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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-06-21
NEW GRENADA.

shade trees ana palm lea1 rams
have been in demand the past
week.
Our neighbor and comrade, +.
G.. Mills has again taken up his
usual line OF employment for the
month of June, viz. Eel business
with the usual success 3 2-1.0-
quits.
A large blacksuake was killed
IN the yard of Central" measur-
ing obout 4 } #; also, a housesnake
in Dick Alloway's yard.
One Sunday, recently, Thorn
ton Foster, Charles Deshong and
Clarence Foster took walk to
the famous snake den, and sue
ceeded IN Staying rattlesnakes as
follows one 3 #. % in. with 10
rattles; two, 3 fl. Al ln., with 20
rattles; one, 3 fl. ) in, II rattles;
one, 3 ft. q in., II rattles; one, ,
#. with 4 rattles; one, 3 ft. s in.,
IA rattles; one, 3 it. Z in., 10 rat
ties. Combined length 26 #. 3
IN. Total, rattles 90. Good days
work.
The following are The officers
elected for ensuing year of Beth
Ell union Sunday school Super
intendent, Thos. H. Ramsey; sec
retary, Maude Cunningham (;
treasurer, Vaughn McClain; or.
ganists, Lizzie Watkin and Ethel
Thomas; librarian, Richard Allo-
way.
The Wells township school
board organized with James A.
McDonough, president; John r.
Lockard, secretary, and A. 5. Ed
wards, collector and treasurer.
The rate of school tax was fixed
at 10 mills. The people of Wells
can begin to dig down in their
jeans for dough. The settlement
shows a debt of $50 which shows
rather bad state of affairs for the
new board to face.
A. w. Johnston and wife, of
Streator, ILL.,, are stopping few
days at the home of f. G.. Mills.
S. G. Gracey, one of the Demo
cratic nominees for county com
missioner was a visitor to our
town during the week.
w. O. Fields of Robertsdale,
visited our city on Saturday even
ing enroute to the home of his fa-
ther IN Clay township
The yellow parsonage has
changed It's color to that of cream
and green; but the minister,
Flick still tarries there all the
same. Donations received with
usual thanks.
Among a brood of chicks re.
Gently Matched, Mrs. Geo. w. Bar
nett, of Hubblesvllle, noticed one
that had but one leg. 1t was hatch
ed that way. But what 1t lacked
in legs it made up IN toes; tor the
one leg that it had was adorned
with eight well formed toes.
Chas. r. Grlssinger, one of Ful-
ton county's boys and a graduate
of Girard College, graduated IN
dentistry at the Philadelphia Den
tai College May 29th, with dis
tiuguished honors. Much credit
is due tins orphan boy who
through lndefatiglble labor and
perseverance has carried himself
through almost insurmountable
obstacles, and attained for him
self that most priced of all ac-
comphshments, a lucrative pro-
fession. 1t also speaks well for
the county of which he Is a ma.
tive.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-06-21
In Memory OF a Sweet Baby.

Sleep ON. dear little pet.
Your sweet face, will never forget.
W hen L think OF your baby prattle,
My eyes with tears are wet
Sleep on, little dear; take your rest
We gladly would have kept you;
But God called you, he thought 1t best
Now you are pillowed on his loving breast
Heaven now retains our treasure;
Earth the lonely cas<et keeps;
And the sunbeams long to linger
Where our darling baby sleeps.
He has gone from US forever
Longer here he might not stay;
He has reached fairer region,
Far far away.
HIS MOTHER.
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There will be a dancing picnic
held at Harris's mill one mile
south Of Big Cove Tannery,fJuly
eth, Saturday afternoon and ey-
ening with fue music furnished
for the dance.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-06-21
CUMBERLAND VALLEY

