The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-09-13

h'oNhe I'NN AN hiNitos
Home-raised cantaloupes, sweet and
juicy, at Robinsons.
No finer Soda Water anywhere than
at viii Dickson's Drug Store.
Have you seen that new Cooking
Range at Albert Stoner's? It's
'bute"
A little child of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Funk, near Covalt, has been very sick
for few days.
Workmen are busy on John Sheets
new brick house at the southeast corn
er of First and Water streets.
Before marriage sometimes young
man gives his sweet heart a lock of his
hair, after marriage she usually helps
herself.
w. II. Thompson, of Watts town
ship, Perry county, lost three COWS
last week as the result of being bitten
by a mad dog.
The Orbisonia Dispatch states that
DR.. Bernhardt says that he is still a
Democrat and not Republican as
has been circulated.
Kansas has potato field forty miles
long. This years harvest from it will
come close TO 1000 carloads. An av-
erage crop is 200 bushels an acre.
Owing to the absence of p. p. Mann,
persons having business with him
will find him at his home in McCon-
nellsburg after the first of October.
There are one hundred and twenty
one pnpils enrolled in the borough
schools distributed as follows Pri-
mary, 81; Intermediate, 81: Grammar,
10, and High, 2s.
A black SOW that will weigh abont
175 or 200 pounds, came to Albert A.
Nesbit's in Ayr township about the
first of July. Unless the owner calls
for her and pays for this notice, she
will be disposed of according to law.
Send the children to school regular
ly, encourage the teacher all you can,
fault but to encourage all in their
work, give little notice to and do not
repeat trihing matters and you will
have no cause for regret.
Last Thursday the McConnellsburg
base ball team went to Fort Littleton,
and played the Fort Littleton team.
At the end of the fifth inning the score
stood
MoCnOna11e I,,cc, EG
Fort Littleton 0,
and the Littleton boys conceded the
game.
Several hundred perches of good
limestone were taken from the excava-
tions made by the Water company in
putting down the pipes in the streets
of the borough. The question of owner
ship arose as to whether they belonged
ough. The Town Council have decided
it by having them removed and brok-
en- up on the treests-
A bereaved husband out west put up
the following notice on pine tree:
Sarah has left my ranch When did
dent do thing hur and / Want it
distinctly understood that emmy man
what takes hur and keeps hur on my
account Will get himself pumped so
full of led that some tenderfoot will
take him for mineral claim. A
word to the wise is enuff and orter to
Work on fool"
There is glut in the peach market.
One of our shippers sent a carload of
fruit to western city and received
less in payment than the cost of the
freight and baskets. One grower has
1900 bushels for which he will accept
$500, rather than be annoyed any
more over the matter. George w.
Kuhn, of Antrim, has 27,000 trees and
will have at least $1,000 bushels of
peaches. He has established can
merry at Greencastle and will can most
of his crop.-Public Opinion.
AT the age of 81, Mrs. Sallie Charl-
ton Brewer died at the home of Mrs.
Catharine Carter at Hancock, August
3lst. She was the widow of the late
George Brewer, and sister of the late
Benjamin and John Charlton. For
many years the deceased made her
home with the family of her nephew,
Mr.. Ralph c. Graves, of Thompson
township. Mrs. Brewer was life
long Methodist and a member of the
Warfordsburg M. E. church. Her re-
mains were inferred in the cemetery at
that church on Saturday, lst inst.
The Commissioners of Bedford coun-
ty have created the Office of County
Detective, and have placed Bedford's
Chief of Police, Samuel f. Silver, in
charge. Mr.. Silver will be remember
ed as the officer Temp Mervine tried
to cut to pieces with razor, the trial
taking place in our courts a few years
ago. OF Sam the Pennsylvania Hawk
eye says; ''The County is to be con-
graduated in retaining the services of
such an efficient and honest man: the
lawless element will do well to avoid