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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-03-21
LARGEST FARM IN AMERICA.
Chicagoan Raises 100000 Bushels OF
Corn Annually on Place.

The largest farm in Iowa, and
no doubt the largest farm IN the
world where corn is grown al.
most exclusively, is the big Ad-
ans place of $4,000 acres near
Odebolt, Hamilton county. The
los men employed steadily the
last year, have just finished husk-
ing the greatest cornfield in the
United States. More than 300,
900 bushes of corn we. e raised
there this year. The stalks will
be shredded for the fat cattle be-
fore spring. Thirty.seven dou-
BILE stalk cutters were used to
bind the corn in the field this fall.
Mules were employed almost
everywhere to do the heavy dra IT
work on the farm and there are
over 200 of these faithful animals
kept there constantly. With the
exception of a large number of
feeders, purchased every fall, no
cattle are raised ON the big farm.
Last winter, Mr.. Adams, the
owner, had 5000 sheep brought
from his North Dakota ranch for
feeding. He did the same this
winter. There is main Office
and headquarters where the man
uger of the farm has his desk. 1t
Is here that MIR. Adams him self
spends large part of his time IN
summer. The farm is divided
into sections and each part IL un-
der the direction of a sub fore
man and worked by his force of
men.
All the houses of the employ
ees are located III one pl ice near
the center of the farrn, making a
small town. A school house is
also erected for the children OF
the workers. The farm and its
methods are a revelation to the
visitor. Adams is an enthusiast
for good roads and all through
the place he has built handsome
drivewaJs. There is another
farm in Sac county, La, which
contains 5000 acres. The land
there is not all titled as on the
Adams ranch, and hence it is not
Of so general interest to the pub
lie. 1t Is though, among the re
cord. breakers IN Iowa for acre
age owned by one man in one con
Jlguous piece.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-03-21
MUM BER 26
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW
Snapshots at Their Comings and Goings
Here for Vacation, or Away
for Restfu Outing.
NAMES OF VISITORS AND VISITED

Subscribe for the "News, " only
Sl.00 year.
j. G. Fisher, of Dott, was one
If our visitors on Monday.
Ex.judge Lemuel Kirk was a
visitor at Court this week.
Landlord Wllds, of Fort Little
ton, was in town on Monday.
J. G. Comerer was town visi-
tor on Monday.
j. G. Sipes, of Hustontown, was
pleasant caller at our Office on
Monday.
Ernest Hixscn, ofBrush Greek,
township, Is visiting the family of
John Stouteagle.
VIM. Youse, wife and baby are
on a two.week's visit to friends
in this vicinity.
Treasurer Lauver is IN town
this week, with the county's
"Strong box"
Capt. Skinner, of the S. O. l.
s., at Scotland, came over on Sun
day to attend court.
Messrs. o. G. Bowers and Chas.
Walter, of Cham bersburg, are at
tending court this week.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-03-21
appointed auditor to distribute.

appointed auditor to distribute.
Petition OF School Directors of the
schooldistrict of McConnellsburg, Pa,
presented asking for rule on School
Directors of Ayr township to show
cause why they should not pay sl47.
Tuition of high school scholars of said
township Rule awarded.
Petition of Directors of the Poor of
Huntingdon county, for rule to show
cause why overseers of the poor of
Dublin township should not pay nine
ty-four dollars expense OF the Snare
family. Rule awarded.
Estate Of Miss II. Rebecca Pott late
of McConnellsburg deceased, Petition
of M. r. Shaffner administrators, for
an order to sell real estate for pay
ment of debts and legacies presented.
Order granted.
David Lauver appointed guardian
of Ella and S, Il. Roy Deshong, MINOR
children of George w. and Sarah De-
shong late of Ayr township.
Estate of Elizabeth Crider deceased.
Auditors report confirmed.
Estate of Christopher Eckert Audi
tors report confirmed.
Estate of Earl, RAMA and Mary
Jackson, minor children of N. Black
son, deceased. Petition OF M. E. Bar
ton, guardian, asking leave to invest
funds at five per cent
Estate OF Nathan Mellott late OF Bel
fast township. Widows appraisement
approved unless exceptions be filed
within twenty days.
The Grand Jury not having brought
in any bill, the court adjourned at 4 l5
70 "a. m. Tuesday morning.
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Chas. E. Stevens, of the firm of
Stevens & Raker, Is spending
this week in Philadelphia and 9TH
er eastern cities, purchasing
goods for their new store at Clear
Ridge.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-03-21

Mi: S Jennie Carson, who has
spent several years ia Lincoln,
Neb., is the guest of her COUSIN,
MISS Bess Patterson,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-03-21
RALPH STRAIT.

