Adams County News from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania • Page 5

VETERAN tWILLTAKE LEGION LEAVES; PEOPLE ON GOT; Are Thankful for Manner in which they were Received in Gettysburg. But Only in Case of Urgent Necessity, Railroad now Orders. RESOLVE AND ADJOURN' TIMES STORY HAD EFFECT Ladies Attend Final Session and Wit- instance where Gettysburg-San ness Installation of Officers, eral Make Addresses. not Go to Hospital by Train General Publicity Nearby. could Gets After expressing their appreciation for the courtesy and hospitality shown during their stay in Gettysburg, the Several weeks ago The Gettysburg Times published a story relative to an order of the Western Maryland prohibitin 0 the carrying of sick per- encampment to a close Thursday stre tchers, or invalid and practically all the members have any excepfc separate baggage left for their homes.

The resolutions QT express cars urmshe exclusively adopted included the following provi- for thig service his paper told of slons: one i gt a nce where the order that this 31st encamp- pelled a Gettysburg patient to go by ment of the National Union Veteran automo bile to the Chambersburg hos- Legion highly appreciates the splen- pital for au operation, because the did receptions, generous entertain- order prevented his going by train. ments, and other courtesies received from county, city, and National Park officials, from Rev. W. F. Boyle for Xavier Hall, the Citizens' Band, the Isenberg Quartet, and citizens of Gettysburg generally.

"That this encampment tender to National Commander John G. Morand to his associate executive its sincere thanks for their 12,000 ATTEND 'ADAMS AMONG THE GRANGERS, CORN COUNTIES Fair Weather Greets r-, vania Pairai People and Comparatively Have Better Attendance is Big. than Average Yield this i Season. Special trains from six states poured visitors into Williams' Grove on Tuesday and the forty-third annual Grangers picnic is in full swing. Adams is one of the fourteen Penn- BONNEAUVILLE Bonneauville--Miss Blanche Lingg, of New Oxford, is the guest of Miss Annie Staub.

Miss Mary Golden, of Gettysburg, was an over Sunday visitor at the home of her father, Jerome Golden. Eugene Groft, of New Haven, is Second Member of the Freshmam spending several weeks at the home of i Class to be Lost during the DEATH TAKES A GOLLE9E TOO his father-in-law, Charles Strasbaugh. sylvania counties in which a Detter Golden was a Hanover visitor Past Year. Vjri u. i i i i i i i in X.VAJ.J.

i i i i 1 1 1 i i A. corn yield than the average is expect- The exhibition was formally opened' Monday. when President Robert H. Thomas, son of the founder, touched a button and illuminated the new lighting system The crowd Tuesday was estimated at about 12,000 persons Democratic day was at the last minute switched from Tuesday until Wednesday. All political parties have ed.

The corn seems to be in the best Charles Strasbaugh accompanied Andrew Kane, of Arendtsville, to condition in the south central part of York on Friday. t-he State where it is fully up to 100 William P. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. per cent.

In the northern tier counties Frank Smith. Misses Jennie and Al- where the corn is grown largely for ver a Smith motored to Conewago) ensilage, the condition is only about Chapel on Sunday. 81 per cent. George and John Staub, of Balti- Corn is from ten days to two weeks more, spent Sunday at the home of back according to average condition their parents, Mr. and Mrs.

J. J. APPENDICITIS THE CAUSE Three College Boys Have Died in Period of Twelve Months. Mrs. Johsc Murray Dies at Home in Town.

headquarters on the ground. The suff- and one of the things the farmer has Staub. ragists and antis are especially active to a ear i ros ts which may do Mrs. Augustine Little, of Midway, in the distribution of literature and considerable damage and prevent a spent Sunday at the home of her sis- pleading with persons who go to the i cro p. picnic.

I The weather during ter, Mrs. Ezra Hawn. July vvas very Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strasbaugh, An exhibition of gasoline tractors favorable for corn and the condition in son Raymond, and daughter Ruth, For the second time within the present year a member of the Freshman class at college has been taken by death.

On Wednesday President Granville received word that John W. Frye had died at his home at Pine Grove after a four days' illness with appendicitis. His death occurred on Monday. Young Mr. Frye was pursuing the chemistry and physics course at col- is attracting interest and auto dealers the State showed an improvement of Miss Annie Sneeringer and E.

