The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-21

New subscribers are being added to
the FULTON COUNTY NEWS subscrip-
tion list every day. Still there's room
for more.
Correspondence should not reach us
later than Tuesday noon. If it is to
reach us by the western mail IL should
get here Monday night.
DIR. p. T.. Stigers has be9n appoint
ed by the county Commissioners of
Washington county Md. vaccine ply
sician for the Hancock district.
The B. & o. Railroad has disposed
OF its stock in the Hancock Bridge
Company to Cumberland bank. The
amount OF stock held by the railroad
was $4,000.
James Mann, aged so years, died at
his home near Hancock on Monday
morning of last week and was buried
at the Tonoloway Baptist church on
Wednesday.
The ladies of the M. e. church of
Knobsville will hold a festival in
Fore's grove, Saturday evening, June
%. Proceeds for the benefit of the
church, Everybody invited.
Mrs. J. T. Rohm will sell at public
Sale at Fort Littleton, on Wednesday,
June q, 1900, lot of household
goods, carpenter and millwright
tools, sewing machine, &c. Sale be-
gins at 8 O'Clock a. m.
Frank Disert, eight years old, son
OF we'll known drayman of Cham
bersburg, was running across an open
lot in that town during the thunder
storm last Thursday afternoon, when
he was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Truax of Belfast
township while eating dinner last Sat
urday at the home of her nephew, Mr..
Hartman Truax, was suddenly strick-
en- with paralysis, and has been in an
unconscious condition since. She is
the widow of the late Samuel Truax.
On Friday, June %, 19OO Rev. D.
p. Drawbaugh will sell at public sale,
at the Lutheran Parsonage in McCon-
nellaburg, one horse, buggy, house
hold furniture and many valuable ar
ticles, all infirst-class condition. Sale
to commence at 1:30 p. m.
While screwing the tops on cans just
filed with fruit, the srew top slipped
loose and the top of the glass jar
passed between the thumb and finger
of the right hand of Benjamin NORM,
Franklin county, almost severing
those members.
Fulton county last year received
from the state $l2, 1903 for the sup
port of its common schools; this year
IL will receive but $l1 ,66S.78. The
county losses $ll16.25 year on ac-
count OF Governor Stones veto of a
part of the appropriation --Philadel-
phia Press.
Albert, son of Mr.. and Mrs. N. B.
Shade, of Washington, ID. c., who
has been suffering during the past
month from appendicitis, submitted to
SURGICAL operation on Tuesday of
last week. He is now lying at hos
pitial in Washington in a critical con-
dition. Albert has the sympathy of
his many McConnellsburg friends.
A pleasant social event occurred at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. George Fix
of Licking Creek township recently.
1t was the celebration of Mr.. Fix's
thirty-fourth birthday. There were
present Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Desh-
ong, Mrs. John Mumma and children,
Mrs. Harvey Batdorff and children,
Mr.. and Mrs. BaltZer Cutchall, Mr..
Henry Wolf, Mrs. Samuel Scott, Mrs.
John Shalfer, and Grandma Shaifer.
whereby the house may be rid of flies.
The butchers and dairymen of Switz-
erland claim that oil of bay rubbed on
their walls rids their shelves and
daries of llies. 1t Is also used in
Paris to protect chandeliers and pic
ture frames from speaking. This
simple preventive may be had from
any chemist, is expensive, and said
to be eifectual.
McConnellsburg boasts not of rail-
road, but 1t is proud of the fact that
in 1900 an automobile, that latest of
modern means of transportation, has
invaded its quiet, hilly and picturesque
precincts. A party of Hagerstown
capitalists tarried in this historic
mountain town Saturday last, on the
the journey via an "auto, to Bedford
Springs VIII the gentlemen speed to
TO Chambersburg on the return trip?
We don't want to be too far behind
McConnellsburg Public Opinion.
The body of Richard Dye, of Cum
berland, was found lying in the bottom
of the Potomac river near Hancock on
the Bird inst. An inquest held and the
jury rendered the following verdict;
"That the man whose identity was not
known at the time of the inquest, ,cameto
his death on the night preceding the day