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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-03-01
COMFORT HOUSES.
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by
Samuel G. Dixon, NJ. D., IL. D.,
Commissioner Of Health.

Comfort houses in cities and
towns are essential to the health
and comfort of our people, yet in
Pennsylvania the travelling pub
lie that comes to town for a
day or two for sightseeing is not
provided with layatories or COM
fort houses.
These good people, often strang
ers in our towns, are driven into
saloons in search of lavatories,
and men often buy a drink before
leaving as they feel indebted to
theinnkeeper. In many cases, this
drink may be taken for the first \
time by one Of weak character,
who has not sufficient force of
mind to deny himself another. 1t
is the beginning of a sad ending
Tor the young fellow.
On Sundays and holidays, when
the stores and taverns are closed,
our visitors are hard set to find
places of rest and comfort. Com
fort houses, kept in sanitary con-
dition. cost some money. but how
essential they are!
The absence of such houses,
not only causes discomfort, but
ill health.
When Governor Tener gave
the Health Department charge of
Gettysburg to prepare it for the
great meeting of the Blues and
Grays at the Fiftieth Anniver-
sary of the Battle of Gettysburg,
and we were reviewing the ne
cessary things to be done, such
as an ample water supply, hos
pitals, dispensaries, sewage dis
posal, etc., we conceived the idea
of having liberal supply of COM
fort stations, well placed through
out the town of Gettysburg along
the roads leading to and from the
old battlefield.
These houses had male and fe-
male attendants thousands upon
thousands of people made use of
them and those places of rest
and comfort represented large
factor in making our phenomenal
health record of this memorable
occasion.
During the gathering of the
Blue and Gray at and around
little Gettysburg, with a normal
population of about eight thous-
and people, during the seven
days, with q census of one hum
dred thousand people, notwith-
standing the old age of the vet
erans and their families, the re-
cords only showed nine deaths.
Let our health boards and
councils awake to the necessity
of comfort houses, designed and
maintained to keep up a sanitary
condition, and they will help to
advance not only the health, but
the morals of our people.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-03-01
God Gave You Health. Thank
Him For 1t. Go to Church.

ME people never think of God until IA loved
one is i'll or great trouble besets them.
Then they seek the SOLACE OF RELl-
GlON. clergyman is called in, and
prayers are said at the bedside for the loved
ones recovery. God is MERCIFUL, and
ofttimes these prayers are answered, and
the loved one RECEIVERS.
1T is NOT FAIR TO GOD, HOWEVER,
TO ASK HIM TO REMEMBER YOU WHEN
you HAVE FORGOTTEN HIM. WHEN Ev.
eRYTHINe is GOING ALONG SMOOTHLY
AND THE WORLD LOOKS BRIGHT SOME
MEN FORGET THERE Js A con THEW
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-03-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Largent,
of Waynesboro. Pa. spent the
time from last Friday until Sun
day. visiting the formers parents
and sister in this place. The
NEWS will keep Albert posted on
McConnellsburg doings.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-03-01
FEBRUARY HONOR ROLL.
Names Of New Subscribers and Others
Who Have Paid Subscription Oar.
ipg The Month Of February.

The large number Of persons
who during the month of Febru-
ary have shown their apprecia-
tion of the FULTON COUNTY News
by having their names entered
as new subscribers, or that have
paid up arrearages and advanced
their subscriptions a year or two
is most encouraging to the Edi-
tor. 1t is not the number Of
names that a newspaper publish
er has on his list that counts; it
is the number of people that
stand steadily by the paper ard
pay for it as the time comes along.
1t is purely matter Of careless
ness to get behind with a sui
scription account and tits always
harder to pay two years at a
time than to pay one.
Just give one healthy old hen
a chance and she will keep your
paper paid up-one egg week
will do the trick.
Look the NEWS over carefully
outside and in. Note the home
news, foreign war news, the
state news, the health articles,
the good clean stories, the mar
kets, and the constant hints and
helps in everyday life, and you
will be convinced that it is worth
the money. During the past
month many persons have not
only advanced their own SUBJ
scription, but have paid for, and
ordered the paper sent to sons or
daughters who have gone from
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-03-01

ish that keeps them in. They
are free to leave any time--if
they dare and If they have not
smashed up their engines. The
Independent.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-03-01
RECORD OF DEATHS.
utches Of the Lives Of Per-
ns Who Have Recently
Passed Away.


