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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING.
Barns ard Other Buildings Destroyed
By Ligdiligg During the Electrical
Storms Last Week.

On Wednesday afternoon, Of
last week, the big bank barn of
Aaron M. Garland on Pleasant
Ridge in Belfast township, was
struck by lightning and in Is
minutes from the time it was
struck, the whole building SEEM
ed to be enveloped in flames. All
his summers crop of wheat,
rye and oats we're destroyed, to-
gether with three wagons, two
corncribs, wagon shed, hog pen,
chicken house &c. The loss,
which is probably not short Of
50 0O0.O0 is not covered by any
insurance.
On Thursday afternoon Of last
week lightning struck George
w. Humbert's barn in Ayr town
ship and the buildings and con-
tents we're totally destroyed.
The entire summers crops, con-
sisting Of about 500 bushels of
wheat, all his oats and other
grain, besides farm machinery,
harness etc. The loss is estimat-
ed at three thousand dollars with
an insurance of about 5000 on
barn and contents. It is re-
ported that Mr.. fIumbert, who
was near the barn at the time it
was struck, received some Of the
electric current and was stunned.
0n the same evening that Mr.,
Garland's barn was burnt, light
ming struck the store building at
w. l.. Berksteesser's near Lai-
dig, setting it afre, and caus-
ing the destruction of the build
ing, which was 45 x2Ox 16, with
all its contents, consisting Of a
stock Of merchandise, Harvey's
automobile, camera outfit, cloth
ing, and w. l.. 8 trunk and
clothing, together with their
sleigh, cornplanter, tools etc.
The fact that part of the build
ing was used as a kind Of store
house for the farm, added to the
general loss.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
FULION'S FIRST SUPREME SACRIFICE
Corporal John c, Bishop Killed in Ac-
tiOa in France on Sunday, July
TWeptY.first.

Corporal John Calvin Bishop of
Company c, 112th Infantry, was
killed in battle on the western
front in France on Sunday, July
Il, 1918, as stated in a telegram
to his wife at her home in Cham
bersburg on Friday of last week.
Corporal Bishop was q son Of
William and Mary Harris Bishop
of Ayr township, and he was
born September q, 1890; hence,
at his death, he was aged q
years and 10 months. Two years
ago, last June, he enlisted in the
National Guards of Pennsylvania,
and when the trouble between
the United States and Mexico
broke out, his regiment was sent
to the Border where, he served a
year. Last September his regi-
ment was sent to Camp Hancock,
Ca, where they remained until
May of this year, when they were
sent to France. Being seasoned
soldiers, they were atonce placed
on the battle front, and gave
great account of themselves as
fighters.
During his service on the Bord-
er, he returned home on a fur
lough and was married to MISS
Mary Margaret Sensheimer Of
Chambersburg, who survives him
as does one son, John William
Bishop, aged 8 months, born since
his father went to France.
Besides his parents, Corporal
Bishop is survived by the follow
ing brothers and sisters: Lille,
wife of Clarence Cooper, near
McConnellsburg; Luther w.,
Company B, Goth M. G. Battal-
ION, now on his. way to France;
Lulu, wife of Walter Peck, near
Webster Mills; Lucy, Virgil and
Olive, at home.
John was a member Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and
an exemplary young man, He
had a wide circle of friends, both
here and in Chambersburg,
where he was employed in the
baggage department at the Cum
berland Valley railroad station,
before going into active Military
Service.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
The Fifth Year Of The War.

Four years ago Austria de-
clared war on Serbia. That was
the beginning of the great war.
That war was brought about
by diplomatists. 1t was not a
rising of one nation against an
other, at the start, but a game
of bluff and threat between
chancellories. The ultimatum
served upon Serbia by Austria
was indefensible, one of the most
peremptory and contemptuous in
history.
The statesmen and politicians
who brought on the war know
better now, If they could live
over these four years, there would
be no war. The ultimatum to-
Serbia would be different, the
action and behavior of Germany
would be different, the states
men who were trying in July,
1914, to avert war would have
had better backing and would
have appealed to more willing
hearers. If the war began in
maneuvers of the diplomatists.
it has grown into something else.
1t has developed into a war of
principles. We are not fighting,
any more, over the demands
made by an Austrian cabinet
upon Serbia. We are fighting to
end the conditions which made
this world war possible. We are
fighting for the welfare of the
common man, who is but pawn
in the view of old-style diploma
lists and of militarists, but who
has become, in the last four years,
a bigger figure in the world than
he ever was before. Buffalo
Express,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
Beef Conservation Restriction Released.

