Adams County News from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania • Page 6

LAST OF UNION GENERALS DEAD Beloved Cavalry Commander Dies at his Home in Reading. MOUNTAIN IS HELPS AUTOIST, OVERCROWDED LOSES FINGER Larjre Hotels Unable to Care for While Man who was Helped All Visitors Driven there Whizzed away without so by the Heat. Much as a Thank You. There is both happiness and unhappiness among those in the Blue Earned Fame in tysburg. While Mr.

and aman, Catoctin, were Mrs. W. C. Bren- motoring in Battle of Get- Ridge Mountain resort section Carroll county they came upon days. Those having charge of hotels and tranger who had gotten his car in a itch and was unable to get on solid Dav McMurtne se is SONS OF ARMY PUBLIC SALE Of Personal and Real Property.

On Thursday, August 17, 1916. The undersigned intending to give Prominent Families Represented)up farming and remove will sell at MEN IN CAMP! last the rank of general who parti OW6r the battle of Gettysburg He died om aiions anywhere at Pen Mar, There are scores of city folk who are unh because they cannot get ac- nee which was accepted. Efforts to et the car on the road under its own appeared on the appeare at his home in Reading Monday night, Blue Rid gummit or Buena yista a av Ta after an illness of several months, SpringSi anci gave a nel in nana scene a aged 83 years. General Gregg's division of 10,000 with having been a deciding factor in this crucial battle of the Civil War. It was his command that successfully met General Stuart.

General Gregg was in good health Such has been the case during the tt four or five and ma dty tt an who Jog chain was obtained by one of the two cars coupled to- CADETS TO COME FOR UNVEILING Battalion from Famous Virginia School will be Here for Dedication of Memorial. Other Plans under Way. Four hundred cadets from Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, Virginia, will come to Gettysburg for i A i 3 1 .11 A A VA. A U. A 1 1 i i K.

i the dedication of the Virginia monu- -m Vin-rco 0 her attractive daughter, Miss Blossom i norse wagon, set 2-norse nay lad- in Company of Boys on the Mountain. One of the most interesting and animated sights of the mountain resort section is the home of Mrs. Walter Reed, and Scout Master Herbert Bid- Highfield, where there is a camp of public sale at his residence in Butler township on road near R. B. Myers' Mill, about a mile from Arendtsville and one-quarter of a mile from the good macadam road from Arendtsville to Biglerville, the following personal property: Family driving horse reliable, family mare 9 years old wo anywhere and safe for any hT.Z otheT'U twenty seven boy scouts, all under (be fresh in the winter, four fine hogs, canvas and in the care of Mrs.

Reed, will weigh 200 pounds each, light 2- the Blue Ridge is quest of accommodations, had to return on the next train on account of no room to lodge any of the hotels or boarding houses that dot the mountain from -antil last spring, and his physicians. Charmian to Edgemont. heel and not start his engine. One of the two men, Charles E. Ricketts, Union Bridge, caught a i-ear wheel on the stranger's car to assist when Brenaman made the pull.

Before ment on West Confederate avenue October 17th, according to advices received here. The school is one of the most prominent in the Old Dominion and their battalion is known far and near for its fine appearance. The youths who compose the organization will come as special guests Virginia Memorial Commis- Reed, the Scout Master Herbert Biddie, of Philadelphia. There is also an assistant scout master to aid Mr. Biddle in his work.

The boys range in age from 11 to 15 years, and are all sons of army and navy officers in Washington, D. C. Their time is spent out of doors and there are numerous hikes over the that the present humid weather The reason given for the congested Brenaman started to u11 the Danger hastened the end. He was a native of' condition of the resort section is that r6W hig Huntingdon, a son of Matthew the extreme heat has had the effect lawyer and ironmaster, and was rear-' driving the residents of the cities ed in Bellefonte, Harrisburg and Hoi- from, their homes. iidaysburg.

He was appointed a cadet; There was a record-breaking at West Point in 1851, and was grad- crowd at Pen Mar and other points Bated in 1855. General Gregg served in the est until to-day. The people began to Sn numerous engagements during the' arrive almost by train loads and in Indian uprisings. In May, 1861, he i automobiles by the dozen, made a captain when the Civil i Saturday night, A. J.

