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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-18
Geld Water Bath.

Mrs. VIM. Bivens, East Lincoln
Way thinks a cold water bath
this time of year is not the most
pleasant thing in the world.
Last Friday while she was pre-
pairing dinner, she discovered
there was something wrong with
the water pipe. She took the
spigot off, thinking she might
find out what was wrong. Just
as she got it off the water came
pouring out over her and all
over the kitchen. All she could
do was to call Justify for help. The
neighbors came to her rescue,
and soon the flow of water was
shut off.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-18
ANOTHER Cha nee.

Several of our subscribers have
told US recently that they did not
understand that they might get
the News at dollar a year, by
paying for it before the goth of
December. They thought that
everybody, whether they were
paid ahead or not, would be
charged 81. 80 a year after the
20th day of Dec e m b er. Of
course they did not understand
it right.
Now, as this will not be an in
justice to those who paid before
the 10th of December, and to
give every one who wishes to
ia ke advantage Of another
chance" we have decided to re-
ceive renewals and new subscrip.
tions to the News at one dollar a
year until the first day of March.
Tell your friends about it.
We intend that the News shall
be worth a dollar and a half a
year, and we know people are
willing to pay when they get
value received.
In this world, we generally
get what we pay for. We have
learned long ago that the cheap
est shoes do not always wear the
longest.
Just a word to those who are in
arrears: If you want a County
paper in your home, and you feel
that you would rather have the
NEWS, just send in the back sub
scription due, and put to that one
or two dollars more, and you will
have the News that many years
at the same price you would be
paying for one of the other pa
pers.
We want to play fair; but when
we see that more than nine hun
dred newspapers have been oblig-
ed TO 90 out of business on ac-
count of the high cost of publica-
ton, we feel like staying on our
feet, even if we have to ask our
subscribers for additional sub
scription.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-18
Cutting Farm Cost of Production.

A business man in the city has
a plant and equipment with
which he can turn out a certain
article at the lowest possible cost.
The farmers plant and equip
ment is his soil. Every thinking
farmer is thoroughly convinced
that the richer and more depend
able his soil, the cheaper will he
be able to produce the various
farm products. One acre of rich,
dependable soil will produce more
products with much less work
and expense than two or three
acres of poor soil.
The first move of a business
man (or in this case of a busi-
ness farmer should be to get a
certain number of acres in the
best state of fertility. He should
improve his soil by the best and
most economical means within
his power. When a business man
wishes to turn out more products
and at a cheaper rate, he does
not hesitate to borrow more cap
ital to secure the necessary ma
chinery, or raw materials in large
quantity. The Practical Farmer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-18
NUMBER IS
TIE EYE AND ITS DANGERS.
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by
Samuel G. Dixon, N. D., IL. D.,
Commissioner OF Health.

If mankind were suddenly to
lose its eyesight the race would
die out. No one can review the
ordinary acts of his daily life
without a realization Of the in
dispensab.e part the eye plays in
all our acts from the most ordi-
nary to the most important.
The eye is one of the most
highly completed, and at the same
time one of the most exact, piec-
es OF animal mechanism that ex-
lists. 1t is much exposed to in
jury through wounds or by germs
of disease.
Man is not as dependent upon
his hands as the monkeys in the
wilds of their native forests,
where they travel about by
swinging from limb to limb by
their hands. If, however, we
take account of our daily move
ments we will realize that our
hands are kept busy during our
working hours.
To open a door we catch the
knob with the hand. TO climb
into trolley car we grasp the
rail with the hand. These acts
and a hundred others like them,
thousands of people are perform
ing every moment.
Some of these people are suf-
fering with chronic diseases of
the eyes and may for instance,
be on their way to the hospital,
not having been instructed as to
the character of the malady.
The sufferer who may be on your
car has been wiping his eyes with
his hand and has helped himself
into the car with the germs of
disease on his hands just previ-
GUS to your catching hold of the
same rail. The only step furth-
er to infect yourself with the
same disease is to rub your eye
with the hand that has been on
the rail.
Notwithstanding this everyday
danger we constantly see people
rubbing their eyes with unclean
hands or gloves. If only a small
proportion of the readers of this
journal will take the warning
contained herein, many cases of
diseased eyes may be avoided.
Needless to say, car rails are
not the only means of communi-
eating infection in this way.
There are hundreds of others.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-18
New Teacher at NeedmOre.
Last Saturday Miss Esta Hart

