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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-01-13
FORMER FULTON COUNTY TEACHER,
Now Successful Business Man at Six
Mile Run. Warm Side for Fulton.

Mr.. John q. Nicholson, who
taught school in this county a
score of years ago, in adding his
name to our list of subscribers,
writes: "My last visit to McCon-
nellsburg was on the occasion of
my attendance at the teachers
county institute, Prof. Joseph F.
Barton county superintendent of
schools, in Dec. 1884. During
that session DR.. S. E. Duffield of
your place recited "Thanatop
sis" with great feeling, the men,
ory of which in a few brief
months, thereafter, was sadden-
ed by news of the worthy Doc.
tors death.
Prof. H. H. Woodal long since
passed from labor to reward was
there, as was also, Prof. B. w.
Peck, and others high in the edu.
cational ranks in the county.
l recall with pleasure many of
the incidents of the two sessions
of the teachers institute l at
tended at McConnellsburg, the
one IN Dec 1888 and the other in
Dec. 1884. What changes the
hand of father time has wrought
in those two decades
The winter of 1885 l spent
teaching in my native county of
Huntingdon, which l left IN April
1856 and went to Cambr county
where | spent short time, com
ing to Rlddlesburg, Bedford
county in May 1856, where l
spent about four and a half years
clerklng for w. G. Ashcom in his
large mercantile establishment.
| then spent about two years with
Sweet & Brown, general mer-
chants, Defiance, Pa. l came to
this place-the borough of Coal.
dale-Six Mile Run postoffice,
Bedford county, and started 10
business for myself Sept. 20, 1892
and here l am yet, and the mercu.
ry this morning at l9 degrees be,
low zero sin the shade"
This section of Bedford county
composes part of the celebrated
Broadtop coal fields; ana although
mining began not later than in
1865, the region is not yet fully
developed. The past two years
are regarded as the best period
In the history of the region. The
coal trade is now fiat with ominous
clouds on the business horizon;
and with the presidential election
year just dawned, the wage ques.
ton coming up for adjustment in
March, and the general glutted
condition of the iron and coal
market, business men generally
are 10th to regard prospects as
very promising at this time.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-01-13

king in the sights of the city, and
then winding up at the American
College; here we had tea with
some delightful Americans. We
moored at the Constantinople
quay about $3.50 p, m. on the 9TH.
The city is very lovely at that
time; there was beautiful after.
glow that, with the outlines of
the palaces, minarets, etc. against
1T, made truly beautiful picture.
The next morning we started out
bright and early for Robert Col.
lege, an American Protestant col
lege. The situation overlooking
the Bosphorus is charming one.
The college too is very interest
ing. We met many very pleas
aut Americans there. 1t is quite
trip by boat, so that the entire
morning was exhausted by going
there and returning. When we
had had our lunch and procured
a guide. we started out again.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-01-13

come on deck and down 10 din
ner. 1t Is the strange motion,
and you cannot imagine what it
is like till you experience it. We
are rolling quite bit, and | shall
have to give up writing at this
time.
PoRT SAID, EGYPT, Dec. O.
Had the funniest lime of my life
last night on shore, seeing the
sights, drinking Turkish coffee,
listening to heather music, and
taking a donkey ride. This in
Oriental for sure.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-01-13
NUMBER II
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW
Snapshots at Their Movements, as They
Come and Go.
NAMES OF VISITORS AND VISITED.
Trip for Business or Pleasure, You'll
Find II Right Here.

