The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11
OLD SOLDIERS Day.
The Reunion a Great Success; the
Day Perfect, and order Excel
LENT


township on last Friday, Septem-
Der 5th.
The order of exercises as pub
lished in the county papers vas
adhered to-every one advertised
was present and filed his place
on the program. After introduc-
tory services of prayer by Rev.
S. b. Houston and music by the
choir, George A. Harris ex-
tended the glad hand of welcome
to the veteran and his friends and
was responded to by DR.. w. l..
McKibbin in most hearty and
appreciative manner. After
duet by Misses Emily Greathead
and Gertie Sipes of McConnells-
burg, the audience was dismissed
for dinner.
This was served in "basket pic
mic" fashion contrary to all pre-
cedent at reunion, and in oppo.
sition to the expressed wish of
many veterans.
The old soldier is of a chummy,
genial nature-likes his comrade
enjoys the habits of camp life
and would much prefer to share
his rations with tho mauy but
the serving of a long table filled
with au innumerable multitude
entails much hard work on the
the few, and we think the plan
adopted was, on the whole,a much
easier and more satisfactory one.
Coffee, the necessity of the sol
dier, was issued in great abun-
dance and of excellent quality.
Dinner was followed by the ad-
dress of Hon. Thad M. Mahon of
Cham mbersburg. Mr.. Mahon serv-
ed as soldier in the 1876, p. V. in
which were enlisted many of the
Fulton county boys. He referred
to the cordial, earnest, sincere
spirit of comradeship that has
grown up between the soldiers
of the blue and the gray-of the
North and South, a happy fore
cast for the Nation s future pow
er at home and abroad, and to the
cheerful outlook toward our colo
NAL possessions.
Capt. Geo. w. Skinner was
next on the list and spoke in
words that were hearty and cor
dial many things that were pleas
ant to the ears of these men of
the "brave, good days of old. "
No other orator has addressed
the people of Fulton county as
often, or on as many different oc-
casions, as the Captain, and no
one ever meets with a warmer
welcome than he. To have been
a good soldier through five years
of service is a good record to
have enlisted at the age of six
teen and to have been captain of
a company of men at the age of
twenty is phenomenal, but the
Captains crowning glory is the
soldierly sympathy he has felt
with and for the old soldier in all
the long years since-years bur
dened in many instances with in
creased debility and failing for.
tune.
One of the most interesting
features of the days entertain
ment was the maiden speech by
Horace N. Sipe of McConnells-
burg.
Though born long since the
War, and without personal knowl-
edge of the "times that tried
mems souls" it was the delightful
privilege of this talented young
man % weave a chaplet of flowers
for the brow of those who wrote
the heroic chapters of this Ma
tion's history.
After several voluntary address
es by home and visiting veterans
business meeting was held at
which resolutions We're offered
relative to the erection of a Sol
dier's monument somewhere in
Fulton county-probably in Nc
Connellsburg. i
AS the crowd had mainly dis
persed to their homes, there was
no camp fire in the evening.
1t is supposed that from $500