Last Saturday Miss Esta Hart
took a teachers examination be-
fore County experimentation
as and obtained a certificate by
which she became legally eligible
to take charge of the school at
Needmore made temporarily va
cant by an accident which hap
pened to her brother Floyd. who
was the teacher in charge Of the
school.
Wednesday after Christmas,
the steps at the schoolhouse were
glazed with ice, and Floyd, who
always had the comfort and safe
ty of his pupils at heart, took a
basin Of hot water out Just be-
fore recess with a view of get
ting the ice off the steps. As he
stepped from the door his feet
slipped and he fell receiving the
entire contents of the basin of
hot water in his lap. He was
terribly scalded, and from that
time until now, he has been con-
fined to his bed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-18
Deer Mas Legally Killed.

For a deer that he had legally
killed, Eugene Spoonhour, Of
Franklin County had to pay a
fine of one hundred dollars in
Chambersburg last Saturday.
Spoonhour is a mountain resident
and something of a shot. Milton
Mench, proprietor of a hotel at
Hummellstown was hunting deer
at Caledonia last season. Not
having any luck, he made Spoon
hour a present of thirty dollars
in a saloon one day. The next
day Spoonhour. not to be outdone
by Mench's generosity. made
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-18
Statesmen and Spectators.

Tom" Lawson, the noted stool
market operator, says that some
one made $50, 600, 600 on advance
information about the Presidents
peace note. The public feels com.
. forted to think that Congress is
investigating the alleged leak. "
Butts an elusive subject. Prob
ably the result will be merely
some more black covered govern
ment reports, interesting to stu
dents and valuable to the junk
man.
Or course our public servants
never speculate. But somebody
may have Office boys or second
cousins to whom money could be
leaned and increment thereof re-
ceived. He would not know
where it came from.
The stock market dances at the
end of the Washington wire, and
millions can be picked out by fore
staIling the newspapers. The
outsider condemns with five rec
titude, never having had the
chance.
You wave a ten-thousand dol
lar bill in a public mans face,
and he laughs. Moral standards
are really higher than they used
to be. Also in some cases there
is a feeling that more refined
methods pay better.
The chance to make a million
on Wall street might have no
strings visible, no suggestion of
influencing a public officials
course. 1t might come indirect
Iy, involving the betrayal of no
confidence. But usually the tip
giver turns up later expecting his
fair return.
The Washington circle includes
an army of camp followers with
anxious ears to the ground for
salable or usable information. 1t
must be difficult for public offici-
ais not to do business with his
crowd, as they have influence at
home. The chances are that
that $50, coo, 600, if it was made
went to this element and their
hackers. The less our public Of
flcials have to do with this crowd,
the better for their careers. An
inglorious but safe and clean five
per cent. is better business than
speculation, if a public official
wants to settle down in Washing
ton.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-18
Good Investment.

The Hancock Bridge Company
has made its 50th semi-annual re-
port and declared a semi-annual
dividend of four per cent. The
company has a surplus of &c.
076.31 and has $52, 946.1 invest
ed in the Bridge. Total receipts
for past six months were 49, $780,
OF
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-18
Enters New Business.

Mr.. w. Scott Rinedollar a mem.
ber Of Emme & Rinedollar mer-
chant tailors, until the 1st OF
January, has connected himself
with the firm of H. Frank Gumr
& Sons, Inc, dealers in hard.
ware, furniture and farm ma.
chinery, of this place. Everett
Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-18