Mr.. Foster Bolinger of Dublin
Mills called to see US few mln-
utes while in town last Saturday.
Elmer Suders after having had
very pleasant visit with friends
here returned TO Hoytsdale last
Saturday.
Mr.. D. B. Mace of Cham bers.
burg, spent a few days In this
place last week returning home
on Saturday.
Mrs. W. L. Mace returned to
her home in Carlisle last Satur-
day, after having spent a fort
night among friends in this place.
Mr.. Harry Bergstresser of
near Warfordsburg, spent a
couple of days with his sister,
Mrs. E. A.. Largent, the begin.
ming of this week.
Holy communion at Big Cove
Tannery next Sabbath at 10 a. m.
Preparatory service on Saturday
at 2:30 p. N. Divine service at st.
Paul's on Sabbath at { p. m.
A. G. WOLF, pastor.
j. K. Johnston and Lafayette
Tuck of this place attended the
funeral of Captain Mackey in
Chambersburg, on Thursday of
last week.
Our merchant friend M. Laidig
of Dublin Mills, spent day IN
town last week. Michael does
not get to town as frequently as
he did when he lived at Laidig.
Mr.. Lewis G, Mann, one of Ev-
erett's most enterprising busi-
ness men was in McConnellsburg
last Wednesday, and took time to
call and advance his subscription
two years.
Mr.. William Spade of Emma
vile, and Ira Smith of Locust
Grove, spent last Friday night in
town. They were pleasant call
ers at the News office and both
left some cash with ye printer.
Mrs. Nancy McQuade and son
John, who have been visiting the
formers daughter, Mrs. Dwight
Thompson, and other relatives in
this place for some time past, re-
turned to their home in Altoona
last Tuesday.
Nothing succeeds like success.
On the 9th inst, 20 new mem bers
were initiated into the Arcanum
at Carlisle, and all over the coun-
try we read of large accessions.
The Arcanum is now regarded
the cheapest and best insurance
organization IN America.
Mr.. Clarence Mock, a former
employe of the NEWS Office left
last Friday noon for his home in
Allentown, Pa, where he is en-.
gagged as shipping clerk with
julius Alvarez & Co., wholesale
dealers and manufacturer of ci-
gars. He had been spending his
holiday vacation with his father
and grandfather In Tod township.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-01-13

Marie, the l4-months.old daugh
ter Of Vincent Lawrence, of Get
tysburg, was sitting in her high
chair near the stove when she
reached for something and tip.
ped over. In falling her head
struck and broke the oven door,
hut despite the force of the blow
her only injury was a deep cash
On her forehead above the nose,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-01-13
ISAAC J. PECK DEAD.
Was One OF the Commissioners OF This
County during 81, ~, and '93.

was OhS VI tuS SOiiunISsIOneTS vi lHlS
County during 81, ~, and '93.
Mr.. Isaac j. Peck, one of the
oldest and best known citizens of
Thompson township, died at his
home on the l4th ult., and was in.
tered at Mt. Zion on the 10Th.
Mr.. Peck was born about 76
years ago and was son of Jacob
Peck of the same township, who
died a few years ago at the ad-
vanced age of "a years. He Is
survived by one brother and one
sister, Moses j, and Miss Barba.
ra, and by the following children;
William c., Jacob, Mary (Mrs.
Stillwel Truax), Amy (Mrs. VOL
ford of Martinsburg, w. Va.,),
and Lou MRS. Frank Shives).
Until broken down by the ln-
firmitles of age, he was very ac-
tive Democratic politician in his
township, and beginning with
1866 he served his township as
constable almost continuously un-
til he was elected to the office of
County Com missioner in the fall
of 1890, serving acceptably there
in during the next three years,
with Dennis Mellott and George
F. Metzler composing the other
mem bers of the board.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-01-13
BIG FRUIT"
VIII. Ham Throws Shadow on School.
ey's Pumpkin Story.

Enclosed you will find postof.
flee money order for one dollar
to set my subscription to the
News ahead for another year. In
this connection | will say that
the News has indeed been as a
letter from home every week.
AT this, the beginning of anoth-
er year, 1 must say that the year
just gone has been a very pros.
porous one for southern Califor-
nla-especlallv IN the line of
work in which l am engaged
bricklaying; prospects for the
coming year not so good.
notice all kinds of stories of
big hogs and beeves, apples and
pumpkins, from Fulton county.
1t would be useless for me to tell
some of the California stories
about some things, especially
fish; but l will herewith enclose a
clipping from Los Angeles pa
per that think will lay Mr.. Watt
Schooley's pumpkin in the shade
several degrees:
"BIG PUMPKIN.
"The cham Der of commerce
makes pumpkins specially at
this time of year and the growth
this season is up to all the rec
ords of the past. There is a
group Of six pumpkins weighing
IN the aggregate 800 pounds that
were grown all on one vine.-
Then there is another wonder IN
the shape Of squash, small but
of great interest. The seed was
planted on July / and when the
first squash appeared some days
later the word Glendale" was
scratched on the side with nail.
The squash grew steadily, but
the wonderful thing about 1t is
that the word grew also, and
when the vegetable was picked
on November Is the word ap-
pears in relief on the side of the
squash in letters that stand out
half an inch from the skin aud
that are three inches long. The
curiosity receives much atten-
tion. A great advertisement for
the gentle climate here was sent
to the cham ber yesterday. The
exhibit consists of three large
and juicy looking melons raised
on a ranch, with twenty dozen
more, which were grown without
irrigation and which were picked
yesterday morning and sent in
for sale for Thanksgiving. Wa
termelons at this season of the
year would sound altogether too
good to be true IN the east or any
where else but here.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-01-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Allison SIpes, Of
Hustontown, spent few hours
IN town last Saturday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-01-13
Married..
SNYDER-HOCKENSM


