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All checks and money orders should be made payable to VALLEY SPIRIT PUBLISHING Chambersburg, Pa. CHAMBERSBURG, PA. Wednesday Evening, October 14, 1903 STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. AUDITOR GENERAL. ARTHUR G.
DEWALT, of Lehigh county. STATE TREASURER. JOEL G. HILL, of Wayne county. JUDGES OF SUPERIOR COURT.
JOHN A. WARD, of Philadelphia. CALVIN RAYBURN, of Armstrong county. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. DIRECTOR OF THE POOR, DAVID B.
DUNKINSON, of Fayetteville. JURY COMMISSIONER, ISAIAH MARTIN, of Upton. WE WONDER if Congressman Mahon, who is in Washington, will bring the commission along for the new appointee of the Chambersburg postoffice. Meanwhile those aspiring to this position are wai.ing with bated breath the announcement of the successful candidate. It is likely some one will get "cold feet" before the winter rolls by.
QUEER SITUATION. New York City Democrats have chosen Hon. George B. McClellan as their candidate for mayor in opposition to Mayor Seth Low, who has been nominated by the allied anti-Tammany forces -the Citizens' Union, the Republican organization, and independent Democrats. Mr.
McClellan is son of Gen. George B. McClellan and has been member of Congress for several terms. He is regarded as of strong personal character and ability. An interesting feature of the situation is the endorsem*nt by the Tammany forces of the Fusion candidates for controller and president of the Board of Aldermen, Messrs.
Grout and Fornes, and their consequent repudiation by the Fusionists. Mr. McClellan will make speeches in four languagesGerman, Italian, French, and English. There must be confusion of tongues as well as of parties and issues and candidates in the New York politicul situation. THE STATE of Pennsylvania on November 10 will dedicate a monument erected at Andersonville in memory of the Pennsylvania soldiers who died in the famous prison at that place during the war of the rebellion.
Every survivor of the hardships of that prison in the state will be given transportation from Harrisburg to Andersonville and return, and most all of the boys will be present at the reunion and dedication of the monument. SIX PARTIES have qualified to have a State ticket for the November election: Republican, Democratic, Prohibition, Socialist Labor, Citizens and Independence. The Citizens' ticket will be voted exclusively in Allegheny county and the Independence ticket exclusively in Philadelphia. The former has endorsed the Republican State ticket and the latter the Democratic State ticket. HOW TO VOTE.
Remember that you will have a new lesson to learn before you can vote intelligently this fall, the new ballots being entirely different from the old one. The old ballot had a separate column for each party which had made nomination. But Oll the new ballot the names of all candidates for one office will be printed under the name of that office. For instance, under the heading "State Treasurer," all candidates for that office will be printed. The name of candidate will will be first at the left, and at the right will be the name of the party which nominated him.
At the right of this party name will be a small square. If two or more parties have nominated the same man for the same office the name of each party which nominated him will be printed at the right of his name. At the top of each ballot there will be printed in large letters the names of the different parties which have made nominations, and a large square will be at the right of each party name. If you want to vote a straight ticket you will put a cross in the big square at the right of your party name and that will be counted for the whole ticket. But if you want to cut your ticket you putfa cross in the small square at the right of the name of the man you want to vote for.
Don't put your cross in the big square at the top and in the little square at the right of each candidate; if you do this neither one will count. Remember, the big square is for a straight ticket, the little square is for a cut ticket. AN ENERGETIC campaign is being conducted in behalf of Hon. William Randolph Hearst's candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. More than a huodred Hearst Clubs have been formed, several hundred newspapers are declared to have pronounced in his favor, and a press bureau is circulating quantities of literature setting forth his qualifications.
The Democratic leaders in Washington favor deferring the selection "of a presidential candidate until a definite platform has been agreed upon. MUCH MAIL MATTER LOST. The records of the dead letter office were broken during the financial year ended last June, and it is shown that it is by no means an unimportant adjunct of the postoffice department. About ten million pieces of lost mail were handled. Of this number nearly nine million pieces were hopelessly lost and opened.