oRRow MCN. KENDALL.
70 an illness of a little over
with a severe attack Of
nonia, Mr.. Morrow Nc
Sfon Kendall of Ayr town.
the prime Of his manhood
AWAY from our midst on
~ % near midnight. His
life, measured by the
covered a period of
entury with one month
ays added. He was born
INT his life in the Cove,
"a the eldest of a family
children of the late James
argaret Morrow Kendall.
Irvivod by his mother and
Living sisters and brother:
nnna Henderson, of rarkio,
M. Mary Pollock, Washing
Mrs. Laura Mcdowell.
masters, Pa, Mrs. Annie
~, Chambersburg, Pa;
H., of Ayr township and
0th /. with her mother in
6ellsburg. Two sisters,
md Clara died in early
(. He leaves a wife with
t1Ildren viz: William R.,
tet A., Lois P, Robert NJ,
and David L. Mr.. Ken
ID a quiet, industrious and
6ccessful farmer, a good
III and a useful citizen, and
much missed in the COM
He was a faithful men,
he United Presbyterian
and did his part we'll
But above all other
will be missed in the
Vhere he was a devoted
and very kind father.
Ice seemed too great for
AXE in the interest and
d his family.
nday at 10 A. M. funeral
Rere conducted by his
: |ov. j. L. Grove assisted
]. L. Yearick in the
ear the Union cemetery,
by a great concourse of
nd neighbors both from
county and also from
county. The body was
st in Union cemetery
e and rapidly growing
e dead.
IS. ]. A. SIxEAs.
nncy E. Sixeas, wife of
Sixeas, died at their
Chambersburg on Thurs
ing of last week, aged
3 months, and 20 days.
tvived by her husband
blowing children: Miss
II home; Mrs. Mary
Mrs. Lizzie Stutzman,
sburg; Shade S., Of
sburg. These brothers
rs also survive: Andrew
|or Irwin, both in the
ts. Maggie Booker and
|ie Godo, of Highspire
e in Philadelphia; one
Mrs. Louisa Hull, OF
p. She was a consis.
nber of the Methodist
Church and a goot
mother. A grandson
pr, was buried from
Monday preceding.
Sunday afternoon a
ducted by her pastor
ward AXE. Intermen'
rove cemetery.
xeas was a daughter O
Jared Irwin. She an,
md were residents o
lsburg during tn Ell
RED life and have man,
9 relatives in this coun
Y learn with regret 0
OF this good woman.
w. GUNNELLs.
sley Gunnels died SUD
3 home in Chambers
unday night. On Sur
B, Mr.. Gunnells, wh
pan physically, attenc
r the Methodist Epis
b of which he was
nember. APPARENT
health, he went
ttle later he made
This attracted h
#&AA - y -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
The EIiddl@m Cross

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
Good SideIight

"As the Sparrow Advertising agency is on the list of standard American agencies. our mail is sometimes quite interesting" said John Sparrow. We are accustomed to getting papers from almost everywhere and in almost ev- cry language. But I was rather sur prised Saturday morning to receive a letter from Paris, France, announcing that the ris-Telegrammes,' one of the long established news gathering companies of France, has just added an advertising department to its or- ganization and placed it in charge of an American. The letter concluded by soliciting business. This is good sidelight on the state of mind in France. It would seem that there is no thought over there of restricting business. On the contrary, a deter imitation to push it. We might learn something from those indomitable Frenchmen.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
InmocemG Man
Pays the Penalty

