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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
Tive Bits a Day Club.

Out in Phoenix. Ariz,, a move
ment has been inaugurated for
the formation of Two Bits a
Day" clubs, the members of
which are to buy a quarters 8
worth of Thrift Stamps every
day. Three men each took a
hundred Thrift cards, pasted one
stamp in each card, and sold the
entire lot before two blocks had
been covered.
1.-Two bits" is the old term,
dating back to the early days of
the country for a quarter of a
dollar end is still used in the
South and West. Every patriotic
American now wants to do his
bit;" the members Of these clubs
are carrying out this idea finely
in doing their two bits" every
day. 1t is hoped that 1.-Two Bits
a Day" clubs will be formed all
over the country in the great
wsr-saving campaign,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
A Cripple for Life.

DR.. McGarrah, of Robertsdale,
took Oscar Houck, who is
employed in the coal mines at
Robertsdale, to the Roaring
Springs hospital on Friday, where
he was entered in the surgical
ward. Mr.. Houck was the vic
tim of an accident that will make
him a cripple for life. A prop in
the mine broke, leaving a ton
of stones, etc., loose on the un-
fortunate man. Upon examina-
ton at the hospital it was found
he sustained a compound fracture
of the left leg above the knee,
the knee joint entirely lost and
the heel torn off. Everett Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
WhilfieId...SalksId.

A very pretty home wedding
was solemnized at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Salkeld,
at Breezewood, on New Years
Day, when their daughter Ruth,
was welded to Mr.. j. Russell
Whitfield. Rev. H. C., Meyer of
the M. E. church performed the
ceremony in the presence Of
friends and relatives of the con-
tracing parties. Both bride and
groom are well known young peo-
pie of Breezewood and have a
host OF friends. A sumptuous
wedding dinner was served after
the ceremony.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
WAR APPEAL TO CHURCHES.
All Denominations Asked to Act To.
gether in Face Of World Crisis.

A New Year appeal to Ameri-
can churches, irrespective of de-
nomination, to act concertedly
has been issued by representa-
tives of various communions in
the United States and Canada.
Among the signers is George
Wharton Pepper, of Philadelphia
besides more than eighty promi-
nent clergymen and laymen of
this country.
The world crisis confronts the
church with the possibility of
coming forth from the war either
with a diminished or a vaster
power. the appeal says. While
it points out that a divided
church cannot stand" The sug-
gestion is made that coal and
light could be conserved if con-
gregations consented to worship
together this winter.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
Watch Unlicensed Agents.

Solicitors representing them
selves as agents of certain nur-
series and not carrying State
license have been reported to be
working in certain sections of the
State, and the Pennsylvania De-
partment of Agriculture through
the Bureau of Zoology is carry
ing on an investigation.
1t is the purpose of the De-
partment to protect the public,
as well as all bonafide nursery
men and dealers, against ire
sponsible and dishonest agents,
and prosecutions will follow as
soon as agents are apprehended.
Fruit growers and farmers should
report all persons soliciting with
out license cards. The law amp
ly protects any who place orders
with strangers, as all agents for
certified nurseries, or dealers in
nursery stock, are required to
carry signed license cards from
the Department Of Agriculture
showing what dealers or nursery
men they represent. Persons
soliciting orders who are unable
to produce such cards are violst-
ing the law and should not be
patronized. Rigid enforcement
of the law has been ordered by
Secretary of Agriculture Chas.
E. Patton and unscrupulous
agents will be prosecuted.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
$3.50 A YEAR.
WAR DANGERS.
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by
Samuel G. Dixon, NJ. D., IL. D.,
Commissioner Of Health.