Train No. II east runs datyexcept Sunday
between Hagerstown and Harrisburg leaving
Hagerstown i.O5 and arriving at Harrisburg at
Additional east-bound local trains will run
daily, except Sunday, as follows; Leave
Carlisle 705 a. M, 1880 p. m. Sl5 pm, leave
Mechanlcsburg BOD M, 7.29 u. M. 1252 p. m,
S.So p: m. Leave Dillsburg 5.35 a. M. 1000 a.
m, 500 p. M,
Trains Nos. 2, 8 and 10 run daily between Ha-
gerstown and Harrisburg
Daily.
Daily except Sunday.
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tire length of the line of battle.
Next we stopped at Spangler's
Spring, which IS on the southeast
slope of Cups Hill. where sol
diers of both armies secured wa
ter and mingled together freely
during the night Of july 2nd. We
all took drink at that spring.
The next view was Spangler's
Meadow, where several hundred
Of Jonnston's Confederates were
buried in trenches. On a large
rock stands the pioneer monu-
ment--the 2nd Mass, which was
erected in 1879. The National
Park commission has been dong
an important work. They have
erected five observation tower $
at prominent places on the field,
as well as, many fine avenues and
fences. The inscriptions on the
rows of tablets give the move
ments of both armies from June
20 to July Z, inclusive.
We started to ascend one of the
observation towers, which was 70
steps high; but on the third flight
of stairs, mamma and / decided
we did not care to go any farther.
Papa and brother went to the top,
where they had a magnificent
view Of the battlefield. We then
went to hear an address delivered
by Ex-Governor Beaver in the
National cemetery. They had ex-
cellent music and the old soldiers
and Sunday school children dec
Grated the graves of the unknown
dead. After spending an hour
pleasantly there, our guide in
formed US the time was passing
rapidly, and we then went to Lit.
tie Round Top and Devils Den,
where the large rocks show the
bullet marks yet. Wenex came
to the Wheatfield, which was fam
Gus ia the history of Gettysburg
as the whirlpool of the battle.
Another place of interest is the
little Stone House on the Pike,
winch was, for time, used by
Gen. Lee as his headquarters.
The last place we visited was
the free museum-the house in
which Jennie Wade was killed
she being the only citizen who
was killed during the battle Of
Gettysburg. She was engaged
in baking on the morning of July
Sd and was struck by a sharp
shooters bullet. The monument
which marks her grave was erect
ed by the Women's Relief Corps
Of Iowa. The house shows on
the north side the marks of over
100 bullets. 1t is a place of gen.
eral interest to Gettysburg tour
lsts. / bought hatchet, and
Wallace a revolver as souvenirs.
to bring home with us. We drove
to the hotel, took supper, board
ed the train at $3.50 for Hancock,
winch was due at the latter place
at 8 p. m, but, OWING to an acci-
dent about the engine, which, we
are glad to say, caused no serious
inconvenience, except the delay
Of two hours, we arrived at Han
cock, took lodging at the Wabash
Hotel till the next day. when we
returned home, feeling none the
worse for our outing,
RUSSELL H. SWARTZWELDER.
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Millinery.
MRS. "A. r. LITTLE'S
Under-selling Store.

We received lot of Mid Summer Hats latest styles
the latest styles and get them
Trimmed so 80 Chidren's Hats
% Ready Hats and Turbans in all col
Ladies from 81 $3.50 Sunbonnes 10 and
Shirt
Pun Side Combs II
Ribbons all shades the lowest prices Belts from 10 to
2jc and Colar Ladies Gaue
Fancy Hat Pins Collars
Fans with every hat.
goods and get prices. on welcome
whether you buy
Yours respectfully,
MRS. II. u. LITTLE,
Opposite POStoffice McConnellsburg.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-06-21

Hustontown-O O2l32 %.
Ft. Littleton-O 021o O-4.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-06-21

There will be preaching ser.
wees at the Salvation Army
church Saturday evening at 8
o'clock, Sunday at 1890 a. M,
2;30 and at 8p m.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-06-21