Mr.. Herman H. Snyder and
Miss Mabel A. Hockensmith, both
of Williamsport, Pa, were mar
RED at Woltame, Del. ,at 9 o'clock
p. m. January /, 1904.
MELLOTT-HANN.
On Wednesday January 6, 1904
at the home of the BRIDE, in Lick
ing Creek township, by Justice
L. H. While of this place, Levi B.
Mellott and Alice Adeline Ham,
both of Licking Creek.
NORRIS.
A very beautiful wedding was
solemnized at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. S.B. Morris, at Mench,
at nine o'clock Tuesday, January
5th, when Mr.. John j. Decker, of
Everett, and Miss Mary Morris,
were united in marriage by their
pastor, Rev. S. l., Baugher.
A few of the immediate mem
bers of the families and some
friends witnessed the ceremony.
After receiving cOngratula-
tons they left on a wedding trip
to Fulton county where they will
spend several weeks among
friends.
Both bride and groom are well
known people Of tins community
with host oil friends who wish
them well during their sail over
the matrimonIal sea. Everett
Press.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-01-06
The Heroic Buslor.

During church congress at Bris-
tol the lord mayor Of the city gave
reception to the members of the
congress. The place was crowded
almost to suffocation, and one prom
inent clergyman from the north of
England after having been duly pre-
sented to the lord mayor and lady
mayoress found himself carried on
by the crush through various rooms
until he was taken again into the en-
trance hail, where stream of COM
ers was still being presented. He
could not escape one way or another.
The butler asked his name, when he
at once replied, GIVE been in be-
FORE"
Immediately the butler called out
In a loud voice, "The Rev. Mr.. Been
in-before l"-London News.
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Anderson County Mutual BEN.
eft Association of America.

The Anderson County Mutual Benefs
Association of America writes the cheap
est insurance of the day. The plan Ia 10
take one thousand people, men and vo.
men, bud them together in business
way to help each other in time Of need
and trouble. You only pay when one
dies. Ii you join now your frat paymepS
rays you up until January, 1904, unleaI
we lose one of our members, II the hanG
OF Providence should sever the oliver
thread that holds the life OF ors Of our
loved ones, friend or neighbor, who
would hesitate moment on paying the
little sum OF One Dollar and ten cents to
replace the amount and pay expenses
paid out on death claim. Consider the
matter, examine and st0dy our plan
You are receiving insurance o proteca
your family at actual cost. Don't stand
back, l=s our agencies write you up at
once.
II there is anything 1ou wish to know
In regard to the policy call on any Of the
agents and they will take pleasure in
explaining the policy to you. Remem-
ber this is the only opportunity ever
presented 10 you at actual cost. You
owe 1t to your family, you owe 1t to your
SELF to secure their projection in case you
are taken away from them. If you are
over thirty years OF age this Ia the only
chance you will have of getting In.
After 1000 members have been secured
no one over thirty gets in, and he only
to replace deceased mem Der.
N. r. GREEN, Pres.
j. NJ. PAYNE, Sec. and Treas.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-01-06
Treating 1he Bruise.

a comedian in a Paris theater
irade great hit out of a painful in
Sident. While indulging in q bit Of
horseplay on the stage he struck his
bead accidentally against one Of the
pillars of the scene upon the stage.
The thud caused a lutter Of sympa-
thy to pass through the audience.
No. great harm DONE 2 said the
cPmedian. Gust hand me q napkin,
al glass OF water and. saltcellar."
These were brought, and he sat
down, folded the napkin in the form
Of bandage, dipped it in the glass
and emptied the saltcellar on the
wet part. Having thus prepared a
compress according to prescription
and when every one expected he
wduld apply Its to his forehead, he
grAvely arose and tied it round the
pillar: ::5,l:sl { 80 s.5 go :.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-01-06
A Touch Chicken.

