The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-13
MAQUOKETA, IOWA.
Interesting Letter From George
B. Shoemaker.

Apru oO, l5O0.
EDITOR NEwS:-The weather
took cold last night. Yesterday
summer heat prevailed, but at
night the temperature rapidly
cooled, and when we awoke this
morning the sidewalks were GOV
cred with snow and sleet. For a
while this morning snow fell
quite freely, though now the
snow has ceased falling and the
sun is trying to shine through
the clouds. Overcoats are very
useful and, as [ found by expert
ence, comfortable. Iowa has had
a strange spring. March was
quiet and warm-so warm that
many started their gardens
Lettuce, onions, radlshes and
peas are up and growing. Plums
are in bloom strawberries just
ready to bloom. What will they
think of the snow? April was
quiet but cool; only a few days of
warm weather. There were no
warm April showers. With the
exception of work on the very
low lands farming is well advanc-
ed for spring. Small grain is all
in and plowing for corn is being
hurried forward. BY the eighth
or tenth of May, unless hindered
by rain, the corn ground will be
ready. Thus far the spring has
been favorable for work: rain
has not hindered much; and, had
the soil not been so full of mois-
ture from last summers rains,
farm work would have been far
ther advanced than it is. Our
markets are full of fruits and
spring vegetables. Lettuce, rad
fishes, onions, asparagus, rhu-
barb (home grown, can be had
|any day; oranges, bananas, ap-
|ples, etc, in abundance. Apples
smell pretty loud of the money,
put you can have them if you pay
THE price. Good Cuban pineap-
|ples are selling at ten cents a
piece or one dollar and twenty
cents dozen.
spent the first Sunday in
April at Davenport with the pas.
8tor of our church there. The
1Methodists Of that city are build
ing a magnificent church. The
Estimated cost Of the structure is
$4,000. 1t will be when finished
a thing of beauty" and, | trust,
"a joy forever. | preached in
tead of the presiding elder,
whose place | supplied morning
md evening. In the afternoon
p company with our pastor Wis
ted the Orphans Home. 1t was
pastor Thompson's' day to speak
b the children but he kindly al
pwed me that privilege. There
Yere five hundred of them, and it
Jas indeed a privilege to speak
b them. This home was origi.
ALLY the Soldiers Orphans
ome, but the soldiers has
|een dropped from the name and
hildren of all classes are receiv-
b.
The cottage system is used
OF more than thirty-three are
fred for in any one cottage, in
large of a matron. Good schools
re maintained on the grounds.
mere is, also, a manual training
apartment. When the boys and
IRIS leave this school they are
ell equipped for the work of
fe.
This is II state institution, and
supported by the revenue from
be state.
Last week our county Sunday
chool Convention met at Belle
pe' ON the Mississippi river.
peat a day at the convention
lrt of which was on the banks
the great river.
l gathered from its waters
" stones. | send you few
ley are much like stones gather
from the creek in McConnells-
rg, but they are from the "fath-
Oh waters" F" have few left.
'ould any of your readers wish
ne OF these stones sufficiently
ask for them | will be glad to
pa them ali answer to their re-
est.