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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-10-18
Nice Trip 10 Getty sburg.

In spite of the frost upon the
pumpkin and the mornings chill.
ing air" two carloads of Buck
Valley people started out last
Sunday for a trip to Pennsylva-
MAS famous battlefield.
We followed the National Pike
through Hancock, Clearspring to
Hagerstown. After having tax.
en- in some of the sights in Ha-
gerstown, we proceeded towards
Gettysburg passing through Way
nesboro and other towns.
After reaching the Great Bat
tlefield, we ate our dinner in
true picnic style, and started
out with a keen eye for seeing
the sights.
One was the soldiers camps.
We were told that 20, 600 soldiers
were encamped there. Indeed,
everywhere we looked we saw
Uncle Sans young men. We
gave apples to them until our
supply iran out, for which they
seemed grateful.
If there is any patriotism in
you, surely this place will arouse
it.
We were up in some high tow
ers-one of which was on the
summit of Little Round Top.
We pushed up Little Round Top
with unfagging energy and kept
climbing until we reached the
top of the tower where we had a
grand view.
The Jennie Wade house, the
Cemetery and the Devils Den
were other places of interest.
We saw many cannon, but
have a curiosity now to compare
the guns of '6l with those of
1917.
We returned via Seven Stars,
McKnightstown. Fay e tteville,
Chambersburg, st, Thomas, Fort
Loudon, Neutrality-suspicious.
sonthward across little Fulton TO
our respective homes near the
Mason and Dixon line.
The journey counted IT'S miles
by the speedometer.
We had some very good, and
some very bad, road; but our
cars whizzed on just the same.
We had a good crowd, a good time,
and good cars. The party con-
sisted of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Stoner, Mr.. and Mrs. Benz. Ston-
er, and daughters Mildred and
Marie, Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert B.
Mellott, John Hoopingardner,
Mrs. George Hoopingardner,
Mrs. Clem Lehman, and Misses
Jessie Hoopingardner. Celestia
Norris, Lily Ritz, and Beulah
Schetrompf.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-10-18
MelIott-..CrouSe.

Mr.. Lloyd Mellott, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob w. Mellott, and
Miss Ruth Grouse, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. CALVIN C. Grouse,
were married at Hagerstown on
Thursday of last week. Next
spring the newly welded couple
will take charge of the Daniel E.
Fore farm, now owned by the
groom's father.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-10-18
October 6, 1917.

OSlouCl v, l0li (.
Mr.. A. X. Nesbitt,
McConnellsburg,
Pennsylvania.
DEAR SIR:
Your favor of the Sd
addressed to Mr.. Howard Heinz
has been referred to me. To
obtain the price of wheat at any
station, take the price in termin-
al market, New York, Philadel-
phia or Baltimore, whichever
said point of shipment can reach
to best advantage, and deduct
therefrom the rate of freight and
l cent per bushel commission,
and you have the price which a
shipment would net.
These prices must be basis of
your dealing with farmers on the
one side, and millers on the 9TH
er. Your purchases from farm
ers are bases on fair practices
and a reasonable profit. Your
sales to millers must not exceed
the above mentioned FOB price.
find Baltimore to be the best
market which Mercersburg or
Fort Loudon could reach, as rate
of freight is 10 cents per hum
dred, hence from the Baltimore
price should be deducted 7 cents
per bushel, showing that a ship
ment. if the wheat graded No. 2
Soft Red, would net So. Is or if it
graded No. 3 Soft Red it would
net So IL FOB car at these points.
The figures which you report
farmers receiving seem therefore
correct, and should be entirely
satisfactory. as you must under
stand that the price of 1920 is
for No. wheat at Chicago and
the price of this grade at Phila-
delphia No. l is 1927. All wheat
is inspected under Government
standards and can assure you
there is very little No. | wheat
to be had anywhere.
Will cheerfully furnish you any
information possible.
Yours truly,
FoOD ADMINISTRATION GRAIN
CORPORATION.
I'd Vice President.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-10-18
"DR." KHARAS IN JAIL.
Promoter Of HuStOntOwn Bank in Mat.
rimonial EutaugIemeuts. Gets Eight
Months in Dauphin County Prison.


