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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-30
The Prize Winners.


passed before the local exemption
board, eighty.three have been
reported to the Department as
eligible to military service, and
seventy-three of these men will
be called to fill Fulton County's
quota in the first draft.
Five per cent. of the 73 men
will be called into service on the
9TH of September; 40 per cent.
on the 10Th of September, and 10
per cent. on the third of October.
Amaranth-F. M. McKibbin,
John M. Deneen.
Andover-Clem C. Schooley,
VIM. Gilbert Polk, James D.
Hoop, Jacob A. Deshong.
big Cove Tannery - Stanley
Quay Mellott, John H. Tritle,
Clarence j. Wright.
Burnt Cabins Harvey E. Com
erer, Rolla 0. Mock, VIM. II.
Metzler.
Buck Valley-Geo. Roy Hen
dershot, Marshall Sigel.
Cito-Herman W. Keyser.
Clear Ridge-Robert E. Wine
gardner.
Crystal, , Springs-James c..
Akers, Ross j. Barton, II. Bruce
Barton.
Dublin Mills David R. Hess.
Enid-Robert r. Edwards.
Emmaville-Frank b. Spade.
Fort Littleton-Ralph C. Fra
ker, Alfred C. Mccoy, Harry H.
Cromer.
Franklin Mills-John E. Divel-
bliss.
Hiram Edward S. Brant, H.
E. Kirk.
Hustontown-Orville Mellott,
Orville V. Wink, Harvey Laidig,
Walter Ray Taylor, Chas. H.
Heeter, Harry S. Reeder, Fred
Lamberson, William M. Nell
haney.
Hancock-Alonzo Funk, Wylie
E. Booth, Orben B. Hebner, En-
nest l.. Keefer, William r. Ritz,
Chas. H. Ritz, John NJ. Everts.
Harrisonville-Clem C. Mellott,
Joseph B. Schooley, Clem A. De-
shong, Dick Deshong, Norman
Schooley, Dwight r. Sipes.
Knobsville- Brenton D. Regi,
Edgar Goblin, Rush Wagner.
Lashley Oscar H. Lashley,
Chester Bishop, James C. Scriev-
er.
McConnellsburg Russell L.
Stevens, Walter R. Barmont,
Herbert F. Cooper, Webster D.
Mellott, Thurman E. Nesbit, Or
len S. Mock, John DufIield Sipes,
Robert B. Regi, Ralph c. Lining
er, Russell G. Glazier, Norman
C. Raker, Harry D. Fix, Harry
Miller, Franklin B. Hampton,
Charles E. Barmont.
Northcraft- John E. Wigfeld.
Needmore-E d ward Ham,
Reuben G. Ham.
New Grenada-Mack C. Allo-
way, James K. Alloway.
Pleasant Ridge-Callie TruaX.
Warfordsburg-Frank Fisher,
Dayton A. Lynch, VIM. Van Kirk
Thomas P. Kirk, Alonzo V.
Bivens.
Webster Mills-Ira Balm.
Wells Tan nery-H. A. Ed
wards.
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No Bonus For Soldiers.

Despite efforts of state officials
to inform the country at large
that Pennsylvania does not pay
bonuses of $40 for enlistments,
scores of letters continue to reach
the adjutant generals depart
ment from all parts of the coun-
try seeking in formation. Most
of them come from soldiers who
enlisted in Pennsylvania at one
time or another and they can use
the bonus if the state comes
across" A few days ago an in
quiry was received from the
Philippines and a half dozen
came from along the Mexican
border. The letters have become
so numerous that form replies
have been printed. The replies
say: You are advised that there
is no law in forcein Pennsylvania
authorizing the payment of IA bon
US for enlistments in the U. S.
army, navy, or marine corps, or
national guard of the U. S. or
Pennsylvania" The note is
signed by Adjuant General Stew
art and the general hopes it will
put a stop to the inquiries.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-30
A Second Draft Army.

