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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18
Buildings Burned.

The barn, hogpen, and ada
cent out-buildings together with
four nice shotes, were destroyed
by fire on the farm on which re-
sides Gayle Remsburg, on We'd
nesday night of last week. This
farm lies along the mountain
road leading from Deneen's Gap
south ward and is known to the
older people as the Perry Hughes
place. Mr.. and Mrs. Remsburg
had been away during the after
noon. Returning in the evening
they did the work at the barn,
went to the house, and about 8
O'Clock were surprised to see a
light shine in through the win
dow, and looking out they saw
that the barn was afre. Not on
ly was the barn, and adjacent
buildings destroyed. but they lost
about 3 tons of hay, a threshing
machine, harness, fodder, and
other property. 1t is not known
how the fire originated. The loss
is partially covered by insurance.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18
Charlie Lynch Badly Injured.

Charlie, aged Is years, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank P. Lynch,
was seriously injured Thursday
evening of last week when he
stepped from the runningboard
of a moving automobile. ]. w.
Mellott, lumberman, was going
east on Lincoln Way, and Charlie,
to save a walk out to his brother
Watson's store, was riding with
him. When near the store Char
lie stepped from the moving ma
chine and in some manner, trip
ped and fell before he could ov-
ercome the momentum gained
from the speed of the machine.
Result was a very hard fall. He
fell on his stomach and injured
the lower bowels, shoulder, and
side. He was taken home and
DR.. Mosser was called. By Sat-
urday, bad symptoms developed
and Doctors Palmer and Skinner,
of Chambersburg, were called in
consultation. Water collected in
his side and the lower bowels
failed to perform their function
after treatment, and, for time,
1t was feared that an operation
would be necessary. But he is
better, and if no further compli-
cations develop, his physician
thinks it will be only matter Of
time until he will he well again.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18
Beautify the Lincoln Highway.

Much interest is being taken in
several localities for the improve
ment of the Lincoln Highway by
planting trees and shrubbery
where they will give best effect.
What could be more beautiful,
and what could induce more
tourists to come in and spend a
little money with US than a shady
lane leading from one end of this
beautiful state to the other?
Many city tourists, glad to get
away from the heat, dust, and
odors of the town, love to stop
along the way at inviting spots
and pay we'll for entertainment
for a few hours or for several
days. Then too, civic pride is a
good thing to teach young peo-
pie. By teaching them to make
home surroundings as beautiful
as possible, they make better
citizens. 1t awskens interest in
public affairs and helps to keep
them on the farm. Young peo-
pie like to be noticed, and if a
neighborhood undertakes to do
something to attract attention,
it affords just the opportuni-
ty for them to carry on friendly
contests that cultivates love of
home.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18
SHALL wOGEN VOTE?
The Men Of Pennsylvania Will Answer
That Question at The Election
Next November.

Whether the women of Pennsy-
lvania shall vote will be decided
by the people next November.
The Senate at Harrisburg on
Monday night by a surprisingly
large margin of 81 to II passed
finally the suffrage resolution
which passed the house nearly a
month ago.
Shortly after the close of the
Civil War, the white men of the
United States felt that they need
ed the judgment of the colored
men of the country in the guild
ance of the old Ship of State, and
gave to them the right of suff-
rage, Notwithstanding the fact
that a large percentage of them
had just emerged from slavery
and could not read nor write,
nearly a half century's expert
ence has shown that the country
has not suffered on account of
the granting of that prerogative.
Pennsylvania has been slow to
take advanced steps in progress
sive movements, and it was not
until the wave of public senti-
ment sweeping from the west
struck us, that we awakened to
the fact that woman suffrage was
a question that had to be met.
Every state from the Pacific
Coast sweeping eastward and in
cluding Kansas has already con-
ferred that right upon women,
and with most satisfactory re-
suits, and there can be no doubt
that Pennsylvania will set the
pace for eastern states next No
vember.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18
To Change School Laws.