During this process over $48,000 in small coin and commercial paper, such as drafts, checks and money orders, amounting to considerably over $1,000,000, were found. There are other details, such as the large number of merchandise parcels and letters containing various amounts of stamps, which are equally interesting, but those mentioned suffice to acquaint one with the volume of business transacted by the office. It is rather curious that so vast a bulk of mail matter should go astray. The operations of the postal system are reasonably perfect, and there seems to be no plausible excuse for vagrant letters and other articles intended for mail delivery. The writer's name and address on the outside of the envelope or package, requesting its return in a certain time if not delivered, would save worry and expense to the sender.
THE COMMISSIONER of Labor has been making exhaustive investigations to discover whether the cost of living has been advanced faster than the increase of wages. He finds that "although the cost of living has increased greatly during the last four or five years, the ratio of increase has not been very much larger than the ratio of the increase in wages and salaries." Those whose wages have been increased, and much more those whose wages have not been increased, have not needed the aid of a statistician on the increased difficulty of making both ends meet. POLITICS NOT A FACTOR. In an emphatic manner the Soldiers' Orphan School commission has decided that politics must mot be injected into the school system of the state. It has refused to let the bars down so that aspirants could secure place on purely political grounds.
In consequence the commission turned down the two petitions from the Republican officeholders of Franklin county and the members of the Franklin couuty Republican committee asking for the removal of Captain George W. Skinner from the position by superintendent of the Scotland School. Representative Cooper, of Deleware county, settled the matter of offering a resolution, which was adopted, deploring the fact that the petitions were based on political grounds. The commission evidently believed that the strife existing in the Republican party of Franklin county has nothing to do with the management of the orphan institutions of the state and that the county organization, on the outs with Congressman Mahon because he has broken faith with seyeral of his former political associates, had better settle the differences outside the commission. The indications are that this is the beginning of the biggest political fight for supremacy witnessed in years in this county.
SPECIAL INTEREST is taken in the elections next month in Ohio and Maryland, in both of which states the choice of United States senators is involved. Advices from Ohio indicate that the Republicans are somewhat concerned over the legislature. Senator Hanna is actively engaged in the canvass. His Democratic competitor is equally active, and is said to be gaining in popularity. In the Maryland election a legislature will be elected which will choose a successor to Senator McComas, of Hagerstown.
There is said to be a very decided opposition to the return of Mr. McComas on the part of many Repubcans. The outlook is that these states are encouraging to the Democrats. NO FIGHT'S SAYS POMEROY. "The Democrats are endeavoring to impress the public that there is quite a fight on hand among certain leaders of the Re publican party.
The wish is father to the Repository. It is not necessary for the Democrats to impress upon the public there is discord among the Republicans of Franklin county. No one knows this better than the editor of the Repository. That there is a bitter fight on among the Republican leaders is a well-known fact and cannot be concealed by misleading statements. Those fighting for leadership are outspoken in the matter and they are the ones and not the Democrats who are impressing the public of the bitter quarrel now going on in their ranks.
After trying to saddle the blame on the Democrats for the circulation of the statement relative to the disruption in the Republican party Mr. Pomeroy admits there is a fight for power and place in the Republican ranks. Those who are aspiring to those positions do not please the editor, who gives them a stunning rebuke. He says if those who are fighting for leadership will permit their ambition to interfere with the interests of the party they are "then merely esteem ing personal gain and influence higher than their party, and the rank and file, the men who do the voting, are not slow to see such things." GRANGE ORGANIZED AT MONT ALTO. Hon.
W. F. Hill Was Present and in an Address Set Forth the Aims and Objects of the Organization. Correspondence of Valley Spirit. MONT ALTO, Oct.
13. Monday evening the people of Mont Alto and vicinity met at the new school house to consider the advisability of having a Grange established for the benefit of the community. Hon. W. F.
