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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20
Own q Farm.

The farmer who owns a farm
is the particular person who is
fixed. Banks may fail and fac
tories close, workmen strike and
mines suspend, merchants fail
and towns burn, times may be
panicky and even crops may be
short = but the farmer who owns
his acres will get along. He
will live in comfort and quiet with
plenty to eat, drink and wear.
He is the most independent man
on earth. Yet there are lots of
them who do not appreciate their
situation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20
10000 Graduate Nurses Needed.

With a continuance of the war
in the next year at least 20,
nurses will be needed in Army
hospitals at home and abroad.
OF the $4,000 graduate nurses of
the country only $4,000 have so
far been assigned to duty in
Army service, and of this num-
ber l, 500 are in France.
An Army nurse must be a
graduate of a training school for
nurses and must have served for
two years in a hospital. They
are assigned to duty in the United
States or abroad, and preferences
are granted when conditions per-
nit. Nurses whe prefer not to
have service abroad will have
their preferences respected.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20
Public Sale.

The undersigned will offer at
bllc sale on the John A. Lam
berson farm near Hustontown,
Thursday December 9th at |
o'clock the following personal
property: 8 head of young
cattle, 5 head of fat hogs, /
Berkshire brood sow, bred, due
to farrow March 17th. Poultry,
potatoes, and buckwheat, Terms
all sums under ten dollars
cash, all sums of ten dollars or
more a credit of 6 moLths will
be given by purchaser giving
note with approved security
e H. McDAID
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20
War Savings ID a Nutshell.

@. What is the war-savings
plan?
A. 1t is a plan by which you
can lend small savings to your
government at A per cent. inter-
est, compounded quarterly.
@. How may this be done?
A. By purchasing war-savings
stamps and thrift stamps.
@. What isa war-savings
stamp?
A. 1t is a stamp for which the
government will pay you SIS on
January l, 1923.
@. What does it cost?
A. Between 81. IL and $4.23
during 1918, depending upon the
month in which purchased.
@. What is a thrift stamp?
A. 1t is a stamp costing 25
cents. to be applied in payment
for war-savings stamp. 1t does
not earn interest. The purpose
of it's issue is to enable people to
accumulate in small sums the
amount necessary to pay for a
war-savings stamp.
@. Where can | buy them?
A. At postoffices, banks and
authorized agencies.
@. Why should l buy them?
A. Every dollar loaned to the
government helps to save the
lives of our men at the front and
to win the war.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20
Notice.

The Fulton County Mutual Fire
Insurance Company will meet at
Needmore, Pa, on Tuesday, Jan.
uary 8, 1918 at 10 o'clock, a. M,
to transact such business as may
come before the Board of Direc-
tors and to organize for the COM
ing year. Any member in good
standing may have a vote in the
reorganization.
A. M. BIvENS,
IL 20 2t Secretary.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20
Notice TO Shareholders.

The regular annual meeting of
the Shareholders of the Fulton
County Bank, of McConnellsburg,
Pa, for the election of directors
for the ensuing year will be held
in the banking rooms of said in
stitution on Tuesday, January 8.
1918 between the hours of !
o'clock and 2 o'clock, p. m.
WILSON L. MACE,
IL 13 At Cashier.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20
What Does Christmas Mean TO You?

What does Christmas mean to
you this year? | believe 1t should
mean more to US than just pres =
ents, cindies and daintles.
We should be merry, glad and
thankful-not just for the feast
of daintles, but thankful-pray-
fully thankful, that 1t is the day
God gave his only son the great
est gift man ever received so
that all men the poor as well as
rich might save their souls.
What a sacrifice he must have
made in giving such a gift as
that.
But sadder still he must feel
to see so precious gift thrust
side and untouched by so many
of US IN our greed for the tinsel
wrapped gifts which satan Is
always dangling before US aud #
unwrapped we only find sorrow
and misery.
Why don't We accept Christ as
he is today.-Tltus 2 II 90 for the
grace of God that bringeth saliva
tion hath appeared to all men
teaching US that denying ungod-
liness and worldly lusts we
should live soberly righteously
and godly In this present world.
So, why are we not all dong
this? Do we expect to gain heav
en- by not working for 1t or obey
ing Gods directions for getting
there?
Do we intend to live our lives
mere for satan and ourselves, and
God take US in at the last NOM
ent. If we on our death beds,
have strength enough left to be
able to pray for the atonement
Of our wasted lives 1T will be a
great wonder On, l say, think
of the time when your frall body
Is so racked with the pains of
death and should be waiting Tor
he Lord to release the awful
agony and take you home to think
ou must lie there tortured with
the tn )ught that sinners cannot
escape the Judgment Of God. |
say do not wait for that time
which may not give you time for
prayer?
Romans 13 II: The night Is far
spent and the day Is at hand; let
US therefore cast off the works
of darkness and let US put on the
armor of light and when we get
to the great Judgment door as
we all will before long, as we are
on the way now, and all journeys
must end, may we then be pre-
pared so we may not hear the
sound of the great judgment
clock as 1t ticks the sad words
too late too late!
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20
No General Holidays.