One hundred dollars and cost,
and eight months in the County
prison was the sentence pronounc
ed upon Doctor" Theodore
Kharas as he stood before Judge
KunkeI in the Dauphin County
court last Friday morning.
The self-styled doctor" who
has gained notoriety in this and
other counties as a "promot-
er" of stock corporations of va
rious kinds, chiefly banks, over
looked the fact that he had one
wife living when he tried to live
with another woman as wife No.
2. He was convicted at the term
of Dauphin county criminal court
on serious charge growing out
of this oversight.
In sentencing the defendant,
j udge Kunkel commented on
the conduct of the doctor" as
brought out in the evidence of
the case. He criticised him
sharply for posing as a single
man when the reverse was the
case. According to the Judge, a
woman has a right to know the
past history of a man she is about
to marry.
During the argument of the
case by the opposing counsel it
developed that prosecution on a
charge OF bigamy has been in
stituted in the Maryland courts
against Kharas, who married his
second wife in Hagerstown, Md.
This is the gentleman, who as
president and treasurer of "The
Industrial Securities Company"
of Harrisburg. led citizens of
Taylor township to believe that
the only thing they needed to
make them happy and prosperous
was the establishment of a bank
at Hustontown with a capital of
$25. 10000.
This is some of the dope he
handed out in the neighborhood
to influence the taking of the
stock: 1T is more than probable
that stock in The Bank Of Hus-
tontown will be worth in a year
double what it can be purchased
for now by the original stock
holders" "A garment factory
which will employ from DO to go
people has been promised to Hus-
tontown, and it will have an an
nual payroll of $18, 900. 90 to $780,
10000.
For this magnificent stroke of
public service to Hustontown
and the community adjacent,
DR.. Kharas, alias THE Industri-
al Securities Company, Inc."
was magnanimous enough to put
the Bank on its feet for the |
sum of So. 10000 (ten per cent.
of the capital stock.) To make |
sure of his commission, he COL
lected the ten per cent. from each |
subscriber as the stock was TAX
en-. Some of our local attorneys
are now busy trying to recover
the money.
1t is another case of a well |
known proverb slightly changed, |
He was a stranger, and he took |
me in"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-10-18
About The Prices Of Wheat.

To satisfy himself and to be
able to furnish information tc
his neighbors, County Commits.
sioner A. X. Nesbit wrote to
Philadelphia for information and
the following letter of inquiry
and reply explain themselves:
McConnellsburg, Pa.
October 3, 1917.
Mr.. Howard Heinz,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Sir:
We would like to know what is
the minimum and maximum
price per bushel of wheat in
Philadelphia which market, |
believe controls the price in our
section.
The farmers here are getting
only 81, 10 to $2.12 per bushel
delivered at Mercersburg, Pa,
or Fort Loudon, Pa, and we
cannot understand why we get
that price when the Government
has fixed a price at 1920. We are
advised that the present price
in Philadelphia is 1929 and
we think that's too much for ex-
penses for US. The difference
would be 10 cents per bushel and
that seems too much for selling
and shipping to so near a place
as Philadelphia.
Please advise US what you
think about this.
Yours truly,
(SignedJ A. X. NEsBITT. |
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-10-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Mapel Winters
and the formers mother Mrs.
Catherine Winters, near Dott,
motored to McConnellsburg last
Saturday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-10-18
RECORD OF DEATHS.
0h,t Sketches Of the Lives Of Per.
sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.