During a great international
war, such as we are in at present,
we are prevented from taking
ordinary precautions to guard
against the transmission of dis
ease. Notwithstanding the great
interchange of men from all
parts of the world we have more
communicable diseases in our
midst than ever before. This
behooves the individual to look
out for himself, otherwise he is
apt to fall a victim to one of the
miserable diseases which are be-
ing carried by men from all
parts Of the world.
In some of these places from
which we are importing labor.
chronic and disabling diseases are
very common. For example,
trachoma and liberation of the
mucous membrane of the eye
which is easily transferred from
one to another, which terminates
in blindness. 1t was only a short
time ago that our Government
had to return a lot of laborers
who came from one of the most
infected trachoma centers in the
world. Many of these men had
gone to restaurants for their
meals. Their fingers were in
fected from rubbing their ulcer
ated eyes and from these fingers
they impaired this disease,
trachoma, to the fork, spoons
and knives and frequently to the
cups and plates, often deeply
fissured with cracks where the
ordinary washing in cheap res
taurants is not sufficient to dis
turb the germs which produce
the disease.
Every individual, therefore,
eating at a public restaurant
should enter a protest against
cracked cups and plates that this
one source of danger might be
eliminated.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
Your Income Tax.

About 400, 1000 persons in this
country know something about
making up tn cir income tax
schedules, although if they posses
large and complicated fortunes,
it is going to be difficult to fill
out the new ones. But there are
perhaps twenty millions of peo-
pie who know of the income tax
only vaguely and who must fill
out schedules for 1917 even if
they are not liable to tax.
Every person with an income
of $500, if unmarried, must
make a return. AS this means
an income Of only SIG a week,
it is certain to include a great
share of all wage-earners in the
country. All over $1,000 is taxed
unless there are exemptions. The
married man gets an exemption
of $4,000 and something extra
for dependent children, but most
of them will have to fill out a
blank.
Blanks are ready at any time
but the government is not COM
PEELED to send you one. The OBJ
legation is on you to secure one
from the Collector, who may be
found at the Post Office at Nc
Connellsburg.
Now is the time to make up
your accounts. Do not put it off,
or you are certain to regret it.
You must include gross revenue
from all sources and make such
deductions as the law allows
and state plainly the sum on
which you are to be taxed and
the total amount. You must do
your own bookkeeping in the
first instance, but if there is any
reason to suppose you have made
an error the government will
come down on you in a hurry.
Since Uncle Sam wants the
and as it is best to get
disagreeable things out of the
way early, the wise plan is to
file your account early and pay |
it as soon as you get the bill. |
Only those doing business in q
large way save anything by |
waiting until June Is, which is
the last day for payment.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
GraSary Destroyed.

Last Sunday night about 6
O'Clock, the granary on the prem
ises of the late James T. Con-
nelly Licking Creek township
was totally destroyed by fire.
The fire is supposed to have or:
iginated from some ashes that
had been carried out from the
house. The loss included about
100 bushels Of grain besides some
other things stored in the build
ing. Had it not been for a
drizzling rain, it would have
been almost impossible to save
the house and barn, as a shower
OF sparks fell on the roofs of both
buildings.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
To Control Binder Twine.

The Food Administration has
arranged to control during 1918
the supply of binder twine. Rea-
sonable prices though not so low
as former ones-are expected.
This control will be effected
through voluntary agreements
the binder twine makers have
made with the Food Administra-
ton which will centralize the
buying and eliminate competition.
Henry Wolfer, former warden of
the Minnesota State penitentiary,
where he built up the largest
binder twine mandatory in the
world, will have chi arge of the
work in the Food Administration.
An official announcement says
the Food Administrations ar
rangements will stabilize prices,
prevent undue advances, elimin-
ate waste, speculation and hoard
ing and give the product to the
ultimate consumer at the lowest
price possible.
1t gives warning, however,
that higher cost of materials and
reasonable differentials for man.
ufacturing will not premit the
price to be as low as in former
years.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
Salkeld'.-ShuItz.

4 The Altoona Tribune of We'd
nerday morning says Mr.. Ira S.
Salkeld, of Breezewood, Bedford
county, and Mrs. Florence Ethel
Shultz, of 7O2 Fifth avenue, were
united in marriage at the Sim
pson Methodist parsonage, at IL
O'Clock yesterday by the pastor,
Rev. j. Emory Weeks. They
were attended by Norman Hart
ley and Miss Edith Shultz, both
OF this city. The groom is at
present employed in the Penn
sylvania railroad shops. They
will reside at 702 Fifth avenue.
Everett Republican.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
FARMERS INSTITUTES.
10 Brush Greek, Union and Thompson,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, January l5-l9.