A. Melare showing ways in which cars can i ten per cent, over July 1. The condi- horn motored to Harrisburg Monday lege. He was a youth of exemplary be used about the farms in a bid for. on the cereal now appears to be witness the reception of the for- The Western Maryland has now the patronage of the rural residents 91 per cent, compared with an average mer's daughter, Sister Bernadine, who of this section, who with big wheat and the yield at the present time is was professed to the Sisters of Mercy ris, modified their original order and this new provision to the original bulletin is published: "However, where parties are dangerously sick or injured and require immediate attention, who are offered for transportation on short notice and not being sufficient time to make officers, sncere ar emeius for special carj you able, efficient, impartial, and thorough ghouia tommunicate with this office administration during the year end- or the Chie Dispatching August 31, 1916.

er, requesting permission to handle prices and a record crop are looked estimated at 51,139,200 bushels, com-! at the Harrisburg Convent. upon as very eood possibilities. pared with a yield of 54,792,000 bush! Mr and Mrs Charles Chrismer, Mr. hablos and generally liked among his classmates and the members of the faculty and teaching forces. No details regarding his death have been, received other than those given above.

of William Chrismer Miss Myra Shearer, a Carlisle high ls a year ago. The estimated produc- 1 and Mrs Edward Cromer, Mrs. James i His father is William E. Frye and school girl, who took over the duties ion is expected to increase materially Mc Sherry, of Littlestown, spent Sun- of demonstrating cars and running a when the figures of harvest are ob- day as S' uefets garage after her brothers were called tainable and there is every reason to and to the border with the national guard, believe that the yield reach last presides over one display. year's total.

John R. Eustis, of the editorial staff The prospects for a large crop of Staub was a visitor on Monday. Gettysburg Jose Staub and sister, Annie, and of the New York Evening Mail, gave, potatoes in the State this year are by Mis Blancne were Hanover an illustrated lecture on "Warfare by no means as bright as they were earl- officials expect that this fact will aid in boosting attendance figures. "Whereas Clara Barton, as a nurse suc parties in the regular baggage of the wounded and suffering, was cars attached to trains. Conductors first in war; as advocate of a united and agents at isolated stations and nation and people, she was among the points when unable to get instructions first in peace; and as having given for handling of cases, which need im- her whole life to the care of our mediate attention, will be permitted to patriots, she is among the first in the use their own judgment as to the hearts of our country, therefore be necessity for handling them in bag- it resolved, gage "That we most earnestly endorse The orig i na i stoiy published in The the movement to erect a monument at Tj mes vVas generally reprinted in the the capital of the nation in memory newspapers of surrounding towns and of her valorous deeds.

excited considerable comment. It is "Resolved that the incoming na- believed that the sentiment thus Bounded exhausted tional commander be instructed -to aroused had much to do with the mod- from thirst, brutally appoint a committee of three with ification of the order. The new action instructions that they devise ways will be most favorably regarded in Auto'" Monday night. There has been ier in the season and present indica- an absence of the usual rainy or tions are that the yield will not reach' weather" this year and the that of last year when 20,502,000 i visitors on Monday. Misses Leah and Edith Strasbaugh the parents had planned to send the son back to Gettysburg next month to continue his course.

The other death in the Freshman class occurred during the term when. Elwood Baker died at his home in. Harrisburg. During last about this time, summer and just John H. Keller, a IN MASSACRE AT- CARRXZALJ i Carlisle Trooper Returns Home bushels were grown.

From reports 'that have been received by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture there was a slight increase in the acreage for po- and Regina Sanders of near town ORRTANNA Orrtanna--Orrtanna has not had such a severe electrical storm this summer as passed over town Saturday night at 8 o'clock. of the Gettysburg Boy Scouts, was. drowned, so that "within a period of twelve months three young men have been taken, a remarkably high average of about one per cent of the total enrollment. and Tells Intensely teresting Tale. In- almost dead tatoes this spring, but on account held in the school house.

the wet weather the planting was late crowd attended, but most and the bugs did great damage as soon as the plants above the ground. began to show The festival was A small of the good things were disposed of. The net proceeds were $55. The wet weather Mr and Mrs. Chester Leas moved destroyed man Potatoes and now into John Riggeal's house last week.

robbed POrtS are comin from a11 sections of jit had been vacated by Calvin Bishop and means for the editing and publish- view of the fact that not a few per- ing of a concise history of the pur- sons here have been taken to York poses and accomplishmnts of the Un- and Chambersburg hospitals and fu- ioii Veteran Legion, to be placed in ture instances will likely occur when selected libraries and furmshed to the same service is required at short placed in a narrow prison cell in hourly fear of execution, to be final- notice. The order still prohibits the taking of invalid chairs into passenger ly rescued and returned to his native country, this was the thrilling experience of Private William Gibson of United States Cavalry one few survivors of the fight at the State of considerable damage i June. from blight. The conditions- vary greatly in districts, as in some the early potatoes i occupied by his son-in-law and daugh- were a failure and there are good i ter, Mr. and Mrs.

