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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-19
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Discontinue sending papers after date of expira-
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October l. 19l8)."
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-19
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
Snapshots at Their COHiHgS and GOiHgS
Here for a Vacation, or Away
for a ReStim Outing.

Tor ReSllIll Ou!l1g.
Mrs. James II. Kendall and
son spent two days in Chambers
burg last week.
Mr.. Jacob Clouser of lower Ayr
township was in town a few
hours last Friday.
w. Sloan Warthin and family
spent a few days last week in the
home Of their aunt, Miss Esther
Sloan near Webster Mills.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas HIsler
and granddaughter Mrs. l.. A.
Winter Of Fort Littleton, were
among the callers at the NEWS
office last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Hykes
and daughter Miss Fannie, and
Mrs. Isaac Hykes-all Of Reid,
Nd, called on Miss Katie Fore
one day last week.
Mrs. Winnie B. Kendall spent
the time from Friday until Mon
day in the home of her son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. NJ. Myers at Mercersburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Anderson
and daughter Eva, and Mrs. And
erson's father, Mr.. w. l.. Nose
by all Of Wells Valley, motored
to McConnellsburg last Saturday.
Howard Peck, Warfordsburg,
Pa, r. r. l, was in town Tues
day. MIR. Peck is much inter-
ested in the breeding of pure
bred hogs, and has now a few
fine pigs for sale.
Pastor VIM. Lowe and Elder
John B. Runyan are representing
the McConnellsburg Presbyte-
rian church at the fall session of
presbytery which is being held at
Waynesboro, this week. H. S.
Daniels is there representing the
Greenhill, Presbyterian church.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bishop
received a letter a few days ago
from their son Luther who has
arrived safe in France. Luther
says things look rather old-fash-
ioned in that country. He had
an enjoyable trip across the
ocean. His address is, Pvt.
Luther Bishop, Co. B, goth M. G..
Bat, Am. Tx. Forces, via New
York.
Miss Anna G. Johnston, of
Williamsburg, Pa, who had been
visiting her brother S, Houston
, Johnston, at Mercersburg for
the past month accompanied
him to McConnellsburg on Tues
day of last week and is the guest
of her niece Miss Florence John
ston at present. She will visit
> her many relatives and friends
> in the Cove before returning to
=, her home about the first of Oc-
tober.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-19
Powers Keeier.

On August 80, 1918 Miss Grace
Keefer daughter Of ex.county
Commissioner Emanuel Keefer
of Fulton County Pa, and Mr..
Roy Powers son of A. w. Powers,
of Atlantic City, N. j., were
quietly married at EIkton, Md. by
the Rev. Henry Carr, pastor OF
the Reformed church at that
place. They will be home to
their many friends in Atlantic
City after October lst.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-19
Report Of Red Cross Garments.

The Fulton County Chapter is
in receipt of the following from
the Pennsylvania Division Head
quarters at Philadelphia, -"On
behalf Of the American Red Cross
we beg to advise the arrival OF
the following shipment of
100 chemise
10l aprons
80 sweaters
1926 pairs socks
and assure you they will be for
warded at the earliest possible
moment to final destination"
Aside from this we have ship
ned 200 comfort kits and 200 kni,
bags and have on hand 200 more
of each.
At the present tim e the
Chapter is making its allotment
of hospital garments drawers
and 100 under shirts which are tt
be done by the last day of tn
month.
Our allotment will be 80 re
fugee house garments.
Both sewing and knitting
throughout the county was sen
in very neatly done, and in eS
cellent condition.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-19
General PsrShiGg.

