The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-06-21
FKOM ELD0RA, IOWA.
Interesting Letter From the Pen of Rev.
George B. Shoemaker.

of your paper came to me to-day,
and, as is my custom, | proceed.
ed to read it at once. Every copy
of "the News" blings me some
one or more items of news IN
which | am interested. There
is always the mention of many fa.
millar names, and | have read
about the new people so often
that they almost seem to me now
as old friends.
Iowa is looking beautiful now.
The season was such that corn
was planted quite a little later
than usual, but it is up or coming
up in excellent condition, and
farmers will be busy now almost
day and night until 1t is lald by.
Hay will be fine crop, and
small grain Is showing well. The
early potatoes are blossoming, or
at least nine are, and vegetabl
are well advanced. Strawberries
are beginning to rlpeu, but | am
sure there will be none to equal
the two ounces apiece berries re-
ported by the news as a product
OF old Fulton county. My what
berries, or else what a monu.
mental prevarlcator there must
be il your sanctum sanctorum.
Iowa strawberries, however, are
excellent in size, flavor, color,
shape, quality and quantity, and
the price is all right too.
Several weeks ago we were
badly frightened because in the
night the house next to US caught
on fire and was much damaged,
though not entirely destroyed.
The fire was only about twenty
feet from the parsonage, but
there was no wind and the fire.
men soon eXtingulshed 1t. One
of the boys belonging to the un-
fortunate neighbors wakened us
aud asked me to ring Telephone
central and tell them of the fire.
| soon had central, but it was nee
essary for me to swallow a few
times before | could find my
voice. | think | felt very much
as | did when, years ago, | un-
dertook to preach my first SER
mon. 1t was in the M. b. church,
Fort Llttleton. We were not
damaged at all by the fire, only
frightened. For this we have
reason to be grateful.
This is the commencement sea-
son IN our land. Colleges, Uni
versltles, Academies, Seminaries
and High Schools are closing the
years work with exercises of
various kinds. The sweet girl
graduates are in evidence now,
and the fine young men who com.
plete the school work are not
few. AT this time of year | am
almost deslrous of going back to
school age, that / might try
again
just now three barefooted boys
went by my door. They had fish
poles over their shoulders and
were headed for the Iowa river to
spend the afternoon. Their main
purpose is to have the fish bite at
their bait and be hauled out of
the river, but fear they will be
bitten themselves by the hungry
mosquitoes.
| hope they win not be so ur-
fortunate as the boy read about.
He went to the river to fish and
fell In A gentleman helped him
out OF the water and said, 'How
did you come to fall in?" Through
his tears he replied, 81 didn't
come to fall IN, l came to fish. +"
The aptness of his reply mades
me think he was of Irish descent
and perhaps son of the man who
SAID, "Me wife lay sick for sax
wakes durln' the long month of
August, spachless, and all her
cry was, Wather Wather Wath-
er !"
A few weeks ago a magnificent
pipe organ was dedicated at the
Chapel of the Iowa Industrial
School for Boys, located at Edo
ra. The ORGAN is the gift of eX-