The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-15

/ corner OF OnlltnUclu anu L llJu avenue
and took car for East End-w
wanted TO call few minutes at the
home of Robert Dixon, whose wife.
nee Mollie Runyan, has been vsry i'll
of typhoid fever Tho day was quite
chilly, and we darted in, passing the
conductor, and sat as near the stove
as we could. A stove in street car
does not cut much of figure on
cold day.
After riding some distance, the con-
ductor tapped me gently on the shoul-
der to get my attention and said pleas
antly, Excuse me, sir, but is not
your name Mr.. Peck" | owned up
said it was-and looked closely at the
face that seemed now familiar: but
was obliged TO say in the language Of
a West Virginia friend, "Your face
looks peculiar but | don't organ
ize' YOU" He then told me that he
was one of my former normal students
ellis Sipes- Of Needmore. OF
course, | was delighted to see him,
and to learn that he had held the po-
sition of conductor with that line for
seven years. He has q day run of
eight miles sixteen miles each round
trip and six round trips every
day. A little calculation will
tell you the distance he travels in
a year. He gets two dollars day,
and may work 365 days a year if he
chooses and his health does not inter-
fere. From other sources, learned
that Mr.. Sipe is one of the most trust
worthy men in the employ of the com
pany.
Ellis has been making good use Of
his opportunity. A young man of
most excellent habits, he has taken
care of his earnings, and is now in Il
position to leave the company. He
says he is tired of that kind of life:
and expects to come back to his faith
er's farm, and spend the remainder of
his days among the chest people in
the world"
AT 6lS Dennis Avenue I called at
Mr.. DiXon's. Mrs. Dixon's mother,
Mrs. Runyan of Needmore. was seen.
She said Mrs. Dixon had been a very
sick woman; but she thought the cris-
is had been passed. and that there
was now hope for recovery.
A ride of two miles farther brought
me to 722 Rebecca Avenue, Wilkins
burg, where resides my cousin, N. H.
Peck, and his family. They moved to
that place from Bedford last August.
Mr.. Peck is a carpenter and has had
steady work at $2.75 day ever since
he has been there. Harry their older
son is in the electrical works. He is
employed at night He sits at little
emory wheel and grinds the rough
edge off of small copper slugs. 1t is
light work, and he makes as much as
$500 a night, it being piece work.
Walter, their younger, has had stead
employment at good wages.
But time is passing and we hasten
back to the Union depot and board
train at > O'Clock for Cleveland, Ohio,
W. s'iV " =, o'"''' =" O,Sours "ivis-
distance is $50 miles.
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be lowed down the river as soon as
the ice is out of the way.
Ahout thirty miles from five roi,,
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we lelV we river, we were SHOWN one
OF President Mckinley's farms. II is