The State School Directors AS
sociation has taken steps to have
some new ideas incorporated in
the school laws of the State.
According to information direct
from the Association, the School
Directors bills were, or will be,
introduced in the Legislature
some time this week. There
seems to be sentiment in some
places in favor of taking the con-
troll of schools farther away from
the people. This will be serious
ly objected to by the Association.
The Association will endeavor to
have politics eliminated, and put
the election of school directors
on the non-partisan plan. An
other feature of the school code
for which a remedy will be
sought is the selection of instruc-
tors in schools where instruction
in manual training, domestic sci
ence, and agriculture is taught.
The code sets forth that instruc-
tors must hold certificates in these
professions, and it has been found
that the average young graduate
has nothing to recommend him
or her but a certificate, having
had no actual experience. Hence
the local school board is barred
from employing instructors, who
in some instances, would volun-
teer their services, or at least be
far more capable of giving the
desired instruction along these
lines. The Association claims
that, in many localities, there are
local men and women of undoubt-
ed capabilities, but whose servi-
ces are barred because they are
not graduates.
Other features of the bills to
be introduced provide for the
payment of tuition of children
from public homes by the state;
wider privileges of local boards
to provide transportation to and
from high schools; the regulation
of normal school graduates cir
tifcates; to permit the establish
ment and maintenance of teach
ers' training schools in districts
of the second class; to provide
for a more efficient and less cost
ly system of teachers Institutes;
to remove high schools from state
supervision entirely; change in
the issuance of bonds in case of
immediate need-such as after
a fire. The central idea of the
Association is to oppose all furth-
er efforts tending to remove the
schools farther from the control
of the people; either in matters
of administration or taxation. 1t
stands opposed particularly to
the County Unit" system as
recommended by the State Edu-
cational Association.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18
Recent Weddings.
LAIDIG- MCCLAIN.

At the M. E. parsonage, Hunt.
ingdon. Pa, on Wednesd ~
March 10th, Rev. George S. Wor.
mer united in marriage Mr.. Jesse
Daniel Laidig and Miss Bertha
Nevada McClain. The groom is
a son of David Laidig, and the
bride a daughter of Isaac Nc
Claim, both we'll known families
of Taylor township. They will
begin housekeeping on the farm
of the groom's father at Laidig.
A reception was given at the
home of the brides parents at A
O'Clock on the following after
noon, at which were present Dan
iel Rinehart and wife, VIM. G..
McClain, wife and daughter Byrd
of Roberstdale; S. T. McClain,
Three SPRINGS; George Heefner,
wife, an daughter Lydia; Char
les Black, Mi.c. and children
Hazel and Har er; William Heef-
ner and wife, w. F. Berkstresser
and wife; Jere Heefner, wife and
children-C Cora, Eunice, and Will
lis; Jesse Keefner, wife, and
daughter Olive. |. c. McClain,
wife, and family-Viola, William
Jesse, Russell, George, Lydia,
and Marshall. The bridal couple
were the recipients of many val
liable and useful presents. The
finishing touches to the happy
event were placed by the cali
thumpians who turned out in full
force in the evening.
HANN-KUHN.
On Thursday, March II, 1915,
Mr.. David Rush Ham, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Ham, of
Webster Mills, and Miss Adaline
Kuhn, daughter of William Kuhn,
of Tod township, were united in
marriage at the M. E. parsonage
in McConnellsburg, by Rev. j.
V. Roger. Mr.. and Mrs. Ham
will reside near Webster Mills.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18


be appropriated by the General
Assembly from time to time to
carry out the provisions of this
act.
Section II To carry out the
purpose of this act the sum of
fifty thousand dollars is hereby
appropriated as a special fund
upon which warrants may be
drawn from time to time in ac-
cordance with this act.
All acts or parts of acts incon-
sestent with this is hereby re-
pealed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18
THE GRIM REAPER.
Short Sketches Of the Lives Of Per-
sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.
SIMol L. MELLoTT.

Pneumonia, from which he had
been suffering since the 5th of
February, caused the death of ST.
mon L. Mellott at his home in
Johnstown, Pa, on Wednesday
night of last week. The funer-
al took place at 2 o'clock, Friday
afternoon, the services being con-
Quoted by his pastor, Rev. Will
liam McCullim, of the Second
Christian Church, of which Mr..
Mellott was a member.
Simon L. Mellott was a son Of
Dentist Job B, and Savannah
Layton Mellott, and was born in
this county in December, 1870;
hence he was in his 45th year.
He was twice married. His first
wife was a daughter of Andrew
Truax, of Belfast township. To
this union two children were
born both of whom died. After
the death of the mother, he was
again married and about IA years
ago, went to Johnstown, and
went to work for the Lorain
Steel Company. Being industri-
GUS and frugal, he. accumulated
property, and was getting along
well. He is survived by his wild
ow, Daisy Rhoades Mellott, to
whom he was married in 1908,
and five children-M Margaret Paul
Ethel, Lawrence, and Meade.
The deceased was a brother of
H. w. Mellott, Hamilton, O.; Ra-
chel, wife of Joseph Wyles, Ever
EFT, Pa; Jennie, wife of Walker
Mellott, near Needmore, Ella,
wife of Charlie Deshong, Wells
Valley, and Bertha, wife of Ross
Bard, Sipes Mill.
MARGARET FIGARO.
Mrs. Ma 'garet Figard-n e e
Margaret Ensley-died at the
home of her nephew, Mr.. Levi
Johnson, at the Club House on
top of Sideling Hill, Friday night
March 12, 1915, aged almost 80
years. Funeral was held on the
following Monday, interment be-
ing made at Breezewood.
Mrs. Figard had been living on
the Lewis Ensley place, near Sa-
luvia, and had gone to visit her
friends at the Club House but a
few days previously to her death
which was due to old age.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18
NUMBER 26
BOILING WATER AS A DlSINFECTANT
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by
Samuel G. Dixon, NJ. D., IL. D.,
Commissioner Of Health.

