The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-22

above Lyons's. Toward the latter
part of the 30's, Stoner sold the prop
erty to Alexander Ready, of Wells
Valley, a grandson of Alexander Al
exander, and brother of Mrs. Catha-
rine Fisher of McConnellsburg, Mr..
Stoner remaining in possession of the
property as tenant. Mr.. Ready dying
| in 1888, his estate was settled by John
b. Alexander, father Of Hon. w. S.
| Alexander of this place, and the La
dies Turn property was sold by him to
Andrew Fisher, late of Hustontown,
and father of Mrs. S. b. Woollet of
| this place. In connection with the
tavern stand there were 400 acres of
land and Mr.. Fisher, who then lived
in Wells Valley, purchased the entire
property for 5000.
| Mr.. Fisher moved to the Ladies
Turn in 1910 and remained there two
years, at the expiration of which time,
he purchased from Enoch Deshong,
grandfather of Mrs. John p. Sipes of
this place, the farm now owned by
James Minnich, moved onto that farm,
and rented the tavern stand to his
brother-in-law Levi Deshong who was
married to Jane Ready. AT the end of
two more years (1S44), Levi left the
tavern and moved to the farm now
owned by Elliott Deshong, and An
drew Fisher moved back to the Ladies
Turn, where he remained until 1886,
when he bought from VIM. Chestnut, an
uncle of Glenn Chestnut, the farm and
hotel property at Hustontown for
$4,000 and moved to Hustontown.
BY way of parenthesis, we might
say that Hustontown, in 1856, consist
ed of but one dwelling outside the old
tavern stand at the lower end of town
bought by Mr.. Fisher: and that was
on the site where the present Metho-
dist parsonage stands. 1t was owned
and occupied by our good friend,
Thomas Kirk, who kept small store
in it. At that time the present site of
Hustontown was covered with the orig
inal woods down as far as Lamberson
and Kirk $ store.
When Andrew Fisher left Ladies
Turn in SO he rented it to John Swope,
a shoemaker, at a nominal rent, for
great changes had come over the coun-
try since the days of Morris and SLon-
er, and those when Fisher first went to
Ladies Turn. Instead of the turnpike
being the principal thoroughfare from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg, and keep
ing tavern along this line one of the
most lucrative of avocations, the
Pennsylvania railroad, and the Bait.
and Ohio, had been pushed through
toward the west, and the old pike that
was formerly lined with wagons, was
now fast being deserted, and the tav-
ern keepers were turning their atten-
tion to other means of making money.
Shoemaker John Swope lived there
but few months, when the house
burned to the ground, and Swope
sought another home. Andrew Fisher
then traded the property to Davie
Stevens living at Hubbelsville, for a
tract of timber land adjoining Squire
Joe Deavor's near West Dublin; but
there being some hitch in the title to
the timber land, the deal was not con-
summated, and Fisher then leased it to
Tom Salkeld for five years in consid-
| - Galynl1
was to erect on the premises. A fair
ly good sized house was built-this
time on the north side of the road just
at the bend OF the turn. Barney Sal
keld, also, lived there awhile.
The place was quite "a resort for
sleighing parties. A party of young
folks would be formed, word would be
sent to Salkeld's, big supper would
be prepared, the young people would
arrive, and the evening spent in dane
ing and having time generally. In
the winter of 1859, party from Tay-
lor went up there to have a good time,
and lot of young fellows came there
filled with bad whisley and broke up
the evenings festivities.
During the Civil War, the Sallselds
left, and the property was sold to John
Mitchell for about 5000. Mitchell
moved to the property, and lived there
but few years, when fire again de-
stroyed the building. This ended the
place as "a habitation; and there is
now, scarcely trace that would indi-
cate that any one had ever lived there.
There was one Crackey Smith lived
in that neighborhood He was shoe
maker. 1t was the custom in those
days, to take the hides of the cattle
killed on the farm for home eonsump-
tion during the year, to a neigbbopipg
tanner who would convert them into
leather, keeping half for his pay. In
the early autumn shoemaker was en-
gagged to come to your home with his
kit of tools and lasts. Almost every
family had pretty good outfit of its
own; for man that could not do the
shoe mending for himself and family,
was not considered of much account in
the neighborhood Here by the kit
chen hearthstone, day by day the shoe