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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-29
HARTFORD CITY, INDIANA.
March 90. 1900

March 20, 1900
Dear Friends and Acquaintance
of Fulton County;
| had a very pleasant and hap
py visit amongst you. Many
thanks to you all for your kind
ness to me. L returned home
safe and found the folks well as
usual.
William Mellott's folks are well
with the exception of Rhoda Tru-
AK, who is poorly. The McEl-
downeys, Elizabeth Hart and DR..
Sharp's folks are well. Beckie
Correll (Vancleve)is right poorly.
An electric road will be built
connecting this place with Nun
Gle. Our public works are all
working full time. There has
been little snow here this winter.
DENNIS HART.
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The effect on an enemy of, say,
six batteries showering on them
a hail of over 100, 600 bullets a
minute may well be conceived;
and it is little wonder that the
Dervish hordes at Omdurman fell
before such a tornado of destruc-
ton like grass before the scythe
of a mower.
A shrapnel shell weighs only
about IA pounds, and of this
weight it's burden of bullets Is
nearly half. 1t has an effective
range of two miles, and an av-
erage speed of fight of 1, 200
feet to 1, 500 feeta second. Swift
ly as it flies and short as it's jour.
ney is, the second shell is follow
ing from the same gun on the
track of the first before the lat
ter has travelled much more than
half of it's journey.
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HARRISONVILLE.

The funeral of Mr.. John
Daniels took place on the 10Th inst,
at the Green Hill Presbyterian
church, where quite a large
crowd of relatives and neighbors
gathered to pay their last tribute
of respect to the departed. Rev.
Drawbaugh delivered a very in
teresting sermon, taking his text
from Ecclesiastes s: 8, which
reads as follows; "And there is
no discharge in that war.
David E. Strait visited his par
ents part of last week.
George Sipe moved last Tues
day to Mrs. Cutchall's farm in
'Possum Hollow.
l.. |. Deshong is on the sick
list.
Revival services were in pro-
gress last week at the Green Hill
Presbyterian church, conducted
by Rev. Clare.
Mrs. John Daniels is in very
critical condition.
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BIG COVE.

Miss Rule Lake of Harrison
vile is visiting her sister Mrs.
John OFT of this place.
S. r.. Martin, one of Fulton
county's progressive teachers,
spent Sabbath in the home of his
father, Christian Martin.
Mrs. Sallie Cook has returned
to her home in Webster Mills,
after a short visit with her sister
Miss Mollie Seylar of Pittsburg.
II. M. Sartain, one of Franklin
county's most progressive school
teachers, and Miss Sadie Walker,
of Mercersburg, were the guests
of Miss Nora Johnston Saturday
afternoon and evening.
We are glad to see Rev. S. B.
Houston able to be out again. His
throat being weak yet will hinder
his preaching for awhile.
Miss Kit Cook has been suffer
ing with tonsilitis the past few
days.
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COVALT.

March 22.-Last Sunday Rev.
Wagner preached his last sermon
at Oakley before conference. We
are sorry to see him go.
Mrs. Rachel Peck, daughter,
and two sons, started to Oakland,
ILL.,, on the 18th inst, where they
expect to remain indefinitely.
Mrs. Joseph O'Rourke of
Broctton, Ill, who has been visit
ing her relatives and friends in
this county for some time, start
ed for her home last week. Miss
Gertie O'ROurke went to the de-
pot to bid her sister-in- law good
bye; and, for some reason, it
seems Miss Gertie took notion
to take free ride to Cumber-
land and back that day, and she
says she enjoyed the trip very
much.
Rev. S. e. Larned, of Illinois, is
holding protracted meeting at
Antioch.
Some of the boys had a fine
time with the cider barrel at
Rachel Peck's sale. Some of
them got too much cider.
j. II. Covalt purchased a horse
last week.
There was play party at II.
Fl. Brewers last week. The
boss say they had a good time.
William Sigel and family were
visiting Peter Culler's last Fri
day.
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S1DELING HILL.

Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Mellott spent
Sunday and Monday with Mrs.
Mellott's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bennett, in Bedford county.
Roy Garland was the guest of
his uncle, Jacob Hess, Sunday.
Gilbert Mellott was sampling
the shedding around Everett,
Sunday. He was accompanied
home by his friend, Miss Pearl
Williams. Gilbert does not be.
lieve in always being far apart.
Quite number of our young
folks attended the birthday par
ty of Bertha Golden, Friday even
ing last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hess
spent Sunday under Mrs. Hess s
paternal roof near Franklin Mills.
Mrs. VIM. Gordon and Laura
Brady, of Warfordsburg, were
guests of Mr.. David Winter and
family Sunday.
Riley Garland was a Sunday
evening caller at the home of
Miss Jessie Lewis.
Mrs. Rachel and Allie Hill at
tended the funeral of Mrs. Bart
Smith at Pleasant Grove, Mon
day. Mrs. Smith had been a
long sufferer of cancer.
Adam Hess is dangerously i'll
of heart trouble and lagrippe.
job Garland and Bert Hixson
were our representatives at court
last week.
The family of Henry Layton,
that has been seriously i'll with
lagrippe, is better.
Anna Hebner spent Monday
visiting relatives in Buck Valley.
w. r. Garland and r. Garland
spent Saturday evening with the
family of Henry Layton.
Amos Layton and Job Hill were
in Hancock, Saturday.
Emery Diehl, of Whips Cove,
and Lester Logue, of Franklin
Mills, were callers in our midst,
Monday last.
Ottie Hill spent Sunday even
ing with her cousin, Lillian Fis-
cher.
Jim Mellott's have finished
saving at Dott, and are now ready
to move their mill to Franklin
Mills soon as the roads are fav-
orable.
Walter WEIGHT was a caller
near Warfordsburg, Sunday.
Miss Ella Mellott was called TO
her home Tuesday on the account
OF the serious illness of her moth
er.
Amos Layton and wife were
Sunday visitors at the home of
Reuben Mellott.
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A TOUGH CONTRACT.

Well Caleb, said Captain w. of
Massachusetts years ago, what
will you ask a day to saw wood
for me? I've got several cords
that / want sawed in two for the
fireplace.
l should charge you about half
a dollar a day if | had saw, re-
piled Caleb, but / amt got none,
captain, so | don't see how I can
accommodate you.
If that's all that's lacking, |
guess we can manage it, said the
captain. I've got prime new
one, keen as brier, and I'll let
it to you reasonable. How would
sixpence Q24 cents a cord do for
the use of it?
| reckon that's a fair price, cap.
tain. I'll be over in the mornin'.
Bright and early that next July
morning Caleb was at work, and
he kept at it so faithfully that he
finished before sunset, when he
went to the house to settle.
Let's see, said the captain, you
were to have half a dollar a day.
Wen call it day, although it
amt sundown yet. That's 80
cents for you, and you were to
pay me siXpence a cord for the
use of the saw. There were
three cords and half in the pile.
That makes 434 cents due me.
Somehow, Caleb, you don't have
very much coming to you?
How unfortnit, said Caleb, after
scratching his head obviously for
half a minute, and then looking
up quickly, as if a new light had
broken in upon his mind-how
unfortnit that you didn't have
half a cord more, for then we'd a
come out just square.
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The Witnesses Reply.

Years ago United States Dis
trict Judge Williams was a dis
trict Judge in Arkansas. At a
certain term of court a murder
trial came before him, and the
most important witness for the
prosecution was colored boy, 10
years old. The lawyers for the
defense set out to show that the
boy was too young to understand
the nature of an oath, and, there
fore, was not competent as a wit
ness.
Boy, SAID one of them severe
ly, do you know what would hap
pen If you swore to lie?
Yes, sab. Nanny would lick
me.
Would anything else happen?
Deed dey would, case the devil
would git me.
At this point Judge Williams
leaned over his desk and said
with pretended sternness; Don I
you know, boy, that | would get
you, too?
Yes, sah, that's what / jus said.
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THE CORNER.

The attendance at school has
been small on account of bad
weather.
Miss Abbie Mellott spent Sab
bath evening with her brother d.
j. Mellott.
George and Mirvan Gluck, two
of Adam county's prominent
young men, spent Sabbath with
their cousin, Mrs. Annie Mellott
The boys left on Tuesday for Hi
nois.
George E. Clouser spent Thurs
day evening at j. b. Mellott's.
A number of the young folks
attended the oyster supper at
Big Cove Tannery.
Harry aud Edwin Carbaugh
were at Mercersburg recently.
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The Everlasting Kicker.