The war department has put
an end to all hope of the drafted
men in national army camps for
Christmas at home. Secretary
Baker declared that no general
furloughs will be granted in view
of the heavy strain already plac-
ed upon the railroads.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20
Card Of Thanks.

Mrs. Sam Hess and family
wish in this way to convey their
thanks to the kind friends and
neighbors for their sympathy
and help during the sad funeral
of her brother DR.. Blair W. Tru-
ak.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20

In its campaign for the saving
of coal the Fuel Administration
declares the average American
home is superheated. Eminent
American physicians are quoted
as saying that a room above GO
degrees Fahrenheit is too warm
for health and exposes the occu-
pants to catarrhal diseases and
pneumonia.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20
Runyan the Eye Man

at Burnt Cabins December 10.
McConnellsburg December 20 tt
%.
Needmore December "a to 26.
Warfordsburg December %.
Last trip.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20

After having spent several
weeks visiting relatives in
Carlisle and Neville, Miss Vir-
einia Tritle returned to her home
in the Cove last Friday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20

application to the Adjutant Gen.
erals Office, Washington, D, c.
In one week 1,674 letters with in
sufficient addresses were received
at this office, On 1882 the ad-
dresses were completed and they
were forwarded, 1923 were return
ed to senders, So went to the dead
letter office because senders' ad-
dresses were not given, and the
balance were held with the view
that the address might be COM
pleted later.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20
Shoes for the Whole Family

These goods are hard to get but we expeceaa
this and bought heavily, and we are now very gau
we did. We have just received work shoe IL.
men that was ordered three months ago thal -
hard to beat and we can sell it at $3.50. oO',U'
lard cans SIS cents, butcher knives 10 to 20 ceh.'
same kind and same price as last year. Linoleun
IS and 81 90 yard, 100 split rivets cents co
bushel basket 95 CENTS bed blankets ST.. 70 u YS
horse blankets SIPS to $3.50, Buggy harnevo ~
$500, $4,000 and $1,000, set bunch straps ~
cents,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20