What General Washington was
to the Revolutionary war; Cen
eral Jackson, in the war of 1872;
General Scott, in the Mexican
war and General Grant in the
great Civil war, General PERISH
ing is in the great world war now
in progress. Just at this time,
every school boy and girl should
be familiar with the following i'm
pOrtant events in the life OF this
man:
John ], Persbing was born in
Missouri on the 18th day OF Sept
ember, 1860, hence ne was 5o
years of age last Friday.
In 1877 he taught the negro
school in Laclede. Graduated
with honors from the State Nor
NAL at Kirksville, Mo-, in 1885,
Taught school at Prairie Mound,
No., until 1882. He won the ap-
pointment to West Point in a
competitive examination July Ia,
1882.
Graduated from West Point in
1886 as Second Lieutenant. AS
signed to Sixth Calvary in the
Apaches campaign. Pomoted tc
first Lieutenant in 1891. At the
outbreak of Spanish American
War, assigned to the Tenth Cav
airy. Won distinction at tht
battle of San Juan. Ordered tt
Philippines as Captain and Ad
jutant General, District of Min
danao, in 1899.
On General Staff in 1904, h
wooed and won. Miss France
R. Warren. daughter of Senate
Warren, of Wyoming. They wer
married in January, 1905; an
left forJapan the same day, wher
Pershing was Military Attach
and Observer in the Russo Japs
neseWar. In 1906 promoted to b
Brlgadier General over the head
Of S62 officers. In command {
The Department of Mindanoa h
llrmly established American al
thority in the Philippines.
In 1914 he was given comman
OF Fort Bliss on the Mexica
Border. Ia August, 1915, hi
Nome in the Preside, San Fral
CISCO, burned and his wife an
three children perished IN tt
fames. In March 1916. he We
tIent into Mexico in command {
Ine Punitive Expedition again
Villa.
lie was given command OF Il
American Expeditionary Force
N & ance by President Wilson {
May "a, 1917, sailed on May 2
ne was promoted to be Gener
~ ~ American Army October
l9ll' March 20, 1918, while tt
great German drive was in pr
sresS, General pershing was at
W olter General Foch the enti
,,slsolrses Of America to ste
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-19
A Billion a Month.

Seventeen months of war have
cost the United States govern
ment SIT, 329, 6Sl, 342 Ia billion
dollars month. This rate has
increased so rapidly, however,
that August expense ran up to
81, ,8O5. 513, 1888, or nearly $780,
600, 900 more than the highest
previous record set in July.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-19

Miss Emma McGovern, of this
place, spent a few days in Phila-
delphia last week.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-09-19

oote (oats ueuallv shows less
ct fror, limo +bor otbar
eiA0 -,
crops), 20 oushels VI "hea'' an"
3,500 pounds or nay, tue Wnole
worth at present prices, much
,,,o,.o thon anouoh to nav all the
NV I;. I;n,;,u ord
cosI "a u" i"'"'eN ~
tertlllzlng.
Lime, Manure and Fertilizers on
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21

When the big Allied-American of |tnsive started against the Germans late in July, Capt. Virginius Wilkins Alexander son of s. C. Alexander, president of the Merchants & Plant |gs Bank of Pine Bluff. was directing |he fire of one of the huge guns that paved the way for the advancing |hpps. That offensive ultimately re- |ated in the surrender of the Huns |nd the freedom of the world from |he menace of kultur
 Capt. Alexander was among the |nt to enlist. He went to Leon |Gngs, Texas, in June, 1917, and hm there was sent to the officers |taning camp for coast artillery at
 It Winfield Scott, California. He |Fpn commission as ranking first
 hntenant at the Coast Artillery
 @ps. branch of the service which
 Fqllres a great knowledge of higher hsthematics
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21

From Ft. Scott. Capt. Alexander was ordered to report at Ft Stevens. Washington, where for time he was acting captain in command of bat tery lie was assigned to Battery "C.' Coast Artillery Corps. and or dered to France He left San Fran cisco in March 1918, for Camp Mer- ritt. N. J., via the Panama Canal. and he landed in France on April 5. 1918. He was sent to a school of fire in France and remained there until the middle of July. when he went to the front and remained there until the armistice was signed. Late this year he was promoted to captain.
 Capt Alexander was graduate of the Pine Bluff High School. Then he went to the Lawrenceville Academy in New Jersey, where he finished and the nentered Princeton. He was graduated from Princeton with the class of 1916. Captain Alexander is only p years old.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21

Clarence Lee.
 Luther Bruce.
 Rufus Pope.
 Eugene Perry.
 Joseph Elias Wiley. Fred Walker. Sam Ewing.
 Robert Jones. James Williams Adams. Louis Walker
 Otis Sendlin.
 George Wilson Mullen. Sigman Cookley.
 Zach Bradley.
 Gabe Dewalt.
 Bennie Mays. Jim. Bishop.
 Charles Payne
 Sam Weaver, :
 Ed Carpus.
 Charles Hill.
 Asa Arrant. Robert Turner. Will Davis. Joe Williams. James Hill. Will Eddington. Charlie Robinson. Lawrence Rupert Sexton. Edward Branch. John Schuler.
 Frank Reeves.
 Will Burns.
 Will Brannon.
 Willie Jackson. Curtis Edward Fluker. Martin Hudson. James Jones Jr. Joe Nelay. Jesse Hill. George Arthur Simmons. Timothy Kirnaghan. Frederick Leon Lyles. Edward c. Jones. Allen Johnson. James Wallace Hill. Andrew Jackson. Monroe Shepherd: Fred Monroe Shriver. Dave Williams. Shelton Reuben Wilson. Robert Burton. Richard Johnson. Bryant Jacob Williams. Arthur Benson Williams. Aaron Bennett. :, Loren Storey Barreswell. Will Boyle. Junius Porter. Albert Elliott. Willie Carpenter. Joe Thornton. Carey Harner. >,.. Erwin "A. Witherington. Clifton Cook. Henry Thomas. Robert Long. Burt Brooks. Arthur Carter. Leroy Williams. Jackson Page. Jnle Dwal. Taylor J. Patillo. Adolphus Toler.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21
e JEFFERSON COUNTY Sni D!EKS HELPED
 WHIP THE RUCHES

