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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-15
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State College, Pa, Feb. g.
More than 1000 students at the
Pennsylvania State College last
night volunteered their services
to the country in case of war
with Germany. At a monster
mass-meeting held in the Schwab
auditorium, resolutions were ad-
opted which offered the students
assistance in whatever capacity
they can be used by the Govern
ment.
The resolutions went through
without a dissenting vote. When
A. W. Roberts, IT, colonel of the
student regiment, presented the
matter a wave of patriotism swept
the student body. Amid cheers
and national airs played by the
cadet band, every student present
declared his intention of serving
the flag, if called upon to protect
national honor. All of these
students have had military train
ing, ranging from four months,
for the freshmen, to three and a
half years for senior officers in
the college regiment. Under the
direction of three regular army
officers the State College students
drill every day in the spring and
fall.
In the winter they study tac-
tics and military science in class
rooms. At the end of two years
all of them are qualified to serve
as officers in a volunteer army.
1t is estimated that there are
enough trained officers now at
State College to efficiently direct
the elementary training of 10, 900
raw troops.
Copies of the resolutions were
telegraphed to President Wilson
and Governor Brumbaugh.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-15

tractor. | have always tried to
persuade him to 60 to Pennsyl-
vania to live. / tell him, there
we could have real buckwheat
cakes-here we only have make
believe"
1t is with sadness of heart that
| read in the NEWS of the death
of many of my old acquaintances;
but, we must be prepared to take
the bitter with the sweet. l
shall be glad to get a letter from
any of my old time friends who
may care to write. My address
is: Mrs, Owen E. Garman, 1925
Creighton Ave-, Fort Wayne,
Ind.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-15
Gun 70 Feet Long.
The Bethlehem Steel Work

The Bethlehem Steel Works has
just forged the first 16-inch gun
for the United States navy-the
second made in this country. The
first one now guards the Atlantic
entrance to the Panama canal.
and can fire a shot almost 16
miles.
There is no difference in di-
ameter, but the 16-inch navy gun
is $40 inches, or 70 feet long,
while the 16.inch army howitzer,
more nearly duplicate of the
German 42-centimetre terrors, is
but 300 inches, or 25 feet long.
So far as known, the new
United States 16-inch gun for the
navy is the heaviest and most
powerful weapon ever made in
the worlds history.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-15
SoCialetteS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. A. Harris
entertained a number of their
friends at dinner last Friday.
A dinner party was given at
the home of D. E. Fore, Esq +,
and his daughter Miss Katie last
Thursday in honor of a number
Of their friends.
Mrs. Wilson Mace entertained
at luncheon at her home yester-
day.
The Governor and Mrs. Martin
Grove Brumbaugh gave a dinner
Tuesday evening at the executive
mansion, Harrisburg, in compli.
ment to Miss Violet Oakley, and
whose new paintings for the
State were unveiled later in the
evening. The large round table
was.aglow with pink snapdragon
sweet peas, and the more deli
cate spring blossoms.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-15
FARMERS ARE NOT LIABLE.
New Ruling by Workmen's Compeusa.
tom Board Include Speciallies
Under General Class.

Harrisburg, Feb. 3.-The State
Workmen's Compensation Board
has ruled that in using the word
agriculture" in exemption Of
that occupation and domestic SER
vice from the operation Of the
compensation act the Legislature
employed the word lin its broad
sense and intended to include
within its meaning such employ
ments and pursuits as are usually
connected with and incidental TO
the work of farming or agricul-
ture as ordinarily understood. "
This ruling is made in setting
aside the award of compensation
by Referee L. e Chistley to
Nancy Jane Dimple, of Pittsburgh
and will stand as the ruling un-
less set aside by the Courts.
The Legislature of 1915 ex.
empted agriculture and domes-
tic service" from compensation
provisions. Joseph Dimple, hus-
band of the claimant, managed a
chicken farm which also contain
ed a garden patch with some
wheat, owned by William Fromm
Mt. Oliver, and located in Butler
county. While cranking an au-
tomobile to 60 to a nearby sta
ton to meet his wife and also to
bring back some lime for white
washing the chickenhouses he
was fatally hurt.
I'VE have decided" says the
decision, that it is not reason
able to conclude that the Legis-
lature in using the term agricul-
ture intended it to apply only to
the production of grains, grasses
and other products of the soil.
The purpose of the Legislature
seems to have been to relieve
farmers as a class from liability
under the compensation law, and
the phrase agriculture should be
construed so as to give effect to
this legislative purpose. and it
should not be narrowly interpret
ed so as to apply only to a part
of the operations which are usu-
ally carried on upon farms of this
Commonwealth"
A farmer, it is held, may de-
vote all his time to general farm.
ing, or he may specialize and
may do so without taking him.
self out of his occupation as gen.
orally understood.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-15
EARLY HATCHING BRINGS WINTER EGGS
A Simple Way for Poultry Owners 10
Profit from high Prices 10 Fall
and Winter.


