The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-10-05

wagons, curi,ge3, travellers on
horseback, and droves of horses,
cattle, sheep and hogs.
[ remember five taverns at
Bloody Run, and the names that
come up to me in connection with
them are Weaverling, OFT, Tate
and Stoner. There has been q
new one built there since my last
visit to the town, (2l years ago.
but | do not know whether it does
or does not occupy the site of one
of the old ones. Major Joseph
Hollar, who kept popular house
at Greencastle many years ago,
had previously kept tavern at
Bloody Run. His son George,
who came into the Spirit Office as
an apprentice under me in 1850,
was born there. A full list of
persons who have kept tavern at
Bloody Run since the first settle
ment was made there would be a
long one.
Entertainment was afforded at
the VIM. Hartley place just west
of Mt. Dallas, two miles from
Bloody Run, Everett,) but al
though was at the house repeat
edly, l do not know much about
it as q tavern, if it bore that char
acter in the halcyon days Of the
road. 1t is a substantial stone
house and has good farm con-
nected with it. Two miles far
ther is the well known Hartley
tavern at the Snake Spring-a
large stone house and q fine farm
around it. Small air bubbles
constantly arise in this spring,
looking like brilliant pearls as
cending from the bottom to the
surface. Between the Snake
Spring and the Narrows through
which the Juniata passes below
Bedford was the Willow Tree tav-
ern, kept while knew it by Jo-
seph Mortimer. 1t was a pleas
amt place to stop at and parties
used often to go down to it from
the Bedford Springs. A short
distance beyond the bridge over
the river at the west end of the
Narrows there was what | believe
was an old tavern. George Ly-
singer owned it thirty years ago
and carried on the business of a
saddler and harness maker, &C,
but | cannot be sure whether he
entertained travellers.
In Bedfoad have known seven
tayerns, and in connection with
them | recall the names of Col.
Ottinger, Major Davis, Isaac
Mengel, (senior and junior John
Hafer, j. Shoemaker, and Valen-
tine Steckman. The Ottinger
and Davis houses were the old
stage stands, and were fine large
brick buildings. The former was
converted into store and dwell
ing at a date not certainly known
to me, but probably from 80 to
45 years ago; and | think another
old tavern, and perhaps the old
est of all, was discontinued as
such good many years ago and
not long since pulled down or de-
stroyed by fire. | think the
number of public houses in Bed
ford now is either four or five,
but | am not fully informed on
this subject. A long time ago a
Mr.. Naugel kept one Of the Bed
ford taverns.
In my boyhood the distance
from Chambersburg to McCon-
nelisburg was stated at q miles,
and to Bedford 50. During the
last thirty years | have gen
erallyheard these distances given
as % and 56. Mentioning this
change, on one occasion, to Will
liam II. Mcdowell, he told me
that his father had made the sur
vey for the turnpike, that he had
the draft in his possession, and
that the DIST mile extended to the
foot of the ridge beyond the west
end of McConnellsburg. This
sustained the figures of distance
given in my boyhood. But no
matter. There was certainly an