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The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-05
CLAIMED
 ID BE UNF AIR

In the mail which arrived yester day afternoon a copy of resolutions presented to congress by the Mer chants association of New York, pro testing against the imposition of an eight per cent tax on excess profits. was received. The resolution recites that in the opinion of the New York organization the tax is unjust, unfair and unreasonable. as it lays pro- hibitiye burden on a certain class of people.
 They claim 1t is class legislation pure and simple, and ask that the measure be dropped, or another sub s1tuted in it's place by which reve- uue may be raised on a more eouit. able plan.
 John FIygar, of ChatanIka, wac re- gently given a surprise party by his friends in honor of his fitty-second birthday. He was presented with q gold mounted fountain pen.
 An electrically driven nIuchin, wraps lump sugar in iIdiVl iual pap CTS at a speed of 7500 Jumps per hour.
 Look the world over with tho heip of an Atlas. Inquire Citizen.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-05
SEE ZINC
 THINGS IN THE DARK.

cabin in the dark and to unexpected . Iy find a corpse, ask Frank (Brig- l. ham) Young. He had the feeling not long ago, according to reports, but his first impressions of what he found proved to be groundless.
 There are things in this world
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-05
'. N. |. 4. IS
 WORKING HARD

LONDON, Mar 2.-Since the be- ginning of the war the Young Mems Christian Association has expended on an average 1850 pounds a day for the benefit of soldiers and war workers. It's special war fund has reached 100000 pounds.
 MT. Yapp, the general secretary. has just returned to London after spending several weeks in France.
 The Red Triangle" said MT. Yapp, now is to be seen along the whole line of the British armies at the front in France, and at each of the big bases there are from twenty to thirty huts. In the fore most positions we have opened but fets, some of them in the ruins of shell wrecked houses.
 "Women have done noble work for France, much of it entirely at their own expense Throughout France between three and four hundred of them are helping the Young Mens Christian Association. Social dis tinctions are not recognized by them. They are all doing their bit. In a hut used by mud stained soldiers fresh from the trenches I have seen the daughter of the Earl of Leices- ter waiting on the men, Our help CTS have included Princess Victoria.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-05

Look the world over with tho help of an Atlas. Inquire Citizen.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-05

If there is anyone
 who wants to know how it feels to be stumbling around a
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11
The Wrong Bottle.

Uncle John Ham, like many
other people had a bad cold a few
nights ago, and was not resting
we'll. He knew Just where his
favorite cough medicine was in
the cupboard. Without taking
the trouble to strike" a light,
he went to the cupboard, got his
hand on the bottle just where he
expected to find it, and took a
swallow. No; he did not swal-
low it; if he had, he would nev-
er have been troubled with
another cold. Just as soon as
the liquid had passed his lips,
the entire inside of his mouth
was afire, and by the time he
got done splitting out the cough
medicine he had no skin left in
the inside of his mouth.
He had gotten his hand on the
carbolic acid bottle instead of
the root beer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11
Shortage in Poultry.

1T is probable that we will
open the season next year with a
forty per cent, shortage in the
number of fowls on FARMS" says
J. T. Campbell, farm adviser of
the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture. From this we may
form some idea of prices of poul-
try products in the near future.
Breeding fowls will be higher,
eggs for Matching and chicks will
cost more, and market eggs and
fowls will bring unusually high
prices.
During the past season the
poultry crop was short as it was
an unfavorable season for raising
chicks. During the present sea-
son the poultry packers have re-
ceived unusually large numbers
of fowls and our eastern mark
cts have received heavy ship.
ments in the face of a heavy de-
mand. | have met many farm
ers who have sold off most of their
fowls on account of high prices
of feeding stuffs. Many other
farmers will not feed high price
grain to fowls and they will be
left to rustic for themselves and
will not produce much under such
conditions.
with the poultry business in
such a condition the outlook is
very good for the man who has
the faith o'give his fowls good
care and feeding. Poultrymen
and farmers should make every
effort to increase and improve
their fiocks next spring.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11
Strange Phenomenon.