died at her home in Thompson
township, at IL O'Clock, Tuesday
night, January 8, 1917, aged rs
years, 6 months, and 8 days.
Her funeral took place on Thurs
day, the 11th, and her remains
were laid to rest in the cemetery
at the Tonoloway Baptist church.
Mrs. Barnhart is survived by
the following children: Howard,
Washington county, Md; Eva,
wife of Thomas Wink, residing
on the home place; Ross, living
in Washington county, Nd, and
Ira, in Thompson township.
Mrs. Barnhart is also survived
by four sisters and one brother:
Dollie Graves, of Needmore,
aged So; John Mann, Needmore,
aged SO; Rachel, wife of Joseph
Runyan near Warfordsburg, aged
70; Elizabeth Mcclellan, Need
more, aged rs (Mrs. Runyan and
Mrs. Mcclellan are twin sisters),
and Jane Gordon, Needmore, 67.
Mrs. Barnhart's father and
mother, Peter and Rachel Nor
gret Mann were aged respect
lively, 76 and 81 years; her pater-
nal grandfather, John Mann, was
aged 76, and her maternal grand
father, George Morgret, was
aged sc; hence, it will be OBJ
served that Mrs. Barnhart be-
longed to a family of more than
ordinary longevity.
MRS. GEO. w. BRENNER,
Ora E., wife of George w.
Brenner, died at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred D.
Young in Hollidaysburg, Tues
day morning, January 16, 1917,
aged 40 years, 10 months, and 2l
days, as a result Of a stroke of
paralysis a week before her
death.
On the 22nd day of August,
1900, Ora was married to George
w. Brenner, of Hollidaysburg,
who survives, together with the
following children: Frederic H.,
Margaret E., and Dessa. The
funeral took place yesterday aft
ernoon and her remains were
laid to rest in the cemetery at
Hollidaysburg.
Mrs. Brenner was a niece of
Mrs. B. W. Peck.
MRS. FRANK GUILLARD.
Margaret, wife of DR.. Frank
Guillard, died at their home at
Breezewood last Sunday night in
the throes of motherhood. On
Monday her remains were taken
to the home of her parents at
Greensburg, Pa, where funeral
services were held and interment
made.
Mrs. Guillard was aged about
"a years and is survived by her
husband, a little son about three
years of age and by an infant.
The Doctor has the sincere
sympathy of his numerous friends
in this keen loss of a loving
companion.
ALBERTA M LAIDIG
Alberta Margaret, the eight
months old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Laidig, of Holidays
burg, Pa, died at their home,
Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1917. The body
was taken to the home of Mrs.
Laidig's brother, Charles Mellott
in Licking Creek township on
Wednesday and the funeral took
place on Thursday, interment
being made in the cemetery at
theSideling Hill Christian church.
The funeral services were con-
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RECORD OF DEATHS.
Short Sketches Of the Lives Of Per-
sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.
Rev. AHIMAAZ MELLoTT.

nights suffering from severe con
vulsions. His age, from the bes
knowledge of nearby neighbors
would be SO years, on his mex
birthday. He died at the resi-
lence of Mr.. and Mrs. Miltor
)ecker-the latter his daughter
where he had all the nursing,
are, and attention that could be
,estowed upon him. AS noted
rom time to time, in the FULTON
,oUNTY News, he had a number
( lingering spells of paralysis,
nd convulsions, in the past three
ears, at which time he suffered
realty, after which, he recov-
red partially. Two years ago
e and his loving devoted wife
ere Frustrated at the same time,
nd she died.
Mr.. Mellott had all the charac-
lristics of a good father, neigh
)r, and citizen. He was a zeal
is, loyal member and minister
the Primative Baptist Church.
e preached Christ with all his
,wers,. for many years, and died
ithful.
The following children survive.
O far as the writer could learn, }
rs. Milton Decker, Mrs. G. L.
hooley, Mrs. Berte Mellott, -
alker, Jonas, Chick, and Ra-
rd. Funeral services were
ID, on Monday at Sideling Hill
| Iptist Church, conducted by
| Nv. c. L. Funk. Interment in
netery nearby.
|0I MRS. CAROLINE DYER.
Mrs.. Caroline Dyer, widow of
|II late Basil Dyer, died at the
|IN ne of her son-in-law and
| lighter, Mr.. and Mrs. Sylves-
|II00 Pittman, about four miles
|II tn of Hancock, Wednesday,
MIN luary 3, 1917, in the Slst year
|INI her age.
N irs. Dyer was well known to
fs1I people of Hancock, she hav-
[NN resided there for many years.
E, ,r to the death of her second
band, which occurred about
&8 years ago, since which time
|Sl, had been making her home
|1U b her daughter.
ne was a member of the Han
Presbyterian Church but
ng to declining health was
buSl.ble to attend services in re.
amt years.
anthe deceased is survived by
ALA daughter to her first hus.
FouSd, Mrs. Sylvester Pittman.
he funeral services were held
he house, Friday morning,
DR.. j. S. Webster, officiat-
lnterment was made in the
'byterian cemetery.
GEORGE W. PITTMAN.
60. W. Pittman, a former well
wn Hancock resident, died at
lome in Washington, D. c..
'riday morning, January 5,
after an illness of almost a
being a sufferer from DROP
aged SO years.
'r thirty years or more Mr..
nan was engaged in the gen.
merchandise business in the
tai city, and prior to that
was identified with the busi.
life of Hancock when he will
membered by many of our
CITIZENS as the junior mem.
y the firm, trading as zim.
nan q Pittman, conducting
neral store in the old Car
1' sides his widow, the deceas.
- survived by one son, Men.
nd one daughter, Arlie, botf
nom hold government posi-
n Washington. Mr.. sylves
ittman, a brother, who re
near town, also survive,
funeral was held Monday
late home in Washington
Rs. Sylvester Pittman ant
Shlves, of this place, an,
Shives, of Smithsburg
IN attendance. -Hancocl
r. MARGARET BARNHART.
prgaret Mann Barnhart
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-30
NO DROP HERE YET

