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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-23
Liquor Sent in Auto Tires.

Hagerstown police commissions
ers have been notified that liq-
uor was being shipped in quanti-
ties into dry West Virginia in au-
tomobile tires. The liquor is
purchased in Hagerstown, snug
gled to a point near the West
Virginia line, pumped into the
tires and taken to Martinsburg.
Police Commissioner Orrick di-
rected Lieutenant of Police Bar
Der to apprehend the smugglers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-23

| Mr.. D. R. Wink, formerly of
this county, but during the last
six years a prosperous farmer in
the Eastern Shore, Nd, was in
town a few hours Monday. He
and his son Robert came to Full
ton County about ten days ago
for visit, and during that time
his father died. Mr.. Wink and
his son expects to leave Hancock
for his home next Saturday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-23

The Civic Club requests the
Town Council and all others in.
terested in the Improvement of
the Square to please meet with
them Friday, Oath at 7 o'clock at
Mr.. Jno. P. Sipes. This meet
ing is to decide upon a plan for
the Square and your presence is
necessary.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-23
hon. GEORGE A. SMITH.
Biographical Sketch As Published 10
The Animal Report Of the PenusyI.
yania Bar Association.

We are indebted to T. Elliott
Patterson, Esq, secretary of the
committee on legal biography of
the Pennsylvania Bar Associa-
tion, for copy of the Report for
1917 containing the following
biographical sketch of a once
prominent citizen of this county:
Smith, George A. (5lst ]. D.,
Fulton), born April II, 1880;
died February l, 1917. Ad-
mitted to the Bar in 1859.
Mr.. Smith was a son of Rev.
George Asbury Smith. a we'll
known Methodist minister of
southern Pennsylvania and north
ern Maryland, a man of ability
in his day.
His son the subject of this
memoir was like his father of
commanding physical presence,
and of equal if not greater men,
tai power.
From his first coming to the
Bar to the end of his active prec-
tice he always maintained a first
place among hN local Bar, and
was recognized as their most rep
resentatiye member. 1t was oft
en- said OF him that had he chosen
a larger CC1lty town or had gone
to any of The cities of our State
he would have :Drged a place for
himself among T.. 2 ablest men of
his profession.
After eighteen years at the
Bar of his County he removed to
Rogersville, Tennessee, where he
made his home to the time of his
death. Yet in all those years,
and as late as the summer of
1916, he came north to attend
the Fulton County courts.
Not only will the juniors of his
own Bar but those of earlier days
whose admission he moved for
and who made their homes else
where thereafter, remember his
sympathetic and paternal interest
in their welfare, wherever they
located.
Mr.. Smiths active profession
al life as a young man was spent
among the stirring scenes along
the border during the Civil War.
Only a few months bofore his
death he contributed a very in
teresting account of the first
cavalry fighting north on the
Mason and Dixon line that took
place between Federal and a
Confederate Company of equal
numbers commencing in tn e
streets of McConnellsburg and
on the McConnellsburg
and Baltimore pike a half mile |
east of the town. The Federals |
were successful, and the bodies
of the Confederates lie, buried |
near where they fell. He was
an eye witness to the scene and
with other citizens was among
those who attended the burial of
the dead that evening. A lover
of healthy out. door country sports
he was fond of the streams and
the woods, and of the rod and
gun. In one Of his last conver-
5atlons he said, 20. it was not
so much the game" as the weird
and interesting experience with
log and gun in the quiet of the
woods far out from the ordinary
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-23

Mr.. E H. Kirk and wife, Mr..
Howard Kirk and Master Merrill
Keller, of Hiram. and Mrs. j. G..
Lamberson, of Hustontown were
in attendance at the Union picnic
here, on Thursday of last week
and were guests of Postmaster
and Mrs. w. R. Speer. Everett
Republican.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-23
" Defense Police Force.