Word comes from Washington
that January first has been ten.
tatively set for the second draft
and that the number of men cal.
led will be approximately $50, 900.
If there is any doubt where the
United States stands in this
business the answer is furnished
in that brief but suggestive an.
nouncement. We already have
assured an army of 1,200, 900
for foreign service, and the gov
ernment is devoting its energies
to securing transportation for
these men to France. The work
of training, drilling, equipping
and preparing goes on constant
ly. We are giving the world an
object lesson in earnestness. 1t
is a big job and it is taking time
and hard work to manage it, but
we are getting there just as sure
ly as the sun rises and sets.
But-to prove that we have
gone into this war with our eyes
open and that we have counted
the cost and the men-we are
not stopping with the first mil.
lion and a quarter of men. We
are looking ahead. and it is ex-
pected that another three-quar-
ters of million will be summon
ed to the colors by the first of
the new year.
The Importance and the mean
ing of this may be partially un-
derstood if we pause to consider
the immense amount of detail in
volved before we start in on
this new batch of soldiers. 1t
means that the young men who
have gone into the second Off
GERS training camps will have to
be trained and receive their COM
before the close of the
year, because they are the ones
who will be called upon to help
drill and prepare the new men.
Stores will have to be replenish-
ed, uniforms manufactured and
guns and ammunition purchased.
But the big moral of it all is
that we are fully in earnest and
that we are going into this war
with only one object-and that
object is to Win. Those misgui-
ded persons across the water who
imagined that our declaration of
war was an American bluff"
will be wiser soon. Pershing
and his expeditionaty force have
led the way, and American man.
hood will follow in an unending
stream until the object for which
we entered this war has been
attained. Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Wood for Fuel.

Wool for fuel is valuable in
proportion to the heat units it
contains, just as food is valuable
in proportion to the number of
calories it contains. Every
laboring man knows that he
must have meat, bread, butter,
and potatoes. if he is to keep his
strength up to its best, and he
knows just as well that with the
fullest meal on vegetable soup
or cabbage, will mot stick to
the ribs" "
There is wood AND wood.
Some wood is cheaper at four
dollars a cord than other, at two
dollars. The heavier the fire
wood provided, of course, that
it is not wet or water-soaked)
the more heat to the cord. Hick-
ory, oak, beech, hard maple,
locust, ash, and elm have high
heat value, and on authority of
the State Forestry Association,
one cord Of seasoned wood with
bark on, has a heat value as fuel
equal to one ton of coal.
The man who hauls wood to
town should have a just compen-
sation; but both the hauler and
the wood should be straight. 1t
is by no means reasonable that
the man who bring three-foot
wood and sells it for four foot;
or the man who brings wood cut
from tops that have lain in fhe
woods until it is half rotten that
brings huge knots that a stick of
dynamite wouldn't split, or limbs
so crooked that they can't lie
still should receive the same
price as the man who hauls
strictly staaight young wood, full
length and 12S feet to the cord.
The editor of the News who
has hauled many load of wood
to McConnelIsburg, knows that
when you cut up a lot of timber
into fire wood for the market,
that it cannot all be split wood,
nor can it all be straight, or be
maple or hickory. But, it can
all be four feet in length instead
of three, or three-six. The
point we wish to make is; Grade
your wood, same as you grade
your focks or your fruit, and the
buyer who wants only the best,
let him pay for it, and the one
who takes the cuttings, sell it to
him at the price of culls.
1t has not been many years
since the citizens of McConnells-
burg could get wood TO burn"
at two dollars a cord, and have
it split up ready for the stove,
from fifty to seventy-five cents
a cord. Now, the price is al
most double that. The cost of
fuel, is therefore, quite an item
in the expense of many people
daring the long winters, and it is
well worth while to select such
wood as will give most heat for
the money, and to get all that
is coming to you.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-30
NUMBER SO
The BOYS WORKING RESERVE, U.S.A.
Letter Of Information TO Parents, Cor.
corning the Objects Of the Or.
ganizatiOn.

ganizatiOn.
The Committee of Public Safe
ty for Fulton County wishes the
parents of the county to be in
formed regarding the Boys
Working Reserve, U. S. A.,
Pennsylvania Division.
The Boys Working Reserve,
u. S. A., is a national emergency
organization created by the
United States Government. 1t
is designed as an agency to as
sist the Nation in the successful
prosecution Of the present war
by enlisting boys between the
ages of sixteen and twenty-one,
for supervised temporary, en-
ployment, in proper and needful
forms of non-military service, at
times during the continuance Of
the war emergency.
The duties which the members
of the Reserve may assume upon
occasion will include general and
special work in various lines of
agricultural, industrial and COM
mercial service.
The need for such service
growing out of the great labor
shortage in the country, due on
one hand to the large withdrawal
of men from their regular occu-
pations, and on the other hand
to the present necessity of great
ly increased agricultural and in
dustrial production, will frequent
ly be imperative. 1t is intended
however that the participation
of the Reservei in such emergency
work shall be so organized that
it shall not retard the education
of those boys who are attending
school and that it shall not prove
a detriment to those who are
regularly employed. Enrolment
in the Reserve does not necessa-
rily involve an immediate call to
service. The motto of the Re-
serves is II will be ready"
Membership in the Reserve is
open equally to employed and un-
employed boys,
The Oath of Service, to which
every member is required to SUBJ
scribe is as follows:
| ............ do solemnly
swear that | will support the
Constitution of the United States;
that will bear true faith and al
legiance to the same; that will
well and faithfully discharge the
duties which / am about to as
sumo.
The right to furlough or dis
missal from connection with the
Reserve, upon the request of his
parents or guardian, is retained
by every boy enrolled in the
Reserve.
Enrolment week begins Sep
tember 8. The apportionment
for Fulton County, to be enrolled
during Enrolment week is 26.
The patriotic cooperation of
parents is solicited.
H. p. BARTON,
Supt. Boys Working Reserve, U.
S. A.
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Prolific.