Ralph, three year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Ell. Strait was
stricken with pneumonia just af-
ter recuperating from a bad at
tack of scarlet rash and the con-
stltution being weakened down,
succum mbed to the first named DIS
ease in less than two days. He
died March 8, 1906, aged almost
three years. Funeral service con-
Quoted by Rev. Powers, after
which interment was made in he
cemetery at Sidellng Hill Christ
ian church.
The fact that little Ralph hav-
ing been born without arms made
his development and his ability to
help himself one of unusual inter
est to all who knew him.
At his telder age, he was atle
to feed himself by using either
fork or spoon, put a cap on his
head, pick up money, needles or
any ordinary ANAL articles from
the floor and carry them from
place to place.
lie would play with other chill
dren, using his feet much the
same as they did their hands, DO
ing able to roll marbles, build up
bio ks, &c. A sweet bright child
none knew him, but to love HIM
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during all her life time. Never
theless, she held to her Savior,
and many were the times, when
during prayer meeting, through
the fullness of her heart, size
would break forth in loud praises
of her dear Savior. Precious in
the sight of the Lord is the death
of his saints. Ps. 116, Is.
Only one son survives her, John
c., who lives on the old home.
stead. W.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-03-21

Constable Cal Foster, OF Wells
township, was at the county seat
Thursday night on business.
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CONTINUED on page Ioor)
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DtIis
List OF Constabes called and
sworn to their respective returns.
The Court took up the respective
reports and made the usual exam
nation.
List of Grand Jury called, all
answering except two, one excus-
ed and one removed from the
county, and Hon. d. II. Patterson
of Ayr township, appointed fore
man. Grand jury sworn, and
charged by the Court.
List of Petit Jury was then call
ed, four of the forty eight jurors
not answering, George w. Decker
and John Hebner being sick, and
X. w. Garland and Irwin Lock
removed from the county.
Following current business was
then disposed of by the Court.
Petition of Johns. Bowers, ask
ing leave of court conveying 1-3
interest, owned by John X. Nc
Collough to Jonas Lake. Petition
read and filed and decree in accord
with prayer of petition.
Petition of sale of real estate in
estate of Julia Ann Mills late of
Brush Creek deceased. Decree of
the Court confirming sale to Chas.
Drummer, A. l.. Long and John G.
Motter as returned.
Petition of Geo. w. Wagner
guardian of Virgie Hamil for an
order permitting him to join in
deed conveying house and lot in
Knobsville. Decree of Court per-
mitting guardian tc Join in deed.
Transfer of liquor license of
Benjamin Wilds to Miller S Jones
approved by the court and bond
approved
Estate of Jacob w. Miller, late
of Dublin township. Petition of
w. 5. Miller administrator, for
order to sell real estate of deceased
for payment of debts. Order
awarded.
Petition of Oliver Peck for rule
to show cause why overseers of the
poor of Belfast township should
not pay bill for attendance and flu
neral expenses of Margaret Jack
son. Rule awarded.
Estate of Daniel Shives. Wild
owls inventory and appraisement
approved unless exceptions are
filed within twenty days.
In the estate of Daniel Shives
order of sale of real estate of said
deceased ordered bond in sum of
80, 900 to be approved by the Court.
Estate of John f. Rumel deceas-
ed. Widows appraisement ap-
proved unless exceptions are filed
within twenty days.
Estate of Josabed Lodge late of
Brush Creek township. Writ of
partition approved and rule grant
ed to show cause returnable June
term.
Petition of DR. ID, + Fisher and
Mary II Fisher for the adoption of
ID Edward Robinson to DIR ID E..
Fisher. Decree of court permit
ting the adoption.
Estate of Lewis ID While late of
Licking Creek township deceased
Writ of partition approved and rule
granted to show cause returnable
June term.
Widows appraisement In estate
of John II Brubaker late of Tod
township, deceased, approved I'M
less exceptions be filed within
twenty days
Estate of George Miller, deceas-
ed. Petition of William Miller,
guardian of Glenn o. Miller, for
permission to invest wards money
at less than six per cent. Granted
to invest at not less than five per
cent
Account of b III Shaw admins
traitor of estate of L. A. Shaw late
of Taylor township, deceased, con-
frmed unless exceptions be filed
within ten days
Account of Geo Miller admins
, traitor of Rebecca Peck late OF
Union township, deceased, confirm
ed.
Account Geo b Daniels, Esq
and Chas + Nesbit administrators
of Susan G. (lnoer. defeased con
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27