%nMlttee of Public Safe
4 mA''s steps towards the
'On Of a home Defense
Y |%ee' At a meeting, Mon.
ci the local men,
~ Onmittee it was de-
the organization in
NJ ''sOurg borough and
X tsa extend it until every
ras a force of not less
men, This means about
Y county. 1t takes a
|||ha,, iSCllCc ana
IN 70 qualify for this
member is under
arrest on ST ght with
w %s'ant for any State
~ !nce' but as this is
d" W. 'otlc measure there
so 10 trouble in getting
In the county to
p'lsency. '''s
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-23
HUSTONTOWN.

1t la a baby girl. Mother an,
daughter doing well.
Mrs. William Evans and So
Harold returned home Monda,
from Crystal Spring Camp wher
they were tenters.
Among those greeting friends
at Cry stal Springs Camp Sunda,
from here were Hon. Glenn Ches.
nat, and DAVID A. Black.
Mr.. and Mrs. William T.. Dem
ing, Sr,, of Penbrook, Pa, hav,
returned home after spending
several days pleasantly as guest,
OF the Rev. Geo. B. M. Reldel
and family.
Rev. Nathan Bishop is spend
ing a week at Mercersburg the
guest of his sons.
The last Quarterly Meeting
OF the conference year will bt
hold in the U B church here on
Saturday evening. Rev. Emln-
hlzer Is the pastor.
Mr.. and Mrs, Geo Laldig OF
jeanette, Pa, are visiting amoug
friends.
Miss Roxie Cutchall, who has
been confined to her bed for about
three years, still continues in
feeble health.
The Fairvlew M. E. picnic last
Saturday was well attended.
Speeches along the line of patri-
otism and Red Cross work were
delivered; also, excellent music
by the Sloan Cornet Band.
Miss Margaret Kirk, of Hira m
gave several excellent readings
1t was a great day from every
angle.
Scholars are now turning thell
eyes toward the beginning of the
scho, term which Is not many
weeks of.
Vernon Wink, graduate of the
G V. S. Normal, will teach this
winter in Adams county.
The McClain garage, modern
and equipped in every respect, is
dong thriving business IN the
automobile line, meeting a large
felt need IN this Vicinity.
Our town seems to be favored
with the results of out of town
drunken automobile parties. Last
Friday evening Car by Shaw's
garage was side swiped by such
a party who continued onward
zig tagging all over the road. If
officers would fill their duties
these things would be less fre.
quent and such lnhuman tactics
seem to cease.
Mrs. Smith, mother of Clar.
ence Smith, of Shade Gap, spent
Sabbath pleasantly as the guest
OF her son.
Geo. Lam berson still Is con-
fined to his bed and Is not i'm
proving.
Rev. Lew Benson a former
pastor of Hustontown U. B.
charge has retired from the min.
lstry end moved into Harry Kell.
er's home on central Nam.
Eugene Chestnut employed at
Breezewood, spent the week end
with his family here.
Mrs. Berkley Sipes, Elizabeth
Slpes, Nellie BAR. Andrew Slpes
and Guy Metzler-comprlze
party tenting at Crystal Springs.
According to reports of fired
gun and revolver. our night
watchman must have experienced
trouble from providers during the
past few weeks.
With the bushmeetlngs, camp
meetings. and plcnlcs about over
the Sunday schools and church
es can now breathe easier.
The Red Cross work for Tay-
lor is being pushed forward IN a
credltable manner under the eff
ticent work Of Mrs. II. G. Nc
CLAIM who Is a hustler.
Our efficient bart ber Henry
Fisher who lost a woodsaw some
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-23
NUMBER 40
RED CROSS WORK.
Interest Awakened Throughout The
County and Anxiliaries Being
Rapidly Formed.