The other day gentleman enter
ed a certain restaurant and ordered
a chicken. The chicken was evident
ly tough, for when the waiter came
in he beheld the gentleman in a
great state of wrath. ;.
Waiter he said, "this chicken is
very tough"
every sorry, SIR. That chicken
was always peculiar bird. Why,
when we wanted to kill it we could
not catch it, so at last we had to
shoot it. It flew on the house tops,
ana"'- 80 ,il
sssAh, by Jove, that@saecoants Tor
it'll You must have shot the wealth
ercock by mistake. London An
sWers.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-01-06
a Polite Prisoner. !.

The lady whoswas visiting the Jail
had been much impressed with the
APPEARANCE and behavior Of the pris-
on9s, and she took occasion to ex-
press her approval to the warden.
'fThey seem ,as courteous as any
bod 1, she said enthusiastically.
"evkn il they dom taayI any thing.
les, they're petite enough, as
sented the jailer. but I'm q little
suspicious Of too fine manners"
Z don't see how you can be, :, ex-
claihed the lady. i,,G3 ss3 7.
FELL, I am, I, declared the ward
EN-, fandI haveSbee ever, since one
of the Ismoo othest Of them broke out
sof JILL and left q note FOR me in
which he wrote, Gahope you will
pardon me for The liberty + am taxi
ing. 7 outh' 8 Companion.
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THE GREEDY BLACKBlRD.
His Capacity For Putting Away FOOD
Is Enormous.

no SePsS'eJ TOT Tutt!iS away rood
Is Enormous.
Which is the greediest OF the
birds-the rook, the jackdaw, the
blackbird, the startling? I have ev-
ldence, writes .Mr. Fred Wishaw i'll
Longman's, beaeing upon the vorac-
ity of each, but l almost think that
for his size the blackbird contrives
to put away the largest amount of
food. His capacity is enormous and
most astonishing if we compare it
with our own. Watch him on the
lawn, busy over his meat course. A
worm moves i'll his subtcrraneous
home, an inch or SO below the sur
face of the ground. Mr.. Blackbird
hears him and is over the spot in an
instant. Down goes his yellow bcaik
and up comes the unfortunate wrig-
CLING victim. y gulp or two and he
is gone, fair meal in itself, YOU
would say, and equivalent to pound
Of sausagcs at the very lowest com
putation if consumed and consumer
were both translated to correspond
ing dimensions.
But our friend is not nearly sat
isfied. You may watch hing unearth
and devour half dozen worms, aft
er which he will repair to the straw
berry beds for his entremet. He
will fly along the net until he
reaches some weak spot he knows
of, but which you have not yet dis.
covered. With a dive and wriggle
he is through and beginning quiet
half hour among your choicest Der.
ries, during which time he will not
regard the circumstance that sucf
fruit is worth shilling pound
or near it. He will "tuck in" unit
he scarcely possesses the energy tc
retire when requested to do so by
the human owner of the property
preferring to hide among the foil
age and lie low until, with the helr
of that remarkably quick digestion
Of his, he may feel able to move with
comfort. During that hour Of lassi.
tudc the green eyed cat may come
and peer through the net, suspect.
ing his presence there maybe, but
he will take no cognizance Of her
lie is too lazy even to swear at hel
and prefers to lie and blink under
his strawberry leaves. He feels like
the schoolboy in the tuck shop who
has had nine penn'oFth Of jam rol
and is then invited by the Fcaptair
OF the Junior House eleven to come
and field out. He is s'stodged" al
last and incapable of exertion.
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Natural Enouah.

81 don't understand your method
at all" said Miss Obesity somewhat
irately to the professor Of physical
culture. II have just been talking
to Miss Skinny Bones, and she says
chat your advice to her is exercise
and diet. Now, you have told me
that diet and exercise are what Ineed.
How can you possibly hope to ac-
complish such different ends With
the same means ?"
Simplest thing in the world,
madam" answered the, professor.
our cases are exactly reversed.
A mere reyersion of the medicines
is all that is necessary."-Detroit
Free Press.
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M M 0 RI e. TN Z!
OPIUM, vvhISKEY, AND ALL
DRUG HABITS
Cured Without Palm at Your Home
TIE BEST OF SANATORIUAa FACILI.
TIES IF DESIRED.