Hill, the Master of the State Grange, was called upon to state the aims and objects of the organization. After a brief address in which he set forth some of the benefits that a Grange may give to any neighborhood and the beneficent work that the order had already accomplished through the state and nation it was determined to organize. Twenty-three names were placed upon the charter list and from them the following corps of officers were selected. Master, George H. Wirt.
Overseer, E. E. Stauffer. Lecturer, W. F.
Hill. Steward, Avery. Assistant Steward, John E. Avery. Chaplain, Rev.
Jay W. Yohe. Treasurer, Wilson Reynolds, Esq. Secretary, Annie Small. Gate Keeper, Paul Arnold.
Ceres, Mrs. E. E. Stauffer. Flora, Annie Avery.
Pomona, Mary Clark. L. A. Steward, Lillian Clark. This Grange is made up of strong people of Quincy township with others in view to become members soon.
Pleasant and profitable times are expected at its meetings which for a time at least will be held weekly. We would like to see other Granges organized in this county and if any one anywhere is interested and will write any of these officers at Mont Alto they will send literature and tell you how to proceed to get a Grange. EPIDEMIC AMONG HOGS. S. K.
Martin, of Mainsville, Southampton township, has lost quite a number of valuable hogs from cholera, which has been quite an epidemic among the hogs in that section. FAYETTEVILLE ITEMS. Correspondence of Valley Spirit. FAYETTEVILLE, Oct. Pittinger of the M.
E. church closed on Thursday evening a protracted meeting of three weeks' duration, with no additions to the church. Blanch Renfrew and Margaret Long, together with W. R. Lantz, secretary, were in attendance at the Sabbath School Convention at Marion.
Rev. Frank Reber left on Tuesday for his home in Urbanna, Ohio. Should the overall factory be removed to the White Woolen factory report says new operators will be wanted. Ten days' work upon the trolley line from the Postoffice to in front of the U. B.
church is the distance excavated. The expressions of opinion are many where they intend to go, and how far cars will run 1n a few weeks. After the telephone wire poles are set and out of the way, will nearer determine. An apple tree in the rear of the M. E.
church has been in bloom as in the Spring. Apples are formed upon it. Apple buyers are scarce. The prices they offer deter the owners from ing. Winter apparently confronts us today The seed is not nearly all sown.
The corn is upon the stalk principally, the apples upon the trees, and how are we to prepare. Isaac Wingert is critically ill at his home. LEMASTER NEWS. Correspondence of Valley Spirit. LEMASTER, Oct.
B. Martin, son of William Martin, residing near Frey's Mill, was buried October 7 in the Mt. Olivet grave yard near Edenville. Services were conducted by Rev. W.
R. Burkholder. Revival services will begin Sabbath evening, October 11, at Crider's church and continuing each evening' for an indefinite time. All are invited. Rev.
W. R. Burkholder is the pastor, The third quarterly conference will be held at the Mt. Olivet church, near Edenville, October 24 and 25. Rev.
J. C. Coulson, presiding elder, is expected to preach on Saturday evening, Sabbath 10 a. m. and evening at place and time above named.
Holy Communion after the morning sermon. All are invited. FORT LOUDON ITEMS. Correspondence of Valley Spirit. FORT LOUDON, Oct.
Hamil made a business trip to the county seat on Saturday and extended his trip to his alma mater, the C. V. S. N. S.
at Shippensburg, to see his sister, Nellie, who is a student at that institution. Miss Lila Patton, of Pittsburg, daughter of Conductor George Patton of Pennsylvania railroad, is visiting relatives in Fort Loudon. Our genial county commissioner and ex-school director, D. W. Greenawalt and wife, were guests here at the Gearhart-Crilly wedding.
Divine services next Sabbath at 10:30 a. in the Lutheran church and at 7:00 p. m. in M. E.
church. CORN CUTTERS SCARCE. Farmers in different sections of the county are offering $1 a day and board for corn cutters. They are unable to get sufficient help at this price. My Lungs 6 6 La grippe left me with a bad cough.