Measles, scarlet fever, diph-
liberia and various other COM
municable diseases are perhaps
most readily transmitted by the
discharges from the nose and
mouth of the patient. When the
patient is cared for in the home
and some member of the family
must act as nurse, it is necessary,
for the protection of whoever acts
in this capacity and for those who
come in contact with the patient,
that the utmost care should be
exercised in handling them.
Instead of the handkerchiefs
commonly used for this purpose,
the patient should be supplied
with cheese cloth or paper nap
kins, and in a sufficient quantity
so that they can be handled with
comfort. Those which have been
used and discarded should be
handled only by the nurse and
Immediately burned. After
handling such materials the hands
should be thoroughly disinfected
in bichloride of mercury or
other good anriseptic solution.
The dishes and eating utensils
which are used for the sufferer
should in no instance be washed
with those used in the household
but should be placed in a recep-
tacle kept just outside the sick
room door containing a disinfect-
ing solution of cresole or formal
dehyde and then placed in boil
ing water and allowed to boil for
ten or fifteen minutes.
The sheets and bed clothes
which will invariably be covered
with fine particles of sputum
when the patient coughs
or sneezes, should be placed in a
tub containing one of the three
disinfecting solutions and allowed
to soak for three hours, after
which they should he boiled for
one hour.
When there is a sufferer from
tuberculosis in a household they
should not use the dishes and
eating utensils which the other
members of the family do, but
should be supplied with individu-
al utensils. These should al
ways be first boiled and then
washed separately.
These are fundamental pre-
cautions in the handling of COM
municable disease which can only
be disregarded at the peril of the
nurse and the entire household.
Unquestionably the transmission
of disease from one member of a
family to another in many cases
is due to the failure to follow out
this method of procedure con-
sistently.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18
Our "TrOlley."

For the benefit of the city pa
pers that smile when they speak
Vi Fulton county's trolley" we
wish to say that regular steam
foad cars will be drawn over
love mountain by a cotton elec-
'rlc motor, thank you. We do
no' propose to use out-of-date
s'eam locomotives. We expect
- nave city people come outher
~ see something not common ev-
erywhere.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18

Subsciber for the ''News' only
s1.00 3 yea.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18
"AULD ACQUAINTANCE"
Bits Of News and Gossip Extracted
from The Letters from Our
Distant Subscribers.

Mrs. Anna R, Mcclellan =
Please find enclosed $1.00 to re-
new my subscription to the Full
ton County News. | am leaving
to-day March 12l for Fostoria,
Ohio where | expect to make my
future home, and feel that | can
not do without the NEWS. :"
was born and raised in Fulton
County and it comes to me as let
ters from home. My address
will be Isl E. Summit St., Fos-
toria, o.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18
James G. Kline, Alpha. N. ].

James G. Kline, Alpha, N. j.
Enclosed | am sending one dol
lar to renew my subscription to
the NEWS. There have been
many sales postponed in Bucks
and Northampton counties in
Pennsylvania on account of Foot
and Mouth disease, and these
counties are just across the Della
ware river from Warren and Hun
terdon counties in New Jersey;
but up this time, there have not
been any cases of that disease in
New Jersey. On Saturday March
9th, we had the greatest fall of
snow, we have had this winter,
twelve inches; but, the next day
the sun came out and soon the
snow had disappeared. 7 h e
truckers are getting ready for
their spring and summer work.
Some of them have their early
peas, and other early vegetables,
planted.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18