Residents of Greensburg, Kan
sas have been not a little disturb
ed over an apparition in the sky
after a recent snow storm. There
was no sun, and black clouds
were behind it. 1t was large
shaped like the picture of an an
gel-dazzling white, and bright
er than the strongest calcium
light. One young man whose
mother died just before the storm,
believes that it was the spirit of
his mother lowering over the
town. An enterprising photog-
rapher got a snapshot of the ap-
partition and a picture was sent
by J. Frank Martin to Mr.. and
Mrs. P. P. Shives of town.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11
Order Farm yupplieS EARLY

The present freight congestion
and car shortage on the railroads
over the country leads authorities
at the Pennsylvania State College
school of agriculture and expert
ment station to emphasize the
necessity of ordering farm sup
plies for the coming season at an
early date. If the present con-
gestion continues, farmers may
find themselves confronted with
a serious situation in the form of
belated shipments of fertilizers,
implements, seeds and other sup
plies at the time when these
commodities are most needed in
the spring. A little planning and
foresight Immediately exercised
may save considerable worry and
delay later.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11

pay him for what you have re-
ceived, and courteously tell him
that you do not wish to receive
the paper longer.
We have on our list persons
who have stopped their paper
three or four times, and have as
often come back and ordered it
started again.
The man who acts most dis
honorable with the publisher, and
who gains his utter contempt, is
the one who takes and reads a
newspaper until he gets away
behind with his payments, and
then refuses to take it from the
postoffice, and refuses to pay
what is due on it. The balance
due can be collected by suing for
it, unless the man is execution
proof" but that is not aples SAINT
thing to do.
The object in this rather long
article is, to bring about a better
and more friendly understanding
between publisherand subscriber.
The publisher wishes to play fair,
and he asks that all his subs cri-
bers play fair.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11
William Stoner Fell.

Our old friend William Stoner
fell and hurt himself pretty bad
ly Monday. He was sitting inhis
brother Albert's store, when he
found that he was a little late for
dinner at home. Starting hur-
riedly to go back through Albert's s
lot as a near way home, he fell
in ascending the stone steps in
the rear of Albert's building, and
cut his head badly. He is get
ting along well, and no serious
consequences are likely to follow
the accident.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11
Eclipse Number |.

eclipses promised for the year
1917, was pulled off" on sched-
ule time last Monday morning,
and greatly enjoyed by those who
were sufficiently interested to
sacrifice a little sleep.
1t was u total eclipse of the
moon-the first total eclipse of
the moon since 1913, and the first
that has been completely visible
here since 1910.
The sky Sunday night was as
clear as a bell. At 1850 o'clock
the moon came in contact with
the shadow of the earth, the
moon being somewhat southwest
of a point directly overhead. The
shadow was apparently travelling
westward and the moon, east
ward; hence the east side of the
disk was first to be obscured by
the shadow, and the first to show
the bright light of the sun when
the moon had passed entirely
through the shadow. At two
O'Clock, the entire face of the
moon was hidden in the shadow,
and it was obliged to grope its
way in the dark for an hour and
twenty-nine minutes. 1t was
not until 4:39 that it had passed
entirely out into the full light of
the sun.
This years eclipses of the sun
and moon will be the greatest
number possible in any one year.
There will be four eclipses of the
sun and three of the moon. Not
since 1887 have these same num-
bers occurred and a like occur
renee will not again be seen un-
til 1882.
You and | pass through the
shadow of the earth every night
and have become so accustomed
to it, that we never give it a
thought; for the earth in its dai-
ly rotation rolls US into the sha-
dow every evening, and out into
the sunlight of the morning. Of
course, to be in the shadow of
the earth, we must be on the op-
posite side of the earth from the
sun. For the moon to get into
the shadow of the earth, must
be in a direct line or plane with
the earth and sun. If the plane
of the moons orbit had, at all
times, the same relation to the
plane of the earth's orbit that it
had Monday morning, tn ere
would be a total eclipse of the
moon every twenty-eight days.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11

We are ashamed for the towns
sake to admit that there is a
pack of illbred boys and young
men that congregate about the
Methodist church during the re-
vival services which are now in
progress, and shamefully annoy
the congregation within t h e
church. Such conduct is exasp-
Grating and it is only through a
,onsideration for the feeling of
some of the parents of the offend
ers that the law is not enforced,
and a public example made of
them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11
Two Hundred Dollars and Costs.