My friends said I then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and was promptly cured." A. K. Randles, Nokomis, Ill. You forgot to buy a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral when your cold first came on, so you let it run along. Even now, with all your hard coughing, it will not disappoint you.
There's a record of sixty years. Three sizes: $1.00. Consult your doctor. If he says take it, then do as he says. If he tells you not to take it, then don't take it.
He knows. One of Ayer's Pills at bedtime aids the Cherry Pectoral greatly in breaking a cold. J. C. AYER Lowell, Mass.
REGISTER'S NOTICES their following accounts ac- in the Register's office of Franklin county, and they will be presented to the Orphans' Court of said county on Tuesday, October 27, A.D. 1903, for confirmation: 119 The first account of Barbara SNIDER. E. Snider, administrators of J. Albert Snider, late of Quincy township, dee'd.
120 and final account of Samuel C. Hoover, late of Letterkenny township, dec'd, as stated by A. Wenger, surviving executor. 121 -First and final account of A. O.
Hoover, administrator of the estate of Nancy Hoover, late of Lettertownship, dec'd. 122 First and final account of William C. Kreps, trustee for Harriet Hammond, under the will of Sarah A. Creps, dec'd, as stated by Elizabeth Kreps and J. E.
Whitmore, administrators of the estate of William C. Kreps, late of the borough of Greencastle, dee'd. 123 KNISLEY -First and final account ot T. Z. Minehart, executor of the last will and testament of Samuel Knisley, late of Orrstown, dee'd.
124 WINEM AN -First and final account of Henry Wineman and Stephen Wineman, executors' of the last will and testament of Henry Wineman, late of Metal township, deceased. Register's Chambersburg. Office, Pa. A. L.
SHAFER, Sept. 26, 1903. Register and Recorder, OBITUARY RECORD. ISAAO WINGERT. Isaac Wingert, a well known and respected farmer, died at his home in Fayetteville, aged 77 years.
For many years he was actively engaged in agricultural pursuits but of late years has led a ratired life. Mr. Wingert had traveled extensively and was well versed in the leading events of the day. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Sarah Wingert, and one daughter, Miss Judith M.
Wingert. Relatives and immediate friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral service, which will be private, at his late home at 10:30 a. Thursday. Interment at the White church, near Duffield. MRS.
MARY YOUST. Mrs. Mary Youst, wife of Jacob Youst, died at her home in Scotland, on Sunday, aged fifty-seven years. She had been ill for several weeks. Mrs.
Youst is survived by her husband and one son, Robert. She was a devoted and affectionate wife and mother. Mrs. Youst was a daughter of Robert and Jane Mahon. Hon.
Thad. M. Mahon and N. K. Mahon, postmaster at Fayetteville, are surviving brothers of Mrs.
Youst. Funeral Tuesday afternoon at 2 p. m. Interment in Cedar Grove cemetery. JOHN A.
FUNK. At his home near Quincy on Monday evening at 5:30 o'clock John A. Funk passed awav in the forty-sixth year of his age. He was born near Quincy and lived with his mother, Mrs. J.
of near that place. Twenty years ago he contracted ague in Ohio and never fully recovered. He: is survived by three sisters and three brothers: Mrs. Emma Keagey, at the Nunnery; Mrs. John Smith, near Quincy; Mrs.
Amanda Decker, Mannheim; Benjamin, near Quincy; James, Quincy and Harvey, Waynesboro. He :1 member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church. Funeral Thursday mornig at 9 o'clock from Mt. Zion's Church. APPROVES MOVEMENT.
The Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren in Christ, in session in Annville, approves the movement for the union of the United Brethren, the Methodist Protestant and the Congregationalists. Fall 1903 We have received our first invoice of Fall and winter goods and are amply prepared for the trade. DRESS GOODS in plain and novelty weaves and colors. They are admired and are selling. WAISTINGS in white and colors, Some late styles that will not likely be found elsewhere.