Harry E. Sipes, Chadwick, Ill.
The label on my paper tells me
that | will soon be in arrears, so
here goes check for two dollars
to push my subscription into 1917
We are all well, and times are
good-everything taken into con-
sideration-for our farmers have
not been able to ship any stock
out of here for two months and,
of course, that has its effect of
business. We are having nice
March weather.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18

Mrs. E. B. Crosby, Lowville,
N. Y.:-Enclosed you will find
the usual dirty dollar" for an
other years subscription to a
clean" newsy paper. We could
not well no without it, as it keeps
US in touch with the good old
home town and our many friends
there.
did not notice the subscrip-
ton had 50 nearly expired. Hope
you have not suffered the pangs
of hunger, on account of it.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-18

WIN. Ming, OdnuO, IN. LAX. :
l see by the label on my paper
that if | don't pay up, l shall
soon be missing the weekly Wis
its of the Fulton County News,
and | am sure wouldn't want
that to happen; so | send here
with a money order for two dol
lars which will pay up arrears and
put me a year to the good. We
have had a very nice winter
only two or three very cold snaps
and they were of short dura-
ton, and | think we have had less
than six inches of snow all told
this winter. Not enough to make
good sleighing. At this writing
{ March s the weather is nice
and balmy, and the ploughed
fields are all dried off; no snow,
except here and there, and that
is fast disappearing. Spring is
almost here, and we have been
so busy with our everyday chores
that we do not have our seed
grain cleaned; and that is no
small job, as we shall SOW be-
tween sixteen and seventeen
hundred bushels. We shall begin
seeding anywhere between the
1st and the 18th of April Just ac-
cordingly as the season opens up.
very much enjoy reading in
the News letters from the Fulton
County people who have gone
out to stake their fortune in 9TH
er parts. Let us hear from more
of them. Let the Fulton County
News be the official medium by
which the distant Fulton County
people shall keep in touch with
each other. Any of my friends
who want to know more about
North Dakota, and will take the
pains to write me / shall be glad
to give and information within
my knowledge.
Gunnison news-champion., 1915-06-18

ssaH Bargaining to erlas q vhen Ae
hsard a sozsaa sa=iak ~ she sams
instant resoisers haGan % gog
Nr Las reiaasad hss Zoe almass a.
aaickis IS he Uas reisssaa Bofh rose
as ias nsaa. b. sad Jsdifh Triae BE-
ssa. shsm a iizsls snsils os sxciteassns
psayine rouad hsr Iys a. she soosxad
40 the tsaas ana watched the sS~csAl
sios aoprn 10 stoB-~esorsl pcrsoas
on the bacs platform plyins bsss trag
Ser-sHssrs ali the Whsle
As these Last shreW open the plat
form gates aad dropped 10 the ballast
still yeriorstina she AIR vith many bsss-
sets. ar La1. aiiss 5sd<h Trsne. and
thai .aie beiiieersnt the enxinssr
turned simultaneously and souGht The
rear ef the tender
On thc opposite side they round
Rcse Urine and Mr. Bsrcve standing
uncertainty above the body Of the ase-
man. who. IL appeared. had atsnHsd
himself In fallsng and remained in
sensible
The appearance of Law and Judi1h
from behind the tender closely Dur-
sued By the engineer. who Was in tura
CLOSELY pursued b. gentlemen With re-
volvers. stirred Rarcus and Rose to sc-
ton Alan passed him at a round
pace. paussng only long enough to seize
Rose and DRAG her with him toward
the special Judith flung him phrase
Of well-meani advice IN pa sing:
Come along you simpleton--unless
you want TO be shot down where you
stand"
Mr. Barcus acted on that advice. as
immediately az resentfully. Judith
Trine was little before him at the
steps of the Pullman Mr. Law had al
ready assisted Rose aboard Mr. Bar.
Gus ungraciously gave place to the
lady. his ingrained ehiyalry sorely
strained by bsllets that kicked
among the ballast round his feet
Gunnison news-champion., 1915-06-18

Hndscapo 0uly AT the third csss did
ehey sscceed N picking uD tho line Of
the santa - And n Was some hours
laser thsaeh sin daylight. Whan they
packed up the special train. nyine like
. bunting acrcas the level.
There Waa scaut room Cor doubt
thai Il Vas the train they soaght spe-
Gals are aot common. Moreover Alan
cou:rtved Nith considerable difficulty
10 focus binoculars upon the rear plat
form Of the car and caught a fl.sitlve
glimpse OF a vhite-coated fgsre with a
black face that vac watching the b.
plane In the same manner. that is.
with glasses
The man In the white coat. Alan as
cured himself was positively Barcus
And hardy had he comforted him
self with this assurance when his sar
donic destiny struck the motor dumb.
In response 10 his look of dashed
inquiry the aviator merely shook a
weary head and muStered the words
Engine trouble"
Swiftly the earth rose to receive the
volplaning mechanism. Under Coast .
admirable handling II settled down al
Gunnison news-champion., 1915-06-18
CHAPrEN HkH,v.
NaNa Ger.