Early Matching is the secret OF
winter egg production, say speci.
alists in the U. S. Department OF
Agriculture. The pullet that is
hatched early natures early and
is ready to lay eggs in the fall
when the supply is scarcest and
prices highest. Chickens that
are expected to be revenue pro,
ducers for their owners later ir
the year should be- out of theii
shells by April 30 at the latest.
If they are properly cared fol
thereafter they will begin to lay
eggs at the very time that eggs
are most wanted.
To a great extent the poultry
men of the country have over
looked this simple fact. For ore
thing, birds hatched later in the
spring or summer are not inclined
to become broody until late the
following season and thus an un-
profitable circle is formed. Each
year pullets mature too late to
produce in the fall and winter,
and they sit too late for their off
springs to do any better. The
Ipoultryman who wishes to get
really good returns from his
flock must break this circle.
The growing use of incubators
has made this comparatively cas-
ier. There is no reason why in
cubators should not be filled in
March and early April and the
Matching over before May l. If
no incubator is available it may
be possible to secure broody hens
in the neighborhood. That they
will repay the trouble and ex-
pense necessary to obtain them,
is indicated by results at the gov
ernment poultry farm in Mary
land. There it is not unusual to
get daily average of one egg
for every five hens throughout
the fall and winter, and in some
pens the average has been as
high as one egg for three birds.
If any thing like this percentage
could be obtained on farms, the
ordinary poultry farmer would
derive real benefit from the high
prices which eggs invariably
bring for a period of several
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-15

Needmore, R. R. 1.
The deceased was a daughter
of the late Jerry and Delilah
Hess.
BARNEY WELLER.
Barney Weller a we'll known
citizen ofThompson township and
a veteran of the Civil War, passed
away at his home on Thursday of
last week. His funeral took place
last Sunday. His wife who was
Miss Catherine Ingram, of Han
cock, survives, together with the
following children: Anson, Will
liam and Albert, and Zeda, wife
of George Myers.
The deceased was an excellent
citizen and enjoyed the good will
and respect of everybody.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-15

Mr.. Aaron ]. Martin, a student
at Conway Hall, Carlisle, and his
sister, Miss Barbara. a teacher
near Tyrone, Pa, attended the
funeral OK their sister Miss Clara
E. Martin last Sunday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-15
NUMBER %
CONSERVATION OF EYESIGHT.
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by
Samuel G. Dixon, NJ. D., IL. D.,
Commissioner Of Health.