Ford, man- War broke out. The following Jan- ager of the Buena Vista Springs ho- nary he was elevated to colonel, and' tel, telephoned to Col. J. J. Gibbons, in November, 1862, was made briga-; manager of the Pen Mar hotel, and dier general of cavalry, at the age of asked if it were possible for him to power on rear wheels spinning.

The result was that Ricketts' index of the Virginia Memorial sion and it is possible that they mav ivard screen door mountains and to points of interest. K-T uoor, encamp at Gettysburg for several 4 1 i Hav DV the ton. The scout master has arranged for a number of all-night hikes that will be taken soon. ders, Syracuse wood beam plow good as new, wheel spring harrow, shovel plow, 2 sets Yankee gears, land rolf lers, set new manure boards, top buggy, open spring wagon, household and kitchen furniture, a wrought iron steel range in good condition, lot of crocks and cooking utensils, 2 coal stoves, coal oil heater, nearly new; ron kettle on 3 foot, good churn and butter bowl, bedsteads, carpets by the and days though the final plans for their visit have not been announced. In fact, all of the arrangements for the dedication of the monument seem to be in a rather uncertain stage.

Cap- The camp was visited during the week by Colonel Birmingham, Wash- inc-pr and thumb on his left hand L. -nr i -nr i i mgton, acting Surgeon General of the aim uiuinu on iut, leu, nana tain W. Gordon McCabe, when asked TT M. i CM. i prp TMt rvff Rrp-naman rmllprl J.T.

United btates army, who found the ere cut on. rsrenaman punea tne car concerning the possible movement of A ro5 otrano-er -r, i 1. j. sanitary conditions of the very best, on the road and the stranger offered troops here to participate in WD TOOO a along the mountain from Thursday E0 assistance to Ricketts but put on the ceremonies, said that this was all power and disappeared. Mr.

Bren-, largely contingent upon the condition man took Ricketts to a physician EXONERATED of the Mexican situation during the late summer and that, until something definite was learned about that, no assurance could be given that the By Coroner's Jury for Death of Benj. United States Army would be repre- Ahnenberg, Hit by Auto. i accommodate some of the applicants In February, 1874, President Grant appointed General Gregg United States Consul to Prague, Bohemia. This post he resigned six months la- as well as about all the rest of the hotel and cottage proprietors, was A turning people away by the dozens; returning to America and locating that every available room was filled in Reading. In 1891 he was elected Auditor General of Pennsylvania, serving three years.

General Gregg was elected commander of the Pennsylvania Com- W. C. Iffarth accompanied by his brother-in-law, W. C. Lauman, went to Chambersburg from Pittsburgh to Manager Gibbons replied that he, atte nd the inquest in the Benj.

Ahnen- berg case. Mr. Iffarth was the driver of the automobile that struck and killed Benjamin Ahnenberg on Sunday last. The inquest had been postponed and there bookings well ahead. on account of the nervous condition of It was thus at Monterey, Blue Ridge Summit, Highfield and Cas- Mr.

Iffarth, who was unable to testify. It was proved that he was driving cades--everybody had all the people less than fifteen miles an hour and sented by any large body of men. It is possible that the cadets from Virginia Military Institute may be pressed into service to provide the salute and other military features of the unveiling. The program is still in a tentative state and nothing concerning the orators for the occasion has been given out for publication. Virginia veterans will come in large numbers for the dedication, it is believed, for they have been looking forward to the event for a number of He said he was perfectly surprised to see the camp in such an admirable condition.

The camp is named "Camp in honor of its founder, whose motherly care of the boys has endeared her to every boy in the happy and healthy crowd. ALSO At the same time will offer for sale my farm adjoining lands of R. B. Myers, Mrs. David G.

Minter, Orin Heckenluber and Mrs. Funt, containing 26 acres, all cleared land except a half acre of good timber along the Conewago creek, land is in a high state of cultivation with all kinds of fruit on place and a two acre orchard of apples and peaches, improved with a two story brick house containing 8 rooms with basement and llar, with spring water piped into the basement and a never-failing well of water close to the door, a large wash house and fireplace, a bank barn with shed rA-TM-asfvs ht Dr. Walter Reed, United States army surgeon, who did such noted work in part of barn yard, spring ed close to stable door in barn the extermination of yellow fever from Cuba in the years following Spanish-American war. The home of Mrs. Reed is one they could take care of and were mandery of the Military Order of sorry that the houges the Loyal Legion of the United ce their capacity.