p'e lIarr, who owns and
~ | 'he Otho Souders farm
!, township has a eve that
Olf'n to four lambs about
r'St Of April. Mrs. Harr
" 'ne rescue and has rails
Y OF the lambs by bottle,
N NANNY sheep took good
I the other two,' and now
pOle -four are.fine big lambs.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-30

Miss Harriet Alexander, who
had been spending two weeks in
the home of her sister Mrs.
Josephine A. Sloan in McCon-
nellsburg, returned to her home
in Wells Valley Tuesday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-30

Mr.. Harvey D. Nelson. his son
Donald, and his mother Mrs.
Johnston N. Nelson. who had
been visiting Harvey's sister,
Mrs. ]. H. Kendall in the Cove,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-30
RECORD OF DEATHS.
sart Sketches Of the Lives Of Per-
sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.

JOHN MAGSAM
Iohnnie Magsam, as he was
Ipmiliarly known to large num-
ber Of acquaintances, died sud
jsnly at his farm about 1t mile
.outheast of McConnellsburg on
| Monday, August 27, 1917, aged
sbOut 5S years. ,
\ Having been in town that
morning, he found on his return
[home that his herd of goats had
|votten into a neighbor's field and
uent after them. Not return
[j1g 8 for dinner, his brother Geo.
uept to the field and found
|fbe lifeless body of John lying
prOne upon the ground. DR..
was called at once and
rrCnounced death as having re-
United from a lesion of the heart
|frOm which Mr.. Magsam had
afflicted for some time.
/ The funeral took place We'd
|usday afternoon and interment
ms made in the family burying
mound along the Mercersburg
|pEe.
7 John was married to Miss
.Bdith McCune about two years
|lgc, who survives.
Mrs. A. D. KEITH.
Nrs. Alice Rebecca, wife of
Aus tin De Forest Keith died at
lher home near New Grenada,
AuE1st 10, 1917, aged 81 years
,nd 6 days. The funeral SER
ices conducted by Rev. Frown-
e|tfr, of Three Springs, took
D|ace the following Tuesday and
nternent was made in Bethel
ene.ery at New Grenada.
Mr.. Keith was a daughter of
Richsrd and Lavinia Marlin and
PAS horn in Taylor township.
he vas married to Mr.. Keith
NJ 8, 1886. Besides her hus-
she is survived by the
Owing children: Sara, wife
Chis. Stambaugh, Altoona;
Over and Jesse, in Trough
'es Valley; Anon and Russell,
lew Grenada; Meta, wife of
ona' Ford, and Mary, wife of
fgc Heeter-reside at Wood
FS Keith had been ill during
pat two years, and the large
per of Sorrowing friends at
'lng her funeral bore testi-
to the esteem in which she
heId in the community.
CLARENCE J. PECK.
arence j. Peck, aged CT
4 months and IL days,
Of Nicholas and Sara
POLAR Peck, died at his
IN Everett Saturday even
august "a, 1917. His wife,
was Elizabeth Weaverling,
aOous six years ago. He
faithful member of the
Fmed Church and of tbo
Bible Class in the Reform
pnday school. Clarence was
S'n OF Denton and Alfred
Cf this county,.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-30
A Bankers View.