The remains of an unknown man
were found 16 miles northwest of
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-27
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Good Stories About Prominent
People-Probable Fate Of the
Hepburn Bill.
Especial to The Evening Tlmes.l

Especial to The Evening Times.
Washington, d. c., Feb. 27.-Repre-
sentative Ollie Iames of Kentucky met
Colonel Hepburn in the capitol and
asked him how he expected his rate
bill was going to look after the senate
: got through with it. The colonel was
unresponsive and morose, but James
did not seem to see how tactless his
choice Of subject was and went pratt
Ting on. ~
Down in my section of Kentucky"
said he, there was rich old man
who had a worthless son.. Finally he
bought him new hat, new suit of
clothes, gave him $4,000 and sent him
west with the understanding that he
should never have another cent. The
SON agreed. Nothing was heard of him
for three weeks. One day the old man
received telegram from his son, read
ing: Please meet me at the out
skirts of town with a closed buggy.
I still have the hat
Il predict" said the Kentucky con-
gresham, that when the Hepburn
bill comes back it will still have the
enacting clause"
Then he waited for Colonel Hepburn
to laugh. The colonel looked at him
gloomily and passed on with clouded
brow.
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kind Of wicked books, and the others
were all good. Some day when he
was older he would read the minis
ter's books every one, and the infidels
boOks-he could never quite bring
himself to forego the anticipatory
pleasure of reading those also-or at
least of looking into them and seeing
for himself how very wicked they
were.
The infidel was mild little man,
dark, with bright brown wistful eyes
and thick curling black hair. AS a
shoemaker he was rather jovial with
his little customers, asking them
whether their dogs or their cats or
their other pets were we'll, and max
ing a great pretense of talking about
these animals as if they were real peo-
pie, with all the peculiarities and
foibles with real people have. But OF
course it was as a shoemaker and not
as an infidel that he talked then,
though Knowles had heard him talk
who were lounging about the shop,
and had listened with sombre horror,
wondering il fire would not come down
from heaven or some other miracle be
wrought for the destruction of the
impious one.
1t was admitted that "the infidel"
was not so bad as some infldels were,
for he went frequently to church, and
the minister had said that he was an
honest skeptic and not one who made
boast of his infidelity for the sake
of vain glory, nor yet one who lived
an evil life, cloaking his sin behind
profession of atheism. The infidel was
a very Woodworking, moral man, who
if only he had been Il Christian (as
the minister lamented) might have
served as a model for other Christians
who seemed to depend rather upon
faith than upon works for their sal
walton. The minister always expected
that the infidel would be converted
some day, and from time to time he
expressed himself as very hopeful
but at last that minister died and an
other came in his place for season
and went away to a larger charge, and
was followed by third, and he by a
fourth, but still the infidel was not
converted, by the way-but a free
thinker, which Name Knowles believed
was assumed through sense of
shame, as one who said an untruth
instead of lie.
After the boy had grown to be a
youth who attended Sunday-school on
ly under protest and no longer had
aspirations for the pulpit, and usually
got new shoes instead of having his
Old ones repaired, he saw little of the
infidel and thought less about him.
The books of the minister he had
glanced into by this time and, for the
most part, had not cared to read.
There were other books in the village
library and on the shelves of his
uncle the doctor that pleased him bet
ter. Old people called him book
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fish, met him sOrrowfully at the door,
He spoke to her in her own tongue and
her face lightened. She knew that
Knowles had been her husbands
friend-almost his only friend, she
said; and she was eager for some
sympathizing ear into which to pour
not so much her grief as her eulogy
of the man who had died. She, too,
was an infidel, she said, but she would
not have been only that she loved her
husband SO much--but she thought
cid not the gentleman also think-that
the good God would take to heaven a
man who had in every way been SO
kind, so good? Knowles assured her
with many protestations that he had
no doubt of it. He seemed to have
very little doubt, more especially as
she said that now her husband was
dead he would no longer care whether
she was Christian or not and that
she would now 60 to church and
would pray-sometimes she had pray
ed anyway, but only in secret; but
now she would let every one know
that she prayed, and she felt sure
that God would not be too hard on
her poor man who was dead.
For an hour or more she babbled
on in her innocent voluble fashion,
talking now about her husband and
how about God; not suffering keenly,
1t would seem, because of the confid-
ence which she felt that before many
months she would go to be with her
husband again "in place better than
this Isl and without the least shadow
of fear as to the ultimate destiny of
l.er husband or herself. When she had