UNDERSKIRTS Unusual inducements in these goods. Mercerized, usual price $1 75c $1.50 $1.00 6 6 66 $1.75 $1.25 A large variety of Wool Knit underskirts 25 per cent. under price. NECKWEAR A large assortment of stock and turnover collars. Beautiful things, ranging from 5c to $1.50.
100 Union Silk Taffeta Umbrellas, never sold for less than $1.25 to 1.50 $1.00 J. P. Keefer Over -Work Weakens Your Kidneys. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. All the blood in your body passes through your kidneys once every three minutes.
The kidneys are your blood purifiers, they filter" out the waste or impurities in the blood. If they are sick or out of order, they fail to do their work. Pains, aches and rheumatism come from excess of uric acid in the blood, due to neglected kidney trouble. Kidney beats, trouble causes quick or unsteady heart and makes one feel as though they had heart trouble, because the heart is over-working in pumping thick, poisoned blood through veins and arteries. used to be considered that only, urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all constitutional diseases have their beginning in kidney trouble.
If you are sick you can make no mistake by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases and is sold on its merits by all druggists in fifty-, 880 cent and one-dollar siz- an 99 el 000 es. You may have a 88 sample bottle by mail Home of Swamp-Root.
free, also pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer Binghamton, N. Y. Don't make any mistake, out remember the name Swamp-Root, Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp. Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. on every bottle. SAFETY, PROFIT, STABILITY 7 Per Cent. 9 Per Cent.
PERFECT SAFETY of PRINCIPAL is the standard by which you must judge an investment. Until this is estab-. lished beyond doubt all other conditions should be ignored. High rate of interest is attractive only when it goes hand in hand with SAFETY and SPABILITY. 7 per ct.
Our Investments 9 per ct. Combine these two great and desirable features, they are secured by tangible properties of well-defined and established value, backed by years of cumulative experience in determining these values. Your money is paid after final examination of security purchased through your local bank. Every opportunity offered for closest scrutiny. To make your money earn the most money and to continue for longest period.
That's how to provide a sure income for all the time. This is the way great fortunes are built. Accounts of $10 and up solicited. Positive knowledge prevents losses. Able representation wanted outside Franklin county.
R. B. CORBETT, Prospect Park and 13th St, Brooklyn, N. or J. D.
LUDWIG, Attorney, Chambersburg, Pa. CARPETS RUGS CURTAINS WALL PAPERS. We open the Fall Season with the largest and best selected stock of goods we have ever carried. Open it with the best values we have ever given. We a full line of Savonnerie, Axminster, Velvets, Body Brussels, Tapestry Brussels, Ingrain and Rag Carpets.
RUGS -Over 50 patterns room-size rugs in stock in Royal Wilton, sels, Pro-Brussels in the new Axminster, Velvet, Body, Bruspatterns and colorings. REAL ORIENTAL RUGS going at very low prices. -Largest and best assortment all kinds Lace and Muslin curtains we have ever shown. LINOLEUMS and Oil Cloth remnants at little over half price. WALL PAPERS All the new papers are now in for the Fall trade.
Call and see them. J. SIERER South Main Chambersburg, Pa. Millinery IN UNTRIMMED AND READY-TO-WEAR HATS. Special sale of Ready-to-wear Hats Large assortment of Mohair scratch felt hats.
Black and the desirable colors. Plumes, braids and millinery novelties. Miss Lilly Johnson, 163 South Main Chamb'g, Pa. Real Artistic MillineryNo Two Hats Trimmed Alike MRS. DARTT.
The Marbles of Greece Have never been approached. The majesty and grace of the Louis XV Styles have never been equalled. Improvement is manifestly impossible. We are showing reproductions of the Louis XV period In Candelabras, Tea-sets, Tea-spoons, Salts and Peppers, in Silver, Water Jugs, Tumblers, Candlesticks in Cut Glass. Other artistic designs in Bronze, Marble, China, Mexican Onyx, etc.
ALL VISITORS WELCOME. WM. H. LUDWIG, Jeweler CHAMBERSBURG, PA of.