Mrs. Harriet Lodge Truax,
widow of Rev. Job Truax, dice
Al her home in Hollidaysburg,
Pa, on Thursday, October 4, 1917
,qed rs years, 3 months and 8
DAYS. She was born in this coun.
" and was a daughter of the late
Colonel William and Harriet L.
Bishop. She was also a daughter
Of the Revolution, as her grand
father had served with distinct
lon in the war.
The deceased was married at
Eafordsburg on the 18th of
APRIL 1862 to Rev. Job Truax, a
Methodist minister who died in
| Hollidaysburg April 10, 1903.
She and her husband went to
HOlidaysburg to reside in 1900
and spent the remainder of their
lives in that town.
OF Mrs. Truax, the Altoona
tribune, says she was a noble
Christian woman, kind and low:
Mig wife and mother, who was
greatly beloved by all who knew
ia for her kindly, gentle dis
POSITION and many other excellent
traits. She became affiliated
With the Methodist church when
mly lS years old and Joined the
bsl church when coming to Hol-
idsysburg to reside. She was
me Of the m st ardent and faith
hl Christian workers of the
bm, ever laboring patiently in
he Viney ard of her Master whom
he loved so well. For nine years
'te was superintendent of the
lame apartment of the Blair
LS1nty Sunday School associa-
fun' Sic was teacher of a class
women in the Methodist Sun
~ school for IL years, and up
idlher serioasillness still taught
nlmberof married women, who
htered her class a number of
'aH ago when young girls.
eexerted a marked influence
rgoOd wherever she went and
q uplifting, benignant spirit
llOegreatly missed by all those
no whom she came in contact.
following sons and daughters
llVye her: Charles A., of Wind
q Mrs. Winifred Airport, of
aVlch, Conn.,; Ernest Bell, of
l"pple; Benjamin B., of Ha-
e'0n'Marshall M, of fSomerset;
a Jennie Regeutto, of Girard,
No. and Miss Mildred M. and
is'er M. at home. She is also
''lved by one sister Mrs. Wini-
y COOk, of Beaver Falls and
a grandchildren and one
atgrandchild.
JOHN C. TICE.
''aa Y. lice, for many years
'Snent of Knobsville and one
100 townships well known
alghly respected citizens,
aa the home of his daughter
~ u. Collins in Sandusky.
w Thursday, October a, 1917
Il years, Z months and 1S
he is survived by his wife
%. ''aees Melius) and by four
sa'ers Z. and one son, namely,
"m' Daughenbaugh, Or
aa Pa,; Mrs. ]. H. Folk and
y urn 10 Harrier, Altoona, Ps.,
sS ~ D. Collins, Sandusky, O.,
OaarIeS E. Tice, Shade Gap,
y ~! iuNeral took place on the
y. s''ng Monday, and he was
sa At Sandusky.
wy ,'aIeceased was born in Tod
'a,p, ~ . this county, and was
'" Ne0rge X and Elizabeth
sf'eF Tice, who owned and
iGtcss. '' "
~ February he left his home
}. 'v'Vlile and went to Altoona
''he stayed with his chill
,,a until May, when he went
Ndusky. " "'
nv v,Other, VI George w. Tice,
.,' we only survivor of his
~' family.
"' ARLENE DAwNEY.
N q arlene, daughter of
s,ss ana q. Cora Estella Davis
IN, !" u. uled at the home of her
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-12-14
SOME FACTS ABOUT WAR IN
SURANCE.

Any mar or woman Of any age in
the active military or naval service of
the United States can obtain govern
ment insurance. 1t has been ruled
that members Of Officers Training
Camps are under the act and can OBJ
tain insurance. The cost for each
thousand dollars Of insurance is from
sixty-ive cents a month to a person at
the age of twenty-one to one dollar
and twenty-five cents a month to those
Of the age Of ffty-one.
The beneficiaries are limited to wife,
husband, child, grandchild, brother or
sister, stepbrother or stepsister, adopt
ed brother or adopted sister of the in
sured, as well as parent, grandparent,
or stepparent either of the insured or
Of his or her %consort.
The insurance is not compulsory, but
the cost is low and the protection great
and not only are all persons eligible
afforded every opportunity to obtain
this insurance without trouble or extra
expense but they are specially urged
to do SO.
General Pershiug and thousands Of
other officers and teas OF thousands Of
soldiers have already taken out tusur-
ance. Up 70 date policies Of insur-
ance have been issued aqgregatine
1892 88, 900.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-12-14
PRICES ON FOODS

C~ottonseed meal is being quoted at
f. 0. b. prices Of S45 to $50 a ton. Pea
nut meal at $42.5O to $48 a ton. Pri-
ces on Velvet bean meal have been
rather hard to get on account of the
fact that velvet beans are not being
ground in large quantities at the pres
ent time. Prices secured range from
s35 to S3S a ton. The market for
seeds of this kind are unsettled and
these prices are subject to change al
most daily.
Unground velvet beans are being
quoted at prices ranging from $24 to
s25 a ton f. 0. b. The opinion Of firms
handling these beans, and other indi-
yiduals directly Interested in livestock,
is that It is more economical TO buy
the whole beans, soak them, and feed
them whole, on account Of the high
pricescharged for grinding them.
A list of firms and individuals crush
ing these feeds has been prepared and
is available for distribution at the Di-
vision of Extension, University of Ten
nessee, Knoxville.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-12-14
500 4. eigs

The readers Of this paper VIII be
pleased to learn that there Is az east one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages, and that Is
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure Is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease. requires "a constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of tile system, there
by destroying the foundation Of the dis
ease, and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith In its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that Il fails to cure. Send
for list Of testimonials.
Address: +. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo. o
Sold by all Druggists &c
Take Hall's Fanaiiv EfsH ta- constipation
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-12-14
ADDITIONAL LOCAL
+++++*+*****+****
N

