Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
FULTON COUNTY
CAPITAL ALIVE
McConnellsburg Will Have
Memorial to Its Men
in Service

Residents of McConnellsburg and
Fulton county generally are plan
ming q lasting memorial to honor
the boys who went forward to fight
for freedom.
An open air Mem morial Forum
unique in Pennsylvania municipali-
ties, will be laid out on the plot of
ground adjoining the Fulton county
court house in McConnellsburg, in
accordance with the preliminary
plans drawn by the Bureau of Mu-
inequalities of the Pennsylvania De-
partment of Internal Affairs and ap-
proved by the committee in charge
of the selection of memorial.
Members of the committee ap-
pealed to James F. Woodward,
secretary of internal affairs, and j.
Herman Knisely, chief of the Bu-
reau of municipalities, for assistance
In making plans for the memorial
and Karl B. Lohmann, landscape
designer in the bureau, was assigned
to the task.
Mr.. Lohmann went to McCon-
nellsburg, met the committee and
visited the section in which devel-
opment was planned. Mr.. Lohmann,
FOLLOWING study of the area, de-
vised the idea of an open air Me-
mortal Forum and when he returned
to McConnellSburg a few days ago
with the idea worked out in draw
ings, the committee lost no time in
giving its approval and committee
men asserted that they will see to
1t that the actual work is pushed
along so that the forum can be dedi-
Gated on Memorial Day next year.
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court house has a natural slope and
will make an ideal place for union
church services, concerts, lectures
and entertainments of varied char
acter during the summer months.
At the bottom of the slope it is pro-
posed to erect a platform walled UP
with native stone. The space be-
tween the walls would be filled with
earth and sown with grass seed. Bits
or shrubbery around the back of
the platform and on the sides would
furnish natural scenery. Shrubbery
on either side of the platform would
also be planted in such way as to
form places where speakers could
remain until ready to go on the plat
form. The edges of the entire plot
or ground would also be covered
with shrubbery and trees and at
other points would be placed in or
der low bushes or shrubs. The en-
trance to the forum would be at the
corner closest the front of the court
house and at that point Mr.. Lob
mann proposes a huge boulder
taken from the mountains of Fulton
county be placed. On it would be a
tablet stating that the Memorial
Forum is an evidence of the esteem
with which the people of McCon-
neiisourg and the county hold the
soldiers of Fulton county and ex-
planning that the forum is a gift of
the people to the world war heroes
and heroes Of the Civil War are also
10 be remembered in the construc-
tlon OF the memorial. While the
memorial idea was planned with the
idea OF honoring world war heroes,
IL was proposed that honor be also
palu other war men and accordingly
the forum will be dedicated to the
soldiers OF all wars from the Civil
war to the present time.
The square in McConnellsbure on
which the court house fronts will
also be improved in accordance with
plans drawn by Mr.. Lohmann. It is
proposed that a grass plot on which
VIII De planted a few trees be laid
out IN the form of a square and that
a low curb be built around the grass
plot. . s''S
Members of the committee at
McConnellsburg suggested. too. that
the names of all soldiers in tba
county be inscribed on bronze plates
and placed in front of the court
house. 'ooi'
Ihe Memo orial Forum and the de-
veiopment in the square will be paid
Tor largely by public subscriptions
and already the committee has re-
celved contributions from persons
Interested. 1t is proposed to solicit
the entire county so that every per-
son will be given an opportunity of
county. 'oh
Members of the committee ar
ranging the memorial are the Roy
William j: Lowe, John B. Runyan.
ene KEY. Edward Jackson, John p
Slpes, the Rev. c. S. Jacobs. the Rev
wilson V. Grove, D. H. Patterson
-. M. Kendall, DR.. j. w. Mosser T
g. Reisner, William Hull. and T p
Jackson A ~ IT,