| y
With practically the entire
world looking upon the American
farmer to supply the greater part
of food stuffs during the year,
more interest than has ever be.
fore been shown is manifest in
the series of Farmers Institutes
which are to be held in Fulton
county beginning Tuesday, JAN
uary Is. The opening meeting
on January Is will be held at Nc
kendree church in Brush Creek
Valley, and on January 16 and
II there will be sessions at the
Buck Valley M. E. church and
on January 18 and 19 at Reho-
both church in Thompson town
ship.
The Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture which supervises
the meetings, is being assisted
by able speakers from the United
States Department of Agricul-
ture and representatives of the
Pennsylvania Committee on Pub
lie Safety.
Director of Farmers Insti-
tutes, C. e. Carothers has placed
j. Stuart Groupe, Of j e rsey
Shore, Pa, in charge o. the Sec
tion of the State of whicn Fulton
county is part, and County Chair
man, Frank Ranck, of l. Lethel
township, has arranged attract
i've programs for the entire series
of meetings. Mr.. Groupe is an
expert on ,soil fertility, potato
culture, hog breeding and corn
culture.
The instructors assigned for
the Fulton county meetings are,
NJ. II. McCallum Warnersville,
Pa, and Theo. Whitman, Allen
town, Pa. MIR. McCallum will
talk on the use of lime, fertiliz-
ers, potato culture, alfalfa, soy
beans and commercial plant
foods. Mr.. Whitman is an ex-
pert poultryman and his subjects
are especially timely with eggs
scarce and bringing good prices.
He speaks on up-to-date ways
and methods that make poultry
pay, and varieties and types of
poultry.
No farmer in Fulton can afford
not to attend the meetings at
one of the three designated pla-
ces.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
RECORD OF DEATHS.
Short Sketches Of the Lives Of Per.
sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.
MABEL LOUISE KENDALL.

MABEL LOUISE KENDALL.
Mabel Louise, aged 3 years,
and 18 days, daughter of Roy
McNaughton and Elizabeth Mel
son Kendall, died at the home of
her parents in Ayr township last
Friday afternoon. The funeral
services conducted by tn ir
pastor. Rev. Wilson V. Grove,
Of the Uni ted Presbyterian
Church, took place Sunday after
noon, and interment was made
in Union cemetery. Mabel was
an unusually bright little girl and
was in usual health until a week
prior to her death when she was
suddenly attacked by cerebral
meningitis induced by pneumo-
MIA, a form not contagious. The
parents have the sincere sympa-
thy of many friends.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
Cheer Up.

With the prevailing high prices
of everything to eat and wear,
we should thank our lucky stars
that we are not living in Ger
many. Information just received
by the food Department coming
through a irresponsible source,
says that in Berlin butter is SELL
ing for So 25 a pound; sugar Sc
cents a pound; ham and bacon
$2.11 a pound and soap at five
bars for SLIP reduced from
$l.16.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
Decker..-Mann.

AT the residence of the brides
parents on Thursday, January 8,
1918, by Justice oft -the-Peace w.
B. Ranck, Mr.. Riley Decker and
Miss Daisy Mann, both of Bethel
township, were united in mar
riage. The bride is a daughter
of Mr.. Job H. Mann and the
groom son of Henry Decker.
The NEWS extends congratula-
tions,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
"Khittiag"

Bring your knitting when you
come to see the Red Cross work
in the U. P. church January 18th
at 2 o'clock and have a real knit
ting social.
Anyone in McConnellsburg or
in any auxiliary, who has not
sent in garments for the January
IL shipment, please have them
delivered to Miss Ruth |. Kendall
by January 30th ready for the
February 1st shipment.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
Stella Gertrude Stevens.

The family of Nathan Stevens,
of Taylor township, desire to ex-
press their thanks to tn heir
friends and neighbors for their
kind sympathy and help during
the illness and death of their
only daughter, Stella Gertrude,
who was born on the 30th o +
December, 1917 and died on the
1st day of January, 1918. aged
43 hours.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
WOlfe...FIeming.

On Saturday evening, Decem-
ber %, 1917, at Annapolis, Nd,
Mr., w. A. Wolfe of Washington,
D, c. was married to Miss Vera
E. Fleming, daughter of Editor
and Mrs. Geo. A. Fleming of
Mercersburg. Mr.. Wolfe sever
al years ago was employed in the
Office of Mercersburg Academy
and is now enlisted in the 437th
Engineer Depot Department at
Washington.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
Home for Christmas.

