The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-12
Goldsmith, the Tailor.

Robinson's.
Chambersburg is about to put tel
ephone into it's public school houses.
Swails the optician guarantees all
his lenses for three years.
Sanner Ray at Big Cove Tannery,
is weaving lots of rag carpet. Prices
reasonable.
Did you see the Easter goods in Ir-
wins windows?
Swails the optician has just com
pleted his 14lst sale OF glasses in twen-
ty-four days casvassing in this county.
Jos. B. Melott has sold the Web
ster farm of over 300 acres In Ayr
township to w. II. Nelson. Consider
alton 1000.
II you want nice fresh groceries for
your Easter dinner buy them at Ir-
wins.
The McConnellsburg band has re-
moved it's quarters to the building on
the lot of S. w. Kirk, lately purchas-
ed by him of L. II. While.
AGENTS WANTED: To sell state,
county and farm rights. JOHN A.
HARVEY, Hancock, Md.
Mrs. Enoch Hart, of Needmore, has
been right poorly this week. The
doctor was called in to see her on
Monday.
Will you have your eyes fitted to
glasses by a regular optician, or will
you fool with peddlers-Swails is an
optician.
There is always some gain in adding
artificial means to natural ability.
Two of our county commissioners and
one OF our associate judges acknowl-
edge clearer vision by the aid of OPP
tician Swail's superior glasses.
The town council has passed an or
dinance preventing the erection, or
maintenance of any permanent awning
over the side walks, and requiring the
removal of any such now existing af
ter due notice. Penalties for violation
are imposed.
The Newburg Correspondent of the
Shippensburg Chronicle last week
said, "Miss Icy Stephens, teacher of
the primary school, closed very sue
cessful term of seven months on Fri
day and on Saturday left for her
place of residence, near Philadelphia. "
Examinations at the State Normal
schools will be held the month of June
as follows. West Chester, 9TH; Mans
field, Bloomsbury and Lock Haven,
1lth; Edinboro, 13th Slippery Rock,
California and Millersville, 18th;
Shippensburg, Kutztown and East
Stroudsburg, Goth, Clarion, 25th, and
Indiana, 9th.
Our townsman John B. Runyan has
Just closed contract with Mrs. II. G.,
Work, of Tecumseh, Nebraska, for
the erection of monument, markers,
&C., on the family burial lot at Green
castle, Pa. lat a cost of 81 10000. Mrs.
Work will come east with the remains
of her deceased husband about the 9th
OF this month, and final interment will
take place in the lot at Greencastle.
Mr.. Runyan erected in the Presbyter-
ian churchyard at this place last sum-
mer monument for Mr.. Works pa
rents, brothers, and sisters, buried
here, at cost of $4,000. OF course
that work was highly satisfactory to
the Work family, or Mr.. Runyan would
not have received this latter and much
better contract.
Il. j. Thompson's white horse "Jim"
has made his last trip-hauled the last
load of DR.. Shades Liniment to the
people of Pennsylvania, Maryland,
and West Virginia-has taken his last
drink of the waters of the "Blue Juni-
ata'', or the mineral waters at the Bed
ford Springs. Once, when crossing
on ferry boat, laden with over one
hundred hundred freight, Jim horse
put his head over the safeguarding
and drank of the water of the old Po-
tomac river. For over two years
past he has been afflicted with Kidney
disease-the same disease with which
his.dam went down. Last week he got
down not to get up again. Saturday
Mr.. Isaac Hull and Adam Grissinger
with their four strong horses hauled
out the big frame OF Jim horse to the
forest. Jim was good one. He
served his owner 10 years, dying at
the age of l6.
On Monday morning of last week be-
tween the hours of one and two o.
clock the large frame bank barn on
the farm of Mrs. DR.. Jones, at Shade
Gap, was discovered to be on fire, and
before the alarm could be given and
the citizens aroused from their slum-
bers, the fire had gained such head
way that it was beyond control and
nothing could be saved. Four horses,
five milch cows, seven head of calves
and eleven head of young cattle per-
ished together with the destruction of
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