Continued from page Two) Robert Johnson. Vnarlle Hutchinson. Aonzo Matthias. Henry Harris. Howard Mitchell. Blake Trammell. aatenry Kernaghan. VIII Porter. !alus Ceasar Johnson. Lee Singleton. red Sangster. Neslet Harris. will Williams. ,oel Benjamin Head. Nose Hodson. sx .. Mar Marion Perry. t VIII Reeves. Ted Ford. aohn Tousand Townsend. Arthur Hays. Spencer Ellis. ilmothv Walter Sutton. ,ohn Morris. sehn Butcher. aaek Palmer. frank Malone. / SSente Gilmore Hunt. Willie Street. ssee Coonse. nIeney Morgan. ppomer Franklin Fixes. rank Green. ;saeob Owens ld Brown. ,em Swift. !ee Oliver aasatnan Henderson Stevens. Alfred Green. ..narles Hawkins. rraorey Whitworth. eMegene Gwinn. SSuton Brown. ssenry Patton. nnefcy Jackson. pYave Thomas. ,sesse Atwood r,.,nnle Graves. Assr Asss. Jennings. eeafrlson Ross. Ssage Sy1ge W. Sinclaire. a,ter, Allen. c,snur @ Gatewood. Sn Russell aslnn' i aese James. Sen Field ssil Draper. ey Gardner svin Duncan, ls,, al Smith.
 sa Brown.
 a Alexander.
 Snard Johnson.
 nam Hopkins.
 blda.r Eugene Williams.
 on Johnson.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21

Anderson Royston. Joshua Johnson. James Waller. Ezekiel Sinclair. Edgar Arnold. Calvin Arnold Anderson. Darl'ick Malone. Will Banks.
 Henry Reynolds. Sephus Rawdy. Pies Fuller.
 Ellis Rose.
 Dennis Ranson. Gather Taylor. Willie Greenberry Frank Jefferson. Charles Ira Hughes. Otis Aaville. John William Brandon. Willis Austin.
 Willis Severe Binns. Clifton Perry. Nelson Howard. Julius Leland Johnson. Abraham Neill. Sanders iWesson. Roscoe Caldwell. Clifton Burks. Ernest Collins. Dave Freeman. Dan Johnson.
 Adam Stevens Van D. Cation. Henry Wiley. Willie Washington. Ncylon Flack Jones. Charles Borders. John Strong.
 Lonnie Westbrook White Jesse Fletcher. Drew Hannah Willie Frank Goodbye. Jewel McMillan. Ed Pearce.
 Walter, White. Louis Eugene Long. Juluis Hardin. Manuel Marshall George Clark. James Kinbro. Ed Holloway. Louis Peters. Clarence Samson. Charles Freeman. Bonnie Hannah. Sam Rawls. Junior Fred Johnson. Louis Brown
 Percy Holmes. Robert Hill.
 Isaac Copeland. Ed Payne.
 Leroy Cobbin. Johnie Lambert. Collie Mckee. Sedron Epps. Kelley Jones. Earl Harris. Richardson Johnson. E'lbert Griffin. Emerson Morris Cornwell. Anderson Waters. Will Brown. Jesse Everett Brown. Pink Jackson. Aaron Groom. Ed Davis. James Dallas Jones. Andrew Jackson Walls. William ,Ricard Sterderick.e Tom Childress. Willie Moore. Ed Nichols. Willie Hendricks. Joh Allen Rotten. >. Will Preston. Curtis Ruff. Edgar Barnes. Silas James Fletcher. \ Easton Orwell Sanford. :, Fred Herring. Robert Erwin. Arthur Bruton. Robert Lee. @ Lucky Watson. Willie R. Galloway. Walter Calvin. John Johnson. Sollie Davis. Julius Wright. John Alexander. Warren Burns. Walter Clay. Sidney Pierson Mechanism. James Norwood. Lloyd Hager. Joe Johnson. Phil Johnson. Robert Jackson. Dutton A. Bonnell. Geo. E. Hampton. Charley Rollins. George Collier. Frank Johnson. Sim Lawrence. r Isiah Forrest Calaway. William Stewart. Barney Thomas. Arthur Daniel. Andrew Spears. Anderson Harris. Floyd Green. Will Smith. Louis Carter. Peter Morgan. Marshall Banks. Scott Hense.-, Daniel Gardner. Fred Campbell. Ed Benton. Robert Johnny Daw. Alexander Stevens. Richard Coplen. Henry Nixon. Arthur Johnson. Robert Brooks. Frank Davis. Foster Carr.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21