We are advised by the State
Federal Food Administrator that
the restrictions Of serving beef
a. public eating places only one
meal per day, and the present
voluntary program for house
holders of one and one quarter
pounds of clear or one and one
half pounds of beef including the
bone, should be discontinued.
1t is however highly desira bic
that the American public consume
medium and lighter grades of
cattle, thus conserving the heav-
ier grades of cattle for our own
armed forces and those OF our
Allies.
JOHN r. JACKSON,
County Food Administrator.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
Five Sons in Service.

Mr.. and Mrs, Dorsey Holmes,
of Liberty township, Bedford
county, have the honor of having
five sons, who are in the United
States Military Service, and do
ing their bit to aid in the over
throwing of despot and making
the world safe for democracy.
The boys are Chester Holmes,
William Clarence Holmes. Ray
mond Albert Holmes, Levi
Holmes and George W. Holmes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
MellOtt.

At4 o'clock Sunday afternoon,
August 4, 1918 at the home of
Daniel Sheets in Chambersburg,
the Rev. J. Howard AXE united
in marriage Miss Samantha B.
Mellott, daughter of Hon. and
Mrs. George B. Mellott of Nc
COnnellsburg and Harold F. Har-
risOn of Kansas City.
Mr.. Harrison is a craftsman
and was employed by the Wolf
Company in its Offices in Kansas
City and also in the Offices in
Chambersburg. He enlisted last
June and went to the Great
Lakes training camp, Ill. II c
left Sunday night for Camp Sims
and expects TO sail 1or france III
the near future.
Mrs. Harrison is a very charm
ing woman and is employed in
the Cumberland Valley railroad
office where she will remain fol
the present.
The brides parents, Hon. and
Mrs. Geo. B. Mellott of McCon.
nellsburg. and her brother-in'
law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. E.
CYAN Hart, of Lambertville, N.
J., were present at the wedding
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
$3.50 A YEAR.
ORPHANS HOME BAND.
The Concert Givea Last Saturday AT.
ernOOH aOd Evening Greatly Ap-
prCiaied by Large Crowd.

As was announced in the NEWS
last week, the thirty-nine boys
from the Tressler Orphans Home
at Loysyille, arrived here last
Saturday afternoon and found a
large crowd of people waiting to
see the boys and hear the music.
They came in from Bedford, ard
were a little late, but within ten
minutes after their arrival, the
concert was "on," thus showing
how thoroughly they were drilled
for the work.
The ages of the boys run from
ten TO sixteen years. Since their
visit to this town last October,
fourteen of the boys in the band
at that time, have graduated from
the school, and seventeen others
have been trained to take their
places, which proves the unusual
efficiency of their leader, Prof.
Stouffer, q former Band Master
at the Carlisle Indian School, and
the wonderful possibilities wrap
ped up in the average boy.
The music rendered was of q
very high order-much beyond
that to be expected from boys of
that age,
This Band. travelling as it does
during the summer season as far
west as Pittsburgh, as far east
as Philadelphia and Camden,
with side trips into Maryland and
Virginia, has earned q statewide
reputation; and it has proved to
be a wonderful inspiration to the
people of the Lutheran Church of
Pennsylvania in caring for the
orphans. An interest is being
aroused which is making the
work easy as compared with
what it was six or seven years
ago.
The people of McConnellsburg
have a special interest in the
school on account of the fact of
having two boys-Robert and
Donald Downes in that institu-
ton, and they expressed their
appreciation of their service by
giving an Offering that amounted
to almost eighty dollars for the
Home.
The music rendered Saturday
afternoon and evening and es-
pecially that in connection with
the services in the Lutheran
church Sunday morning will long
be remembered by the people of
McConnellsbhrg and vicinity.
The boys may always be sure
of a royal welcome when they
visit McConnellsburg.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
RECORD OF DEATHS.
c,d Sketches Of the Lives Of Per-
sOus Who Have Recently
Passed Away.
JULIA A. BATES.