lOunly and AnSillarleS BENG
Rapidly Formed.
Three years ago, the assasina-
tion of a single individual in Eu-
rope started a war that has
grown in ever widening intensi-
ty until now it looks like it would
indeed be a world war. The
surging whirlpool has widened
until our own beloved country
has been drawn into its madden
ing waters, and our land is
threatened with destruction. For
two weeks, each day sees a line
of Fulton County's finest young
men passing into the Court House
for examination as a first stepIin
the march to the battle front.
Our people are just now begin
ming to realize that we are really
in the throes Of a terrible strug-
gle, and there will be a work for
each to perform. ~
The Red Cross offers an op-
portunity for women and chill
dren, and for men who cannot 90
into the trenches. A short time
ago, a Chapter was organized in
McConnellsburg; and since that
time auxilaries are being organi-
zated in the County and every
body is getting in line to put a
shoulder to the wheel" This is
YOUR work, not some one else's.
Annual members added to the
list published last week are: Miss
Esther Kendall, Miss Elizabeth
Fulton, Mrs. Philip Rotz, Mrs.
John Heinbaugh, John Balm and
Miss Sybilla Ehalt.
AUXILIARIES
UNION TOWNSHIP
Officers: Chairman, Gilbert B.
Mellott; Treasurer, Charles
Gienger; Secretary, Marshall
Siegel.
Members: Mrs. Geo. Lehman,
Mrs. Jas. McKibbin, Mrs. Clyde
Barnhart, Mrs. G. B. Mellott,
Mrs. Glenn Lehman, Mrs. Sallie
Stable, Mrs. John Hebner, Mrs.
James c, Deneen, Mrs. Charles
Geinger, Mrs. Laurette Lashley,
Mrs. Margaret Scriever, Mrs.
Orva Ward, Miss Mary McKib-
bin, A. j. Schetrompf, 0rben L.
Hebner, James C. Scriever, Oscar
H. Lashley, Grier L. Scriever,
Amos Ward.
Subscribing Member: Calvin
Beatty.
BETHEL TOWNSHIP
Officers: Chairman, Mrs. w.
B. Stigers; Treasurer, Asa Spenc-
er; Secretary, Miss Fern Crist.
Members: Hon. w. B. Stigers,
Stigers, Miss L. Spenc-
er, Miss Ella Ranck, Mrs. M. C.
Spencer. Mrs. S.. M. Andrews,
Glenn Younker, Myrtle Rems-
berg, Mrs. S. 0. Deneen.
DUBLIN TOWNSHIP
Officers: Chairman, Hon. S. L.
Treasurer, Mrs. Chas.
Fields; Secretary, F. c. Bare.
Members: Alley Mccoy, Mrs.
+. Z. Bare, Miss Sue Orth, Mrs.
Bertha E. Bare, Mrs. George
Mrs. Chas. Bowman,
Mrs. George Fraker, S. Raymond
Cromer, James Sheffield, Miss
Frances Fields.
TAYLOR TOWNSHIP 70
Officers: Chairman, E. H. Kirk;
Treasurer, Martin Laidig; Secre-
;ary, Mrs. B. H. Shaw.
Members: Chester Brant, Mrs.
Della Mellott, Mrs. E. H. Kirk,
Miss Margaret Kirk, Mrs. Chest
n Brant, Mrs. Sadie Laidig, Mrs.
VI, l.. Laidig, Miss Lillian Laidig,
drs. Mary Waite, Jonas Mellott.
1. P. Barton, Mrs. H. P. Barton,
Rev. Eminizer, Miss Beatrice
Iellott.
Contributing Members: Mrs.
;. H. Shaw, Mrs, Jonas Mellott.
Subscribing Members: Mrs. H.
}. McClain.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-23
RECORD OF DEATHS.
I.,t Sketches Of the Lives Of Per-
sOas Who Have Recently
Passed Away.