|
in his possession on the 18th day
of last December, Justice-of-the-
Peace Amos d. Peightel fined
Blaine j. Hixson, of Brush Creek
to wnship two hundred dollars
and costs of suit, at a hearing
held at the Democrat Office in Nc
ConnelIsburg last Saturday.
The story brought out at the
hearingis substantially as follows:
Hensey and Jones, two State
Policemen sent into this county
to assist in the protection of
game during the hunting season
last fall, were approached by
some hunters on Sideling Hill
mountain who told the officers
that three deer had been slain
unlawfully in the mountain, and
that they would find the evidence
by going to a certain place.
The officers feeling that t h e
hunters were trying to put one
across on them," gave the mat
ter no further thought until they
received a phone message that
evening, from one George Dan
iels, confirming what the hunters
had told them, and volunteering
TO accompany the officers to the
spot next day. Mr.. Daniels's
services were accepted, and next
morning they were led to a spot
on the west side of Sideling Hill
where they found that three
oeer had been killed, the entrails
taken out and left in the woods.
They found the tracks of two
men who had carried one or
more deer down the mountain un
til they came to aroad where the
deer had been placed into a wag-
on. They followed the wagon
tracks and the trail of blood on
the road until they had passed
Blaine ]. Hixson's farm and the
farm beyond. They found that
the wagon h ad gone farther, but
had returned, and they back track
ed and the tracks led into Blaine's
wagon-shed.
Later, Travelling Game Protec-
tor C. B. Baum, of Harrisburg,
accompanied by local Game Pro-
tector Jacob Miller, of Fort Lou
don, went to Mr.. Hixon's home
and after putting him through
"the third degree, led Mr.. Hix-
son to admit that he had hauled
the deer in his wagon. This was
enough. Information was made
before Justice -of-the-P Peace Peigh
tel, and after the hearing, John
P. Sipes, appearing for the State,
and John R. Jackson, for the de-
fendant, the facts as before
stated being brought out, the de-
fendant was sentenced to pay a
fine of two hundred dollars and
costs.
There was no evidence that Mr.
Hixson killed the deer, that he
appropriated the deer to his own
use, or that he got any pecuniary
benefit from the transaction. The
episode has created considerable
feeling, and it might seem that
the end is not yet.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11
Ice.-.Skid...Turtle.

The three words in the caption
of this article tell the whole sto-
ry. Herbert Tice, a capable
young lineman in the employ of
the Western Union Telegraph
Company is stationed at Spring
Run up in the beautiful Path Val
ley. Besides possessing a new
1917 Ford touring car, having a
cousin (Mr. Clarence Miller re-
siding at Rays Hill, Bedford coun
ty, also Western Union lineman,
Herbert numbers among his best
friends, Miss Beryl Love, one of
Path Valleys most charming girls.
All these conditions, together
with the bright sunshine and
mild air last Sunday combined to
tempt Herbert to take Miss Beryl
out for an afternoons spin, with
a possible call on his cousin Clar-.
ence. Everything went lovely
as they sped down to Fort Lou
don, across the Tuscarora, and
through McConnellburg, up over
the Lincoln Highway on the east
side OF Sideling Hill much of
which was covered with a glaz-
ing of green ice as slick as the
tongue of a soap faker-on until
they reached a point about two
hundred yards east of the top of
Rays Hill, at which point they
would have been entirely over
the ice the car suddenly and Vi
olently skidded-and in less time
than the hundredth part of a Sec
ond the car had completely re-
versed its course in the road,
skidded over a 20.foot embank-
ment, and was quietly resting
wheels up in the air-upon the
occupants of the car.
Fortunately, the car came to
rest against clump of chesnut
trees that held it up high enough
from the ground to enable Mr..
Tice and Miss Love to crawl out
from under the car without a
scratch or injury.
The editor of the News and his
wife happening along a few min
utes later going westward, took
Mr.. Tice to the home of his cous-
in only two miles distant, and
they returned Immediately with
Clarence's outfit of block and
tackle, and in a very short time
had the car up on the road right
side up" Mr.. Tice who had now
lostalmost an hours time cranked
up the car, got into it and took
hold of the wheel with Miss Love
at his side, started home and the
"dern little Ford" just went
rambling along as though the
whole thing had been a Joke.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11
Look II Over.

