The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-07-08
PRINTING OFFICE FUN.
How Stories Get Mixed Sometimes as
they get away from Home.
MISTAKES OF THE COMPOSITOR.
Not Always Noticed by the Proof.reader, but
Not Enjoyed after the
Paper is off.

| Wlleu lJ SeJS Oub on Inc fOdu.
The following item is clipped
from one Of our exchanges, and
is supposed to give in few
wo IDS the substance of the re-
port of the MIR. and Mrs. Harry
Dawney accident at Hustontown ::
"While Henry Downey and
wife, of near Buck Valley, were
gathering berries in the woods,
the wind blew off the top of a
tree, which crashed on them
They were found several hours
afterward by a farmer still living
but UNCONSCIOUS.
"Near Buck Valley" is q good
one; and then, Mr.. Lam berson
will appreciate the fact that he is
the farmer who is "still living
but unconscious"
Another item says. Daniel
Sweeney, Johnstown man, was
recently found dead drunk by
the police lying along the rail
road track with sixteen hundred
dollars in cash in his pocket.
Why We're the police lying
along the railroad track?
They were probably "laying"
for Sweeney.
The death of Kansas woman
is noted thus: Tuesday morning,
June 10, 1903, Sarah e. Miller,
wife of Fl. G. Miller, of McCon-
nellsburg, quickly passed away.
The last line of the following
paragraph belongs to another ar
ticle, but in making up the forms,
it, in some way, gets tangled up
with the marriage notice
Half way up the mountain near
Firm Rock, occurred a wedding
Wednesday evening. The con.
tracing parties were Mr.. Lewis
Miller and Miss Helen Victoria
Coburn, both of Ocean, Md. Rev.
Henry Kight married the couple.
Piedmont Independent.
in which he was injured internal
ly.
A neighboring journal, a few
years ago, meant to inform it's
readers that three carloads of
oats had been shipped from the
railroad station in It's town, and
the compositor by getting &c"
in the word "oats" where the 60"
should have been, made the item
say three carloads OF cats.
An editor putting air,tight cof-
fins says: "No person once hav-
ing tried one of these coffins will
ever use another" This reminds
us of a western editor who was
requested to send his paper to a
distant patron and take his pay
sin trade" At the expiration of
the year the editor found that his
new subscriber was a coffin maxi
| er.
A Bedford county editor once
wanted to exchange papers with
a neighboring journalist. The
latter declined, whereupon the
former sent another copy mark
ed Exchange or go to ="
The editor thus addressed re-
piled, "Iwill do neither for /
don't want your paper in this
world nor your company in the
next"
An editor once had occasion
TO mention the fact that a certain
eminent lecturer had delivered
his Grafton on "Saul of Tarsus. "
Imagine his CONSERVATION, after
the entire edition of the paper
had been run off, on seeing the
statement that the man had lee
tured on the "Soul of Lazarus. "
So on another occasion, in com.
mending the boarding house of a
friend at one of the summer
resorts, and especially the rea.
sonable rates, he was Mortified To
read, "his rats are reasonable. "
A clergy man once made the
statement in his pulpit, "What
we want is more fire in our meet.
ings." His remarks were report.
ed for the next days paper, and
instead of sire" he found that he
had expressed a desire for more
STUN" in the meetings.
There are those whose self lm
lportance puffs up to an inordinate