Mes SAMUEL ID. MELLOTT.
.Elsie Barnhart, wife of ex-
bunty Commissioner Samuel D.
|pllott. died at their home in
blfsst township on Thursday,
[prust 16, 1917, aged 63 years,
months and 16 days, from a
nplication of diseases. The
|uperal services were conducted
Rev. James, Logue. of the
kristian Church, and her re-
nins were laid TO rest in the
1netery at Cedar Grove.
Besides her husband she is
ryived by one son and four
lighters, namely, Albert, near
jladelphia; Lydia, wife of A.
Truax; Jessie, wife of Bennett
llOtt; Nettie, wife of Edward
4fer, and Mamie, at home.
<1he deceased was a daughter
Joseph and Mary Barnhart,
81 deceased and she is surviv-
BY the following brothers and
Hers: Alfred, near Warfords-
d; Moses, somewhere in the
81; Mrs. Cassie Winters, near
t, Mrs Nancy Fisher, near
blt, and Mrs. Edna Henline,
Ving in Maryland.
Mellott joined the Christ
d Church in young womanhood
B she was a model wife and
lher and enjoyed the esteem
large circle of friends.
putting the foregoing
type, we learn that Miss
|naie one of the daughters
ntiOned, died on Tuesday
ming of this week. She was
ID about S5 and was sick at the
of her mothers death. -
ROR.l
ELIAS WINK.
". Elias Wink, one of Bel
bwnShip's highly esteemed
zecS died suddenly on We'd
uay' August l5, 1917, aged |
]e'rS, II months and 5 days. |
funeral services conducted |
RH John Mellott, of the
shfrn Church, took place on
say, and interment was
eln the old Wink graveyard. |
e deceased was a son of |
'lan and Catherine Lake
and he was born on the old |
homestead on Licking
IN lS43. He was married |
Martha COrrell, daughter
'e late Joseph Correll a we'll
" Baptist clergyman, who
'es' together with one son
"nk' of EasternShore, Md.
eIe daughter Elizabeth, wife
'ua'd Z, Mellott, of Belfast
a'p' Lucy, wife of j. B.
having died but a short
agO.
'cne time past Elias Wink
ns wife made their home
'heir sOn-in-law Joseph B.
After dinner last Wed.
he and his 1O-year-old
'n, Robert Wink went
@'he creek fishing. While
Ta' intent on watching
he heard a noise which
PIN to look around. when
w his grandfather lying
he ground, and going ve to
p';s al MN dead. Mr.. Wink
','sn''S ~ disease, and with
u''ease death comes very
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-26

Washington, Feb. ga Japanese
educator and astrologist has turned
prophet. Writing in the Jutsugyo-No-
Nippon Industrial Japan). Yusho
kumamoto declares the world con-
flict will end between August and
November Of this year. About August.
he says. Germany will begin to sue
cumb and the allied armies will ap-
pear at the gates of Berlin by Mo-
vember. Kumamoto says the peace
conference will be held at Copenhag-
en- or Paris. and that it will be pro-
longed owing to differences among the
allies. nally Spain, the Netherlands
and other neutral powers will inter-
erents.
Turkey to be Subjugated.
He asserts that Turkey will be
many Is defeated; Russia will at
tempt to obtain the Dardanelles; she
will have Poland restored to her;
Belgium will demand an indemnity
and be restored to flourishing condi-
ton.
France will recover all her occu-
pied districts and in addition will Sc
cure Alsace Lorraine.
Japan Will restore Kiao Chow to
China provided she Is reimbursed for
her war expenses. Japan may restore
the South Sea islands she has captur-
ed to Germany.
Kumamoto predicts that Germany
will be transformed into republic
but that she will resuscitate to wage
second European war. The kaiser
will be dethroned and die premature
death. possibly by being sent to "the
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-26