Food prices in Tacoma did not
drop in sympathy with Chicago
prices Saturday.
Local wholesalers announced
that they had not been notified
by manufacturers or jobbers of
any reduction in prices. 1t is
possible, however, that a general
wave of reduction in food prices
may radiate from Chicago, reach
ing Tacoma some time next week.
Fresh vegetables are generally
down to normal prices in Tacoma,
despite the war. Potatoes are
higher than usual.
/ do not see how any reduction
can be expected in canned goods
until after this years crop is in
and canned said e. A. Young
love of the Younglove Grocery
Co., wholesalers, Saturday.
There is a general shortage
in canned goods, and the only rea-
son for a reduction in price at
Chicago must be that someone
there boarded up a supply. No,
we have not heard out here of any
food reductions. altho 1t might
come any time"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-30

MAY BE
BIGGER!
Omitted Press Leased wire)

CHICAGO, June 3O.-Mr. and
Mrs. Consumer can celebrate to-
day--the first real opportunity
they have had offered in months.
Every foodstuff on the market
has taken a sudden and decided
tumble in price.
Potatoes were down here to
$2.25 bushel, wholesale, for
new, drop of $3.50 in week.
Fresh vegetables we're down pro-
portionately. Canned goods were
off / 8 to 20 per cent.
Charles Paesch, director of the
Chicago Master Bakers associa-
ton, predicted an addition of
six ounces to the 10-cent loaf of
bread as a result of lower flour
prices.
A sudden drop in prices of so
many articles had several ex-
planations--over supply and inn
pending passage of the food con-
troll bill being the ones most
generally accepted.
Coal dealers reported cancella-
ton Of orders, owing to the adj
ministration's declaring reduc-
ton in fuel prices.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-30
EADQUARTERS Are
MOVED TO DUPONT

The construction headquarters
of the Hurley-Mason Co. were be-
ing moved Saturday to the new
building on the army cantonment
site at Dupont, and by Sunday the
entire force expects to be estab-
lished in the new quarters.
Finishing touches on the new
headquarters building will be COM
pleted before night.
The new buildings on the can
Torment site are growing like
magic. Headquarters building
for the quartermaster department
and the building which is to house
the on-commissioned officers are
on the road to completion, while
the telephone building is we'll un-
der way.
These four buildings form a
group about which the great army
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-30
BIG STADIUM
MEETING FOR
TOMORROW

Robert ]. Alley, president OF the
University Of Maine, and also pres
ident of the National Educational
association, will be the principal
speaker at the Sunday evening
service to be held In the Stadium.
Governor Lister will make the
address of welcome.
j. Festyn Davies and Mrs. ].
Austin Wolbert will give several
and the Coast Artillery
band in full uniform will play dur
ing the evening.
All Coast Artillerymen are ask
ed to be at the Armory Sunday
night at 6 O'Clock to form a body
guard OF honor for Gov. Lister,
The men are to march into the
Stadium. and pass in review before
the governor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-30
t acOr1na, Watch
YOUR Lines of
Communication