Nothing inserted for less than u
Professional Cards one year IS
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dark under the trees, and all the
childher sets up to bowling that they
want to go home.
Yell pass the night in this stretch
of woods and scenery, says officer
Reagan. Twill be fine and imprison-
ment for insooIting the Park Com
missioner and the Chief OF the
Weather Bureau if We refuse I'm in
charge of thirty acres between here
and the Agyptian Monument, and l
advise ye to give no trouble 'Tis
sleepin' on the grass yez all have
been condemned to by the authorities
.Yez'll be permitted to leave in the
norma but ye must retoorn be night,
Me orders was silent on the subject
of bail, but III find out if It's re-
quired. and there1l be bendsmen at
the gate
There bein' no lights except along
the automobile drives, us 179 tenants
of the Beesheba Flats prepared to
spend the night as best we could in
the ragin' forest. Them that brought
blankets and kzndling wood was best
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GILLIAN Tells of an Experience That
Is Common, But Always Dis
tressfuIIy Interesting,
By STRICKLAND w. GILLIAN.

Shins Black, Blue. and Bloody from
violent Contact with Trunks that lay
in Wait for us wherever we might
Turn. It was Impossible to 90 out
into the Hall without knocking Down
something from a Tub or a Dishpan
that Stood about, Piled with Trump
cry. Once when l went out I Upset
something that ratified like the Lid
Of the Chatting Dish. and in Ghoulish
Spite at the thing that had been the
Author and Fiuisher Of my lovely
case Of In-growing Dyspepsia, Jump
ed up and down on It. II Turned ont
TO be a Hammered Bronze Tray that
friend from N'York had given my
wife for Christmas Present That
was the most Expensive Jump 1 ever
made, although, il the hands Of Lee
ture Bureaus, / am accustomed TO be-
ing Jumped from Duluth to St. Angus
tine at my own Expense.
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floor, and Patsy Rourke's flute goin'
in the eighth. and the ladies calm
each other synonyms out the windies,
and now and then a breeze sailin' in
over Mister Depew's Central tell
you the Beersheba Flats was a sum
mer resort that made the Catskills
look like a hole in the ground. With
his person full Of beer and his feet
oute the windy and his old woman
fryin' pork chops over a charcoal fur
mace. and the childher dancin' in cot
ton slips on the sidewalk around the
organ grinder, and the rent paid for
a week-what does a man want bet
ter on a hot night than that? And
then comes this ruin of the polls
drivin' people out of their comfort
able homes to sleep in parks-'twas
for all the world like ukase of them
Russians-'twiT be heard from again
at next election time
We'll then, officer Reagan drives
the whole lot of US to the park and
turns US in by the nearest gate. .'Tis
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the driveway and stays there. There
IS some hair-pullin' among the wo-
men folks, and everybody spanks the
nearest hoWlin' kid to him bv the
sense OF feelin' only. regardless of its
parentage and ownership Tis hard
TO keep up the social distinctions in
the dark that flourish by daylight in
Beersheba Flats. Mrs Rafferty,, that
despises the asphalt that Dago
treaGs on, wakes UP IN rhe mornin'
with her feet in the bosom Of Antonio
SpiZZinelli And Mike O'DOwd. that
always threw peddlers downstairs as
fast as he came upon EN-. has to un-
wind old Isaacstein's Whiskers from
around his neck, and wake up the
whole gang at daylight. But here
and there some got acquainted and
overlooked the discomforts Of the
elements. There was five engage
ments to be married announced at
the hats the next morning.
About midnight I gets up and
wrings the dew out of my hair. and
goes to the side Of the driveway and
sits down. At one side of the park
could see the lights in the streets
and houses; and I was thinkin' how
happy them folks was who could
chase the duck and smoke their pines
at their windows, and keep cool and