The Prominent Citizen stood in
front of the mirror, making his
toilet.
81 never could understand, he
said, "why shirtmakers persist
in making the buttonholes on
shirt fronts perpendicular. If
the shirt is tight the tendency is
to pull the stud out. l am ready
to join any political party that
will adopt a plank in it's platform
demanding that buttonholes in
shirt bosoms shall be cut horizon
tally"
Now the wife of the Prominent
Citizen was a New Woman, with a
genius for affairs.
eff you want to see a political
party organized on that issue" "
she said, "why don't you start an
agitation for it by going to your
shirtmaker and ordering him to
cut the buttonholes in all your
shirt bosoms horizontally here
after?"
"That," rejoined the Promi-
nent Citizen, with a shrug of his
shoulders, "would be too much
like attending the primaries.
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WEST VIEW.

March 18th.
Carl Howard, little son of Clyde
and Dorothy Andrews, of War
fordsburg, was carried over the
river that separates us from the
home of the soul. Little Carl
was the idolized treasure Of the
home-the joy and pride of the
heart of his parents; but God in
his all wise providence, permitted
its spirit to be separated from the
little form in which it abode, and
carried back to Him who gave it.
While the father and mother may
mourn the loss of one that is very
near and dear to them, they can
rest with the blessed assurance
that the spirit that once dwelt in
it's little form is now in the Celes-
tial City-that home not made
with hands. Little Carl was
born October 10, 1899; died March
13, 1900. Interment in the Pres
byterian cemetery at Warfords-
burg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrews extend
thanks to the neighbors for their
kindness during the illness and
death of their little son.
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AS UNCLE JABEZ SEES IT.

This world amt what it used ter be
No nowhere nigh
The good old times we used ter see
Have all gone by;
An all these modern fellers spout
Progressivness, and tell about
How airth has just begin ter sprout;
Tween you and |,
The old dirt ball is all played out
And bound ter die.
Now, see the gals-they're all so plain
That, declare!
Yer can't find one like Betsy Jane
Not anywhere;
She's older now, but take her when
She picked me out from all the men
BY jinksl If yer'd seen her then
She'd made yer stare.
They'll never make that kind again:
Such eyes and hair.
There's cookin' now-just take mince
pie,
An eight-inch slice
OF mothers style want more'n try
Ter taste the spice!
But nowadays if l jest take
A bite of this new kind they make
I'm doubled up, in ha'f shake,
Just like a wise,
And have kind of stomach-ache
That isn't nice.
Take weather, too-now theirs the snow
Ma use ter let
Me wade in drifts waist-deep and, sho,
'Twa'n't cold or wet.
But now the stuff that falls-gee whiz-
Don't make no odds how light it is,
1t soaks me and I'm almost friz;
And don't get
The chilblains and the rheumatis?
Well, you just bet!
That why l say, s said afore;
This old dirt ball
Amt what it used ter be no more;
It's on the fall,
All this progression" IS in horn;
/ see myself airth's old and worn
And gettin worser every morn
Fer large and small,
pity them that's jest been born,
BY gom!-that's all.
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PLEASANT GROVE.

Mrs. Sarah Hull of Bethel town
ship, was visiting friends in Bel
fast township last week.
M. ID. Hill traded two sides OF
bacon for a fine horse.
Howard Martin, David d. Desh-
ong and Isaac Layton INDUCED
in a grounding hunt Saturday
after the snow.
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M 4


Snow last
inches en- the JENAN1
Last Monda,
ties of fox hun faru
Hendershot btob,e .
Northcraft bm.rm :,
was rewarded g,eed
a nice specinprNes /
Vulpes. a..;,,
Lewis Hamn, ! faru
turn to Kansa, The
James W. Ke . nret'
ed a day or tvofyino
week by the So when
Mr.. and Mn IL II {
in Hancock las &, ~,
Henry Han, ad. i
daughter Bert nant
Md, spent last ( come
at George Rhe, ,ositio
Bertha Rhea nt is
week with Mrs nently
The Sunday lied to
b. church wa, |, mon
Sunday to 60 I'M receig
1. Superinte1 ng mo
lott; secretary 3 SUP
and Treasures nv q,
Among our S and.
Hope McKibbet cn on
Mellott, Jacob lr mo
girls, Mrs. Ss payin
and Emma, inf Il as <
Mr.. and Mrs. ID ".
Two weeks az the 1
Ter, a somewhat ere is
suffering from 10 on
that carbolic a and
cure, she applie and
results. Her IS y
have turned blad Drer
says they are ID g Of
ly drop off. Old led J
will never give ltrod'
trouble. most
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-29

