The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-05
Goldsmith, the Tailor.


is weaving lots of rag carpet. Prices
reasonable.
Ed II. Austin has been appointed
postmaster at Saluvia, and the Office
has been moved into his residence.
Read Mrs. Littles new ad in this is
sue.
Charlie Foff is moving this week to
his new farm in Buck Valley.
Fresh supply of nice canned goods
at Robinson's.
Miss Mary B. Trout taught the Pri-
mary school Monday afternoon and
Tuesday morning during Miss Great
heads absence.
Lashley's store in Buck Valley was
entered through the cellar by burglars
Tuesday night and 5000 worth of goods
and postage stamps carried away. No
clue yet.
Mrs. Oliver Il. Sipes, whose husband
died a few weeks ago near Marion,
Franklin county, has moved to her
property along Patterson's Run, this
county, where she will reside in the
future.
Mrs. Mollie Runyan Dixon who has
been seriously sick at her home in
Pittsburg is getting much better. She
was able to be down stairs last Sun
lay for the first time since she became
sick. Miss Clyde Hess, of Needmore,
is with her now.
A private letter from our former
townsman John III. Wilt, now residing
at Waynesboro, says that Mrs. Wilt
was quite sick last October, and has
not entirely regained her health since,
and that he has been suffering a good
deal of rheumatism this winter.
TheEditor regrets that circumstances
prevented his accepting the kind invi-
tation of Mr.. and Mrs. d. M. Kendall
to dinner yesterday. 1t would have
been such delightful way to celebrate
his fiftieth birthday anniversary. Too
soon to make any engagements for the
centennial.
One of the most brilliant social
events of the season in Everett, says
the Press, occurred at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. L. G. Mann on Monday
evening the 9th ult., the occasion be-
ing the Third Anniversary of the La
dies Literary Club of Everett. There
we're about fifty persons present.
The volume of business transacted
through the Fulton County Bank on
Monday was quite up to that of pre-
vious years on the first of April. Ev-
erybody having obligations to meet
there did so promptly; and the only
cause for complaint, if any at all ex-
lists, is, that there are so few calls for
money.
Bert F. Smith who was employed in
the saddlery and harness-making shop
of p. p. Mann for some time is en-
gagged in business in Mercersburg on
his own account. Bert is most hon.
orable young man, splendid work.
man, and we take pleasure in recon-
mending him to our friends dealing at
Mercersburg.
Mrs. M. B. Trout has number of
workmen engaged this week improv-
ing her town property. The old wash
house, woodhouse and coalhouse have
been torn away and new building
is to take their place. Messrs. G. l..
Henry and Squire Fields, of Clear
Ridge, are doing the carpenter work
and Davie Gress, the mason work.
Sammy Shull, of Juniata Crossing,
drove into town on Wednesday last,
under a cloud. The rain was comiug
down in torrents and even the birds
couldn't make an appearance to catch
few notes from the well-known vio-
linist for their coming open-air con-
certs. Some one, however, borrowed
an old fiddle in the evening for him
and Sammy soon had the air filled
WIN music.
Mr.. J. Milton Unger, having sold
his farm in Ayr township, moved to
McConnellsburg on Tuesday of last
week. Among his effects was wal
nut dining table that at one time be-
longed to his great-grandfather Con-
rad Unger, who came to the Cove
about $50 years ago and settled on
the farm recently owned by Mrs. Mich
Holman. At the death of his great
grandfather, it descended to his grand
father, Henry Unger, at whose death
1t went into the hands of Milton's un-
Gle Joe; and for twenty-nine years it
has belonged to its present owner.