The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24

DIR. West preached In the u. L.
church last Sunday evening.
Peerless Horse and Cattle Powder
at Robinson's. 10 cts per 10.
N. b. Hixon, of Crystal Springs,
offers a reward of $1,000 for the arrest
and conviction of the person who set
fire to Town Hill in Brush Creek town
ship.
Danial Truax who left the county
twenty two years ago and Is now u
prosperous citizen of Nebraska will
keep in touch with old friends here
through the columns of the NEWS.
The horseshoe is busy once more.
AS belt buckle, brooch or stick pin, or
scarf pin for gentlemen, it is popular
design. But be certain to wear the
ends upward or the style will be lost.
One of the latest fads in New York
is the substitution of old-fashioned
knockers for door bells. The older
and more battered the knocker the
higher the price it commands.
The Shippensburg News, of which
the late John G. Wagner was editor
and proprietor, has been sold to Mr..
J. G. Fleming and Clarence Grove,
and the new proprietors will take pos
session on June /.
The viewers, f. NJ. Taylor, Geo. w.
Chestnut and Joseph Fisher, appoint
ed by the court to report on the
bridge at Maxwell's fording, Tonolo-
way creek, will meet to examinine the
proposed site Saturday June 9th.
Rev. Charley Mayne, of Evanston,
Illinois, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
Mayne, of Fort Littleton, preached a
very able sermon to large congrega-
tion in the M. f.. church Sunday even
ing. He was accompanied to town by
Judge Buckley.
There is one church for every 3S7
people in the United States. Boston
has one for every 900 of her popula-
tion and Minneapolis one for every L.
054. Twenty-four million people at
tend church in the United States every
Sunday.
H. f. Goldsmith, member of the up
to-date Twentieth Century tailoring
firm, was in Windber over Sunday.
Mr.. Goldsmith purchased lot from
Amos Claar on the midway. 1t is the
intention of the firm to erect a build
ing on it in the near future ndber
Era.
We recently read an account of a
young man in Maine taking his girl
out for ride and she fell out, he
drove mile or two before he missed
her. Such thing could never occur
in this town. The horse might fall out
of the shafts and never be missed but
the girl, never.
Rev. Charlie Pittman will preach on
the subject of Missions next Sunday
evening in the u. p. church in this
place. Rev. Pittman attended the re-
cent Ecumenical Conference in New
York City at which there were about
eight hundred foreign missionaries
the greatest gathering of the kind ever
held. The brother is also under ap-
pointment to go as missionary to
Persia in September.
Twenty dollars a month on a farm
is very much better than $35 month
in city store. AS general thing at
the end OF nine months the former has
$3.50 in cash, three pair of overalls
and straw hat, while the latter has
two or three suits of cloths, pair of
golf socks and is $17 in the hole. Yet
there are seventy-five applicants for
the latter job to one for the former.
William F. Selser, of Mercersburg,
was bitten above the knee by a mad
dog on Monday. The dog was making
second attempt to bite him, when he
threw package of nails, that he was
carrying, at the animal and drove it
OFF. His son Willie pursued the dog
with a double-barreled gun and sue
ceeded in killing the vicious brute.
Mr.. Selser is under treatment. Three
dogs are known to have been bitten
and other cases of rabies may be de-
veloped. The mad dog came from
Little Cove. The owner was on the
hunt for it and was pleased when he
learned that the dog had been killed.