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

erp ADIES T U R N.
''' TAVERN IN THE EARLY
LOCI or THE TURNPIKE.
~ PRETTY GIRLS.
Reniiniscences OF "a
4 cd Place on the Turn
VIA the Foot of Sideling
hin.
PRETTY GIRLS.

M, Travelled across Sluellng
'O' tain from Saluvia to
Ok n the turnpikeYand do you
y" e tuln in the pike just as
r.. ,e last fields and enter the
SIT roper? Coming down the
I'D reaching this point you
i l'struck with the grand pros
. YOU. To your right lies
u !cling Greek valley extend
Pctomac, n distance OF
! weuty-five miles, over the
81 Il Licking Creek, Belfast,
IN and the state of Maryland;
the same valley extends
'lll above forty miles, to the
., overine the townships of
''blsn, and the eastern part
lpra don county, drained by the
creek omptying at Mount
valley being broken a lit
left by an almost imper-
ter shed. AS a back ground,
MO the height of more than
I ieet the Scrub ridge, the
ntain, and theBlack Log
h while the valley itself is
Is broken by hills and small
rom the same point one can
Is Of farm buildings with
,ere q Village. 1t is little
Ii some one in early days
lis spot so specially adapt
slre, as a place where to
home tor the traveller and
ecker.
bout the time the pike was
,nt eighty five years ago
srn stand was erected at this
IN le place had its day, and at
here - nothing save a fiat
lie ground q few feet south OF
indicate where the tavern
o, I'm, as just intimated, stood
"' the turn. 1t was a two-and-
pr II building, facing the south
The north and west side
MI I've any doors. In the yard
.e trough into which q "run-
np' INJURED continually a
Nam of pnre cold water piped
Iring inIthe mountain. Just
the noith side of the pike
''arn, d little to the east of the
he same side of the pike was
Sslnith Shop and scattered
, sr the premises were other
uildings,
a landlord there of whom we
knowiedge was Billy Morris
he place along in the '20's.
u one 1ime, was a man of con-
means; but strong drink got
r Of him, the sheriff finally
out, his wife died, and he be-
ownship charge. When un-
influence of liquor, he was a
1n more than one occasion he
the lining room where his
,re eating, and knocked the
or and smashed up things
One time u barrel of whis-
been unloaded and stood on
q yafd Billy came along,
'g 10 8 bad humor about some
9 threw the barrel over. It
? roll down the hill, the bung
aud the contents was emptied
cross the pike, about a hun
rds from the Russell house
lpied by Henry Minich, stood
time p dwelling in which a
py The name of Gray lived.
orria's wife was one of the
"a Anether of the Gray girls
fied TO p man by the name of
'ckef Rnd lived in a house
e 1hffa or four hundred yards
2 pike above Ed Austin's on
sl0e pf the road. William
brother, not related to the
sA. Cray, of Wells Valley.
3 SQAHty Superintendent of
rom 1850 to 1863, married
pfnpt, who died about forty
: 1gQ, leaving one son, Will
'"y WIG now has his home
mes Ninnich near Saluvia.
ware married Mary Clevenger.
''per pf Mrs. j. Milton Unger
'oYe, and daughter of Peter
Y ana nncle of Aaron eleven
nr town
'i'e 'H'ern was sold from Bill
n Nn'ch occurred about 1890.
'aeehased by a man by the
s1pner, no relation of the
'''7'ufg Stoners, who kept il
We period of the Stoners
op'e was the fact that Mr..
''o pretty daughters. and
~ '9f beauty and attractive
! was known to travellers
hia to Pittsburg. MANY
WAGNER or business
everal extra miles that
e''7ertained in the home of
maidens. 1t is from
that the place was
3 travellers, and soon to
as Ladies Turn
1885 one of the eipls
Daniel Kegarise, broth
xariga. who tho