The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-16
ADDITIONAL Local.
Goldsmith the Tailor.

The Altoona Evening Mirror was
burned out on Tuesday evening of last
week. The plant was worth S2j, 600,
and there was sl5, 900 insurance.
All kinds Of stoves at w. II. Nes-
bits. Call, examine them, and get
prices before you buy.
Rev. Bic1le will preach at New Gre
NADIA, Bethel Church, Sunday evening,
November 10. He is the successor of
Rev. Dresslerwhowas calledto Schuyl-
kill county.
A good second hand organ for sale
at a bargain. Inquire at this Office.
Out of nearly 1000 teachers in the
public schools of Pittsburg forty-six
reliquished their positions this fail by
reasons of matrimonial or other in
tentions.
Governor w. A. Stone issued a
proclamation November 3D. joining
President Mckinley in recommending
the people of his State to set apart
Thursday, November Both as day of
praise and thanksgiving to Almighty
God for the many and substantial
blessings of the year about closing.
Fresh Prunes, Peaches, Raisins and
Cranberries at Bobinson's.
Beamer Gress, of near Knobsville,
raised turnip this season, that meas
ured two feet and eight inches in cir
cumference, and weighed sevenpounds.
A heavy, snow storm prevailed yes
terday throughout the coal regions of
this state and northward. Six or more
inches have fallen and they are now
enjoying good sleighing in those
regions.
The EDITORS family are indebted to
Mrs. A. V. B. Souders for three mes
es of fine turnips three turnips. They
were the largest we have seen this sea-
son.
Talk about your big turnips, sweet
potatoes and pumpkins, but Mrs.
Amos Saville "beets" all. Eleven
pounds and a half the first time il was
weighed.
Frank 3. Rine, Of near Lewistown,
Millin county, this season, from an
acre of ground, marketed 766 bushels
of tomatoes from four acres he had a
crop of 5000 bushels of beets; eighty
barrels of peppers from three-quarters
of an acre, ana iifty-two bushels of
red raspbeiTics from half an acre.
Thompson Peck, who has been so
seriously i'll of typhoid fever, is able
to sit up little. He is still at the
home of his brother-in-law, Park
Palmer, Of Bethel township.
On November st Waidlick q Son,
ex-Commissioner John Waidlich and
his son Harry S., assumed charge Of
the Touring mill they purchased at
Mercersburg.
f.. b. Fisher, of Gem, has purchased
one of the Geiser finest and latest inn
proved traction engines, and sold the
one he formerly bought to the Funk
Brothers at Needmore, where they will
run their machinery.
A fakir applied for space on the
Frederick fair ground to exhibit "the
Wild Man of Borneo.N Being inform
ed by Secretary Keefer that exclusive
privilege for this freak of nature had
already been sold to another person,
he promptly inquired if anyone had
secured space to exhibit ''the Wild
Woman of the Philippines. Being
answered in the negative, he turned to
his wife saying; Get ready to do the
act, old girl, for it's time I'm getting
Il rest from playing the wild man in
that cage" Paying for the privilege,
he remarked "You know it is very ex-
pensive travelling around, and we must
be equal to any emergency that may
arise
John Plum, who created a sensation
in Waynesboro u few days ago by
stopping in front of the Wayne build
ing on which were u gang of workmen
and telling them to stop work as the
world would come to an end on No
vember IL, died suddenly Friday after
uoon the 3 inst, at his home near
Worleytown, Franklin county, at
the age Of seventy years. Plum as
serted that after being bedfast for
twelve weeks with rheumatism he went
before God and prayed and was given
strength to arise. He also claimed
that he had been to Heaven several
time, and to the regions below, and
when asked why he did not remain in
one or the other place would say the
Lord had sent him back to tell sinners
to prepare for death. In one of his
visits to Heaven he said he saw his
mother, who had been dead for fifty
years, and his two children. One of
the commandments he stricely observ-
ed and which he said the Lord had
given him while in Heaven was to
work from the rising to the setting of
the sun and not after dark.
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