lueSudy Will IcidIi"co III 1oWh'
No postmaster's pay will be
increased during the war, ac-
cordinR to an order by the Post
master General.
Many officers of the Marine
Corps and the Navy are men,
bers of a class receiving in
struction at Washington, D. c.,
in defense against the use of
gas.
The woman's committee of the
Council of National Defense has
arranged to furnish a badge to
every woman who registers to
work in cooperation with tn e
committee.
The Rebecca Jane Kesselring
farm in Taylor township. an ad-
vertisement for the sale Of which
appeared in the NEWS, was sold
to David Miller for nineteen hun
dred dollars.
In five years the portion Of
the worlds gold monetary stock
(coin and bullion used as money!
held by the United States has
increased from one.fifth to more
than one-third.
The Sunday school at the Mt.
Zion M. E. church on Timber
Ridge in Thompson township
will have their Christmas enter
tainment on Saturday evening
the 22nd Of December.
The retail price of milk in
England has been advanced from
Ia to 16 cents a quart. The sale
and use of cream has been
prohibited, except for invalids,
infants, and for butter making.
Mrs. William Davis and family
have moved from lie wis G.
Mann's tenant house at Saluvia
to the tenant house of Mrs. j.
P. Kline and not Howard Ham
and family into the Kegarice
homestead.
The McConnellsburg knitters
are requested to have their brown
yarn garments delivered to Miss
Ruth Kendall by Saturday, jan
uary 18th. The auxiliaries that
got yarn before December 3rd
are requested to have their gar
ments in by the same time.
Ex-County Commissioner Sam
Gracey, of Mt. Union, Earl
Gracey of Newburg, and Messrs.
Sudis, Fluke, and Eichelbarger-
all of Saxton, killed a fine 4.prong-
ed buck in Tod township, Hun
tingdon County on the 9th of De-
cember. The buck weighed ITS
pounds.
At a children's hospital re-
Gently established by the Ameri.
can Red Cross in France, an av-
erage of $50 boys and girls are
being examined each day. In
connection is a dental dispensary
located in an old kitchen, with a
dental chair improvised from a
wine barrel.
Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Martin of
the Cove, went to Lewisberry.
Pa, where Rev. Martin will have
charge of the work on Lewisber-
ry Charge, M. E. Chruch until
Conference. This is the Charge
from which Rev. Edward Jack
son came when he came to Nc
Connellsburg.
More than half of the 1850
colored men who completed the
course at the reserve officers
training camp at Fort Des
Moines, Iowa, have been commits
stoned as officers in the army.
Nearly 100 colored physicians
and surgeons have received COM
missions as officers in the Medi-
cal Reserve Corps. A full fight
ing force of 10000 colored SOL
diers, including representatives
in all branches of military serv-
ice will constitute the Ninety
second Division. to be detailed
for duty in France under Gen.
Pershing.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20
RACKET STORE
Well, last week we told you about glass jars,
tin cans, jar gums, coal oil, etc. We can still sell
you glass jars-quarts at so cents, and halfgallon
at S5 cents; jar rings at and cents doz. or 35
cents pound. Tin cans at SO cents. Coal oil is
II cents gallon, now.
Underwear Shoes and Clothing

We are in shape to save you some mony on TN.
derwear, shoes, and clothing. We bought all these
goods early, and we going to give you the ben
eft of the nice saving.
You want to see the Mems fleeced underwear
we have for SO cents each; also, the one at 10.
Mems union suits at SIPS, $1.35, $19O, S250
and $3.75. Mems wool shirts and drawers S1.OO
and $1.35. Childrens separate underwear, 10
cents and 35 cents each. BOYS union suits 30 cts'
Misses heavy, 55 and 65 cents. Boys sweater
coats, SO cents to SIPS. Mems sweater coats oo
cents to $3.25. Boys sport coats, 1925 to SOU
Mems heavy Overalls $1.OO and SIPS. Gallon
crooks 10 cents Mems work shirts 60 cents. Mems
wool shirts 95 cents and ST. .98. We think we can
save you, also on
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-20
Fire EztinSuisher.

We have a good fire extinguisher. Any rSev Sey
that owns an automobile should have one i - q
cost but 35 cents and one might save the pri'' no
new machine. If you have rats, why not u' ,,el
Corn? 1t will kill them, and you won't have d 'N'
either-only 20 and As cents box.
This is the time of year to get your stocA iust|
chickens in good condition for the winter ,.es
try DIR. Hess's remedies. 26, 90, and dollar si1'''
HULL & BENDEK
McConneIlsburg Pa.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-05-29
Stop the Waste

The United States Department of Aeri-
culture is impressing upon all the people
that the war into which our country has
been forced will be won as much by saving
in the family living as it will by bayonets
and sharpnel in France. Each family i
urged to stop all waste and to produce as
much of its own food and feed as its cir
that has only a small plot of ground can
have a garden and by using wire
fencing can also keep chickens.
Let Us not in our enthusiasm to do our
part undertake TO keep livestock or poul-
try without being able to grow 6 large part
of the feed they require. We know a fam
lily living in a city, says the Texas Indus
trial Congress, that has a garden and
chickens on a small part of a single lot,
and kept the chickens supplied with green
feed through the winter by sprouting oats
in tin pans with warm water. This is
rather intensive poultry farming and most
of u are not put to such makeShifts TO
supply our hens with green feed in winter;
however, il shows what can be done when
necessary.
We may be sure that eggs, milk, butter,
pork or other products produced on ex-
pensive feed that we nave TO buy mean
very little saving to " as long a We can
buy them at all. Where we grow the feed
ourselves, or where our food is produced
through feeding scraps that would other
wise be waste the saving j. very great and
is practically all gain. While waste is al
ways wrong a a matter of principle il ap-
pears that now with a scarcity of food in
the world and our allies who are fighting
for u in Europe having TO 90 on short ra-
tions we have no longer the right to be
wasteful even if We are willing to pay the
difference. The total preventable food
waste in the United States j. estimated at
500, 900 900 a year, or sos to $40 per per
son.
A family that has chickens can easily
plant a little green stuff for them. some
vegetables to mature along through the
growing season, and a small patch Of rye,
rape or cabbage for winter. The hog will
do better with good summer and winter
pasturage, which may be in the form Of
cultivated crops on small plots of ground.
and the same is true of the milk flow Of
the family cows. In doing our part to win
the war, let u not only nave the home
raised meat, milk, butter, egg and poultry,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-05-29
TUESDAY, MAY %, 1917.
THE RED CROSS NEEDS YOU.