Everyone realizes what sight
means for the comfort and effici-
ency of daily life. Man is not
much better off without his eyes
than a submarine would be with
out her periscope. A blind her
nit would soon die for the want
of food. Ones efficiency along
most lines nowadays depends a
great deal upon the strength of
the sight. The perfect young
eye has a wide margin of eodur-
ance and few of US realize when
its strength is being used up un-
til it is crippled. =
Now that the price of paper is
soaring higher and higher, small
type is being introduced in all
kinds of reading matter. 1t ex-
hausts the eye if worked long at
a time to decipher small letters
or figures. This causes nervous
disturbance, headaches, indiges-
ton, sleeplessness, etc. We had
better be little liberal in paying
for editions of books. magazines,
and other reading matter with
legible type and economic in
other ways-tobacco or imita-
ton flowers on our spring hats
for instance.
Save your eyes from dust as
much as possible.
If you have to read when rid
ing in cars or trolleys do not rest
your book or arm on any part of
the seat, but hold it in your hand
or hands so that it will move
with the body and not be going
one way while the head and eyes
are swinging in another direc-
ton.
Never read with a bright light
shining directly in your face, but
try and get it over one or the
other shoulder, or shining down
over your head.
Try and hold your reading mat
ter at an angle so that the light
reflected from the paper will not
shine directly in your eyes.
The color of the paper is worth
considering in account books and
such things. The contrast be-
tween a pure white paper and a
jet black handwriting or type
causes a little confusion along the
lines between the white and
black. 1t is easier to follow let
ters or figures if they are brown
on a light buff paper. Practical
tests will soon convince you that
the lines under the latter condi-
ton will be more distinct than
when the sharper contrast of
black with white is made.
The desk upon which you have
your reading matter should be of
a material that will not reflect
the glare of the light into the
face, which will irritate the eyes.
When you have to seek artifi-
cial aid by the use of glasses,
there is no one too learned in the
of the eye and the many
abnormalities to which it is SUBJ
ject for the task of fgiving advice.
Often more harm is done by glas-
ses selected by those not educated
in medical science than would be
done without the glasses. Fur
thermore, one is misled by a false
sense of security, while an un-
discovered diseased condition of
the eye runs on until it is too late
to remedy it.
Never forget to take the best
care of you eyes. They are good
and necessary friends.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-15

Miss Lillian Fleming who has
been teaching in the province of
Saskatchewan, Canada, is now
at her home at Clear Ridge, aft
er an absence of two and one
half years.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-27
MARRIAGES

BEyERLY-LONG-O Wednesday, July %,
1917. by the Rev. Dr. Murey. Edna l..
Long, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. f. Long.
10 Brenton F. Beverly, Of New York City.
BURLIN-CURTIS-O Wednesday, July 25,
at Santa Fe. N NJ. Natalie daughter Of
Mrs. Edward Curtis, TO Paul Burlin, Of
New York.
N-MIDDLETON-On Wednesday.
Heights, by the Rev. DR.. Lyman Wheaton,
Louise Middleton 70 Robert Langford
Chapman, both Of Brooklyn. =
DIBBLEE-BABER-M and Mrs. Charles
Baber, of Elm ST.. New Rochelle, N. Y,
announce the marriage of their daughter,
Ruth, 10 Louis j. Dibblee, of Is East 49th
ST., n. Y Mr.. Dibblee is connected with
the firm of Hallgarten & Co., bankers. of
Nassau ST.
ON-SCHEFTEL-on Thursday, July
26, at 800 Park av.. by the Rev. Percy
Gordon, assistant rector of st. Bartholo-
news. Vivian Strauss Scheftel. daughter
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, 70
George A. Dixon, jr.
ER-BEND-W Wednesday. July %,
at Westbury, Long Island, by the Rev
Charles Slattery. Beatrice Bend to Henry
Prather Fletcher. =
GARCY-EMMERIC Benjamin Carey 10
Ruth Emmerich, Wednesday, July 25. =
WHITE-MORGAN-On July p, 1917, by
the Rev. Howard Barlow and the Rev
William Cole. at the First Parish Church,
Cohasset, Camilla, daughter of the late
Lewis Henry Morgan. Of New York, 10
James c. White, Of Boston, U. S. Naval
Reserve.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-27
Greece Looks to y. S.
For Democratic Aid

Athens, July "a (delayed).-on the
eve Of the assembling Of Parliament
Premier Venizelos received a corre-
spondent of The Associated Press ana
made the following statement:
"The reassembling Of Parliament
which was dismissed by the arbitrary
action of Constantine, is the formal re-
sumption of democratic government
and the rule of the people, in line with
the ideals and principles of which the
United States gives a conspicuous ex-
ample. No longer have We royal au.
tocrat ruling by the divine right OF
kings and not responsible 10 the people
but rather a constitutional monarchy
in which authority is exercised within
strict limits.
1--WE look to the United States for
continuance of powerful support IN
working out our own destinies. Greece
is now aligned with the Entente Allies.
Relations with the Central Powers have
been broken, and a state of war now
actually exists, as Greek troops are
fighting against the Central powers in
Macedonia. A formal declaration of
war was made by the Provisional Gov
ernment, and it is unnecessary to re-
new 1t.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-27
Wilson S Policies
Furnished Siam
With War Motive