II you are addicted To these hsbita .yon think
you will Qelt II. You won't; you can't unaided /;
put. you can be cured and restored :o your former
health and vigor without pain or the lols Of an
hour from your business Mt moderate cost. The
medicine builds up your health, restores your
eysten to its normal condition; you feel like Q
ie,sns Gers1n , from tho hsginnlng Of treatment
FIRST DOSE. You will soon bs convinced and
fully satisfied In your own mind that you will be
cured.
Mr. T. Nj. Brown. Of Deoueen. Ark, Gays:
over seven yesrs ngo was cured Of the opium
babtt by your medicine and hnve continued in tho
very best OF health o. ace"
pr. w. NJ: Tunstall, of Lovlngston, Va, says:
II am glad to say that hrml' believe that am
entirely and permanently cured Of tho Drink
Habit, rs have neyor even go much % wanted o
drink In any form since took your eredieator,
now eighteen months ago. I.:ss :he beat doiiars
S-oT suv 0ste1.
Nrs. Virginia Townsend, OF shrovepos, La,
writes:
mo more oaium have taken no other remo-
dy than yonr1, aud make no mistake whom say
that my health 10 better now shan It ever wnu In
my Inc, and owe 1t TO you and your remedy. 1t
has been tvelve years enoe was cured by your
treatment"
For particulars address Dr.. b. NJ. WOOLLEY,
S0l Lowades Building, Atlanta, Gn., who will send
you hil book on these diseases FRE.E.
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SPAIN'S PUBLIC RECORDS.
An Institution Not ParaIleIed In Any
Other Country.

Other Country.
There are many interesting places
in the neighborhood Of Salamanca.
On the carriage road from Vallado-
lid is the old Roman city of Siman-
cas-. ,iaw reduced to sleepy village
of few hundred inhabitants, in
closed in massive walls, which has
been preserved from extinction by
the little business attracted here by
the archives of Spain. In the early
part OF the sixteenth century Cardi-
nal Ximines established ut Siman.
cas- house of public records. 1t
was a statcsmanike thing to do,
and it is pity his example was not
initiated by other countries. Here
in an enormous building erected for
the purpose are 33,OO0,OOO docu-
ments, divided into $4,000 classes,
indexed and arranged in chronology
ical order, reaching back as far us
the introduction of the art of writ
ing into the kingdom and coming
down to the middle of the last CEN
tury. They were arranged under
the direction of Manuel Ayala, Sec
retary Of Charles ", and beside the
records Of, state, the correspondence
of ambassadors, the reports of mill
tary commanders, governors Of
provinces and other agents Of the
government, are tons upon tons of
private correspondence of immense
historical value.
There is no similar collection any
where in the world, and upon the
shelves are records not only con-
cerning Spain, but England, France,
the Netherlands, Germany and Aus
tria, of which many writer's have al
ready availed themselves. Washing
ton Irving and Prescott both spent
months here and here obtained much
of the material found in their his
tories. There is large staff of
clerks under the direction of the
chief of the archives, who are al.
ways very obliging. They lead lone
Iy lives and are glad to welcome
strangers. Nearly always there is
some one there, and often several
people making Investigations and
copies of documents to be used in
suits of law or historical writings.
All documents dated earlier than
the middle of the eighteenth CEN
tury are shown at the discretion of
the custodian, but later archives
cannot be examined without per-
NIT from the minister of the gov
ernment at Madrid.
Ordinary visitors will be interest
ed in inspecting the original deed of
capitulation by which the Alhambra
was surrendered to Ferdinand and
Isabella by Boabdil, the last of the
Moorish kings; original dispatches
Of Gonzalo de Cordova. the "gran
cspitan," the greatest soldier of his
age; the inventory Of Queen Isa-
bella's jewels which she offered to
pawn to raise money for Columbus,
but they were not needed; her mar
riage contract with Ferdinand, which
united four kingdoms; her last will
and testament, and also those of
Charles V. and Philip II. None of
the documents, however, relates to
America. Those are all preserved
i'll similar manner in the Tonga,
the old chamber of commerce build
ing at Seville. W. E. Curtis in
Chicago Record Herald.
s- "
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silence / Fer. a Month.

curious custom prevails in Bul.
garia which must be a hard penalty
for the woman who loves to hear the
sound of her own voice. All newly
married women are obliged to re.
! main dumb for q month after mar.
;riage except when addressed by
their husbands. WhenEit is desira.
BILE to remove this restriction per.
:inanently the husband presents her
with q gift, and then she cap chatte.
to her heart 5 sSSt tent. ..ii . g