States in 1868 and was continued in this office every year until 1894, when' lie was elected commander-in-chief of order. did not have i years. The approximate number ne I about as indefinite as the that he had sounded his horn. The about indefinite as the a rrange- jury gave the following verdict: ments for the unveiling however and 'The jury finds that Benjamin persons in a posit ion to know-when Ahnenberg came to his death on Sun- asked for the possible number who day, July 30, at the corner of Lincoln would come gave the estimate DROPS TRADEMARK NO BLINDING LIGHTS Way East arid Third street, Cham- Dim- bersburg, by being hit by an automo- lYork Forbids the Non-Use of mers on Automobiles. bile owned by A.

H. Lauman and driven by W. C. Iffarth and the jury Equipment Does Not Carry Black Diamond. York's civic authorities have taken further finds from the evidence given i decisive steps against the non-dim- that it was accidental." ming of auto-lights nuisance.

On and trademark of a black diamond'after August 15 it will be unlawful STORM DOES DAMAGE for any person in York to drive any as Trith the words "The Reading," in white, which was adopted when motor vehicle, nor shall the George F. Baer was president of the thereof, while riding thereon, allow system of railways and coal proper- such vehicle to be driven upon or ties, which he wanted to have recog- Jover the streets of the city during the as one, has now been abandoned time lights are required to be carried, Gettysburg owner Lightning Bolt Stuns Man and Children. Two During the storm which passed over early Friday morning T3j the Stotesbury management. jf such vehicle is equipped with head- tning struck the house of William Once again the name stands "Phila- lights that blind or dazzle other users Mummert, in West Manheim York delphia and Reading." This is the highway or make it difficult or coun ty, stunning Mr. Mummert and painted on 1000 new steel hopper cars unsafe for them to ride, drive or two children, who were occupying the anywhere from 1000 to 4000.

The ex- tent of the attendance, it is believed, will depend largely on the success attending the efforts to secure United States troops. Charles Kappes who will attend to the placing of the equestrian statue of General Robert E. Lee on the pedestal, and who will also have in charge the placing of the various groups about the base of the monu- raent spates that he has no advices as to the probable time for shipment and that he has not received any insruc- tions when to be ready to handle the of the most beautiful in the Blue Ridge section. It stands on the hill overlooking Highfield and contains some acres of forest and spacious lawns. The lawn in front of the house is arranged in a series of eight terraces, each surmounting a stone wall and of sufficient width to make a vegetable garden of fair size.

On each terrace there is grown some vegetable and the upper terrace is now producing a crop of fine corn. The Boy Scouts camp is the development of an idea by Mrs. Reed, and yard, hog pen. chicken house, coal house, YC i wood house and all necessary out- thP i buildm Most of these buildings under slate and iron roof. It is ia valuable small fruit farm and most is located in a grove at the rear of the residence Six large sleeping tents and a dining tent 20 by 20 feet make up the equipment.

A cook has been brought from the city and a corps of waitresses are in charge of dining tent. STRABAN MUST PAY conveniently located. Sale to begin at 10:30 o'clock a. m. when terms will be made known by JACOB YOHE Hanson W.

Taylor, Auct. Pius Orner, Clerk. PUBLIC SALE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1916. The undersigned, having purchased a farm near Waynesboro in Franklin county, will offer at public sale his farm known as the William Arendtz farm, situated in Mt. Joy township, on the road leading from Taneytown to Two Taverns, four miles from Gettysburg and six miles from Littlestown, 55 tons capacity which have just walk thereon.

Game bed, and damaging the property State can now Collect for Road Built Four Years ago. bronze figures. I- Straban township is ordered to pay containing sixty six acres more of less Land adjoins that of Cunningham Rex; Elmer March and Elias Patterson. Three acres of good timberland; good well of never-failing water; cis- the tern telephone in house; good young orchard with all kinds of fruit; good 1 bank barn nearly new; seven room house; wagon shed; implement shed; all necessary outbuildings in good repair. Any persons desiring to view the farm may call on the undersigned.