Gloucester, Mass, July 26.-Siam,
proud Of her neutrality in the world
war, abandoned it to oppose the Teu-
tonic invasion OF the rights of small
peoples and free peoples largely be-
cause Of President Wilson's late let
ters on the German crisis, Wolcott H..
Pitkin. adviser in foreign affairs to his
Siamese majesty's government, said to-
day.
Mr.. Pitkin, who is on leave Of sb-
sence from his post, had just finished
a long conference with the Siamcse
Minister. Phya Prabha Ksravongse, at
the summer legation here, to which
had been forwarded official advices Of
Slams declaration Of war on Germany
and Austria Hungary.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-27

grams and codes is that unless they are
constructed with the most infinite care
they carry their warning on their face.
Most of them are variants upon a sys-
TEN which employs twenty-six separate
alphabets, arranged in diminishing sue
cession, and the bulletins so developed
usually read as gibberish. A message
which reads as nonsense is obviously
suspicious. The necessity for making it
Undecipherable to the uninitiate puts
the censor on his guard.
Capable of Puzzling Elaboration
But the simple acrostic method, as
illustrated above, is capable Of the
most ingenious and puzzling develop
ment The information may be carried
on the first letters of each sentence, for
example, or the third letters, or the
second and fifth letters alternately, or
the initial letters of every other sem
tence or every sixth word. Poe, whose
"Gold Bug" is familiar discussion Of
cryptograms, once wrote an acrostlc
sonnet in which the name Frances 5.
Osgood" was spelled out by the first
letter of the first line, the second let
ter of the second line, the third Of the
third line, and so on through the four
teenth.
II must also be remembered that sew
eral languages are at the disposal Of
the spy. The message may be English
and its acrostic French. or vice versa.
The message may be in Swedish and
the acrostic in English, Russian, Span
ish or German, according to a previ-
Gus arrangement. The possible COM
binations are practically limitless, but
continuity is the secret Of them all.
Consequently, to use an expressive
slang word, the doubtful message must
be grabbed" II the censor rearranges
the words, changes a few here and
there, but leaves the sense entirely un-
altered, he is on the safe side, and
there can be no legitimate complaint
from any bona fde cable user.
The master spies must be hunted
down and destroyed outside the cable
Offices. But the rank and file, the hard
working personnel who hang upon the
cable as a sort of magic speaking tube
TO whisper forbidden secrets into the
capacious German ear, are helpless
without their continuity.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-27
trenches with the German lines still
heavily held, absolutely intact and the
mitrailleuse positions untouched.
Held by Barbed Wire
All. Shot Down

The French charged against German
barbcd wire that stood as solidly as the
day it was erected. Under a veritable
hell of mitrailleuse fire they had TO
stand and cut the German barbed wire
with their wire cutters.
Brimont was one of the positions
most tenaciously held by the Germans.
1t was the stronghold from which they
could she'll for miles behind the French
lines. Not only Rheims was at their
mercy from Brimont, but every con-
centration camp and munitions depot
within twenty-five kilometres.
1t was against this position, held
with the fierceness that the Germans
were sure to hold it, that the Russians
were sent with an inadequate prepara-
tion by the artillery-not by the fault
of the artillery, but by the fault Of the
high command.
1t matters little to the Russians now
that Nivelle has been relieved and
Petain, who objected to the offensive
starting before the artillery had done
its work, is in the high command. For
there arc no more Russians on the
French front. They went against Bri-
mont. There was a division of them
and they stood up to the work OF cut
ting the wire under the fire of German
machine guns. About half Of them got
through the wire. The others were on
the ground behind. Those who got
through managed TO fight their way
about forty yards into the German
trenches.
Then the artillery began the work it
should have done week before. II be.
gan to she'll the German trenches, and
the Russians continued to fight their
way, yard by yard, into the German
lines, while the German artillery
poured a hell of shells on them. The
Russians ate their way in piece by
piece for three days and established a
foothold in the outskirts of the German
Brimont position. But Brimont re-
mained in German hands. Shells from
Brimont continue to rain on Rheims,
while French troops have taken the
place before Brimont of the vanished
Russian contingent.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-27
His Only Reward
A Strong Handshake