Pays the Penalty
 1T HERMAN BILLIK died the other I J day in Chicago. His name may sound vaguely familiar, but you will hardly be able to recall where you heard it last. Billik was convicted and sentenced to death for poisoning five members of a family in Chicago. Newspapers had great deal to say about the case.
 Billik's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He served years in the penitentiary at Joliet. About five months ago he was pardoned, evil dence having been submitted that proved him innocent. He died of a "complication of diseases"
 Anybody who knows how men are broken in prison will understand what that means. Billik was executed" for a crime he did not commit. His "exe- cution" was matter of years, but 1t was successful at last. Perhaps no body in particular was to blame, yet the sad story of this man discloses a woeful miscarriage of justice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27

and just enough Is served-ahout four tablespoonsful in a cup-to tantalize you.''
 Something like the genuine Turkish cafe, which more than a score of years ago had served in eggshell cups a la fresco In Constantinople. Good as 1t was don't care enough for another cup to go to the bombarded city just at present to get 1t.
 When I think of all the Creole dishes my mouth waters. How we would like to get off the train and let a sure enough Cajun woman serve "Gumbo des crew isse'-that is. crawfish gumbo. A few years back, when the convention met at Jacksonville, party ran down to St. Augustine and in their haste my friends went into a Greek restaurant and or- dered ham and eggs, but went out on side street into a local hotel and got a gopher stew.
 When you enter the front of a Cajun's house you realize that here is hospitality even Arabian. Your hostess plants on your forehead kiss and calls you Mon amie." Not only are you their guest, but their friend.
 P. S. There are some beautiful frescoes in The Grunewald showing Acadian scenes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE SERIOUSNESS
 OF THIS WAR AND BIRNGTNGHAM'S PART

The submarine menace and the assist snce and information obtained from this country have made the situation indeed serious fpr the allies.
 * *
 Our government was unprepared when 1t declared war upon Germany. But no government in the history of the world has done more toward preparedness in a few weeks than has this country of America. Congress has held back a bit and our cabinet officers. though inexpe- rienced and rather slow at first, have had the good sense to call upon the best talent in this country to aid the govern ment, and we are preparing today at un- exanIpled speed.
 I note from the Associated Press dis patches yesterday that General Wood and the war department officials at Washington are providing for military tralplng camps III the prlnclpal soutn- ern cities.
 Birmingham has not yet been provided for, due largely to the fact that some of our owners of lands adjacent to Bir- mingham have been a bit grasping ard have thrown financial obstacles in the of htab has been endeavoring to get sites for a concentration camp here. However. Bir- mingham now has several available sites to offer and good committee will prob- ably see General Wood in Charleston not later than Monday
 *
 Birmingham is really the best location in all the south for an army concentra-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
Fine Compliment

"A highly deserved compliment has been paid a young man of Birming- ham, said. Frank V. Evans, land this compliment should stimulate others to extraordinary endeayor. Edward Fucker Agee. son of w. c. Agee, and grandson of Gen. E. w. Fucker, who is only in his twentieth year and just entering the junior class of the uni versity, has been appointed by Presl- dent Denny of the university as trav- cling solicitor for students to the uni versity at a salary heretofore fixed for much older men.
 No higher compliment as to good judgment. intellectual efficiency and general personal acumen could be paid any man, no matter what his age, and the whole of Birmingham is to be congratulated upon this selection. There is, no doubt, great future in store for Rucker Agee."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
Liberty Bonds I'm
 Popular Demand

H1HE governments liberty bond
 II issue of $2,OO0, 100000 was in tended to strike patriotic and popu- lar chord and be oversubscribed in quick order. And it will be. Several large corporations and many rich in- dividuals were prompt in subscribing. The amounts already listed total sew eral hundred million of dollars, and if the "takings" were confined to the wealthy the entire issue would be sold in due time. But for the moral effect every man and woman who has a little money to spare should buy one or more of these bonds.
 Appeals are being constantly made for charity-and where the cause is urgent or deserving the response is generous. But the liberty loan is in no sense charity. The bonds not 
 only pay good interest, as government interest goes, but they will soon com mand substantial premium. Any person who subscribes to one of these bonds can borrow money on or sell it whenever he or she chooses. There are no restrictions.
 The nationwide canvass now start ing for disposing of large part of the $2,00O, O,O00,OOO issue to wage workers and people of small means will have a patriotic ring that will be far-reaching for good. Every one who buys bond will feel proud of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
LUKE M,LUkE SAYS