Sale to begin at 2:00 o'clock, when terms and conditions will be made This work, however, will not require to the state of Pennsylvania the sum more than a week or ten days and the statue and groups are ready, it is understood, whenever the Virinia ing" and comes forth full-fledged not to exceed thirty days. Philadelphia and Reading. SANDERS TO ACCEPT He Will Succeed Drl Surface as State Zoologist, August 14. I BLUE MOUNTAIN HOUSE Project Gets New Impetus by tivities of Norfolk Promoter. been delivered.

It appears on the I The penalty for violation of the considerable extent. tanks of new locomotives. And as all dinance is a fine of not more than en tered the house at the Commission orders their shipment. freight equipment goes through 100 and in default thereof imprison- chimney, tearing off a portion of the, the shops it leaves there "The Read- ment in the county jafl for a period shingle roof, then continued to the sec- TOOK nd floorj ripping. the postering from A he ceiling, splintered a dresser and broke several mirrors and picture frames.

In the room beneath, plastering was torn from the ceiling and side wall. The bolt struck a closet containing a number of glasses of preserves, which were shattered. The The Blue Mountain House re-building project is not dead. A prominent real estate man and promoter, of Norfolk, has been in this territory' for the past ten days endeavoring to t-ij. i i L.

A VVJL i i 1 finally. He will be on hand on August loosen capitalists in the enter- 15 to take up his duties. P11S6 He Spent me da at Wa es EState Dr. J. G.

Sanders, of Wisconsin, to whom recently was offered the $4000 job as state zoologist, has accepted the offer from the state agriculture commission, it is said unof- HAM AND EGGS Robbers Enter Home Near New Oxford. Empty Jars Found. olt followed the water pipes to BOSLER WILL Dr. H. A.

Surface, zoologist, began his boro and his presence at Hagerstown the deposed is noted It is said that he last week's meeting with much encouragement, To Be $800,000.00. Valued Several dozen eggs, a ham, jars pineapple and a pm-se containing Si.70 were stolen from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lohr, at the edge of New Oxford, Thursday night. The robbery was not discovered un- til Friday by Mrs.

Lohr, who ed the aid of her husband and made thorough investigations. To all ap- duties by planning orchard inspection a5 the fi nancial plan seems Letters testamentary in the estate of Mrs. Joseph Bosler, of Carlisle, of $3600, with interest from July 2, 1912, as the result of a decision hand- ed down by Judge Kunkel on Monday. It is the unpaid portion of the township's share of $3350 for the State-aid road built near Hunterstown in 1912, the township claiming that they were not liable for it for the reason that the contract, was made illegally, in that they did not have sufficient funds to pay for the road, when the agreement was entered into, and that no provision was made for such payment urtil after the contract was signed. Judge Kunkel fails to support this i opinion.

The township paid of its share before refusing to pay the balance on the grounds above stated. AT LAUNCHING known on day of sale. J. J. COONS.

U. R. Thompson, Auctioneer. for the fall. Dr.

Surface is said to be to eet with TTM were issued to Joseph Bosler 1 iflt to meet; Wltn iavor among men of through which the guilty party pass- preparing a peppery statement con- disce rnment in that line. son The estate 1S dlvlded equally I e(J found a about cerning the action of the commission, Those informed about tfae among six children but the following, twQ ds frQm ouse which he will make public when he movement predict that the famous amounts were placed in trust, to jarg were deyoid cm learns finally that Governor Brum- sort be up and ready to Qpen tg Mary Bosler, to Newton tents baugh will not take a hand in the doors by the beginning of next season Bosler and to Susan Bosler, matter. i A was 1S- desire that one BURIED UNDER MASS I the children purchase the old home- pearances, entrance was made through the cellar window which was found Gettysbur Acts as Sponsor open with the glass broken. All doors i for New Steamer. No trace was found of the ham and the eggs.

Plumber Caught Under Tons of Earth and Stone. Guests Enjoy Pleasant Affair at the Ftead farm in Berkley County, West TO HOSPITALS i Mrs. D. P. McPherson, of Carlisle street, on Thursday, christened the new steamer "Cornelia" the steel hull of which was successfully launch- at Sparrow's Point.

The boat is 'being built by the Bethlehem Steel Company for the A. H. Bull Steamship Company, of New York. The Baltimore "Sun" contained a large pic- Cole Home. the family name and any one of the and tiree children named may buy it John Hess, a Carlisle plumber, was Miss Ethel Cole, of Buchanan Valley, $16,000.