The American Red Cross has establish
ed itself in Brownsville, through the med
ium of the Rio Grande Chapter. Over six
ty patriotic. devoted men and women have
answered their country's call by Identify
ing themselves with the chapter. This il
a notable beginning. Ii should be remem-
bered, however, that a town the size of
Brownsville is counted upon for a Red
Cross chapter of not less than five hun
dred members So, it Is up to our people
to lose no time in doing their part. III you
have not enroped already, do so now.
Every patriotic American should wear a
Rer Cross emblem. Ii stands for human
ity. 1t stands for relief for the suffering.
Just now, it stands for aid for the Ameri-
can soldier who j. going to the front to
fights for the flag.
The Red Cross needs You because Your
country needs You, because our soldiers
need you.
Who that witnessed the departure of
the Fourth Infantry regiment yesterday.
marching blithely away to go into active
service at the front. who that watched
those brave. devoted fellows, knowing that
perhaps many of them may never return
home from France. did not feel a throb Of
grief mingled with a thrill Of the deepest
admiration for them? Those bows need
You Those very boys may soon be needing
the very bandages or other surgical dress
ings that the Rio Grande Red Cross Chap
ter will make.
Let us not stint our efforts in caring
for the welfare of the men who wear the
uniform. We have taken up a noble work.
The test of true nobility, true manhood
and true womanhood Is mt hand for the
American people.
Won't you do your part9
See Mr.. Louis Cobolini. chairman of the
membership committee, or any of the mem
hers ~ that committee at once and give
ihem spgr application f0~ membership n
the Red gra-e
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-05-29
Win the War in Your
Kitchen
BY IDA VERA SIM0NTON.

Every woman can help win the war in
her own kitchen il she will read. remember
and obey the following twelve command
ments
Avoid waste, and practice the strictest
economy.
Put your family on a ration basis.
DO your own marketing.
Select foods Of nourishing and sustain
Ing qualities.
Serve as many of them raw as possible.
Employ vegetable butter "a; 26 cents a
pound instead of ordinary butter at 55
cents a pound.
Employ peanut oil instead of lard or
other shorteners.
Use pulverized instead Of ground cof-
fee; brown sugar instead of white, and
cornmeal instead Of wheat flour.
Substitute rice, beans and fish for meat.
and remember that green bananas baked in
the skin ARE far more nutritious and easily
disested than ripe ones.
Cultivate every available inch of ground,
window boxes included.
Practice absolute cleanliness and help
keep down rlagues and pestilences.
Boycott every dealer who attempts to in
fate lr.ces.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-05-29

but let US also provide the feed with which
these things are produced, and let Us see
that the scraps are used in connection with
this feed instead of being thrown into the
garbage or poured down our sinks or
thrown out the kitchen door to bring flies
and sickness. just as in riy-farming
or feeding beef cattle, the greatest saving
the family can make in the homegrown
living is in growing the feed upon which
this living il based.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-05-29