Financial Review is from the
pen of Henry Clews, one of New
York City's leading financiers,
and is an easily understood dis
cussion of present war conditions.
Mr.. Clews says:
The steady rise in power of
the Allies and corresponding de-
cline among the Central Powers
strengthens the hopes of an
early peace; albeit the end of the
war is not yet in view. Germany
is by no means exhausted to the
point of submission to the well
known terms Of the Allies. Nor
are the Allies yet able to deliver
a decisive military blow. At
the moment their policy appears
to be that of wearing the enemy
down; the relative rise or fall in
the strength of opposing armies
being of more significance for
the time being than the acquisi.
tons of territory which are geo.
graphically trihing. AS the war
goes on, talking and planning
for peace becomes more and more
definite. Opinion is divided as
to what the effect will be upon
American trade, much depend.
ing upon the individual point of
view. There is no doubt that
peace will necessitate extensive
readju tments. These will come
gradual and will by no means
demand return to old conditions
which is Ipossible. Concerns
devoted to Wac business will be
obliged to scral considerable of
their plants or prepare for other
lines of work. War profits would
of course disappear, and a few
lines of endeavor would cease
entirely. But very important
offsets would quickly appear.
The fact that the world had
turned its face from destruction
to reconstruction would at once
set loose great economic forces.
Optimism would promptly sue
ceed despair, and the work of
rebuilding and rearranging the
civilized world would start with
.vigor that would soon overcome
all confusion and hesitancy.
Our steel mills would receive
no more war orders, but far bet
ter, they would be pressed with
orders for shipbuilding and for
all kinds of constr uction work in
all parts of the world. Our tex
tile mills would sooner recover
from loss of war orders and be
fully occupied with both domes-
tic and foreign orders. Our
secondary industries, such as
automobiles, typewriters, ag-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, machinery,
ETC., would also be pressed with
orders to make good war losses in
Europe. Our mineral producers
would be equally sure of good
markets and good prices; so, too
would the American farmer who
may rest assured Of good prices
for all he can grow for some
years to come. The truth is war
has impoverished the whole
world. The waste of life and
wealth has been inconceivable.
Millions of lives have been de-
stroyed or impaired, and the ex-
penditures for war since 1914 of |
all nations have been over 800, |
600, 10000 Everything grown
or made by the hand of man is
scarce. Years will be required d
to refill the enormous vacuum,
and the scarcity of men or labor
at q time when most needed |
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-30
CLEAR RIDGE.


several days during the past
week in the home of her brother
in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. c. Fields, in McConnellsburg.
On Sunday she, in company with
the Fields family, visited Mr..
and Mrs. B. S. Fleming in Way
nesboro.
E. M. Gelvin, near Fort Little
ton, was a business visitor to
our village last Thursday.
Mrs. Retta Hockenberry, of
Pitcairn, is visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Grove, of
this place.
Mrs. Louie Winegardner left
last Friday for Wells Valley
where she is conducting a con-
fectionery at a bush meeting
which is in progress there.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. S. Fleming
and daughter Cora, of Waynes-
boro, were recent visitors in the
home of the Fleming family here.
Miss Maude NJ. Fields returned
last Wednesday from Tyrone,
Pa, where she had spent six
weeks in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jessie Bloom. Mrs. Bloom
will be remembered as Miss Elsie
Baker, formerly one of Fulton
County's successful teachers.
Miss Dora Baker, who during
the past three years had been in
training for nurse in one of the
hospitals in western Pennsylva-
MIA, accompanied by her niece
Althea Bloom, of Tyrone, is Wis
iting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Calvin Baker.
Miss Mayme Fields is spending
two weeks visiting Miss Olive
Snyder at New Enterprise, Pa.
Luther H. Grove and sister
Miss Minnie attended bushmeet-
ing in Wells Valley last Sunday.
The Misses Stewart, of Tyrone,
are visiting their uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. H. |. Fraker
in this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. D. Fleming
returned to their home in Turtle
Creek, Pa, last Saturday, after
a two weeks visit in the homes
of their respective parents here.
After having spent a few
months in Pittsburgh, Miss
Eunice Brown has returned to
her home in this place.
Miss Emma S. Kerlin, who
holds lucrative position with
the Westinghouse Company, and
boards in Turtle Creek, was re-
Gently visitor in the home of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
P. Kerlin.
Miss Mary Henry, near Nc
Connellsburg, is visiting her
grandparents, John Kerlin and
wife.
The many friends of J. w.
Mower will regret to learn that
he has lost the power of speech,
and become quite an invalid.
Miss Slaughterly, of Pitts
burgh, has spent the past three
weeks with her friend Miss Lii
lian Henry.
Mac, Clyde, and James Grove,
sons of Harris Grove and wife,
have been August visitors in the
home of their parents.
Clair Baker is home from De-
troit.
Mervin Stewart, a Clear Ridge
boy, who is doing evangelical
york at Buckholtz, Texas,
writes that they have been hav-
ing dry weather with intense
heat, and crops below normal.
"
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sugar Price Reduced.

