The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-02-05
NUMBER 21.
LOCAL and PERSONAL.
Brief Mention of Persons and
Places You Knew.

Places You Knew.
Joseph Funk and his sister
Miss Cora spent last Friday at
McConnellsburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. III. Evans Of
Thompson, spent few hours in
town last Thursday.
The Racket Store people have
a new ad this week that will prob
ably interest you. Read it.
w. H. Sapington with the Pyri-
tes Paper Pulp Company at Can
ton, N. Y, is visiting his brother
DR.. Sapington at Webster Mills.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Baker,
Miss Bessie Reese, Miss Lillian
Fleming and Miss Mertie Kelso
spent Tuesday evening of last
week at Daniel E. Fore's.
Jacob w. Mellott of Belfast
township spent a few hours in
town last Friday. He says Harry
Mellott has moved into the Brick
House, and will have charge of
that farm this summer.
Miss Ethel Hays expects to go
to Cham bersburg Thursday and
visit friends there and at Waynes
ooro until next Monday, when
she will go to Philadelphia for a
special course of training at Dan
nebaum's in the art of millinery.
Mr.. Richard Madden of Dublin
Mills, was in town last Thursday.
AS will be noticed by referring
to our sale register Mr.. Madden
will have sale. He has purchas-
ed farm in Huntingdon county,
and has secured tenants for both
his farms, and will retire from
farming for the present.
The Osterburg bedford coun-
ty) News was burned out on
Wednesday night of last week.
The paper was owned and edited
by w. F. Hendrickson. 1t was
burned out in August 1901, Both
fires are supposed to be of incen
diary origin. The loss to Mr..
Hendrickson is about $4,000.
Grant Mann of Burlington,
Col, in sending another dollar to
renew his subscription says, 81
could not handily get along with
J out the "News," and it reaches
me regularly missed only one
last year. L. B. Kline is out here
and he always likes to see the
News" as it is from his old
, home"
The County Commissioners of
Bedford county have passed a
resolution not to make any change
in the assessment laid on stock
and dogs through the assessors
of the respective districts, and in
no case will a change of the as
sesment levied be allowed by the
commissioners after the first day
of May of each year.
John G. Brewer formerly of
Thompson township, sends dol
lar and says, II can't get along
without the Fulton County
News" We are living in Gar
nett, the county seat of Ander-
son county, Kansas, a town of
, 2500 people. The weather is more
changeable here than in Penusyl-
vania-one day you are comfort
able in yonr shirt sleeves, next
you must have an overcoat."
= Mrs. }. j. Patterson of Pit
b cairn, Pa, is visiting her mother,
v Mrs. Sarah j. Cromer of Fort
Littleton Mrs. Patterson, who
f is, perhaps, better known among
). the teachers as Fannie Cromer,
accompanied by Mrs. j. II. Bald
|. win of Burnt Cabins, spent last
r Wednesday at McConnellsburg.
v Fannie's sister Miss Catharine,
!. who had been at Pitcairn, came
8 home with Mrs. Patterson, and
Y will stay some time with her
4 mother.
Farmers should be on the look
r out for a clever swindler who
4 claims that lie is organizing a
National Threshers' Protective
Association" He secures the
p membership of many farmers by
, assuring them that he is forming