If none of the children de- yirginia, in order that it may remain Local eople Takeil Chambersburg' ture of Mrs McPherson taken immed- Mr. and Mrs. James C. Cole and York Institutions. iately before the christening.

Carl W. Meredith, manager of the buried beneath tons of stone and earth 1 entertained a number of young people sire it, it may be sold but the right to 'stallsmith soda fountain, was taken a fourteen foot ditch Thursday afternoon and lives to tell of his experience. After more than two hours of hard work by a number of men, Hess was liberated, but in a semi-conscious condition. He was bruised about the body and sustained a large 'gash in the knee. Several other men were at work in the ditch, and it is said ran away the earth fell.

Several men, who were standing nearby, rescued Jless. at their home in honor of their guest, maintain the old graveyard upon Miss Ethrl Bm-krr-c Those present James Cole, Dr. and Orange, N. J. emains.

Mr. and Mrs. It is rumored that the Mrs. George worth about $800,000.00. estate Tate, Misses Ethel Burke, Ethel Cole.

Edith Cole, Ruth Cole, Rosalie Cole, UNCLE SAM'S MEN WIN Grace Brady, Iva Noel, Kathryn Cole, it to the' Chambersburg hospital Friday afternoon for an operation for appen- is dicitis. Irene Champion, eight year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Champion, of Germany township, was taken to the York hospital Thursday Loretto Cole, Kathleen Tate, May Defeat Combination Nine in Twilight for an opera tion for appendicitis. Frommeyer, Elizabeth Cole, Regina Cole and Caroline Cole, Messrs.

Charles Raffensperger, Cameron Thomas, Harvey Raffensperger, i James Noel, John Coyle, I Martin and William Cole. Game on Nixon Field. The post office base ball team add- Sure Reward fop Work. in every hour, paid or unpaid; that thon work, and thou m.t osonpo the reward; si and Rich In Emery. defeating a nine made up of bankers, painters, and barbers.

Score 11-4. What the crowd of spectators lacked in numbers" they made up in enthu- William Shover, who has been in the York hospital for several months, suffering with a broken hip has returned to his home on Stratton street. TSmory, (he best natural abrasive, is siasrn. bo fine or coarse, pinnting rnf XP lar on the island writing opics, so only it he Nflx in th PJTMP. 1 from rnoro tlmn 15 rer Neat Retort.

A physician passing a xliip, called out: "Good morning, Mr. Hard at it, I see. I ou finish them ns far RS 'In memory si work, done to tliino ov in. it slinil eni'ii i cv i Ii! of tlio World's output 5s Dally Thought. Tt is sign of great mind to dc- prror.tness, find to prefrr In ny (D 'M noca.

find thon wnlt to inonuinont noxt?" "Well, yea," the old man. "nnlois hoftr aome- ill 'UK' attending them, tlien I keep right on." I will have a carload of Ohio anc Kentucky Horses by MONDAY, JULY 10, 1916. W. H. PARR, Hanover, Pa.

PUBLIC SALE SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 191b. The undersisrned will sell at public sale his farm containing sixty acres more or less, situated in Menallen township, midway oil road leading from Brysonia to Wenksville, containing seven room log weatherboard- ed house; good barn; chicken houses, hog pen and other outbuildings. Lots of fruit; about seventy five apple trees; running water through place; good pasture; spring; well of never failing water. Any one wshing to view place call on the undersigned. Sale to commence at 2:00 o'clock, when terms and conditions will be made known by JOHN M.

BOYER. I P. Taylor, Auctioneer. Horses Mules Just received at myfstable Thursday, MAY 18th 1916, on E. Chestnut St.

Hanover. One Carload of OHIO AND KENTUCKEY HORSES by EXPRESS. Also one carload of Broken and Green Mules. ALL FINE STOCK H. A.

I "THE GREAT CRY" "Back To The Soil" 475 Acre Stock Ranch in Mississippi. 4 miles from good Town; 400 acres in cultivation, balance woodland. AH level black and rich. None waste. Running water.

House, barn, tenant houses. This is an ideal stock and grain farm. Write for particulars. $35 pec acre. JOHN R.

BURKHOLDER Lancaster, Pa. Optimistic Thought. Mutability Is of to come there.