The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-02-27
VOLUME 8.

EDITOR NEWS:

OF Nrltlng letter t0r the NEWS,
but deferred from time to time.
My thoughts now are daily
wandering in your direction, as
my wife and daughter, Annie, are
visiting friends in Saltillo, Hunt
ingdon county.
| have been a constant reader
of your paper for nearly a year,
and see much to interest me, even
though | have been absent since
'65, when the war-clouds that
hung over our beloved country
for four long, weary, and sorrow.
full years had just been lifted and
the surrender" as our southern
people call it, had taken place at
Appomattox.
| enjoy, especially, the letters
of the Fulton county boys, who
have gone away from their native
county, as I have done.
[ read the letters and news
items from the various sections
with great deal of care, and see
many names that remind me of
old times when l used to go t.
school at the old douglas School
House" in Tod township, where
the redoubtable James p. Wad-
dell welded the birch for so many
years. Sometimes we had a new
teacher for a term, ,and | distinct
ly remember Davy Dunlap, who
capped" the boys nearly as well
as did Mr. Waddell.
| also remember a Mr.. Kuhn
and Mr.. Eli Shore. The latter
attended Normal in the fail of
1864, taught by Prof. Frank DAY.
is, and was called "Longp Shore
TO distinguish him from his cous-
=. in Dan Shore, whom we called
Short" Shore.
Speaking of that Normal, and
that grand man who taught it, !
wish to say that if | have accom-
plished anything in this world, it
is due to the training of Prof.
Frank Davis, once a poor, boy
himself, but now oneofPennsylva-
MAS most distinguished citizens.
What recollections that first
Normal | ever attended, calls up!
L remember only a few names of
the students-"W Wash" Grouse,
Job Gregory, "Dal" Kirk, David
Chestnut, Jesse Peck, Sadie Mich,
aels, and Sallie Seylar. What
jolly crowd we were Now, many
of them have passed over to the
silent majority" and those who
survive, are widely scattered. |
have attended many Normals
since then, and have done my
share in organizing and maintain
ing them, as | can justly claim,
without egotism, to be the pio
neer of normal school work in this
state: yet, recollections fondly
turn to McConnellsburg, where l
got my first enthusiasm to be,and
TO do, something in this world.
Some of my old comrades will
ask, when they read this letter,
Gf it escapes the waste basket, }
"Who is he any way?" Well, ask
the editor, who will echo my
statement as to the good effects
of Prof. Davis's Normal. for he,
too, "was thar" when | was,
though only boy of ID; but he
certainly could criticize a certain
"big boy" for holding his book in
his right hand. If "the boys
want to know more about the
writer, | shall take pleasure in
writing again for their benefit.
| have been in Virginia since
1869, and have become we'll ac-
quainted with a number of prom.
inent people. If the Editor can
furnish me the date of the battle
of McConnellsburs, | think car
write up a southern history of it.
just as | learned it from Captain
Ervine who commanded the com
pany OF Rebels and was captured
and sent on to Camp Chase. an
: acquainted with number of the
men who were in the fight, anc
have been thanked by the rela
tives of Thomas Shelton and Rob
ert Moore, who lie buried on tn,
Mercersburg pike, for helping
Gaoroa A Smith Esn to oir.