A college education has the eff
feet of making some fellows too
smart to work and not smart
enough to get along without work.
The best blessing a child can
have is a good mother.
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WEIIPSQ

The Institute u
failed to "toot, " V
the heavy fall Of Y
teachers We're Y
as quite a crowd ~
coming in sleds an'.
meeting was turne
fashioned "spelling
many took part
know how to speI
and "Mayonesse
Miss Ella Holly /
posed. l
d. G. Hart spen'1
Sunday at his ho~'l
Miss Ollie Hess \
was visiting friends
on Saturday last
Revs. May and y
unable to fill then /
here on SATURDAY
ounudy ldSu, w
roads and the disla1
have to travel. ~
Christian churcn''
county, yet not OD'
this denomination y
the limits of the !
this unftness OF Wv
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LICKING

The young I'd epc
good use of the ~ o'is
the meeting at On9
hear the Salvatia =
a very good NEE =
gregations-peCI %'
quite a distance ~
Sheridan Des ''s"s
Bedford, this we
poets to spend ID
King Mellotts Z
from Irwin Sip ~
Speer's this weel III
Mr.. Oakman, p%l
spent Sunday r
Creek township ess ;
ing court at McCtuml
week. nde<
Lake Garland d aatur|
Sunday at Joseph ev,
Our limestone 10 ]
ers made good us accS
Minor says, "GOh "a q
10 put Dlfd IN. a
Some of our you rgal
disappointed last y
the snow kept the3
to the choppins sa "
Michael HockenSl s...
Licking Greek w $
ors have paid out ale
lucky persons fd lteo
foot logs, thirty e.sur'
this township,
have a few moreuI.
they Will most ike S
remunerated in III
would advise thefeV'
make an effort 70 T
bridge over LickiA
loan, us it will d ri.
more TO keep up ~
than to pay for nn
one would fall OF
bridge that was P
We want wagon b' "a j
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Published Weekly. 800 per
Annum in Advance.

Prompt attention will be
given to applications for ad-
vertiSing rates.
job Printing of every deS-
cription executed with prompt
ness, in a workmanlike manner
and at consistent prices.
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THEIR OWN POLE.

TINS tOOk 10 quite late III une nlSnu
and then one of them said:
Barber, what will you take for
your sign poleY"
"Ten dollars, replied the ar
tist, smilingly.
"Here is your money!" said the
student, who was a member of
the winning football team that
season and so had only to write
home any time for check. "Sign
this" and he drew up bill of
sale. "Boys, help me home with
my load" And the little caval-
cade went down the dimly-lighted
street with the singular burden
upon their shoulders.
"Hi, there!" yelled policeman,
whom they had tried to pass sly
ly, "what are you doing with that
barber's poley"
"That is our business" grimly
replied the football player.
cit is also mine," rejoined the
policeman"
"COme with me to the station,
and bring that pole with you"
"We cannot afford to carry it
away from it's proper destina-
ton, " said one of the students.
"Never mind" growled the po-
liceman.
T'll get it there" and he sum-
moned help, and conducted the
whole procession to the police
station.
"Boys, said the sergeant, after
they had ranged themselves in
front of him, "I'm sorry, but
this bit of fun will cost you five
dollars apiece"
perhaps before we are fined,
you would like to look at this strip
of paper?" inquired the ball
kicker.
"Why, exclaimed the sergeant,
reading the bill of sale, "here is
an awkward mistake. This is
your pole"
eve had thought So" meekly
replied the student.
"Young men," said the SER
geant, "you are discharged. Off
ce, go back to your beat"
"Will you kindly instruct him
to take the pole where he got it?"
inquired the student.
"Certainly," replied the SER
geant, "that is your right" and
the striped stick of timber was
tugged back again by the dis
gusted myrmidon of the law.
The students again shouldered
their tapering load and started
down another street. They soon
met another policeman. This
time they did not attempt any
evasion.
"What're ye doin' with that
beam o. woody" shouted the Off
Ger.
"Our business" sang the boys.
"Your business seems to be
the thief business" said the Off
Ger. Come with me to the sta
tion."
"We will not carry the pole,
said the students; "but if you
want to, we will swear not to run
for it.
The officer believed them after
they had repeated it in Latin, and
being large, strong man from
the Tipperary regions, just about
managed it. He was soon before
the same sergeant mentioned
above.
cts their pole," shouted the
sergeant. as soon as he saw them.
''Take it back where you got it. I"
"Why didn't you tell me?"
grumbled the officer, between
breaths, on the way back.
"You said we were thieves, and
how could you believe thieves on
question Of property" And
they started once more for home.
Again and again they We're es-
corted to headquarters, until
they began to feel quite well ac-
acquainted with the sergeant.
The sixth or seventhpoliceman
they met was a smallish man, and
they took particular pains with
him. They yelled. Whistled. sang
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-12