After a long and useful life,
u,,. Julia A. Bates passed away
a. the home Of her daughter,
Mrs. William McMeekin, Galva,
II on Sunday morning July 2S,
1918 at the advanced age of 9S
years.
The deceased was a daughter
of the late General John and
Mary Barton Sipes, and she was
horn on the farm now owned by
Richard Schooley, a mile east Of
Jacksonville on tn e Lincoln
Highway. Her husband was a
b-other of the late Henry Betz Of
Jacksonville. Mrs. Samuel
Render of McConnellsburg and
Mrs. Oliver Sipes Of Licking
Creek township, and the late
wife Of Judge j. Wesley Hoop,
are cousins.
For a period of eighty-six
years Mrs. Bates was a member
of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and one of those grand
old.fashioned Christians whose
life was always consistent with
her profession.
She was the mother of eight
children, four of whom are liv-
Ing, namely, Mrs. Jane Willis, of
Los Angeles, CAL; Mrs. j. M.
Wyck, Galesburg, ILL.,; W. H.
Bates, Of Cody, Wyo.; and Mrs.
Clara McMeekin, Galva, Ill.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
Letter frOm France.

The following extracts are
taken from a letter written on
the 14th of July by Sergeant
John A. Ham, Co. H. 32Oth Inf,
Am. Ex. Forces, France, to his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. M.
Ham of this place. Before go
ing to France, John had spent
three years in the U. S. army,
and had seen service on the
border. In this letter John says
he is getting along fine-in the
very best of health. Am at pres
ent attending a school learning
the different infantry tactics.
John had been in the artillery
service, during his first enlist
ment. We have a very nice
place with lots of conveniences.
Am only sorry it will not last
longer. At the end of two weeks
will have to GO back to my
company and get down to real
work. haven't the least idea
where the company is. You per-
maps wonder why | do not write
more frequently, but ifyou knew
What little opportunity we have
lOr writing and how much work
II makes the censors, you would
not wonder letters did not come
more frequently. | suppose you
would like to know when the
war would come to an end. Sc
would |. No one knows that. Il
y the duty of every one to keer
right on the job. If there were
no slackers, the end would be
nearer. Don't worry about me.
expect to be home sometime
ana sn maybe soon. Write and tel
al my friends to write.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
Soldiers Letter.

J. E. Grissinger, writing from
Camp Hill, Va, to his father, j.
L. Grissinger at New Grenada,
under date of June 18th, says,
Il just received the box Of good
things. | have made my dinner
entirely of it. Everything tasted
great, and | certainly have en-
joyed it too. | can't express my
feeling of thanks. It's to great.
am we'll and hope you are the
same. | guess | will not be able
to write you again for a little
while; so don't worry about me,
for God is with me wherever |
go, and where he is, am safe
always.
| am glad and anxious to go
across, for | am tired Of this
place. | haven't heard from you
for a good while. | have not
time to write more this time.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
Notice To Retail Merchants.

The following telegram has
been received from Howard
Heinz, Federal Food Administra-
tor for Pennsylvania:
I'm order to secure an equita-
bic distribution of sugar in this
time of shortage it has been
found necessary to permit gro
Ger or retail merchant to install q
purchasers registration system.
By this system it will be possible
for the merchant to keep track
of his customers and see that
they get the amount ofsugar due
them under the voluntary ration
system of one-half pound OF su-
gar per person per week. There
fore in order to be sure that this
is uniform everywhere in the
state of Pennsylvania, the follow
ing notice is hereby given, all
retailers not forwarding weekly
customers sugar sales reports to
the County Food Administrator
will have their claims for addi-
tional sugar disregarded. These
sales records should contain the
name the address, number in
family, amount of sugar on hand,
and date. Forms may be Sc
cured from the County Food Ad-
ministrator. Retailers will re-
quire customers to sign the regis
tration blank except in the case
of telephone orders and children
when the merchant will register
for the purchaser. This order is
effective Immediately.
HOWARD HEINZ. "
It is apparent from the above
telegram that all merchants sell
ing sugar at retail will have to
keep a record in the form men
toned and send to the County
Administrator a copy of that rec
ord at the close of business each
week. The forms will have to be
secured through the printers Of
the county, or the merchant can
furnish his own forms so long as
it contains the required informa-
ton. The reports must be sent
in regularly each week
JOHN +. JACKSON,
County Food Administrator.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
Letters from Over There
Hastily.
REV. E. +. MELLoTT.