Look over the FULTON COUNTY
NEWS carefully. Read itoutside
and inside. Compare the quanti-
ty of real live reading matter
with that of other County papers.
That's all.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11
RECORD OF DEATHS.
hort Sketches Of the Lives Of Per-
sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.
MRS. CAROLINE E. PITTMAN.


Mrs. Caroline Ellen Pittman,
widow of the late John K. Pitt
man (or Jack Pittman as he was
more familarly known to the old
er Fulton County people, passed
away early New Years morning
at the home Of her daughter
Alice (Mrs. W. D. Widmeyer),
Hancock, Nd, after an illness
extending something over two
months.
Mrs. Pittman's maiden name
was Cook, and she was born in
Franklin County, Pa, June 10,
1880; hence, at the time of her
death she was aged sc years, 6
months and 16 days.
Mrs. Pittman was a member
of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and a woman Of truly
Christian character.
Her husband was a brother of
late Jared Pittman and half
brother of Sheriff George j. Pitt
man-both of Ayr township.
She is survived hy two daughters
Annie, wife of John H. Brewer.
of Thompson township, and Alice
wife of w. NJ. Widmeyer, of
Hancock; also by two brothers,
Frank Cook, of Beaver Falls, Pa,
VIM. Cook, Johnstown, Pa, and
one sister, Mrs Nancy Snyder,
Meyersdale, Pa. The funeral
took place on the following Wed
nesday and she was laid to rest
in the little cemetery at Rehoboth
church near her old home.
MRS. SUSAN LoGUE.
Mrs. Susan Logue, widow of
.ohn Logue, died at the home of
her daughter Drama in Wilkins
burg. Pa, on Thursday, January
A, 1917, in the 77th year of her
age. The funeral took place last
Saturday.
Mrs. Logue was a daughter of
the late Joseph and Anna Alex
rnder Myers who many years
go lived in McConnellsburg, Mr.
ayers being a blacksmith. She
vas a sister of Mrs. Margaret G.
linn, widow of John Linn, who
ives in McConnellsburg. Last
all Mrs. Logue left her home in
Pittsburgh with a view TO visit
ng her sister Mrs. Linn and 9TH
'r old acquaintance in McCon-
Nellsburg, and seeing the home
IF her childhood once again. For
a rest in her journey, she stop
ped off with her daughter Mrs.
Marietta Pates in Altoona. Soon
thereafter, she was stricken with
paralysis, and when she partial
iy recovered, she was taken back
to the home of another daughter,
Mrs. Hood in Williamsburg, where
she stayed until death came as
before stated.
Mrs. Logueis survived by three
daughters the two already
named, and Mrs. Teresa Miller,
of Pittsburgh.
OF the seven children of Joseph
and Anna Myers, Mrs. Linn is
the only survivor.
CHALMERS E. MELLoTT.
Chalmers Ephraim Mellott,
aged 10 years and a months, died
at the home fhis parents, Frank
and Ella Mellott near Warfords-
burg, about half past l o'clock on
Tuesday morning, January 2,
1917, as a result of an acute at
tack Of pneumonia.
The funeral services were con-
Quoted by Rev. J. C. Garland,
and interment was made in the
cemetery at the Brethren church
on Pleasant Ridge. The parents
have the sympathy of their many
friends in this bereavement.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11

Mr.. and Mrs. D. E. Little, Mrs.
Wilbur Grissinger and son Carl,
and Mrs. Emma Ewing visited
their sick sister Mrs. MaCune in
Mercersburg last Sunday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11
PENNSYLVANIA CROPS.
Potato, Hay, and Tobacco Productions
Increased More Than $19,OOO,OOO
Over Last Year.

