The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-06
REY. GEO. B. SHOEMAKER
Writes of His New Home i'm the
Upper Iowa Conference.

EDITOR NEWS The great
Methodist wheel for the Upper
Iowa Conference has gone around
again, and 1 find myself and fam
lily comfortably settled in a new
home. Our present appointment
is in the eastern part of the con-
ference. We are only about thir-
ty miles from the Mississippi riv-
er. This is the longest move |
have ever made-one hundred
and fifty miles, at least-almost
across the entire conference ter
ritory, for Iowa Falls is the far
thest appointment west, and Ma
quoketa is near the eastern Dor.
der. am thankful they stopped
me before they got me into the
Mississippi river; for while l
used to visit the old Dougly hole
frequently when a boy, I never
learned to swim.
My work here opens very
pleasantly, and | am looking for
ward toward good year. Our
town has four thousa of pop
ulation and is an enterprising
place. We have a good brick
church in splendid repair, and an
excellent brick parsonage. Our
mem bership is about three hun
dred, with q Sunday school aver
aging in the neighborhood of two
hundred in attendance. We have
plenty of people unsaved. 1t is a
large field, and We hope for a
great harvest.
have been reading the "News"
to-day. see they are paying 60c
a hundred for bones. They were
buying bones when was boy
| should think they would have
had them all bought up before
this time. 1t makes my back
tired now to think of the loads of
bones | used to carry. | was
surprised in reading the names
of the county officers to learn
that Mr.. Chestnut was still coun-
ty superintendent. l thought l
had read some time ago that Mr..
Barton was elected to that Office.
The paper must be right, of
course, but it coufuses me a lit
tie. was much pleased while at
Crystal Springs campmeeting
last August to meet a numbe of
very pleasant people who spoke
to me in kindly terms of my let
ters occasionally sent to the
News. What they said left a good
taste in my mouth, and l thank
them for their words. The wife
who said to her husband, John,
if the pies and the doughnuts and
the cookies are good, tell me now,
don't wait until l am dead and
then tell me-" was not far from
right in her request.
While at conference at Mar
shalltown Mrs. S. and | were
walking along the street and we
saw large basket of chestnuts.
OF course, we bought some, and
the next day we bought some
more, &c. How we did enjoy
those chestnuts F.! Why l could
see the trees, and hear the nuts
drop, and could almost feel the
burrs sticking into my fingers.
| want to go chestnuting in old
Fulton county before | die.
saw man with a load of hard
coal on our streets a few days
ago. He only asked thirteen dol
lars a ton for it, and | concluded
not to buy. l will wait a while.
Coal will be cheaper before
Christmas. New York apples are
selling at three dollars a barrel.
Winter apples raised here are
selling at seventy-fve cents a
bushel, but there are not many
of them.
| suppose | will have to believe
/ it, because the editor of the News
says it is so, but find it consid-
cradle of an effort to swallow his
cabbage story of last week and
not choke on it, That cabbage
must have gone to college and got
the big head to swell up so that it
would not go into -four barrel.
Never saw anything like that in
this great West. My! what a