ing on the credit Of farmers In vari-
Gus sections Of the state. and that
their methods have been so unbusi-
ness-like that they and their dupes
are getting into deeper and deeper
water all the time. The income.
large as it has been, is not equal to
the outgo, for 1t takes money to run
an outfit like Townley's. and only the
best of everything is good enough for
them. ! So long as the scope Of oper-
atoms keeps on expanding at q sufii-
cient rate the crash may be averted.
but the wider the field the greater the
load becomes, and the crash Is bound
to come.
/ The Herald does not by any means
assume the responsibility Of acting
as guardian for those who want to
hand their money to Townley or to
sign his notes. The experience may
be beneficial in the long run, although
there is one man Of some prominence
who may find some difficulty in see
ing in his experience the equivalent
for the savings of a lifetime. But The
Herald is interested chiefly in show
ing up the utter worthlessness Of men
who have injected themselves into
the public affairs Of the state. and
leaders. have shown themselves to be
unworthy Of even the faintest meas
ure of respect.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-26
WHO WRITES ALETTER
NOW?
Sir Herbert Tree. speaking before a
(From the Philadelphia Ledger)

Sir Herbert Tree. speaking before a
University of Pennsylvania audience,
declares: "All the mad people 1
have met write letters of more than
four pages. Understand. do not say
that everyone who writes letters of
more than four pages is mad. How
ever, the symptom should be watch
ed" Most people do not surpass the
safe and sane limit. because most peo-
pie do not write letters at all. The
telephone has knocked the fine art Of
polite correspondence in the head. A
telegram is made to do the work a
ceremonial missive formerly under
took. Haste and brevity are the
modern order. Societies exist not
merely to discourage longhand in
literature, but to cut words in two
Soon there will be little left except
punctuation marks, and committees
Will be appointed to wrestle with the
problem Of making even these marks
smaller and fewer still. The life and
letters" OF Geographic compilation will
be an anomaly: people will be SO busy
living there will be no time for diary
keeping or for correspondence. Yet
there was charm in the deliberate
grandiloquence of the old-time letter
writing that one misses and mourns
IN the curt communications of the
day. whence the flavor Of personality
scarcely emanates. Surely a letter
ought to carry some aroma Of the in
dividuality of the writer, and surely
in day that seeks shortcuts and
runs an incessant marathon against
the clock-hands letter as a rule is
only letter, and not literature.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-26
THE RURAL PROBLEM
(From the Milwaukee Journal

Who and what spreads the germs
OF city fever in farming districts !?
Perhaps there is no more potent inf1u-
ence than the rural school. Country
schools have had textbooks based on
and colored by city life. Subject mat
ter has concerned city surroundings
very largely. The country teacher
mas usually come from the small
towns, and more recently young high
school graduates have sailed forth
to teach in rural schools. They, too,
have had town ideas. AS for knowl-
edge of agriculture. the prime occu-
patton In rural regions. there has beer
scarcely smattering. Until recent
lythere has been no effective effort
to show clearly the compensations
and advantages of living in the coun-
try. The talk of teachers and others
unconsciously for the most part, has
been Of the glories of the city, its en-
joyments.. its chances for fame and
power. Here children have learned
by the tens Of thousands to think lit
tie Of the farm, its surroundings and
its supposedly meager chances to
make money.
Happily, we are seeing the rural
education problem more clearly now.
With twenty-five stock judging con-
tests held in Wisconsin high schools
in year, hundreds Of boys have been
given a touch of the scientific side
Of farming. County schools Of agri-
culture. high school courses in farm
ing and many other forms Of agricul-
tural training. both for pupils and
teachers. will change the condition in
the future. II the rural teachers can
be taught thoroughly some of the
principles of farming. If they are i'm
bued with a love for the farm, IL they
are able to point out the indisputable
advantages of farm life and the great
opportunities of increasing those ad-
vantages. they will help to stem the
tide of rural youth to the city.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-26

damage has been 10 great, however.
that Great Britain Is understood to
have determined to divert them tenn
porarily to tho New York and Quebec
trade to rush supplies across the sea.
est, but also the swiftest in service.
They will probably be conveyed all
tho way across tho Atlantic.
It Is pointed out that the coming
Of the ships will affect economic con-
dttioQs in this country. and result ex-
ceedingly good. the other potentially
harmful. The taking away Of more
still higher the price Of foodstufts. On
the other hand. every carload of ex-
port goods which is put aboard these
ships will mean ono less carload
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-26
THAT CONWAY MEETING.