t<aWa Ger.
Welt" Mr.. Barcus broke q silence
whose eloquence may not be translated
in print-"can you beat it,"
Not with this outfit" Alan admit
ted gloomily.
''But-damn it.-we've got to-"
"Profanity-even yours. my friend
won't make this Pullman move without
an engine"
"All the same. we can't stop here
like bumps on a log, waiting for that
gang of thugs to sail up in the light
engine and cut our blessed throats."
Mr. Law answered this unanswer-
able contention only with a shrug.
Then, stepping out on the forw ard
platform of the Pullman, he cast Q
hopeless eye over the landscape.
Raw, rugged hills hemmed in the
right of way. hills whose vast fanks
were covered with dense thickets OF
mesquite. chapparal, sagebrush and
cacti, the haunt of owls and rattle
snakes and-solitude. No way of es-
cape from that pocket in the hills 9TH
er than by the railroad itself.
He lowered his gaze to the tracks
and siding-and started sharply.
"Eh-what now" Barcus inquired
with interest.
Some thoughtful body has left an
old hand car over there in the ditch"
Alan replied. Maybe it isn't beyond
service"
With me supplying the horsepower,
I supposed"
Horse isn't the word" Alan cor
rected meticulously; and escaped the
others wrath by dropping down to the
ballast and trotting over to the ditch,
where the hand car lay.
Looks as if it might work" he an
nounced, Come along and lend me a
hand.''
Half a minute" Barcus answered,
lodging suddenly back into the car.
When he reappeared, after some five
minutes. Rose accompanied him. and
Barcus was smiling as brilliantly as
though nothing whatever was wrong
with his world
Sorry to keep you waiting. old top."
he explained: but ! was smitten with
an inspiration. There didn't seem to
be any sense in letting the amiable
Judith loose upon this fair land, SO |
found coil Of wire in the porter's
closet and wired the handle OF the
drawing room door fast to the bars
across the aisle. It1l take her some
time to get out. now. without assist
ance"
Ten minutes more had passed before
the two grimy and perspiring gentle
men succeeded in placing the hand car
upon the tracks.
Its swell little hand car Bar.
Gus observed grimly: no wonder they
threw it away"
What's the difference how il looks
- long as il viii go?-
Gunnison news-champion., 1915-06-18

-'Nm y5s b. god q Z sss yos euf-
-Psrfacsly-
~So n.ore sseHaa2saaT
= promise
-Nora of hoaor-
N nsy ~ord Of honor nssas any
thing 10 yea-yea have n
Well y he said asbssssly.
l. the sauss hunssr be ssTnea and r~-
seasea the Knob. promgsly Judszh
opesea u 9iae saa s~eps esf into the
corr.asr. her mood Ee~ one Of really
fetching nsockery.
-Ta..us yes 50 MACH she laughed
into has taee OF dseeogststsEe. and orss-
Ping hsm an sronie csrtsy. she turned
forward and sxuns into the drawing
room occupied es Urine.
~ saaer ~haf she pst that on for7'
he specusated with reference 10 the
snkie-iong Pullman wrapper which Ja-
dith haa seen mt TO don aursng her
period OF captivity. Heaven knows
IT'S hot enough without wearing more
clothing than deceacy demands !.
But yea newer can tell about a ~om-
tA . W. o,Atat " af@*s* -
blisheriBg ass Of my sels--lessias her
loose st ALL"
RE TOOK his doubts aft. eommaBi-
eating them 10 Alan and Rose.
And his long conference with Alan
and Rose on the observation platform
Afforded judith ample OF lortunity In
which sBdetected TO egborn the train
crew to treachery.
Whether she did or not. this is what
happened IN the course OF the next
hour the special was forced TO take q
siding to make way Tor the California
limited. east bound: and when thx had
passed the engine of the special
coughed apologetically and pulled
swiftly out, leaving the Pullman stalled
on the siding
From the rear of the tender the
brakeman and fireman waved affecting
farewells to the indignant faces u