pleasant like nature intended for EN-
to-
Just then an automobile stops by
me, and a fne-lookin', well dressed
man steps out.
Ne man.. says he, can you tell
me why all these people are lyin'
around on the grass in the park?
thought it was against the rules
Twas an ordinance, says I, Just
passed by the polls department and
ratified by the Turf Cutters Associa-
ton. providin' that all PERSONS not
carryin' a license number on their
rear axles shall sleep in the public
parks until further notice. Fortu-
nately, the orders comes this year
durin' a spell Of fine weather, and the
mortality, except on the borders Of
the lake and along the automobile
drives. will not be any greater than
usual
Who are these people on the side
of the hill?' asks the man.
Sure, says I, none others than
the tenants of the Beersheeba Flats
a fine home for any man, especially
on hot nights May dS Wight soon
come.'
THE fine man takes out a red book
and marks in it
They come here be night says
he, and breathe in the pure air and
the fragrance Of the flowers and trees.
They do that says he, comm every
night from the burnin' heat Of dwell
ms of brick and stone
And wood. says I, and marble
and plaster and iron
q The matter VIII be attended to at
once, says the man, putting up his
book.
Are ye the park commissioner?
skc.
g" I own the Beersheba Flats. says
he. God bless the grass and L =
trees that give extra benefits 10
mans tenants The rents shall be
raised Is Per cent tomorrow. Coed
night, says he
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the City Club and the Murphy Dray-
ing, Returning and Sodding Company,
there was the look of couple of
fires and an eviction all over the
place
The tenants began to pack up
feather beds. rubber boots. strings of
garlic, hot-water bags. portable canoes
and scuttIes of coal to take along for
the sake of comfort. The sidewalk
looked like a Russian camp in
Oyama's line of march. There was
wailin and Iamentin' up and down
stairs from Danny Geoghegan's fiat
on the top for to the apartments
of Missis Goldsteinupski on the first
For why says Danny. comm
down and ragin' in his blue yarn
socks to the janitor, should I be
turned out Of me comfortable apart
mints to lay in the dirty grass like a
rabbit? IT'S like Jerome TO stir up
trouble wid small matters like this
instead Of
Whist says Officer Reagan on
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l remember distinctly the Difficulty
l experienced getting my Six Feet of
Length and my Two Feet of Consid-
cradle Size into their Proper Recepta-
cles while Crouching with the Air
and in the Garb Of a Savage behind
a Small TabOTette
My Wife dressed on one of the Cup
board Shelves and Sprained her Arm
trying to get into a Shirt-waist.
Our Older Child managed 10 get
herself Surrounded by Clothing, in
the lower part Of the Ice-Chest, and
has had Cold ever Since.
Hastily boiling a two-minute Egg,
cooked in the FI0ur-scOop over a Can
Gle, and eating a Couple Of Peaches
while | leaned over the Sink to keep
the Juice from my Clothing. | received
a Previously-arrarged For Telephone
message TO he Early at the Office,
kissed my Wifes Smudged and Sad
Face and hurried away
When it comes to being either a
Coward or Fool, know which III
be, every Time.
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the sidewalk, rappin' with his club.
'Tis not Jerome. 'Tis by order of
the Polls Commissioner. Turn out
every one of yez and hike yerseIves
to- the park
Nov. twas a peaceful and happy
home that ar of us had in them same
Beersheba Flats. The O'Dowds and
the Steinowitzes and the CalIahaus
and the Cohens and the Spizzinellis
and Me3Ianuses and the Spiegel-
mayors and the Joneses-aH nations
of us, we lived like one big family to-
gether. And when the hot nights
come along we kept a line Of childher
reachin' from the front door to KEEL
ley's on the corner, passtn' along the
cans of beer from one to another
without the trouble of runnin' for it.
And with no more clothin' on than
is provided for in the statutes, sittin'