We're ready early too with the new Spring "All-overs" for shirt waists; the Nets-spangled and en- broidered, the tuckings, founcings and other novelties which you'll al- ways find in our lace dept and which have made this dept of ours famous throughout the state tor completeness. WE'RE somewhat staggered OURSELVES at the va ried beauty of the showing and know scarcely how to begin to tell you about the exquisiteness of it all; there's the embroidered Batiste in open, lacey effects, new tuckings in Bayadere or bias effects with insert ions of lace, dimity tucking,so sheer aud fine with its tiny tucks and swiss
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-12
 CHICAGO'S NOTED RIVER.

If Not Washed Too Clean 1t May Be
 Seen Flowing Both Ways.
 That the drainage canal can flow two ways at once may seem queer, but Isham Randolph, chief engineer or the Sanitary district, says it Is entirely pos sible. Not only is'it possible, says he' but in all probability there will be hail q dozen or a dozen times year when such a peculiar phenomenon may pc observed.
 A southwest wind following soon al . +pr 2 northeast wind would almost cer- tainly create such a condition, according to Mr. Randolph As every one at all familiar with the whms and pecullarl- ties of Lake Michigan knows, sus- tained northeast wind lasting several days will raise the level at the Chicago end of the lake and send great quantl- ties of water into the Chicago rived. A southwest wind has the opposite eftect and the effect would be most marked when brought about immediately alter a northeastern The water piled up Tn the drainage canal would begin to How out to the lake. with the falling level. That is, the surface water would The actual flow in the canal would be man. tained owing to the open slulce gates at
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the Lockport end, so the two-mile an hour flow toward Lockport would keep up, but beneath the surface As long e,s the southwest breeze would last the water would be flowing the two ways at once.
 T never saw that so clearly illustra- ted" said MT. Randolph, in explaining the phenomenon, 'as one day when we were pumping water out of a pool in the canal when we were building it.. The pumped water was all Tiled and black and it poured into some exceed ingly clear water from a spring near the Des Plaines river. There was a breeze, enough to create a surface current on the clear water, through which the cur rent of yellow water could be clearly observed flowing in the opposite direc- ton. Straws and chips thrown out on top of the clear water were borne along the surface, one way, while several feet below the grime and silt of the pumped current were plainly visible moving the ether way."--Chicago Daily News.
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Spring Tailor Gowns.

To meet the same demand we're making prelimenary showing of Tailored Gowns for street and carriage wear. Such beauties. Everyone an exclusive Our experienced buyer personally su- perintended the making (they were made by the finest tailor in the country) and the materials are the pick and choice of the best foreign markets. Some of the gowns are our own direct importation.
 We told you we making radical changes in cloak
 room These changes about to take effect now We are
 prepared to make gowns order after the the great
 metropolitan house America and Europe Orders will be
 taken executed by highest paid aor either import
 ed models or will carry your own ideas.
 There will be absolutely no advance in our scale of prices we guarantee, whether you order your dress made or buy it out and out.
 Such cloak service prepared give will be
 revelation to the of New Haven.
 At the same time you will continue to find worth and excellence welded to low prices.