The next morning I saw General
Lochwisky shake hands with the cor
poral, clap him on the shoulder and
tell him he was a good soldier and
worthy of the Russian army. That
was his reward. and it was all he
wanted.
Those were the soldiers who were
moved from in front of Auberivs to
take Brimont, the place that must be
carried TO prevent the entire destruc-
tion of Rheims. The Foreign Legion was
sent to the assault of Auberive. In the
three days action of the big movement
Of the Soissons-Auberive offensive the
Foreign Legion went into the attack on
Auborive 2,100 strong. They were sup
posed to take, Auberive in two hours
and a half. They took il in two days
and a half, and zoo of them came back
from the task. The Russians never
took Brimont, and they vanished in the
attempt.
The experience of the two famous fight
ing units in that attack was the same 70
all intents and purposes. 1t was, IN
deed, the experience of practically
every unit along the whole line of the
offensive. Too much confidence was
shown by the high command. There
WAS 100 llLLlc duHallNt HANB''NN
They thought the Germans were ready
TO retire voluntarily on the frst snow
of an attack by the French.
Announced plans called for a double
barrage FIRE ahead of the advancing
troops. There was to be barrage OF
heavy artillery 200 yards in advance Of
the troops, and another barrage Of field
guns $50 yards ahead Of them. All ex-
perience told that there should be from
three to four days bombardment Of the
trenches before the attack, destroying
the opposing lines utterly. If the
preparation had been carried out as
Foch did il on the Somme, before the
big push there, the French troops would
have walked over the first two lines OF
the German trenches with their hands
in their pockets. The fighting would
have begun at the third line.
But they fought every inch Of the
yav. Instead of taking the first Ger
man positions in two hours and half,
they were still for the most part un-
taken at the end of three days. In
many places the bombardment began
only ten minutes before the troops got
out of the trenches. There was no
double barrage and the artillery lifted
to let the French charge the German
New-York tribune., 1917-07-27
Poor Widow Needs Aid

Aid Is needed for widow with three
children. The father died Of cancer
five years ago, the mother suffers with
lung trouble, which is improving.
child of ten has heart disease. The
eldest is still too young to work.
Any one wishing to assist this un-
fortunate family may address the Wild
owed Mothers Fund Association, l99
Bowery, or Mrs. Henry Zuckerman, 81
Broadway. xu.
Thanks are offered to the following
friends for gifts in response TO pre-
vious appeal: Mercy P. g., $40; Anon
50, and J. L. c., 81.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-27
Germanamericanisms
(From the Ne,o Yorker staats-zs,tuni

(Fron, the Neto Yorker Stdats-Ze,tun1)
Julius Kahn. the only Representative born
IN Germany, who in his youth was an actor.
wants 10 conquer the Germans by using the
aborigines OF America. He has moved that
Indians Of the various reservations be formed
into cavalry regiments. From the
reservations Of which IL was always said the
redskins were dying away of consumption
because America wanted TO let her proteges
die away? Does Kahn seek for them an
other method Of extinction?
Federal Justice Learned Hand belongs TO
those Judges who in this time of autocratic
encroachments OF bureaucrats pretending TO
fight for democracy may be regarded as the
saviors OF the masses" against the classes.
There are still Judges in this country. Hand
proved il once before.
The Irish Nationalist Deputy O'Connor,
who spoke yesterday under the auspices OF
ex-Diplomat Gerard-shades Of Easement :
may with full right urge his closer country
men, the Irish. to stand in this war for
England their best friend. An OConnor
knows from his own experience how precious
such friendship is But he has no right TO
address GermGn-Americans and urge them
paternally 20 loyalty. A man who. like
O'Connor, puts on the professional 1rishman.
ought not 10 try TO teach German-Americans
how TO be loyal to ones fatherland
New-York tribune., 1917-07-27

struction Of that storehouse would prob
ably have meant the loss OF several
hundred men, who were held in the
woods as the first supports for the
front line.
When the bombardment began the
Russian soldiers scurried for shelter,
as wise soldiers should. But the cor
poral could not leave his post. Bonn
bardment or not. he had to keep his
guard, standing at one side of the en-
trance TO the storehouse. A German So
millimetre she'll fell less than twenty
feet in front of him. The corporal
moved three feet to stand with his body
protecting the small opening into the
storehouse. The left shoulder of his
coat was torn with a great jagged hole
by a piece Of the exploding she'll. He
stood with his rife at salute and never
turned hair.