According to an AFFIDAVIT signed by
several people, The Herald published
an account of Conway meeting
which was not held That this was
done knowingly will scarcely be
credited by any one capable of using
his reason. for, no matter how corrupt
people may be, they do not commit
crimes in plain sight, knowing that
they must be caught. The fact that
The Herald was misled by the receipt
of false information Is so obvious as
to require no elaboration.
There are, however, further facts.
Unless at least three Of the men
affidavit lied deliberately, and unless
at least two other signers concurred
in the falsehood, the evening meeting
at Conway was actually scheduled,
and was to be held for exactly the
purposes described in the report re-
ceived by The Herald. The situation
then, is that in addition to the day
meeting. which was actually held,
The Herald was informed by league
organizer, by local league members.
and by Mr.. Starry. who is doing busi-
ness with the league. as we'll as by
other townspeople, that an evening
meeting was to be held for the pur-
pose OF fixing up credits for a mum.
Der Of automobiles which were then
in stock. The report received by The
<115 20
that character, and because it tailed
with the information previously
given. 1t was accepted in good faith.
Now, the fact that this particular
meeting was not held does not change
the essential facts in any degree
whatever. These facts are that Town
ley and his understrappers are trad
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-26
BRrA1Ns SEA PRoBEM.

Great Britain has often been de-
nounced for her maintenance Of an
snormous navy. That navy is the
greatest in the world. and British
statesmen have made no secret OF
their determination to keep 1t the
greatest in the world. Her posses
sion Of this weapon has been made
the subject of whitening denunciation.
and has been held up as an evidence
OF the British determination to rule
the world.
The present situation in Great Brit
ain may shed q little light into minds
which are not absolutely closed as to
the peculiar need which Great Brit
ain has for a navy which is more than
q match for any other in the world.
In the British Isles there Is crowded
into space comparing with that OF
one Of our larger states a population
Of some 4O,000,OO0. The territory
which they inhabit produced about
one-ffth of their food. The other
four-fifths must he imported. Their
Industries are necessarily commercial
and mechanical. They must buy
abroad most Of the food which they
eat, and they must pay for 1t with
the manufactured products Of their
own establishments. To carry on
their manufacturing work they must
import vast quantities Of raw mate
rials. Their only means Of access to
any other country from which sup
plies may be drawn Is by the sea. 1t
has been estimated that in normal
times the supply Of food In the Uni
ted Kingdom at any one time would
be barely sufficient for about six
weeks.
It follows that If Great Britain's
communications with other countries
could be cut off for even a few weeks
the people would starve. Any nation
having the power to maintain an ef-
fective blockade of all British ports
for two months would be able to die
tate its own terms to the entire pop-
nlation Of forty million. It is evi-
dent that under these circumstances
the first and one vital consideration
OF the British is to keen their COM
munications open. Naturally. that can
be done only by the possession of a
navy which can hold the seas against
all corners, in other words. by the
greatest navy in the world.
No other great nation has this
need, for no other is surrounded by
these conditions. And. in the coun-
cils Of the world. this need has al
Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-26
SUNDAY BASEBALL
LIKELY TO PASS
House Appropriates Funds for Both
Fargo and Grand Forks Fairs at
Session Saturday.

Bismarck, Feb. 2e.-The house IL
likely to accept the senate bill to per-
as the committee is favorable to the
measure although there may be q d.
vided report. The provisions of the
bill will not permit organized baseball
and games must be played in tho
afternoon only and not within 500
feet Of q church.
The same policy may be followed
on the senate hunting bill to prohibit
dogs and requiring the consent Of a
farmer before going upon his land to
hunt. The game and fish committee
Is reported divided on this.
The house passed the bill providing
$4,000 for the state fair at Grand
Forks and the same amount for the
state fair at Fargo.