in all the windies, with a cool growler
in every one, and your feet out in
the air, and the Rosenstein girls
singin' on the fire escape Of the sixth
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First thing l did down Town was
to get some Breakfast.
AS | ate it, | thought of my Hun
cry Wife and Wished she could have
Some. too. Then / remembered that
she was Moving and couldn't te Pres
enj.
fastening to the Office, I began
working Vigorously to drown the
Sound of the still Small Voice of Con-
science land the Voice Of Conscience
is Still Small in Man. after all these
CentuTies). Pretty soon the Office
boy came to my Folly Factory and
said:
''Wanche at TIL Foam
You never would Guess il, but when
he says That, | know | am wanted at
the Telephone.
The Voice said: This is the Gas
man. I'm out at Suburba to put in
the Connections for your Gas-range.
| find | can't do it because the Plumb
er for your House hasn't put in the
Drain-cock at the bottom of the
Water-tank."
I replied: 20, very Well. I don't
know what any Of those Things are.
but if it is Necessary III kill the
Plumber"
And" continued the Voice. your
Wife says for you to Come Out Here
at Once"
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off. They got fires started and wrap
ped the blankets round their heads
and laid down, cursiU, in the grass
There was nOthin' to see. nothin' TO
drink. nothin' TO do. IN the dark
We had no way of tellin' friend or
foe except by feelin' the noses of EN-.
I brought along me last winter over
coat. me toothbrush, some quinine
pills, and the red quilt OFF the bed
in me fiat. Three times durin' the
night somebody rolled on me quilt
and stuck his knees against the
Adams apple of me. And three times
I Judged his character by runnin' me
hand over his face, and three times
I rose up and kicked the intruder
down the hill to the gravelly walk
below. And then some one with
flavor of Kelly's whisky snuggIed mp
to me, and I found his nose turned
up the right way, and | says: Is that
you, then, Patsy?' and he says, IT is,
Carney. How long do you think
it'll last?'
I'm no weather prophet says I,
but If they bring out strong anti
Tammany ticket next fall it ought
to get rs home in time to sleep on a
bed once or twice before they line us
up at the polls.
'A-playfn' of my flute into the air
shaft says Patsey Rourke, and a
perspirin' in me own windy to the
joyful noise Of the passin' trains and
the smell Of liver and onions, and a
readin' of the latest murder in the
smoke of the cookin' is well enough
for me- says he What is this herdin'
US ii gress for, not to mention the
crawlin' things with legs that walk
up the trousers of US, and the Jersey
snipes that peck at us masqueradin'
under the name and denomination Of
mosquitoes. What is it ali for Carney,
and the rint gOin' on just the same
over at the f1ats?'
IT'S the great annual Municipal
Free Night Outing Lawn Party, says
I. given by the polls. Russell Sage.
and tE2 Drug trust Durin the heat
ed season they hold week of it in
the principal parks. 'Tis q scheme to
reach that portion Of the people that's
not worth takin' up to North Beach
for q fish fry
= can't sleep on the ground says
Patsy, wild any benefit, I have the
hay fever and the rheumatism, and
ne ear is full of ants
We'll, the night goes on, an the
ex-tenants Of the fats groans and
stumbIes around in the dark, tryin to
find rest and recreation in the forest
The childher is screamin' with the
cOIdness, and the janitor makes hot
tea for 'em and keeps the fires goin'
with the signboards that point to the
Tavern and the Casino The tenants
try to lay down on the grass by fami-
lies in the dark, but you're lucky if
you can sleep next to man from
the same floor or beIievin' in the
same religion Now and then a
Murphy accidental, rolls over on the
grass Of a Rosentetn. or a Cohen tries
to crawl under an O'Grady bush, and
then there's a feelin' OF noses, and /
sombedy is rolled down the hill to |
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Clean Of wheat ana Soft Eggs.