One of the finest examples of true patriot
ism is that shown by Marshall Field. the
Third, Americas richest young man, who
has enlisted as a private in the Illinois
cavalry. With his enormous fortune. he
might have obtained a commission very
easily-donbtless he would easily qualify
for an officers duties. But he chose the
ranks. Good for MARSHALL Would there
we're more patriots-many thousands
more-lIke him.. Ii j. easy enough to find
men who are willing to accept a commits
SION. We could recruit n regiment Of col
onels or captains or lieutenants. a. easily
as we could recruit a regiment of men for
the rank and file. But we cannot all be
officers We need officers, plenty Of them.
But without an army To be differed. of
h use would they he! After all, il j.
the men in the ranks who carry the guns.
They are the ones who execute the com
mands given by the officers. Although few
OF them ever achieve sufficient fame to ex-
pect a place in the sun, yet the country
loves the men in the ranks for ii knows
the tremendous sacrifice which they make
for pure country's sake, without hope Of
glory for themselves. In this war with
Germany, America is going to send plenty
of her very best blood to the front as
privates.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-05-29
NOT HER EXPERIENCE.

A stout. elderly woman stopped a clerk in
a Cincinnati book department and demanded in
n voice with a strong German accent a book
suitable for a bridal couple and costing not
more than - cents.
The clerk selected Henry Van Dykes The
Pathway to Peace and suggested that il
would be the proper book for the bridal cou-
pie.
The customer took one look mt the title.
threw NJ her hands and exclaimed. "Ach. Gott.
NO."-I'ublishers' Weekly.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-05-29
Shortstops

A fast mule often has a loose hind leg.
Hymen's torch i always lighted with a
match.
Success is a by-product Of working for
a living.
Doing nothing is doing worse than moth
ing.
Little men in high places east long
shadows.
Love and wisdom are seldom on speak
ing terms.
An easy lesson in bookkeeping: Don't
lend them.
In a world Of change consistency i often
n vice.
To he n gentlman all n man has to do j.
hide his meanness.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-05-29
War in History
May %, 1915.

May 20, 1915.
German reply TO President Wilson's first
LusItanIa note, attempting to Justify
sinking on various untenable grounds
and eyading real issue.
May 20, 1916.
Verdun.
Italians on the defensive near the Adige,
repulse fierce Austrian assaults.
British government announced that Ger
man yarship raids on defenseless
, British coast towns to date had result
ed in the death Of al n~on-combat-
ants and the wounding OF Gil.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-05-29
NATU RALLY.

The wild man from Borneo swallowed himself
But yet he seemed pleased and not panied.
He seemed neither f~luttcred nor Hurried nor
fused.
In fact he was quite self contained.
Cornell Widow.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-05-29

BE polite to the undertaken. lie ma,
have the last chance at you.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-17
WILL PAVE COUNTRY ROADS.
Dubuque County Supervisors to I'm
prove Three and One. Third Miles.
Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Dubuque, March 1l.-At regular
meeting of the Dubuque county board
of supervisors Tuesday, the roads
committee presented resolution pro-
viding for the paving of three and
one third mile stretch of the Sageville
road. commencing at the north city
limits of the city Of Dubuque. the
resolution was adopted unanimously
1t is proposed to pave theroad either
with brick or concrete. The drive
way will be eighteen feet wide. The
total cost OF the work is estimated at
something in excess of sG5, APP
.proximately one third of this amount
swill be paid by committee Of bust
ness men and large land holders in the
country to which the road leads
Bids will be asked on the work at
an early date with the idea Of having
the road completed before winter. The
road lays up what is known as the
Coulter valley TO and across the Ma
tquoketa river /, is perfectly level and
has been impossible much Of the time
in the past because high water or
heavy rains soaked the earth so that
vehicles sunk into II.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-17
BIG DECREASE IN TRADE.
Imports and Exports De.
crease s19oOOo,oO0 on February.

Washington. March l.. - American
foreign trade decreased approximately
Sl90.O0o,0 900 during February, the first
month Of Germany's unrestricted sub
marine warfare In a statement today
the department OF commerce gives the
decrease In exports as s147,032,S5a and
the decrease In imports s42.239,675.
February exports totaled s46e, 523,-
O34. as compared with the corrected
total Of ss13.555.693 in January. The
total purchases abroad IN February
were sl99.5Ts,597. as against SAL
S16.2s2 in January.
The falling off In exports and i'm
ports was due in the opinion Of de-
partment officials, almost wholly 20
Germany's unrestricted submarine
warfare, Exports for the past eight
months were s4,oso,ss5,s42, compared
with s2,5S4,6S2,726 in the, same period
Of 1915, and sl,634.466,o17 70 1915.