Tacoma don't let yourself be cut off-by
highway-even partially from the American
lake army post
There is a danger of that very thing hap
pening.
We have one paved road right from Pa
cific avenue to the camp now. BUT
1t is narrow thru much of its length. 1t
already is suffering terrific wear from the
army trucks. And it is crowded with traffic.
Multiply that travel dozens of times, as it
will be multiplied in the next few weeks, and
what will happen! Simply that Tacoma will
be isolated in part from its pet offspring!
The road ought to be widened and strength
ened, and, if possible, another completely
new paved highway should be laid down from
Tacoma's paved streets to the environments.
Then traffic could use one route going and the
other coming.
City, county, state and federal officials
should make this matter one of their immedi-
ate duties.
First class automobile transportation
MUST be furnished the camp. The best in
terests Of both Tacoma and the camp de-
mand it. .''..ss.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-30
Young Filipino, Thankful
To Uncle Sam, Volunteers

Declaring that he stood ready
to give his life for the Stars and
Stripes because Uncle Sam had
brought freedom from oppression
and education to his people, Ser
villano C. Nabayan, a young Fill
Pine, was the first of Is to volun-
teer for the Tacoma naval militia
division at the Elks club smoker
Friday night.
When he went forward as a
volunteer he was greeted with
wild applause. Other young men
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-30
Vancouver Youths
Accused By Girl!

VANCOUVER, WASH, June Substituting disclosures of
16year-old girl, gang youthful
investigation which today
the police prosecuting attorney
lid public fryolity.
Five Vancouyers prominent families
awaiting trial contributing the girls delinquency, fol-
lowing her fearful that druaged with
experience, she followed her being
into exclusive by
who again piled her with liquor.
When she the morning. learned
thai the five youths visited the during
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-30

day. Gain of a mile over a total
front of four miles was reported
by Field Marshal IIaig.
Battlefront dispatches declared
the Germans were centering their
defense on the knot of railway
lines which converge northeast
OF Avion. If the British reach
this junction point, the Germans
will be cut off from their lines
to the south and the city isolated
except from the northeast.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-30

then fell in line.
When called on for speech,
Nabayan read an essay in which
he told of the oppression the Fill
pinos had suffered under Spanish
rule, and of the freedom America
had brought in the occupancy of
the islands.
Boatswain's Mate Coen, who has
served q years in the regular
navy, told of the advantages of
the navy from the standpoint of
the enlisted man.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-30

city soon will be springing up.
Within a day or two 100000 ad-
ditional feet of lumber will be laid
down at the site.
Now that the government has
abrogated the contract with the
Barrett Co. of New York for the
building of "tarvia" roads at the
cantonment, it was predicted to-
day that the job of building the
roads also will go to the Hurley
Mason Co.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-30

tuntted Press Leased Wtre.t
PARIS, June 30.-Picked
troops, driven forward in perhaps
| the most savage attack the Ger
man crown prince has attempted
in six months, succeeded In pene-
trating the French first line
front of nearly mile and half
last night, but were Immediately
driven out. Fearful losses were
| inflicted on the attackers, and the
net gain was small bit of ground
held on the west slope of Dead
mans Hill, according to the Off
cial report today.
THE assault was by picked
troops in a furious attack, but
energetic counter attacks drove
them out everywhere, with the
exception of the western slope of
Deadman's HILL the statement
said.
"As evidence of the German
concentration of troops, 80 pris-
oners taken in this fighting by
our forces belonged to four diff
ferent regiments.
Northwest of Cerny the enemy
renewed his attacks at night.
Two against Labovelle were ac-
companied by liquid fire. In very
lively fighting these attackers OBJ
tanned footing on a battered
salient there.
around Avoncourt and Dead
mans hill today the artillerying
was of extreme violence.
West of Hill 304, a French
counter attack retook trenches
lost yesterday.
Deadman's hill and Hill 304
are two promontories over which
the tide of battle has ceaselessly
swung to and fro ever since the
Germans began their battering
against Verdun. They are north
west of Verdun, about 10 miles
distant from that city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-30
Bad Condition Reported in Schools.

Investigation said shown half
the high afflicted
maady caused by wholesale indiscretions.
Attorney ]. o. Blair issued orders the
sheriff police that boys girls years
tend public Dances
Another edict prohibits persons driving
automobiles for hire.
Coming with her months
girl told the uhores had first Ralph Mered
shers office. The following the GIRL
N w. Meried 1000 Kaufman wealthy realtor. They
almost constantly together, she
Mortified is charged with having attacked the girl
Later Introduced o R. Schulz r artist,
whose studio in the Scofield building
that the prosecuting attorney and the other
a