Since then We had been cropping
around with Candles that Leaked Tai
low on our Fingers and made them
Stiff and Sticky
The CooRirs had been doae in a
Chafng-Dish. And don't let anyone
ever SwindIe you into Believing that
Clean Of Wheat, Soft Eggs and Flap
jacks cooked in Rapid Succession in
the same Welsh-Rarebit Foundry
without any Scene-Shifting or
Changes Of Costume taste Just as if
they would If Each had been allowed
more Privacy There is a noticeable
Blend there skat tends 10 an Unappe-
tiZing MonOtCDy.
We all got so We would Grow Flu
rious at the Sight Of Alleged Food.
but were TOO Emaciared to make any
Violent Demonstration
A heayy-browed Villain from the
MoVery had been 10 the Flat and
looked over cur Layers and Peanuts
and had decided how many Barrels
would be required 10 Pack the Dishes
in large quantities of LongfeHow's 8
Motto.
We had retired at Early Candle
Light the Previous Night, detected
and Angry with each Other, our Fin
gers Shellacked with tallow and our
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Gillian Took Chances.

1t was time to Prepare Baby's daily
Food OF course, Fire and Water are
mere Details not worth Considering.
but we didn't know how We'd Get
along without Them. There were
Both, in my Wife's Eyes; but the
Tears kept putting out rhe Fire so
i wish that Builder were here, :"
she Said, when she had Swallowed a
Lump about twice the Size of the
Rock of Gibraltar, and I'd tell
Him"
There is where my Manliness As
serted itself.
No, 10" / cried Heroically. I
have never been considered Much in
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The Roching-Chair as a scrapper.


Did you ever Notice that, even
though before you Put out the Light
you carefully got the Bearings of
everything in the Room and then fol-
lowed the Direction you knew to be
perfectly Clear. something Big and
Bulky sneaked into your Path and
Waylaid you? Did you ever become
Involved and Enmeshed with a Rock
ing Chair under such circumstance? ?
Nobody had better tell me that a
hOCking-ChatT in the Dark is an Imam
innate Object. All YOU have TO do is to
Step on the Tip-end Of one Rocker and
the rest of the Chair rises up and En-
braces you with Bear-Like Rudeness.
1t haIf-Nelsons you, takes Strangle-
Holds, Hammer-Locks; It Upper-Cuts.
Fouls you ana has no Trouble what
ever in Landing on the Point OF your
Jaw or your Solar-PJexus at VIII.
There isn't g Shiftier Fighter in the
Universe than an Innocent old Rocker
that looks all out of Training and
Stiff. The Moment you Let go OF your
Clinch and endeayor to strike IN the
Breakaway. it is beyond your Reach;
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At the Place of Much Trouble.

Ach, du Iiebe Augustine.
My quick Sneak had saved me very
little Agony, Thank You.
My Unselfish wife wasn't going 10
let Hubby miss any of the Joys that
entered So Richly into her own Rain
bow-Tainted Life.
| must be Among Those Present.
Wearily dropping my daily Task
(Which had never before seemed Sweet
to me- | boarded d Car and was soon
at the Place of Much Trouble.
o, no; there wasn't anything Wrong
not a Thing
The House was Ready for Occu-
pancy.
With the Exceptions Of the Third,
Second and First Floors.
And the Basement.
My Partner in IdiOCy was standing
in the midst OF a lot of Barrels and
Boxes and Beds and Shayings and
Dishabille Lumber and WOrl-benches
and Step-ladders and WindOw-sash
and DOor-frames and Horses.
She was holding the Baby Close
with a Look in her Eye which I Know
Five WOrkmen stood about and
Tried not to See Trouble Brewing
while they Glanced occasionally at the
Poor. Insane People who would move
into a House in that Condition.
1t was Narrowing,
Yes, and Digging and Flowing and
HOeing and Cultivating.
All the house lacked Of being Per
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fectly Ready was that there were no
Windows in. no Doors Hung (the date
Of Execution was set for Some Days
Later, the Hearths weren't laid, the
Heaters we're not Connected, the
Water-pipes were not Connected or
the water Turned On. the Woodwork
wasn't Painted and the Debris was
in the Rooms where We wanted-aye
Needed-tO be.