Some men are modest only in their
 belief that their faults are not as large
 as those of other people.
 You may not realize it. But every
 time you knock your home town you
 are taking something out of your own
 pocket
 Maybe the biushing bride merely bushes because she recalls what a liar
 she was when she promised to love,
 honor and obey.
 The reason why more husbands do
 not let their wives buy neckties for
 them is because a woman won't pay
 50 cents for tie when she can go to
 the 10-cent store and get 10 different
 headache producers for 50 cents. How can the current of matrimony
 run smoothly when the husband x positive and the wife Is negative? Never be ashamed to ask Old Man Webster questions. The wisest men are the men who have the best refer
 ence libraries.
 The reason our jafls are so well filled is because after a man fools himself for a while he gets so he imagines that he can fool other people. You can't get prohibitionist to ad- init it. But a food headache hurts just as much as booze headache. We have often wondered why tailors put buttons on mems coat sleeves. The buttons are neither useful nor orna mental. and about all they are good for is to collect long blonde hairs and cause trouble for married men. Maybe you have noticed that the man who is afraid of doing too much never gets paid too much. The fellows who are old enough to dodge conscription are not going to dodge all the horrors of war. They will have to stay at home and read the newspaper wuxtrees.
 Always remember that 1t pays to keep straight. You can patch up a | reputation but you can't keep the patches from showing
 Some women arc so fastidious about
 the etiquette of mourning that they cut out green tea and drink nothing but black tea.
 Some fellows Imagine that they are engaged to girls when the fact Of the | matter is that they merely have an 1 option on the girls.
 Another mean cuss Is the man who never remembers his w1fes Dirtnday and who gets out of it when lacked up by explaining that he didn't know the difference because she looks Just as young as she did a year ago. | Hotels run on the American plan
 are better friends of the medical pro- | fession than are hotels run on the Flu
 ropean plan. A man always eats toe
 much when he stops at an American
 plan hotel. but he Is more frugal when
 at European-plan hotel because ne I has to pay for what he eats.
 Once in while widow gets devil ish and flirts with a married man Jus'
 to see his wife raise hellenbrazes. | When lovy quits calling dovy 1 Dearest" and begins calling her say the honeymoon has done flew the
 coop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27

Grand Pre-, for most of the farmers have hidden their unpretentious and pie turesque homes in such secluded spots that only a guide could pilot the unin- itiated to these peaceful abodes, which hold to wonderful degree all the prim- itive simplicity of Nova Scotia architec- ture of century ago"
 All up and down the Teche are scat tered the 'big houses." silent and de- serted. Once they resounded to young voices and gay laughter. Once the beauty and chivalry of the south danced and sang beneath their hos the old-time owners of these estates. The older members of the families have long since gone to their ever lasting rest. The younger men and women have married and moved away.
 Many of the men who have made chapters in Louisiana history proudly trace back their ancestry to the ex- fled farmers of Grand Pre-.
 man With poets eye asks:
 What ghosts must fit up and down these silent halls by night. Stately, powdered-haired grande danes and gentlemen of the old school, laughing young girls and romantic youths, lovers, arms in arm, lettering over the jasmine-draped balconies, all listen- ing to the ghostly strain of music silent these 50 years. It Is easy enough to close ones eyes and bid time roll back.
 See, even now. the curtain Is raised In that upper room; the floors are waxed to reflect the myriad candles; the odor of Christmas greenery is in the air; the mistletoe bough hangs everywhere.
 But trooping from the dim past comes a group heralded by old airs at once familiar and forgotten. They come in red-heeled shoe and knes 3 brooches. these bellies and beaux of the past with panniers and powdered hair. with high stocks and bejeweled snuff boxes. They bow. they retreat and advance. The music rises shriller and more Jejune The candles flick CT, only to burn the brighter. now an- other burst of melody and the stately minuet Is on.'
 In the "Teche Country as the breeze f1oated in the window I could almost get a whiff of the aromatic drink of the Acadians. A gourmand has patronlzing- ly said:
 You don't know the nectar of the gods until you drink Cajun coffee, A Cafe Noir' as made by the. Cajun Is brew that quickens the imagination and stim ulAtes the brain. Cafe Noir is to tn, Cajun what cocktail Is to the clubman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
''Cajun.'