pretty we'll talked herself out, he rose
to go, but first she insisted that he
must see the body of the old man and
led him into the little room where it
lay. For moment she stood looking
at the rigid face with kindly regard,
and then seemingly seized by sud-
den inspiration she knelt at his side.
Now l will pray" she exclaimed
smilingly, looking up at the young
man, and then clasping her hands and
closing her eyes she began a gentle
petition, which rambled on and on and
grew incoherent and faltering. AS
Knowles stood watching her with ten
der pity in his heart he began to pom
der the strangeness of her mental at
titude and to wonder if it did not be-
token some serious lesion Of the brain
If it were not mild insanity. When
her prayer grew incoherent he was
sure of it and was wondering what
would be the lSindest way in which she
could be cared for when all unexpect-
eddy she fell forward and rested with
her clasped hands across the body OF
her husband. Knowles bent to lift
her, but as he did so he realized what
had happened-the woman, too, was
dead.
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The following story was written for
the Springfield Republican OF SPRING
field, Mass, by w. ]. B. Moses, a
North Dakota boy. While the author
is not very we'll known in North Da-
kota, his brother, Charles Moses of
Drayton, of the firm of Moses & Wylie,
is we'll known over the state. Mr..
Moses acted as secretary of the late
drainage convention in this city and
is prominently connected with the
state retail merchants association.
w. ]. B. Moses is an alumnus of
Hamline university, St. Paul, of the
class of 1900. He is Of literary turn
and has decided talent for the telling
Of short stories. He has had stories
accepted by ST. Nicholas, Cosmopoli-
tan and other magazines of high
grade, and there is little question
among his friends and instructors who
know him best but that he will achieve
4 national reputation as a story teller.
The story reproduced here appeared
in the Republican of Sunday, Febru-
AIRY IS. The Republican is one of the
most select and literary magazines
in the United States and they accept
all stories on a strictly literary basis.
The Story.
1t was on Sunday chiefly that
Knowles heard his parents and their
friends talk about 1.-The infidel." On
week days, if they CHANGED to men,
ton him, it was as 1.-The shoemaker"
except perhaps when there was conf
pany or the minister was there and
the talk had dEifted to religious topics
then he was "the infidel," just as
en- Sunday. AS a good little boy who
went to church and Sunday-school
with exemplary regularity and ina
ginings and was prone to question con-
corning divine mysteries with a Curl
Osity and fervor which seemed to
promise we'll for his mothers hope
concerning career as a clergyman,
Knowles looked with certain awe
and certain horror on the infidel.
He knew him very we'll by sight,
and better than by sight, for he had
taken his shoes to the little shop to
be,mended ever since he could remem-
Der, and more than once he had sat
on bench in stocking feet. waiting
Tor patch to be put on or rip sewed
up. all the while SO intent on the
mystery of awl and waxed thread that
he would have forgotten that 'the
shoemaker" was also "the infidel," if
it had not been for the long row of
big hooks on the rude shelf behind
the bench. Those books had fascin-
alton for the boy strangely similar to
the attraction of those other books
which filled the shelves fthe mini
ster's study, but in the one case the
fascination was mingled with pleasant
horror, in the other with pious ave.
Both the infidel's books and the mir j
ister's books were large ones with
titles composed of long and frequent
~ unintelligible words, but the first
were bad books, the very wickedest
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n1ent. Miss King was subpenaed, as
witness, and among other undream.
ed Of things which dawned upon her
in the course of the trial the occupa-
ton Of the court stenographer was the
most interesting. After court adjourn
ed she questioned the court stenog-
rapher on what he had been doing
and his answers settled the vexing
question Of profession for herself.
She was not satisfied to remain a
domestic; the more genteel employ
ment of school teacher, which, her
family had suggested did not appear
to her. II will become court stem
ographer," she said. At this point in
the story of her life Miss King said
with a smile Having become court
stenographer wanted to become the
court"
In May, 1895, Miss King was adj
mitted to practice at the bar Of IL
linois She specialized on patents, and
soon relinquished court reporting to
devote herself to her practice.
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In Haverhill Mass, according 10.
1.-The Boston Herald" there Used to
live two doctors Of the same surname.
DR.. Benjamin E. Sawyer was a physi-
clan with large practice. Or. Nathan
Sawyer was a veterinarian. A man
named Jones, after week or more OF
imbibing, was very sick, and his wife,
becoming alarmed, sent the hired man
for DR.. Sawyer. The hired man
brought the wrong Sawyer, the veter-
mary Dr. Nathan explained to the
wife that he was, skilled only in the
diseases of horses, cattle, and other
animals. II guess you can prescribe,
all right in this case," replied Mrs
Jones. Zones is a jackass."
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Mrs. Roo.evelt,s Hobby,

