The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
Iowa Falls
Letter from Rev. George y. Shoemaker
JANUARY 10, 1902.
EDITOR News

| remembered that I was a native
of Pennsylvania, and so far from
my native land, and | concluded
would try and find, if there
were in our city, a half dozen or
more who were from the old Key
stone state. Believing there was
virtue in advertising, "a truth
which merchants cannot learn
too SOON | placed a notice in both
of our excellent town papers,
asking all who were born in Penn
sylvania to send me a card stat.
ing where they were born and
when they came to Iowa. My
largest hopes were, that at most
a round dozen might respond. |
limited the response to those liv-
ing in Iowa Falls, Iowa. Presen-
tly the response began to come;
and as they came, my lonesome
feeling disappeared, and at last |
was surprised to know there were
so many Pennsylvanians around
me. Forty nine (49). persons re
sponded, which, with your hum.
BILE servant counting one, makes
the half a hundred people in Iowa
Falls who were born among the
everlasting hills of the Keystone
state.
The earliest arrival in Iowa of
these fifty, was Mrs. Jane G.
Woodworth, who came just before
the fifties, and the latest arrival
was Rev. A. FL. Beaver, pastor of
the Baptist Church in our city,
who came in '9S or '99. We arr
10 mean company, if we were
born in the woods. The pastors
of the three strongest protestant
cllurches-Methodist Congrega-
tional and Baptist; the editor of
one of our splendid weekly pa
pers; one member of one of the
largest lumber firms; the agent
of the Ill. Central railroad; one of
our prominent physicians; a prom
inent druggist; an ex-editor; a
photographer; the Oldest married
couple in our city who recently
celebrated their Gath wedding an.
niversary; and the tallest man in
town, besides other distinguished
persons belong to this goodly
company. When you go outside
of the city limits, the woods is
full of them. Some day next sum-
mer we will get together for a
picnic, and have chance to see
one another.
An old Fulton county boy, c..
r. Benedict, has been honored by
reelection to the chief clerkship
of the Iowa House of Represents
tives, which recently opened it's
biennial session in our capital
city, Des Moines.
On Sunday, January 5, 1902,
we reopened our church. 1t had
been closed for nearly six months
while undergoing repairs. Dur
ing those months we worshipped
with the Baptist congregation of
our city. The expense of our re-
pairs instead of being So, 500, as
at first estimated, was nearly
$4,000, all of which, with a hand
some surplus, was easily provid-
ed. We have now a beautiful,
modern, and convenient place OF
worship. We are to begin pro
tracted meeting early in Febru-
ary,and are looking for glorious
time.
Our winter, with the excep tion
of brief time in Decem ber when
the mercury dropped to 80 de
grees below zero, has been re-
markable for mildness. .ouietness
and brightness. No sleighins
yet, and only one or two lighr
falls of snow. Mercury playing
about the freezing point, with oc
casional drops toward zero, ant
plenty of bright sunshine. L
may be only weather breeder
but we will enjoy it while W,
have it.
We had the pleasure of havins
all our children home with us fol
Christmas. 1t made me think O
the gatherings in my father'l
house, and the great chimney b,
which we hung our stockings ol
Christmas eve.