After an absence of eight years,
Carl K. Mellott ate Christmas
dinner in the home of his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. Wesley
Mellott in Ayr township. Carl
was living in Illinois until last
July when he enlisted to fight the
Kaiser and became a member of
Co. c, Goth regiment. He was
assigned to the Radio service,
and is now in training at Cam.
bridge, Mass.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
Somewhere in France.

on the 18th Of December by
Newt Morton, Co. C, 10th Engi-
neers Forestry American
Expedititonary Force, to his par
cuts Judge and Mrs. Peter Nor
ton near town, was received last
week.
Il received your most welcome
letters of November Goth and
22nd today. surely was very
glad to hear from you and to
know everything is going well. |
do not know why you shouldn't
have got more mail from me
since / came here, because |
have been writing at least once a
week home and as | found time |
have written to my brothers and
sisters. | have been receiving
your mail rather regularly ex-
cept now and then one is delayed
some what so you no doubt will
get my letters sometime. 1t is
natural that they would be held
up some since there is SO much
mail coming from this side. We
have not received the boxes yet.
Cal [Middour from Waynesboro,
Pa. who is with Newt got a
paper today dated August 9Th.
We had quite a laugh about it.
We haven't had any snow. 1t
was rather frosty this morning,
but gets very nice by noon. |
imagine we should not have any
snow. You spoke Of sending
sweaters. Don't send anymore
as received one from the Dis
trict of Columbia r e d Cross
Society and | have enough COM
ing now that | will be well pre-
pared to make a trip to the North
Pole after we Get the Kaiser"
That might be a good place to
take him and let him stay there
sometime-the e sudden change
he would have after he died and
is transferred, might be a little
worse punishment.
When you asked whether there
was anything | wanted, it re-
minded me of what one of the
fellows said the other day. Some
one asked him to let them know
what he wanted, and he wrote
and told them Peace" was the
only thing of which he could
think. But we will, no doubt
have that sometime. | saw by
the paper that the English had
taken Jerusalum and the Ger
mans were preparing drive on
the western front. | think if |
they try that they will surely be
out of luck as they can't get
away with it at this stage of the
game.
There is an interesting article
on the 10th Eng. Nevis Regi-
ment in the Philadelphia Ledg-
er, the issue of November 18th.
Perhaps tho it was in the Press,
if not, you can no doubt get a
Ledger of that date. do not
know where Pete Former is. l
wish you would send his address.
| might run on to him sometime,
but | doubt it very much.
Everybody in our tent is
writing letters tonight. We
haven't got our electric lights
yet and our tent looks like a
Catholic church with candles in
every corner. | hope you are
all well. | wish you all a Happy
New Year. Don't worry aboat
my health as I've always felt fine,
| cannot write anything concern
ing the war, on account of the
strict censorship, but don't worry
about me as Pm well and safe.
Write whenever you can as one
of a soldiers desires is to get
mail. 1t surely makes differ
ence.
Lovingly,
ttNICuyrrv
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
Killed at WoodvaIe.

On Thursday of last week a
young man named John Williams
was instantly killed in a coal mine
at Woodvale, Pa. by a fall Of
rock. His death cast a gloom
over the place, as he was well
liked. His parents, brothers and
sisters have the sympathy of
their many friends.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
The Fulton County Sabbath Association.