Continued from page Two)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21
Shoe Department
Mems Clothing Department

is most complete mems wear made the in America and their reputation we'll as our own behind that sell you stock at pres ent is very large in both styles and fabrics prices that will Slt every purse.
 We clothe the man when he lays away his uniform.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21

((Continued on page Four)
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-12-19
FICTION IN pEmAND
~ V0UND9D o0lDuER1
Wsstsrs Tsiss With 0ssh 81 As
msaee the Faveratee- -Aeve etssaea
with HspPy Esdia1s WasteA

Fiction and the lighter forms OF
reading play q large part in the daily
lives Of the mon in hospitals, every IL
brarian of the A. l. A. War Service
reports. Stories Of adventure cannot
be supplied in sufficient number. Ths
men cannot got enough of Zane Grey,
Rex Beach, Jack London, E. Phillips
Oppenheim and Kipling. The best
novel is western story with dash
of romance.
Every man will read love story,
but he honestly prefers ths whols-
some Sort" says the librarian At one
Of the largest hospitals. "Isve quite
revised my idea Of the attitude Of
man toward sentimental reading"
On visit of tho librarian to the
wards, one man had tentatively -
lected Stevenson's Treasure Island
from an armful Of books presented
for his inspection. "Is It love
when given q negative answer. Sure,
@I'ye got q girl"
In the assortment Of fiction and
stories of personal war experiences,
carried by the librarian on the sams
ward visit, were q dictionary, high
er algebra and = trigonometry, :
plain and solid geometry, and . hooh
on mechanics, each Of them going IL
response to . special request to the
occupant of some bed. An Italian in
one of the wards eyed the collection
and drew out the trigonometry.
"Bill, you don't want that book,
volunteeered his bed neighbor to the
left. "That's higher mathematics
you can't read that. Better give him
novel;"
Bill looked inside the trigonomstry
and quite apparently found 1t NJ
more Ineligible than Chinese. STILL
he was reluctant to surrender It foe
a novel in an easy style. Probably
the title had appealed to the Latin b
him, but obviously he wanted to hAnG
on to It because It had real sub
stance. He frightened with de1fght
when the librarian told him shs nov
was equipped to supply him with
Italian books.
All the men like detective stories.
A casual evening visit to the extrszne
psychopathic ward brought requests
for detective fiction from three white
and two negro patients.
There are hundreds Of thousand
Of books, unused, on the shelves Of
American homes, that arc just the
books the tens of Thousands Of
wounded men in the Armv hospitals
need now. Every public library q Z
receiving station for Library War
Service,
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-12-19
WHAT soLDsERs Mead

The American Library Association
is asking for gifts Of good recent
works Of fiction to supply the read
ing needs Of our men In hospitals and
rehabilitation camps. Every public
library in the United States has been
designated as receiving station for
such gifts.
The classes Of books most in de-
mand by the soldiers are fiction Of
tho adventurous-romanti school. Re-
cent requests from hospital and camp
librarians emphasizes the call, for
books Of this sort. Zane Grey il per-
with the enlisted men, and Of his
books. from Heritage Of the Desert"
to 1.-THE U. P. Trail'' there is never =
sufficient supply. The "TArxan" sto-
ries by Edgar Rice Burroughs are
fairly deyoured, and Rex Beach, John
Fox, Jr., and B. N. Bower are prime
fAvorites.
o. Henry's books arc in constant
nsWane, newer enough ugh Copies % Of Tom sawyer
to meet the calls for Mark Twain's
great classic of boyhood, though hum
dreds Of copies have been bought in
addition to those given by the public.
Anna Katherine Green's detective
stories vie with the adventurous tales
Of George Barr McCutcheon. SOLDIER
like the detective stories OF Mary
Roberts Rinehart, too, such as "The
Circular Staircase" as we'll as her
later works.
Gene Stratton- Porter's stories Of
the Limberlost are very popular. So
are the novels Of Harold Bell Wright.
Indeed, it may almost be said that
any book that Is popular with ths
general reading public II popular
with the soldiers.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-12-19
FoNTY-Tsso vEARs sLn