I Ueeh J." announced in Wash
\, 'paT an agreement be-
te tH'e os9t sugar producers
1 'EOu administration was
h wn'lh will reduce one
4 I'D, NAL a pound from the
/ F..p, p,'ce of sugar. Th e
I |'ll save thirty million
|n nSe'"een now and the
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-30

N |Suu /, Mrs, j. L. Garland
james and daughter
\" b4'ar Mercersburg spent
l., from Thursday until
1 ~sulNs o,'' among relatives
lros ooaoty' They attended
n Ir's :, at the Sideling Hill
cnarch Sunday.
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Miss Mary Pittman went to
Everett last week to be compani-
on to Mrs. Frank Gump who has
been a invalid for a long time.
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Clarence Sinner of Altoona is
visiting his mother and other
in this place.
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Experience

1 logged along a country road, In
my large choo-choo dragon, and met
a farmer with load of pumpkins IN
his wagon. 600 back, go back" the
granger said, through whiskers long
and ruddy, you'd best turn round,
the road ahead is dangerous and
muddy" 81 never yet have seen the
pike" 1 said, ''that scared this auto,
and I'll go on, so help me Mike, for
Get There is my motto" I drove
into a marshy hole, when 1 had gone
some distance, and farmers took away
my roll for giving me assistance. We
tolled and wrought a night and day,
to remedy my folly, and when again
took my way I reel1ed with melan-
chOly. The road of life is much the
same, the road we blithely follow
we're warned by men Who've played
the game, to shun the swampy hol-
low. They tell US where the way Is
worst and where the bridge is rotten,
and we've gone a half a verst their
counsel is forgotten. We viii not
learn from sage and seer who've
walked the path before US; we greet
the prophet with a sneer and wise
men only bore US. And every day
we pay the price, the cost this course
we stick IN mud and break
through ice, and bust our best suspen-
ders--Walt Mason.
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FaIse and EaIIacions

In a country like our, possessing
the greatest abundance and greatest
variety of natural resources known to
any country on earth, the doctrine of
Free-Trade, of unrestricted foreign
competition is a strange doctrine to
advocate seriously. Considered IN its
relation to the exceptional conditions
surrounding this people and this land
the vast achievements Of the mast
and the vaster possibilities OF the fu-
ture-considered IN its relation to the
highest moral and material welfare
OF nation Of the most prosperous and
most fortunate people known to hu-
man history, 1t is doctrine so strange
that one Is almost tempted to think
1t must conceal some superior truth.
But 1T does not. It is false and faIIa-
clous- One by one the civilized ma
tons OF the world have discarded If.
The end OF the present great war
viii ind Protective Tariffs IN all pro-
ducIng cOuntries-exeep the United
States Unless the war lasts beyond
March 4, 1921, its close viii come
with the present Free-Trade Tariff IN
operation The election of 1920 will
BRING IN Congress and an admins
trstIon committed to the restoration
OF full and adequate Protection
American Economist
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FOR SALE

IA feet OF shafting, hangers and
pulleys. Inquire at the Free Press Of
fee. Phone No II.
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I am prepared to do carpet and rug
weaving. Miss A. < McClain.
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FOR SALE

/. Twelve good residence lots IN good
location within four and six blocks
or the business section. Inquire Of
the Free Press Office. Phone II.
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Oil Stove for Sale
A three burner oil stove for sale at
a bargain A good stove that gives
out no odor. Phone 19O.
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CLASSIFIED ADS
For SALE

Nearly new, triple silver plated b
fat COrnet- Easily changed to a. In
quire at the Free Press Office or Carl
A. Clark, Hays, Kansas.
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indications are not lacking that a
systematic effort has been made by
Germany to influence, If not corrupt,
American thought through American
universities and othEr schools. There
mas been q suspicious outbreak OF
:tro-Gernan SENTIMENT In the Uni
veESlneS OF WSSc1nSEps Nebssz3S:s sd
elsswhete a Few ti5fsasss'5rs EssFIs
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been "interned" others have Joined
the Germany colony of rene
gades in Mexico, but still others are
at large apologizing for Kaiserism
and criticising all things American
A faculty shake-up is due In more
than one educational institution
Capital
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witness my hand and official seal this IOtb
4e OF july 1917 Fred n. DreiIing
'SSaiJ Co Treasurer
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Victoria Tussday, Auru.t "a

Should you OF your child have any
thing wrong with your eyes, ears,
uoSe or throat, or need glasses, make
q date with Dr. II. Jay Brown, offices
u Campbell Building, SaI;na, Kan
Sss. or see him at Victoria, on Tues
Cfz,y. August 7th, and sk Els. Wed.
.5esdEy{ August StlIs