The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-11-21

were institute visitors.
George A. Harris called at the
News Office Monday. His many
friends will be glad to learn that
he is regaining the use of his
limbs, and that his general health
is much improved.
The Wells Valley people will
hold their annual Thanksgiving
service and Sunday school con-
vention this year In the Pine
Grove NJ. +. church. Sermon in
the morning, and convention af-
ernoon and evening.
John G. Brewer of Thompson
township has sold his farms and,
we understand, he expects to
move to Ohio. The home farm,
he sold to Dick Johnson for S3040,
and the other, the Frank Smith
farm, to James 7. Waltz for $3.50.
Editor f. NJ. Taylor who is EN-.
ployed as civil engineer on the
government Typographical survey
force, came home a day or two
ago. His last work was up on
the top of the Alleghanies 800 feet
altitude above Cresson, where it
billiards" and SHOWS every day.
While bathing, last Sunday
morning at his home in Altoona,
John M. Wilson was drowned in
six inches of water. He tainted
and fell face downward in the
bath tub, where he strangled to
death. He screamed as he fell,
but when his wife arrived he was
dead.
Prince Yonhoho Yanamoto,
japanese nobleman, relative of
Marquis. Ito, wants to know how
to build locomotives, and has en-
tered the Pennsylvania Railroad
shops at Altoona as an appren-
tice. After the days work is
done he parades the streets fol-
lowed by two servants in livery.
1t takes 5000 unloaded bees to
make pound, that is, when the
bee leaves its hive in search of
honey, it weighs only the 5000th
part Of a pound. When it returns,
however, from the fields and flow
e. S freighted with honey, it is
three times that heavy.
After January 1st the railroads
will not accept as baggage any
thing but luggage containing
personal effects which accom-
pany the owner. The express
companies have been making a
kick over the indiscriminate
checking of articles as baggage
which under no stretch of the
Imagination could be considered
as such.
Judge Stewart, of Franklin
county, handed down an opinion
having direct bearing on public
sales of real estate. In effect it
means that fictitious bids consti-
tute a violation of the law, and the
practice so often resorted to,
know as putting, is nothing else
but a fraud. The court holds
that anyone guilty of such bid
ding is a party to the fraud and
can be held responsible for dam
age sustained by the purchaser.
The Lancaster County Teach
ers' Institute last week adopted
resolutions recommending direc-
tors to furnish material for kin
dergarten schools; the furnishing
Of juvenile papers; the purchase
of an organ for every school and
the employment of instructors
in music; the establishment of
lyceums in every township; es-
tablishment of township high
schools; library for each school
district, and that calisthenic drills
be given a prominent place in
school work.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Frank Oak
man, who moved away from Buck
Valley last spring are now living
at Berlin, Somerset county, Mr..
Oakman working at his trade,
that of blacksmithing. They have
had the misfortune this summer
to lose their baby boy, Lester
Lantz, who died August 8, just
one year from the date of his