"Cajun."
 Do you know what it means? If not you have never visited Evangeline's home; you have treat in store. The term Acadian or the familiar cor ruption "Cajun," is used to identify the descendants of the Nova Scotia wander CTS. the theme of Longfellows master piece.
 Joe Jefferson, the actor, loved the ca juns" and made his home in the Teche 1 country for many years. The Joe Jer- ferson the "Cajuns'' loved and knew was to them not the worldwide actor, but the kind friend, the generous benefactor. | A drive from New Iberia of about three | hours will bring you to Bob Acres" the Jefferson home on Orange Island. This | drive If you are fortunate enough to I make the pilgrimage in~xhe late spring. is ono of the delightful experiences that will remain with you always, says a poet. About seven miles of the road leads through q Cherokee rose hedge that Is then glory of golden-hearted creamy blossoms These gleam against the glossy green of the leaves, and the long vistas that stretch as far as the eye can reach present an avenue to l which a landscape gardener could say his prayers.
 You are in the heart of Acadia at New Iberia, Jeanerette, Franklin, Morgan City and St. Martinville
 The whole length of the Teche, from St. Martinville to Morgan City. is a con- stantly shifting panomara, which is in | tensely interesting. Here is 8 modern sugar mill. there rotting old draw bridge. a trumpet flower adds its note of scarlet to brighten up gray giant, these clinging vines. in the embrace of tho ancient oaks. suggests the marriage of May and December.
 From New Iberia to Morgan City the banks of the beautiful Teche are lined
 with residences that to this day reflect in their beauty and neglected magnifi- cence a time when the motherland of Louisiana's aristocratic and blue-blooded | sons and daughters was young. To name all beautiful places along the
 banks of the Teche and give their his | tory is impossible, but It is one success
 sion of fine estates from New Iberia to
 Morgan City.
 l A writer says: Tt would seem that the country Cajun' of today, those who have settled upon streams other than the
 the melancholy fate of fruitful and fair
 Teche have inherited from their remote
 ancestors the dread and horror of the
 devastation of their homes. recalling
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27

E7T1HE fact that the news of our tor
 pedoboat destroyer fleets move
 ments were known to Germany four days before it's arrival at Queens town is significant.
 The German submarines had ample time to cover the sea with floating mines and but for the shrewdness and skill of the commanding officers of our mosquito fleet, some of those speedy youngsters Of our navy would have been destroyed This country is undoubtedly harborng a hive of busy German secret service agents. They are in our departments in Washington, in Birmingham, and in our bureaus of censorship. I have no doubt but that in some of our cable offices there are operators in the employ of the German government and that the news of the sailing of our fleet was gotten through in an apparently innocent ca blegram to Copenhagen or to some point in Norway or Sweden.
 * * *
 The American people, and particularly those of the south, do not seem to realize the seriousness of the present war situa- tion. It Is known fact that both the commissioners from France and England, who recently visited this country, admit ted in Washington that Germany had the better of the present situation.
 Both England and France are as near the verge of starvation as Is Germany. and without the assistance of this coun- try there would be no possibility of vic- toriously ending the war in many years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
Birmingham Boy on ROchambeau


 T have just read in copy of the European edition of the New York Herald of May 4, sent me by T. 5. Smith, thrilling account of an at tack by a submarine on the steamship Rochambeau," said Allen M Holt.
 The account is made doubly inter- esting by the fact that Jack B. Smith, well known Birmingham hoy, was on the vessel at the time, The account relates that torpedo missed the yes sel by a miracle, as the commander had just ordered the course changed and the stern swung around just enough for the torpedo to glide by harmlessly.
 "The ships gun kept up a fight with the submarine, however which lasted nearly an hour, and the gunners were confident the submarine had been damaged if not put entirely out of commission. All of the passengers were on deck at various vantage points and took the keenest interest in the battle, though all had on life perservers as they did not know what minute they might have to take to the boats"