The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-30
NEW GRENADA.
Our Correspondent Wakes Warm In the Dis.
cuss!on Of the Coal Question.

Bert McClaIn aud wife visited
a week in West Chester, Lancas-
ter, and other eastern citlos.
Howard Clark, of Everett, man.
ager of the Bedford and Fulton
Telephone Company, stopped a
night in town, and made some
business transactions with Gen.
tral Office.
DR.. Campbell made a business
trip TO Huntingdon and Mount
Union.
A number Of our people went
to see the Hickory Corner Doctor
at Broadtop City, on Wednesday.
The Spelling Bee at Waterfall
schoolhouse on FRIDAY night, was
a success. A. N. Witter, mer
chan at Waterfall, and an ex.
teacher, conducted the Bee.
Mason Dunlap, of Coles, is the
proud father of a bouncing, big
new boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irvln Order,
now of Altoona, lost their baby
of four weeks age, by death, last
week. Iuterment IN Altoona
By some mistake, a grave was
dug at Cherry Grove, Huntingdon
county, and arrangements made
for a funeral at that place.
Daniel Swartz, near Browns
Vile, lost his three work horses
IN a single day. Their death is
SAID to have been caused by
drenchlng through the nostrils
with linseed oil.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Weaverl of
Saltillo, spent Sunday at the
Mills home.
Charles AIloway and wife, of
Broadtop City, visited friends
here last Sunday.
The matter OF organizing 10
cal Developing Company for the
purpose Of settling the question
once and for all whether
or not the village of New Grenada
Is holding down a valuable coal
bed-is now being discussed by
our people. The plan is to chip
in, get diamond drill, and go
right down into the ground, and
il Nature has in hiding rich vein
of coal that she is saving for fu.
ture generations, just make her
give it right up, now.
OF course, our people are not
all on the same side of the ques
ton. Why should they be? Why
should New Grenadlans all agree
upon the feasibility of a project,
and thus be different from the
people in other places? There
are those conslderate souls, who
foresee that the finding of coal
here, would, in so many ways, in
terfere with the peace and quiet
of our little town. 1t would mean
that some greedy corporation
would come and build railroad
right through farms-and make
use of ground that would other
wise be utilized IN raising pota
toes. The rum BILE of the cars and
footing of the steam whistles
would disturb the slu N bering of
our people at night. That matter
however, could be easily RENE
died by passing an ordinance not
to permit running of trains dur
ing the hours between sunset and
sunrise. Then, again, it Is claim
ed that the development of coal
here would create a demand for
building lots. Wells Tannery and
Waterfall would want to come
here to live, and our people would
become worldly. minded, and
think they were at.
On the other hand, tits argued,
that forty years ago, when the
New Grenada Oil Co. bored for
oil, they passed through z foot
vein of coal at depth of 100 feet.
There are people here who know
this TO be true-who saw the coal
pumped out, and who saw 1t TAX
en- to the hearth in Cunningham s
blacksmith shop and burned.
Now, we would like to see the
matter tested-just to settle the
scheme. We could go down with
the diamond drill, get the exact
thickness of the vein or veins, get