William Heagy, of prospects for the late crop while in Gettysburg. others the early potatoes showed well Mr. Barbehenn and Allen Sloat MRS. J. LOUIS SOWERS Funeral will be Held on Monday frorn.

her Late Home. After an extended illness from complication of diseases Mrs. Aramantha C. Sowers, wife of J. Louis Frank Strasbaugh is having an Sowers died at her home west of addition built to his residence to be town at clock Thursda morning, individuals.

"That we thank the commissioner of pensions, Gaylord M. Saltzgaber, for his thoughtful and generous act chronic invalids or cripples will either have to charter their own cars or make the, trip to Gettsyburg in some es or regular baggage cars, and i Camzal, Mexico, when the command! ut 1 Cr IS condition i were sent as delegates from the which he was included was partially! At the resenfc time the average con- tanna Charge to the Sunday School iped out and scattered by attacking! dltl of tatoes in th State is 92 convention held at Arendtsville last per cent, compared with 103 per wee k. They report a very interesting en- in sending five delegates to this campment to represent the pension office." The committee on resolutions reported on the matter of comrades being permited to wear the Union Veteran Legion button by paying a fixed sum, equivalent to a life premium to cover the per capita tax for men at the age of the members. The Ladies of the Union Veteran Legion were received at the morning- session several of them making brief i addresses. The officers nominated on Wednesday were elected and installed and the thirty first annual encampment came to a successful close.

other way. POST STRIKE Carranzista troons. 1.1 at this time last year. Gibson is in jCarhsle on a furlough 1 recovering from an injury he re-' ceived while participating in a desperate charge of the machine guns of the Mexican detachment. With his ELKS EAT CORN companions of the Carrizal fight he 1 1 as een recommended for a certifi- i cate of merit which carries A a Occas.on is Observed with Due Form and Ceremony.

two medals, one the army with it award for More than half a hundred Elks and' convention. Dr. Jacob Kready has returned from Boston where he attended the druggists' convention. Five thousand persons were served at a banquet in their honor. Mrs.

Jacob Mickley, of Waynesboro, is spending some time with her daugh- Reading President Asks its Men bravery in the field and the other the here to Consider before they Quit. Mrs. Grant Funt; and family. Earle Biesecker, of Orrtanna, after of honor with a $2 per month increase in pay and certificate telling of the award and the recipient partici- inade merry at their annual corn bake Wednesday evening on the George Spangler farm a mile there was sufficient food of other been employed with the firm of Lib kinds to relieve the monotony. The by McNeill, and Libby for the aged o9 years, months, and 26 days: Mrs.

Sowers was born in the Dobbin House, Steinwher avenue. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Snyder. For 23 years she taught in the public schools of York County and New Oxford.

She married Mr. Sowers on May 7, 1879 and he survives together with these sisters and brothers, Mrs. Mary Cashman. Sabetha, Kansas; Misa Lucinda Snyder, Gettysburg; John K. Snyder, Topeka, Kansas; Will R.

Snyder, Stonington, Conn; Baltzer E. Snyder, Chicago; Mervin L. Snyder, Kansas; Mrs. W. G.

Gettle, Table Rock, Nebraska. Funeral from the house 10:30 Monday morning- conduce 1 her pastor, Rev. J. Ba' er Ja i i in Evergreen iffair was gotten under way earlier ear in the evening than usual with the' r- Kready left fo BIRTHDAY PARTY Many were Guests at Kime Tuesday Evening. Home On Thursday there was received action in which the and posted at-the Reading station in pated.