Money to Loan on improved real es-
tate at 6 per cent. See A. r. Tay-
lor. If
The deep snow and unusually severe
and cold weather has made it necessa-
ry to suspend many of the ruralschools
for this week.
Because Of a bursted pipe connected
with the boiler at the city Grammar
School, there was no heat in the build
ing Monday and school had to be sus-
pended for the day.
Negroes who for physical reasons
have been returned from Camp Meade
report their treatment there as the
very best and say that camp life was
fine. Not a single complaint has been
registered here.
Plumbers have been kept on the run
all this week lookingASfter frozen
and bursted pipes. ON Sunday
and Monday mornings TN eernment
thermometer here registered two be-
low.
With an eight inch snow on the
ground and the thermometer regis
tering two below zero, Brownsville
people are having an almost unheard
of experience for rough weather. AS
is always the case, many were found
with a seant supply of fuel but very
little real suffering has been reported,
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-12-14

ing grounc.
Mann Wills, Currie Dixon an3 Johr
T. Gray, Jr., spent several days in
Nashville this week. They wopt ur
to attend the state convention Wledne-
day, when judges for the supteme
court and the court of civil appeals
were nominated.
The coal situation in many Of he
cities and towns OF the state isifast
becoming critical. The 81 lpel5
cold weather has FASTENED ver1 |uct
the consumption of the availa1S pup
ply, and in many places the fuv ram
ines are already threatening. should
the prevailing cold weather continue
much longer, dealers will have to Anc
out a scuttle or two instead Of the Eve
ton limit.
Some of our local attorneys were IN
Nashville this week, and while there
attended a meeting of the Lawyer;
War Service League where the ques.
tionaire in connection with the select.
i've draft law was discussed. Wher
they return they will have the loca.
meeting called for the same purpose
at which time they will give registered
men advantage of information receiy.
ed there.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-12-14

street.
Lost5s1S
Finder return to
be rewarded.
For Rent-Part Of MY
out houses, also part of my
on Park Avenue. Come and see me
and the place. Miss Jennie E. Clark,
Recruiting stations throughout the
country have been crowded lately as
never before since the war began. Ma
ny young men subject to draft have
been taking this opportunity of Sc
lecting that branch of service most
pleasing to them, before the opportu-
nifty to was gone.
One of our thrifty farmers living
west Of Brownsville drove into town
last Sunday with several sacks Of corn
for the grist mill. He was surprised
to find all places Of business closed and
didn't know what the trouble was un-
til he happened up with a friend on
the street and was informed that it
was Sunday. He wasn't long in get
ting out Of town.
1t is reported that motion pictures
bringing home the vital Importance Of
increasing food products will be shown
by the United States department Of
agriculture in the motion picture the
aires throughout the country during
this month. This ought to do much
good and will at least be a change
from the morbid and sensual pictures
so frequently seen at many Of these
shows.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-12-14

Toys. Toys, Toys, Escue & White
head.
Santa Claus is awaiting you at Es-
cue & whitehead's.
Christmas gifts of all designs at Es-
cue & Whitehead's.
The Rev. Arthur Howard Noll viii
hold services in the Episcopal church
eday morning, December 10th, at
o'clock.
Lost-From my residence about
three weeks ago, n solid black point
er dog. Return and be rewarded.
Walter Escue.
Mr.. Henry Dupree has purchased the
John K. Walker home on Washington
street, where after the first of Janu-
airy, he and his family win reside.
Have your frozen cylinder caps, ra-
diators, and motor parts welded by
Whitehead, at J. G. Pittman's garage.
Storage battery troubles a speciality.
The principal of the Alamo high
School, with the basket ball team,
came over Friday to play Haywood
High team. Owing to the inelement
weather the game vas called off.
| want to run a stock farm with
some one and raise grain and hay on
shares, they to furnish the land, hous-
es and capital, | to do the rest. Ad-
dress ". R. Hughes, Ripley, Tenn, R.7.
John K. Walker spent Wednesday,
of this week in Brownsville. Mr..
Walker recently moved to Memphis
and his large circle of friends in this,
his old home, are always glad to see
him.
DR.. Crowder Chapman received an
order af ew days ago to report at the
Doctors Training Camp, Fort Ogle-
thorpe, on December Is. Later he Sc
cured an extension of time and will
not have to report until January /,
1918.
j. S. Ragsdale, one Of the most eff
Gent and accommodating gentlemen
whom the L. & N. road has yer plac-
ed in Brownsville, has been promoted
from the position of operator to that
Of ticket agent. The promotion is a
merited one and will be pleasing news
to Mr.. Ragsdale's friends in this city.
Maj. J. A.. Wilder is again seriously
i'll at his residence on College street.
There is no man in Brownsville more
and this news will bring sadness to
many hearts. In his illness he and
his most excellent wife have the pray
ers and sympathy of this entire COM
munity.
Sheriff Davis, who underwent a Sc
rious operation at the Baptist hospital
in Memphis last week, is improving
rapidly and expects to come home
within af ew days. Mr.. Davis has had
a long and serious illness and his many
friends throughout the county will
be much pleased over this good news.
Up to the middle of November there
had been ginned in Tennessee this sea-
son 126,297 bales of cotton as COM
pared with 276, 598 bales for the same
date last year. Every cotton raising
county insthe state has fallen behind
This year, but Haywood with only a
Eird Of a crop seems to have suffered
psf,
LTwo Of the girls nome economics
Us in the county have adopted The
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-12-14