Does forty-two ysars. counting
the changes, sesm = long. long tims
to look back7
With today's issue Of Ths Nk
Mountain Pilot, this paper reaches
the forty-third mile-stons on it, life
journey.
Going over the news Of 1,ls4 weeks
as told by the Pilot, Whist . lcaleado-
scopic series Of local happenings il
recorded can only be told by the pen
Of Dickens-
Since that far away, distant day
in 1876, when tho Pilot first rat up
at Irwin and took notice, the in
fants Of that time have grown tall
and strong, passed to gray-haired
grandparents and scattered like tho
leaves that fall; tho town itself has
all but passed away. but through
summers suns and winters snows
the Pilot continues recording births,
deaths, marriages, divorces and all
the less serious happenings Of the
Elk Mountain district.
Other heads and other hands will
record the next forty-thlrd anniver.
sary Of tho Pilot, which seems ~
near ~ the first, in 1876, but no mors
important history viii be published
than that contained In the forty
two volumes completed last week.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-12-19
s1ssIAsllirs' n,s1lsn

NptiSn = giysn TIT ~ regular
anaHht ulttlg of IL stosaAosa.es
sl Bank u CtssteA Bate WI
~ hsld q ~ hanhin6 house On Tuss-
~, Januaey 1AeA, l4la It 9 p. M.
fcr ~ peepsse 4 efDeting I Board
~ Dissetoes 70 sstSss during H. sa-
suing ysar. ard fer ths transe etfon
a any othsr hsiilnsss properly
breu9ht bsfers ~ lsssttng.
Dated at crssssd Dattsb Ce1psA1o,
tins 10th Nv n Dsenh6r. 1D1A
sz-et q " Huntg ~. CaStisr.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-12-19
NEED q Doolfs

|. The A. L A. knows the. nesd o8
books for soldiers and sailors. Moth
ing that can happen In public ahAirs
can reduco tn need Of good hoollg
right now. No. matter whatl1ar Or.
many Il to - subdusd Of disordefly.
no matter whether domobilisatfoh b
to 10 slow Or fast no n,Rtter NhAt
tbs terms Of the ultimate 'psees 4spa-
ty and rsadjussment. ~ stijl ~
and shall, haYe for loA8 tins -
dreds of th6usani 1t man 5en06<
arms, evsn after H. nunbsr ArpPe
bolow millions whAre IL now etasal.
Ths hospitals ~ 81 viii ~ 4nll
Of wounded, sick n,6a ccnyAlee41fSt1
great number. Ikly need ca, -
sntsrtainmsut. Ih4y nesd iee y.
and divsssien. 8oOke ere ~
univsrsal agsncy = 1elp 80 -. 4. - : ~
time 70 ses that bcp3e are ~
ent kook u @geey e61oiex IN
rsefrsetionsf 1n apat ~ C6x5st-
mas pAe1noee II ~
|or. ! bo0k u ~ tqpS Il IN
|pdblie Ahrar 4 \ r ~ q @! II i 4 u 4
Vii - s q; ! q 3 ~ s! 'is!!sE
~ e. lel1rll & Z = lycu < ~
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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-12-19
Eours vsfy truly,
HMRBKRT PUT1fAN.

Ths ;dsnand for rsading matter IN
Eths camps and soavslsseent hospitals
nsvsr csabse. Thsrs IL hoe,n an
short hvsd which matss II impsra-
tive that we coAtinually add to tn
store. BY supplying ths Action ~
snabls the Amsrican Library Asso-
ciation to buy those technical book
which are 20 necessary to the future
Of our soldiers. ..--5s - :.
II you possess some fiction that
you especially enjoyed, will you not
pass 1t on for the enjoyment Of sons
soldier? II you will leave the book
at OLeary's Drug Store or mail to
Normal Library, on or before Dscsm-
Der oath, the Normal Library will
pack and ship them to ths American
Library Association. (
FLORA n. KOCH.
Librarian, Colorado State Nernel
School.