Gettysburg, as well as in other sta- Practically recovered from his in( result that most of the return i tions all along the line, an appeal to jury and the privations of the long ed to town before eleven In the I a visit of all employes in the train service, ask- march prior to the fight, the at! ing them not to walk out next Mon- tempted escape, prison sentence i day The appeal, after briefly re-1 confinement, Gibson tells a thrillin story, not only of the action at Car- words of our legion of surprise party er and brot an "I reporters, good time was had by illing air i i A very enjoyable birthday was held Wednesday evening at the justify rizal but of in Mexico and, of the Eleventh United' i viewing the situation says: i "The incalculable loss a suffering i me incan-uidui. along the border and of another act- party, that will -suit from ion in which a Carlisle man, Sergeant Health Permits of Effect Says Ov "-vv I Homer Martin of th home of F. Kime in honor of Mrs. fairness, to your loyalty and to your gtates Cavalry wag Kime's birthday. Those present were patriotism, before you leave our ser- Mr.

and Mrs. Franklin Kime, Amos vice. Many of you have grown old in; Sillik, Grace Decker, Franklin Kime, the Reading service. Some of you outtrmQr, Mr. and Mrs.

James Sillik, Mr. and have spent your entire working lives Hankey Home gcene of Afi aLr Mrs. G. Bowers, Mr. and Mrs.

Har- on this railroad. You know that our, Monday Evening. vey Kime, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Funt, management has always invited and I on ALL ARE BARRED State.

The local ticket office of the Western Maryland received notice that the State of Virginia has placed an absolute quarantine on account of infantile paralysis and that no children cysburg cC. j-fu'Tc 1 wife of a i i Wednesday ai. on North Strafc- Hi nad been ill for some i c. complication of diseases. aves her husband, six chiid- iv Edward McSherry, Mrs.

William, Margaret, Rus- Mervin Murray, all of Gefr: one stepson, Norman 1 i 'A I.Ler re. r. Mui. A jd, visited at tt Mr-- Mrs. Walter -1 -ua Peters, of Harrisburg, was i guest of her parents, I from Pennsylvania, New York, or Mr.

and Mrs. Preston Peters. Mr. and Mrs. John Walter, Mr.

and welcomed the frank and direct ens- A very enjoyable surprise party was jj ew Jergey wiu be adm i ted evenj Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fox, of Altoona, Mrs. David Jacobs, Mr. and Mrs.

P. S. cussion between employes and officers held at the home of Mr and Mrs Wilt nough they have health permits, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Orner, Mr. and Mrs.

Hanson Hecken- of all questions concerning pay and ij am Hankey Monday evening, in hon- Ticket age nts will notify all persons i Mrs. Dill Bream. luber, Mr. and Mrs. James Lawver, working conditions.

Will you now' or of Mr. Hankey's birthday. Mr. and Mrs. William Raffensperger, break off our long standing relations Those present were Mr.

and Mrs. on Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bowers. Mr.

that have been so friendly and satis-1 William Hankey, Mr. and Mrs. Ru- and Mrs. Hoke Slaybaugh, Mr. and factory and help plunge your families, dolph Thoman, Mr.

and Mrs. William Mrs. Orie Heckenluber, Mr. and Mrs. your company and your country into Jacobs, Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel Allison, i s. a calamity the extent of which no one Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Smith, Mr.

and Wright and at Williams traveling to Virginia of this new con- Mr. and Mrs. F. W. children are camping Grove this week, Mr.

and Mrs. Harry Raffensperger i spent Sunday with E. H. Raffens- ACCIDENT FATAL Ralph Heckenluber, Mr. and Mrs.

a calamity Edward Shriner, Mr. and Mrs. Robert can foresee Or, will you have the Mrs. Harry Shriver, Mr. and Mrs.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fidler, courage to keep at work and to insist)Harry Bluebaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Henry i Frank E.

Sprenkle Dies from his In- perger at Centerville. Susan March, Mrs. Dillman, George that all questions in dispute shall be Knouse, William Armold, Misses Ruth submitted to imnartial arbitration? Lawver, Daisy Sillik, Marian Walter, "i earnestly urge that every man Ruth and Verna Knouse, Ruth and consider carefully the vital issues and Fleeta Taylor, Margaret and that are involved in this controversy Beulah Armold, Eva and Anna Group, and decide for himself, as a matter of Rosa Kime, Bernice March, Lola conscience, what is right for him to Bluebaugh, May Sillik, Beulah do Anna and Margaret Taylor, Anna it is signed by Agnew T. Dice, pre- Thomas, Isabella Heckenluber, Doros ident of the Reading. thy Augustine Verna Heckenluber, Verna, Sylvia and Maria Lawver, Messrs.

