The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-02-07
TribuIations Of The Editor.

does net seem to be the usual
grist of startling events, We trust
our readers will forbear making
any harsh criticisms. To be able
to serve up whole newspaperful
of crisp entertaining matter, and
keep that up week in and week
out tifty-two times a year, year IN
aud year out, may not be just as
funny a job a. you might think.
Sometimes things happen. Some
times they don't. Sometimes
they come very near happening,
and then, all at once you find they
did not happen.
When you have beeu out of
meat at your house, have you gone
out, and after a weary hunt, sue.
ceeded in getting hold of a fat
rabbit, and just about the time
you were congratulatipg yourself
upon your good luck, the rabbit
made one desperate lunge, and
the last you saw of 1T, the cotton
tail was disappearing in the green
briar thlcket? You went home
discouraged, and all the more, if
the preacher was to be there for
supper
Such Is life. We came very
near having a two column article,
with a big three-decker scare
head, right in this weeks paper
an article that would have been
read by every man, woman, and
child IN the county, and telegraph
ed to all the leading city dailies.
Yes; 1T would have attracted as
muuh popular interest as the IN
vestigation of the methods prac-
ticed by the State Insurance Com
missioner at Harrisburg.
The head would have run some.
thing like this: "Territic Explo.
slon." "One of the Lnading
Stores in McConnellsburg Blown
to Atoms" ''Kindled Morning
Fire with Dynamite"
Well, as we have said, the rea.
son the article does not appear
this week Is, that the material for
it did not ripen.
Not quite.
This is how near
Mr.. George w. Hays, who for
many years was the trusted clerk
in the Thomas Patterson store,
recently purchased from the Pat
terson heirs, the remaining in
terest IN the store and building,
and will now be the sole owner of
the business. For several days,
William Hull, of the Racket Store,
j. Lind Patterson, formerly one
of the proprietors of the Webster
Mills store, and j. b. Runyan,
McConnellsburg's marble and
granite man, who acquired a
practical familiarity with the mer-
camille business several years
ago-ali have been busy making
an invoice of the stock in the
store, preparatory to Mr.. Hayes
taklLg entire possession.
Before closing the store one ev-
ening last week, Elmer Peck sent
In for four sticks of dynamite and
four dynamite caps. The order
was filled--or 1t was supposed
that it was filed. Next morning
Mr.. Hayes was at the store early,
and assisted IN sweeping up the
paper and other accumulations on
the floor, incident to the business
of the day before.
The store Is heated by great
big box stove, and it was con.
venient place to put the rubbish.
Into the stove it went, just as
fc rmer rubbish had done hun.
dred times before; but just as
Mr.. Hayes closed the stove door
-B-o.o-m-. wentsomething with
IN the stove that fairly lifted Mr..
Hayes off his feet, and the great
stove heaved, the smoke and ash
es flew, and for a moment MIR.
Hayes stood dazed.
1t was all over in a S acond. Nc
mischief done. Nobody hurt, He
looked into the stove. The wood
was simmering as though unde
cided whether to burn or go out
There was a mystery, and Mr.
Havs could not solve IL. at laast