More than 100000 letters
from American soldiers in France
have been received at Atlantic
ports since July 20, and the post
Office department announced that
every one of them was started
for its destination within "a hours
after it's arrival. One hi p
brought 2,S23, 600 letters and an
other 300, 900 on August 2, and a
snip arriving August 5 brought
2,031, 900.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
Churches Unite.
andria, Va

At least a temporary union of
churches in eighteen Connecticut
towns has been accomplished
within a year owing to circum-
stances resulting from the war,
reports a committee of the Con-
necticut federation OF churches.
Denominations in the movement
were Baptist, Methodist, Con-
gregational, Free Baptist Luth-
eran and Independent Methodist.
Thirty-seven organizations now
are combining services lin eigh-
teen buildings. In one town
Baptists and Free Baptists
united under a Methodist min
lister. Each church organization
has retained its own officers and
adheres to it's own denominations
al beliefs. In most cases the
union is considered temporary
expedient for the period of the
war. 1t is pointed out that the
federation of churches is rot
irreyocabIe.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
Call For 100000 Men.

A call for 100000 white Sc
lective service men to join the
colors for general military SER
vice was issued last Friday by
Provost Marshall General Crow
der. They will entrain during
the period from August 20 to 30.
Forty-three states were asked
to furnish quotas under this call.
which is the largest issued dur
ing August.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
Apple Butter Without Sugar.

Following is a recipe for max
ing apple butter without sugar
which has been successfully used
by t he department of Home
Economics of State College.
Take half as much white corn
syrup as thick apple pulp, add one
teaspoon cinnamon to each quart
of the mixture and make other
wise exactly as the apple butter
is made with sugar."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
Was at Camp humphreys.

Mr.. George Hertzler was q
pleasant caller at the NEWS Of
fee Tuesday morning. Mr.. Hertz
Ter came from his home in Hast
ing, Nebr., in May, and has been
spending much Of his time among
his old time friends and relatives
up about Burnt Cabins. He spent
ten days recently in Washington,
and down at Camp Humphreys
where his brother Blaine is work.
ing at carpenter work. Mr..
Hertzler says, the cantonment Of
Camp Humphreys is built right
in q beautiful forest about three
miles in length by about mile
in width aud oyerlooks a beauti-
full lake. All the small timber is
removed and the large trees left
for shade. About two thousand
carpenters are employed in the
construction of the buildings nee
essary to the housing Of the SOL
diers in training. Any kind of
an old carpenter gets eight dol
lars a day and double pay on
Sunday. Camp Humphreys is
about nine miles south Of Alex
andria, Va.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
Soldiers Letter.