The potato, hay and tobacco
crops raised in Pennsylvania dur
ing the past season have a total
valuation of 106, 965, 6l5 accord
ing to the estimates just an
nounced by the Bureau Of Sta
tistics of the Pennsylvania De.
partment of Agriculture. A year
ago the same crops were valued
at SIT, 54l, 309 and the increase of
$29, Ala, 3l5 shows gain Of thir-
ty-eight per cent. in the value of
the 1916 crops.
The potato production was al
most two million bushels less
than last seasons crop but the
average price per bushel has been
$l.30 for a crop estimated at 49,
564, 600 bushels while last years
crop of 20,5O2, 900 bushels sold
for an average price of 80 cents
a bushel. This shows an increase
in the value of the potato crop of
from SIG, 40l, 600 to $24, 1873, 300.
The average price obtained at
this time covers the period of the
past year and with thousands of
bushels still being held and in
many places selling at from SLIGO
to 81. 90 a bushel it is very likely
that the value of the present
seasons crop will be much larger
than the present estimate.
The hay production during the
past year was the largest ever
known in this State, the estimate
placing the yield at 5,241, ,270
tons as compared with 1858, 600
tons in 1915, There were 3, 1885,
600 acres of hay harvested against
3,015, 600 a year ago and the av-
erage yield was 1.65 tons to an
acre against a yield of 1.1S tons
an acre last year. In 1908 the
average per acre was 1.5 tons
but the bumper crop this season
was far ahead. While the aver
age price per ton was SIS 80 last
year the immense production has
brought an average price ofSl4.50
in the State and the value of the
crop is $75, 99S, Ais as compared
with $56,572, 200 for the 1915
crop.
The tobacco production is esti-
mated at 45, 560,00O pounds on
$40, 600 acres as compared with a
production of 45,675, 900 pounds
on 81, 500 acres a year ago. The
average was 1,340 pounds to an
acre against an average of 1,450
pounds a year ago. The tobacco
crop which is principally grown
inLancaster county suffered from
the worms, several severe hail
storms and some was caught by
the early frost, But tobacco that
averaged ten cents pound a
year ago has brought an increase
of fifty per cent. in price and the
average price per pound for 1916
was raised to fifteen cents. The
1916 crop is valued at Sc, 1924, 600
as compared with $4, SGT, 500 for
the 1915 crops.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-11

Ross Hamil has gone to Phila-
delphia to take an examination
preparatory to entering the
Williamson Trade School.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-06-15

and dying in the trenches or are all ready dead; as are many of their older scientific and literary men. ar lists, and others whose work is nec- esSary for the enlargement of the. cul- tural and spiritual life and for all that makes for higher civilization
 For many years after the war is over some of these countries will be unable to support their colleges and universities as they have supported them in the past America must come to the rescue. We must be ready to assume all the responsibilities and per form thoroughly and well all the duties that will come to us in the new and more closely related world, which will rise out of the ruins of the old world which is now passing away in the destruction of the war To what extent and how we'll we may be able to do this will depend upon you young men and women who are this year graduating from our high schools and upon those who will follow in the next few years to larger degree than upon any other like number of people.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-06-15

school and technical and vocational schools of high grade constitute only about ene-half of one per cent. More than half of these live in cities and cannot be employed in agricultural production except as a few of them may find work on the farms during the summer. Their going to college will not lower the productive cara- city of the country as whole ill any appreciable degree. The colleges, nor nal schools, and technical schools will all be open with undiminished income from public funds and endow- nents, and the expense of their main tenance will continue. It is quite proD- able that many of the older students will not return next fall and the high CT classes will be smaller than usual. The graduates from the high schools should see to it that the lower classes more than make up for this deficiency.
 'This appeal is made on the basis Of patriotic duty. If the war should be long and the country will need all the trained men and women it can get --mau9 mere than it now has. There will be men in abundance to fight in the trenches, but there will be R dCarth of "tJiceIs, engineers, and men of scientific knowledge and skill in all the ind J',tries. in transportation, and in many other places where skill and daring are just as necessary for sue cess as in the trenches. The first call of the Allies is for 12,000 engineers and skilled II H.n to repair the rail. roads Of France and England; and other thousands will be needed later Russia will probably want thousands of men to repair and build her rail roads. The increase in transports tion and the tax on our roads will call for large numbers of men of the same