Roy Taylor, Guy Fohl, Mark Hartman, Harry Kime, Charles Tay- LAYMEN'S SESSION J. L. lor, Martin and Carl Walter, Roy Fisher, Luther Sillik, Roy Heckenluber, Raymond Shriner. John Car- Williams to Maks Address Methodist Meeting. at The Laymen's Association will ruthers, Clyde Sailor, Elmer, Mahlon meet in the lecture room of the Meth- and Clair Raffensperger, Mark and church, Friday evening, at 7:45.

Sterling Shriner, Clay Sowers, Lu- A business session will be held, follow- ther Guise, Arnold Orner, Robert ed by a social hour with an interesting Heckenluber, Harvey Kime, Eugene program. J. L. will de- Darone, Dale March, Edwin Lawver, liver an address. All laymen of the Sterling Bowers, Richard Slaybaugh.

church are requested to oe present. juries. Deardorff, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Funt, Mrs.

John Funt, Mrs. Elizabeth Shriver, Mrs. Charles Bowers, Misses Blanche Thoman, Alverna Jacobs, Beulah Allison, Annie Deardorff, Nora Deardorff, Cora Trimmer, Lola Bluebaugh, Marjorie Steinour, Bernadette Deardorff, Ethel Bluebaugh, Beulah Bluebaugh, Stella Deardorff, Susie Deardorff, Evelyn Smith, Mabel Bluebaugh, Viola Allison, Ellen Carey, Violet Carey, Alta Funt, Hilda Deardorff, Dorothy Hankey, Messrs. John Fleck, Monroe Shue, Roy Taylor, Roy Mickley, Howard Deardorff, Dean Carey, Harvey Miller, Ernest Miller, Harry Hollinger, Emory Steinour, Clyde Allison, Paul Lau, Claire Bluebaugh, Ralph Deardorff, Elmer Unconscious from the time he was badly injured on Tuesday morning, the result of a scaffold breaking precipitating him to a concrete floor, eight feet below, Frank E. Sprenkle died Wednesday morning near Spring Grove.

He was aged forty years. A fractured skull and internal injurie? were found to be the cause of death. ren, Marguerite McSherry, Donald Murray, Bernard Murray, Mildred McSherry, and Catherine Cook. She also- leaves a sister and a brother, Mrs. Francis Bellinger, of Littlestown, and Emanuel Izer, of Hanover.

Funeral services from home, 226 North Stratton her late street, on i Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Detter visited friends at Arendtsville, Sunday.

Miss Pearle Wolfe, of Harrisburg, is visiting her aunt, Miss Carrie Jacobs. Mrs. W. G. Blocher entertained the following guests over the week-end: Mr.

and Mrs. George Sponsler, Joseph Miller, W. G. Blocher, of Harrisburg, Mrs. Myrtle Barnhart, Miss Helen Barnhart, of Waynesboro; and Miss Leila Bamhard, of the Allegheny General Hospital at Pittsburgh.

SERMON PUBLISHED Widely Read Magazine Contains Treatise by Local Pastor. The September number of the "Homiletic Review" contains a sertr.on J. T. Myers, of York Springs, a recent guest of his Detter. was W.

Friday afternoon at one o'clock. Interment in Evergreen cemetery. HENRY S. NOEL Henry S. Noel died at his home in McSherrystown at 11:40 o'clock Wednesday morning, from a cerebral hemorrhage, following a week's illness.

He was aged 62 years. In 1891 he was married to Miss Caroline Hufnagle, Irishtown, who survives him with five children: Charles, Mary, Paul, Henry and Stella, all at home. He also leaves several brothers and sisters. Funeral Saturday morning in St. Mary's church.

Interment in the parish cemetery. LAST MATINEE Hunterstown's last racing matinee of the season is scheduled for Satur- day, September 2nd. In addition to the Schriver, John Funt, Kenneth Funt. Memorial United Brethren church, on "Loneliness and Its The committee on arrangements has secured the services of the Opttmlatlo Thought. Mutability Is of i to com there i i Biglervilse Band for the day.

The "homiletic is an -nrernation- meet starts ihg usua fc hikTsfr 6 the afternoon, and it is said that a good list of entries has been promised. INFANT CHILD The infant child of Clarence and Mary Wills, of Hamiltonban township, died on Tuesday, and was buried oa. Wednesday in Waynesboro. Period of Adjustment. "Why do they any that the first yew of married life is almost the tnoaC difficult?" "Because that's the tlmv site has to get- used to tlic fncf that Wm't.

making ill the money in tho world, and he has to adjust himself fo the discovery his little angel temper and uses it At.