under date of June 26th, as fol-
lows: 'As have just been sent
back again from the front for a
little rest, will try to answer
your welcome letters received a
few days ago. We cannot write
every time we would wish to;
we have to write just when we
have the chance. Lottie don't
worry about me; | am feeling
fine. Through the mercy of GOD
and the prayers of mother, my life
has been spared, and | am ready
to go back into the fray again,
for am anxious to do more of
the kind we have been doing to
the Huns. tell you thst | have
been having some real experience
fighting the Huns. It's the real
thing, and no sham battle busi-
ness. They are finding out what
the Sammies can do. | wish |
could tell you some Of the expe-
riences we pass through, but
must be content to wait until |
get home for that.
The Huns tried twice to give
US a dose of gas, but we were
too quick for them-we were
under a good officer, and got in
to our masks in good time. do
not see why | do not get more
letters from home. | have re-
ceived but four since | came to
France.
Sister, this is some war! The
good luck is all coming our way
now. We are doing good work
and have been. Lottie, it seems
to me there is something wrong
at home. If there is, do not fear
to write me, for | want to know
the worst as we'll as the best that
is going on at home. You know
that | said in one Of my late
letters that something seemed to
tell me that there was something
serious had happened at home.
Now, if my presentiments are
correct, please write and tell me
the worst; for if, when | get
home | should find a vacant
chair, l should feel that you, had
not treated me just right. Poor
boy! his presentiments have
been correct; for his father
Grant Fix died a few weeks ago,
and the family did not feel that
they could break the news eto
Harry. Editor. Tell father |
will write him soon; | suppose he
is done with his harvesting by
this time.
Norman Reeder is writing
home. Norman and are togeth-
er all the time-just like broth
ers- work together eat togeth-
err, and sleep together. We have
been lucky so far to escape the
Hun bullets, and if one of US
were to fall, it would go hard
with the other.
We notice some difference in
the length of the days and nights
as compared with those ir Fulton
County. Here it gets dark about
1890 and daylight about $3.50.
Then, on account of the differ
ence in longitude, there is five
hours difference in the time;
that is, when it is II O'Clock
noon here, and we are eating our
dinners, it is only Z O'Clock in
the morning in McConnellsburg
Just about the time some of the.
sleepyheads in that town get up.
1t will soon be a year-the Goth
of September-since left Nc
ConnelIsburg to go to work for
Uncle Sam. | tell you | am glad
| started then. | would not
want to be back there when
Uncle Sam needs all of the boys
my age. | had a letter from
Belle a few days ago giving me
the names of some of the slack
ers back in my old home county.
| wonder how the Stacker boys
would like to wear a big tin S on
the lapel of their coats.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
REV. EDWARD +. MELLOTT.
COunSelS Perseverance, and Patience 10
Our Attitude Toward The Egd
Of The Great Var.

a iApNANC ~ Wv lG'SNa W. AAAs
paper that | owe you, Well |
should be thankful that it is
only two dollarsAsince these are
war times. We are having ex-
tremely warm weather in New
York state at present. When
the mercury climbs around LOG in
the shade, even a dominic per-
sists in perspiring quite freely.
Season so far is a very favorable
one. Rain, though not in an
abundance, keeps crops growing.
Corn very promising. Wheat
yielding well; oats a bumper
crop; fruit not so plentiful, and
slightly damaged by hail in some
sections. Eggs are selling for
SOC dozen, and butter so high
that it spreads itself all over the
plate in vain show. Hens are
bringing 35c lb. The farmers
have the advantage Of excellent
markets for everything tn ey
nave to sell. Labor for farms or
factories is at a premium. The
draft is gathering up the boys
quite close, and woe be unto
Kaiser Bill" when they all get
"oyer there" While we all
work, hope, and pray for an
early peace with victory, yet
there are so many things which
enter into the proposition that
make it necessary for us to eXer-
else an abundance of patience
and perseverance. with an in
domitable faith in the eternal
purpose which must and shall
compel even the wrath Of man
to glorify our God, and further
the work and cause Of Christ in
the world.
IN his poem, Preparing The
Soul For Cod" Edward Everett
Hale climbs the Himalayan
sleeps of faith, and seated upon
throne of Supreme God Con-
sciousness which shall never fail
him, he reviews the hoary ages
of the past aslike an endless reel
age afrer age passes before his
vision; each a mysterious chapter
of a book of deep purpose and
infinite design, and 10 a voice!
Revelation answers to inspiration;
eternity shouts back the enigma
of time and the empyrean heights
stoop to unfold the mystery and
declare the secret to the yearn-
ing soul. Hear him:
The blowing OF the Lord is deep,
or ocean or On land;
His burrows cross the Mt, steep,
They cross the sea washed sand.
Wise men and prophets know not how,
But work their masters will;
The kings and nations drag the pillow,
His purposes to fulfill
They work his will because they must,
On hillside or on plain;
The clods are broken into dust,
And ready for The grain.
Then comes the planting of the Lord,
His kingdom cometh now,
Tho oceans deepest depths are stirred,
Aud al their secrets show
Whereprophots trod His deserts broad,
Where monarchs dragged the pillow;
Behold the seed-time OF His word,
The sower comes TO SOW.
And when the nations return
to God whom they have so large
| ly forsaken, and when they be-
come as eager for the truth, as
they are for gold today, then we
shall have the peace worthy Of
people who call themselves
! Christian. This has been the
busiest season of my life. Work
is progressing along all lines.
The NEWS is an indispensable
caller, tho somewhat late in ar
irving.
Hastily.
REV r.. T. MEIIOTT.