden Musee, which has just closed its
doors For il was not, except on few
occasions, a place of amusement for New
Workers, but for their provincial relatives.
Aunt Sue and Cousin Mary Jane insisted
upon going there bright and early, on the
morning after their arrival, to stare at
the crowned heads and celebrities, who
stared back at them unwinking. and to
confirm in the Chamber Of Horrors their
darkest suspicious of the wickedness of
New York.
There was that series Of groups, with its
profound moral lesson, of the young man
who stole and committed murder for the
sake of the siren in Harlem fat. And
Uncle Silas. the champion back home,
played games of checkers with the auto
matte Ajecb, and always lost. by heck!
Then a living celebrity from abroad pro-
duced rabbits from silk hat, and little
American flags from Aunt Sues handbag,
and silver dollars from nephew Rufus's
nose, Just like the gentlema. at the straw
berry festival of the Second Presbyterian
Church, last June, only ever so much more
so. II was an unforgcttable experience.
1t is not in the files Of the New York
newspapers, but in those of the country
press, that we must look for the Eden
Musees place in the history Of American
amusements. For Aunt Sue and Cousin
Mary Jane returned home and wrote pieces
about this wonder palace for their local
papers, and the editor printed them with
/ laudatory comment.
And yet the Eden Musee claims its
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-09
Fight or Submit.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the last nine months the civilized
world has had wonderful opportunity 10
realize the horrors of war. and the advo-
Gates OF peace have been enabled to fortlfy
their arguments most ably and TO gain many
adherents in our own country. Yet it seems
as IL the desire for continued peace had
killed the sentiment of patriotism IN some
American women when one reads the letter
of your correspondent, Fannie NJ Wither-
spoon. describing the Anti-Enlistment
League. the object Of which is 10 acquire
male members who must pledge themselves
never 20 enlist in army or navy and female
ones who promise 10 oppose, with all tnelr
might. the enlistment OF men near and dear
10 them
The present war in Europe was caused by
N, great desire of the German nation TO
extend its boundaries, TO acquire lands whicn
n had been unable to obtain By peaceful
means. The German government knew well
that France was unprepared for war as
France herself acknowledged, and she would
inevitably have fallen a victim to the Ger
man arms had it not been for the assistance
~ England. Now what do these peace advo-
ca.es,eonsider that France should have done
whenlinvaded by Germany? Should the gov
eminent have telegraphed to Berlin that
France was ready to submit to nation all
OF whose ideals were antagonistc 10 ner'
and that she would proceed to Germanize her
self as rapidly as possible! This course OF
action would have averted war IN FRANCE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-09
POOR "UNTHINKING" AMERICA
Yet He Thinks 1t Rejects the
Trash" 1t Reads.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: How long are the readers of The Trib-
une to be inflicted with such puerile attempts
at "smartness" "a your editorial of June l,
displayed under caption circumstances Alter
Judgments?
Mr.. Ridder, as quoted | do not read his pa
per-, has certainly voiced my opinions on
Italy, and | am sure there are thousand
nay. hundreds of thousands of other Ameri-
cans who agree with him in both 'circum-
stances" As far as he has been quoted he Is
logical and fair. which is more than can be
said Of most editorial writer's.
The raw deal which most of you editors
have given Germany is a disgrace 20 this
country and our boaated spirit of fair play.
I am glad to say that any one who imagn IS
that you represent a majority OF thought Will
find himself grievously mistaken. | grant
that numbers of people talk you write be-
cause they are in the habit of believing what
ever happens TO be written in their particular
newspapers, not having time nor inclination
for doing their own thinking or gaining their
own knowledge of facts.
am for America first, last and all the time,
bu. we are a superficial and unthnking peo-
ple. and nobody can deny this We have some
thing to learn, but you editors Of our daily
napers have much to answer for. You are IN
position to tell the truth and enlighten the
neople. In your editorials concerning the Eu-
ropean war you have betrayed your trust
either through ignorance or greed, and the
consequences may be very terrible
What fine thing il would be II The IT'D
une would live up to its motto: First TO Last
Tho Truth: News s. Editorials - Advertise
wants" At least you would have the thanks
- those of rs who. realizing the true condi-
,ion Of affairs. are disguised by the trash
.hor, tho war which is and has been appear
ing in our news( Diapers.
r. the newspapers since August 1, 1914,
roaIl,, ranresented American thought would
he ashamed of being an American.
New York, June 2, 1915. l.. NJ. SlkOoS'