IN take the asne end Woodland Sec
ond. The Glib al C~eataryille was the
FIRST organized, and the fact That they
haven't the name Ii no sign tsat they
have not been at work. They Gave a
new four Burner oil stove and uten-
sis to work with.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-12-14
HELP WIN THE WAR
BUY A LIBERTY BOND ON THE NsTALLMENT PLAN

4 You may not be able to go to the front, but you can assist with
4 your savings not only in the successful prosecution of the war IN
4 which we are engaged, but aid yourself through acquiring the habit
1 of thrift. We have made it possible for everyone who can save $500
! each two weeks to purchase a Fifty Dollar United States Bond.
4 This method of purchase has been mace as simple as possible
Y This is the plan:
I First payment on or before Nov. Is, 1917 $500
! T~wenty-four payments on the 1t and 18th day of each
! month up to and including Nov. Is, 1918 $500
J Interest at A per cent per annum allowed purchaser by Bank 100
I $51IOO
For which we deliver to the subscriber a $4,000 bond having a
J coupon attached for $1OO payable the day the last payment on the
: contract is due, Nov. Is, 1918.
\ Upon application the bank will issue to the subscriber a contract
: card bearing the name and address of the purchaser, upon which
: receipts for payments will be given. The first payment will be $500.
I Payments of $500 are then due each fifteen days thereafter. TWEEN
! ty-fve payments being required to buy a bond
S%1OOO0bonds may be purchased under the same plan. The pay
y ments for $4,000 bonds being $500 semi-monthy.
7 The receipt card issued when the first payment is made must
= be presented with each subsequent payment.
Under this plan interest is earned by the subscriber at the same
= late the bonds beard per cent per annum being allowed by the Bank
q on the instanments. TIE Bank makes no profit whatever on the
& transaction.
Z Upon completion of the payments and surrender of the contract
4 the bond becomes the property of the purchaser.
in the event of default in promptly tnakng any payment as
II apraea tp hol3ef If fh4 carl shall raf NJ eafn1aa Y raoa;vn kAs
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-12-14

For the man at home on in
training ne more acceptable
gift can be found than those
on display at our Christmas
Exposition Of useful gifts.
Of course it's impossible
for us to mention all the
splendid things we have for
men. But they are here in
profusion for your selection.
Come in and see the things
that men like-from the
store which they approve.
An early selection has many
advantages. A few gifts are
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-12-14

ALWAYS PLEASED TO SHOWYOUA 1T
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-02-15

Time may be money, but ii hangs
much more heavily on our hands.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-02-15
Dominions of the Turks.
(BrOklyn Ea glel

During the reign of Abdul Hamid
and within the memory of middle-aged
men, Turkey lost approximately 300
600 square miles of her European pos
sessions. Five years ago she held do
minion over $1,000 square miles of
southeastern Europe, but only about
10000 miles remained to her after the
map of the Balkans had been recast,
just before the present war started In
addition the whole of Turkeys possess
sions in Africa, comprising 100000
square miles, have been lost to her. as
well as Crete and Cyprus. Apart from
the small slice of Eu-
rope left to the Turks is hardly worth
having, but in Asia they still rule over
$4,000 square miles, although here, too,
a shrinkage Is In process. The sheik
of Mecca has emancipated Arabia and
the Russians are doing the same for
Armenia. The English, too, are draw
ing nearer to Bagdad, and thus it
would seem as If Mesopotamia were
passing away from the sultan. At one
time the Turkish empire extended from
Persia to the gates of Vienna.