Il
last Friday evening in the United
Presbyterian church and carried
out a well arranged program.
The Secretary's report showed
that the work Of this association
is largely one of cooperation with
the Lords Day Alliance of the
State, to whose efficient influence
we are indebted for much of the
enforcement of the Sabbath law
Of the State, and to whose vigi-
liant efforts we owe the preserva-
tion of the best Sabbath law Of
any State in the Union. In the
last legislature five bills were in
troduced, the passage of any one
of which would have been oper-
ative to invalidate the Sabbath
law. By the enemies of the Sab
bath such efforts come into every
legislature, and are defeated by
the faithful efforts of the Lords
Day Alliance. 1t is, therefore,
very worthy of our liberal sup.
port.
Since the last convention con-
tributions have come in from the
following churches, viz. The
Cove United Presbyterian 81 IS
End United Presbyterian CoDgre.
cation Of the Cove So .65; McCon-
nellsburg M. E. $500; Fort
Littleton M. E. $1.75;-Knobs-
vile M. E. S1.75; Cito M. E.
81 40. From these and the offer
ing Of the last convention we have
been enabled to help the Lords
Day Alliance of the State to the
amount of $40, leaving in our
treasury a balance Of $1.53.
The present affairs Of the
association were reelected for
another year.
The convention agreed to ear
nestly appeal to every pastor in
the county to preach to his con-
gregations on the subject of the
sabbath on the first sabbath of
May next or as soon thereafter
as his appointments will permit,
and receive an offering from his
people for the sabbath cause,
sending the same to the Secre-
tary, Rev. j. L. Grove McCon-
nellsburg, Pa. An offering was
taken amounting to 1925. The
address of the evening was given
by Rev. w. V. Grove on "The
Best Means of promoting the
sabbath cause" The president
was authorized by the convention,
and appointed a law ar>. order
committee consisting of three
laymen viz, John P. Sipes S. A.
Nesbit and, Geo. W. Reisner,
whose duty it shall be to look
after any infractions of the sab
bath law, and secure its enforce
ment by the proper officials.
After the reading and approv-
ing Of the minutes, the conven-
tion adjourned and was dismissed
by the cOvention.
SECRETARY.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
Shot to Death.

On Wednesday night of last
week Guy Jusulac, an italian
with a family of five children
was shot and instantly killed by
another Italian at Woodvale,
Huntingdon County. The
murderer was arrested on Sat-
urday and is now confined In the
Huntington County jail.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-10
Do Chickens Pay?.
years..
From shippensburg Chronicle.

iHhfPSnNphb NhiOhlSlCs
There is no doubt that the
chicken business. if properly con-
Quoted, is q money maker, at
least Mr.. S. S. Rolar of near
Mainsville thinks so and he can
prove that his assertions are cor
rect, He started with ITO hens
and 10 Cockrells. From this
flock he raised 200 chickens, had
as many eggs for the table and
cooking purposes as he wanted,
enjoyed as many meals of Roast
chicken as he and his family de-
sired and with all that has a net
balance of cash, derived from the
sale Of the eggs of S592. Id. Fol-
lowing is the schedule of his sales
b,y t,ooptbr
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1918-12-26
bin, Manchuria. 1t swept North China.

bin, Manchuria. 1t swept North China
1t is yet prevalent. "The mortality
he says, has been fearfully high
"In 1917" adds DR.. King, "aboUt
100000 Chinese coolies, collected from
the northern part of China, where
pneumonia plague has ragged at inte"-
walls since 1910, and were sent to
France as laborers."
In March, 1918, some Of these Chi
nese were captured by the Germans.
Spanish Influenza" soon appeared in
the German army and spread to Spain.
1t had gone around the world in less
than a year!
DR.. King believes pneumonia and
bubonic plague germs mingled in the
blood of some obscure Chinese ccolie
in Harbin and produced new disease
terror.
All great wars of history have been
followed by disease epidemics.
The next was must be against this
plague!
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1918-12-26
THE NEXT GREAT WAR

neuntonic plague, imported from
China as a consequence of the world
war!
That's the substance of the "Span-
ish influenza" explanation offered in
New York medical journal by DR..
James ]. King of the United States
Army Medical Corps.
Three hundred and fifty thousand
lives have thus far been lost in the
United States since the epidemic
reached "An Atlantic Port" in the
summer of 1918.
Other explanations than that offered
by Dr. King fail to take into account
all the facts. The disease is indepen-
dent of climate conditions. 1t has
ragged in damp Boston, in moist Cleve-
land and Detroit in windy Chicago, in
dry Arizona, in balmy Los Angeles, in
frozen Alaska and in warm Porto Rico
with equal fury.
1t took the open-air sleeper and the
man who seals his windows and COW
ers his head O. nights.
1t hits the riders in crowded street
cars and the lonely rider in the luxu-
rious limousine.
preachers and bartenders fell vic
tins alike.
There is no known preventive"
says DR.. Rupert Blue of the United
States public health service
Dr. King tells us that penumonic
plague first appeared In 1910 in Har-