Mrs. Roosevelt has one well-devel-
oped hobby, and that is the collection
of old china. Under her supervision
one of the most valuable collections
in this country has been placed on ex-
hibition in the basement of the White
House, and it is proud day when she
can add something of historic worth
to the treasures. The exhibit is made
up entirely of remnants of the dinner
sets which formerly served the presi-
Dental families. IT. begins with some
rare gold-trimmed plates and cups
and saucers, which were the pride of
Martha Washington's heart, and con-
tinues down to the era of Mrs McKin-
lev.
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worm, and his companions regarded
him as something Of a prodigy, not to
say monstrosity, in that he actually
liked to go to school and to study his
lessons, and they were saved from re-
garding him as a despicable being only
because he Joined great physical
strength and fondness for athletic
sports with his abnormal intellectual
ity. Little interested as he now was
in the infidel, he had sometimes
glanced at the titles on the backs of
the books in the little shop and had
recognized some of them as familiar
acquaintances philosophical and
scientific works which were to be
found on the shelves of the Doctors
library also-and yet no one had ever
called the doctor an infidel, though he
went to church more infrequently
than the shoemaker by far.
When Knowles returned from COL
lege he found little society of the in
telligence which seemed necessary to
him, and casting about here and there,
wondering whether there was not to
NC AouAu oIAC oOul III VIC I'LL &C vi
four thousand of the village which was
lifted up above the humdrum materi-
alistic atmosphere of the place, he
happened to think or the infidel, and
raid him visit in the familiar little
old shop. The books were still there
and some new ones with them, but the
little man was bent and gray, and
forced to use spectacles as he worked
with awl and thread.
He remembered Knowles perfectly,
and was glad to talk to him about this
and that scientific and philosophical
theory, glad to rehearse the old specu-
lative dreams and socialistic doctrines
which had meant so much to him in
his own youth. Knowles recognized
the. old mans limitations-indeed, he
had paid him few visits before he had
found a formula to explain him-prod-
European workingmen's socialistic
movement, isolated in an unintellec-
tual community of puritanic tradition
and little outlook on the great world
and yet he found it a pleasure to talk
to and to listen to the old mans gar
rulous chatter about the rights of man
and the beauty of free thought-though
untrammeled by the traditions and
superstitions of priesthoods and Or
sanized societies which have long out
lived their usefulness.
1t was like a peep into the late
18th or the early 10th century, when
the infidel recited all the benefits
which were to be derived from liber-
ty, equality, fraternity, free thought
and socialistic cooperation. The
problems of commercialism, of imper-
ialism, of industrialism in its various
forms, had never troubled the old
mans mind. The problem for him
was the doing away with the author
ity of church and state, after which
men would live together in peace and
plenty, restrained from all evil by the
natural goodness of their hearts and
a rational conception of the rewards
Of virtue.
One day, one stormy winter day
Knowles went to the old mans shop
and found it closed-went to his house
and found the infidel dead His, wife,
an old woman whom Knowles barely
knew by sight, and who, in spite of
her long residence in this country
could speak scarcely word of Eng